Re: Getting only selected unstable debs with apt-get

2000-10-20 Thread Mike
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi, > apt-get source doesnt take care of dependencies. Ah. Yes. Good point. Thanks for the reminder. Yes, dependancies will have to be taken care of manually. That can be a pain in the butt to do, especially for a large and / or complex

RE: linux + its size

2000-10-20 Thread Geordie Birch
i am running debian 2.1 on a 486 laptop w/ a 125 mb hdd (actually that was my first linux install). right now i have about 16.5mb free. first step: read the installation guide and get a copy onto another machine that you can refer to, or print it out. make sure you add scsi support during the

Re: GnuPG: problem installing on Woody

2000-10-20 Thread Brad
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 11:15:32PM +0200, Frederik wrote: > > I've a strange problem with GnuPG: I can install it correctly without any > errors, but when i run gpg, i get the following error: > gpg: /usr/lib/gnupg/rsa: error loading > extension: /usr/lib/gnupg/rsa: cannot open shared object file

Re: Two nics, two networks question

2000-10-20 Thread Nate Amsden
Matt Kopishke wrote: > > Hi, is it possible to have one machine with two nics respond to two > different TCP/IP networks with out any routing in between the nics? > > If it is possible could you please give an overview how, or point me > towards some documentation? yes, this is the default behav

Re: Linux not seeing all of my Ram

2000-10-20 Thread Timmy Douglas
use append 128M, then rerun lilo when you are done editing just in case. example (yours might not look like this): timmy:~/prgm/tsmtpd/src$ cat /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/boot/vmlinuz append="mem=255M" labe

Re: perl and ssmtp

2000-10-20 Thread Timmy Douglas
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:31:04PM -0400, phiLLip maDDux II wrote: > Hello, > > I have a perl program that makes a call to ssmtp on the system to send > out an email. When I send out the email I specify the from: however it > does not work, it always makes it look like the email came from > [EMAI

Re: Swap space signature

2000-10-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 10:49:17AM +0800, Ken M. Mevand wrote: > hi, > anyone knows what the message "Unable to find swap space signature" > means during boot? my swap partition is 40Mb on hdd2. Created a swap partition without running mkswap on it? See man mkswap. -- /bin/sh ~/.signatur

Swap space signature

2000-10-20 Thread Ken M. Mevand
hi, anyone knows what the message "Unable to find swap space signature" means during boot? my swap partition is 40Mb on hdd2. -ken

Remote X-servers with DHCP, how to authenticate?

2000-10-20 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I am trying to access my Debian system from a MSWindows X-server client. When I connect it wants to check who I am, so it uses an entry in /etc/hosts to check me. Now I have changed to DHCP for my client, so I no longer have a fixed IP address to put there. It sends an error "Where are you?"

Help, caught in apt/dselect treadmill; trying to install Tomcat

2000-10-20 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I am running kernelversion 2.2, from CDrom install. I did the simple configuration, and even then it had a list of about 16-18 install problems, unresolved dependencies. I ran install again, more resolved. I wanted to get tomcat, so grabbed it from: http://master.debian.org/~sgybas/tomcat/, but:

Re: Stormix and Brokerage Fees

2000-10-20 Thread John Hasler
Russ Pitman writes: > Should pppconfig generate a resolve.conf file? It shouldn't have to. It ought to be in one of the base packages, such as base-files or netbase. Yours is not the first such report I've seen. I suggest that you file a bug against netbase. > I had to make one before pon work

Re: Help: Replacing linuxconf user group & startup services

2000-10-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 11:52:19AM -0400, Chris Gray wrote: > > You might have to change the /etc/passwd file to do this, just change > the fourth field to 100 on the line that starts with your username. > However, you can see the adduser manpage for info on how to do it more > cleanly in the futu

Re: Windows 9x/NT cvs client accessing Linux cvs server

2000-10-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 02:26:37PM +0100, Wilson H Yau wrote: > Could anyone suggest to me which is the best CVS client for Windows > 9x/NT workstation to access a Linux CVS Server? > > Thanks for your help. http://www.wincvs.org -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK i

Re: Stormix and Brokerage Fees

2000-10-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:16:01PM -0400, Bill Ramsey wrote: > Follow UP > > Stormix called -- > they said I should not have been charged anything. They said > they switched "fulfillment houses" and were trying to contact them > about it. I'm impressed that they called. That's cool. >

Re: Stormix and Brokerage Fees

2000-10-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 11:42:58AM -0400, Bill Ramsey wrote: > I've "complained" to Stormix by Email and phone messages. No response > so far. > Out of curiosity and not because I know, can you not download the packages from http://ftp.stormix.com/storm/dists/ ? Mike -- Michael P. Soul

Re: Stormix and Brokerage Fees

2000-10-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 11:32:14AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > As I wrote privately to Mr Ramsey, there is no consistent use of > brokers at the Canada-US border. The decision to use a broker is > largely up to the shipper, and there is little you can do about it. > Complaining to stormix mi

Re: Stormix and Brokerage Fees

2000-10-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 10:20:06AM -0400, Bill Ramsey wrote: > > Imagine my surprise when the UPS guy tells me that I owe him $38 in > brokerage fees !! I refused the package and I've canceled my order. I > don't need stormix that bad. I don't blame you. What's a brokerage fee? I've received

Re: Stormix and Brokerage Fees

2000-10-20 Thread Russ Pitman
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:07:01PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Bill writes: > > ...I can't connect to the internet (WVDial fails with my ISP)... > > Run pppconfig as root and answer the questions. Then use 'pon' to connect > and 'poff' to disconnect. > -- > John Hasler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John

Re: Getting only selected unstable debs with apt-get

2000-10-20 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, apt-get source doesnt take care of dependencies. > > Scott V. McGuire wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any way to get just selected unstable packages using apt-get, > > like mutt 1.2? If I put lines for unstable in sources.list I think I > > will get the unstable versions of a

Re: Getting only selected unstable debs with apt-get

2000-10-20 Thread Mike
Scott V. McGuire wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to get just selected unstable packages using apt-get, > like mutt 1.2? If I put lines for unstable in sources.list I think I > will get the unstable versions of all packages. Is that right? Only if you do something along the lines of apt-get up

Re: Running procmail on an existing mailbox

2000-10-20 Thread Russ Pitman
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 07:50:47AM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > How can I run an already-flooded mailbox through procmail's filters, > preferrably supporting both maildir and mbox input formats? > > -- > Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - Please always Cc to me when repl

Getting only selected unstable debs with apt-get

2000-10-20 Thread Scott V. McGuire
Hi, Is there any way to get just selected unstable packages using apt-get, like mutt 1.2? If I put lines for unstable in sources.list I think I will get the unstable versions of all packages. Is that right? Thanks -- Scott V. McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I lost my GnuPG Key. Nobody ever sent

Difference between xterms in Debian and Redhat

2000-10-20 Thread Scott V. McGuire
Hi, I installed potato on a system on which I have been using redhat. I had spent a bit of time selecting color combinations that I liked for programs like mutt and slrn. Unfortunately, the colors are considerably different under Debian, making things hard to read. Does anyone know why the xter

Re: How to reset my /dev/cdrom

2000-10-20 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Rogelio E. Castillo Haro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to mount a cd with mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom (The link is ok) > but when I insert a cdrom with failures it blocked my /dev/cdrom and > I can't umount How can I reset the device ? Just a guess! If you're CD driver (for example 'ide-cd'

Re: mouse not working in x

2000-10-20 Thread Mike
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Matthias Mann wrote: > > > Do You have a serial or a PS/2 mouse? Some poeple told me that X mouse > > driver with gpm is not possible by using a PS/2 mouse. Or be they all > > mistaken? > > It is possible to use a PS/2 mouse in X11 with

Re: how to upgrade from potato to woody

2000-10-20 Thread Moritz Schulte
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i'd really like to use xfree86 4.0; i might as well just upgrade the whole > system to woody. AFAIK, xfree86 isn't already official part of woody, but there are the phase2 debs... > can someone please tell me how to use apt-get to change my potato

Re: OT: Mailing list help (was Re: GnuPG: prblem installing on Woody)

2000-10-20 Thread kmself
begin Chris Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) quotation (Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 07:13:55PM -0400): > On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 02:28:38PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > If the person had enough experience (to be completely distinguished from > > intelligence, these are totally different aspects [1]) t

Re: isdn: what I've to do??

2000-10-20 Thread Daniele Cruciani
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 09:03:39PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > >. > > I do not follow. What message you do not have now? How come it disappeared? > Ok, I'll try to be more precise. I've an hfc pci card and in modules.conf I have: options hisax type=35 id=isdn protocol=2 alias ippp0 isdn al

Sound crashes after a few seconds

2000-10-20 Thread James Bursa
I'm having some problems with sound on my Debian 2.2 machine. The sound card is a SoundBlaster 16 PCI based on the es1373, and seems to be identified correctly on startup: es1371: version v0.22 time 09:53:39 Jun 25 2000 es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x08 es1371: fo

Re: {BIG MISTAKE} - what is modules.conf

2000-10-20 Thread Arcadio A. Sincero Jr.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: >ok, so modules.conf is created by a call to update-modules. >suppose i compile a new kernel. where along the process is conf.modules >updated? all i ever see 'make modules' do is compile, and 'make >modules_install' simply moves stuff aro

how to upgrade from potato to woody

2000-10-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i'd really like to use xfree86 4.0; i might as well just upgrade the whole system to woody. can someone please tell me how to use apt-get to change my potato to a woody? if it makes a difference, my sources.list file is: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Bin

Re: OT: Mailing list help (was Re: GnuPG: prblem installing on Woody)

2000-10-20 Thread Chris Gray
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 02:28:38PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > If the person had enough experience (to be completely distinguished from > intelligence, these are totally different aspects [1]) to know what to post, > they would have done so in the first place. As he or she did not, I'm >

Re: more problems with X

2000-10-20 Thread Kent West
Brandt Dusthimer wrote: For the upper 25% of the screen: You have some type of Virtual Windows setup. You can get rid of it if you edit the XF86Config. For the number pad: do you have Num Lock on? For the Xstart up: if your configuration allows it, you can press Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to dump yourself

Re: changing file attribute colors

2000-10-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: changing file attribute colors Date: Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 05:02:31PM -0500 In reply to:will trillich Quoting will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:12:26PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > Subject: Re: changing file attribute colors > >

Re: apt mini-intro

2000-10-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: apt mini-intro Date: Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 03:37:26PM -0500 In reply to:will trillich Quoting will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > a friend-o-mine just got up with debian 2.2/potato, and i crafted > this little intro to apt-get... your comments are welcome. > > i indent u

RE: linux + its size

2000-10-20 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Fuad wrote: > I like to know if it will fit on a 200mb hard disk and if the > installation supports a SCSI hard disk Yes to both. But 200mb is not enough for a full install. You have to pare it down a great deal; if possible, find someone experienced to help with it.

Re: Newbie warning: XF86Setup help needed

2000-10-20 Thread Timo Benk
hi, On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Jan Erik Moström wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian and everything seems to work except that I'm not > able to get the xerver up and running. I run XF86Setup and setup things the > best > I can but when I quit,I see the message "starting server" and after a few > seco

Re: hosts.equiv not working FIXED

2000-10-20 Thread Tom Kuiper
> From: Tom Kuiper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: hosts.equiv not working > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Kuiper) > Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:20:43 PDT > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > A recently configured Debian 2.2 (Linux 2.2.17) system does not allow > > password-free rlogin, even tho

Re: GREP

2000-10-20 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:06:12PM -0700, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:30:31AM -0500, Cavaiani, Don ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > > > I read where the grep command (along with ? command) can be used to search > >

Re: hosts.equiv not working

2000-10-20 Thread Tom Kuiper
> A recently configured Debian 2.2 (Linux 2.2.17) system does not allow > password-free rlogin, even though I have configured /etc/hosts.equiv the > same way as a 2.0.25 system which does. Is there something else I need > to do? I've narrowed this problem down. It only is a problem for root. An

Re: more problems with X

2000-10-20 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
For the upper 25% of the screen: You have some type of Virtual Windows setup. You can get rid of it if you edit the XF86Config. For the number pad: do you have Num Lock on? For the Xstart up: if your configuration allows it, you can press Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to dump yourself into bash or whatever you u

Re: ssh??

2000-10-20 Thread Timo Benk
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Stephan Kulka wrote: > After installing ssh I generated my keys with ssh-keygen. I copied the > public on my remote account. It is an account at my local university. When > I made ssh hostname ssh told me: The authenticity of the host can't be > established, it prints out the

Re: GREP

2000-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
is glimpse significantly better then locate? erik kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:30:31AM -0500, Cavaiani, Don ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > > I read where the grep command (along with ? command) can be used to search > > your whole hard drive for any f

Re: GREP

2000-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Colin Watson wrote: > > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > calling grep just once is probably slightly more effective (even > >though the grep stays in cache so it's not that much of a difference, I > >guess) > > Actually loading the program from disk or cache isn't the big hit, it's > t

Re: rlogin and rsh for potato?

2000-10-20 Thread Tom Kuiper
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 20 15:00:13 PDT 2000 ... > I use rsh routinely on potato you did get the appropriate packages? > rsh-client and rsh-server? They are not installed by default. > You are right, Jeff. I somehow missed the rsh-server package the first time around. Tom

How to reset my /dev/cdrom

2000-10-20 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
I tried to mount a cd with mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom (The link is ok) but when I insert a cdrom with failures it blocked my /dev/cdrom and I can't umount How can I reset the device ? TIA -- Rogelio E. Castillo  

Re: rlogin and rsh for potato?

2000-10-20 Thread Jeff Green
I use rsh routinely on potato you did get the appropriate packages? rsh-client and rsh-server? They are not installed by default. Jeff Tom Kuiper wrote: > > I just installed potato (2.2) on a new server and tried unsuccessfully to set > up a daily rdist to it from an old machine running bo (2.0)

more problems with X

2000-10-20 Thread Bob Edwards
Greetings ! After help from a lot of folks on this list, I have a good news-bad news situation. The good news is that x is now running. The bad news: (1) when x fires up, I only have what appears to be the upper left 25 % of the screen; (2) I have a Microsoft Natural keyboard, and the number pa

hosts.equiv not working

2000-10-20 Thread Tom Kuiper
A recently configured Debian 2.2 (Linux 2.2.17) system does not allow password-free rlogin, even though I have configured /etc/hosts.equiv the same way as a 2.0.25 system which does. Is there something else I need to do? B.t.w., those who recall my earlier post, I got around the problem of the mi

Re: GREP

2000-10-20 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:30:31AM -0500, Cavaiani, Don ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I read where the grep command (along with ? command) can be used to search > your whole hard drive for any file that has a record containing the > particular character string that you are looking for. A better

Re: ssh X forwarding error

2000-10-20 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:23:10AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi everybody, > > > I have a question regarding ssh configuration > My home computer is behing an ip-forwarding server which does not have > xwindows installed. When I login to my home computer through the > se

Re: XFree 4.0.1 and Quake

2000-10-20 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 11:17:18PM -0500, Brandt Dusthimer wrote: > I'm having problems with XFree 4.0.1, NVidia drivers (I have a TNT2 Elsa > Erazor III, not available in the XF86Config), and Quake III. Quake 3 runs > fine until I try to start a game. It load game media and all that other

Re: how to view the file below

2000-10-20 Thread kmself
On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 04:50:08AM +0800, a ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ...\" $XConsortium: CH1 /main/16 1996/12/11 14:57:11 kaleb $ > ...ps 11 <102 lines snipped> It's a groff file. groff -Tascii should do something for you, else "man groff" for more info. $ file mysteryfile ...should al

Re: OT: Cross-platform document format?

2000-10-20 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:26:47PM -0400, David Teague ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Ingles, Raymond wrote: > > > RTF is open enough. I know that WP and OpenOffice and the rest can > > read it, and there's a native-RTF editor for Linux, too. Plus, Word > > can be convinced to

Re: OT: Mailing list help (was Re: GnuPG: prblem installing on Woody)

2000-10-20 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 11:23:54AM -0400, Chris Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 02:27:04AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Better more data than less, particularly if I ask for it. I've been > > getting mightily peeved lately by people who post "how do I solve foo

Re: Mail not configured. Best mail program?

2000-10-20 Thread JP Sartre
I have to tell you, IMHO the best GUI email proggie out there is sylpheed.. it's not available on the english debian sites for some reason. Because it's japanese (it supports japanese fonts) I had to grab it from the japenese debian sites. It does filtering and everything. Really nice.. check it ou

Re: Services

2000-10-20 Thread mike
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:59:51 +0200, Jonathan Gift said: > Hi, > > Back. Ok. The advice was for switching off a service such as inetd. I did > the stop and had a look at the conf files, etc. But what finally stopped it > was just removing the link to the /etc/init.d/inetd file in all 6 of the

Re: Linux not seeing all of my Ram

2000-10-20 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Rosa Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Linux only sees 64M ram, when I have 128M installed. What do > I do to fix this problem? Give Linux the parameter 'mem=128M', you can write this for example in your lilo.conf, in an 'append' command. moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Linux not seeing all of my Ram

2000-10-20 Thread Jeff Green
in /etc/lilo.conf append="mem=128M" Rosa Edwards wrote: > > Greetings -- > > Linux only sees 64M ram, when I have 128M installed. What do > I do to fix this problem? > > Bob Edwards > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fayetteville, AR > > Sent from a WebBox - http://www.webbox.com > FREE Web

how to view the file below

2000-10-20 Thread a
...\" $XConsortium: CH1 /main/16 1996/12/11 14:57:11 kaleb $ ...ps 11 ...nr PS 11 ...ds LH \fBAthena Widget Set\fP ...ds CH ...ds RH \fBX11, Release 6.3\fP ...bp 1 ...af PN 1 \& ...sp 1 ...ce 3 \s+1\fBChapter 1\fP\s-1 \s+1\fBAthena Widgets and The Intrinsics\fP\s-1 ...sp 2 ...nr H1 1 ...if \n(GS .

Linux not seeing all of my Ram

2000-10-20 Thread Rosa Edwards
Greetings -- Linux only sees 64M ram, when I have 128M installed. What do I do to fix this problem? Bob Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fayetteville, AR Sent from a WebBox - http://www.webbox.com FREE Web based Email, Files, Bookmarks, Calendar, People and Great Ways to Share them wit

Re: Services

2000-10-20 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Managing Init links] > When you turn off a service in linuxconf, wht does it do? I don't > think it places a 0 in the exit for the service. Does it remove the > link, is there another command I didn't catch. This is to turn the > service off for good.

Re: GREP

2000-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > calling grep just once is probably slightly more effective (even >though the grep stays in cache so it's not that much of a difference, I >guess) Actually loading the program from disk or cache isn't the big hit, it's the fork/exec. > the main difference

Re: Mail not configured. Best mail program?

2000-10-20 Thread Moritz Schulte
Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hmm, Mutt and Gnus are really great. Mutt is a very powerfull, ncurses/slang based, easy to use MUA. Gnus isoh, i quote the Info page: "If you are used to traditional mail readers, but have decided to switch to reading mail with Gnus, you may find

Re: GREP

2000-10-20 Thread Jeff Howie
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:41:15PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Damian Menscher wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > the main difference is a sideeffect, sort of, if grep is called for > > > with one file as an argument it only prints the line matched, not the > > > filename, s

Re: firewall & masquerade script availability - 'potato'

2000-10-20 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:44:37PM -0700, Stephen nyc wrote: > Can someone point me in the right direction to find a > good basic script with documentation that works with > debian? Unfortunately, I don't have as much time as I > would like to dig into the internals on ip-chains at > this time. Som

Re: Stormix and Brokerage Fees

2000-10-20 Thread John Hasler
Bill writes: > ...I can't connect to the internet (WVDial fails with my ISP)... Run pppconfig as root and answer the questions. Then use 'pon' to connect and 'poff' to disconnect. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: GREP

2000-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Damian Menscher wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > the main difference is a sideeffect, sort of, if grep is called for > > with one file as an argument it only prints the line matched, not the > > filename, so you get bunch of lines (each successfull match) but you > > hav

Re: OT: Mailing list help (was Re: GnuPG: prblem installing on Woody)

2000-10-20 Thread John Hasler
Chris Gray writes: > So instead of just saying "post output of ", say "if > returns foo then do bar, if it returns baz then do quux, > otherwise post it and let me have a look at it." I've tried that. More often than not the person asking for help gets lost, fails to perform all the steps, and p

Re: Best SCSI card for Plextor Drive

2000-10-20 Thread Cody BoXeR Brownstein
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 10:20:35PM -0500, Brandt Dusthimer wrote: > What's the best SCSI card for a Plextor 12x4x32? I might add a hard drive > later and am going to add a Plextor 40x. > > Brandt The Adaptec 2930U is a good choice. You can find it for about $80 (search on PriceWatch). Go to

Services

2000-10-20 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Back. Ok. The advice was for switching off a service such as inetd. I did the stop and had a look at the conf files, etc. But what finally stopped it was just removing the link to the /etc/init.d/inetd file in all 6 of the rc directories. This wasn't particularly clean in my eyes. Or is it, co

Re: {BIG MISTAKE} - what is modules.conf

2000-10-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
ok, so modules.conf is created by a call to update-modules. suppose i compile a new kernel. where along the process is conf.modules updated? all i ever see 'make modules' do is compile, and 'make modules_install' simply moves stuff around. surely, this file has to be modified when you compile

firewall & masquerade script availability - 'potato'

2000-10-20 Thread Stephen nyc
Well folks, it's time to redo my linux box, and I've decided to move from suse to debian. I've got my 2.2 CDs, and I'm planning my install now. I have one main concern: This box is used as a firewall/masquerade box for my bellatlantic DSL (pppoe) line and home network. suse has a great firewall sc

Re: exim help needed (fwd)

2000-10-20 Thread timmy
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 11:46:54AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > no i mean you can use exim, i just like to use what i made. > > > > i think you only really need exim for receiving mail. > > this is how it works i think for most people: > >

Re: Mail not configured. Best mail program?

2000-10-20 Thread Arcadio A. Sincero Jr.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: >something different. What is best? My internet connection is from home >through AT&T provider. I like pine. --- === Arcadio A. Sincero Jr. Computer Science Major a

Re: bash_history

2000-10-20 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Matthias Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a bug in bash (Debian 2.2.0 potato)? When i go as root into my > system the bash don´t save anything to /root/bash_history. Is this a typo? Bash's history should be in ~/.bash_history. moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

perl and ssmtp

2000-10-20 Thread phiLLip maDDux II
Hello, I have a perl program that makes a call to ssmtp on the system to send out an email. When I send out the email I specify the from: however it does not work, it always makes it look like the email came from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anybody have any suggestions of what I should look for? Do I

Re: Mail not configured. Best mail program?

2000-10-20 Thread Phillip Deackes
Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I normally use Netscape for my mail, I didn't bother to > configure > exim, mail and other mail programs that were in the default > installation > for potato. But each time I run emacs, I get some stalling while it > says > at the bottom : "No ma

Re: {BIG MISTAKE} - what is modules.conf

2000-10-20 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Matthias Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I´m so sorry! I exchanged /etc/modules.conf with /etc/modules! Forget my > last mail. It has nothing to do with your questions! To /etc/modules.conf i > only can write, that it includes some aliases for work with the system. I > mean that this aliases

Re: Running procmail on an existing mailbox

2000-10-20 Thread John Ericson
On Oct 20 07:50, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > How can I run an already-flooded mailbox through procmail's filters, > preferrably supporting both maildir and mbox input formats? > > -- > Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.

Re: Java JSP Tomcat

2000-10-20 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I am running kernelversion 2.2, from CDrom install. I added an unstable ftp line to the apt/sources.list, and it did then find these two packages. apt-cache search tomcat still failed, but dselect still knew about it, so I had dselect install it. Unfortunately dselect also notices a lot of othe

Mail not configured. Best mail program?

2000-10-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Since I normally use Netscape for my mail, I didn't bother to configure exim, mail and other mail programs that were in the default installation for potato. But each time I run emacs, I get some stalling while it says at the bottom : "No mail ***..., reverting to default" So, now I want to install

Re: GREP

2000-10-20 Thread Damian Menscher
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > the main difference is a sideeffect, sort of, if grep is called for > with one file as an argument it only prints the line matched, not the > filename, so you get bunch of lines (each successfull match) but you > have no idea which files these lines are

Newbie warning: XF86Setup help needed

2000-10-20 Thread Jan Erik Moström
Hi I suppose this is quite simple but since I'm a newbie I have big difficulties. I would appreciate if someone could give me a hint on how to get this up and running. I'm trying to install Debian and everything seems to work except that I'm not able to get the xerver up and running. I run XF86Se

Re: isdn: what I've to do??

2000-10-20 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:02:06AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > launching ipppd say: > > > Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support. > > > Check whether you configured at least the ippp0 device! > > Now, i don't have this message > I do not follow. What message you do not have now? How

Re: GREP

2000-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
the difference is that when you use -exec grep is called once for each file, with xargs it is called with all the files (you can add parameters to xargs to change it). calling grep just once is probably slightly more effective (even though the grep stays in cache so it's not that much of a dif

bash_history

2000-10-20 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi people! Is there a bug in bash (Debian 2.2.0 potato)? When i go as root into my system the bash don´t save anything to /root/bash_history. Is this a bug or default? If default, how can i configure my bash to save the history? Have a nice day! Matthias

Re: exim help needed (fwd)

2000-10-20 Thread Krzys Majewski
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > no i mean you can use exim, i just like to use what i made. > > i think you only really need exim for receiving mail. > this is how it works i think for most people: > > receiving: fetchmail pull from pop3 server -> localhost port 25 (your > mta)

Re: exim __newbie__

2000-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >First off, I'd like to say that I have no intention or desire to use my box >as a mail server, or even have mail delivered on my system. The only reason >that I am compelled to configure exim on my box is to be able to use things >like 'reportbug' and 'bu

Re: GREP

2000-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
Damian Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: >> yes, that's true, are you asking what the '?' is or are you just >> stating the fact? anyway, the other command is find, see manpages for >> find and grep for more info. find is the one that finds file (based o

RE: Help-problems with programming

2000-10-20 Thread Wesley Wannemacher
1. I suppose just saying RTFM would not be enough here, so I would suggest buying a book first. Here is a good book on Java that I use to teach my Java courses. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0760010706/qid%3D/103-0672772-6 705427 2. Then when you need help, join a Java list. 3. As far

ssh??

2000-10-20 Thread Stephan Kulka
After installing ssh I generated my keys with ssh-keygen. I copied the public on my remote account. It is an account at my local university. When I made ssh hostname ssh told me: The authenticity of the host can't be established, it prints out the key fingerprint and asks me whether I want to conti

Help-problems with programming

2000-10-20 Thread Jussi Seppala
I have written some programs and now I am trying to write a “pretty” simple (java) program (and run it in dos), which should draw a histogram of the course grades. I should just write down (type) the points of the students and the program should draw the histogram based on these numbers and wri

Re: exim __newbie__

2000-10-20 Thread Tomislav Renic
I ran into this problem a while ago... Basically, I came to the conlcusion that you should configure your mail program to replace the from header. For Example, in Mutt, just add the following to your muttrc file: my_hdr From: Tomislav Renic \<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> my_hdr Reply-To: Tomislav Reni

Re: {BIG MISTAKE} - what is modules.conf

2000-10-20 Thread Matthias Mann
Hello again dear Peter! I´m so sorry! I exchanged /etc/modules.conf with /etc/modules! Forget my last mail. It has nothing to do with your questions! To /etc/modules.conf i only can write, that it includes some aliases for work with the system. I mean that this aliases will be needed for kernel to

Re: what is modules.conf

2000-10-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: es> Peter Jay Salzman wrote: >> 2. which applications use this configuration file? and when? >> only at boot time? Just to be perfectly clear, modules.conf is used to configure loadable _kernel_ modules only. It is not used for _any_ userspace a

Re: mouse not working in x

2000-10-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matthias, Water, and Glyn - I have a PS/2 Mouse hooked to a serial port. I don't know what I/O it is, but windows tells me I have a PS/2 mouse at IRQ 12. My bootup messages in debian linux say "PS/2 port recognized". Also, that I have a 16550A at both IRQ3 & IRQ4. I know this mouse will work with

Re: calculating disk space

2000-10-20 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:30:43PM +1300, C. Falconer wrote: > C * H * S * kilobytes per sector Just what I needed. Cheers. Sven -- Powered by Debian GNU/Linux aka "The Rock"

Re: what is modules.conf

2000-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > i've never got this straight -- > > 1. what is modules.conf? what is it used for? various information about modules, for example options (which irq to use etc.), you can also turn off the modules (for example if kernels looks for modules you do not have (and you

Re: what is modules.conf

2000-10-20 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i've never got this straight -- >1. what is modules.conf? what is it used for? The main configuration file for kernel modules. Defines aliases and options used when loading modules. >2. which applications use this configuration

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