exmh(exim) problem

2000-11-06 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am having problems getting Exmh to enter the correct sender in my header. It keeps putting [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] In exim.conf I wrote a rewrite script ^(root|postmailer|mailer-daemon)@* [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffr but it did not work. Is there something wrong with the rew

SCIOFFLAGS: Resource Temporarily Unavailable

2000-11-06 Thread Cameron Matheson
Wow,   I just mailed the list with the wrong error (and it's still probably spelled wrong, but I have to mail you from windoze until my DSL works).  Anyway, the error in the subject of this message pops up when trying to configure eth0, hindering me from using my DSL card.  What could be wro

Quake 3 still not running

2000-11-06 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
It's me again still complaining about Quake 3.  I did a fresh install of Debian-potato and then installed the official XFree 4.0.1 .deb packages (I know, its the easy way. .. )  Now, when quake starts up, it gives this as it kills X (this is just a snippet of the full log) :   (**) Option "P

SCIOSFLAGS: Resource busy

2000-11-06 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   Trying to get my DSL working, but I can't get my network card to work.  If I say `ifconfig eth0 up`, then it gives me the error:   SCIOSFLAGS: Resource busy   What does this mean, and how do I fix it?   Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: DSL & Firewall

2000-11-06 Thread Chewie
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 07:13:25PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > My "Mom & Pop" phone company had an insert in my latest phone bill > that indicated they would be providing DSL service in the very near > future. A friend of mine suggested that if I get the DSL service > that I should set up

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 crashes hard

2000-11-06 Thread Brad
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 08:10:23PM -0500, Jeremy Hankins wrote: > > I've got an s3 virge card, viewsonic monitor. Come the upgrade to > XF 4.0 I've got to re-create the XF86Config file -- no biggy, I ran > xf86config to get a base version, and tweaked it to fit. Same here: S3 Virge/DX, different

Re: weird rpc.statd messages on potato

2000-11-06 Thread Damian Menscher
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Rob wrote: > Hmm, well we're on nfs-utils (1:0.1.9.1-1), so would that mean > that someone is trying the exploit on us? Any way to tell where > this is coming from? Given that you're running an up-to-date nfs-utils, they didn't get in. So the only info you have on them is the

Re: MD5 Check (was Re: i am hacked atm.. what's better thing to do?)

2000-11-06 Thread Damian Menscher
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Chewie wrote: > Here's a little known trick for a very minimalistic intrusion > detection hack. Debian installs a file called .md5sums in > the directory /var/lib/dpkg/info/. If you move yourself to the root > parition: > > bash$ cd / > > And run md5sum -c on the pack

Re: weird rpc.statd messages on potato

2000-11-06 Thread Rob
Hmm, well we're on nfs-utils (1:0.1.9.1-1), so would that mean that someone is trying the exploit on us? Any way to tell where this is coming from? BTW, what was the exploit, some kind of overflow? On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 10:29:04PM -0600, Damian Menscher wrote: > On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Rob wrote: >

Re: weird rpc.statd messages on potato

2000-11-06 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Rob, > Getting the following in our /var/log/messages > > We use NFS between two Potato boxes, this appears on > both : It's a buffer overrun exploit against rpc.statd. It seems that someone has put together a `sploit and it's the flavour of the day with the script kiddies - I've seen this

MD5 Check (was Re: i am hacked atm.. what's better thing to do?)

2000-11-06 Thread Chewie
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 04:43:13PM +0800, Livia Admin wrote: > ey guys.. pls reply to my real email add cause i'm not in the lists > > i think i'm compromised. cause when i do netstat i see a telnet > connection established to my box for almost 1 hour. i do ps but see > only 'in.telnetd'. is ther

Re: weird rpc.statd messages on potato

2000-11-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
Looks like a buffer overflow attack on rpc.statd. Is your network firewalled against the internet? If you've been applying the security updates to potato you should be okay (except who got access to the ports? Insiders?). Since the log is not wiped I suspect the attack was unsuccessful. Still,

Re: weird rpc.statd messages on potato

2000-11-06 Thread Damian Menscher
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Rob wrote: > Getting the following in our /var/log/messages > > We use NFS between two Potato boxes, this appears on > both : > > Nov 6 08:03:19 rudy Ç^F/binÇF^D/shA0ÀˆF^G‰v^LV^PN^L‰ó°^K̀°^Àèÿÿÿ > Nov 6 08:03:21 rudy 173>Nov 6 08:03:21 /sbin/rpc.statd[152]: gethostbyn

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-06 Thread Gordon Sadler
I do beleive this has fixed it. Thank you. Here's what I 'think' led to this. From another response from Jason he led me to beleive debconf had been uninstalled, as I was tracking his apt and the debconf available there (klecker.debian.org/~jgg /apt) It now appears to my system that the debconf a

Re: Compiling kernel for laptop

2000-11-06 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Raymond, Quoth Ingles, Raymond, > I've got Debian 2.2 mostly installed on an old laptop (486/50MHz, > 8MB RAM, 325MB HD). Actually, this is the second install - the first > got hosed by over-agressive hdparming. (I knew the risks... :-> ) I've just done the exact same thing on a very similar

weird rpc.statd messages on potato

2000-11-06 Thread Rob
Hey all, Getting the following in our /var/log/messages We use NFS between two Potato boxes, this appears on both : Nov 6 08:03:19 rudy Ç^F/binÇF^D/shA0ÀˆF^G‰v^LV^PN^L‰ó°^K̀°^Àèÿÿÿ Nov 6 08:03:21 rudy 173>Nov 6 08:03:21 /sbin/rpc.statd[152]: gethostbyname error for ^X÷ÿ¿^X÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-06 Thread Joey Hess
Manually link /usr/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl-5.6; repeat; update-alternatives --auto perl; /var/lib/dpkg/info/perl-5.6-base.postinst configure 5.6-1 Gordon Sadler wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 07:19:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > Gordon Sadler wrote: > > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > >

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-06 Thread Chewie
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:05:33PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > Just rebuilt my first 2.2.17 kernel, unfortunatly I'm not able to > find the kernelimage(!) OK. This is my second version of my reply email. I had to get my "brain goalie" back on the ice before I said something nasty. ;-) M

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Gordon Sadler wrote: > I followed this advice and upgraded to 1.7.1 just a few minutes ago, however > I am still receiving this error below. Looks like you removed debconf.. Put it back, by hand! Jason

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-06 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 07:19:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Gordon Sadler wrote: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded. > > 6 packages not fully installed or removed. > > Need to get 0B of a

Re: Idea: Master Debian FAQ (newbie-centric)

2000-11-06 Thread will trillich
Kenward Vaughan wrote: > There was a brief flurry of notes to one another, then nothing afterwards. the norm, sadly. maybe we can keep it going...? i've started http://newbiedoc.intranets.com/ for the purpose. > I have acquired a 486-66 at work to play with, and have already installed > Debia

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-06 Thread Joey Hess
Gordon Sadler wrote: > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded. > 6 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y

Re: i am hacked atm.. what's better thing to do?

2000-11-06 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > A lot depends on whether you want to watch/trace/prosecute/learn > from/annoy him, or if you just want him off your system. > > What I would do (since I like to do learn from the intrusions)

Perl 5.6 Upgrade

2000-11-06 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi. I just did a dselect upgrade and the Perl 5.6 upgrade completely screwed up my system. It removed the old Perl and then I didn't have Perl on my system. All the scripts seem to use Perl so I seem to be screwed now. Perl 5.6 can't configure itself! Help! -Jeff

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-06 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:30:06AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > It seems I made a `slight' mistake in dpkg 1.7.0 which broke > update-alternatives. Combined with a perl upgrade that can have some > nasty effects. I fixed this in dpkg 1.7.1, and I strongly advise > everyone to immediately upgrad

Re: Compiled debs are upgraded

2000-11-06 Thread Erik Steffl
use epoch, the package with epoch has higher version than any regular version. it's still not perfect, because I have to watch for source packages (so that I can rebuilt my packages), but at least it is OK. erik Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > > Madness and not what I want. It's

Re: [debian-user] GeForce2 w/ XFree86 4.0.1 [ a little new ]

2000-11-06 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > > Hi! > > >--[Jonathan Wheelhouse]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:01:46PM -0800, Cisco.Addict wrote: > > > Sorry, is there any way i can get my GeForce2 GTS 64mb working in XFree86 > > > 4.0.1 > > > (I

Re: smtp error

2000-11-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 06:43:09PM -0700, cls-colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > one of my potatoes has a smtp error: > > $ fetchmail > fetchmail: imap connection to mail.pcisys.net failed: connection refused > 25 messages for at mail.pcisys.net (86395 octets). > reading message 1 of 25 (3349 octets).

apt download security?

2000-11-06 Thread John Carline
Hi all, The note at the end of this message was posted to a local users group - mostly Red Hat users. Since I've never worried about checksuming the incoming debs and haven't a clue whether you can or not, I'm ill prepared to defend Debian. However, I'm not above accepting all the help I can fin

Re: MP3 and Floating Point exceptions

2000-11-06 Thread Iohan
At least yours works and then dies... I can't even get mp3s to play at all on my system. Running potato on a Dell Inspiron 5000 laptop. The soundcard is ess maestro and all other sounds are working, but I can't seem to get mp3s to play (wav and CD audio do play fine...) I tried freeamp, mpg1

smtp error

2000-11-06 Thread cls-colo spgs
debs, one of my potatoes has a smtp error: $ fetchmail fetchmail: imap connection to mail.pcisys.net failed: connection refused 25 messages for at mail.pcisys.net (86395 octets). reading message 1 of 25 (3349 octets)..fetchmail: smtp connect t localhost failed fetchmail: smtp transaction error

Re: help making packages

2000-11-06 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 12:35:01PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > dear all, > > i'd like to package a friend's game, but it requires: > > >=libsdl1.0 which debian provides > sdl_imagea library which debian doesn't provide > sdl_mixera library which debian doesn't provide > > currentl

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-06 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > It seems I made a `slight' mistake in dpkg 1.7.0 which broke > update-alternatives. Combined with a perl upgrade that can have some > nasty effects. I fixed this in dpkg 1.7.1, and I strongly advise > everyone to immediately upgrade to that version if

RE: MP3 and Floating Point exceptions

2000-11-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I stopped cron running in case it interrupted, and that made no difference. > Apart from that I am only running stuff straight out of the stable potato > cd's. Mp3blaster dies at the console or in an xterm so it's not X. > Anyone got an ideas or known problems also where should I r

Re: mouse problem

2000-11-06 Thread Joel Dinel
Did you modify your /etc/X11/XF86Config to reflect the changes ? The mouse device should read "/dev/gpmdata". -- Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

KDE2/Gnome GL differences

2000-11-06 Thread Michael Epting
I've been trying to solve my problem of unusable virtual consoles (the F1 through F6 ones) in XF 4.01 for weeks now. At one point I decided that it was a chipset problem, but I have since swapped motherboards and the problem was unchanged. I'm a Gnome user, but I've also been trying out the KDE2

MP3 and Floating Point exceptions

2000-11-06 Thread Steven Downing
Recently I installed Debian 'potato', on a 6x86 cyrix with ALS-100 soundcard. Sound support is from the kernel sb module. My problem is that when I run XMMS, freeamp, mp3blaster they all die after a random time, EsD and all other sound stuff seems fine AFAIK. Strace showed they were being kill

dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-06 Thread Wichert Akkerman
It seems I made a `slight' mistake in dpkg 1.7.0 which broke update-alternatives. Combined with a perl upgrade that can have some nasty effects. I fixed this in dpkg 1.7.1, and I strongly advise everyone to immediately upgrade to that version if you have 1.7.0 installed. You can grab it from http

Re: Compiled debs are upgraded

2000-11-06 Thread Joey Hess
Bruce Richardson wrote: > Uh huh. On reflection, it isn't doing this with every package I > compile, it left inewsinn alone. I gather debconf is badly broken and > not getting any better, wonder if this has anything to do with it. What are you talking about? If you think debconf is broken, how a

IMP issue

2000-11-06 Thread Matthew Thompson
Hello, all, I'm running IMP on a fully-updated Potato box. Just today, I started receving these errors whenever I try to compose, reply-to or forward a new message: Warning: Uninitialized variable or array index or property (ifsubtype) in ./lib/mimetypes.lib on line 64 Warning: Uninitialized va

Re: Compiled debs are upgraded

2000-11-06 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:32:31PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > Madness and not what I want. It's not just doing it on my home machine > > (installed from what *might* be a dodgy CD set, I suppose) but from my > > work machine which I installed entirely over the internet. > > > > i

Re: how safe is woody

2000-11-06 Thread John Hasler
Shaleh writes: > give woody or week or two. New X and perl are just arrving. Also new dpkg, and it and/or the new perl are broken. Stay away for now unless you want to help debug. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: [debian-user] GeForce2 w/ XFree86 4.0.1 [ a little new ]

2000-11-06 Thread Rüdiger Kuhlmann
Hi! >--[Jonathan Wheelhouse]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:01:46PM -0800, Cisco.Addict wrote: > > Sorry, is there any way i can get my GeForce2 GTS 64mb working in XFree86 > > 4.0.1 > > (Im hopeing to be able to play Quake3) > I've got a GeForce2 GTS 32mb; I followed tomshard

Re: xfree 4.0.1 and keyboard configuration

2000-11-06 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
> > Call me stupid, but I have trouble getting the right Alt key > working the same way with xfree 4.0.1 as 3.6.6 ... Call stupid me too, as I have the same kind of problem, but also a quite worse one: the fonts (e.g. of terminals and emacs) are displayed well (even if they are different fr

Re: HELIX and potato

2000-11-06 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:33:17PM -0500, Anderson, Tim wrote: > The best way would surely be to add the helixcode site to sources.list. Yes. The first below will get you Helix; after 'apt-get update' look for the 'task' debs. iirc 'apt-get install task-helix-gnome' will get you the complete Gnom

using the mouse in gpm and X, was: Re: Q: Debian's Midnight Commander version problem

2000-11-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, [ gpm ] > The only problem is the msg did go away, but the mouse stopped > working in X windows... Does that mean I have to run the gpmconfig > program? I don't have this problem with my logitech pilot 3-button mouse. In /etc/gpm.conf I have dev

RE: Exec CGI

2000-11-06 Thread Damian Menscher
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Jason Holland wrote: > Do you have this in your httpd.conf > > AddHandler cgi-script .cgi > > ?? You need this to map the cgi-script handler to all .cgi scripts. And > you probably can take that extra Options line out, you don't need to tell > apache Options ExecCGI twice.

Re: Exec CGI

2000-11-06 Thread halfdan
I tried getting it to work but ended up installing cgiwrap instead. Much easier, and...comes apt-get-able. -- Best Regards / Venlig Hilsen Rasmus Toftdahl Olesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://halfdan.dyndns.org

RE: Exec CGI

2000-11-06 Thread Jason Holland
Do you have this in your httpd.conf AddHandler cgi-script .cgi ?? You need this to map the cgi-script handler to all .cgi scripts. And you probably can take that extra Options line out, you don't need to tell apache Options ExecCGI twice. Also, your directory definition probably should look li

Exec CGI

2000-11-06 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, I am wondering how to execute .cgi out of the users public_html directory. I thought I had it right by adding the line to access.conf file? AllowOverride all Options ExecCGI Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all I do have .cgi extent

RE: how safe is woody

2000-11-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Nov-2000 Daniel Borgmann wrote: > any hints? > i guess i'll upgrade. > i want a stable system, but old packages are not really stable :( > i this breaks things, can i simply remove the woody sourcelist line to > reconvert to potato? > give woody or week or two. New X and perl are just ar

Re: Compiled debs are upgraded

2000-11-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Madness and not what I want. It's not just doing it on my home machine > (installed from what *might* be a dodgy CD set, I suppose) but from my > work machine which I installed entirely over the internet. > interesting, replacing it with the same version. Odd.

how safe is woody

2000-11-06 Thread Daniel Borgmann
any hints? i guess i'll upgrade. i want a stable system, but old packages are not really stable :( i this breaks things, can i simply remove the woody sourcelist line to reconvert to potato?

Re: Compiled debs are upgraded

2000-11-06 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:07:15PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 06-Nov-2000 Bruce Richardson wrote: > > If I compile a deb-src package and install it, "apt-get upgrade" will > > over-write it with the precompiled version unless I mark my hand-rolled > > package as "hold". What am I do

Hotmail+Netscape 4.x = crash!

2000-11-06 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Someone here can work without problems in Netscape when suf into hotmail? How can did it? -- Rogelio E. Castillo

Re: Q: Debian's Midnight Commander version problem

2000-11-06 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, > > apt-get install gpm will fix this I believe. Tanks, I had that idea earlier when I was digging through dselect looking for any gpm stuff. The only problem is the msg did go away, but the mouse stopped working in X windows... Does that mean I have to run the gpmconfig program? I figured o

Free funnies every day!

2000-11-06 Thread tgmwebsite
** Quote of the day ** "Love is to stay awake all the night with a sick child. Or with a very healthy adult." (David Frost) * Are you looking for a good morning start and you h

Re: Compiled debs are upgraded

2000-11-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Bruce Richardson wrote: > If I compile a deb-src package and install it, "apt-get upgrade" will > over-write it with the precompiled version unless I mark my hand-rolled > package as "hold". What am I doing wrong? Nothing. This is how it is ment to work. You can change the

Re: Debian on Ultra 5 helppp

2000-11-06 Thread Cory Snavely
I would try a     setenv boot-device disk   at the ok (PROM) prompt, then     reset   and it should boot from SCSI id 0. - Original Message - From: Mario Zuppini To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 10:48 PM Subject: Debian on Ultra 5 hel

RE: Compiled debs are upgraded

2000-11-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Nov-2000 Bruce Richardson wrote: > If I compile a deb-src package and install it, "apt-get upgrade" will > over-write it with the precompiled version unless I mark my hand-rolled > package as "hold". What am I doing wrong? > nothing. you install version 1.1, there is a 1.2, it should rep

Compiled debs are upgraded

2000-11-06 Thread Bruce Richardson
If I compile a deb-src package and install it, "apt-get upgrade" will over-write it with the precompiled version unless I mark my hand-rolled package as "hold". What am I doing wrong? -- Bruce It is impolite to tell a man who is carrying you on his shoulders that his head smells.

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #442

2000-11-06 Thread dude
SO What Happened?!?!?! I started upgrading today (for some reason the michigan site seemed down) and suddently i get like 40 packages updated, and then task-x windows breaks window, so i cant get a GUI. So i continue to up-date, never saying Y for installing package'ers maintainer (which i woul

Re: Segmentation Faults!

2000-11-06 Thread kmself
Please respond on-list. Please include replied-to message, quoted (postfix your response). List included in recpipients. Reply-to directed to list. on Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 02:50:26PM -0700, Matheson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I don't know what debsums is, but if I run `strace rm`, it just tells

Re: Compiling kernels

2000-11-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Monday 06 November 2000 20:25, David Z. Maze wrote: > Timo Benk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > TB> Hi, > TB> On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Matthew Sackman wrote: > MS> The problem is that my kernels refuse to install. I have > MS> downloaded the kernels from ftp.kernel.org, unpacked > MS> them. Configur

Re: new to Debian....

2000-11-06 Thread Sreeni R. Nair
Yes, I think curses.h is in dev. kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Is dev required just to run 'make menuconfig'? >

Re: new to Debian....

2000-11-06 Thread Juergen Fiedler
If I understand correctly, 'make menuconfig' compiles the menu system on the fly - won't work without the ncurses headers. kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Is dev required just to run 'make menuconfig'?

Re: Trouble installng Tomcat on (Debian) Linux

2000-11-06 Thread Stefan Gybas
Gregory Guthrie wrote: > 1) How do I test it with their examples? There is a webapps/examples.war; > how do I invoke it? Tomcat from the Debian package runs its HTTP listener on port 8081 (that's because 8080 is used by some other packages like junkbuster), so you have to access the pages as http

Re: new to Debian....

2000-11-06 Thread kmself
Is dev required just to run 'make menuconfig'? on Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 05:34:51PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You might want to throw in a 'libncurses5-dev' and a 'bin86', too (if you > don't > have them yet). > > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > on Sat, Nov 04, 2000 a

Re: New X Server crashes

2000-11-06 Thread kmself
Most commonly, DNS lookup or reverse lookup. This was a frequently iterated bug in early RedHat releases, particularly sendmail timeouts on startup. A cow-orker reported inability to start X on a laptop due to a missing localhost or hostname entry in his /etc/hosts file, or similar. The machine

Re: new to Debian....

2000-11-06 Thread Juergen Fiedler
You might want to throw in a 'libncurses5-dev' and a 'bin86', too (if you don't have them yet). kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 06:06:02PM +, wulfie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > although not new to linux. A little bit of skewed logic in places - I > > install C de

Re: OFFTOPIC weird URL's

2000-11-06 Thread Pollywog
On 06-Nov-2000 Hubert Chan wrote: > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I received a spam which promoted a website but the problem was the URL has >> something like this >> >> http://2704935062/somestupid/pornpage.html > > The way I translate it is: > > Convert to hex: 2704935062 -> 0xA1

Trying to locate KDE1.1.2 source Files

2000-11-06 Thread James Alan Brown
Having used first Red Hat then several versions of SuSE Linux all the Linux Pro's tell me that Debian is the best set-up. Was getting quite fed-up with all their extra garbage files they seem to insist on installing. So I have just located/Ordered a 6 CD set. My main question is this: I ne

Re: HELIX and potato

2000-11-06 Thread Hubert Chan
> Debian Ghost said these things on 20001106.1400: > | Hey Guys, > | I notice that there is no helix gnome package for potato. > | Is there an eazy way to implement helix into potato? I am using regular > | gnome and want to go to helix. The "woody" helix packages work fine in potato. I guess the

Duplex on etherpro-100?

2000-11-06 Thread Eric N. Valor
I've got an Intel 82559-based NIC (Etherpro-100). I'm wondering how I can (or if I can) configure the NIC to be full-duplex instead of autoconfigured. Any help would be appreciated. -- Eric N. Valor Webmeister/Inetservices Lutris Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This Space Intentionally Left

xfree 4.0.1 and keyboard configuration

2000-11-06 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
(please cc: me...) Call me stupid, but I have trouble getting the right Alt key working the same way with xfree 4.0.1 as 3.6.6 ... I use a norwegian keyboard, and need the right Alt (called Alt Gr in norway) to get the square and curly braces and the at (@) sing. Any ideas?? -- Tom Cato Amundse

Re: soundcore module

2000-11-06 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:30:39PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > I'm confused about the interaction of kernel sound support and ALSA > drivers. > > If I want to switch to ALSA drivers, do I build the kernel with sound and > soundcore, or just soundcore? I assume that I turn off the kernel suppo

Re: OT: gecko rendering engine and galeon/skipstone

2000-11-06 Thread Daniel Freedman
IIRC, I think there were also licensing issues involved with separately distributing the gecko rendering engine outside the full mozilla package. I would assume this would change once mozilla completes transition to full dual licensing under MPL and GPL. -Dan On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Daniel Reuter wr

Re: Q: Debian's Midnight Commander version problem

2000-11-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Jonathan" == Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jonathan> mc: /dev/gpmctl: Connection refused Jonathan> mc: /dev/gpmcrl: No such file or directory [ You chould copy&paste logfiles, config files etc, not retype them. This makes sure you don't post a typo that may leasd to some false conc

mouse problem

2000-11-06 Thread Brett Singer
Hi, So X won't recognize the mouse on my system - gpmconfig can see it, but when X starts, I get the following message: System: 'usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us -em1' "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: "-emp"> " -em1 "Errors from xkbcomp are no

RE: HELIX and potato

2000-11-06 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
well, the binaries wouldn't be run as root, so yes. > -Original Message- > Subject: RE: HELIX and potato > > I guess so, but is it any more a security risk than running a binary > from helixcode? > > Original Message > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Wasn't there some discu

RE: HELIX and potato

2000-11-06 Thread plutoplanet
I guess so, but is it any more a security risk than running a binary from helixcode? Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: HELIX and potato Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:33:17 -0500 > >Wasn't there some discussion about this method last week?

Re: Stradling the fence

2000-11-06 Thread Hubert Chan
Peak Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't done an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" > since I installed the woody packages. However I'm > concerned that I may be missing out on security > upgrades. I'm thinking about going all the way to > woody, but I'm worried about stability. I ha

dpkg problem

2000-11-06 Thread Joel Dinel
I did an apt-get install task-kde this afternoon. I got a message that task-kde would not be installed because some other package was not installable. After hunting down the problem package, I try to install it : dimmu:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree.

Re: OFFTOPIC weird URL's

2000-11-06 Thread Hubert Chan
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I received a spam which promoted a website but the problem was the URL has > something like this > > http://2704935062/somestupid/pornpage.html The way I translate it is: Convert to hex: 2704935062 -> 0xA13A0896 Convert each pair of hex digits to decimal:

Re: HELIX and potato

2000-11-06 Thread Rob Hudson
I don't know if this is the preferred way to get Helix Gnome installed, but I typed this at the command prompt and it worked... lynx -source http://go-gnome.org | sh -Rob. Debian Ghost said these things on 20001106.1400: | Hey Guys, | I notice that there is no helix gnome package for potato. | I

help making packages

2000-11-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i'd like to package a friend's game, but it requires: >=libsdl1.0 which debian provides sdl_imagea library which debian doesn't provide sdl_mixera library which debian doesn't provide currently, the only way to get sdl_image and sdl_mixer on a debian system is to compile it fr

RE: HELIX and potato

2000-11-06 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Wasn't there some discussion about this method last week? I think the thread was 'Horrifying suggestion' The best way would surely be to add the helixcode site to sources.list. tim > -Original Message- > From: plutoplanet [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 3:10 PM

Re: soundcore module

2000-11-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Marcelo Ramos wrote: > >From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/Introduction : > > ### > To support all the various sound modules, there are three general > support modules that must be loaded first: > > soundcore.o: Top level handler for the sound sys

Re: Compiling kernels

2000-11-06 Thread David Z. Maze
Timo Benk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TB> Hi, TB> On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Matthew Sackman wrote: MS> The problem is that my kernels refuse to install. I have MS> downloaded the kernels from ftp.kernel.org, unpacked MS> them. Configured them using menuconfig, TB> If I understand you right you downloa

Re: Netscape spelling option

2000-11-06 Thread Erik Steffl
there's a separate package for it, can't recall the name but check the netscape packages on debian.org, the name is kinda obvious (IIRC, I don't have access to my box at the momment) erik Debian Ghost wrote: > > Hey Guys, > For some reason netscape did not install with the spelling opt

Re: SB Live! (XGamer)...

2000-11-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Ray Percival wrote: I see that potato has 2.2.17pre6, but woody is just 2.2.17 (the final, I assume). Can I just install the woody deb for kernel-source? Anybody know if it's compatable? > Or if you don't want to rebuild your kernel go to opensource.creative.com. > > ---

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 crashes hard

2000-11-06 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:19:13AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > Jeremy Hankins wrote: > > But when I run xinit to test it the the machine crashes hard. Console > > doesn't respond, no response to pings, etc. > > > > I've tried several things: using the vga driver rather than s3virge, > > taking ou

Re: compiling Realtek into kernel

2000-11-06 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:18:27PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > Make xconfig greyed the Realtek driver 8139 selection out although > 10/100 ethernet support has been selected. I played a bit with > selecting other options but never managed to get the Realtek driver > option active! > >From

Re: xf86cfg problem

2000-11-06 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:18:26AM +0100, Martin Würtele wrote: > hi, > > strange problem with xf86cfg: > when runnung as user i alway get > Cannot to open config file. > > and when running as root (su): > Module ABI versions: > XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 > XFree86 Video Drive

Re: soundcore module

2000-11-06 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:30:21PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > What is the soundlow & the soundcore used for? > > I'm just trying to get my Sonic Impact to work (which should be a OSS > card) >From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/Introduction : ### To support all th

RE: HELIX and potato

2000-11-06 Thread plutoplanet
Login as root and do the following: #lynx -source http://go-gnome.com | sh Good Luck Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: HELIX and potato Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 14:00:16 -0500 (EST) >Hey Guys, >I notice that there is no helix gnome pack

Re: xdm takes so long to start [was Re: New X Server crashes]

2000-11-06 Thread Joey Hess
Shao Zhang wrote: > xdm on my machine(laptop) takes about 50 seconds to start. > If no one knows why, then I am going to fire up a bug report against it. I've already tracked down this bug and filed a report, so please don't bother. -- see shy jo

Compiling kernel for laptop

2000-11-06 Thread Ingles, Raymond
I've got Debian 2.2 mostly installed on an old laptop (486/50MHz, 8MB RAM, 325MB HD). Actually, this is the second install - the first got hosed by over-agressive hdparming. (I knew the risks... :-> ) Anyway, I've done a lot of things to conserve memory (reducing the number of VCs, etc.) but I

Re: email alias postfix procmail

2000-11-06 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 09:47:55PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 07:01:08PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 05:38:12PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ... > > > I am curious why it is important. If someone could explain? > > > > have a loo

HELIX and potato

2000-11-06 Thread Debian Ghost
Hey Guys, I notice that there is no helix gnome package for potato. Is there an eazy way to implement helix into potato? I am using regular gnome and want to go to helix. Any advice? Thanks! D. Ghost

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