Re: jdk - installation

Thus spake Michael Mertins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > I never installed JDK for Linux before, I'm running woody and would like > to do that now since I really need it for the university-stuff here. > Anyone that could help maybe by naming a nice apt-get install package-name > command is welcome

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:20:54PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > I've started to get lazy and use an RSA authenticated ssh > connection--saves me typing my password... actually RSA is a better way to go, you should encrypt the key and use ssh-agent, still saves you from typing the passwd (all but o

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:08:02AM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > I remember when I had to use Exchange at work[1] once ... yuck. We > > weren't allowed to install anything else. Fortunately I worked out how > > to get tel

Re: Can't install undated pkgs

dpkg --configure --pending to find out which package is the culprit, then either force install it or remove it, depending on how you feel about force installs. the switches needed are in the manpage or dpkg --help. On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, eric k. wolven wrote: > Dear Debians: > > I keep getting

Re: Why does the server allow attachments anyway ???

The only issue is poor murphy! D-U gets a hundred emails a day, god only knows how much the other lists get (actually I probably could give you a guess, but I'm not in the mood for it...) plus (still?) hosts the @debian.org addresses. Throw in a filter that requires any more than basic yes/no ch

Re: Procmail filters for attachments (was Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?)

Look on www.securityfocus.com: they had a thread about .procmailrc rules for email trojans about the time of the (melissa?) virus. On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 09:14:11PM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 0

Re: Why does the server allow attachments anyway ???

Startup problems: the user is practically incomprehensible, but his dmesg output isn't. That's just the first example off my head. On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Does it serve any real purpose (other than so Doze users can collect > viruses) ?? > > Dave > > > -- When

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

Proabaly an artifact of the trojan--spread by mirroring everything sent to it with the trojan attached. On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > Umm someone's repeating debian-user mails. This get's to be obnoxious! > > "H.C.Hsiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, seems to be the culprit. > Time for

Re: What is NAVIDAD.exe

It's a windoze trojan. Don't use outlook. If you must use win, use pegasus, netscape, pc-pine, or eudora--these each have their holes, but they don't nearly have as many as lookout. On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, -|- Hurgh! -|- wrote: > Is this a virus or something I have just got like heaps of messages

Re: Font foundry problems with xfs 4.0.1

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 04:16:04PM -0500, Ben Darnell wrote: > Using the font server from XFree86 4.0.1, some fonts have different > foundries depending on whether they are bold, italic, etc. For > instance, > %xlsfonts|grep verdana > -microsoft-verdana-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 > -mi

Re: No char-major-10-135

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: (snip) > Just put a comment '#' in front of the alias and run "update-modules". > It's for the "Real Time Clock" which is mostly not used, except in > applications that need microsecond real-time stuff (most likely control > systems, etc.). Thanks! (-: I

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 09:11:26PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > I hearby propose that the list automatically reject all postings that > appear to have been sent using MS Outlook. this way this garbage > won't happen each and every time ya new Outlook worm comes out. I agree, 400+ emails is cr

Re: No char-major-10-135

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 06:07:16PM -0500, Mark Carroll wrote: > Since upgrading to the latest stable release, at boot-time I get: > > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135 > > The upgrade has put in my /etc/modules.conf: > > alias char-major-10-135 rtc > > Where

Navidad is a virus

Sorry for any redundancy. See for example, . >From that web site: = W32.Navidad Discovered on: November 3, 2000 Last Updated on: November 11, 2000 0 9:38:15 PM PST W32.Navidad is a mass mailing worm pr

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:08:02AM +, Colin Watson >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> I remember when I had to use Exchange at work[1] once ... yuck. We >> weren't allowed to install anything else. Fortunately I worked out how >> to get telnet sessions out through the f

Re: Quick Q: Kernel compiling gcc295/gcc272?

Hello! I've always compiled my kernels with gcc295 for over a year now and never run into problems. Seems to work. Regards, Stephan - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian" Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 8:45 PM Subject: Quick Q: Kernel compiling g

Re: whiteboard/groupboard

if your LAN is multicast capable you can run sdr which has a whiteboard application. On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 05:03:43PM -0500, John Plummer wrote: > Is anyone familiar with whiteboard/groupboard type of software > for use in a classroom LAN for Debian? This is to counter a MS > Net Meeting pr

Re: /usr/tmp instead of /tmp

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 11:40:18PM +0100, Attila Csosz wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to switch /tmp to /usr/tmp because /tmp is to small. > > I did the followings: > > umount /tmp ; mv tmp tmp2 ; rewrite /tmp to /tmp2 in /etc/fstab > mkdir /usr/tmp ; ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp ; chown 777 /usr/tmp ; cho

Re: VI probs

you can also use alternatives to pick which package that provides vi you want to actually provide vi, if you install one of the other packages it will (probably) update the symlink, but using alternatives you can explicitly let debian know which of the alternatives you want to use as real thin

vnc

Hello, I updated to kde2 - and asside from the bugs it is okay. I didn't notice right away, but I no longer can vnc into my box. I start the server as usual but when I vnc in, I only have a grey screen and a mouse pointer. No desktop at all. I also attempted to try vncserver on a red hat box

Re: /usr/tmp instead of /tmp

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Debian User wrote: > I'd like to switch /tmp to /usr/tmp because /tmp is to small. > > umount /tmp ; mv tmp tmp2 ; rewrite /tmp to /tmp2 in /etc/fstab > mkdir /usr/tmp ; ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp ; chown 777 /usr/tmp ; chown 777 /tmp > chmod root:sys /usr/tmp Well, swapping chown

Re: problem with .netrc

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 06:10:21AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: Hi, Here is my .netrc file: default anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is the error message: /home/attila/.netrc:1: warning: unknown token "anonymous" /home/attila/.netrc:1: warning: unknown token "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" M

/usr/tmp instead of /tmp

Hi, I'd like to switch /tmp to /usr/tmp because /tmp is to small. I did the followings: umount /tmp ; mv tmp tmp2 ; rewrite /tmp to /tmp2 in /etc/fstab mkdir /usr/tmp ; ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp ; chown 777 /usr/tmp ; chown 777 /tmp chmod root:sys /usr/tmp Is it enough or good? Thanks Attila --

test

-- - Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian 2.2 Linux / 2.2.13 / exim - - PGP key: gpg --keyserver keys.pgp.com --recv-key 0x2cc33acb -

Re: kerneld/modutils

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 11:51:22PM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Am I supposed to continue running kerneld or not? When it does run > > it says I don't want to run it with 2.2.x but everytime a fixed > > modutils deb is released it readds it to rc2.d

Re: Postscript printers

On 14-Nov-00 Michael P. Soulier wrote: >> Is this a true postscript printer ? > > Isn't it enough for it to just speak PCL? Then with ghostscript you > can handle postscript just fine, no? No. Ghostscripts emulation of standard Adobe PostScript is good, but imperfect. In particular, the fonts

Re: apt-get strangeness

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 10:44:50PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Er no, this is completely silly. There are no problems that APT does not > catch. > > Your problem in that APT has interesting way to complain about missing > dependencies. You need to to include more packages on the some instal

usb kernel?

hi, can i download a .deb USBfied kernel for potato from somewhere? -gnana

Re: hdparm to increase performance

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 01:39:19PM -0800, Francois Gouget wrote: > >I don't know. They must be doing something wrong ;-) If it doesn't > then it must be that the accesses are dominated by seeks. > Fragmentation? This should not happen with ext2fs. Maybe random disk > accesses (for checking t

Unidentified subject!

"S.Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Subject: Postscript printers > >I had a chance to look at the specs. for the HP 2100M. The HP specs >(http://www.hp.ca/products/static/c4171a/features-en.html) say >that this printer supports HP PCL 6 plus HP PostScript Level 2 >emulation. > >In additi

Problem with cups and xpp or qtcups

Hello, both xpp and qtcups give me same message "unable to connect to CUPS server, check options" but I don't know the options that I have to see. I tried all options in the cupsd.conf file but nothing does. Tanks in advance and sorry for my bad english... :-)

Re: VI probs

> Hi, > > I just changed from SUSE to Debian and kind of have problems with the > VI. When in INSERT mode I used to see that from the status line below, > now there isnt anything. Also Delete isn't working as before, also > when using the cursor keys, always the INSERT mode discontinues... > > An

Re: Quick Q: Kernel compiling gcc295/gcc272?

According to kernel traffic this week (kt.linuxcare.com), if my memory serves, gcc272 will _not_ properly compile the newest kernels, even though the documents explicitly states that gcc272 is in fact the most compatible compiler. Further searching of the kernel mailing lists could probably dig up

No char-major-10-135

Since upgrading to the latest stable release, at boot-time I get: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135 The upgrade has put in my /etc/modules.conf: alias char-major-10-135 rtc Where do I look in my 2.2.15's kernel's "make menuconfig" to find the thing that i

Re: virtual ips

Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Network interfaces get configured in /etc/network/interfaces. Then you > can start/stop them via ip-up/ip-down. Sorry, i meant ifup and ifdown. moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-K

Re: Network config

Knud Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where do debain put gateway info. Network interfaces get configured via /etc/network/interfaces, see 'man interfaces'. Then you can start/stop these interfaces with ifup/ifdown. It's just a very nice frontend to configure network interfaces (it uses ifc

Missing Debian buttons

G'day Everyone, Most of you will know that a few months ago Debian had a hard drive failure on one of its machines. This machine had some buttons I made for the project in my personal page. For some reason I did not keep a local copy of these buttons and they are now gone. I have a sinking feel

when will I learn? [was: getting german "umlauts" on potato]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 05:42:55PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:46:39AM +0100, Gerald wrote: > > It's so nice to get such an immediate reply to almost any question in > > this list :) ! There's always somebody who knows... I agree, hope that you folks can help me. The t

Re: kerneld/modutils

Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am I supposed to continue running kerneld or not? When it does run > it says I don't want to run it with 2.2.x but everytime a fixed > modutils deb is released it readds it to rc2.d $ head -9 /etc/init.d/kerneld #!/bin/sh # # Start kerneld (on-demand loa

Re: virtual ips

Grischa Schuering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I changed from SuSe Linux to debian. How and where do I enter > virtual ip as like eth0:1, eth0:1... Network interfaces get configured in /etc/network/interfaces. Then you can start/stop them via ip-up/ip-down. See the manpages for details and on ho

Re: Installing KDE2

On Tuesday 14 November 2000 17:27, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > Hi Tim, and all others. > > Yes, your're right, with apt-get will be better, > but the sources.list line isn't work. > > I read that the person who support the package in his webpage says that > package won't be accesible for pers

Re: virtual ips

> Hi, > > I changed from SuSe Linux to debian. How and where do I enter virtual ip as > like eth0:1, eth0:1... Dunno what the official place would be to set that up, if there is one, it would probably be /etc/network/interfaces or something. what used to be the way was putting it in: /etc/init.

Re: GunPG Installation

Daniel Freedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Daniel, > The question focused on the fact that installation wouldn't > successfully proceed unless the .gnupg directory was created by > hand. [...] Yes, that was me. > In talking to the people upstream on the GnuPG mailing list, they > seemed to

Re: Postscript printers

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 10:55:50AM -0500, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > I had a chance to look at the specs. for the HP 2100M. The HP specs > (http://www.hp.ca/products/static/c4171a/features-en.html) say > that this printer supports HP PCL 6 plus HP PostScript Level 2 > emulation. > > In addition, h

Re: Postscript printers

I remember reading that in the past 2-3 years, HP switched from true Adobe Postscript to an inhouse Postscript emulation. I have an HP Laserjet 4MPlus which has a Postscript SIMM that has Adobe Postscript trademarks printed right on it (and the manual states that it's Postscript is licensed from Ad

Re: Quick Q: Kernel compiling gcc295/gcc272?

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 08:45:50PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I recently compiled my kernel. However, reading through the docs that came > with gcc it says clearly that compiling the kernel should be done with > gcc272 and not gcc295. I had gcc295 loaded by tasksel and the fine print >

Re: Installing KDE2

Hi Tim, and all others. Yes, your're right, with apt-get will be better, but the sources.list line isn't work. I read that the person who support the package in his webpage says that package won't be accesible for personal reasons. If you know another site to use with apt-get, be my guess and I'

RE: jdk - installation

apt-get install jdk1.1-dev > -Original Message- > From: Michael Mertins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 2:15 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: jdk - installation > > > Hi, > I never installed JDK for Linux before, I'm running woody and would like

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

On Tuesday 14 November 2000 01:15, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > I would be OK with blocking MS Outhouse, but not Windoze > mail clients in general. Some of us have to use that 'OS' > at work, and those of us with any sense use Netscape or > Eudora (Eudora doesn't work on NT4.0, so it's Netscape i

PHP setup with apache

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all. I'm trying to get a Linux Apache Mysql Php (LAMP) setup going on a machine on my home network. running a potato base install i've happily got Apache and Mysql apt-get'ed and running fine. apt-get install php4 runs away and does its stuf

whiteboard/groupboard

Is anyone familiar with whiteboard/groupboard type of software for use in a classroom LAN for Debian? This is to counter a MS Net Meeting proposal. Searchng the archives was unsuccessful. Thanks. jcp

Re: Who is this virus sender????

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 06:45:54PM -0200, Allan F. Caetano wrote: > > "Antonio" == Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Antonio> The truth is that it is very starnge having a person sending > over 20 > Antonio> messages to the list, all infected... > Antonio> I have n

virtual ips

Hi,   I changed from SuSe Linux to debian. How and where do I enter virtual ip as like eth0:1, eth0:1...   Thanks   Grischa

Re: jdk - installation

> "Michael" == Michael Mertins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > maybe even a development environment... JDE is packaged for Debian...

X4 and DRI

Hello List, I've recently upgraded to X4 and I'm having problems with DRI. I'm using a Matrox G400 and a 2.4.0-test5(from the woody .deb) kernel. With the mesag3 package from woody installed, glxinfo shows direct rendering is enabled but if I run some of the GL xscreensavers i.e. superquadrics

Re: Postscript printers

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 10:55:50AM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: > I had a chance to look at the specs. for the HP 2100M. The HP specs > (http://www.hp.ca/products/static/c4171a/features-en.html) say > that this printer supports HP PCL 6 plus HP PostScript Level 2 > emulation. I got a OKI 12i/n

Re: Genius 3-button mouse problem

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 02:21:08PM +0100, Knotek Vlastimil wrote: > I have an old Genuis 3-button mouse and it doesn't work under debian linux. > How can I configure my mouse under debian ? What kind of mouse is it? PS/2 or a serial? Do you want it to run with X or just at the console? For X: ru

RE: Installing KDE2

Downloading .debs isn't the easiest way to install Debian packages. apt-get can work the whole thing for you, check the docs for more info. > -Original Message- > From: Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 3:53 PM > To: debian-user@lists.

Re: Easy Killfile using maildrop

on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 07:34:08PM +1100, Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi folks, > > This recent windoze virus nonsense has inspired me to put together a > quick and easy killfile - something where I can just add an address to a > file without having to make a new rule for each one.

Re: gpm-configuration for use of ps2-mouse with X-Windows

"Walther, Christoph" wrote: > [...] > > ...so gpm works correctly at the console at the test > ...but if I starting X-Windows again, the mouse doesn't still work! > Of course there is a possibility to stop the gpm manually by: > > /etc/init.d/gpm stop > > ...but I'd like to get an automatism i

RE: jdk - installation

Hi Michael, I did it myself this weekend, on my potato box. There's a woody build too, and it's all in non-free. Go to http://www.blackdown.org for some instructions and links to mirrors. Also check archives of debian-java. As for a dev env, I _think_ Borland (or Sybase, whoever they're called the

Font foundry problems with xfs 4.0.1

Using the font server from XFree86 4.0.1, some fonts have different foundries depending on whether they are bold, italic, etc. For instance, %xlsfonts|grep verdana -microsoft-verdana-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -microsoft-verdana-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -misc-verdana-bold

Re: FSF & OpenSSL licensing problems

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 21:58:13 +0100, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote: > Shortly: it is not legal to link OpenSSL with GPL'ed sources. > Will it affect the availability of OpenSSL in debian? No. Why should it? There is no requirement for libraries in Debian to be GPL-compatible. Ray -- RUMOUR Believe

RE: GunPG Installation

Thanks for this, I had the same problem this weekend and created .gnupg which did appear to solve the problem - I thought at the time that it was a clunky old hack that would cause trouble later but I'm more confident now. Wondering if this will get through to the list as I'm stuck on a proprietary

FSF & OpenSSL licensing problems

Hi All, Last time on the openssl group I saw a discussion about the problems with OpenSSL & GPL licensing. Shortly: it is not legal to link OpenSSL with GPL'ed sources. Will it affect the availability of OpenSSL in debian? -- TIA Woj

Who is this virus sender????

> "Antonio" == Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Antonio> The truth is that it is very starnge having a person sending over 20 Antonio> messages to the list, all infected... Antonio> I have never seen that before. I agree that it looks very strange, and the fact t

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:08:02AM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I remember when I had to use Exchange at work[1] once ... yuck. We > weren't allowed to install anything else. Fortunately I worked out how > to get telnet sessions out through the firewall reasonably quickly, and

Re: wm

A long time i heard IceWM was the most popular one. but I prefere BlackBox which seems to be extremely stable, fast and even great looking (tons of themes available) -michael > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:40:29PM -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I would like to know what window m

jdk - installation

Hi, I never installed JDK for Linux before, I'm running woody and would like to do that now since I really need it for the university-stuff here. Anyone that could help maybe by naming a nice apt-get install package-name command is welcome as well as people that could tell me what stuff / opportun

Re: Q: Procedure to follow w/Compiled apps?

On Monday 13 November 2000 02:43, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I have two related question on procedure it would be great to have the > answer to... > > 1. I have compiled and installed a new kernel. I'll keep the source in > place for future work, but what of the org bzImage? Does one leave that

Who is this virus sender????

The truth is that it is very starnge having a person sending over 20 messages to the list, all infected... I have never seen that before. Who is H.C.Hsiang [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GunPG Installation

Hi, This is in response to a question yesterday about the installation of GnuPG (I lost the original in the whole influx of Navidad junkmail, so I'm just broadcasting this rather than replying directly to that email). The question focused on the fact that installation wouldn't successfully procee

Installing KDE2

How I must install KDE2 on my Debian potato? I downloaded All the debs from kde.org Regards -- Rogelio E. Castillo

Quick Q: Kernel compiling gcc295/gcc272?

Hi, I recently compiled my kernel. However, reading through the docs that came with gcc it says clearly that compiling the kernel should be done with gcc272 and not gcc295. I had gcc295 loaded by tasksel and the fine print said not to worry if you had gcc295 because if you used the kernel-pacage i

Re: synchronize dselect

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > Or use it all the time, except for the odd apt-get for something > trivial. I find it an exceedingly useful tool when you don't happen to > know the exact dependency structure of what you're trying to install > (maybe, one day, when apt supports Suggests:

Re: Postscript printers

It seems like its getting hard to find a true Postscript printer - either Adobe has gotten too expensive for the manufacturers to license it, or the consumer market has given up on Postscript. The last Postscript printer I bought was an expensive Tektronix. - Dave Felt S.Salman Ahmed wrote: >

Re: Postscript printers

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 01:12:50PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "BN" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BN> It depends on what you mean by "true postscript". Yes, the > BN> 2100M is a PostScript printer, but uses a HP-developed emulation > BN> rather than Adobe fir

Re: update

At 04:43 PM 11/14/00 +0100, you wrote: ...sorry, I can't tell you wether there are snafu's, 'cause I don't know what snafus are. ;) You mean problems? If you have problems, write a bug report agains the package. ;) http://everything2.net/index.pl?node_id=28184 -- Criggie

Re: Postscript printers

It depends on what you mean by "true postscript". Yes, the 2100M is a PostScript printer, but uses a HP-developed emulation rather than Adobe firmware. http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html recommends a few low-priced PS printers. Based upon that I recently purchased a Lexmark Optra E312

Re: failed to connect port 25

Wow, thanks! I guess that is it. I am able to connect the provider's mailserver at port 25. Thanks, Sebastiaan On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have just installed Postfix mailerdeamon, and now I am unable to send > > email out of t

Re: Intel server box for NT, Linux

Rory, I don't think anyone answered this so I'll tell you what I use... I have a Dell PowerEdge 2400 with a dual power-supply and hot- swappable disks (3 x 18GB, in my case). My ISP's webfarm is full of Dells so that speaks for itself (I've seen one Mac in there :-) The only complaint I have is

Re: Debian on a real non-free world (debian php4 and oracle)

check if you have libclntsh available in your library path, its an oracle lib AFAIR. Silver - Original Message - From: "Jaume Teixi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User" Cc: "Petr Cech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mark Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 6:31 PM Subject:

Re: Network config

Virginie wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 05:04:06PM +0100, Knud S?rensen wrote: > > Thanks, this was the problem. > > You're welcome, I'm happy to learn it :) > > > > > When make config ask if I wanted experimental module I say no. > > And my net card was a experimental realtech thing. > > >

Re: 'xhost' gives error message

On Friday 10 November 2000 12:13, GYULAI Mihaly wrote: > When I try just: 'xhost', it gives me an error - > > Xlib: Connection to ":0.0" refused by Server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > All this I tried as root, previously as user (with the same result). > > A day before

Debian on a real non-free world (debian php4 and oracle)

I have oracle (company requirements:/ running on a potato box (my requirements :) Now I'm trying to compile php4 with oracle support but then I get an libphp4.so for apache on the output that doesnt' links with libmmso apache doesnt' works with message: --- Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libp

compiling aureal sounddriver

After finaly finding a sounddriver for the Sonic Imapct card on sourcefourge I tried a make install20 in the aureal directory which should be appropiate after having a look at the soundchip. The compiling and module installation failed after a long list of warnings. Unfortunatly the make procedure

kerneld/modutils

Am I supposed to continue running kerneld or not? When it does run it says I don't want to run it with 2.2.x but everytime a fixed modutils deb is released it readds it to rc2.d -- Kevin - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: servers running debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 12:15:55AM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: > Does anyone know of any servers (web hosts or the like) that run Debian? > I noticed most run RedHat, but I am not sure why exactly. Any > explanation? > Linux.com runs Debian. They used

Re: finding which package a file came with

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 04:25:13PM +0100, Virginie-ML wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:54:38PM -0200, Allan F. Caetano wrote: > > Or, for an even better option, install dlocate and run: > > > > $ dlocate -S > > > > 'dlocate' is to 'dpkg' as 'locate' is to 'find' (roughly > > speak

Re: finding which package a file came with

less /> "Virginie" == Virginie-ML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Virginie> On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:54:38PM -0200, Allan F. Caetano wrote: >> Or, for an even better option, install dlocate and run: >> >> $ dlocate -S >> >> 'dlocate' is to 'dpkg' as 'locate' is to 'fi

Re: update

"Chris Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am running potato, and I notice that there is to be a 2.2r2 release in ten > days. What's the easiest way to update all the code on my server, are there > any snafu's to watch out for? apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade should do it. You don't ha

Re: default WM for gnome

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 04:19:35PM +0100, Michael B?rkle wrote: > somebody can tell me why gnome ignores my personal properties for the > default WM? for root i have enlightenment as window manager. but i also have Maybe you shoud try an exec in your .Xinitrc, or simply choose "debian" in gnome's

Re: finding which package a file came with

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:54:38PM -0200, Allan F. Caetano wrote: > Or, for an even better option, install dlocate and run: > > $ dlocate -S > > 'dlocate' is to 'dpkg' as 'locate' is to 'find' (roughly > speaking), it performs all the search operations in the package > database much

Re: fullscreen apps (in X) - windowmanager support?

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 04:35:12PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > The best way (as far as I know the only way) to get an app to full > screen in X, is to drop the resolution (assuming you have many modelines > defined) to the resolution of the app, or the smalelst resolution a > little larger,

default WM for gnome

somebody can tell me why gnome ignores my personal properties for the default WM? for root i have enlightenment as window manager. but i also have a user "betatest" that i want to run with the flwm cause the machine has to have resources free for vm-ware but i want the user to be able to execute a

update

I am running potato, and I notice that there is to be a 2.2r2 release in ten days. What's the easiest way to update all the code on my server, are there any snafu's to watch out for? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 38

Re: finding which package a file came with

> "Eric" == Eric G Miller writes: Eric> On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:43:36PM -0800, Shane Colbert wrote: >> you'll just have to forgive me if this is a stupid >> question but is there any way to easily find out which >> deb package a particular file came from?? Eric> $ dpkg

Re: soundcard log messages

The Ensoniq message refers to the chipset for the SBLive. Looks like your driver has gone the way of all the world. -- Original Message -- From: Anthony Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Anthony Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 04:44:08 -0500

Re: can't locate module tap0 (tap1,tap2,...,tap15)

On 11/13/00, 5:57:28 PM, Krzys Majewski wrote: > How do I fix this? More generally, where do I look if I'm > having problems of this form? -chris alias tap0 ethertap options tap0 -o tap0 unit=0 ... alias tap15 ethertap options tap15 -o tap15 unit=15 There's an ethertap readme with diald and the

soundcard log messages

I have a Soundblaster Live XGamer soundcard for which I have the alsa drivers installed and working fine. When I booted my computer this morning, dmesg gives me the following two errors: Nov 14 09:06:09 driver kernel: snd: card 1 is out of range (0-0) Nov 14 09:06:09 driver kernel: snd: Ensoniq A

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