Re: Problem with pppd and Kernel

2000-11-26 Thread Stan Kaufman
Daniel Christle wrote: > > Hi there, > > I am new to Debian, having used Slack previously. I am having problems > with getting my Internet connection to work under Debian 2.2. I run pon > and get a ppp not supported by kernel message. Check that > the modules physically exist and they do. I run

Re: Problem with pppd and Kernel

2000-11-26 Thread Patrick Cheong Shu Yang
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:01:51PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Are you running pon as root? If not, did you add yourself as a ppp user > when you ran pppconfig? If not, run pppconfig, go to 'Advanced', go to > 'Add-User', and do so. If that isn't the problem post the output of plog > and copie

Re: Weird Error

2000-11-26 Thread Nate Amsden
Patrick Cheong Shu Yang wrote: > **CONFIDENTIAL NOTE** > > The information contained in this email is intended only for the use of the > individual or entity named above and may contain information that is > privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure und

CD burning & mkisofs segmentation fault.

2000-11-26 Thread Daniel Ferrante
Hi Folks, I have been having some trouble with the mkisofs of the Debian/GNU Linux 2.2r0 (potato). When I try to create an image (of, say, my home directory) after a certain time, mkisofs reports a seg fault. The interesting thing is that, this "certain time" varies every time I

Re: Weird Error

2000-11-26 Thread Patrick Cheong Shu Yang
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 08:17:42PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > You may have a bad drive. Or you could have problems with DMA, though I > don't particularly understand it. Hey people...I'm back to the list. Just settling in my new job for a B2B and getting to work with OSes ranging from B

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and Matrox G200

2000-11-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 11:07:11PM -0500, Jeffrey A Schoolcraft wrote: > Recently did an upgrade to woody and X4.0.1 and lost my configs. If > anyone knows the driver name used for the Matrox G200 (I think mga > something), please let me know. I'm stuck in console mode until I > figure that out.

Re: Weird Error

2000-11-26 Thread kmself
on Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 11:50:15PM -0600, Joseph Anthony ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just installed Debian 2.2 and compiled the 2.2.17 kernel on a 3.2 gig > Quantum Fireball EX. The drive is a slave on the primary IDE cable and > both drives are jumpered correctly. I did bad block scans when >

XFree86 4.0.1 and Matrox G200

2000-11-26 Thread Jeffrey A Schoolcraft
Recently did an upgrade to woody and X4.0.1 and lost my configs. If anyone knows the driver name used for the Matrox G200 (I think mga something), please let me know. I'm stuck in console mode until I figure that out. Thanks all. Jeffrey Schoolcraft

Re: apt-get and The_User

2000-11-26 Thread Mircea Luca
Gordon Sadler wrote: > > Follow up sent to debian-user as it seems more appropriate. Not really,I think it's more a devel-issue since you just can't run apt-get as user by default ,nor there is a stripped down version of apt AFAIK. > I'm no expert but have you tried apt-get source? > After down

Re: Problem with pppd and Kernel

2000-11-26 Thread John Hasler
Daniel Christle writes: > I run pon and get a ppp not supported by kernel message. Are you running pon as root? If not, did you add yourself as a ppp user when you ran pppconfig? If not, run pppconfig, go to 'Advanced', go to 'Add-User', and do so. If that isn't the problem post the output of p

Re: running X in a telnet session

2000-11-26 Thread David Z Maze
Andrew Dwight Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ADD> I'm using telnet to log into my desktop machine from my laptop and ADD> I would like to be able to run an application on the desktop machine and ADD> have the display be on the laptop. After loging into the desktop and ADD> switching the DISPLAY

Re: running X in a telnet session

2000-11-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
Andrew Dwight Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi All, I'm using telnet to log into my desktop machine from my laptop > and I would like to be able to run an application on the desktop > machine and have the display be on the laptop. After loging into the > desktop and switching the DISPLAY va

running X in a telnet session

2000-11-26 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
Hi All, I'm using telnet to log into my desktop machine from my laptop and I would like to be able to run an application on the desktop machine and have the display be on the laptop. After loging into the desktop and switching the DISPLAY variable: >export DISPLAY="192.168.1.2:0.0" I get thi

Problem with pppd and Kernel

2000-11-26 Thread Daniel Christle
Hi there, I am new to Debian, having used Slack previously. I am having problems with getting my Internet connection to work under Debian 2.2. I run pon and get a ppp not supported by kernel message. Check that the modules physically exist and they do. I run the command /sbin/modprobe -v ppp and

Re: Sound configuration question

2000-11-26 Thread kmself
Please don't trim *all* reply content -- context is useful. Please reply to list. Reply directed to list. on Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 08:59:28PM -0500, Seung-woo Nam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Here's the output from lsmod: > Module Size Used by > serial

top tells me X is using 80 Mb!

2000-11-26 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello... I'm using X 4 (from Woody), and I just noticed some strange thing: 10963 root 10 0 96404 80M 972 S 0 0.1 64.8 2:49 X ^^ (1st place, sorted by mem. usage) socrates jeronimo$ free total used free sharedb

Re: apt-get and The_User

2000-11-26 Thread Gordon Sadler
Follow up sent to debian-user as it seems more appropriate. On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 05:46:43PM -0800, Mircea Luca wrote: > Hi everybody > I have a simple problem.:-) > How can I give access to a user to install software using apt-get > without giving him the root password.Preferable the software s

Re: teTeX path question

2000-11-26 Thread Damian Menscher
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Damian Menscher wrote: > I just upgraded my version of teTeX to 1.0.6, and discovered it no > longer seems to follow the TEXINPUTS environment variable to find > various style files, etc. I need to get this to read in a revtex.cls > file that I've added in, but don't know how

RE: Installing new SCSI driver in Dell Poweredge - a challenge?

2000-11-26 Thread Andrew McRobert
>this is simple, just get a lilo boot: prompt and type: > >linux root=/dev/sdc1 > >which will override the root= line in lilo.conf I realise that i can do this, and have actually changed the lilo.conf setting (and run lilo) to boot from /dev/sdb1, but I get "Warning: /dev/sdb is not the first hard

Re: Keyboard inactive during lilo

2000-11-26 Thread Larry Clay
Thanks, that did it! - Original Message - From: "JD Kitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 10:33 AM Subject: Re: Keyboard inactive during lilo > On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 09:06:12AM -0800, Larry Clay wrote: > > This is a very strange problem. Before l

Help with setxkbmap

2000-11-26 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I am running Debian 2.2 (stable) plus some helix-gnome stuff. I want to use setxkbmap to switch the keyboard mapping but always get the following error: # setxkbmap Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property What does this mean? Any ideas on how to fix it? -- Pedro

Re: Sound configuration question

2000-11-26 Thread kmself
on Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 05:12:59AM -0500, Seung-woo Nam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi: > I just don't know where to start to configure sound in Debian 2.2. I > have installed sound module for my SB-pci128 card but what's the next > step? I've been using RedHat for quite a while and it just works

Re: Bug#69197: inadequate backup instructions

2000-11-26 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 11:06:12PM +0100, Josip Rodin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > There's a bug filed against the doc-debian package, including the Debian > FAQ, about not having good backup instructions for users (admins). See > http://bugs.debian.org/69197 for details. > > Can someone

Re: can't connect to ISP

2000-11-26 Thread John Hasler
a writes: > i have Debian 2.0 and can't connect to ISP though i can connect in > Win95. Below is output of plog: Did you configure ppp with pppconfig? Are you using pon to connect? If not, do so. If so, post /etc/chatscripts/provider and /etc/ppp/peers/provider. Munge any passwords. > ...Rece

Re: OT:Netscape

2000-11-26 Thread Nate Amsden
i found this was a problem on a friend's helix gnome system, the script that helix gnome used to load netscape was broken. try to load netscape directly, i think it is in /usr/lib/netscape nate Stephan Kulka wrote: > > I have a problem with netscape, which annoys me. Every time I start > netsc

can't connect to ISP

2000-11-26 Thread a
i have Debian 2.0 and can't connect to ISP though i can connect in Win95. Below is output of plog: Jun 30 11:47:50 debian pppd[223]: Serial connection established. Jun 30 11:47:51 debian pppd[223]: Using interface ppp0 Jun 30 11:47:51 debian pppd[223]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS2 Jun 30 11:47:51

Re: offtopic - confused about the voodoo 5 development

2000-11-26 Thread Nate Amsden
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > 1. is that correct? yes i believe it is. > the website also says that glide apps like myth II or UT won't work with the > voodoo5 driver. that is NOT ok. amazingly, it doesn't say if glide support > is planned for the future. > > 2. is glide support for the voodoo5

Re: html man pages, tutor?

2000-11-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Sorry, Ich can nicht. danke anyway, AR. Johann Spies wrote: > > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a downloadable HTML comprehensive tutorial? Do we > > have one in the man pages? > > If you can read german: > > Package: selfhtml > Version: 7.0

Re: html man pages, tutor?

2000-11-26 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
> Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a downloadable HTML comprehensive tutorial? Do we > > have one in the man pages? try the rute user's tutorial. You can find it at: http://www.linuxdoc.org I think it's in the guides section __

Re: mkboot

2000-11-26 Thread Dean
Hi Andrew: Maybe this will help. go to: http://www.toms.net/rb/ for an emergency boot disk. hth Dean Andrew McRobert wrote: hi all Can anyone tell me a reliable way to make a boot disk? I've tried the mkboot util, and I have to say it's pretty average - it hasn't successfully booted a di

Re: more than one .sty file in a tex document!?

2000-11-26 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 09:38:12PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In what order did you load the packages? > > Maybe g-brief overwrites your settings, if it's loades after fancyhdr. I know that fancyhdr does not work well with the letter style. Johann. -- J.H. Spies - Tel. 082 782 0336 / 0

Re: "startx lxdoom" - wrong colormap

2000-11-26 Thread Christoph Groth
Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > which shows perfect colors but is quite slow. > Hm, lxdoom ist _very_ slow! AFAIK you must blame the original Doom code for this, not lxdoom. It simply wasn't designed for higher resoultions and scales very badly. > On my K6-2 400 the maximum resolut

HP Deskjet 895-Cse print cap

2000-11-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Does any body have a good print cap for this printer? The color figures don't come out good, only fair. Thanks, A.R.

Re: Emacs shell with ^M's ???

2000-11-26 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 04:38:06PM -0600, Timmy Douglas wrote: :i think this is because these commands (ls) output return carriages i :think. The puzzling thing is that this doesn't happen on other machines with the same apparent installation... Thanks for the pointer, I'll probably hit up IRC t

Printing problem... (solution, sort of)

2000-11-26 Thread Paul Schulz
Thanks to all those people who responded to my last 'printing problem' responce. My first decision was to re-install 'lpr' instead of 'lprng' on the server, as lprng wasn't running the fliters on bounced queues. Problems then occured when trying to print from the server with the following error

Re: Emacs shell with ^M's ???

2000-11-26 Thread Timmy Douglas
"Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Sorry for the repost, but I realize the original was posted after many > of us Yanks we on the road for the Thanksgiving hollidy, so I figured > I'd give it one more go. > > This is a second hand question and the machine in question is n

Unidentified subject!

2000-11-26 Thread Matias Kvaternik
I have a question: whenever I try to use Xkill or reconfigure my xserver I get this message: xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key couldn't connect to display ":0.0"   any ideas why?Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Produc

Re: more than one .sty file in a tex document!?

2000-11-26 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 10:40:46AM +0100, Manuel Hendel wrote: > Actually I want to use the class g-breif, but I need the functions for > the footer from the letter class or is there any package which I can > add to my .tex file together with g-brief to get the footers? Did you check the brief.cl

Re: html man pages, tutor?

2000-11-26 Thread Johann Spies
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Does anyone know of a downloadable HTML comprehensive tutorial? Do we > have one in the man pages? If you can read german: Package: selfhtml Version: 7.0-4 Priority: optional Section: doc Maintainer: Marco Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Co

Emacs shell with ^M's ???

2000-11-26 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, Sorry for the repost, but I realize the original was posted after many of us Yanks we on the road for the Thanksgiving hollidy, so I figured I'd give it one more go. This is a second hand question and the machine in question is not reachable for testing, but... On a fresh install of Slink em

Re: Exim does unwanted DNS lookups for LAN

2000-11-26 Thread Moritz Schulte
Jeff Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > try putting the local servers in /etc/hosts They are in /etc/hosts - on both hosts. moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org GPG fingerpri

Re: Exim does unwanted DNS lookups for LAN

2000-11-26 Thread Jeff Green
try putting the local servers in /etc/hosts Jeff Sean Furey wrote: > > Hi Moritz! > > > Here's the same problem; Exim establishs a internet connection because > > of a DNS lookup. > > > > In both cases, the mail gets delivered correctly, but it should work > > without establishing a internet con

Re: Apache-ssl query

2000-11-26 Thread Andrei Ivanov
You cah get https to listen to port 80 and recognize unencrypted connections. (If you dont want to do it.you can install plain httpd, but be ready to run into potential config problems, increased memory usage, etc.) The docs on how to set up httpd with httpsd are on Apache-ssl site (in FAQ) And

seeking a quality b&w / color printer that does duplex

2000-11-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
subject says it all -- I would like a printer which does black and white as well as color. Duplex support is also desired because I tend to print docs and hate wasting the extra paper.

Re: Exim does unwanted DNS lookups for LAN

2000-11-26 Thread Moritz Schulte
Sean Furey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Moritz! Hi, > Can they ping each other using names without doing DNS lookups? Yes, without problems. moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www

X 4.0 with GD5446

2000-11-26 Thread Sean Furey
Hi Everyone! Yesterday I dist-upgraded woody, and now I've got X4. It seemed to crash every time an client sent any data. I added in Option "noaccel" to XF86Config, and now it works, but slowly. Any ideas on what is wrong? I'm using a no-name Cirrus Logic GD5446 on a K6-2 350 with 32mb Ram th

add samba users

2000-11-26 Thread ebirn-lists
hi all! i have a question concerning samba at the installation configuration the system's users are all added to the /etc/samba/smbpasswd file i deleted them accidentally and ow i'm looking for a way to restore this. the mksmbpasswd man-page was not very useful to me it might also be important tha

Re: Exim does unwanted DNS lookups for LAN

2000-11-26 Thread Sean Furey
Hi Moritz! > Here's the same problem; Exim establishs a internet connection because > of a DNS lookup. > > In both cases, the mail gets delivered correctly, but it should work > without establishing a internet connection. > > Can somebody please tell me what am I missing? Can they ping each oth

Re: Can't start X after upgrade

2000-11-26 Thread Johan Ur Riise
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 11:08:43AM -0500, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > After upgrading X to 4.0.1-7 yesterday, I get the following when > I try to start X: > > bob:vc-11:bob>startx > > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. > var: nice_value, value: . > /etc/X11/X is not executable > giving up.

geforce card

2000-11-26 Thread Sean Furey
Apologies for mucked-up threading etc, the message wasn't sent first time due to a config error and I had to copy and paste it here. Hi Daniel! > it's different from a real geforce 2) card. it can't be that hard, i tested > this environment with svgalib using the vesa drivers. and it worked! > w

Re: Trouble compiling kernel with latest Woody

2000-11-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 09:56:15PM -0500, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > /usr/include/linux/errno.h:4: asm/errno.h: No such file or directory > make: *** [scripts/split-include] Error 1 > > > Does anyone know what the problem is? Yes, libc6-dev was missing the asm head

Apache-ssl query

2000-11-26 Thread John Griffiths
Hello all, I've got apache-ssl up and running nicely For the record apache-ssl comes with a properly setup httpd.conf whereas "apt-get apache" needs editing The question is i've heard apache-ssl should be able to handle straight "http" queries as well as "https" is this true? if so what do

Exim does unwanted DNS lookups for LAN

2000-11-26 Thread Moritz Schulte
Hi, I've a problem with Exim; I couldn't figure out what's wrong with my configuration, so I'm asking here for help... My LAN consists of two hosts (both running Debian 2.2 with Exim): orion.sc (192.168.0.1), which is the Gateway and gryffindor.sc (192.168.0.2). orion should be the SMTP smarthost

Re: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help? (SOLVED...kinda)

2000-11-26 Thread Herbert Ho
> > > >#!/usr/bin/perl -w > >print "Content-type: text/html\n\"; > > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; > doh! that's what happens when you don't copy/paste. =( but in the code that i actually run, the two '\n' do exist. sorry. =p herbert

Re: Strange chat / pppd behaviour ... :O --still *not* solved. :(

2000-11-26 Thread John Hasler
Kristian Rink writes: > I see that my old 486 box is only running a 16450 UART which has a 546k / > V.90 modem connected to it, and as far as I read there, this obviously is > not the best combination... So, do I have to expect *problems* with this, > or is this old UART just reducing the speed of

Re: eth0 on kernel 2.2.17

2000-11-26 Thread Joseph Anthony
This is for my lan in my house, the gateway is a freebsd box, 10.0.0.1 and this box 10.0.0.2 for the ethernet cards.. the dialup outside is ok. On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Steven Kurylo wrote: > eth0 isn't suppose to be in /dev > > If your driver is loaded properly then all you have to do is "ifconfig

teTeX path question

2000-11-26 Thread Damian Menscher
Not a specifically Debian question, but I just upgraded my version of teTeX to 1.0.6, and discovered it no longer seems to follow the TEXINPUTS environment variable to find various style files, etc. I need to get this to read in a revtex.cls file that I've added in, but don't know how to get

Re: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help? (SOLVED...kinda)

2000-11-26 Thread Herbert Ho
thanks for everyone's help so far. it works...a little bit more. =) the problem i found is that there is already a directive for the public_html/ directories in access.conf. this seems to either be read last (thus overrriding changes made in other files) or conflict w/ changes made in other file

Re: licq & qt2.2.2-0

2000-11-26 Thread Seung-woo Nam
I believe the data is stored in '.licq' directory in your home directory. You could just back up the files there and remove the package. After you install the newer version, you could copy the data back to '.licq' directory. Seung-woo Nam - Original Message - From: "Jaye Inabnit ke6sls" <

Re: eth0 on kernel 2.2.17

2000-11-26 Thread Joseph Anthony
Thanks, that makes sense. On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Steven Kurylo wrote: > eth0 isn't suppose to be in /dev > > If your driver is loaded properly then all you have to do is "ifconfig eth0 > up" to configure the device and get it running. > > Do "man ifconfig" for details. > > To have debian conf

Re: eth0 on kernel 2.2.17

2000-11-26 Thread Steven Kurylo
eth0 isn't suppose to be in /dev If your driver is loaded properly then all you have to do is "ifconfig eth0 up" to configure the device and get it running. Do "man ifconfig" for details. To have debian configure it automatically on boot up edit /etc/network/interfaces. I would point you

Re: eth0 on kernel 2.2.17

2000-11-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
in general, ethernet interfaces are not implemented as files in /dev/. there's no need to create one. if you want to use your ethernet card, make sure: 1. the proper module loaded correctly 2. the kernel has the correct nic built into it either case, dmesg | less should tell you w

Re: Man pages

2000-11-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:20:30AM +, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a new Debian user (been using other distributions for > about 5 years) and I seem to be missing some man pages on > my new Debian system. I'm missing manpages for ptrace, > termios, fcntl and others. > > The c

eth0 on kernel 2.2.17

2000-11-26 Thread Joseph Anthony
I compiled my kernel with pci ethernet support for the Intel Ether Express pro, dmesg reports the device and does tests it all verifies.. but in /dev there is no eth0 device, MAKEDEV gives an error "don't know how to make device "eth0" ". Is there something I am not doing? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: Usage of echo

2000-11-26 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How to echo the current date and time to a log file? > > echo 'date:' ??? 'time:' ??? > file.log There is no need to use echo. date +"date: %x time: %X" > file.log -- Thomas Weinbrenner

Re: Hi there

2000-11-26 Thread Jeff Green
If you don't want to buy the CDs, although they are very cheap, you need to download 6 floppies, and the programme to copy the files you download onto theactual disks, and to have a working internet connection. go to ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/ choose the d

Re: Usage of echo

2000-11-26 Thread sena
On 26/11/2000 at 20:16 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > How to echo the current date and time to a log file? > > echo 'date:' ??? 'time:' ??? > file.log > $ echo date: $(date +%x) time: $(date +%X) date: 26-11-2000 time: 20:02:07 Is this what you want? Check the date manpage for more options.

offtopic - confused about the voodoo 5 development

2000-11-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hola, i've been doing a lot of reading about the voodoo 5 card, and can see there's a lot of confusion and chaos out there. unfortunately, the only definitive source of info is very imprecise in their choice of words, making things even more confusing. according to linux.3dfx.com, there is a vo

Re: Modem info needed...???

2000-11-26 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hi Larry, I'm owner of Pavilion 8550 with the same crap as you. I also took off that "board" with any unpleasant result. The Rockwell is also a soundcard which is pretty uncompatible with SoundBlaster, which was another reason to remove it and leave it waiting for bette

Re: Users homepages with Apache

2000-11-26 Thread brian moore
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 07:55:48PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder if some other Debian user can provide some assistance to an > Apache problem: > > 1. I'm running www.bar.org and www.foo.org via named virtual hosts on > one server using Apache (from woody) > > 2. Both addr

Re: Hi there

2000-11-26 Thread dirk
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 06:25:39PM +0100, Andre en Hennie wrote: > Hi, > We are new at this list and at debian. > We are Andre and Hennie and as a couple very much interested in linux . > > Can anyone help us by giving advises how to download and instal > debian/linux?, The sites are very difficul

licq & qt2.2.2-0

2000-11-26 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Greetings, I removed all my older qt libs leaving only qt2.2.2-0 on my system. Now I want to try to use dselect to get and install licq and the xwrapper for it. I have licq gui 0.81 now that I manually installed, is there a way I can carefully remove it and then use dselect to do a nice insta

exim vs postfix

2000-11-26 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Hi, I saw that postfix is the new default MTA. What are the advantages of postfix versus exim? For a dial-up conection which of them is better? Thanks, Dan Pomohaci

Re: Usage of echo

2000-11-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 20:16:50 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > How to echo the current date and time to a log file? > > echo 'date:' ??? 'time:' ??? > file.log echo 'date, time:' `date` > file.log ^^ ^^ regular quotes backquotes HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mi

Re: hosts for rdate?

2000-11-26 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > hello, > i am searching for some hosts for time updating of my hosts > where can i find the listings of hosts offering this service? > i am in France BTW, so any host network-near Strasbourg would be fine... > Just install or unpack the ntpdata pa

Usage of echo

2000-11-26 Thread Svante Signell
How to echo the current date and time to a log file? echo 'date:' ??? 'time:' ??? > file.log

Re: XFree86 + NV_GLX

2000-11-26 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
Okay, if you've read any of my older postings, you'll realise that installing the GLX drivers is a snap (if you know what your doing). First, go to NVidia's web and download the GLX and NVidia Drivers. From the main screen, click on products, then drivers, then linux. That should get you

Re: HDs at boot up

2000-11-26 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:42:50PM -0600, Steven Kurylo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a error come up while the kernel is booting, although it doesn't > affect the machine it makes the kernel loading take much longer than it > should. > > I am running woody and I have one HD (hda) its an

Users homepages with Apache

2000-11-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I wonder if some other Debian user can provide some assistance to an Apache problem: 1. I'm running www.bar.org and www.foo.org via named virtual hosts on one server using Apache (from woody) 2. Both addresses http://www.bar.org/~joey/ and http://www.bar.org/~joey/ are valid. How

Re: Man pages

2000-11-26 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > > Hi, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] jon]$ dpkg -S /usr/share/man/man2/ptrace.2.gz > manpages-dev: /usr/share/man/man2/ptrace.2.gz > > so looks like you need an > `apt-get install manpages-dev` I had that, I just needed to add /usr/share/man/ to my MANPATH. Cheers, Erik --

Re: "startx lxdoom" - wrong colormap

2000-11-26 Thread C. Falconer
At 03:39 PM 11/26/00 +0100, you wrote: There's an old P90 at my school that we use during the breaks and it's running potato "Old P90" heh We still have rooms of Mac LCIIs, 386s and Mac Classics (10 years old now) Just think, you might be amusing yourself with typewriters a few years bac

Re: Keyboard inactive during lilo

2000-11-26 Thread JD Kitch
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 09:06:12AM -0800, Larry Clay wrote: > This is a very strange problem. Before lilo runs my keyboard works just > fine. I can get into BIOS by pressing the del key. After linux (or windoz) > boots the keyboard works just fine. I have delay=100 to give me plenty of > time to ty

Re: Known Compile problems with 2.4-test11

2000-11-26 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 07:23:36PM +, Adam Langley wrote: > The GCC in unstable miscompiles 2.4-test11 - you have been warned. Any pointers to particulars on this?

Re: Strange chat / pppd behaviour ... :O --still *not* solved. :(

2000-11-26 Thread Kristian Rink
Obviously Kristian Rink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thinks that: > The dialup-scripts were created with standard slink pppconfig-tool and >are giving the same error for several providers just *sometimes*, meaning >that there are days we are able to dial up ten, twenty, thirty times >without those problem

RE: Using PuTTY with an SSH Server

2000-11-26 Thread Braxton Robbason
your win2000 desktop is configured with an IP address, right? Let's say it's 1.64.34.214 connect to your debian box, set DISPLAY to 1.64.34.214:0 and it should work. Note that SSH isn't relevant at this point, you have a session on your debian box that will then try to open any x-windows program

Known Compile problems with 2.4-test11

2000-11-26 Thread Adam Langley
The GCC in unstable miscompiles 2.4-test11 - you have been warned. AGL -- Whenever anyone says, "theoretically," they really mean, "not really." pgpNU4XmqK0Yd.pgp Description: PGP signature

potato-n-woody side by side?

2000-11-26 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi, My history with woody is checkered. The first time I upgraded from potato I had *no* problems apart from having to wait for everything to download and unpack, etc. I finally sank what was a decently-working woody system by opening dselect in a spirit of "oh, what's THIS for" and mucking every

Re: OT:Netscape

2000-11-26 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-11-26 11:57:09, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Sunday, November 26, Stephan Kulka did write: > > > I have a problem with netscape, which annoys me. Every time I start > > netscape the browser points to http:/// although I would like to point it > > to www.debian.org. Only when I open a new

grub and 8+ gb scsi boot disk

2000-11-26 Thread Allan M. Wind
I gather from the grub info page, that it can't access a scsi boot disks larger than 8 gb, so the traditional wisdom of a small boot partion still holds, right? /Allan -- Allan M. Wind email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O. Box 2022 finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GPG/PGP)

Re: OT:Netscape

2000-11-26 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, November 26, Stephan Kulka did write: > I have a problem with netscape, which annoys me. Every time I start > netscape the browser points to http:/// although I would like to point it > to www.debian.org. Only when I open a new window this happens. > Is this an known bug or can I ch

snort-config?

2000-11-26 Thread Debian Benutzer Arne
hi, I need to know which option to set at snort.conf? I am having no home network and only one dialup conection to the internet. My /etc/snort/snort.conf DEBIAN_SNORT_STARTUP=dialup DEBIAN_SNORT_HOME_NET="" DEBIAN_SNORT_OPTIONS="-p" DEBIAN_SNORT_STATS_RCPT="root" DEBIAN_SNORT_STATS_TRESHOLD="1" but

Re: Hi there

2000-11-26 Thread Griffith Feeney
I set out to install by download but decided that even with a fast (cable) internet connection, it was more than worth while to buy a set of "official" CDROMS. I used cheapbytes and had no problem. If you have a good, fast interenet connection and decide to go the download route, I would suggest a

Re: gnome-name-service

2000-11-26 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:42:51PM +0100, Arnout Engelen wrote: > > Every web browser I use will lock up X hard and requires hitting reset. > > They lock up not all the time, but enough to be annoying. I may > > have stumbled into the problem, but not certain. > > Can you browse with a text-mode

Hi there

2000-11-26 Thread Andre en Hennie
Hi, We are new at this list and at debian. We are Andre and Hennie and as a couple very much interested in linux . Can anyone help us by giving advises how to download and instal debian/linux?, The sites are very difficult to us becouse we dont know what to download and what not.. P.s sorry, com

Re: Recompiling the kernel.

2000-11-26 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 12:16:10PM +, Adam Langley wrote: > On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 09:56:46PM -0300, Ariel Manzur wrote: > > is it possible to get a configuration file for the > > current kernel, to load on menuconfig, so I can modify the configuration > > from there? > > Here's mine - I hope

Keyboard inactive during lilo

2000-11-26 Thread Larry Clay
This is a very strange problem. Before lilo runs my keyboard works just fine. I can get into BIOS by pressing the del key. After linux (or windoz) boots the keyboard works just fine. I have delay=100 to give me plenty of time to type in my selection. The system that gets booted is the one that is s

Re: Script that partially completes mirror from CDs

2000-11-26 Thread Karl Hammar
[please direct all followups to debian-cd, and don't cc me] Ok, if youre not satisfied with copydir, then maybe you can use something from my script below. Regards, /Karl --- Karl HammarAspö Data [

Modem info needed...???

2000-11-26 Thread Larry Shields
Hello List, I have a HP Pavilion 8590c, which I have installed Debian 2.2.17 on a 20gb hd, not thinking about the modem at the time, I just found out that it is a Winmodem...This modem has connections to the cd-rom drive, sound etc, now I would like to know what others if any, are using to replac

Can't start X after upgrade

2000-11-26 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
After upgrading X to 4.0.1-7 yesterday, I get the following when I try to start X: bob:vc-11:bob>startx var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. var: nice_value, value: . /etc/X11/X is not executable giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No suc

query in configuring cyrus imap

2000-11-26 Thread mustafa rangwala
hello sir, i have installed cyrus-imap and cyrus-sasl. now if i try imtest -m login -p login localhost then authentication failed. similarly if try telnet 127.0.0.1 143 and if i give s01 login "loginname" "password" then the same message authentication failed. and also i

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