Re: ot: best filesystem for small files

2000-12-07 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > i am going to be building 3 new mail servers using cyrus imap on debian > 2.2 and linux 2.2. looks like cyrus stores each mail in a file which > means the filesystem will have tens, or even

SOLUTION: sblive

2000-12-07 Thread Chris Palmer
Hi, all... It was a while since I asked for some help with my SB Live under Debian. I was having trouble with the pre-compiled modules (kernel version mis-match). So, some kind person pointed me to source for the emu10k1 driver (how was I supposed to know this had anything to do with SBLive? n

Re: OT: Perl or PHP

2000-12-07 Thread D-Man
I would recommend not using Perl. Perl can let you do lots of complex text manipulation really easily, but it is a nightmare to debug, let alone maintain. It does too much magic with a lack of data types and automagic variables. I would recommend Python if you want to do CGI scripting. But as

Re: LI- Lilo just stops working

2000-12-07 Thread D-Man
I had the problem of LILO stopping at "LI" when booting from the MBR on my machine. Upon further research I found that my BIOS is too cheap to boot from /dev/hdc. (Using LILO to boot from floppy worked, but couldn't find /dev/hda). My solution is to use loadlin.exe (from AUTOEXEC.BAT). -D

Re: xlibs error

2000-12-07 Thread Mike Thompson
Hi Gareth, You need to create a directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults which must be an actual directory -- not a link. Then run dpkg --configure -a The install will then give you an error message saying this directory should be removed. Don't do this yet. I know this sounds

Re: Mutt Question

2000-12-07 Thread Bek Oberin
Rob Hudson wrote: > Is there a way to tell mutt to sort by thread mode by default (in > .muttrc)? set sort=threads bekj

Re: Quality of Helixcode's Debian Packages (was: Re: spidermonke

2000-12-07 Thread Rino Mardo
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:40:21PM -0500 or thereabouts, Arlen Carlson wrote: > > Strange, I haven't had any of these probs on my potato. OTOH, I had > > never installed /any/ potato gnome packages, only Helix. Maybe that's > > got something to do with it? I'm very satisfied with the quality oh

Re: eth0 problem after installing netscape

2000-12-07 Thread Dale Morris
Well, I'm realizing what has happened here. I installed potato on my wife's machine and in the libranet cd it asked for network connection data. I entered my IP address (static IP), dns name servers, gateway, domain, etc.. then when I configured the kernel, I configured it using dhcp. Now, I find

Re: Mutt Question

2000-12-07 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 07:49:38PM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: > Is there a way to tell mutt to sort by thread mode by default (in > .muttrc)? set sort="threads" -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: Mutt Question

2000-12-07 Thread Brendan Cully
On Thursday, 07 December 2000 at 19:49, Rob Hudson wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to tell mutt to sort by thread mode by default (in > .muttrc)? set sort=threads (and maybe you'd also like "set sort_aux=date") -- Don't make Godzilla mad! pgpNZXRziY9s7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mutt Question

2000-12-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 07:49:38PM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: > Is there a way to tell mutt to sort by thread mode by default (in > .muttrc)? set sort=threads -- "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew

Mutt Question

2000-12-07 Thread Rob Hudson
Hi, Is there a way to tell mutt to sort by thread mode by default (in .muttrc)? Thanks, Rob.

Re: xlibs error

2000-12-07 Thread Jens Gecius
Gareth Bowker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-10_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in > package xpaint > > Any help resolving this would be great as apt refuses to work until I >

SCSI Tape Drive on a HP NetServer E60

2000-12-07 Thread Patrick Cheong Shu Yang
Hi people, I have just installed Linux onto a HP NetServer E60 which uses the Adaptec AIC7XXX. I am attempting to restore users data into /export/home from a tape but have been unable to. I have used the mt command to determine the status of the drive (/dev/st0, /dev/rst0 and nrst0) but to no a

ot: best filesystem for small files

2000-12-07 Thread Nate Amsden
i am going to be building 3 new mail servers using cyrus imap on debian 2.2 and linux 2.2. looks like cyrus stores each mail in a file which means the filesystem will have tens, or even hundreds of thousands of really small files. so, what is the best filesystem for something like this? or should

Re: Quality of Helixcode's Debian Packages (was: Re: spidermonkey.helixcode.com down?)

2000-12-07 Thread Bill Vinson
I have had the same problems with Helix and libgnomeprint... This was on a potato/woody (X4) system with no Debian GNOME packages. I filed a bug report posted to Helix-beta list and e-mailed someone directly with no response. I have become somewhat frustrated with the problems with Debian Hel

Potato -> Woody; apt-get snafu..

2000-12-07 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I started (over) with a clean system, installed 2.2 from CDroms, added a few packages (Apache, ntop, wuftp, gnome,..). I got several unresolved dependencies reported by dselect, but what to do? I wanted a few unsupported packages, so I added a ../woody/ line to /etc/apt/source/list, and did ap

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-07 Thread kmself
on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:13:26PM -0500, David Teague ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Ray Percival wrote: > > > > > That would be backwards ftp is faster but sometimes it is easier to get > > > http through a proxy and with some

Re: Digital music editor?

2000-12-07 Thread Frederico S. Muñoz
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 10:11:43AM -0800, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > "fsm" == Frederico S =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mu=F1oz?= writes: > > fsm> Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > > >> Can anyone recommend a good digital music editor for Debian/Linux? > >> I'd especially like one capable of slowing down

Re: PPP connection.

2000-12-07 Thread Junaedi Kartawijaya
--- John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > junaedi writes: > > My /etc/ppp/resolv/ contains files. Each contains: > > > nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > > nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > > > Any suggestions what I should do? > > Tell us what your /etc/resolv.conf contains. Sorry for a late response

Re: No screensaver panel in Gnome C. center??

2000-12-07 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I just noticed that a day or so ago, as well. Apparently xscreensaver-demo is segfaulting... I assume that we're both seeing the same problem, but here's how to check: 1) Open your favourite x-terminal (rxvt in my case). 2) Allow core-files with "ulimit -c unlimited". 3) Run /usr/bin/gnomecc dire

Re: OT: regular expression question

2000-12-07 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 05:29:29PM -0700, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Frodo" == Frodo Baggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Frodo> Take the palindrome w=aaa...abb...b where there are n 'a' and n > > That's not a palindrome. A palindrome is a word in which the first "half" is > the reverse

Re: AuthUserFile directive not working?

2000-12-07 Thread Francis Irving
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 05:01:41PM +0800, Anthony Treanor wrote: > If I try and configure the directory /home/prosourc/public_html/admin with > > > AllowOverride AuthConfig > > > .htaccess file > > AuthUserFile /etc/apache/passwd > AuthGroupFile /dev/null > AuthName "Test" > AuthType

ghostscript, samba, and postscript errors

2000-12-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings. I've got a linux (debian potato) box running lpd, samba, and ghostscript, and a remote user printing from Win98 via a postscript driver and samba. It all works very nicely, with the exception that the Windows PS output generates a first page ("ProductName: Aladdin Ghostscript") and a las

Re: odd gpm behavior

2000-12-07 Thread Ignasi Tura
> I'm running potato, and have recently been having trouble with my > mouse not working under X (XFree86 3.3.6), even though it worked > fine on the console. That (and some tinkering and reading) led me > to believe that gpm might be causing trouble. > > At the same time, my dialup with ppp and

wmaker crashes. Locale involved?

2000-12-07 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hi again, I'm recently experiencing a much larger wmaker crashes. My locale ca_ES is not supported by it. But I can do several long sessions without problems. My problem is this one: I don't know what can cause the crash. my most recent .xsession-errors are quite simple: Warning: locale not sup

Re: OT: regular expression question

2000-12-07 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Viktor" == Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Viktor> Peter Jay Salzman wrote: >> i know how to search for palindromes, for instance, a 3 letter >> palindrome: >> >> \(.\)\(.\)\(.\)\3\2\1 >> >> recently, i started wondering if there was a way, using r

Re: OT: regular expression question

2000-12-07 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Frodo" == Frodo Baggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Frodo> Take the palindrome w=aaa...abb...b where there are n 'a' and n That's not a palindrome. A palindrome is a word in which the first "half" is the reverse of the second "half" (half is in quotes because the word may have an odd

Re: CD Image debian 2.1

2000-12-07 Thread Anand Angad Gaur
On Wed, 06 Dec 2000, you wrote: > ... > You might also check the full list of mirrors > (http://www.debian.org/mirror/mirrors_full) for those that have the CD > Images. Some might have the old ones lying around. Thanks, I found the following three sites on that list that had the old ones

Re: OT: regular expression question

2000-12-07 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Peter" == Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> i know how to search for palindromes, for instance, a 3 letter Peter> palindrome: \(.\)\(.\)\(.\)\3\2\1 Well, strictly speaking, that's not really a regular expression. (And I would also count that as a 6 letter palind

Re: cd image ?

2000-12-07 Thread Frederico S. Muñoz
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 01:12:04AM +0100, erasmo perez wrote: > hi ! > > excuse me, does somebody know where can i find the iso cd images for the > debian oficial distribution, version 2.2r2 ? > > thanks for all > > Go to http://cdimage.debian.org, that's the officail site for iso releases; th

Re: OT: regular expression question

2000-12-07 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Frodo Baggins wrote: > [Pumping Lemma] > 1 w = xyz > 2 y is not empty > 3 x has less than n caracters That would be xy has less than/equal to n characters (|xy| <= n). > 4 for any integer k, the word w_k = xyy..yz (k times y) is in the > language (i.e. matches the regex) MfG Viktor

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2000-12-07 Thread ibraheem
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Re: OT: regular expression question

2000-12-07 Thread Frodo Baggins
Peter Jay Salzman scripsit: > >recently, i started wondering if there was a way, using regex only, to >express a palindrome of arbitrary letter length? > >i've used some grey matter, and the answer seems to be no, but there's nice >symmetry here. maybe i'm missing something... > Well, maybe you'r

Re: how to load aic7xxx?

2000-12-07 Thread Ken Weingold
On Thu, Dec 7, 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > This is at the bootable CD or floppy prompt. From the boot how-to, I > > tried 'aic7xxx=extended,no_reset'. So it would be > > 'linux aic7xxx=extended,no_reset'? I'm not sure what image name it > > would want when the OS is not installed. > > I

Re: how to load aic7xxx?

2000-12-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 06:15:07PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > On Thu, Dec 7, 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 05:37:40PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > > > Sorry for sort of asking the same question again, but I am trying to > > > load the Debian 2.1 cdrom but it will not l

Re: OT: regular expression question

2000-12-07 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i know how to search for palindromes, for instance, a 3 letter palindrome: > > \(.\)\(.\)\(.\)\3\2\1 > > recently, i started wondering if there was a way, using regex only, to > express a palindrome of arbitrary letter length? > > i've used some grey matter,

OT: regular expression question

2000-12-07 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i know how to search for palindromes, for instance, a 3 letter palindrome: \(.\)\(.\)\(.\)\3\2\1 recently, i started wondering if there was a way, using regex only, to express a palindrome of arbitrary letter length? i've used some grey matter, and the answer seems to be no, but there's

Re: how to load aic7xxx?

2000-12-07 Thread Ken Weingold
On Thu, Dec 7, 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 05:37:40PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > > Sorry for sort of asking the same question again, but I am trying to > > load the Debian 2.1 cdrom but it will not load aic7xxx. I try from > > the boot prompt and then also from a prom

cd image ?

2000-12-07 Thread erasmo perez
hi ! excuse me, does somebody know where can i find the iso cd images for the debian oficial distribution, version 2.2r2 ? thanks for all

Debian's samba and service%user

2000-12-07 Thread Samuel Hathaway
Hello, In the samba docs, it says that I can specify the user name to connect to a share by typing \\server\service%user ... However, I can't get this too work on debian. I have the potato samba packages. Has anyone been able to get this to work? -samuel -- I got a message from the future. It wa

Re: how to load aic7xxx?

2000-12-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 05:37:40PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > Sorry for sort of asking the same question again, but I am trying to > load the Debian 2.1 cdrom but it will not load aic7xxx. I try from > the boot prompt and then also from a prompt from within the install, > but it says that it can

apt-get error

2000-12-07 Thread Jim Frey
Hello, On executing apt-get -f install, I get the following: The following extra packages will be installed: lynx util-linux 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 126 not upgraded. 16 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/1280kB of archives. After unpacking

how to load aic7xxx?

2000-12-07 Thread Ken Weingold
Sorry for sort of asking the same question again, but I am trying to load the Debian 2.1 cdrom but it will not load aic7xxx. I try from the boot prompt and then also from a prompt from within the install, but it says that it can't find aic7xxx, or aic7xxx=.no_. Can anyone help me on this? It's f

Re: xfce

2000-12-07 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 01:14:55PM -0500, Jesse Goerz wrote: -|Has anyone used xfce? I'd like to try it but first wanted to get some input -|on how it is. -| -|Jesse -| In my opinion, XFCE is great on all systems (RH, SuSE, MDK, FreeBSD) except for Debian. The Debian package needs work on menu'

Re: Quality of Helixcode's Debian Packages (was: Re: spidermonke

2000-12-07 Thread Arlen Carlson
On 07-Dec-2000 Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 06:08:54 Ethan Benson wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:17:30PM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote: >> > On Dec 04 2000, Willy Lee wrote: >> > > Anyone else seeing this? >> > >> >Well, I don't have any problems connecting to spidermonkey, >

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, David Teague wrote: > I never pretended to know anything, but I find your response > amusing, and your discussion and that of others enlightening. I > suspected that ftp might not be faster, but did not know why. The true answer is that there is no way one is faster than the

Recompiling Samba

2000-12-07 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Dear List - I have an issue which apperently can be solved by recompiling Samba to support Kernel 2.0.x. I run an old Linux box which has been upgraded to (most of) Debian 2.2, except for the kernel, which is 2.0.36. Lately some Win2000 boxes have sticked their heads up, and they did not want to lo

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-07 Thread David Teague
Hi Jason I never pretended to know anything, but I find your response amusing, and your discussion and that of others enlightening. I suspected that ftp might not be faster, but did not know why. Nathan Norman suggests that HTTP 1.1 has enhancements that make it faster than ftp, hence apt uses it

Re: X after booting

2000-12-07 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Donnerstag, 7. Dezember 2000 17:19 schrieb Joerg Friedrich: > > Starting this manually as root works as expected. While booting I get: > > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. > > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. > > var: nice_value, value: -10. > > I do this at the e

Re: why not dselect (i now know the answer)

2000-12-07 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 07 Dec 00, 12:47 PM, Kenward Vaughan said... > On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 04:57:01PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > ... > > On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 at 08:06:17 -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > ... > > > i maintain that dselect should be showing me these errors. and barring > > > that, i maintain th

Re: Another newbie question ;-)

2000-12-07 Thread Juergen Fiedler
apt-get upgrade (without the 'dist-') might be more to your liking. HTH, j On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 02:47:18PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: [...] > What I'm comparing it to is an RPM-based distros method > of "upgrading". I think it looks at what's installed and updates those > packages (and depe

Re: Another newbie question ;-)

2000-12-07 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Hall" == Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hall> Okay, I said I'd be asking some more... Here goes: I recently updated Hall> everything to "woody", per Tom Gilbert's suggestion. It all went Hall> pretty well. At least it's working now. Now, when I want to keep Hall>

Re: Connection speed

2000-12-07 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
> > After pon does its thing, is there a way to see how fast my connection is? > > One way to find out is to find the AT commands (modem manual) that > force the modem to tell the right speed, not the speed between modem > and computer. Then you should see that in the logfile. But this can be > dy

Re: How do you remove Helix GNOME

2000-12-07 Thread Juergen Fiedler
apt-get takes regular expressions, so a 'apt-get --purge remove "helix*"' should nuke everything that has the string 'helix' in its name. Note that apt-get does a substring match with the package name, so 'helix*' will be matched no matter where in the name it is. Also note, that you need the q

Re: why not dselect (i now know the answer)

2000-12-07 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 04:57:01PM +, Colin Watson wrote: ... > On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 at 08:06:17 -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: ... > > i maintain that dselect should be showing me these errors. and barring > > that, i maintain that it should give me the option of seeing them, which it > > cur

Re: Compilador C

2000-12-07 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 18:25:56 -0200 "Thiago Volpi Ramos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Me desculpe, mas não sei o que é cross-postings Crosspost é mandar uma e a mesma mensagem a muitas listas ou grupos de news. Se existe uma palavra em português, gostaría conheçer. Entre outros efeitos desagradávei

Re: setting up dns

2000-12-07 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, James Preece wrote: > I have managed to get named running, but there is no /vary/named dir. > no, not there. All is in /etc/bind > Can someone help me start building the zone files etc, or run through what I > need to do. Redhat has a small document with the basics. Searc

Signed messages

2000-12-07 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. I use elm to write my email messages. I want to sign messages from inside elm. Is there any way to do this and is possible to sign messages from an X email client (Netscape Messenger) ? Thanks.. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQE6L/C4W

Re: big gtk fonts

2000-12-07 Thread Chris Gray
> Sebastian Silva writes: ss> I am new to debian and I have found that potato configures ss> some HUGE gtk fonts by default. They are nice for some things, ss> but really, they are too big. So my question is where can I ss> set it up differently. I don't use gnome. Do I have to

Re: big gtk fonts

2000-12-07 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Sebastian" == Sebastian Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sebastian> I am new to debian and I have found that potato configures some Sebastian> HUGE gtk fonts by default. They are nice for some things, but Sebastian> really, they are too big. So my question is where can I set it

Re: Quality of Helixcode's Debian Packages (was: Re: spidermonkey.helixcode.com down?)

2000-12-07 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Mario" == Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mario> Strange, I haven't had any of these probs on my potato. OTOH, I had Mario> never installed /any/ potato gnome packages, only Helix. Maybe Mario> that's got something to do with it? I'm very satisfied with the Mario>

large number of upgraded packages

2000-12-07 Thread Hubert Chan
I've noticed, since I upgraded to Woody and started reading the devel-changes list that some times a package, which creates several .deb files (urk, bad terminology), would have some small change made, which would only affect a couple of the .deb files, leaving most of the others unchanged, but due

Another newbie question ;-)

2000-12-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
Okay, I said I'd be asking some more... Here goes: I recently updated everything to "woody", per Tom Gilbert's suggestion. It all went pretty well. At least it's working now. Now, when I want to keep updated, I run "apt-get update", then "apt-get dist-upgrade". My complaint it, it wants to instal

Re: nvidia + GL = X crash

2000-12-07 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 07-12-00 at 20:16 Maciej Kalisiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 03:29:22PM -0500, Bostjan Muller wrote: > > Log is appended.. as it seems it gets sig11 (the program was built and > > linked > > I had this happen on a RH systems when I

odd gpm behavior

2000-12-07 Thread Tim Condit
Hi, I'm running potato, and have recently been having trouble with my mouse not working under X (XFree86 3.3.6), even though it worked fine on the console. That (and some tinkering and reading) led me to believe that gpm might be causing trouble. At the same time, my dialup with ppp and wvdial q

Re: Recipe for installng Tomcat on (Debian) Linux?

2000-12-07 Thread Stefan Gybas
Aaron Brashears wrote: > I use the Blackdown JDK and Stefan Gybas' tomcat Deb, and they work > fine together. It's actually the 3.2 beta, but numbered 3.1 so that > it's easier to upgrade when the real 3.2 comes out. I'll upload 3.2 final (together with mod_jk as a package) to my directory on mas

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, David Teague wrote: > I am not a networking authority, so I asked a colleague (Mark > Holliday) who is. He says http is optimized for relatively small > files, mainly web pages, which are not terribly large, (what? 2 or 3 > K?) whereas ftp was designed to be optimal files th

Re: nvidia + GL = X crash

2000-12-07 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 03:29:22PM -0500, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Log is appended.. as it seems it gets sig11 (the program was built and linked I had this happen on a RH systems when I toyed around with the NVidia stuff. In my case there was a stray Mesa library that was being picked up by those a

Re: X4.0 after upgrade

2000-12-07 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi. I put driver vesa and worked! On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 08:13:42AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 08:13:42 -0800 > To: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Debian user mailing list > Subject: Re: X4.0 after upgrade > From: Peter J

ipmask & firewall manual

2000-12-07 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hi, I need some real help sorting out packet rules, ipmasking and firewalling. I would like to find a manual that will break packets down to the basics and help the student learn the most basics then bring them up to date with current operations for masq and firewall. I have the howto's and m

looking for SCSI Domex DMX 1391D driver

2000-12-07 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
The Mustek SCSI scanner I use comes with a SCSI device called "Domex DMX 1391D" which has a chip denoted as "DOMEX 536", sublined "9827". I had a look at the scsi low level drivers in the kernel 2.2.17 xconfig app, some denoted with "53" at the beginning but non which would really shout out -" tak

pppd and persist

2000-12-07 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, since a couple of days my dsl connection is not stable anymore and now I am searching for some self-recoverable configuration for my server. I now use the 'persist' option in pppd, as suggested in a previous answer to my question. This option seems to look to echorequests. Today my connect

Re: Recipe for installng Tomcat on (Debian) Linux?

2000-12-07 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:10:02PM -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > There is one at: > http://master.debian.org/~sgybas/tomcat > > But it is 3.1, and I have had trouble getting it to run. > It had a dependency on IBM Java, but is incompatible with IBM JVM. > > I may re-try it from a clean instal

Debian meeting with keysigning in Stuttgart, Germany

2000-12-07 Thread Stefan Gybas
Hi! There will be a Debian meeting in Stuttgart (Germany) on Monday, 11-December-2000 at 19:00 with at least six Debian developers: Guenter Bechly Mika Fischer Stefan Gybas Marcelo Magallon Nils Rennebarth Lars Steinke At least three more Debian users, some of them currently in the NM queue, wil

How do you remove Helix GNOME

2000-12-07 Thread Scott Patterson
I'm interested in following the Woody releases of GNOME instead of Helix Code's. Problem is, how do I remove ALL the Helix Code packages. Seeing they all have "helix" in their package name, a simple script should easily do this. Too bad I'm not that familiar with dpkg and apt. Going manually throug

Re: Digital music editor?

2000-12-07 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
"fsm" == Frederico S =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mu=F1oz?= writes: fsm> Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: >> Can anyone recommend a good digital music editor for Debian/Linux? >> I'd especially like one capable of slowing down a sound file without >> changing the pitch. Free is preferable, but commercial would

Re: Recipe for installng Tomcat on (Debian) Linux?

2000-12-07 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 07:38 AM 12/07/2000 -0700, Ray Percival wrote: Have you checked Woody? With many,but not all, packages it is really easy to just add unstable line to your apt sources run apt-get update and then grab the package take the line out run update again and you should be on your way. It has worked

Re: Connection speed

2000-12-07 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 11:35:44 -0600 (Central Standard Time) "David A. Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After pon does its thing, is there a way to see how fast my connection is? One way to find out is to find the AT commands (modem manual) that force the modem to tell the right speed, not the s

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:13:26PM -0500, David Teague wrote: > I am not a networking authority, so I asked a colleague (Mark > Holliday) who is. He says http is optimized for relatively small > files, mainly web pages, which are not terribly large, (what? 2 or 3 > K?) whereas ftp was designed to

Re: setting up dns

2000-12-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 11:27:55AM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I have managed to get named running, but there is no /vary/named dir. > > Debian keeps the zone files under /var/cache/bind I believe this is where zone files retriev

Connection speed

2000-12-07 Thread David A. Rogers
After pon does its thing, is there a way to see how fast my connection is? dar

Re: New to Debian -- simple questions

2000-12-07 Thread Chad '^chewie' Walstrom
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Okay, I recently switched to Debian after using RedHat and > Mandrake-Linux for 2-3 years... Right off the bat, there are two > things I'd like to change. > > 1) Get rid of the login message that displays at the console after > typi

Re: setting up dns

2000-12-07 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have managed to get named running, but there is no /vary/named dir. Debian keeps the zone files under /var/cache/bind The named config file is /etc/bind/named.conf > Can someone help me

Re: setting up dns

2000-12-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 05:02:05PM -, James Preece wrote: > I have managed to get named running, but there is no /vary/named dir. > > Can someone help me start building the zone files etc, or run through what I > need to do. Debian puts all config files in /etc. The config for bind is in /et

Re: man errors when no man page available

2000-12-07 Thread Chad '^chewie' Walstrom
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:28:55AM -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote: > Sometimes when I try to view a man page that doesn't exist (try man > nomanpage, or man foo), I get these errors: > man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz is a dangling symlink > man: can't open /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1: No su

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-07 Thread David Teague
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Ray Percival wrote: > > > That would be backwards ftp is faster but sometimes it is easier to get > > http through a proxy and with some proxies it would be possible that > > http might be faster. > > Er, no it isn't. http is faste

Re: Second post: How get chrome/themes working in Mozilla?

2000-12-07 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, tahnks for getting back to me. > installation enabled and, as with everything else in Mozilla, you have > to have write access to the mozilla directory to install them. I run my > Ok, I'll give it a shot. I got some advice like that earlier. But what of the jar I dl from netscape? I see l

Re: (deb potato) How to set default window manager for a) system b)indivdual users

2000-12-07 Thread Jonathan Gift
Sorry to barge in, but I've been using .xinitrc. Aren't they comparable or are there differences. Running Linux didn't speak of any. And, since the first thing I did was remove xdm, still have an active xdm.log even though it's been apt-get removed -purged...? On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:26:10AM

Re: setting up dns

2000-12-07 Thread Gareth Bowker
James Preece wrote: > > I have managed to get named running, but there is no /vary/named dir. > > Can someone help me start building the zone files etc, or run through what I > need to do. Without being sat at home I can't be 100% but IIRC look at /etc/named/named.conf HTH, Gareth -- Gareth B

setting up dns

2000-12-07 Thread James Preece
I have managed to get named running, but there is no /vary/named dir. Can someone help me start building the zone files etc, or run through what I need to do. Thanks for your time James.

Re: dhcpd problem

2000-12-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:44:00AM +0100, Martin Würtele wrote: > hi, > > i have a problem with the dhcpd: > nt clients get a correct ip address, the name servers, the subnet mask and > everything but the default gateway > > my dhcpd.conf as follows: > opition domain-name "office.factline.com"; >

Re: why not dselect (i now know the answer)

2000-12-07 Thread Colin Watson
[Please don't Cc: me on list mail, as per the Mail-Followup-To: header I set. Thanks.] On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 at 08:06:17 -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Thu 07 Dec 00, 8:45 AM, Colin Watson said... > > Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >i just removed netscape from my system. >

Sawfish and Gkrellm

2000-12-07 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, this has been an ongoing problem for a long time for me, but I just wanted to see if others experience the same thing. I run Gkrellm with Sawfish. I have Gkrellm always started when I login by Gnome. I have Sawfish set to "Automatically remember other window attributes". I have Gkrellm set

Re: New to Debian -- simple questions

2000-12-07 Thread Jos Lemmerling
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:11:22AM -0600, Sam TH wrote: > > > 1) Get rid of the login message that displays at the console after > > > typing in my name and password. I read through /etc/login.defs and > > > there was a reference to a file that I t

Re: Anyway to get silent pon? Resolved!

2000-12-07 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Thanks. Somoene got back to me and so I'm posting this so as not to bother anyone else. I used to know this back in BBS time ... Big difference, the noise was driving me nuts. Jonathan > > pppconfig. Go to 'Change Connection', select the connection you want to > change, go to 'Advanced' a

Re: Second post: How get chrome/themes working in Mozilla?

2000-12-07 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I've been using a more recent nightly build from mozilla and installing the chromes works fine for me. You have to have software installation enabled and, as with everything else in Mozilla, you have to have write access to the mozilla directory to install them. I run my mozilla from a non-

Re: apache again

2000-12-07 Thread Rino Mardo
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 08:37:02AM -0500 or thereabouts, Jim Lynch wrote: > OK, it's working again. I found ifup and /etc/interfaces. > > But why am I still getting all of the unresolved symbols with modules? > reason is when you didn't rename /var/lib/modules/2.2.x to /var/lib/modules/2.2.x-o

Re: (deb potato) How to set default window manager for a) system b)indivdual users

2000-12-07 Thread Timothy C . Klein
If you are not using gdm, perhaps you like xdm or whatever, but there is another way. In each users home directory create an .xsession file. This should be an executable shell script. In the script, put a line to run whatever window manager you want for the user. Thus, for blackbox, use only

OT? Prob after today's helix sawfish update (0.34-helix1)

2000-12-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, I use hlix gnome on potato. After today's apt-get upgrade to sawfish_0.34-helix1, sawfish draws a window frame for my gnome panels (menu panel and edge panel). I also can't unhide the edge panel anymore. Tried to tell sawfish to use "Frame-Type: None" for the menu panel, but then the panel

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