.scr files

2000-12-18 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Does anyone know what a .scr file is? Have received several attachments with varios names. latest is midget.scr .. have no idea as I don't know the extention. Is this some type of virus? tia -- Jaye Inabnit, ARS ke6sls e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2000-12-18 Thread macan
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Installing Debian Potato with ReiserFS on a laptop (take 1)

2000-12-18 Thread Chris Fearnley
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Installing Debian GNU/Linux on a laptop with ReiserFS When: Wednesday 20 December 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Re: downgrading to potato

2000-12-18 Thread Debian Ghost
You just change your sources in /etc/apt/sources.list to potato stable: deb ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non

Re: Banner server avoidence

2000-12-18 Thread John Hasler
Lee Elliott writes: > I saw this in a posting in an Amiga mailing list that I'm still > subscribed to: > > >The first place Genesis looks for anything is in db/hosts, and > > if the ad-servers are listed there it will attempt to get the > > banners from the address given there. Since there are non

downgrading to potato

2000-12-18 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
Hi. I would like to know how to downgrade the whole distribution from woody to potato. I am entering a period in which I will have to use the computer constantly and I don't want to have any problems with the new upgrades. So I would like to stick to the stable distribution. Is there any p

Re: Banner server avoidence

2000-12-18 Thread kmself
on Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:59:11PM +, Lee Elliott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello list, > > I saw this in a posting in an Amiga mailing list that I'm still > subscribed to: > > >The first place Genesis looks for anything is in db/hosts, and > > if the ad-servers are listed there it will at

Problems with Matlab 6.0 (R12) on potato

2000-12-18 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
[ Please CC me on replies.] At work, and on a computer which runs Debian 2.2, I upgraded Matlab today. The new Matlan version just some Java issues, which are probably libc6 interaction issues -- in fact, Matlab dies with a seg fault and leaves a java.log.PID logfile. The Java runtime environment

mc keeps reverting to sort by "Modify time"

2000-12-18 Thread Scott V. McGuire
I have installed helix gnome on my potato system. This has given me mc version 4.5.51-helix3. For some reason my sort order seems strangely attracted to "Modify time". I can change it to "Name" and it will stay that way even after exiting and starting again later. But, after logging out and rebo

Re: The Debian way (kernel)

2000-12-18 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Jonathan Gift wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:58:35AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > > > As to your question, what you're looking for is the kernel-package > > package. So > > apt-get install kernel-package > > cd /usr/share/doc/kernel-package > > zcat README.gz|less >

Re: PS Kill File

2000-12-18 Thread Jonathan Gift
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:48:58AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > Of course you'll want to be pretty careful with rules like this. If > you're not careful you might dump something of interest. Personally I > keep a separate file for Spam storage which I occasionally check and > clear. So my spam

Re: Mutt and mounted file system via nfs

2000-12-18 Thread Henry House
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 06:47:49PM -0500, Francois Fayard wrote: > I have a problem with mutt and /mnt/mail/fayard with is my mailbox > (/usr/mail is mounted via nfs). Mutt can read this mailbox but can't write > on it. I don't think it is a permission problem since pine has no problem > to write o

Re: The Debian way (kernel)

2000-12-18 Thread Jonathan Gift
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:58:35AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > As to your question, what you're looking for is the kernel-package > package. So > apt-get install kernel-package > cd /usr/share/doc/kernel-package > zcat README.gz|less I've compiled my default kernel num

Re: Debian 2.2: download stops during "apt-get update"

2000-12-18 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 10:56:35PM -0700, Jeff Kelm wrote: > I still haven't been able to get 2.2 to network properly. A suggestion > was a possible hardware problem. I don't see how this would explain > the problem. If I boot off the harddrive with Debian 1.3, everything > works fine. Booting

Oracle

2000-12-18 Thread Eric Langager
Title: Oracle Greetings, We are currently in the process of setting up the curriculum for teaching the Oracle database system here at the University of Advancing Computer Technology.  I feel that it would be a good idea to teach Oracle administration on some sort of UNIX platform, and I a

How to remove 'helix' packages?

2000-12-18 Thread mikpolniak
In attempting to compile the 'gimp-print' plugin for use as a printer driver it appears that the 'helix' version of gimp that i installed is preventing me from installing some needed dev-libs. Has anyone removed 'helix' pkg-versions (task-helix-core + task-helix-gnome) without bre

knapster static

2000-12-18 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
Howdee, i need knapster, but knapster is based on kde1, so i can´t use/compile it since i use kde2. may anyone of you make a static binary for me? that woud be a very nice xmas gift ;-) thanx, Patrick

Mutt and mounted file system via nfs

2000-12-18 Thread Francois Fayard
Hi, I have a problem with mutt and /mnt/mail/fayard with is my mailbox (/usr/mail is mounted via nfs). Mutt can read this mailbox but can't write on it. I don't think it is a permission problem since pine has no problem to write on that file. So my suspection is on mutt. Does anyone has this prob

Re: KDE2 on potato

2000-12-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > Hi! > > Just upgraded KDE2 on a potato machine. Now "startx" or "kdm" don't work > claiming: > > ksplash: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: > undefined symbol: getButtonShift__14QPlatinumStyleRiT1 You're probably missing the /usr/lib/libkdec

KDE2 on potato

2000-12-18 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hi! Just upgraded KDE2 on a potato machine. Now "startx" or "kdm" don't work claiming: ksplash: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: undefined symbol: getButtonShift__14QPlatinumStyleRiT1 kdeinit: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: undefined symbo

Re: Banner server avoidence

2000-12-18 Thread Mike
Lee Elliott wrote: > What happens with this particular package is that there's a local file > linking IP addreses to urls, that is checked before looking for it on > the net, rather like a local DNS. By linking ad/banner server urls to, > say the local IP 127.0.0.1, the look-up fails and is aband

Re: Banner server avoidence

2000-12-18 Thread Michael Smith
Sure, /etc/hosts. Add something like the following: 127.0.0.1adserver.naughtybannerserver.com Alternatively, you could block out ads using ipchains: ipchains -A input -s adserver.naughtybannerserver.com -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j REJECT Or, you could use junkbuster to filter the traffic. --Mike

Re: Which IMAP server to use

2000-12-18 Thread Martin Würtele
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 06:05:58PM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 12:56:53PM -0500, Martin Würtele wrote: > > you can also try courier-imap, it uses mailbox format and supports ssl if > > openssl is installed. > > According to http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/: > > > Thi

Modules and kernel upgrades

2000-12-18 Thread dude
Hi all. im not sure where to find this information ive read some of the documetntaion the problem is that when i install and compile a new kernel and then make modules and make modules install everything seems to work, but when i boot up i see a lot of messages about modules not found what

Re: Which IMAP server to use

2000-12-18 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 12:56:53PM -0500, Martin Würtele wrote: > you can also try courier-imap, it uses mailbox format and supports ssl if > openssl is installed. According to http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/: > This IMAP server does NOT handle traditional mailbox files (/var/spool/mail, > and

Banner server avoidence

2000-12-18 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello list, I saw this in a posting in an Amiga mailing list that I'm still subscribed to: >The first place Genesis looks for anything is in db/hosts, and > if the ad-servers are listed there it will attempt to get the > banners from the address given there. Since there are none, > the banner com

Re: not all packages showing up with "dpkg -l"?

2000-12-18 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Maybe it is because the name of the package is foo_16a, not foo > Maciej> Let me explain: of recent, I've noticed that for certain > Maciej> (few) packages if I do "dpkg -l foo" and it produces no > Maciej> matches/output, a subsequent "apt-get install foo" *WILL* > Maciej> find

Re: not all packages showing up with "dpkg -l"?

2000-12-18 Thread Brian May
> "Maciej" == Maciej Kalisiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Maciej> Hello all, Just a quick question: what exactly does "dpkg Maciej> -l foo" show? Maciej> Let me explain: of recent, I've noticed that for certain Maciej> (few) packages if I do "dpkg -l foo" and it produces no

Re: OT - web browsers

2000-12-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry for the OT, but the only browser I have used in X is Netscape, > up to 4.7x. I really pisses me off that they seem to have eliminated > the Open button. Does Mozilla, Netscape 6, Konqueror, or any of the > other liked browsers have it? Also, anyo

not all packages showing up with "dpkg -l"?

2000-12-18 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
Hello all, Just a quick question: what exactly does "dpkg -l foo" show? Let me explain: of recent, I've noticed that for certain (few) packages if I do "dpkg -l foo" and it produces no matches/output, a subsequent "apt-get install foo" *WILL* find and install the desired package. So if this pack

Re: Stupid question

2000-12-18 Thread Matthew Sackman
It generally doesn't matter: so long as you are able to dial up then the other processes take care of themselves. If you use pppconfig to set up the configuration, and remember to add your own account to the configuration then once you dial up, a mail send process will be run, and others: the detai

Re: Mutt and group reply

2000-12-18 Thread Rob Hudson
That's great. Thanks. When you turn this on, the 'to_chars' start showing up. I wasn't used to this so I changed those to all be empty: set to_chars = " "; -Rob. | --==( Brian Frederick Kimball said these things on 20001218.1316 )==-- | | Apparently any address in the "alternates" variable

Cyrus IMAP config

2000-12-18 Thread Chris Mason
I'm setting up a new server with Potato. My main use for the server is an Imap server. I have installed Exim and the Cyrus POP and IMAP server, common, and admin packages. At this point I am a bit lost configuring the system. Exim is configured for the domain, I installed qpopper and was able to ge

mySQL-server segfault

2000-12-18 Thread Matthew Sackman
Dear all! I have been using Pronto for some time with the mySQL server running without problems, and providing very fast access to my many emails. However, on a recent apt-get dist-upgrade, the newly installed mysql-server refuses to install properly, and when trying to start the mysqld, I get a

Re: kernel panic

2000-12-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
egads, man. don't reinstall an operating system! don't you have any spare kernels laying around? i always leave myself at least 1 other old kernel. as for vim, try: echo "set textwidth=76" >> $HOME/.vimrc p On Mon 18 Dec 00, 2:07 PM, q said... > debs, > > in one of my dual-boot de

Re: kernel panic

2000-12-18 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that q wrote: > debs, > > in one of my dual-boot deskboxes, i have a kernel panic: > > unable to load NLS charset cp 437 > kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:03 > > my potato on custom kernel 2.2.17 was functioning well until yesterday.

Re: ssh (and maybe rsync) question... (Solved!)

2000-12-18 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Jeronimo Pellegrini writes: > I ran ssh-keygen, then copied ~/.ssh/identity.pub to the remote > side, and changed its name to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (since there > wasn't such a file before). > But this doesn't work either, since ssh asks for my new passphrase > anyway (the one from

Re: Mutt and group reply

2000-12-18 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Apparently any address in the "alternates" variable will be removed from the recipient list when doing a group reply (I don't think this is explicitly stated in the documentation). Note that the alternates variable is a regexp so you'll probably want to escape any special characters (".", etc) and

Re(2): The better ftp server for Debian...

2000-12-18 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi... I use Proftd and it is 100% free...(99% sure) and it seems to be easy to use and works well... Mike

kernel panic

2000-12-18 Thread q
debs, in one of my dual-boot deskboxes, i have a kernel panic: unable to load NLS charset cp 437 kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:03 my potato on custom kernel 2.2.17 was functioning well until yesterday. i don't mind a re-install, but i'd really like to know what's going on,

Re: SBLive! w/o using cable to CD

2000-12-18 Thread Cory T. Echols
cdparanoia can send its output to your audio device. Just specify /dev/dsp or /dev/audio as the output file. btw: You probably only want to do this if you are completely uninterested in 1) having decent sound quality, 2) running other programs. :) On 12/18, Nate Amsden wrote

Re: New IDE drive w/o rebooting?

2000-12-18 Thread Jon Pennington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, all, > > Is this possible? I need to install an IDE Zip 250 drive in the server here > at > work to make available on the LAN. I seem to recall that you can 'refresh' > the > SCSI bus to add drives without rebooting. The current ATA standard has no provisions

Re: Stupid question

2000-12-18 Thread D-Man
I have an ethernet connection at school. At boot time root does the "ifup eth0" to DHCP boot the card. Services such as sendmail, apache, ftpd, etc. run as they should and work fine. I believe each service has a user/group associated with it that has limited permissions. As long as the users/gr

Re: Mutt and group reply

2000-12-18 Thread D-Man
Even better than that, mutt understands lists. Put this in your .muttrc: subscribe debian-user@lists.debian.org Then mutt will know that that address is a list. Also, you will want to change the "index_format" string otherwise all messages will have "debian-user" as the name. This is easy to

Re: New IDE drive w/o rebooting?

2000-12-18 Thread D-Man
I'm assuming the machine is a PC. Usually you can't add IDE disks without rebooting, also I'm not sure it's a good idea to mess with the cables while the power is on. IDE disks are identified by the BIOS at boot time. Zip IDE disks are an exception : the BIOS does nothing to support them. As f

Re: how to fake from address in an email

2000-12-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:21:40AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: ... > I'd be glad to send you a copy of my exim.conf but there's absolutely > nothing special about my setup. It's just the stock SMTP setup from > eximconfig with the addition of that rewrite rule that I posted in my > previous respons

Stupid question

2000-12-18 Thread Gary Jones
Okay, stupid question time. What is the best way of connecting to the 'net? I don't mean the mechanicals, which connection type to use, that sort of thing, but rather which account(s) should do so. Preferably I don't want to connect as root, but some things (e.g. collecting mail or news) might

Re: 8139too.o module loading problem

2000-12-18 Thread mikpolniak
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 02:05:08 +1100, M. V. Nguyen said: > Hi, > > I get the following error message when trying to load the 8139too.o module. > > /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o: symbol for parameter > debug not found > /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/net/81

ssh (and maybe rsync) question...

2000-12-18 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. I've been having some problems here with ssh. I want to copy files from my home dial-up box to a server (in which I'm only a regular user), but don't want to send the password as clear text (otherwise I'd just use sitecopy). I've tried rsync + ssh, but then I need to interact w

New IDE drive w/o rebooting?

2000-12-18 Thread mattyt
Hi, all, Is this possible? I need to install an IDE Zip 250 drive in the server here at work to make available on the LAN. I seem to recall that you can 'refresh' the SCSI bus to add drives without rebooting. Is this possible (or even recommended) with an internal IDE drive? TIA :) Matthew Th

Mutt and group reply

2000-12-18 Thread Rob Hudson
Is there a command for .muttrc that tells mutt not to include me in the group reply (pressing g on a message)? Thanks.

Re: SBLive! w/o using cable to CD

2000-12-18 Thread David A. Rogers
Huh? I know we're hackers and all, but if the card is even semi-recently new, I'd be hollering for a replacement. dar On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > get an audio cable plug it from the headphone jack on the cdrom to the > line in on the soundcard..that works for me. > > nate > > aid

Re: The Debian way (kernel)

2000-12-18 Thread David A. Rogers
On 18 Dec 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Ray Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm getting ready to go to kernel 2.2.18. I know there is a Debian > > way to do the kernel but damned if I can think of where I could find > > it. Could any of you please point me towards it and also anybody run

Re: The better ftp server for Debian...

2000-12-18 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 18 2000, Björn Elwhagen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:49:05AM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > > > Could you recommend the best ftp server for my Linux-Debian box? > > > > I like NcFTPd a lot. Used it for a while now. > > I'll se

Re: SBLive! w/o using cable to CD

2000-12-18 Thread Nate Amsden
get an audio cable plug it from the headphone jack on the cdrom to the line in on the soundcard..that works for me. nate aidanc wrote: > > I have an SBLive! Value installed (using the 2.2.18pre21 kernel driver). > It seems as though the "CD" plug > on the card is bad, since I've tried changing b

Re: JDE install problem on Linux

2000-12-18 Thread Glenn Murray
Thanks, The problem was that Emacs 19 was still on my system, once I removed it jde was happy. Regards, Glenn

Re: purify type of software

2000-12-18 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > hi, > > Is there any 'purify' type of software for Linux? It seems that efence does > the > work but it does not seem to tell me the non-deallocated memory at the end > of the program. Yes, there is an equivalent program called Insure++. See

Re: dselect cancel

2000-12-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
Go into dselect and change the * to _ for those packages. On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 05:06:24PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello all > I have been using dselect to install packages from the Internet. I prepared > to install some packages from the non-free section off the debian site and > the

Re: JDE install problem on Linux

2000-12-18 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 09:46:07AM -0700, Glenn Murray wrote: > 1. Via the Debian package. I can't find any documentation >on what to add to my .emacs, the usual things (load >path and require) don't seem to work. JDE was orphaned a while ago, so I'm not sure if everything has been kep

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-18 Thread Thomas Halahan
meant to add this my my 1st reply, I have heard that you can embed javascript in pdflatex files for presentations, for example. does anyone know if this is true? tom On 15 10:44 am, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Well, thanks for everybody's suggestions. > > I have tried out this way: > \pdfoutput=

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-18 Thread Thomas Halahan
Joerg, I use 2 ways 1) The ps route is good if you have lots of ps figures. > pslatex filename.tex > dvips filename -o > ps2pdf filename.ps the pslatex embeds the fonts for you, it is like using \usepackage{times}. the ps2pdf results are better this way. you can then also use the psfrag pa

SBLive! w/o using cable to CD

2000-12-18 Thread aidanc
I have an SBLive! Value installed (using the 2.2.18pre21 kernel driver). It seems as though the "CD" plug on the card is bad, since I've tried changing both the cable (3 different ones) and the CD-ROM drive, and still can't play CDs. So far I've been able to use grip to copy an audio CD into .wav f

Re: how to fake from address in an email

2000-12-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Carel Fellinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 07:06:07AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > "Carel Fellinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... > > > I always wondered how this works. Can you still deliver mail in your > > > local domain, say if you do: mutt -s hallo glhenni

xemacs21 install totally broken in woody dist

2000-12-18 Thread Dale Amon
I had hoped that some of the weekend updates on the dist might fix the problem, but they haven't. emacs-install xemacs21 /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/psgml xemacs21 emacs20 install/psgml: Ignoring emacsen flavor xemacs21. /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/octave2.0-emacsen xemac

Re: The better ftp server for Debian...

2000-12-18 Thread Ken Weingold
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000, Björn Elwhagen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:49:05AM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > > > Could you recommend the best ftp server for my Linux-Debian box? > > > > I like NcFTPd a lot. Used it for a while now. > > I

Re: Which IMAP server to use

2000-12-18 Thread Martin Würtele
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:57:24AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > Thanks for the hint. I would much prefer to use a server that is secure. > Even as we speak, I am connected to my current IMAP from work. I'd rather > not be restricted to reading my private mail from home. > On the other hand, I li

Re: The better ftp server for Debian...

2000-12-18 Thread Björn Elwhagen
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:49:05AM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > > Could you recommend the best ftp server for my Linux-Debian box? > > I like NcFTPd a lot. Used it for a while now. I'll second that any day. NcFTPd is fast, reliable and free

Install Debian

2000-12-18 Thread Nicolas SABOURET
Hello Having used a RedHat for years, I recently installed Potato and I encountered some simple problems. It is too bad that these kind of question continuously come back on this list. This is the reason why I made a small web page with all the problems I encountered and the solution I was given (

momitsu 24x cdm-j514

2000-12-18 Thread Miten Mehta
Hello, I have momitsu 24x cdm-j514 cdrom drive. where can I get debian/linux driver for it? any how to? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/

Re: Where is task-kde?

2000-12-18 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 17 Dec 2000 17:18:41 +0100, Gian Piero Ascenso wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install KDE2 on my Debian potato. This is the KDE line I got in > sources-list: > > # KDE > deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps > > Nevertheless, when I try to apt-get install task-kde I'm t

dselect cancel

2000-12-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hello all I have been using dselect to install packages from the Internet. I prepared to install some packages from the non-free section off the debian site and the info told me that I was in the process of downloading 35mb. Since i am using+a 56k dial up access this was going to take a considerabl

Re: Which IMAP server to use

2000-12-18 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > Thanks for the hint. I would much prefer to use a server that is secure. > Even as we speak, I am connected to my current IMAP from work. I'd rather > not be restricted to reading my private mail from home. Don't let such alarmist talk scare you. uw-

Re: The better ftp server for Debian...

2000-12-18 Thread Ken Weingold
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > Could you recommend the best ftp server for my Linux-Debian box? I like NcFTPd a lot. Used it for a while now. -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

console fonts that can handle box characters?

2000-12-18 Thread Benjamin Black
anyone know of a console font that can properly display box characters? i have a tricked out bash prompt that displays fine in X when i use "--font vga" or the like (downloaded from tigert.gimp.org) with a terminal window, but i can't for the life of me get my standard tty console to display b

Re: remote attack?

2000-12-18 Thread Damian Menscher
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > Hi, > seems my machine was subject to an remote attack. I saw these in the logs: > > Dec 16 05:10:03 ap031 rpc.statd[21964]: gethostbyname error for > ^X÷ÿ¿^X÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%236x%n%137x%n%10x%n%192x%

Re:Still no luck with modversions (compiling alsa)

2000-12-18 Thread Daniel King
I had the same error when compiling ALSA drivers. I had to set the C_INCLUDE_PATH environment varible ( see info pages for gcc) to have gcc use the kernel headers. I typed the following commands. ./configure C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.17/include/ export C_INCLUDE_PATH make insta

Re: Best entry level scanner & USB/P for Potato?

2000-12-18 Thread Jonathan Gift
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:34:04AM +, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > > Visit the SANE web-page Ok, thanks. > You have to go to kernel 2.2.18 to have USB support. Ah, I'd heard rumors. Thanks for the confirmation. Jonathan -- "Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-"

RE: Low SBLive volume

2000-12-18 Thread Jason Holland
I did. Until i used aumix to change the volume, and it fixed the problem. No more low sound. :) Jason > > >Finally can hear sound, but with low volume and when I try to move the > >control in the mixer the sound vanishes. > > I have a similar problem. When I installed my SBLive, the volume > is

Re: apt-get cancel

2000-12-18 Thread Pollywog
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 00:47:44 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > hello all > I have been using apt-get to install packages from the Internet. I prepared > to install some packages from the non-free section off the debian site and > the info told me that I was in the process of downloading 35mb. S

RE: The better ftp server for Debian...

2000-12-18 Thread Jason Holland
i use proftpd, its pretty sweet. the config file syntax is a lot like apache config files. its stable, good performance, and more secure that wu-ftpd i think. just my personal $0.02. later Jason > > Hi, > > Could you recommend the best ftp server for my Linux-Debian box? > > Thanks, > > -- >

Re: Low SBLive volume

2000-12-18 Thread Scott Patterson
>Finally can hear sound, but with low volume and when I try to move the >control in the mixer the sound vanishes. I have a similar problem. When I installed my SBLive, the volume is low in both Linux and Windoze compared to my previously installed SB16. I can increase the main volume to its max

The better ftp server for Debian...

2000-12-18 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hi, Could you recommend the best ftp server for my Linux-Debian box? Thanks, -- .|, -*- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro '/'\`[EMAIL PROTECTED] /`'o\ /#,o'`\ o/`"#,`\o Feliz Navidad

apt-get cancel

2000-12-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hello all I have been using apt-get to install packages from the Internet. I prepared to install some packages from the non-free section off the debian site and the info told me that I was in the process of downloading 35mb. Since i am using a 56k dial up access this was going to take a considerab

Re: The Debian way (kernel)

2000-12-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Ray Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm getting ready to go to kernel 2.2.18. I know there is a Debian > way to do the kernel but damned if I can think of where I could find > it. Could any of you please point me towards it and also anybody run > into anything to be aware of with this one.

Re: Which IMAP server to use

2000-12-18 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Thanks for the hint. I would much prefer to use a server that is secure. Even as we speak, I am connected to my current IMAP from work. I'd rather not be restricted to reading my private mail from home. On the other hand, I like the fact that the UW IMAP uses the traditional mailbox format. Cyrus d

RE: VMWare -- Express or Workstation

2000-12-18 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Okay, so I am answering my own question. It seems that the Express version only supports win95/98, but the workstation supports many other guest os options. > -Original Message- > From: Brooks R. Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 9:42 AM > To: Debian-Use

Re: PS Kill File

2000-12-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PS Can'y I use procmail as well to send someting to /dev/null? I've read > so much about that and for so long it would be nice... > > As in... > > # The Killing Files > :0: > * ^Subject.*UNIVERSITY > /dev/null Yep, nothin' wrong with that, although y

Re: How set up kill file?

2000-12-18 Thread Jonathan Gift
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 02:32:47AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Thanks for taking the time to give such an obviously considered reply. Given the material you've covered, I'm going to save it as a file and go over it point by point. It is appreciated. Thanks again, Jonathan --

The Debian way (kernel)

2000-12-18 Thread Ray Percival
I'm getting ready to go to kernel 2.2.18. I know there is a Debian way to do the kernel but damned if I can think of where I could find it. Could any of you please point me towards it and also anybody run into anything to be aware of with this one. I'm doing it mostly for the USB backports (thin

version 2.2.14 kernel+pcmcia deb packages needed

2000-12-18 Thread Stodolsky, Marvin
Folks, IOMEGA has a 2.2.14 compatible ZIP driver available off of http://www.iomega.com/software/featured/iomegawarelinux.html However the small disk laptop I want to use it on is running 2.2.18 and the 2.2.14 deb packages are no longer available at www.debian.org. While I could do a tedious work

VMWare -- Express or Workstation

2000-12-18 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, I was perusing vmware's site http://www.vmware.com, and I noticed the vmware Express for linux. Does anyone have a clue on what is different between the Express and Workstation? It seems that they both offer the same functionality. Any thoughts? Thanks, Brooks

PS Kill File

2000-12-18 Thread Jonathan Gift
PS Can'y I use procmail as well to send someting to /dev/null? I've read so much about that and for so long it would be nice... As in... # The Killing Files :0: * ^Subject.*UNIVERSITY /dev/null Jonathan -- "Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-"

Re: Previous versions of woody .debs

2000-12-18 Thread Colin Watson
Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Are previous versions of debs in woody kept anywhere? In this case I have >not set apt-move or apt-get to delete old versions, probably just some other >stupidity which has lost me the file. An archive of old versions would help >those who have though! As far as I

Problems with xutils on woody dist-upgrade

2000-12-18 Thread bryan
Hello, This morning I did an apt-get -f dist-upgrade on my woody box and ran into a problem. The dist-upgrade is stopping with the xutils package. I get the following: Unpacking xutils (from .../xutils_4.0.1pre2.RC3-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xutils_4.0

8139too.o module loading problem

2000-12-18 Thread M. V. Nguyen
Hi, I get the following error message when trying to load the 8139too.o module. /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o: symbol for parameter debug not found /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o failed

Re: installing pine

2000-12-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Dwight Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, ktb wrote: > > > You might want to try mutt. I like it a lot better. It > > took some configuring but it isn't as clunky as pine. > > I have recently been trying mutt and, quite honestly, I have find mutt a > lot clunkier

Re: less can't show ä,ü, ö

2000-12-18 Thread Frederico S. Muñoz
Colin Watson wrote: > > "Frederico S. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mu=F1oz?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Manuel Hendel wrote: > >> kann anyone help fixing my problem with less? I can't see any ä,ü or ö > >> if I do a "less file". > [...] > >or, if this doesn't work, > > > >export LESSCHARSET="de_DE" > > T

Re: less can't show ä,ü, ö

2000-12-18 Thread Colin Watson
"Frederico S. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mu=F1oz?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Manuel Hendel wrote: >> kann anyone help fixing my problem with less? I can't see any ä,ü or ö >> if I do a "less file". [...] >or, if this doesn't work, > >export LESSCHARSET="de_DE" That should be 'export LESSCHARSET=latin1' or

2.4 module madness

2000-12-18 Thread Jonathan Markevich
This has the air of a FAQ, but, here I ask anyway. I've compiled 2.4.0-test 12 on my potato system... and it won't load any modules. This APPEARS to be the new structure of the /lib/modules directory.. nothing's immediately below /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12, but it's in a build link to the kernel s

Re: Surfboard 4100 cable modem?

2000-12-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 07:31:17AM +, Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > I thought cable-modems generally were external things that used an > > ethernet > > board in the computer itself to hook the system up to the cable box. > > However, > > he says that Windows does

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