VMWare question

2000-12-21 Thread Jack Morgan
I'm installing VMware and I got vmmon to build but then it puked! Any help as to why? Output below... Extracting the sources of the vmmon module. Building the vmmon module. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/

Re: exim outgoing addresses...

2000-12-21 Thread Rob VanFleet
Ok, my setup is similar to yours, so maybe my rewrite rules will help. My local hostname is shaitan and the email address I want displayed in the From: field is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is my rewrite rule from /etc/exim.conf: [EMAIL PROTECTED]${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\

Unidentified subject!

2000-12-21 Thread Nagamori Isao
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Re: Newbie Question - Debianizing Netscape

2000-12-21 Thread Rob VanFleet
No need to muck about with RPM's, just 'apt-get install navigator' or 'apt-get install communicator' for Netscape 4.x or 'apt-get install mozilla' for Mozilla M18 (basically the same as Netscape 6). You'll be set up. -Rob On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:20:42PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > Hi, > I a

.forward files precedence

2000-12-21 Thread Jesse Goerz
Does it matter what order if statements are in a .forward file? If not, how is the priority of the conditionals determined? TIA, Jesse

Re: swap space and memory

2000-12-21 Thread D-Man
I have 64MB RAM and 256MB swap. When I run free it tells me I have 61MB RAM and 244MB swap. Interesting. Also, I had read in a How-To that Linux wouldn't use more than 128MB of swap in a single partition. Before I relayed that info, I though I would test it (I had only recently expanded my swa

exim outgoing addresses...

2000-12-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I have my system setup as a satellite, which forwards all email to a sh\marthost, who delivers it. But when it arrives, I'd like the addresses to show where they came from, e.g. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of From; user It looks to me like this rule in /etc/exim.conf is the key

Re: Problems w/ Tomcat 3.2

2000-12-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Problem solved. I had not apparently installed jdk1.1-dev on that machine, so /etc/init.d/tomcat was silently failing when it looked for java to start the tomcat engine. I hope this helps someone else! I do notice that :8081 does not bring up index.html for tomcat (as it did on my other machine

Re: Making My Network Work, or Why the Hell Are They Blinking!

2000-12-21 Thread Steven Kurylo
Since you only want to pointed in the right direction I suggest you start at www.linuxdoc.org Since that is quite vague you can go here http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/index.html And for even more specific type this in on your command line man hosts and man hostname and man gateways

Re: Making My Network Work, or Why the Hell Are They Blinking!

2000-12-21 Thread ktb
Do you actually need help her or are you just ranting? kent On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:48:15PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all.. well it's that time again.. here I am in > front of a computer (a few of them, actually) > trying to configure my network settings. ahh > well, all I can s

Re: Install Debian 2.2 from one floppy and one harddrive folder

2000-12-21 Thread D-Man
I'm not sure what the difficulty is. I recently installed Debian using a network install. You can't do an install with just 1 floppy, but will need 2. The kernel resides on 1 floppy, the root directory on another. I haven't actually gotten into the root floppy, but from what I understand it ju

Re: configuration of network adaptor

2000-12-21 Thread sena
On 22/12/2000 at 03:28 +0100, Andreas Fromm wrote: > Hi, > > I just want to ask how to configure a network adaptor on a running > system (potato). I recompiled the kernel with the coresponding module > for the adaptor, installed it with modconf (installation succeeded) and > set it up with ifconf.

Re: Quick tip on transforming a tarball into a .deb

2000-12-21 Thread D-Man
Actually the options are: -taBuild binary and source rpm from tarball -tbBuild binary rpm only from tarball -baBuild binary and source rpm from given spec file (source must be where the spec wants it) -bbBuild the binary rpm only from the given spec When a working spec file

configuration of network adaptor

2000-12-21 Thread Andreas Fromm
Hi, I just want to ask how to configure a network adaptor on a running system (potato). I recompiled the kernel with the coresponding module for the adaptor, installed it with modconf (installation succeeded) and set it up with ifconf. I can ping to the IP asigned to the NIC, but can't ping anothe

Re: VMware install in Potato trouble

2000-12-21 Thread jeff
Why not use /usr/src/linux/include as the script recommends? That worked for me. -jeff On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:50:50PM +0900, Jack Morgan wrote: > I'm trying to install VMware on Potato, and I'm getting the following > error: > > ---Error > > None of VMware's pre-built vmmon modules is

VMware install in Potato trouble

2000-12-21 Thread Jack Morgan
I'm trying to install VMware on Potato, and I'm getting the following error: ---Error None of VMware's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this script to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)

Making My Network Work, or Why the Hell Are They Blinking!

2000-12-21 Thread Xucaen
Hi all.. well it's that time again.. here I am in front of a computer (a few of them, actually) trying to configure my network settings. ahh well, all I can say is a week ago I installed the base system off of floppies and the install configured itself, lastnight I install off of CD and all my netw

swap space and memory

2000-12-21 Thread Denzil Kelly
When I partitioned my hard drive, I noticed that I was unable to make a swap partition of 128 MB. For whatever reason, the largest partition I was able to make was 122 MB. Why is this? Also I've noticed that all of my memory isn't detected either. Why is this? I have 128 MB installed, but this is w

Re: Removal from list

2000-12-21 Thread Erik Steffl
brian moore wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 03:08:15PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > > brian moore wrote: > > > > well, the confusing thing is that the address that I tried to > > unsubscribe by explicitly listing it in the subject (I have the same > > problem) is exactly the same as the one li

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:32:34PM +0100, Thomas Halahan wrote: > > Mike > > I did compile dvipdfm a while ago. I have not used it much as it did > not seem to offer me anything new in particular - but having said > that I didn't really test it much. > > Q. What do you think dvipdfm is good

Re: Newbie Question - Debianizing Netscape

2000-12-21 Thread sena
On 21/12/2000 at 20:20 -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > I am trying to install Netscape on my newly installed potato. I've > downloaded the rpm and tried to do "alien -d -k -c rpm-name" > but it complains: What version are you trying to install? If it is version 4, why don't you try to install the

Newbie Question - Debianizing Netscape

2000-12-21 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, I am trying to install Netscape on my newly installed potato . I've downloaded the rpm and tried to do "alien -d -k -c rpm-name" but it complains : only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM So I downloaded the latest version of rpm itself (rpm-4.0.1-0.20.i3

Re: Is X using Xdefaults?

2000-12-21 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello * Cameron Matheson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey, > > I was just wondering how I would test to make sure that X is reading > my ~/.Xdefaults file. I set it up so that netscape should have scroll > mouse support, but it hasn't changed anything. startx don't use ~/.Xdeafults but

Re: Removal from list

2000-12-21 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 03:08:15PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > brian moore wrote: > > well, the confusing thing is that the address that I tried to > unsubscribe by explicitly listing it in the subject (I have the same > problem) is exactly the same as the one listed as similar. And since I > ex

Re: postgresql + JDBC

2000-12-21 Thread Aaron Brashears
The driver in libpgjava has worked reliably for me for a while. Sadly, it doesn't support stored procedures. Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 06:44:30PM +0100, Pascal THIVENT wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a high performance JDBC driver for PostgreSQL. > Does someone have already tested some ? > What are y

Re: Quick tip on transforming a tarball into a .deb

2000-12-21 Thread John Hasler
csj writes: > Can someone give me a quick tip on how to do this, convert a tarball into > a deb in one fell swoop? alien foo.tar.gz This only works for binary tarballs, of course. If you have source, compile it and tar it up first. > What's the quick and dirty Debian equivalent? The above is a

Is X using Xdefaults?

2000-12-21 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I was just wondering how I would test to make sure that X is reading my ~/.Xdefaults file.  I set it up so that netscape should have scroll mouse support, but it hasn't changed anything.   Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: daily changes of my modem from crw-rw---- to crw-r-----

2000-12-21 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 10:20:59AM -0800, Ed wrote: > I'm using wvdial to to dialup. ^^ Here's your problem. I loved wvdial, very smart, until this same thing happened to me. It's a bug. > My modem device permissions seem to be getting put to crw-r- and I > cannot dialup as

Re: XFree 4.0.2, testing all new stuff to me

2000-12-21 Thread Jonathan Markevich
I got it to work, but here's some pointers for the archives :) On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:11:42PM -0600, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:44:09PM -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > > I'm wondering what to put in sources.list for the new testing distribution. > > I've been holdin

German debian-user-list?

2000-12-21 Thread Herbert Schmitz
Hello, one question to the german users: Does the german debian-mailing list still exists? I didn´t received any reaction from there. Cause my english is terrible - sorry guys, I´d better learn at school 20 years ago - the german list would be much better for me. Thanx Herbert

php4-cgi not working

2000-12-21 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, just installed php4-cgi, fixed bad symlink in /usr/lib/cgi-bin The prob is, running as a standar cgi does not work ie #!/usr/bin/php apache complains [Thu Dec 21 20:18:36 2000] [error] [client 192.168.1.169] Premature end of script headers: /var/www/home/felipe/Proyectos/hola.php4.cgi

Re: Removal from list

2000-12-21 Thread Erik Steffl
brian moore wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 10:53:45PM +0100, Marco Herrn wrote: > > Now I have the same problem. I tried it several times written the > > unsubscribe in the subject and in the body. But it doesn't work. Thats the > > answer I get: > > > > You have not been removed, I couldn't f

Re: Postfix delivers more than once

2000-12-21 Thread Andre Berger
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:28:09PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > > Anyway, worth checking for something along these lines in your log > > files... See if any delivery attempts are marked as failed for some > > reason and/or if Postfix makes multiple attempts

Re: [debian-user] I can't type any ü, ä or ö in a shell

2000-12-21 Thread Rüdiger Kuhlmann
Hi! >--[Ethan Benson]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > actually you just have to change LANG=C in /etc/environment to > LANG=ca_ES or whatever. This used to work, but somehow since a few weeks /etc/environment isn't honoured anymore by KDE. How can I make it work? -Rüdiger. -- http://www.ruediger-ku

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread Ken Weingold
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:59:45PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > > I forget where, but there is a page explaining why list reply-to's are > > bad. > > The title of the document is "Reply-To Munging Considered Harmful". > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-t

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread Colin Watson
Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi all... just a curious question: whenever I reply to a message, I >have to manually enter the debian-user@lists.debian.org address. (well, >I cut and paste) I was just wondering why the list's "reply to" address >isn't set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See: http://w

Re: Quick tip on transforming a tarball into a .deb

2000-12-21 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I need to compile some stuff in Debian (available in Debian but three version >numbers stale). I have already successfully compiled them in Mandrake. > >The problem is that the application's various bits and pieces will be >splattered across my system. While they'll prob

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:59:45PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > I forget where, but there is a page explaining why list reply-to's are > bad. The title of the document is "Reply-To Munging Considered Harmful". http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html, or I'm sure your favorite search engine

Re: Problems with commercial program.

2000-12-21 Thread Stewart James
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Note: it appears you're replying to a mirror or peer of this list > hosted at Virginia Tech. Just FYI it makes replies slightly painful -- > my usual list response doesn't recognize your address. You might > consider subscribing directly to debi

Quick tip on transforming a tarball into a .deb

2000-12-21 Thread csj
I need to compile some stuff in Debian (available in Debian but three version numbers stale). I have already successfully compiled them in Mandrake. The problem is that the application's various bits and pieces will be splattered across my system. While they'll probably wind up in /usr/local, I

Install Debian 2.2 from one floppy and one harddrive folder

2000-12-21 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, I'm having trouble figuring out how to install Debian 2.2 with just a Rescue disk and with the rest of the files needed for a base system to be put in one folder on a DOS partition. This is how I've always installed Debian slink, but would like to start out with Debian potato on a different

Re: Removal from list

2000-12-21 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 10:53:45PM +0100, Marco Herrn wrote: > Now I have the same problem. I tried it several times written the > unsubscribe in the subject and in the body. But it doesn't work. Thats the > answer I get: > > You have not been removed, I couldn't find your name on the list. > What

Re: Removal from list

2000-12-21 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Marco Herrn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I have the same problem. I tried it several times written the > unsubscribe in the subject and in the body. But it doesn't work. Thats the > answer I get: > > You have not been removed, I couldn't find your name on the list. > What I did find were th

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-21 Thread Matthew Sackman
This is the quick fix: edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf remove the line about network listening and then resave the file. start up mysqld as normal - it should work! Apparently a fixed version will appear very shortly. Matthew On 16 Dec 2000 00:54:37 -0500, Jens Gecius said: > Hi folks! > > This tim

Re: Removal from list

2000-12-21 Thread Marco Herrn
Now I have the same problem. I tried it several times written the unsubscribe in the subject and in the body. But it doesn't work. Thats the answer I get: You have not been removed, I couldn't find your name on the list. What I did find were the following approximate matches: 1745 [EMAIL PROTECTE

vpn kernel patch sources

2000-12-21 Thread Pollywog
This URL has links for vpn kernel patches. http://www.impsec.org/linux/masquerade/ip_masq_vpn.html -- Andrew

Re: OT postgres: bitwise testing & setting?

2000-12-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
will trillich wrote: >this is way OT, but debian-user has the Folks Who Know... > >i'm using 6.3 postgresql on potato, and would like to compress >a wee bit-o-space out of each record by using bitwise booleans, >instead of bytewise. > >there seems to be no bitwise operators to facilit

Re: Finding/Including sr_mod post install

2000-12-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I don't have any SCSI devices, I just need it for to > use cdrecord with an ATAPI IDE. > > I guess I am going to have to recompile my kernel, > but first I have to FIND the darn thing. > > sr_mod, I feel confident, will be the only remaining > module I need to install. > > I've looked through the

Re: xdm error (pid 257): server unexpectedly died Help please

2000-12-21 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > When I try to startx, I get error message: > > X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/SF86_S3 failed > _X11TransSocketUNIX COnnecty: Can't connect: errno - 111 > giving up > xinit: Connection refused > xinit: No such procerss (errno 3): Server error > > When I look at xdm log, I f

Re: lilo

2000-12-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 10:36:08PM +0200, Stefaans Mostert wrote: > But the mbr IS overritten and the floppy gone! > can't get in! > What now Does the new mbr at least allow you to boot to windows? If so, do that and head on over to http.us.debian.org. Grab rescue.bin and rawrite2.exe. Use rawr

Re: vpn -> how?

2000-12-21 Thread Pollywog
Check out www.google.com and use the following terms for a search: kernel patch vpn You will get some interesting links, including sources for the kernel patch. On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 12:45:50 -0600, will trillich said: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:21:30PM -0500, John Covici wrote: > > On Thu, 21

xdm error (pid 257): server unexpectedly died Help please

2000-12-21 Thread DTi4565459
When I try to startx, I get error message: X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/SF86_S3 failed _X11TransSocketUNIX COnnecty: Can't connect: errno - 111 giving up xinit: Connection refused xinit: No such procerss (errno 3): Server error When I look at xdm log, I find error in subject line. I'm a newbie and w

Re: kernel defaults

2000-12-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
> where can I find an original Debian potato .config > file for kernel 2.2.17? The kernel that comes with > the distribution works great, but I need to add/remove > some things. Look in your /boot directory. It should be called .config-[kernel-version], I think. I didn't know this 'til after I com

Re: installing pine

2000-12-21 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:12:08PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: > > > pine, pico and pilot deb's are included in woody. you'll notice that the > > > version numbers have an 'L' at the end of them. that signifi

Re: Still cannot get off list

2000-12-21 Thread Erik Steffl
you're not alone, I have the same problem, the address I try to unsubscribe is on the list of approximate matches but it still says it cannot find it. This happens when I try to unsubscribe from debian-devel and debian-user. I was able to unsubscribe from *changes* lists about a week ago. I ha

Re: Adding a new HD and useing it as swap

2000-12-21 Thread Erik Steffl
Jon Pennington wrote: > > Calyth wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > I just got a new SCSI HD, it's 1GB and I would like to use part of it to > > replace my current swap drive. > > At the risk of sounding ignorant, a GIG of swap?!? he wrote 'part of it'. but isn't 1GB disk just too small? must be reall

Finding/Including sr_mod post install

2000-12-21 Thread JoshNarins
I don't have any SCSI devices, I just need it for to use cdrecord with an ATAPI IDE. I guess I am going to have to recompile my kernel, but first I have to FIND the darn thing. sr_mod, I feel confident, will be the only remaining module I need to install. I've looked through the modules HOWTO a

Warning ALSA and 2.2.18

2000-12-21 Thread David A. Rogers
The ALSA source shipped with potato (yes even r2) has a compile error when built against the 2.2.81pre21 kernel source. Fortunately, it's easy to fix. In the alsa source include directory, you'll find a file drivers.h. Edit this file. Search for the word "wait". The first occurance is in a #if

Re: kernel defaults

2000-12-21 Thread Gary Hennigan
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > where can I find an original Debian potato .config file for kernel > 2.2.17? The kernel that comes with the distribution works great, but I > need to add/remove some things. > > When unpacking the kernel source, a minimal .config file exists, but when > co

Re: lilo

2000-12-21 Thread Stefaans Mostert
Jason Holland wrote: > > check out mkboot. its a pretty sweet way to create a boot floppy in case of > emergencies. :) > > jason > > > > > Hi all > > > > Well I was wondering can one transfer lilo onto a stiffy and boot from > > that? > > > > Scenario: > > You reinstall windows (wich is on the

kernel defaults

2000-12-21 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, where can I find an original Debian potato .config file for kernel 2.2.17? The kernel that comes with the distribution works great, but I need to add/remove some things. When unpacking the kernel source, a minimal .config file exists, but when compiling the kernel, I do not want to miss anyt

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-21 Thread Thomas Halahan
Mike I did compile dvipdfm a while ago. I have not used it much as it did not seem to offer me anything new in particular - but having said that I didn't really test it much. Q. What do you think dvipdfm is good at? I'm just curious to know when it might be useful. Tom On 21 4:34 am, M

Re: XFree86 4.0 and the testing distribution

2000-12-21 Thread Rob VanFleet
Xfree86 4.x isn't included in the testing tree yet. The way I understand it, it will be added eventually. I *think* that woody is now the same as the testing tree, but the less stable packages in woody got bumped into the new unstable. People who were running woody before the testing tree came a

Re: Install/Config q's

2000-12-21 Thread Walter Tautz
> > > When I looked at the inittab file, it had a comment saying that > > runlevels 2-5 are mutlti-user. Ok, but not enough information. I > > have been using RH for 2 years, and it has runlevel 5 for X and 3 for > > full multi-user. Does Debian use the same runlevels? I know some > > distros

anyone had experience with NIC: http://www.3com.com/mobile/pccards/3cn3ac1556b.html

2000-12-21 Thread Walter Tautz
just curious...trying this for an IBM thinkpadapparently it is an Irq problem. -walter

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread Ken Weingold
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000, David Wright wrote: > If you dislike two copies, then I don't understand why you have > included Mail-Followup-To: Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > in your headers. That is inserted automatically by mutt I thought specifically to avoid this. I just changed 'lists' to 'su

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 03:47:56PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: > This seems to be for people having a reply-group or reply-all > button. So they can choose to reply only to the sender or also to the > list. > I really like this feature of the list. I used to wonder myself, but I heave learned

OT postgres: bitwise testing & setting?

2000-12-21 Thread will trillich
this is way OT, but debian-user has the Folks Who Know... i'm using 6.3 postgresql on potato, and would like to compress a wee bit-o-space out of each record by using bitwise booleans, instead of bytewise. there seems to be no bitwise operators to facilitate such testing (nor even an numerative d

Re: debian help

2000-12-21 Thread Scott Patterson
>I installed debian in the belief that it would install. Xwindows simply >will not install. As newcomer I can't work with a program w/o the gui. >I wanted xwindows (eventually kde) ppp connection, printer, netscape and I >want to do experiments with star office and other suites. Debian was >sug

Re: backups

2000-12-21 Thread kmself
on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:11:32PM -0500, Ken Weingold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am going to be setting up Linux server at work for something and > want to do backups, weekly I guess. Any suggestions on software to do > this? I am not familiar with unix backups. http://kmself.home.netc

Re: installing pine

2000-12-21 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:12:08PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: > > pine, pico and pilot deb's are included in woody. you'll notice that the > > version numbers have an 'L' at the end of them. that signifies (i > > believe) that they are not an unmodifi

Re: downgrade from Woody to Potato

2000-12-21 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
For me it was even worse. I half-installed libc6 in the old version, then opened dselect, and tried to remove libdb2 (something probably extremely silly). Now libc is broken, along with dpkg rm, mv, ls, and probably another lot of basic stuff. What is wrong for dpkg to work, is that it does not fi

Re: vpn -> how?

2000-12-21 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that will trillich wrote: > anybody care to suggest a few simple steps to get VPN > up and running? i've looked at the nano-HOWTO and don't > have any luck. other methods are delightfully accepted! > > rather than tell you how many methods and in what g

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 06:33:57PM +, David Wright wrote: > If you dislike two copies, then I don't understand why you have > included Mail-Followup-To: Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > in your headers. here's all of his headers. i dinna see any 'mail-followup-to' there: From [EMA

Re: installing pine

2000-12-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:12:08PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: > > > You can search the archives to find a link to the deb. There > > are licensing issues with pine so Debian doesn't include it but > > there are people who have built the debs. I just snagged the > > latest stable re

Re: vpn -> how?

2000-12-21 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:21:30PM -0500, John Covici wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, will trillich wrote: > > anybody care to suggest a few simple steps to get VPN > > up and running? i've looked at the nano-HOWTO and don't > > have any luck. other methods are delightfully accepted! > > > > rather

Re: mysql, dbi and help please

2000-12-21 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:00:14PM -0800, james (home) wrote: > having installed perl and mysql server etc, I have run my perl script > available.plx and get the results below > > > ADO > No known data sources > ExampleP > dbi:ExampleP:dir=. > Proxy > Error: install_driver

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ken Weingold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000, Xucaen wrote: > > Hi all... just a curious question: whenever I > > reply to a message, I have to manually enter the > > debian-user@lists.debian.org address. (well, I > > cut and paste) I was just wondering why the > > list's "repl

apt-get troubles

2000-12-21 Thread Ian Soboroff
i've searched the list archives for a solution to this, but haven't come across one that works yet... i'm running x86 woody. since the end of last week, i no longer get any upgrades with 'apt-get upgrade' (although 'update' runs without error). furthermore, when i try to install a package with

debian help

2000-12-21 Thread paul taylor
I installed debian in the belief that it would install. Xwindows simply will not install. As newcomer I can't work with a program w/o the gui. I wanted xwindows (eventually kde) ppp connection, printer, netscape and I want to do experiments with star office and other suites. Debian was suggested b

Re: installing pine

2000-12-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Dwight Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > My condolences. I didn't realize you work at Stonehenge. :-) Yep! BTW, from the Pine Info Center: pine-bin.sun56 . . . . . . . . . Dec 5 16:53 9559k which is 25% of my quota, whereas: 359784 Nov 11 1999 bin/mutt > But then I think I would be at

Re: lilo

2000-12-21 Thread Nate Amsden
Stefaans Mostert wrote: > > Hi all > > Well I was wondering can one transfer lilo onto a stiffy and boot from > that? > > Scenario: > You reinstall windows (wich is on the same drive as linux) and it > overwrites your mbr.After wich you suddenly and to your horror discover > that the dog lying i

Re: vpn -> how?

2000-12-21 Thread John Covici
There is a nice patch for the 2.x kernels which gives you the ability for vpn clients if that is what you are looking for. On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, will trillich wrote: > anybody care to suggest a few simple steps to get VPN > up and running? i've looked at the nano-HOWTO and don't > have any luck. o

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 09:32:29AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all... just a curious question: whenever I > reply to a message, I have to manually enter the > debian-user@lists.debian.org address. (well, I > cut and paste) I was just wondering why the > list's "reply to" address isn't set > to [EMA

daily changes of my modem from crw-rw---- to crw-r-----

2000-12-21 Thread Ed
I'm using wvdial to to dialup. My modem device permissions seem to be getting put to crw-r- and I cannot dialup as a regular user until I set them to crw-rw as root. I understand that these permissions get changed during a dialup session and changed back afterwards. Something else is goin

Re: Is my server attacked and "rooted"?

2000-12-21 Thread Nate Amsden
Ola Muan wrote: > > Hi Debianers, > > I have a little problem with a server that I am in charge of. Unfortunately > my Linux skills ain't too good yet. The server runs Debian with kernel > version 2.2.12. When I ssh into the server, the bash prompt freezes > immediately after the login is complet

vpn -> how?

2000-12-21 Thread will trillich
anybody care to suggest a few simple steps to get VPN up and running? i've looked at the nano-HOWTO and don't have any luck. other methods are delightfully accepted! rather than tell you how many methods and in what glorious ways i've failed, i thought i'd start with tabula rasa and let you experi

Problems w/ Tomcat 3.2

2000-12-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 11:58 PM 12/12/2000 +0100, Stefan Gybas wrote: If you find any more problems please mail me. If I receive no more bug repports I'll upload this version to the official archive soon (to contrib - but that's better than not in the archive at all). I did a clean new install of your 3.2 tomcat, and

Re: lilo

2000-12-21 Thread Silver
Get a new boot disk (or better yet a bootable cdrom), and load the kernel with the option "root=/dev/xxx" appended on the command line. Silver - Original Message - From: "Stefaans Mostert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 5:59 PM Subject: lilo > Hi all > > Well

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread Ken Weingold
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all... just a curious question: whenever I > reply to a message, I have to manually enter the > debian-user@lists.debian.org address. (well, I > cut and paste) I was just wondering why the > list's "reply to" address isn't set > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I for

Re: question about CD rom install

2000-12-21 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 09:36:49AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all (again) > lastnight I did an install from CD ROM (debian > 2.2r2) > when the package menu came up, and I started > checking off packages I wanted to install, I > noticed that emacs and apache weren't on the > list. I was wondering if

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread Xucaen
--- David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Warning: this is a religious issue ;) > > Cheers, > ooops.. umm.. err.. oh! look, all better.. don't know what I was thinking.. carry on then.. *whistling innocently* ;-) xucaen __ Do You Yaho

Re: overly-strange reaction of modem to pon

2000-12-21 Thread A R
David Wright wrote: > Quoting A R ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Not always when I "pon" I get my modem going. A lot of times it just > > lights a few of the little lamps. > > It is already the second external modem I use, and is the same. Now I am > > using a motorola 28.8, and most of the times when I

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Xucaen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > --- Vincent Besse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ne io=0x300 (replace of course with with your > > values) > > in /etc/modules. That's all. > > > > Vincent > > I thought so! but when I edited it, the comments > at the top scared me. ;-) /etc/modules shou

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:32:29 -0800 (PST) Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all... just a curious question: whenever I > reply to a message, I have to manually enter the > debian-user@lists.debian.org address. (well, I > cut and paste) I was just wondering why the > list's "reply to" address

postgresql + JDBC

2000-12-21 Thread Pascal THIVENT
Hi, I'm looking for a high performance JDBC driver for PostgreSQL. Does someone have already tested some ? What are your recommandations ? Thank Pascal Thivent SQLI group +33(0)1.55.93.25.36 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Xucaen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all... just a curious question: whenever I > reply to a message, I have to manually enter the > debian-user@lists.debian.org address. (well, I > cut and paste) I was just wondering why the > list's "reply to" address isn't set > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You n

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 09:32:29AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all... just a curious question: whenever I > reply to a message, I have to manually enter the > debian-user@lists.debian.org address. (well, I > cut and paste) I was just wondering why the > list's "reply to" address isn't set > to [EMA

question about CD rom install

2000-12-21 Thread Xucaen
Hi all (again) lastnight I did an install from CD ROM (debian 2.2r2) when the package menu came up, and I started checking off packages I wanted to install, I noticed that emacs and apache weren't on the list. I was wondering if emacs and apache are part of another package? (I chose the 'simple' me

RE: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread Jason Holland
reply works for me. see, it just did! :) jason > > Hi all... just a curious question: whenever I > reply to a message, I have to manually enter the > debian-user@lists.debian.org address. (well, I > cut and paste) I was just wondering why the > list's "reply to" address isn't set > to [EMAI

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