Re: Q: Hiding M$ Exchange behind a firewall ?

2000-12-22 Thread CaT
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 04:24:16PM +0100, Michael Steiner wrote: > In which way should it be done ? > Installing an MTA (which one?)on the Debian-box or to transfer all > traffic directly to the internal net by forwarding(how to do this ?). Give sendmail a mailertable entry. From memory (will prol

Re: Q: Hiding M$ Exchange behind a firewall ?

2000-12-22 Thread C. Falconer
At 10:00 PM 12/22/00 +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:24:16 +0100, Michael Steiner writes: Well, the quickfix would be a virtusertable containing something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] for each&every user. Its just another damn thing for the admins to u

moving from two disks to one?

2000-12-22 Thread Ron Farrer
hello; I currently have two 2GB scsi drives and now have a single 23.2GB scsi drive. What would be the easiest way to move the data off the two 2GB drives to the new one? Reinstall is out of the question, I need the setup to stay as-is. The partitioning on the new drive will be different (for obv

Gnome-name-service function???

2000-12-22 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Anyone know what the gnome-name-service does? THere's no info on my onboard documentation. It's part of the gnome-bin.deb packages Killing seems to be without ill affect on my stand alone laptop, MarvS = 4:41pm up 43 min, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.00 42

XFree / Font error

2000-12-22 Thread Hall Stevenson
Running Debian Woody and XFree86 v4.0.1 and trying to get TrueType fonts under X. I've followed the instructions fully, I believe, but still no TT fonts. I finally ran across this error: Could not init font path element unix/:7101, removing from list! in /var/log/xdm.log. Any ideas how to fix th

Re: configuring network card solved.

2000-12-22 Thread Xucaen
I just want to say upfront that I have nothing but good intentions. If my words sound harsh or unfriendle, it is not meant to be so... --- "S.Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "xucaen" == Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > If you are going to give advice to newbies, > make sur

Living behind a SOCKS firewall

2000-12-22 Thread Stan Brown
i have a Debina machine that I have set up at hoem, and am fixing to move to work. At work I live behind a SOCKS firewall that will allow me to use HTTP and FTP by using the SOCKS proxy. Xan I set teh debian machine up to allow apt-get'ing things this way

Re: irq timeouts - CDROM

2000-12-22 Thread Gary Mulder
Most Pentium based systems have two EIDE buses. Normally if you have one hard drive and one CDROM drive you'll have each as the master device on each bus. This would result in the devices /dev/hda and /dev/hdc. This is optimal as the EIDE protocol only allows one device at a time to be active on

Re: stale apt-get mirrors?

2000-12-22 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 11:05:02AM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > > will trillich writes: > > wt> what's the lag on various debian mirror sites? > wt> % apt-get update > wt> % apt-get upgrade > > wt> % apt-setup /pick a different mirror/ > > wt> i'd just swi

Re: web and perl and mysql

2000-12-22 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 08:45:35AM -0800, james (home) wrote: > does anyone know how to get a mysql database, queried by PERL on to the web. > > I would appreciate some help. > > I am trying to create a table in a web page which has 3 static fileds, and 3 > input fields. > > Its basically a list

Re: Dump root window to a JPG?

2000-12-22 Thread John Travis
> > "import", which is part of the ImageMagick package will do it. A > command like this: > > import -window root screenshot.jpg > > You can even add a delay in case you want to move a window or bring > one to the "front", etc, etc. For more help, the usual "man import" > will tell you all you nee

Loading SB16 modules...

2000-12-22 Thread Stefan Srdic
I have a Creative Vibra 16x (Sound Blaster 16) that I'm trying to configure so that I can listen to music in Debian. Where do I find the proper kernel modules for my card and how do I load them in Debian? I know which IRQ, DMA 8 and DMA 16 plus I/O that the card uses but do not no which module

Re: OT - web browsers

2000-12-22 Thread Joey Hess
Ken Weingold wrote: > 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, anyone know why it was tak

backingup /home/foo/.* files

2000-12-22 Thread q
debs, now that kernel panics effect of my mission-critical box about every 20th boot, i've become interested in backing up my /home/foo directory (by: tar cvzf .tar.gz *). i've noticed that such backup does not include my /home/foo/.* (hidden) files, like .muttrc aside from doing a separa

Re: yet another ppp failure story...

2000-12-22 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, W. Crowshaw wrote: > At 11:04 AM -0800 12/20/00, Dwight Johnson wrote: > >On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, W. Crowshaw wrote: > > > >> At 5:42 PM -0800 12/19/00, Dwight Johnson wrote: > >> > > >> >Show us your chatscript. > >> > > >> > >> My chat script looks like this: > >> 'TIMEOU

Re: Dump root window to a JPG?

2000-12-22 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I'm sure there is a cl method for dumping your X session to a file. I > > know this sounds stupid but taking a screenshot with something like > the > Gimp or Ksnapshot doesn't quite work (I'm trying to get a screenshot > while playing mpeg2 streams). The video just appears as a bright blue

Re: How to track *part* of unstable?

2000-12-22 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 05:36:09PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Friday, December 22, Rob VanFleet did write: > > > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:35:28PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > > Is there a way to track the unstable branch for only certain > > > > packages? I'd like to install th

Dump root window to a JPG?

2000-12-22 Thread John Travis
I'm sure there is a cl method for dumping your X session to a file. I know this sounds stupid but taking a screenshot with something like the Gimp or Ksnapshot doesn't quite work (I'm trying to get a screenshot while playing mpeg2 streams). The video just appears as a bright blue box :-). An

Re: What is the file name of the ps2 mouse driver?

2000-12-22 Thread Rob VanFleet
Hmm... can't help you with the module issue, as I always just build the ps/2 driver directly into the kernel, since it's more of an 'always on' type thing than an 'on demand' one. My problem with gpm/X was the exact reverse of yours - The mouse in X was frozen while gpm was running. I solved that

Re: Starup script - how can I make it start later? (Firestarter)

2000-12-22 Thread Erik Steffl
D-Man wrote: > > I haven't done this yet, but I have a feeling that when I finish > installing Debian I will be playing with the rc?.d scripts. > > The scripts are actually symlinks to the real scripts. The symlinks > have a name like > > [KS][0-9][0-9][a-zA-Z]+ > > The symlinks that start wit

Re: How to track *part* of unstable?

2000-12-22 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, December 22, Rob VanFleet did write: > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:35:28PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > Is there a way to track the unstable branch for only certain > > > packages? I'd like to install the unstable version of gnucash. > > Is gnucash_1.4.8 new enough for you?

Subject: http://www.lists and 5000 best domain names free to register

2000-12-22 Thread trademark
Dear debian-user@lists.debian.org We inform you in priority as domain specialist for promoting and affiliation, the ccTLD (Top Level Domain)".cf" just opens for public sales. http://www.lists.cf http://www.business.cf http://www.internet.cf are certainly available Do not loose time and money, re

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-12-22 Thread ktb
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 05:00:39PM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:55:20PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently switched from RedHat 6.2 to potato and my cdrom seems to have > > the following problems : > > Most of the time I get errors like : > > > > hdb: irq timeo

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-12-22 Thread ktb
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:55:20PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > Hi, > I recently switched from RedHat 6.2 to potato and my cdrom seems to have the > following problems : > Most of the time I get errors like : > > hdb: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy } > hdb: ATAPI reset complete > > Sometimes

Merry.....

2000-12-22 Thread Dale Kosan
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a great New Year

Re: Merry Christmas

2000-12-22 Thread Ignasi Tura
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:24:08PM +0100, J. Reilink wrote: > Alex Horsnell wrote: > > > > To everyone on the list, > > > > Thank you for all your help and advise this year, I hope you all have a > > _VERY_ > > Merry Christmas and a brilliant Millennium!! > > > > I look forward to further help

Re: downgrade from Woody to Potato - Yes, I too wish you would explain....

2000-12-22 Thread Stephan Engelke
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:10:38PM -0800 wrote Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Does the get/set-selections procedure work with apt-get, or does apt do its > own thing? I.e.: I had indeed configured dselect to use apt - I just ran dselect to make sure that some (for me) vital packages wer

printing problems

2000-12-22 Thread Caste
Hi,I have just installed Potato Debian (first contact with linux), and I havesome printing problems.Initially the BSD system didn’t run properly, but it ran, this took me totest cups 1.1.4, and it didn’t run as I expected, and I decided to uninstallcups, and install BSD Line Printer Spoolin

the experimental mutt package

2000-12-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
Some days ago I uploaded mutt 1.3.12 to experimental. Please test it, because if people will not complain I'm going to upload it to woody. README.Debian says: ~~ ~ NOTES ABOUT THE EXPERIMENTAL PACKAGE ~ ~ There is no supp

Re: How to track *part* of unstable?

2000-12-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:06:33PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > I don't think that can be done. Woody (unstable) is based on glibc > 2.2 while potato is based on glibc 2.1. Thus any binaries for woody > that use the C library at all won't run (even if you get them to > install) on potato. Seems to work

Re: Sound record program

2000-12-22 Thread Britton
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:27:08AM +0100, Kai Weber wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am searching for a good sound record program, which can be used from a > > script/started by a cron job. I tested 'rec' coming from the sox > > package. With for CD-quality s

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

2000-12-22 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 12/21/00 4:20:05 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > << [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 >

[no subject]

2000-12-22 Thread Xavier Alfaro
Hello, How do I download a ISO CDROM (image file) and a boot floppy for the entire OS to use with  ARM units.

Re: What is the file name of the ps2 mouse driver?

2000-12-22 Thread D-Man
Maybe there isn't a separate mouse driver file but it is in some other file instead? -D On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:31:45PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > Thanks guys for all of the pointers. I am really not a newbie and have > covered all of the areas responded to. I do not find a mouse driver in >

[ADMIN] Unsubscription problems

2000-12-22 Thread Anand Kumria
Hi there, A number of people have reported problems with unsubscribing from various lists, principally debian-user and debian-devel. We, the listmaster team, believe we have fixed the underlying problem and you should merrily be able to [un]subscribe as needed. Please inform us if you aren't but

RE: PHP4 problem

2000-12-22 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> > Greetings, > > I am trying to test eZtrade (http://trade.ez.no) with > debian, and I have > > hit a snag. When the site tries to come up, I get this message: > > > > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_pconnect() > > > > This is a valid function in both php3 and php4, s

Re: What is the file name of the ps2 mouse driver?

2000-12-22 Thread John Foster
Thanks guys for all of the pointers. I am really not a newbie and have covered all of the areas responded to. I do not find a mouse driver in my /lib/modules/kernel-2.2.13/misc or any of the other dirs here. There should be a driver ps2mouse.o or the like created when the kernel is compiled and in

Re: playing sounds from command line

2000-12-22 Thread Britton
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Rob VanFleet wrote: > > I'm used to other distros having a 'play' command to play sounds from the > > command line. Does Debian have a similar tool, or am I just missing the > > package with the play command? > > Install the sox package \begin{shamel

Re: yet another ppp failure story...

2000-12-22 Thread W. Crowshaw
At 11:04 AM -0800 12/20/00, Dwight Johnson wrote: On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, W. Crowshaw wrote: At 5:42 PM -0800 12/19/00, Dwight Johnson wrote: > >Show us your chatscript. > My chat script looks like this: 'TIMEOUT' '30' 'ABORT' 'BUSY' 'ABORT' 'NO CARRIER' 'ABORT' 'NO ANSWER' 'ABORT' 'NO

Re: PHP4 problem

2000-12-22 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 02:53:12PM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Greetings, > I am trying to test eZtrade (http://trade.ez.no) with debian, and I have > hit a snag. When the site tries to come up, I get this message: > > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_pconnect() > >

Re: downgrade from Woody to Potato - Yes, I too wish you would explain....

2000-12-22 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 06:36:33PM +0100, Stephan Engelke wrote: ... > the seleciton list back in to dpkg (dpkg --set-selections), but if you > want the system to be identical to the one you had before, running > dpkg --set-selections and initialing the install process (e.g. by running > dselect

Re: Q: Hiding M$ Exchange behind a firewall ?

2000-12-22 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:24:16 +0100, Michael Steiner writes: Well, the quickfix would be a virtusertable containing something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] for each&every user. Of course this means you´d have to add each user on the exchange-box and on the firewall. Look at th

networked filesystems

2000-12-22 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello all, I have just configured a simple network with one harddiskless computer that boots from a floppy and mounts a remote root through nfs. Now my questions: - which other alternatives are there? I have heard that nfs has a big overlay. I have also heard about nbd. - is it true, or can you c

Re: Starup script - how can I make it start later? (Firestarter)

2000-12-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
I don't know anything about /etc/rc.x, but the "Debian way" is to put scripts is /etc/init.d from which links should be created with update-rc.d. This will put a symlink in /etc/rc2.d which will be executed when runlevel 2 is entered, which is after the boot process and probably a better place. A

PHP4 problem

2000-12-22 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, I am trying to test eZtrade (http://trade.ez.no) with debian, and I have hit a snag. When the site tries to come up, I get this message: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_pconnect() This is a valid function in both php3 and php4, so what am I missing? T

Re: excersize

2000-12-22 Thread Sebastiaan
High, what is wrong with apt? Can you not adapt the sources.list file to the new distribution and do a apt-get update and then upgrade? I realize that this is not a real answer to your question, but often it helps. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, green_botanik wrote: > Is it possible

Re: Starup script - how can I make it start later? (Firestarter)

2000-12-22 Thread D-Man
I haven't done this yet, but I have a feeling that when I finish installing Debian I will be playing with the rc?.d scripts. The scripts are actually symlinks to the real scripts. The symlinks have a name like [KS][0-9][0-9][a-zA-Z]+ The symlinks that start with S are for startup and the ones

Re: How to track *part* of unstable?

2000-12-22 Thread Rob VanFleet
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:35:28PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > Is there a way to track the unstable branch for only certain packages? I'd > > like to install the unstable version of gnucash. Is gnucash_1.4.8 new enough for you? If so, just install Helix Gnome from http://www.helixcode.co

Re: How to track *part* of unstable?

2000-12-22 Thread D-Man
I don't think that can be done. Woody (unstable) is based on glibc 2.2 while potato is based on glibc 2.1. Thus any binaries for woody that use the C library at all won't run (even if you get them to install) on potato. You could probably upgrade the libc independent of the rest of the system t

irq timeouts error-cdrom ?

2000-12-22 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, I recently switched from RedHat 6.2 to potato. I have a IDE 44x cdrom that is giving the following errors (which did not happen previously) 1) Most of the time the error is : hdb: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy } hdb: ATAPI reset complete 2) Sometime I also see some thing like this : tte

Re: exim-configuration--relaying mail

2000-12-22 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:30:06PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: > If you desire it, I compiled Exim 3.20 for potato over the weeked for my > own machines; I've put the .deb on the 'net under > ftp://tux.creighton.edu/pub/pbrutsch/ (sorry, no apt-get'table archive > yet). It has dependencies on th

How to track *part* of unstable?

2000-12-22 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. I'm still fairly new to debian, so I'm not all that familiar with dpkg, dselect, and apt. Is there a way to track the unstable branch for only certain packages? I'd like to install the unstable version of gnucash. I downloaded the .deb and tried an apt-get install, but it failed

Starup script - how can I make it start later? (Firestarter)

2000-12-22 Thread Phillip Deackes
I need to start a script containing ipchains settings derived freom Firestarter. The docs suggest I start the script in /etc/rc.x. If I do this, on boot up I get error messages which do not occur if I run the script after the system has rebooted. This leads me to summise that the script is starting

Woody dselect Woes

2000-12-22 Thread Thomas Delany
Hi,   I have a Debian system running Woody that I am having big problems with re: dselect and updating it.   I was in the middle of updating the system with dselect when I attempted to background the dselect process in order to do something that was suggested by the output from one of the pac

Re: I need a filter for Epson Stylus Color 400

2000-12-22 Thread mikpolniak
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 13:23:34 +0100, Santiago Fernandez said: > I need printcap entries and a filter (maybe from magicfilter) for a > Epson Sylus Color 400. Has anyone some experience configuring this > printer? I've tried different possibilities without success. > > I've read README-StylusCo

Re: irq timeouts - CDROM

2000-12-22 Thread Balbir Thomas
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 10:29:29AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > > --- Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently switched from RedHat 6.2 to potato > > and my cdrom seems to have the following > > problems : > > Most of the time I get errors like : > > > > hdb: irq timeout: statu

Re: Finding/Including sr_mod post install

2000-12-22 Thread csj
Before recompiling it would be nice to try: # modprobe ide-scsi # modprobe sg cdrecord might automatically load the "sg" module. As a cd-rom, the cd-writer can be mounted as /dev/scd0 (or the infamous /dev/sr0). You might also need to add the following to your /etc/lilo.conf (not sure; I use gr

Re: exim and envelope sender

2000-12-22 Thread Balbir Thomas
Apologies I think I misunderstood johns statement . So much for the perils of learning ! regards Balbir Thomas On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:23:58PM -0600, Jon Pennington wrote: > Balbir Thomas wrote: > > > > Excuse me if this is a gross misunderstanding, but dselect does not allow > > the install

Re: What is the file name of the ps2 mouse driver?

2000-12-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Dec 2000, John Foster wrote: > I need the name of the ps2 mouse driver file. I am having difficulty > with a new install. The mouse works in X but not on the console. I set > up the XF86Setup configs with the same setting I used for gpm, & X works > fine. Xterm does not. I do not see any driv

Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-12-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:49:42 +1000, Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >README.Debian exists in the package(s) which have made substainial changes >to how the package operates. If it exists it contains important information >that the maintainer wanted you to read. However, Debian's apache com

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-12-22 Thread Xucaen
--- Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I recently switched from RedHat 6.2 to potato > and my cdrom seems to have the following > problems : > Most of the time I get errors like : > > hdb: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy } > hdb: ATAPI reset complete > isn't the CD ROM drive sup

Re: exim and envelope sender

2000-12-22 Thread Jon Pennington
Balbir Thomas wrote: > > Excuse me if this is a gross misunderstanding, but dselect does not allow the > installation of Sendmail and exim togeather and reports a conflict between > the two. Why would this be ? Why (and how) would you intend to install two MTAs on one machine? Exim is a replac

Unidentified subject!

2000-12-22 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, I recently switched from RedHat 6.2 to potato and my cdrom seems to have the following problems : Most of the time I get errors like : hdb: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy } hdb: ATAPI reset complete Sometimes I also get errors like : attempt to access beyond end of device 03:40: rw=0, wa

Debian 2.2 and ISDN

2000-12-22 Thread Felix Natter
hi, I just tried to set up isdn exactly the way Marcus Jodorf described in his mail a few months ago (configure modules, create config files with isdnconfig and edit them). at bootup I get the following isdn-messages: Dec 16 20:07:53 couchpotato kernel: ISDN subsystem Rev: 1.100/1.84/1.114/1.63

Re: "Choppy" sound - Woody, 2.4.0-test11 kernel, xmms & esd

2000-12-22 Thread Michael Smith
FWIW, Usually when the sound skips like that, there's a problem with the dma or irq setup on the board itself when you loaded the module. That's the angle that I would take. -- It's a shame that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs.

Re: downgrade from Woody to Potato - Yes, I too wish you would explain....

2000-12-22 Thread Stephan Engelke
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 11:48:58AM -0500 wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > YES, writing up a quickie install method would be greatly appreciated. > HOW about a quickie on installing from source, like CDROM #4 of the > 6 CD Debian package. It is supposed to contain all the source for binary > disc #1.

Re: exim and envelope sender

2000-12-22 Thread Balbir Thomas
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:23:19AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Robert Epprecht writes: > > I have recently changed to debian which implied a change from sendmail to > > exim. > > No, exim just happens to be the MTA that is installed by default. Sendmail > is in Debian, as are several others. > --

Re: exim and envelope sender

2000-12-22 Thread Robert Epprecht
ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 08:43:43AM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: > > How do I convince exim to set the envelope sender to > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ? > > > At the bottom of /etc/exim.conf in the "REWRITE CONFIGURATION" > section comment out what is ther

Re: interesting xmcd conundrum

2000-12-22 Thread Michael A. Miller
Did you find a solution to this problem yet? I've had the same thing happen to me and haven't been able to sort it out either. Mike

Re: Still cannot get off list

2000-12-22 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Rob VanFleet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 08:41:39AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > Before you write to the list on this topic please try to unsubscribe > > from the list yourself and see what happens. It's really doesn't > > matter what you did "over the last month". Th

Re: downgrade from Woody to Potato - Yes, I too wish you would explain....

2000-12-22 Thread DTi4565459
In a message dated 12/21/00 10:47:18 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:33:54PM +0100, Stephan Engelke wrote: > Johann Spies writes: > > > Replace your libc6 package with the potato version using dpkg -i with > > the --force-depends option. > > Unfortunately th

PowerPC boot disk with USB support????

2000-12-22 Thread Xucaen
Hi all. Does anyone know where I can find a rescue and root disk in hfs format with USB support? I have a friend who is trying to install Debian on his PowerPC. He downloaded the boot-floppy-hfs.img and created the rescue disk from that. It boots up fine but when he gets no response from the keybo

Re: I need a filter for Epson Stylus Color 400

2000-12-22 Thread Jon Pennington
Bob Underwood wrote: > > My Epson Stylus Color 400 installed well during the system installation > process. Just use the Stylus Color I selection as the one specifically for > the > 400 doesn't work. > > If you want, I can send my printcap separately. The least painful method I've found for se

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

2000-12-22 Thread DTi4565459
In a message dated 12/21/00 4:20:05 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << [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 >

Re: Q: Hiding M$ Exchange behind a firewall ?

2000-12-22 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
I can't give you an exact answer, but I can suggest that you run some kind of IDS or packet monitor for a couple of days/weeks, and monitor traffic at each interface. 'snort' would be my number one pick if you don't already have an IDS. Generally, snort isn't used as a packet monitor , but it has

Q: Hiding M$ Exchange behind a firewall ?

2000-12-22 Thread Michael Steiner
Hello to all! What I want to do: Hiding a M$-Exchange-server behind a Debian-based firewall running ipchains (with masqerading) and squid and ???. Here is my special problem. What is the configuration: Through an old little Cisco 1003 router the connection to internet is done. Then I run a Debia

Re: I need a filter for Epson Stylus Color 400

2000-12-22 Thread Bob Underwood
My Epson Stylus Color 400 installed well during the system installation process. Just use the Stylus Color I selection as the one specifically for the 400 doesn't work. If you want, I can send my printcap separately. bob On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Santiago Fernandez wrote: > I need printcap entries

Re: Still cannot get off list

2000-12-22 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 08:41:39AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Before you write to the list on this topic please try to unsubscribe > from the list yourself and see what happens. It's really doesn't > matter what you did "over the last month". The problem seems to have > started this week, and I

Re: stale apt-get mirrors?

2000-12-22 Thread Chris Gray
> will trillich writes: wt> what's the lag on various debian mirror sites? wt> % apt-get update wt> % apt-get upgrade wt> % apt-setup /pick a different mirror/ wt> i'd just switched from ftp-mirror.internap.com to ftp.digex.net wt> if that matt

Pontnet Karácsonyi üdvözlet

2000-12-22 Thread Guzoránné Cserjés Erika
Kedves Partnerünk! Cégünk munkatársai és jómagam nevében ezúton kívánok békés, boldog Karácsonyi Ünnepeket és eredményekben gazdag Új Esztendőt! Guzoránné Cserjés Erika Üzletág igazgató Multinet International Kft. http://www.pontnet.hu PontNet Szakmai Kereső Partnerek és Ügyfelek Interne

Re: swap space and memory

2000-12-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:05:49AM -0800, Denzil Kelly wrote: > > debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > kswapd... > That is a known kernel bug that affected (IIRC) kernels 2.2.12-2.2.16 but is fixed in kernel 2.2.17 and later. 2.2.18 is current and you can grab the sources from f

Re: perl cgi and mysql

2000-12-22 Thread Rob VanFleet
Search on google for 'Perl DBI MySQL'. You might also want to add either 'sample code' or 'tutorial' to that as well. There is a ton of info on the subject if you look for it. -Rob On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:42:29PM -0800, james (home) wrote: > Can anyone point me into the right direction > >

Re: What is the file name of the ps2 mouse driver?

2000-12-22 Thread Rob VanFleet
I think the problem here is gpm being unconfigured, rather than X and it not playing together nicely. Run gpmconfig to configure gpm. /dev/psaux is the device file associated with a ps/2 mouse. Like ktb said, you need to stop gpm before you'll be able to use the mouse in X, so, in essence, you t

Re: Still cannot get off list

2000-12-22 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Rob VanFleet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 02:06:32AM -0800, Dwight Johnson wrote: > > Have you tried to unsubscribe recently? > > > > It is failing at the confirm stage. And listmaster is not on the job to do > > manual unsubscribe. Is there someone besides listmaster we

Re: Still cannot get off list

2000-12-22 Thread Marco Herrn
- Original Message - From: "Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 2:50 PM Subject: Re: Still cannot get off list > Just a wild stab, but could it make a > difference if one subscribes using > a window browser, but in unsubscribing > using a linux's?Dean No

Re: What is the file name of the ps2 mouse driver?

2000-12-22 Thread ktb
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 09:09:29AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > I need the name of the ps2 mouse driver file. I am having difficulty > with a new install. The mouse works in X but not on the console. I set > up the XF86Setup configs with the same setting I used for gpm, & X works > fine. Xterm does

What is the file name of the ps2 mouse driver?

2000-12-22 Thread John Foster
I need the name of the ps2 mouse driver file. I am having difficulty with a new install. The mouse works in X but not on the console. I set up the XF86Setup configs with the same setting I used for gpm, & X works fine. Xterm does not. I do not see any driver listed in /lib/modules/kernelXXX/misc/ f

RE: perl cgi and mysql

2000-12-22 Thread Jason Holland
have you tried DBD-mysql?? > > Can anyone point me into the right direction > > I would appreciate some sample code. > > I have created a database within mysql, its fine, I can get Perl > to talk to > it. > > I need to know how to create the htm and I guess a perl/cgi code > to talk to > the

perl cgi and mysql

2000-12-22 Thread james \(home\)
Can anyone point me into the right direction I would appreciate some sample code. I have created a database within mysql, its fine, I can get Perl to talk to it. I need to know how to create the htm and I guess a perl/cgi code to talk to the database. what I am trying to create is 2 web pages.

Re: Went Debian: Spanish Xkeyboard and other issues

2000-12-22 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 22 Dec 00, at 9:06, Colin Watson wrote: >> The task-spanish package is probably the best place to start. >...snipped > >Many thanks for your help, Colin. > >Task-spanish is supposedly installed, and "Spanish" indicated as >language in all the concerning questions d

Re: Merry Christmas

2000-12-22 Thread J. Reilink
Alex Horsnell wrote: > > To everyone on the list, > > Thank you for all your help and advise this year, I hope you all have a _VERY_ > Merry Christmas and a brilliant Millennium!! > > I look forward to further help and advise in the New Year! > > ;-) > > Alex Hereby I also want to wish everyo

configuring network card solved.

2000-12-22 Thread Xucaen
just FYI for all the newbies who were trying to figure out how to configure the network card. the easiest way I found was to reinstall the whole system. The installation program is very easy to use and sets up all the files. (It is also very easy to miss). I re-reinstalled again lastnight and there

Kernel 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-22 Thread JP Sartre
Hi all.. Just curious if there is something different with the latest test kernel? I was running test10 and decided to try out test12 with a fresh potato -> woody install. I've compiled many kernels, but this latest time I have run into a little snag. Seems my modules do not work. I have done a

Merry Christmas

2000-12-22 Thread Alex Horsnell
To everyone on the list, Thank you for all your help and advise this year, I hope you all have a _VERY_ Merry Christmas and a brilliant Millennium!! I look forward to further help and advise in the New Year! ;-) Alex .

Re: Another Question Re: diskless debian

2000-12-22 Thread Xucaen
--- "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I enabled kernel level auto config, and all the > NFS stuff I could find > in the kernel build (serveral iterations using > xconfig, menuconfig, > config and finally hand hacking the .config > file) couldn't find the > NFS_ROOT option anywhere,

Re: Still cannot get off list

2000-12-22 Thread Dean
Just a wild stab, but could it make a difference if one subscribes using a window browser, but in unsubscribing using a linux's?Dean Dwight Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 02:06:32AM -0800, Dwight Johnson wrote: > > > Have you tried t

excersize

2000-12-22 Thread green_botanik
Is it possible to upgrage distrib (slink -> potato, for example :) without apt-get or other wrapper, but using just dpkg? It look like there is no sufficient control information in dpkg's to split / join packages as requied in such upgrade. Is there anybody who done such useless exeriment? Or someo

Re: lilo

2000-12-22 Thread Dean
Hi Stefaans: Last time I reinstalled windows all I did was use windows fdisk to set my linux root partition as the active partition and lilo was active again. hth Dean Stefaans Mostert wrote: > > Jason Holland wrote: > > > > check out mkboot. its a pretty sweet way to create a boot floppy i

TEAC CD-W512E (DOES it work ???)

2000-12-22 Thread Serge Gavrilov
Hello! Does anybody know: is TEAC CD-W512E works with linux? Thanks a lot !!! Please, reply me directly, because I am not subscribed to this list. -- Serge Gavrilov

Re: exim and envelope sender

2000-12-22 Thread ktb
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 08:43:43AM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Hi, I have recently changed to debian which implied a change from > sendmail to exim. Now I'm not able to send mail to a couple of > mailing lists any more. With the help of the list admin I think I > found the culprit: > envelop

  1   2   >