Re: X window too big

thanks, this helped some, but hasn't resolved the whole problem : In a message dated 1/4/2001 10:22:57 PM US Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << >From a xterm run xwininfo and click on the main window, this will give you the resolution that it is running at. Try ctrl-alt-numpad

Re: 2.4 kernel release

> >Well, it's up to the release manager (and possibly debian-devel, but >straw polls on mailing lists don't really count for very much), not even >remotely debian-user. :) Remember that every Debian release has a hell >of a lot of new stuff - potato was a year and a half after slink, apart >from an

Re: Kmail stopped working, "Unexpected response from POP3 server"

Bart Szyszka wrote: > > Hi, > > I have to use Windows right now because Kmail has stopped > functioning. When I go to check my e-mail, it gives me "Internal > Error" followed by a line about submitting a bug report, then a > line that says "Unexpected response from POP3 server". It > keeps on doi

Re: 2.4 kernel release

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>I'm hardly an expert.. but wasn't 3.0 waiting for the 3.0 kernel? > >I had not heard that they where tracking kernel numbers but >it would make sense to do it that way. No, kernel versions have nothing to do with it, and I dou

Re: 2.4 kernel release

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have no idea where it will go first but I would think we should see >it in Woody in the pretty near future. I imagine so. (It will go into unstable first, like everything else.) You can always build it from source, which a lot of people end up doing with kernels anywa

Re: Best ways to secure POP/SMTP on server?

andreas palsson wrote: > I am most worried about SMTP, in which there seems to be no(?) actual > password-verification. that i think is one of the best things about SMTP, no passwords to sniff > > Does anyone have encountered a similar situation? > Suggestions on what to do? What to read? insta

Re: Network Throughput

On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:36:15AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > Could you please give me an URL, where this is defined? > I searched the SI units but it does not mention any difference between > MB and Mb. > Phil > I don't know where this is defined, but this is a consistency I've noticed as w

Re: howto tell cron run last day of month

How about something like: if [ $(date -d tomorrow +%m) == $(date +%m) ] ; then echo "Not the end of the month" else echo "End of the month" fi HTH, your pal dave -- Dave Thayer Denver, Colorado USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Multimedia Performance Solved

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:16:52AM -0800, David Steinberg wrote: > > A few days ago, I installed potato, and things were again not so good. I > > applied the IDE patch and compiled a kernel, and things improved, but > > they're not as good as they were

Re: 2.4 kernel release

I had not heard that they where tracking kernel numbers but it would make sense to do it that way. -- Original Message -- From: John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:26:51 +1100 >At 08:13 PM 1/4/2001 -0700, Ray Percival wrote: >>I ha

Re: 2.4 kernel release

At 08:13 PM 1/4/2001 -0700, Ray Percival wrote: >I have no idea where it will go first but I would think we should >see it in Woody in the pretty near future. No the next version >of Potato will be 2.2r3. Won't get a new version number till >Woody goes stable. IMHO Woody should be 3.0 think about i

Re: X window too big

>From a xterm run xwininfo and click on the main window, this will give you the resolution that it is running at. Try ctrl-alt-numpad- till you get to the resolution that you want to be at. Odds are it will still look bad not to worry. From the xterm run xvidtune click OK on the scary message. Cli

Re: 2.4 kernel release

I have no idea where it will go first but I would think we should see it in Woody in the pretty near future. No the next version of Potato will be 2.2r3. Won't get a new version number till Woody goes stable. IMHO Woody should be 3.0 think about it a new major version of X and a new major version o

Installing potatoe on a sparc server

Hey people, need urgent help   trying to install debian on 3 of our sparcserver10's here, and the installation part is fine but when it goes to reboot, it wont boot, comes up with error at a certain byte of the hdd   but if i change the hard disk parititoning byte changes, leading me to belei

X window too big

> In the default screen I got after installing debian2.2r2, the screen is >huge. Actually it is just >four times the size of my monitor screen and I have to >move around the whole X screen using the mouse. So >when I open a new window, I have to look around the >other 3/4 of the screen to see

Re: AGH! Hard disc faults!

on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:56:43PM +, Matthew Sackman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Please help someone, and quickly!! > > I have found that on my root drive (which is /dev/hdb4), I have a read > fault on block 131077. This is disrupting the boot sequence, and > putting a whole load of file sy

Re: pump, dhcp question

Quoting Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 05:04:41PM -0600, Bill Bell wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have a box which is using mostly woody and I have a quesiton > > about using pump as a DHCP client. Documentation for pump is > > scarce, perhaps because functionali

2.4 kernel release

With slashdot trumpeting the release of the 2.4 kernel i was wonderng if anyone can tell me where it will fit in the debian plan? Will it go into "testing" or be put off into the broader Unstable? or can it slot stright into the next Potato 2.2r3? (or would that be potato 2.4?) Cheers John

Re: Packages list.

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:24:07AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a quick way to rebuild the Packages file under the binary-i386 > tree? In other words, I would like to download the files I want for > Debian to put on one CD, like KDE 2, netscape 4.76? In other words, is > there an ea

unsubsribe

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 7:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #29 > > << Message: >> << Message: Need bandwidth usage tool >> > << Message: Re: FYI: using

Re: Network Throughput

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:02:49PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > I guess you are mixing up MBit and MByte. > > Phil > You too, it is Mb for megabit and MB for megabyte. > Same for kB = kiloByte. > > Please do not use silly shorts, like > mb = milibit

Re: Converting .mp3 to .cdr

Brad Keryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 4 Jan 2001, Douglas Bates wrote: > > > I would like to convert some mp3 files to the .cdr format for writing > > an audio CD. The CD-Writing-HOWTO recommends using mpg123 as in > > mpg123 --cdr -s track1.mp3 > track1.cdr > > but the version of mpg123

Re: font-lock, xemacs, latex

Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Giulio Morgan wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:06:49AM -0500, Giulio Morgan wrote: > > > > > At some point during upgrades, I have lost font-locking capability > > > for LaTeX > > >Further investigation led me to add

Re: Converting .mp3 to .cdr

On 4 Jan 2001, Douglas Bates wrote: > I would like to convert some mp3 files to the .cdr format for writing > an audio CD. The CD-Writing-HOWTO recommends using mpg123 as in > mpg123 --cdr -s track1.mp3 > track1.cdr > but the version of mpg123 in mpg123_0.59q-2_i386.deb does not accept > the opt

Re: [debian-user] Scrolling the mouse wheel of Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer (again) in Corel Linux 1.2

Hi! >--[Marco Herrn]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'd like to have it, too. I can't get the wheel to work at all - the funny > > thing is, when I do something like "cat /dev/psaux/ | od -tc", it starts > > printing characters for moving the mouse or clicking the buttons, but not > > for moving the wh

Best ways to secure POP/SMTP on server?

Hello. I have a server connected to the internet, and I wonder how I can secure my box in a good way. I have plans to set up POP3 and SMTP for my users to connect and use the services from anywhere they may be. But I also realize that by doing that, my system could be misused by other people th

Converting .mp3 to .cdr

I would like to convert some mp3 files to the .cdr format for writing an audio CD. The CD-Writing-HOWTO recommends using mpg123 as in mpg123 --cdr -s track1.mp3 > track1.cdr but the version of mpg123 in mpg123_0.59q-2_i386.deb does not accept the option --cdr, as far as I can tell. I would appre

Re: pump, dhcp question

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 05:04:41PM -0600, Bill Bell wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a box which is using mostly woody and I have a quesiton about using > pump > as a DHCP client. Documentation for pump is scarce, perhaps because > functionality is limited. > > How do I run a script each time p

pump, dhcp question

Hello all, I have a box which is using mostly woody and I have a quesiton about using pump as a DHCP client. Documentation for pump is scarce, perhaps because functionality is limited. How do I run a script each time pump refreshes it's information? I would like to continue using pump,(it is

wvdial for normal user

In order to set a ppp connection as a normal user I have had myself in the dip group (for pppd) and in dialout for my /dev/ttySx. Is this safe ? Now it works but I obtain this $ wvdial provider ... --> PPP negotiation detected. --> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets: Permission den

Re: Many install questions

For your USB question, I've compiled a 2.2.18 kernel on my debian potato in order to use a USB mouse (and a internel trackpoint in the same time). First I can tell you that it works really good. I'm able to hot-plug and hot-unplug the mouse and that's a good point for a laptop. There's already USB

Re: kernel is using 50M of memory

brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 12:44:27PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I was looking at the memory usage (gmemusage, and /proc/meminfo), > > and I was noticing that 'linux' was using nearly 50m of memory. I > > was rather disturbed, and wonde

Boot stops at "aec671x_detect:"

Hello, I recently installed kernel-image-2.2.17 and kernel-image-2.2.18pre21 and added the required lines to my /etc/lilo.conf. When I boot however, the system stops with the line aec671x_detect: as the last line displayed. Is there any possibility (without compiling my own kernel) of telling

AGH! Hard disc faults!

Please help someone, and quickly!! I have found that on my root drive (which is /dev/hdb4), I have a read fault on block 131077. This is disrupting the boot sequence, and putting a whole load of file system errors on other file systems. I have run through with fsck and it reports a : Error readi

UPDATE: Problems running commercial app

Hi everyone, a little while ago I reported I was having problems with running a commercial app. This app was netscape console. The setup program was segfaulting. Well after a few headaches etc I eventually got to looking at rpm files. I remove the old libtermcap and libc5 that were from deb file

Re: Need bandwidth usage tool

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Daniel Lesage wrote: > My provider enforces a bandwidth limitation (5G download, 1G upload) per > month above which they will charge me extra. > > I would like your recommendations as to which program I should run on my > potato masquerading box to keep track of upload and do

Re: [slightly OT] book recomendations?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:11:11PM -0500, Mike wrote: > Mithras wrote: > > I'm also looking for a book, a late Xmas gift for my dad who's been > > getting into Linux. I'm confident he has enough newbie literature to > > help him when I'm not around (I

Re: OT - Virus?

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:08:24AM -0800, Michael Smith wrote: > > I second this. I mean, come on, if you can read the script, you can tell at > > least a little of what it does, and it doesn't sound too good. I guess > > this is > > one of the volunt

Re: X window too big

On 4 Jan, Hall Stevenson wrote: >> In the default screen I got after installing debian2.2r2, >> the screen is huge. Actually it is just four times the >> size of my monitor screen and I have to move around >> the whole X screen using the mouse. So >> when I open a new window, I have to look aroun

Re: Network Throughput

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: > > > I have a Debian box with 2 NICs. Both 100Meg, running in full duplex. This > > machine is running as a ftp proxy. As part of the traffic going through the > > box, some streams have 1

Re: nis (yp) and large group files.

> We use nis to distribute access rights across a group of servers we use > for central functions. The majority of files (around 1,000,000) belong > to a central user and we need a lot of people to be able to modify these > files, this means a large group file. If more than a certain number (or > i

Re: su to root won't use the $LANG.. why?

Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:26:53PM +0100, Kent Nyberg wrote: > > When i su to root, then root wont use the LANG variable. > > Well.. the LANG isn't passed on from the normal user.. > > How could i make it so that su will use that.. > > im not sure why su resets that, proba

Re: FYI: using logitech cordless keyboard extra keys in X4

# I left the mute key out, as I haven't found a way yet to actually toggle # it on and off (I know you can mute it with amixer set Master mute and # unmute with amixer set Master unmute, but you'd need an extra script to # have it toggling between those values). Here's a quick script to make mute-

Need bandwidth usage tool

My provider enforces a bandwidth limitation (5G download, 1G upload) per month above which they will charge me extra. I would like your recommendations as to which program I should run on my potato masquerading box to keep track of upload and download totals. I've looked at both mrtg and iptraf,

woody broke tex?

these things always seem to happen right before a presentation... i have a definition for vectors: \renewcommand{\v}[1]{\ensuremath{{\bf\vec{#1 just recently, i found this produced vectors with a ~ symbol instead of the familiar vector symbol. previously, this macro always gave me n

FYI: using logitech cordless keyboard extra keys in X4

Hi, Maybe this is interesting for people with a Logitech Itouch or Cordless keyboard that is equipped with a dozen extra keys for controlling audio and internet related things. I'm using a cordless keyboard, XFree86 4.01 and the sawfish window manager (debian unstable). First step is to configure

Re: chroot II: What's wrong?

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:59:02 +0100, R. M. Lampert wrote: >ROOT # chroot /bin/ /ls -l >chroot: cannot execute /ls: No such file or directory The libraries used by the binaries you want to run in the chroot-ed environment need to be in there as well. HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine

Re: SCSI challenge

Which Advansys card do you have? In any case, this page could help. good luck, Andrew Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 17:50:35 -0800, David S. Bach wrote: >It's really nice to get X up with Debian. It really can be done in

Re: font-lock, xemacs, latex

Giulio Morgan wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:06:49AM -0500, Giulio Morgan wrote: > > > At some point during upgrades, I have lost font-locking capability > > for LaTeX >Further investigation led me to add > (if window-system >(require 'font-latex)) > to my

[repost] kernel-package problem?

Hello. Some days ago I've posted a message about kernel-packagee not cleaning the modules tree properly. Since then, I've also found a bug filed against alsa-source complaining about the same behavior. The problem is: should make-kpkg run "debian/rules clean" in those dirs or should it run "make

Re: Quick questions

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04.01.01 06:49]wrote: > > I was wondering, could you get a base Debian system installed by > downloading from /dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/: > > base2_2.tgz > images-1.44/rescue.bin > images-1.44/root.bin > > Then install the rest of the system

chroot II: What's wrong?

Hi! First of all: Thanks for your patience and thanks for your pointers for help. chroot() may not be the ultimate solution for running servers safely, but it seems to raise the bar for crackers quite effectively. For those who are interested: I found quite exactly what I was looking for o

Re: formatting new partition

To quote john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # It seems formatting can be done with 'mkfs' - most of the manpage # is (hopefully!) clear, but I have seen no guidance on what block # sizes would be appropriate or what the advantages/disadvantages # of different ones are. 512 and 8192 may well be the e

Problems compiling alsa for 2.4 kernel

Hello. I've compiled alsa (0.5.10) for my kernel (test13-pre7) without problems. ThenI installed alsa-base, alsaconf and the modules: alsa-modules-2.4.0-test13-pre7_0.5.10-2+p0+2_i386.deb And ran alsaconf. Everything seems to work until alsaconf (or I) try to start alsa: # /etc/init.d/alsa st

Re: i810 compatible?

Marcello Mezzanotti wrote: > > Jon Pennington wrote: > > > > Marcello Mezzanotti wrote: > > > > > > Is i810 compatible with xfree potato? > > > 'cause i compiled 2.2.18 kernel (with i810 module (acitved) suport) > > > but x doesnt display a i810 driver in setup > > > > You'd be a lot better off to

Re: X window too big

> In the default screen I got after installing debian2.2r2, > the screen is huge. Actually it is just four times the > size of my monitor screen and I have to move around > the whole X screen using the mouse. So > when I open a new window, I have to look around the > other 3/4 of the screen to see

Re: init dying with NFS root

I noticed the same problem. Linux 2.2.13 works, while 2.2.17 or higher does not. I installed 2.2.16 or 2.2.15 (I dont remember), and it works. Good luck Stefano Curtarolo On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Tim Bell wrote: > I wrote: > > > I'm trying to set up a Beowulf cluster using NFS root for booting,

Re: i810 compatible?

Jon Pennington wrote: > > Marcello Mezzanotti wrote: > > > > Is i810 compatible with xfree potato? > > 'cause i compiled 2.2.18 kernel (with i810 module (acitved) suport) > > but x doesnt display a i810 driver in setup > > You'd be a lot better off to get the Potato XFree86 4.0.1 packages. > 3.3.

Re: back to stable

Knud =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8rensen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"David B. Harris" wrote: >> To quote Knud Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> # apt-get got over 40 packets to install including X windows 4.0 >> >> Not surprising. gnome-db is even now developmental software; it would >> require lots of ne

X window too big

thanks for all the help with the mouse and video card configuration. In the default screen I got after installing debian2.2r2, the screen is huge. Actually it is just four times the size of my monitor screen and I have to move around the whole X screen using the mouse. So when I open a new w

Re: i810 compatible?

Marcello Mezzanotti wrote: > > Is i810 compatible with xfree potato? > 'cause i compiled 2.2.18 kernel (with i810 module (acitved) suport) > but x doesnt display a i810 driver in setup You'd be a lot better off to get the Potato XFree86 4.0.1 packages. 3.3.6 and this chip don't play nicely toget

Re: alsa software mixing

Is this not a case of hardware mixing? ymfpci has a hardware mixer, and if alsa supports that, then audio streams should be mixed by the sound hardware itself. Of course, I could be entirely wrong. I don't know much about how hardware/software mixers interact, relate, or collide. I really don't

formatting new partition

I've created a 200Mb Linux partition to house various downloaded files I intend to make accessible to a number of distros while I continue to test out ideas and learn. Having only dial-up modem access, this will let me save on 'phone charges (i.e. not d/loading the same thing into different distro

ALSA with AWE64: help

Hi, I've had sound and MIDI working great on my box for the longest time with just the plain, non-alsa sound stuff (the OSS drivers?), and then I installed a package which also required the alsa-base package. Since then I haven't been able to use MIDI, and I suspect the digital audio I get is sti

i810 compatible?

Is i810 compatible with xfree potato? 'cause i compiled 2.2.18 kernel (with i810 module (acitved) suport) but x doesnt display a i810 driver in setup -- ++-+ | Marcello Mezzanotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Amiga 1200/18Mb

Re: RES: Modem [Re: hardware]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Rodrigo S. de Castro wrote: > > Eu tenho o Speedy (256k) com a Terra e funciona super bem, esqueci de citar que eu uso ISDN. []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails

how to remove bad inodes after fsck?

Hi, I can't remove some files left in /lost+found from fsck after a bad crash: # ls -lR /lost+found/ /lost+found/: total 1723224935 sr-sr-sr--1 27814525884294967295 Feb 11 1943 #4624 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Dec 29 14:43 #67082 /lost+found/#67082: total 1723224934

Re: Is there a nice graphical front end available for gpg or pgp ?

-- Start of PGP signed section. > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:34:04PM +, Sam Vilain wrote: > > > I am looking for a graphical front end for gpg and or pgp. Possibly qt or > > > gtk > > > based. Is geheimnis packaged already ? > > > > Check out the GnuPG home page at http://www.gnupg.org/, it

Re: Parallel Printer Port Problem

G'Day ! Well at least the laptop now sees the printer ... that is probably the hard part.  I think you now have to read the Printing-HOWTO very carefully, and make sure your permissions are correct (always bite me in the past  ;-) Are you able to print anythng on the printer (ASCII text perhaps)

Re: [slightly OT] book recomendations?

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all,, there have been some mentions of books > on the list, but nothing definitive... > can anyone recomend a good system > administration/network administration book? An addition to the other good recommendations you've received. _Unix_Backup_&_Recovery_ b

Re: back to stable

To quote Knud Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # That what i have tried to but some of the packets # pre or post remove scripts fails! # # So, is the any way to remove a packet without running them. ? Not that I know of, off the top of my head. 'man dpkg' to check for sure. Dave

Re: back to stable

"David B. Harris" wrote: > > To quote Knud Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # apt-get got over 40 packets to install including X windows 4.0 > > Not surprising. gnome-db is even now developmental software; it would > require lots of new GNOME stuff : > > # 1) So, How do I return to stable ?? > >

Re: Kmail stopped working, "Unexpected response from POP3 server"

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:49:35AM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > > use fetchmail to fetch your mail and deliver it to your local MTA > > which delivers it to your local mail spool. then have kmail just use > > that instead of using pop3 itself. perhaps not the solution your > > looking for but its

Re: Packages list.

To quote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # # Is there a quick way to rebuild the Packages file under the binary-i386 # tree? In other words, I would like to download the files I want for # Debian to put on one CD, like KDE 2, netscape 4.76? In other words, is # there an easy way to make a custom CD for Deb

Re: Kmail stopped working, "Unexpected response from POP3 server"

> What's that "because..." > There are dozens of options for retrieving and reading mail in Linux > .. not only kmail > Monolithic (all-in-one) and gui-solutions are sylpheed, xfmail, > pronto...IIRC I've tried tons of these options and when I use them I'd feel like I'd be using more of a workaro

Re: Box refusing connections after changing to static IP?

-> I have a box I've set up at work as a CVS server, to accept CVS and -> SSH connections, mostly from Windows boxes on an internal network. -> Well, I installed Debian 2.2 stable on it and set it up to use DHCP to -> get it's IP, got CVS and SSH working, everything was fine. -> -> However, I was

Re: back to stable

To quote Knud Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # apt-get got over 40 packets to install including X windows 4.0 Not surprising. gnome-db is even now developmental software; it would require lots of new GNOME stuff : # 1) So, How do I return to stable ?? You remove each and every one of those 40 pac

Re: XDM startup screen

To quote Koen Colpaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # After some experimenting with Suse, Slackware and Mandrake I turned to # Debian. After installing and configuring X I was presented with a grey # xdm-display as a loginscreen. I was wondering if there aren't any better # background images available and

Re: Parallel Printer Port Problem

Well, it's still doesn't work. I've added an options line in the /etc/modules.conf file specifying io=0x378 dma=3 irq=7. With lp reloaded, I see in the /proc/parport/0 that these options are set and that my printer is being seen. The syslog shows the following: Jan 4 07:36:20 localhost kern

Re: Upgrade to Xfree version4

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:44:25AM -0600, Jon Pennington wrote: > Until a) glibc2.2 makes it into Woody again or [snip] glibc2.2 is in woody. It got moved in a few days ago. X4 and Perl are apparently holding back a large share of other apps from moving into testing/woody. -Rob

Re: su to root won't use the $LANG.. why?

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:26:53PM +0100, Kent Nyberg wrote: > When i su to root, then root wont use the LANG variable. > Well.. the LANG isn't passed on from the normal user.. > How could i make it so that su will use that.. > > Sorry.. i cant describe it better, hope you understand! >

Re: xinetd, tcpd (tcpwrappers), twist

-> Greetings friends. Perhaps someone here can help me. (BTW -- a CC -> would sure be nice, if you reply. :) -> -> I am trying to build a short and sweet http redirector using the -> twist function from hosts_options(5). I did this before, with ftp, -> and inetd. Trouble is, now I am using a machi

Fonts in browsers

Why is it that fonts (both truetype and not) show up fine in Netscape 4x and Mozilla, but in Opera or Konqueror, all fonts are the same for each page: a terribly ugly and badly scaled one for large text, and the same Helvetica-ish for regular content text, regardless of what the page specifies? Ap

Re: su to root won't use the $LANG.. why?

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:26:53PM +0100, Kent Nyberg wrote: > When i su to root, then root wont use the LANG variable. > Well.. the LANG isn't passed on from the normal user.. > How could i make it so that su will use that.. > > Sorry.. i cant describe it better, hope you understand! from "man

Re: Kmail stopped working, "Unexpected response from POP3 server"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Bart" == Bart Szyszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bart> Hi, I have to use Windows right now because Kmail has stopped Gulp! What's that "because..." There are dozens of options for retrieving and reading mail in Linux ... not only kmail M

Re: Kmail stopped working, "Unexpected response from POP3 server"

> use fetchmail to fetch your mail and deliver it to your local MTA > which delivers it to your local mail spool. then have kmail just use > that instead of using pop3 itself. perhaps not the solution your > looking for but its far better then using MS Outhouse. Why would I need to do that? Is Km

Re: XF86Config for X version4.xx

Timothy Walsh wrote: > > Hi all, > > Is there a preferred Debian tool (if any) for configuring > the XF86Config file? I read that XF86Setup has been > abandoned upstream and doesnt support version 4 synatax. Try: $ deXter# debian tool $ XFree86 -configure# preferred, non-int

Re: clock-chip autoprobe problems

Tom Schuetz wrote: > > Using xf86config, when I run the autoprobe for a clock chip line, the screen > blanks, then comes back with an 'autoprobe call failed' error line. Why? Do you know for a fact that you need a clockchip setting? If you don't know this for a fact, you should NOT be probing

Re: Upgrade to Xfree version4

Alan Langman wrote: > > Hi, > > How does one upgrade the version 3.3.6 XFree86 with version 4. I am > running the woody distro. Until a) glibc2.2 makes it into Woody again or b) Branden builds the debs against glibc2.1, your only hope is to use the debs made for Potato. The 4.0.1 debs for Potat

clock-chip autoprobe problems

Using xf86config, when I run the autoprobe for a clock chip line, the screen blanks, then comes back with an 'autoprobe call failed' error line. Meanwhile, X will kind of start, but all I get is a blue screen and an immobile pointer. Is there a line I can just insert in a config file? Is my clo

Re: su to root won't use the $LANG.. why?

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:26:53PM +0100, Kent Nyberg wrote: > When i su to root, then root wont use the LANG variable. > Well.. the LANG isn't passed on from the normal user.. > How could i make it so that su will use that.. im not sure why su resets that, probably some security reason. i woul

Re: mouse configuration

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, David B.Harris wrote: > This thread about mouse configuration got me to try to get 'gpm' and X > co-operating again, and I was successful this time. Let me explain my > setup. Thanks to everyone that replied! The key for me was hearing about "gpm". I can't recall all the com

tekram dc-390/t SCSI adapter

__ I am trying to install Debian 2.2 on my hp c3010 harddrive using a tekram dc-390/t SCSI adapter. if I use the 1.44 boot disk images (linux 2.2.18) i allways get an error "invalid command interrupt... kernel panic no recovery". However i have discovered that ftp.tekram.com

Re: changing timezone?

Forrest English wrote: > > rebooting doesn't do the trick for me. > > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 07:11:54 +0100, NiColAs Karageuzian said: > > > Okay, this sounds like a recent problem i had, timezone doesn't set as you > > described it in /etc/timezone untill you restart your system, that's how it > >

Upgrade to Xfree version4

Hi, How does one upgrade the version 3.3.6 XFree86 with version 4. I am running the woody distro. Thanks, Alan

Sendmail

Hello people. A wonderfull millenium to you all. I have installed sendmail to function as a internal mail server for my intranet. I think sendmail rejects mail for the internet by default. I do want to reject mail sent to the internet but I want to send a error message to the sender. If someone k

su to root won't use the $LANG.. why?

When i su to root, then root wont use the LANG variable. Well.. the LANG isn't passed on from the normal user.. How could i make it so that su will use that.. Sorry.. i cant describe it better, hope you understand!

Re: Kmail stopped working, "Unexpected response from POP3 server"

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:22:14AM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > Hi, > > I have to use Windows right now because Kmail has stopped > functioning. When I go to check my e-mail, it gives me "Internal > Error" followed by a line about submitting a bug report, then a > line that says "Unexpected respon

Packages list.

Is there a quick way to rebuild the Packages file under the binary-i386 tree? In other words, I would like to download the files I want for Debian to put on one CD, like KDE 2, netscape 4.76? In other words, is there an easy way to make a custom CD for Debian, or do you have to go through the or

Kmail stopped working, "Unexpected response from POP3 server"

Hi, I have to use Windows right now because Kmail has stopped functioning. When I go to check my e-mail, it gives me "Internal Error" followed by a line about submitting a bug report, then a line that says "Unexpected response from POP3 server". It keeps on doing this on the second message, no mat

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