Re: Debian installer stops before it is finished

2001-01-08 Thread Daegyu Kim
Hi, It is a problem (probably) the most commonly ancountered. The problem is due to X setting which is done differently from the hardware that you have. You need to have detailed spec information especially about horizontal and vertical frequency of your monitor and name of the chipset on your vid

Re: mail client

2001-01-08 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Hello Mutt and kmail2. Mutt I use to send quick mails, and quickly sort through new emails. I save ones I need to think about and usually use kmail2 sometime later to respond etc. 90% of my mail I deal with directly through "mutt". I cannot stress how good mutt is :) Cliff On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at

Re: whoops -subject meant to be software RAID

2001-01-08 Thread John Griffiths
># Would this be worthwhile? How hard is it to set up a software raid? >what do I do? does it matter that i want the whole OS as well as the >data storage mirrored? > >Fairly easy. Read the appropriate HOWTOs are http://www.linuxdoc.org > >Dave > OK.. thanks for pointing me there. so on a debian p

Debian installer stops before it is finished

2001-01-08 Thread sg . au
Hi. I've been trying to install Debian, but have been unsuccessful. I've started over maybe five times (I've lost count). Before last time, the installation was trying to switch to graphics mode but it said the window server (or manager, I don't remember) wasn't responding or something (I negle

ssh problem (woody)

2001-01-08 Thread sena
Hello... After doing an upgrade just now, the new version of ssh (& sshd) is OpenSSH_2.3.0p1. Before the upgrade (done with apt-get), ssh service was working fine. Now, it's not working. I can still login to other machines, but when trying to login here, I get a "Permission denied, please try ag

Re: Problems with Acer CD-RW 8432IA (cont...)

2001-01-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi thanks Jaye ... I've tried quite a few different kernel configurations, including the one in your e-mail. I haven't been able to get this drive working at all under linux or Windows I think it's time to write Acer off as a bad mistake ... Andrew - Original Message - From: "Jaye I

Re: Xfree86 with Intel i810

2001-01-08 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> Does anyone know how to get the i810 driver to configure on Debian |> 2.2r2? I did this a couple of weeks ago on a Dell Optiplex under Debian 2.2r2. Like you, I downloaded the agpgart driver from the Intel site and compiled it locally. I didn't use XFree version 4, just the 3.3.6 which comes

Re: Firewall Rules

2001-01-08 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 01:16:29PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > I have 2 nics in my Linux box. One connected to my cable modem, and > the other has a windows machine attached to it, which I do > masquerading for. I need to be able to connection via VPN from the > windows box to an outside host. Is t

Re: Wishlist project ?

2001-01-08 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 09:36:08PM +0100, Tony Schonfeld wrote: > Good evening, > > With the risk of me repeter I like Debian but it is necessary well to > acknowledge which one has as handicap the fact that when a release comes > out, one is always late of a war compared to redhat and others on t

Re: XDM background

2001-01-08 Thread David Purton
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, COLPAERT, Koen wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Debian without any difficulties but I'm not amused with the > grey loginscreen from XDM. Someone told me to change this using xbanner > but that didn't satisfy me. Another user pointed me to some backgrounds > for XDM at http://x.the

Re: Unable to Install Debian From CD

2001-01-08 Thread sg . au
> On 7 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have run dbootstrap from the Debian CD and installed the base system. > > I've done all the steps up to the point where the system is rebooted. When > > it reboots from a diskette, it runs the first part of the installation (set > > up partition

Re: dirt-level networking

2001-01-08 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 06:30:22PM +0100, tom wrote: > Hey All, > > First, can someone point me to somewhere other than the > ethernet or network howto for info on setting up a home network? > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linag2/book/index.html > I have two boxes, one nic for each, an

Re: whoops -subject meant to be software RAID

2001-01-08 Thread David B . Harris
To quote John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # OK i've built a server to run a Linux/Apache/Mysql/PHP setup on. # # It works pretty well and we're happy with it. But i've statred hearing about Software RAID. Our budget won't run to SCSI or a RAID controller. There are relatively cheap IDE-based R

whoops -subject meant to be software RAID

2001-01-08 Thread John Griffiths
OK i've built a server to run a Linux/Apache/Mysql/PHP setup on. It works pretty well and we're happy with it. But i've statred hearing about Software RAID. Our budget won't run to SCSI or a RAID controller. But we could stick in a second HD on the other IDE controller. Would this be worthwhile

Re: Slow responses

2001-01-08 Thread John Griffiths
OK i've built a server to run a Linux/Apache/Mysql/PHP setup on. It works pretty well and we're happy with it. But i've statred hearing about Software RAID. Our budget won't run to SCSI or a RAID controller. But we could stick in a second HD on the other IDE controller. Would this be worthwhile

Re: startx xterm # by root, not user, causes pointer freeze

2001-01-08 Thread Nate Amsden
S Taylor wrote: > > (touchpad) Pointer Config in XF86Config: > Section "Pointer" > Protocol"GlidePoint" > Device "/dev/mouse" > Port"/dev/mouse" > Buttons 3 > > Where is this pointer freezing up? The > problem _may_ have begun after upgrading >

Re: mail client

2001-01-08 Thread Nate Amsden
Casey Webster wrote: > > Hello, > > I've noticed debian doesnt distribute pine on its package mirrors, and > as i've only really used pine under unix for mail, what mail clients do > you guys use, so i can check them out. > > thanks > -casey i use pine and netscape mostly ..i tried to use mut

Re: Slow responses

2001-01-08 Thread Joey Hess
D-Man wrote: > Just an FYI, it seems that my outgoing mail takes quite a while to > reach the list. (I don't believe it is the list's fault) My message Re the > c++ compiler was sent several hours > ago, but just arrived in my folder. After sending my message I > received the message from othe

Re: alsa software mixing

2001-01-08 Thread Joey Hess
Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > 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. Yep you're right, it is hardware mixing. -- see shy jo

Re: Linux related employment

2001-01-08 Thread Nate Amsden
Ray Percival wrote: > > This is a general question for some of you who may > be lucky enough to be able to use Linux in your > jobs. Besides coding what skillsets would really > set someone apart as a person looking for > a Linux job? I'm currently thinking about what to > start learning next and

Re: Java jdk1.3 on Potato

2001-01-08 Thread Brian May
> "David" == David Shepherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> I solved the problem by using a sym link... ln -s David> /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 David> /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 David> Haven't fully tested the jdk, but java -version now works David> as ex

Re: Debian distribution with free support

2001-01-08 Thread Guilherme Ceschiatti
Hi! I'd recomend Storm Linux (http://www.stormix.com). It's a great distribution based on Debian, with all the packages compatible. The instalation is even simpler than Mandrake or RedHat, and the plug-and-pray device configuration is very easy with SAS. It's a really great product. []s Guilhe

Re: gnome run command

2001-01-08 Thread Jeremy
I gleaned this info from my .blackboxrc file from the default installation of potato. >From the looks of it, there are 2. They are: /usr/bin/gnome-run /usr/bin/grun I know the gnome-run works out of the gnome enviroment. I haven't tried the other. HTH, Jeremy >Hi, > >does anybody know if it

Re: /etc/shadow

2001-01-08 Thread John Hasler
> look at /usr/share/base-passwd/*.master and make sure your passwd files > are consistent, resolve any conflicts by relocating your accounts/groups > to higher uid/gid ranges. Also get rid of your 'ppp' group and put the users who you want to have ppp privileges is the dip group (gid 30). It exi

Linux related employment

2001-01-08 Thread Ray Percival
This is a general question for some of you who may be lucky enough to be able to use Linux in your jobs. Besides coding what skillsets would really set someone apart as a person looking for a Linux job? I'm currently thinking about what to start learning next and thought I'd ask. Sorry if this of

RE: Java jdk1.3 on Potato

2001-01-08 Thread David Shepherd
I solved the problem by using a sym link... ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 Haven't fully tested the jdk, but java -version now works as expected. Thanks for the quick responses. Dave -Original Message- From: David Shepherd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

dazed and confused - pop3 port

2001-01-08 Thread Matt Chipman
Hello list currently i have a nice setup of debian potatoe and trying to add exim as a mail server. I want to check my mail with outlook express/pegasus/whatever via the pop3 port from the windows boxes Initially i had this setup under Red hat and sendmail (before i saw the light and was conver

Problems with Acer CD-RW 8432IA (cont...)

2001-01-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all I tried the command line suggestion of: cdrecord -v -dummy speed=2 dev=0,0 cd_image.raw with no luck ... here's the output from cdrecord if someone can help?!?!? thanks start-- Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C)

Re: mutt mailbox default

2001-01-08 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:07:02PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: | Thanks to everyone who helped me with this!!! It worked fine. | The last question: how can I change the default mail folder? for example | from ~/Mail to ~/mail? | | Thanks in advance! | | ps: I know I should read the documen

Re: Making a bootable LILO floppy

2001-01-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
... I always just use 'mkboot [image]' on my main kernel image, which gives me the same lilo config on the floppy as for the HDD. Andrew -- Andrew McRobert B.Sc.(Comp. Sci.) LL.B LL.M Info. Tech. Liaison Officer School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: + 61 8 9360 6479 Fa

IP spoofing protection

2001-01-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
I sent the following to debian-firewall, but noone reacted, so I try here. = Hai and a jolly new year, I'm in the process of switching from pmfirewall to ipmasq. I've read a lot, and now I'm confused:) I thought rp_filter was supposed to prevent ip spoofing, but ipmasq s

Re: AOL on Linux?

2001-01-08 Thread John Galt
Not yet--there was talk of it, but I've never heard anything else on it... Ask AOL: maybe they dropped it because of one-too-few-requests... On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi everybody, >I'm in position that I can't change my ISP. I would like to know, >whether there is any possib

Re: booting with a floppy disk

2001-01-08 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:48:37PM +, Davide Cavallari wrote: > I really need the image files resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin for debian potato. > I have a set of CDROMs but they are from a computer magazine and don't have > these files!! > Where can I get them? I looked for them in the debian web

Re: color in x apps

2001-01-08 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:30:10PM -0500, Brad Cramer wrote: > could someone tell me hoew to change the default color that is used with > x-apps (i.e. xfontsel, xcolsel, etc...) they are currently darkslategray > background and wheat foreground I would like for a gray background and black > foregro

Re: Whirl logo instead of Tux

2001-01-08 Thread Mircea Luca
Francois Menard wrote: > > Has anybody update the patch that enables the Whirl logo instead of the > Tux logo on boot ? > > -=Francois=- > Yes, it works,but you have to recompile the kernel after you apply the patch for the new logo.

Re: mutt mailbox default

2001-01-08 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Thanks to everyone who helped me with this!!! It worked fine. The last question: how can I change the default mail folder? for example from ~/Mail to ~/mail? Thanks in advance! ps: I know I should read the documentation, but I am quite hurry now... :P On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:26:16AM +0100, C

Re: mutt mailbox default

2001-01-08 Thread Rob Hudson
You could also make a symlink: ln -s /var/spool/mail/myself inbox from your ~/mail dir. > On 20010108.2205, Marcelo Chiapparini said ... > > Hi! > I want to mutt open looking into a given mailbox file, for example > /home/myself/mail/inbox. How can I do it? > > Thanks in advance > > Marcelo >

Re: nis/nfs/automounter

2001-01-08 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Daniel Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Hey, having a problem with my debian box here, was wondering if anyone # has had this problem before. I have made my box an nfs server, and I # have my home directory located on it. I want to be able to automount my # home directory when I log into ano

Need help with XFree86 (fwd)

2001-01-08 Thread Russ Cook
Can anyone offer any advice on this problem? The logs are attached. AGPGART is installed, but the logs indicate there may be a problem. Any help greatly appreciated! Thanks, Russ -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:46:04 -0600 (CST) From: Russ Cook <[EMAIL

Re: When was /dev/gpmdata put into use??

2001-01-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:37:49PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > * Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > In X it's clear from the visual context when the mouse is in > > `cut&paste' mode or in `command' mode. > > Is it? Not in xterms. You're right, it isn't:( > > So I think it

Re: mutt mailbox default

2001-01-08 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:05:37PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I want to mutt open looking into a given mailbox file, for example > /home/myself/mail/inbox. How can I do it? I think you need to change the MAIL_DIR or MAIL_FILE in /etc/logins.defs Phil

Re: mutt mailbox default

2001-01-08 Thread D-Man
Yes, see my other reply. You could put "alias mutt='mutt -f inbox'" in your .bashrc, or better yet put set spoolfile = "~/myinbox" in your .muttrc file. HTH, -D On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:27:42PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: | Thank you! does exist a way to put the option -f into a scrip

Re: Configuration for login prompt

2001-01-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:02:50PM +0100, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > Hi all, > > which file(s) should I look at to solve the following problem: when I > login through ssh, I get a welcome screen, starting with last login, but > also ending with that information, which looks something like thi

Re: mutt mailbox default

2001-01-08 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:27:42PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Thank you! does exist a way to put the option -f into a script file? Read the docos on www.mutt.org (or /usr/doc/mutt I think) and search for spoolfile. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'We do more then just sing and dance

dirt-level networking

2001-01-08 Thread tom
Hey All, First, can someone point me to somewhere other than the ethernet or network howto for info on setting up a home network? I have two boxes, one nic for each, and a crossover cable. plus a dialup modem in one. eventually I'd like my cheapie computer (a bargain 486) to be a firewall, but ju

Re: /etc/shadow

2001-01-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:24:14AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > hi, > > why, when i have the following: > > machine:/etc# ls -la shadow > -rw-r-1 root root 1761 Jan 9 10:34 shadow > > and then i run "passwd" to change my pasword are the permissions changed as > such:

Re: /etc/shadow

2001-01-08 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:24:14AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > why, when i have the following: > > machine:/etc# ls -la shadow > -rw-r-1 root root 1761 Jan 9 10:34 shadow > > and then i run "passwd" to change my pasword are the permissions changed as > such: > > ma

Re: /usr/man vs /usr/share/man

2001-01-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 03:55:14PM -0800, Henry House wrote: > Does anyone know why both /usr/man and /usr/share/man both exist in Debian > systems (woody and potato) and contain different files? we are in the process of converting from /usr/man to /usr/share/man. man maybe shared between machines

Re: mutt mailbox default

2001-01-08 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Thank you! does exist a way to put the option -f into a script file? Marcelo On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:16:06AM +1100, CaT wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:05:37PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hi! > > I want to mutt open looking into a given mailbox file, for example > > /home/myself

Mgetty-fax: Receiving multiple pages.

2001-01-08 Thread Paul Schulz
Greetings, I managed to set up the mgetty and mgetty-fax packages, at it is both sending and receiving faxes straight out of the install.. 1. Install packages 2. To receive faxes, enable mgetty in '/etc/inittab' on the serial line that the faxmodem is attached to.. Sending faxes is with 'fa

Re: mutt mailbox default

2001-01-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:05:37PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > I want to mutt open looking into a given mailbox file, for example > /home/myself/mail/inbox. How can I do it? Just name it on the commandline: $ mutt -f ~/mail/inbox And if that file is part of mutt's default mail fol

Re: Java jdk1.3 on Potato

2001-01-08 Thread D-Man
Do you have the file "libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2" ? (the number at the end is important? If not, you could try creating a symlink to the C++ lib you have but it probably won't run properly (most likely will be binary incompatible). Another solution is to build the jdk against the lib you have (but

Is there an easy way to get back from unstable to testing?

2001-01-08 Thread Stephen Rueger
Hello! I made a silly mistake and did an apt-get upgrade and forgot that my sources.list was pointing to unstable instead of testing. Then I made a even more silly mistake and didn't looked at what apt-get was doing. So now I have an testing/unstable-installation that is really unstable (e.g. fetc

Re: Java jdk1.3 on Potato

2001-01-08 Thread Rick
I got it from sun and it works dandy. it looks like you are missing some libraries. Try installing libstdc++2.10-dev and libc6-dev and any other -dev files you may find a debian.org in the stable packages development section. rick David Shepherd writes: > Just installed jdk1.3 and get the foll

[mc]: Help reproducing a bug

2001-01-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Hi, I have a bugreport stating mc segfaults when a shell command that was started inside mc fails, e.g. because it is not found, it is interrupted, or it crashes. This error only occurs since a few weeks on my system and therefore might be related to kernel-2.4 or recent library updates

Re: mutt mailbox default

2001-01-08 Thread D-Man
You can set the system inbox (spoolfile) in the muttrc file. It's called "spoolfile" : set spoolfile = /home/myself/mail/inbox If it is a one time thing, mutt -f path/to/my/folder will open up any given folder. HTH, -D On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:05:37PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: | Hi

bad problem with pppd

2001-01-08 Thread Davide Cavallari
I've never had problems with pppd, but now I can't log into the Net anymore! I have not changed my conf files. The first time I execute pppd, I get the connection, but the modem hangs in 3 seconds 8^( and this happens with every provider I have tried. The second time I try, I get this messag

Re: didn't do it quite right...

2001-01-08 Thread tom
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:32:26PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote: > I have not been following this thread, but it seems that nobody has > mentioned the excellent debiantool make-kpkg yet. To install a new > kernel I just do: > > 1. cd /usr/src/linux > 2. make menuconfig > 3. make-kpkg kernel-image >

Re: mail client

2001-01-08 Thread D-Man
I use mutt (www.mutt.org). I discovered it not very many weeks ago, but it's the best I've ever found. (I even prefer it to the GUI mailers I've tried). It has very nice mailing list support as well (including sort by threads). For other people, check the "X-Mailer" and "User-Agent" headers on

Re: mail client

2001-01-08 Thread Rick
pine lives in the nonfree because they aren't allowed to distribute modified source code. So they distribute pine and a cool wrapper dealie that does it on your box. Personally, I use mutt at home...it is very nice and it is configurable to use pine-like keybindings so your fingers don't freak o

Re: mutt mailbox default

2001-01-08 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:05:37PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > I want to mutt open looking into a given mailbox file, for example > /home/myself/mail/inbox. How can I do it? All commandline options are under 'mutt --help'. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'We do more then just

Re: mail client

2001-01-08 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:51:21PM -0600, Casey Webster wrote: > Hello, > > I've noticed debian doesnt distribute pine on its package mirrors, and > as i've only really used pine under unix for mail, what mail clients do > you guys use, so i can check them out. > Pine is included as pine4-src

Java jdk1.3 on Potato

2001-01-08 Thread David Shepherd
Just installed jdk1.3 and get the following error when running java -version /usr/local/jdk/jdk1.3/bin/i386/native_threads/java: error in loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Can someone tell me how I can fix this or if jdk1

Re: /usr/man vs /usr/share/man

2001-01-08 Thread Joey Hess
Henry House wrote: > Does anyone know why both /usr/man and /usr/share/man both exist in Debian > systems (woody and potato) and contain different files? Because we're in the middle of a transition from the former to the latter. man currently looks for man pages in both directories. -- see shy j

Re: AOL on Linux?

2001-01-08 Thread Fire Dragon
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:22:07PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm in position that I can't change my ISP. I would like to know, > whether there is any possibility how to run AOL on Linux. Thanks Jiri Some time ago I saw on freshmeat.net a package for running linux using the AOL dialup serv

mutt mailbox default

2001-01-08 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! I want to mutt open looking into a given mailbox file, for example /home/myself/mail/inbox. How can I do it? Thanks in advance Marcelo

/usr/man vs /usr/share/man

2001-01-08 Thread Henry House
Does anyone know why both /usr/man and /usr/share/man both exist in Debian systems (woody and potato) and contain different files? -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpDLimaBf1NS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gnome run command

2001-01-08 Thread D-Man
It used to be gnome-run. I created my own launcher that first ran a script to set the "history" on my RH6.1 system (heavily upgraded) that had Gnome 1.2 on it. (Or maybe only gnome 1.0.55). After I installed RH7 I could no longer find the command and my launch er didn't work. -D On Mon, Jan 0

Re: Xfree 4 and KDE on woody

2001-01-08 Thread Casey Webster
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Sthitaprajna wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:29:57 -0600 (CST) > Casey Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > co xc; cd xc; make World) or if there are .deb's i can get via apt-get. I > > have a friend who tells me that i can apt-get them, but i cannot see them. > > my sou

mail client

2001-01-08 Thread Casey Webster
Hello, I've noticed debian doesnt distribute pine on its package mirrors, and as i've only really used pine under unix for mail, what mail clients do you guys use, so i can check them out. thanks -casey

Re: nis/nfs/automounter

2001-01-08 Thread Casey Webster
i use nis/nfs on my lan and here are the pertinent bits for NFS /etc/exports on the nfs server: /home 192.168.1.100(rw,no_root_squash) /var/spool/mail 192.168.1.100(rw,no_root_squash) /www192.168.1.100(rw,no_root_squash) /etc/fstab on the client: smu

/etc/shadow

2001-01-08 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hi, why, when i have the following: machine:/etc# ls -la shadow -rw-r-1 root root 1761 Jan 9 10:34 shadow and then i run "passwd" to change my pasword are the permissions changed as such: machine:/etc# ls -la shadow -rw-r-1 root ppp 1761 Jan 9 10:34 s

Re: AOL on Linux?

2001-01-08 Thread Jeremy
>* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010108 17:24]: > >> I'm in position that I can't change my ISP. I would like to know, > whether there is any possibility how to run AOL on Linux. Thanks Jiri > >Try "Wine". Setup AOL to use TCP/IP for connection vs dialing itself. Go to >this page http://w

Re: gnome run command

2001-01-08 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:30:02AM +0100, Jona A. Andersen wrote: > gnome-run works for me (potato, fresh out of the box -- well, CD) Well, not here. The command gnome-run does not exist, but still the "built-in" run command works with Alt-F2 or choosing it from the menu. But there seems to b

Re: Debian. Gonna give it a whirl :)

2001-01-08 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 04:19:51PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > David B. Harris writes: > > In North America, local regional calls are free - they don't cost > > anything. > > For me that "local region" is about ten miles in diameter and includes > exactly one (unreliable) ISP. > > > Sure, it took

nis/nfs/automounter

2001-01-08 Thread Daniel Hearn
Hey, having a problem with my debian box here, was wondering if anyone has had this problem before. I have made my box an nfs server, and I have my home directory located on it. I want to be able to automount my home directory when I log into another machine on the network. I am using NIS for au

Re: packages

2001-01-08 Thread Colin Watson
"Antonio A. Lobato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If my sources.list has the single line "deb file:/win/ main" , does the >dpkg find the >deb files within directorys > >main/binary-i386/editors/ >main/binary-i386/x11/ >main/binary-i386/libs/ Yes, as long as the Packages.gz file in /win/ma

Where to put my firewall scripts?

2001-01-08 Thread debuser
I just setup a woody box to act as a masqerading firewall. Where is the most Debian(woody) place to put my firewall configuration script to be run a boot? Thanks, Gerry

Re: gnome run command

2001-01-08 Thread Jona A. Andersen
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:52:12PM +0100, Dr. Guenter Bechly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody know if it is possible to start the built-in run command > (similar to xexec) of the gnome-panel, outside the gnome desktop, e.g. > under icewm. I tried to find the command's name but di

Xfree 4 and KDE on woody

2001-01-08 Thread Casey Webster
Hello, i'm new to debian (and must say that i like it better than any other distro i've used), and i'm hearing people say they are using xfree 4 and kde, and am wondering if i need to install that the old fashioned way (cvs co xc; cd xc; make World) or if there are .deb's i can get via apt-get

gnome run command

2001-01-08 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, does anybody know if it is possible to start the built-in run command (similar to xexec) of the gnome-panel, outside the gnome desktop, e.g. under icewm. I tried to find the command's name but did not succeeed. I also tried to find it out by looking into the process-list, but the start of the

Re: Debian. Gonna give it a whirl :)

2001-01-08 Thread David B . Harris
To quote John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # David B. Harris writes: # > In North America, local regional calls are free - they don't cost # > anything. # # For me that "local region" is about ten miles in diameter and includes # exactly one (unreliable) ISP. # # > Sure, it took ~18 hours for a 64

mid-install problem: after reboot inetd problem

2001-01-08 Thread Cameron Jordan
I've tried to install Debian 2.2 from cd on two different machines (a Cyrix 250 with 128mb ram and a p133 with 80mb ram) and I've got the same problem both times. After installing the base system (installing kernel, choosing modules, configuring network, etc.) and the installer says to reboot, aft

Re: not getting all mail

2001-01-08 Thread cls/cs
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:43:17PM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:27:55AM +, cls/cs wrote: > > > fetchmail told me that i had 317 new messages; but i > > think my system shut off at 200. > > > > 1. how do i set up exim/fetchmail/mutt to give me all > > the mail?

Re: AOL on Linux?

2001-01-08 Thread Hall Stevenson
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010108 17:24]: > I'm in position that I can't change my ISP. I would like to know, Just curious, why can't you possibly change ?? > whether there is any possibility how to run AOL on Linux. Thanks Jiri Try "Wine". Setup AOL to use TCP/IP for connection v

Re: kernel 2.4, modutils requires libc6 2.1.97

2001-01-08 Thread Erich Baur
** Jameson C. Burt wrote on Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 01:33:00AM -0500: ** > Does an upgrade of libc6 from version 2.1.3 to 2.1.97 largely work? > But more, I no longer see libc6 version 2.1.97, so I must go all the > way to libc6 version libc6_2.2-5 in woody. > Oh my, I have heard people having probl

Re: implicit lock in formail

2001-01-08 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello * Marco C . ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi guys!!! > Every time I run fetchmail->procmail->formail, I get this message in > procmail.log: > > procmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from "/usr/bin/formail" > > The only place where I use formail is in .procmailrc, where I put the lin

Re: Command line search and replace

2001-01-08 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:54:34AM +0800, csj wrote: :for i in *.txt ; do mv $i $i.tmp ; sed s/foo/boo/g $i.tmp > $i ; done : :Can anybody comment on this little script? This appears to work, but :may be inefficient. And it's one step removed from what I want, :recursive processing. That is, to

Re: Debian. Gonna give it a whirl :)

2001-01-08 Thread John Hasler
David B. Harris writes: > In North America, local regional calls are free - they don't cost > anything. For me that "local region" is about ten miles in diameter and includes exactly one (unreliable) ISP. > Sure, it took ~18 hours for a 640 meg CD image, but hey, I can just leave > my computer to

Re: When was /dev/gpmdata put into use??

2001-01-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could use an alias like "alias mc='mc -b'", couldn't you:) The > otherway around is impossible without recompilation. BUT... You mean "mc -d". I will add a note about it in README.Debian. I must admit, that I use mc in xterms only, and then I us

IBM Apiva 2144-m51 and the mwave card

2001-01-08 Thread Ernest Tucker
I was reading the incmpatibility list and saw that the mwave card needs to have it firmware loaded before it will work. Does anyone know if this card has drivers that work if it the firmware is loaded and what it takes to load it. I am planning on procuring Debian 2.2 and loading it on my Aptiva

Question: Xfree 4 and startx

2001-01-08 Thread Romain Lerallut
I have installed Xfree 4.0.2 by downloading and dpkg-ing the following .debs, from The Pool: libfreetype6_2.0.1-1.debxserver-common_4.0.2-1_i386.deb xbase-clients_4.0.2-1_i386.deb xserver-xfree86_4.0.2-1_i386.deb xfree86-common_4.0.2-1_all.deb xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb no problem: "XFree86

Re: DSL vs. cable and LAN options

2001-01-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, here is another ATT customer with ATT Cable connected to Debian. I run auth,telnet(Dahh), sshd, exim, httpd accessible from most net but all other ports are blocked by ipchains. If you are worried about ATT scanning, use your providers ip range to block access to open ports. Just plug NNTP

AOL on Linux?

2001-01-08 Thread scud
Hi everybody, I'm in position that I can't change my ISP. I would like to know, whether there is any possibility how to run AOL on Linux. Thanks Jiri K chatování je tu http://www.XChat.cz Založte si svůj mail na http://mail.centrum.cz

Re: Command line search and replace

2001-01-08 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
then do this: for i in `find . -name *.txt` ; do blah ; done and make sure you know what you're doing. cheers, robt csj wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:56:45AM +0800, I wrote: > > Is there a tool to do a search-and-replace from the command line? > > Something along the lines of: > > > >

Re: Command line search and replace

2001-01-08 Thread Christoph Simon
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 00:54:34 +0800 csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:56:45AM +0800, I wrote: > > Is there a tool to do a search-and-replace from the command line? > > Something along the lines of: > > > > replace "string one" "string foo" files-to-process > > sed is it!

Re: Trouble Setting Up DSL

2001-01-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Did you check network configuration by "ifconfig" on Linux? Is it up? Also "route -n"? Can you ping 127.0.0.1? "lsmod"?... Also check your service is PPoE or not as previous poster? Debian, I think, had package for PPoE. Check it out. (This is suspisious one) Good luck. Osamu On Sun, Ja

Re: Command line search and replace

2001-01-08 Thread csj
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:56:45AM +0800, I wrote: > Is there a tool to do a search-and-replace from the command line? > Something along the lines of: > > replace "string one" "string foo" files-to-process sed is it! Thanks to John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, und eechi von

Re: Debian distribution with free support

2001-01-08 Thread Charlie Kroeger
>Someone wrote me an e-mail and included an URL to a seller of >-|"Official" Debian that included free support. That was www.libranet.com They do a debian distro variation for $25, looks interesting, here's a paste from their 'support' page, where the 'debian users' are mentioned. >Support >

Re: undo extraction

2001-01-08 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Chris Gray wrote: > (-print0 is an option for find). Whoops!

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