Re: Firewalls and IP Maskerade

2001-01-17 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:12:33AM -0500, Serge Gibeau wrote: > Hey, > > I am able to access the internet from my linux box. I tried a few sites > with lynx, and they all connected. My /etc/network/interface file has the > following entry when I boot up, which is sufficient to properly confi

Re: Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

2001-01-17 Thread Monte Milanuk
Phillip Deackes wrote: > > I bought a motherboard with the KT133 chipset and AC97 on-board sound. Since > I only had an old SoundBlaster ISA card, and I needed to use the one ISA slot > on the new board for a SCSI scanner card, I decided to give the AC97 chip a > chance. > > Basically I read w

Re: Full System Restore with tar: Reminder!

2001-01-17 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 02:29:09AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Wednesday 17 January 2001 02:16, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > At 16 Jan 2001 13:38:25 +0200 , Kalle Olavi Niemitalo > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about system restores... > > > > > > ...and I'd like to continue t

Re: Security Updates

2001-01-17 Thread John Griffiths
>I have that in my sources.list, however, I've only had one security update >since installing. There are eight updates listed on the homepage with >dates later that 2.2r2's release. Why have I only gotten one? > are you using the updated software?

Re: Security Updates

2001-01-17 Thread RAccess
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > At 09:47 PM 1/17/01 , you wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:36:06PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > > > Is there any way I can "apt-get" the patches for the security updates on > > > Debian.org? Thanks! > > > >Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.li

Re: Security Updates

2001-01-17 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 09:47 PM 1/17/01 , you wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:36:06PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > Is there any way I can "apt-get" the patches for the security updates on > Debian.org? Thanks! Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contr

Re: Security Updates

2001-01-17 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:36:06PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > Is there any way I can "apt-get" the patches for the security updates on > Debian.org? Thanks! > Put this line in your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free Assuming your runn

Re: Security Updates

2001-01-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:36:06PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > Is there any way I can "apt-get" the patches for the security updates on > Debian.org? Thanks! Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY

Re: Security Updates

2001-01-17 Thread Terry Carney
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > Is there any way I can "apt-get" the patches for the security updates on > Debian.org? Thanks! deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free T.J. (Terry) Carney. ---

Security Updates

2001-01-17 Thread Benjamin Pharr
Is there any way I can "apt-get" the patches for the security updates on Debian.org? Thanks! Ben Pharr

Re: environment variables that updatedb uses

2001-01-17 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:52:53PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, ktb wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:30:18PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > > > On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, ktb wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:50:20PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi. I would lik

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-17 Thread Brendan J Simon
* I started off with Slackware in the early days. It was very good. * I got tired of compiling packages from *.tar.gz files. I'd heard all the hype about Red Hat and it's package management system and thought this is the way all systems should work. I installed it and was very impressed (i

Re: Mailbox vulnerable!

2001-01-17 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/sysadmins.html#11.15 11.15 What do I need to know about Pine file locking and what does the "mailbox vulnerable" error mean? Your problem is covered here, I believe. It is probably also covered again and again and again in comp.mail.pine. -nicole At 21:47 on

Re: environment variables that updatedb uses

2001-01-17 Thread RAccess
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, ktb wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:30:18PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, ktb wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:50:20PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi. I would like to know how to use the env variables such as PRUNEFS > > > > and > > >

Mailbox vulnerable!

2001-01-17 Thread RAccess
Hello. I am running exim on my home debian woody. I am using pine as my email client and it shows the following error, whenever it checks the mailbox: [Mailbox Vulnerable - directory /var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection] This is obviously a directory permission problem, and not a pine probl

Re: [OT] sound card recommendations

2001-01-17 Thread Sean
Trident 4D Wave is PCI On Wednesday 17 January 2001 12:57, Lowell Voelker wrote: > How about PCI Cards for the few of us that do have them. > > At 07:22 PM 1/17/01 -0500, Sean wrote: > >Before spending hundreds, I'd look into spending about $50 for a Trident > >4DWave. The ALSA support is great, a

Re: [shellutils on hurd]?

2001-01-17 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:36:31PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >another question regarding `apt-get dist-upgrade`. > > > > > >I have modified my sources.list to point to testing and did `apt-get -s > > >dist

Re: environment variables that updatedb uses

2001-01-17 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:30:18PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, ktb wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:50:20PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > > > > > > Hi. I would like to know how to use the env variables such as PRUNEFS and > > > PRUNEPATHS. They are supposed to be exported from /e

Re: [shellutils on hurd]?

2001-01-17 Thread RAccess
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >another question regarding `apt-get dist-upgrade`. > > > >I have modified my sources.list to point to testing and did `apt-get -s > >dist-upgrade | less`. While looking at the output I see a lot of > >packag

Re: environment variables that updatedb uses

2001-01-17 Thread RAccess
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, ktb wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:50:20PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > > > > Hi. I would like to know how to use the env variables such as PRUNEFS and > > PRUNEPATHS. They are supposed to be exported from /etc/updatedb.conf but > > they never do. updatedb runs without them. A

Re: environment variables that updatedb uses

2001-01-17 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:50:20PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > > Hi. I would like to know how to use the env variables such as PRUNEFS and > PRUNEPATHS. They are supposed to be exported from /etc/updatedb.conf but > they never do. updatedb runs without them. All I have changed so far is > contents of

Re: X/xfstt won't render truetype fonts

2001-01-17 Thread mike polniak
-Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been using true type fonts with xfstt on my slink machine for years > now without troubles. Recently I installed potato on a new machine, > copied the fonts from the old machine into /usr/share/fonts/truetype and > did: > > # /etc/init.d/xfstt st

Re: [shellutils on hurd]?

2001-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >another question regarding `apt-get dist-upgrade`. > >I have modified my sources.list to point to testing and did `apt-get -s >dist-upgrade | less`. While looking at the output I see a lot of >packages marked "[shellutils on hurd]" such as > >---snip---

Re: [OT] sound card recommendations

2001-01-17 Thread Lowell Voelker
How about PCI Cards for the few of us that do have them. At 07:22 PM 1/17/01 -0500, Sean wrote: >Before spending hundreds, I'd look into spending about $50 for a Trident >4DWave. The ALSA support is great, and you can help show your support for a >company that released their hardware specificati

Re: installing very new packages?

2001-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am new to Debian (coming from Mandrake) and I don't yet know how to >do things the "Debian Way" so please excuse my ignorance and naive >questions. I have tried to read the documentation but the packaging >system is difficult for me to understand with all the different p

Re: wterm and .Xdefaults

2001-01-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 05:23:57PM +, Jools Smyth wrote: > today i upgraded some packages (following stable/unstable) i think a > new version of wterm was installed. problem is, it is no longer > following my settings for wterm in my .Xdefaults file. any ideas? rename .Xdefaults to .Xresources

Re: esd auto-start with Gnome?

2001-01-17 Thread Brian May
> "Steve" == Steve R Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> I have this working well enough for my purposes now. I Steve> thought I was missing some entry in a config file Steve> somewhere, that would start up the esound daemon for me. Steve> Not so. The esd has an "auto

Re: esd auto-start with Gnome?

2001-01-17 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Steve R. Hastings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I kludged a solution by copying the .esd-auth file from the first user # to the second user; now either user can use esd when it is started by # the other user. I'm not certain whether this is the correct long-term # solution, but I'm running and

environment variables that updatedb uses

2001-01-17 Thread RAccess
Hi. I would like to know how to use the env variables such as PRUNEFS and PRUNEPATHS. They are supposed to be exported from /etc/updatedb.conf but they never do. updatedb runs without them. All I have changed so far is contents of these variables. I am running testing/woody. Thanks folks. RAcce

Re: dropped out of potato install sequence

2001-01-17 Thread Andrew Wettstein
> I'm not sure how to recover/restart the install, and don't see a > troubleshooting section in the fine manual that covers this contingency. > Running dselect shows a much more detailed package listing than was > displayed during the install dialogs. Is it possible to run a command > to run throu

Re: dropped out of potato install sequence

2001-01-17 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I'm not sure how to recover/restart the install, and don't see a # troubleshooting section in the fine manual that covers this contingency. # Running dselect shows a much more detailed package listing than was # displayed during the install dialogs. Is it

Re: Ip Aliasing the Debian Way...

2001-01-17 Thread Jeffrey C. Albro
I didn't think I could treat eth0:0 as just another interface, but it worked great : ) -Jeff On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > just add something like this to /etc/network/interfaces: > > iface eth0:0 inet static > address 192.168.0.1 > netmask 255.255.255.0 >

esd auto-start with Gnome?

2001-01-17 Thread Steve R. Hastings
I have this working well enough for my purposes now. I thought I was missing some entry in a config file somewhere, that would start up the esound daemon for me. Not so. The esd has an "auto-spawn" feature where it starts up when it is needed, and the Gnome desktop uses that to get it going. As

Re: jdk-runtime from blackdown.org version 1.3 how to install ?

2001-01-17 Thread Andrew Wettstein
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 06:34:08PM +0100, Michael Meding wrote: > Hi all, > > is there a packaged version available somewhere or is there an easy way to > install the needed files ? This is the line you want : deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian woody non-free apt-get install j2re1.3 i think.

Re: [OT] sound card recommendations

2001-01-17 Thread Sean
Before spending hundreds, I'd look into spending about $50 for a Trident 4DWave. The ALSA support is great, and you can help show your support for a company that released their hardware specifications so good Linux drivers could be built. Sean On Wednesday 17 January 2001 11:14, Sebastiaan wro

Re: Matrox + XF4 + 2.4

2001-01-17 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
Hall Stevenson wrote: I have been trying to help my brother set up his new Matrox G450 under debian GNU/Linux. It is their That error message is telling you the problem is with your monitor, *not* the video card. Get the sync and refresh rates for your *exact* monitor, either from the moni

Re: Ip Aliasing the Debian Way...

2001-01-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 06:40:22PM -0500, Jeffrey C. Albro wrote: > > I want eth0 to listen on two ip addresses. The first is normally set up > with /etc/networking/interfaces > > however, neither, > > man interfaces > or > man ifup > > have any information on this. > > Also, even though I g

dropped out of potato install sequence

2001-01-17 Thread Ken Irving
This is probably not a bug, but my careless fingers caused the 2.2r2 installation sequence to bail, leaving me at a login prompt. I'm sending this note in the interest of maybe improving the installation sequence for other clumsy new* users. (* new to Debian; I've used SuSE and RedHat for a few

An easy question... maybe?

2001-01-17 Thread VMS-clstr Sys Mgr
Hello everyone -- I'm writing to the list on the advice of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) (editor of the Debian Weekly Newsletter) because he says he can't think off-hand of anyone in particular I should EMail for advice about my sur- prise Xmas present. Also of course because I'm a Linux newbi

Re: apt-get trouble

2001-01-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:26:20AM -0600, Jorge Santos wrote: > Hello, just wondering if anyone can help me with this problem I've been > having and can't figure out: when I do an apt-get update I get errors > from several different servers, randomly, it seems, here is the stderr > from the `apt-g

Re: gcc: "cannot create executables" (confused now)

2001-01-17 Thread brendon
On Thursday 18 January 2001 00:28, D-Man wrote: > (BTW, I'm assuming you don't know how to program) > > Try pasting the following into a file (call it foo.c) and then run > the command: > > $ gcc foo.c > $ ./a.out > > > /* this is the text to put in a file *

Re: group permissions

2001-01-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:10:02PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Sorry, I didn't make as much sense as I meant to. Basically, I was > wondering if it is possible for the default group permissions to change > on a created file. like: > > I create a file in /var/www called 'test' it is normally: >

Ip Aliasing the Debian Way...

2001-01-17 Thread Jeffrey C. Albro
I want eth0 to listen on two ip addresses. The first is normally set up with /etc/networking/interfaces however, neither, man interfaces or man ifup have any information on this. Also, even though I got it working with ifconfig eth0:0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx It would be ugly (imo) to add to the s

Re: KDE2 and login screen blanking

2001-01-17 Thread David B . Harris
To quote [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dean Allen Provins), # Hello: # # I have KDE2 as the X display manager using an ATI rage128 card, but # cannot get the login screen to blank. # # I've set xset to 10 minutes, but nothing happens at the end of the # interval. 'xset' only works for the current X session

PCMCIA modules and kernel 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Pollywog
Is there a problem with the PCMCIA modules in kernel 2.2.18? I can build the modules for kernel 2.2.16 but not 2.2.18 and I have tried both several times. thanks -- Andrew

Re: gcc: "cannot create executables" (confused now)

2001-01-17 Thread D-Man
(BTW, I'm assuming you don't know how to program) Try pasting the following into a file (call it foo.c) and then run the command: $ gcc foo.c $ ./a.out /* this is the text to put in a file */ #include int main( int argc , char** argv ) { printf

Re: LAMP Question -- Perl AND PHP

2001-01-17 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 04:17:28PM -0600, Robert A. Jacobs wrote: > Running a Debian 2.2r2 system with a little bit of Woodage (nothing > extreme) and still using the 2.2.17pre-* kernel packaged with Potato. > > Am venturing into the world of LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) and > would like to do t

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-17 Thread Mike
Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: > Mike wrote: > > > SCSI emulation support > > Part way through is what you sent, at the end is what I sent. To me this > > particular passage is self-contradictory. At one point it says you can, and > > then goes on to say that you can't. Which portion am I to b

Re: IMAP MUA and filtering

2001-01-17 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:36:48PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: | Yes, Postfix does support .forward files, so this works well (I've just | installed maildrop and things seem to be working). | | I had no idea that mutt supported IMAP folders, so this comes as a very | pleasent surprise. However,

Re: Full System Restore with tar: Reminder!

2001-01-17 Thread kmself
on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 02:29:09AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wednesday 17 January 2001 02:16, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > At 16 Jan 2001 13:38:25 +0200 , Kalle Olavi Niemitalo > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about system restores... > > > > > > ...and I'

Re: Making System Back-Ups

2001-01-17 Thread kmself
on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:42:55AM -0800, Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > hi ya > > "is there a better backup solution" was the posters original question.. > vs tape backup > > -- i think tape backups are too slow, too old and too cumbersome.. > ( my opinion ) Compromise.

KDE2 and login screen blanking

2001-01-17 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hello: I have KDE2 as the X display manager using an ATI rage128 card, but cannot get the login screen to blank. I've set xset to 10 minutes, but nothing happens at the end of the interval. Clearly I'm missing something, probably related to KDE and its login. Ideas or suggestions are most welco

Re: LAMP Question -- Perl AND PHP

2001-01-17 Thread Rob VanFleet
It's been my experience that both have similar performance. For your sanity's sake, I suggest doing the static mod_perl installation, then one you have apache and mod_perl up and running, install php dynamically. Keep in mind that this isn't gospel, just what's worked best for me. You may very we

Re: IMAP MUA and filtering

2001-01-17 Thread Matthew Sackman
Yes, Postfix does support .forward files, so this works well (I've just installed maildrop and things seem to be working). I had no idea that mutt supported IMAP folders, so this comes as a very pleasent surprise. However, when changing folders, it is a little cumbersome to have to type in {hostna

[shellutils on hurd]?

2001-01-17 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello, another question regarding `apt-get dist-upgrade`. I have modified my sources.list to point to testing and did `apt-get -s dist-upgrade | less`. While looking at the output I see a lot of packages marked "[shellutils on hurd]" such as ---snip--- Inst gcc [shellutils on hurd] Inst gettext

gcc: "cannot create executables" (confused now)

2001-01-17 Thread brendon
>when attempting to compile a program i receive the following error message: > >checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) works... no >configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot >create executables. > >when doing a ./configure on licq in /usr/local/src/licq-xx

Re: modules

2001-01-17 Thread Carl Johnson
Please don't reply to an existing message when you are starting a new topic. Some of us use threading mail/news readers, so your message appears as a response to the message titled "Q: SB16 ok-Need load other modules?". I notice that most people who do this are running Micro$oft operating systems

Ignore: gcc: "cannot create executables"

2001-01-17 Thread brendon
ignore the previous mail, for some reason gcc wasnt even installed...

RE: NIC identification

2001-01-17 Thread John Galt
Assuming, of course, that he got the card up, which leads us back to his original problem On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: >eh, won't it show when typing ifconfig with one or more options ? > >-Original Message- >From: Casey Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesd

gcc: "cannot create executables"

2001-01-17 Thread brendon
when attempting to compile a program i receive the following error message: checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables. when doing a ./configure on licq in /usr/local/src/licq- af

Re: Question regarding upgrade potato -> testing

2001-01-17 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
"David B. Harris" wrote: > Look more closely ;) "98 packages upgraded". :) 11 will be newly > installed, but there are 98 upgrades. Seems reasonable if you don't have > a whole lot installed. 'apt-get -u dist-upgrade' will show you all the > packages that will be upgraded, too. Ahh, thank you. T

Re: mail client

2001-01-17 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:58:33PM +0100, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Hello, > > Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > Mutt and kmail2. > > Is kmail from kde2 and kmail2 the same program? I have my sources.list > pointed to potato and tdyc and installed task-kde which installed > kmail. I remember some s

LDAP Userdirectory and Samba

2001-01-17 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
[ Please CC: me on all replys as I am not subscribed to this list. ] I am setting up a LDAP Directory on my school server at the moment where I store user, group, etc information. Has anybody experience with Samba using a LDAP Directory? I saw that there is some code for ldap in 2.0.x and 2.2 CVS,

Re: Setting console keybindings

2001-01-17 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: m> What's about using loadkeys and other keymap-utilities... This sounds promising, but I can't find a package that contains these things, after apt-cache search'ing on loadkeys, keymap, dumpkeys, etc. etc. Any hints? Thanks! --

LAMP Question -- Perl AND PHP

2001-01-17 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
Running a Debian 2.2r2 system with a little bit of Woodage (nothing extreme) and still using the 2.2.17pre-* kernel packaged with Potato. Am venturing into the world of LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) and would like to do the installations from source (for the experience -- so please do not recomme

Re: NIC identification

2001-01-17 Thread John Galt
>From the thinnet connector on it, I'd try ne2k-pci. Hell, what do you have to lose? The netware sitcker also implies ne2k: IIRC the netware sticker meant ne2000 compliance... modprobe ne2k-pci On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, John Griffiths wrote: >OK i've got a NIC that i need to get working. > >its PC

Re: Question regarding upgrade potato -> testing

2001-01-17 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # 98 packages upgraded, 11 newly installed, 2 to remove and 2 not # upgraded. # Need to get 51.6MB of archives. After unpacking 34.8MB will be used. # Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n # Abort.

Re: Mutt and viewing attachments simultaneously

2001-01-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 19:06:30 +, Neil Booth wrote: > I couldn't find anything in the manual apart from auto_view in the muttrc, > but that seems to be about converting non-text to text. That's what displaying attachments "inline" is about. The MIME types you set "auto_view" for will get quo

Re: printing broken in potato install

2001-01-17 Thread mike polniak
> > At bootup, if the printer is on, parport detects the > printer correctly-- see attatched dmesg log-- but when > I try to cat testfile > /dev/lp0 or lp1, bash complains > that no such devices exist. You need the lp module. Do lsmod to see if its loaded. If not try modprobe. I am assumi

Re: NIS /NIS+ problem

2001-01-17 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, Paolo Pedaletti wrote: > Ciao, > I have "inherit" 20 pc client + 1 server RH 6.2 under NIS+. One question first: You have a NIS+ server running Redhat? I wasn't aware, that there is actually a NIS+ server available for Linux. Anyway. > Slowly, I want to switch to Debian 2.2, starting from

X/xfstt won't render truetype fonts

2001-01-17 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi all, I've been using true type fonts with xfstt on my slink machine for years now without troubles. Recently I installed potato on a new machine, copied the fonts from the old machine into /usr/share/fonts/truetype and did: # /etc/init.d/xfstt stop # xfstt --sync # /et

Re: mail client

2001-01-17 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > Mutt and kmail2. Is kmail from kde2 and kmail2 the same program? I have my sources.list pointed to potato and tdyc and installed task-kde which installed kmail. I remember some screenshots though on the kmail homepage that ... looked slicker. I'm also hoping th

Question regarding upgrade potato -> testing

2001-01-17 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi folks, I've learned that woody is now called testing and fairly stable. So I thought, I might give testing a try on my workstation to enjoy things like XF4 and Linux 2.4 as soon as they move from unstable to testing. I have here a potato machine which I just installed from the CD-ROM two days

[pplaw@pcisys.net: fetchmail nameserver failure]

2001-01-17 Thread cls/cs
- Forwarded message from cls/cs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:23:48 + From: cls/cs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: fetchmail nameserver failure Reply-To: cls/cs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Running: debian gnu/linux, versio

fetchmail nameserver failure

2001-01-17 Thread cls/cs
debs, it seems like once a week, my fetchmail gets stuck with an email address it cannot recognize. (i usually then just download the mail with netscape and keep going.) once the error comes up, fetchmail won't download any other messages. attached is the script. ...suggestions? ia, t.

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd?

2001-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Colin Watson wrote: >> csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >From a tip given somewhere on this list, I typed: >> > >> ># apt-get dist-upgrade -s >> > >> >And lo and behold came the following output: >> [...] >> >Inst diff [shellutils on hurd] >> [...]

Re: 386-4 MB startup question

2001-01-17 Thread Daniel Reuter
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:01:40AM -0500, DSC Lithuania wrote: > >From your Debian 2.2 documentation, it looks like 2.2 requires a minimum of > >12 MB of Ram. Right. But there's a work-around. Install some earlier release (e.g. slink (2.1 as far as I remember) and upgrade using: apt-get update a

RE: Good NIC selection?

2001-01-17 Thread Jim
Hi,   I have just installed a REALTEK RTL8029 using the ne2k-pci driver with no problems.   Here is my /proc/pci showing the settings used, but I believe that the IRQ varies with the PCI slot used.   PCI devices found:  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:    Host bridge: Intel 82437VX Triton

Re: Ethernet config

2001-01-17 Thread Lorint Hendschel
Hello, Li Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:07:39PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sicrîheut: > Can you ping from the other machines to your linux machine ? No. > I see you use the 10base T port, does your hub indicate that the > netword card is functioning ? I see no flashing light. > You could also try chang

Re: trn posting problem

2001-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >: Newsgroups: misc.test >: Path: not-for-mail >: From: Blair Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >: Subject: test >: Date: 15 Jan 2001 08:24:19 GMT >: Organization: home >: Lines: 2 >: Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >: Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >: >: Test 1 > >Looking at the "Fr

Re: XF 4.0.2 and glide for v3

2001-01-17 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > Hi - > > I've been trying to configure drm support for my voodoo3 (hence I'm using > xf4 from unstable), and having very little luck. > > I went through all the configuration questions, insmod'd the 3dfx drm > module, and typed startx. this is what I get: > > (II)

RE: IDE CD-RW

2001-01-17 Thread Jim
FYI - I also heard not to put a CD as a slave if you had a HD as the master. The reason I heard was that when the CD was in use the IDE bus would be passing data at the speed of the CD and so slow down the HD data to that same speed. How true this is I am not sure, but it makes a kind of sense. Ji

Re: static vs modules

2001-01-17 Thread Jon Pennington
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:23:49PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Jon Pennington wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:22:43AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > > > > > > --- Jon Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > card. The card started dropping packets and > > > > causi

Re: fetching source/recompiling all my packages

2001-01-17 Thread David B . Harris
To quote [EMAIL PROTECTED], # It might, but if it does, it won't do it cleanly. It's not really # designed for it. # # dpkg -l|awk '{print $2}' # # can't be made part of a script, because dpkg cuts off filenames # after a certain length. So you get things like 'netscape-base-', # 'libstdc++2.10-

Re: nbd & modem

2001-01-17 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:04:29PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone ever use nbd (network block device) to remotely "mount" a > modem (which is supposedly to reside on a server)? Does it work on > kernel 2.4.0? > > Thanks in advance, > Oki 'fraid I cannot help you, but I too am intere

Re: IDE CD-RW

2001-01-17 Thread john gennard
My thanks to Scott Patterson, Kevin C. Smith and Robert Waldner for their responses to my questions on this subject. Hopefully, I shall be able to install the hardware now.John.

Re: fetching source/recompiling all my packages

2001-01-17 Thread elysium
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:51:25PM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:58:03PM -0500, Andreas Boman wrote: > > Does anybody have a nice little script that will download the source, > > recompile and reinstall all my installed packages? > > > > apt-get won't work? > kent > It might

Re: static vs modules

2001-01-17 Thread Sebastiaan
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Jon Pennington wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:22:43AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > > > > --- Jon Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > card. The card started dropping packets and > > > causing collisions under only 50% of what the > > > interface would have been capab

Re: printing broken in potato install

2001-01-17 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, perhaps lp.o is compiled in the kernel. In order to print you need (on an ordinary i386): parport.o parport_pc.o lp.o Try insmodding there three (in this order) and see what it does. Hope it helps, Sebastiaan On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Doug Hespe wrote: > I have just installed potato on a machin

Re: Good NIC selection?

2001-01-17 Thread mike polniak
> remembers some of the settings (and/or jumper settings), I'd like to know > that too. Other > cards we have include: > > NE2000-Compatible with Win95 Settings 0, Int 3, IO #300-31F > NE2000-Compatible with Win95 Settings "Current Config", int #11, #300-31F > 3COM Etherlink XL COMBO 10 MB wi

printing broken in potato install

2001-01-17 Thread Doug Hespe
I have just installed potato on a machine which happily ran slink before. During the install it refused to load the lp module--- >Error installing lp module >/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o:init_module:Device or resource busy >Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including

Re: Soundcard: Aureal Vortex2 SQ2500

2001-01-17 Thread Xucaen
Hi. I have an I/O Magic card that uses the Vortex chip. I haven't installed linux on this machine yet, but a few weeks ago I went searching for the drivers and found them on sourceforge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal/ AFAIK, aureal is being considered for purchase by creative and someon

Re: Soundcard: Aureal Vortex2 SQ2500

2001-01-17 Thread J. Davis
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal I have a vortex2 but I can't confirm the poor performance comment as I've only used it for light duty under linux with the original open sourced drivers many months ago. Now I use es1371 for my linux audio as it is very well supported. I will switch to the vo

Soundcard: Aureal Vortex2 SQ2500

2001-01-17 Thread William Leese
Hi all, at the end of this month i'm planning on buying a new comp. system, this will be part of a small home network and will be running debian and Win98se for an ocassional game which doesnt get released for linux. It seems from several reviews that the Aureal Vortex2 is one of the best soun

Re: static vs modules

2001-01-17 Thread Jon Pennington
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:22:43AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > > --- Jon Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > card. The card started dropping packets and > > causing collisions under only 50% of what the > > interface would have been capable of if it were > > built-in to the kernel. > > I don't

Mutt and viewing attachments simultaneously

2001-01-17 Thread Neil Booth
When I run Mutt and I receive a mail with 3 attachments, I see something like: [-- Attachment #1 --] [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.4K --] [blah blah blah] [-- Attachment #2: test-cpp-if-2.patch --] [-- Type: text/x-patch, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.8K --] [-- text/x-patc

Re: Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

2001-01-17 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:38:49 +0100 Peter Hugosson-Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Monte Milanuk wrote: > > If you still have them, why don't you try to see if those OSS/commercial > drivers > work together with Debian? > > I for one would be _very_ interested to know if that works - it woul

Re: fetching source/recompiling all my packages

2001-01-17 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:58:03PM -0500, Andreas Boman wrote: > Does anybody have a nice little script that will download the source, > recompile and reinstall all my installed packages? > apt-get won't work? kent -- I'd really love ta wana help ya Flanders but... Homer Simpson

Good NIC selection?

2001-01-17 Thread DSC Lithuania
Hi,       We have a windows network and I'm trying to set up a Linux intranet email-server.        Right now, we have in the computer a COMPEX RL2000A-PnP card.  Since there are no jumpers or switches, I think that it is probably automatically Plug-N-Play, which may be a problem.  But may

Re: Fwd: video card suggestions

2001-01-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
The display comes up in the lowest resolution, but the "virtual" size is that of the highest resolution. You can switch resolutions with ctrl-alt- or ctrl-alt-. I typically edit the line to show the highest supported resolution, since I don't find myself using the lower ones. You can also edit t

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