Re: Perl 5.6 and potato

2001-01-24 Thread Matthew Dalton
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:39:49PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > > > The alternatives system probably takes care of it. /usr/bin/perl is > > probably a symlink to /etc/alternatives/perl, which is in turn a symlink > > to

Re: Lilo problem

2001-01-24 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 02:13:22PM -0800, Omar Shuja Siddiqui wrote: > hi > i have installed linux many times but there is just > one problem that i am facing, that is writing lilo to > the mbr. every time the installation is successful the > lio prompt does not show up when the pc reboots , but >

Re: Perl 5.6 and potato

2001-01-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:39:49PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > mike polniak wrote: > > > > Arcady Genkin wrote: > > > I'd like to install Perl 5.6, without upgrading potato's default > > > 5.005. Do you think that if I installed Perl 5.6 under /usr/local and > > > renamed the executable to per

Re: xinitrc isn't being read??

2001-01-24 Thread Xucaen
--- Casey Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > xdm runs .xsessionrc, startx runs .xinitrc > I created ~/.xsession and added the line xsetroot -solid "#2f4f4f" and it didn't work. I then added # !/bin/sh to the first line and that didn't work I then created ~/.xsession and added the line xsetroot

Re: How to determins total system up-time.

2001-01-24 Thread John Galt
uptime it's format is: locutus:/etc# uptime 10:35pm up 5 days, 17:50, 4 users, load average: 0.46, 0.12, 0.04 which says locutus has been up for 5 days, 17 hours, and 50 min as of 10:35 pm MST 1/24/01 (I added the timezone and date information from other sources...) On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Sc

Re: xinitrc isn't being read??

2001-01-24 Thread Casey Webster
xdm runs .xsessionrc, startx runs .xinitrc -casey On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all. > I added xsetroot -solid "#2f4f4f" to > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc but nothing happened. > > I deleted it from xinitrc and added it to > /etc/X11/xdm/xsetup_0 and it worked. > > is there any reason why

xinitrc isn't being read??

2001-01-24 Thread Xucaen
Hi all. I added xsetroot -solid "#2f4f4f" to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc but nothing happened. I deleted it from xinitrc and added it to /etc/X11/xdm/xsetup_0 and it worked. is there any reason why xinitrc isn't read when X starts using xdm? thanks!! xucaen ___

Re: my maxed out memory - still ok?

2001-01-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Ken Weingold wrote: > > Here you go. Does this still look okay? This is with Webtrends > running a lot of profiles. > > 6:56pm up 1 day, 1:02, 2 users, load average: 0.22, 0.30, 0.21 > 56 processes: 52 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 0.1% user, 8.7% system, 74.6%

Re: Still no Konqueror kookies w/o KDE running in Sid

2001-01-24 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Steve Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I'm up to the KDE 2.1-beta2-2 binaries and Konqueror still ignores cookies # unless the KDE environment is running. # # Should I clear out my KDE settings or is it just not fixed yet? Is it # definitely reported as a bug to kde.org? I've already rep

Re: Perl 5.6 and potato

2001-01-24 Thread Matthew Dalton
mike polniak wrote: > > Arcady Genkin wrote: > > I'd like to install Perl 5.6, without upgrading potato's default > > 5.005. Do you think that if I installed Perl 5.6 under /usr/local and > > renamed the executable to perl-5.6 for instance there would be any > > issues with using it or it interfe

Re: Kernel Error ?

2001-01-24 Thread Matthew Dalton
> Jorge wrote: > > Last day linux gives me this error: > > Unable to handle kernel null pointer dereference at virtual adress > 0024 current tss.cr3 = 2d6c5000, %cr3 = 2d6c5000 *pde = > > and after that hungs up. > > This Linux has kernel 2.2.15 with 2 GB RAM and 1GB Swap. Try updat

Still no Konqueror kookies w/o KDE running in Sid

2001-01-24 Thread Steve Cooper
I'm up to the KDE 2.1-beta2-2 binaries and Konqueror still ignores cookies unless the KDE environment is running. Should I clear out my KDE settings or is it just not fixed yet? Is it definitely reported as a bug to kde.org? Thanks, Steve --

Re: Perl 5.6 and potato

2001-01-24 Thread mike polniak
Arcady Genkin wrote: > I'd like to install Perl 5.6, without upgrading potato's default > 5.005. Do you think that if I installed Perl 5.6 under /usr/local and > renamed the executable to perl-5.6 for instance there would be any > issues with using it or it interfering with Debian's vital utilitie

Re: smp-debian, tulip

2001-01-24 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
"Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 For (sic) Intel x86...etc" Ch8 sec 8.5. I did it. Use menuconfig. I must have screwed up somewhere though, because my tulip driver for FA3/TX doesn't load. -- daveA (debian.user)

Perl 5.6 and potato

2001-01-24 Thread Arcady Genkin
I'd like to install Perl 5.6, without upgrading potato's default 5.005. Do you think that if I installed Perl 5.6 under /usr/local and renamed the executable to perl-5.6 for instance there would be any issues with using it or it interfering with Debian's vital utilities? I'm just starting out wit

fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-24 Thread Stefan Srdic
I'm trying to get my cd-burner working under Debian 2.2. I've configured my system so that the ide-scsi module is loaded at boot time and I've also added the "hdd=ide-scsi" parameters to my LILO configuration. I know that the module is loaded and functional because I can see the following when rea

what is '=20' at end of line in Mutt?

2001-01-24 Thread mike polniak
In some messages i am getting '=20' at the end of lines. Anyone know what generates this? Here's what it looks like in my Mutt pager: > >=20 > > I was looking at /etc/init.d/devpts.sh. In the 2.2.x kernel docs, recomm= > ends > > adding an appropriate line to /etc/fstab. However, Debian

Re: Console question (2x)

2001-01-24 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:06:50PM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:42:56PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > > > > 1. I have heard that its possible to run console in multiple resolutions. > > How do I do this in debian, specifically? > > > > 2. How can I have more console windows than the d

Re: Console question (2x)

2001-01-24 Thread RAccess
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, ktb wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:42:56PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > > > > 1. I have heard that its possible to run console in multiple resolutions. > > How do I do this in debian, specifically? > > > > 2. How can I have more console windows than the default 6? I want to bu

Re: How to determins total system up-time.

2001-01-24 Thread RAccess
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Scott E. Graves wrote: > I would like to know where to find how long the server has been running > (Days, Hours, Minutes) > > Thanks, > Scott > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Type 'up

need a lilo.conf which does not mess up existing linux / partition

2001-01-24 Thread James Sinnamon
Dear Debian users, WhenI ran lilo yesterday, it somehow change an existing (Mandrake) linux root partition and made it unworkable. For some reason modprobe went looking for /lib/modules/2.2.18pre2.1 instead of /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/ so my Mandrake root partition became unworkable

Re: problem playing audio CD's

2001-01-24 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hi Philipp, Did u log out, and back in? This typically takes care of that. And btw, I just read through more of this string and I really like changing the group to cdrom and then just adding yourself and whoever else will use the cdrom - it's much more sanitary then adding yourself to disk.

Re: Console question (2x)

2001-01-24 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:42:56PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > > 1. I have heard that its possible to run console in multiple resolutions. > How do I do this in debian, specifically? > > 2. How can I have more console windows than the default 6? I want to bump > up tty7 and above used for X. Also, wh

Re: Lilo problem

2001-01-24 Thread RAccess
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Omar Shuja Siddiqui wrote: > hi > i have installed linux many times but there is just > one problem that i am facing, that is writing lilo to > the mbr. every time the installation is successful the > lio prompt does not show up when the pc reboots , but > it only comes up wi

Re: Netscape Woes

2001-01-24 Thread kmself
on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:51:45PM -0600, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:12:22AM -0500, Howell Caton wrote: > > > > As a complete newbie, I had to install linux 2.2 several times before I got > > all the kinks worked out. Each time I downloaded netscape 2.76 from > >

Re: FVWM menus and colors

2001-01-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Richard Cobbe wrote: ... about fvwm default setting etc... > I didn't like the debian defaults much either, but I wanted to keep the > automatically-generated menus. So, in my post.hook, I created a *new* > top-level menu, which contains the Debian automatic menu system as one of > its choices, an

Xmodmap broken after 2.4 upgrade

2001-01-24 Thread Christopher R. Barry
I just upgraded my kernel to 2.4 and a number of funny things have happened, the presently most annoying of which being that my .Xmodmap doesn't work anymore. This is my .Xmodmap file: - !!! Mods that reduce Emacs-pinky clear Control clear Mod4 keysym Control_R = F1 keysym Menu =

Re: strange permissions once more

2001-01-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:45:17AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > hi, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/www/mysql/data/eyecandy# ls -la > total 4139667614 > drwx--2 mysqlroot 4096 Jan 19 02:13 . > drwxrwx--- 55 mysqlroot 4096 Jan 22 11:39 .. > -rw-rw1 mysqlro

Re: FVWM menus and colors

2001-01-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, January 24, Erik Steffl did write: > Xucaen wrote: > > what is auto-generation? where is the program > > called update-menus(is it a program??), how do I > > yes, that's it, to find a program: > > which program > locate program > find / -name program -print This ass

Re: How to determins total system up-time.

2001-01-24 Thread mike polniak
Scott E. Graves wrote: > I would like to know where to find how long the server has been running > (Days, Hours, Minutes) run $ uptime -- ~~~

How to determins total system up-time.

2001-01-24 Thread Scott E. Graves
I would like to know where to find how long the server has been running (Days, Hours, Minutes) Thanks, Scott

Can exim redirect all mail?

2001-01-24 Thread Paul Schulz
Greetings, I have registered an account with NameSecure, and they offered a service where any email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] was redirected to another email address rather than bouncing. I'm arranging a permanent IP address, and would like to have the same functionality with email sent to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Galeon

2001-01-24 Thread Oki DZ
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, I read yesterday about the following line: deb ftp://galeon.sourceforge.net/pub/galeon/nightly/debian galeon/ and installed galeon by source (apt-get -b source galeon) in a potato system with mozilla M18 from potato too.

Re: Console question (2x)

2001-01-24 Thread David B . Harris
To quote RAccess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # 1. I have heard that its possible to run console in multiple resolutions. # How do I do this in debian, specifically? One way is to compile framebuffer support into your kernel. Read /path/to/linux/source/Documentation/fb/* . Probably vesafb.txt . # 2. How

Re: change background color of X?

2001-01-24 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:12:18PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all.. > what changes the background color of X? > I don't even know what to look up in man for > this. > I just wanted to change the background from the > default gray to something else.. > What window manager are you using? That would

Re: Small Fonts in Netscape

2001-01-24 Thread Tom Pfeifer
There's a couple of HOWTOs on fonts that helped me. Both of them have a section on Netscape: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/index.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO.html Tom Joshua Kruck wrote: > > Hello, > Does anyone have this same problem? I run my monitor at 1600x1200,

Re: Console question (2x)

2001-01-24 Thread hogan
> 1. I have heard that its possible to run console in multiple resolutions. > How do I do this in debian, specifically? Add/Change the "vga" line in lilo.conf to say "extended" (will give you 80x50 columns) man lilo for more information where it should go

Re: change background color of X?

2001-01-24 Thread mike polniak
Xucaen wrote: > Hi all.. > what changes the background color of X? > I don't even know what to look up in man for > this. man xsetroot -- ~~~

strange permissions once more

2001-01-24 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/www/mysql/data/eyecandy# ls -la total 4139667614 drwx--2 mysqlroot 4096 Jan 19 02:13 . drwxrwx--- 55 mysqlroot 4096 Jan 22 11:39 .. -rw-rw1 mysqlroot 398 Jan 11 03:35 admin.ISD c---r-xr-t1 8736 13358 99, 79

Re: change background color of X?

2001-01-24 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Xucaen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010124 19:14]: > Hi all.. > what changes the background color of X? > I don't even know what to look up in man for > this. > I just wanted to change the background from the > default gray to something else.. "the default gray" ?? Are you talking about the screen where

Re: Ip Aliasing the Debian Way...

2001-01-24 Thread Willy Lee
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:24:16PM -0800, Willy Lee wrote: > > Hm. This doesn't work for me (latest potato i386). Here's the stanza I *snip* > Well. Several things: > > 1) There's no point in tracking RX or TX packets for a virtual > interface (think about the word v

Re: my maxed out memory - still ok?

2001-01-24 Thread Casey Webster
any time you are lookin at memory usage, you need to subtract out the totals for buff and cache. Right now your system is only using roughly 169 megs, thats far from maxing out half a gig of ram. Linux will take al your 'free' memory and fill it up with stuff that will improve the performance of

Re: X Mouse - 911 call

2001-01-24 Thread Mike
How about killing the HTML next time? hammack wrote: > My PS/2 mouse is connected to COM2 (in W95), I have tried /dev/ttyS0,1,and > 2 with no success. > Section "Pointer" >Protocol"PS/2" >Device "/dev/psaux" These two lines are where you're going wrong. If the mouse is

Re: Small Fonts in Netscape

2001-01-24 Thread kmself
on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:51:20AM -0600, Joshua Kruck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > Does anyone have this same problem? I run my monitor at 1600x1200, so i > know my text is going to be small. But some stuff is really tiny, i have > always had this problem. Is there anything i can do/ fon

Re: FVWM menus and colors

2001-01-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Xucaen wrote: > > Hi all.. > does anyone else use fvwm? I was just playing you bet! > with some configs and while reading the docs > about adding to the menu, it says: > > "The menu auto-generation stuff puts the > generated menus in this system-wide file. As any > edits the system administr

change background color of X?

2001-01-24 Thread Xucaen
Hi all.. what changes the background color of X? I don't even know what to look up in man for this. I just wanted to change the background from the default gray to something else.. thanks!! xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things

Re: internet connection sharing

2001-01-24 Thread Xucaen
Hi. I use ipchains to share pppwith the network. here's the syntax for ipchains that I use: # first, deny all IP's ipchains -P forward DENY # now, allow individual addresses access. # I do each machine individually # the '/24' means this is a class C network ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.2/

Re: internet connection sharing

2001-01-24 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, David B.Harris wrote: > To quote Omar Shuja Siddiqui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # i have recently installed a network of to Linux boxes. > # one of them is a working dial up machine. i want to > # share the internet connection with the other Linux box > # also. please tell me what

RE: ftp and passwords

2001-01-24 Thread Jason Mogavero
> quite true. what i was really suggesting is make them use passwords > 20 times more obfuscated then you would normally enforce on a ssh/scp I remember my newbie days in college, when our local UNIX admin has such a draconian password filter installed it took me 30 minutes to successfully change

my maxed out memory - still ok?

2001-01-24 Thread Ken Weingold
Here you go. Does this still look okay? This is with Webtrends running a lot of profiles. 6:56pm up 1 day, 1:02, 2 users, load average: 0.22, 0.30, 0.21 56 processes: 52 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.1% user, 8.7% system, 74.6% nice, 16.4% idle Mem: 517500K av

Re: Ip Aliasing the Debian Way...

2001-01-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:24:16PM -0800, Willy Lee 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 > > network 192.168.0.0 > > broadcast 192.168.0.255 > >

Console question (2x)

2001-01-24 Thread RAccess
1. I have heard that its possible to run console in multiple resolutions. How do I do this in debian, specifically? 2. How can I have more console windows than the default 6? I want to bump up tty7 and above used for X. Also, what happens if I want more terminals than 12? There are only 12 functi

playing .mov files in a browser (quicktime) possible?

2001-01-24 Thread jdls
Greetings!     I would like to know if I can somehow play quicktime files  (.mov) embedded in a browser and just plain .mov files in linux.   Thanks for any info.

Re: how to forward a mail including attachments AND add comments

2001-01-24 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:22:50PM +0100, Martin W?rtele wrote: > hi, > > how can i forward a mail including attachments to an address and add some > comments with mutt > > hitting f for forward only forwards the text, but allows comments > hitting b for bounce doesn't give me a chance to add com

Re: dist-upgrade for unstable

2001-01-24 Thread Jens Gecius
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jens, > > I think this is a pretty normal trend. I updated from stable kde to > unstable and looked 'wide eyed' at my apt as it removed everything > that was kde and starting pulling down the unstable... Well, actually it was only about to u

Re: Ip Aliasing the Debian Way...

2001-01-24 Thread Willy Lee
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 > network 192.168.0.0 > broadcast 192.168.0.255 > gateway 192.168.0.10 > > th

FVWM menus and colors

2001-01-24 Thread Xucaen
Hi all.. does anyone else use fvwm? I was just playing with some configs and while reading the docs about adding to the menu, it says: "The menu auto-generation stuff puts the generated menus in this system-wide file. As any edits the system administrator makes to this file will be lost the nex

Re: Running fetchmail at login time

2001-01-24 Thread Mike
Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > I want to run fetchmail as a daemon each time I log in but I don't want to > do it manually.Is bash_profile the apropiate place to launch it from? How > can I prevent it form being launched several times if I login at several > consoles? Here's how I do it. First, I w

lpr(ng) not filtering through enscript for remote printer

2001-01-24 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi, Normally, with magicfilter installed, printing out a .c file will give a two collumned small font sized landscape printout, because it uses enscript. If you make a small tst.c and: $ cat tst.c|/etc/magicfilter/ljet4m-filter >~/me.ps $ gv me.ps you will see what I mean (and this works properly

What!?! Strange kernel-compilation situation

2001-01-24 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I got the source for the 2.4.0 kernel, but I'm having some weird problems.  Here the are:   1. The kernel won't compile unless I enable smp (I only have one processor).  If I don't, it gives me errors like "smp_num_cpus             not defined".  Very frustrating   2.   This

Re: Cant create module dependencies

2001-01-24 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Hammurabi Mendes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I was using the default kernel of potato, but after I installed 2.4.0, # I can't build my modules.dep file for this kernel version, even # using "depmod -a". (The system automatically does that in the boot # process too). # In fact, the file is creat

Cant create module dependencies

2001-01-24 Thread Hammurabi Mendes
I was using the default kernel of potato, but after I installed 2.4.0, I can't build my modules.dep file for this kernel version, even using "depmod -a". (The system automatically does that in the boot process too). In fact, the file is created, *empty*. I'm worried because I would need that depend

Re: problem playing audio CD's

2001-01-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:21:58PM +, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for your responses! > I can now access audio-cd's BUT ONLY AS ROOT! > I changed my setting in /dev to this: > > brw-rw 1 rootdisk 3 Oct 29 00:03 /dev/cdrom > ->hdc > brw-rw 1 root

Re: Mutt and POP3

2001-01-24 Thread Hans
Thank you all. I'll remember this for next time. --Hans At 03:45 PM 1/24/01 -0500, you wrote: >> How do I enable POP3 support in Mutt 1.2.5? >> >> I have the source, tried to modify the ./configure >> file, but I still get a -USE_POP when I run mutt -v. >> >> What I modified in the ./configure fil

Re: internet connection sharing

2001-01-24 Thread Janto Trappe
Omar Shuja Siddiqui wrote: > one of them is a working dial up machine. i want to > share the internet connection with the other Linux box You should look at the ipchains / masquerading HOWTO and the ipmasq package. /usr/doc/ www.linuxdoc.org Janto -- Janto Trappe - PGP key available upo

Re: ftp and passwords

2001-01-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:55:54AM -0700, Jason Mogavero wrote: > > Not to pick a nit, but secure passwords aren't even a speedbump if you're > being sniffed. (though they ARE good practice) quite true. what i was really suggesting is make them use passwords 20 times more obfuscated then you wo

Re: internet connection sharing

2001-01-24 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Omar Shuja Siddiqui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: oss> i have recently installed a network of to Linux boxes. oss> one of them is a working dial up machine. i want to oss> share the internet connection with the other Linux box oss> also. please tell me what is the whole procedure for os

Re: internet connection sharing

2001-01-24 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Omar Shuja Siddiqui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # hi # i have recently installed a network of to Linux boxes. # one of them is a working dial up machine. i want to # share the internet connection with the other Linux box # also. please tell me what is the whole procedure for # doing this. There

Lilo problem

2001-01-24 Thread Omar Shuja Siddiqui
hi i have installed linux many times but there is just one problem that i am facing, that is writing lilo to the mbr. every time the installation is successful the lio prompt does not show up when the pc reboots , but it only comes up with the boot floppy. how can i write lilo to the mbr as i dono

internet connection sharing

2001-01-24 Thread Omar Shuja Siddiqui
hi i have recently installed a network of to Linux boxes. one of them is a working dial up machine. i want to share the internet connection with the other Linux box also. please tell me what is the whole procedure for doing this. __ Do You Yahoo!? Y

Re: Package management, involuntary upgrade

2001-01-24 Thread Colin Watson
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i crafted one concerning mostly apt-get, tho it touches on some >of the dpkg features -- it's at > >http://www.eGroups.com/files/newbieDoc/apt-get-intro.html A few comments on that, some on the content, some typographical. From reading through it, it's an

Small Fonts in Netscape

2001-01-24 Thread Joshua Kruck
Hello, Does anyone have this same problem? I run my monitor at 1600x1200, so i know my text is going to be small. But some stuff is really tiny, i have always had this problem. Is there anything i can do/ fonts i forgot to install that would fix this? Thanks Joshua

Re: Installing Debian

2001-01-24 Thread John Hasler
Scott writes: > Once you get PPP running as root, add yourself to the group "dip" so you > need not be root to start PPP. This is done by typing "adduser lute dip". It can also be done in pppconfig. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: problem playing audio CD's

2001-01-24 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hi, thanks for your responses! I can now access audio-cd's BUT ONLY AS ROOT! I changed my setting in /dev to this: brw-rw 1 rootdisk 3 Oct 29 00:03 /dev/cdrom ->hdc brw-rw 1 rootdisk22, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/hdc I added the user (user1) to

Re: Package management, involuntary upgrade

2001-01-24 Thread Colin Watson
Ameurlain Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The documentation people may know more about a howto, but ... >Preparing to replace libc6 2.1.3-10 (using .../libc6_2.2.1-1_i386.deb) ... >Unpacking replacement libc6 ... >Replacing files in old package ldso ... That's fine. ldso isn't needed these da

CUPS with a bjc610 anyone ?

2001-01-24 Thread Olaf Foellinger
Hi, I'm trying to install CUPS (I did it already) and get it to work with a canon bubblejet 610. But all it print's is the ps code not the page I want to print. Does anyone have this working ? Do I need a filter like gs or does cups works alone ? Does anyone have a ppd file for me that works ? Gr

Re: Mutt and POP3

2001-01-24 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:17:46PM +0100, Hans wrote: > How do I enable POP3 support in Mutt 1.2.5? Run ./configure [other options] --enable-pop There is absolutely no reason to touch the configure-script itself. Don't expect too much from the POP support, though. It is widely recommended to use

Re: how to forward a mail including attachments AND add comments

2001-01-24 Thread Martin Würtele
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:24:22PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:22:50PM +0100, Martin Würtele wrote: > > hi, > > > > how can i forward a mail including attachments to an address and add some > > comments with mutt > > > > hitting f for forward only forwards the text

Re: Mutt and POP3

2001-01-24 Thread Hall Stevenson
> How do I enable POP3 support in Mutt 1.2.5? > > I have the source, tried to modify the ./configure > file, but I still get a -USE_POP when I run mutt -v. > > What I modified in the ./configure file was the > following: > > #Defaults > ac_help="ac_help --enable-pop" > > but this was a guess, becau

RE: Mutt and POP3

2001-01-24 Thread Burns, Brad
Title: RE: Mutt and POP3 What you probably want to do is execute the ./configure script with the --enable-pop flag, i.e.: bash$ ./configure --enable-pop > -Original Message- > From: Hans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 3:18 PM > To: debian-user@lists

Re: Postgress installation...

2001-01-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
Andrew Perrin wrote: >First log in as the postgres super-user (generally, username is >postgres) and do: > >psql >create user nacho with password x createdb; > >which will allow user nacho to create databases. But note that the password will be completely ignored unless /etc/post

Re: minicom

2001-01-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:56:06AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: ... > hi. thanks everyone!! minicom is working > beautifully - as root. > umm.. how again do I give a user account access > to ttyS0? (I knew I forgot something.. ;-) # adduser someone dialout -- groetjes, carel

Re: problem playing audio CD's

2001-01-24 Thread Scott Patterson
>On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:49:43PM +, Philipp Bliedung wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm new to the multimedia things under Linux :) >> I have the problem that I can't play audio CD's on my computer. >> I've installed everyhting that's related to sound properly - so I'm able >> to play mp3s, *.wav,et

Re: how to forward a mail including attachments AND add comments

2001-01-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:22:50PM +0100, Martin Würtele wrote: > hi, > > how can i forward a mail including attachments to an address and add some > comments with mutt > > hitting f for forward only forwards the text, but allows comments > hitting b for bounce doesn't give me a chance to add co

Re: Installing Debian

2001-01-24 Thread Scott Patterson
>My brother got me a set of 2.2 release disks, and I would like to install them >on an IBM PC 750. I have tried a couple of times, but am quite new at Linux >and have not been able to get my printer to work, or get online once the >system is installed. I'm sure that it is something that I am doi

Mutt and POP3

2001-01-24 Thread Hans
How do I enable POP3 support in Mutt 1.2.5? I have the source, tried to modify the ./configure file, but I still get a -USE_POP when I run mutt -v. What I modified in the ./configure file was the following: #Defaults ac_help="ac_help --enable-pop" but this was a guess, because I didn't really k

Re: vga8x16 font...

2001-01-24 Thread Rick Loga
More info on xterm fonts from a HOWTO: To use some of the most attractive prompts in the Bash Prompt package, you need to get and install fonts that support the character sets expected by the prompts. These are "VGA Fonts," which support different character sets than regular Xterm fonts. Standa

Re: Installing Debian

2001-01-24 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I assume you use a parallel printer. You have to insmod the modules -parport.o -parport_pc.o -lp.o If all goes well, you should be able to do something like 'cat textfile > /dev/lp0' as root (which works fine for matrix printers, but may give no output on others). You also need to install a

Re: problem playing audio CD's

2001-01-24 Thread Anthony Fox
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:49:43PM +, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to the multimedia things under Linux :) > I have the problem that I can't play audio CD's on my computer. > I've installed everyhting that's related to sound properly - so I'm able > to play mp3s, *.wav,etc. with f

Re: 2-part NIC question

2001-01-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
It is older, but I have used the NE2000 driver succesfully with PCI NE2000 clones (before the ne2k-pci driver existed). It's been a while since I have used 1.3, but I did have problems during an installation of Debian 2.1 in getting the ne2000 driver to work. After installing the base system from

Re: minicom

2001-01-24 Thread Xucaen
--- Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Run as root and run minicom -s. From there you > can change the settings > and save the configuration as default and/or as > hi. thanks everyone!! minicom is working beautifully - as root. umm.. how again do I give a user account access to ttyS0? (I k

Re: PS to HTML?

2001-01-24 Thread Ted Harding
On 24-Jan-01 Dave Sherohman wrote: > BTW, anyone know what's up with pstotext? I ran a PS doc through it > last night and there were a lot of extra spa ces in the outpu t, > including many in mid-word. Is this preventable? [Gurus: please read the speculative bit at the end] No. And there's not

Re: vga8x16 font...

2001-01-24 Thread Brian McGroarty
I know how to select fonts - I was looking for the source of a particular font which existed previously which seems to have vanished. --- Rick Loga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hold the control key and right click your mouse while in an > xterm. That should bring up the font menu for you to choo

Re: kernel problems?!?!

2001-01-24 Thread Christoph Simon
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:03:49 -0200 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I have two webservers running Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 with apache > and resin java servlets (www.caucho.com) handling 500.000 page views. > By two months or so, they worked

Installing Debian

2001-01-24 Thread Lute Mullenix
Hi, My brother got me a set of 2.2 release disks, and I would like to install them on an IBM PC 750. I have tried a couple of times, but am quite new at Linux and have not been able to get my printer to work, or get online once the system is installed. I'm sure that it is something that I am doing

can't convert bind 9.1 documentation to tex

2001-01-24 Thread Martin Maciaszek
I'm trying to convert the arm-documentation from bind 9.1.0 to tex. In the README-SGML is a short description on how to convert it. I adjusted the paths to docbook.dsl and xml.dcl. But Jade just spits out tons of messages like this out: openjade:/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/nwalsh/html/.

Re: Running fetchmail at login time

2001-01-24 Thread D-Man
Yes, use .bash_profile. When you invoke fetchmail, if it is already running as a daemon it will simply wake the daemon process and cause it to check at that time. Then in your .bash_logout file put "fetchmail --kill" to terminate the daemon when you logout. (Unless you want to to run all the ti

kernel problems?!?!

2001-01-24 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have two webservers running Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 with apache and resin java servlets (www.caucho.com) handling 500.000 page views. By two months or so, they worked ok. From a week ago or so, one machine begin to fail with the following message at syslog. Jan 23 1

Re: check for bad RAM program?

2001-01-24 Thread debuser
Thanks. I now see that this program is contained in the hwtools package (in woody). Thanks again, Gerry On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Christoph Simon wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:21:47 -0700 (MST) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Several years ago in Debian there was a program that created a boota

Re: vga8x16 font...

2001-01-24 Thread Hall Stevenson
> What I was looking for was a font for use within X - > specifically, for use in an xterm. > > I found a suitable font as part of the BitchX package, but I > still can't find the original anymore. Most unfortunate. There's some nice fonts here: http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/mudhoney/fonts.html and

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