Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread Coronya
System Commander is not a boot manager but if you're considering using it then beware! I lost a ext2 partition because of this program. I wasn't able to know what exactly happened but even superblocks seemed to be damaged. This was the last partition of my harddisk. So if you go on with your idea o

Re: Two Mice and no Cursor

2001-01-25 Thread Brian May
> "Kent" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 25 15:33 gpmdata crw--- 1 root >> root 10, 1 Jul 5 2000 psaux >> Kent> "c" means it's a character device, sending one character of Kent> data at a time, like a mouse or keyboard. "b" is

Re: Two Mice and no Cursor

2001-01-25 Thread Kent West
CORRECTION: Kent West wrote: gpm.conf's "device=" line needs to point to the real mouse device; gpmdata is only a middle-man between gpm and X. If it's a ps/2 style connector, you probably want it to read "device=psaux". For a generic PS/2 mouse, the "type=" line probably needs to read "ty

About Debian documentation

2001-01-25 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
I recently installed Debian 2.2 and I'm reading the documentation provided at debian.org. However, I believe it's a little disorganized (or I didn't knew how to read it), because I can understand many things yet. For example, Why are so many packages from older version of programs. For example X-c

Re: Two Mice and no Cursor

2001-01-25 Thread Kent West
hammack wrote: Long time and still no cursor. I've tried two pointers, Kensington "Expert Mouse" serial, and a PS/2 Generic. I have tried all the combinations of Protocol and Device that I can and still don't have a pointer in X. Below are files and excerpts of interest. Any Help apprecia

Re: ~New~ installation ...

2001-01-25 Thread C-Cose Masters
Greetings, Although I wasn't clear in my original email, the headers ~should~ show the Stormix groups in addition to "debian" lists. Storm Linux ~is~ a debian distribution. Thanks, C. Masters "David B. Harris" wrote: > To quote C-Cose Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # I'm about to re-install Sto

Two Mice and no Cursor

2001-01-25 Thread hammack
Long time and still no cursor.  I've tried two pointers, Kensington "Expert Mouse" serial, and a PS/2 Generic.  I have tried all the combinations of Protocol and Device that I can and still don't have a pointer in X.  Below are files and excerpts of interest.  Any Help appreciated  John   

Dnews in debian

2001-01-25 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
> I just installed Dnews 5.4j in my recently installed Debian 2.2. However > I had to tweak some settings to make it work. Is there any way I can > make a debian package or something to automatize the process. I can > barely make a "program" in bash, and don't understand the package > documentation

Re: [Fwd: ~New~ installation questions]

2001-01-25 Thread David B . Harris
To quote C-Cose Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I'm about to re-install Stormix Hail after several unsuccessful attempts to # install and upgrade the Rain version. I've also invested in VMware, so I will be # completely formatting my HD, and installing W98 as a Guest OS through VM. As # this will be

Re: problem playing audio cd's

2001-01-25 Thread Harry Barnes
Hi, I had the same problem as Phillip. I was advised to add the user to audio and disk ... I have already undone this, after reading the post. My problem is I do not seem to have /dev/cdrom To get gtcd to play I had to change the device from /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc. Looking through the /etc/

Re: Console question (2x)

2001-01-25 Thread ktb
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:25:23PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, ktb wrote: > > > > > I'm running 2.2.17 stock kernel that came with potato and the "vga=ask" > > option works fine. I don't remember ever compiling it into any kernel. > > Course I don't know what the original poster

How can I install VMware inside Debian?

2001-01-25 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
I used VMware without problems inside RH 6.2. Now I just upgraded to Debian 2.2, and I'm looking forward to reinstall my VMware. Is there any guide to how to do this inside debian?. I will try the tar.bz, but maybe there exists some installer like the real-player's one. Thanks for any suggestion.

Problem with spanish characters in terminal

2001-01-25 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
I just installed Debian 2.2, using a spanish keyboard (selected in the installation. If I type some spanish character, like ñ or á, in Netscape or vi, it displays just fine. However, if I type it in console mode, or in a terminal inside X, it just beeps and doesn't show anything. Where could my

Re: Another newbie (problems with installation)

2001-01-25 Thread ktb
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:40:24PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Patrick Klee wrote: > > >> I'm not sure what problem you're describing. > >> > >> If your machine will boot off the CD, don't worry about floppies (except > >> to make a boot floppy near the end of the install for emergency > >> purpose

Re: ntpd not setting time

2001-01-25 Thread hanasaki
Actally that seems to be one of the problems.. . I just found it in the syslog. ntpd -g should take care of this but it doesn't. The time was intentally set to 1999 to test ntpd and see if it is working. Even with the "-g" option I am getting: Jan 1 01:38:38 portal ntpd[841]: time error 286216

KDE2 in Debian testing/unstable not working?

2001-01-25 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, What's the status of KDE2 in testing and unstable? I tried doing an apt-cache search for 'task-kde' in testing and got nothing, but under unstable all I got was task-kde and task-kde-devel. When I did a dist-upgrade from testing to unstable, some X-related packages had unmet dependencies and d

I'm lost without linux.3dfx.com

2001-01-25 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I just got done formatiing/re-installing my computer (various reasons, none important), and I was starting to set up my 3dfx card, but I can't remember how to do the device file, and I can't find it in the 2.4 kernel docs.  I remember it was in a subdirectory, and the file was called

Re: xinitrc isn't being read??

2001-01-25 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:55:45PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 05:41:27 -0800, Eric G . Miller said: > > > > > Actually, I think on Debian at least, one only needs an .xsession file > > for both modes (other distributions are different). At least, it has > > always worked

Re: NIS with shadow passwords

2001-01-25 Thread Rodrigo Morais Araujo
Richard Cobbe wrote: Lo, on Thursday, January 25, Nate Amsden did write: Pedro Pereira wrote: Hi. I have NIS installed and working good on my LAN. But I'd like to install shadow passwords as well. I've tried it, but as I compile the NIS maps, the users aren't no longer able to login :( Cou

[Fwd: ~New~ installation questions]

2001-01-25 Thread C-Cose Masters
--- Begin Message --- Greetings, I'm about to re-install Stormix Hail after several unsuccessful attempts to install and upgrade the Rain version. I've also invested in VMware, so I will be completely formatting my HD, and installing W98 as a Guest OS through VM. As this will be my ?teenth attemp

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:14:06PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Should have checked that I was answering the right question. I've got > a CDR, not RW, on my box. So the 'ro' option makes sense. Might make > writing difficult though for an RW. Nope, I do not think ro is only for CDR. I

Re: Console question (2x)

2001-01-25 Thread RAccess
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, ktb wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:07:48PM -0500, Mike McGuire 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 mor

Re: Console question (2x)

2001-01-25 Thread Coronya
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > Incidentally, X uses the next free tty. So if you have > > > 'getty's up to tty11, X will be on tty12. > > > I was under the impression that X had tty7 hardcoded > > into it (or was that xdm?) > > I don't think it's hard-coded because I've had X run

Re: apt-get install / remove / install looses files

2001-01-25 Thread David B . Harris
To quote hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I did an: # # apt-get install squid # messed some things up # apt-get remove squid # rm /etc/squid.conf since it was left behind # apt-get install squid # # /etc/squid.conf was not installed this time. # # How do i get squid to fully install again? 'dpkg

Re: Debian Newbie

2001-01-25 Thread Brian May
> "kmself" == kmself writes: kmself> OK, just walked through this myself. Most recent Potato kmself> kernel (2.2.17) doesn't appear to have USB support. kmself> I D/L'd the 2.2.18 pre kernel from Woody for my Potato kmself> system. There *is* USB support, though I've no id

Re: ntpd not setting time

2001-01-25 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Jan 01, 1992 at 01:27:39AM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > it is serving the time fine to others but: > it wont set my server's time from another time server > > I have entered "server... " lines into /etc/ntp.conf If your time is too far off, ntpd will not know whether to trust the remote sites

Boot launches X, but after login, get stuck. Still trying....

2001-01-25 Thread DTi4565459
It is a Mitsubishi laptop, so that may be part of the problem. Anyway, when I reboot, the graphical Debian/GNU login screen comes up. I think it must have launched XF86.So when I enter login & password, I get speckled screen with a big X in the middle and a dead mouse. With cont-alt-F2,

apt-get install / remove / install looses files

2001-01-25 Thread hanasaki
I did an: apt-get install squid messed some things up apt-get remove squid rm /etc/squid.conf since it was left behind apt-get install squid /etc/squid.conf was not installed this time. How do i get squid to fully install again?

Re: Debian Newbie

2001-01-25 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:23:42PM +0100, Vittorio De Martino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Il Tuesday 23 January 2001 08:59, kmself@ix.netcom.com ha scritto: > > > > on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:04:30AM +0100, Vittorio De Martino > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I've been using RedHat 6.2 and 7.

Linuxdoc DTD under Potato?

2001-01-25 Thread kmself
I'm trying to parse some LDP SMGL source docs on Potato, but am told by Emacs that DTD LINUXDOC isn't found. Is it generally available for Potato, and as what? Package sgmltools-2 (installed) claims to be the package formerly known as Linuxdoc-SGML. But it doesn't appear to provide the Linuxdoc

Re: Gathering mail from multiple POP servers

2001-01-25 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 06:52:16PM -0500, Samuel Hathaway wrote: > Hello, > > I have been thinking about this for a while, and haven't really found much > comprehensible documentation on it... > > I like to be able to check my mail from several locations. I also have a > bunch of pop mail account

Re: Console question (2x)

2001-01-25 Thread ktb
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:07:48PM -0500, Mike McGuire 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

Re: Installing Debian

2001-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, First of all, this was newbie question of potato install. printtool is not in current released version of potato. (Yes, it was dropped) Thus it is not fit to recommend it to newbie user. Please understand this situation. I understand printtool in woody can be used on debian system with lpr

ntpd not setting time

2001-01-25 Thread hanasaki
it is serving the time fine to others but: it wont set my server's time from another time server I have entered "server... " lines into /etc/ntp.conf

Gathering mail from multiple POP servers

2001-01-25 Thread Samuel Hathaway
Hello, I have been thinking about this for a while, and haven't really found much comprehensible documentation on it... I like to be able to check my mail from several locations. I also have a bunch of pop mail accounts. I want to have my debian box "collect" mail from all of those accounts and p

upgrading to Mozilla 0.7

2001-01-25 Thread Jeroen Valcke
Hello, Recently I use Mozilla a lot, So I would like to keep up, and use the most current version. Mozilla is now at version 0.7 But when I upgrade my system throught dselect it still uses M18. 0.7 has been out for a while now, how long does it usually take before a package is upgraded? Should I up

Re: building pine from debs

2001-01-25 Thread Romain Lerallut
All right, that did it! I had tried direct compilation previously but not with slx, so somewhere it was complaining and I didn't look further into it. Thanks, now I can put mutt back where it belongs and go to bed with a clear conscience :-) PS: I'd _still_ like to know why those debs didn't w

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-25 Thread kmself
on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:06:23AM -0800, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Usually Karsten's comment are correct on this mailing list but this time > I think differently. Should have checked that I was answering the right question. I've got a CDR, not RW, on my box. So the 'ro' o

Re: Installing Debian

2001-01-25 Thread Terry Carney
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Currently printtool is only available in testing/woody. > (Buggy, seems to require lprng, see bug reports for details) It certainly does need lprng. After many unsuccessful attempts to make it work with the stock lpr it occurred to me to try lprng. After

Re: building pine from debs

2001-01-25 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I didn't play with the debs. I just went to: ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/ and downloaded: pine4.32.tar.gz Use: tar -xzvf pine4.32.tar.gz cd pine4.32 ./build slx In a few minutes Pine 4.32 was built!!! As "root" I copied the pine4.32/bin/pine executable to /usr/local/bin and

Re: building pine

2001-01-25 Thread Romain Lerallut
I took a closer look at what gcc says when it's compiling: This does not look good: os.c:1235: conversion to non-scalar type requested os.c:1236: invalid operands to binary == os.c: In function `fset_pos': os.c:1246: incompatible type for argument 2 of `fseek' os.c: In function `post_reap': os.c:1

cpqarray issue

2001-01-25 Thread Eric N. Valor
I've got a Compaq Proliant server with a RAID array upon which I'm trying to load 2.2.r2. I've got a load of 2.2.17 on it already, but because I've been installing and screwing around with stuff I'd like to wipe it and get a clean load. The RAID array is the only HDD system in the box. Pre

SOLVED: Re: ~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
--- "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:20:54PM -0500, David > B. Harris wrote: > > > You know, it *might* be useful to include > your .xsession. > > Just a bit. :) > > The fact that you have one means that it > overrides any system default, no?

Re: KMail + GMX-Mailaccount

2001-01-25 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My mailadress is [EMAIL PROTECTED] POP3 server for incomming mails is > pop.gmx.at. I have no problem with this. But i don't know what i have to > do for a working output. SMPT server is calling mail.gmx.at. but what is > the port? I tried port 25 and no mail was going o

Re: xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:51:55PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls > > aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bitmap ~/new.bmp > > xsetroot: bad bitmap format file: > > /home/xucaen/new.bmp > > [E

Re: ~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:20:54PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: > You know, it *might* be useful to include your .xsession. Just a bit. :) The fact that you have one means that it overrides any system default, no? Are you exec'ing a WM? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: NIS with shadow passwords

2001-01-25 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Nate Amsden wrote: > you can search the www for how to do NIS+ in linux but the process seems > quite involved if your not using a supported distro like SuSE (since i > think > most of the NIS+ development is done by SuSE employees ..) i tried doing > it with debian 2.0 ..and..ended up reinstallin

Re: NIS with shadow passwords

2001-01-25 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, January 25, Nate Amsden did write: > Pedro Pereira wrote: > > > > Hi. > > I have NIS installed and working good on my LAN. > > But I'd like to install shadow passwords as well. > > I've tried it, but as I compile the NIS maps, the users aren't no longer > > able to login :( > > C

Re: SOLVED: Re: ~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, January 25, Pollywog did write: > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:22:51 -0800 (PST), Xucaen said: > > > > > does anyone know why creating .xsession causes > > fvwm to NOT load anymore? I'd really like to know > > why > > I don't think you need the "&" following your window manage

KMail + GMX-Mailaccount

2001-01-25 Thread timohart
Hi! Does somebody knows what i have to do, to send emails with KMail(KDE)? My mailadress is [EMAIL PROTECTED] POP3 server for incomming mails is pop.gmx.at. I have no problem with this. But i don't know what i have to do for a working output. SMPT server is calling mail.gmx.at. but what is the

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Saqib Shaikh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done so > far is: I believe it can be done with lilo, but I'm not familiar with lilo. I do exactly what you want with GRUB. Following is part of my GRUB menu.lst file: # Boot a

Re: building pine from debs

2001-01-25 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 01:38 PM 1/25/01 , you wrote: Sorry if it's a usual problem, but I can't find info in the archives. Here it is (it's pine 3-96) apt-get source -b pine and then: install bin/pine debian/tmp/usr/bin install: cannot stat `bin/pine': No such file or directory make[1]: *** [binaryPine] Error

Re: Installing Debian (printtool)

2001-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Well, well, well, Do not get me wrong. I am not putting printtool down without reason. I am the one who added feature of uniprint support to printtool in original RH version and I like this nice gui-tool. It seems, at one point in potato before official release, there was working printtool.

mars_nwe compile probs

2001-01-25 Thread Robert Fendt
hi folks, i'm running debian 2.1 (kernel 2.0.38, gcc version 2.7.2.3) on my server. now i wanna access certain files on this server via a client running drdos7.0 (caldera), which is supposed to be a netware client. the client is attached to my ethernet-lan (a sketch of my lan can be seen here: http

Re: xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:18:19AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > > --- brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:40:30AM -0800, > > Xucaen wrote: > > > > > I made new.bmp using gimp. > > > any clues? > > > > Yes. '.bmp' is almost certainly a Windows > > bitmap. That's not

Re: Console question (2x)

2001-01-25 Thread Mike McGuire
> > > > > > 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 terminal

connect laptop via serial port

2001-01-25 Thread Ville Harju
Hello ! Is it possible to install debian into laptop trough serial port ? Maybe null-modem cable or something would do it, but how ? any suggestions ... TIA Ville harju<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Help w/ pcmcia

2001-01-25 Thread Moritz Schulte
Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am currently using a compaq 1220, > I have the linksys pcmcia 10/100 adapter [...] > I have a base installation of 2.1 w/ 2.0.38 kernel > What driver can I use for this card Ehm, Debian 2.1 with Linux 2.0 is very old. I don't know, wether Linux 2.0 has PCMCIA

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-25 Thread Martin Albert
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Stefan Srdic wrote: > 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 > I know that the module is loaded and functional because I can see the > > However, I'm not sure which param

RE: lpr(ng) not filtering through enscript for remote printer

2001-01-25 Thread Lewis, James M.
> 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 (an

how to configure a socks client?

2001-01-25 Thread John F. Davis
Hello I am behind a socks firewall and I need to be able to get past it. I put the following line in my /etc/socks.conf file: sockd @socks.domain.com 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 direct 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 Where domain.com is "changed to protect the innocent." I tested the configuration by trying to do a ssh and

Exim and critical Header

2001-01-25 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi all I saw, that exim is sending lots of critical data in the eamil header (you can watch it). How can i configure exim don't to do that? I don't want such things as my login name and domain name in the headers. cheers, Raffaele

problems with glide and voodoo2

2001-01-25 Thread Erling Ringen Elvsrud
Hello I run debian 2.2 and have a creative voodoo2 card when i run /usr/bin/test3dfx after installing libglide2-v2 and glide2-base i get this error message: test00: Clear screen to blue 2.53 Resolution: 640x480 Press A Key To Begin Test. gd error (glide): _GlideInitEnvironment: libglide2x.so exp

Re: jpeg bad bitmap format file (was: xsetroot -bitmap)

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
--- Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just tried it and I got an error message > saying > > "bad bitmap format file" > > > Heh, don't know... sorry ;-( > > I've seen the program "xv" suggested before, > but many get all worked up > 'cause it's not a *free* program in the Debian >

Re: Help w/ pcmcia

2001-01-25 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:12:47PM -0800, Nick wrote: > I am currently using a compaq 1220, > I have the linksys pcmcia 10/100 adapter > I got it because it can w/ linux(turbo) so I had to assume it was compatible > > I have a base installation of 2.1 w/ 2.0.38 kernel > What driver can I use for

Re: SOLVED: Re: ~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Hi all.. # thanks foir all your help, because of you I # figured it out. # # for some reason, fvwm starts automatically (I # haven't figured out why) # and when I created my .xsession, fvwm no longer # loaded, so I had to load it myself from my # .xsession sc

Re: Files that aren't supposed to be there

2001-01-25 Thread Jon Forsberg
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:42:45PM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Greetings, > Someone recently mentioned a deb that would look through your system and > basically find files that were not supposed to be there. I would think that > this would be to remove those last bits of configuration

Re: HowTo Install SendMail on Debian2.2

2001-01-25 Thread Rick Rezinas
I did this on 2.0 and it seemed pretty straightforward. If you are concerned about compatibility with debian stuff, try installing the sendmail package, configure it to your system, copy the mc and cf files, uninstall sendmail and then do the manual install of 8.11 using the old configs as models.

Re: am i hacked?

2001-01-25 Thread Philippe Marzouk
Le jeu, 25 jan 2001 13:47:17, cls/cs a écrit : > debs, > > i just ran uptime on my single-user box connected to the office dsl > pipe. > > it shows 3 users; and there's only one non-root account. > > 1. how do i find out who are the other 2 users? > > 2. does this mean that i've be hacked?

Re: SOLVED: Re: ~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread mike polniak
Xucaen wrote: > Hi all.. > thanks foir all your help, because of you I > figured it out. > > for some reason, fvwm starts automatically (I > haven't figured out why) > and when I created my .xsession, fvwm no longer > loaded, so I had to load it myself from my > .xsession script. > so now my last

Re: Files that aren't supposed to be there

2001-01-25 Thread Glyn Millington
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:42:45PM -0600, thus spake Brooks R. Robinson: > Greetings, > Someone recently mentioned a deb that would look through your system and > basically find files that were not supposed to be there. I would think that > this would be to remove those last bits of configur

Re: am i hacked?

2001-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
cls/cs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i just ran uptime on my single-user box connected to the office dsl pipe. > >it shows 3 users; and there's only one non-root account. > >1. how do i find out who are the other 2 users? Type 'who'. >2. does this mean that i've be hacked? Chances are it's thr

RE: am i hacked?

2001-01-25 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
man who > -Original Message- > From: Debian User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of cls/cs > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 6:47 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: am i hacked? > > > debs, > > i just ran uptime on my single-user box connected to the office dsl pipe. >

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread Ralf Batri
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:09:42PM -, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done so Just take grub, it's in debian stable/testing It's GREAT booting WinXX, BSD and Linux without any probs ! Ralf

Files that aren't supposed to be there

2001-01-25 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, Someone recently mentioned a deb that would look through your system and basically find files that were not supposed to be there. I would think that this would be to remove those last bits of configuration files that don't get cleanly removed by dpkg (i.e. foo not empty...), but

am i hacked?

2001-01-25 Thread cls/cs
debs, i just ran uptime on my single-user box connected to the office dsl pipe. it shows 3 users; and there's only one non-root account. 1. how do i find out who are the other 2 users? 2. does this mean that i've be hacked? ia, t. bentley taylor. running: debian gnu/linux ( http://www.d

Re: Another newbie (problems with installation)

2001-01-25 Thread Kent West
Patrick Klee wrote: I'm not sure what problem you're describing. If your machine will boot off the CD, don't worry about floppies (except to make a boot floppy near the end of the install for emergency purposes). If your machine won't boot off the CD, you have to create some boot/root floppies

Re: SOLVED: Re: ~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread Pollywog
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:22:51 -0800 (PST), Xucaen said: > > does anyone know why creating .xsession causes > fvwm to NOT load anymore? I'd really like to know > why I don't think you need the "&" following your window manager. -- Andrew

building pine from debs

2001-01-25 Thread Romain Lerallut
Sorry if it's a usual problem, but I can't find info in the archives. Here it is (it's pine 3-96) apt-get source -b pine and then: install bin/pine debian/tmp/usr/bin install: cannot stat `bin/pine': No such file or directory make[1]: *** [binaryPine] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr

Re: nfs-common

2001-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
Brock Murch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have been getting this error every so often in the syslog: > >Is this a nfs-common bug? or a syslogd bug? > >running: > >Linux brockwell 2.2.17 #2 Thu Sep 14 06:08:37 EDT 2000 i486 unknown > >all packages from the stable upgrade of that time. > > >Jan 18 1

Re: nfs-common

2001-01-25 Thread Philippe Marzouk
Le jeu, 25 jan 2001 19:19:11, Brock Murch a écrit : > I have been getting this error every so often in the syslog: > > Is this a nfs-common bug? or a syslogd bug? It is an attack attempt. Look in the archives of debian-security there was some discussions on this on January, 9th Philippe -- P

unofficial pine 4.32 .debs available

2001-01-25 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
I've updated my unofficial binary (i386) .debs of pine, pilot, and pico to 4.32 which was released last week. You can get them from http://www.braincells.com/debian/pine/ or by adding the following lines to your apt sources: deb http://www.braincells.com/pub/debian/Local sid/ deb-src http://www

Problem with X (Intel i810) ...

2001-01-25 Thread NVasconcelos
Hello, I´m having problems with X instalation I won, one time, view the X, but when rebooted the machine the X crashed !! Machine: IBM NetVista 6229, chipset i810. There are attached: x.log -> X log; dpkg.log -> out of

Re: xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread Touloumtzis, Michael
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:40:30AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > hi all.. > sorry about all the stipid questions > is there an xsetroot HOWTO out there? :-) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls > aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bit

Re: Compiling source .debs

2001-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
"Timothy H. Keitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Colin Watson wrote: >> Johan Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I'm a newbie to Debian (a former Red Hat user) and am wondering how to >>> recompile a .deb from a src .deb with different compile options than the >>> default ones? In Red Hat you chang

nfs-common

2001-01-25 Thread Brock Murch
I have been getting this error every so often in the syslog: Is this a nfs-common bug? or a syslogd bug? running: Linux brockwell 2.2.17 #2 Thu Sep 14 06:08:37 EDT 2000 i486 unknown all packages from the stable upgrade of that time. Jan 18 19:16:45 brockwell Jan 18 19:16:45 brockwell syslogd

SOLVED! Re: problem playing audio CD's

2001-01-25 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hi, I solved my "problem" :) - I just didn't log out and back in before trying to setup cdcd I also changed myself and the cd-drive to the cdrom group :) Thnaks a lot! Philipp Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Hi Philipp, > > Did u log out, and back in? This typically takes care of that. A

SOLVED: Re: ~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
Hi all.. thanks foir all your help, because of you I figured it out. for some reason, fvwm starts automatically (I haven't figured out why) and when I created my .xsession, fvwm no longer loaded, so I had to load it myself from my .xsession script. so now my last line of my .xsession is: exec fvwm

Re: IRC and Firewall

2001-01-25 Thread Rino Mardo
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:12:15PM -0500 or thereabouts, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I'm sitting behind a firewall and want to use IRC. The > > firewall does masquerading and is also limiting incoming > > and outgoing traffic. I thought the problem may be identd > > which can not access my machine be

Re: my maxed out memory - still ok?

2001-01-25 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:33:49PM -0600, Casey Webster wrote: > 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 [...] If you use free instead ot top, it shows you (or me): oskar:~$ free t

Re: xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
--- brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:40:30AM -0800, > Xucaen wrote: > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls > > aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bitmap > ~/new.bmp > > xsetroot: bad bitmap

Re: ~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Hi all.. # here's what's happening: # I created ~/.xsession and it causes X to restart # immediately upon login (I type my password, hit # return(enter) and poof! the screen flickers and # I'm prompted again for user name and password) # # I've tried about 5

poff doesn't exit connection properly (was: Problems with apt-get and pppd)

2001-01-25 Thread Frank Preut
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:01:49AM +0100, Frank Preut wrote: > hello everyone, > > i have two problems with my potato system which _really_ get on > my nerves.. > > 1) i use pon/poff for my dialup connection.. the problem with this is > that poff somehow doesn't seem to completely close the

Re: xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:40:30AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > hi all.. > sorry about all the stipid questions > is there an xsetroot HOWTO out there? :-) Just the man page. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls > aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm > [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Mutt, unnoticed new mail and improper access/change times

2001-01-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):> > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:42:47PM +, David Wright wrote:... > > Thanks - I've had to modify it slightly for a Sun because touch isn't > > so clever, and it becomes either > wonder what happens of you go to far west and hit the date border:)

jpeg bad bitmap format file (was: xsetroot -bitmap)

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
--- Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls > > aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bitmap > ~/new.bmp > > xsetroot: bad bitmap format file: > > /home/xucaen/new.bmp > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls > aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bitmap ~/new.bmp > xsetroot: bad bitmap format file: > /home/xucaen/new.bmp > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > I made new

Re: Netscape Woes

2001-01-25 Thread Ray Percival
apt-get install netscape Also works well and get all the depends right. I do agree though that three or four installs are about right for learning. I would suggest that you try to apt-get everything you can things IMHO just work better that way. -- Original Message --

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread ktb
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:05:27PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > > where can i get system commander? is it free? saqib > > No, but it's worth it. Check out http://www.systemcommander.com . > This is just a suggestion but there is a free boot loader cal

xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
hi all.. sorry about all the stipid questions is there an xsetroot HOWTO out there? :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bitmap ~/new.bmp xsetroot: bad bitmap format file: /home/xucaen/new.bmp [

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