Re: iptables rules and open ports

2001-02-12 Thread Jason Schepman
Vadim, I would turn off the services that are using those ports (if you don't need them). For instance, port 22 is going to be your ssh daemon listening for connections. If you have a standalone workstation, I can't imagine why you would need ssh running. I'm not sure what the other ports are.

Re: HD size problem (IBM 30 GB)

2001-02-12 Thread CaT
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:42:02AM +0600, Bram Dumolin wrote: > re, > > Machine: linux-2.0.33, Debian slink, upgraded to latest stable (potato?) > > I have an IBM 30 GB hd and it shows up as a 4GB in fdisk. I had a similar provlem from my 45. add a testing line in sources.list and then do apt-g

Re: apt-get: 93 Protocol error

2001-02-12 Thread Mike McNally
Well, that didn't work. I presume you meant put it in apt.conf? I did that, and I tried the http line changing the sources.list acordingly. Then, or actually first, I referred to the man apt.conf and the apt/examples/\ configure-index wherein it was stated that the line should look like this:

HD size problem (IBM 30 GB)

2001-02-12 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, Machine: linux-2.0.33, Debian slink, upgraded to latest stable (potato?) I have an IBM 30 GB hd and it shows up as a 4GB in fdisk. Does someone know if this is a kernel issue or something else? In the bios I put it as LBA. Although this might not be a Debian specific problem, I'm running Deb

iptables rules and open ports

2001-02-12 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
I have stand alone workstation withour any network, so I am trying to keep all ports close. I run kernel 2.4 with iptables. Recent scaning (by www.dslreports.com) shows that ports 13,22,37 and 9 are open. Any recomendation on how to close them? Thanks. My iptables rulles: -

oddness with locales

2001-02-12 Thread Glenn Becker
All, Somehow my locale settings (which I don't really understand the relevance of, yet) got changed ... I believe through my use of a package in unstable, the "Debian Chinese Panel." I noticed I was getting a lot of Perl / locale warnings etc on apt-getting packages, so I started looking into the

Fixed

2001-02-12 Thread DanSV
I fixed my problem with X. I contacted libranet, and they gave me a setup util for use with potato. I forgot the url, but I'm sure if you folks e-mail them, they will give it out (if not, please tell me). (in case you were wondering about their distro, the support is sometimes just plain igno

.deb creation

2001-02-12 Thread Leonard Leblanc
Can someone point me to a doc or howto on how to create .deb files?   Leonard Leblanc

Re: PS/2 mouse mystery

2001-02-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Turning off gpm is oneway but there is a better way. Read from /dev/gpmdata and read with intellimouse or ms mode if you are using default /etc/gpm.conf. There areadvantage to do this. No matter what happens with mouse, you do not need to restart X but simply restart gpm which get everything in

Re: sgmltools

2001-02-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
That figure is in the unstable version of sgmltools-2, but it's in the wrong location. I plan to submit a bug report. Cheers, Mike On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 05:46:05AM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: > > Thank you very much it seems to work.. (I had jade installed also) I still > get som

Re: Mouse ...

2001-02-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
I used to use one and have GENEUS mouse in my jank box. If my memory is correct. It works as MS if power was turned on with some button clicked, otherwise it is mouse system mouse. Try both. You might get luckey. I use logitech 3 button PS2. Workg great. Osamu On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 03

Re: Net-tools followup

2001-02-12 Thread Brian Stults
Michael Epting wrote: > > This was hilarious. I had shut down my laptop this morning after reading, > but not entirely absorbing, the above. This evening when I booted it, I > of course could not bring up eth0, which is a Proxim Symphony PCMCIA card. > Since I couldn't bring up networking, I cou

Re: sgmltools

2001-02-12 Thread Roberto Diaz
> > I have docbook installed too.. :? > > Make sure you have jade installed. Then if you want to convert to tex, you > can just say sgmltools -b tex libggi-api.sgml. You'll need jadetex to process > the result. > > I just have xdvi open all the time and use sgmltools -b dvi . > Thank y

Re: cdwriter configuration problems

2001-02-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Please fold likne in 72. Need to compile SCSI CDrom support. I think. Read CD-WRITING HOWTO for detail. Osamu On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 07:20:49PM -0600, Bernard and Jennifer Cohen wrote: > > I have been having trouble getting my cdwriter to work using xcdroast. I got > it to the point of w

Re: sgmltools

2001-02-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 05:26:01AM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: > Hi! > > I have installed sgmltools-2 but I am always getting this error: > > # sgml2latex --style=dookbook.dtd libggi-api.sgml > Processing file libggi-api.sgml > DTD check - Error: this sgml-tools package supports Linuxdoc DTD onl

Re: X-Problems

2001-02-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Yes we can have gpm and X in a same bed for Debian too. Following scheme works. Run gpm with following. (/etc/gpm.conf) Set gpm to read your real mouse device like /dev/psaux. Set gpm repeater mode to ms3 which is default. Set-up X Read mouse from /dev/gpmdata or /dev/mouse which is link to

magicfilter install problems

2001-02-12 Thread Brian Stults
Hello, For at least a few weeks, I have been attempting to install an updated magicfilter deb (using unstable). When I do, it unpacks fine, but then something strange happens. It starts running lots and lots of instances of "send-mail". In fact, it just keeps starting new processes until I am a

Re: no netscape

2001-02-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:09:41PM -0500, Joe Paxton wrote: > I recently installed 'potato' on my iMac and got X up and working - just one > problem. I click on the Netscape icon on the taskbar and nothing > happens. I installed the Netscape-pseudo package using dselect (which I am > assuming

Re: exim loosing mail?

2001-02-12 Thread mike polniak
Joel Ståbis wrote: > Hi. > > It seems that whenever I recieve more than 100 mails at a time with fetchmail > exim just accepts the first 100 of them. > > The log-file says: > > 2001-02-13 00:07:32 14SS4C-0007Jf-01 no immediate delivery: more than 100 > messages received in one connection > > bu

sgmltools

2001-02-12 Thread Roberto Diaz
Hi! I have installed sgmltools-2 but I am always getting this error: # sgml2latex --style=dookbook.dtd libggi-api.sgml Processing file libggi-api.sgml DTD check - Error: this sgml-tools package supports Linuxdoc DTD only. If you wish to convert DocBook or other DTD files, then please i

Re: Net-tools followup

2001-02-12 Thread Michael Epting
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:12:37AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Needless to say this is *EXTREMELY* stupid behaviour of ifconfig > > and completely breaks your system. > > Okay, for those of you who have iproute installed, you can still get things > up an

no netscape

2001-02-12 Thread Joe Paxton
I recently installed 'potato' on my iMac and got X up and working - just one problem. I click on the Netscape icon on the taskbar and nothing happens. I installed the Netscape-pseudo package using dselect (which I am assuming installs everything that you need as far as Netscape goes)but

eth0 detected by kernel, ifconfig, ifup/ifdown can't configure it. lo (localhost) also has same problem.

2001-02-12 Thread Troy Telford
I apologize if this is in HTML; Outlook express is all I have @ the moment.   I've been working on this for a few hours now... I need some help!  I can get neither eth0 nor my localhost (lo) interfaces to work!  They were working fine earlier.I made a simple change to my filesystem - I needed

Re: Xfree4 is off the screen

2001-02-12 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > im running Xfree86 and the screen is just too large looking the virtual > screen that's wider than the monitor. but unlike having the virtual screen > i can't scroll offscreen. i've tried to use the line "ViewPort 0 0" in > subsection "display" subsection but the s

RE: net-tools_1.58-1

2001-02-12 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
> Known bug, mentioned on debian-devel-announce this morning. You can > downgrade to the version of net-tools in testing (if you still have a > network interface ...) I have dual boot system, so that saved me. :)

Re: wav --> audio cd

2001-02-12 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach John Griffiths (on Tue, 13 Feb 2001 01:25:44PM +1100): > thanks, that worked a treat and it makes sense. can i ask what the > fs=8M parameter was doing? without intending to be offensive, i think RTFM is the right response. i myself learn a lot just from man pages and i really just don

Re: wav --> audio cd

2001-02-12 Thread John Griffiths
At 09:09 PM 2/12/2001 -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: >also sprach John Griffiths (on Tue, 13 Feb 2001 01:02:43PM +1100): >> i've got cdparanoia stripping the tracks to .wav on the HD but need >> some guidance for putting them back onto a blank in a way a stero >> could read. > >cdrecord dev=0,2,0 speed=8 f

Re: gnome-terminal question

2001-02-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:09:24PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:19:20PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | > | hi > | > | > | i was curious what needs to be done to get a remote host > | (connected through ssh) to display the hostname and directory > | in the titlebar of a g

Re: wav --> audio cd

2001-02-12 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach John Griffiths (on Tue, 13 Feb 2001 01:02:43PM +1100): > i've got cdparanoia stripping the tracks to .wav on the HD but need > some guidance for putting them back onto a blank in a way a stero > could read. cdrecord dev=0,2,0 speed=8 fs=8M -v -dao -eject defpregap=1 -audio *.wav check

Solved: Re: unresolved symbols in kernel compile

2001-02-12 Thread Duncan Watson
Hi all, It turns out I just needed to sleep and reboot the machine with new kernel. All went well. Overly paranoid. /Duncan On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 06:02:25PM -0500, Duncan Watson wrote: > Hi all, > > I am a newcomer to debian, but I am already a big fan. Apt-get is great > and this list is a

wav --> audio cd

2001-02-12 Thread John Griffiths
g'day, can anyone point me to resources for copying audio cd's under debian? i've got cdparanoia stripping the tracks to .wav on the HD but need some guidance for putting them back onto a blank in a way a stero could read. Cheers, John

Re: Network problem

2001-02-12 Thread Wil Reichert
I was staring at the same problem this morning trying to recall exactly which packages I'd installed in the last couple of days. I figured it would be easy to back out if I could ask dpkg to give me the date the packages had been installed on. I read through the man page but was unable to find an

Re: email-address embedded in homemade kernels

2001-02-12 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
D-Man wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:31:57PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote: > | Hello! > | > | I was wondering if it is possible to embed my email address into > | homegrown kernels. My current kernel greets me with > | > | > | Linux version 2.2.19pre6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > | > | > | but

Re: AT&T Korn shell for Debina (potato) ?

2001-02-12 Thread Geordie Birch
said Stan Brown, on Feb 7, > Where can I find this? Preferably a .deb you can find ksh93 at http://www.research.att.com/sw/download (this site seems to cause konqueror to crash.) it compiled for me on an unstable box. geordie. -- debconf: package "debconf" is not installed or does not use deb

Re: email-address embedded in homemade kernels

2001-02-12 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Diego Biurrun wrote: > Hello! > > I was wondering if it is possible to embed my email address into > homegrown kernels. My current kernel greets me with > > > Linux version 2.2.19pre6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > but I would much prefer something like > > > Linux versi

Re: Network problem

2001-02-12 Thread Chris Matta
This seems to be an issue with ifconfig in the latest nettools package of Sid(unstable), this can be fixed if you have a debian cd, like potato, i had this happen today, and just untared the base package into my tmp dir, and replaced the ifconfig binary. This should be fixed eventually. -c -

Re: exim loosing mail?

2001-02-12 Thread Todd V . Rovito
To fix this problem 1) /usr/sbin/exim -q (this will deliver all your mails) 2) set smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0 in your exim.conf file. This will allow you accept as many emails as you want. Thus spake Joel Ståbis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi. > > It seems that whenever I recieve more t

Re: email-address embedded in homemade kernels

2001-02-12 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach D-Man (on Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:13:35PM -0500): > specified in a file in /etc (that gets read on boot). I know that if > you change the name of localhost in /etc/hosts and reboot your > greeting will show the new host name. no, not true. you have to change /etc/hostname for that. > BTW

Re: exim loosing mail?

2001-02-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 at 22:15:20 -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: [No need to Cc: me, I read the list ...] > And there's also a line in exim.conf that should be changed: > > smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 100 > > a bigger number there could help... Otherwise, wxim will only accept > 100 mes

Re: exim loosing mail?

2001-02-12 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Colin Watson writes: >> 2001-02-13 00:07:32 14SS4C-0007Jf-01 no immediate delivery: more than 100 >> messages received in one connection >> >> but the rest of the mails never gets delivered. >> >> Does anyone know what exim does with the rest of the mails? I use procmail to >> put all mails i

Re: email-address embedded in homemade kernels

2001-02-12 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:31:57PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote: | Hello! | | I was wondering if it is possible to embed my email address into | homegrown kernels. My current kernel greets me with | | | Linux version 2.2.19pre6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | | | but I would much prefer something lik

Re: gnome-terminal question

2001-02-12 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:19:20PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | hi | | | i was curious what needs to be done to get a remote host | (connected through ssh) to display the hostname and directory | in the titlebar of a gnome-terminal window. redhat systems | seem to do this but none of my d

Re: Problem building X 4.0.2 from debian source

2001-02-12 Thread Martin Albert
On Son, 11 Feb 2001, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > list, but now I'm fairly certain it's a Debian-specific problem, since > I've succesfully build the debian source with modified matrox mga driver > using 'make World'. The error only seems to show up when I use > 'debian/rules build', which is ra

Re: libggi

2001-02-12 Thread Martin Albert
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Pollywog wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 03:56:51 +0100 (MET), Roberto Diaz said: > > example but I find I havent ggi.h nowhere :? > libggi2-dev but I got it from "woody" It's actually just the same. (but i'm working on this) To have more output targets you may install

Re: some mutt stuff

2001-02-12 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 03:45:51PM -0500, David Merrill wrote: | On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:30:21PM +0100, Willi Dyck wrote: | | Let me know if you want to see my newsig.sh script also and I will | send it. I'd like to see it. Thanks, -D

Re: exim loosing mail?

2001-02-12 Thread Colin Watson
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Joel_St=E5bis?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It seems that whenever I recieve more than 100 mails at a time with fetchmail >exim just accepts the first 100 of them. > >The log-file says: > >2001-02-13 00:07:32 14SS4C-0007Jf-01 no immediate delivery: more than 100 >messages received in

Re: partition HELP

2001-02-12 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Hello, > > Helping a friend here and she just wacked her active hard drive while > attempting to partition a second hard drive. > > I need a WINDOWS utility to undo what Fdisk.exe just did and restore that > drive to what it was. drive was not formated afaict,

Benefits of ipmasq?

2001-02-12 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello, sorry for my ignorance, but could someone please explain to me the benefits of ipmasq? Background information: Although I should have been learning yesterday, I upgraded my old little slink-based router to potato. The upgrade actually worked fine, except that the networking broke, becau

Re: How to set DPI when running KDM? SOLVED

2001-02-12 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Alan Chandler wrote: > >> The only problem is that I'm running KDM, which will still run my X > >> server with -dpi 75. I have been looking into the files in > >> /etc/X11/kdm, but couldn't find a place to specify the different > >> resolution. > the file you refer to with the line like the abov

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 and Matrox G400

2001-02-12 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:39:11PM +, Lee Elliott wrote: > Hello List, > > I'm not able to get hardware rendering/GL running on my G400. Kernel is > currently 2.4.0-test11 (2.4.0 was a bit wobbly for me - haven't d/loaded > 2.4.1 yet) and I'm getting the follwing error in /var/log/XFre86.0.lo

exim loosing mail?

2001-02-12 Thread Joel Ståbis
Hi. It seems that whenever I recieve more than 100 mails at a time with fetchmail exim just accepts the first 100 of them. The log-file says: 2001-02-13 00:07:32 14SS4C-0007Jf-01 no immediate delivery: more than 100 messages received in one connection but the rest of the mails never gets delive

Re: email-address embedded in homemade kernels

2001-02-12 Thread Diego Biurrun
I already put my name into /etc/kernel-pkg.conf, to no effect... There is apparently no commandline option to achieve what I want. Diego Biurrun P.S.: Please CC me on any responses, I am not currently subscribed to the list. Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 12-Feb-2001 Diego Biurrun wrote: >

Re: wheelmouse and Netscape 4.76

2001-02-12 Thread Diego Biurrun
Hi Andreas! Everything is fine, you just have to pust that stuff into .Xresources, which Debian uses instead of .Xdefaults. Works fine over here. Diego Biurrun Andreas Donath wrote: > > Hi, > > I've got a problem to get the wheel mouse cooperating > with my netscape (V4.76). The Pointer Sectio

XFree86 4.0.2 and Matrox G400

2001-02-12 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello List, I'm not able to get hardware rendering/GL running on my G400. Kernel is currently 2.4.0-test11 (2.4.0 was a bit wobbly for me - haven't d/loaded 2.4.1 yet) and I'm getting the follwing error in /var/log/XFre86.0.log (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (II) Loading sub module "vgahw" (II)

Mouse moves in emacs20 but doesn't activate menu bar

2001-02-12 Thread Robert Cymbala
With gpm and emacs20 packages, a microsoft mouse on /dev/psaux moves the pointer within emacs (plain, no X windows). But right-click on any menu item (( Buffers/Files/Tools/Edit/Search/Mule/Help )) doesn't activate menu. Should it, could it? Or is the only way to get tmm menu *Completions* bu

Re: postgresql demond

2001-02-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
Olivier Billet wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm using postgresql and can use psql, but I dont >know how to allow people to connect to the databases. >I mean even users on the local host (my box) cant >connect. It seems that it's a matter of -i switch >before runing the postmaster. -i allo

RE: 'nslookup', 'traceroute' in debian

2001-02-12 Thread Chad Maine
They are in the dnsutils and traceroute packages respectively. -Original Message- From: Tom Schuetz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 2:42 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: 'nslookup', 'traceroute' in debian My machine --running potato-- claimed not to

Re: 'nslookup', 'traceroute' in debian

2001-02-12 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Tom Schuetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My machine --running potato-- claimed not to know either nslookup or > traceroute. No man pages, either. > > Are there Debian equivalents to these commands? Yes, try the following: % apt-cache search nslookup dnsutils - Utilities for Querying DNS Server

'nslookup', 'traceroute' in debian

2001-02-12 Thread Tom Schuetz
My machine --running potato-- claimed not to know either nslookup or traceroute. No man pages, either. Are there Debian equivalents to these commands? Thanks. Tom Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

email-address embedded in homemade kernels

2001-02-12 Thread Diego Biurrun
Hello! I was wondering if it is possible to embed my email address into homegrown kernels. My current kernel greets me with Linux version 2.2.19pre6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) but I would much prefer something like Linux version 2.2.19pre6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) It's not a big deal of cour

Re: Mouse ...

2001-02-12 Thread Glyn Millington
Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > there's another sig over four lines long. look out! > > :-) > _ > | > // G l e n n B e c k e r

named just stops mysteriously

2001-02-12 Thread Jeff Davis
I am using bind package 8.2.2p7-1 (a .deb) Every once in a while named just stops. I look in the syslog and it appears to just stop receiving requests and then display the messages about how I (re)started it up. I have no idea what causes this. Thanks for any help you might provide, Jeff Da

gnome-terminal question

2001-02-12 Thread aphro
hi i was curious what needs to be done to get a remote host (connected through ssh) to display the hostname and directory in the titlebar of a gnome-terminal window. redhat systems seem to do this but none of my debian systems do. it's handy when i have 26 terminals open and i want to see exact

problem installing Potato base system on m68k

2001-02-12 Thread Robert W Kiger
I'm trying to install Potato on a Quadra 700 (8 Mb RAM, 80 Mb internal hard drive with A/UX Root partition 47 Mb and A/UX Swap partition 16 Mb) using macinstall.tgz and base2_2.tgz on the Mac partition of my internal hard drive. After I launch Penguin 18, everything goes well until I reach Install

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-12 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: hs> That's the page I used in order to get my TT fonts set up, along hs> with the http://home.c2i.net page that it references. Since I'm hs> using XFree86 v4.x.x, I skipped the step regarding xfs-xtt and it hs> still works fine. As I recall, th

woody, XF86 4.0.2 upgrade & kde2.0

2001-02-12 Thread techlists
I had stable installed with X (which ever comes with stable), and KDE 2, on my laptop. Everything running fine I upgraded to woody, and then installed x 4.0.2. It unistalled KDM, Why? Does KDM not work with XF86 4.0.2? When I type startx the bare wm comes up, but the mouse no longer worked, so

partition HELP

2001-02-12 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, Helping a friend here and she just wacked her active hard drive while attempting to partition a second hard drive. I need a WINDOWS utility to undo what Fdisk.exe just did and restore that drive to what it was. drive was not formated afaict, so if a program exists to restore that p

Re: .deb install

2001-02-12 Thread Zac Epkes
Hehe, yeah it is simple, but its ok, we were all new once. dpkg -i filename.deb Robin Rowe wrote: > Hi. This seems like an easy question, but I can't find the answer. How do I > install a .deb file I've downloaded to the local file system? And, how do I > make it appear in dselect? > > Thanks.

Re: HD dual-boots from one computer; single-boots from another

2001-02-12 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: I've got a 10-GB drive configured to dual boot Windows2000 and Debian Woody. W2K (FAT32, LBA) is on the first partition, which is 6GB. Linux has the rest of the drive in several partitions. I'm using LILO, with Linux configured as the default OS. On a Gateway computer, the d

Re: networking partly broken after upgrade to testing

2001-02-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > I have upgraded to testing and am now experiencing problems with > networking (and I was expecting problems with XFree 4.0 and that > part is fine :-) > > What works: > - incoming mail (through fetchmail) > - outgoing ftp > - outgoing ssh > > What doesn't: > - outgoing http connectio

Re: Network problem

2001-02-12 Thread Jason Davies
Thanks for your help, but I've discovered the solution the hard way :) I downgraded, and still had a few problems, but I've resolved them now by reverting to an old kernel. If only I had signed up to the mailing list earlier... I think this has taught me I should have a backup somewhere. Are th

Re: PS/2 mouse mystery

2001-02-12 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Tom Schuetz wrote: > I have a PS/2 mouse. My XF86config file is set to /dev/psaux. > My mouse doesn't do anything upon starting X. > > So I tried making a soft link from /dev/psaux to /dev/mouse. Nada. Do you have gpm installed? If yes, you should set Section pointer

networking partly broken after upgrade to testing

2001-02-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I have upgraded to testing and am now experiencing problems with networking (and I was expecting problems with XFree 4.0 and that part is fine :-) What works: - incoming mail (through fetchmail) - outgoing ftp - outgoing ssh What doesn't: - outgoing http connections outside my gateway (just hang

Re: postgresql demond

2001-02-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 22:06:08 +0100, Olivier Billet wrote: > I'm using postgresql and can use psql, but I dont know how to allow people > to connect to the databases. I mean even users on the local host (my box) > cant connect. It seems that it's a matter of -i switch before runing the > postmas

postgresql demond

2001-02-12 Thread Olivier Billet
Hi all, I'm using postgresql and can use psql, but I dont know how to allow people to connect to the databases. I mean even users on the local host (my box) cant connect. It seems that it's a matter of -i switch before runing the postmaster. But what's the Debian way to do this ? Thanks a lot

Re: Network problem

2001-02-12 Thread Brian Stults
Jason Davies wrote: > > Hi, > > Has anyone seen this problem before? When I try and enable the network (on > bootup) I get error messages. Here is what I get when typing these commands: > > ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 > SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor > lo: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor >

RAID port on SCSI-chiped motherboards

2001-02-12 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay all! Basically, I'm in the process of setting up an entry-level server and need some info on the various raid options supported in Debian. I'm thinking about using a supermicro dual PIII 440GX board which has a built in SCSI chipset with support for a RAID port. The adaptec pages for the RAID

Re: some mutt stuff

2001-02-12 Thread David Merrill
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:30:21PM +0100, Willi Dyck wrote: > Hi all, > > can somebody tell me how to configure > my ~/.muttrc to tell mutt to insert some text > below my mails automaticaly? Thanks in advance. > Willos I use the following line: set signature = ~/newsig.sh| This calls my shell s

some mutt stuff

2001-02-12 Thread Willi Dyck
Hi all, can somebody tell me how to configure my ~/.muttrc to tell mutt to insert some text below my mails automaticaly? Thanks in advance. Willos

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2001-02-12 Thread VarnYu
Hi, Can someone tell me please, how can I use ip-aliasing in kernel v2.4? I've tried the old stuff in /etc/interfaces (eth0:0, eth0:1, etc) but it doesn't worked. Actually I haven't found any options in the kernel about ip-aliasing. Thanks for the help. Gergely Bodnar

Re: Mouse ...

2001-02-12 Thread Glenn Becker
there's another sig over four lines long. look out! :-) _ | // G l e n n B e c k e r|

Mouse ...

2001-02-12 Thread Danilo C. M. Marques
Hello for everyone ! I have a Genius three button serial mouse. I'm running both gpm and X but the mouse NO WORKS neither console or X. I already tried to manipulate the gpmconfig (yeah, I already looked at man's pages) unsuccessfully ! I'm very grateful for any help, --

Re: module configuration problem (3c515 and ppa)

2001-02-12 Thread Chris Majewski
"modinfo -p " will list the parameters a module takes. -chris "Pete Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm attempting to install debian 2.2r on a new Dell 4100, and I'm having > problems with two modules. My network card is 3c905c-tx, and I've tried > installing the 3c515 module using both

alsa-source and linux 2.4.1: compile error (woody)?

2001-02-12 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, I run kernel 2.4.1 and tried to build alsa-modules from the alsa-source package in woody. I used the make-kpkg modules_image method. However, the build fails with the following error message: make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/alsadriver/kernel' ( ... goes ok ...) updating ../incl

Re: help me!?

2001-02-12 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Try making sure you have loaded the module for appletalk. Try: modprobe appletalk If that gives you an error about dependencies, try: depmod -a modprobe appletalk This same problem happened to me and that was the problem. - Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:00:00PM

RE: Network problem

2001-02-12 Thread Jason Davies
Okay, I'lltry, but I don't understand why this would happen, all I did was reboot after updating some packages. How do I change the IRQ and IOPort settings? How do I check if the loopback device is there? Thanks, Jason Davies.

NET Error msg.

2001-02-12 Thread Leon Haverkotte
Hi,   I'm quite new to debian/linux, but i now have my Linux computer serving as a NAT server between my internal and external network (@Home Cable modem). Everything is working fine, except i keep getting the following error message: NET: X messages suppressed X usually being a number below

RE: Network problem

2001-02-12 Thread Jason Davies
Oops, I forgot to copy this to this list, sorry. The modules seem to have loaded fine, these errors only happen when I try to enable the network with ifconfig. Thanks, Jason Davies.

Re: today's Q from the 'net-dunce :-)

2001-02-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:23:40AM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > > haaa. sorry 'bout that. first complaint i've had. RFC 1855 says: - If you include a signature keep it short. Rule of thumb is no longer than 4 lines. Remember that many people pay for connectivity by the minute,

Re: OT: Net-tools followup

2001-02-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:17:24PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > ip route add 0.0.0.0/0 dev eth0 metric 1 > > > > Slightly off topic, but can anyone explain to me what the metric field > does - the man page is bit brief for my level of understand

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-12 Thread Hall Stevenson
> You might also find this link helpful; it's a little more up-to-date > than the TT-Debian mini-HOWTO. > > http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/debian_tt.html That's the page I used in order to get my TT fonts set up, along with the http://home.c2i.net page that it references. Since I'm using XF

Re: PS/2 mouse mystery

2001-02-12 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Tom Schuetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a PS/2 mouse. My XF86config file is set to /dev/psaux. > My mouse doesn't do anything upon starting X. Are you running GPM? GPM and X can conflict when running at the same time. There's a solution: Configure GPM as a 'Repeater' and then configur

Network problem

2001-02-12 Thread Jason Davies
Hi, Has anyone seen this problem before? When I try and enable the network (on bootup) I get error messages. Here is what I get when typing these commands: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor lo: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor ifconfig eth0 up eth0: unknown interface:

Re: cdrecord with YAHAMA CRW8824S

2001-02-12 Thread Stephen Rueger
Hi! On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:49:47AM +0100, Walther, Christoph wrote: > cdrecord dev=0,6,0 Speed=4 -v -eject binary-i386-1_NONUS.iso > Just a guess: Is 0,6,0 the right device? What does cdrecord --scanbus say? Stephen

help me!?

2001-02-12 Thread Angel MAN
i'm a french user of linux and i found your address in a forum i've got a problem with netatalk. during system start up (netatalk), I get a message that says 'atalkdsocket: Invalid argument'. The only thing that I have changed from the default that deselect sets up is that I added 'eth0' to /etc

Linuxconf

2001-02-12 Thread SamBozo Debian User
I have my Deb box on a 192.168.1.xxx network which deb setup during install. I recently needed to change over to direct access (bypassing the intranet) to the internet. I went into linuxconf and made the changes. No Joy ... internet was inaccessable. I have done this on a mandrake box and it worked

Re: debian from scratch? no CDROM. How to?

2001-02-12 Thread Robert Cymbala
Two educational guides come to mind: 1. Go to http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/ Choose the "lfs" folder Choose the "LFS" folder This book describes the process of creating your own Linux system from scratch from an already installed Linux distribution, using nothing but the sources of software that a

Re: XFree86-4.0 screen resolution missmatched with monitor viewing area

2001-02-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > The virtual resolution is by default set to the maximum resolution > > for the display (I think). In the display section add the line: > > > > Virtual 1024 768 > > > > You might not be able to switch to a larg

Help installing debian first time

2001-02-12 Thread Tobias Hahn
Hi! I purchased a new computer and I would like to install debian on it. If possible, I would like to install kernel 2.4. Is this possible from the beginning of the installation? If not so, is there a way to build custom boot cds/floppies containing at least reiserfs? I am new to Debian but not

Re: Apache Virtual Host.

2001-02-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 03:40:48PM -0800, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > Can anyone see why this wouldn't work.?? Looks reasonable to me. Did you remember to tell apache to reload its configuration (`apachectl graceful`) after adding the VirtualHost sections? In what way does it not work? -- SGI

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