Re: ssh_1%3a2.5.1p1-1.5_i386.deb (unstable)

2001-02-28 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
> > vi /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.postinst, go to line 96 (not 97) and put a : > in front of the comment. Then dpkg --configure -a. > > -- > Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! I'll clean your ROOM!! Thanks.

AFS/Heimdal/Debian

2001-02-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
Sorry for the crossposting, but this touches several areas, and I'd like to hit all at once. I'm running a Heimdal KDC, and all is well with that. I've managed to get PAM doing it's thing, and a host of other little niggling problems. I'm now trying to add AFS into the mix, and things are less i

Can't compile 2.4.2 kernel

2001-02-28 Thread Matheson Cameron
Argh! I just upgraded to Woody, so I was compiling the 2.4.2 kernel. When I type "make bzlilo" It gives me the following error: bbootsect.s: Assembler messages: bbootsect.s:253: Warning: indirect lcall without '*' ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary bbootsect.o -o bbootsect ld: cannot o

Re: ssh_1%3a2.5.1p1-1.5_i386.deb (unstable)

2001-02-28 Thread Dave Carrigan
Vadim Kutsyy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > running latest upgrade, I am getting: > > - > # apt-get install ssh > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Sorry, ssh is already the newest version. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-02-28 Thread John Travis
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 19:34:55 -0900, you wrote: >if /var/lib/dpkg/* is gone and you have no backups your screwed. >reinstall your system from scratch. This is what I was afraid of. And yes, it's ALL gone :-(. I had gotten so used to the reliabiltiy of 'unstable' that I had neglected to make pr

Re: Getting Helix-Gnome

2001-02-28 Thread Mircea Luca
David Steinberg wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Greg Gilbert wrote: > > > But I'd highly recommend against using the Helix packages. I've > > found that they have conflicts with other packages on a recurring > > basis. > > Really? I've been using Helix/Ximian on Debian (first potato then > wood

Re: Outlook conversion

2001-02-28 Thread Brian May
> "Vadim" == Vadim Kutsyy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Vadim> For mail only, use netscape under win to convert to standar Vadim> MBX format, which can be used by netscape on linux, and I Vadim> belive Kmail and Evolution. or copy mail on to a imap server... Vadim> Anyone can r

Nothing but ping working through router

2001-02-28 Thread Jeremy Bowman
On Sunday I upgraded a few packages on my sid installation around the same time my roommates made a firmware upgrade to our Linksys cable/DSL router (on a cable modem), and since then I've lost network connectivity. Ping works fine both inside and through the router, including DNS resolution using

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-02-28 Thread John Travis
On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 14:55:26 +1100, you wrote: >When you say 'meltdown', what exactly do you mean? Can you go into more >detail about what appeared to happen? What kernel version did you >upgrade from? What versions of the reiserfs-utils did you move between? Not really sured why/what happened.

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-02-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:05:19PM -0600, John Travis wrote: > Is there an easy way to reconstruct the basic heirarchy and files for /var? > I had a reiserfs meltdown after installing 2.4.2. I'm not really sure if it > was that or the new reiserutils or a combination of both. reiserfsck > managed

ssh_1%3a2.5.1p1-1.5_i386.deb (unstable)

2001-02-28 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
running latest upgrade, I am getting: - # apt-get install ssh Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, ssh is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 1 packages not

Re: Outlook conversion

2001-02-28 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
Robert Waldner wrote: > > >>> I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that converted a .pst Outlook > >>> file into something that a Linux email program like Kmail or Evolution can > >>> read. I want to totally convert over to Linux, but this is a big thing > >>> because I don't want to lose

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-02-28 Thread iehrenwald
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Has anyone else experienced problems with their reiserfs partitions > after upgrading to 2.4.2? All systems a-go on this box. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux solvent 2.4.2 #3 SMP Sat Feb 24 21:37:46 EST 2001 i686 unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mou

[OT]Can someone help me understand these mail headers?

2001-02-28 Thread Jonathan Lupa
This was from a recent bit of spam to hit the debian user list. Spamcop resolved the sources out to be something in the *.cn namespace (wherever that is), but I noticed that the "From:" header referenced my local little ISP, so I'm a little interested in this... Please correct any analysis mistake

Re: Console text scrambled (in a different way :)

2001-02-28 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, Hall Stevenson([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:32:20PM -0500: > > If I display a file which contains binary data, often there will > > be a sequence of characters which the console interprets > > to 'switch character sets' and then any lower case characters > > become little boxes,

Re: Shutting down a NIC

2001-02-28 Thread Jason Nord
Well thanks for replying so soon, the problem that i had is that something put the NIC into some kind of loop, and eth0 wasn't detected because it was busy.   Solved it by cutting the power to the entire computer for 5 min, and it works now :) *** REPLY SEPARATOR ***On 28/02/

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-02-28 Thread Matthew Dalton
John Travis wrote: > > Is there an easy way to reconstruct the basic heirarchy and files for /var? > I had a reiserfs meltdown after installing 2.4.2. When you say 'meltdown', what exactly do you mean? Can you go into more detail about what appeared to happen? What kernel version did you upgrade

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, Alvin Oga([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 03:55:02PM -0800: > what does the snippetts of your dns files look like ??? > > -- are you supporting more than one domain name on your lan ??? > > soa records > a records > ns records > ptr records > > $TTL > $ORIGIN > > contents of > na

Re: Getting Helix-Gnome

2001-02-28 Thread David Steinberg
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Greg Gilbert wrote: > But I'd highly recommend against using the Helix packages. I've > found that they have conflicts with other packages on a recurring > basis. Really? I've been using Helix/Ximian on Debian (first potato then woody) for a couple of months now, and I haven

help with rogers!

2001-02-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Ok, I'm really confused. My old network settings with rogers were: IP: 24.43.42.96 MK: 255.255.255.0 GW: 24.43.42.1 Now, they've changed my IP address, and my new settings are IP: 24.114.127.148 MK: 255.255.255.192 GW: 24.114.127.129 Unfortunately, while the old settings still

Reconstructing Var?

2001-02-28 Thread John Travis
Is there an easy way to reconstruct the basic heirarchy and files for /var? I had a reiserfs meltdown after installing 2.4.2. I'm not really sure if it was that or the new reiserutils or a combination of both. reiserfsck managed to fix everything except for /var which was pretty well hosed. So I

Re: Uh-Oh...

2001-02-28 Thread John Travis
On 28 Feb 2001 13:17:07 +0100, you wrote: >I always enjoy asking people if they have their power cord plugged in... Yes, this part I am sure of . >Which version of reiserfstools is installed? It was the most current version in unstable. I did a dpkg -X to manually install the older version fro

Re: Mouse

2001-02-28 Thread Christoph Simon
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:05:53 -0500 Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay I have to ask and I guess Bob wanted me to because he never suggested > how!! > How do I /dev/mouse a symbolic link to the appropriate serial port. cd /dev rm -f mouse ln -s ttyS0 mouse If

Re: Mouse

2001-02-28 Thread David Bellows
Eileen Orbell wrote: > > Okay I have to ask and I guess Bob wanted me to because he never suggested > how!! > How do I /dev/mouse a symbolic link to the appropriate serial port. > > Once again thanks > > Hello, ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse If ttyS0 doesn't work try ttyS1, ttyS2, or ttyS3 Good

Re: Getting Helix-Gnome

2001-02-28 Thread Greg Gilbert
The following line works: deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/distributions/debian unstable main But I'd highly recommend against using the Helix packages. I've found that they have conflicts with other packages on a recurring basis. Greg * Martin Marconcini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > H

Re: Mouse

2001-02-28 Thread Eileen Orbell
Okay I have to ask and I guess Bob wanted me to because he never suggested how!! How do I /dev/mouse a symbolic link to the appropriate serial port. Once again thanks At 05:50 PM 2/28/2001 -0800, you wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:42:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to

Shutting down a NIC

2001-02-28 Thread Jason Nord
Here's the situation:   I have an NE2000 compatible NIC (jumperless ISA), and when I installed Debian, it was detected and ne.o loaded fine.  After that i did a pnpdump, and since then the NIC hasn't been responding (device busy)   The "act" light on the back of the NIC is flashing, and I un

Plug and play?

2001-02-28 Thread Rob Rati
I am using kernel 2.4.1, and my sound card is detected by plug and play, yet it doesn't get configured correctly. I still have to load the modules with parameters to get sound. Here's the message I get at boot up: Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 sb: ESS ES18

Mozilla and plugins?

2001-02-28 Thread Rob Rati
How do you setup plugins to work with mozilla? I use the nightly builds, and when I load mozilla, it finds all the plugins and registers them. However, the help applications aren't listed like they are in netscape and plugins don't seem to work. Specifically the realplayer plugin. I'm not sure

Getting Helix-Gnome

2001-02-28 Thread Martin Marconcini
Hi, what is the correct path to get Helix-Gnome in sources.list and the apt-get command I should exec?   I've been trying some stuff but couldnt make it work!   I wish to get the latest Helix version (Xivian?)   Regards,   Martin.

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Martin Marconcini
Leonard, I am pasting my named files for you to crosscheck. I only have one zone here and it's an INTERNAL dns.. that means that resolves to 10.0.x.x/255.255.0.0 but It will also serve as a Cache Nameserver for other hosts. Sorry about the lenght of the email. - /etc/named.conf --

3c905/network problems

2001-02-28 Thread Pete Meyer
Hi all...I'm having difficulty getting my network card (3c905c) work under debian. I've tried using the 3c59x driver (I was using the wrong one before). It installs ok, but then DHCP won't configure the network. I know that there's a server present, because that's how windows is configured.

Re: [OT] mutt colors vs. TERM types

2001-02-28 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, will trillich wrote: > when using mutt under termtype 'linux' (i.e. `setenv TERM linux`) > mutt's headers and 'active selection' bars flash, driving me > nuts. when i change to `setenv TERM vt220-color` it's a nice, > calm green and blue, with no flash. Since vt220-color is

Re: Am I ready for the big Woody?

2001-02-28 Thread Rob VanFleet
Woody is testing, which is not all that unstable at all. Really, I've been using it since it became testing, and I haven't had one problem other than a few packages that I needed to d/l manually because the task packages weren't feully up to speed (which has been fixed now BTW). If you're talking

Re: Mouse

2001-02-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:42:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to be having some problems config my mouse under X. I have a > Microsoft serial mouse and choose > /dev/mouse and Microsoft under XF86Setup. On startx I get the error > Cannot open mouse (no such file or directo

Re:Apt cache file corrupt??

2001-02-28 Thread Steven Downing
Firstly sorry about the threading etc, as I'm trying to monitor through the digest version and hotmail... Anyway, on with the show.. I sucked down Sid the other night, and along the way one file failed to download, I was using 'apt-get -d' so I could monitor the update later. So I grabbed this

apt-getting KDE 2.1 breaks startx

2001-02-28 Thread Ross Smith
I recently installed Debian potato and apt-getted helix-gnome. Everything was working fine. Since I heard about KDE 2.1, and I prefer to use KDE, I did: apt-get install kdebase task-kde from deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps The install worked fine, but now when I ty

apt-getting xfree86 4 under potato

2001-02-28 Thread Renai
hi, quick question - how do I apt-get install xfree86 4.02 under potato? ie which lines do I add to /etc/apt/sources.list? thanks, Renai

Re: Mouse

2001-02-28 Thread Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to be having some problems config my mouse under X. I have a > Microsoft serial mouse and choose > /dev/mouse and Microsoft under XF86Setup. On startx I get the error > Cannot open mouse (no such file or directory) > Any ideas? At a guess that sound li

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:51:21PM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > That would be a first, mozilla working great, you must have some heavy > machinerie. To my humble opinion mozilla is slow and the mailclient can > crash your entire system. not ? (please say NOT i've been really annoyed > with the w

Mouse

2001-02-28 Thread eileen
Hi, I seem to be having some problems config my mouse under X. I have a Microsoft serial mouse and choose /dev/mouse and Microsoft under XF86Setup. On startx I get the error Cannot open mouse (no such file or directory) Any ideas? Thanks Eileen Orbell Software & Internet Applications Capito

Re: Unstable packages on Stable distr.

2001-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:06:08PM -0800, Terry Hancock wrote: >> The reason is that the unstable packages seem to have the assumption >> built into them that they will never be used on a stable distr system >> -- that is they have dependencies on later version

Re: Unstable packages on Stable distr.

2001-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The reason is that the unstable packages seem to have the assumption >built into them that they will never be used on a stable distr system >-- that is they have dependencies on later versions of basic packages. Consider this for a moment; how should unsta

Re: Restricted Shell?

2001-02-28 Thread Joey Hess
Ken Sandell wrote: > I want to setup a restricted shell in Debian and only want a user to be able > to use certan programs. > > Also, I dont want the user to be allowed to FTP in. > > And, It'd be sooo nice to have a menuinterface on this shell. You could try pdmenu then. -- see shy jo

Re: Unstable packages on Stable distr.

2001-02-28 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:06:08PM -0800, Terry Hancock wrote: > The reason is that the unstable packages seem to > have the assumption built into them that they > will never be used on a stable distr system -- > that is they have dependencies on later versions > of basic packages. This has irri

Re: Can't Locate binfmt... something to worry about?

2001-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 03:17:45PM +, Colin Watson wrote: >> (Please, please don't cc me on list mail. I have over 2000 items in my >> inbox, and people filling it up even more with four e-mails in a row >> about the same post on the same problem just ma

Am I ready for the big Woody?

2001-02-28 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I was wondering how "stable" woody is now. I kind of want it very badly, and I know that they're preparing for freeze, so would I be ok if I switched to woody? I've been using Debian since 2.1, so I am somewhat experienced. Cameron Matheson

Re: [OT] mutt colors vs. TERM types

2001-02-28 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:25:21PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: i did? hmm! i sent it to debian-user, and maybe it's got some cool filters to propagate it around to various pertinent newsgroups...? > > when using mutt under termtype 'linux' (i.e. `setenv

Re: Can't Locate binfmt... something to worry about?

2001-02-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 03:17:45PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 at 09:10:27 +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > > (Please, please don't cc me on list mail. I have over 2000 items in my > inbox, and people filling it up even more with four e-mails in a row > about the same post on the

Re: 2nd try, what is my problem with apt-get?

2001-02-28 Thread Stan Brown
On Wed Feb 28 14:22:14 2001 Lewis, James M. wrote... > > >> On Wed Feb 28 09:08:22 2001 Lewis, James M. wrote... >> > >> > >> >> >> >> I have a machine that I have upgraded from stable to testign, >> >> and installed the >> >> 2.4.3 kernel with kernel package on. >> >> >> >> >> >> Now apt-get i

Restricted Shell?

2001-02-28 Thread Ken Sandell
I want to setup a restricted shell in Debian and only want a user to be able to use certan programs.   Also, I dont want the user to be allowed to FTP in.   And, It'd be sooo nice to have a menuinterface on this shell.

using xf86config: errors: (XFree4.0.2 on testing) /var/log/XFree86.0.log

2001-02-28 Thread Walter Tautz
I have a fairly old PCI ATI Mach64 based video card that works just perfectly on XFree 3.3 but the new stuff just does grok it .. see below XFree86 Version 4.0.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 18 December 2000 If the server i

using FTP with proxy

2001-02-28 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I finally got my DSL connection going to all my computers by making my family's Windows box into a proxy server (that has the internal DSL modem in it). Unfortunately, I can't seem to use FTP. I have mozilla set up with the right port number, etc., but no FTP sites work, which is a serious

Re: Console Text Scrambled

2001-02-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Alberto Brealey G. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010228 18:56]: > > I'm using a Matrox G400 and using framebuffers specifically for it. I've > > also tried different variations of the console fonts that are available. > > are you by any chance running the driver from matrox? (mga.o, downloaded > from the

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya leonard... what does the snippetts of your dns files look like ??? -- are you supporting more than one domain name on your lan ??? soa records a records ns records ptr records $TTL $ORIGIN contents of named.boot/named.conf c ya alvin On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > I am

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 19:22, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > > Do you have reverse dns entries in your named configuration? If > > your internal hosts are doing reverse queries to your server and > > they're timing out, that could cause the delays you see. > > yes, i do have reverse dns entries i

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX Probs W. 2.4.2

2001-02-28 Thread mike polniak
W. Paul Mills wrote: > > The DFE-530TX uses the via-rhine driver, and the DFE-530TX+ > uses the rtl8139 driver. The last I knew, this was not > documented on the DLink web site or on Donald Becker's > web site. Only place you will find out about the rtl8139 > driver is on the disk that comes wit

Re: freeze when mounting cd image using loop

2001-02-28 Thread Andreas Schmidt
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 07:50:17PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "Andreas" == Andreas Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas> Hi Edwin, > Andreas> > Andreas> today I had exactly the same problem on my potato box with > Andreas> kernel version 2.4.2. So I tried to re

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Leonard Leblanc
> Do you have reverse dns entries in your named configuration? If your > internal hosts are doing reverse queries to your server and they're > timing out, that could cause the delays you see. > yes, i do have reverse dns entries in my named configuration should i take them out? leonard

Re: [OT] tuning kernel memory usage

2001-02-28 Thread Harald Thingelstad
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey folks. This question has been nagging at me for a while now, and > it's about time I asked. I've got a Debian box (potato, upgraded to > kernel 2.4.1, but that's irrelevant). I'm seeing swap usage that I > don't understand. Here's the outpu

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Greg Gilbert
In my experience, the mozilla installer is too unstable. Each time I've tried it it crashed. Greg * Rob VanFleet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 04:18:38AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > unless you have lots of users wanting to use mozilla, then you end up > > with X nu

Xircom issue

2001-02-28 Thread Eric N. Valor
I've got a strange issue with Debian on a Micron Transport Trek II laptop using a Xircom RealPort Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 (Model RBE-100). Static IP addresses work great, no problems. However, when I restart ethernet in DHCP mode, I get an address and route just fine (as demonstrated by ifc

Re: Outlook conversion

2001-02-28 Thread Robert Waldner
>>> I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that converted a .pst Outlook >>> file into something that a Linux email program like Kmail or Evolution can >>> read. I want to totally convert over to Linux, but this is a big thing >>> because I don't want to lose my hundreds of saved messages fro

Re: pavuk support for reading from Mozilla cache directory

2001-02-28 Thread csj
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 21:07, Colin Watson wrote: > Stefan Ondrejicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (Cc'ing on the assumption that if you don't use Debian you won't be > reading debian-user; I'd make sure the person you were replying to > got it instead, but I'm not sure who that is or if t

Re: Multi-Nics

2001-02-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:04:01PM +0100, Joerg Huber wrote: > Hi, > > What is the full name of the Debian BTS web page, mentioned in the previous > message? I was curious too, so I had a look: BTS looks like Buck Tracking System, http://www.debian.org/Bugs. Use the 'packet search' field on th

Off Topic - NN6 & Mozilla cutting off text.

2001-02-28 Thread William Jensen
Greetings, When I use NN6 or Mozilla and view a page that has a list of hrefs I see what appears to be the lower line cutting off 1/2 of the line above it. Obviously this makes it impossible to read the page. If I use netscape 4.76 this does not happen. I'm running a stable potato with kernel 2

Re: how do you use a module more than once

2001-02-28 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: >also sprach John Galt (on Wed, 28 Feb 2001 03:33:41PM -0700): >> modprobe eexpress io=io1,io2,io3 > >now say i had to specify irq and io in the insmod line, howto? never dealt with irqs--they're usually autodetected by the module, but I'd assume that it was n

Re: "ldconfig not found in PATH"

2001-02-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:26:15PM +0100, Kai Weber wrote: > + John Kerr Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. > > dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. > > NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and > > /sbin. > > Are you runn

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 16:19, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > > Since they are listed as SOA for the reverse domain, you can't fix > > it. You have to convince them to add the relevant entries. > > since getting them to change it is probably out of the question do > you know of any documents that y

Re: how do you use a module more than once

2001-02-28 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach John Galt (on Wed, 28 Feb 2001 03:33:41PM -0700): > modprobe eexpress io=io1,io2,io3 now say i had to specify irq and io in the insmod line, howto? martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "a mathematician is a device for tu

swap

2001-02-28 Thread Dehui Peng
Hi all, I try to install Debian 2.2r2 potato, but get a problem when I try to create/initialize swap partition. Before installation, my hard drive looks like: /dev/hda1winnt, NTFS (~2GB) /dev/hda2freebsd (~5GB) /dev/hda3linux native (~5GB) /dev/hda4win95 exten

Re: fetchmail bad

2001-02-28 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Rick Rezinas wrote: > This is fetchmail release 5.5.3+NTLM+SDPS+NLS That version has way too many segfaults. I suggest you try one of the versions in unstable (but wait until tomorrow if any of your servers is M$ Exchange, the current one will timeout and not get your mail).

Re: how do you use a module more than once

2001-02-28 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Richard Green wrote: > >I'm building a router to play with out of an old PC an a few Intel >EthereExpress 16 cards. > >How do I insmod or modprobe to for each of the cards? modprobe eexpress io=io1,io2,io3 io1,2,&3 should be in the form 0x300 (where sosfset usually puts them

Re: freeze when mounting cd image using loop

2001-02-28 Thread csj
I don't think so. Loop works fine on my 2.4.1. I made a hasty downgrade from 2.4.2 after reading your original post and seeing the problem for myself (need loop for my daily cdr burnings). Interestingly I used my kernel config for 2.4.2 to recompile my 2.4.1. On Wednesday 28 February 2001 09:06

Re: [OT] mutt colors vs. TERM types

2001-02-28 Thread mojo
In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: > when using mutt under termtype 'linux' (i.e. `setenv TERM linux`) > mutt's headers and 'active selection' bars flash, driving me > nuts. when i change to `setenv TERM vt220-color` it's a nice, > calm green and blue, with no flash. Not sure, but if you have t

Re: fetchmail bad

2001-02-28 Thread Rick Rezinas
Hello, well, got the sendmail to not strip out nonexistant hosts, but teh fetchmail is still weird. here is the ersult of fetchmail -V: This is fetchmail release 5.5.3+NTLM+SDPS+NLS Linux fry 2.4.1 #1 Sun Feb 4 22:27:22 PST 2001 i686 unknown Taking options from command line and /home/rmr/.fetchm

Re: This list is quite bugged

2001-02-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 02:31:42AM +0100, Jefsey Morfin wrote: > For several weeks I try to be unsusbcribed from this list. > Without any success. > I sent a mail to the list master without any result. > Is this list run under Debian? > Is someone able to fix the bug? This has happened before. Th

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Leonard Leblanc
I made all of those changes, when i tried to ping (from the dns box) and of the domains (www, ftp, etc) I just kept getting ping: unknown host ftp.emergeknowledge.com ping: unknown host www.emergeknowledge.com etc etc etc Leonard

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Leonard Leblanc
> Since they are listed as SOA for the reverse domain, you can't fix it. > You have to convince them to add the relevant entries. > since getting them to change it is probably out of the question do you know of any documents that you can point me towards that will describe what kind of issues this

Re: Outlook conversion

2001-02-28 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Ross Boylan (on Wed, 28 Feb 2001 02:09:40PM -0800): > The outlook .pst format is incredibly slow to work with--I found it took > hours to import and export messages using it. that's why i proposed the imap approach. fire it up friday, it may be done by next week. it took 5 days for me

Re: Outlook conversion

2001-02-28 Thread Ross Boylan
I looked into this pretty recently, and gave up. MS does not provide many choices for export, and they tend to lose data. I tried to import into Eudora 5, which claims to be able to handle this. It couldn't. I can't recall if I tried NS, but if I did, it didn't work. This was with Outlook

Re: fetchmail bad

2001-02-28 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Rick Rezinas wrote: > I am using testing with fetchmail talking to sendmail. The problem > that I am having is that if the host from which mail is sent does > not exist, sendmail rejects it, which causes fetchmail to segfault. Which version of fetchmail? Segfaults are *alwa

Mirrored Disk Controller Hardware

2001-02-28 Thread Paul Rinear
We are using the i386 release of Debian 2.2 . Need to install a PCI controller card that will mirror two IDE ATA100 hard disks. Controller should allow hot-swap of drives, but this is not a must. Is there a list of controller cards supported under Debian. Am also interested in a list of tape ba

[OT] IMAP/Maildir with Gnus

2001-02-28 Thread Andre Berger
I use IMAP/Maildir with Mutt, can I also access the server with Xemacs/Gnus 5.8.3? I started with an empty .emacs file, tried to browse foreign groups using 'B nnimaplocalhost', saw the INBOX.* groups Mutt uses, and could subscribe to them. But there are only the message headers, the msg size is al

what is needed to compile latex2rtf on a potato ?

2001-02-28 Thread Nabil Hathout
Hello, I am still trying to compile ltx2rtf on a potato. Shaul Karl reminded me tha ltx2rtf is almost the same as latex2rtf which is a debian package. So, I have tried to compile the source distribution of the latter. I have libc5 installed on my machine. However, the compiltaion failed exactly

potato and disk space

2001-02-28 Thread Antonio Lobato
Hello! I`m installing the potato on the machine that has just 544Mb of HD. More, on 350 Mb is the Win installed. So, I have just 194 Mb to install my potato. I can enlarge the linux partition until 344 Mb, decresing the Win partition. I want to install the X system on it.

[OT] mutt colors vs. TERM types

2001-02-28 Thread will trillich
when using mutt under termtype 'linux' (i.e. `setenv TERM linux`) mutt's headers and 'active selection' bars flash, driving me nuts. when i change to `setenv TERM vt220-color` it's a nice, calm green and blue, with no flash. but then less complains that my terminal type 'is not fully functional' (

fetchmail bad

2001-02-28 Thread Rick Rezinas
hello, I am using testing with fetchmail talking to sendmail. The problem that I am having is that if the host from which mail is sent does not exist, sendmail rejects it, which causes fetchmail to segfault. Is there a configuration for sendmail to not reject hosts that aren't resolvable (I wou

RE: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Martin Marconcini
I have removed all but what I think you should change... db.emerge file: $ORIGIN emergeknowledge.com. /// THIS @ IN SOA ns.emergeknowledge.com. admin.emergeknowledge.com. ( 1 ; serial 8H ; refresh 2H ; retry 1W ; expire 1D) ; minimum, TTL NS ns.emergeknowledge.com. MX 1

Re: Unstable packages on Stable distr.

2001-02-28 Thread Dave Carrigan
Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In many cases these seem to be frivolous assumptions. > It seems very implausible to me (for example) > that compiling libsdl1.1 _really_ requires > libc6 >= 2.1.97. I'm pretty sure that, installing > from source, libc6 version 2.1.3 (in Debian 2.2) > w

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 14:40, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig -x 64.59.157.18 > > > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > > 18.157.59.64.in-addr.arpa. 1H IN PTR 64-59-157-18.ivideon.com. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig soa 18.157.59.64.in-addr.arpa > > > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > > 1

Re: PowerPC Debian

2001-02-28 Thread Claus Enneper
At 21:34 28.02.01, Ken Sandell wrote: How do I get Debian on a PowerPC? www.debian.org debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org note that you have to check the list archive about procedure, because most oldworld Macs do have a broken OF and it's easier to install with BenH's bootx, which is not deb

Re: NAT/MASQ in single NIC

2001-02-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Well .. I danno... Never done it. Just a thoght which may work. Seriously, PCI NIC costs only $20 these days. I have 2 NICs and MASQ them to access Cable and LAN. It will act as good firewall too. Osamu PS: One of your e-mail address bounced mail, I think. On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:23:25PM +

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Leonard Leblanc
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig -x 64.59.157.18 > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > 18.157.59.64.in-addr.arpa. 1H IN PTR 64-59-157-18.ivideon.com. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig soa 18.157.59.64.in-addr.arpa > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > 157.59.64.in-addr.arpa. 1H IN SOA ns1.ivideon.com. isp.videon.ca. ( > >

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Leonard Leblanc
Sorry about the size of thisbut here's my config files: named.conf: options { directory "/var/cache/bind"; // If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want // to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source // directive below. Previous

Re: ltx2rtf compiles on RedHat 6.2 but not on debian 2.2

2001-02-28 Thread Nabil Hathout
Hello, In fact, ltx2rtf gives better results with latex2e files. it properly translates italic, bold face... Latex2rtf only recongnizes latex2.09 commands. --Nabil Shaul Karl writes: > You might want to consider: > > [14:10:28 /tmp]$ grep-available latex2rtf > Package: latex2rtf > Pr

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Leonard Leblanc
When i type nslookup www.emergeknowledge.com i get the following: server: localhost address: 127.0.0.1 name: ns.emergeknowledge.com address: 64.59.157.18 aliases: www.emergeknowledge.com and nslookup 64.59.157.18 gives me server: localhost address: 127.0.0.1 name: 64-59-157-18.ivideon.com addr

PowerPC Debian

2001-02-28 Thread Ken Sandell
How do I get Debian on a PowerPC?   Where can I get boot disks and I want to do a net install

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 13:33, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > I am currently running a Debian 2.2 box as my DNS/www/ftp/ssh/etc etc > etc... Anyway the DNS lookup is working fine except for when the > internal machines try to look up 'www.emergeknowledge.com' which is > essentially local. When I a

Switching between two file systems.

2001-02-28 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, I have a problem. I have RedHat on /dev/hd1, and Debian on /dev/hd5 (that I just transferred from another HD). The problem is, when I boot into Debian, the system.map of RedHat is still being used, and I got a lot of warning messages. Is there a way that I get around this problem? Thank

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