Re: sources.list - reasonably stable

2001-03-27 Thread Nate Amsden
Mark Devin wrote: > How safe would it be to always run with "unstable" - continually > updating?. Am I likely to get a broken system which cannot be fixed > without expert skills? its amazing how many people want to run unstable.. you are likely to get a broken system at one point or another. it

jvm and mozilla 0.8

2001-03-27 Thread joeytsai
Hi, has anyone gotten the jvm plugin working with Mozilla 0.8? I've been able to download it, install it (I got the "Installation successful" screen), but when I restart the browser and try "about:plugins" - the plugin doesn't show up. // joey tsai

Re: Howto change default keymap

2001-03-27 Thread Marcus Geiger
Thanks a lot, I will give it a try. It seems not so easy (as it could be) to accomplish this. Yours --Marcus On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:05:20PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 06:35:41PM +0200, Marcus Geiger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > how do I change t

sources.list - reasonably stable

2001-03-27 Thread Mark Devin
I am just a little confused from all the previous posts regarding sources.list What I need is the most up to date stuff, including security updates. I am willing to risk a little bit of testing but don't want really unstable stuff that might break my system making it unusable. Is this an OK sour

Re: Sendmail on Potato Upgrade

2001-03-27 Thread Nate Amsden
Account for Debian group mail wrote: > Is there something that should be done with this or is it just > informational? safe to ignore. if you want to get rid of it check the sendmail docs, i think that falls under the privacyoptions directive. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org

Help: apt-get -f install

2001-03-27 Thread Christian Eyre
Hi, has anyone had luck with this sort of problem. I have tried to use dpkg -i on the individual packages, but no luck. The perl perl-5.004-suid keeps giving the same post-removal script errors. Running apt-get -f install provides this output: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency

Sendmail on Potato Upgrade

2001-03-27 Thread Account for Debian group mail
We are upgrading one of our mail servers from Slink to Potato. Under Slink it had sendmail version 9.9.3-3. Under the new Potato the sendmail is version 8.9.3-23. All seems to go OK except in the syslog file I'm now seeing messages like that have "NOQUEUE: Authentication-Warning:" here is an exa

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
Switches are not an appropriate security device, though - although it's true that most of the time they send packets only down the appropriate pipe, there are times they have to revert to hub-type operation. The principal such time is when a new device is connected to the net (or turned on), not an

passing options when doing apt-get --compile source?

2001-03-27 Thread Forrest English
cause i'd like to compile skipstone with cookie support, which is usually make cookiesupport=1. any way to do this? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left

Re: (OT) - Static electricity grounding device?

2001-03-27 Thread Roberto Diaz
> I am living in a flat.. several years ago me and my neighbours noticed > electric socks at bathroom.. a research shown it was due to a A very kind british guy has pointed me out very well that I mean "electric shocks" rather than "electric socks".. Of course I've never have weared "electric s

Re: Sid vs unstable

2001-03-27 Thread David Z Maze
Jim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JR> I am in the process of converting from SuSE to debian, if I choose to JR> use testing/woody, will the upgrade automatically follow woody as it JR> moves into stable? That is, if I begin following woody with apt, will I JR> continue to follow woody as i

Re: enlightenment deb repository?

2001-03-27 Thread Rafael A . Schmitt
* DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anyone know of an enlightenment deb repository I can add to > /etc/apt/sources.list? deb http://people.debian.org/~ljlane/downloads potato/ |*--=[ Rafael Alexandre Schmitt ]=--*| |Blumenau - Santa Catarina - Brasil - A

Re: how do add this to my sources.list?

2001-03-27 Thread Tomaas Ortega
deb http://pandora.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla ./ friend of mine suggested that you have to t ell it where to get the package files from but it may be more complex than what i just typed out *shrug* - Original Message - From: "Forrest English" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March

how do add this to my sources.list?

2001-03-27 Thread Forrest English
http://people.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla is the url i'd like to add. i've tried... deb http://people.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla and deb http://people.debian.org/~kitame mozilla both report this: thneed:~# apt-get update E: Malformed line 29 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse) (2

Re: Which Kernel should I use????

2001-03-27 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:38:30PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: :I'm looking for some help. I need to install a new kernel on my nat machine, but I'm not sure which kernel to go for. I must have a kernel that can run pppoe (for my adsl) and I also need to be able to nat vpn connections (I have a

Re: Time

2001-03-27 Thread Matthew Dalton
stephen wrote: > > I'm having a heck of a time getting my system time set correctly. > /etc/localtime is a symlink to the proper time zone. I've looked in > /etc/default/rcS and switched UTC from yes to no and back again. > And, I've read the man page for hwclock a few times. Still, > my system

Re: Time

2001-03-27 Thread Nate Amsden
stephen wrote: > > I'm having a heck of a time getting my system time set correctly. > /etc/localtime is a symlink to the proper time zone. I've looked in > /etc/default/rcS and switched UTC from yes to no and back again. > And, I've read the man page for hwclock a few times. Still, > my system

Re: debian package "run" vs. inittab entry

2001-03-27 Thread Nate Amsden
Stuart Marshall wrote: > Has anyone ever done something like this? i do that with a BASH script for my unreal tournament server. my script is: #!/bin/sh while true do export UT_DATA_PATH=/usr/local/games/ut/System cd /home/aphro/.loki/ut/System date >> server1-restart.log ucc server DM-BedroomSe?

KDE 2.1.1 where are my fonts?

2001-03-27 Thread Jonathan Markevich
Ok, the apt-get upgrade to KDE 2.1.1 is WONDERFUL. X FINALLY HAS ANTIALIASING!!! However, I'm missing all but three fonts. Where are they? I had Sans-Serif stuff before this, now it's gone. Ideas? Thanks. -- Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.geocities.com/jmarkevich Love t

Re: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!

2001-03-27 Thread Nate Amsden
john wrote: > > Came into work this morning to find a new installation on a very old box > had done a kernel oops. > Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=c02d5d98) > > Can anyone shed loight on this, or point to a URL that would help me? looks like the disk may have some bad sector

Re: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!

2001-03-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:23:37AM +1000, john wrote: > Came into work this morning to find a new installation on a very old box > had done a kernel oops. It could be bad memory. I can't say that I've ever had memory die while in use (i.e. in a system that had been fine for a long time, hadn't be

[no subject]

2001-03-27 Thread Andrew Clark
I have a bunch of packages that I'd like to make available to other people on my network (Slightly hacked version of licq that works with our fire wall) I was wondering how build the package description files and so on such that other Debian users on my network could just add a line to their so

debian package "run" vs. inittab entry

2001-03-27 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, I have a small daemon type program that I would like to run. It maintains a communication channel via sockets with another copy of itself. I would like it to always be running, and if it dies, I wish to restart it. The debian package "run" is suitable for this task, however the author warns

Rebuilt kernel and CD-ROM problem.

2001-03-27 Thread Chris Capon
Hi all: A laptop installed with slink and the 2.0.36 kernel was upgraded to potato with no problems. The upgraded system continued to use the original 2.0.36 kernel. Everything worked fine. I decided to upgrade to the 2.2.15 kernel, so I installed the source, ran menuconfig and went through

Re: Sid vs unstable

2001-03-27 Thread Jim Richardson
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:07:51AM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Stephen Boulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can someone tell me (who's new to Debian) what the difference > > between sid and unstable is? > > Debian distributions have a 'code-name': > > (the current) stable -> Potat

Re: Time

2001-03-27 Thread Tomaas Ortega
apt-get install ntpdate find a correct time server and voila your time is automatically fixed - Original Message - From: "stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 6:22 AM Subject: Time > > I'm having a heck of a time getting my system time set correctly. > /etc/l

Time

2001-03-27 Thread stephen
I'm having a heck of a time getting my system time set correctly. /etc/localtime is a symlink to the proper time zone. I've looked in /etc/default/rcS and switched UTC from yes to no and back again. And, I've read the man page for hwclock a few times. Still, my system time is always six hours of

Re: Which Kernel should I use????

2001-03-27 Thread francisco m . neto
» Chris Hoover disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > I'm looking for some help. I need to install a new kernel on my nat > machine, but I'm not sure which kernel to go for. I must have a > kernel that can run pppoe (for my adsl) and I also need to be able > to nat vpn connections (I have a vpn client t

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001, Jason Majors wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 07:44:11PM -0500, William T Wilson scribbled... > The second way is a much better choice for a couple other reasons. It's much > more secure. The only box on my network that somebody can see is my gateway. > And it doesn't have an

roxen web server with working resume?

2001-03-27 Thread Eray Ozkural
I've been using roxen for some http servers, and I observed that it's a pretty decent server. One problem I have though is that it doesn't seem to support HTTP resume. Do you have any information on this? Thanks, -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL P

Re: Why PHP4 and MySQL 3.23 are not included in testing?

2001-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
"Chung, Ha-Nyung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any reason of not including php4 and mysql-3.23.x > into testing(woody) distribution? testing is updated automatically according to various consistency and bug-free-ness checks. See http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/>. -- Colin Watson

Re: devfs and sound

2001-03-27 Thread Brian May
> "Mark" == Mark Devin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> I am running devfs with devfsd (because I thought it was the Mark> way things were going in the 2.4 kernels). I can't seem to Mark> get my soundcard to work and I am beginning to think it may Mark> be a problem related t

Re: apt-get update

2001-03-27 Thread Bill White
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:31:08AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:22:15PM -0500, Bill White wrote: > ... > > Now, when I update, I frequently can't see packages with "dpkg -l", > > but I can install them. That is to say, if the package libmumble > > exists but is not i

Help: USB mouse

2001-03-27 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i just got a razer boomslang 2000 usb mouse. now i'm trying to figure out how to get this thing to work. compiled USB into my kernel, and i'm seeing all the right kinds of messages on startup: satan kernel: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux-usb ro root=305 noapic satan kernel: us

Re: Software for Webcam

2001-03-27 Thread Jens Gecius
Mark Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'd like to buy a linux compatible usb webcam of the kind of Philips. My > > question is as simple as that: > > What are the X (gnone or kde) software in debian potato 2.2r2 CD's or web > > sites which I should install to look at the images generated b

Re: Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2001-03-27 Thread Mark Hurley
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:24:53PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > - It broke my lilo, leaving me with a missing library (/lib/ld-linux.so.2). I > got the file mailed to me by another user, boot using floppies, and managed > to repair the boot. Ahhh...I'm running Woody as well. I inserted the

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Jason Pepas
This probably wont be of any concern since you are only building a home network, but william brings up a good point (hubs broadcast to all ports) which is important for security. I live in a dorm has an ethernet network, with a T1 pipe to the internet. The thing is, a while back the building was c

Re: mutt-1.3

2001-03-27 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:22:00PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:25:03AM +, Robin Gerard wrote: > > Hello, > > I see that many debian users are using mutt-1.3 > > Does it exist a web site where mutt-1.3 is in .deb ? > > Thanks in advance for your reply. > the uber-pa

devfs and sound

2001-03-27 Thread Mark Devin
I am running devfs with devfsd (because I thought it was the way things were going in the 2.4 kernels). I can't seem to get my soundcard to work and I am beginning to think it may be a problem related to devfs because I don't have the device /dev/sndstat. I have an ASUSmb with a CMI8738 sound chi

Re: Software for Webcam

2001-03-27 Thread Mark Hurley
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:43:11PM +, Victor wrote: > I'd like to buy a linux compatible usb webcam of the kind of Philips. My > question is as simple as that: > What are the X (gnone or kde) software in debian potato 2.2r2 CD's or web > sites which I should install to look at the images gen

RE: More legacy/proprietry app headaches.

2001-03-27 Thread Dan White
I made it work by using libc5, xpm and xlib from the bo distribution (I'm using potato) see: ftp://archive.debian.org/debian-archive Use alien to convert them to .tgz, and put them into their own directory, e.g. /usr/local/oldlibs. They take up about 2.5MB. You'll need to resymlink libxmu and

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
Jason Majors wrote: > Check out pricewatch.com (do a search for "isa nic"). I think the ISA ones > are all 10Mbps, so make sure you get a dual-speed hub/switch. I suggest one > with the NE2000 chip. I've had quite a few ne2k based cards and know that the > Linux driver is excellent for it. If I'm

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Jason Majors
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 07:44:11PM -0500, William T Wilson scribbled... > One thing I forgot to mention clearly in my other post is that you *do* > need a box to proxy the traffic of the others on the Internet, regardless > of whether you use a hub or a box-of-NIC's. > > If you have an analog mode

no more icon for gnome panel?

2001-03-27 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I don't know what's happening. it seems that after an upgrade. I can't really change those icon on the gnome panel but the root account ones are working fine. I check the permission but it seems ok like rw--r--r for the icon. can anyone help me.. I am using unstable Edwin Lau

Re: /etc/chatscripts/provider

2001-03-27 Thread Tomaas Ortega
IIRC i think the AT commands are L and M oh joi the good old says of trouble shooting modems while working at tech support - Original Message - From: "Alan Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 10:45 AM Subject: Re: /etc/chatscripts/provider > If you use Windowmak

Why PHP4 and MySQL 3.23 are not included in testing?

2001-03-27 Thread Chung, Ha-Nyung
Is there any reason of not including php4 and mysql-3.23.x into testing(woody) distribution? Although I use unstable since I'd like to use those and kernel-2.4.x, you know, that is UNSTABLE. sometimes I got problems and have to wait for another upgrade. :( -- Chung Hanyung <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: /etc/chatscripts/provider

2001-03-27 Thread Alan Chen
If you use Windowmaker, you can use wmppp which monitors if your connected, the connection speed, etc. It probably works fine with other window managers, but they tend to have their own, more native looking applets. If I recall the AT command set might also have a volume control. ATVn where n=0-3

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Jason Majors wrote: > You could run a box with lots of ip masquerading to emulate a hub, but > that's like swatting flies with a hammer. Just get a hub. It's > cheaper, uses less power, and allows your boxes to see each other more > easily. Actually in such a case you would w

libxml2

2001-03-27 Thread Alex Swavely
Is libxml2 (current version is 2.3.4, aka gnome-xml) going to be integrated into stable at any point in the near future? It's necessary to get PerlMagick to output SVG.

cdrecord does not accept /dev output files?

2001-03-27 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
I have a CD writer located at '/dev/burner'. It's an IDE drive, but I use ide-scsi to make it look like a SCSI device with bus ID '1,1,0'. It works fine. I've just always wondered why I have to do 'cdrecord dev=1,1,0 disk.iso' instead of the more obvious 'cdrecord /dev/burner disk.iso'. Surely

ASLA troubles

2001-03-27 Thread Nic Strong
Wondering if someone can help me with my ALSA config (0.5) with 2.2.18 kernal. When running alsaconfig when I it trys to load the module it gives the following error: Loading driver: Starting ALSA sound driver (version none):modprobe: Can't locate module snd no devfs available (even though using

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, D-Man wrote: > I am planning on building an ethernet netowrk at home. What do I need > to do it (other than NICs and cable, of course)? What is the NICs and cable :} > difference between a hub and switch? Any recommended brands/models? A switch routes each packet only to

Re: apt-get update

2001-03-27 Thread eric
Carel Fellinger wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:06:05AM -0700, eric wrote: I use both dselect/apt 's update chooing unstable main and apt-get update , get the same result dpkg there are too many error then I reboot , grub still show only 2.2.18 kernal, I also almost not see any

Re: apt-get feature wants (was: Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat)

2001-03-27 Thread CaT
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:31:44AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Another deficiency is that it'd be nice if apt-get told you what dependencies > >you needed with a source deb. This way you could have it get the other > >sources upfront instead of spending time compi

Re: apt-get feature wants (was: Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat)

2001-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Another deficiency is that it'd be nice if apt-get told you what dependencies >you needed with a source deb. This way you could have it get the other >sources upfront instead of spending time compiling and only finding out >later that something you needed wasn't ther

Re: New openssh debs..why not?

2001-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
"Jake R. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I recently did apt-get install ssh and it is an older version than I am >using on my redhat boxes. How come debian isn't current on the new >openssh packages. > >Debian (Debian 2.2) >- >SSH Version OpenSSH-1.2.3, protocol version 1.5. >Compiled

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Jason Majors
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 07:07:48PM -0500, D-Man scribbled... > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:46:18PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > | Check out the net-3 howto. > > Ok, thanks. linuxdoc.org I assume. > > | You'll want to get a hub. I believe that the difference between a > | hub and switch is that (a

cups and filters

2001-03-27 Thread D-Man
I set up cups on my system with a LJIIIp with a PS cartridge (level 1). It prints PS just fine, but the printer doens't realize the job is done. How can I notify the printer it is done, other than pressing the "reset" button on the panel? Also, I can spit plain text out of it (in PCL mode), but

/etc/chatscripts/provider

2001-03-27 Thread D. Hoyem
When I dial up to the net the modem connects but the volume is so loud that I have to turn the speaker down, but then I have to turn it up to hear any mp3's etc..or get blasted out. As root I added atm0=off above the line OK-AT-OK ATDT and that turns off the speaker, but then it is hard to tell w

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:46:18PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: | Check out the net-3 howto. Ok, thanks. linuxdoc.org I assume. | You'll want to get a hub. I believe that the difference between a | hub and switch is that (assuming both are 100Mbps), the hub can | allow a maximum of 100Mbps of traf

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread John Griffiths
>i thought 10baseT only allowed 10Mbs connections, even between 100Mbs >capable cards. > >also, i bought a 4 port D-link switch for 25 plus shipping. at that price, >you might as well buy the switch. the resale value is better. :) > a good base 100 hub will also do base 10 but check b4 u buy.

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Tue 27 Mar 01, 4:46 PM, Jason Majors said: > Check out the net-3 howto. > You'll want to get a hub. I believe that the difference between a hub and > switch > is that (assuming both are 100Mbps), the hub can allow a maximum of 100Mbps of > traffic (so two machines trying to transfer files fro

Re: lm-sensors with kernel-package

2001-03-27 Thread Jens Gecius
Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I apt-got lm-sensors-source and lm-sensors. > > The sources are in /usr/src/modules > > My current kernel-source is /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.18pre21 > > I do not want to patch my kernel but use it as a module. I've read > that I may want to use

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Jason Majors
Check out the net-3 howto. You'll want to get a hub. I believe that the difference between a hub and switch is that (assuming both are 100Mbps), the hub can allow a maximum of 100Mbps of traffic (so two machines trying to transfer files from a server would get 50Mbps at most), and a switch allows 1

OT: Re: deleting specific files (a litle note about "de nada" )

2001-03-27 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Miguel, Karsten: "De nada" is the usual form to reply to "Gracias" in Spanish. "Por nada" can be used as well. My .2 Daniel PS: The bad thing with having so many beautiful languages in our planet is that we can't learn them all !! > >> thank you for your patiente... > > > > > > De nada.

Re: Problems with CD-writer in 2.4.2

2001-03-27 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Did you enable devfs in your kernel config, by any chance? If so, you probably need to add "alias /dev/sg* sg" to /etc/modutils/devfs, followed by running /sbin/update-modules. On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 03:42:40PM +1000, Price, Tim wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just upgraded to kernel 2.4.2 and am havi

Re: oops..missed a module

2001-03-27 Thread Ray Percival
Use modconf to add it. -- Original Message -- From: "Jake R. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:38:12 -0600 (CST) >I recently installed debian and I missed a module es1688 for my latitude >lm sound support. Is there a way that I can ad

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread John Griffiths
>I am planning on building an ethernet netowrk at home. What do I need >to do it (other than NICs and cable, of course)? What is the >difference between a hub and switch? Any recommended brands/models? >Do I really need a hub/switch or can I use an old box with a lot of >NICs instead? Is there

oops..missed a module

2001-03-27 Thread Jake R. Johnson
I recently installed debian and I missed a module es1688 for my latitude lm sound support. Is there a way that I can add this in now. I miss listening to my tunes at work! Thanks, Jake

New openssh debs..why not?

2001-03-27 Thread Jake R. Johnson
I recently did apt-get install ssh and it is an older version than I am using on my redhat boxes. How come debian isn't current on the new openssh packages. Debian - SSH Version OpenSSH-1.2.3, protocol version 1.5. Compiled with SSL. RedHat -- SSH Version OpenSSH_2.3.0p1, protoco

apt-get feature wants (was: Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat)

2001-03-27 Thread CaT
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:17:15AM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Let me give you today's example: > > Nit: your example wasn't comparing apples and apples. You were > running an up-to-date Debian system and an old RedHat system, which I take it to be somethin

home network

2001-03-27 Thread D-Man
I am planning on building an ethernet netowrk at home. What do I need to do it (other than NICs and cable, of course)? What is the difference between a hub and switch? Any recommended brands/models? Do I really need a hub/switch or can I use an old box with a lot of NICs instead? Is there any

Re: can debian be a wins server??

2001-03-27 Thread Karsten Heymann
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Nick wrote: > if so, what packages do i nee? Samba supports acting as wins server. It should be enought to install samba (apt-get install samba) and insert/uncomment wins support=yes in /etc/smb.conf. be aware that this installs a smb-Fileserver as well, so you should remove

rejecting incoming DNS traffic on firewall!

2001-03-27 Thread Jens Lauterbach
HI Does anybody know how to reject incoming traffic on port 53 with IPCHAINS It's only traffic on port 53 to the firewall NOT traffic on 53 to the DNS server inthe DMZ zone! thanks in advance! /jens hey. its a Debian firewall! : --- Jens Lauterbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roskilde U

Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!

2001-03-27 Thread john
Came into work this morning to find a new installation on a very old box had done a kernel oops. It was a minimal potato installation, with updates from security.debian.org. Would I be right in thinking it's probably bad memory? The line after the kernel panic line is: In swapper task - not syn

Re: SVGATextMode

2001-03-27 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:36:50PM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > i finally did > > > > apt-get install SVGATextMode > > > > and love it. (so far no smoke, no meltdown...) > > Hi, Sorry to interrupt this thread, but I'v

problems witch x-chat and portuguese letter acentuation!

2001-03-27 Thread Miguel S. Filipe
Hi, to all debian users: I'm having problems with x-chat and latin caracters. I don't know how to discribe this well, but here it goes: in the portuguese language we use caracters like: á, é, í, ã, ç, and some others. my keyboard is configured in X and in the console has well, the only prob

Re: 3dfx & openGL? what do I need? (kernel 2.4, X 4.x)

2001-03-27 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Tue 27 Mar 01, 1:17 PM, David Steinberg said: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > > this problem is more general, there are some 'groups' of packages that > > all provide same/similar functionality but it's not clear which ones > > work together, netscape packages are similar

Reiserfs stops working in kernel, however support is compiled in

2001-03-27 Thread calyth
Anyone experienced problems with 2.4.x where all of sudden reiserfs support was dead despite I specified it in the kernel? I've downloaded all the source code form kernel.org Calyth

Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat

2001-03-27 Thread Joey Hess
Alan Shutko wrote: > would on a potato system.) If you'd been trying this with a slink or > hamm system, would apt-get have been able to do anything? It would probably be a 100 package upgrade, as the libc and other libraries would have to be upgraded, but yes, I'd be suprised if it failed to wor

Re: reset: success

2001-03-27 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi Well, my maxtor is at least 2-3 years. and I have this problem a while after I upgrade to 2.4.x kernel couple of months ago. first I thought there might be problem with 2.4 kernel, but I am not sure. and it happen (all 4 times) when I was using dpkg upgrading my system. Edwin Lau On

Which Kernel should I use????

2001-03-27 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm looking for some help.  I need to install a new kernel on my nat machine, but I'm not sure which kernel to go for.  I must have a kernel that can run pppoe (for my adsl) and I also need to be able to nat vpn connections (I have a vpn client that I need to use to connect into work). What

Re: Gnome: short question

2001-03-27 Thread ocorrain
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:26:31PM +0100, William Leese wrote: > A shamefully stupid question: how do i change the text background (and > foreground) colors of gtk apps? I found the .gtkrc file but had no clue how > to change the colors (if it does that) because of the odd way of defining > diff

Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat

2001-03-27 Thread Michael Soulier
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:46:25PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > > > especcially since rpm has this nasty habit of telling you that it > > needs a newer version of a library, but gives no indication as to > > which package this library is in. > > Indeed. I'm not sure why this was thought to be a g

Re: X and S3 trio 3d/2x (in X 4.0 anyone?? )

2001-03-27 Thread Miguel S. Filipe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I use a S3 trio 3d/2x video card, which is not supported by X (even with X4.0.2) with other han 640*480 in 256 colors mode (just annoying for a 8mo card) Does someone knows if a driver was recently released for this card or knows a solution (except changin my card)

Re: SVGATextMode

2001-03-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:36:50PM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i finally did > > apt-get install SVGATextMode > > and love it. (so far no smoke, no meltdown...) > > only problem i get is in mutt after a > > SVGATextMode 80x30x9 > > (console mode, not within x

Re: gateway

2001-03-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 07:48:44PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking for some docs in order to configure one of my computers as > a gateway (just which file I have to configure for the packet coming > from the lan through eth1 to go to the net through eth0) Th

Re: Howto change default keymap

2001-03-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 06:35:41PM +0200, Marcus Geiger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > how do I change the default keymap. I want my system to keep the setting > if reboot. > install-keymap dvorak seems to me not enough. I've had to fight with this on several systems. In general, I create

Re: apt-get removal frenzie

2001-03-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:06:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed alsa the other day, and like to get esound to work with it. > But when I give the command > > #apt-get install esound-alsa > Reading Package Lists... 100% > Building Dependency Tre

Re: LILO gives: L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 (ad infinitum,) after install (2.2r0)

2001-03-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:38:50PM +, Martin Waller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > Never had lilo probs quite like this before - after installing on a new > machine I get: > L 40 40 40 40 40 etc. > > Whats up? It's broken ;-) /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz: L ... The fi

Re: deleting specific files (a litle note about "de nada" )

2001-03-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:52:51PM -0500, William T Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Miguel S. Filipe wrote: > > > > I need to delete a bunch of files, all of them of the form > > > *.doc, scattered into several subdirectories inside a given > > > directory. W

exim problem

2001-03-27 Thread Martin Würtele
hi, i've got a strange exim problem: when starting "exim -bd -q30m" every time a send a mail to that server i get 2001-03-27 23:50:49 14i1MX-LI-00 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=remote_smtp defer (0): SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host pop.wuertele.cc [62.116.32.6]

Re: reset: success

2001-03-27 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 08:11:00PM -0500, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: | I don't know if it is related to the problem. Sometimes when I try to | upgrade debian using dselect. I got the forwarding error | | hda: timout waiting DMA | | ide_dmaproc: chipset support ide_dma_timeout func only 14 | hda: r

Re: 3dfx & openGL? what do I need? (kernel 2.4, X 4.x)

2001-03-27 Thread David Steinberg
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: > > this problem is more general, there are some 'groups' of packages that > all provide same/similar functionality but it's not clear which ones > work together, netscape packages are similar (or at least were when I > was installing netscape). > Agr

2nd try: OT: Removing forwarders in named.conf

2001-03-27 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Are there any problems/issues with removing the forwarders statement in my gateway's named.conf?? After upgrading my potato box's version of bind I apparently lost contact with my ISP's DNS machines. With their being unavailable over the weekend and my needing the contact, I simply removed the f

Netmeeting and Potato

2001-03-27 Thread Joao Pissarro
Hello all,   I am trying to run netmeeting trough a Debian Potato machine with ip_masquerading. The loaded moules are ip_masq_raudio and ip_masq_ftp.   I can put out video and audio, but I do not get nothing in.   Can anyone help me.   Best Regards Joao Pissarro ---Joao PissarroInet: [EMAIL P

modconf problem

2001-03-27 Thread john smith
Hi, I have recompiled my kernel with kerneld support and some modules (sound,vfat,etc) then rebooted, executed depmod -a but when I run modconf..there is no modules to select from? I have checked in syslog and there are no unresolved symbols, system map is correct... what am I missing? TIA

LILO gives: L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 (ad infinitum,) after install (2.2r0)

2001-03-27 Thread Martin Waller
Hello, Never had lilo probs quite like this before - after installing on a new machine I get: L 40 40 40 40 40 etc. Whats up? Tried with/without a small /boot partition, installing LILO on /dev/hda, /dev/hda1, etc. (all combinations). But same result. Pointers appreciated, ta Martin ___

wtf: display is set to :3 but Xlib connects to :0

2001-03-27 Thread Erik Steffl
when I use startx -- :2 everything works fine, X server starts, I can start clients that connect to that server etc... however when I use the following command line: startx -- -depth 16 :3 I get following error messages: jojda:/etc/X11# echo $DISPLAY :3 jojda:/etc/X11# atlantis Xli

Re: Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2001-03-27 Thread Jason Majors
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:24:53PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti scribbled... > Hi All! > > I added testing (woody) to my sources.list some days ago and carried > out an upgrade of my potato box. I got two main problems (amongst others I > may not noticed so far): > > - It broke my lilo, leavi

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