IceWM + dockapps

2001-05-31 Thread Vincent Foley
Hi, does IceWM 1.0.7 (the one in testing) has support for dockapps? I seem to remember that they had took Blackbox's Slit code and integrated it to IceWM to support those. I'd like to know if I can get that if I apt-get it? That's a very important thing for me, so if you have answer, please le

Sorry-O.T.-WebTV

2001-05-31 Thread Wayne Sitton
Sorry, that was meant for a different list. If anyone has ideas, thank you. >My girlfriend bought me a Sony WebTV Terminal at a garage sale. It's a model INT-W150. >So, I was wondering, is there anything I can do with the p.o.s. Can the thing be >flashed, . Basically, has anyone figured out s

Re: Mindterm and different font.

2001-05-31 Thread Joey Hess
Preben Randhol wrote: > Is there a way to change the font when after logging into a Linux box > with mindterm (Java SSH). I would like to be able to change to a > iso-8859-7 font, but setfont doesn't work. According to the README: 4.3.2 Terminal... (Ctrl+Shift+T) In this dialog you can set the ba

O.T.-WebTV

2001-05-31 Thread Wayne Sitton
My girlfriend bought me a Sony WebTV Terminal at a garage sale. It's a model INT-W150. So, I was wondering, is there anything I can do with the p.o.s. Can the thing be flashed, . Basically, has anyone figured out something to do with these things, besides a door stop, or a paper weight.

test

2001-05-31 Thread John R Lenton
sorry, please ignore -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: Look out! Behind you! pgprV3Jkb4Wnc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: First Debian Install Question

2001-05-31 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:48:59PM -0400, Bill Witherspoon wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to re-run the X setup proggy that > you get through dselect? I think it's "XF86Setup", which is an absolutely stupid name. Rob -- hubub, hubub, HUBUB, hubub, hubub, hubub, HUBUB, hubub, hubub, hubub.

Re: SSHD-config

2001-05-31 Thread Frans Schreuder
commented it out. same as before. did not work standard 2.2 r0, apt-get upgrade kind regards Frans - Original Message - From: "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 3:35 AM Subject: Re: SSHD-config > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:07:11AM +0200, Frans Schr

Re: apt-get --print-uris in NoLocking mode

2001-05-31 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:42:23PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:56:23AM +0200, Santi B?jar wrote: > >I try to get a list of all the .deb to be installed (with > >--print-uris), but I have to do it like root. I thought that if I add > > a "-o Debug::NoLocking=yes"

Re: The use of source cds.

2001-05-31 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:02:38PM -0600, Simmons-Davis wrote: > Dear Debian Group, > > I would like to know exactly what purpose the source cds serve and who would > need to use them. I will only be using Debian for things like word > processing, email, the internet, etcetera and wouldn't be doin

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-31 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:27:43PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > "Steve R. Hastings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Corel is selling the whole WordPerfect Office suite, which includes > > WordPerfect and Quattro Pro. > > Note that last I checked, there's no commitment to ongoing support of > thi

WINE/newbie

2001-05-31 Thread Frans Schreuder
Hai again,   Have any thoughts on Wine?   I've visited their site(faq,readmanual) tried and stranded on getting a mounting thing with wine.conf. Not sure how to refer to the windows location.   I've made a habit out of making howto's of things I'm doing. Anybody have one?     Option: Can I m

Re: X :1 works but startx -- :1 doesn't anymore

2001-05-31 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:43:57PM -0300, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: : :i've jsut fixed it i downgraded from xbase-clients_4.0.3-4_i386.deb 2 :xbase-clients_4.0.3-3_i386.deb did you file a bug report? see http://bugs.debian.org for howto info

Satelite

2001-05-31 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I have been asked to get satelite internet reception working on a linux box. Currently it is working on a 98 box but is not 'sharable' across the network. Any clues as to where to go for the drivers etc ? Ian

Re: SSHD-config

2001-05-31 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:55:37PM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: :If sshd has been compiled with libwrap support (Debian's has) it will use :hosts.allow and hosts.deny . I think the default hosts.deny in Debian is :now 'ALL: PARANOID', at least that was the setting when I installed :Debian (in S

Re: X :1 works but startx -- :1 doesn't anymore

2001-05-31 Thread Sergio E. Schvezov
i've jsut fixed it i downgraded from xbase-clients_4.0.3-4_i386.deb 2 xbase-clients_4.0.3-3_i386.deb * Sergio E. Schvezov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi, i've recently updated my distro (sid) and my startx doesn't seem to > accept any params for the server anymore, i can start the server in man

Re: Jumpstart install of debian?

2001-05-31 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Sorry I missed the start of this... I'm very near a solution for my Lab to do this very thing. It would be working (I think :) except that I broke the custom kernel I want so that one of the important NIC cards 'round here doesn't work. The concept works (aslong as you have a 3com or eepro card

Re: Trying for X 4.0 on potato - again

2001-05-31 Thread Dana J . Laude
On Thu, 31 May 2001 18:41:17 MRZ wrote: > Wow, seems like I'm alone in the problems I'm having with > this- hopefully someone might recognize an answer to one of these.. > > To rehash the problem, I'm running potato, and want to update X > from 3.3 to 4.0.: > 1. Why would a deb be unrecognized as

X :1 works but startx -- :1 doesn't anymore

2001-05-31 Thread Sergio E. Schvezov
hi, i've recently updated my distro (sid) and my startx doesn't seem to accept any params for the server anymore, i can start the server in many virtual ttys but only with X :a (a= number), but not doing a startx -- :1 it's rare, for now i'm starting the server and rederecting the client WM. any

Re: which gnutella-client to use

2001-05-31 Thread Dana J . Laude
On Thu, 31 May 2001 20:16:11 Thomas Hess wrote: > hi, > > do you have any suggestions for a graphical gnutella-client? I'm looking > for one with many configuration-options, multiple searches. A gtk/gnome > program would be nice, but not important. I'm using LimeWire. Give it a try, works fine

Re: USB CD burner recommendations?

2001-05-31 Thread Robert Storey
On Thursday 31 May 2001 22:11, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > Max Kamenetsky wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > Do you have any recommendations on a fast external USB-based CD burner > > I've never tried this and my info is probably a bit out of date, but, > the last time I looked at the CD burning howto it said

S3-Virge

2001-05-31 Thread Leung, Alan YL
Dear Sir, Can S3-Virge support for Windows 2000 ? If can't, please help me to solve the problem. Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] & [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you very much! Best Regards Alan

Re: Trying for X 4.0 on potato - again

2001-05-31 Thread Nate Amsden
MRZ wrote: > > Wow, seems like I'm alone in the problems I'm having with this- hopefully > someone might recognize an answer to one of these.. > > To rehash the problem, I'm running potato, and want to update X from 3.3 to > 4.0.: deb http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ xf403_potato/all/ deb h

Re: SSHD-config

2001-05-31 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:35:14PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > So it works now? Hmmm. on my system hosts.allow and hosts.deny are > both empty (exept comments), which allows everything from everywhere > (nobody get excited, I'm also running netfilter packet filtering :), > and this is the d

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 03:41:38AM -0600, John Galt wrote: > > In vi, :1267 works... > > Also, for vim, start your editing session right at the exact line > you're interested in via > > vi +1267 filename.here > The correct solution is emacs M

Re: Jumpstart install of debian?

2001-05-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Andrew D Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another solution would be to use cpio to make an archive of the file > system and then expand this out onto a clean machine. I recently did > this and found it to be relatively painless. I did only use one large > partition (well two but I'm not count

Re: SSHD-config

2001-05-31 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:07:11AM +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote: :Thanx for your trouble :I checked /var/log/auth.log on advise of H.H.Gebel :Changed an host entry (casesensitivity)of the FREESCO router. :More importantly, added client in host.allow. So it works now? Hmmm. on my system hosts.

Re: is this video-card supported?

2001-05-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
See http://bytesex.org/bttv/index.html for linux tv card support. -chris "A. Demarteau (linux rules!)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi, > are the following 2 cards supported yet: > Matrox MARVEL G450 (card has onboard tv-tuner) > Matrox G450 > > thanx > --- > Andor Demarteau > [EMAIL

Re: Two keyboards in X

2001-05-31 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:05:20PM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: : :On Thu, 31 May 2001 20:49:29 -0400 :"Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : :> :> Hi, :> :> "know" is too stong a word but, you'll need XFree4.0 :Thanks for the reply, but multihead is actually more complicated than :I

Re: Rage128 and DRI

2001-05-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
mikepolniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Once you get that far , if you have the latest KDE installed you can enjoy > the beauty of anti-aliased fonts. Once you see them you won't go back to > ugly fonts. That sounds interesting, can you elaborate? Is this a hardware feature of the card?

which gnutella-client to use

2001-05-31 Thread Thomas Hess
hi, do you have any suggestions for a graphical gnutella-client? I'm looking for one with many configuration-options, multiple searches. A gtk/gnome program would be nice, but not important. tom -- Thomas Hess mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Two keyboards in X

2001-05-31 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 31 May 2001 20:49:29 -0400 "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > "know" is too stong a word but, you'll need XFree4.0 then RTFM for > XF86Config. I was poking through for my multi head setup and there > seems to be away to add multiple input devices which I *think

Re: SSHD-config

2001-05-31 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:09:40AM +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote: :Hi, : :I'm having trouble setting up a SSH-connection to my Debian box. 1) Are you logging in as "root"? this is disabled by default in Debian systems for security reasons (look in /etc/ssh/sshd_config) 2) Check /var/log/auth.l

Re: Two keyboards in X

2001-05-31 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, "know" is too stong a word but, you'll need XFree4.0 then RTFM for XF86Config. I was poking through for my multi head setup and there seems to be away to add multiple input devices which I *think* can be bound to a specific display. Both displays will have the same login (UID). Multi head s

mixer - soundcard question

2001-05-31 Thread vester
hi! while i'm at it, there's one more thing that's been bothering me... i installed the alsa drivers for my soundcard, and all works nice now, except, the cannels are muted after every restart...that is i need to run gmmix (and it does remember the volume levels from the last session) in order to

pcmcia-cdrom woes (2)

2001-05-31 Thread vester
what i should add is that the cd-drive works with the kernel that was originally provided by the debian installation...actually it was about the only thing that did work with that kernel...anyway, thanks all! vester

pcmcia-cdrom woes

2001-05-31 Thread vester
hello, this is annoying, i had thought my kernel finally supported all the hardware in my notebook only to find out that the cd drive didn't work...so i re-compiled the kernel, basically messing up everything that had been working before. well, now i think i am back to where i've been before...i

SSHD-config

2001-05-31 Thread Frans Schreuder
Hi,   I'm having trouble setting up a SSH-connection to my Debian box.   I've read the manpages, searched the mailinglist wich claimed i wasn't searching anything. Also having looked into some linux-books I have. Couldn't find it. Help¿!   I'm using PuTTY from a Windows machine.

SupraExpress @ 38400 and 57600

2001-05-31 Thread JKjastarch
I've been using 14.4's and 28.8's on AOL for a year now with both 68K and PowerMac... Buy going to Set Up and rolling my own with hayes error corrcting there, I get 38400 Sign On's with the 68K's and AOL 3 &4 and 57600 with AOL4 and the PM-7200/75 AOL makes it easy..I've never been able to

Trying for X 4.0 on potato - again

2001-05-31 Thread MRZ
Wow, seems like I'm alone in the problems I'm having with this- hopefully someone might recognize an answer to one of these.. To rehash the problem, I'm running potato, and want to update X from 3.3 to 4.0.: 1. Why would a deb be unrecognized as valid prior to a "apt-get dist-upgrade", but be

Re: I need info please

2001-05-31 Thread ktb
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 06:36:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. I am very excited about beign able to use a linux OS. I looked on > the debian site, but all the places where I could get information and > downloads were either too technical to understand, or blended too well with >

Two keyboards in X

2001-05-31 Thread Christoph Simon
Somebody knows how to get two Xservers running, each using its own physical keyboard (PS/2 + USB or 2 x USB)? Thanks, -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .

Re: 12 box network in small school

2001-05-31 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, Sorry if I'm coming into this late, I've been away from the list for a while and blew away the 3k messages I hadn't read so only caught the last post of this thread I've been working on an NFS root installer, which starts off essentially diskless so it can repartition the harddrive(s). O

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

2001-05-31 Thread Mike Pfleger
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 06:48:52PM -0400, John S. J. Anderson wrote: > Question: have you tried to get any other program to recognize this > keysym, or just xterm? I have tried a few things, but the only one that gave me any response at all was xterm, and that was the 9~. As I've stated earlier,

Re: 12 box network in small school

2001-05-31 Thread will trillich
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:16:08PM -0700, Forrest English wrote: > definitly. at freegeek.org we run 10+ machines sans disks by using a > diskless setup, and getting their x sessions from another box completely. > the server i belive is a dual ppro 180.and we've been using client > machines o

Re: Does Debian change permissions automatically??

2001-05-31 Thread will trillich
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 03:50:03PM +0100, Cliff Rowley wrote: > The reader this message encounters not failing to understand is cursed. by whom? -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #27 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Would you like RXVT to have more than 80 COLUMNS or 24 ROWS? For an rxvt session, ru

Re: Configuring Networking - Newbie - add'l info

2001-05-31 Thread will trillich
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 02:49:26PM -0400, Bob Underwood wrote: > this is my first time writing to the list, so i left out info in my > newbieness *it happens. :) > this is a new install, barebones 2.2r2 from cd (cheapbytes) with dist-upgrade > to the current stable dist, and security updates. >

Re: IPv6

2001-05-31 Thread DvB
Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:33:35AM -0500, DvB wrote: Additionally, there are (last I knew) some problems with IPv6 in Linux when inserted as a kernel module. It only works right when compiled in. This info may be outdated though. Oh... maybe that's what was making m

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

2001-05-31 Thread John S. J. Anderson
> On Thu, 31 May 2001 15:37:49 -0700, Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Mike> Is there an easy way to check for Mod3 and Mod4 events? If you do 'xmodmap -pm', you'll get a listing of all the modifiers (Mod1-5,Lock,Control, etc.) and the keysyms each is currently bound to. That may at lea

Re: Printing using CUPS from the command line.

2001-05-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
You could also try removing /etc/printcap and linking it to /etc/printcap.cups as that will make the cups printer definitions become the default ones for your system. I use lp -d LaserJet just to be on the safe side, though with only one printer set up you don't really need the -d LaserJet bit. M

Re: Window manager ....

2001-05-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi there, Try uwm - it's very very non-system hungry - it's built around the xwindows libraries rather than qt or gtk so it's very very fast. It's not fully gnome-compliant, but that doesn't mean it'll stop you using gnome applications. I've used it for some time now. Matthew On Thu, May 31, 20

Re: Questions (and hello) from a new (Progeny) Debian user.

2001-05-31 Thread will trillich
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:03:59AM +1000, Krisno Pryosusilo wrote: > I'm a relatively new user of Linux and have since yesterday, migrated > from SuSE 7.1 to a boxed version 1.0 of Progeny Debian. > I chose Progeny because of my perception that Progeny would be easier to > install and get running t

I need info please

2001-05-31 Thread AlexHiggs
Hi. I am very excited about beign able to use a linux OS. I looked on the debian site, but all the places where I could get information and downloads were either too technical to understand, or blended too well with my screen. I don't evcen know exactly what kind of computer I have. All I

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

2001-05-31 Thread Mike Pfleger
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 07:29:36PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Sure it does ... write out a _complete_ map before you make changes, > copy it to a safe place, make changes, save them, and use diff to see > what changed. Worked for me ... I now have no caps lock key, three > ctrl keys, and a co

mutt imap ssl etc

2001-05-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi there, I used to use courier imapd and then switched to uw-imapd and set that up with an ssl connection only. I self compiled mutt 1.3.15 with ssl support and everything has been working fine. However, a new version made it into woody and overwrote my self compiled version so I downloaded the

Re: Log messages

2001-05-31 Thread ktb
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:55:54PM -0500, shock wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > recently, i noticed the following in my logs: > > May 30 07:42:24 cx633007-b kernel: Packet log: inp DENY eth0 PROTO=6 > 24.0.0.203:51622 24.179.76.38:119 L=44 S=0x00 I=15241 F=0x T=24

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-05-31 Thread Andrew D Dixon
will trillich wrote: > > BYCMUYJTCP > (but you can alaways make up your own, just to confuse people.) > And you can alaways make up words too :0)

Re: kernel 2.4.4 and ES1371 soundcard

2001-05-31 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hmmm... Yeah, I couldn't insmod ns558 either. It would always give me a bunch of errors (somethign along the line of 'no device or resource'). So that's why I tried to compile it into the kernel (which did not work). I remember that back in the day (w/ the 2.0.x and 2.2.x kernels), after you sel

Re: Currency of packages

2001-05-31 Thread Casper Gielen
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:44:46AM -0700, jennyw wrote: > I started using Debian because folks suggested it was easy to maintain > (e.g. apt-get). I really like apt -- it certainly makes installing and > downloading things a lot easier than other distributions. However ... > I'm not (yet) a heavy

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-05-31 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 31 May 2001 16:06, will trillich wrote: > 73? click, ruffle, ruffle, click... aha. > acronymfinder.com sez it's from amateur/ham radio! Yup, goes way back, to morse code days. Shorthad for "Best wishes." 73 is _ _ . . . . . . _ _ in morse code. The symmetrical pattern of dot

Re: Setting up NIS

2001-05-31 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:10:48AM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: > I seem to recall have to add yp entries to /etc/services for NIS to work > correctly. I can't really recall, it 4am, and it's been ages since I did it. > It was easier /etc/services or some portmap file. I can't be certain. Let me kn

Re: kernel 2.4.4 and ES1371 soundcard

2001-05-31 Thread Mike Pfleger
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:33:03PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Could you send me the output of lsmod (offline if you prefer). > > Module Size Used by > analog 6816 0 (unused) > es1371 25632 2 > ac97_codec 8480 0 [es137

Re: Setting up NIS

2001-05-31 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:36:23PM -0700, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > I think I know part of what your problem is. Either do in your yp.conf: > domain mycompany.com server bradley.west.mycompany.com > ^^ -- Note "server" not "ypserver" > OR > ypserver bradley.west.mycompany.co

Re: man problems

2001-05-31 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:08:34PM +0530, harsha wrote: > hi, >all of a sudden i can't view the man pages. oh. i thought you were looking for date advice there, for a minute. (i shouldn't, i know -- but sometimes it's too hard to resist.) -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #22 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL

Re: About PGP signatures

2001-05-31 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:36:33PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" writes: > > > Request: I'd like a list of clients supporting RFC 2015 attachments and > > the plugins necessary to support this. Of particular interest: > > All Windows-based clients which support MIME only by

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-05-31 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:09:46PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi list > > As a non-native english speaker, I sometimes find it difficult to figure > out, what some abbreviations mean. It took me rather long to find out, > that "hth" means "Hope This Helps", and so on. > Could some of you expla

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-05-31 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:03:21AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Hey Joerg, > > fwiw, I found a killer apt called 'wtf'. I'll let you do the math on what > that means, but it is a great way to know what 'imnsho' means. Also, > apt-cache search showed me that jargon is still availabl

Re: stop users telnet - fun ...

2001-05-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hey... i've done that too... ( changed the deamon to that similar script ) and the comment, "if you really need to get access...you should already know how to do it" and the other comment to add... please use ssh instead ... and boy do some people get annoyed when they get that message ...

Re: stop users telnet

2001-05-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya Mike setup /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny cat /etc/hosts.deny # turn everything off ALL: ALL cat /etc/hosts.allow # allow only your ip# to telnet in in.telnetd: 192.168.1.1 10.0.1.1 restart inetd for those changes to take effect -- taking out

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-05-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
There are many collections of definitions. I asked Google, and here's one it gave me back: http://www.harley.com/abbreviations/ There are undoubtedly many more. -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>HASMAT--HA

Re: Window manager ....

2001-05-31 Thread Scott_Patterson
>Hi, > >Anyone pls tell me how heavier the system resourses >will suffer if I run sawmill wm versus icewm? My box >only 35Mb RAM 100 Mhz CPU, ; icewm is good for all >purpose (gnome compliant, light, nice looking and >configure but not nice with netscape (see my last >email :-) ). I have tested

Video Capture (meteor pro & ati all in wonder)

2001-05-31 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I'm looking to play around with video conferencing and I have a Matrox Meteor Pro (SAA7116 chip acording to scanpci) and an ATI all-in-wonder 128 to play around with. I'm running a 2.4.4 kernel and trying to figure out what module to load (and with the ATI if it's supported at all). The Mete

Re: stop users telnet

2001-05-31 Thread ANDREW PERRIN
Use /bin/false as the users' shell, or alternatively write your own (more informative) one to tell them what's up: #!/usr/bin/perl -w print "Sorry... Mike doesn't want you logging into this machine.\n"; exit 1; - Andrew J. Perrin - Ass

named/query () contains our address...?

2001-05-31 Thread will trillich
- Forwarded message from root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:02:03 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: server 05/30/01:17.02 system check Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= May 30 16:08:34 server xinetd[25723]: warning: can't get c

stop users telnet

2001-05-31 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi all...   I have a bunch of users on my linux box that have access to some samba shares ftp to their home directoriesetc...   What do you suggest I do to stop them from accessing the system via telnet or ssh? (just in case some of them are curiousdon't want them looking in /etc

Re: Setting up NIS

2001-05-31 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:53:44AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Any further suggestions or anything seemingly relevant in this information? I think I know part of what your problem is. Either do in your yp.conf: domain mycompany.com server bradley.west.mycompany.com

Re: Printer woes

2001-05-31 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Sidney Brooks wrote: > > > Can anybody tell me what is wrong? > I can't exactly say what is wrong but have you tried magicfilter? It worked like a charm the last time I had to get a printer going. later, Andy P.S. I've never trusted buying Debian CD's. People always seem to mess them up. Be

qmail install help!!!

2001-05-31 Thread Hirn Wix
Hello everyone! By now I'm rather pissed off. I managed to install qmail 1.03 on my potato and when it comes to the point where I want to start the local delivery functionality, the log says some about "unable to switch to queue directory"... -and then I tried almost everything. read docs, faqs...

net-pf-10 fork failed, errno 11

2001-05-31 Thread Dan Christensen
I get the following error message once or twice an hour in my syslog: May 31 13:25:55 ren kernel: request_module[net-pf-10]: fork failed, errno 11 This happens whether or not I have #alias net-pf-10 off# IPv6 commented out in my /etc/modutils/aliases file (and I did remember to run

Log messages

2001-05-31 Thread shock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 recently, i noticed the following in my logs: May 30 07:42:24 cx633007-b kernel: Packet log: inp DENY eth0 PROTO=6 24.0.0.203:51622 24.179.76.38:119 L=44 S=0x00 I=15241 F=0x T=247 SYN (#1) May 30 07:42:24 cx633007-b kernel: Packet log: inp DENY et

Nokia 6210 + internet

2001-05-31 Thread Sebastian Deppe
hello ! is anybody out there who is using a nokia 6210 to connect to the internet ? i've got the nokia DLR3-cable on /dev/ttyS0 but i got "no carrier" with "kppp" . i'm using debian testing with kernel 2.4.4 . can anybody say me what i've to do ? thanks sebastian deppe

Re: [Galeon-user] Unofficial Galeon Package against Sid

2001-05-31 Thread Pablo Borges
Up and running. Looks good here... Tnx Christophe. []'s Pablo On Thu, 31 May 2001, christophe barbé wrote: > Hi, > > I've build unofficial galeon package against sid. > The package is build against a patched version of kitame's mozilla. > I provide package for the last official release of ga

Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-31 Thread Ian Greenhoe
> How do you down-grade a package? I get burned a lot by ximian and was > thinking that it would be really useful to have a list of what packages > I was running before upgrading so that I could revert to that state if > there packages were broken, again ;( ***

Re: nfs-problem

2001-05-31 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:05:44PM +0200, Alexander Gun uttered: > May 31 15:01:38 asterix kernel: nsm_mon_unmon: rpc failed, status=-13 > May 31 15:01:38 asterix kernel: lockd: cannot monitor 192.168.13.100 > May 31 15:01:38 asterix kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 192.168.13.100 > Make sure nfs-

Re: Setting up NIS

2001-05-31 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:53:44AM -0500, Dave Sherohman uttered: > > Check. I actually had tried shutting down NFS and then stopping and starting > portmapper and NIS in various combinations yesterday; NIS gives a completely > different set of errors when portmapper is shut down. > I seem to re

Re: The use of source cds.

2001-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >How about using the source cd's to roll your very own binary? Seems like that >would be something useful for folks who love power computin'. Try out pentium-builder, which makes this easier. It's somewhat more hassle if you're tracking unstable, though (and not clear tha

Re: Succes with Win4lin 3.0 on Potato?

2001-05-31 Thread Paul Huygen
Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Those guys at Netravese do not support Debian (I wrote them about that). > It requires some kernel patch and tweaks, I was wondering if anyone here > has had a go at it yet. Any reports most welcome. About a month ago, I tried win4lin on Debian, an

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-05-31 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hey Joerg, fwiw, I found a killer apt called 'wtf'. I'll let you do the math on what that means, but it is a great way to know what 'imnsho' means. Also, apt-cache search showed me that jargon is still available and will do the same job. It's small and useful. Just used it today when I see

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

2001-05-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John S. J. Anderson) writes: >> On 30 May 2001 22:08:33 -0400, "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Paul> Second, my point is, with so many truly _useful_ and Paul> _interesting_ things to learn, why waste brain cells on Paul> something as basically useless

Re: The use of source cds.

2001-05-31 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
How about using the source cd's to roll your very own binary? Seems like that would be something useful for folks who love power computin'. On Thursday 31 May 2001 04:10, Colin Watson wrote: > Oh, I should point out that the other half of why we distribute source > code is because the licenses o

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2001-05-31 Thread Firas-Sadat
Ich hab mich bei der Installation von Debian an die Installationsanleitung von Mark Stone gehalten. Doch an dem Punkt "Das System konfigurieren" scheitere ich, da es in der Installationsanleitung so aussieht, als hätte das System nach dem Login eine Windowsähnliche Oberfläche. Doch die Oberf

Re: Setting up NIS

2001-05-31 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:16:43PM -0700, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > Not necessarily suprising. I've found the most useful way to get data > from ypserv is to run it from a seperate [aEwx]term with the -d > switch. Word of warning: It can produce a *lot* of data. Or it might not... bradley:~# ypser

Re: anyone going to USENIX?

2001-05-31 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:49:40AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > We've had a Debian Bof at the last 3 Usenixes (Usenices?), so it'd be > a reasonable idea. Excellent. Hopefully we'll be running a booth in the expo so we'll get to meet there anyway. I will be helping to run the booth, but I d

Re: First Debian Install Question

2001-05-31 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Thanks for the replies. It was xf86config that I wanted. Now if I could just the settings correct. I've got an old Daewoo (CMX?) monitor, and a GeForce 256 card, and I can't seem to get it right. If anyone has a similar setup maybe they could share their config settings? I'll keep plugging away.

Re: IPv6

2001-05-31 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:33:35AM -0500, DvB wrote: > I've noticed that the debian installer includes the option to add ipv6 > support to the kernel. Are there any advantages/disadvantages to adding > this to a workstation? Would it break compatibility with the current > version? No, adding IP

Currency of packages

2001-05-31 Thread jennyw
I started using Debian because folks suggested it was easy to maintain (e.g. apt-get). I really like apt -- it certainly makes installing and downloading things a lot easier than other distributions.  However ... I'm not (yet) a heavy Linux user, and I find that a lot of times I want softwar

Re: mouseman wheel on X

2001-05-31 Thread Robert Voigt
On Thursday 31 May 2001 17:04, Brian Nelson wrote: > I prefer to configure the apps individually. For example, add something > like this to your ~/.emacs > > ; Allow mouse wheel to scroll > (defun up-slightly () (interactive) (scroll-up 5)) > (defun down-slightly () (interactive) (scroll-down 5))

Mindterm and different font.

2001-05-31 Thread Preben Randhol
Is there a way to change the font when after logging into a Linux box with mindterm (Java SSH). I would like to be able to change to a iso-8859-7 font, but setfont doesn't work. Thanks in advance. -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- iMy favorite editor is Emacs!bcw

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-05-31 Thread Martin Schulze
Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi list > > As a non-native english speaker, I sometimes find it difficult to figure > out, what some abbreviations mean. It took me rather long to find out, > that "hth" means "Hope This Helps", and so on. > Could some of you explain to me (and, I'm sure, to some others as

Re: gnumeric

2001-05-31 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 23:26:54 -0700, David Nusinow wrote: > The gnumeric package has a dependency on the libgal6 package, but that's > been removed from sources (I think) and replaced with a new libgal7 > package. This broke the gnumeric package, and some other packages like > gabber. > I don't

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-05-31 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Petr [Dingo] Dvorak" wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > JJ> ? IIRC > JJ> ? AFAIK > JJ> ? IMHO > > IIRC - If I Recall Correctly > AFAIK - As Far As I Know > IMHO - In My Humble Opinion > > you can use www.acronymfinder.com to find out the rest .. :) Alternatively, install

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