Re: icq through masqueraded firewall /socks4

2001-06-11 Thread Paul Haesler
> >It used to work with just port forwarding but since upgrading to > >icq 2000b, user to user file transfers and voice messages > >don't work anymore. > > > > My understanding is you need to specify in ICQ the ports to use and then > setup your portforwarding appropriately. Yeah I used to do t

Re: icq through masqueraded firewall /socks4

2001-06-11 Thread John Griffiths
>It used to work with just port forwarding but since upgrading to >icq 2000b, user to user file transfers and voice messages >don't work anymore. > My understanding is you need to specify in ICQ the ports to use and then setup your portforwarding appropriately.

icq through masqueraded firewall /socks4

2001-06-11 Thread Paul Haesler
Hi all, Look, I'm trying to get icq working on windoze client computers on the private LAN through a Debian masquerading gateway (ipchains - kernel 2.2.19). It used to work with just port forwarding but since upgrading to icq 2000b, user to user file transfers and voice messages don't work anymo

Re: Power button doesn't work

2001-06-11 Thread Erik Steffl
Derek Hans wrote: > > Is it normal that my power button doesn't work? > After running shutdown -h now, the system shuts down and issues a > message saying > "Power down." > However, when I hit the power button, the computer just beeps but > still stays on. The only thing I can then do is a VERY ha

Re: networking broken (ifup, route add)

2001-06-11 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:50:05PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > Help; > > after an apt-get fiasco, I seem mostly restored, but networking is still > broken. > (Thanks for other hints on those recoveries) > > Symptoms: > > 1) I can manually add etho, > but not localhost, > omega:/etc

networking broken (ifup, route add)

2001-06-11 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Help; after an apt-get fiasco, I seem mostly restored, but networking is still broken. (Thanks for other hints on those recoveries) Symptoms: 1) I can manually add etho, but not localhost, omega:/etc/apt# route add default gw 10.10.0.1 SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable 2) "if

Re: Weird sound problem -- alsa at fault??

2001-06-11 Thread Clinton
What kind of sound card are you using? On Monday 11 June 2001 02:03 pm, Brendan O'Connor wrote: > Hello! > > When I try to play a wav or mp3, I only hear a stuttering replay of the > first half second or so, again and again for several seconds. Whenever an > app plays a sound (say, kmail when fin

testing upgrade loses vim syntax coloring

2001-06-11 Thread Rick Pasotto
The vim in testing tries to access '/usr/share/vim/syntax' but that directory is in '/usr/share/vim/vim56/syntax'. I created a symbolic link and now no longer get the error messages but following up in slrn doesn't give me colors. -- Certain nations seem particularly liable to fall prey to gover

[Fwd: no signs of life from printer]

2001-06-11 Thread Norbert Froese
--- Begin Message --- Robin Gerard wrote: > On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 07:04:38PM -0700, Norbert Froese wrote: > >. > > It seems to me that my problem is more low level than a spooling or > > filter problem as there is no activity, even with directly accessing the > > printer. > > > I suppos

Re: Slow and ugly X startup with NVidia drivers

2001-06-11 Thread ray p
The newest drivers work fine here and fix the problem you are having. On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:11:04PM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:55:23PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: > > Hello friends, > > > > This is already bothering me for a while, but I never really > > cared. But n

xfree86 4.0

2001-06-11 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Hi all. How can I upgrade my potato_r0 to install xfree86 v4.x? --xgnu

unexpected interrupt

2001-06-11 Thread Margarete Hans
When running linux, every few minutes a message pops up saying ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=1 the count being incremented each time. It ins't actually doing anything (bad) from what I see, it's just bothersome. What is it and how can I stop it from happening?

Power button doesn't work

2001-06-11 Thread Derek Hans
Is it normal that my power button doesn't work? After running shutdown -h now, the system shuts down and issues a message saying "Power down." However, when I hit the power button, the computer just beeps but still stays on. The only thing I can then do is a VERY hard reset: take out the batteries

Re: Unable to use ppp with the 2.4.5 kernel

2001-06-11 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Evrard Nicolas wrote: EN> Hello, everyone ... EN> EN> I finally succesfully compiled the 2.4.5 kernel using make-kpkg but in EN> order to have my modules.dep set by depmod I had to make some symlinks EN> because the architecture of the /lib/modules/2.4.5/ directory wasn't EN

Unable to use ppp with the 2.4.5 kernel

2001-06-11 Thread Evrard Nicolas
Hello, everyone ... I finally succesfully compiled the 2.4.5 kernel using make-kpkg but in order to have my modules.dep set by depmod I had to make some symlinks because the architecture of the /lib/modules/2.4.5/ directory wasn't understood by depmod ... Anyway, everything seems to work fine (I

AVI Player (mplayer)

2001-06-11 Thread Reza
Hi... I think someone suggested to use Mplayer for AVI player, but now, I have a little bit problem when I'm playing DivX movies, the sound is not good, it stop sometimes, and then I could hear the sound again, and it only happened if I play DivX movies, and when I type mplayer -vo x11 filaname.avi

Re: lilo problem after kernel install: LIL-

2001-06-11 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 08:04:16PM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 04:54:04PM +, Anthony Fairchild wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I recently upgraded all packages necessary to install a 2.4.x kernel on my > > Debian 2.2 laptop. After downloading, compiling, and installing the 2.4.5

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2001-06-11 Thread wen
Hi,gurus, I am new to Tomcat and Servlet&JSP. I want to run Servlet&JSP in my apache Web server. The following packages have been installed in my Debian unstable box, Tomcat 3.2.2-1 apache 1.3.19-1 jdk1.1 1.1.8v1-3 libapache-mod-jk 3.2.2-1 The DocumentRoot of my apache server is /var/www/. Would

Re: X problem

2001-06-11 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 10:34:56PM -0300, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: :Hi all. : :I have a problem with my X configuration. :When I try to start the server from command line with :startx, the X server don't work; when I try to start it :with xdm, the server starts, I fill the username/password :fields

Re: cdrecord problem in testing

2001-06-11 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 06:12:38PM -0700, David Nusinow wrote: > On Monday 11 June 2001 11:06 am, Stephen Rueger wrote: > > > > Use it as "root" or make it SUID, that's all. > > One thing I've never understood about SUID, how does it know which UID > to set? Does it just automatically set to root'

Re: debian on a 486

2001-06-11 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I installed 2.2 from floppy onto a pair of ibm thinkpad 750's (486sx 16M RAM), so the 486 chip shouldn't be an issue. If you're having trouble with a lomem install, I still have some 2.1 CD's I've been dying to donate to a good cause (I belive I wedged debian onto a 386 4M system with the flo

Re: OT: Plucker with Potato

2001-06-11 Thread Barry Mathieu
> On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Barry Mathieu wrote: > > >I probably committed a major Debian Faux-Pax by editing my source file > >to temporarily point at the testing release to allow me to install > >plucker. That is, with testing (rather than stable) in my source file > >I, > > > >apt-get update > >apt-

Re: star office debian-correct installation

2001-06-11 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:10:40AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: :That is a topic of much debate. In general, I fall on the "sudo is evil" :side of the fence, but the basic arguments are: :anti-sudo: It allows you to give limited root access to certain users :without requiring that they know t

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-11 Thread Graham Williams
> Matthias Richter wrote to debian-user on 09 Jun 2001 23:30:41 +1000: >> Is there anything for Linux that provides at least some of the >> facilities of Powerpoint? Matthias> I've just completed a presentation using pdflatex Matthias> (texpower, hyperref, ifmslides) \ldots so

Re: cdrecord problem in testing

2001-06-11 Thread David Nusinow
On Monday 11 June 2001 11:06 am, Stephen Rueger wrote: > > Use it as "root" or make it SUID, that's all. > One thing I've never understood about SUID, how does it know which UID to set? Does it just automatically set to root's ID, or do you have to specify it somewhere? All you do to make somet

Re: lilo problem after kernel install: LIL-

2001-06-11 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 04:54:04PM +, Anthony Fairchild wrote: > Hello all, > > I recently upgraded all packages necessary to install a 2.4.x kernel on my > Debian 2.2 laptop. After downloading, compiling, and installing the 2.4.5 > kernel I rebooted and was greeted with a screen reading only

Re: star office debian-correct installation

2001-06-11 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 10:25:23PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: :I've never used sudo. Whenever I need to do something as root, I use :su. What's the difference? Is one better/more secure than the other? I find that if I use "su" for an X application I need to meddle with my display security (xhost

wajig: a simple command line interface to Debian package mgmt

2001-06-11 Thread Graham Williams
I've been juggling the use of various Debian Package Management tools over the years (including the likes of dselect, deity, deity-gtk, aptitutde, apt-get, dpkg, gnome-apt, apt-cache, and so on). I've written a shell script front-end which I call "wajig" to do some of the common tasks I do in mana

Re: strange behavior of make-kpkg

2001-06-11 Thread ktb
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 01:21:29AM +0200, Evrard Nicolas wrote: > Hello, > > I've got this strange behavior of make-kpkg > > when I do a "make-kpkg clean" it says > "dpkg: warning, architecture `i386-none' not in remapping table > > Then the make process says that there is no rule to make the t

Re: Grub: Does it allow for modularized kernel fs

2001-06-11 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Otto Wyss wrote: > > > > Does anyone know if the fs in Grub allows the kernel to load his > > > necessary fs as modules? I.e. if Grub contains a an ext2 fs, can the > [...] > > Both the kernel and grub don't care about each other, in fact, both > > don't no a thing about the other end [1]. So, ye

making an 'Eterm' terminfo entry

2001-06-11 Thread Aaron Brashears
I recently put together a new debian box based on unstable. When I connect to my local server running debian stable using ssh in Eterm, the server complains when I run ncurses based applications such as emacs that there is no 'Eterm' TERM type. I hacked a solution quickly enough by creating a symli

GLIBC_2.2 and Xfree86

2001-06-11 Thread Derek Hans
Hi I installed the latest version of Xfree86. When running XFree86 -congifure, I get: /lib/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.2' not found The only libc.so.6 library I found (in stable) is version 2.1.3 (?). Does that mean that I can't run this version of Xfree86 with potato? The 2.2 version is unstable.

strange behavior of make-kpkg

2001-06-11 Thread Evrard Nicolas
Hello, I've got this strange behavior of make-kpkg when I do a "make-kpkg clean" it says "dpkg: warning, architecture `i386-none' not in remapping table Then the make process says that there is no rule to make the target so I supposed that the next step (i.e. "fakeroot make-kpkg kernel_image")

Re: Slow and ugly X startup with NVidia drivers

2001-06-11 Thread Joel Mayes
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:55:23PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: > Hello friends, > > This is already bothering me for a while, but I never really > cared. But now I just want it fixed. > The problem: I use X 4.0.3 as in testing, and the Nvidia kernel > and GLX drivers, I'm _not_ using the newest ones

Re: Getting an old boot disk

2001-06-11 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:46:58PM -0400, Matt Gerginski wrote: > Hi, its me again, the kid with the 486. The newest boot disk that i can > get to boot on the 486 is from 1.3.1. the installation was good, > except, i found out there were no dhcp utilities shipped with 1.3.1. > That was the whole

Re: Installation on DELL Optiplex GX100

2001-06-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:18:36PM +0200, Marceau Dominique wrote: > Here is the message I got while attempting to install Debian 2.2 on my DELL > Optiplex GX100 > Can you help me please. As others have mentioned, the GX100 uses an Intel i810-based video chipset. Do some searching with google and

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 15)

2001-06-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
I have prepared the packages needed to run kernels up to 2.4.5 on a Debian 2.2r3 (potato) system. Please read [1] for more information. Changes since the last release: + added: amd + added: am-utils + added: pppoe + added: kernel-image-2.4.5-i386

Re: Grub: Does it allow for modularized kernel fs

2001-06-11 Thread Herbert Xu
Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried it, but I discovered I couldn't use it: LVM needs a writeable > initrd file system. Actually, I use LVM and initrd-tools together and it does work. You need to use the provided scripting mechanism to mount tmpfs on /etc in order to run vgscan/vgchan

Getting an old boot disk

2001-06-11 Thread Matt Gerginski
Hi, its me again, the kid with the 486. The newest boot disk that i can get to boot on the 486 is from 1.3.1. the installation was good, except, i found out there were no dhcp utilities shipped with 1.3.1. That was the whole reason i needed to boot with a debian disk, so that i could get that to

unstable --> testing

2001-06-11 Thread Frank Van Damme
Hello list, I want to go back from unstable to testing in the hope for fewer broken dependencies and so on, now: in order to install a certain gnome package (libgnome-dev, which I need to compile Pan (I want to compile recent versions, I am following their user-list)) I stumbled upon some de

Debian Double Dutch Gnome?

2001-06-11 Thread Mart van de Wege
Hi Folks, First off, apologies for the bad pun :) A minor question: my computer is being used by a flatmate of mine. She is unfortunately not fluent in English, so I selected Dutch as language from the gdm language menu. Unfortunately, everything still keeps turning up English in Gnome. Going t

Re: Want Debian, but have questions...

2001-06-11 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Patrick R. Klee wrote: >Hi, > Well, it looks like Red Hat 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0 don't support my >hardware, I figure it's the 2.4 vanilla kernel. So, I want Debian. If RedHat and Mandrake don't support your hardware, don't expect any miracles out of Debian: hardware con

shared libs vs static compile -- help

2001-06-11 Thread will trillich
according to the instructions i've seen i'm supposed to add the argument "-static" to this command: gcc add.o admin.o buffer.o checkin.o checkout.o classify.o client.o commit.o create_adm.o cvsrc.o diff.o edit.o entries.o expand_path.o fileattr.o find_names.o hardlink.o hash.o history.o ignore.o

Want Debian, but have questions...

2001-06-11 Thread Patrick R. Klee
Hi, Well, it looks like Red Hat 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0 don't support my hardware, I figure it's the 2.4 vanilla kernel. So, I want Debian. I have about 50 floppies, and I have no money, so I figure I will do the PPP install. However, on the FTP site, for Potato there are 11-13 *.bin flopp

Weird sound problem -- alsa at fault??

2001-06-11 Thread Brendan O'Connor
Hello! When I try to play a wav or mp3, I only hear a stuttering replay of the first half second or so, again and again for several seconds. Whenever an app plays a sound (say, kmail when finished downloading new messages), it gets repeated with hideous rasping sounds interspersed with the act

Re: grub & dual boot with 2 hd

2001-06-11 Thread Anthony Fox
Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Next, put the following in /boot/grub/menu.lst: title Debian > GNU/Linux root (hd1,1) kernel /vmlinuz > > Title Windows 2000 rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 Does this make /dev/hdb (Linux) the default partition to boot from? I want Linux to boot by de

Pacific Digital CDwriter

2001-06-11 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Does any one know if they are any good? They have them in SAMS in my area, but I would like to make sure that they are ok to set up under potato-woody. Thanks

Re: Installation on DELL Optiplex GX100

2001-06-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:37:46PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > > i810. You got yourself a TOUGH row to hoe, but it's possible to work. > It looks as if you need to use xserver-svga... Look in the archives, > there's some people who've asked about it before IIRC. If you're willing to live a bit on

Re: Boot Problems

2001-06-11 Thread Guy Geens
> "Nick" == Nick Furman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nick> While booting up this morning, it says it cannot initialize the Nick> initial console and bascially falls into a "rebooting loop" Nick> where it will get back to that that point in the boot sequence, Nick> and reboot itself again. Try

Re: grub & dual boot with 2 hd

2001-06-11 Thread Guy Geens
> "Anthony" == Anthony Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Anthony> I want to go from booting with Lilo to Grub. I am not sure, Anthony> but doesn't lilo have to be installed in the mbr of /dev/hda Anthony> in order to boot both Win2k and Linux (in the above Anthony> configuration)? Can anyone out

Re: login -graphical user interface

2001-06-11 Thread will trillich
temporal displacement alert -- 2000 july 5? On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:20:46PM +0930, Peter Whittam wrote: > Ok, I am new at this so be cool about it. > when I start debian it immediately uses the graphical login, > can I change this option to console login? > > regards newbee you're running a "

Re: Installation on DELL Optiplex GX100

2001-06-11 Thread John Galt
i810. You got yourself a TOUGH row to hoe, but it's possible to work. It looks as if you need to use xserver-svga... Look in the archives, there's some people who've asked about it before IIRC. On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Marceau Dominique wrote: >Hi, > >Here is the message I got while attempting to

Re: lilo won't display options

2001-06-11 Thread Guy Geens
> "burningclown" == burningclown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: burningclown> I'm having a frustratingly-intermittent problem with burningclown> LILO, however: sometimes the "boot:" portion of the LILO burningclown> message never comes up, LILO has options to control when the prompt is shown.

Installation on DELL Optiplex GX100

2001-06-11 Thread Marceau Dominique
Hi, Here is the message I got while attempting to install Debian 2.2 on my DELL Optiplex GX100 Can you help me please. Thank you in advance cmd: xviddetect Sorry, I wasn't able to determine a driver for your video card. This script only detects PCI and some SBUS devices. If you know, or figure ou

Re: weird problem with init after compiling new kernel

2001-06-11 Thread Guy Geens
> "Wouter" == Wouter Bakker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wouter> to try and make things a little more clear: the kernel boots! Wouter> Lilo works fine! it is the init part where all activity halts Wouter> at the point where normally the supplementary hardware (sound, Wouter> network, mice, spec

Re: Boot order, PCMCIA and external SCSI drive

2001-06-11 Thread Guy Geens
> "Ed" == Ed Falis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ed> I have a jaz drive attached to my machine via a SCSI card plugged Ed> into a PCMCIA slot (kernel 2.4.3). Is there a way to get it to Ed> automount during boot by getting the PCMCIA services started Ed> before processing fstab? Or some other op

FW: (( What do you think?))Get Started Ear...

2001-06-11 Thread Eric Brown
Title: Earn Over $4000.00 In Just 39 Days! In 39 Months I’ve Earned OVER $400,000.00!!!* ___

Re: Grub: Does it allow for modularized kernel fs

2001-06-11 Thread Guy Geens
> "Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 09:27:40PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: Otto> Bad luck, so it never will be possible to have a fully Otto> modularized kernel. Nathan> Sure you can ... use an initrd. Check out the initrd-tools package in test

Re: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0

2001-06-11 Thread Guy Geens
> "Frans" == Frans Schreuder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Frans> -edited the raidtab file ( I noticed there beeing a raid Frans> directory so I copied it from it's original location in /etc) The raidtab file needs to be in /etc. I have noticed the /etc/raid directory as well, but AFAIK it is n

Re: ifup -a broken?

2001-06-11 Thread Guy Geens
> "Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> As the log below shows, all three of the interfaces in Dave> /etc/network/interfaces behave properly when addressed by name, Dave> but using -a to bring all interfaces up (or down) doesn't seem Dave> to recognize that any interfaces

isdn error

2001-06-11 Thread Hans Gubitz
I can't connect to my isp any longer. In syslog I get the message: kernel: isdn_net: ippp0: No phone number, signalling dst_link_failure What's going wrong here? -- Hans Gubitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: cdrecord problem in testing

2001-06-11 Thread Stephen Rueger
Hello! On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:52:42PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I have been upgrading piecemeal to testing. When I run the new > 'cdrecord', I get the following messages: > > Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J?rg Schilling > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM > cdrecord: Operatio

Boot Problems

2001-06-11 Thread Nick Furman
Hi Everyone. I need some help with my new Debian server. While booting up this morning, it says it cannot initialize the initial console and bascially falls into a "rebooting loop" where it will get back to that that point in the boot sequence, and reboot itself again. Any suggestions anyone mig

cdrecord problem in testing

2001-06-11 Thread Rick Pasotto
I have been upgrading piecemeal to testing. When I run the new 'cdrecord', I get the following messages: Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J?rg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2). cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a

grub & dual boot with 2 hd

2001-06-11 Thread Anthony Fox
Hello, I have a machine that is a dual boot Win2k/Debian Unstable box. There are two hardrives. Windows is on the first drive, Debian is on the second. The hd layout is as follows: / /dev/hda - | Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-14649.960 megabytes | Disk label type: msdos | Minor

gnome upgrade problems

2001-06-11 Thread Rafael Sasaki
I`m needing some help. Something got wrong when I was updating Gnome. There was an error message and gnome-games didn`t configure. Now I can`t configure it by apt-get and I can`t remove it either. I can`t even start X with gnome-session on my .xinitrc. When I try it this message is thrown by apt-ge

Re: Best WM for slow machine?

2001-06-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 07:45:31PM -0400, Daniel Hoffman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've got an older Pentium 166 with 16 megs of RAM that I want to put Debian > on. I already tried once, and put KDE on it, but that was very slw and > unresponsive. What's your favorite lightweight (but still

Re: lilo problem after kernel install: LIL-

2001-06-11 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 04:54:04PM +, Anthony Fairchild wrote: | Hello all, | | I recently upgraded all packages necessary to install a 2.4.x kernel on my | Debian 2.2 laptop. After downloading, compiling, and installing the 2.4.5 | kernel I rebooted and was greeted with a screen reading only

Re: ARG! Need to un-partition

2001-06-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:47:51PM -0400, D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 07:25:14PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > | Anyway, in the process of starting this, I accidentally re-partitioned the > | wrong drive (hda, instead of hdb). I haven't reset the computer yet, is

Re: login -graphical user interface

2001-06-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:20:46PM +0930, Peter Whittam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ok, I am new at this so be cool about it. > when I start debian it immediately uses the graphical login, > can I change this option to console login? http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html

Re: debian on a 486

2001-06-11 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 09:30:01PM -0400, Matt Gerginski wrote: | Hi. I want to put debian on a 486 that I recently got from my school. | They were giving away "obsolete" computers, so I grabbed 5 of them. I | just have one small problem: I can't get any of the rescue.bin disks to | boot on the

Re: Best WM for slow machine?

2001-06-11 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 10:16:14PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: | * D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010610 20:05]: | > | > I like sawfish (formerly called "sawmill") a lot, and it is | > lightweight. There are some things that sawfish won't do, such as | > set the background of your display. It doesn't

Re: NFS

2001-06-11 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 06:38:57AM -0400, Jerry Sternesky wrote: | I didn't compile a new kernel, I wanted to see if I could work with the | default kernel. But your question makes me think it may not be included by | default, so I guess I will give that a look into. If I take this on I might

lilo problem after kernel install: LIL-

2001-06-11 Thread Anthony Fairchild
Hello all, I recently upgraded all packages necessary to install a 2.4.x kernel on my Debian 2.2 laptop. After downloading, compiling, and installing the 2.4.5 kernel I rebooted and was greeted with a screen reading only "LIL-". I have a boot floppy made when I originally installed and was able t

Re: logging in over serial line

2001-06-11 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:36:08AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > I've set up a box here where the main method for logging in is through > the serial line > > S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 9600 > > > the problem is that the default setting is to not allow root loggins. > Does anyo

lilo won't display options

2001-06-11 Thread burningclown
Hello everyone, Over the weekend I finally got FreeBSD installed and configured on my box as a dual-boot with Debian testing. I'm having a frustratingly-intermittent problem with LILO, however: sometimes the "boot:" portion of the LILO message never comes up, and tabbing doesn't bring up the two

Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98

2001-06-11 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 11-06-01 at 14:10 Rob Mahurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > I have a Pentium 200, with 40 MB RAM. StarOffice is too slow to be [...] > It's possible that you might have a better experience on your faster > machine, but a friend with dual-processor box ins

Re: weird problem with init after compiling new kernel

2001-06-11 Thread Wouter Bakker
Thnx but I've already tried ALL of your suggestions (it's there all written down, isn't it ;) ?, I might have missed something?) ~ My main question still stands unanswered: > Here's my big question: when I boot from a CD Linux-image, does my system still use the init in /dev/hda2/sbin/ ? (I think

Re: ghostscript on Debian 2.2 - lprsetup.sh no included?

2001-06-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
apt-get install {magicfilter|apsfilter} On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:39:37AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm trying to setup a non-postscript capable printer in /etc/printcap. > According to /usr/shared/doc/gs/Unix-lpr.htm there should be a script > lprsetup.sh "A shell script which s

Re: Samba: Problem mit check_log_size

2001-06-11 Thread Gerald Carter
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Hubert Palme wrote: > > "G" == Gerald Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > G> I'm not sure if the max log size parameter makes sense when using > G> --with-syslog. The parameter should probably be ignored if syslog > G> support is enabled (via ./configure and smb.c

Re: chipset for Athlon

2001-06-11 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Byeong-Jun Park wrote: > > refer homepage > http://www1.amd.com/athlon/mbl > > you can find many motherboards with the icon "DDR Memory". > > Yours. > Byeong-Jun Park. in ROK > > > Hi list > > > > I want to buy a new computer w/ Athlon >1200MHz and DDR-Ram. Is there > > anybody out there who h

am-utils not working

2001-06-11 Thread Kevin Bailey
I'm trying to get amd (in am-utils) working but no matter what I do (things which work on other distributions) I can't get it working. I can't even get the expected [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/map mount to appear in the mount table. Nothing unusual shows up in syslog. Is there something I need to compile i

3com network drivers from scyld.com

2001-06-11 Thread Richard Clarke
Hi I'm trying to compile the latest 3com 905 drivers from scyld.com and I'm getting these errors. I'm using a fresh install of Debian 2.2 r3 sac99:~/bleh# gcc -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c 3c59x.c In file included from /usr/include/linux/string.h:37, from 3c59x.c:91: /

Re: Samba: Problem mit check_log_size

2001-06-11 Thread Hubert Palme
> "G" == Gerald Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> I'm not sure if the max log size parameter makes sense when using G> --with-syslog. The parameter should probably be ignored if syslog G> support is enabled (via ./configure and smb.conf) I use precompiles packages of the Debian dietr

logging in over serial line

2001-06-11 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Hi All, I've set up a box here where the main method for logging in is through the serial line S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 9600 the problem is that the default setting is to not allow root loggins. Does anyone know where these permissions live? thanks, Andy -- Andrew D. Dixon Software E

Re: lilo 'Block move error 0xAE'

2001-06-11 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Try adding the line `lba32' to lilo.conf, and then re-run lilo. No change. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | There is always some acciden

Re: Slow server due to reverse lookup

2001-06-11 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Thanks Bud DNS in nsswitch was causing most of the problems but proftpd was still really slow even after that. For reference in case anyone else runs into this proftpd does reverse DNS and Ident against incoming addresses but you can switch it off in proftpd.conf thus: UseReverseDNS

potato 2.2r3 + DHCP = No internet

2001-06-11 Thread Stephen Torri
I have just installed potato 2.2r3 on my laptop. It has a xircom Realport2 10/100 Cardbus NIC installed. My campus network requires me to use DHCP. DHCP worked before running RedHat 7.0 with kernel 2.2.16. Upgrading to 2.2.19 on RedHat caused networking not to work. Downgraded to 2.2.16 and everyth

URGENT: PPP/PPPOE Problems.

2001-06-11 Thread ChrisHoover
HELP!!! I was upgrading my woody setup on my box that does the connecting to the internet through my adsl modem, and I can no longer connect to the modem. Here is what happened (as best I can remember, yesterday was a ba day). I was trying to install some additional packages over the weekend

Re: Cyrus IMAP and exim

2001-06-11 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I will be very greatful if someone could help me. I have install Cyrus IMPA server. It works fine but I can't check my email because exim put mail in /var/spool/mail/$user not in cyrus folder. How should I configure exim to deliver mail to cyrus mbox (it is di

Re: kapm-idled

2001-06-11 Thread vester
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 04:13:45PM +0200, vester wrote: > > can anyone explain to me what exactly the process kapm-idled does and why > > it takes up 50-90% of cpu usage? > > Kernel APM IDLE Daemon > > It's a pseudo process that doesn't actually _do

Sound in gnome

2001-06-11 Thread Evrard Nicolas
Hello everyone, I just switch from SuSE to Debian and I really, really happy (rpms were difficult to find for SuSE and anyhow I prefer a non-commercial distro). There is just one thing that doesn't seem to work : the sound in gnome, no gnome event produce sound althought sawfish does prduce sound

Cyrus IMAP and exim

2001-06-11 Thread vincent
Hello. I will be very greatful if someone could help me. I have install Cyrus IMPA server. It works fine but I can't check my email because exim put mail in /var/spool/mail/$user not in cyrus folder. How should I configure exim to deliver mail to cyrus mbox (it is diffrent mbox) or how should I

Re: kapm-idled

2001-06-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 04:13:45PM +0200, vester wrote: > can anyone explain to me what exactly the process kapm-idled does and why > it takes up 50-90% of cpu usage? Kernel APM IDLE Daemon It's a pseudo process that doesn't actually _do_ anything. It just puts the CPU to sleep when there's noth

kapm-idled

2001-06-11 Thread vester
can anyone explain to me what exactly the process kapm-idled does and why it takes up 50-90% of cpu usage? i've never noticed it taking up that much usage until today. i cannot stop it from top...i suppose it's got something to do with the apm kernel modules, but i really don't know. it just seem

Re: chipset for Athlon

2001-06-11 Thread Byeong-Jun Park
refer homepage http://www1.amd.com/athlon/mbl you can find many motherboards with the icon "DDR Memory". Yours. Byeong-Jun Park. in ROK - Original Message - From: "Joerg Johannes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 7:39 PM Subject: chipset for Athlon > H

Re: star office debian-correct installation

2001-06-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 10:25:23PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > On 06/10/01 17:37:44 -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > > You don't need to be root, using "sudo" is fine. If you don't know > > what sudo is, install it and read the man page then ask here, it's > > *very* useful. > > I've never used

tftp & batch file

2001-06-11 Thread Minervini Luigi
Hi, I need help to create a tftp server on a Linux machine to download Routers configurations (by a Linux batch file). I've just started to learn Linux so you can image I'm a bit in trouble Any help about tftp and batch file in Linux? Thanks, anyway Luigi Minervini Netsiel S.p.A. - Bari (

Re: Samba: Problem mit check_log_size

2001-06-11 Thread Gerald Carter
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Hubert Palme wrote: > Hi, > > in the syslog file I repeatedly find the following messages: > > Jun 8 08:19:40 wrpc3 smbd[8296]: [2001/06/08 08:19:40, 0] > lib/debug.c:check_log_size(311) > Jun 8 08:19:40 wrpc3 smbd[8296]: check_log_size: open of debug file > /var/log/smb

apt-get over proxy with ssl authentification?

2001-06-11 Thread Gabriele Kayser
Hello, how to configure apt-get for using over proxy with ssl authentification? I know the configuraion for proxy with authentification, but it looks, that there is no ability for ssl :-( Any hints? Ciao Gabriele ---

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