console autologon [was unidentified subject]

2001-06-13 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Alvin Oga wrote: Sorry for the lack of subject, the power outtages drive me nuts ;) AO> AO> hi ya peter AO> AO> since this one is fun hehe yeah :) AO> a) ... get a UPS or a bigger one... put all your PCs,hugs, gateway, AO>router only on the UPS.. AO>do NOT

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-06-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya peter since this one is fun a) ... get a UPS or a bigger one... put all your PCs,hugs, gateway, router only on the UPS.. do NOT put the monitors/printers on UPS login normally... go to the right window/door for spawn logins... enter "console.sh &" b) since you

Unidentified subject!

2001-06-13 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
Hey list, i have interesting problem :) normally i run 10-12 consoles and it is getting tiring having to re-log on all of them every 5-7 days when some power outage shuts me down for hour or two, this is my house machine so i don't have console-security problem, so i was wondering if there was a w

Re: /etc/apt/preferences

2001-06-13 Thread Mike Williams
>>> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 20:32:43 -0700 (MST), >>> "der.hans" == "der.hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: der.hans> Are you running apt 0.5.3? Yes, I am. And dpkg-1.9.6 (if that's relevant). >> My setup looks like this: >> >> ,--- /etc/apt/preferences --- >> | Package: * >> | Pin:

Re: All packages ... again.

2001-06-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:40:42PM -0600, Gregory Laprade ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On the other side of the scale, I recently did what a friend suggested > and bailed on the CD install just b4 it upacked packages and installed > them on my system...leaving me with a bootable system and (virtua

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:14:35PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:17:52PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > | On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:11:49PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > | > By "make my machine download things" do you mean that he logs in and > | > uses ftp or a web browser? If so, then

Re: Noting in /var/cache/man/cat? ?

2001-06-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Noting in /var/cache/man/cat? ? Date: Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:58:51AM +0300 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Doesn't /var/cache/man/cat? suppose to keep formated man pages? > On my machine it is empty: > > [03:56:42 tmp]$ ls

Re: /etc/apt/preferences

2001-06-13 Thread der.hans
Am 14. Jun, 2001 schwäzte Mike Williams so: > This is a really cool idea, but I can't get it working for me. Are you running apt 0.5.3? That's out of testing. 0.3.19 in stable doesn't have support for /etc/apt/preferences. > I want to run "testing" for most things, but grab selected packages (

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:17:52PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: | On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:11:49PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > By "make my machine download things" do you mean that he logs in and | > uses ftp or a web browser? If so, then he ought to be downloading the | > stuff into his own home dire

Re: grub & dual boot with 2 hd

2001-06-13 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 08:24:46PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: | On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 08:26:15PM +0200, Guy Geens wrote: | > > "Anthony" == Anthony Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > > "Guy" == Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > Guy> following in /boot/grub/menu.lst: | > |

Re: [OT] quick CVS question

2001-06-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:44:23PM -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > In the CVSROOT/modules file, define your module like so: > > myproj-o "ln -s bar foo" myproj Yes, I think that is what I was looking for. Though you're right that -o needs to be given a single argument. Accoring to t

Re: [OT] quick CVS question

2001-06-13 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:16:43PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > I thought I found the answer to this question a while back, but I either > misplaced it or was mistaken. > > Basically what I need to do is create symlinks on a source check out. > The repository contains a file foo, and I need a

[OT] quick CVS question

2001-06-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
I thought I found the answer to this question a while back, but I either misplaced it or was mistaken. Basically what I need to do is create symlinks on a source check out. The repository contains a file foo, and I need a symlink bar -> foo. Is there any way to ensure that this link is created ev

Re: grub & dual boot with 2 hd

2001-06-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 08:26:15PM +0200, Guy Geens wrote: > > "Anthony" == Anthony Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > "Guy" == Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guy> following in /boot/grub/menu.lst: > > Guy> title Debian GNU/Linux > Guy> root (hd1,1) > Guy> kernel /vmlinuz > D

Re: Streamed Audio application?

2001-06-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya noah... donno if its legal or not etc... but there are linux-based quicktime players and servers and apple is playing the "open source" game with its darwin and Mac-10 OS etc... http://www.publicsource.apple.com/projects/streaming/ http://heroinewarrior.com/quicktime.php3 ... c ya alvin

Re: newbieDoc.sourceForge.net

2001-06-13 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* David D.W. Downey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [130601 15:17]: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Robert A. Jacobs wrote: > > > Hmmm...you might want to head over there and check it out again then. > > "Sensei" > > no longer works for Internet.com (he went to work for Trolltech, I think). > > Sooo...the fate o

Re: how to add application to icewm menu bar *n

2001-06-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:38:59PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: > Kevin, > > Done! Thanks! but I only have a text mode > toolbar right now, Another question, how can > I use a M$Windows98's icon to be my freeamp's icon? > > Alex Don't really know, never thought about it before. Maybe if you can save

Streamed Audio application - great opportunity

2001-06-13 Thread MRZ
Well this sounds like an opportunity knocking, how about that "new" ogg-vorbiss format? This would be a great chance to avoid those mp3 royalties and I doubt it would take much to write a plug-in for something like winamp or whatever. Maybe even make the plugin available at the broadcaster's sit

Re: Noting in /var/cache/man/cat? ?

2001-06-13 Thread ktb
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:58:51AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Doesn't /var/cache/man/cat? suppose to keep formated man pages? > On my machine it is empty: > > [03:56:42 tmp]$ ls /var/cache/man/cat? > /var/cache/man/cat1: > I really don't know definitively so someone else may have a better

Re: Streamed Audio application?

2001-06-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 08:56:21PM -0400, Ed Falis wrote: > > Thanks. That's sort of what I suspected. I'm going to suggest to the > broadcaster that they consider something that can be handled by realplayer. > They could always strem mp3 format. Sure, it's patented, too, but there do exist

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Erik Steffl
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:11:49PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > > By "make my machine download things" do you mean that he logs in and > > uses ftp or a web browser? If so, then he ought to be downloading the > > stuff into his own home directory. By default (and quite naturally

Noting in /var/cache/man/cat? ?

2001-06-13 Thread shaulka
Doesn't /var/cache/man/cat? suppose to keep formated man pages? On my machine it is empty: [03:56:42 tmp]$ ls /var/cache/man/cat? /var/cache/man/cat1: /var/cache/man/cat2: /var/cache/man/cat3: /var/cache/man/cat4: /var/cache/man/cat5: /var/cache/man/cat6: /var/cache/man/cat7: /var/cache/man

Re: Streamed Audio application?

2001-06-13 Thread Ed Falis
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 20:46, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:49:12PM -0400, Ed Falis wrote: > > Anyone aware of something that can be used on Linux when a radio station > > offers streams for Windows mediaplayer or for Quicktime? > > Nope. Can't be done. Quicktime is a pate

Re: FTP/User access, was: Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Aaron Hall
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, D-Man wrote: > Cool. It is already fixed. > > (a moment later) > # dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=text adduser > debconf: package "adduser" is not installed or does not use debconf > > | $ dpkg --status adduser | grep -i version > | Version: 3.37 > > # dpkg --status adduser |

Re: Streamed Audio application?

2001-06-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:49:12PM -0400, Ed Falis wrote: > Anyone aware of something that can be used on Linux when a radio station > offers streams for Windows mediaplayer or for Quicktime? Nope. Can't be done. Quicktime is a patented codec, so that's out (conceivably some company could creat

Re: debian-changes list

2001-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
Tim Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >do the right people know about this? if not, how do I contact them? I'd be surprised if nobody had mailed the individual porter in question already. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Streamed Audio application?

2001-06-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya ed are you looking for a streaming audio server ??? http://www.Linux-Video.net/Video.Server.txt have fun alvin On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Ed Falis wrote: > Anyone aware of something that can be used on Linux when a radio station > offers streams for Windows mediaplayer or for Quicktime? >

Re: PDAs

2001-06-13 Thread csj
On Thursday 14 June 2001 01:37, Karsten M. Self wrote: > A friend who's into the stuff likes Symbian based devices (cf: > Psion). Less crippled than the Palm OS, but less ubiquitous. Specs-wise the PLW (MyLinux[TM] Pocket Linux Workstation) is something to wait for. Except for the screen size an

Streamed Audio application?

2001-06-13 Thread Ed Falis
Anyone aware of something that can be used on Linux when a radio station offers streams for Windows mediaplayer or for Quicktime? TIA - Ed

Re: I need automount floppy and cdrom

2001-06-13 Thread David Nusinow
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 04:27 pm, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > thanks David, > Yeap, I can include the icon for the directory /floppy and /cdrom on KDE, > but if I click on it, It doesn't mount, I must to do it since a terminal as > root, then if I click again on that icon, I can see my file

Re: I need automount floppy and cdrom

2001-06-13 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
thanks David, Yeap, I can include the icon for the directory /floppy and /cdrom on KDE, but if I click on it, It doesn't mount, I must to do it since a terminal as root, then if I click again on that icon, I can see my files...but I want that with a click it automount like in other distribution ou

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:11:49PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > By "make my machine download things" do you mean that he logs in and > uses ftp or a web browser? If so, then he ought to be downloading the > stuff into his own home directory. By default (and quite naturally) > users _can't_ see someone e

Re: [OT]Re: your mail

2001-06-13 Thread John
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 00:26, Sachin Garg wrote: > > A paperless office has about as much chance as a paperless bathroom. > > We have paperless bathrooms in the Indian subcontinent :) > > Sorry, couldn't help myself ... Dont forget those automatic Japanese toilets with the water sprays.

Re: Canon LBP 800

2001-06-13 Thread John
On Sunday 10 June 2001 05:17, Blue Rat wrote: > Basically, it all boils down to finding the driver for this printer. The > page at linuxprinting.org looks pretty discouraging and doesn't offer an > actual link to anything but the Canon homepage, where they have drivers > for every brand of winbloze

Re: /etc/apt/preferences

2001-06-13 Thread Mike Williams
>>> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 23:37:49 -0700 (MST), >>> "der.hans" == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to track specific dists, but be able to grab > packages from another dist. > > # cat /etc/apt/preferences > Package: * > Pin: release a=stable > Pin-Priority: 900 > > Packa

Re: [OT]Re: your mail

2001-06-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: [OT]Re: your mail Date: Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:56:47AM +0530 In reply to:Sachin Garg Quoting Sachin Garg([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > A paperless office has about as much chance as a paperless bathroom. > > We have paperless bathrooms in the Indian subcontinent :) > > S

Re: pppoe as user impossible??

2001-06-13 Thread der.hans
Am 13. Jun, 2001 schwäzte reiner so: > I'm confused because i can't get a working dsl connection as user. > As root there is no problem. I see a dialout group in /etc/group. Make sure your user is in that group. usermod -G dialout user Also look at sudo. I haven't tried the dialout group. Have

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Casper Gielen
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:46:09PM +0200, Auke van der Gaast wrote: > Well, not really, or maybe a bit. I just wouldn't like, for > instance, the homedir of my little brother, (who can make > my machine download things, since I have cable and he > has 'only' a 56k modem connection.) to be access

Re: COM21 is killing me with ARP

2001-06-13 Thread Vector
The fact that your provider is using an etire class B address space for a single broadcast network is what should be making you nervous. In most network architecture schemes, the ip's are divided into blocks and thus the amount of broadcasts being received by individual hosts are greatly reduced.

USB modules

2001-06-13 Thread Mike Pfleger
Hello. I have just compiled a 2.2.18 kernel w/crypto modules, and am now trying to get USB working. I have dug around on the debian site, and various other sites, trying to find an answer as to why I can't install the input.o module. Apparently I've done something wrong, but am at a loss. The

Re: help with port forwarding

2001-06-13 Thread debuser
Never mind. Found my problem. My problem was with the machine running the web server inside the local network, not with the firewall machine. On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a Linux machine (Debian unstable with kernel 2.2.18) that is > successfully masquerading for our loca

Re: I need automount floppy and cdrom

2001-06-13 Thread David Nusinow
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 02:58 pm, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > Hi! > How can I automount floppy and cdrom on Debian...so I can confgiure an Icon > on kde, wmaker or gnome to access to those devices. > I don't know about automount, but you can add icons for KDE and Gnome pretty easily. For

Re: how to add application to icewm menu bar

2001-06-13 Thread Robin Gerard
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 08:39:27AM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:07:27PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I am using icewm window manager, > > how to add application (freeamp) > > to the menu bar of icewm, I don't want > > type 'freeamp' on the xterm every time.

Re: newbieDoc.sourceForge.net

2001-06-13 Thread David Nusinow
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 09:22 am, Robert A. Jacobs wrote: > * David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [130601 11:03]: > > Not that I'm against some duplication, but isn't this basically what > > www.linuxnewbie.org is doing? They were absolutely critical in my early > > days of linux, and I still head

I need automount floppy and cdrom

2001-06-13 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hi! How can I automount floppy and cdrom on Debian...so I can confgiure an Icon on kde, wmaker or gnome to access to those devices. TIA -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro Linux...tu eres libre de elegir!

Local auto-update script...

2001-06-13 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I'm trying to sort out an automated apt-get update/upgrade script. My plan thus far is running an apt-get upate and -qq -y upgrade against an NFS repository from cron so that I can be sure what is being installed. I'm currently looking for a way to add a bit more security to the mix. Does/

Re: newbieDoc.sourceForge.net

2001-06-13 Thread David D.W. Downey
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Robert A. Jacobs wrote: > Hmmm...you might want to head over there and check it out again then. > "Sensei" > no longer works for Internet.com (he went to work for Trolltech, I think). > Sooo...the fate of linuxnewbie is currently up in the air. > Sorry to but in, yet is

Re: transfer between win2k and debian

2001-06-13 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:14:56PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: :> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:09:51PM -, Em Huynh :> wrote: :> Hi all, :> :> I got a little network (100baseT w/switch) going with win2k :> and debian. When I transfer from my debian box (p3 566 :> w/ultra 66 hd) it seem to peak at

Re: newbieDoc.sourceForge.net

2001-06-13 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [130601 11:03]: > Not that I'm against some duplication, but isn't this basically what > www.linuxnewbie.org is doing? They were absolutely critical in my early days > of linux, and I still head back there every so often to search the archives > to see if anyo

RE: Route problem

2001-06-13 Thread Brian Schramm
This worked for me. Thanks. I did not know I had to type the full line like it was put into the routing table. Brian Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 104442754 AIM schrammbrian www.linuxexpert.org On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Ian Perry wrote: > > try > route del -host 192.168.

pppoe as user impossible??

2001-06-13 Thread reiner
Hello all, I'm confused because i can't get a working dsl connection as user. As root there is no problem. This is an uptodate debian/unstable system with kernel 2.4.5ac7 on Athlon classic 600MHz, 256MB RAM with 2 realtek 8139c nic's. Here is the ppp-log file: Jun 13 22:34:21 nathan pppd[455

Mozilla .9.1 for potato?

2001-06-13 Thread robhr
Anyone know where to get mozilla .9 or .9.1 debs for potato? I would've thought that ximian would be making them, but .9 has been out for a long time and I haven't seen a package update for mozilla. Anyone know their status? Rob

woody and php4

2001-06-13 Thread Wayne Sitton
is there any schedule as to when the problem with the version of apache, in woody, and php 4 will be fixed? For those that do not understand what I mean. The version of Apache in woody will not work with the version of php4. Wayne

Re: debian-changes list

2001-06-13 Thread Tim Olsen
do the right people know about this? if not, how do I contact them? tim On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:59:21PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Tim Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Are changes to unstable supposed to go to the debian-changes list? In > >the past few days, I've gotten a lot of unsta

Re: transfer between win2k and debian

2001-06-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:09:51PM -, Em Huynh > wrote: > Hi all, > > I got a little network (100baseT w/switch) going with win2k > and debian. When I transfer from my debian box (p3 566 > w/ultra 66 hd) it seem to peak at about 3000k-4000k. > > Does that seem right for a 100 base t network?

Any DB2 Users?

2001-06-13 Thread ChrisHoover
Has anyone gotten db2 and the associated utilities to run on a 2.4 kernel? I have been trying to run db2cc (the control center) but it keeps crashing with a memory fault. Any help on fixing what is wrong would be greatly appreciated. I'm running 2.4.5 with IBMJava 1.3 and DB2 7.1. Thanks,

Re: transfer between win2k and debian

2001-06-13 Thread Ross Boylan
How are your transferring? ftp is a lot faster than NetBIOS (or whatever MS's standard mode of operation is). On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:09:51PM -, Em Huynh wrote: > Hi all, > > I got a little network (100baseT w/switch) going with win2k and debian. When > I transfer from my debian box (p3

Re: newbieDoc.sourceForge.net

2001-06-13 Thread David Nusinow
Not that I'm against some duplication, but isn't this basically what www.linuxnewbie.org is doing? They were absolutely critical in my early days of linux, and I still head back there every so often to search the archives to see if anyone else has had my problem. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTE

Re: What happened to the task-gnome* packages in Woody?

2001-06-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
> What happened to the task-gnome* packages in Debian > Woody? I see that the packages are still available in > both Potato and Sid but Debian they are curiously absent > in Woody? > > If a user wishes to install Gnome, which packages must > he install in the absence of a single task package? How

Re: FTP/User access, was: Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:23:36AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: | D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Home dirs should have "711" as the permissions (owner | > read-write-execute group and world execute only). I just checked on | > my system (I am really the only user right now) and the perms

Re: COM21 is killing me with ARP

2001-06-13 Thread Sebastiaan
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Angus D Madden wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:01:23PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > > a couple of days ago I installed a COM21 cable modem. Although I can > > internet without problems, the modem itself is sending me endless ARP > > requests, while my computer does not answe

Re: Networking problem (SAMBA???)

2001-06-13 Thread Guy Geens
> "aparra" == aparra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: aparra> But the problem is that some times the win98 machines stops aparra> viewing the network, put I still have IP conexion. And if I aparra> try to make, from any win machine. a telnet to any linux, it aparra> takes years to get the prompt.

Re: Not Loading Modules

2001-06-13 Thread Guy Geens
> "Thomas" == Thomas H George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> I compiled a 2.2.19 kernel with module support and sound Thomas> modules for my sound card selected, ran make modules and make Thomas> modules_install, then copied everything in Thomas> /usr/src.../arch/i386/boot to /boot. The k

Re: debian-changes list

2001-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
Tim Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Are changes to unstable supposed to go to the debian-changes list? In >the past few days, I've gotten a lot of unstable change notices from >the debian-changes list. I thought debian-changes was just for stable >changes. Normally, yes; changes to unstable nor

What happened to the task-gnome* packages in Woody?

2001-06-13 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
Debian Users, What happened to the task-gnome* packages in Debian Woody? I see that the packages are still available in both Potato and Sid but Debian they are curiously absent in Woody? If a user wishes to install Gnome, which packages must he install in the absence of a single

Re: kernel-package question

2001-06-13 Thread Guy Geens
> "Haim" == Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Haim> Hi I've just compiled a custom kernel with 'kernel-package Haim> --revision=3:win4lin1 kernel-image'. the kernel I was compiling Haim> was the source of the kernel from which I originally installed Haim> the system - 2.2.19-reiserfs.

Re: All packages ... again.

2001-06-13 Thread Gregory Laprade
On the other side of the scale, I recently did what a friend suggested and bailed on the CD install just b4 it upacked packages and installed them on my system...leaving me with a bootable system and (virtually) nothing on it. I then got network support up by apt-getting from CD, config'd some ftp

Re: grub & dual boot with 2 hd

2001-06-13 Thread Anthony Fox
Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Anthony" == Anthony Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > "Guy" == Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guy> following in /boot/grub/menu.lst: > > Guy> title Debian GNU/Linux > Guy> root (hd1,1) > Guy> kernel /vmlinuz > Guy> > Guy> title Win

debian-changes list

2001-06-13 Thread Tim Olsen
Are changes to unstable supposed to go to the debian-changes list? In the past few days, I've gotten a lot of unstable change notices from the debian-changes list. I thought debian-changes was just for stable changes. tim

Switching PCMCIA cards

2001-06-13 Thread Arafat Mohamed
I installed Progeny on a Toshiba Tecra 8000. At the time, I had a 3Com network card and all was good. I just got a new Xircom RealPort network card. As you might guess, I no longer have network connectivity. I'm new to the whole Linux thing (Did the install this weekend) and I don't know what I nee

help with port forwarding

2001-06-13 Thread debuser
I have a Linux machine (Debian unstable with kernel 2.2.18) that is successfully masquerading for our local network. I want to do port forwarding so that machines on the Internet can see the web server of a machine on the local net. Following the IP-Masquerading howto, I have the following script w

Re: grub & dual boot with 2 hd

2001-06-13 Thread Guy Geens
> "Anthony" == Anthony Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Guy" == Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Guy> following in /boot/grub/menu.lst: Guy> title Debian GNU/Linux Guy> root (hd1,1) Guy> kernel /vmlinuz Guy> Guy> title Windows 2000 Guy> rootnoverify (hd0,0) Guy> chainloader +1 An

Re: FTP/User access, was: Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Dave Carrigan
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Home dirs should have "711" as the permissions (owner > read-write-execute group and world execute only). I just checked on > my system (I am really the only user right now) and the perms are 755 > (actually I'm not sure what the 's' in the 010 column is (group

Re: FTP/User access, was: Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach D-Man (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 01:47:35PM -0400): > Home dirs should have "711" as the permissions (owner > read-write-execute group and world execute only). I just checked on > my system (I am really the only user right now) and the perms are 755 > (actually I'm not sure what the 's' in t

Re: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0

2001-06-13 Thread Guy Geens
> "Frans" == Frans Schreuder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Frans> I've attached the original message if anyone can shine a light Frans> on this thing that will not work. It's really the mkraid Frans> /dev/md0 part that won't work. Did you try after you copied the raidtab to the correct place?

newbieDoc.sourceForge.net

2001-06-13 Thread will trillich
Folks keep raving about what we're trying to do over at http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ We were newbies not too long ago -- and we're writing down our experiences to provide newbie-friendly introductions to Debian/Linux so that today's newbies might have life just a bit better than we d

Re: stopping named from starting

2001-06-13 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:02:28AM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:25:09AM -0500, ktb wrote: > > > > Take a look at the man page for update-rc.d > > # update-rc.d -f bind remove > > should remove the offending scripts. > > No no no no no. That is the *wrong* way to do i

Re: FTP/User access, was: Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:39:21PM +0200, Auke van der Gaast wrote: | >By default (and quite naturally) | > users _can't_ see someone else's home directory unless that person | > explicitly makes it readable. | | Well, maybe that's the problem... because they _can_ see others' | homedir, don't kn

Re: PDAs

2001-06-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:31:57PM -0400, Carl Fink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm going to buy a PDA within the next week or so. After fairly > extensive research it looks like I have to get a PalmOS device. EPOC > is seemingly dead in the water, Compaq isn't selling their devices > without Wi

FTP/User access, was: Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Auke van der Gaast
>By default (and quite naturally) > users _can't_ see someone else's home directory unless that person > explicitly makes it readable. Well, maybe that's the problem... because they _can_ see others' homedir, don't know why, but it's true. I've used adduser to create the users. Thought that shou

[probably offtopic] xdm port listening

2001-06-13 Thread Sean Morgan
I've noticed a disturbing behavior in the version of xdm distributed in the x strike force's 4.1.0 prerelease series where xdm seems to listen on random ports in the 3-6 range. I'm not quite sure about this as I don't know exactly how to look up which program is using which port, though the

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:46:09PM +0200, Auke van der Gaast wrote: | Well, not really, or maybe a bit. I just wouldn't like, for | instance, the homedir of my little brother, (who can make | my machine download things, since I have cable and he | has 'only' a 56k modem connection.) to be access

Re: COM21 is killing me with ARP

2001-06-13 Thread Angus D Madden
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:01:23PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > a couple of days ago I installed a COM21 cable modem. Although I can > internet without problems, the modem itself is sending me endless ARP > requests, while my computer does not answer them. I analysed the data with I have a COM21 and

Re: Power button works but...

2001-06-13 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:03:17AM +0200, jean-michel le bot wrote: | | Hello, | After running shutdown -h now, the system shuts down and issues a | message saying "Power down." | But then I have to hit the power button to switch off my computer. This is a | think I didn't have to do when I was r

Re: Mathematica font problem on debian ?

2001-06-13 Thread John R Lenton
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:47:01AM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > hi > When I try to run mathematica on debian (potato with kernel 2.2.19) I get an > error stating that mathematica fonts are not properly installed. I have > added the mathematica font directory (i.e. subdirectories of > /usr/local/m

Re: Mozilla 9.1has toasted my System

2001-06-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 01:29:16PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Two weeks ago i installed Mozilla 9.0 with the standard Mozilla installer. > And as this has worked pretty fine, I decided to use also the > installer that comes with Mozilla 9.1 (wich I downloaded from >

GDM and chooser

2001-06-13 Thread Thierry Florac
Hello, I currently use a Debian Potato update with Ximian GNOME packages (1.4) and GDM as display manager. How can I setup GDM to be able to have a chooser and to login on my linux box or on remote X servers ?? Thanks, Thierry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P.S. : please be kind to reply also directly

Mathematica font problem on debian ?

2001-06-13 Thread Balbir Thomas
hi When I try to run mathematica on debian (potato with kernel 2.2.19) I get an error stating that mathematica fonts are not properly installed. I have added the mathematica font directory (i.e. subdirectories of /usr/local/mathematica/SystemFiles/Fonts) to /etc/X11/XF86Config . On checking which

Re: help! help! help!

2001-06-13 Thread Sebastiaan
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Minervini Luigi wrote: > Sorry but I'm a brand new Linux user, so I'm really in trouble!! > > I need to configure a tftp server to download a configuration image from a > remote router. > The following is the tftp configuration file (included in xinetd.conf): > > # pr

off

2001-06-13 Thread spider
id like to thank everyone who helped me here ill be off for vacation see ya in november!

Re: Gnome, sawfish and testing...

2001-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?christophe_barb=E9?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:23:29 Tiago Alves Macambira wrote: >> I've just installed potato with reiserfs in a box in my office >> and dist-upgraded to woody. Everything was going just fine when, to my >> surprize, i realized that th

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Auke van der Gaast (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 05:04:53PM +0200): > I only want to give people access through FTP. Maybe it's a good > idea to give them access to the FTP folders of others too, but I > don't want them browsing through the whole harddisk. They only need > to be able to retreive

Re: IPMasq No Joy

2001-06-13 Thread ChrisHoover
Stupid question, but have you setup ip_forwarding on your ipmasq machine? It not, it must be compiled into the kernel and you must have a 1 in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward. This will allow the kernel to release the packets to the internet connection. Chris Stephen Handley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: networking broken (ifup, route add)

2001-06-13 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 09:33 AM 06/13/2001 -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: At 12:40 p.m. 12/06/01 -0500, you wrote: At 01:44 PM 06/12/2001 -0300, you wrote: At 11:05 a.m. 12/06/01 -0500, you wrote: At 12:57 PM 06/12/2001 -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: SO,  1) what's wrong with ifup,  2) how to manually add localhost. try "i

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Auke van der Gaast
Well, not really, or maybe a bit. I just wouldn't like, for instance, the homedir of my little brother, (who can make my machine download things, since I have cable and he has 'only' a 56k modem connection.) to be accessible to colleagues. Kind of a privacy issue for others, not my own, becau

Re: Gnome, sawfish and testing...

2001-06-13 Thread christophe barbé
IIRC there's no more task package in woody. In testing I see sawfish and sawfish-gnome. http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=sawfish&searchon=names&subword=1&version=unstable&release=all Christophe On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:23:29 Tiago Alves Macambira wrote: > Hi folks..

IPMasq No Joy

2001-06-13 Thread Stephen Handley
Title: Earn Over $4000.00 In Just 39 Days! Hi all,   Already posted about this once and thank you for the responses ... unfortunately I'm still stuck.   I have IPMasq installed, and as far as I can tell ipchains and ipmasqadm aswell   I can ping IP addresses from both my Debian server and m

Re: how to add application to icewm menu bar *n

2001-06-13 Thread Alex Kwan
Kevin, Done! Thanks! but I only have a text mode toolbar right now, Another question, how can I use a M$Windows98's icon to be my freeamp's icon? Alex > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:07:27PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I am using icewm window manager, > > how to add application (freea

Re: Latex version 2.09 from 7 Dec 89 ??

2001-06-13 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:24:27AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: :Right Answer: LaTeX2e is intended to be a mostly-compatible successor :to LaTeX 2.09. Thanks, I'll try that first, this is all complecated by the fact that I know *nothing* about TeX of any flavor... :(I know that LaTeX2e isn't 100%

help! help! help!

2001-06-13 Thread Minervini Luigi
Sorry but I'm a brand new Linux user, so I'm really in trouble!! I need to configure a tftp server to download a configuration image from a remote router. The following is the tftp configuration file (included in xinetd.conf): # protocol. The tftp protocol is often used to boot diskless \

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