Re: (FWD) rocky 06/14/01:07.02 system check

2001-06-15 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:51:16PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > Anyone have a clue what/why the following? I know logcheck is sending me > this, but it looks weird. > Unusual System Events > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Jun 14 06:26:01 rocky su[7575]: + ??? root-www-data > Jun 14 06:26:01 rocky PAM_u

Re: I simply don't understand

2001-06-15 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:14:48AM +, Vittorio wrote: > > Later on, while rebooting the system, a hard-disk error popped up > (before mounting the filesystem) halting the PC irremediably; > rebooting again, debian, shifting to single user, warned that the > filesystem had to be fsck'ed. I did

Re: IP Masqing question II

2001-06-15 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 08:36:54AM -0400, Ed Lawson wrote: > I installed the ipmasq package rather than using home rolled scripts and > the issue remains: the desktop machines cannot access ceertain websites > (linuxtoday) nor certain web based update services. The browser just > hangs. > On t

Re: Init not behaving the way man says it does?

2001-06-15 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 09:23:06AM -0500, Andrew Dixon wrote: > Craig McLean wrote: > > > > The man page states that whenever you transition between two run levels, it > > sends all processes not in the new run level the SIGTERM and then SIGKILL > > signals. Also in the debian case it runs the rc

Re: psql tab-completion

2001-06-15 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:36:12PM -0500, Larry Holish wrote: > Debs, > > I recently upgraded from PostgreSQL 7.03 to 7.1 using apt and Oliver > Elphick's packages for Potato. Everything went pretty well, except the > client application, psql, no longer does tab completion. Has anybody > else ran

Re: Masq Question

2001-06-15 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:50:19AM -0400, Ed Lawson wrote: > I just installed Debian for a server which provides interent access to > several machines via a dial up account. Running 2.2r3. I am using the > same rules i used running RH for setting up IP Masqing. For some reason > certain websi

iPAQ ?

2001-06-15 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, This is definately premature, but... I'm getting an iPAQ early next week, and was wondering if anyone out there's wedged debian onto one yet? It's meant to come with Linux, which I can only assume means Dead-Rat, or perhaps a Compaq sepecial mini-distro... -Jon

Re: 2.4 kernel and 4GB+ of RAM

2001-06-15 Thread John
On Friday 15 June 2001 19:28, Adam Shand wrote: > Hey all. > > I'm hoping for some advice here. I've just started a new job and one of > the things they want me to do is to build a linux farm/cluster for running > large simulation and regression tests. > > Some of these tests can be up to 4GB and

RADIUS Proxy

2001-06-15 Thread Nick Furman
I am hoping someone can help me out with RADIUS. I have two servers, for lack of a better name we can call them domain1.com and domain2.com. Currently my server (cyan.domain1.com) is running RADIUS without a problem. We are starting a virtual ISP (domain2.com) and I want cyan to send authenicati

Re: Any program to help achitectural drawing?

2001-06-15 Thread David Purton
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm not an architect or engineer but I'm involved in helping to design a > house. Any suggestions for the best drawing program to use? I'm fairly > familiar with xfig but I wonder whether there is anything else that > is specifically intended to help

Re: downloading with dselect??

2001-06-15 Thread Joey Hess
Noah Meyerhans wrote: > What are you trying to do? Are you trying to get lib6 or some other > package from woody or sid for your potato system? That will not work, > if that's what you're doing. dselect is trying to download all the > other packages because they depend on a specific version of l

2.4 kernel and 4GB+ of RAM

2001-06-15 Thread Adam Shand
Hey all. I'm hoping for some advice here. I've just started a new job and one of the things they want me to do is to build a linux farm/cluster for running large simulation and regression tests. Some of these tests can be up to 4GB and in time they will grow larger. I have a limited understandi

Re: Video shutdown instead of xscreensaver

2001-06-15 Thread D. Hoyem
Pedro, I use the Window MAnager also and I can get to the screensaver by right clicking in the window then selecting Apps then I select System. In the Menu that opens then I select Gnome Control Center and from there I can select the screensaver. I'm running Debian 2.2r.2, and did not add any o

portsentry + kernel 2.4.x

2001-06-15 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
This is the same message I sent to another mailing list, I am really frustrated. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:31:25 -0700 (PDT) Hi All, I am having a problem with portsentry on kernel 2.4.5 machines. When using kernel 2.2.19 on the same machine, there is no p

Re: hardware RAID boot

2001-06-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi matthew... 3ware stuff is mostly raid0/raid1... - they supposed to have a raid5 controller too ...but... havent tested it to boot from those scsi drives.. you'd need to use an initrd.gz file in your lilo.conf file... ( no different than if it was a regular scsi disk ( non-raid ) after you ge

IP Masq. problem solved

2001-06-15 Thread Ed Lawson
Turned out ppp was set with an MTU and MRU of 576. Apparently that causes the problem I encountered. It is documented in the IP Masq. HOWTO. Setting them to 1500 solved the problem. It was the last gotcha to solve. Ed Lawson

Re: help

2001-06-15 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:59:20 +0930 "Peter Whittam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to install Mozilla but it complains about unreachable files > libstc++ - libc6.1-1.so.2 > can anyone help? > also i want to connect to my LAN(other machines using windows) - all hardware is there from when

Re: How to upgrade to XFree86 4 on unstable ?

2001-06-15 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:48:06PM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote: | Balbir Thomas writes: | > > > You probably still have the X link pointing to your old X server. | > > > Change it to point to your new X server and you'll be good to go. Not | > > > too sure where the link is--probably somewhere in

Re: [users] Re: fetchmail question

2001-06-15 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Rafael Sasaki (on Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:59:39PM -0300): > poll server1 with proto POP3 user "user1" there with password > "***" is asuzuki here options keep > > (if this is the account you just want to read the messages, not > delete them from server) and you might want to consider

Re: How to upgrade to XFree86 4 on unstable ?

2001-06-15 Thread Andrew Agno
Balbir Thomas writes: > > > You probably still have the X link pointing to your old X server. > > > Change it to point to your new X server and you'll be good to go. Not > > > too sure where the link is--probably somewhere in /usr/X11R6/bin. You > > > want to move the link to point to ./XFr

Re: How to upgrade to XFree86 4 on unstable ?

2001-06-15 Thread Balbir Thomas
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:57:36PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:27:44AM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote: > > Balbir Thomas writes: > > > I now find that xserver-xfree86 and xfree86-common are upgraded . I > > > even ran xf86cfg . But when I try to startx it still runs > > >

Re: How to upgrade to XFree86 4 on unstable ?

2001-06-15 Thread Andrew Agno
Balbir Thomas writes: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:27:44AM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote: > > Balbir Thomas writes: > > > I now find that xserver-xfree86 and xfree86-common are upgraded . I > > > even ran xf86cfg . But when I try to startx it still runs > > > 3.3.6. How do I change to 4 ? > >

debian and ISDN

2001-06-15 Thread Gabriel Verhooghe
Although other Linux-distributions are easier to install, I'm very satisfied with the Debian distribution and I'd like to use it more intensively in the future. Now I have used the ISDN utils succesfully but I have the following remarks: as I was investigating what the system is doing during

Re: Gnucash 1.6 dependency bug

2001-06-15 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* David Z Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Oleksandr Moskalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OM> I just tried installing gnucash 1.6 from unstable and found out that > OM> it depends on libgwrapguile0 whereas there is only libgwrapguile1 in the > OM> distribution. It leaves me confused and wonder

Re: How to upgrade to XFree86 4 on unstable ?

2001-06-15 Thread Balbir Thomas
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:27:44AM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote: > Balbir Thomas writes: > > I now find that xserver-xfree86 and xfree86-common are upgraded . I > > even ran xf86cfg . But when I try to startx it still runs > > 3.3.6. How do I change to 4 ? > > You probably still have the X link poi

Re: downloading with dselect??

2001-06-15 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:02:39PM +0200, pReJkEr wrote: > that manual for dselect is not well written ;[[ > how to download with dselect only libc6 and all the packages > that libc6 require? when i press + on the numpad it adds more > packages that are needed (i think ;])... What are you

hardware RAID boot

2001-06-15 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi all, Does anyone know whether the 3ware escalade raid drivers are bootable? I.e do I have to have a seperate non-raid drive on which to put the kernel. I'm thinking that I shouldn't have to because the raid array appears to linux as a SCSI drive, but the BIOS would also have to support it would

Re: security updates running sid

2001-06-15 Thread David Z Maze
Brad Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BC> What line should I put in my sources.lits file in order to get security BC> updates for sid? Do they come from the stable tree? No, updates to sid should always include whatever security fixes are relevant. There's no separate security-update tree for s

Re: Gnucash 1.6 dependency bug

2001-06-15 Thread David Z Maze
Oleksandr Moskalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OM> I just tried installing gnucash 1.6 from unstable and found out that OM> it depends on libgwrapguile0 whereas there is only libgwrapguile1 in the OM> distribution. It leaves me confused and wondering as what could be done OM> to remedie this prob

psql tab-completion

2001-06-15 Thread Larry Holish
Debs, I recently upgraded from PostgreSQL 7.03 to 7.1 using apt and Oliver Elphick's packages for Potato. Everything went pretty well, except the client application, psql, no longer does tab completion. Has anybody else ran into this problem? Did I miss a dependency somewhere? I'm using: postg

Re: downloading with dselect??

2001-06-15 Thread ktb
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:02:39PM +0200, pReJkEr wrote: > Ello > > that manual for dselect is not well written ;[[ > how to download with dselect only libc6 and all the packages > that libc6 require? when i press + on the numpad it adds more > packages that are needed (i think ;])... If

FAQ? Resync /var/lib/dpkg/status?

2001-06-15 Thread Allan Clark
Debian Users; Hi, I'm new to Debian, I've been using Unix for 18 years. As such, I have a package-management question which may very well be a FAQ. I don't see any documentation (FAQ or otherwise) of resolving package-management issues, so this is my only forum. I am "Linux debian 2.2.17" For

Re: Init not behaving the way man says it does?

2001-06-15 Thread Andrew Dixon
Craig McLean wrote: > > The man page states that whenever you transition between two run levels, it > sends all processes not in the new run level the SIGTERM and then SIGKILL > signals. Also in the debian case it runs the rc script which does all the K > entries and all the S entries, in the new

Gnucash 1.6 dependency bug

2001-06-15 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
Hello, I just tried installing gnucash 1.6 from unstable and found out that it depends on libgwrapguile0 whereas there is only libgwrapguile1 in the distribution. It leaves me confused and wondering as what could be done to remedie this problem. Alex.

Re: Running Windows Apps on Linux

2001-06-15 Thread John
On Thursday 14 June 2001 22:30, Ian Perry wrote: > Is it possible to run Microsoft Windows Apps (such as Excel etc) in > XWindows or is there a utility which allows this ? > > Ian VMware, win4lin, and wine. (wine is the only free one) but before you decide to use windows programs, why not see if

Re: CPAN updating Perl version

2001-06-15 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:22:48PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > will trillich wrote: > > care to elaborate for us ignorami what exactly dh-make-perl > > is, and where to get it? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>ssh auric.debian.org madison dh-make-perl > dh-make-perl |0.6 | testing | source, all

RE:How to upgrade to XFree86 4 on unstable ?

2001-06-15 Thread Andrew Agno
Balbir Thomas writes: > I now find that xserver-xfree86 and xfree86-common are upgraded . I > even ran xf86cfg . But when I try to startx it still runs > 3.3.6. How do I change to 4 ? You probably still have the X link pointing to your old X server. Change it to point to your new X server and y

Re: cdcd sound level

2001-06-15 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 09:01:36AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > will trillich wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:56:11PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > >> I am not currently a subscriber but will use geocrawler to check the > >> archives for possible solutions. Thanks for any help you

install kernel woes

2001-06-15 Thread Duane Powers
Hi list, I should maybe be posting this to debian-user, but I'm not sub'd there, and I'm hoping one of y'all may have some experience with this hardware configuration. I've built a custom kernel for my hardware, (compaq proliant 2500R with compaq smart2 array controller, and have put it on th

Re: help

2001-06-15 Thread will trillich
To: Subject: help Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:59:20 +0930 Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 22:25:26 -0500 i think your system clock needs assistance. :) == On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 12:59:20PM +0930, Peter Whittam wrote: > I am trying to install Mozilla but it complains about unreachable files > libst

How to upgrade to XFree86 4 on unstable ?

2001-06-15 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, I just managed to upgrade my potato box to unstable (with kernel 2.4.5) . I used the following source list : deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-freedeb http://security.debian.org stab

Re: fetchmail question

2001-06-15 Thread Rafael Sasaki
I had this same problem when i were configuring my email on GNU/Linux. I solved it adding "options keep" after the user name and pass. If it were on your exemple it would be: poll server1 with proto POP3 user "user1" there with password "***" is asuzuki here options keep (if this is

Re: I need automount floppy and cdrom - SOLVED

2001-06-15 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
If anyone want to do the same... The lines that I just include to fstab was: /dev/cdrom /cdromiso9660user,ro,auto1 0 /dev/fd0/floppyvfat user,auto1 0 # You can change vfat for auto... Thanks! David Nusinow wrote: > On Wednesday 13 June 2001 04:27 pm, Rogelio

security updates running sid

2001-06-15 Thread Brad Cramer
What line should I put in my sources.lits file in order to get security updates for sid? Do they come from the stable tree? Thanks Brad

ntpdate

2001-06-15 Thread Andrew Dixon
Hi All, for some reason on of my boxen keeps starting up with the date way back in the 1920's. ntpdate doesn't handle this well so the time is always wrong. I hacked the /etc/init.d/ntpdate script and set the date to something closer so that ntpdate could actually set the date correctly but, like

Re: lp0 on fire

2001-06-15 Thread Paul Wright
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:51:57 EDT, David wrote: > I was printing a rather large label job from a local debian machine to a > remote debian machine that has an old dot matrix printer attached to it. > After about 10 minutes of printing to the remote printer, the message "lp0 > on fire" popped up on

Re: Some mouse clicks don't work, some do

2001-06-15 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:25:04PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I am running woody, with gnome, X 4.0, and sawfish. sawfish (and > gnome-sawfish) are leftovers from Ximian, but it is mostly a straight > Debian system. Wait till sawfish is pouring into woody and get rid of anything from Ximian, t

Re: mirroring just binary-i386 files

2001-06-15 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:24:22AM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > I'm currently using mirror, but run into a series of problems: I don't, so here are my mirror config: package=Debian # comment=Mirroring parts of ftp.debian.org:/debian # site=ftp.de.debian.org remote_dir=/de

Re: [users] Also...

2001-06-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:24:01PM +0200, christophe barb? wrote: > I know that a replacment is in the way but I can't remember its name (IIRC > it's in sid). I believe that would be deity. -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.12: GCS d? s+: a C++ UL$

Re: kernel 2.4 and cs4232 [semi-urgent]

2001-06-15 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Jonathan D. Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi, > > Sound, my personal blind spot... > > When I upgraded to kernel 2.4.x some time ago I lost sound, and > haven't been able to get it back on two out of three machines. > > We have a bunch of demos monday and it would be nice to put s

Re: lp0 on fire

2001-06-15 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* David Raeker-Jordan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I was printing a rather large label job from a local debian machine to a > remote debian machine that has an old dot matrix printer attached to it. > After about 10 minutes of printing to the remote printer, the message "lp0 > on fire" poppe

Re: [probably offtopic] xdm port listening

2001-06-15 Thread Sean Morgan
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:14:23PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:14:53PM -0400, Sean Morgan wrote: > > 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 > > po

RE: Sudden problem with bind

2001-06-15 Thread John Galt
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: >Thanks Ian, > >I will try upgrading bind. Do you know if there is a .deb for bind 9? I was >not able to find one. I did download the .tar.gz file from ftp.isc.org but Unstable/non-US... >I am not used to installing these files, because I alway

Init not behaving the way man says it does?

2001-06-15 Thread Craig McLean
The man page states that whenever you transition between two run levels, it sends all processes not in the new run level the SIGTERM and then SIGKILL signals. Also in the debian case it runs the rc script which does all the K entries and all the S entries, in the new runlevelsrc[0-6sS].d direc

Re: subject missing on some

2001-06-15 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
On Friday 15 June 2001 06:43, Kent West wrote: > /RANT > And while I'm on the subject of list netiquette (for anyone reading over > your shoulder), I believe it's proper to put your reply at the bottom of > the previous message instead of at the top, so that as the thread grows, > it's easy to jump

Re: [users] Re: now what ?

2001-06-15 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach D-Man (on Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:58:22AM -0400): > Simply edit /etc/modutils/aliases to have > > alias eth0 > > where is the kernel modules for your ethernet card. One of > mine is 'tulip' and another is 'ne'. even better. although modconf is important too. but understanding the

Re: subject missing on some

2001-06-15 Thread Kent West
Andrew Dixon wrote: Let the flames begin. Kent West wrote: /RANT And while I'm on the subject of list netiquette (for anyone reading over your shoulder), I believe it's proper to put your reply at the bottom of the previous message instead of at the top, so that as the thread grows, it's easy

Re: IP Masqing question II

2001-06-15 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Ed, This sounds like an ipv6 issue. Check your kernel and see if you have it rolled in. Also check archives. gl On Friday 15 June 2001 05:36, Ed Lawson wrote: > I installed the ipmasq package rather than using home rolled scripts and > the issue remains: the desktop machines cannot access

Re: PDAs

2001-06-15 Thread Alexander Steinert
> 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 > >

Re: subject missing on some

2001-06-15 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:17:25AM -0500, Bryan Andersen wrote: | A bug in IE6 beta would cause outlook express to blank out | subject lines from text messages from non MS email clients. LOL! Are you sure it is a 'bug' and not a 'feature'? -D

Re: now what ?

2001-06-15 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:11:01PM +0200, Adri wrote: | Ok, | | 1) I didn't install the module for my ethernet card. | | What now? Shall I reinstall and indicate the ethernet card correctly or | can I fix this up from where I am now? Simply edit /etc/modutils/aliases to have alias eth0

lp0 on fire

2001-06-15 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
I was printing a rather large label job from a local debian machine to a remote debian machine that has an old dot matrix printer attached to it. After about 10 minutes of printing to the remote printer, the message "lp0 on fire" popped up on the remote machine's terminal and the printer stopped fo

Re: apt question

2001-06-15 Thread der.hans
Am 15. Jun, 2001 schwäzte Ben Harvey so: > I remember hearing something about mixing potato & woody in sources.list so > that apt wont use the unstable version unless you explicitly tell it to. > > now that I want to do just that I can't find the relevant docs/archived mail > It might have had s

Re: Also...

2001-06-15 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi... I actually prefer to edit manually by hand However... I think you can download a .deb package for linuxconf try apt-get install linuxconf Mike - Original Message - From: "Adri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 5:31 AM Subject: Also... > Ehm, > > one mor

Re: potato with X4.1 and KDE 2.x

2001-06-15 Thread Martin Würtele
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:28:05PM +0200, Raymond Haeb wrote: > Where do i get infos on how to install the new X-server (geforce2 mx) an kde > 2.x on top of potato, without upgrading to unstable/testing ? check out unofficial sources at http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/. af

potato with X4.1 and KDE 2.x

2001-06-15 Thread Raymond Haeb
Hy, Where do i get infos on how to install the new X-server (geforce2 mx) an kde 2.x on top of potato, without upgrading to unstable/testing ? thanx, Ray

Re: [users] Also...

2001-06-15 Thread christophe barbé
> how stable is gnome-apt these days? Under potato it's very stable. ;-) Under unstable, I use it only as a apt-get database displayer. Sometimes it shows strange things (notably with virtual packages). I don't know the current status of stormpkg but they are both very similar. I know that a

Re: apt question

2001-06-15 Thread Ben Harvey
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:37:11PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > i stick with potato. it worked yesterday, it'll still work > tomorrow. i may WANT something fancy that's only in woody, but i > can make do with potato just fine. and intelligent contributors > keep backporting other gizmos to potato

Re: subject missing on some

2001-06-15 Thread Bryan Andersen
> Mike Egglestone wrote: > > hi all... > > I'm using outlook express to check my mail... > Some of the emails don't show the subject ... > Anyone else having this problem? > > Its probably my email server or my client machine... Are you using IE6 beta or have had the IE6 beta installed at any p

Re: kernel 2.4 and cs4232 [semi-urgent]

2001-06-15 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 12:50:41AM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: :Did you compile in Sound Support as a module? Yup, AFAIK sound_core.o is no longer used in 2.4. On the working machine I don't see it. re: where I compiled, one of the soundless systems was where I did the build using make-kpkg. T

now what ?

2001-06-15 Thread Adri
Ok, I didn't install the module for my ethernet card. What now? Shall I reinstall and indicate the ethernet card correctly or can I fix this up from where I am now? 2) I managed to remove X (it didn't work) with dselect but how to remove stuff with apt? 3) How do I get a list or an overv

downloading with dselect??

2001-06-15 Thread pReJkEr
Ello that manual for dselect is not well written ;[[ how to download with dselect only libc6 and all the packages that libc6 require? when i press + on the numpad it adds more packages that are needed (i think ;])... ...:: [ pReJkEr ] ::... ...:: [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] ::... ...

just a try -ignore this

2001-06-15 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
-- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Desarrollo, Grupo S2 Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r3 __

Re: kernel 2.4 and cs4232 [semi-urgent]

2001-06-15 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:04:00AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx uttered: > now I get "init_module: No such device", all systems running > "unstable". sndconfig doesn't seem to deal with 2.4 kernels (complains > about sound_core missing, I wonder if I can alias that away...) > Did you compile in Sound

Re: Apache: Connection refused ...

2001-06-15 Thread W. Paul Mills
Several possibilities. Can you "telnet localhost", if not, does not sound like an apache problem. You should be looking for apache not httpd: root 636 0.0 0.3 3592 396 ?SJun14 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache www-data 643 0.0 0.2 3720 368 ?SJun14 0:00 \_ /usr/s

Re: [users] Also...

2001-06-15 Thread Andrew Dixon
christophe barbé wrote: > > If you don't like too much dselect, try under X gnome-apt. > how stable is gnome-apt these days? how about storm-package (is that the right name)? later, Andy

Re: subject missing on some

2001-06-15 Thread Andrew Dixon
Let the flames begin. Kent West wrote: > /RANT > And while I'm on the subject of list netiquette (for anyone reading over > your shoulder), I believe it's proper to put your reply at the bottom of > the previous message instead of at the top, so that as the thread grows, > it's easy to jump in in

Re: I simply don't understand

2001-06-15 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:14:48AM +, Vittorio wrote: | Hi, ... | Now my question is: | | Where, in what package can I find the correct /etc/motd file? # vim /etc/motd :-) 'motd' stands for "Message Of The Day" and can be anything you want it to be. It is dumped to the terminal when a user

Re: Video shutdown instead of xscreensaver

2001-06-15 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
Please CC reply copies as I'm not a subscriber of this list I forgot to tell it in details. I have WindowMaker installed. No gnome panel or other panel installed. Just default windowmaker menus. There are several computers I'd like to enable this. Distribution is Debian testing in some and stab

Re: [users] Also...

2001-06-15 Thread christophe barbé
If you don't like too much dselect, try under X gnome-apt. Christophe On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:48:03 Adri wrote: > Martin, > > At 14.40 15/06/2001 +0200, you wrote: > >also sprach Adri (on Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:31:34PM +0200): > > > Any similar utility under Debian? > > > >nope, and that's why debia

kernel 2.4 and cs4232 [semi-urgent]

2001-06-15 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, Sound, my personal blind spot... When I upgraded to kernel 2.4.x some time ago I lost sound, and haven't been able to get it back on two out of three machines. We have a bunch of demos monday and it would be nice to put something flashy on the kiosk system (which is one of the sound less one

Re: [users] Also...

2001-06-15 Thread Adri
Martin, At 14.40 15/06/2001 +0200, you wrote: also sprach Adri (on Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:31:34PM +0200): > Any similar utility under Debian? nope, and that's why debian is so good. if you need those utilities, get redhat or suse or progeny! those gui utils have inherent problems on systems like l

Re: Video shutdown instead of xscreensaver

2001-06-15 Thread D. Hoyem
Pedro, If you go to System --> Gnome Control Panel you will see screensaver. In there you can setup what you want to do. --- Pedro Zorzenon Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please CC reply copies as I'm not a subscriber of > this list. > > Hi, > >When I don't move the mouse or type for

non-modular kernel, multi E/N card recognition

2001-06-15 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hello: I have encountered a problem with the recognition of 2 Ethernet cards when using a non-modular kernel. The specifics are as follows: kernel 2.4.2 (with console = tty and lance ethernet enabled) 2 Lance (ISA) E/N cards jumpered to 0x300 and 0x320 respectively system

Re: getting mad!

2001-06-15 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I haven't been following this closely, so my appologies if this isn't relevent. I remeber when setting up tftp for our routers, we had a problem because tftp won't create files so we had to "touch /tftp/foo" before we could download foo. This caused much frustration untill we stumbled across

Re: HELP: All Fonts in X are gone

2001-06-15 Thread Willi Dyck
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:39:56PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > since this morning i have only courier in X all other fonts are gone also my > Keyboard settings are gone. What did i wrong? > What can i do? Had same problem this morning. As far as your keyboard settings are concerned I'd sugg

Microsoft Intellimouse optical USB and PS/2 compatible mouse?

2001-06-15 Thread Walter Tautz
specifically the plug is a little rectangular shape, i.e, it is plugged into one of two USB ports. Anyone have some cogent advice? Does the kernel need updating (currently have 2.2.19pre17-idepci). -walter

Re: fetchmail question

2001-06-15 Thread christophe barbé
Hi Alex, I've no solution for your problem but I remember that fetchmailconf provides an option to leave messages on server (on a per account basis). Perahps you sdhould try to generate a pseudo config with it just to see what you can add. I use also two email addresses but I really use only one

Re: Any program to help achitectural drawing?

2001-06-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Jun 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Try QCad. > > On (15/06/01 09:16), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I'm not an architect or engineer but I'm involved in helping to design a > > house. Any suggestions for the best drawing program to use? I'm fairly > > familiar with xfig but I wonder whether

Re: subject missing on some

2001-06-15 Thread Kent West
Mike Egglestone wrote: hi all... I'm using outlook express to check my mail... Some of the emails don't show the subject ... Anyone else having this problem? Its probably my email server or my client machine... Thanks Mike If you mean that you are recieving some emails from th

Re: No hardware detection?

2001-06-15 Thread ktb
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:27:39PM +0200, Adri wrote: > Hello all, > > I got another disk and tryied to install potato 2.2 rev 3 > > Nice installer but it asked me about my peripherals. Doesn't it detect them > automagically? > > Shall I set each one of them? > > I didn't know what ethernet ca

Video shutdown instead of xscreensaver

2001-06-15 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
Please CC reply copies as I'm not a subscriber of this list. Hi, When I don't move the mouse or type for some minutes, xscreensaver runs. How can I change this? I'd like that my monitor turns off or enter in sleep mode instead of xscreensaver. Is there some How-To where I can find some hin

ntp problems

2001-06-15 Thread MaD dUCK
i have an xntp3 server (redhat, sorry) running on 192.168.1.1 configured as follows: // server 130.149.17.21 prefer # ntps1-0.cs.tu-berlin.de fudge 130.149.17.21 stratum 1 server 129.132.98.11 # bernina.ethz.ch fudge 129.132.98.11 stratum 1 restrict default

Re: fetchmail question

2001-06-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
> poll server1 with proto POP3 > user "user1" there with password "***" is asuzuki here > > poll server2 with proto POP3 > user "user2" there with password "***" is asuzuki here > *** > > My question is how do I leave mail on server for the first > account but download&delete it for

Re: COM21 is killing me with ARP

2001-06-15 Thread Sebastiaan
Thanks for all the info everybody gave. It seems that I am powerless to undertake some action. I have already contacted my cable company, but I have heard that it is a real mess there, so the chance that it will be solved one day lies between a quarter and 0.25. Thanks, Sebastiaan On Thu, 14 Jun

Re: Sudden problem with bind

2001-06-15 Thread ktb
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:20:26PM +0200, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: > Thanks Ian, > > I will try upgrading bind. Do you know if there is a .deb for bind 9? I was > not able to find one. I did download the .tar.gz file from ftp.isc.org but > I am not used to installing these files, because I

Re: Also...

2001-06-15 Thread Ingo Ruhnke
Adri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > one more thing: on RedHat I had a utility called linuxconf; it was > for setting things. > > Any similar utility under Debian? There are a bunch of scripts under /usr/sbin/*conf for doing various configurations, for example pppconfig for setting up your Modem.

fetchmail question

2001-06-15 Thread Alex Suzuki
Hi everybody, I'm using fetchmail in a system-wide configuration, with a global /etc/fetchmailrc that looks like this: *** # Ausgabe geht an Syslog daemon, erscheint in /var/log/messages set syslog set postmaster "postmaster" # Alle 2 Minuten wird einmal Mail geholt set daemon 120 poll

RE: Sudden problem with bind

2001-06-15 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
Thanks Ian, I will try upgrading bind. Do you know if there is a .deb for bind 9? I was not able to find one. I did download the .tar.gz file from ftp.isc.org but I am not used to installing these files, because I always use .deb files. If there are no .deb files available for bind 9, can I ju

M$ DCOM

2001-06-15 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, Does someone know how to configure an iptables firewall so that M$ DCOM applications can be used correctly? I have read somewhere that it uses port 135 to communicate, so would it be sufficient to open only that port? Thanks in advance, Sebastiaan -- NT is the OS of the future. The m

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