Re: Exim Rewriting rules problems

2001-06-19 Thread William Cooper
Hi, have a similar situation in the office. According to the Exim docs, Exim was not made to handle this problem. The work arounds are: 1. to use two machines (the method I use) one as a smart host and the other for local delivery of network mail 2. to use to installs of Exim on one machine, on

Re: TrueType Font Guide feedback

2001-06-19 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: rb> Thanks for making this available; I used the one for 4.x, as I rb> used the earlier one. It's very helpful. Welcome! rb> There was one point in the instructions I got a little lost. It's in rb> section 5.1 "The next subject of interest is w

Re: video card for dvd

2001-06-19 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Thomas Halahan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > dear deb-user > > i want to upgrade my video card for good DVD playback with a tv out, > with 32Mb or more i presume. however there is so much choice out > there i would like some suggestions. if anyone has had any success > with their vid config

Re: installing new kernel

2001-06-19 Thread G.LeeJohnson
> > May I suggest that you forget all that? To me the simpler way would be to > get the source for the kernel, set it up according to the Kernel-HOWTO at > www.linuxdoc.org, build yourself a kernel, run make-kpkg to make yourself > a set of kernel-source,kernel-image, and kernel-doc deb files (they

wajig update

2001-06-19 Thread Graham Williams
Thanks for all the comments I've received re my "wajig" script. I've put the current version at http://velox.act.cmis.csiro.au/~gjw/wajig This is a script that simply collects together some typical package management operations into one place. A sample iteration for me is: # wajig update

Debian 2.2r3, kernel 2.4.5 and XF403???

2001-06-19 Thread tony mollica
Hello. I'm about to upgrade my X from 3.3.6-11potato to 4.03 by way of the debs at http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha and using apt-get. I've done the apt-get upgrade and started the apt-get dist-upgrade and became somewhat queasy when the list of packages to remove came up (below). I would hate

Re: how do I find out which device this bit of dmesg refers to?

2001-06-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Britton wrote: > > I get a message like this is dmesg: > > PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0f.0. Please try using > pci=biosirq. > > I think this first showed up around kernel version 2.4.4. Anyone know > what might be causing it or how you figure out which device is 00:0f.0?

TrueType Font Guide feedback

2001-06-19 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks for making this available; I used the one for 4.x, as I used the earlier one. It's very helpful. There was one point in the instructions I got a little lost. It's in section 5.1 "The next subject of interest is where the .alias file should be put." You then refer to the .scale file belong

Re: MPG / AVI player

2001-06-19 Thread ray p
Mplayer. mplayer.sourceforge.net. You can even build debs from the cvs sources they also have links to the windows dlls that you will need. Now having said that where do you get the Futurama episodes from? On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:55:53PM -0500, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > Does anyone know of

Re: MPG / AVI player

2001-06-19 Thread p
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:55:53PM -0500, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > Does anyone know of a GOOD (I mean not xanim) mpg player? I need to watch my > futurama episodes!! > > -- > > Jonathan Daugherty > Dept. of Computer Science / UCNS Workstation Support Group > The University of Georgia > //

Problem upgrading X

2001-06-19 Thread Jeremy
Once again, I'm having problems upgrading X in potato to the version in woody (4.0.3). Originally I was having problems with the thing of linking /etc/X11/X to /usr/X11R6/bin/Xfree86. (because the Xfree86 wasn't there.) I was told that I probably needed to install xserver-xfree86. This was inde

Re: Careers in Linux

2001-06-19 Thread mark
Hi, I saw your posting on the debian list regarding careers in Linux.Hopefully you should be o.k, Iam finding it very hard to even get looked at by empolyeers.Basically i have made a career change 1 1/2 years ago from being a factory worker to supporting pc's (sadly win9x/win2

MPG / AVI player

2001-06-19 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
Does anyone know of a GOOD (I mean not xanim) mpg player? I need to watch my futurama episodes!! -- Jonathan Daugherty Dept. of Computer Science / UCNS Workstation Support Group The University of Georgia /^.{10}\ +\d+\ +(\d+|\w+)\ +(\d+|\w+)\ +(\d+(\.\d+|)(M|k|G|)).*/ - master ls!

Re: pppd troubles

2001-06-19 Thread Kevin Ross
>> One more thing. There's a 2.4.0 pppd compiled for potato w/kernel >> 2.4.x at: >> >> http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html > >kevin, you rock!!! fixed it... >and thanks to adrian as well!!! Excellent! Glad to be of service. -- Kevin

Re: installing new kernel

2001-06-19 Thread Kevin Ross
> How do i get 2.4.5 to install with debian?..i know about compiling >myself but i'm unsure how to incoorporate those changes with debian >although i could do it blind-folded in RH.. The easiest way is to use Adrian Bunk's set of packages for a 2.4.x kernel on a Debian 2.2r3 system. To run kern

Re: pppd troubles

2001-06-19 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Kevin Ross (on Tue, 19 Jun 2001 04:50:14PM -0700): > One more thing. There's a 2.4.0 pppd compiled for potato w/kernel > 2.4.x at: > > http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html kevin, you rock!!! fixed it... and thanks to adrian as well!!! martin; (greetings from the he

Re: [users] Re: pppd troubles

2001-06-19 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Kevin Ross (on Tue, 19 Jun 2001 04:46:06PM -0700): > I browsed through the source code for pppd, and it looks like the > only way that error can be generated is if you're using kernel > 2.4.x. So the fact that you're using pppd version 2.3.11 tells me > you're using potato, but with a

Re: pppd troubles

2001-06-19 Thread Kevin Ross
>> Jun 19 16:56:35 orange pppd[1408]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 >> Jun 19 16:56:35 orange pppd[1408]: Couldn't attach tty to PPP unit 0: >>Invalid argument >> Jun 19 16:56:35 orange pppd[1408]: tcsetattr: Invalid argument >> Jun 19 16:56:35 orange pppd[1408]: Exit. > >I browsed thr

Re: pppd troubles

2001-06-19 Thread Kevin Ross
> Jun 19 16:56:35 orange pppd[1408]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 > Jun 19 16:56:35 orange pppd[1408]: Couldn't attach tty to PPP unit 0: >Invalid argument > Jun 19 16:56:35 orange pppd[1408]: tcsetattr: Invalid argument > Jun 19 16:56:35 orange pppd[1408]: Exit. I browsed through th

Re: IPMasqing Act 2 Scene 42

2001-06-19 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:45:51AM -0700, Stephen Handley wrote: > Thanks Will > > So it looks like I'm denying inputs received on eth0 with IP 63.105.28.151 > and when I perhaps should be accepting them??? Does that sound right, given > that eth0 is connected to my ISP side? > > > /sbin/ipchain

Re: pppd troubles

2001-06-19 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Jeremy (on Tue, 19 Jun 2001 07:42:32PM -0500): > My knowledge on this is limited, but have you made sure that you > have the domain and nameserver entries in the /etc/resolv.conf > file? I got this same sort of message when I was trying to dial > in with wvdial and I didn't have those

Re: How to install cdrom (Samsung CDR-RW, SW-208; Debian Potato 2.3

2001-06-19 Thread Shaul Karl
> How do I install the cd-rom modules to read from the cd? > > Currently > 1) boot from cd, follow installation process > 2) install modules fs: binfm_aout, smbfs, vfat; misc: generic_serial > net: bsd_comp, dummy, ppp; > 3) continue install to "Next: reboot"; reboot > 4) Install continues,

Re: Streamed Audio application?

2001-06-19 Thread Chris Majewski
See www.shoutcast.com, www.icecast.com -chris Noah Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 b

Re: pppd troubles

2001-06-19 Thread Jeremy
=== hey all, we are still failing to establish a connection with wvdial and pppd (on a potato system). wvdial looks all good, until we get to the login: --> Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt. login: --> Looks like a login p

Re: [slightly OT] 486 50mhz 16ram 258mb HD

2001-06-19 Thread Chris Majewski
Brendon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > should i even bother trying to put such a low end machine to use as a > gateway, firewall or webserver? if so would debian run on it, or should i > look for a single floppy solution (and if so which one, where do i look)? See http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/

RE: Strange logs - General Protection Fault

2001-06-19 Thread Ian Perry
I thought that it may be a hardware glitch or possibly a power glitch I wouldn't think that it was the kernel as the exact same kernel and hardware configuration is running on 3 sites. This has been the only problem in the last 6 months of continuous running. In fact one site has been up f

Java 2 VM in Debian

2001-06-19 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, I looked at `apt-cache search java`, but I can't find the package I need to install for a Java 1.2 VM. `apt-cache search blackdown` didn't show anything either. Is there such a package in unstable? TIA, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Need help

2001-06-19 Thread Tim Xu
Hi, We bought the debian potato Linux CD package, and installed it on a new IDE hard drive. There is error message came up during installing selected packages. The message is as below: Errors were encountered while processing: /cdrom//dists/potato/main/binary-i386/tex/tetex-base_1.0-10.deb E: Seb

Re: installing new kernel

2001-06-19 Thread david
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, G.LeeJohnson wrote: > hi.. > > How do i get 2.4.5 to install with debian?..i know about compiling > myself but i'm unsure how to incoorporate those changes with debian > although i could do it blind-folded in RH.. > > It seems that when I installed Progeny it gave me info a

Vuelvo por estos lares :)

2001-06-19 Thread Daniel Payno
Buenas.. ya termino exámenes y vuelvo a la lista ;) -- Daniel PaynoGrupo de Usuarios de Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrador del FTP del GUL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universidad Carlos III de Madrid The nice thing about Windows is - It doe

Re: opinions please: auto-backup to CDRW

2001-06-19 Thread Jens Gecius
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have about 500Mb of variable data (theres only 4 > console only users and we arent mp3 freaks!) and a > CDRW. Would it be worth setting up a script+cron > job to do the following nightly:- > > 1/ tar+gzip /home AND /etc AND /var/mail AND > /root/scripts > 1.a

pppd troubles

2001-06-19 Thread MaD dUCK
hey all, we are still failing to establish a connection with wvdial and pppd (on a potato system). wvdial looks all good, until we get to the login: --> Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt. login: --> Looks like a login prompt. --> Sending: heikkin heikkin Password: --> Looks like

installing new kernel

2001-06-19 Thread G.LeeJohnson
hi.. How do i get 2.4.5 to install with debian?..i know about compiling myself but i'm unsure how to incoorporate those changes with debian although i could do it blind-folded in RH.. It seems that when I installed Progeny it gave me info at one of the install screens saying Progeny comes with

Re: PPP - On Demand Dialing / timeouts

2001-06-19 Thread nico de haer
Hello, Mike Dresser and Jaye Inabnit suggested 'speed-dialing'. Here are the results: WOWIE! MODEM ON STEROIDS! I only need to dial 6 digits, i can hardly make them out while that thing is dialing out! (we are talking < 1.5 seconds!) Damn, this is fast! About the v.92 stuff suggested by Mike, t

lynx-ssl and --post_data

2001-06-19 Thread Harland Christofferson
Has anyone been able to use this option successfully? I am trying to logon to a secure server w/ usernamd, password and a post. I have had no success at all w/ this. HELP!

Re: opinions please: auto-backup to CDRW

2001-06-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi y chris... have a look at the existing backup scripts that makes cdrw you should do daily incrementals and weekly full backups.. where the incremental also span multiple full backups as backups do fail due to full disks... ( aint backed up cause you didnt check there was space available ) ha

Re: Sendmail wont accept outside mail properly

2001-06-19 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 07:05:07 CDT, James Brents writes: >On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: >> Ah, and have you tried rebuilding your aliases, just to make sure you >> haven´t got bitten by the recent libdb-woes in testing/unstable? > >I hadn't, but I just did and restarted sendmail with s

Re: [maybe OT] viewing ansi art ?

2001-06-19 Thread Balbir Thomas
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:58:52AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > you shouldn't have to do anything really. I've attached my /etc/issue from > the linuxlogo package in sid, try cat'ing that, and let me know what > you see. Works for me on the console (w or w/o fbdev), and in xterms. > Note I

xf86config failed. Need help!

2001-06-19 Thread Tim Xu
Hi, We baught the debian potato linux CD package, and installted it on a new IDE hard drive. There is error message came up during installing selected packages. The message is as below: Processing was halted because there were two many errors. E: Sub-Process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code(1

Re: pppoe and the 2.4.x kernel

2001-06-19 Thread Kevin Ross
>> Help me out here - I understand it is now possible to compile ppp and pppoe >> in the 2.4.x kernel as opposed to running a pppoe client like roaring >> penguin. Unfortunately, I have been unable to find any documentation on >> this. Can someone point me in the right direction please? > >You have

Re: % with perl

2001-06-19 Thread Robin Gerard
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:56:11PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 01:24:28AM +, Robin Gerard wrote: > > this script runs fine: > > > try > > perldoc -f each > perldoc -f keys ok it's just what I need. > the camel book and the llama book are both won

modem

2001-06-19 Thread Apofiszh
Üdv van 1 nagy problémám most raktunk fel az 1ik haverommali debian a gépemre de sehol nem találtam valami drievrt a belső morotola modemhez lécci ha tudtok olyan helyet ahonnan le leeht tölteni akkor küldjétek el a linket mert most ezzel a mikrofos termékkel kell neteznem és már tényleg ú

another strange bootup message: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

2001-06-19 Thread Britton
Oddly, this one does't show up in dmesg. It happens a couple of times during bootup and thats it. Ideas what is going on would be mose welcome. Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."

Re: pppoe and the 2.4.x kernel

2001-06-19 Thread Stefan Troeger
Hi, On Tue, Jun 19 2001 at 17:00 -0400, Stephen Nosal wrote: > Help me out here - I understand it is now possible to compile ppp and pppoe > in the 2.4.x kernel as opposed to running a pppoe client like roaring > penguin. Unfortunately, I have been unable to find any documentation on > this. Can

how do I find out which device this bit of dmesg refers to?

2001-06-19 Thread Britton
I get a message like this is dmesg: PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0f.0. Please try using pci=biosirq. I think this first showed up around kernel version 2.4.4. Anyone know what might be causing it or how you figure out which device is 00:0f.0? Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "T

pppoe and the 2.4.x kernel

2001-06-19 Thread Stephen Nosal
Folks - Help me out here - I understand it is now possible to compile ppp and pppoe in the 2.4.x kernel as opposed to running a pppoe client like roaring penguin. Unfortunately, I have been unable to find any documentation on this. Can someone point me in the right direction please? Thank - Stev

Problem with woody statd? (was Re: RPC failures)

2001-06-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
Well, I've made some progress. The major original problem was a library version mismatch; this does not seem to be a good time to be doing anything RPC-related on a mixed woody/potato system. Although everything seems to be functional now, I'm still getting lots of kernel: nsm_mon_unmon: rpc fai

Re: help making debian ISO's

2001-06-19 Thread Morgan Terry
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > i'd like to burn a copy of the debian woody distribution, so i'm following > the funky instructions about making pseudo-images and using rsync to convert > the images to official images. > > the problem is that the .list file that i'm supposed to get from > http://www

RE: Xf86free problem

2001-06-19 Thread Wyatt Draggoo
If it's XFree86 4, you should be able to configure it with: # XFree86 -configure It will create a `XF86Config.new' file in your /root directory that it tells you to test. It's never been able to detect my mouse (Standard PS/2 Logitech MarbleMan -- nothing odd or anything; it just won't see it)

Re: help making debian ISO's

2001-06-19 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:50:09AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: | i'd like to burn a copy of the debian woody distribution, so i'm following | the funky instructions about making pseudo-images and using rsync to convert | the images to official images. | | the problem is that the .list file tha

Re: MouseMan ??

2001-06-19 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > This is with XFREE86 4.0.x > > > > The wheel generally works. The thumb button duplicates > > button 2. > > is there any way to set thumb (side) button to do > something else? like double click? I think XFree86 only makes the buttons "available". It doesn't necessarily define *what* the but

Re: MouseMan ??

2001-06-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Ed Falis wrote: > > > > > I got the mouse up and running (bothe Debian & FreeBSD) > > > > except for the "wheel". I would assume that the "wheel" is > > > > used to scroll up and down in lieu of the scroll bars in > >> an > > > > apt such as Netscape. I did add the > > > > Option"ZAxisMapping"

help making debian ISO's

2001-06-19 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i'd like to burn a copy of the debian woody distribution, so i'm following the funky instructions about making pseudo-images and using rsync to convert the images to official images. the problem is that the .list file that i'm supposed to get from http://www.uk.debian.org/debian-cd/cd-images/ is o

RE: IPMasqing Act 2 Scene 42

2001-06-19 Thread Stephen Handley
Thanks Will So it looks like I'm denying inputs received on eth0 with IP 63.105.28.151 and when I perhaps should be accepting them??? Does that sound right, given that eth0 is connected to my ISP side? > /sbin/ipchains -A input -J DENY -i eth0 -d 63.105.28.151/32 > /sbin/ipchains -A input -J DEN

Re: now what ?

2001-06-19 Thread CS/MATH stud.
In Adri's email, 15-06-2001: > 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? You can specify modules to be loaded at boot time in the file /etc/modules Each line sho

Re: standard filepermissions

2001-06-19 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 07:06:45PM +0200, bernd b wrote: > In DEBIAN new directories are made > drwxr-sr-x. Of course this can be changed with umask > But where is the default file permission and the setgid bit set? > How should i create dirs which are default drwxr-xr-x; without the gid bit > set

Re: Problems with sound

2001-06-19 Thread csj
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 23:45, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > Hello! > I've a problem with my sound card. I reinstalled my potato box some > days ago and > > since then I can't play any mp3 or cd on my debian potato box. > > I've a opl3 card, and I recompiled the kernel with module support > fo

Re: IPMasqing Act 2 Scene 42

2001-06-19 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:21:10AM -0700, Stephen Handley wrote: > > OK, > > Here's the latest. Managed to get my server to see domain names etc. However > now my masqued machine can't see anything. The most I can do is PING the > external IP number of the linux box (63.105.28.151). As far as I c

Re: rlogind problem

2001-06-19 Thread Andrew Dixon
Daryl Williams wrote: > > folks, i have a vanilla 2.2 debian system that i originally > did not install the berkeley rsh-servers on. i subsequently > have the requirement to run xclients from this host displaying > to a win98 box using hummingbird exceed. becuase exceed > does not support ssh Do

Re: potatop -> 2.4.X

2001-06-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: potatop -> 2.4.X Date: Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 02:18:57PM +0200 In reply to:Jens Lauterbach Quoting Jens Lauterbach([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi > > Does anybody know if the packages at > http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html > > supports every kernel from 2.4.X? > if so,

Re: Latex documentation

2001-06-19 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where can I find Latex manual and documentation on the Web? Yesterday I discovered texdoctk. Great! Ciao! juh -- Vergewaltigungen unbedingt quittieren lassen http://www.sudelbuch.de/2000/2510.html

Re: New Ethernet Card

2001-06-19 Thread Donald R. Spoon
See notes at bottom -Don Spoon- Sebastiaan wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Adri wrote: > > > Don, > > > > At 18.19 18/06/2001 -0500, you wrote: > > >Adri, > > > > > >I saw your message on the Debian-User archived mailing list (which I am > > >NOT suscribed) and thought I would jump in here.

Re: Xf86free problem

2001-06-19 Thread Andrew Dixon
Gregor wrote: > > my problem > i have apdate my potato to woody and to gnome.1.4 > when i start my laptop the next time my x windows will not work more > make a new setup with xf86setup and xf86config but it will not work > is ther any other way to do it the xfree is now update to xfree4 befor yo

Re: MouseMan ??

2001-06-19 Thread Ed Falis
> > > I got the mouse up and running (bothe Debian & FreeBSD) > > > except for the "wheel". I would assume that the "wheel" is > > > used to scroll up and down in lieu of the scroll bars in >> an > > > apt such as Netscape. I did add the > > > Option"ZAxisMapping""4 5" to my XF86Config > >

Re: Latex documentation

2001-06-19 Thread Rajkumar S.
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Vittorio wrote: > > Where can I find Latex manual and documentation on the Web? Please see http://tugindia.gnu.org.in/tutorials.html raj

Re: MouseMan ??

2001-06-19 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > I got the mouse up and running (bothe Debian & FreeBSD) > > except for the "wheel". I would assume that the "wheel" is > > used to scroll up and down in lieu of the scroll bars in an > > apt such as Netscape. I did add the > > Option"ZAxisMapping""4 5" to my XF86Config > > file but the

Kernel modules problem

2001-06-19 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. I've just used make-kpkg to build kernel 2.4.6-pre3, and after the .deb was built, I installed it (no problems there). But when I reboot, depmod complains about all modules, saying it can't resolve them; for instance: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.6-pre3/kernel/net/

How to install cdrom (Samsung CDR-RW, SW-208; Debian Potato 2.3

2001-06-19 Thread Stephen Taylor
How do I install the cd-rom modules to read from the cd? Currently 1) boot from cd, follow installation process 2) install modules fs: binfm_aout, smbfs, vfat; misc: generic_serial net: bsd_comp, dummy, ppp; 3) continue install to "Next: reboot"; reboot 4) Install continues, asks source o

rlogind problem

2001-06-19 Thread Daryl Williams
folks, i have a vanilla 2.2 debian system that i originally did not install the berkeley rsh-servers on. i subsequently have the requirement to run xclients from this host displaying to a win98 box using hummingbird exceed. becuase exceed does not support ssh i found myself needing to install the

Re: MouseMan ??

2001-06-19 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 21:17:35 -0400 (EDT) "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Hall. > > I got the mouse up and running (bothe Debian & FreeBSD) except for the > "wheel". I would assume that the "wheel" is used to scroll up and > down in lieu of the scroll bars in an apt such

Re: PPP - On Demand Dialing / timeouts

2001-06-19 Thread Mike Dresser
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Hello Nico, > > ask the modem to speed-dial instead of slow-dial my ISP. I didn't use bind to I seem to remember something about v.92 speeding up connects to numbers you've called before, it learns what parts it doesn't need to train about. You might want to look

IPMasqing Act 2 Scene 42

2001-06-19 Thread Stephen Handley
OK, Here's the latest. Managed to get my server to see domain names etc. However now my masqued machine can't see anything. The most I can do is PING the external IP number of the linux box (63.105.28.151). As far as I can tell I have everything set up correctly. I've attached (typed out) the out

Re: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0_HELP?

2001-06-19 Thread Guy Geens
> "Frans" == Frans Schreuder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Frans> Should I do something with md-tools? Anybody with software raid Frans> experience? Is 20Gb/disk a problem? Could it be that I have not Frans> included liniear mode into the kernel? Totally lost right now. I installed my Raid0/lin

Re: standard filepermissions

2001-06-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 07:06:45PM +0200, bernd b wrote: > In DEBIAN new directories are made > drwxr-sr-x. Of course this can be changed with umask > But where is the default file permission and the setgid bit set? > How should i create dirs which are default drwxr-xr-x; without the gid bit > set

Re: rlinetd security

2001-06-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:30:56AM -0700, Pat Moffitt wrote: > My real concern is for people like me. I know a lot about computers (over > 20 years of experience). But, I don't have much experience with security. > I don't know a lot about many of the packages in Linux. That's partly why I don't

Re: help: can't print

2001-06-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: help: can't print Date: Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 03:35:36PM -0700 In reply to:Norbert Froese Quoting Norbert Froese([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I don't know how to proceed. Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > There is no action at all from my printer no matter what I do in

standard filepermissions

2001-06-19 Thread bernd b
Hi, In DEBIAN new directories are made drwxr-sr-x. Of course this can be changed with umask But where is the default file permission and the setgid bit set? How should i create dirs which are default drwxr-xr-x; without the gid bit set? Also some dirs do not have execute permission for group a

Re: Latex documentation

2001-06-19 Thread Sebastiaan
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Vittorio wrote: > Where can I find Latex manual and documentation on the Web? > > Vittorio > Hi, www.ctan.org. There is also lots of documentation in /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex Greetz, Sebastiaan

Re: Latex documentation

2001-06-19 Thread Leonard Leblanc
try http://www.google.com/search?q=latex+documentation Leonard Leblanc Vice-president - Technology www.emergeknowledge.com - Original Message - From: "Vittorio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 11:45 AM Subject: Latex documentation > Where can I find

Latex documentation

2001-06-19 Thread Vittorio
Where can I find Latex manual and documentation on the Web? Vittorio

PPP default route

2001-06-19 Thread Alex Suzuki
Hi everybody, I recently bought myself a new laptop, with a built-in ethernet card an a lucent winmodem, which I got to work with drivers from http://www.heby.de/ltmodem When at home, I connect my laptop to the inhouse lan and connect to the internet through a DSL router. Its IP address in the la

How to create a local archive of debian ftp ?

2001-06-19 Thread Gael Pegliasco
Hello, I've used a rsync script to make a backup of debian woody on a ftp site (ftp.fr.debian.org). There's a directory named 'pool', which contains more than 8.9Go of files. Do you know if I must backup it in order to get a valid woody i386 archive, or can I skip it ? Thanks for your reply, Wi

Xf86free problem

2001-06-19 Thread Gregor
my problem i have apdate my potato to woody and to gnome.1.4 when i start my laptop the next time my x windows will not work more make a new setup with xf86setup and xf86config but it will not work is ther any other way to do it the xfree is now update to xfree4 befor it was one of the last 3 versi

Re: dhcp-client

2001-06-19 Thread Mike Pfleger
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:45:01AM +0200, nico de haer wrote: > Mike, > > Have you checked that the firewall is your default gateway? > BTW assigning 192.168.1.0 as an IP to a host is a BAD idea!! this is your > network address Pick your IP numbers in the range 192.168.1.1 to > 192.168.1.254 (

RPC failures

2001-06-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've got an NIS/NFS server set up and running kernel 2.4.4. NFSv3 support was not included, but nfsd was and it's running knfsd. When I try to access it via NFS, some things seem to work, while others hang (on the client) and generate the following sets of log messages: --- client's log --- /sbi

Re: Careers in Linux

2001-06-19 Thread John Foster
"Jonathan D. Proulx" wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm a sysadmin at a computer science research lab. I'd say C is > probably the least important part of my job, noone in the group is a > "real" C or C++ hacker. > > You should be able to build programs from packaged source and be able > to tweak a Makefil

Re: opinions please: auto-backup to CDRW

2001-06-19 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello chris, Does not sound *mad* so it must be sane.. I would however think it may be a tad easier for you to install a secondary hard drive for nightly backups and then burn a single weekly CDRW. That way, you can keep the second hard drive unmounted until it's needed, then as cron start

Re: dhcp-client

2001-06-19 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 05:58, Mike Pfleger spoke wisely: > Hello. > > I've upgraded two partitions from Debian potato (well, Storm, actually) to > testing, and have installed dhcp-client for net access through my firewall. > I can ping my firewall, and verify the eth0 to firewall traffic via the >

Re: PPP - On Demand Dialing / timeouts

2001-06-19 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello Nico, I also use the demend dialing. Since we are both stuck with dialup, we have to play the waiting game. I did find some tips/tricks to help and that was to ask the modem to speed-dial instead of slow-dial my ISP. I didn't use bind to begin with, then later installed it and decide

Text contrast in Eterms

2001-06-19 Thread Kelly Corbin
I've read through the man page, checked the Debian userlist archives, and looked all over www.eterm.org but can't find what I'm looking for. How do you set the text contrast in Eterm? Every contrast/brightness setting I've found is for background images. It seems to me that the new Eterm 0.9.

Problems with sound

2001-06-19 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hello! I've a problem with my sound card. I reinstalled my potato box some days ago and since then I can't play any mp3 or cd on my debian potato box. I've a opl3 card, and I recompiled the kernel with module support for sound and this card but when I try to play any CD, I saw the time avance bu

Debian Machine Colocation

2001-06-19 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I admin a Brazilian web portal and want to transfer it to other machines at EUA. Actually it was 2 Pentium III 700 Mhz with 128Mb. I want to know any company that provides colocation with 2 Debian Potato machines. Every company that I know (RackSpace, Adgrafix, ...) doesnt p

Re: Careers in Linux

2001-06-19 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I'm a sysadmin at a computer science research lab. I'd say C is probably the least important part of my job, noone in the group is a "real" C or C++ hacker. You should be able to build programs from packaged source and be able to tweak a Makefile and library path, but for actually building a

Yuppyiiiiihihihihihihihiiyyihih!!!!!!!

2001-06-19 Thread Adri
IT WORKS That's wonderful !! Last time it didn't work because my collegue gave me the wrong gateway IP number, acc... This time I checked myself and used the right one and it worked !! So the card module is ok !! ifconfig eth0 even gave me the base addres (0xd000) and the irq 9 (I

NIS and No buffer space available

2001-06-19 Thread Graham Williams
I'm trying to set up NIS on a "unstable" Debian machine. I believe I've set up the config files appropriately. $ apt-get install nis ... Starting NIS services: ypserv yppasswdd ypxfrd ypbind But it then sits there waiting? I exit from this and try $ ypbind -d ... Cannot register service: RPC:

Re: How to set the EXACTLY VHz in X for the screen

2001-06-19 Thread nico de haer
Hi, I think that the magic word you are looking for is 'modeline'. I'm no expert on this so i'd like to point out that there is a HOWTO dedicated to this (See www.linuxdoc.org or mirror) Must say that it's a wee bit technical. Anyway using modelines you can tell X exactly wat you want it to do to y

Re: How to set the EXACTLY VHz in X for the screen

2001-06-19 Thread Sebastiaan
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > look in /etc/X11/XF86Config for a section Monitor. Usually VertRefresh has > > values like 60-80, but you can fix it at 85. > > > > Greetz, > > Sebastiaan > Yes Thaks it works for the VHz > But if i set HHz to 77.1 (thats the set

Re: opinions please: auto-backup to CDRW

2001-06-19 Thread nico de haer
Hi Chris, The idea is sane to start with, however i fail to see the point in using the loopback part. you can use mkisofs not only to create empty filesystems, but also to fill them up with all the files/folders in a (pre-build) tree. (saves you some trouble, suggest 'man mkisofs') As a second po

Re: How to set the EXACTLY VHz in X for the screen

2001-06-19 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
> Hi, > > look in /etc/X11/XF86Config for a section Monitor. Usually VertRefresh has > values like 60-80, but you can fix it at 85. > > Greetz, > Sebastiaan Yes Thaks it works for the VHz But if i set HHz to 77.1 (thats the setting in Win and i can't edit it there :) X says that it can't

RE: New Ethernet Card

2001-06-19 Thread Sebastiaan
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Adri wrote: > Don, > > At 18.19 18/06/2001 -0500, you wrote: > >Adri, > > > >I saw your message on the Debian-User archived mailing list (which I am > >NOT suscribed) and thought I would jump in here. I am using the 2.2.19 > >kernel here, and I just did a quick check of my e

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