Re: iptables help

2001-06-24 Thread Tom Tsaknakis
a billion thanks you sure you dont want that kid? hehe thanks again ill try that adios tom Quoting \"Jonathan D. Proulx\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 01:04:30PM +1000, Tom Tsaknakis wrote: > :i will give anyone my first born if you can help me with converting this > :\\\'/sbin/

Re: iptables help

2001-06-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 01:04:30PM +1000, Tom Tsaknakis wrote: :i will give anyone my first born if you can help me with converting this :\'/sbin/ipchains -A input -s 10.96.8.1 -p IGMP -j ACCEPT\' I have all the kids I need :) But I have this working: iptables -A INPUT --proto icmp -s 10.9.1.1/32

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 06:48:49PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote: :Sounds like you have some valuable insight into the task at hand! But :consider the fact that this system I propose would not be trying to cram :infinite permutations on a disk. Instead, it would create a communal :reference library,

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
From: "Mark Garland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So--my experience is that the installation of a basic working Debian system is not too hard. Configuring peripherals is hard! Exactly why users would benefit from a pool of reference which contains, in all liklihood, many users who are running Debian

Re: [users] Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 06:42:39PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote: :machine take care of itself, without ever having to worry about missing :DLL's, or corrupt registry files. That's the whole idea behind this proposed :system. Though I take your point, I encourage you to get Debian up and running so y

iptables help

2001-06-24 Thread Tom Tsaknakis
i will give anyone my first born if you can help me with converting this \'/sbin/ipchains -A input -s 10.96.8.1 -p IGMP -j ACCEPT\' to an iptables line thanx in advance Tom - This mail sent through IMP on IGN WebMail. http://webmail.ign.com.au

Re: Can't read bootup message

2001-06-24 Thread ktb
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 11:03:25PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi > > I didn't know the pause works in Linux. I tried that it didn't work and the > /var/log/syslog didn't have that error. > Maybe it is scroll lock. One of them has worked for me in the past. kent -- From seeing and s

Re: Can't read bootup message

2001-06-24 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi I didn't know the pause works in Linux. I tried that it didn't work and the /var/log/syslog didn't have that error. Edwin Lau On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 08:24:26PM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 08:51:42PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I noticed t

i screwed up my computer with alien (second try...)

2001-06-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ok, so i just typed this email once on a windows machine and of course it crashes when i hit "Send", so sorry if i send this twice on accident. basically, i screwed up my debian install by force installing some rpm's. i was trying to get dvd playback working, and mplayer sounded like what i wan

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Mark Garland
How about some "clueless user" testimony about Debian? I am completely new to Linux and *nix in general (though I did play with an IBM RS/6000 at work once). I'm so clueless, I didn't even know that Debian was a difficult Linux distribution. So, strictly out of curiosity (could a $6.00 set of CD

Netscape 4.77 Java Fonts too large

2001-06-24 Thread Harold Bibik
Using Netscape 4.77 on a Progeny-Debian (Newton)system with Gnome 1.4, I get HUGE bold fonts in Java Applets. I've created an .Xdefaults file to clean up the toolbars and fonts in the browser itself but I haven't seen anything in the Netscape.ad file that might change the default fonts in Netsc

How to fetchmail from ISP-b using SSH when ISP-a has socks?

2001-06-24 Thread Robert Cymbala
My remote provider (ISP-b) has enabled SSH on my account, but am still getting "secure connection... refused". What can I try next? My local provider (ISP-a) is www.lafn.org that I use to dial-up (uses a socks proxy "proxy.lafn.org:1080"). Fetchmail gets email from mail.lafn.org using POP withou

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread John Griffiths
At 06:48 PM 6/24/01 -0700, Jack Pryne wrote: ...After all, if you were a confused newbie, wouldn't you >want the shoemaker elves to come and fix your computer while you slept? ;) > That would depend entirely on my fear of the nasty goblins

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
From: "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My initial reaction was a shudder, basicly 'cus I teak everything to within an inch of it's life and hate the limitations of GUI interface for system configuration (you can only stick in so many options). It's a pretty dirty hack, but even that to

Re: [users] Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
From: MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> now looking at how i frequently already disagree with the formatting of config files contained in the packages, or the default settings for an application, i couldn't possibly imagine running such a distributed system. The system I propose would greatly bene

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Debian's already on top. Pollution like RedHat is not required. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous

Re: Can't read bootup message

2001-06-24 Thread ktb
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 08:51:42PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I noticed that when I booted up Linux, I saw some error message. But > the message just when very fast that I couldn't really read it. dmesg and the > message file didn't have that error. I think it was

Re: Can't read bootup message

2001-06-24 Thread Cameron Matheson
Have you checked syslog (/var/log/syslog)? Cameron Matheson On 24 Jun 2001 20:51:42 -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I noticed that when I booted up Linux, I saw some error message. But > the message just when very fast that I couldn't really read it. dmesg and the >

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, My initial reaction was a shudder, basicly 'cus I teak everything to within an inch of it's life and hate the limitations of GUI interface for system configuration (you can only stick in so many options). But, upon reflection something like this could have a place, but it's a huge undertaking

Can't read bootup message

2001-06-24 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I noticed that when I booted up Linux, I saw some error message. But the message just when very fast that I couldn't really read it. dmesg and the message file didn't have that error. I think it was some shell script error. Can anyone show me a way to show all the message

Re: installing KDE

2001-06-24 Thread Aquila
I think apt-get install task-kde is the "proper" way to do it. It's a virtual package that depends on the actual kde packages. On 24 Jun 2001 17:17:02 -0500, Zac Hostens wrote: > Run dselect and choose the package kdebase, and it will install everything it > needs for kde, u dont have to download

Re: [users] Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread MaD dUCK
i just wanted to add my two pfennige. see, the reason that debian rocks is that it does not impose configuration tools on you like suse and redhat. it does provide a very cool package system, but everything is under the control of the user and vi. that's the beauty. now looking at how i frequently

Re: "su" Capability Needed In Konqueror

2001-06-24 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Sunday 24 June 2001 05:35 pm, csj wrote: >> Thanks for the tip. I didn't know that. But I'm worried. What sort of >> magic does kdesu do? As console (konsole, xterm) root, I can't run >> konqueror. >> >> alpha:/web/debian/http# konqueror >> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" re

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread G.LeeJ
> Personally I decided on Debian after trying Suse and Red Hat first. Same here. > > However, I've been following the Linux distro rankings in one computer > magazine (CHIP, Germany), and Debian is rated lowest amongst 7 others. > I think this is mainly due to lacking "user guidance" during s

Re: NVidia RivaTNT2 M64

2001-06-24 Thread Jeffrin Jose .T.
Hello : Please try this after you have compiled the kernel and have your GNU/Linux system running on the using the kernel. 1 . Put the compressed driver's from www.nvidia.com to /usr/sr

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
Marcus wrote: Sounds basically like a good idea to me. It also sounds like a tall order, but why not, if the security issue can be handled :-) One thing I definately agree on is that Debian could do with easier installation, or at least more user guidance. Personally I decided on Debian afte

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-06-24 Thread thomas
> Jun 25 01:13:31 embryo ipppd[3918]: Unsupported protocol 'Van Jacobson > Uncompressed TCP/IP' (0x2f) received > well, that would explain why i get kicked out, but i am still clueless > how i can change this. i'll see what protocol my other routers use, > but if you have anything on this, pleas

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jart Berilcosm
What about Silent Waters or Silencer --- Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:24:10PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote: > > One last thing: I'm open to suggestions for naming such a P2P > client. > > Something which expresses community support and freedom from > technic

Re: [users] Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sun, 24 Jun 2001 09:42:19PM +0200): > Debian/GNU Bob > > "Now you can put the stark fist of removal at work for YOU!" hehe, and when you mistype your password three times, it'll prompt you to change it. believe it or not, Micro$oft Bob did that. martin;

Re: potato on imac

2001-06-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 10:50:08AM -0700, crombie wrote: > hi, > > need any and every direction installing potato on imac. > having trouble with configuring usb mouse, xterm (monitor > resolution).. and god knows what next? mostly, looking > for solutions to configuring monitor right now. it's

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Marcus
On 24.06.01 at 12:24 Jack Pryne wrote: >Imagine a P2P network of Debian users who *all* shared their system >configuration information... Sounds basically like a good idea to me. It also sounds like a tall order, but why not, if the security issue can be handled :-) One thing I definately agree

Re: dosemu

2001-06-24 Thread Jeroen Valcke
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 11:33:57PM +0200, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > The command name is dos, not dosemu > dpkg -L dosemu might help ;) Thanks -- Jeroen Valcke jeroen@valcke.com ICQ# 30116911 Home page: http://www.valcke.com/jeroen Phone +32(0)56 32 91 37 Mob

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
You've got the idea, Nick! This would be so great! Another neat aspect of such a system is that it works *only* with a free OS. If there was a similar system to install/maintain Windows, then Windows piracy would proliferate out of control! (hmm) Nick Jennings wrote: A MS Client doesn'

Re: Why use fakeroot when compiling kernel?

2001-06-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 03:03:35PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:35:05PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > > > Don't know why debians package builder needs to be root, but given that > > it suffices to fake root, fakeroot is the way to go:) > > because if your not {fake}

Unidentified subject!

2001-06-24 Thread MaD dUCK
folks, just now i figured out that the pppd debug option is also present in ipppd, and i turned it on to see the following in the logs (after a bunch of packet dumps): Jun 25 01:13:31 embryo ipppd[3918]: Unsupported protocol 'Van Jacobson Uncompressed TCP/IP' (0x2f) received well, that would ex

Re: installing KDE

2001-06-24 Thread Zac Hostens
Run dselect and choose the package kdebase, and it will install everything it needs for kde, u dont have to download anything manually On Thursday 21 June 2001 16:04, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I have a friend who wants to install KDE. Other than getting all the > packages from kde.org manually

Re: telnet client

2001-06-24 Thread Nick Jennings
I preffer installing cygwin, it comes with the unix versions of telnet & ssh, full ansi support. It's a feature rich unix shell for windows, and it's painfully simple to install. http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 09:56:22PM +0200, nico de haer wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm lo

Re: wordperfect on linux

2001-06-24 Thread Agner-Nichols
the saga continues -- (thanks again for all the help) I cleaned up the symbolic links (had already installed xlib6, libc5, and xpm4.7) so the character-based install worked (and I managed to trap the install script so I could get some idea why it did not want to initiate the gui install) ... Anyway

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Nick Jennings
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 10:47:28PM +0200, nico de haer wrote: > This is horrible!!! > try this new slogan: > > "Debian Install: Windows 9x required. Please contact Micrsoft and PAY > to get your free software running" > > NO WAY !! > A MS Client doesn't mean there wouldn't be a linux clie

ipppd problems

2001-06-24 Thread MaD dUCK
hi, i am in the process of setting up an ISDN router for a network of three computers, using a 486 and running kernel 2.4.5 (because of the iptables functionalities). the system has one of the very old AVM A1 (Fritz!Classic) cards, which I can load and talk to with the hisax.o driver. it's at 0x200

Re: "su" Capability Needed In Konqueror

2001-06-24 Thread Dan Berdine
On Sunday 24 June 2001 05:35 pm, csj wrote: > > Thanks for the tip. I didn't know that. But I'm worried. What sort of > magic does kdesu do? As console (konsole, xterm) root, I can't run > konqueror. > > alpha:/web/debian/http# konqueror > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client

Re: Mount windows drive within another machine (network)

2001-06-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya michael to put passwds into a file is a bad idea... - you can use sudo to not require passwd for certain root functions such as mount ... but that too is equally bad ??? - if you use an automounter, it needs the passwd too but at least the world cant see the file contents used by auto

Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

2001-06-24 Thread Mart van de Wege
Ok thanks Jimmy, Together with another problem I had I am now in for some shell scripting over the week. I just *know* I am going to enjoy this :). Sorry about the double replies, I just tend to hit 'Reply All' without thinking, I'll be more careful from now on. (BTW seems I am not the only one wi

Re: Mount windows drive within another machine (network)

2001-06-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nico to protect your linux box from MS crashes... always use automounters or soft mounts that should minimize any nfs timeout issues due to the MS crashes still NOT a samba issue just a mount options issue in /etc/fstab or your automounter files c ya alvin On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, n

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 01:57:55PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote: > Believe me, I'd never require anybody to be using MS products. ;) Why does this sound so damn funny? ;-) > _ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.m

Re: telnet client

2001-06-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nico try looking at th various windows clients http://www.Linux-Sec.net/SSH - windows client section on the bottom have fun alvin On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, nico de haer wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm looking for a telnet client for windows 9x that provides me with: > > 1. Properly worki

Re: telnet client

2001-06-24 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 10:32:24PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, nico de haer wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I'm looking for a telnet client for windows 9x that provides me with: > > > > 1. Properly working keyboard (including F1 to F10) > > 2. SSL (would be a BIG BIG plus) > > 3

Re: recursive download of cgi based webpages ??

2001-06-24 Thread csj
On Sunday 24 June 2001 16:08, Balbir Thomas wrote: > Hi, > How can one download a group of webpages hyperlinked by cgi scripts > (rather than simple hrefs) . Note - wget chokes on this, in the > sense it downloads some of the cgi forms itself, instead of > querrying the server and obtaining the pag

Re: Mount windows drive within another machine (network)

2001-06-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi juan make sure D: is exported as a share on windows make sure on linxu that your kernel supports that filesystem ( vfat, msdos, ntfs(is not recommended for writing ) mount the windows box and do what you want with the contents in D: ( many different ways to mount it... ( vers

Re: Mount windows drive within another machine (network)

2001-06-24 Thread Sebastiaan
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Juan wrote: > Hi, > > Can I mount a remote Windows drive? How? > For example I have a machine running Windows IP number 192.168.66.2. Can I > mount Windows drive D: via LAN? > Hello, I have read that it is possible. Try SAMBA. Greetz, Sebastiaan

Re: Mount windows drive within another machine (network)

2001-06-24 Thread nico de haer
Juan, Share the drive under windows, and use samba (the smbmount part) to mount it somewhere on your Linux system. One warning: un-mount the share *before* you turn off your windows box or before it *crashes* Linux doesn't like mounts to go without saying bye. For syntax and stuff (i love this par

telnet client

2001-06-24 Thread nico de haer
Hi All, I'm looking for a telnet client for windows 9x that provides me with: 1. Properly working keyboard (including F1 to F10) 2. SSL (would be a BIG BIG plus) 3. Color (well, eugm.. would-be-nice) Does anyone have a good idea? (prefferably in the form of an URL..) Thanks! Nico de Haer ___

Re: login......

2001-06-24 Thread G.LeeJ
Joost Kooij wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 04:40:02AM -0700, root wrote: > > [snip "root can login, but why can user not?"] > > Try: > > rm /etc/nologin > man 1 login > > Cheers, > > Joost whala and thanks much lee -

Re: dosemu

2001-06-24 Thread Herbert Xu
Jeroen Valcke wrote: > I would like to run a very old dos application (I know what am I thinking) > So I installed the dosemu package. > Trouble is the 'dosemu' command isn't on the system. Nowhere can I find an > executable 'dosemu'. I should be installed. I followed the notes from > 'Running Li

Re: dosemu

2001-06-24 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 11:19:27PM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote: > Hello again, > > I would like to run a very old dos application (I know what am I thinking) > So I installed the dosemu package. > Trouble is the 'dosemu' command isn't on the system. Nowhere can I find an > executable 'dosemu'. I sh

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
Thanks for your feedback, Brad, I'm glad you mention this. My theory is that this system could run self-diagnostics to determine, to whatever degree, what make/model of hardware it is working on. In cases where the exact model could not be determined, whatever info can be gleaned would compris

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
Thanks for pointing out that omission in my initial post, Nico. I had intended this system to be installed on a system already running some kind of OS. One of the major benefits of this system is that a windows user could, theoretically, download the P2P app, run it, and sit back while it tappe

Re: telnet client

2001-06-24 Thread Sebastiaan
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, nico de haer wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm looking for a telnet client for windows 9x that provides me with: > > 1. Properly working keyboard (including F1 to F10) > 2. SSL (would be a BIG BIG plus) > 3. Color (well, eugm.. would-be-nice) > Go putty. Lots of options. Greetz, Se

Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

2001-06-24 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 09:17:11PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > Hmm, > > Sylpheed doesn't seem to want to include your original post in the reply, > so apologies if this is a little disjointed. > Since the /etc/pcmcia/network script starts as root, it would be a minor > change to just add a 's

dosemu

2001-06-24 Thread Jeroen Valcke
Hello again, I would like to run a very old dos application (I know what am I thinking) So I installed the dosemu package. Trouble is the 'dosemu' command isn't on the system. Nowhere can I find an executable 'dosemu'. I should be installed. I followed the notes from 'Running Linux' after running

Re: Mount windows drive within another machine (network)

2001-06-24 Thread Michael Schmidt
This can be done using mount. I am not sure how secure this is. It doesn't seem very secure since the username and password are listed, maybe there is a better way. mount -t smbfs -o username=REMOTE_USERNAME,password=REMOTE_PASSWORD,uid=LOCAL_USERNAME,gid=LOCAL_GROUP, workgroup=WINDOWS_WORKGR

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
No, Windows was just an example of an OS that people might want to migrate *away* from. There's no reason why someone running Linux, indeed Debian, could not run the same application. Even existing users of Debian could benefit from this by getting support from the community. More vital is the

Re: Monitor not remembering settings

2001-06-24 Thread nico de haer
Bart, This was also one of my problems and i solved it (or i worked arround it) I run Windows and XWindow in different resolutions. My monitor can 'remember' 14 different settings at the same time. May-B this works for you 2. If all fails, remove Windows ;P Yours, Nico de Haer - Original Me

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
Do you mean pre-install Debian? That would be great! But it's still a ways off. Besides, we still need to convert the helpless masses of existing Win-doze users who are afraid to even *try* to install a new OS, even if it is more powerful and free. Jack From: "G.LeeJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: telnet client

2001-06-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: nico de haer writes: > Hi All, > I'm looking for a telnet client for windows 9x that provides me with: > 1. Properly working keyboard (including F1 to F10) > 2. SSL (would be a BIG BIG plus) > 3. Color (well, eugm.. would-be-nice) > Does anyone have a good idea? (prefferably in the form of an

Re: Hardware

2001-06-24 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 09:51:34PM +0200, Marcus wrote: > On 22.06.01 at 16:16 Antonio Alberto Lobato wrote: > > Thank you very much for the hint, but it`s not what I want. I > >would like to read something how " Hardware is the phisical part of > the > >computer... BUS is the ... ISA is the x

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread nico de haer
This is horrible!!! try this new slogan: "Debian Install: Windows 9x required. Please contact Micrsoft and PAY to get your free software running" NO WAY !! - Original Message - From: Jack Pryne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 10:38 PM Sub

Re: telnet client

2001-06-24 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi All, > > I'm looking for a telnet client for windows 9x that provides me with: > > 1. Properly working keyboard (including F1 to F10) > 2. SSL (would be a BIG BIG plus) > 3. Color (well,

Re: Monitor not remembering settings

2001-06-24 Thread Bart Szyszka
I have Debian unstable set up with KDM and KDE2 to dual-boot with a WindowsMe system. My problem is that each time I boot to Debian, I have to readjust my monitor's settings because the screen is all bent out of shape. Any idea why it keeps resetting? It never does that when I go back to Windows

Re: Hardware

2001-06-24 Thread Marcus
On 22.06.01 at 16:16 Antonio Alberto Lobato wrote: > Thank you very much for the hint, but it`s not what I want. I >would like to read something how " Hardware is the phisical part of the >computer... BUS is the ... ISA is the x type of BUS... Chipset is a >whole of chips on the mothermoard t

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:24:10PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote: > One last thing: I'm open to suggestions for naming such a P2P client. > Something which expresses community support and freedom from technical > issues... Since you're asking: Debian/GNU Bob "Now you can put the stark fist of remo

Re: man

2001-06-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:07:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I've got a big delay when i use man... when i type man i've got to wait > > > even 10 sec. before anyhing shows up? Any ideas why this happening? > > > > If you are updating man files, reindexing can occur when the > >

Fw: Compaq Proliant?? Does not see SCSI-disks

2001-06-24 Thread Frans Schreuder
> Still doesn't > > - Original Message - > From: "A. Wrasman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 11:01 AM > Subject: Re: Compaq Proliant?? Does not see SCSI-disks > > > >>On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:38:46AM +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote: >> Hai. >> >> I've be

Fw: QRe: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0_HELP?

2001-06-24 Thread Frans Schreuder
> Thanx; I edited raidtab according to yours. > cfdisked again to make the partitions logical. > Did not work. I shrunken them to 5Gb; that didn't do anything eiter. > Regards > Frans Schreuder. > > - Original Message - > From: "Thomas Zimmerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Frans Schreud

Re: QRe: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0_HELP?

2001-06-24 Thread Frans Schreuder
Thanx; I edited raidtab according to yours. cfdisked again to make the partitions logical. Did not work. I shrunken them to 5Gb; that didn't do anything eiter. Regards Frans Schreuder. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Zimmerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Frans Schreuder" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread Jack Pryne
Greetings all, I'm totally new to the list, and I'm not even running Debian yet, but I have an idea that I'd like to bounce off the group: Consider that one of the major reasons that people don't use any operating system besides windows is because they need to *install* it. Most machines are

Mount windows drive within another machine (network)

2001-06-24 Thread Juan
Hi, Can I mount a remote Windows drive? How? For example I have a machine running Windows IP number 192.168.66.2. Can I mount Windows drive D: via LAN? TIA, Juan José Velázquez Garcia Web Development www.htmlspider.com.br

Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

2001-06-24 Thread Mart van de Wege
Hmm, Sylpheed doesn't seem to want to include your original post in the reply, so apologies if this is a little disjointed. Since the /etc/pcmcia/network script starts as root, it would be a minor change to just add a 'su fetchmail -c ' instead of starting fetchmail as root outright? Does this ret

Re: login......

2001-06-24 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 04:40:02AM -0700, root wrote: [snip "root can login, but why can user not?"] Try: rm /etc/nologin man 1 login Cheers, Joost

Re: man

2001-06-24 Thread krst
> > I've got a big delay when i use man... when i type man i've got to wait > > even 10 sec. before anyhing shows up? Any ideas why this happening? > > If you are updating man files, reindexing can occur when the > 1st man command happens... Yes, but it occurs every time i run man... :( Krst.

Re: printing to a windows shared printer with smbprint

2001-06-24 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 11:57:50AM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote: > I installed smbprint to be able to print to a printer attached to a > windows pc. However it doens't work > Anybody an idea what I did wrong. Well I've said this before, the mistake is to have the printer attached to the windows mach

re: no mouse movement

2001-06-24 Thread root
okay thanks much for info about mouse ie: /dev/psaux.. guaranteed I'll remember that one :) .. lee -==

center speaker with emu10k1 and other soundquestions

2001-06-24 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, proudly I bought Creative's sound blaster platinum 5.1 (emu10k1) with Digital desktop theatre DTT 2200. This combination should give me dolby digital surround sound with five speakers and a bass. First question: which module is recommended to use? OSS module from 2.4.4, the module from op

login......

2001-06-24 Thread root
I can not get into my 'user' account any longer only root password is working..i just finished using the passwd command successfully but it won't accept any password i use for this particular 'user'. is there an "X" version of this for debian? not that it should matter gui/manual but ...? als

Re: how to get list of emacs key descriptions

2001-06-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, June 22, Britton did write: > > I know for example that meta x is described as "\M-x". How is tab > described, or how can I find out for a general key. I'm not seeing it in > the docs. I'm a bit confused: are you asking how to represent a particular keypress within elisp code (a

Re: man

2001-06-24 Thread David L. Craig
Krst wrote: > I've got a big delay when i use man... when i type man i've got to wait > even 10 sec. before anyhing shows up? Any ideas why this happening? If you are updating man files, reindexing can occur when the 1st man command happens...

Re: A mouse Q..

2001-06-24 Thread David L. Craig
Joost wrote: > I use vim as an editor to write mail. Before I commit the message, > I jump to the top of the first paragraph and type: > > !}fmt > > Then a couple of times '}.' to do the same to the other paragraphs. > Maybe you should try that too, it is easier to read for others IMHO. > It

Re: problem

2001-06-24 Thread David L. Craig
'Iggy' wrote: > David> Boot from your rescue floppy, mount your / partition as /mnt, > David> and change root's password to * (no password). > > No: * means account disabled. Remove everything between the first and > second colon to log in without a password. Whoa! Thanks for catching that. Mu

Re: recursive download of cgi based webpages ??

2001-06-24 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:08:28AM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > How can one download a group of webpages hyperlinked by cgi scripts (rather > than > simple hrefs) . Note - wget chokes on this, in the sense it downloads some of > the cgi forms itself, instead of querrying the server and obtaining

broken terminal 'a'

2001-06-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. Currently, in terminal mode without X running, the top half of all of my 'a' characters is missing. I'm confused. What could cause this?? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good

Re: locale error on potato

2001-06-24 Thread Vector
I have the same problem with locale on a perl module I was trying to install. I posted to this list twice, no response. Someone else posted about a local problem and someone replied with the same 'locale-gen' response. locale-gen can not be found on my potato system, so if find the answer pleas

man

2001-06-24 Thread krst
I've got a big delay when i use man... when i type man i've got to wait even 10 sec. before anyhing shows up? Any ideas why this happening? Krst.

Re: locale error on potato

2001-06-24 Thread Stefan Bellon
Jimmy Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 07:29:40PM +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Since I switched back from sid to potato and installed the Ximian > > Gnome Desktop I often get the following warning message: > > > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed

potato on imac

2001-06-24 Thread crombie
hi, need any and every direction installing potato on imac. having trouble with configuring usb mouse, xterm (monitor resolution).. and god knows what next? mostly, looking for solutions to configuring monitor right now. it's one of the first imacs - 266mhz, 32 mb ram, 5 gb hd. has anyone do

Re: locale error on potato

2001-06-24 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 07:29:40PM +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote: > Hi! > > Since I switched back from sid to potato and installed the Ximian Gnome > Desktop I often get the following warning message: > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settin

locale error on potato

2001-06-24 Thread Stefan Bellon
Hi! Since I switched back from sid to potato and installed the Ximian Gnome Desktop I often get the following warning message: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en.

Easy-going backup software

2001-06-24 Thread Victor
Hi Friends, I've set up and tailored a wonderful debian 2.2r3 in 1.4 GB of my laptop. It ticks wonderfully!! Having a wide free 4GB linux partition on my desktop at home under SuSE 7.1, to be on the safe side I'd like to back up my debian laptop connecting the two boxes through ethernet and a cro

Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

2001-06-24 Thread Jimmy Richards
- Forwarded message from longshot - To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc? Hi, should be able to get the debconf configuration to come up by running the command 'dpkg -reconfigure -plow fetchmail'. -- Sorry, I meant

Re: OT: Laptop modem and 10/100 ethernet card recommendations

2001-06-24 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 08:24:48PM -0500, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: I haven't bought a laptop before but my inclination is to get the one that you will use the most. For example if you will mostly be connected to an ethernet LAN and rarely using the modem directly then get the ethernet card internal

Re: Interbase

2001-06-24 Thread Philippe Clérié
No problems at all. I've been using this package for quite a while. http://master.debian.org/~tille/interbase Best regards, Philippe Clérié (philippe[a]gcal.net) - Original Message - From: Juan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, 23 June, 2001 18:21 Subject: Interbase > Hi, >

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