GMC working under Gnome?

2001-06-25 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi, Just wondering if anyone get GMC working under Gnome in unstable. I tried to start it but it gives me the following warning and then quit Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1 Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1 Gdk-WARNING **: Missing ch

RE: upgrading award bios to see ide 40mb disk

2001-06-25 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I have also tried this several times on a few machines. The best way is to go to the motherboard site and d/l the upgrade, and burn the new BIOS with a programmer. your motherboard will have some numbers on it like GA-60XM7E. The most common motherboards used around here ase Gigabyte http://w

Re: Forcing the system to re-read /etc/environment

2001-06-25 Thread ktb
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 06:28:08AM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > Is there a way to force the system to reread /etc/environment without > rebooting? > I don't want to loose my uptime :-) Edit the file and log out and log back in or for the current login your working with - $ . /etc/environmen

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

2001-06-25 Thread Joey Hess
Wow, in all my years maintaining alien, I have never had a report of someone messing up their system like this. Pity you missed this note that is in the man page, and on alien's web page: Alien should not be used to replace important system pack­ ages, like init, libc, or other thing

Re: unable to install woody - template/apt/dpkg errors

2001-06-25 Thread Joey Hess
mark wrote: > 82% - (scanning packages) Template parse error near "" at > /usr/lib/Perl5/Debian/Debconf/Template.pm line60 chunk 3 I don't know what you're installing, but it's not woody. At least not a woody that is anywhere faintly resembling this year's woody. The debconf in woody has

upgrading award bios to see ide 40mb disk

2001-06-25 Thread Donald R. Spoon
> hi, > does anyone know how to upgrade an award bios (so that it will see my 40mb > ide-drive) either via dos or under linux and a pointer to a site (other > then award.com) to get the necessary tools/drivers. > > Thanx for any insites. > > --- > Andor Demarteau > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I ha

Forcing the system to re-read /etc/environment

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Is there a way to force the system to reread /etc/environment without rebooting? I don't want to loose my uptime :-) -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Desarrollo, Grupo S2 Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r3 ___

Re: HELP: netscape crashes with :INTERNAL ERROR..linking error..PR_GetCurrentThread ...

2001-06-25 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello! > using latest unstable, and lately netscape stopped from working > all i get is: > netscape > INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not load > /usr/lib/j2re1.3/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so: linking > error=/usr/lib/j2re1.3/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so: und

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-06-25 Thread G.LeeJ
Steve Kowalik wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:35:51AM -0700, Edwin Lau uttered: > > I have the same problem, just wait for a fix... =( > > > Download libpam*.deb from http://incoming.debian.org > And blame the PAM maintainer. > > -- > Steve >

Re: big IBM harddisk

2001-06-25 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Good info. I had a 486/66MHz system. I pulled out the huge 350mb hard drive and installed my 20Gb wd. The bios seen *something* and then I installed debian. Never had a hitch with it.I don't really think debian gives a rip what the bios thinks at any rate! tatah On Monday 25 June 2001 16:37,

My voodoo 3...

2001-06-25 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I've set up my voodoo like 8 times before, but something is making me stupid and i can't figure it out this time. This is what I've done/have: -X 4.1.0 (w/ the DRI section configured correctly) -Glide 3 -TDFX support enabled in the kernel (2.4.4) I *haven't* created the tdfx device file (/

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-06-25 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:35:51AM -0700, Edwin Lau uttered: > I have the same problem, just wait for a fix... =( > Download libpam*.deb from http://incoming.debian.org And blame the PAM maintainer. -- Steve "I'm a sysadmin because I couldn'

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

2001-06-25 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:01:07PM -0700, Nick Jennings wrote: : You are missing the point, installing software and it's dependencies is : one hurdle debian has cleared. But there is much more than that. There : is getting your video card working, your monitor sync set right, your : sound and peri

Re: Can't login, won't ask for password

2001-06-25 Thread Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Tristan Chamberlain wrote: > When trying to login on linux, I type my username in and then > immediately, without prompting for a password, tells me "Login > Incorrect". > > I am using sid, and everything was working fine this morning until I did > apt-get upgrade then reboote

Re: Can't login, won't ask for password

2001-06-25 Thread David Z Maze
Tristan Chamberlain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TC> When trying to login on linux, I type my username in and then TC> immediately, without prompting for a password, tells me "Login TC> Incorrect". TC> TC> I am using sid, and everything was working fine this morning until I did TC> apt-get upgrade

Re: Netscape makes X server crash!!!

2001-06-25 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:50:54AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > something other than Netscape. Alternatives exist, all better, most > capable of being run on similar or lesser hardware. Galeon, Konqueror, > Skipstone, Mozilla, Opera, w3m... Take your pick. > > If the problems persist, post

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

2001-06-25 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Nick Jennings writes: > From your post you seem to be under the idea that there is nothing > to impove with debian because of apt-get. I'd just like to add that APT has already been ported so it works with Conectiva RPMs, and RPM-based distributions will soon be using it. Details of how well

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

2001-06-25 Thread Nick Jennings
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 11:07:24PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > 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

Can't login, won't ask for password

2001-06-25 Thread Tristan Chamberlain
When trying to login on linux, I type my username in and then immediately, without prompting for a password, tells me "Login Incorrect". I am using sid, and everything was working fine this morning until I did apt-get upgrade then rebooted and I suddenly can't login with root or any other username

Re: Pam 0.72-26 critically broken

2001-06-25 Thread elijah wright
alternately, rolling back to -25 seems to fix all problems. i'll try your revised package tomorrow afternoon as soon as possible. thankfully, a user messaged me about the issue before i logged out after updating my testing machine. =) elijah On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Sam Hartman wrote: > Date: M

Re: Pam 0.72-26 critically broken

2001-06-25 Thread Tal Danzig
Reminds me of a bug in makedev that obliterated the /dev directory a while back ;) Thanks for the quick fix. - Tal -- .--. / Tal Danzig: [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ (Libranet GNU/Linux http://www.libranet.com

Re: problem with rpm2html

2001-06-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:35:03AM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: > I want to know what's inside some rpm packages. I found rpm2html can generate > html pages out of the contents of an rpm package. > But everytime I say > rpm2html a-package.rpm > it says > config file a-package.rpm seems invalid > I t

Pam 0.72-26 critically broken

2001-06-25 Thread Sam Hartman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I uploaded a version of PAM today that fails to minimally work. If you install this package, the main PAM module (pam_unix) fails to load. This means that login, su and other programs that ask for a password all fail. Needless to say this is

RE: Unidentified subject!

2001-06-25 Thread Edwin Lau
I have the same problem, just wait for a fix... =( Edwin Lau -Original Message- From: Mart van de Wege [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 25, 2001 3:36 PM To: Debian User List Subject: Unidentified subject! Well, it seems like this is one of those weeks. Just did an upgrade (running s

Re: make user named

2001-06-25 Thread Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hello, > > I want to run bind chrooted for security reasons. For this I need a user > named, but I do not want him to be able to login. How can I make a user > like nobody? adduser --system --disabled-login --gecos "BIND user" named Not ceratin BUT this s

Routing IP Packets by port numbers

2001-06-25 Thread Ian Perry
Hi All, I have a need to route packets to different places depending on the port number. For example: Router1:192.168.2.1 etho A.B.C.D ippp0 running sendmail, pop, apache etc PC: 192.168.2.2 gw 192.168.2.1 Router2:192.168.2.100 gw W.X.

Re: Reverse name lookup mess

2001-06-25 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:54:01PM -0400, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > i need to tell tcpd not to look for pointer records, because some > queries took too long. man hosts_access man hosts_options man tcpd > Is that posible, and how ? Better fix your dns instead. Or even /etc/hosts. Chee

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

2001-06-25 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 05:19:20PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote: > Here's what's in the status file. Do I need to rebuild? > > ~$ awk '/^$/{if (p ~ /^ssh/) {print p, s;}} /^Package:/{p=$2} > /^Status:/{s=$0}' /var/lib/dpkg/status > ssh-nonfree Status: install ok installed > ssh Status: deinstall

Using different DNS per ISP

2001-06-25 Thread Marcus
I'm using two different ISPs depending on time of day, and cost. Problem is that they will only accept their own nameserver under /etc/resolv.conf. Is there a way around this, or do I need a script which changes resolv.conf before dialing? Thanks, Marcus

Reverse name lookup mess

2001-06-25 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi all, i need to tell tcpd not to look for pointer records, because some queries took too long. Is that posible, and how ? Thank. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tels. 665.99.41 - 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL

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

2001-06-25 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 07:04:19PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: :> From: "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :> ... :> Except for maintainence, you're reading the best tech support I've :> ever gotten, bar none. Most stuff gets atleast some response within :> an hour, 27x7. I pay through th

OpenAFS under Potato: can't compile...

2001-06-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
Please forgive my poor understanding of kernel-level things. I'm trying to get openAFS (the client side) running under potato. I looked at the instructions from www.openafs.org, and added the two lines to sources.list as instructed. I did the apt-get install for the module source, and unpacked th

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

2001-06-25 Thread Robert Cymbala
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) wrote: > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 14:51:47 +0200 [...] > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 07:00:36PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote: > > > > My remote provider (ISP-b) has enabled SSH on my account, but am still > > getting "secure connection... refused". What can I try next?

unable to browse the internet

2001-06-25 Thread mark
Hi, I just installed potato and setup my net connection, but iam unable to ping any external internal internet address. Iam used pppconfig to set my isp up (which connects fine), but i tried nslookup and get 'command not found' (which package do i need to install for this) i h

Re: gnome quicklaunch

2001-06-25 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:04:43PM -0400, Jacob Stowell wrote: > I am having a problem and was wondering if someone might be able to help > me out. I have a quicklaunch applet on my gnome panel. Interestingly, > when i start xterm or axyftp from the quicklaunch, /root shows up as the > default home

gnome quicklaunch

2001-06-25 Thread Jacob Stowell
Hello, I am having a problem and was wondering if someone might be able to help me out. I have a quicklaunch applet on my gnome panel. Interestingly, when i start xterm or axyftp from the quicklaunch, /root shows up as the default home directory: satchel[/root]% I tried removing ~/.gnome/quick

RE: big IBM harddisk

2001-06-25 Thread KenrickC
>Hi, >I purchased a new 40 G IBM harddisk. >My box is an old 100 MHz Pentium, with slot 5. >The problem is that the motherboard doesn't understand the harddisk >at >all. >The IBM own (DOS) program, which is supposed to help to fix the >problem >doesn't help. Even if I boot the box using tha

Re: What kind of attack is this?

2001-06-25 Thread Tom Tsaknakis
Looks like someone is trying to run some shellcode on your machine. Has portsentry picked up on any portscans before this happened? It could just be nothin but its always better to be safe than sorry. Tom Quoting Eugene Tyurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello, > > I\'ve got 868 lines in my sys

IP ALIAS

2001-06-25 Thread Juan
Hi, How can I configure an IP ALIAS ? TIA, Juan José Velázquez Garcia Web Development www.htmlspider.com.br

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

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ... > Except for maintainence, you're reading the best tech support I've > ever gotten, bar none. Most stuff gets atleast some response within > an hour, 27x7. I pay through the nose to get 4h support tht's usually > not as good :) > I really

Re: Java 2 VM in Debian

2001-06-25 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Guy Geens wrote: > > > "Viktor" == Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Viktor> I just installed the package, and I noticed that Netscape is > Viktor> unable to load the java 2 plugin. I don't really need java in > Viktor> netscape, but I was still wondering if this is a known bug

More on mutt losing its keymap

2001-06-25 Thread dmaziuk
Hi all, I whined before about mutt losing Up and Dn keys seemingly at random. Well, it looks like it's not random after all: keymap gets screwed after I telnet/ssh to other boxen on the network. Just now it happened after I telnetted to an irix machine and that killed the session with ^] - quit. A

fetchmail chokes on large files

2001-06-25 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, I have fetchmail-ssl 5.8.4 and every time I need to download a large email message from a POP server (say, larger than 30k) it just stops in the middle of the download: Jun 25 17:42:53 daBox fetchmail[244]: timeout after 300 seconds. Jun 25 17:42:53 daBox fetchmail[244]: client/server syn

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

2001-06-25 Thread John
> This is true, most Windows users haven't bothered to (re)install their OS. not really... i find i need to format and reinstall windows every few months. it becomes unuseable by then. i also find that people who dont do this, start out with a nice fresh new computer, and by the end of 5 months

Re: Does JDK 1.3.1 work with testing?

2001-06-25 Thread Christian Kreibich
Guy Geens wrote: > > There was site posted on this list for Debian packages for 1.3.1 just > a couple of days ago. This version works fine for me. H indeed. Like a charm. Thanks Guy! Cheers, -- Christian.

Unidentified subject!

2001-06-25 Thread Mart van de Wege
Well, it seems like this is one of those weeks. Just did an upgrade (running sid), saw some pam packages being upgrade, and now I can't log in to my desktop machine anymore. It even refuses ssh connections from my laptop. Thank $WHOEVER that I had a shell running on a virtual console, but aside fro

Re: www.debian.org

2001-06-25 Thread Craig Small
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:54:57AM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c? wrote: > Hi, > > Is www.debian.org down? No. Or at least not from where I am. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROT

Re: synchronizing systems

2001-06-25 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:48:08PM -0700, peanut butter wrote: > I'm curious if there is an easy way to keep a constant set of > software for several machines. Let's say it is believed that one > machine has the perfect set of software for the local users. If > I should want to have all other mac

Re: Createing a Crontab for the last day of the month

2001-06-25 Thread Ted Harding
On 25-Jun-01 Rick Pasotto wrote: > In the script that the cron job runs every 28-31 put the line: > > if [ `date +%m` == `date +%m --date=tomorrow` ]; then exit; fi About as neat as you can get!! Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[E

Re: Createing a Crontab for the last day of the month

2001-06-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 04:51:51PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > In the script that the cron job runs every 28-31 put the line: > > if [ `date +%m` == `date +%m --date=tomorrow` ]; then exit; fi Or, to put all the logic within the crontab itself (a Good Thing, since you then only have to look in o

RE: Createing a Crontab for the last day of the month

2001-06-25 Thread Ted Harding
On 25-Jun-01 Miller, Jim wrote: > Hello guys, > Is there an easy way to run a script the last day of each month > using cron. IE it would handle the 30,31,29/28 issue? You can't use cron syntax to catch the last day of the month. What you can do is to run, every day, a script which checks wh

Re: Promise hard disk controllers

2001-06-25 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Does anyone know of a Linux driver for the "Promise FastTrak TX2" hard > disk controller card ? There isn't one that I'm aware of. > A '.o' binary is offered which is supposed to run on Re

synchronizing systems

2001-06-25 Thread peanut butter
I'm curious if there is an easy way to keep a constant set of software for several machines. Let's say it is believed that one machine has the perfect set of software for the local users. If I should want to have all other machines conform to the same set of software, is there an easy way to move

Promise hard disk controllers

2001-06-25 Thread Scott Cowley
Does anyone know of a Linux driver for the "Promise FastTrak TX2" hard disk controller card ? A '.o' binary is offered which is supposed to run on RedHat 7.0, but I don't know how to use it with Debian. When I put the binary into /lib/modules and load it, I get an error which says that the

Re: net mask

2001-06-25 Thread Vector
Or to make things clearer, since he's asking in the first place he probably doesn't know what /29 means...so ie: 255.255.255.248 vector On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > I guess he meant 213.201.43.208-213.201.43.215 > then it would be > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ netmask 213.201.43.

make user named

2001-06-25 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I want to run bind chrooted for security reasons. For this I need a user named, but I do not want him to be able to login. How can I make a user like nobody? Thanks in advance, Sebastiaan -- NT is the OS of the future. The main engine is the 16-bit Subsystem (also called MS-DOS Sub

Re: Createing a Crontab for the last day of the month

2001-06-25 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 04:26:12PM -0400, Miller, Jim wrote: > Hello guys, > Is there an easy way to run a script the last day of each month using > cron. IE it would handle the 30,31,29/28 issue? In the script that the cron job runs every 28-31 put the line: if [ `date +%m` == `date +%m --d

Re: Createing a Crontab for the last day of the month

2001-06-25 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 04:26:12PM -0400, Miller, Jim wrote: | Hello guys, | Is there an easy way to run a script the last day of each month using | cron. IE it would handle the 30,31,29/28 issue? How about using the first instead? It's only 1 day later, and is much easier to compute. Other

interest

2001-06-25 Thread linda perrotti
Hello,I am representing the former owners of a Linux newsletter and message board site which consists of 77,000 registrants.We are seeking a new owner for this very valuable asset,and are looking for only $0.15 per user.I believe an acquisition of this magnitude can enhance your existingbu

Re: net mask

2001-06-25 Thread Alson van der Meulen
I guess he meant 213.201.43.208-213.201.43.215 then it would be [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ netmask 213.201.43.208:213.201.43.215 213.201.43.208/29 On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:30:36PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, > the address your supplied is a C-class address. > This needs netmaks 255.255.255.

Re: net mask

2001-06-25 Thread linux
hi, the address your supplied is a C-class address. This needs netmaks 255.255.255.0 However, the -15 you put behind it is unclear to me, I never have seen that after a ip-number. Anyways: A-class 1.x.x.x-127.x.x.x netmaks 255.0.0.0 B-class 128.x.x.x-191.x.x.x 55.255.0.0 C-class 192.x.x.x-223.x.x.

Re: linux + win95 + grub partition woes

2001-06-25 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
At what point do I unhide the partitions? I have something like title linux unhide (hd0,0) ... title windows hide (hd0,0) ... T. D-Man wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 03:34:27PM -0400, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: | I got around to reinstalling windows 95 on my dell laptop so I could use | the

Createing a Crontab for the last day of the month

2001-06-25 Thread Miller, Jim
Hello guys, Is there an easy way to run a script the last day of each month using cron. IE it would handle the 30,31,29/28 issue? / * Jim Miller * * Analyst/ Programmer* * N

Re: linux + win95 + grub partition woes

2001-06-25 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 03:34:27PM -0400, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: | I got around to reinstalling windows 95 on my dell laptop so I could use | the DVD. Windows is installed on the 4th partition. Everything works | fine, but after I boot windows and then boot debian, I get error 17 from | grub.

Re: linux + win95 + grub partition woes

2001-06-25 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
Should've figured as much... :-( T. Sebastian Nerz wrote: Hy. Bad news: Normally the best way to use Linux and Win95 on one harddisk is this: 1st Partition: Windows System 2nd Partition: Linux last Partition: Programms and Files for Windows At least that's my experience... regards Sebasti

Re: net mask

2001-06-25 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:14:49PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > My provider has assigned me the following ip range > 213.201.43.208-15 > what net mask should I use? Hi Daniel, I used a network calculator to get the following information. According to it you should use a net

Re: Does JDK 1.3.1 work with testing?

2001-06-25 Thread Guy Geens
> "Christian" == Christian Kreibich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christian> I recently updated to testing and a self-compiled kernel Christian> 2.4.3 and things work great, except for java. Basically any Christian> java application segfaults on startup. I'm using (well, er, Christian> was using

Re: Setting the system's classpath

2001-06-25 Thread Guy Geens
> "Daniel" == Daniel de los Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> What is the appropiate place to set system wide Daniel> classpath? should I make an init script for it, or is there Daniel> one I should use to include it? Add it to /etc/environment. Make sure you have `.' (the current dir

Re: vmware on Debian?

2001-06-25 Thread nico de haer
I use it on Debian 2.2r2 (kernel 2.2.19pre21) works fine! regards, Nico de Haer - Original Message - From: John Conover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 9:40 PM Subject: vmware on Debian? > > Anyone using vmware on a Debian 2.2.12 kernel? > > Work OK? > > Thanks, > >

Re: linux + win95 + grub partition woes

2001-06-25 Thread Sebastian Nerz
Hy. Bad news: Normally the best way to use Linux and Win95 on one harddisk is this: 1st Partition: Windows System 2nd Partition: Linux last Partition: Programms and Files for Windows At least that's my experience... regards Sebastian Nerz "Timothy H. Keitt" schrieb: > I got around to reinsta

Which NIC driver for Xircom integrated on Gateway Mobo?

2001-06-25 Thread Kent West
I have a Gateway 5300 laptop with an integrated Xircom 10/100 NIC; what ethernet driver do I use for it during a stock Potato install? Thanks! Kent

Unidentified subject!

2001-06-25 Thread Fabiano Gutierrez
I'm a problem with hylafax. I only receipt fax, does't send fax and I would like to send way email. And the big problem, faxgetty start many times and fulling my memory. please send with Cc Fabiano Gutierrez.

Re: Transfers interrupted when uploading

2001-06-25 Thread Guy Geens
> "Alberto" == Alberto Bigazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alberto> Problems arise when I try to serve files by either uploading Alberto> them directly via ssh or ftp towards some remote, or by Alberto> connecting to a remote and try to retrieve files from my Alberto> machine. It seems that y

vmware on Debian?

2001-06-25 Thread John Conover
Anyone using vmware on a Debian 2.2.12 kernel? Work OK? Thanks, John -- John ConoverTel. 408.370.2688 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 631 Lamont Ct. Fax. 408.379.9602 http://www.johncon.com/ Campbell, CA 95008 Cel. 408.772.7733

linux + win95 + grub partition woes

2001-06-25 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
I got around to reinstalling windows 95 on my dell laptop so I could use the DVD. Windows is installed on the 4th partition. Everything works fine, but after I boot windows and then boot debian, I get error 17 from grub. After booting from a floppy, and running cfdisk, I find that my non-win

Re: HELP: esd=Unable to connect to UNIX socket /var/run/esound/socket

2001-06-25 Thread Guy Geens
> "Bruno" == Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bruno> hello! i am using latest unstable, and esd stopped working Bruno> i get the error message : Unable to connect to UNIX socket Bruno> /var/run/esound/socket Either do: chgrp audio /usr/bin/esd chmod g+s /usr/bin/esd Or: add al

Re: Netscape 4.77 Java Fonts too large

2001-06-25 Thread Guy Geens
> "Harold" == Harold Bibik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harold> Using Netscape 4.77 on a Progeny-Debian (Newton)system with Harold> Gnome 1.4, I get HUGE bold fonts in Java Applets. I long time ago, I found a page with tips on how to make Netscape fonts look better. I can't find it now, but th

Re: ssh

2001-06-25 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 05:00:36AM -0700, G.LeeJ wrote: > Setting up ssh ( 2.5.2p2-0progeny1)... ^^^ These are progeny debs. > No override present. Progeny broke some stuff. Report this to their bug tracking system, for the benefit of both progeny and yourself.

xscreensaver dpms doesn't work...

2001-06-25 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I don't know why, but I used xscreensaver under gnome (config in control panel). The screensaver popped up correctly, however not the standby and off part (the orange light). Before I install xscreensaver, it worked (no screensaver but have powersaving). I am using unsta

Re: xserver won't listen

2001-06-25 Thread Jim Van Zandt
Steve - Thanks! that was it. - Jim Van Zandt

RE: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0_HELP?

2001-06-25 Thread Marc Wilson
Let's see what /etc/raidtab has to say for itself...? - Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson -Original Message- From: Guy Geens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guy Geens Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10:31 AM To: debian-us

Re: xserver won't listen

2001-06-25 Thread Jim Van Zandt
Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > very simple: disable the parameter "-nolisten tcp" from the config > files in /etc/X11 Right you are - Thanks! > You should have read the message upon install!!! Hmm. Well, I do use ssh to set up my sessions, so I thought that comment didn't

ssh

2001-06-25 Thread G.LeeJ
I"m using apt-get to install some things and while ( likely due to running testing/unstable? ) I am having trouble with dependencies not going throuugh my main concern is: ssh: the programs usually install fine but seems like everytime i get: Setting up ssh ( 2.5.2p2-0progeny1)... No override pr

net mask

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
My provider has assigned me the following ip range 213.201.43.208-15 what net mask should I use? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Desarrollo, Grupo S2 Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r3 __

Re: broken terminal 'a'

2001-06-25 Thread Guy Geens
> "Michael" == Michael P Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> Hey people. Currently, in terminal mode without X Michael> running, the top half of all of my 'a' characters is missing. Michael> I'm confused. What could cause this?? First guess: a broken font. Try: `apt-get --reinst

Does JDK 1.3.1 work with testing?

2001-06-25 Thread Christian Kreibich
Hi, I recently updated to testing and a self-compiled kernel 2.4.3 and things work great, except for java. Basically any java application segfaults on startup. I'm using (well, er, was using :) Sun's jdk 1.3.1. Am I missing something? Apologies if this is a faq, but I couldn't find an up-to-date

Re: Java 2 VM in Debian

2001-06-25 Thread Guy Geens
> "Viktor" == Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Viktor> I just installed the package, and I noticed that Netscape is Viktor> unable to load the java 2 plugin. I don't really need java in Viktor> netscape, but I was still wondering if this is a known bug, or Viktor> I'm doing somethi

no screensavers

2001-06-25 Thread G.LeeJ
I have no screensavers showing up in controll panel anymore..i click on one and nothing shows in demo window nor do any startup using testing/unstable>2.4.5 and gnome1.4 I think..talk about bleeding edgeprob no wonder my screensavers are gone its a wonder my system is intact :) .. than

Re: upgrading award bios to see ide 40mb disk

2001-06-25 Thread Sebastian Nerz
Hy. Yes, it is quite easy: Download the flash-tool (search under: www.unicore.com, I think: http://www.unicore.com/forms/leads/bios_upgradeform3.cfm) and the newest patch for your BIOS (should be easy ;-) ) Then just execute the flash utility like it is described in a readme or on the homepage.

Re: telnet client

2001-06-25 Thread Nick Jennings
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:36:33AM +0200, Matteo S. wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:11:53PM -0700, Nick Jennings wrote: > > 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 sim

Cyrus and sasl with potato?

2001-06-25 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Anybody out there using Cyrus and sasl authentication with potato? I've read some documentation, but seems that the version of Cyrus in potato is way older than the version mentioned in the Cyrus-HowTo (and the same is for the version in sid). If this could not be feasible, would be very glad if s

upgrading award bios to see ide 40mb disk

2001-06-25 Thread A. Demarteau \(linux rules!\)
hi, does anyone know how to upgrade an award bios (so that it will see my 40mb ide-drive) either via dos or under linux and a pointer to a site (other then award.com) to get the necessary tools/drivers. Thanx for any insites. --- Andor Demarteau [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0_HELP?

2001-06-25 Thread Guy Geens
I had a system crash recently, and I took a good look at my own syslog messages and /proc/mdstat. And my own entries look very different from yours. My question is: did you recompile and install the patched kernel? I suspect that you didn't, and you're trying to use the new-style raid tools on a

Re: big IBM harddisk

2001-06-25 Thread Sebastian Nerz
Hy guys... Have you ever tried a little BIOS-Flash? Could be the solution. (With my computer it worked) regards Sebastian Nerz Aquila schrieb: > Hey, it was just a suggestion. My point was that reasonably new > components are affordable, that's all. > > On 25 Jun 2001 12:36:33 -0500, Andrew P

Re: xserver won't listen

2001-06-25 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 12:20:33PM -0400, James R. Van Zandt uttered: > > I have i810 graphics on a Pentium III machine. > > I just upgraded to X 4.0.3 using: And there is your problem. X 4 is set by default not to listen on a TCP port. check /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc --

Re: unable to install woody - template/apt/dpkg errors

2001-06-25 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 05:58:16PM +0100, mark wrote: | So my best bet wood to put potato back on and just upgrade to woody, as | i only really want XFree86-4.0.3, gnome 1.2 or 1.4 and mozilla 0-9.1 and | to be able to run evolution-0.10 That's what I would recommend. I did have a few difficultie

Re: big IBM harddisk

2001-06-25 Thread nico de haer
Hi, I own a IBM DTLA 304050 (41.1 Gb) and i have the same problem using it on my Abit LX6 mainboard. To solve it i installed a second hdd (old 1 gb seagate) as hda (told bios about it) the ibm as hdc (did NOT tell bios about it) and my cdrom is connected as hdb. Linux boots using the 1 Gb drive an

Re: Telnet Client --> solved

2001-06-25 Thread Keith G. Murphy
nico de haer wrote: > > Hi all! > > Thanks for all the reactions, i've got Putty off the web (Sebastian, there > is a newer version than the one you sent me but thanks anyway!) and i love > it! all the things i wanted are there, works great and: 200 Kb (no typo!) > Good stuff comes in small packa

Setting the system's classpath

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
El Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:14:24PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes dijo: What is the appropiate place to set system wide classpath? should I make an init script for it, or is there one I should use to include it? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Desarrollo, Grupo S2 Vale

Re: changing hostname

2001-06-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
Not exactly -- the authorized_keys file has five space-separated fields: options bits exponent modulus comment. Options is where options are specified (and is an optional field), and comment is still comment. Changing hostname, or anything else, in the comment field will not affect operability in a

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