Re: iptables firewall help

2001-06-26 Thread john
Matt, I can't remember the exact URL, but somewhere in the IBM developer forums is a really good tutorial on using iptables to create a firewall. It includes some nice scripts, and is much clearer than Rusty's guides. John P Foster http://www.golden-orb.com Matthew Garman wrote: > I would like

Re: What kind of attack is this?

2001-06-26 Thread Eugene Tyurin
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:23:56AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I've gotten the same sort of message. It appears in the lpr.log and > syslog. I think it's an internal problem and not an attack from outside. Portsentry didn't detect anything. I briefly looked at the config files for lprng, and

Re: headers in mutt

2001-06-26 Thread Janto Trappe
On [26-06-01 19:40], Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Using the option ignore in the muttrc file seems to be endless, because there > is a lot of things to be ignored. I think that is better to tell mutt what to > keep instead... 'ignore all' and 'unignore what-you-want-to-see': ignore * unignore

iptables firewall help

2001-06-26 Thread Matthew Garman
I would like to upgrade my kernel from 2.2 to 2.4. The main thing that concerns me is building a new iptables-based firewall (as opposed to ipchains). I was using the TrinityOS firewall for ipchains. I read through it, somewhat, but basically accepted its security on blind faith. I figure that

Re: Java and flash plugin for Mozilla

2001-06-26 Thread DvB
Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: Hi, Can you plz tell me which version of mozilla are you using. Mine is 0.9.1 (the latest)? In my case, the program seems to install normally, but just that xpicleanup.dat that causes mozilla not to start. Also, flash doesn't even work for me. Edwin Lau

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

2001-06-26 Thread Stephen Taylor
mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom no. I've tried every variation except `for i in /dev/* ; do mount -t iso9660 -o ro $i /cdrom; done` because I have not documented the consequences I skimmed through a HOW-TO today; it referred to the loop device. Another possibility - but first I will restore the cm

Re: OT: C++ Newbie and KDE/QT

2001-06-26 Thread John
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 05:06, Brendon wrote: > This summer holiday I took on the task of learning C++ with (shamefully :) > the help of C++ For Dummies. > > Having tried to learn C++ in the past I'm now reasonably familar with it's > synax so i thought i'd also try learning QT/KDE programming at t

Re: Netscape 4.77 Java Fonts too large

2001-06-26 Thread Harold Bibik
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:31:16PM +0200, Guy Geens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled > 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 this page seems to have > the information you need: > http://www2.arnes.si/~mrihta3/ns-unix.html >

mounting qnx filesystems

2001-06-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. Does anyone know of any work being done to permit Linux to mount QNX filesystems? I didn't see any such work in the kernel source. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily

custom upgrades

2001-06-26 Thread Dana S. Wheeler
I have a really slow modem connection (rural phone line) so updating by apt-get on line is not really an option. Is there some web site where you can compile your own custom cd and have them mail it to you? Thanks Dana S. Wheeler -- Maintain a humble awe in all things of God and a cynical skepti

Re: resent, manpage pg-up & pg-dn not working

2001-06-26 Thread Eric Boo
Okay, I got it, sorry for the double post. Something screwed up. -- Eric Boo Wednesday, June 27, 2001, 10:08 AM 5 hours and 39 minutes http://magicman.freeshell.org

Re: mount (2.4.4)

2001-06-26 Thread Robin Gerard
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:04:21PM +, Robin Gerard wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 01:38:44PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 07:43:20PM +, Robin Gerard wrote: ... > :fatfs : bogus cluster size > :VFS:can't find a valide MSDOS filesystem on dev 02:00

resent, manpage pg-up & pg-dn not working

2001-06-26 Thread Eric Boo
Hi, This message was resent because it didn;t seem to appear on the list. How do I at least get page up to work when I'm viewing man pages? Right now all I get are beeps when I try the page-up and page-down keys. Page-down isn't so important as I can use the spacebar instead. Neither do the up

Re: Java and flash plugin for Mozilla

2001-06-26 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi, Can you plz tell me which version of mozilla are you using. Mine is 0.9.1 (the latest)? In my case, the program seems to install normally, but just that xpicleanup.dat that causes mozilla not to start. Also, flash doesn't even work for me. Edwin Lau On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 07:57

Re: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0_HELP?

2001-06-26 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... i had zero problems upgrading to linux-2.2.18 based debian sw raid5 ( was previously built very old raid5 ... still cranking away ) http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Raid/raid-howto.2.2.18.txt - dont know if there's any major diff between *.18 and *.19 have fun alvin http://www.

Re: Java and flash plugin for Mozilla

2001-06-26 Thread DvB
Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: Hi everyone, After a long and exhausted trial and error, I am giving up. I can't get the java and flash plugin work for mozilla. Anyone care to tell me how they get it working? Java doesn't seem to properly finish the installation even it said so. After Java 2

Some G450 dual-head problems

2001-06-26 Thread Byeong-Jun Park
I use Maxtrox G450 dual-head whith Samsung Syncmaster 950NF (First screen) and 17Gli (Second Screen) Monitors My working environments are Sid, X 4.0.3 I have two problems. 1. I can not apply gamma correction value online to screen 1 (second monitor) with xgamma utility ( xgamma -screen 0

Re: Build a new Kernel

2001-06-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hello, > > How can I build a new kernel? Where is the source? > > Thanks > > Juan José Velázquez Garcia > Web Development > www.htmlspider.com.br > One way is to by using the kernel-package deb. Script started on Wed Jun 27 03:20:33 2001 [03:20:34 tmp]$ grep-available -PX kernel-package P

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

2001-06-26 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: [...] > Or install ssh-socks, but it is a non-free package, rms doesn't like it. I've got an unrelated, yet perhaps still important, question a

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

2001-06-26 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: [...] > Or even crawling? The '-v' option to ssh is your friend, and together with > the manpages, there's suddenly a whole cosy circle of frien

Re: printing to a windows shared printer with smbprint

2001-06-26 Thread Karsten Heymann
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 11:57:50AM +0200 or thereabouts, 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. > I found some doc's on the net. > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chap

RE: Using different DNS per ISP

2001-06-26 Thread Ian Perry
Here are just a few rip.psg.com IP address = 147.28.0.39 NS.RIPE.NET IP address = 193.0.0.193 B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET IP address = 192.33.14.30 C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET IP address = 192.26.92.30 E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET IP address = 192.12.94.30 F.GTLD-SERVERS

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

2001-06-26 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: [...] > Or even crawling? The '-v' option to ssh is your friend, and together with > the manpages, there's suddenly a whole cosy circle of frien

Re: xfree 4.1 packages

2001-06-26 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:48:38AM +0200, Thomas Hess wrote: > hi, > > anyone knows a location for xfree 4.1 deb-packages? thx in advance. > > tom Hi There Tom, You can check out this web site. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ Good Luck, Jim Richards > -- > Thoma

Java and flash plugin for Mozilla

2001-06-26 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, After a long and exhausted trial and error, I am giving up. I can't get the java and flash plugin work for mozilla. Anyone care to tell me how they get it working? Java doesn't seem to properly finish the installation even it said so. After Java 2 plugin installation,

Re: Proliant 1000 pains in the butt

2001-06-26 Thread Frans Schreuder
Thanx for the response, A question though.. I would like some pointers/pointing on how to look for a way to determine the specific controller (the onboard-one and the array (probably is the kernel smart-2; although the kernel doesn't recognize it on boot)). > > my experience is when trying to

Re: xmms 1.2.5 package

2001-06-26 Thread Daniel T. Chen
Tom, Josip (the official maintainer) released 1.2.5-1 on Wed, 20 June, at 00:49:08 +0200. Run `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade` to pick up the new packages. Cheers, dtc --- Dan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: www.cs.unc.edu/~chenda/pubkey.gpg.asc On 27 Jun 2001, Thomas Hess wro

Re: xfree 4.1 packages

2001-06-26 Thread Sebastian Drews
"Thomas Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anyone knows a location for xfree 4.1 deb-packages? thx in advance. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ Sebastian -- Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. Henry Spencer

Re: SOLVED: Defaulting system to mono display

2001-06-26 Thread Karsten Heymann
I needed to deactivate any colors on my mono-terminal (mda textmode-card). The main point is to set TERM=linux-m when working locally. Grepping /etc for TERM I found #TTYTYPE_FILE=/etc/ttytype in /etc/login.defs. I did as noted there (created /etc/ttytype and uncommented the ttytype-line but

Re: OT: C++ Newbie and KDE/QT

2001-06-26 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:12:56PM +0200, Brendon wrote: | On Tuesday 26 June 2001 19:14, D-Man wrote: | > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:06:50PM +0200, Brendon wrote: | > | Does anyone know of a good site where QT/KDE programming is explained? | > | And what did you start with when learning C++? | > |

xmms 1.2.5 package

2001-06-26 Thread Thomas Hess
hello again, I'm also looking for a xmms 1.2.5(-final) deb-package. Daniel T. Chen: u once gave me the location for your 1.2.5-pre packages, if u are still on this list: do u have 1.2.5 packages? I lost the URL and your Email-address. tom -- Thomas Hess mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:112712215

ident spoof ? now what ?

2001-06-26 Thread J.F.Gratton
Hi, As some people here, I had problems with libpam when I updated my (-Sid-) distro yesterday. I did what was suggested, I got my hands on the newest version coming from http://incoming.debian.org and everything went OK. Now there's something funny happening. I'm also running oidentd on the

Re: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0_HELP?

2001-06-26 Thread Frans Schreuder
Well you're partially right. I did not recompile (but used the 'install'- /kernel module 'selector' to get the modules for raid in.) /I applied kernel-patch-2.2.19 (Preparing to replace kernel-patch-2.2.19-/raid /2 /(using kernel-patch-2.2.19-raid_2_all.deb) ... /Unpacking replacement k

Re: headers in mutt

2001-06-26 Thread Alexander Wasmuth
* Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am using mutt. When I read a message sometimes appears a lot of stuff in > the > header. I want only the "From:", "To:" and "Subject:" fields. How can I do > that? > Using the option ignore in the muttrc file seems to be endless, because there > i

Re: headers in mutt

2001-06-26 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! Thank you! it worked fine! On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:53:41PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > On 06/26/01 19:40:52 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > I am using mutt. When I read a message sometimes appears a lot of stuff in > > the > > header. I want only the "From:", "To:" and "Subject:" f

Re: headers in mutt

2001-06-26 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 06/26/01 19:40:52 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I am using mutt. When I read a message sometimes appears a lot of stuff in > the > header. I want only the "From:", "To:" and "Subject:" fields. How can I do > that? > Using the option ignore in the muttrc file seems to be endless, because

xfree 4.1 packages

2001-06-26 Thread Thomas Hess
hi, anyone knows a location for xfree 4.1 deb-packages? thx in advance. tom -- Thomas Hess mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:112712215

WHY NOT TRY IT?

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headers in mutt

2001-06-26 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! I am using mutt. When I read a message sometimes appears a lot of stuff in the header. I want only the "From:", "To:" and "Subject:" fields. How can I do that? Using the option ignore in the muttrc file seems to be endless, because there is a lot of things to be ignored. I think that is bett

Re: Using different DNS per ISP

2001-06-26 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya in your ppp scripts if they give you dynamic ppp and dynamic dhcp... you probably dont need any of this stuff ??? isp#1 cp /etc/resolv.isp1.conf /etc/resolv.conf hostname my_server.isp1.com isp#2 cp /etc/resolv.isp2.conf /etc/resolv.conf # hostname dhcp.isp2.com blah... have fun

Re: Local Host Name

2001-06-26 Thread Nick Jennings
Looks like your hostname isn't set, you can set by editing the /etc/hostname file. as well as the cmnd: export HOSTNAME='' or edit your /etc/apache/httpd.conf and add the line ServerName where is the name you want to be know as by apache. On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 07:07:34PM -0300, Juan wrote

Re: package naming?!

2001-06-26 Thread Joey Hess
Andre Alexander Bell wrote: > Hello! > > I'm using testing and while installing on my system I've noticed some thing > about the available package names. > > Examples: > If you want to _use_ telnet. Install package telnet. > If you want to _provide_ telnet. Install package telnetd. > If you want

Local Host Name

2001-06-26 Thread Juan
Hi, After install Apache I get the following error: apache: cannot determine local host name Use ServerName directive to set it manually. /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started Configuration failed! Run "apacheconfig" to try this again later. My question is: where should I define

Re: apt-get source

2001-06-26 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
thanks for the reply, alias works great :) Dingo. ).|.( '.'___'.' ' '(>~<)' ' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-ooO-=(_)=-Ooo-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: More on mutt losing its keymap

2001-06-26 Thread dmaziuk
* Daniel Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: [ the answer I was looking for snipped ] Thank you very much indeed. Yes, I was using vt100, yes, jed and slrn are not affected -- only mutt, and sure, the bad thing went away as soon as I fixed terminfo entry. That's what I get for being a comm

Re: Build a new Kernel

2001-06-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:54:44PM -0300, Juan wrote: > How can I build a new kernel? Generic Linux answer: Go to google and do a search for "kernel-howto". Debian-specific answer: `apt-get install kernel-package`, `cd /usr/share/doc/kernel-package`, and read the files there. > Where is the so

Re: linux + win95 + grub partition woes

2001-06-26 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
My solution was to move the win 95 partition to the front of the disk. Had to reinstall windows, but managed to keep my linux partition with a bit of jockying with partitions and ext2resize. T. D-Man wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 04:30:09PM -0400, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: | At what point do

How to get Radeon 3D features working in Sid

2001-06-26 Thread Steve R. Hastings
I successfully got my Radeon working, with 3D acceleration using DRI, under Debian Unstable. I wrote up how I did it for Debian Planet. If you have a Radeon, take a look at this. I hope you will find it helpful. http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=253 P.S. Tux Racer is a

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

2001-06-26 Thread csj
On Monday 25 June 2001 23:40, Stephen Taylor wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions; it still doesn't recognize the cd.. > - if it reads a disk I'll try another console to catch the device - > but it's apt-get and it may not stay mounted > > These don't work: > - mount /dev/hdb > - boot: linux ide-scs

Re: manpages page-up and down not working

2001-06-26 Thread krst
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Eric Boo wrote: > Hi, > > How do I at least get page up to work when I'm viewing man pages? Right now > all I get are beeps when I try the page-up and page-down keys. > Page-down isn't so important as I can use the spacebar instead. > Neither do the up and down arrows work. >

Re: big IBM harddisk

2001-06-26 Thread csj
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 11:38, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > 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 b

libpam*

2001-06-26 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, just redid the distupgrade on my unstable and noticed there's a -27 version of the libpam stuff and all's well... One of the things I LOVE about debian is not having to wait weeks for fixes (redhat) or months (windows)... Debian developers are really on the ball. Great going, Robert

Re: Installation

2001-06-26 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 09:56:11AM -0700, Alan Wu wrote: > I have downloaded ash_0.3.8-13_i386.deb. How can I proceed to install this > package? [snip] > P.S. My machine: > OS: Windows Advanced Server 2000 > Pentium III Are you kidding us? You cannot install linux pa

manpages page-up and down not working

2001-06-26 Thread Eric Boo
Hi, How do I at least get page up to work when I'm viewing man pages? Right now all I get are beeps when I try the page-up and page-down keys. Page-down isn't so important as I can use the spacebar instead. Neither do the up and down arrows work. Using SID. -- Eric Boo Wednesday, June 27, 20

Re: OT: C++ Newbie and KDE/QT

2001-06-26 Thread Brendon
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 20:16, you wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Brendon wrote: > > This summer holiday I took on the task of learning C++ with (shamefully > > :) the help of C++ For Dummies. > > > > Having tried to learn C++ in the past I'm now reasonably familar with > > it's synax so i thought i

Re: Careers in Linux

2001-06-26 Thread Robert Waldner
>> :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/win2k >> :for a uk comapany,name withheld to protect my job :-), at least it >> :got my foo

Re: Custom kernel won't boot - unable to mount root fs

2001-06-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:01:39PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:07:55PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > $ modprobe -c | grep ' block-major-8 ' > alias block-major-8 sd_mod Both SCSI support and SCSI disk support are built into the kernel, according to make menuconfig. T

Re: OT: C++ Newbie and KDE/QT

2001-06-26 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Brendon wrote: > This summer holiday I took on the task of learning C++ with (shamefully :) > the help of C++ For Dummies. > > Having tried to learn C++ in the past I'm now reasonably familar with it's > synax so i thought i'd also try learning QT/KDE programming at the same t

Re: apt-get source

2001-06-26 Thread Alan Shutko
"Petr [Dingo] Dvorak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is there any way how i can set up the apt-get source so it unpacks the source > in /usr/src/ and drops the original tarball in /usr/src ? (cd /usr/src ; apt-get source whatever) ? Set up an alias or shell-script to do the cd. -- Alan Shut

Re: apt-get source

2001-06-26 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:47:15 CDT, "Petr [Dingo] Dvorak" writes: >is there any way how i can set up the apt-get source so it unpacks the source >in /usr/src/ and drops the original tarball in /usr/src ? apt-get source puts whatever you request in the current dir. just ORIG_DIR=`pwd`; cd /u

Re: vmware on Debian?

2001-06-26 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
--- Robert Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 25 June 2001 21:54, nico de haer wrote: > > I use it on Debian 2.2r2 (kernel 2.2.19pre21) > works fine! > > Can your Windows apps access hardware like USB, > soundcard, scanner? This > would be interesting. A lot of people could use all > t

Re: OT: C++ Newbie and KDE/QT

2001-06-26 Thread Brendon
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 19:14, D-Man wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:06:50PM +0200, Brendon wrote: > | Does anyone know of a good site where QT/KDE programming is explained? > | And what did you start with when learning C++? > > I don't use KDE and I don't like Qt's LnF so I don't know about th

emdebed Linux

2001-06-26 Thread Wayne Sitton
I've sent a couple of emails to the emdebian list, but have not gotten any reply's, So I've decided to go on my own. I've purchased a yopy, and have started compiling some apps for it, but I find myself wanting some debian tool(such as apt/dselect). I'm sure I could compile both into the yopy's li

unstable broken

2001-06-26 Thread Robert L. Harris
I just upgraded my unstable box. Now I can't login. I enter root or any user at "login: " and immediately get back password rejected, with no password prompt. I booted off a root/rescue disk mounted root on /mnt and did a "chroot /mnt /bin/bash" then "passwd" and I get: passwd: Module is un

Re: Custom kernel won't boot - unable to mount root fs

2001-06-26 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:07:55PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I've got a SCSI-based quad P3 system which starts up just fine off the stock > 2.2.19pre17 kernel from potato, but refuses to boot the 2.4.5 kernel that > I've built for it. It dies just after initializing the NET4 subsystem, > sayi

Re: Careers in Linux

2001-06-26 Thread Christoph Gaitzsch
"Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 01:52:02AM +0100, mark wrote: > :Hi, > > :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

Build a new Kernel

2001-06-26 Thread Juan
Hello, How can I build a new kernel? Where is the source? Thanks Juan José Velázquez Garcia Web Development www.htmlspider.com.br

apt-get source

2001-06-26 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
Hey list, after i spent 30 minutes looking where the last source package unpacked on my machine, i started to look for a way how to unpack those in specific directory .. but i guess i'm blind because i can't find it .. is there any way how i can set up the apt-get source so it unpacks the source

Re: More on mutt losing its keymap

2001-06-26 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 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

Re: deselect & aptitude show different packages !!!

2001-06-26 Thread Balbir Thomas
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 06:58:45PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 at 12:52:35 -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:57:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I am using ustable, with kernel 2.4.5. Aptitude shows m

Re: Pluggin in Galeon

2001-06-26 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Hall Stevenson wrote: > > Galeon is a great brower but is there any pluggin > > like flash, java work under it? Pluggin for network > > work well (most of the time) just wanna switch to > > galeon ASAP coz it is cool =) > > galeon is to a large extent just a front-end to mozilla (I > don't mean t

Re: My voodoo 3...

2001-06-26 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > > I *haven't* created the tdfx device file (/dev/cards/tdfx?), because i > > can't remember how to (or even what the name of the file is). I > > searched on google, without luck. > > It's /dev/3dfx, and you don't create it manually. Get the device3dfx-source > packag

Re: IP ALIAS

2001-06-26 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:05:10PM -0300, Juan wrote: > > How can I configure an IP ALIAS ? > > 1) Build a kernel with IP aliasing support > 2) Assign an address to eth0:0, eth0:1, etc. > And, IIRC, in the 2.4.x kernel tree aliasing is default (or better, you will not fi

Re: Custom kernel won't boot - unable to mount root fs

2001-06-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:07:55PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > There's obviously something that I need to include in my kernel, but I've > double- and triple-checked menuconfig and there's nothing which obviously > should be required that isn't included. What am I missing? OK, I guess there's

Irritating eepro100 error

2001-06-26 Thread Andrew J. Perrin
I'm getting lots of this in my messages log: Jun 26 10:06:36 geingob kernel: eth0: card reports no resources. Jun 26 10:06:56 geingob last message repeated 9 times The card is a built-in IBM fast ethernet card, driver eepro100. It seems like it's been fixed in the driver version on scyld.com, bu

Custom kernel won't boot - unable to mount root fs

2001-06-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've got a SCSI-based quad P3 system which starts up just fine off the stock 2.2.19pre17 kernel from potato, but refuses to boot the 2.4.5 kernel that I've built for it. It dies just after initializing the NET4 subsystem, saying: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. request_module[

Re: Monitor not remembering settings

2001-06-26 Thread Bart Szyszka
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. Hmm... I'm already running Windows and X under different resolutions. Windows is run under 1024x768 and

Re: single-user mode? strange

2001-06-26 Thread Aquila
The problem is caused by some problems in the libpam* packages. To boot into single user mode, if you're using lilo, just append "s" to the end of your image name when you boot, like: LILO: linux s It will then boot and ask you for root password, which will work. Then download the libpam* packag

Re: deselect & aptitude show different packages !!!

2001-06-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 at 12:52:35 -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:57:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I am using ustable, with kernel 2.4.5. Aptitude shows many more packages > > >than deselect . > > > > Have you run 'dselect

Re: Installation

2001-06-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 09:56:11AM -0700, Alan Wu wrote: > I have downloaded ash_0.3.8-13_i386.deb. How can I proceed to install this > package? > P.S. My machine: > OS: Windows Advanced Server 2000 debs aren't Windows software. You'll have to install linux (and preferably the debi

Re: mount (2.4.4)

2001-06-26 Thread Robin Gerard
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 01:38:44PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 07:43:20PM +, Robin Gerard wrote: ... > :fatfs : bogus cluster size > :VFS:can't find a valide MSDOS filesystem on dev 02:00 > :mount:you must specify the filesystem type . > You p

Re: vmware on Debian?

2001-06-26 Thread Robert Voigt
On Monday 25 June 2001 21:54, nico de haer wrote: > I use it on Debian 2.2r2 (kernel 2.2.19pre21) works fine! Can your Windows apps access hardware like USB, soundcard, scanner? This would be interesting. A lot of people could use all their hardware while running Linux.

Re: deselect & aptitude show different packages !!!

2001-06-26 Thread Balbir Thomas
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:57:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am using ustable, with kernel 2.4.5. Aptitude shows many more packages > >than deselect . > > Have you run 'dselect update' recently, or have you just been using > 'apt-get update'? Yep

Re: GMC working under Gnome?

2001-06-26 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:54:16 -0400 Chun Kit Edwin Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >

single-user mode? strange

2001-06-26 Thread Daniel Patrick Berdine
I recently ran dselect and did an upgrade with unstable which had the result that I can't log in at all (typing 'root' at the login promt returns Login Incorrect, I don't even get to try the password, similar results with the kdm login screen). My first thought was to boot into single user mode an

Re: Starting with XML

2001-06-26 Thread burningclown
I don't know if it has been mentioned but you can also check out the package xae, which is an emacs-based XML IDE, by the same person who wrote jde (an emacs Java IDE). -Glenn On 26 Jun 2001, Ilya Martynov wrote: > > ER> I recommend. > ER> apt-get install emacs20 > ER> apt-get install psgml > E

Re: IBM Java 1.3 - Anyone get to work?

2001-06-26 Thread Eric Richardson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm trying to get DB2 to install and run on my Debian box. One of the > programs it needs is java. IBM is highly recommending that you install and > run their version of java. I have pulled down the .rpm for it and > installed it both as a rpm and as a deb (not at t

Re: Pluggin in Galeon

2001-06-26 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi So will plugger works under galeon as well? Edwin Lau On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:45:00PM -0400, Leo Laursen wrote: > "Chun Kit Edwin Lau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > Galeon is a great brower but is there any pluggin like flash, java work > > under it? P

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-06-26 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:36:06 +0200 Mart van de Wege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: Starting with XML

2001-06-26 Thread Ilya Martynov
ER> I recommend. ER> apt-get install emacs20 ER> apt-get install psgml ER> Psgml parses XML and gives it color. With a DTD you can find out what ER> elements are valid. ER> I think there is also a debian-sgml list. You have forgotten apt-get install tdtd :) Without it emacs doesn't provide DT

SID USERS READ THIS!

2001-06-26 Thread D-Man
This message is for all sid users who have a broken PAM : The message referenced below was sent to debian-devel-announce last night. It is from the PAM maintainer and explains what happened and how to fix your system. Read it, then go subscribe to debian-devel-announce so you get these sort of

Re: Installation

2001-06-26 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I have downloaded ash_0.3.8-13_i386.deb. How can > I proceed to install this package? > > Thanks > > Alan Y. Wu > Senior NT Systems Engineer > Camstar Systems, Inc. > 900 Hamilton Avenue > Campbell, CA 95008 > > P.S. My machine: > OS: Windows Advanced Server 2000 > Pentium III Step 1: Install De

Re: Starting with XML

2001-06-26 Thread Eric Richardson
Victor wrote: > > Hi, > > In my job I now need to transfer data between application using XML. > > As an absolute beginner in this field I'm asking you the very very > basic of XML. > > As far as I know having leafed through debian documentation XML as a > tagged language is a subset of SGML th

Re: OT: C++ Newbie and KDE/QT

2001-06-26 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:06:50PM +0200, Brendon wrote: | This summer holiday I took on the task of learning C++ with (shamefully :) | the help of C++ For Dummies. | | Having tried to learn C++ in the past I'm now reasonably familar with it's | synax so i thought i'd also try learning QT/KDE p

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

2001-06-26 Thread Stephen Waters
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:49:23 Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Stephen" == Stephen Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Stephen> I got bit by this one, too. Here's how I went diagnosing > Stephen> it: ## to get list of recent changed logs # ls -ltr > > Sorry about this; fix at > http://incomi

Installation

2001-06-26 Thread Alan Wu
Hello, I have downloaded ash_0.3.8-13_i386.deb. How can I proceed to install this package? Thanks Alan Y. Wu Senior NT Systems Engineer Camstar Systems, Inc. 900 Hamilton Avenue Campbell, CA 95008 P.S. My machine: OS: Windows Advanced Server 2000 Pentium III

Re: deselect & aptitude show different packages !!!

2001-06-26 Thread Colin Watson
Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am using ustable, with kernel 2.4.5. Aptitude shows many more packages >than deselect . Have you run 'dselect update' recently, or have you just been using 'apt-get update'? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome quicklaunch

2001-06-26 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:04:43PM -0400, Jacob Stowell wrote: | 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 |

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

2001-06-26 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Stephen" == Stephen Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stephen> I got bit by this one, too. Here's how I went diagnosing Stephen> it: ## to get list of recent changed logs # ls -ltr Sorry about this; fix at http://incoming.debian.org/libpam-modules_0.72-26_i386.deb.

Re: linux + win95 + grub partition woes

2001-06-26 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 04:30:09PM -0400, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: | At what point do I unhide the partitions? | | I have something like | | title linux | unhide (hd0,0) | ... | | title windows | hide (hd0,0) | ... That looks right to me. Maybe Carel, or someone else who knows more than I do wi

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