Re: isa-pnp, modem & the 2.4.5 kernel

2001-06-28 Thread ktb
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:51:24PM -0700, Parrish M Myers wrote: > Can anyone help? > > I have a 3Com US Robotics 56K Voice Fax Internal modem... It worked > great with isapnp and the 2.2.18 kernel. As soon as I upgraded my > system to unstable and the 2.4.5 kernel, it won't work anymore. The >

isa-pnp, modem & the 2.4.5 kernel

2001-06-28 Thread Parrish M Myers
Can anyone help? I have a 3Com US Robotics 56K Voice Fax Internal modem... It worked great with isapnp and the 2.2.18 kernel. As soon as I upgraded my system to unstable and the 2.4.5 kernel, it won't work anymore. The isa-pnp.o kernel module detects the modem but upon 'cat /proc/isapnp' it tel

Re: (OT) Perl books

2001-06-28 Thread Nick Jennings
I highly recommend, for a first perl book, Sams Teach yourself Perl in 21 Days. Despite it's false title, it's a very well written book, the author Laura Lemay, is a very good technical writer. Once you've tackled that book. I do recommend picking up Programming Perl (3rd Edition). It

setting up mouse under dosemu with gpm ?

2001-06-28 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, I am unable to run the program under dosemu http://spectronixresearch.com/dosode/ode.zip . It reports an error :\BIN\DOS>ode Error: Mouse is not responding. S:313440 E:313440 D:2147450880 I have setup my "mouse_dev=/dev/gpmctl" and "mouse=ps2". This program runs under xdosem though, an

kernel version of woody 2.3.6

2001-06-28 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! Does anybody know which kernel version is on disks-i386 of woody 2.3.6? Is 2.2 or 2.4? Thanks!

Re: How do you logout of a screen session?

2001-06-28 Thread ktb
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 08:21:04PM -0700, Ron Bettle wrote: > Hey im using screen to ease the remote administration of my tribes2 server. > I figured out how to connect and all. But how do i disconnect? ctrl-c kills > screen and the tribes2 server. i read man screen. It said C-a is the logout. > I

Re: broken dist-upgrade

2001-06-28 Thread Paul Wright
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 01:32:55 +0200, Joost wrote: > > But really, upgrading your dist should be done with dselect. > Why? --ptw -- Paul T Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more i

RE: broken dist-upgrade

2001-06-28 Thread Marc Wilson
Nonsense. *apt* will only install what it has to in order to upgrade you, while dselect can and does gift you with a whole new set of software you may not want, since it obeys things like 'Recommends:' that apt has no reason to pay any attention to. The *dependency* resolution between them is ide

Re: newbie partition question

2001-06-28 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:55:56AM -0700, Hamma Scott wrote: > > By the way, welcome the fun and sometimes confusing > world of Debian GNU/Linux! Here's a couple of things I > got out of this groups > > You should bookmark this sight: > http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ and you should also help

Re: (OT) Perl books

2001-06-28 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:22:12PM -0500, Jay Latham wrote: > I've decided that it's time I learned a little about > programming and I've decided that, for various reasons, > Perl would be a good place to start. But I'm confused on > which book would be best for a total newbie. I've been > leaning

Re: hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-28 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:59:03PM +0200, thomas anderson wrote: > Hi masters of the linux community surely you know some tricks to this..., > > I want to try to put a perl script in the /usr/lib/perl directory however I > don't have permission access...I tried symlinking it but it still won't wor

remote connection problems

2001-06-28 Thread Kim De Smaele
Hi all, I'm having problems with my debianbox in the office Every time when I do a remote connection via the inet daemon ( I haven't checked the ssh daemon yet ) and I leave the remote sessions idle for I while are th hanging. I have too kill the sessions. But it 's impossible to reconnect. any i

How do you logout of a screen session?

2001-06-28 Thread Ron Bettle
Hey im using screen to ease the remote administration of my tribes2 server. I figured out how to connect and all. But how do i disconnect? ctrl-c kills screen and the tribes2 server. i read man screen. It said C-a is the logout. I must be doing something wrong because i couldnt figure that out. An

Re: Nvi saved the file language.dat

2001-06-28 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:36:43PM +, Vittorio wrote: > As I've read in the net, I've configured the language for latex > modifying language.dat file by hand decommenting Italian (I didn't use > texconfig!). > > Now, at each boot, I'm receiving a message like this: > > Nvi recovery program [2

samba - no logs

2001-06-28 Thread Lindsay Allen
I'm running samba 2.2.0 on several boxes and they all have the problem that there are no smb/nmb logs. In smb.conf I have:- log level = 2 syslog only = no Has anything changed since 2.0.7? I'm now running samba_2.2.0.final.a-1 on sid and potato boxes, but the problem goes back

Re: Postgresql 7.1 died

2001-06-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:34:12PM +, Johann Spies wrote: > Running on Woody. > > Updating an index the postmaster died. Any effort to revive it > failed: > - > $ sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql restart > Restarting PostgreSQL postmaster. > No /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/p

NIS under potato/glibc_2.2

2001-06-28 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I have installed Debian 2.2-r2 on my workstation at the office. I also installed the NIS package, since our network uses NIS and I want to share the resources on my machine with my co-workers. The problem that I'm hitting is that, when I try to log into the machine as any user other than root,

Re: where to do iptables setup?

2001-06-28 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:54:57AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Hello, > > I recently upgraded one machine to the 2.4.5 kernel from the 2.2 > series. As it's running now, I have an iptables script which sets up > my NAT and filtering rules. I was rather proud of myself having gotten > my script to

Re: mutt -- was Re: Why use fakeroot when compiling kernel?

2001-06-28 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 02:22:44PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * by the way -- speaking of filtering 'randomized' signatures > > based on message content, is there any way to have mutt pipe a > > quoted reply-to message through a script before sendin

Re: New TrueType fonts doc version 1.1

2001-06-28 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:38:06PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > I uploaded version 1.1 of my TrueType fonts for XFree 4.x on Debian > document. > > This version discusses more explicitly how to install TrueType fonts > that are not packaged for Debian (for example, ones you copy from your > Micro

RE: kernel install - unres. symbols

2001-06-28 Thread Ian Perry
I have found this in the past when I have installed the standard system with modules etc and then recompiled the kernel with these modules in them, or recompiled with the modules disabled in the kernel. On reboot it tries to load the modules and cannot. Try using modconf to remove the unwanted mo

RE: Why is setting up X so arcane?

2001-06-28 Thread Kim De Smaele
If you 're having problems with xf86config you can use xf86setup. xf86setup is an optional package, check dselect cheers, Kim -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Stig Brautaset [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: vrijdag 29 juni 2001 3:14 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: Routing Problem

2001-06-28 Thread Debian GNU
Dear Christoph, Tnx friend. That was the problem. I was extensively using ipchians to make this box a gateway with firewalling. I slipped this. Thanks again. Regards, Deb --- Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:04:41 -0700 (PDT) > Debian GNU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: Routing Problem

2001-06-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:16:40PM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:04:41 -0700 (PDT) > Debian GNU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If it would have been a permission probelem, I would > > not have been able to access the other networks. I did > > as both root and ordina

Re: Routing Problem

2001-06-28 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:04:41 -0700 (PDT) Debian GNU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If it would have been a permission probelem, I would > not have been able to access the other networks. I did > as both root and ordinary user. But both gave the same > results. Do you have some firewall rules ins

RE: Routing Problem

2001-06-28 Thread Kim De Smaele
And is does the ping works propperly to others systems in the network? greetz, kim -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Debian GNU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: vrijdag 29 juni 2001 4:05 Aan: Miguel Griffa; debian-user@lists.debian.org Onderwerp: Re: Routing Problem If it would have be

RE: where to get samba 2.2.0 for potato

2001-06-28 Thread John Griffiths
At 03:59 AM 6/29/01 +0200, Kim De Smaele wrote: >Hi, > >Have a look on this server: > >ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/ > >cheers, >kim That didn't look helpful, it had a reference to old debian binaries, and no actual binaries...

Re: hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-28 Thread John S. J. Anderson
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:59:03 +0200 (MEST), thomas anderson <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: thomas> I want to try to put a perl script in the /usr/lib/perl thomas> directory however I don't have permission access. boy, the script kiddies get lazier every day, don't they? john.

Re: (OT) Perl books

2001-06-28 Thread John S. J. Anderson
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:22:12 -0500, Jay Latham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Jay> I've decided that it's time I learned a little about programming Jay> and I've decided that, for various reasons, Perl would be a good Jay> place to start. But I'm confused on which book would be best for Jay> a to

RE: where to get samba 2.2.0 for potato

2001-06-28 Thread Kim De Smaele
Hi, Have a look on this server: ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/ cheers, kim -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: ktb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: vrijdag 29 juni 2001 3:50 Aan: debian-user@lists.debian.org Onderwerp: Re: where to get samba 2.2.0 for potato On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 0

Re: Routing Problem

2001-06-28 Thread Debian GNU
If it would have been a permission probelem, I would not have been able to access the other networks. I did as both root and ordinary user. But both gave the same results. Deb --- Miguel Griffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:49 a.m. 28/06/01 -0700, Debian GNU wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >My machi

Re: hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-28 Thread Matthew Dalton
thomas anderson wrote: > I want to try to put a perl script in the /usr/lib/perl directory however I > don't have permission access...I tried symlinking it but it still won't work. > is there I way to do this without becoming root or sudo? I think you misunderstand how Unix/Linux systems are arran

Re: where to get samba 2.2.0 for potato

2001-06-28 Thread ktb
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 08:47:32PM +0200, nico de haer wrote: > Hi all, > > The subject says it all > I'm looking for a .DEB of SAMBA 2.2.0 for POTATO w.o. upgrading libc6. > Anyone knows a site where i can download it? Build it from unstable source. You might have to install "libpam-de

Re: [users] dialup query

2001-06-28 Thread Stig Brautaset
MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > install ppp and pppconfig, taking care to pull ppp off > people.debian.org/~bunk/debian if you have a 2.4.x kernel. Why? I run ppp on a pcmcia-modem with the standard package (unstable). (It is slow to connect, but runs fine after it is connected). Cheers

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

2001-06-28 Thread Stig Brautaset
Nikki Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Smokez wrote: > > Why not give something like progeny or one of the > > other distros which are debian based but aimed at > > easy of use ? > > > > while i personally prefer just debian (woody) > > but i know progeny has so

Re: Duvidas sobre linux

2001-06-28 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 20:50:10 -0300 "Felipe Cremm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eu FELIPE, gostaria de saber, como deleto uma partição do linux. Eu consigo > deletar, coloco como FAT32 do windows, mas quando dou Boot no micro , ele > entra como estivece instalado o linux. Como que eu faço com iss

Re: V = I * R and the rest (Re: OT: C++ Newbie and KDE/QT)

2001-06-28 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes: > Other people will say that I'm violently wrong Actually, I'd say you were on crack. What's a soldering iron going to teach you that a breadboard couldn't? And how often will work at that level help the average coder? It hasn't in either of the two sof

Old Libs Question

2001-06-28 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I'd like to install the old trusty Netscape 3.04 (that's right!), but I couldn't locate a deb for it. Bummer. So I downloaded the tarball from netscape's ftp site. I'm hunting down old libraries because it doesn't like the new ones. What I need right now is libXpm.so.4. This actaully exist

Duvidas sobre linux

2001-06-28 Thread Felipe Cremm
Eu FELIPE, gostaria de saber, como deleto uma partição do linux. Eu consigo deletar, coloco como FAT32 do windows, mas quando dou Boot no micro , ele entra como estivece instalado o linux. Como que eu faço com isso. Espero resposta !! Meu Mailto([EMAIL PROTECTED])  

Re: V = I * R and the rest (Re: OT: C++ Newbie and KDE/QT)

2001-06-28 Thread Brendon
On Friday 29 June 2001 00:57, you wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:06:50PM +0200, Brendon wrote: > > what did you start with when learning C++? > > > > any suggestions are appreciated. > > No suggestions, but you get a free ticket to a gratuitous rant: woohoo! ;) > Start with a soldering iron

Fw: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0_HELP?

2001-06-28 Thread Frans Schreuder
Hai, > >from the /usr/src/linux directory after extracting the tar archive, with > the >gzipped patch file in the /usr/src directory, issue "zcat ../ patch >file.gz> | patch -p1 . > I am starting to presume that you: 1; get the kernel-source. 2; get the patch 3; apply that patch to the kernel-so

ssh: Command terminated on signal 13

2001-06-28 Thread MaD dUCK
hi guys, i have one machine - "seamus" - an AMD K6-2 500/160 Mb which is acting up. sometimes when i ssh into it (like 1/5 times), it gives me the following: fishbowl:~> ssh seamus [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last login: Fri Jun 29 01:47:06 2001 from fishbowl.madduck.net on pts/1 Linux seamus 2

Re: broken dist-upgrade

2001-06-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:03:49PM -0600, Phil Reardon wrote: > I attempted to "apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade", from potato to woody, > but a few of the larger packages timed out. Almost all of them however made > it to /var/cache/apt. What is the best thing to do next? Redo "apt-get di

Re: [users] custom spam file (ala rbl)

2001-06-28 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Peter Jay Salzman (on Thu, 28 Jun 2001 04:18:40PM -0700): > kind of like using rbl, except i'd have my own custom reject file. > > i can simulate such a file usign ipchains, but i'd like to know if exim has > an IP reject file. the way i have done it is via my bind installation, just

broken dist-upgrade

2001-06-28 Thread Phil Reardon
I attempted to "apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade", from potato to woody, but a few of the larger packages timed out. Almost all of them however made it to /var/cache/apt. What is the best thing to do next?

custom spam file (ala rbl)

2001-06-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
is there a file that i can drop IP numbers in to keep exim from accepting email from those sites? kind of like using rbl, except i'd have my own custom reject file. i can simulate such a file usign ipchains, but i'd like to know if exim has an IP reject file. thanks! pete -- "The following add

Re: V = I * R and the rest (Re: OT: C++ Newbie and KDE/QT)

2001-06-28 Thread G.LeeJ
Joost Kooij wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:06:50PM +0200, Brendon wrote: > > what did you start with when learning C++? > > > any suggestions are appreciated. > > No suggestions, but you get a free ticket to a gratuitous rant: > > Start with a soldering iron and develop a practical feeling fo

Re: [NAVER-MAILER@naver.com: ???? ???? ???? ???? ]

2001-06-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:17:51PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > WTF? Don't waste your time on it, the site is completely b0rked. Anyone who posts to debian-user gets a bounce. I tried to attent them, but got into a network nightmare. They don't have a postmaster, the postmaster for their upst

V = I * R and the rest (Re: OT: C++ Newbie and KDE/QT)

2001-06-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:06:50PM +0200, Brendon wrote: > what did you start with when learning C++? > any suggestions are appreciated. No suggestions, but you get a free ticket to a gratuitous rant: Start with a soldering iron and develop a practical feeling for electronics. The basics are v

Re: Serial Mouse problem

2001-06-28 Thread ray p
If form console you do cat /dev/mouse and move the mouse what happens? If you do not get random noise that is not your mouse device. Also in your XF86Config file what does it have for the protocol? Also do you have GPM running and what branch of Debian are you using? On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:

Serial Mouse problem

2001-06-28 Thread Chris Everist
Hi, I sent this before but my ISP has just gone broke so I did not receive any replies. So here goes again. I have installed Debian twice now and it does not seem to recognise my serial mouse. It is a generic 3 button mouse with a Mouse Systems/Microsoft switch on the bottom and I have tried both

Re: [NAVER-MAILER@naver.com: ???? ???? ???? ???? ]

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:17:51 CDT, Dimitri Maziuk writes: >WTF? It´s a bounce (eg user doesn´t exist/mailbox full/anything). Whatever. [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounces. It´s all base64-encoded, charset="eur-kr" (I´d guess that Korean, but I could be wrong) ... It´s now submitted at http://www.rfc-i

Re: mod_python error --> Solution

2001-06-28 Thread Julio Mendoza
Solution: 1) apt-get build-dep libapache-mod-python 2) obtain a recent sources from www.modpython.org 3) symblink /usr/bin/python2 --> /usr/bin/python 4) from source of mod_pyton: (readme file) ./configure make dso make install This solve my problem. thank you I thi

[NAVER-MAILER@naver.com: ???? ???? ???? ???? ]

2001-06-28 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
WTF? - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 07:13:39 +0900 (KST) To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ¸ÞÀÏ Àü¼Û ½ÇÆÐ ¾Ë¸² <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: NAVER Mailer 1.0 [1][logo_dmnaver.gif] ?? (bigice) ?? ?? ??

Re: devfs

2001-06-28 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Andrew Dixon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi All, > I was wondering if anyone out there has an oppinion on devfs. I'm > considering it for a system that I'm building and some real life > experiences with it would be helpful. > > One of the topics that I'm researching is the fact that i

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

2001-06-28 Thread Matthew Garman
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:36:42PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > Try using ALT-F1 or maybe CTRL-ALT-F1. That should switch you to the > console you were using before you started X. Alternatively, you could > use F2 instead of F1 to get to a different console and log in there. > You can then reboo

Boot disk doesn't recognize Compaq DL360's RAID controller

2001-06-28 Thread Adam Shand
Hi. I'm trying to install Debian on a Compaq Proliant DL360 with the integrated smart raid controller. The error message I get is on boot up: scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detaected total. Partition check: apm: BIOS not found. VFS: Cannot open root device 00:00 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root

big IBM harddrive (41Gb)

2001-06-28 Thread MaD dUCK
adding to the recent discussion on the 40Gb drive with IBM - i did what someone suggested, to not tell the BIOS anything about the drive, but to let linux take care of it. i run 2.4.5, and i know have 41Gb available :-> (without the 32Gb clip jumper). martin; (greetings from the heart

Re: junkbuster not running?

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:29:59 EDT, joeytsai writes: >I installed debian on another machine, but for some reason, junkbuster isn't >running. I mean, it runs, and it shows up in a ps, but the proxy isn't >working... plus trying telnet won't connect to the port... any suggestions? Yeah. Add permi

Re: hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:16:31PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > thomas anderson wrote: > >is there I way to do this without becoming root or sudo? > > No. If there were, it would be a catastrophic security hole! > > (There is a way that can be used if you have the ability to shut the machine

Re: Nvi saved the file language.dat

2001-06-28 Thread Vittorio
As I've read in the net, I've configured the language for latex modifying language.dat file by hand decommenting Italian (I didn't use texconfig!). Now, at each boot, I'm receiving a message like this: Nvi recovery program [28/06/01 16:05 +]: > On Wed Jun 27 19:40:15 2001, the user root was e

junkbuster not running?

2001-06-28 Thread joeytsai
Hi all, I installed debian on another machine, but for some reason, junkbuster isn't running. I mean, it runs, and it shows up in a ps, but the proxy isn't working... plus trying telnet won't connect to the port... any suggestions? // joey tsai

Re: hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
thomas anderson wrote: >Hi masters of the linux community surely you know some tricks to this..., > >I want to try to put a perl script in the /usr/lib/perl directory however I >don't have permission access...I tried symlinking it but it still won't work >. >is there I way to do thi

devfs

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Dixon
Hi All, I was wondering if anyone out there has an oppinion on devfs. I'm considering it for a system that I'm building and some real life experiences with it would be helpful. One of the topics that I'm researching is the fact that it's marked as experimental in the source. The howto makes it

Re: hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-28 Thread Greg Wiley
If you find a way, please report the bug. :) Seriously: Do you mean that this is a system to which you have no root access, or are you the system administrator trying to give your users such an ability? In the latter case, a method could be devised. -=greg - Original Message - From

Re: [users] hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-28 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach thomas anderson (on Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:59:03PM +0200): > I want to try to put a perl script in the /usr/lib/perl directory however I > don't have permission access...I tried symlinking it but it still won't work. > is there I way to do this without becoming root or sudo? no. user scri

Re: [OT] scsi tape problems

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:30:00 EDT, Peter Kok writes: >I couldn't locate the following url > >http://gfrastsackl.org/scripts/ > >Is it correct? It is, just a typo in the apache-config. cheers, &rw -- -- "This also tells they understand our language. They are just not -- willing to speak to us usi

Re: (OT) Perl books

2001-06-28 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 28 June 2001 15:52, Michael Merten wrote: > I got really good results from the Perl CD Bookshelf. It's > worth every extra penny to have the (fully indexed) resources of > 6 perl books available at the click of a browser button. I can heartily second that recommendation. After I bo

Re: [OT] scsi tape problems

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 21:38:06 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Martin_W=FCrtele?= writes: >On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:25:40PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: >> karsten m. self has a backup-script here: >> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html > >nice doku, and the script's fine as well > >> an

Re: OFFTOPIC: Macintosh, Outlook Express and vpopmail

2001-06-28 Thread nestor diaz
El Jue 28 Jun 2001 12:36, D-Man escribió: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:30:37PM +, Kurt Dresner wrote: > | >And yes, OE and Mac does seem like some kind of unholy alliance 8^). > | > | Actually, from what I understand OE for the Mac is about the best browser > | out there... > > Funny, OE isn't

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

2001-06-28 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Nikki Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Are you _sure_ your machine was hung? That rarely happens. nl> Pretty sure. Ctrl-Alt-F1 didn't work. Ctrl-Alt-Del didn't work. A nl> telnet session into the machine from elsewhere on the network nl> stopped responding. nl> It may be rare,

hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-28 Thread thomas anderson
Hi masters of the linux community surely you know some tricks to this..., I want to try to put a perl script in the /usr/lib/perl directory however I don't have permission access...I tried symlinking it but it still won't work. is there I way to do this without becoming root or sudo? TIA, -- Se

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

2001-06-28 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Nikki Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: nl> Good. Is it worth me "upgrading" to another version? The machine nl> is there mostly to run samba, apache, apache-ssl and php4. I need nl> a solid, stable ftp client which will work through a gateway, and nl> the ability to ssh in from other m

mod_python: there is not solution for this error?

2001-06-28 Thread Julio Mendoza
There is not solution for this error: [Thu Jun 28 15:34:46 2001] [notice] Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) Debian/GNU mod_python/2.7.3 Python/2.0 configured -- resuming normal operations [Thu Jun 28 15:34:46 2001] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/lib/apache/suexec) [Thu Jun 28 15:34:46 2001]

Re: (OT) Perl books

2001-06-28 Thread Michael Merten
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:22:12 -0500, Jay Latham wrote: >I hope I don't get flamed for asking this on this >list but here goes. >I've decided that it's time I learned a little about >programming and I've decided that, for various reasons, >Perl would be a good place to start. But I'm confused on >whi

Re: Sound using ADI 1885 built-in sound?

2001-06-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:13:46PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > My new machine (an IBM Netvista) has an ADI 1885 sound system built > in. Any ideas how to make it fly? Thanks. Try google. Generally, it's a much better search engine than debian-user. For example, when I searched for "adi 1885 li

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

2001-06-28 Thread David L. Craig
I wrote: > D-Man wrote: > > > The real question is "has he admined Unix?". I use Solaris (Sparc) at > > school, but I am a mere user, not the admin. I use and admin Linux > > (x86) at home. > > Well, installing ANY operating system IS an admin function. Probably a tad too cryptic... What I w

Re: [OT] scsi tape problems

2001-06-28 Thread Peter Kok
Hi all I couldn't locate the following url http://gfrastsackl.org/scripts/ Is it correct? Tks regards Peter Robert Waldner wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 21:08:02 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Martin_W=FCrtele?= writes: > >On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:55:14PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > >> afbackup d

Sound using ADI 1885 built-in sound?

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
Folks- My new machine (an IBM Netvista) has an ADI 1885 sound system built in. Any ideas how to make it fly? Thanks. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of Nor

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

2001-06-28 Thread David L. Craig
D-Man wrote: > The real question is "has he admined Unix?". I use Solaris (Sparc) at > school, but I am a mere user, not the admin. I use and admin Linux > (x86) at home. Well, installing ANY operating system IS an admin function.

Re: kernel install - unres. symbols

2001-06-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:13:05PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: > On Thursday 28 June 2001 20:46, Joost Kooij wrote: > > Can you think of anything unusual in your configuration? Maybe your > > version of kernel-package doesn't know how to deal with it. > > Good idea. I have kernel-package 7.20 from

"Value too large for defined data type"?

2001-06-28 Thread Eric N. Valor
While attempting to untar a very large file (~3gb I believe) I get an error: "Value too large for defined data type" I have never seen this before, nor understand what it means. I can ls the file, but can't "ls -l". Neither will du or anything else cope (all fail with the same error). I've

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

2001-06-28 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:43:53PM -0400, David L. Craig wrote: | So you been using UNIX since 86. Have you used any PC flavors? The real question is "has he admined Unix?". I use Solaris (Sparc) at school, but I am a mere user, not the admin. I use and admin Linux (x86) at home. There is quit

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

2001-06-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
I think you should file a wishlist bug report to the fetchmail maintainer regarding your posting. fetchmail did not install /etc/init.d/fetchmail in potato and documentation on howto do it had some issues. I filed a bug report pointing out this and maintainer responded by including this init.d sc

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-06-28 Thread Vector
Did you read the how-to mentioned in the last reply yet? vector Quoting Jenner Almanzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You're right, what i'm trying to ping out if the default gateway. How > can i > configure the eth0? > > jenner > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subj

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-06-28 Thread Vector
Did you read the how-to mentioned in the last reply yet? vetor Quoting Jenner Almanzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You're right, what i'm trying to ping out if the default gateway. How > can i > configure the eth0? > > jenner > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subje

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

2001-06-28 Thread David L. Craig
Is there anything in /var/log/XFree86.0.log? If so, please post it, along with your XF86Config[-4] file. So you been using UNIX since 86. Have you used any PC flavors?

RE: Samba: Can't Rename the Log File

2001-06-28 Thread Hubert Palme
> "HP" == HP-USA,ex1 writes: HP> You might try running testparm and verifying that samba is actually using HP> the smb.conf file you believe it is using; look at the output from testparm HP> and make sure that it is recognizing the log file entry you have placed HP> there. HP> Don I di

Re: [OT] scsi tape problems

2001-06-28 Thread Martin Würtele
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:25:40PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > >okay, so any suggestions for another backup software? taper from potato only > >supports tapes up to 4 gb :-( > > well, as I have only a DDS2-drive that´s not a problem for me ;-) > > but tar should be able to cope with larger tap

Re: dialup query

2001-06-28 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Glenn, You probably still have ppp and pppconfig on your system. Try it: pppconfig (as root) and follow along. You will need your user/pass and a phone number to dial and it should work well. If not, try apt-get install ppp (if you have cd's available). to dial the number, 'pon dialupname

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-06-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > I also need to know if i have to configure my browser to > > work with a lan conection. > > I'm sorry, but that doesn't make any sense to me. If the > network layer works, then it works and applications should > not have to worry about routing issues at all. He's used to working with Internet

Re: kernel install - unres. symbols

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Voigt
On Thursday 28 June 2001 20:46, Joost Kooij wrote: > Can you think of anything unusual in your configuration? Maybe your > version of kernel-package doesn't know how to deal with it. Good idea. I have kernel-package 7.20 from Progeny, a leftover from when I upgraded a bunch of packages from a Pr

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

2001-06-28 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Greets Nikki, I have learned to hate x as well. yet if I want great x features, I have to dig and play too. I finally picked up the voodoo 3 and am really pleased to see good support and very nice rendering. Now I wanted to advise you that you can KILL x without locking up your box. I don'

Re: [OT] scsi tape problems

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 21:08:02 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Martin_W=FCrtele?= writes: >On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:55:14PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: >> afbackup doesn=B4t only have troubles with dds3 drives, I never coould >> get it to cooperate with my HP C15533A DDS2 drive, also. IIRC the >> error w

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

2001-06-28 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 08:05:46PM +0100, Nikki Locke wrote: | In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan Shutko wrote: | > Nikki Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > > As far as I know, the card is Plug and Play. Why can't X probe the | card and | > > find out for me? | > | > Often, it can. Yo

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

2001-06-28 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 08:05:02PM +0100, Nikki Locke wrote: | In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, D-Man wrote: | > | If I reboot into Windows NT, the thing displays 1024 x 768 quite | > | happily. | > | | > | I have studied the stderr output of xinit, and it says | > | (--) VGA16: clocks: 25.17 28.3

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-06-28 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:04:55PM -0400, Jenner Almanzar wrote: | You're right, what i'm trying to ping out if the default gateway. How can i | configure the eth0? use ifconfig and 'man route' :-). You need to specify the default gateway for the interface. This can be done in the /etc/interfa

Re: [OT] scsi tape problems

2001-06-28 Thread Martin Würtele
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:55:14PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > afbackup doesn´t only have troubles with dds3 drives, I never coould > get it to cooperate with my HP C15533A DDS2 drive, also. IIRC the > error was quite the same (can´t be sure, though, that´s almost 2 years > ago). okay, so

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

2001-06-28 Thread Nikki Locke
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan Shutko wrote: > Nikki Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As far as I know, the card is Plug and Play. Why can't X probe the card and > > find out for me? > > Often, it can. You don't say whether you are using XF86 4 or 3.3.6. > The newer version of X i

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

2001-06-28 Thread Nikki Locke
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, D-Man wrote: > | If I reboot into Windows NT, the thing displays 1024 x 768 quite > | happily. > | > | I have studied the stderr output of xinit, and it says > | (--) VGA16: clocks: 25.17 28.32 28.32 28.32 > | (--) VGA16: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 90.000 MHz > | (

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