apt-get slow w/dsl?

Has anyone else out there had a problem with running apt-get with dsl? I recently switched my home system over to linux and used "Enternet" scripts to start and stop pppoe. Everything works great except apt-get seems really slow. I don't know if it's just the US servers or my crappy connection

Re: Getting X running on a Dell Latitude LM

I have a Latitude CPi with the NeoMagic 2160 chipset which did not run under 4.0.2, but I am currently using 4.0.3 with no problems. I don't know if the fix you mention is specifically for the 2070 chipset, if not I would try 4.0.3. Sorry, I don't know about the 4.1.0. I found it works best to

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

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 05:00:27PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote: > If we got this system up and running, Debian would be the *easiest* OS > install anywhere! Debian would take over the planet! Ah, if only it were that easy. When I think about the possibility of introducing Linux to, say, my mom, it

Re: internet w/ dhcpcd

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:53:07PM -0500, Robert Matijasec uttered: > 56 data byes > neighbour table overflow > ping:sendto: No buffer space available > ping:wrote 24.217.12.166 64 chars ret=-1 > neighbour table overflow > etc, etc ... > Put 'auto lo' on a line by itself in /etc/network/interfaces

Re: Apache config question

On 06/29/01 20:21:41 -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > Is this a sever thing or an apache thing? I've installed apache once I had a brain fart. Oh well. That should have read is this a network thing or an apache thing? Thanks again! -- Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Apache config question

Hi all, can someone point me to where I might find a solution to my problem? I've been poking around apache.org, but don't know if I'm in the right place or what to really be searching for Here goes... I have apache installed and running, but when I try to access the server either with an IP addre

Re: where to do iptables setup?

Subject: Re: where to do iptables setup? Date: Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:41:57AM -0500 In reply to:will trillich Quoting will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:37:50AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > Subject: Re: where to do iptables setup? > > Dat

Re: Latex and hyphenation

On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:51:15AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:53:10PM +, Victor wrote: > > I've read a lot of latex enormous, fragmented documentation and still > > I can't make head or tail of how I can say latex that I want the > > Italian hyphenation and how t

Re: PDF file generation.

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:37:53AM -0400, Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote: > > > Hi Folks, > > I am trying to generate some .pdf files from either .dvi or .ps ones. > That's what's happening: > > " [olympus:~/work/cascv/random] > dvipdf rng.dvi > Unrecoverable error: invalidfileaccess in

Re: PDF file generation.

Matthew Garman wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:37:53AM -0400, Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote: > > I am trying to generate some .pdf files from either .dvi or .ps ones. > > Well, in my experience, I've never seen a ps-to-pdf converter that works. Or Adobe Distiller which is actually very

Re: Unix administrator

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Re: Postgresql 7.1 died

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:09:14AM +, Johann Spies wrote: > "Eric G. Miller" writes: > > > And have you checked your postgres.log? > > I forgot about the log. Anyhow, I can not see from it how to correct > the situation: Try turning up the DEBUG level in /etc/postgresql/postgresql.conf.

Re: Unix administrator

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Matthew Garman wrote: > - set up X > - configure and use network devices: ethernet, serial analog modem, > etc. > - install and use a printer > - download a program's source code, compile it, and install it on your > system (i.e., do *no

Re: Old Libs Question

On 06/29/01 09:34:46 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > There was an installer package called 'netscape3' in potato, but it was > removed in woody (nobody wanted to maintain it any more, basically). Probably because they felt nobody was using it. It's a nice little browser. > Hmm, xpm4.7 was the libc5

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Re: PDF file generation.

Matthew Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've never used (or seen) a dvi-to-pdf converter, however. dvipdfm , though that URL seems to be down at the moment. It's in woody and sid, and on CTAN. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors!

Re: tar on nfs freezes

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:28:17PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > My friend just bought a new HD, and wanted to throw out the old one. So > what we did was > - mount an nfs directory from my server (/nfsroot) > - tar cplf - /root | (cd /nfsroot && tar xpf) > - threw the HD out > - started rescue sy

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Re: diagram maker

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On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 05:07:45PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:49:48 +0200 (CEST) > From: Rune Elvemo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: problems with sendmail/debian > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiple IP addresses on one machine, and routing.

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 02:36:48PM -0500, Lavender, Ben wrote: > I am having some headaches getting more than one IP address to work properly > on a machine. I can make it work with neither multiple nics or aliased > interfaces. For the sake of simplifying my ascii-art below, lets assume a set of

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Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: On Friday 29 June 2001 10:03, Nikki Locke wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stig Brautaset wrote: Have you tried xf86cfg at all? I haven't seen anybody mentioning it.. pentium:~# xf86cfg bash: xf86cfg: command not found pentium:~# locate cf86cfg pentium:~# a

Re: Upgrade to 2.4.5

I just upgraded my Athlon potato system to 2.4.5 (actually ac17 because it has some fixes to sound driver problems for my CM8738) using Adrian Bunk's 2.4 potato packages and compiling my own Athlon optimized kernel. I also have another partition where I have Debian testing installed that I upgraded

FORWARD FROM [octagon@grm.hia.no: could you please help me ?]

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Re: internet w/ dhcpcd

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:53:07PM -0500, Robert Matijasec wrote: > kernal is 2.2 > > I used to be able to ping lo and it worked fine, now I > get: > > ping: sendto: Operation not permitted > ping:wrote erdos 64 chars, ret=-1 > etc, etc ... Did you do anything involving firewalling rules? Perha

Re: PDF file generation.

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:37:53AM -0400, Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote: > I am trying to generate some .pdf files from either .dvi or .ps ones. Well, in my experience, I've never seen a ps-to-pdf converter that works. I've never used (or seen) a dvi-to-pdf converter, however. Do you have the

Re: Matrox G450 and X

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:31:29PM +, Sebastian Drews wrote: ... > But you should provide more information (XFree86-3.x || XFree86-4.x? > which mga driver? etc.) for the record, Matrox G450 only works with XFree86-4.x (IIRC). This version of X is included in testing, but unofficial deb's are p

Re: Unix administrator

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:47:44AM -0500, Chris Parker wrote: > Student here from a micro$oft school of thought and sick of it. What > do I need to read...study to gain the honor of a unix admin.? Is > athere any good online classes or tutorials that i should check into? Install a free Unix-lik

Re: Latex and hyphenation

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:53:10PM +, Victor wrote: > I've read a lot of latex enormous, fragmented documentation and still > I can't make head or tail of how I can say latex that I want the > Italian hyphenation and how to use the \hyphenation command (I mean, > what packages are needed, what

Re: Matrox G450 and X

"Matt Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way I can config so that X will work with my video card? Or do > I need to go pull my Mach64 out of my other box? Definitively. But you should provide more information (XFree86-3.x || XFree86-4.x? which mga driver? etc.) Sebastian -- In s

Rsync troubles part II

Okay, I've tried using the pseudo-image-kit twice now, with no success. Every time I use rsync, regardless of server, I get to 99% and then get this message: ERROR: file corruption in binary-i386-1.iso. File changed during transfer? Any help would be greatly appreciated... or if someone knows of

Re: Upgrade to 2.4.5

Adahma wrote: > Thanks!! That brings up one more question. Which one of the images > is best for my K7 Athlon? I saw mention on a couple of them that said > for K5 or K6, but didn't see any that indicated it was for the K7. I > was assuming the 386 was a safe bet, but would like to use another

Re: I want to play xtux...

Thanks Steve and Danie, I'm playing now :) Yeeesss!!! Kill this glass man :) Steve Mayer wrote: > Rogelio, > > You need the xlibs-dev package. > > Steve > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:40:19PM -0500, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > > Hi! > > I want to play xtux on my potato box, but when I mak

Re: Upgrade to 2.4.5

Quoting David L. Craig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > assuming you're installing kernel-image-2.4.5-686 for example. > Read /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.5/Documentation/initrd.txt.gz > for enlightenment. Thanks!! That brings up one more question. Which one of the images is best for my K7 Athlon? I

Re: tar on nfs freezes

Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Hello list > > > > My friend just bought a new HD, and wanted to throw out the old one. So > > what we did was > > - mount an nfs directory from my server (/nfsroot) > > - tar cplf - /root | (cd /nfsroot && tar xpf) >

Re: I want to play xtux...

Rogelio, You need the xlibs-dev package. Steve On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:40:19PM -0500, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > Hi! > I want to play xtux on my potato box, but when I make the source it say: > xpm.h: no such file or directoy, > I try to installl xpm4.7 package with apt-get but it se

Re: I want to play xtux...

Yes, install the -dev version of xpm. On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:40:19PM -0500, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > Hi! > I want to play xtux on my potato box, but when I make the source it say: > xpm.h: no such file or directoy, > I try to installl xpm4.7 package with apt-get but it seems that I ha

Re: Upgrade to 2.4.5

Adahma wrote: > I read "man lilo.conf" but it didn't clear up much, and I don't find any > reference to initrd in my current /etc/lilo.conf. Can anyone tell me what I > need to do, to safely upgrade? Basically, /etc/lilo.conf needs something like: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.4-686 label=Li

I want to play xtux...

Hi! I want to play xtux on my potato box, but when I make the source it say: xpm.h: no such file or directoy, I try to installl xpm4.7 package with apt-get but it seems that I have already installed the newest version...but I look with locate that file I didn't found it. Some one can gice any sugg

Re: diagram maker

Dia is one of them... Is another , I guees is named kivio it comes with kde2... Matt Fair wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a good diagram/flowchart designer out there > for linux? > Matt > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: I need secure mail!

aparra wrote: Greg Wiley wrote: On Friday, June 29, 2001 12:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake: I neet to know if I can find on Debian any imap server that alows me to use secure conections, and also if I can ask for a password on any smtp server, exim, smail, ... My problem is that I have

Latex and hyphenation

I've read a lot of latex enormous, fragmented documentation and still I can't make head or tail of how I can say latex that I want the Italian hyphenation and how to use the \hyphenation command (I mean, what packages are needed, what setting and so on). Is there anybody out there able to gimme pl

Re:Catalog Requests

Dia doesn't play well with making colorful diagrams, are there any 3d diagram makers? Matt

Re: I need secure mail!

On Friday, June 29, 2001 2:36 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] writed: > Greg Wiley wrote: > > On Friday, June 29, 2001 12:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake: > > > > > [...]and also if I can ask for a password on any smtp > > >server, exim, smail, > > yes, exim allows you to require > > authentication for r

Upgrade to 2.4.5

I'm running a current Woody box, but have not made the jump to kernel 2.4.5. I attampted to yesterday, and got the following message, and was not sure how to proceed: "You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image(version 2.4.5-386) this will not work unless you have configured your boot l

Re: diagram maker

Dia. Very good. On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:24:20PM -0500, Matt Fair wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a good diagram/flowchart designer out there > for linux? > Matt > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: diagram maker

On 29 Jun 2001 16:24:20 -0500, Matt Fair wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a good diagram/flowchart designer out there > for linux? Gnome has dia, which seems to come along nicely, but I think it's not "good" yet, on an absolute scale. I think it can be built without gnome, but please check. -

Re: I need secure mail!

Greg Wiley wrote: On Friday, June 29, 2001 12:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake: I neet to know if I can find on Debian any imap server that alows me to use secure conections, and also if I can ask for a password on any smtp server, exim, smail, ... My problem is that I have to accept mail fro

Re: hi masters of linux - exploits

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, thomas anderson wrote: > it's a system that I *have* root access but I wanted to try and *break* it > as an ordinary user if there was a way... download the test exploit code and run it as a user... http://www.insecure.org/sploits_linux.html http://www.secur

Matrox G450 and X

Hi, I tried to install Debian on my P3 box. Everything went well, anXious detected the video card, but when I started X it was in 16 colors. I used xf86config to change the default server to the SVGA rather than the VGA16, and now the screen gets all screwed up and then it freezes and I cannot

diagram maker

Does anyone know if there is a good diagram/flowchart designer out there for linux? Matt

Re: Unidentified subject!

That's /etc/network/interfaces. The manpage gives a pretty clear explanation, and once it's set up correctly in there, debian manages the rest beautifully =) probably you'll want something like either of the following: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.102 netmask

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

it's a system that I *have* root access but I wanted to try and *break* it as an ordinary user if there was a way... 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 you

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

* MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010628 14:21]: > 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

Re: Perl upgrade

In general, installing binary packages from different distributions is a Bad Idea, as it seems you learned through your sendmail experience. One method of getting woody versions of packages on your potato system is to include relevant deb-src lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list and download woody s

Re: Unix administrator

Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, seriously, what I described before is a BSc (CS) form a decent uni plus > 10 years practical experience. Is that so wrong? "In order to be an admin, you must be one for 10 years." Perhaps true, but not useful. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: which NIC driver to use?

the onboard NIC is an Intel Ether Express Pro 100. You should use the eepro100 driver. Vineet (Google is your friend =) * John Griffiths ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010629 12:24]: > Hello all, > > I've got an IBM xseries 200 i'm trying to get deb running on > > the onvoard NIC is confounding me > >

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David L. Craig > wrote: > > Is there anything in /var/log/XFree86.0.log? If so, please post it, > > along with your XF86Config[-4] file. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/home/nikki$ cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log > cat: /var/log/XFree86.0.log: No such file or directory

Re: nVidia Riva TNT graphics card driver

What worked for me, and I think is easier advice, is to # apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src nvidia-glx-src Then the kernel module will be built automatically with make-kpkg modules_image, giving you nvidia-kernel--_.deb , which you can then dpkg -i. The glx module can be so automated by going t

Re: tar on nfs freezes

* Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hello list > > My friend just bought a new HD, and wanted to throw out the old one. So > what we did was > - mount an nfs directory from my server (/nfsroot) > - tar cplf - /root | (cd /nfsroot && tar xpf) > - threw the HD out > - started rescue

Re: I need secure mail!

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Re: security

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Re:

Hi Aquila The chipset on A7M is "AMD 761", not VIA. But anyway, if I get you right, I won't need to enable agpgart in the kernel at all. Thank you so far, I'll try it out (can live without Q3A the first days, until I figure it all out ...) joerg PS.: Sorry for the forgotten subject line, I hate

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tar on nfs freezes

Hello list My friend just bought a new HD, and wanted to throw out the old one. So what we did was - mount an nfs directory from my server (/nfsroot) - tar cplf - /root | (cd /nfsroot && tar xpf) - threw the HD out - started rescue system, partitioned, made filesystems - mounted /nfsroot and /newr

Re: I need secure mail!

On Friday, June 29, 2001 12:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake: > I neet to know if I can find on Debian any imap server that alows me to > use secure conections, and also if I can ask for a password on any smtp > server, exim, smail, ... My problem is that I have to accept mail from > anywere, but

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

> Well, I think I am finally getting somewhere using xf86config. I am now > using the S3 drivers. If I don't tell X what the RamDac is, I get the > hang. I tried telling it the RamDac was a bt485 (which is what Windows > thinks it is), and it didn't start X because it said the RamDac wasn't > a

Re: Unix administrator

* Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > begin: Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote For Peter and suchlike: :);):-);-)8*) > this is sheer and utter nonsense. you said "admin", not "programmer", right? In order to get various FPieces Of Software work in a heterogeneous network

RE: Multiple IP addresses on one machine, and routing.

Title: Multiple IP addresses on one machine, and routing. Are adding routes into your system? for instance when I added 2 ip's to one card, I do it like this   ifconfig eth0:1 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ifconfig eth0:2 yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy route add -host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx eth0:1 route add -host yyy.yyy.yyy.y

Re: Unix administrator

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:16:44PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: ... > 6. you DON'T need to read ESR's cathedral to become a unix admin. that the >HECK does this have to do with admining? given that he's a brainwashed microsfty:), he better understand how free / open software gets developed

Re: Unix administrator

Chris Parker wrote: > > > Student here from a micro$oft school of thought and sick of it. What > > do I need to read...study to gain the honor of a unix admin.? Is > > athere any good online classes or tutorials that i should check into? > > Also what would be a good route to take for a beginner

I need secure mail!

Hello, I neet to know if I can find on Debian any imap server that alows me to use secure conections, and also if I can ask for a password on any smtp server, exim, smail, ... My problem is that I have to accept mail from anywere, but it's too dangerous, so I want some way to solve it. Than

Multiple IP addresses on one machine, and routing.

Title: Multiple IP addresses on one machine, and routing. I am having some headaches getting more than one IP address to work properly on a machine.  I can make it work with neither multiple nics or aliased interfaces. In both cases, connectivity to the same subnet works just fine.   I do no

Re: internet w/ dhcpcd

Hi, I've read up this thread, and i have a Q that needs an A. How did your nic get its ip? did you enter it6 by hand or did it get it using dhcp? If the latter is the case you can rule out hardware problems, modele problems, ip stack problems and many many more potentian caveats. btw, sorry for b

Re: kernel installation

>>"Nicola" == Nicola Botta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: That kernel is actually creating the problem. Firstly, your new kernel has a version tht is lower than the kernel that is installed: that creates the first error about downgrades. Then you have pcmcia-modules installed, a

Re: Unix administrator

begin: Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > * Chris Parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Student here from a micro$oft school of thought and sick of it. What > > do I need to read...study to gain the honor of a unix admin.? Is > > athere any good online classes or tutorials that i s

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

D-Man wrote: > That's a good idea, but we really ought to start with vacuum tubes, > now shouldn't we <.5 wink>? BOFH would suggest Leyden jars and kites... ;-)*1.0

Re: newbie tip

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:37:27AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > look -- an objection! it's about time... :) ... > anyhew, i've changed it to: ... > tr -d '\015' < dos.file > reg.file much, much better -- groetjes, carel

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, D-Man wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:00:16PM +0100, Nikki Locke wrote: > | If I don't set any "special features", I am assuming (from the drop-down > | lists supplied) that the driver will probe the card. I suspect it is the > | pobing that is causing the pr

RE: internet w/ dhcpcd

Well here is some info that you might be inerested in: Note that the way I set this up is by following the mini-dhcpcd howto. It claimed Debian would configure everything out of dpkg, so maybe I had somethin messed up earlier, I never configured the computer for inet use on install, but I don't

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

And ignore the abacus and the slide rule? For shame! we must remember to study our roots! Remember "heck week" from one of the later Revenge of the Nerds movies? --Rich D-Man wrote: > > > That's a good idea, but we really ought to start with vacuum tubes, > now shouldn't we <.5 wink>? > > -D

Re: NIS under potato/glibc_2.2

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:22:51AM -0500, Andrew Dixon wrote: > I'm running stable on my laptop using NIS to log into a Red Hat 7.1 > server. The first thing I'd try is upgrading to 2.2-r3. As root enter > the commands: > > #apt-get update > #apt-get dist-upgrade I did this. Apparen

Perl upgrade

Is it possible to upgrade my stock potato version of perl to the 5.6 version supplied in woody without completely crashing my system. The reason I ask is, I tried this with sendmail and had a hell of time getting my e-mail back even after I went back to the potato version. The only good thing that

Re: Which web server for multiple domains?

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Craig Dickson wrote: > I've been using the web server Boa, and generally it has done a good job > without using up too much memory or CPU time. The one thing it doesn't > do that I now need is to host multiple domains as logically-distinct > sites. E.g. if someone requests www

Re: OT vim/uptime

Am 29. Jun, 2001 schwäzte Miguel Griffa so: > > > then hitting Ctrl-O several times. Also works with ctrl-o > cool, a key-typo CTRL-P prints the last command... Also works with ctrl-p. p is for previous. n for next, e.g. ctrl-n. ctrl-r does a reverse, interactive search. Many emacs-style editi

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I'm in charge of installing Debian on two Dell Latitude LM laptops, and am having some rather serious problems. I'm actually installing from the Progeny Debian 1.0 CDs, which include XFree86 4.0.2. The main problem is that support for the video card (NeoMagic 2070 chipset) appears to be broken in

Re: nVidia Riva TNT graphics card driver

I've never had to make install has *always* done the right thing for me. BTW hang on to those tarballs you will be using them many times again. Everytime certain libs update you will need to redo this. :) On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:44:46AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 a

Re: nVidia Riva TNT graphics card driver

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:29:41AM -0600, ray p wrote: > Download the tarballs from the Nivdia website go into the kernel module tree > and type make install (as root of course) do the same fro th GLX module. > change your XF86Config-4 file like the readme says and you will be good. > Basically

Re: exim problems

Check your exim logs. If it is possible, it would probably be useful to halt exim for a little while just to stop the overflow of frozen messages. Find out why your messages cannot be delivered (via logs) and fix the problem. Restart exim. Also you should know that exim will automatically load any

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

This is wrong. Try 'xf86config' wahoo! On Friday 29 June 2001 10:03, Nikki Locke wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > Have you tried xf86cfg at all? I haven't seen anybody mentioning it.. > > pentium:~# xf86cfg > bash: xf86cfg: command not found > pentium:~# loca

Re: security

On Friday, June 29, 2001 5:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writed: > The problem is that I have been given an assignment from > my college's mis head to check their net security from my linux box They do indeed have a problem. -g

Re: Unix administrator

* Chris Parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Student here from a micro$oft school of thought and sick of it. What > do I need to read...study to gain the honor of a unix admin.? Is > athere any good online classes or tutorials that i should check into? > Also what would be a good route to

Re: exim problems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Symptoms: > > 1) exim is churning away with 20-40% cpu usage and load between 1 and 2 > on an otherwise unladen machine > > 2) my exim logs are growing huge; tail -f shows several new entrie

Re: nVidia Riva TNT graphics card driver

Download the tarballs from the Nivdia website go into the kernel module tree and type make install (as root of course) do the same fro th GLX module. change your XF86Config-4 file like the readme says and you will be good. Basically go read the readme and you should be fine. On Fri, Jun 29, 20

nVidia Riva TNT graphics card driver

Could someone please take me step-by-step through the process of installing the nVidia driver? I am currently using the SVGA driver with with it but the nVidia driver has to be much better. I have v4.0 of X installed. Do I have to re-compile a new kernel? (No problem I've done that many times,

Re: security

Chris Parker writes: > The problem is that I have been given an assignment from my college's mis > head to check their net security from my linux box. You have this assignment in the form of a signed document, I hope. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: which NIC driver to use?

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:09:25 John Griffiths wrote: > for the record its the eepro100 > > thanks for the replies! > > > _ > Hello all, > > I've got an IBM xseries 200 i'm trying to get deb running on > > the onvoard NIC is confounding me > > does anyone know which driver module sho

exim problems

Symptoms: 1) exim is churning away with 20-40% cpu usage and load between 1 and 2 on an otherwise unladen machine 2) my exim logs are growing huge; tail -f shows several new entriers per second saying "message frozen" 3) Downloaded eximon, but its hasn't finished initializing after 20 minu

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