Re: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

2001-07-28 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, Do you use lilo? If so could you please post that file? And also the output of ls -l /boot/vm* Thanks, Jimmy Richards On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 12:36:03PM +0800, Tao Liu wrote: > I upgraded my potato to sid today, > and I installed the package"Kernel-image

How to stop some system services?

2001-07-28 Thread Tao Liu
How can I stop the system services I dont want them to run? Forexample, I don't want zope to run, but is starts when I turn on my cumputer. In redhat, I use "ntsysv" . How can I do in debian? -- Regards, Tao Liu _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your f

Re: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

2001-07-28 Thread John Griffiths
have you got the line initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-686 after the vmlinuz stanza in lilo.conf? that fixed my trouble with that one add the run lilo and boot At 12:36 PM 7/29/01 +0800, Tao Liu wrote: >I upgraded my potato to sid today, >and I installed the package"Kernel-image-2.4.7-686" > >When I

Re: Specifiing Drivers at installation

2001-07-28 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 28-Jul 10:29, Michael Blood wrote: > I need to load a raid driver at installation time but am unsure of the > exact syntax and commands. > > Do anyone know of a good place to find the exact syntax and examples for the > boot: > > prompt. > > Thanks in advance, > > Michael Blood I hav

kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

2001-07-28 Thread Tao Liu
I upgraded my potato to sid today, and I installed the package"Kernel-image-2.4.7-686" When I reboot, my computer shows: ... Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "302" or 03:02 Please append a correct "root=" bo

Specifiing Drivers at installation

2001-07-28 Thread Michael Blood
I need to load a raid driver at installation time but am unsure of the exact syntax and commands. Do anyone know of a good place to find the exact syntax and examples for the boot: prompt. Thanks in advance, Michael Blood

why procmail?

2001-07-28 Thread Jeff Maxson
relative newbie question: If I use pine (or any other filter-capable mail reader) why use procmail to filter the messages? Pine does that on its own, if you tell it too...just wondering the benefits Jeff -- Jeff Maxson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SOLVED: How to setup 100Mb/sec full duplex networking on Ultra-80?

2001-07-28 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 05:32:20AM +0200, Guenter Millahn wrote: > > > The switch is a level 2, 100Mb/sec, with full-duplex capabilities from the > > > early days of FastEthernet networking. But the main question for me is, > > > how to > > > force the debian woody box to go to 100 MBit full duple

Re: Detecting Ethernet on Compaq Presario 5280

2001-07-28 Thread dman
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:12:40PM -0700, Speakeasy wrote: | In Windows it says I has a Intel 21143/2 based 10/100mbps Ethernet | Controller. Good information. I just did a google search on "Intel 21143/2" and got a couple of hits on the tulip milaing list at scyld.com (ex http://www.tux.org/hyp

WinTV BT848 Problem

2001-07-28 Thread JakeCatfox
I've recompiled my kernel with support for the BT848, following the instructions for the driver (modifying my /usr/sys/linux/drivers/usb/ Config.in and Makefile), and then running make modules. However, whenever I plug in the WinTV model 4001 into my USB port, I get the following output: usb.c:

SOLVED: How to setup 100Mb/sec full duplex networking on Ultra-80?

2001-07-28 Thread Guenter Millahn
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 02:53:08AM +0200, Guenter Millahn wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Craig Ian Dewick wrote: > > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Guenter Millahn wrote: > > > > > > > I have an Sun SPARC Ultra-80 running Debian/woody together with an older > >

Maestro3 Won't Work

2001-07-28 Thread JakeCatfox
I've compiled a new kernel with support for the Maestro3 .. I turned that on, turned off all other sound cards, and turned ON Sound card support, but my system doesn't find anything at boot related to sound. I can't run ESD (it tells me there's no /dev/dsp.) I know I have a Maestro because when

Problem with Webmin on Debian

2001-07-28 Thread Lance Peterson
I'm using Debian, so I'm posting this here...help if you can. Under certain circumstances, Webmin GREATLY slows down on my system. The magic recipe: Webmin + Squid proxy + any dstdomain acl's = SLOW Webmin - Squid proxy + any dstdomain acl's = FAST Webmin + Squid proxy - any dstdomain acl's = FA

Detecting Ethernet on Compaq Presario 5280

2001-07-28 Thread Speakeasy
While installing Debian 2.2r2 on my Compaq Presario 5280. But it does not seem to detect ethernet. I gives a huge list of drivers to pick from but of course I have no idea which to choose. In Windows it says I has a Intel 21143/2 based 10/100mbps Ethernet Controller. Also I installed Red Hat 7.1

keyboard death

2001-07-28 Thread isaacj
i just tried to install debian ver2.2r3 on comp. with asus a7v133 w/1.2ghz athlon, usb opt. mouse, ps/2 keyboard, agp graphics. keyboard works fine during install, but when debian reboots and prompts for root password, keyboard goes haywire. cursor function keys work, but alpha numeric keys do not.

Re: dhcp & ip addresses

2001-07-28 Thread Eric Boo
Hi, Thanks for your reply. However, my firewall has been showing many ips running the same exploits (port 53) against as well as pinging my machine. I'm thinking of grabbing a different ip from my dhcp-providing cable ISP. So far, dhclient and pump keeps giving me the same ip, even when I apt-ge

can't compile mga module from sourceforge source

2001-07-28 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I am sure someone have tried to compile mga kernel modules from the source from dri.sourceforge.net. But in my case, it didn't compile and it said something about next is not a member of something. I just download the source from there and compile. I tried the 4.0.3 sour

Re: KDE2 X display security

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 12:21:14AM -0700, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If I open a terminal and su, I find I'm unable to open additional > displays (e.g., > su > emacs & > ). > > If I change to a regular terminal and do xhost + then the emacs & as > root works. Don't do that. $

Re: How to setup 100Mb/sec full duplex networking on Ultra-80?

2001-07-28 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 02:53:08AM +0200, Guenter Millahn wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Craig Ian Dewick wrote: > > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Guenter Millahn wrote: > > > > > Hello community, > > > > > > I have an Sun SPARC Ultra-80 running Debian/woody together with an older > > > switch (LattisSwi

Re: ext2 -> reiserfs

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:58:24PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > does anyone know an easy way of converting a ext2 partition to > resierfs and is it worth it ? - Back up ext2fs partition. - mkreiserfs on the partition. - Restore data to partition. It's call

Re: Problems loading the hisax isdn driver on Debian 2.2r3

2001-07-28 Thread Helen McCall
Hello Philipp, On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Philipp Lehman wrote: > Doesn't the hisax driver need a 'type' and a 'protocol' statement? > That would mean > > options hisax type=11 protocol=2 io=0x200 irq=10 > > for the ISA card and > > options hisax type=11 protocol=2 > > for the PCI versi

Re: KDE2 X display security

2001-07-28 Thread Andy Saxena
On Saturday July 28 2001 14:05, Ross Boylan wrote: > I'm looking for a configuration file setting so that I won't need to > type that command every time I start. > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:55:36PM +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: Compiling Maestro3 Support

2001-07-28 Thread JakeCatfox
It shows an Unknown ESS Card. I'm going to try recompiling it .. In a message dated 7/28/01 9:20:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << what does 'lspci' show? does it show allergro sound hardware? >>

Galeon & GNOME URL handlers: PDF, PS, Flash, RealPlayer

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
I've created a few URL handlers under ~/.gnome/Gnome, which work for some cases: news (pan), mailto (mutt), telnet (telnet). I'd like to add handlers for four additional document types, and change how a fifth works. The four types: - PDF: spawn an external PDF viewer. In my case, gv. -

Re: How to setup 100Mb/sec full duplex networking on Ultra-80?

2001-07-28 Thread Guenter Millahn
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I have to deal with this also. You need to put some options in /etc/system: > > * Begin Ethernet stuff > * This is to force the hmes into full-duplex > set hme:hme_adv_autoneg_cap=0 > set hme:hme_adv_100T4_cap=0 > set hme:hme_adv_100fdx_cap=1 > set h

Re: Compiling Maestro3 Support

2001-07-28 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Deven, Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I compiled in Maestro3 support and recompiled my kernel, but sound won't > work.. there's no Maestro in the dmesg, and no sounds will play. Does anyone > know what I did wrong? This sounds like a dumb answer, but are you sure you are runni

Re: How to setup 100Mb/sec full duplex networking on Ultra-80?

2001-07-28 Thread Guenter Millahn
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Craig Ian Dewick wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Guenter Millahn wrote: > > > Hello community, > > > > I have an Sun SPARC Ultra-80 running Debian/woody together with an older > > switch (LattisSwitch 28115 by Bay Networks). > > The Workstation has a standard hme (happy meal) n

Re: esound

2001-07-28 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Mart van de Wege wrote: MvdW> Well I don't know where I heard it first, but there *is* a rumour that esd MvdW> is about to be orphaned, or at least decoupled from gnome. For me, I'd MvdW> like that because it is way too temperamental, OTOH, the alternative seems MvdW> to be ar

freenet port conflict with wwwoffle... what to do

2001-07-28 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi. Freenet's default port for fwproxy is 8081 but I already have wwwoffle on that port (it's primary proxy is on 8080 and its control connection at 8081). I use wwwoffle even on my permanently-connected box so I can take websites with me on my laptop to read on the bus/in the park/on the plane a

How to setup 100Mb/sec full duplex networking on Ultra-80?

2001-07-28 Thread Guenter Millahn
Hello community, I have an Sun SPARC Ultra-80 running Debian/woody together with an older switch (LattisSwitch 28115 by Bay Networks). The Workstation has a standard hme (happy meal) network card. Something with the autonegotiation doesn't work, probably because of the age of the switch. I have c

Re: pdf editor

2001-07-28 Thread Jason Healy
At 996643163s since epoch (07/31/01 14:49:23 -0400 UTC), harsha wrote: > i tried you suggestion. But all i was a lot of control charc and not much > of text as it should have been. Looks it is encrypted. In such a case how > would you edit it and fill up the forms? Odds are, it's not encrypted

Re: (newbie from RH) How can i create a .deb package, or compile a source .deb package ?

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:37:34PM +0200, Irger Armin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > how can i create a .deb package ? Short (and incomplete) answer: $ dpkg --build See the Debian Policy Manual (available from the Debian Documentation Project website or as a package) for more informat

Re: (newbie from RH) How can i create a .deb package, or compile a source .deb package ?

2001-07-28 Thread ktb
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:37:34PM +0200, Irger Armin wrote: > Hi, > > how can i create a .deb package ? > And how can i compile a .deb source package ? The documentation can be found at - http://www.debian.org/devel/ hth, kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted

Re: esound

2001-07-28 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 14:17:43 -0400 Steve Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 08:23:44 Mart van de Wege wrote: > > I'm having some weird esd behaviour as well. Specifically, if I log > out > > and another user (visiting friends) log in, or vice versa, esd refuses > to > > play.

Re: (newbie from RH) How can i create a .deb package, or compile a source .deb package ?

2001-07-28 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Armin, I am not able to give a very good answer myself, but I am will give you what little info I know. I was hoping that someone would have replied to your question already but from my mail it does not look like anyone has yet. An answer may be in the mailing list archives too,

Re: Root/User Priveleges

2001-07-28 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:22:05PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > If you've set up the system right, you'll hardly ever need to be tweaking > aspects of the system. Get used to having a truly stable system, that > behaves like you expect it to behave. Every time you change something, > you lose a bi

Re: Debian install issues!

2001-07-28 Thread Brad Pillatsch
Its a full hang, kernel and all. :( - Original Message - From: "Joost Kooij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 1:26 PM Subject: Re: Debian install issues! > (please press enter after +/-70 characters.) > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:33:49PM -0700, Brad Pillatsch wrote

Re: RFC 2015 (PGP/MIME) MTA compliance (was Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?)

2001-07-28 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: >> Nobody else has really implemented the standard, yet mutt users >> yell and scream that everyone else is not standards compliant. > >It makes us feel morally superior. Alas! They still have a sense of humor. -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: RFC 2015 (PGP/MIME) MTA compliance (was Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?)

2001-07-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 05:09:47PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > I think he's making a joke at the expense of all the people who have > experienced the sircam worm. Woa! You made me grab for my Hendrix mp3's... "Have you ever been experienced?" I think the sircam victims had a pretty bad tr

ext2 -> reiserfs

2001-07-28 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
Hi, does anyone know an easy way of converting a ext2 partition to resierfs and is it worth it ? thanx Shri __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

Re: Imation LS-120

2001-07-28 Thread Marshal Wong
If you have the 2.4.x kernel (I'm not sure x>what, but I use the lastest one, 7.) there is support for Mass Storage Devices under USB. You need to have scsi emulation, and scsi disk support for it. But you might already know this. I just mount it under /floppy. Here is my fstab line: /dev/sda

Compiling Maestro3 Support

2001-07-28 Thread JakeCatfox
I compiled in Maestro3 support and recompiled my kernel, but sound won't work.. there's no Maestro in the dmesg, and no sounds will play. Does anyone know what I did wrong? -- Deven

Re: RFC 2015 (PGP/MIME) MTA compliance (was Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?)

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 05:09:47PM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:50:45PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 11:46:42PM +0200, Joost Kooij ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 01:16:50PM -0700, Karsten

Re: RFC 2015 (PGP/MIME) MTA compliance (was Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?)

2001-07-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:50:45PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Could you translate that into English please? Do you want fries with that, sir? Cheers, Joost

Re: RFC 2015 (PGP/MIME) MTA compliance (was Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?)

2001-07-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:50:45PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 11:46:42PM +0200, Joost Kooij ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 01:16:50PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > ...so, arguably, at worst a mail client should display the body of the >

Adaptec Raid

2001-07-28 Thread Michael Blood
Hello, I am attempting to install Debian 2.2 on a box with an Adaptec 2100s Raid 5 Controller. After creating the disk array using the utilities that come with the adaptec card. All that being done I run the debian installation. When using the default installation the process reports that it can

Re: Chronically broken package - bugs? In tetex-bin AND apt-get?

2001-07-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 06:44:27AM +, hzi wrote: > > Just a remark: I'm not entirely sure if it wise to use any other than > > the default locale settings in the root account. > > What do you mean? All the bahavior here was set automatically by dselect. > I haven't specified an installation d

Re: RFC 2015 (PGP/MIME) MTA compliance (was Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?)

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 11:46:42PM +0200, Joost Kooij ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 01:16:50PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > ...so, arguably, at worst a mail client should display the body of the > > message but treat the signature as an attachment. > > HA HA HA > > Pe

Re: Linux Sources

2001-07-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 04:25:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I downloaded a copy of the Linux 2.4.7 sources as a tar-gz file, and I > suppose I need to install them into /usr/src. However, the tar-gz's contents > are not at all indicative of that, and doing a make config just gives me a

Re: RFC 2015 (PGP/MIME) MTA compliance (was Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?)

2001-07-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 01:16:50PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > ...so, arguably, at worst a mail client should display the body of the > message but treat the signature as an attachment. HA HA HA People want to use their mail, not understand it. It should be *easy* to attach your personal do

Re: apt error: not a valid DEB package

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:54:12AM -0700, Adam Shand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > i went to install powershell today and i got this. my immediate > response was the the md5 check sum must not have matched (apt does that > now ... right?). but it installed anyway... wtf? > > if it's going to g

SirCam spam procmail recipie (was Re: Fwd: Your site listed)

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 04:31:13PM -0400, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > begin Colin Watson quote: > > That's the SirCam virus, which causes its victims to unknowingly send > > mail to addresses harvested from their web cache. Not much you can do > > about it, AFAIK. > > Oh sure there is.

Re: Fwd: Your site listed

2001-07-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 04:54:52PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 05:22:28PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > | Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | [cc'ed according to mail-followup-to request] > | >On 28 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: > | >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:35:07AM -

Re: Linux Sources

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 10:44:56PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 16:25:55 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I downloaded a copy of the Linux 2.4.7 sources as a tar-gz file, and I > > suppose I need to install them into /usr/src. However, the tar

Re: Free x-server for windows 9x, ideas?

2001-07-28 Thread dman
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 10:07:19AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: | dman wrote: | | > Sweet! Do yo have any tips or configs to share? | | The problem is that since it worked "right out of the box" for me, I don't | really know what to suggest. Well, it's nice to hear that it worked for somebody.

Re: libc6 2.2.3-7 post-inst error

2001-07-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 01:09:20PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > elm:# dpkg --configure libc6 > > Setting up libc6 (2.2.3-7) ... > > date: invalid date `Mon Jul 23 07:32:48 WST 2001' > > dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure): > > subprocess post-i

Re: Fwd: Your site listed

2001-07-28 Thread dman
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 05:22:28PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: | Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | [cc'ed according to mail-followup-to request] | >On 28 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: | >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:35:07AM -0500, d wrote: | >> > HEY, people what is this CARP? | | Hmm,

Re: AW: LPRng vs. CUPS?

2001-07-28 Thread hzi
>> Mensagem anterior << No dia 25/07/01, 11:20:11, "Christian Kesselheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu o seguinte sobre o tema AW: LPRng vs. CUPS?: > I use CUPS since ~1 month and I'm very pleased with his results. If you > download gimp-print and compile/inst

Re: Chronically broken package - bugs? In tetex-bin AND apt-get?

2001-07-28 Thread hzi
>> Mensagem anterior << No dia 27/07/01, 11:20:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) escreveu o seguinte sobre o tema Re: Chronically broken package - bugs? In tetex-bin AND apt-get?: Hi Joost- Thank you for taking the time to answer me. My commen

Re: Linux Sources

2001-07-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 16:25:55 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I downloaded a copy of the Linux 2.4.7 sources as a tar-gz file, and I > suppose I need to install them into /usr/src. However, the tar-gz's contents > are not at all indicative of that, and doing a make config just gives me a >

Re: mozilla with SSL for galeon in unstable?

2001-07-28 Thread Mark Jaroski
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Mozilla is in non-us now. It was pointed out to me to simply > install mozilla-psm, and it worked! > > John Galt wrote: > > > I think there will be one, as soon as mozilla's maintainer does the Great > > Mozilla Upgrade(tm). Maybe this deserves a new thread... but

Re: Chronically broken package - bugs? In tetex-bin AND apt-get?

2001-07-28 Thread hzi
>> Mensagem anterior << No dia 27/07/01, 13:10:07, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu o seguinte sobre o tema Re: Chronically broken package - bugs? In tetex-bin AND apt-get?: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 01:24:16PM -0300, Henry Lebowzki wrote: > | Hello- > | I'm s

Re: Fwd: Your site listed

2001-07-28 Thread Joey Hess
begin Colin Watson quote: > That's the SirCam virus, which causes its victims to unknowingly send > mail to addresses harvested from their web cache. Not much you can do > about it, AFAIK. Oh sure there is. You can procmail it to /dev/null (anyone have a good recipe? Mine sucks). Or you can go a

Re: OT : P2P Linux Distro

2001-07-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Lambrecht Joris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010724 23:15]: > Hi, > > I've read about some Linux Distro wich was going to install on a > system using PeeR2PeeR technology. Grand idea is that the basic > linux kernel, if supplied with enough NiC/modem drivers will be able > to connect to the a network/in

Re: Debian install issues!

2001-07-28 Thread Joost Kooij
(please press enter after +/-70 characters.) On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:33:49PM -0700, Brad Pillatsch wrote: > Here's the problem I am having. This occurs on all the flavors of > the latest stable release root disks. Basically when the root disk > loads up into the install menus, specifically th

Linux Sources

2001-07-28 Thread JakeCatfox
I downloaded a copy of the Linux 2.4.7 sources as a tar-gz file, and I suppose I need to install them into /usr/src. However, the tar-gz's contents are not at all indicative of that, and doing a make config just gives me a bunch of questions to set up a kernel. Do I just make a kernel from this

Re: X Server + Root Access

2001-07-28 Thread JakeCatfox
--- Begin Message --- Unfortunately, SU doesn't work .. whenever I type it, it tells me: "su: module is unknown. Sorry." --- End Message ---

Re: CD Writer

2001-07-28 Thread Hamma Scott
--- Gurusami Annamalai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I am currently using Debian GNU Linux version 2.2. > I am planning to buy a > CD Writer that is already supported. Try http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/cdr.html for a list of supported CD-Writers. __

RFC 2015 (PGP/MIME) MTA compliance (was Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?)

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:14:12PM -0600, John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > > >also sprach Adam Bell (on Wed, 25 Jul 2001 04:04:35PM -0400): > >> Okay, so can anyone tell me what popular (to Debian Users) MUA > >> sends every single message as an

Re: dhcp & ip addresses

2001-07-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 10:02:49AM +0800, Eric Boo wrote: > Question: How are these ip address stored, if they are (under pump > espcially), and how do I force pump to get another different ip if > needed? > > Also, I can't seem to use pump on the command line after releasing it > with pump -r. pu

Re: X Server + Root Access

2001-07-28 Thread John Galt
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >How can I make it so that I can run the X Server using another user account? If you're talking about logging in as user, then running an X client as root, all you have to do is (in an xterm) $xhost +localhost $su - #X_client_you_want_to_run_as_root

CUPS and 'lpoptions'

2001-07-28 Thread john gennard
I've installed CUPS on a Potato 2.2 r3 distro. No difficulty in getting it to print - not, however, as I wish, so I'm looking at 'cupsomatic' and 'gimp-print'. Both of these are probably more complex than I need and it could be that setting default options under CUPS may be best for me. Unfortunate

X Server + Root Access

2001-07-28 Thread JakeCatfox
How can I make it so that I can run the X Server using another user account? -- Deven

(newbie from RH) How can i create a .deb package, or compile a source .deb package ?

2001-07-28 Thread Irger Armin
Hi, how can i create a .deb package ? And how can i compile a .deb source package ? -Armin

Re: pdf editor

2001-07-28 Thread John Galt
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: >on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:34:29AM +0100, Brett Parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:20:55AM +0530, harsha wrote: >> > hi, >> > >> > > Sounds like the poster wanted to fill in PDF Forms, and the only app I >> > > know >> >

Re: Root/User Priveleges

2001-07-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:09:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I set priveleges for files/programs/commands for users? I'd like for > my username to have close to root priveleges, so I can change system options, > etc. I find that the "NEVER BE ROOT! NEVER BE ROT!!" philosoph

Re: Root/User Priveleges

2001-07-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010728 15:15]: > How do I set priveleges for files/programs/commands for users? I'd > like for my username to have close to root priveleges, so I can > change system options, etc. I find that the "NEVER BE ROOT! NEVER BE > ROT!!" philosophy is bit o

Re: Root/User Priveleges

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:09:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How do I set priveleges for files/programs/commands for users? I'd like for > my username to have close to root priveleges, so I can change system options, > etc. I find that the "NEVER BE ROOT! NEVER BE ROO

Re: testing: xf86cfg 3D Rage Pro: X dies

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 05:43:16PM +, joe golden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Using testing version of Debian, kernel 2.2.19. Configuring with xf86cfg. > Chip has label ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 49802 on it. SuperProbe reports ATI > 264GT3 (3D Rage Pro) w/ chipset ATI Mach 64 and 8192KB of me

Root/User Priveleges

2001-07-28 Thread JakeCatfox
How do I set priveleges for files/programs/commands for users? I'd like for my username to have close to root priveleges, so I can change system options, etc. I find that the "NEVER BE ROOT! NEVER BE ROT!!" philosophy is bit odd-- seeing as you have to SU to root to change system setting

Re: pdf editor

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:34:29AM +0100, Brett Parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:20:55AM +0530, harsha wrote: > > hi, > > > > > Sounds like the poster wanted to fill in PDF Forms, and the only app I > > > know > > > that can do that is Acrobat Reader. > > > > hm

Re: abiword testing on stable system

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 06:04:57PM +, joe golden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Anyone running abiword testing version on a stable platform? > > I'd like the better version on the stable platform. Alternative suggestion: download latest (or desired) version from AbiWord, and install it under /

Re: sid / woody ppp not setting default gw

2001-07-28 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Don, > Based on my experience mentioned above, wouldn't it be better to delete > the current eth0 gw FIRST, then add in the other stuff?? In fact, it > would probably be better to delete the existing gw when pppd is > called...if you can figure out a way to do that. I did try deleting the defaul

pseudo-image method & .list files (was Re: Debian Issues!!)

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:18:03PM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > >on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:51:14PM -0700, Jaimos F. Skriletz > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> > >> First I will like to say that your meathod is intivative and I > >> understand your

Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?

2001-07-28 Thread Philipp Lehman
On 28 Jul 2001, Randolph S. Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 28 Jul 2001 11:11:58 -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> Randy writes: >> > The user will be able, from a user account, do a pon, poff, etc. to >> > connect to the ISP. So, my challenge is to have the scripts run from >> > user level securi

Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?

2001-07-28 Thread John Hasler
Joost Kooij writes: > Make sure that the user is in the "dialout" group, so she can run pon and > poff to start and stop a dialin session determined by one of the files in > /etc/ppp/peers/. There is no need to put the user in the 'dialout' group. That is for direct access to the the serial ports

debian 2.2 rel 3 and wvdial

2001-07-28 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, Since I installed debian 2.2 r.3 I am facing this problem. Earlier on 2.2 it was working fine. Problem is. I am using wvdial to connect to the net. When I first time connect to the net using wvdial DNS is not working. However if I disconnect and than reconnect again everything seems to work f

Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?

2001-07-28 Thread Philipp Lehman
On 28 Jul 2001, Randolph S. Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 28 Jul 2001 19:01:07 +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote: >> On 28 Jul 2001, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >Randy writes: >> >> The user will be able, from a user account, do a pon, poff, etc. to >> >> connect to the ISP. So,

Re: pdf editor

2001-07-28 Thread harsha
hi, > to find out where to put your text in the sourcecode. i did this several > times and as in most forms the position where to fill in text is marked with > dots it's easy to find it. i tried you suggestion. But all i was a lot of control charc and not much of text as it should have been. L

Re: esound

2001-07-28 Thread Steve Gran
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 08:23:44 Mart van de Wege wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:31:42 -0400 > Steve Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > I'm having an interesting problem - esound has up and quit on me for > > some > > reason. I'm running Debian testing, and it worked just fine (al

Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?

2001-07-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:07:13AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > Thank you for the reply. I forgot to mention one complication, I am > setting this machine up for someone who will not have root access (I > will retain that). I am doing this so that they cannot "mess up" their > own machine... >

Imation LS-120

2001-07-28 Thread Steve Gran
Hello all, I'm doing a home recording project on a MAC that belongs to a friend (G4, OS 9.something) because we're using pro-tools. The reason I'm writing is that getting the recorded files over to my linux box for burning has me wondering. We could, I suppose, set up a home network, bu I'd rathe

Re: [SOLUTION!] How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?

2001-07-28 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
First, Thank you to everyone that sent email about my question. The solution turned out to be very simple. When pon causes a connection to be made to an ISP, the script /etc/ppp/ip-up is run. In Debian (2.2r3) this script accepts several parameters from pppd. They are set and exported as: PP

Re: KDE2 X display security

2001-07-28 Thread Ross Boylan
I'm looking for a configuration file setting so that I won't need to type that command every time I start. On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:55:36PM +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >If I change to a regular terminal and do xhost + then the e

abiword testing on stable system

2001-07-28 Thread joe golden
Anyone running abiword testing version on a stable platform? I'd like the better version on the stable platform. Thanks in advance. Joe Golden The Stevens School of Peacham thestevensschoolofpeacham.com _ Get your FREE download o

Re: Free x-server for windows 9x, ideas?

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 05:27:11PM -0700, nico de haer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a nice X server to run on my windoze box, as my server does > not have a monitor anymore > I found "MicroImages X Server" but it's old and i don't like it that > much > > Requi

Re: Fwd: Your site listed

2001-07-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 04:39:32PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > You think this is bad? I'm getting a message every 2 days or so with a > 200K+ attachment in base 64 (which I can't read). It says something > like: > > "Hi. How are you? I'm sending this file for your comments. > Than

testing: xf86cfg 3D Rage Pro: X dies

2001-07-28 Thread joe golden
Using testing version of Debian, kernel 2.2.19. Configuring with xf86cfg. Chip has label ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 49802 on it. SuperProbe reports ATI 264GT3 (3D Rage Pro) w/ chipset ATI Mach 64 and 8192KB of memory. Not sure exactly which chipset this is. Anybody have a running XF86Config-4 f

Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?

2001-07-28 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
On 28 Jul 2001 11:11:58 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Randy writes: > > The user will be able, from a user account, do a pon, poff, etc. to > > connect to the ISP. So, my challenge is to have the scripts run from > > user level security and install the firewall rules. > > > How do I do this? > > Th

Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?

2001-07-28 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
On 28 Jul 2001 19:01:07 +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote: > On 28 Jul 2001, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Randy writes: > >> The user will be able, from a user account, do a pon, poff, etc. to > >> connect to the ISP. So, my challenge is to have the scripts run from > >> user level securi

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