Re: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's?

2001-08-01 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Brett Parker wrote: >On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:59:21PM -0500, d wrote: >> LURKER here again, what is used to read the HOWTO files? All of the ones I >> have on my system are **.gz, I know that means compressed. What to use >> to uncompress? When I used to work on UNIX s

Re: Teac CDW54E Drivers

2001-08-01 Thread Bill Cooper
As far as I know there is no specific driver for this drive. I just followed the CDWriting HOWTO (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html) to get it working as a cd-r drive and it worked fine as a normal cdrom drive before any modifications to my install Bill Jared Dodson wrote:

Re: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's?

2001-08-01 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, d wrote: >LURKER here again, what is used to read the HOWTO files? All of the ones I >have on my system are **.gz, I know that means compressed. What to use >to uncompress? When I used to work on UNIX systems you used a command >called "compress" with different switches

Re: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's?

2001-08-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's? Date: Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:59:21PM -0500 In reply to:d Quoting d([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > LURKER here again, what is used to read the HOWTO files? All of the ones I > have on my system are **.gz, I know that means compressed. What to use

Re: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's?

2001-08-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 03:12:18AM +0100, Brett Parker wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:59:21PM -0500, d wrote: > > LURKER here again, what is used to read the HOWTO files? All of the ones I > > have on my system are **.gz, I know that means compressed. What to use > > to uncompress? Wh

RE: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's? Thanks....

2001-08-01 Thread Ian Perry
Your comments seemed a little strange...??? I, for one, was extremely glad you posted. A lot of good suggestions came out. I would have never thought of using Lynx. I don't think that there are BIG and LITTLE problems on this list. At the risk of getting flamed I will say that Linux is not the

Re: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's?

2001-08-01 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 01 Aug 2001 20:35:45 Peter Hicks wrote: > At 03:12 AM 08/02/2001 +0100, Brett Parker wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:59:21PM -0500, d wrote: > > > LURKER here again, what is used to read the HOWTO files? All of the > > ones I > > > have on my system are **.gz, I know that means c

Domain Controller

2001-08-01 Thread Debian GNU
Hello all, I have a network running M$ Win NT as domain controller and clients running M$ Win NT workstations. I plan to switch over to a full Debian system in a phased manner. Now I plan to change the server to Potato. Is it possible to setup the potato as a domain controller as NT so that I can

Re: esound

2001-08-01 Thread Steve Gran
> > Steve> connect to UNIX socket /var/run/esound/socket". I checked to > Steve> make sure it wasn't something silly, like the directory not > Steve> existing, but sure enough, the directory is there. It's owned > Steve> by root, but I assume that's as should be. Any suggestions? > > Add yoursel

Re: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's? Thanks....

2001-08-01 Thread d
Nuhn Yobiznez, Sunny Dubey, Brett Parker, Including any others that may respond before I get this out, That last one is a rather long name. BAG! I should have known that but I did NOT. Because I do NOT use the HTML formats in my messages the words will only be standard size. That is NOT me

Re: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's?

2001-08-01 Thread Dave Thayer
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:59:21PM -0500, d wrote: > LURKER here again, what is used to read the HOWTO files? All of the ones I > have on my system are **.gz, I know that means compressed. What to use > to uncompress? When I used to work on UNIX systems you used a command > called "compre

Re: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's?

2001-08-01 Thread Peter Hicks
At 03:12 AM 08/02/2001 +0100, Brett Parker wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:59:21PM -0500, d wrote: > LURKER here again, what is used to read the HOWTO files? All of the ones I > have on my system are **.gz, I know that means compressed. What to use > to uncompress? When I used to work

Re: How to detect scans

2001-08-01 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello, If you like iptables as a firewall you could check out firestarter at http://sourceforge.net/projects/firestarter/ I really like it. It shows ports probes and you can click on someone who port probes you and select 'Deny all connections from this machine'. Of course that re

2.4 kernel on woody install

2001-08-01 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Hi! I'm wondering how I might go about getting a 2.4 kernel right up front when I'm installing a woody system. I need it for the network driver it provides that doesn't work with 2.2. Is there a way to tweak the CD somehow (debian-cd is how I make woody boot CD's) so it would load a 2.4 kernel i

Re: upgrade to testing now ppp not working

2001-08-01 Thread Jeff Maxson
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone else had a problem with ppp dial up after upgrading to testing? > Everything was working fine, now when I use 'PON', the system dialls and > connects fine but then there is no more activity (send or receive). yes! thank you. I have also

Re: exim won't relay mail : FIXED

2001-08-01 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 05:47:37PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: | In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >I added | >dman: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | >to /etc/email-addresses and now the envelope-from is valid (for me | >anyways). I would need to add a similar line

Re: BTTV on Debian and Kernel 2.4.7

2001-08-01 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Thomas Hood wrote: TH> By the way, do you recommend this TV card? Or what TH> card would you recommend? I'm looking for one. though bt878 is one of the few tv card chipsets supported in linux, i wouldn't recommend it if you have VIA chipset on your motherboard, it BT has som

Re: iptables rules

2001-08-01 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Renai, > Can someone give me some advice on how to setup some simple rules as well as > having them refreshed when I restart? I'd be happy to send you my iptables script if you like. But it's really best to craft one yourself so you'll really understand what you are doing along the way. That w

Re: Deb-Newby: Re: wondering about xpm and png files... (2nd try)

2001-08-01 Thread J.F.Gratton \(alternate\)
At 21:07 2001-08-01 -0500, you wrote: Thank You JEFF, Many of the acronyms that are used I do not know and have to guess at them. hey, isn't that why we have such fine mailing lists like this one ? to help people out :) I get plenty of help here :) Jeff

iptables rules

2001-08-01 Thread Renai LeMay
Hi, I'm running 2.4.7 on a workstation machine with sid, and I'd like to set up simple firewalling rules on my machine. >From a security point of view, I don't have any services available, they're all disabled, so all I need to be able to do is web browse, check email, irc, icq, etc, while hav

Re: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's?

2001-08-01 Thread Brett Parker
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:59:21PM -0500, d wrote: > LURKER here again, what is used to read the HOWTO files? All of the ones I > have on my system are **.gz, I know that means compressed. What to use > to uncompress? When I used to work on UNIX systems you used a command > called "compre

Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's?

2001-08-01 Thread d
LURKER here again, what is used to read the HOWTO files? All of the ones I have on my system are **.gz, I know that means compressed. What to use to uncompress? When I used to work on UNIX systems you used a command called "compress" with different switches to do that or to uncompress.

another quick bsdgames question

2001-08-01 Thread Xucaen
--- Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xucaen wrote: > > just a quick question, hangman is > missing > > the dictionary file. > > apt-get says I have the latest bsdgames. Has > this > > happened to anyone else? > > bsdgames uses the word list file from the > wenglish package. Do you h

Attaching to a Novell server through linux.

2001-08-01 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I have an intranet server currently running on Win95, which has links to selected files on a Novell Server (E.g User and Tech manuals, Release notes etc) It is running scripts wriiten in java. I would like to move this setup to linux (for stability reasons). Is it possible to attach a linux m

Re: wondering about xpm and png files... (2nd try)

2001-08-01 Thread J.F.Gratton \(alternate\)
At 17:57 2001-08-01 -0700, you wrote: np. at least I got a reply very quickly...anyway, two hopefully not dumb questions... 1. Where can I get the source-tarballs and/or packages and what are they called? 2. What did you mean by "a given package."? OK... a good bet to find the source tarba

dist-upgrade help

2001-08-01 Thread Robert Schweikert
Hi, hen I try to upgrade my distribution from potato to woody I get the following error. 97% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, chunk 3. E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29) E: Failure runn

Changing Servers - passwd, shadow, group

2001-08-01 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I am about to physically change some machines from slink to potato. Can I simply copy the passwd, shadow, gshadow and group files over to the new machine and have it work, or do I have to laboriousely enter them again. The allowed downtime of these machines is zero, so I do not want to just d

Re: dselect is a liar

2001-08-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:08:18AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > As a maintainer of several contrib packages that depend on XForms, I can > > say that autobuilders _don't_ process contrib at all. I've had to ask > > admins to temporarily install libforms-dev so that I

Re: Missing perldoc in stable?

2001-08-01 Thread ktb
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:19:14PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I've got a stable system which doesn't seem to have perldoc on it... > Unstable seems to have it in the perl-doc package, which is virtual > in stable and provided by perl-5.005-doc, which is installed, but > dpkg -S, find, whereis,

Unidentified subject!

2001-08-01 Thread J.F.Gratton \(alternate\)
At 17:36 2001-08-01 -0700, you wrote: Hi, Just wondering if there was a repository somewhere where I can get xpm/png files of /usr/share/pixmaps. I noticed that redhat,debian,etc have some different collection of xpm/png files and I would like to get a good collection of them to use in my desktop.

wondering about xpm and png files...

2001-08-01 Thread joseph de los santos
Hi, Just wondering if there was a repository somewhere where I can get xpm/png files of /usr/share/pixmaps. I noticed that redhat,debian,etc have some different collection of xpm/png files and I would like to get a good collection of them to use in my desktop.:) Thanks for any Info ___

Re: can't dselect just do what it's told??

2001-08-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 12:10:41PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > That's just dselect ... it's rather insistent about recommends. > Here's what you do ... > > in the conflict resolution screen, unslect stuff you don't want to > install (like apache), then hit 'Q' instead of enter. dselect > i

Re: X fonts since upgrade?

2001-08-01 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
Sorry Mike, It seems that yahoomail (which now owns rocketmail) was a bit slow last night and I didn't receive either your off-list post or the one to lists 'til this morning when I didn't have time to reply. Thanks again for going the extra mile to see that I received your info! I am only

Re: tip is broken

2001-08-01 Thread will trillich
nix the html email, pliz. On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 12:57:03PM -0700, John Stevenson wrote: >xterm and rxvt do not put up the title bar correctly. >Please look at newbiedoc.sourceforge.net. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /var/www/puz $ echo $PS1 \[\e]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\007\]\e[43;3

Re: NIS / NIS+ / NYS ???

2001-08-01 Thread Jordi S. Bunster
> How can I get all my linux machines to "log into" one linux box ? > like you can with NT - get all the workstations to log into one > server etc ? You found it out by yourself. Runs NIS. :) > Have read of a little bit on NIS, NYS etc. Is this equivalent to what > NT offers ? Is there something

XFree86 4.1 woes, part2

2001-08-01 Thread J.F.Gratton \(alternate\)
...me again ! As I mentionned 2 days ago, I'm unable to upgrade X 4.0x to X 4.1.0 because of a dpkg error that I'll reproduce again here : /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.config: return: bad non-numeric arg `Check' dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--configure): subprocess post-installa

NIS / NIS+ / NYS ???

2001-08-01 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
Hi All, How can I get all my linux machines to "log into" one linux box ? like you can with NT - get all the workstations to log into one server etc ? Have read of a little bit on NIS, NYS etc. Is this equivalent to what NT offers ? Is there something else that may be better or easier to configur

Re: BIIIG apt-get problem!

2001-08-01 Thread der.hans
Am 01. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Martin Puaschitz so: > Which config-file is missing? What can I do to solve the trouble and > re-install the imap server Look at the output of 'dpkg -L courier-imap | grep /etc'. After that look at /var/lib/dpkg/info/courier-imap.prerm to see if you can figure out wh

Re: reiserfs & mount

2001-08-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:59:02PM +, Rajesh Fowkar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > A few days back I had downloaded the latest versions of linux-util and > e2fsprogs > since I converted my ext2 partition to ext3. > > Now I have a free 1 GB partition /dev/hda9. I wanted to try out reis

Xerox 212 printer on Debian (*NIX, actually)?

2001-08-01 Thread Carlos Laviola
Hello, folks, I'm stuck with a problem: there's this Xerox 212 printer I have to get working on a Debian server that just won't print PostScript. It prints normal (ASCII) text, but it refuses to print PostScript properly -- either by throwing raw PS code, or by refusing to print (depending on what

Re: BTTV on Debian and Kernel 2.4.7

2001-08-01 Thread Thomas Hood
Herbert Pirke wrote: > Under SUSE-Linux I had my TV-Card (Terratec TV+) > running perfectly. SUSE installed everything > automatically, which means that I have no idea what to > do. In addition to that, the kernel I used under SUSE > was a 2.2.18. > > Has anyone got the bttv drivers working on a >

Re: Root on RAID

2001-08-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya george to do "root raid".. you need to use the "raid" partition type and NOT ext2 you might want root raid5...so that if one disk dies...that you can still boot off of the remaining disks you might want to just do root raid1...so that if one disk dies... you can still boot off the "

Teac CDW54E Drivers

2001-08-01 Thread Jared Dodson
Anyone know if there is a driver for the Teac CDW54E CD-RW?   Jared

Re: How to detect scans

2001-08-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya use ippl, portsentry etc... http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Scanner look at the bottom for the detectors c ya alvin On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Miguel Griffa wrote: > Hi, > Could anyone point me to info on how to detect scans on a machine? BTW, > it's potato. > Thanks in advance!

Re: add multiple users .....or import from text file....

2001-08-01 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, There is a utility called 'newusers'. But I think it may be kind of limited as I don't think it copies over the files from /etc/skel. Hope that helps though, Jim R. On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:42:53PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > Hello all... > > Does a

Re: keyboard problem in console

2001-08-01 Thread G. Crimp
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:20:40PM +0300, Petteri Heinonen wrote: > Hello all. > Problems arise when I changed my hard drive. I copied (with tar) > everything from my old drive to the new one, and made it bootable. It > works all fine, except that all chracters are not correct, i.e. can't > prod

Sound Module not loaded (was: Modules gone after Kernel update to 2.4.7)

2001-08-01 Thread Herbert Pirke
Hi, thanks for the link. I updated some more packages and finally everything works, except one little detail: The sound modules are not automatically loaded by the esd sound deamon when a sound application uses it. XMMS quits saying "device /dev/dsp does not exist". Obviously, the device exists

error

2001-08-01 Thread Harald Iwe
rying to read mail with gnus but it fails. Here is the interesting part from my .gnus file: (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "private"))) (setq nnmail-split-methods '(("mail.debian-announce" "^From:.*ebian-announce") ("mail.misc" ""))) At startup I get an error in th

Re: freevxfs?

2001-08-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 14:57:10 -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Right now I'm trying to figure out why high IO locks this machine up dead > tight (which requires a FSCK of a dirty disk, thus the thought of vxfs)... AFAICT the vxfs support is mainly aimed at dealing with existing vxfs partitions

Re: Modem speed

2001-08-01 Thread John Galt
bing localhost On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, LAMIRAULT Nicolas wrote: >Does anybody know how we can do to know the speed of my internet >connexion ? > > -- Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: potato to sid upgrade error 32 broken pipe

2001-08-01 Thread John Galt
This is a problem alright. You may want to get debian-testing in on this, as a smooth potato -> woody transition is getting more vital by the day. When woody freezes, there MUST be a smooth upgrade path from potato On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: >> --- >> 90 packages upgraded, 17

Re: home and end keys not working in xterm

2001-08-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Sebastiaan wrote on Wed Aug 01, 2001 um 08:34:56PM: > > "\e[1~": beginning-of-line > > "\e[3~": delete-char A kludge, should not be used. > > "\e[4~": end-of-line > > "\e[d": backward-word > > "\e[c": forward-word > > > Does not work for me. I am running woody. Any ideas? I helped me

Re: freevxfs?

2001-08-01 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, I'll learn to read one day. Right now I'm trying to figure out why high IO locks this machine up dead tight (which requires a FSCK of a dirty disk, thus the thought of vxfs)... Got a good link on scsi termination? I've got the last disk doing term power and that's it so I'm now confused

Re: freevxfs?

2001-08-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 14:25:46 -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I see in the kernel we can now do a "freevxfs" which is a journaling > filesystem. I can't find a "mkfs.freevxfs" or the like. Which is hardly surprising, as the help for CONFIG_VXFS_FS says: "Currently only readonly access is supp

add multiple users .....or import from text file....

2001-08-01 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hello all... Does anyone know of a neat script or utility that would allow me to add a whole bunch of linux accounts at once? Either from importing accounts from some kind of text file... or something similar? Even better,, a script that would add samba passwords at the same time... Thanks Mik

Re: logitech chordless desktop pro

2001-08-01 Thread Erik Steffl
if you use X 4.x use the following: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Logitech Cordless iTouch" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "logicordless"

freevxfs?

2001-08-01 Thread Robert L. Harris
I see in the kernel we can now do a "freevxfs" which is a journaling filesystem. I can't find a "mkfs.freevxfs" or the like. Anyone have any ideas? :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 : Senior System E

Re: Modem speed

2001-08-01 Thread Erik Steffl
you can also try dslreport.com, they have various tools, including the 'speed-meter'. erik Sebastiaan wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, LAMIRAULT Nicolas wrote: > > > Does anybody know how we can do to know the speed of my internet > > connexion ? > > > If you want to know your theoretic

keyboard problem in console

2001-08-01 Thread Petteri Heinonen
Hello all. Problems arise when I changed my hard drive. I copied (with tar) everything from my old drive to the new one, and made it bootable. It works all fine, except that all chracters are not correct, i.e. can't produce some characters by corresponding keys when I'm in console. In X I don'

Re: home and end keys not working in xterm

2001-08-01 Thread Erik Steffl
IMO running woody does not make much sense. I tried it for some time and it has more problems than unstable and they are not fixed fast enough. at least that's my experience. most of the problems in unstable are fixed within few days, in testing I was waiting for weeks... erik Sebast

Re: Kernel - Ethernet module

2001-08-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Debian GNU wrote on Wed Aug 01, 2001 um 04:02:19AM: > This also I had tried, but still !! (: > Anything else ? Okay, I took the latest winbond-840.c that compiles with 2.2.x and integrated it into kernel source in a way similar to the ne2k-pci driver. Patch attached, should work. Gruss

Re: stalling ppp

2001-08-01 Thread mheyes
Yeah, but try talking with Concentric about that!! After several emails back and forth, they finally told me that they in "no way, shape or form, support Linux" and that if I was having problems it was up to me to fix them. Adding nobsdcomp and nodeflate in the options fixed my problem. Thanks. An

Re: BIIIG apt-get problem!

2001-08-01 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Martin Puaschitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey boys and girls! > > I am running a Debian 2.2 with update+unstable here. I wanted to run a > cyrus-imap server but I had lots of troubles with it. So I tried to remove it > from > the system, to re-install it later on. > > But now I have some se

upgrade to testing now ppp not working

2001-08-01 Thread carol
Hi, Has anyone else had a problem with ppp dial up after upgrading to testing? Everything was working fine, now when I use 'PON', the system dialls and connects fine but then there is no more activity (send or receive). I have used pppconfig to make sure the settings haven't changed. I was u

BIIIG apt-get problem!

2001-08-01 Thread Zivildienst
Hey boys and girls! I am running a Debian 2.2 with update+unstable here. I wanted to run a cyrus-imap server but I had lots of troubles with it. So I tried to remove it from the system, to re-install it later on. But now I have some serious troubles where I do not see a way out. Perhaps somebody

Re: data recovery startup service

2001-08-01 Thread JNF Stoffels
hi there just wanted to thank you for your input i really appreciate it. but i can't get through to that site it must be down or something (code red) anyway. i was wondering whether or not it's possible to save a crashed harddrive i've searched practically everywhere on the web but cannot fin

Re: logitech chordless desktop pro

2001-08-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: logitech chordless desktop pro Date: Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 06:05:39PM +0200 In reply to:Bas van Gils Quoting Bas van Gils([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi everyone, > > I've been using my Logitech Chordless Desktop Pro keyboard for a while; > works like a charm. Lately I've been

Re: INSTALLATION - 520MB???

2001-08-01 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Estêvão Becker wrote: HALLO, I HAVE A PROBLEM. I DOWNLOADED THE DEBIAN LINUX FROM THE INTERNET AND IT WAS TAKEN FOR ABOUT 2GB. SO I INSTALLED THE BASE SYSTEM, AND WHEN I STARTED MY DEBIAN LINUX I INSTALLED THE .DEBS DOWNLOADED. BUT FROM 2GB OF .DEBS, ONLY 520MB WERE INSTALLED AND I ONLY D

Re: using convert to batch convert

2001-08-01 Thread Rogério Brito
I haven't caught the beginning of this thread, but a nice Perl script that I use to generate digital albums is photoaddict, found at http://photoaddict.sourceforge.net/. It uses convert internally. Sorry if this has nothing to do with the original question,

Re: BTTV on Debian and Kernel 2.4.7

2001-08-01 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 01 2001, Herbert Pirke wrote: > Under SUSE-Linux I had my TV-Card (Terratec TV+) running > perfectly. SUSE installed everything automatically, which means that > I have no idea what to do. In addition to that, the kernel I used > under SUSE was a 2.2.18. I'm following this thread cl

Re: dselect is a liar

2001-08-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:08:18AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > So lyx is indeed out of date on powerpc, probably because it's in the > > contrib section and the autobuilders don't always keep religiously up to > > date with that. > > As a maintainer of several contrib

Re: home and end keys not working in xterm

2001-08-01 Thread Sebastiaan
On 1 Aug 2001, Guy Geens wrote: > > "Mike" == Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mike> I've migrated to a newer HDD, which I installed with potato, and > Mike> upgraded to testing. Now I have most of my stuff on this drive, > Mike> and I've noticed that the home and end keys no long

INSTALLATION - 520MB???

2001-08-01 Thread Estêvão Becker
  HALLO, I HAVE A PROBLEM. I DOWNLOADED THE DEBIAN LINUX FROM THE INTERNET AND IT WAS TAKEN FOR ABOUT 2GB. SO I INSTALLED THE BASE SYSTEM, AND WHEN I STARTED MY DEBIAN LINUX I INSTALLED THE .DEBS DOWNLOADED.   BUT FROM 2GB OF .DEBS, ONLY 520MB WERE INSTALLED AND I ONLY DIDN'T SELECT TO INSTA

Re: ipchains question

2001-08-01 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 01 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What applications usually try to open a connection from outside? Some common connections that I can think of now are FTP in active mode does (but you can get around that informing your FTP clients to use passive mode) and identd ("

Reply to Mark Carroll - postgresql update

2001-08-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
Mark, your mail handler is over-enthusiastic and is getting bad data from this ORBS successor. It's objecting to anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net, which is one of my ISP's mail forwarding machines. Look at the bug list for the reply --- Forwarded Message Date:Wed, 01 Aug 2001 19:12:13 +0

reiserfs & mount

2001-08-01 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, A few days back I had downloaded the latest versions of linux-util and e2fsprogs since I converted my ext2 partition to ext3. Now I have a free 1 GB partition /dev/hda9. I wanted to try out reiserfs on it. So I created reiserfs partition (mkreiserfs). Everything fine till here. Now surprise.

Missing perldoc in stable?

2001-08-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've got a stable system which doesn't seem to have perldoc on it... Unstable seems to have it in the perl-doc package, which is virtual in stable and provided by perl-5.005-doc, which is installed, but dpkg -S, find, whereis, tab-completion, and everything else I've tried all insist that there is

Re: can't dselect just do what it's told??

2001-08-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:57:23AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Ok, is "recommends" "requires" now? I can't seem to resolve dependencies > in dselect unless I agree to "recommends" when they are supposed to be > optional. > > I think I'll stick with apt-get. Unless I'm doing somethi

INFO: Using openAFS under Debian on the UNC network

2001-08-01 Thread Andrew Perrin
After much fiddling, I have managed to get an openAFS client working on my office machine at the University of North Carolina. As a public service I've posted the steps I went through at: http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin/tips/src/afs-debian-potato-unc.txt Background information: - Hardware is an IBM N

Re: exim won't relay mail : FIXED

2001-08-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I added >dman: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >to /etc/email-addresses and now the envelope-from is valid (for me >anyways). I would need to add a similar line for all other users on >my system, if they were to send emails. I always recomme

Re: How to detect scans

2001-08-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 02:40:05PM -0300, Miguel Griffa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > Could anyone point me to info on how to detect scans on a > machine? BTW, it's potato. snort, and a good book on network security. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What pa

Re: dhcp & ip addresses

2001-08-01 Thread Duane
Eric, I'm not sure if i can answer your question, but i may be able to clearify the cable-modem issue a little. My brother has the cable modem and uses Win2k - i did notice that getting the dynamic IP address all depended upon his "computer" name. It appears to me that AT&T uses the host name to d

Re: can xdmcp be made secure...

2001-08-01 Thread Craig Dickson
Guy Geens wrote: > I'm not sure of any program that encrypts X traffic. Maybe someone > else knows more about this. > > Just beware: > If you log into an X-terminal, and then do ssh to another host, the > communication between the terminal and the login host is not protected > by ssh. So your ssh

How to detect scans

2001-08-01 Thread Miguel Griffa
Hi, Could anyone point me to info on how to detect scans on a machine? BTW, it's potato. Thanks in advance!

soyo 7vca sound driver

2001-08-01 Thread Miguel Griffa
Hi, anyone knows which module for this?

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2001-08-01 Thread Crane, Christopher
I like the SMTM project. I have something similar but have not got as far as you have. I would like to ask if it would be ok to compile it using PERL2EXE.EXE. I did a test run and found that it did not work. So here I am, 1, asking if I could do it and 2, if I can do it, do you know why it would n

Re: potato to sid upgrade error 32 broken pipe

2001-08-01 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
I had the same problem while doing exactly the same thing last week. Unfortunately, cant remember exactly how it was solved. There is a package in /var/cache/apt/archives that needs to installed manually using dpkg. I think it was a libc package or a db2 something. you can just do dpkg -i sorr

Re: new installation

2001-08-01 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Frank Zimmermann wrote: Do you mean the Uminx-mailer mail? It's in the package mailx. ^ Did I write that? It should of course be Unix-mailer. I think it's getting time to leave the lab. Frank

Re: can xdmcp be made secure...

2001-08-01 Thread Guy Geens
> "Walter" == Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Walter> as far as i can see the initial login passes the passwd in Walter> cleartext? obviously once I'm logged in I can use ssh to login Walter> into other hosts with relative security,but what about the Walter> initial login on an x-term

Re: Why automatic tools can change /etc/resolv.conf?

2001-08-01 Thread Guy Geens
> "Michele" == Michele Dalla Silvestra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michele> But is correct that an application change /etc/resolv.conf Michele> even if the administrator write it entirely by hand? Both pppd and dhclient can receive information about available DNS servers, and they will try to

Re: new installation

2001-08-01 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Ari Sigurðsson wrote: Hi, on my new debian installation some things are different, I can't find my 'mail' command, Do you mean the Uminx-mailer mail? It's in the package mailx. and mutt does not behave the way I like. I want it to download mail to my local mail folder and read from there, b

Re: can't dselect just do what it's told??

2001-08-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:57:23AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Ok, is "recommends" "requires" now? I can't seem to resolve dependencies > in dselect unless I agree to "recommends" when they are supposed to be > optional. > > I think I'll stick with apt-get. Unless I'm doing somethi

Re: home and end keys not working in xterm

2001-08-01 Thread Guy Geens
> "Mike" == Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> I've migrated to a newer HDD, which I installed with potato, and Mike> upgraded to testing. Now I have most of my stuff on this drive, Mike> and I've noticed that the home and end keys no longer work on Mike> the command line in xterms

Re: nVidia users help needed

2001-08-01 Thread Casper Gielen
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:17:59PM -0700, der.hans wrote: > Am 30. Jul, 2001 schw?zte Geoffrey Romer so: > > > IP constraints. Convincing Nvidia that their value is in their hardware, > > not their APIs, and thereby convincing them to open-source the drivers > > they already have, seems like the m

Root on RAID

2001-08-01 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, I'm trying to install a system with root fs on RAID. I have done this successfully on Turbolinux 6.1 before, but don't seem to be able to get it to work under Turbolinux. Procedure followed (based on the Boot+Root+Raid+Lilo-HOWTO): - Get and install kernel version 2.2.19 source code (Debian

Re: using convert to batch convert

2001-08-01 Thread Mike McGuire
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:14:06PM +0100, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > Quoting "Christopher S. Swingley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > The command I would expect to work: > > > > > > convert -sample 50% * > > > > Another method that I often use is: > > > > $ find ./ -name '*.gif' -exec convert -ge

new installation

2001-08-01 Thread Ari Sigurðsson
Hi, on my new debian installation some things are different, I can't find my 'mail' command, and mutt does not behave the way I like. I want it to download mail to my local mail folder and read from there, but It always loads /var/spool/mail/username, and asks to move read messages to local folder.

logitech chordless desktop pro

2001-08-01 Thread Bas van Gils
Hi everyone, I've been using my Logitech Chordless Desktop Pro keyboard for a while; works like a charm. Lately I've been wondering whether it's possible to map the extra keys on this keyboard. e.g.: `mail-button' -> start mutt `browser-button' -> start lynx `sound-off-button' ->turn

Re: Why automatic tools can change /etc/resolv.conf?

2001-08-01 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 05:38:58PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Michele Dalla Silvestra wrote: > > If is not possible to put dnrd in any installation, why not modify a file > > like resolv.conf in /var/somewhat and make a symlink in /etc/resolv.conf? If > > an administrator want t

Re: X with i810 on 1280x1024 (Was: Bug in Xgalaga?)

2001-08-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: X with i810 on 1280x1024 (Was: Bug in Xgalaga?) Date: Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:52:55AM +0200 In reply to:Manuel Bilderbeek Quoting Manuel Bilderbeek([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > Still no luck, but now I inserted a ModeLine of a collegue and got this > result: > > "No m

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