Re: command line formating problem

2001-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:18:47AM -0400, Theodore Knab ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I have a screen formating question. > > How do I prevent my screen from wrapping like this? > > Normal Prompt: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/httpd/html/docs/public_key$ > > Single line wrapping: > pgp.c

code red goes on

2001-08-02 Thread John Griffiths
if you grep your http access log for "default.ida" (good sign of a code red attempt on an apache box) you'll see that code red has infected as many new machines in the alst two days as it did on 20 July

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-02 Thread William Leese
On Friday 03 August 2001 00:57, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:20:20PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > Hmmm! Isn't the whole point of working for someone else to get them to > > > buy these essential books for you before

Re: Root on RAID

2001-08-02 Thread Brian May
> "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alvin> hi ya george Alvin> for raid1 typically /dev/hda is copied to /dev/hdb Alvin> - dont know why you'd wanna mirror a partition... ( Alvin> system will still be dead since the rest of the required ( Alvin>

Re: hi..reg woody iso selection

2001-08-02 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 02 2001, dman wrote: > Except that woody doesn't have an installer unless someone made > really good unofficial cds. I recommend getting potato cds for an > initial install. Personally I used CD3 a bit, but it was mostly for > dev stuff or a few apps that I wanted that aren't commonly used

command line formating problem

2001-08-02 Thread Theodore Knab
Hello, I have a screen formating question. How do I prevent my screen from wrapping like this? Normal Prompt: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/httpd/html/docs/public_key$ Single line wrapping: pgp.com --send-key tjkme/httpd/html/docs/public_key$ gpg --keyserver certserver.p [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/htt

RE: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-02 Thread Ian Perry
> > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:58:06AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:54:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > How can I set up my Win98 machine to share its internet > connection to my > > > networked Linux machines? > > > > Pardon me for asking but wouldn't it b

Re: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-02 Thread Dave Thayer
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:58:06AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:54:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How can I set up my Win98 machine to share its internet connection to my > > networked Linux machines? > > Pardon me for asking but wouldn't it better and > more

RE: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-02 Thread Ian Perry
> -Original Message- > From: James Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 1:33 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet] > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:05:11PM +1

Re: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-02 Thread James Preston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:05:11PM +1000, Ian Perry wrote: > With Debian you have much greater control of input/output/forwarding access > than you do with windows (does windows actualy have any real security ?) Sure it does: "ATTRIB +R". If a h4

RE: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-02 Thread Ian Perry
> -Original Message- > From: Sam Varghese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Sam Varghese > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:58 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet] > > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:54:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PR

Re: init.d/junkbuster not loading as $DAEMON

2001-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:57:41AM -0400, Steve Taylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The /etc/init.d/junkbuster call fails unless it's stripped to little > more than the command-line call. What permissions are needed, what > syntax (/etc/junkbuster/config, others)? > > Not working.. (nor as chuid

Re: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-02 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:14:39PM +1000, James Preston wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | | On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:03:13PM -0400, dman wrote: | > You also need to specify a DNS server or you will need to type IP | > addresses instead of names in, ex, a web browser. To do this find

Re: GEFORCE 2 MX and LINUX

2001-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Romer
It is my understanding that DRI support in the kernel is not needed, because the nvidia driver does its own thing with DRI. Nvidia's website should have details. If you only want a good-quality X setup, simply install the latest version of XFree86 (currently 4.1.0). The 'nv' driver which comes wi

Re: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-02 Thread James Preston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:03:13PM -0400, dman wrote: > You also need to specify a DNS server or you will need to type IP > addresses instead of names in, ex, a web browser. To do this find out > the IP of your ISP's DNS server (you should have this in > /etc/re

Re: GEFORCE 2 MX and LINUX

2001-08-02 Thread Michael Perry
Quoting Theodore Knab on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:02:30PM -0400: > Bendard, > > I don't think that the 2.2.16 kernel has dri support. > > To use the full potential of the Gforce you will need to compile the 2.4.x > kernel with DRI support. > > After compiling the new kernel for DRI support, you

Re: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-02 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:58:06AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: | On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:54:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > How can I set up my Win98 machine to share its internet connection to my | > networked Linux machines? | | Pardon me for asking but wouldn't it better and | more

Re: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-02 Thread dman
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:54:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | How can I set up my Win98 machine to share its internet connection to my | networked Linux machines? I'll assume that you have Debian on the machine that has the internet connection and that you have already done 'apt-get instal

Re: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-02 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:54:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I set up my Win98 machine to share its internet connection to my > networked Linux machines? Pardon me for asking but wouldn't it better and more reliable to connect with a Debian box and share the connection using ip ma

Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-02 Thread JakeCatfox
How can I set up my Win98 machine to share its internet connection to my networked Linux machines? -- Deven

Re: mail headers

2001-08-02 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:46:14PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 02:54:22AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > | my mail username is sam. i log in to my workstation > | as samuel and the machine name is sammo. on mail which > | i send, a header "Sender: Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" >

Fetchmail question

2001-08-02 Thread Jeremy
While downloading my email via fetchmail this evening, when it was trying to get the first message from my mail server, I got an error message that said "nameserver failure while looking for 'neutral.verbum.org' during polling of [my.mail.server]. I would just assume that my mail server was inacce

Re: GEFORCE 2 MX and LINUX

2001-08-02 Thread Theodore Knab
Bendard, I don't think that the 2.2.16 kernel has dri support. To use the full potential of the Gforce you will need to compile the 2.4.x kernel with DRI support. After compiling the new kernel for DRI support, you will also want to pull down the latest GForce drivers from Nvidia's site. Some

SID postfix

2001-08-02 Thread Eric Boo
Hi, While dist-upgrading today, I get these error messages: Preconfiguring packages ... Can't locate Debian/Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/lo

Re: OT:Perl %= operator

2001-08-02 Thread Greg Wiley
On Thursday, August 02, 2001 5:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] pondered: > [...] I'm just not sure what 2 % 7 equals. for m,n integers with m>=0, n > 0 , m < n: ( m modulo n ) = m so, yes, 2 % 7 is 2 . Best, -=greg

Re: OT:Perl %= operator

2001-08-02 Thread Jason Healy
At 996802112s since epoch (08/02/01 20:28:32 -0400 UTC), Ken Januski wrote: > ($start +=1) %=7; > If $start = 1 then I think that this line means 2%7. I believe that the > intended result is 2 but I'm just not sure what 2 % 7 equals. You're right; the answer is 2. 'mod' means the remainder of the

OT:Perl %= operator

2001-08-02 Thread Ken Januski
Hi, I hope I'm not abusing list by asking this question here. It's the only list I use regularly so I'd prefer to ask it here than go to a Perl list. But if this is quesionable behavior please let me know. I've been reading the most recent Randall Schwartz column in SysAdmin magazine and his code

Re: pci faxmodem device file

2001-08-02 Thread Jeremy
uhlhorsr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > lspci -vv gives: > > 02:0a.0 Serial controller: US Robotics/3Com 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev 01) > (prog-if 02 [16550]) > Subsystem: US Robotics/3Com: Unknown device 00d7 > Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- >

GEFORCE 2 MX and LINUX

2001-08-02 Thread Bernard Reißberg
BeRnArD29ReIsSbErG04IlMeNaU1980 Hi folks! :-) A friend has a Linux-system with kernel 2.2.16 installed. He has an Hercules 3D Prophet 2 MX with a GEFORCE 2 MX chip and he tried many times to get a nice x-screen with a better resolution than 800x600 and more than 16 colors, but we both were no

Re: Can't play sounds other than root user

2001-08-02 Thread W. Paul Mills
Perhaps you need to add yourself to group audio? [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Egglestone) writes: > Hello... > > I have potato running on a laptop... > with the DS-XG yamaha sound card > I can play mp3's via free amp when I log into X as root... > but when I login to X as a normal user... > no

Re: 2.4 kernel on woody install

2001-08-02 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> 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 ker

Re: ssh2 passwordless login does not work with ssh-keygen -t rsa?

2001-08-02 Thread Brian Sniffen
Yes, there's a distinction. DSA keys are for ssh2, RSA keys are for ssh1. There's some amount of debate as to which is more secure: ssh2 encrypts more of the data, but always uses the same Diffie-Hellman group (which means it's more likely somebody has sat down and cracked it). In addition, I s

Re: where is ntpdate?

2001-08-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
(I must have already deleted the original post, but here's a reply thereto) * Faheem Mitha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010802 14:08]: > > > On 2 Aug 2001, Sentiniate wrote: > > > some months ago i wrote somewhere in the file system (maybe under > > /etc) in an existing script that i do not remember th

Re: paths(newbie)

2001-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:25:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 03:11:28AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 2. are paths recursive? (i'm thinking not on this one, or else why not just > >set the path to the root dire

Re: 2.4 kernel on woody install

2001-08-02 Thread Jeremy
"Christopher S. Swingley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry, maybe I didn't make myself clear. I'm performing a clean > install from a woody CD onto a new machine. To get the network card > to work I need a 2.4 kernel, but to get a 2.4 kernel I need the > network card. . . So I was hoping ther

Re: ssh2 passwordless login does not work with ssh-keygen -t rsa?

2001-08-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Britton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010802 14:08]: > > I can use passworless ssh login just fine by copying the public key to the > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 of the machine I want to ssh to, without any > modification to /etc/ssh/ssh_config, provided the public key was generated > with ssh-keygen -t dsa

two X tree's??

2001-08-02 Thread Sunny Dubey
hi, is it possible to have two Xfree86 installs on a SINGLE system? I've been trying for so long, and I can't it to work I need x3 for utah-glx and I need x4 for other various items. I tried copying the binaries of x3 from another potatoe install (onto SID) and placed all the files under thier

Re: new HD

2001-08-02 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi all. > > I have a new 12G hard drive to install in my server. > I'm using qmail, so Maidirs are in $HOME directories. I want to > use the new disk to mount /home. > > I want any sugestions about how to move the actual /home to the > new one, without having to worry about user permissions. >

Re: Can't play sounds other than root user

2001-08-02 Thread mark.t
> I have potato running on a laptop... > with the DS-XG yamaha sound card > I can play mp3's via free amp when I log into X as root... > but when I login to X as a normal user... > no sound > I'm thinking that only root has access to something... > the audio device? > I'm not sure how to ta

Re: Can't play sounds other than root user

2001-08-02 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
You might start by checking the permissions of /dev/dsp (something like ls -al /dev/dsp might do the trick). It probably belongs to user root and group audio. If the permissions are rw-rw, then only user root and group audio can write to /dev/dsp (play sounds) or read from /dev/dsp (record soun

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:20:20PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Hmmm! Isn't the whole point of working for someone else to get them to buy > > these essential books for you before you set off as a fabulously well-paid > > contractor? > > IM

Re: Root on RAID - stock

2001-08-02 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Alvin Oga wrote: AO> the kernel... is raid0 and raid1 compatible... AO> with no modifications/patches needed ... AO> ( just need to make sure raid in turned on in the kernel option AO> AO> -- for raid5...you need some patches...depending on which kernel version i made rai

Can't play sounds other than root user

2001-08-02 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hello... I have potato running on a laptop... with the DS-XG yamaha sound card I can play mp3's via free amp when I log into X as root... but when I login to X as a normal user... no sound I'm thinking that only root has access to something... the audio device? I'm not sure how to tackle

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-02 Thread Patrick Kirk
IME, you can't sit around the office reading books. People complain. Some even risk saying that you don't have enough to do. Others mutter that if you have time to read books, perhaps teh company doesn't need you at all. Secretaries gossip about people being fired "pour encourager les autres."

Re: Root on RAID - stock

2001-08-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya george the kernel... is raid0 and raid1 compatible... with no modifications/patches needed ... ( just need to make sure raid in turned on in the kernel option -- for raid5...you need some patches...depending on which kernel version -- you cannot bootbceause you only have /boo

Re: Routing and pppd

2001-08-02 Thread Patrick Kirk
You're a genius! Commenting out the gateway line in interfaces fixed it all. Thanks Sean. - Original Message - From: "Sean Quinlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User List" Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 10:22 PM Subject: Re: Routing and pppd | * Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (

Re: Root on RAID

2001-08-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya george for raid1 typically /dev/hda is copied to /dev/hdb - dont know why you'd wanna mirror a partition... ( system will still be dead since the rest of the required ( partition is not available for raid5... / /deb/md0 sda1 sdb1 sdc1 sdd1

Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's?

2001-08-02 Thread d
LURKER here again. In the Configure-HOWTO file the instructions are written by a person that uses RH and the suggestions will NOT work for Deb. I know I am using a very OLD version of Deb v2.1 but that is what is on my CD I have and that is much easier to work with when if I have a problem wi

Help with ip-spoof protection in Debian

2001-08-02 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, About 18 months ago, I installed a firewall for a friend with wireless DSL. Very simple setup using slink and ipfwadm on an ancient PC. Shortly afterwards, he employed a Mac user who for a variety of reasons was given a dedicated ethernet card on the fireawall. For all their reputation as

qtcups_2.0-4

2001-08-02 Thread john gennard
I run Potato 2.2 r3 on a PC with a 2.2.18 kernel, and have tried to install the above using 'apt-get source -b qtcups' ( I have a 'deb-src http' in my sources.list). This failed, ending with the following error message:- -- [snip] g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/qt -I/u

qtcups-1.2

2001-08-02 Thread john gennard
I'm having trouble installing the above from source. ( Potato 2.2 r3 with 2.2.18 kernel - on a PC ). #./configure works ( after I sorted out some dependencies), but #make fails giving the following error message:- [snip] Making all in qtcups make[2]: Entering directory `/home/john/qtcups

Re: Dead Lilo.conf

2001-08-02 Thread kenny
hi, lilo boot: linux init=/bin/sh rw i think you can boot linux with this parameters and then repair your lilo.conf - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 10:13 PM Subject: Dead Lilo.conf > I modified my LILO.CONF trying to make it dual-boot

Re: Routing and pppd

2001-08-02 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-02 22:00): > Finally managed to get the speedtouch ADSL modem working with my Woody box. > All works perfectly now save one non-ADSL glitch. My routing is set up to > use eth0 connecting to my win2k laptop and use it as a gateway. So apart > >from being

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-02 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hmmm! Isn't the whole point of working for someone else to get them to buy > these essential books for you before you set off as a fabulously well-paid > contractor? IME you don't get to keep the books your employer's paid for. Which kinda defe

Re: where is ntpdate?

2001-08-02 Thread Patrick Kirk
/etc/init.d/ntpdate is most likely what you want. remember its the IP addresses seperated by spaces that are needed.

Re: error message with "libdb.so.3"

2001-08-02 Thread Changkil Lee
Oops! I replied but I've got the same message again. Maybe some problem. Anyway I will try to answer again and address some more questions below. Thanks! --- Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:55:56AM -0700, Changkil > Lee wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I tried to i

Re: Debian d.net team

2001-08-02 Thread Neil Grant
me me me :) but most of my blocks arent from my debian machines Neil PS sorry Zoltan for the extra reply _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: debian solution's for donated computer

2001-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:30:29AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all: > anchordesk ran a story that ms is still considering win3.1 as their > property and not to be used even for donated computers for charity > (see the article: > http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories

CUPS: address already in use?

2001-08-02 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Hi all, I finally got to setting up printers properly, added the necessary magic to /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, and now cups won't start: ... I [02/Aug/2001:15:44:05 -0600] LoadPPDs: Read //etc/cups/ppds.dat... E [02/Aug/2001:15:44:08 -0600] StartListening() Unable to bind socket - Address already in us

Re: Help! All thumbs with prosper and/or seminar.sty in LaTeX

2001-08-02 Thread Brett Parker
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:51:27PM -0400, Glen Snyder wrote: > Hi. Has anyone produced transparencies using the version of prosper > class in Debian "testing" . I've tried both the example in prosper and > the examples in seminar and I have a problem with things bleeding of the > page when I run la

RE: apt-get testing package on an otherwise stable box

2001-08-02 Thread Mike Kuhar
Yes. Change one of your entries in /etc/apt/sources.list from stable to unstable, 'apt-get update', then 'apt-get install package_name'. Then change your edited entry in /etc/apt/sources.list back to stable, and 'apt-get update'. Mike * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From

Re: new HD

2001-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:13:36PM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all. > > I have a new 12G hard drive to install in my server. > I'm using qmail, so Maidirs are in $HOME directories. I want to > use the new disk to mount /home. > > I want any sugestions about ho

Re: kernel patch to work with gcc3.0

2001-08-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:39:00PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 06:34:08PM +0800, Liu Tao wrote: > >> Does someone know how to get the kernel patch > >> for compiling kernel 2.4 with gcc3.0? > > > > Er, until gcc 3.0 is mor

Re: pci faxmodem device file

2001-08-02 Thread Wasim Ahmed
Hello, If you're using a new kernel, why not give devfs a go? I've been using devfs for a while now, and it's never given me any problems. Whenever I get a driver installed, most of the time the proper device file appears in that directory. However make sure you have devfsd installed first! I'

RE: can't install task-ximian-gnome

2001-08-02 Thread Mike Kuhar
I wouldn't recommend mixing Ximian's and Debian's versions of Gnome. I found major dependancy differences between the two. Either work your way through Ximian's implementation of switch to Debian's, which is what I ended up doing. Your choice. Good luck. Mike * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: centrally managed bookmarks for multiple users, accessible from everywhere?

2001-08-02 Thread Rich Puhek
The easiest way to have a shared "bookmark" is to just have a "links" page... just raw HTML. Your users could connect right to it by typing it in, could make it their home page, etc. A more advanced step would be to write something like a PERL CGI or a PHP program to allow the users to update the

Re: Ethernet

2001-08-02 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Ade Talabi wrote: > Sebastiaan, > > My machine A is win 98, I can use netscape on my debian (machineB) to > surf the web, if I then use perl on B, I can not get to the internet. > > Why is that? > Which machine is the gateway? If B is your gateway, it does not make

Re: [edi@gmx.de: Re: home and end keys not working in xterm]

2001-08-02 Thread Sebastiaan
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, William Jensen wrote: > > I helped me with forcing xterm to send other keycodes, but the problem > is here. Feel free to report this as a bug. As far as I know all > X-Terminal programs are in sync with current termcap database, all but > xterm, which send broken key sequences

Re: Putting a TESTING package on a STABLE system

2001-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:40:17PM +0100, David Goodenough ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a similar, but reversed problem. I have one package that I do NOT want > to upgrade. It happens to be LILO, and it is currently broken when used on > laptops with SystemSoft BIOS. I want all packages

Re: paths(newbie)

2001-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 03:11:28AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > a couple of basic questions: > 1. if a user's path isn't specified in .bashrc, what path is used, and what >file is it found in? /etc/login.defs ENV_PATH PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/u

Re: Ethernet

2001-08-02 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks a lot for the help, that pretty much answers everything. One question, > though-- How would I configure a third machine to use the same network? Also, > is it possible for me to run a cat-5 cable from my computer to a hub, then a > c

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-02 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hmmm! Isn't the whole point of working for someone else to get them to buy these essential books for you before you set off as a fabulously well-paid contractor? Next thing you'll be worrying about whether training courses are value for money ;-) - Original Message - From: "William Leese"

Re: where is ntpdate?

2001-08-02 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 2 Aug 2001, Sentiniate wrote: > some months ago i wrote somewhere in the file system (maybe under > /etc) in an existing script that i do not remember the command ntpdate > www.clock.org. > now i want to change server but i cannot find the script. > i tried grep -r /* ntp* but it finds /usr/s

Re: Putting a TESTING package on a STABLE system

2001-08-02 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Newton, Harry wrote: > I am running a Debian 2.2, and have just upgraded/updated the system using > apt-get and this /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable/non-US main contrib non

ssh2 passwordless login does not work with ssh-keygen -t rsa?

2001-08-02 Thread Britton
I can use passworless ssh login just fine by copying the public key to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 of the machine I want to ssh to, without any modification to /etc/ssh/ssh_config, provided the public key was generated with ssh-keygen -t dsa and the passphrase left empty. When I try exactly the s

Re: new HD

2001-08-02 Thread dman
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:13:36PM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: | Hi all. | | I have a new 12G hard drive to install in my server. | I'm using qmail, so Maidirs are in $HOME directories. I want to | use the new disk to mount /home. | | I want any sugestions about how to move the actual

Dead Lilo.conf

2001-08-02 Thread JakeCatfox
I modified my LILO.CONF trying to make it dual-boot properly with Windows 98, but now whenever I choose Linux, I get an error saying it can't load init and the boot fails. When I launch Windows I get an error saying: L? which then turned into L?80. (What?!) Does anyone know what I should do? I d

Re: new HD

2001-08-02 Thread Mike Egglestone
hmmm.. not sure of a method other than cp I would copy your /home to somewhere. mount the new drive to /home...and then copy back... Is there a reason why this wouldn't be suitable? Mike - Original Message - From: "GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian user list"

Re: error message with "libdb.so.3"

2001-08-02 Thread Changkil Lee
> > Hi! > > > > I tried to install my printer "epson stylus color > 860" > > and I found that my system didn't have a > "printtool" > > package. I installed an unstable "printtool" > package > > which caused me to install lots of extras as > follows. > > Later I found that there is a testing ve

Re: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's?

2001-08-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's? Date: Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:43:58AM -0400 In reply to:Faheem Mitha Quoting Faheem Mitha([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, d wrote: > > > LURKER here again, what is used to read the HOWTO files? All of the ones I > > have on

Routing and pppd

2001-08-02 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Finally managed to get the speedtouch ADSL modem working with my Woody box. All works perfectly now save one non-ADSL glitch. My routing is set up to use eth0 connecting to my win2k laptop and use it as a gateway. So apart from being able to ping ppp0 and the remote peer I can't use the c

Re: error message with "libdb.so.3"

2001-08-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:55:56AM -0700, Changkil Lee wrote: > Hi! > > I tried to install my printer "epson stylus color 860" > and I found that my system didn't have a "printtool" > package. I installed an unstable "printtool" package > which caused me to install lots of extras as follows. > L

Cannot run a perl script | Fail to install php4

2001-08-02 Thread Andreas
Hi there! I have just run into a strange problem. I am installing (or try to ) PHP4 for Apache 1.3.20. The installation of Apache was as smooth as possible. But now, when I tryed to configure PHP, I suddently faced the following problem: apxs wont run!! file says: /opt/httpd/bin/apxs: perl script

tiff to jpeg

2001-08-02 Thread Liz's Email
I need to batch convert tiff images to jpegs. I'm using the latest ImageMagick, however everytime I try "convert this.tif this.jpg" I can hear the harddrive crunching, but I never get a response and must cancel the operation. The tif images are Group IV, which some other converters (like the

Re: Alternative to aliases??

2001-08-02 Thread dman
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:35:43PM -0400, alex wrote: | | Someone claimed on a list that there's an alternative to aliases that | does things better. I use aliases to access any partition for editing | and they run just fine but I'm wondering what other way could this be | done? | | What can be

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-02 Thread William Leese
On Thursday 02 August 2001 17:01, Kurt Lieber wrote: > If you're an NT administrator moving over to Linux, then I highly > recommend the book "Linux for Windows NT/2000 Administrators: The Secret > Decoder Ring" by Mark Minasi. It's chock full of great examples and > NT-->linux translations. It al

Help! All thumbs with prosper and/or seminar.sty in LaTeX

2001-08-02 Thread Glen Snyder
Hi. Has anyone produced transparencies using the version of prosper class in Debian "testing" . I've tried both the example in prosper and the examples in seminar and I have a problem with things bleeding of the page when I run latex, and then bizarre scrunched up ouput when I run tkdvi and no outp

new HD

2001-08-02 Thread GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI
Hi all. I have a new 12G hard drive to install in my server. I'm using qmail, so Maidirs are in $HOME directories. I want to use the new disk to mount /home. I want any sugestions about how to move the actual /home to the new one, without having to worry about user permissions. Is there any other

[OT] Slow mail server (was Re: how to you reconfigure...)

2001-08-02 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > i'm surprised that dpkg doesn't have > > a --reconfigure option. > > > > how are we supposed to reconfigure an > > already installed package? the only way > > i can think of is to uninstall the package > > and reinstall it. Three people responded to this message within approx 10 minutes of it

pci faxmodem device file

2001-08-02 Thread uhlhorsr
I'm having problems setting up mu USRobotics Performance Pro modem (3CP5610A). I built and installed a new kernel (2.4.7), since kernel 2.3 and higher are supported. The modem is recognized without problems: lspci -vv gives: 02:0a.0 Serial controller: US Robotics/3Com 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (r

error message with "libdb.so.3"

2001-08-02 Thread Changkil Lee
Hi! I tried to install my printer "epson stylus color 860" and I found that my system didn't have a "printtool" package. I installed an unstable "printtool" package which caused me to install lots of extras as follows. Later I found that there is a testing version of "printtool". I am not sure

Re: kernel patch to work with gcc3.0

2001-08-02 Thread Alan Shutko
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 06:34:08PM +0800, Liu Tao wrote: >> Does someone know how to get the kernel patch >> for compiling kernel 2.4 with gcc3.0? > > Er, until gcc 3.0 is more proven, why would you want to do this? To see how well it works, and to

Re: mail headers

2001-08-02 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 02:54:22AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: | i have a problem with mutt (yes, another one) for | which i would value some advice. | | my mail username is sam. i log in to my workstation | as samuel and the machine name is sammo. on mail which | i send, a header "Sender: Sam Varg

Re: how to you reconfigure an already installed package?

2001-08-02 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi.. I'm running debian 2.2 r3 ... my system has this command: dpkg-reconfigure Maybe check to see if its on your system? Mike Quoting Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > i'm surprised that dpkg doesn't have a --reconfigure option. > > how are we supposed to reconfigure an already i

Xemacs 21.4 on 2.2r3 - can it be done.

2001-08-02 Thread Glyn Millington
I would like to set up Xemacs21.4 on my Debian 2.2r3 box. (it's a ;ust of the eyes thing!) Can I download source debs from testing and compile them against stable? Or are there things in testing which stable cannot supply - has anyone got this to work well? Which source packages does one need?

Re: how to you reconfigure an already installed package?

2001-08-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010802 10:40]: > i'm surprised that dpkg doesn't have a --reconfigure option. > > how are we supposed to reconfigure an already installed package? the only > way i can think of is to uninstall the package and reinstall it. dpkg-reconfigure Vineet pgp

Re: Non X-windows GUI web browser?

2001-08-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Joost Kooij ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010724 23:15]: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 07:58:24PM +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > > Lance Peterson wrote: > > > I'm trying to use Webmin to administer a Debian router/firewall, but > > > I was hoping not to install X-windows in order to use a GUI browser. > > >

Re: how to you reconfigure an already installed package?

2001-08-02 Thread Hall Stevenson
> i'm surprised that dpkg doesn't have > a --reconfigure option. > > how are we supposed to reconfigure an > already installed package? the only way > i can think of is to uninstall the package > and reinstall it. Actually, I think it's "dpkg-reconfigure packagename" ;-) Confusing, ain't it

Re: how to you reconfigure an already installed package?

2001-08-02 Thread Brett Parker
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:01:33AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i'm surprised that dpkg doesn't have a --reconfigure option. > > how are we supposed to reconfigure an already installed package? the only > way i can think of is to uninstall the package and reinstall it. > > pete dpkg-reconf

Re: how to you reconfigure an already installed package?

2001-08-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:01:33AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i'm surprised that dpkg doesn't have a --reconfigure option. > > how are we supposed to reconfigure an already installed package? the only > way i can think of is to uninstall the package and reinstall it. dpkg-reconfigure perh

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