Re: problems upgrading from stable

2001-08-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Fri, 03 Aug 2001 13:26:53 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:08:08PM -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > The recommended fix (search the archives) is to upgrade to woody first, > > then sid. Worked for me. > > I assume that they're fixing this problem though, no? I mean,

everybuddy beta6 is fixed?

2001-08-03 Thread jdls
Hi, I know that MSN protocol got broken in everybuddy ever since M$ upgraded theirs and I read that in beta6 it has been fixed...has it? I just downloaded it in unstable and I am still having authentication problems... Does anybody have similar problems? Thanks for any info. P.S. please CC m

Re: bad links to emacs-e20 in my info/dir

2001-08-03 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Guillaume Marceau wrote: > Hello hello, > > I've got a pretty clean woody installation so I figure I'm a good > candidate to go lookings for bugs in .deb's. I started clean and > installed all the required and important packages. The rest was > apt-get'd as I needed them.

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

2001-08-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:46:32AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > I had this problem too. I copied libdb.so.3 from another box to /lib. > > Later while doing an apt upgrade I got a message saying something like > "libdb.so.3 is not a symlink." > > But it all works. That's about where I am

One silly doubt and one good one

2001-08-03 Thread shyamk
Godd Morning Everybody ! I wish to ask 2 questions : 1. Supposing you are having a binary cose , say scoadmin , on a SCOUnix machine , , , How do I transport this binary to Linux , so that it works over there ? I tried once but , it didnt materialise. Perhaps something with header files or mac

Re: [OT] Network speed ... again

2001-08-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010803 23:22]: > | I've got (3) machines here at home, connected to one another via > | a Linksys router/switch. It uses the switch for the LAN side and > | it's rated at 100mb/s (or is it mB/s ??). All network cards are also > | rated > > That's a little 'b' for bits.

Re: [OT] Network speed ... again

2001-08-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
On 03 Aug 2001 23:04:14 -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > I was wondering what real-world speeds are of a 100base-t network really > are. Not more than 7 megabytes per second. That's with high quality switches patch cables and ethernet cards, though (tulip- based cards & CAT 5 wiring & Cisco Catalys

Re: linux certification

2001-08-03 Thread John Foster
Peter Kok wrote: > > Dear all > > I am looking for linux certification which recognized by the Unix world > Do you think the http://www.linuxcertification.com is good to start? > > Could you have another suggestion? > > Your precious advice is much appreciated. -

Re: [OT] Network speed ... again

2001-08-03 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:04:14PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: | I was wondering what real-world speeds are of a 100base-t network really | are. I've seen several hundred Kbytes downstream FTP transfer before (from a remote internet site and I have no idea what the network characteristics were be

Re: caching-only name server

2001-08-03 Thread Dana J. Laude
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 03:13:28PM -0700 Santiago Canez wrote: > Hi, > > I want to install a caching-only nameserver on my system. > > apt-get install bind > > Is this all that is needed? Will the default configuration from this > installation suffice? Any other files that need to be edited?

Re: sites not responding - FIXED

2001-08-03 Thread Mike McGuire
Ack. The problem was mismatched MTU/MRU settings between the masqed and masqing boxes. Ugly, nasty, stupid stuff. It's in the IP Masq FAQ I've been using; seems to be some hosts don't like responding to fragmented packets. The writers of the FAQ imply the blame lies with these sites:

Re: Problems with Libraries

2001-08-03 Thread Shaul Karl
Generally speaking, what you described should not have happened. Can you please list exactly the commands you issue and their output? --- Begin Message ---   A long time ago, I used the RedHat Linux. But I coulnd't install any program because many libraries were missing (it happened in the "e

[OT] Network speed ... again

2001-08-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
I was wondering what real-world speeds are of a 100base-t network really are. I've got (3) machines here at home, connected to one another via a Linksys router/switch. It uses the switch for the LAN side and it's rated at 100mb/s (or is it mB/s ??). All network cards are also rated for 100mb/s. Th

Re: Can't Connect to the Internet

2001-08-03 Thread Shaul Karl
1. There may be a permission problem. Are you trying as user root? 2. Do install minicom and try connecting with it. It will help you solve the modem related problems. In general minicom is not intended to connect you to your ISP, although it could be used for that. The reason for using minicom i

Re: Can't Connect to the Internet

2001-08-03 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:22:30PM -0300, Est?v?o Becker wrote: > I have many problems when I try to connect to the internet by the Debian > Linux. They are these: > > Wvdial: > use pppconfig to connect. type pppconfig as root. set up your connection. use pon to dial out and poff to cut the

Re: sites not responding

2001-08-03 Thread Mike McGuire
Ack. Re: Karsten's mail, I get the same IP from host, and the trace stops at that same pbs-gw one. So I try a browser again, which... works. I was certain I'd tried that, but I guess not. So the problem now is that the *masqed* machine can't get to www.pbs.org. Looks like I'll be messing with i

DLINK Wireless Access Point

2001-08-03 Thread dude
Does anybody know where i canr ead about setting these up for linux use? Thankx

Re: How secure am I?

2001-08-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya patrick yup...probably 80-90% of secruity breaches of various sources are internal... - samba is not bullet proof... had a major bug/exploit in it about 2 months ago... - yup .. not as many exploits lately... for sendmail/exim... - its been well tested/reviewed ??? have fun alv

Can't Connect to the Internet

2001-08-03 Thread Estêvão Becker
  I have many problems when I try to connect to the internet by the Debian Linux. They are these:   Wvdial:     It configures my modem detects it, but...when I try to connect... --> Wvdial: Internet dialer session 1.41 --> Initializing modem. --> Sending: ATZ --> Modem not responding   I d

exim not resolving external domain, what's wrong

2001-08-03 Thread idalton
Okay, I've recently changed the domain for my private network, and am trying to reconfigure exim. Internal domain is internal.aom.geek, served by local DNS. External domain is aom.geek which is CNAMEd to ferret.dyndns.org currently, but will be picked up if I'm ever living somewhere I can find a r

sites not responding

2001-08-03 Thread Mike McGuire
First off, it's *NOT* that ECN thing, I didn't put it in the kernel. And it's not a DNS issue, or the site's problem (well, it *could* be) because (arg) it works in windows. And it shouldn't be my iptables setup, since the only thing there is a single masquerade rule (I haven't really started

Re: caching-only name server

2001-08-03 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 03:13:28PM -0700, Santiago Canez wrote: > Hi, > > I want to install a caching-only nameserver on my system. > > apt-get install bind > > Is this all that is needed? Will the default configuration from this > installation suffice? Any other files that need to be edited?

Re: slow nfs server

2001-08-03 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Christopher S. Swingley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi! > > I have a couple raid arrays (software raid, 2.4 kernel) that I've > been exporting to a variety of other boxen where I work. Now that > more than a few machines have these mounted (> 10, < 25), NFS has > become incredibly slugg

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

2001-08-03 Thread Lindsay Allen
> man: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.3: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory > > /usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: > libdb.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such > file or directory I had this problem too. I copied libdb.so.3

Pump and cable modem

2001-08-03 Thread Lance Peterson
What's the proper way to get pump working with [EMAIL PROTECTED] cable modems. They require the hostname to be seen. I have been able to get my debian system up using Dhcpcd, but never with pump. -- Lance Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (817) 289-2800 x1142 - voicemail/fax ___

Re: caching-only name server

2001-08-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 03:13:28PM -0700, Santiago Canez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I want to install a caching-only nameserver on my system. > > apt-get install bind > > Is this all that is needed? Will the default configuration from this > installation suffice? Any other files that

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains [Konqueror]

2001-08-03 Thread Michael Epting
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 08:42:01PM +0200, William Leese wrote: > Surely, there is someone out there using Konqueror to browse shares in their > network? > > There is a tab in Kcontrol where you can fill in a login, a password and a > workgroup to use for SAMBA shares, no mention of domain thoug

Re: nautilus soooooooo slow to load

2001-08-03 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
--- Andrew Sione Taumoefolau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 03:17:07PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > > I have a PII 400MHz with 256Mb Memory BUT. it takes a > good > > few seconds for nautilus / netscape or anything like that to load > up. > > Is this normal ? >

Problems with Libraries

2001-08-03 Thread Estêvão Becker
  A long time ago, I used the RedHat Linux. But I coulnd't install any program because many libraries were missing (it happened in the "essentials" session too.).   So I thought that with a linux like the Debian GNU I wouldn't have any problem of this kind. But...the history repeats. And I i

Re: How secure am I?

2001-08-03 Thread Patrick Kirk
Sorry if I appear complacent below but remember I'm running Woody with dynamic IP addressing. A cracker would need to be very fast and up to date. Or to have been watching Swordfish in which case he's have to find someone to hold a gun to his head and provide a blonde to give him a blowjob. Actua

Problems with Libraries

2001-08-03 Thread Estêvão Becker
  A long time ago, I used the RedHat Linux. But I coulnd't install any program because many libraries were missing (it happened in the "essentials" session too.).   So I thought that with a linux like the Debian GNU I wouldn't have any problem of this kind. But...the history repeats. And I i

Re: nautilus soooooooo slow to load

2001-08-03 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 03:17:07PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > I have a PII 400MHz with 256Mb Memory BUT. it takes a good > few seconds for nautilus / netscape or anything like that to load up. > Is this normal ? Nautilus is pretty notorious for not being the quickest starter off the

slow nfs server

2001-08-03 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Hi! I have a couple raid arrays (software raid, 2.4 kernel) that I've been exporting to a variety of other boxen where I work. Now that more than a few machines have these mounted (> 10, < 25), NFS has become incredibly sluggish. It's almost impossible to edit files on the imported filesystems b

RE: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

2001-08-03 Thread Craig Coles
I have been trying to get a 2.4 kernel working in different forms for some time now. The problems that have been posted with the results of: >VFS: Cannot open root device "302" or 03:02 >Please append a correct "root=" boot option >Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount rootfs on 03:02 or similar ar

nautilus soooooooo slow to load

2001-08-03 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
Hi All, I have a PII 400MHz with 256Mb Memory BUT. it takes a good few seconds for nautilus / netscape or anything like that to load up. Is this normal ? Thanx Shri __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute wit

caching-only name server

2001-08-03 Thread Santiago Canez
Hi, I want to install a caching-only nameserver on my system. apt-get install bind Is this all that is needed? Will the default configuration from this installation suffice? Any other files that need to be edited? Thanks SC

Re: (WM) launching apps in particular workspaces

2001-08-03 Thread Duncan Watson
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:40:27PM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > Have you tried just setting things up the way you want them and then > select the menu item WorkSpace->Save_Session. I have about a dozen > things I start that way, including several xterms, and they all start > in the proper workspac

Re: How secure am I?

2001-08-03 Thread Dave Carrigan
"Patrick Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Port 53 is open and I'm not able to work out how to bind it to eth* > excluding all access via ppp*. If it's bind 9: options { listen-on { a.b.c.d; }; }; I think that bind 8 also supports that. > appropriate. What do I need in sourc

Re: How secure am I?

2001-08-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nope... the box is NOT secrure...never is... just depends on who the attacker is...if they wanna get in..they willl there is no point nowdays to be running discard, daytime, time no reason to run netbios-ssn unless its a samba server that requires/allows winXX users to write data to this

Re: How secure am I?

2001-08-03 Thread Patrick Kirk
9/tcp opendiscard 13/tcp opendaytime 22/tcp openssh 25/tcp opensmtp 37/tcp opentime 53/tcp opendomain 80/tcp openhttp 113/tcpopenauth 139/tcpopennetbios-ssn 515/tcpopenprinter H

Re: How secure am I? - samba

2001-08-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya grep nmbd /etc/inetd.conf - if you dont get any matches...its NOT affected.. and similarly hosts.deny,hosts.allow does nto affect samba either - if it is listed... okay... it does get affected.. but donno why you'd wanna run it from inetd... ( think

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

2001-08-03 Thread Glyn Millington
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's all there is to it. Make sure you use pdf2latex to convert the > slides; other programs don't seem to work. > Anthony, any pointers as to where pdf2latex might reside. I've drawn a blank with the Debian site and with Google.. tia G

ipchains and logging to the console

2001-08-03 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi fellow debs Short and simple question: How can ipchains be told not to log to /dev/console? It can get quite annoying when your terminal gets all messed up with packet logs ... Cheers! Sven -- Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: code red goes on

2001-08-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:29:05AM -0500, ktb wrote: > From what little I have read about it the site in question is defaced > if it is a page containing English. I'm sure someone who has payed more > attention could list exactly what it does. After infecting a system with U.S. English as the de

Re: problems upgrading from stable

2001-08-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:22:49PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > Hi Mike, > > several people including myself. There is a package that you need to > install manually - I think its db2 something (it was early in the > morning when i was doing this). try doing a search with google on > libdb2.so

Re: code red goes on

2001-08-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 05:30:12PM +, John Griffiths wrote: > on the 20th of the months the infected machines are all going to launch a > denial of service attack at a web-server somewhere (last time was the IP > address of the whitehouse but that mor, or may not, have changed) I have it fro

Re: problems upgrading from stable

2001-08-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:08:08PM -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote: > The recommended fix (search the archives) is to upgrade to woody first, > then sid. Worked for me. I assume that they're fixing this problem though, no? I mean, it should work, and Debian has the wonderful tendency to do what it

Re: problems upgrading from stable

2001-08-03 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
Hi Mike, several people including myself. There is a package that you need to install manually - I think its db2 something (it was early in the morning when i was doing this). try doing a search with google on libdb2.so.3 - gives you some pointers if that doesnt work. Hope this helps Shri -

Re: Setting up my own apt sources

2001-08-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 04:34:01PM +0300, George Karaolides wrote: > I now have many Debian packages in /var/cache/apt/archives. How can I use > these to set up a local apt source on one of my servers and avoid having > to download them all over again? I've figured out how to do that for the > ba

Re: problems upgrading from stable

2001-08-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Fri, 03 Aug 2001 13:08:10 Patrick Kirk wrote: > Me too. It was a fresh install and I formatted again. > > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Debian User Mailing List" > > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 9:10 PM > Subject: Re

Re: problems upgrading from stable

2001-08-03 Thread Patrick Kirk
Me too. It was a fresh install and I formatted again. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Debian User Mailing List" Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 9:10 PM Subject: Re: problems upgrading from stable | I had the same error when up

rsync

2001-08-03 Thread Jared Dodson
I am struggling to rsync my pseudo-image to a cd image mirror site. Can someone help clarify this documentation.   Thank You, Jared

Re: CD-Rom Probs

2001-08-03 Thread William Leese
On Friday 03 August 2001 20:57, dman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 08:47:19PM +0200, William Leese wrote: > | I don't get it either. At first it seemed like I didn't have iso9960 > | support > > That should be "iso9660" > > | in my kernel or compiled as module (I was using the standard woody > |

Re: Questions about XFree86 4.x

2001-08-03 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thursday August 02 2001 11:42, Aaron Traas wrote: [snip] > > 4) in my /etc/profile, I add the line: > alias ls='ls --color -F' > This works very nicely at the console, but for some reason, when I'm in > X, this doesn't work in Konsole or Xterm. I have to do an: > exec bash --login >

Re: CD-Rom Probs

2001-08-03 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: CD-Rom Probs Date: Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 04:10:24PM +0100 In reply to:Frank Zimmermann Quoting Frank Zimmermann([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > William Leese wrote: > > Does the CD-ROM you try to mount has the iso9660 file system? > Well I don't mount audio CD's, just play t

Re: exim amd .forward

2001-08-03 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: exim amd .forward Date: Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 04:36:48PM +0100 In reply to:Patrick Kirk Quoting Patrick Kirk([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Thanks Wayne! > - Original Message - Glad I could help. -- Computer and car salesmen differ in that the latter know when they

Re: problems upgrading from stable

2001-08-03 Thread russcook
I had the same error when upgrading from 2.2R2 --- Original Message --- From: "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User Mailing List Subject: problems upgrading from stable >Hey people.=20 > >So, I just installed 2.2r3, with only a base system, and then >dist-upgraded to un

Seiko CH5500S printer

2001-08-03 Thread dman
Has anyone had any experience with a Seiko ColorPoint PS printer (model CH5500S)? I have one (it is old and I got it second-hand) but it is refusing to work for me. I have a Woody system and I am using CUPS. I grabbed the proper PPD file from a Win95 box (it was named .SPD and was in MacOS-styl

Re: CD-Rom Probs

2001-08-03 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 08:47:19PM +0200, William Leese wrote: | I don't get it either. At first it seemed like I didn't have iso9960 support That should be "iso9660" | in my kernel or compiled as module (I was using the standard woody kernel) | however after two compiles.. still no luck. Th

Re: CD-Rom Probs

2001-08-03 Thread William Leese
On Friday 03 August 2001 20:13, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, William Leese wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I'm having some trouble getting my cdrom drive to work with linux. > > > > Through dmesg I've learnt that it's /dev/hdc however when I try to mount > > it with > > > > mou

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains [Konqueror]

2001-08-03 Thread William Leese
On Friday 03 August 2001 18:23, Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:04:07AM -0400, dman wrote: > > I thought Konqueror was a web browser. > > It's a hybrid web browser/file manager. Yes, I think that's a bad > idea, but copying Microsoft is apparently all the rage. Personally I like it.

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains [Konqueror]

2001-08-03 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:23:43PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: | On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:04:07AM -0400, dman wrote: | | > I thought Konqueror was a web browser. | | It's a hybrid web browser/file manager. Ok, that would explain my confusion here. | Yes, I think that's a bad idea, but copying Mi

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

2001-08-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Aug 2001, Glen Snyder wrote: > I've tried a number of examples of both the prosper and the seminar > style on the debian woody distibution. I think the problem has to do > with page rotations, somehow. > > With prosper: > I cannot create a pdf with dvipdfm, the image is just white with tkdv

Re: linux certification

2001-08-03 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:50:52AM -0400, Peter Kok wrote: | Dear all | | I am looking for linux certification which recognized by the Unix world I don't know about others, but I consider people who give knowledgable answers to questions (ex on debian-user) to be "certified". I guess the real qu

problems upgrading from stable

2001-08-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. So, I just installed 2.2r3, with only a base system, and then dist-upgraded to unstable...almost. libreadline4 died at a perl script saying that it couldn't find libdb2.so.3. Looks like it introduced a dependency without installing the required packages. Has anyone

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-03 Thread Kent West
William Leese wrote: Again, I'm asking help. With SAMBA how do I: Login to the domain (pdc) I haven't figured that out yet, but it'd be great to know, so that I could image a computer lab of 19 machines to be dual-bootable, so some of the students could get some exposure to Linux. (I'm

Re: DIAMOND FOR TRANSFER

2001-08-03 Thread Robert L. Harris
I hate to say this, but we may need to look at closing the list to non-subscribers. This is getting old. Thus spake peter stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Dear Sir, > I know this proposal letter migth be a surprise to you , but do > consider it as an emergency , in a nut shell , I am Mr Pete

Re: CD-Rom Probs

2001-08-03 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, William Leese wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm having some trouble getting my cdrom drive to work with linux. > > Through dmesg I've learnt that it's /dev/hdc however when I try to mount it > with > > mount /dev/hdc /cdrom > > I receive error message: > > /dev/hdc is n

X Problems

2001-08-03 Thread David Tansey
I can't figure out just what package is causing this problem. I noticed it first when i got branden's 4.1.0-pre5 X packages and installed them. every once and a while the screen would just freeze. if I Ctrl-Alt-F1 to a console and then return to the F7 (X) terminal it is back to normal. After a f

DIAMOND FOR TRANSFER

2001-08-03 Thread peter stone
Dear Sir, I know this proposal letter migth be a surprise to you , but do consider it as an emergency , in a nut shell , I am Mr Peter Clubary, a Sierra-Leonian ,born 29years ago ,now seeking asylum in Dakar - Senegal under (UNHCR). I got your contact through internet research and decide to gi

Re: Anyone using IMP to check their debian.list mail?

2001-08-03 Thread Frans Schreuder
> When you receive this email... does it say that its from "Mike Egglestone" Yes > or "To: debian-user@lists.debian.org" ? Also! As normal as anybody elses mail. > I hope I'm making sense:) Nope Thanks, Frans

Re: PPP configuration and routing problem

2001-08-03 Thread John Hasler
Russ writes: > Route -n shows the ppp0 configured with the same local and remote IP > addresses as shown in options.ttyS1. I assume that your modem is on ttyS1? > I initiate a connection with PON, the PPP0 interface is not properly > configured. Route -n shows the ppp0 configured with the same l

Re: Linux player for Sorenson video

2001-08-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I downloaded a QuickTime (tm) .mov-ie from Apple's > movie trailers sites. Is there any way to play them > under GNU/Linux? I thought the non-free xanim could > do it. But it seems I've just put a good two-hour+ > download to waste. I would appreciate somebody's > "working" experience. Details fo

Re: Linux player for Sorenson video

2001-08-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I downloaded a QuickTime (tm) .mov-ie from Apple's movie trailers sites. > Is there any way to play them under GNU/Linux? Not directly. > I thought the non-free xanim could do it. Nope it

Re: DNS [subtopic: Re: Internet Connection Sharing, was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-03 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Mike McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:06:46PM +0100, Ade Talabi wrote: > > Alvin Oga, > > > > How do you turn on ip forwarding on machin A, which is a WIN 98SE box I'd say use winroute (shareware) if you cannot instead use the linux-box for routing. Stig

Anyone using IMP to check their debian.list mail?

2001-08-03 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi.. I was just wondering becuase when I send an email to debian-user@lists.debian.org The email obviously, gets sent to me but when using IMP to see the message from the "INBOX" it says the email is from "To: debian-user@lists.debian.org" (it should say my name or email address should't

Linux player for Sorenson video

2001-08-03 Thread csj
I downloaded a QuickTime (tm) .mov-ie from Apple's movie trailers sites. Is there any way to play them under GNU/Linux? I thought the non-free xanim could do it. But it seems I've just put a good two-hour+ download to waste. I would appreciate somebody's "working" experience. Details follow: alpha

Re: DNS [subtopic: Re: Internet Connection Sharing, was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-03 Thread Mike McGuire
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:06:46PM +0100, Ade Talabi wrote: > Alvin Oga, > > How do you turn on ip forwarding on machin A, which is a WIN 98SE box > I *think* Win98 can actually do that (95 can't, IIRC), but I don't know how. I'd ask why you'd want to do that instead of using the Linux box to

Re: linux certification

2001-08-03 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Peter, I would also like to get certified. I am working on getting the Sair Linux and Gnu certifications from the web site you listed and I may also go for the certification from www.lpi.org. You might want to look there too. It's a lot to learn! But I think well worth it no mat

Re: Sawfish blocking X....

2001-08-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:06:36AM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > Who owns /usr/bin/esd and friends? yeah i am plain dumb.. changed the group to audio and now it runs. but shouldn't the programs be installed in that group by default?? -- ciao bboett ==

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains [Konqueror]

2001-08-03 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:04:07AM -0400, dman wrote: > I thought Konqueror was a web browser. It's a hybrid web browser/file manager. Yes, I think that's a bad idea, but copying Microsoft is apparently all the rage. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con's Sc

Error message starting Appletalk - can't find in docs

2001-08-03 Thread idalton
I just noticed this happening recently, on machine running Woody with 2.4.3 kernel. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/netatalk start Starting AppleTalk Daemons (this will take a while): atalkdnbp_rgstr: Connection timed out Can't register tarot:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nbp_rgstr: Connection timed ou

Re: Sawfish blocking X....

2001-08-03 Thread Michael Heldebrant
Who owns /usr/bin/esd and friends? --mike On 03 Aug 2001 18:15:27 +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:54:44AM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > Hmm. > > What release are you using? Thats odd that adduser and addgrp hang. > latest unstable (fresh install on a new comp

Re: Sawfish blocking X....

2001-08-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:54:44AM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > Hmm. > What release are you using? Thats odd that adduser and addgrp hang. latest unstable (fresh install on a new comp...) > After a totally clean reinstallation it seems to work now. What the the > ls -al on /dev/dsp and

adduser/group hanging....

2001-08-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hi as someone asked me if i was in the group audio to get the sound working, this reminde me of anotzher problem i got aware of at setup of the machine: adduser and addgroup don't work: they hang after saying that they are performing the job, and never come back. -- ciao bboett =

Re: Sawfish blocking X....

2001-08-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Its a creative SB PCI card, the cheapes i could get but still a card from creative and i would really like to get esd running, and yes i am in the audio group. -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~b

Re: mail headers

2001-08-03 Thread dman
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 01:43:12AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: | On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:57:52AM -0400, dman wrote: | > I think your headers are fine. | | Yeah, after the tips you gave me they now seem to be | somewhat okay. :-). | > Received: from mrsamu.lnk.telstra.net (HELO sammo) (13

Re: code red goes on

2001-08-03 Thread Mike Egglestone
Thanks for the responses... Hehehe... I changed an NT 4.0 Server to a REAL server about 2 months ago... (Potato r3) ... put in apache, samba etc. I think it was using MS II...(is that what NT uses?) I'm not sure though... I know very little about NT... I guess thats why I changed it to something

linux certification

2001-08-03 Thread Peter Kok
Dear all I am looking for linux certification which recognized by the Unix world Do you think the http://www.linuxcertification.com is good to start? Could you have another suggestion? Your precious advice is much appreciated. Thank you Best regards Peter

Re: Sawfish blocking X....

2001-08-03 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 05:51:04PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: | which seems ok, noticed that module sb doesn't work for me despite | having a (PCI) low level soundblaster card found a working module with | the sledgehammer method: | for i in *; do modprobe `basename $i .o` ; done and looked wha

Re: command line formating problem

2001-08-03 Thread Theodore Knab
Thanks that fixed my problem. I replaced my .bashrc file with yours. ;-) I didn't have a /etc_colors file, so I created one. dircolors -p > /etc/dir_colors The color aliases wouldn't work in .bashrc for my colors, so I put them in .bash_profile Now everything looks pretty. Thanks again. On

Re: mail headers

2001-08-03 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:57:52AM -0400, dman wrote: > I think your headers are fine. Yeah, after the tips you gave me they now seem to be somewhat okay. > Received: from mrsamu.lnk.telstra.net (HELO sammo) (139.130.51.57) > by murphy.debian.org with SMTP; Fri, 03 Aug 2001 01:49:17 +00

Re: How secure am I?

2001-08-03 Thread Dave Carrigan
"Patrick Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Running woody so is there a Woody specific line to add to sources'list > for security updates? If I understand it correctly Potato will get timely security updates if you use deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free S

Unidentified subject!

2001-08-03 Thread Michael Heldebrant
I seem to have an interesting problem which wasn't there before I upgraded to 4.1.0-1. Xinerama enabled kills the server with int 11 after all the screens come up. If I disable Xinerama I can get one monitor to run gnome, the other two remain in graphics mode but unused by gnome. The mouse can m

Sawfish blocking X....

2001-08-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello i allready posted that i had some problems with my xsession taking ages to become ready, blocking the whole machine for minutes i am using default gnome session of gdm as coming from fresh debian install noticed a thing, with enlightment i haven't those hughe setup times, but maybe

Re: exim amd .forward

2001-08-03 Thread Patrick Kirk
Thanks Wayne! - Original Message - From: "Wayne Topa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User List" Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 3:27 PM Subject: Re: exim amd .forward | | Subject: exim amd .forward | Date: Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:31:16PM +0100 | | In reply to:Patrick Kirk | | Quoting Patr

Re: How secure am I?

2001-08-03 Thread Patrick Kirk
Thanks all. Found a much tidier if less clever masq rule and all is well. - Original Message - From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User List" Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:15 AM Subject: Re: How secure am I? | On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:21:51AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wr

Re: Network adapter seems ok, but doesn't work...

2001-08-03 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:25:06PM +0200, Tor Arvid Lund wrote: > It is a simple PCI card with a RealTek 8139 compatible chip, my network > is a > simple home network, (192.168.0.x) > My Linux dist. is Debian 2.2.r3 with 2.4.5 kernel (I have 2.2.19-pre17 > on > backup too, if it matters...) > > If

RE: Apache on second ip address?

2001-08-03 Thread Kurt Lieber
> In apache (1.3 version) I have set the following directives: > > BindAddress x.x.x.23 > BindAddress x.x.x.249 > > ServerName x.x.x.23 > Listen x.x.x.249 Actually, if you're just trying to have the box serve up the exact same site on two IP addresses, then you should j

PPP configuration and routing problem

2001-08-03 Thread russcook
I recently did a fresh install of Debian on a machine which serves as the internet gateway for my lan. The version installed was Debian2.2R2. This machine is a dial-up gateway and ip-masquerader for my other machines. The problem is that when I initiate a connection with PON, the PPP0 interfa

  1   2   3   >