dvisvga missing fonts

2001-09-29 Thread Mike Thompson
The fonts displayed by dvisvga are little squares and the following error message is displayed. preparing font: cmti12 at 300.0 - TFMfile - no PKfile preparing font:cmr12 at 300.0 - TFMfile - no PKfile [0] I have installed: dvisvga 01.03

Re: gnuchess (player vs. computer)

2001-09-29 Thread Mike Thompson
Install crafty and start up xboard from xterm with the command line xboard -fcp crafty the problem with gnuchess not working with xboard goes back to the change from version 4.77 to version 5.0 (when the opening book also disappeared). One fix is that /usr/games/gnuchessx should be a symbo

Re: Tomcat ?? Where to get it

2001-09-29 Thread Vector
it is part of the apache project and can be obtained at: http://jakarta.apache.org vector - Original Message - From: "Shane Broomhall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User (E-mail)" ; "Suse-Linux-E (E-mail)" ; "Linux-Users (E-mail)" Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 9:32 PM Subject:

"Simple" kernel compilation question

2001-09-29 Thread Akintayo Holder
Hi, Could some one tell me what is initrd-2.X.X.gz, and how do i go about creating a new one. I just compiled my kernel and i can't seem to find any docs that explain this file, and how you create it. thanks -- Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who

CD device permissions to rip?

2001-09-29 Thread Jeremy Whetzel
I'm trying to use cdparanoia to rip some CDs, but I can only seem to do it as root. My permissions to /dev/cdrom are world read/write/execute. Same goes for /dev/scd0 (except writing for "others", which is turned off and I can't seem to change with a chmod +w /dev/scd0.) I still get the message

Re: Email all users

2001-09-29 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Hartshorne wrote: > uid=`echo $i | sed -e "s/[^:]*:[^:]*:\([^:]*\).*/\1/"` > Someone make me feel embarassed by posting a much more beautiful script. > At the very least, replace those sed lines with awk or something. It > should be much easier to say "grab the first and third field split b

Re: display manager related

2001-09-29 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 14:40, dman wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:44:01AM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. wrote: > | > | Is there any technical advantage in using a display manager > | to start X window system apart from using "xinit" related > | stuff from the command line ? > > You get a nice pre

Tomcat ?? Where to get it

2001-09-29 Thread Shane Broomhall
Hi All, I have to learn how to use a Java based web portal that will run on most web servers. To run on Linux it needs to have Java on Apache, I have been advised that it is better to use something called Tomcat. Could someone please direct me to where I can find out some more information on Tom

Re: adding a second NIC

2001-09-29 Thread Cam Ellison
* Viktor Rosenfeld ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Rory O'Connor wrote: > > > Because of the DENY I take that you're using a 2.2 kernel with ipchains. > Try > > # ipchains -F INPUT > # ipchains -P INPUT ACCEPT > > which should disable the firewall and set the default policy to > accept

Re: install freezing

2001-09-29 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 11:12:31PM -0400, Jeff Reed wrote: | welp, i'm sure this problem has made it to the list a million times. | | strange indeed...i've been trying to install deb 2.2, freebsd 4.3, | and even mandrake 8 on my pentium 3. as of late, it's been acting | like a big piece of junk. r

Re: install freezing

2001-09-29 Thread Sunny Dubey
On Saturday 29 September 2001 11:12 pm, Jeff Reed wrote: > welp, i'm sure this problem has made it to the list a million times. that doesn't mattter mind telling us where it freezes?? like does it freeze on the kernel bootup, or when you try to load a module, or something else? additionally, do

Re: adding a second NIC

2001-09-29 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:21:40PM -0500, Rory O'Connor wrote: ... | all appears well, but when I try to ping a local machine, I get this: | | PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2): 56 data bytes | ping: sendto: Operation not permitted | ping: wrote 192.168.0.2 64 chars, ret=-1 | ping: sendto: Operation

install freezing

2001-09-29 Thread Jeff Reed
welp, i'm sure this problem has made it to the list a million times.   strange indeed...i've been trying to install deb 2.2, freebsd 4.3, and even mandrake 8 on my pentium 3. as of late, it's been acting like a big piece of junk. regardless of what distro i'm installing, it seems to halt at

Re: Screensaver in KDE problem.

2001-09-29 Thread igor
On Friday, September 28 2001 01:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a problem with my screen saver in kde. > When I go to KDE's control center. When I enable my screensavers, > they are all just blank black screens. No preview, no options are working. > When I go to lock the screen, no screen

Re: Vigor, anyone?

2001-09-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 06:18:44PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 11:23:49AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [vigor] > > Is it headed for testing or unstable? > > As with all new packages, it will be uploaded to unstable first, and > then eventually automatically propagate to

Re: easy libc6 2.2.4-2 fix

2001-09-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 01:18:17PM -0700, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:19:50AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Nice, but I found it simpler just to run dselect and mark the libc6 and > > locale packages with the "hold" flag after manually downgrading to 2.2.4-1. > > What is

Re: adding a second NIC

2001-09-29 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Rory O'Connor wrote: > > PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2): 56 data bytes > ping: sendto: Operation not permitted > ping: wrote 192.168.0.2 64 chars, ret=-1 > ping: sendto: Operation not permitted > ping: wrote 192.168.0.2 64 chars, ret=-1 > ping: sendto: Operation not permitted > > and I can't ping

Re: IMAP server?

2001-09-29 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:37:44PM +0100, xio wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:09:09PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: >> I used to have my SUSE box configured that way. However I couldn't send >> mails to some mailservers because they refus

adding a second NIC

2001-09-29 Thread Rory O'Connor
I am a debian newbie...trying to add a second NIC to my machine - one with an internal and one with an external IP. Linux registers both NICs, because this appears in /var/log/messages: Sep 29 19:12:13 jacktasty kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0x1400, 00:10:5a:07:29:54, IRQ 10 Sep

Re: Email all users

2001-09-29 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 05:18:56PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know of such a way to email all the users > a quick message without having to send the email seperately > to each user? This is really ugly, but ... put the contents of the message you want to send in ./mymail.

Re: port 443 problem?

2001-09-29 Thread Jakob B. Jensen
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:12:08AM +0800, Eric Boo wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using SID. I installed apache-ssl and even though it loaded > without any error messages, i realized that netstat -an|grep 443 gives > nothing. ps aux shows that gcache is running. > > So i purged it and install apache +

DHCP problems with cable modem

2001-09-29 Thread Andrew Robertson
Hi. I just installed Debian last night on my system, and everything works great except the network. I have a cable modem, and the DHCP server requires that I send in my hostname with my request. So far, I have tried (and failed at using): 1) using pump to explicitly define my hostname 2) using d

Re: emacs related

2001-09-29 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Ben Hartshorne: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 10:42:55PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. wrote: > > > > How to fix emacs such that it does not > > typically do lines longer than 75 columns ? > > > > I think what you're looking for is the 'set-fill-column' and > 'auto-fill-mode' option. The tri

Re: Email all users

2001-09-29 Thread Aaron Hall
On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know of such a way to email all the users > a quick message without having to send the email seperately > to each user? There might be more than one way. If everyone checks their mail via POP, your pop server might have a bulletin

Re: Email all users

2001-09-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Does anyone know of such a way to email all the users > a quick message without having to send the email seperately > to each user? One: have an alias that points to all the users in /etc/aliases, or whichever way your MTA handles that, and send the em

RE: Debian Distribution

2001-09-29 Thread Scott Henson
> -Original Message- > From: D-Man [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 8:12 PM > To: Debian-User > Subject: Re: Debian Distribution > > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:12:43PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > | I am very intrested in trying the debian distribution, but

Re: Debian Distribution

2001-09-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:12:43PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > I am very intrested in trying the debian distribution, but I am having > trouble with the way debian wants me to get the cd. I really dont feel like http://cdimage.debian.org/ It was on the download page, of all hard-to-find

Re: Debian Distribution

2001-09-29 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:12:43PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: | I am very intrested in trying the debian distribution, but I am having | trouble with the way debian wants me to get the cd. I really dont feel like | spending money on something i could get for free, so i dont want to pay for | a cd

Email all users

2001-09-29 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, Does anyone know of such a way to email all the users a quick message without having to send the email seperately to each user? thanks Mike

Debian Distribution

2001-09-29 Thread Scott Henson
I am very intrested in trying the debian distribution, but I am having trouble with the way debian wants me to get the cd. I really dont feel like spending money on something i could get for free, so i dont want to pay for a cd set. Also I am having some real trouble with this program that the gi

Re: fonts in X and everybuddy

2001-09-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 03:11:52PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > Ever since my last reboot, the 'everybuddy' program has been > misbehaving. It displays all messages sent to me as little dashed > boxes. It displays all timestamps as little dashed boxes. It > display

nedit menu text messed up

2001-09-29 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
Nedit is my favourite GUI editor. I installed the nedit 1:5.1.1-5 package (from "testing"). When I run it, it appears with all menu text characters displayed as small dashed squares, so it is unusable. I tried removing my .nedit file, and adding an "nedit*font -..." line to my .Xresources: but n

Re: Upgrade CD-ROM Woes

2001-09-29 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Paul M Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010929 17:44]: > > ... Prior to the upgrade, I also used xmcd to play CD's through the > jack on the front of the CD-ROM. However, after the upgrade, none > of the CD-ROM programs will even recognize that there's a CD in the > drive. I don't even have a clue abo

Re: testing my mailserver

2001-09-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nico send your email to any auto-responder... [EMAIL PROTECTED]and check the headers etc.. - if you got a reply ... you and send and receive emails and while you're at it ( teting your mail server ) - test for open relays... - decide if you wanna do anti-virus scanning or not

netscape plugins in konqueror

2001-09-29 Thread Aaron Maxwell
I'm having trouble setting up the Macromedia Flash plugin in Konqueror. I have Konqueror 2.1.1 and KDE 2.1.2, on today's woody. Following the directions, I installed the plugin files in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/; now netscape 4.7 undestands Sockwave Flash just fine. I wanted to have the sam

Re: apt-get help

2001-09-29 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
shock wrote: okay, i marked perl and perl-base as 'hold', then did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade with the same results. i'm stumped. Take a look at the man entry for "apt-get --fix-broken." You could try: dpkg --remove perl perl-base perl-modules apt-get install perl perl-base pe

Re: gnuchess (player vs. computer)

2001-09-29 Thread Ricardo Diz
You have to pass some parameters to gnuchess when you start xboard (i can't remember the parameters). Try check the manpage of gnuchess ('man gnuchess'). I had the same problem before and I read the solution from the mapage. Regards, Ricardo Diz - Original Message - From: "Titus Barik" <

fonts in X and everybuddy

2001-09-29 Thread Ben Hartshorne
Hi, Ever since my last reboot, the 'everybuddy' program has been misbehaving. It displays all messages sent to me as little dashed boxes. It displays all timestamps as little dashed boxes. It displays all text I send as normal text. I havn't noticed this behavior in any other program. I mad

Re: sendmail - blocking addresses

2001-09-29 Thread Carlos Sousa
Richard A Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: No need to worry about loosing setup... add this to /etc/mail/access (create if necessary): [EMAIL PROTECTED] REJECT If you want no mail from the entire domain: clown.com REJECT then either: 1) cd /etc/mail && make 2) or cd /etc/mai

Re: display manager related

2001-09-29 Thread dman
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:44:01AM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. wrote: | | Is there any technical advantage in using a display manager | to start X window system apart from using "xinit" related | stuff from the command line ? You get a nice pretty screen to login to. You can use XDMCP. You can al

Re: Address book for mutt?

2001-09-29 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 02:36:25AM +0200, Andras BALI wrote: | On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:08:36PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: | | > I was just curious - is it possible to somehow incorporate my current | > address book (GnomeCard) with mutt? - I would like to do something so | > that I can tab-comp

Re: DNS forwarding

2001-09-29 Thread Mark Lanett
For dns caching, I would say use dnscache from djbdns instead. However running both a dns cache for internet names and a dns server for private DNS names requires ip aliasing, which is a bit annoying. However the 10-second delay suggests that something is timing out. Perhaps you have broken dns ent

Re: my Voodoo3 wants to accel - FIXED

2001-09-29 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Saturday 29 September 2001 13:38, Jason Healy wrote: Maxwell wrote: > > Hi, I'd like help getting hardware acceleration enabled for > > Voodoo3 card. > > My X server is supplied by xserver-xfree86. From reading the > > documentation, what's needed is for the 'tdfx' module to be loaded; > > it i

Upgrade CD-ROM Woes

2001-09-29 Thread Paul M Foster
I was having some trouble pulling some more packages off my Debian 2.2 CD-ROM via dselect, and was fiddling around with it. Finally, I accidentally started the process of upgrading, via ftp, my installation. Half an hour or so later, the process was done. I have to say that Debian is the _only_ dis

Re: Hardware Requirement for Debian

2001-09-29 Thread dman
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 06:44:48PM +0800, Andy Chan wrote: | Dear all, | | I am SOHO man. I wanna build up one ASP Server (running Debian, Tomcat, | PostgreSQL, ...) to serve my client. If I use following hardware to setup | that server, is possible to serve around 50 cocurrent users. Please a

display manager related

2001-09-29 Thread Jeffrin Jose T .
Is there any technical advantage in using a display manager to start X window system apart from using "xinit" related stuff from the command line ? -- Jeffrin Jose T. www.MSServices.org GPG:1024D/F5726A1B

Re: Can Linux use a Microsoft Proxy Server to access the Internet?

2001-09-29 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
At 21:44 26/9/2001 +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: http access is one thing. have fun trying to get out of the network with something like ssh or smtp/pop3. don't worry, micro$oft made sure that everyone has to use their crap, at least afaik. if you *do* find a way to use the proxy server as a regu

Re: easy libc6 2.2.4-2 fix

2001-09-29 Thread Andras BALI
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 09:29:03AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Running 'echo libc6 hold | dpkg --set-selections', as suggested by > Colin, wouldn't be necessary then, right ?? Right, I assume (but I haven't been following the thread). But putting a package on hold is a much better way of preve

wvdial prompt

2001-09-29 Thread Baoyu
Hi! i have a lot of problem with wvdial, i became no prompt :-((( Ask "Password = 1", " Stopid Mode = 0" , "Login Prompt = 1" works not. :-((( I think password in wvdial.conf is not good idee, but i have no prompt :-((( "Configuration does not specify a valid password" /etc/ppp/pap-secrets i

Re: my Voodoo3 wants to accel

2001-09-29 Thread Jason Healy
At 1001785236s since epoch (09/29/01 15:40:36 -0400 UTC), Aaron Maxwell wrote: > > I'm running today's woody, so all my X packages are version 4.1. > My X server is supplied by xserver-xfree86. From reading the > documentation, what's needed is for the 'tdfx' module to be loaded; it > is, but t

Re: A challenge: 8,000 serial number labels

2001-09-29 Thread Wayne Topa
Andrew Perrin([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Thanks for this suggestion... actually I found a useful little program > that looks like it will do very nicely for me: > > http://www.red-bean.com/labelnation/ > > It's a perl script that does labels from the command line. Very nice.

Re: easy libc6 2.2.4-2 fix

2001-09-29 Thread Jeremiah Mahler
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:19:50AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > Jeremiah Mahler wrote: > > This is by far the best way I have found of dealing with the > > troublesome libc6 2.2.4-2 package. Simply edit the file > > named '/etc/apt/preferences' and add lines like mine shown below. > > Now ever

DNS forwarding

2001-09-29 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Hi! I configured one Debian box as an internet router for our local network, but I've got a little problem with DNS. I installed bind 8.1x on this router for handling DNS queries from all clients and created configuration files as described in the DNS-HOWTO. Now it works, but it takes a long time

Re: sendmail virtusers question

2001-09-29 Thread Robert Waldner
(please, don't Cc me on list-mail, I read all the lists I post/mail to) On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 06:17:37 PDT, Alvin Oga writes: >do yoou mean virtusers or virtusertable >( big difference FEATURE(`virtusertable', `hash /etc/mail/virtusers')dnl cheers, &rw -- -- Russell Foster: "Tell me $DEITY what

Re: A challenge: 8,000 serial number labels

2001-09-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks for this suggestion... actually I found a useful little program that looks like it will do very nicely for me: http://www.red-bean.com/labelnation/ It's a perl script that does labels from the command line. Very nice. ap --

my Voodoo3 wants to accel

2001-09-29 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Hi, I'd like help getting hardware acceleration enabled for my Voodoo3 card. I'm running today's woody, so all my X packages are version 4.1. My X server is supplied by xserver-xfree86. From reading the documentation, what's needed is for the 'tdfx' module to be loaded; it is, but that doesn't

Re: Bug in mutt?

2001-09-29 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:15:49AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > For some time now I've noticed that if by mistake I press Ctrl-s in mutt > it freezes and has to be killed. It's not due to anything in my .muttrc > file because it happens even when this file is not there. Has anyone > else notice

Re: OT:mutt: skipping deleted messages

2001-09-29 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 04:44:49PM +0200, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm experimenting a little with Mutt, and noticed the following problem: > while browsing through a mailing list, I tend to mark messages as "to be > deleted" rather quickly. Sometimes too quickly. Unfortunately,

Re: Emacs question

2001-09-29 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 12:18:09AM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: > I have what seems like a simple question but has become tough to find an > answer. I have been playing around with Emacs for a little while and have > noticed one thing thats really bothers me. Why can't I tab(indent) a new line > i

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-29 Thread dman
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 12:42:29AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: ... | yep. it usually happened on a system that i'd just built, then i needed | to edit a config file and ran "vi"...noticed that it's nvi rather than | vim, so quit and "apt-get install vim vim-rt" while i'm thinking of it. | then run

gnuchess (player vs. computer)

2001-09-29 Thread Titus Barik
In my Slackware distribution, by default, when xboard was started, it would allow you to play against the computer. How do I do this with Debian? I'm assuming that I'm missing something really simple. Thanks. Titus Barik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) AIM: TBarik ICQ: 1604453

RE: Need help recovering system

2001-09-29 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Ross Boylan Wrote: > I was having some hardware problems with my drives, and it seems to have > damaged my setup (which is weird, because I thought I had a normal shutdown > just before the problem). My boot floppy is from a couple generations back > (2.4.7, I think) from my current kernel 2.4

Re: What 3com driver do I need for 3c3fe575ct?

2001-09-29 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 10:37, dman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:30:21AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > | I would like to use the 3c3fe575ct pccard network card from 3Com on a > | 2.2.18 kernel. > > This is a PCMCIA card, right? You need the 3c575_cb module and maybe > the 3c59x too. The

Xawtv - it works!

2001-09-29 Thread Pedro António Neves
Hi all I've finally managed to get the sound work on Xawtv. I've ugraded SB Live! drive and when I use it instead of the one that came with kernel 2.4.6, eveything works (well, almost everything: the volume is controlled via the mixer channel and not directly through Xawtv with the "A" key).

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 07:04:45PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:01:44AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 03:29:39PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > > Not needed, I'll settle for Essential: ye

Re: (not-debian-)programs not finding libraries on Debian system...

2001-09-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 17:44:43 +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > Indeed. But there have been Red Hat releases in the past on which > > applications where compiled to use a hardwired library search path by > > default. > > This program might have been compiled on a RH system, but it depends on

Re: emacs related

2001-09-29 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 10:42:55PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. wrote: > > How to fix emacs such that it does not > typically do lines longer than 75 columns ? > I think what you're looking for is the 'set-fill-column' and 'auto-fill-mode' option. The trick is applying it. Someone on this list ca

Re: What 3com driver do I need for 3c3fe575ct?

2001-09-29 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:30:21AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: | I would like to use the 3c3fe575ct pccard network card from 3Com on a | 2.2.18 kernel. This is a PCMCIA card, right? You need the 3c575_cb module and maybe the 3c59x too. The menu probably mentions "vortex" in the description s

emacs related

2001-09-29 Thread Jeffrin Jose T .
How to fix emacs such that it does not typically do lines longer than 75 columns ? -- Jeffrin Jose T. www.MSServices.org GPG:1024D/F5726A1B

Re: installing X

2001-09-29 Thread Hans Steinraht
Thanks all for the replies. I solved the problem with "apt-get install xserver-svga". This worked for a short time I had a working X-server. Now I have new problems after trying to upgrad all to unstable. I hope I find out. Hans On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 06:27:20PM +, Hans Steinraht wrote: >

Re: Multihead

2001-09-29 Thread Steve Calderoni
I will give that a shot. Sounds like it will do the trick. Thank! -Original Message- From: Pedro António Neves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Steve Calderoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sat Sep 29 11:07:40 2001 Subject: Re: Multihead Hi: With Xfree86 4.x you c

Re: Multihead

2001-09-29 Thread Pedro António Neves
Hi: With Xfree86 4.x you can use Xinerama extension, "which allows applications and window managers to use the two (or more) physical displays as one large virtual display" (from Xinerama - How To). For that you can either edit you XF86Config and make the necessary changes for your video cards

Re: IMAP server?

2001-09-29 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:37:44PM +0100, xio wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:09:09PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > > I used to have my SUSE box configured that way. However I couldn't send > mails to some mailservers because they refused to accept mails from > dailup-hosts. > > How do you av

sendmail - blocking addresses

2001-09-29 Thread Carlos Sousa
I'm using sendmail, and I want to block all mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] The reason I'm posting this to debian-users is that I would like to do it the debian way (sendmailconfig is a cool tool and a great timesaver), but I couldn't find any clues in my system or on the Internet (debian archives,

Re: bug reporting about conflicts in sid

2001-09-29 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:41:09AM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: >> After getting sid successfully installed, I ran dselect to install the >> rest of the packages I wanted. There are a few complaints about >> recomended packages not being available, but the

Re: A challenge: 8,000 serial number labels

2001-09-29 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 11:56 Uhr -0400 29.9.2001, Andrew Perrin wrote: these printed? I am really not happy about manually typing 8,000 numbers, which I think would be necessary using the label templates in StarOffice, Just an idea: output the numbers with tabs and newlines or whatever typing codes staroffice/eta

Debugging Subject: give pertinent facts

2001-09-29 Thread Wendell Cochran
Karsten Self recommends "How to Report Bugs Effectively" by Simon Tatham at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html Tatham's not only right, he's a really good writer. Just to rub it in with soap & sandpaper, I add here that the Subject line for bug reports (isn't that what the

Re: Xawtv - update

2001-09-29 Thread Keith Willoughby
Pedro António Neves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Finally I plugged my headphones directly to my PCTV line out and... sound > works!! > > So, I've isolated the problem to my SB's line in connector. It seems to be > disabled, as well as the microphone channel. > > Are there people on this list

Re: Multihead

2001-09-29 Thread Steve Calderoni
They are Matrox Millimium II 8 meg pci. I am running v.4 of X. -Original Message- From: Pedro António Neves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Steve Calderoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sat Sep 29 09:50:50 2001 Subject: Re: Multihead Hi What video card(s) you have

Re: testing my mailserver

2001-09-29 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 05:47:42PM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > My ISP used to have an e-mail address where you could send > a message to and then the server would send it right back at you > including all the headers it received. Great for testing your > mail server. Unfortunately my ISP doe

A challenge: 8,000 serial number labels

2001-09-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings. For a study, I need a lot of little stickers printed with serial numbers: 800 numbers, 10 stickers each. I'm using Avery 5167 labels, which are 1/2" x 1 3/4", 80 to a sheet (4 across by 20 down). The challenge: to get the numbers lined up with the labels. My thought was to use LaTeX a

Re: Multihead

2001-09-29 Thread Pedro António Neves
Hi What video card(s) you have on you box? What version of X are you trying to run? On Friday 28 September 2001 23:46, Steve Calderoni wrote: > Just installed a Debian sid box. I am running Gnome and Sawfish. How do I > get to video cards set up for a multihead under X. Regards Pedro Neves

Xawtv - update

2001-09-29 Thread Pedro António Neves
Hi again: I tried to connect my PCTV to my SB Live! via the internal connectors... and it still doesn't work. I messed around with channel volumes (following a suggestion from this list) but it still doesn't work. Finally I plugged my headphones directly to my PCTV line out and... sound work

connecting MS-Win 2000 client to Linux server via ppp null modem

2001-09-29 Thread John Kerr Anderson
Has anyone been successful on connecting a MS-Windows 2000 computer to a Linux server via ppp null modem? I have consulted the serial lap link howto and PPP howto. I keep on getting a message from my Linux computer that the connection is not 8 bit clean. I cannot find anyway to change the word s

testing my mailserver

2001-09-29 Thread Nico De Ranter
My ISP used to have an e-mail address where you could send a message to and then the server would send it right back at you including all the headers it received. Great for testing your mail server. Unfortunately my ISP doesn't offer this service anymore. Does anybody know a server that offers

Re: (not-debian-)programs not finding libraries on Debian system...

2001-09-29 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> > Sorry for CC'ing, not sure you are subscribed to debian-user, > > I am. obeying mail-followup-to again ... now I know > Indeed. But there have been Red Hat releases in the past on which > applications where compiled to use a hardwired library search path by > default. This program might hav

What 3com driver do I need for 3c3fe575ct?

2001-09-29 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I would like to use the 3c3fe575ct pccard network card from 3Com on a 2.2.18 kernel. Which driver should I select when I go to recompile the kernel? Regards, Randy

Re: easy libc6 2.2.4-2 fix

2001-09-29 Thread Craig Dickson
Jeremiah Mahler wrote: > This is by far the best way I have found of dealing with the > troublesome libc6 2.2.4-2 package. Simply edit the file > named '/etc/apt/preferences' and add lines like mine shown below. > Now everything should update easily and you can run galeon and > mozilla again.

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-29 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Steve Greenland wrote: > It does. I just tested. Nvi uses 30, vim 120. Indeed: vim (5.7.019-1) unstable; urgency=low ... * Bump alternative priority to be the same as elvis ... -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 18:14:21 +0100 Wichert. -- __

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:50:47AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > it would also be nice for vim to have a higher alternatives > > precedence than nvi. > > It does. I just tested. Nvi uses 30, vim 120. good, that must have changed. > > i often have to install vim on a system, then run "vi" and

Re: Debian review...

2001-09-29 Thread Rene Chaddock
Atually, I had been using linux for a few years (Slackware and redhat), and I found the install documentation for debian practically impossible to parse. It seemed to spend more time reassuring me that it was easy than it did to just tell me how to get the damn thing installed. I eventually built

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 19)

2001-09-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
I have prepared the packages needed to run kernels up to 2.4.10 on a Debian 2.2r3 (potato) system. Please read [1] for more information. Changes since the last release: + there are now powerpc packages compiled by Jens Kutilek + added: irda-tools Binary packages:

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-29 Thread Steve Greenland
On 28-Sep-01, 17:22 (CDT), Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 03:29:39PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Not needed, I'll settle for Essential: yes :) > > good idea :) > > it would also be nice for vim to have a higher alternatives precedence > than nvi. It do

Re: sendmail virtusers question

2001-09-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya do yoou mean virtusers or virtusertable ( big difference c ya alvin On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: > > >On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: > >> Following situation: > >> > >> I have a domain where some specific addresses ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >> should be accepted

Re: (not-debian-)programs not finding libraries on Debian system...

2001-09-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 22:19:53 +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Sorry for CC'ing, not sure you are subscribed to debian-user, I am. > I made a mistake, these binaries were actually not compiled by me. (I > compiled a lot of stuff lately, I got a little confused ;) So maybe it was > *compiled*

Re: easy libc6 2.2.4-2 fix

2001-09-29 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Jeremiah Mahler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010929 02:54]: > Fellow Debian users, > > This is by far the best way I have found of dealing with the > troublesome libc6 2.2.4-2 package. Simply edit the file named > '/etc/apt/preferences' and add lines like mine shown below. Now > everything should update

Re: Security Auditing Tool for Analysing Networks?

2001-09-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya xio simple 1 minute audit... run nmap, nessus, etc.. http://www.linux-sec.net/Audit/nmap.test.gwif.html ( assumes your not behind a NAT fw ) you can spend the next week auditing it if yu want http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Audit/ have fun alvin On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, xi

Re: list etiquette

2001-09-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 01:02:16PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > Who runs the debian list? I emailed the list owner address a little > while ago and haven't received a response. What I said in this email > was: I think that it is an omission not to say in the confirm list > subscription email messag

Re: Fw: Simple way to downgrade libc6 (fix Konqueror, Mozilla and Galeon problems)

2001-09-29 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010929 07:09]: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:14:16PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > Here's what happens when I try that: > > You might want to try 'apt-get install libc6=2.2.4-1 libc6-dev=2.2.4-1 > locales=2.2.4-1' to downgrade the various other packages that

Re: Sylpheed / libgtk version

2001-09-29 Thread mikepolniak
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 16:16:15 -0700 Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im using libranet, a debian derivative, and would love to be able to use >the Sylpheed mail/news client.However, it needs libgtk-1.2.6, and i > can't find that for debian. Am I just confused or is that not yet availab

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