Re: Printing with Epson 880, CUPS, & unstable - landscape only

2001-10-02 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
> Ok, here's the details : > > o Canon BJC-610 inkjet printer, parallel port > > o The driver from Canon doesn't work over samba -- it *needs* the > parallel port (it was originally written pre-win95 too). > > o win95/98 come with some MS drivers for the 600 and 600e. I've >

Re: CUPS does not have samba support.

2001-10-02 Thread Jason Boxman
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 12:44 am, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > * Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Jason, > > How would you go about printing to a remote printer on a WinNT > without CUPS? I have it working beautifully through CUPS/smbclient, but > CUPS is too heavy memorywise on

Re: CUPS does not have samba support.

2001-10-02 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tuesday 02 October 2001 11:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have cupsys version 1.1.10-3 installed. > > Now, when I type: > > debian:~# lpinfo -v > > network socket > > network http > > network ipp > > network lpd > > serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?bau

recent woody upgrades leave me unable to use X as ROOT!

2001-10-02 Thread John Foster
I have recently upgradeed my Woody boxes I have 2 and now I can not log into my gnome-kde enlightenment system as root. I could do that before the last upgrade. A new bug maybe?? John

Re: CUPS does not have samba support.

2001-10-02 Thread Jason Boxman
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 12:14 am, dman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:39:00PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | I have cupsys version 1.1.10-3 installed. > | Now, when I type: > | debian:~# lpinfo -v > | network socket > | network http > | network ipp > | network lpd > | serial serial:

Re: new system

2001-10-02 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 22:48, Brad Cramer wrote: > I am getting ready to build a new box and I would like to make it like > the one I am currently using. I am running Sid updated daily. Is there > a way to do a base install of potato on the new system then change > apt.sources to point to sid Yes.

Re: CUPS does not have samba support.

2001-10-02 Thread Jason Boxman
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 11:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have cupsys version 1.1.10-3 installed. > Now, when I type: > debian:~# lpinfo -v > network socket > network http > network ipp > network lpd > serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200 > serial serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=115200 > serial ser

Re: CUPS does not have samba support.

2001-10-02 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:39:00PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have cupsys version 1.1.10-3 installed. | Now, when I type: | debian:~# lpinfo -v | network socket | network http | network ipp | network lpd | serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200 | serial serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=115200 | seri

Re: Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering

2001-10-02 Thread john
To all who helped, Thank you! I'll not get to try this for some hours (I'm at work now), but I feel hopeful... And Rich, I never complain about too much detail. Thanks again :). I wasn't aware of the xlibmesa issue. John Foster Rich Rudnick wrote: > On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 20:30, john wrote:

RE: new system

2001-10-02 Thread Sean
Just slave the drive into your current system, copy everything over, change stuff like hostname, ip address, and edit the stuff in /etc/fstab if necessary. Toss the new drive into the new system, boot up via floppy, run lilo, reboot, and there you go. Sean -Original Message- From: Brad Cr

Re: Printing with Epson 880, CUPS, & unstable - landscape only

2001-10-02 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 07:08:25PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: | * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > Cool. I think the | > | > *LandscapeOrientation: Plus90 | > | > line the PPD is what does it. The printer must default to landscape, | > so the ppd tells the filter/driver to rotate the

SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-02 Thread jgp
Hi all, This probably isn't news to most people, but I though I'd go on the record here with a warning: If you subscribe to and use Debian mailing lists, you WILL get spam. I know this after getting hit over the last few weeks to an e-mail account that I *only* use for personal correspondanc

Re: Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering

2001-10-02 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 20:30, john wrote: > Thanks for replies so far > > Stephen Gran suggested that I look for a setting in the BIOS to search PCI > 1st. > Unfortunately the BIOS in this machine has a funky graphical UI (i.e. is > designed for stupid people) and has no options suitable. > >

Re: virtual pop3

2001-10-02 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 12:56, Gludovatz Gabor wrote: > Hello, > > I need to set up a pop3 server which can access users' mailboxes even if > they don't have a real user. > The mails gets delivered to /var/spool/mail/USERNAME files, but none of > the pop3 servers I tested is capable to access this m

new system

2001-10-02 Thread Brad Cramer
I am getting ready to build a new box and I would like to make it like the one I am currently using. I am running Sid updated daily. Is there a way to do a base install of potato on the new system then change apt.sources to point to sid and is there a file I can copy from my old system that will in

CUPS does not have samba support.

2001-10-02 Thread igor
I have cupsys version 1.1.10-3 installed. Now, when I type: debian:~# lpinfo -v network socket network http network ipp network lpd serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200 serial serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=115200 serial serial:/dev/ttyS2?baud=115200 serial serial:/dev/ttyS3?baud=115200 I think there is

Re: Debugger for C programming?

2001-10-02 Thread mdevin
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:09:44AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin: Daniel Toffetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > > > Is there a good debugger for C programming. You know, the kind of > > > thing that lets you step through a line at a time running your > > > program and put watches on variab

Re: Printing with Epson 880, CUPS, & unstable - landscape only

2001-10-02 Thread Pete Willemsen
Thanks for all the suggestions. The fun continues... :) I decided to go and hook up the Epson 880 to a Debian unstable machine (running 2.4.9) that I installed and that I've been successful at printing to an Epson 777. I went to the CUPS web administration tool, changed the printer driver typ

Re: Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering

2001-10-02 Thread john
Thanks for replies so far Stephen Gran suggested that I look for a setting in the BIOS to search PCI 1st. Unfortunately the BIOS in this machine has a funky graphical UI (i.e. is designed for stupid people) and has no options suitable. Aaron Maxwell suggested I check the XFree site. This page

Re: new libc6, mozilla

2001-10-02 Thread Peter Hicks
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 20:05, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > i just apt-get updated and noticed the new mozilla and libc packages in > unstable. i think i'll wait to hear if they work before burdening the > network with my download. can anyone affirm that they work together > harmoniously? > > -jw

new libc6, mozilla

2001-10-02 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
i just apt-get updated and noticed the new mozilla and libc packages in unstable. i think i'll wait to hear if they work before burdening the network with my download. can anyone affirm that they work together harmoniously? -jwb

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-02 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Christensen wrote: > I did an apt-get dist-upgrade, to move from 2.1 to 2.2r3, then did an > apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19, based on a recommendation from this > mailing list. > > My problem now is that when I start Mozilla it takes 50 to 60 seconds > before the

Re: Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering

2001-10-02 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 18:42, john wrote: > Hi, > I've been trying to get my Voodoo3 card to do DRI with X4.1.0. > The catch is that the card (a Voodoo3 2000 PCI) needs to be set as > bus master. When I try to use setpci > I find that the bit for bus master is never set. Did you try everything

Re: install freezing

2001-10-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 07:19:16PM -0700, root wrote: > Check to see if your video card is compatible...I was using an ATI Rage 128 > -- doesn't work under the current Debian. I also tried to install Red Hat > 6.0, and Mandrake 7.2...none of these would fly. What does lspci say about your Rage

Re: DHCP networking problems after upgrade to woody

2001-10-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:41:07PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > I got my ADSL line last night, ran '/etc/init.d/networking start' > and proceeded to download 240MB in 28 minutes (!), and upgraded > my Progeny to woody (I didn't change the kernel, running 2.2.18). > > Now the ADSL network won

squid broken?

2001-10-02 Thread Robert L. Harris
I just noticed when I got home that my proxy server appears broken all of a sudden. If I do an "apt-get update" with my proxy pointed at my server as always it says it cant connect to my proxy server. If I unset http_proxy, ftp_proxy I can update just fine. I believe squid was one of the thi

Re: install freezing

2001-10-02 Thread root
On Saturday 29 September 2001 08:12 pm, Jeff Reed wrote: > 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 some > random

RE: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-02 Thread Chapman, Matt
Title: RE: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3? If it were me I would change to woody in my sources.list then apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade.  Then do a apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.x whatever is the newest one. I am running the latest kernel images on i386 and

Re: Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering

2001-10-02 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake john: > Hi, > > I've been trying to get my Voodoo3 card to do DRI with X4.1.0. > > The catch is that the card (a Voodoo3 2000 PCI) needs to be set as bus > master. When I try to use setpci > I find that the bit for bus master is never set. > > The motherboard is a LX/EX based board, w

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-02 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Peter Christensen: > I did an apt-get dist-upgrade, to move from 2.1 to 2.2r3, then did an > apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19, based on a recommendation from this > mailing list. > > My problem now is that when I start Mozilla it takes 50 to 60 seconds > before the application appe

Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering

2001-10-02 Thread john
Hi, I've been trying to get my Voodoo3 card to do DRI with X4.1.0. The catch is that the card (a Voodoo3 2000 PCI) needs to be set as bus master. When I try to use setpci I find that the bit for bus master is never set. The motherboard is a LX/EX based board, with onboard sound, ATI 3D graphics

DHCP networking problems after upgrade to woody

2001-10-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I got my ADSL line last night, ran '/etc/init.d/networking start' and proceeded to download 240MB in 28 minutes (!), and upgraded my Progeny to woody (I didn't change the kernel, running 2.2.18). Now the ADSL network won't work anymore. Running either pump or dhclient now gives me the same IP: e

Re: virtual pop3

2001-10-02 Thread john
Hi Gludovatz. I set up a server using Qmail (from potato) and vpopmail (from www.inter7.com). This combo does pretty much what you want. If you want to try it you'll have to fix some paths in the vpopmail source, as vpopmail assumes Bernstien's layout for qmail, whereas the debianized version pla

Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-02 Thread Peter Christensen
I did an apt-get dist-upgrade, to move from 2.1 to 2.2r3, then did an apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19, based on a recommendation from this mailing list. My problem now is that when I start Mozilla it takes 50 to 60 seconds before the application appears on the screen, and all the time I can

Re: Sharing Printers w/ Win2K machine and Samba

2001-10-02 Thread Jason Boxman
On Monday 01 October 2001 01:59 am, Joe Barnett wrote: > I'm trying to share my parrallel port printer through samba to my win2k > laptop, and getting the following error in my log.smbd when i try to > connect from the laptop: "connect"? Print? > [2001/09/30 22:00:31, 0] smbd/service.c:make_conn

Re: /dev/ttS?? modules

2001-10-02 Thread Joe Barnett
Vineet Kumar wrote: >* Joe Barnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011001 16:06]: >> $ ls -l /dev/ttyS* >> ls: /dev/ttyS*: No such file or directory > >doh! one more question I hadn't even considered the first time around: >is this using devfs? If *not*, then you probably need to create the >device files like

BIOS setting question

2001-10-02 Thread Mike Pfleger
OK; here is my latest weird question: How do you change the BIOS settings if the PS2 port is hosed on a MB? The USB ports seem fine, so I can put a USB keyboard on there, if I go and drop the coin on one (HappyHacking, perhaps). This MB belongs to a friend, and I could prob get it for a song, if i

Re: Printing with Epson 880, CUPS, & unstable - landscape only

2001-10-02 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Cool. I think the > > *LandscapeOrientation: Plus90 > > line the PPD is what does it. The printer must default to landscape, > so the ppd tells the filter/driver to rotate the page by 90° so it > comes out portrait. Try "Plus270" ;-) -- if you want the paper

Re: Sharing Printers w/ Win2K machine and Samb

2001-10-02 Thread Joe Barnett
On 2 Oct 2001 09:44:34 -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: >On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 00:59, Joe Barnett wrote: >> I'm trying to share my parrallel port printer through samba to my >>win2k >> laptop, and getting the following error in my log.smbd when i try to >> connect from the laptop: >> > [2001/09/30

Scroll Wheel Adventures

2001-10-02 Thread Mike Pfleger
Hello, all. Firstly, let me apologise for the delay in getting back to those kind souls who tried to help me with my scroll wheel issues way back when. If anyone's scratching their heads over this, the jist was that I had no activity registering in xev with wheel activity, even though I had the re

IP Alias

2001-10-02 Thread Chad Morgan
Hello,   I set up an IP Alias on my system but I'm unable to access the aliased IP address from other computers.   I have: eth0, IP Address A - can ping from my computer and from other computers eth0:0, IP Address B - can ping ONLY from my computer but not from others. It is listed in ifconf

Re: Printing with Epson 880, CUPS, & unstable - landscape only

2001-10-02 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 04:12:04PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: | * Pete Willemsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ... | Hi Pete, | I don't know if it'll help, but here are my "ppd" and "cupsd.conf" | files attached. THese surely work on my unstable system with an ESC 800 | printer, just like

Re: exim: how to change the "Envelope-to"-field?

2001-10-02 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi (again)! > > I am just playing (or "optimizing) with my debian-box. > And I found out that exim (I think exim is the default mail deliverer in > debian, isn't it?) fills the "Envelope-to"-field with "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > (wich is quite unuseful for someone who

Re: netscape plugins in konqueror

2001-10-02 Thread Jens Gecius
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm also discussing this on the kde user list -- when I get a solution > > I'll post it to both. Hm, I wonder which list will win the race ;) > > hehe > Excellent - I look forward to you message - I'd be grateful if you CC me in > case I'm not paying attenti

Re: (OT) non-proprietary software merits

2001-10-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 09:12:47PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Greetings, > > Today in CIS class, we talked about how software is kind of dangerous > if it isn't proprietary. Also mentioned was Shareware, Freeware and > Public Domain. Where? The reeducation com

Fw: Re: Debugger for C programming?

2001-10-02 Thread Sean Morgan
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:32:40 +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a good debugger for C programming. You know, the kind of thing > that lets you step through a line at a time running your program and put > watches on variables etc. > > I am doing an assignment for Uni, and have been just add

Re: list etiquette

2001-10-02 Thread Robert Waldner
(sending to alex, too, cause I guess he's not subscribed here ATM) On Tue, 02 Oct 2001 22:48:27 BST, P Kirk writes: >>And for unsubscribing here: >>- I'm only one person, if you have problems with me, say so, I'll just >> do the equivalent of killfiling you. >>- if you use debian, it's probably

Re: netscape plugins in konqueror

2001-10-02 Thread David
> I'm also discussing this on the kde user list -- when I get a solution > I'll post it to both. Hm, I wonder which list will win the race ;) > hehe Excellent - I look forward to you message - I'd be grateful if you CC me in case I'm not paying attention ;-) Cheers, David.

Re: SMP Implementation...

2001-10-02 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 16:19, Alexander Wallace wrote: > Hello there, excuse my ignorance here... How's the SMP implementation in > current kernel in potato? Is it pretty efficient? Stable? Reliable? > > I have an IBM PC 325 with 1 P II 266 and I just saw a P II 266 for 20 > bucks in an auction...

Re: AWE64 and isapnp in kernel

2001-10-02 Thread Jerome Cornet
>> I have some troubles using the linux 2.4 isapnp support with an awe64. >> I use the kernel-image-2.4.9-586 from http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian Actually, I created a patch for the latest (2.4.10) kernel to fix this (it was a unknown card to the sb driver). Anybody having the same prob

Re: list etiquette

2001-10-02 Thread P Kirk
>And for unsubscribing here: >- I'm only one person, if you have problems with me, say so, I'll just > do the equivalent of killfiling you. >- if you use debian, it's probably a quite good idea to participate here >- as for unpleasant: that's just life, I'm afraid. > The joy of the Internet is th

Re: exim: how to change the "Envelope-to"-field?

2001-10-02 Thread P Kirk
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:34:35PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi (again)! > >I am just playing (or "optimizing) with my debian-box. >And I found out that exim (I think exim is the default mail deliverer in >debian, isn't it?) fills the "Envelope-to"-field with "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >(wich is

Re: Virus Filter for Debian Mail Server

2001-10-02 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
dave: i presume you are using sendmail as your mail server??? if so, i ran across this article which may be of interest to you. http://linux.com/enhance/newsitem.phtml?sid=125&aid=12419 the first couple of lines of the article are: "Inflex 1.0.6 is an email sanitizer meant to work with the Sen

Re: Debian + DSL...a success story...

2001-10-02 Thread P Kirk
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 03:50:07PM -0400, Jeffrey Michael Reed wrote: >typically all you find is PROBLEMS on the mail list... > >well, i would like to offer some words of encouragement for >a change...a success story. > >using Debian and a cheap Pentium machine (as my router) and >my Earthlink AD

SMP Implementation...

2001-10-02 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there, excuse my ignorance here... How's the SMP implementation in current kernel in potato? Is it pretty efficient? Stable? Reliable? I have an IBM PC 325 with 1 P II 266 and I just saw a P II 266 for 20 bucks in an auction... Is it a good thing to do? A windoze user told me once that he d

Re: Printing with Epson 880, CUPS, & unstable - landscape only

2001-10-02 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Pete Willemsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi. > > I've been attempting to get an Epson Stylus Color 880 printer to work > with my Debian unstable system. I'm running the latest version of CUPS > from the unstable archive and have been unsuccessful at getting > documents to print in portrait m

Re: apt-get sites

2001-10-02 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 07:59:14AM -0700, neville seed wrote: > Hello > > I am new to debian and am trying to find out where I > should direct apt-get. > > I have a basic install of debian but would like to > obtain some other parts and have updates via the www. You can use apt-setup. Sam --

Re: list etiquette

2001-10-02 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 01 Oct 2001 11:40:57 BST, Alex Hunsley writes: >Robert Waldner wrote: >> And for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: well, you obviously need a more >> reliable way to bloody *always* include your .sig... Btw, is >> privacy.com your domain or are you affiliated? I'd guess no, and they >> probably be wo

Re: Biig problem with mount: cannot execute commands from a partition

2001-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:54:26PM +0200, Andreas wrote: > /dev/hdb2 /mnt ext2 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,noatime 0 0 ^^ > I have mounted /dev/hdb2 with the following command: > mount /dev/hdb2 -t ext2 -o defaults,exec,user,noatime,sync /mnt/

Re: Vigor, anyone?

2001-10-02 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:49:20PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: | * Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | | > I had some spare time, so I fixed it up and dropped it in incoming: | > http://incoming.debian.org/vigor_0.016-2_i386.deb. With any luck it'll | > be installed in unstable within a week

Re: Biig problem with mount: cannot execute commands from a partition

2001-10-02 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:54:26PM +0200, Andreas wrote: | Hi! | | I have a real big problem: Yesterday I have edited my /etc/fstab and | since then, I cannot run commands from my /usr/ directory. | | Here is my /etc/fstab: | | # /dev/hdb2 /usr ext2 defaults,exec,user,noatime,sync 0 2 ^ | H

Re: Printing with Epson 880, CUPS, & unstable - landscape only

2001-10-02 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:39:11PM -0600, Pete Willemsen wrote: | I've been attempting to get an Epson Stylus Color 880 printer to work | with my Debian unstable system. I'm running the latest version of CUPS | from the unstable archive and have been unsuccessful at getting | documents to print in

Re: Vigor, anyone?

2001-10-02 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I had some spare time, so I fixed it up and dropped it in incoming: > http://incoming.debian.org/vigor_0.016-2_i386.deb. With any luck it'll > be installed in unstable within a week or so. I'll be waiting for it to show up in Woody :) Mike Pfleger The

Re: network

2001-10-02 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 06:38:27PM +, Hans Steinraht wrote: | Another thing, I'm trying to do make meuconfig and make xconfig in | the dir /usr/src/linux, as root and as normal user, but both my | Mandrake an Debian machine it says: | make: *** No rule to make target `menuconfig'. Stop. |

Re: Beam Internet

2001-10-02 Thread Hereward Cooper
> OMG, goto http://www.expressvu.ca/en/aboutdirecpc.html .. that looks > horrible. Using a modem to send the requests out, and the dish to > receieve the content. > > This just has proprietary-windows-software written all over it. I > would > assume the European Beam Internet would be the exact sa

Re: fetchmail error

2001-10-02 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 06:26:12PM +0200, Volker Schlecht wrote: ... | The only thing that has changed in the meantime was my IP | ... suggestions anyone? From looking at the output I would guess that something (in the SMTP delivery) is taking too long which causes your ISP's POP server to timeo

Re: Beam Internet

2001-10-02 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 02:11:20PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Here in Canada there is a similar service starting at CAD$40 /month :-) > > http://www.expressvu.ca > > You need to also subcribe to Bell Expressvu TV (Satellite dish). OMG, goto http://www.expressvu.ca/en/aboutdirecpc.html .

exim: how to change the "Envelope-to"-field?

2001-10-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi (again)! I am just playing (or "optimizing) with my debian-box. And I found out that exim (I think exim is the default mail deliverer in debian, isn't it?) fills the "Envelope-to"-field with "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (wich is quite unuseful for someone who wants to answer my mails). What can I do

Re: ssh and debian

2001-10-02 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:21:19PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: | Sorry for teh confusion. I use ssh to log in and sudo to change to the | superuser account. I ment sudo and debian in my letter. Now here is my Ah, ok. | problem. I log into my remote machine by ssh and then change to the sudo |

other data WAS: Re: /var and /usr Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a > > server into /var/www. /var isn't made for stuff that's persistens like > > a homepage! in addition, where do virtual hosts go? in g

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-10-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 04:50:18PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > 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 > ... still not high

KDE-Problems: KDE overrides my file associations

2001-10-02 Thread Andreas
Hi there! I have little troubles (again). I want to open a .pdf. But konqueror always starts "kghostview" (even if I change the file associations to "xpdf"). And since kghostview cannot handle .pdf's, it would be preferable to start xpdf, with (as its name suggest) can. Is there a possibility to

Biig problem with mount: cannot execute commands from a partition

2001-10-02 Thread Andreas
Hi! I have a real big problem: Yesterday I have edited my /etc/fstab and since then, I cannot run commands from my /usr/ directory. Here is my /etc/fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # # /dev/hda4 / ext2 rw,errors=re

Re: Debian package security

2001-10-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, The Packages file for the corresponding section hold the MD5sum of the .deb files. For example, look at: (http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/binary-i386/Packages.gz) Now, how do you know that the Packages file was not tampered with? The top level Release file has

Debian + DSL...a success story...

2001-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Michael Reed
typically all you find is PROBLEMS on the mail list... well, i would like to offer some words of encouragement for a change...a success story. using Debian and a cheap Pentium machine (as my router) and my Earthlink ADSL connection, i now have a fine home-based network that's easy to manage an

/var and /usr Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a > server into /var/www. /var isn't made for stuff that's persistens like > a homepage! in addition, where do virtual hosts go? in general, once Well I want to tel

Re: Debugger for C programming?

2001-10-02 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:32:40PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a good debugger for C programming. You know, the kind of thing > that lets you step through a line at a time running your program and put > watches on variables etc. If you want a nice GUI, check out DDD (apt-cache sear

Re: file conflicts between packages

2001-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:20:28AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 02-Oct-2001 Craig Dickson wrote: > > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> This is mixviews violating X policy. Check if there is a bug open > >> and if not file one. > > > > Are you sure? It seems strange. app-defaults is a direc

Re: Printing with Epson 880, CUPS, & unstable - landscape only

2001-10-02 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Pete Willemsen wrote on Tue Oct 02, 2001 um 12:39:11PM: > I've been attempting to get an Epson Stylus Color 880 printer to work > with my Debian unstable system. I'm running the latest version of CUPS Please try the testing version of cupsys-driver-gimpprint. I had bad experience with

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread Grzegorz Prokopski
Hi ! I really like what Angus has showed about his apache config. I have "my" option too ;-) - of course... ATM I can see two major options (no matter where symlinks go): 1) /var/www/$FQDN/, /var/log/apache/$FQDN-{access|error}.log 2) /home/$DOMAINUSER/{somedirhere}/ everything in this dir IMHO

Printing with Epson 880, CUPS, & unstable - landscape only

2001-10-02 Thread Pete Willemsen
Hi. I've been attempting to get an Epson Stylus Color 880 printer to work with my Debian unstable system. I'm running the latest version of CUPS from the unstable archive and have been unsuccessful at getting documents to print in portrait mode. In other words, every document I print whether it

Re: Getting sound to work

2001-10-02 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hi! Hmm, found a neat programm which could tell you if the card is on the pci bus: lspci or so from the package pciutils. Please try that once. And... you could try the following module parameter: esstype=0 (and nothing more). Another question: Have you compiled the kernel yourself, and which syst

Re: Beam Internet

2001-10-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Adam McDaniel wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:55:54PM +0100, Hereward Cooper wrote: > I wouldn't get this satelite deal though, here in Canada there is a similar > service starting thats about CAD$150 / month, (~£60/US$100) ofcourse you > already need a digital cable terminal and be signed up

Re: Where can I find the files for a floppy image

2001-10-02 Thread Jeff Green
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/ and pick the flavour you want, there is a README, you need to choose the right size floppies of course! Mike Towery wrote: > > I am new to Debian and Linux. My cd-rom based version > of Debian is not booting. Where can I find the

Re: Debugger for C programming?

2001-10-02 Thread Rafael Sasaki
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 03:38:17PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Tue, 02 Oct 2001 11:32:40PM +1000): > > Is there a good debugger for C programming. You know, the kind of thing > > that lets you step through a line at a time running your program and put > > watc

virtual pop3

2001-10-02 Thread Gludovatz Gabor
Hello, I need to set up a pop3 server which can access users' mailboxes even if they don't have a real user. The mails gets delivered to /var/spool/mail/USERNAME files, but none of the pop3 servers I tested is capable to access this mailbox without an existing user. thanks Gabor

Where can I find the files for a floppy image

2001-10-02 Thread Mike Towery
I am new to Debian and Linux. My cd-rom based version of Debian is not booting. Where can I find the floppy disk boot disk image? Thanks, Mike __ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com

Printing using nprint to a HP8150 Series Printer

2001-10-02 Thread Theodore Knab
I am having trouble printing to a HP8150 Printer via nprint (novell). The print comes out without formating. Novell print command: server user password printer name file nprint -S CR-AACC-1 -U user1 -P passwd -q PQ-LIBR-121-HP8150N-2 test test file: This is line on

Re: Beam Internet

2001-10-02 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:55:54PM +0100, Hereward Cooper wrote: > once upon a time Adam McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > There prices for a single/home is: > > £500 Hardware (which i think is a rip off, as you're not actually buying > it, it still belongs to them!) > £150 Install Fee > £15

SSH port forwarding

2001-10-02 Thread Failure
I have some boxes behind a firewall that I need access to from the internet. I don't control the firewall, so I thought I would try to use OpenSSH port forwarding. I have placed "GatewayPorts yes" in the outside machine's sshd_config. The boxes involved both use Debian with OpenSSH 2.9p2. I conn

re: ssh and debian

2001-10-02 Thread Brian Schramm
Sorry for teh confusion. I use ssh to log in and sudo to change to the superuser account. I ment sudo and debian in my letter. Now here is my problem. I log into my remote machine by ssh and then change to the sudo system from there. No matter what I have tried it never askes me for a password

Re: file conflicts between packages

2001-10-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Oct-2001 Craig Dickson wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> This is mixviews violating X policy. Check if there is a bug open and if not >> file one. > > Are you sure? It seems strange. app-defaults is a directory, not a file. > I would have thought that any X application's package cou

Re: 3com 905 driver/module

2001-10-02 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 12:49, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > During the installation process, I tried to find a module for > the 3com 905 NIC, but could not find one under the module/net > menu. Is there one thereabouts, or somewhere else ? Try the 3c59x module. Or during compiling look for this tellta

Re: 3com 905 driver/module

2001-10-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:49:57PM +, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > During the installation process, I tried to find a module for > the 3com 905 NIC, but could not find one under the module/net > menu. Is there one thereabouts, or somewhere else ? You want the vortex module, 3c59x -- Nathan Norm

Re: nslookup disappearing?

2001-10-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:42:32AM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: > This message appears when I run Woody's nslookup: > > Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases. > consider using the 'dig' or 'host' programs instead. Run nslookup with > the '-si[lent]' option to prev

Re: OT: html or text to rtf conversion tool?

2001-10-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:59:02PM +0100, Andreas Obermaier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:47:22PM +0100, xio wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to find a common denominator with recruitment agencies who > > don't want to accept my cv either in html or text. Most of them

Re: Beam Internet

2001-10-02 Thread Hereward Cooper
once upon a time Adam McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:21:04PM +0100, Hereward Cooper > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Has anyone had _any_ experience with 'beam' satellite internet > access. > im curious, exactly how much are they going to charge

Re: file conflicts between packages

2001-10-02 Thread Craig Dickson
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > This is mixviews violating X policy. Check if there is a bug open and if not > file one. Are you sure? It seems strange. app-defaults is a directory, not a file. I would have thought that any X application's package could put a file in there. Is it really the sole pro

Re: update

2001-10-02 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:29:01PM +0400, admin wrote: > ?? > > ?? ??, ??? ? ? ? ?? debian ?? > ? > unstable(KDE, Gnome ? ?.?.), ? ??? . ?, > ?, ? ??? ?? ??? ?? ?. > > ???

Re: Network with a PCMCIA card and kernel problems

2001-10-02 Thread Rino Mardo
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:47:34PM -0500, Francois Fayard wrote: > Hi, > > I' running sid on my Dell Inspiron 8100. I connect to the network via a > PCMCIA card Xircom ethernet 10/100 in a LAN through DHCP. Everything is > fine with the 2.2.18pre21 kernel. But after switching to kernel 2.4.9 (Th

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