OpenGL causes hard system lockups

2001-10-03 Thread Matthew Garman
I bought a Matrox Millenium g450 over the summer. I got it setup to do hardware accelerated 3d with XFree 4.x. The only real 3d apps I've used are the "glxgears" test program, and the 3d screensavers that can be built with the xscreensaver package. Some of these 3D screensavers will unexpectedl

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Craig Dickson
Rob VanFleet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been on the list, on and off, for roughly a year now and I have yet > to get a single bit of spam, other than the occasional one that is sent > to a list I am on. None of them have been addressed directly to me. It wouldn't surprise me too much if t

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:32:49AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yeah, knee-jerk reaction on my behalf, but I would have appreciated > having the connection between lists and spam made to me when I signed > up, so, I make it now to anyone who might be tempted to use > their primary e-mail addre

Re: cannot mount zip--totally strange

2001-10-03 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-09-27 at 18:27, Jacob Stowell wrote: > Hi all, > > I just encountered a very strange situation, which has rendered my zip > drive un-mountable. I was modifying a shell script mentioned on this > list as a way to back up a certain directory to my zip drive. After some > doing, I finall

Re: DHCP problems with cable modem

2001-10-03 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 19:56, Andrew Robertson wrote: > 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 us

Re: logrotate still not workin

2001-10-03 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 19:11, nate wrote: > > On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 15:12, nate wrote: > > > > Dumb question for you, but you have logrotate set to not run > > daily/weekly etc in the global part of the config file do you? > > That could be overriding the size limits you want it to follow. > > n

Re: Opti 82c924

2001-10-03 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-09-30 at 05:02, Delphine wrote: > Hello, debian-user. > > How i can install my opti 82c924 soundcard in linux? (Debian 2.2.r0) Check out the mad16 modules. I'd get the kernel-source or kernel docs and read up in sound/Opti about how to get it working. It doesn't list that card by n

Re: Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering <- Still no joy

2001-10-03 Thread Jason Healy
At 1002217484s since epoch (10/03/01 22:44:44 -0400 UTC), john wrote: > Hi! > > I've tried both sets of advice, yet it still doesnt work. What, exactly, doesn't work? No 3D, or no bus mastering? I have a Voodoo3, and I don't think I ever got bus mastering to work either. I thought that it was t

Re: new system

2001-10-03 Thread jackp
> * Brad Cramer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011002 20:46]: > > 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

Re: new libc6, mozilla

2001-10-03 Thread Craig Dickson
Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011002 20:07]: > > 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 toge

Re: Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering <- Still no joy

2001-10-03 Thread john
Hi! I've tried both sets of advice, yet it still doesnt work. I got brave (or frustrated) and tried to set other values using setpci. As far as I can tell nothing I can do actually changes any value, short of actually removing devices. I'm beginning to suspect that I have a dodgy motherboard...

Re: dual boot with Win 2000?

2001-10-03 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:06:35PM -0700, Dmitriy wrote: | On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:02:38PM -0500, Lance Heller wrote: | > X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 | > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org | > Subject: dual boot with Win 2000? | > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > Cc: | >

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

2001-10-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 08:58:11AM +0100, xio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Christensen wrote: > > > > > > Oh my. You're going to get a lot of responses telling you to > > upgrade; but my guess is that you're problems stems from low RAM. On > > 32 MB of RAM, you'r

Re: display manager related

2001-10-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:44:01AM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 ? Not particularly IMO: http://kmself.home.netcom

Re: W3C Patent Policy Comments to Close 30 Sept (RAND Fee-based standards)

2001-10-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 09:55:41AM +1200, Adam Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear Debian-user mailing list, > > Please visit the document below and related links and let others know if > you are concerned about this issue. > > I have prepared a document discussing the W3C's Patent Policy Fr

Re: Compiled kernel 2.4.9 does NOT boot

2001-10-03 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:01:20PM -0500, José Luis Rey wrote: | I installed kernel-image for 2.4.9 and everything went right, then I | installed kernel-source 2.4.9 copied the configuration for the kernel | from /boot/config-2.4.9-586tsc and did as allways: |make dep |make |make module

Re: problems with XFree86 on Thinkpad

2001-10-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:10:29PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:38:49PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:33:45PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > | > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:33:40AM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: > | > [vi

Re: Printing in Linux

2001-10-03 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:30:25AM +0200, Erlend Bjørnson Barkbu wrote: | I've got a Hp Laserjet 5 in my network, it is shared on a | printserver to all the windows-machines on the network by its | WINS-name (//server/printer-of-some-sort) . | | How can I use this printer? | | I've tried to use s

Re: problems with XFree86 on Thinkpad

2001-10-03 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:38:49PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:33:45PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:33:40AM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: | > [video card specs, etc] | > | Does anyone have any ideas? This is really starting to

Re: procmail

2001-10-03 Thread John Patton
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 07:31:49PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > if I use procmail, do I still need fetchmail? or exim/qmail? or procmail > > can do the filtering, sending and receiving mail... > > apropos procmail: > procmail (1) - autonomous mail process

Re: free proxy server

2001-10-03 Thread Aaron Brashears
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=free+proxy+server&n=25 http://www.google.com/search?q=free+proxy+server Try search engines. They still work. On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:38:51AM +0800, a wrote: > Do you know any free proxy server on the Internet?

Re: PDF viewer...

2001-10-03 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ricardo Diz wrote: > Hi there! > > I wanted to know what is the best PDF viewer around. I installed > Acrobat Reader, but I found it not being as good as I hoped. Acrobat Reader is actually the best of them by far. It renders legibly, doesn't crash that I've seen, and can n

Re: downloading debian

2001-10-03 Thread csj
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 03:49, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * kumar suresh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 07:13]: > > Hello, > > > > We tried to download debian cdimages as instructed by > > the latest psudo-image kit but from most of the sites > > we were unable to download the required files. With > > many

Re: PDF viewer...

2001-10-03 Thread John Griffiths
At 12:45 AM 10/4/01 +0100, Ricardo Diz wrote: >Hi there! > >I wanted to know what is the best PDF viewer around. I installed Acrobat >Reader, but I found it not being as good as I hoped. > >Is gnome-gv a better solution? > xpdf is superb within it's limitations

PDF viewer...

2001-10-03 Thread Ricardo Diz
Hi there! I wanted to know what is the best PDF viewer around. I installed Acrobat Reader, but I found it not being as good as I hoped. Is gnome-gv a better solution? Regards, Ricardo Diz P.S. I'm looking for an pleasent viewer to go with my Enlightenment wm :))

Re: new libc6, mozilla

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011002 20:07]: > 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? nope. see

pptpd questions

2001-10-03 Thread Dean Roman
Hello all, I'm about to setup a PPTP vpn using the pptpd linux daemon from woody and win2k clients. The win2k clients are behind NAT'd firewalls so IPSEC is out of the question with Freeswan...otherwise, I would definately use Freeswan. Here are my questions: = 1) Will P

Re: What is the ide-tape device name (/dev/?) ?

2001-10-03 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 17:00, Michael Fontenot wrote: > I installed the ide-tape module, and an "lsmod" shows it to > be there. But there is no /dev/ht0 file (which was the way > I accessed the ide-tape on my old redhat 5.0 system). > > Is the device name for the ide-tape something else in Debain?

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 12:03:04AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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. No shit. $ a

Re: problems with XFree86 on Thinkpad

2001-10-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:33:45PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:33:40AM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: > [video card specs, etc] > | Does anyone have any ideas? This is really starting to wear me down. I'd > | love to get this laptop working. > > Check out t

Re: free proxy server

2001-10-03 Thread a
Can you tell me IP addresses of free proxy server? - Original Message - From: "P Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 7:03 AM Subject: Re: free proxy server On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:38:51AM +0800, a wrote: >Do you know any free

Re: procmail

2001-10-03 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > if I use procmail, do I still need fetchmail? or exim/qmail? or procmail > can do the filtering, sending and receiving mail... apropos procmail: procmail (1) - autonomous mail processor From the http://packages.debian.org site: Can be used to create mail-s

Re: procmail

2001-10-03 Thread John Patton
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 01:02:06AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > if I use procmail, do I still need fetchmail? or exim/qmail? or procmail > can do the filtering, sending and receiving mail... You still need fetchmail and exim (or whatever). Procmail only does 2 related things: it filters emai

Re: directly installing a deb package

2001-10-03 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Alex Hunsley: > Alex Hunsley wrote: > > > > "Brooks R. Robinson" wrote: > > > > > > > I've downloaded a .deb package from the net and want to install > > > > it. How do I > > > > tell apt-get that I'm giving it a direct file name rather than having it > > > > looking at the places in so

Re: free proxy server

2001-10-03 Thread P Kirk
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:38:51AM +0800, a wrote: >Do you know any free proxy server on the Internet? >???P?? ? >?zf???y?z??z???l0??Z???y?h?r??{?{Zr?b???Xy+ apt-get install squid should do it.

procmail

2001-10-03 Thread alephtnull
if I use procmail, do I still need fetchmail? or exim/qmail? or procmail can do the filtering, sending and receiving mail... -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: resiserfs on woody install?

2001-10-03 Thread Andrew Agno
I'd have to second using ext3 on the root filesystem, as I've made various configuration errors when setting it up, and it really is convenient to have it boot up as ext2 when ext3 fails. Andrew.

Re: resiserfs on woody install?

2001-10-03 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I am rebuilding a box. I have the woody floppies, I've gotten to the > point of initializing the root filesystem. Interestingly there is a > "mkreiserfs" available and it can make the filesystem, but doesn't seem > to be able to mount it. I've trie

free proxy server

2001-10-03 Thread a
Do you know any free proxy server on the Internet?

What is the ide-tape device name (/dev/?) ?

2001-10-03 Thread Michael Fontenot
I installed the ide-tape module, and an "lsmod" shows it to be there.  But there is no /dev/ht0 file (which was the way I accessed the ide-tape on my old redhat 5.0 system).   Is the device name for the ide-tape something else in Debain? Or do I need to do some additional configuration to m

Re: directly installing a deb package

2001-10-03 Thread Alex Hunsley
Alex Hunsley wrote: > > "Brooks R. Robinson" wrote: > > > > > I've downloaded a .deb package from the net and want to install > > > it. How do I > > > tell apt-get that I'm giving it a direct file name rather than having it > > > looking at the places in sources.list? The package is sitting in > >

Re: dual boot with Win 2000?

2001-10-03 Thread Dmitriy
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:02:38PM -0500, Lance Heller wrote: > X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: dual boot with Win 2000? > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: > > Work requires I use Windblows 2000. Other linux users with whom I

Re: short reference for Unix commands

2001-10-03 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:17:06AM +0200, Alexander Steinert wrote: > Sorry for not being precisely enough: > > Rather than introductory docs I'm looking for a _short_ reference of > Unix / Linux commands. The best would be _one_ table with all command > names and descriptions and maybe links to t

Re: directly installing a deb package

2001-10-03 Thread Alex Hunsley
"Brooks R. Robinson" wrote: > > > I've downloaded a .deb package from the net and want to install > > it. How do I > > tell apt-get that I'm giving it a direct file name rather than having it > > looking at the places in sources.list? The package is sitting in > > /tmp at the > > moment, and I've

Re: update

2001-10-03 Thread Dmitriy
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:58:33AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > 1. Change your apt-get sources file to reflect "unstable" > 2. apt-get update > 3. apt-get dist-upgrade > 3. Answer no to question: Delete not needed packages? For nicer handling, > use apt-move. > 4. This list is in English, so,

Re: dual boot with Win 2000?

2001-10-03 Thread Kent West
Lance Heller wrote: Subject: dual boot with Win 2000? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Work requires I use Windblows 2000. Other linux users with whom I work report that while they've successfully built dual boot W9

Re: dual boot with Win 2000?

2001-10-03 Thread Sam Varghese
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:02:38PM -0500, Lance Heller wrote: > X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: dual boot with Win 2000? > Cc: > > Work requires I use Windblows 2000. Other linux users with whom I > work report that while they'

gtk apps not setting the window name in enlightenment

2001-10-03 Thread Maciej Sobocinski
I'm running potato 2.2r3, recently I updated gnome to 1.4, which also caused a lot of other packages to upgrade. I'm using enlightenment 0.16.5 and efm for X. The problem is that now, whenever I run a gtk app, it doesnt set a window name for itself, instead I get a 'no title' in the top frame of t

Re: dual boot with Win 2000?

2001-10-03 Thread Pete Willemsen
Lance, I've had excellent experience getting Linux (Debian dist) to dual boot with Win2k. I generally make a small 10MB parition at the front of the main disk to act as the /boot partition. You use this parition to install your LILO block instead of overwriting Win2k's boot loader at the head of

RE: directly installing a deb package

2001-10-03 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> I've downloaded a .deb package from the net and want to install > it. How do I > tell apt-get that I'm giving it a direct file name rather than having it > looking at the places in sources.list? The package is sitting in > /tmp at the > moment, and I've tried adding file:/tmp to sources.list, but

Re: directly installing a deb package

2001-10-03 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Alex Hunsley: > I've downloaded a .deb package from the net and want to install it. How do I > tell apt-get that I'm giving it a direct file name rather than having it > looking at the places in sources.list? The package is sitting in /tmp at the > moment, and I've tried adding file:/tmp

Re: directly installing a deb package

2001-10-03 Thread Mike Alborn
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:10:36PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > I've downloaded a .deb package from the net and want to install it. How do I > tell apt-get that I'm giving it a direct file name rather than having it > looking at the places in sources.list? The package is sitting in /tmp at the > mo

resiserfs on woody install?

2001-10-03 Thread Robert L. Harris
I am rebuilding a box. I have the woody floppies, I've gotten to the point of initializing the root filesystem. Interestingly there is a "mkreiserfs" available and it can make the filesystem, but doesn't seem to be able to mount it. I've tried to install the modules but it won't install until

Re: X compilation problem

2001-10-03 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-10-03 21:30): > I'm using debian and i have tried to compile the new X (4.1.0) I'm > using the sources from your ftp and the compilation always takes about > 700 mb of HDD space and then fails sayng that someone is not member of > some group. I tried

RE:directly installing a deb package

2001-10-03 Thread Andrew Agno
Alex Hunsley writes: > I've downloaded a .deb package from the net and want to install > it. How do I tell apt-get that I'm giving it a direct file name > rather than having it looking at the places in sources.list? The > package is sitting in /tmp at the moment, and I've tried adding > file:/

dual boot with Win 2000?

2001-10-03 Thread Lance Heller
--- Begin Message --- Work requires I use Windblows 2000. Other linux users with whom I work report that while they've successfully built dual boot W95/W98 boxen, they've had no success with W2000, apart from a separate boot disk of course. I expect shortly to begin a linux install into virg

Re: directly installing a deb package

2001-10-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:10:36PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > I've downloaded a .deb package from the net and want to install it. How do I > tell apt-get that I'm giving it a direct file name rather than having it > looking at the places in sources.list? You don't. apt-get primarily handles the

Re: directly installing a deb package

2001-10-03 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- Alex Hunsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-10-03 22:10): > I've downloaded a .deb package from the net and want to install it. How do I > tell apt-get that I'm giving it a direct file name rather than having it > looking at the places in sources.list? The package is sitting in /tmp at the > moment,

Re: directly installing a deb package

2001-10-03 Thread José Luis Rey
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:10:36PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > I've downloaded a .deb package from the net and want to install it. How do I > tell apt-get that I'm giving it a direct file name rather than having it > looking at the places in sources.list? The package is sitting in /tmp at the > mo

Re: directly installing a deb package

2001-10-03 Thread John Patton
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:10:36PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > I've downloaded a .deb package from the net and want to install it. How do I > tell apt-get that I'm giving it a direct file name rather than having it > looking at the places in sources.list? The package is sitting in /tmp at the > mo

Re: X compilation problem

2001-10-03 Thread Colin Watson
(Cc'ed, guessing that you don't read the list; if I'm wrong, my apologies ...) On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 08:44:29PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please give me some help how to compile this, because if i use .deb i > have to put the whole system (dependenci konflicts) to unstable or > testing,

Re: A simple question about wildcards with tar

2001-10-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:57:58PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: > I'm trying to make a backup with tar, but there are certain files that > I don't want to include in the backup. Reading the info documentation > about tar, it says that I can use the --exclude=PATTERN option. So if > I type > > t

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

2001-10-03 Thread Jussi Ekholm
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No; people have recommended Konqueror but I found that it wanted to > install all kinds of stuff connected with KDE which I don't want on my > machine; I like icewm (keep it simple). That is true. Still, I use fvwm and run Konqueror. It installs KDE s

directly installing a deb package

2001-10-03 Thread Alex Hunsley
I've downloaded a .deb package from the net and want to install it. How do I tell apt-get that I'm giving it a direct file name rather than having it looking at the places in sources.list? The package is sitting in /tmp at the moment, and I've tried adding file:/tmp to sources.list, but still no lu

Compiled kernel 2.4.9 does NOT boot

2001-10-03 Thread José Luis Rey
I installed kernel-image for 2.4.9 and everything went right, then I installed kernel-source 2.4.9 copied the configuration for the kernel from /boot/config-2.4.9-586tsc and did as allways: make dep make make modules make modules_install make install mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-2.4.9

Re: new system

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Brad Cramer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011002 20:46]: > 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

A simple question about wildcards with tar

2001-10-03 Thread Walter Landry
Greetings, I'm trying to make a backup with tar, but there are certain files that I don't want to include in the backup. Reading the info documentation about tar, it says that I can use the --exclude=PATTERN option. So if I type tar -cvf backup.tar --exclude='*.fig' * then it excludes all fi

Re: IP Alias

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Chad Morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011002 16:29]: > > 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 ONL

Re: esd esdctl?

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Robert L. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 10:32]: > > > Debian sid box running gnome. I have esound installed and esound-common. > When I do a "ps -eaf | grep esd" it doesn't find anything. I also can't find > which package contains esdctl which used to be the way to start and stop > the

Re: X fonts problem

2001-10-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 20:32:33 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > certain programs, like "plan", "dia", display text as dotted rectangles, > and not even one per letter. See http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/23/ under "Fonts missing after upgrade". HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Ne

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Jason Boxman
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 12:21 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > Jason Boxman wrote: > > I find the effective rule is to trash mail that doesn't have my email > > in the From: address. Hopefully the spammers won't ever catch on... > > Sorry, I haven't been following this thread, but doesn't that mean

X compilation problem

2001-10-03 Thread ice . planet
Hello I'm using debian and i have tried to compile the new X (4.1.0) I'm using the sources from your ftp and the compilation always takes about 700 mb of HDD space and then fails sayng that someone is not member of some group. I tried various kernel versions (from 2.2.17 to 2.4.10), but nothing h

Re: setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Shriram Shrikumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 11:09]: > Hi All, > > just wondering if it was possible to set one of the tty's like tty8 to login > to > another machine via ssh instead of just to the local machine. Haven't done this, but check out the manpage for getty. The -l option looks like

Re: downloading debian

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* kumar suresh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 07:13]: > Hello, > > We tried to download debian cdimages as instructed by > the latest psudo-image kit but from most of the sites > we were unable to download the required files. With > many sites, the make-psudo-imaage command terminated > immediately a

Re: X fonts problem

2001-10-03 Thread Greg Wiley
On Wednesday, October 03, 2001 11:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > certain programs, like "plan", "dia", > display text as dotted rectangles, and not even one per letter. In some programs, that means appropriately-sized screen fonts are not available. -=greg

Re: mutt doesn't know about procmail actions

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 04:01]: > also sprach Rory Campbell-Lange (on Wed, 03 Oct 2001 11:10:49AM +0100): > > Should I repoint mutt to my mbox, by default? How should I do this? > > Also, how can mutt know that there is unread mail in other folders? > > ever tries the manual?

Re: sudo and Debian (was ssh and Debian)

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Brian Schramm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 06:29]: > Hmm, even using the PASSWD: option I still don't have to enter my > password. I don't know why. debian's sudo package has the password timeout set to 15 minutes. This means that once you enter your password once, as long as you don't wait more

Re: X fonts problem

2001-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
am i a dork. someday, i'll use artificial intelligence to make sure that attachments are not forgotten. her she is... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] as i learn the innermost secrets of the peopl

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2001-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] has subscribed to debian-apache, but his email addy bounces with user unknown. i have disabled email delivery for now. please get in touch with me. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Instalation on a laptop advise...

2001-10-03 Thread Scott Henson
> Hi there! I have a lapotp I want to install debian in, it has a nic that > needs a modifyed version of tulip To be able to use it I need to copy > the modifyed version and recompile the kernel to recompile the module... > > The instalation cd I have for debian doesn't have any packages, It

Re: setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
how about an account with zero-password (or password=username), whose shell is a shell script (careful with those), asking for the username, and spawning ssh. it would be better to get getty to do this, though... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto:

X fonts problem

2001-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
recently, i have been experiencing trouble with fonts on my 3.3.6 X server running on 2.4.5/woody. certain programs, like "plan", "dia", display text as dotted rectangles, and not even one per letter. i took the liberty to attach a file to this mail, a gif stripped down as much as possible, please

RE: Instalation on a laptop advise...

2001-10-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Oct-2001 Alexander Wallace wrote: > Hi there! I have a lapotp I want to install debian in, it has a nic that > needs a modifyed version of tulip To be able to use it I need to copy > the modifyed version and recompile the kernel to recompile the module... > > The instalation cd I have f

Re: setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-03 Thread Jacques Normand
Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > Hi All, > > just wondering if it was possible to set one of the tty's like tty8 to login > to > another machine via ssh instead of just to the local machine. It is possible by editing the inittab (/etc/inittab) but it will set a pb if you need a password to set the con

Re: setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-03 Thread Mike Alborn
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:08:47AM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > Hi All, > > just wondering if it was possible to set one of the tty's like tty8 to login > to > another machine via ssh instead of just to the local machine. Just a quick 2sec search, but this might point you in the right direc

Re: DHCP networking problems after upgrade to woody

2001-10-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > It's a Eicon Diva 2430. I found this on it: > > http://www.eicon.com/pubs/diva_2430/index.htm > > with lots of links for explanations and help. > > It says the modem has the IP 192.168.1.1 and that it can be > configured by pointing a web browser at that address. Can't wait > to

setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-03 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
Hi All, just wondering if it was possible to set one of the tty's like tty8 to login to another machine via ssh instead of just to the local machine. thanx in advance. Shri __ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http

Re: DHCP networking problems after upgrade to woody

2001-10-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Nathan E Norman 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). > > Ah, this is the part I missed ... I didn't reali

Re: list etiquette

2001-10-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:51:04PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > I read my email from several places, not all of which have a linux box handy > (e.g. work). Is there a promail equivelent for windows? Why you need procmail? If you have one fixed IP machine, run Linux there and access it through SSH

Re: graphical tool for network design/illustration

2001-10-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 07:20:25PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > hi, > is there a utility that i can use to create images of networks? you > know, the object-based host/server/firewall-bridge/router/hub graphics > program that allows for easy interconnection - and which has that > funny bad-ass-l

Re: Sharing Printers w/ Win2K machine and Samb

2001-10-03 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Joe Barnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > Anyone know about these special versions of win2k-enabled sambas? I'm > just using the latest out of SID. Samba 2.2.1a works fine with w2k. I can't help you with that error message, but TFM has enough info to set it up (I'd suggest buying _Sa

Re: esd esdctl?

2001-10-03 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote: RLH> RLH> RLH> Debian sid box running gnome. I have esound installed and esound-common. RLH> When I do a "ps -eaf | grep esd" it doesn't find anything. I also can't find RLH> which package contains esdctl which used to be the way to start and stop

Re: graphical tool for network design/illustration

2001-10-03 Thread Craig Dickson
martin f krafft wrote: > is there a utility that i can use to create images of networks? you > know, the object-based host/server/firewall-bridge/router/hub graphics > program that allows for easy interconnection - and which has that > funny bad-ass-looking cloud (or similar) to visualize the Big

Re: graphical tool for network design/illustration

2001-10-03 Thread Immanuel Yap
Maybe dia will be to your liking. It's quite similar to Visio, if you're familiar with that. There are both Debian and Ximian packages for it: Package: dia Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 10836 Maintainer: Ximian, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version

esd esdctl?

2001-10-03 Thread Robert L. Harris
Debian sid box running gnome. I have esound installed and esound-common. When I do a "ps -eaf | grep esd" it doesn't find anything. I also can't find which package contains esdctl which used to be the way to start and stop the esd daemon. Anyone know which package? :wq! ---

graphical tool for network design/illustration

2001-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
hi, is there a utility that i can use to create images of networks? you know, the object-based host/server/firewall-bridge/router/hub graphics program that allows for easy interconnection - and which has that funny bad-ass-looking cloud (or similar) to visualize the Big Bad Internet? xfig has an ob

Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.

2001-10-03 Thread igor
On Wednesday, September 26 2001 11:27 am, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:44:05AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I tried to use scp, but I guess it was caching the info somewhere because > > I was getting the same transfer speeds as from HDs. > > That's a good possibility.

Re: downloading debian

2001-10-03 Thread David Steinberg
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, kumar suresh wrote: > So is there any site from where we can get latest > debian? Check out http://cdimage.debian.org/ftp-mirrors.html for a list of Debian CD Image mirrors. (This link was last posted on the list just a couple of days ago.) Cheers. -- Dave Steinberg [EMAIL

xRe: scsi-partitioning

2001-10-03 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:25:11PM +0200, Gerald Richter wrote: > I have no idea why you are getting the error. Have you tried > the "fdisk" command? I have seen it work in cases where cfdisk > fails. Yes, first try fdisk. Sometimes a new disk wi

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