Re: X broken for me in unstable

2001-10-06 Thread Vinod Kurup
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:10:45AM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: > Change /etc/X11/Xsession.d from > exec "$REALSTARTUP" > to > exec $REATSTARTUP > > It's a fairly common problem :-) > I think this was a typo Change /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start from exec "$REALSTARTUP" to exec

Re: Forwarding X apps

2001-10-06 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 02:31:35PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:01:59PM -0400, Kyle Girard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > What does one have to do to enable X apps to be forwarded to my machine? > > > > For two machine named debian and firewall respectively, I want

Re: telnet sucks

2001-10-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:35:48AM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:31:06AM -0700, michael young muttered: --> i know > i know...but i still would like to use it. i have telnetd installed, > hosts.allow and deny dont have anything in them, /etc/inet.d shows telnet > running

Re: X broken for me in unstable

2001-10-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:10:45AM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: > > Change /etc/X11/Xsession.d from > exec "$REALSTARTUP" > to > exec $REATSTARTUP How do you figure? tigger:/etc/X11/Xsession.d# grep REALSTARTUP * 50xfree86-common_determine-startup:REALSTARTUP=$STARTUPFILE 50xfree86-c

Re: telnet sucks

2001-10-06 Thread David Turetsky
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:31:06AM -0700, michael young muttered: --> i know i know...but i still would like to use it. i have telnetd installed, hosts.allow and deny dont have anything in them, /etc/inet.d shows telnet running bec. telnet works when the hostname/eth0 ip is used but not with the

broken X startup in sid

2001-10-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
So, I just upgraded, and suddenly X wouldn't startup anymore. I'd end up with an error in my $HOME/.xsession file stating something like /usr/bin/ssh-agent sh /home/msoulier/.xsession: no such file or directory I just hacked the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start file, and put in

Re: X broken for me in unstable

2001-10-06 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 08:55:03PM +, Steve Cooper wrote: > Hello all, > > Having done a backup, I thought I'd "go for it" and accept all the > recent unstable updates. I had held off for a couple of weeks. > > Now X won't start. Before dumping logs and other information spewages > on the g

X broken for me in unstable

2001-10-06 Thread Steve Cooper
Hello all, Having done a backup, I thought I'd "go for it" and accept all the recent unstable updates. I had held off for a couple of weeks. Now X won't start. Before dumping logs and other information spewages on the group I'll start with some simple info to see if there's anything known or ob

Re: NIS/NFS alternatives? - dhcp

2001-10-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya miquel > > if you are worried about security > > - disable dhcp and use all ip# defined by the "mask" > > That doesn't make much sense. if one has a class-C ip# ..and only using 20 ip# out of the range.. it is easy for someone to plug in an unauthorise machine into your network..

PS/2 mouse problems with kernel 2.4.x

2001-10-06 Thread Torsten Kersting
Hi all, im running woody/sid and did an update yesterday, since then I cant get my mouse to work with a 2.4.x kernel anymore. Its a PS/2 mouse that works fine with kernel 2.2.19 (console and X) but with a 2.4.x kernel I cant start gpm (no error message but ps ax shows no gpm process, oops in sy

NAT woes

2001-10-06 Thread Sam Powers
I'm having some problems with nat and 2.4 and was hoping someone could help me work it out. I use the ipmasq package, because I'm not really so interested in fiddling with rulesets manually. I just want it to work. I have one ethernet card, with an aliased interface, eth0:0 Right now, I'm using i

Re: sound distortion

2001-10-06 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:59:49PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 18:46, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > Installed kernel 2.4.10. Built emu10k1 as a module. Before this I was > > running 2.2.17 and ALSA without trouble. I am now experiencing sound > > distortions in some instanc

Re: Letters displaying as aquares.

2001-10-06 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 06-Oct 04:51, Charles Baker wrote: > ``apt-get remove`` any XFree 3.x packages and > ``apt-get install`` all the XFree 4.x packages. [snip] I did have this problem under kde2--kde2 apps worked but nedit/vmware didn't. I finally got logged into X as root (to see kde2's default setup once), and n

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 11:12:51PM +, kerr Avon wrote: > Hello I wish to upgrade my Debian 1.3 to 2.2.r2. I would like to know > if anyone has tried that before and if so is it safe. Several people tested this around the time 2.2 was released, and it worked but required some manual interventi

Re: Another debconf-db than config.dat

2001-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 08:15:11PM +0200, Alexander Hosfeld wrote: > For some packages I want to use an another debconf-database than > /var/cache/debconf/config.dat. > In /usr/share/debconf/debconf.conf you can IMHO only change the db globaly > and in the templates.dat seems to be no way, too. >

FIXED (sort of) - Re: netscape plugins in konqueror

2001-10-06 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Saturday 29 September 2001 03:24 pm, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > 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. It's working better now. When I upgraded to today's version of sid (Debian's unstable distribution), th

Re: Letters displaying as aquares.

2001-10-06 Thread Poul Anker Gensmann
On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Poul Anker Gensmann wrote: > > Updating to XFree86v4 should help, as several other modifications to > > font configuration, adequately addressed in d-u archives. > I have changed the order of font-dir's in XF86Config - but still > squares... > How do I upgrade to v4? Changing

Re: Webmin in woody

2001-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 10:39:28PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: > Hi all, > > is Webmin (plus modules) included in Woody? > > I'm currently running Sid, but I would like to know this about woody... Not yet. Check http://packages.debian.org/. -- Colin Watson [EMAI

Re: IPChains

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
attached is shell script set these three variables accordingly at top of script and run, I am using right now on a dialup connection :-) EXTERNALIP="207.41.66.332" could be 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 for dialup NETWORKIP="192.168.0.50/255.255.255.0" private network INTERNALNETIP="192.168.0.50/2

Re: Prepare to upgrade

2001-10-06 Thread alephtnull
your debian cd is probably busted if your other cds can be read... maybe it's too old? I don't remember if there was ever a debian cd "1.3" -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: IPChains

2001-10-06 Thread alephtnull
sure...is it well-commented? -- *lol* Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Prepare to upgrade

2001-10-06 Thread kerr Avon
My computer gave me this message when I tried to upgrade my debian linux 1.3. irq timeout istatus=0xd0 hdc Atapi reset complete I don't have problems on other cd's whats up. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explo

IPChains

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
I have a IPChains Shell script that I have been using On RedHat and Mandrake for about a year, It works well with debian 2.2 r3 if anybody wants it? mike

FIXED! Re: make X messages more verbose

2001-10-06 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Saturday 06 October 2001 05:03 pm, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:26:45PM -0700, Aaron Maxwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Last night when I apt-updated my sid box, it replaced some of the > > > X libraries. Today my X s

Re: IRC DCC through a firewall

2001-10-06 Thread Rene Chaddock
reason it doesn't work is that it sends the wrong IP address. dcc send sends the ip address of the machine in the actual protocol, and so those packets have to be munged. Beats me why the module doesn't work right, its never worked here. Not once. Rene On Oct 04, Fredrik Jagenheim wrote: > On

Re: Packages

2001-10-06 Thread alephtnull
or you can use apt's excellent search capability ~$apt-cache search window maker wmacpi - An ACPI battery monitor for WindowMaker (alpha) wmaker - NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X wmaker-data - Several free icons for use with WindowMaker and others. wmaker-usersguide-ps - Window Maker Users' G

OT - Australian cyber crime bill

2001-10-06 Thread Sam Varghese
This is for those who have not heard about this. If you have or are not interested, please delete/skip. Last month, soon after the September 11 attacks in the US, Australia passed into law a cyber crime bill which had been under debate for some time. Like a previous bill, passed in 1999 to regulat

Debian upgrade from 1.3 to 2.2.2r

2001-10-06 Thread kerr Avon
I am a Gnu Linux newbie I wish to upgrade by current 1.3 Debian linux to the newer 2.2.2r I have concern because an upgrade like that can mean trouble. Has anyone tried it yet. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://ex

Re: Kde

2001-10-06 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 03:48:50PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > If you want to install KDE, I'd recommend updating to Debian Woody (aka > testing). KDE 2.2.1 is installed, and is generally pretty slick. You > can do the update by changing 'stable' to 'testing' in your > /etc/apt/sources.list f

Re: Letters displaying as aquares.

2001-10-06 Thread John Hasler
Keith Willoughby writes: > Putting it at the end of the Files list seems to do the trick... I guess something in gnome asks for a font once and gives up immediately when it doesn't get what it wants. > ...- but of course, it made my system look as ugly as sin again. I've never been able to quite

Re: gdm Login error

2001-10-06 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 17:09:07 -0400, "Mike Kuhar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I get this strange error after X starts, but before the GDM login > screen: > > "No servers were defined in the > configuration file and xdmcp was > disabled. This can only be a > configuration error. S

Re: make X messages more verbose

2001-10-06 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:26:45PM -0700, Aaron Maxwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > You know how when the X server starts with startx, it prints text to the > > screen and more text to /var/log/XFree86.0.log? Is there a way I can > > make either

Re: make X messages more verbose

2001-10-06 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:26:45PM -0700, Aaron Maxwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > You know how when the X server starts with startx, it prints text to the > > screen and more text to /var/log/XFree86.0.log? Is there a way I can > > make either

Re: Packages

2001-10-06 Thread Charles Baker
apt-get update apt-get install or download the package and yourself and do dpkg -i --- Michael Grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can i get a package into the apt-get list, or > install a .deb file? > > mike... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subje

Re: Packages

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 19:05, Michael Grover wrote: > How can i get a package into the apt-get list, or > install a .deb file? > > mike... dpkg -i your_package.deb I'd also read the man page for dpkg to better understand it. --mike

Re: sound distortion

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 18:46, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > Installed kernel 2.4.10. Built emu10k1 as a module. Before this I was > running 2.2.17 and ALSA without trouble. I am now experiencing sound > distortions in some instances, such as the program "saytime". Festival > sounds fine. There is some dis

Re: xWindows, HELP....

2001-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 03:39:37PM -0500, Michael Grover ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well, I Configured xwindows ans started it. > The first time I ran it I just got a blue screen with mouse pointer. > Now when I boot my machine, I get a xWindows login prompt. > I can't get to a bash prompt to

Re: make X messages more verbose

2001-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:26:45PM -0700, Aaron Maxwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You know how when the X server starts with startx, it prints text to the > screen and more text to /var/log/XFree86.0.log? Is there a way I can > make either or both more verbose (e.g. a debugging option)? > >

Packages

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
How can i get a package into the apt-get list, or install a .deb file? mike...

Re: xWindows

2001-10-06 Thread Charles Baker
wmaker --- Michael Grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think I have WindowMaker Installed? what is > package Name? > > mike > > > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > > on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 05:23:54PM -0500, Michael > Grover ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Well, I got around my

Re: Letters displaying as aquares.

2001-10-06 Thread Charles Baker
``apt-get remove`` any XFree 3.x packages and ``apt-get install`` all the XFree 4.x packages. --- Poul Anker Gensmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Search the list archives. This has been discussed > in depth. > > The problems involve Gtk and it

sound distortion

2001-10-06 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Installed kernel 2.4.10. Built emu10k1 as a module. Before this I was running 2.2.17 and ALSA without trouble. I am now experiencing sound distortions in some instances, such as the program "saytime". Festival sounds fine. There is some distortion in Unreal Tournament when the voice states "You hav

Re: Letters displaying as aquares.

2001-10-06 Thread Poul Anker Gensmann
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Search the list archives. This has been discussed in depth. > The problems involve Gtk and its handling of non-8859-1 encoded fonts, > due to changes in X11. The fault is Gtk, not X11. Updating to > XFree86v4 should help, as several other modificatio

Woody Install

2001-10-06 Thread Chris
Hello, I am having some trouble installing woody on my system. I am starting the install from a dos partition using install.bat and I am using the compact flavour. The installation procedure starts ok but then then when the ?kernel? is booting up it says "Found ramdisk image at block 0" and then

Re: xWindows

2001-10-06 Thread alephtnull
if you have gnome installed you could use gnome_dialup. gnome_dialup-This GNOME applet is a graphical replacement of the pon/poff script. To use this program, you need to use pppconfig to configure the PPP connection first. Gnome dialup will automatically detect what account is available for conne

Re: Packages

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
Ok, I found them listed on the Debian web site.. mike Michael Grover wrote: > > Is there a way to get a list of available packages from apt-get? > > mike... > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Packages

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
Is there a way to get a list of available packages from apt-get? mike...

Re: Letters displaying as aquares.

2001-10-06 Thread Keith Willoughby
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Karsten writes: > > The problems involve Gtk and its handling of non-8859-1 encoded fonts, > > due to changes in X11. The fault is Gtk, not X11. Updating to XFree86v4 > > should help, as several other modifications to font configuration, > > adequately a

Unidentified subject!

2001-10-06 Thread kerr Avon
Hello I wish to upgrade my Debian 1.3 to 2.2.r2. I would like to know if anyone has tried that before and if so is it safe. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

Re: Letters displaying as aquares.

2001-10-06 Thread John Hasler
Karsten writes: > The problems involve Gtk and its handling of non-8859-1 encoded fonts, > due to changes in X11. The fault is Gtk, not X11. Updating to XFree86v4 > should help, as several other modifications to font configuration, > adequately addressed in d-u archives. I found that I had to co

Re: xWindows

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
I don't think I have WindowMaker Installed? what is package Name? mike "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 05:23:54PM -0500, Michael Grover ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Well, I got around my xWindows start up problem. > > > > I booted up with cdrom, went into resc

Re: installing debian on a Jaz

2001-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:35:39PM +0200, Maxime Gamboni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all ! > > I am new to this mailinglist (as well as to the linux world :-) > I want to install debian on my pc, but there's already windows > installed on it, and I don't want to partition the hard disk (which

Re: Kde

2001-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:35:37PM -0400, Eileen Orbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > What windows manager do poeple on the list recommend using? I have > just installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (a.k.a. Potato) and was trying to > find KDE. Could someone point me to this or maybe recomm

Re: xWindows

2001-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 05:23:54PM -0500, Michael Grover ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well, I got around my xWindows start up problem. > > I booted up with cdrom, went into rescue mode, mounted my hard drive, > dumped into a shell, and deleted my XF86Config file. > > I found out why my XWindows

undefined symbol, libXaw.so.7

2001-10-06 Thread Poul Anker Gensmann
Hi again. I also have a problem with x-apps. using libXaw.so.7. When stating eg xterm I get: xterm: relocation error: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.7: undefined symbol: XmuCvtGravityToString According to bug #90658 , it has to do with mixed libc5/libc6 dependencies, but it should be fixed with xlib6

Re: Letters displaying as aquares.

2001-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:21:06AM +0200, Poul Anker Gensmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi. > > After an apt-get upgrade (unstable) I have encountered an annoying problem > in X. Letters display like squares in eg. xchat and menus in xmms. > (I think that it may be related to gtk?) > > I h

Letters displaying as aquares.

2001-10-06 Thread Poul Anker Gensmann
Hi. After an apt-get upgrade (unstable) I have encountered an annoying problem in X. Letters display like squares in eg. xchat and menus in xmms. (I think that it may be related to gtk?) I have searched the bug-archives and various newsgroups and mailing list, but only found one solution: restar

xWindows

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
Well, I got around my xWindows start up problem. I booted up with cdrom, went into rescue mode, mounted my hard drive, dumped into a shell, and deleted my XF86Config file. I found out why my XWindows was not working, I put /dev/tty0 instead of ttyS0 for my mouse. Now I have a easy question? The

Re: Help! Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 21:04

2001-10-06 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 05:42:19PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: | I've tried grub _and_ lilo. Grub just comes up in the interactive menu. | Lilo starts loading the kernel and then the kernel spits out this meesage. Is this the same machine you just asked about the initrd stuff for? To boot with an ini

Help! Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 21:04

2001-10-06 Thread Stan Brown
I've tried grub _and_ lilo. Grub just comes up in the interactive menu. Lilo starts loading the kernel and then the kernel spits out this meesage. This hapened just after I upgraded to the 2.4 kernel from the kernel packages for that. I desperately need to have this machine working by Monday. Ca

Re: Webmin in woody

2001-10-06 Thread Hans Gubitz
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 10:39:28PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: > Hi all, > > is Webmin (plus modules) included in Woody? add to your sources.list: deb http://termserv.berlios.de/debian stable main -- Hans Gubitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Forwarding X apps

2001-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:01:59PM -0400, Kyle Girard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What does one have to do to enable X apps to be forwarded to my machine? > > For two machine named debian and firewall respectively, I want to > forward a display from fireall to debian > > on debian: > > xhost +

Re: Startup

2001-10-06 Thread W. Paul Mills
Put a file called local (or whatever you want) in "/etc/init.d/" and then use update-rc.d to set it up to run. See "man update-rc.d". [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Grover) writes: > In debian I don't find a rc.local file, is there a file that I can use > to run some shell scripts at boot? > >

network again

2001-10-06 Thread Hans Steinraht
-- Hi, I'm stil working on my network, I managed to compile a new kernel with IP-masqurading in it and continued with trying to get my network running. I did: ifconfig 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 and then ipmasq. All looks good, noerrors this time. I'm able to ping to the windows machine

Re: Another debconf-db than config.dat

2001-10-06 Thread Joey Hess
Alexander Hosfeld wrote: > For some packages I want to use an another debconf-database than > /var/cache/debconf/config.dat. You want to filter this by package? That is possible, but it requires the as-yet unwritten Filter DbDriver. It's on the TODO list. -- see shy jo

Gravis soundcard problem

2001-10-06 Thread Russ Cook
I am running Debian unstable with Gnome installed. I have a Gravis legacy soundcard installed, with appropriate drivers enable. When I try to run an mp3 or midi file, I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/music$ splaymidi -g bohemian.mid Playmidi 2.3 Copyright (C) 1994-1996 Nathan I. Lar

Re: IPTables questions

2001-10-06 Thread Julio Merino
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 10:27:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Julio Merino wrote: > > That's affirmative on both of them. > Make sure your kernel has > > CONFIG_IP_NF_FTP > IP_CONNTRACK_IRC > IP_CONNTRACK_FTP > > enabled. (If I remember correctly) Uh... I have: CONFIG

Mail in Communicator 4.77

2001-10-06 Thread Harald Iwe
Hi there, I'm running a standard Potato 2.2r3 and trying to set up the Netscape Communicator Messenger as an easy mail interface for my wife (must be easy to use (point and click), handle MIME, clickable URL's, etc. (I use gnus myself, but she WANTS mouse interface)) To download mail from my

gdm Login error

2001-10-06 Thread Mike Kuhar
Greetings, I get this strange error after X starts, but before the GDM login screen: "No servers were defined in the configuration file and xdmcp was disabled. This can only be a configuration error. So I have started a single server for you. You should log in and fix the configuration. Note t

Re: Man

2001-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:06:06AM -0500, Aaron Hall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Michael Grover wrote: > > > is there any on-line version of the man pages? > > > > like for "man 5 interfaces" > > > > I tried "man 5 interfaces > mike.txt" but there was so many control > > chars

Webmin in woody

2001-10-06 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all, is Webmin (plus modules) included in Woody? I'm currently running Sid, but I would like to know this about woody... Thanks. -- Make a better partition table: http://www.jmmv.f2s.com/ept Julio Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 18961975 pgp5GKIRFyYHk.pgp Description: PGP signature

xWindows, HELP....

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
Well, I Configured xwindows ans started it. The first time I ran it I just got a blue screen with mouse pointer. Now when I boot my machine, I get a xWindows login prompt. I can't get to a bash prompt to fix my xWindows config. If I try ctrl+alt+backspace it takes me back to a xWindows login prom

Re: IPTables questions

2001-10-06 Thread HdV
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Julio Merino wrote: > Do iptables support active FTP's and DCC send/chat protocols? (ipchains > supported these very well). That's affirmative on both of them. Make sure your kernel has CONFIG_IP_NF_FTP IP_CONNTRACK_IRC IP_CONNTRACK_FTP enabled. (If I remember correctly) >

make X messages more verbose

2001-10-06 Thread Aaron Maxwell
You know how when the X server starts with startx, it prints text to the screen and more text to /var/log/XFree86.0.log? Is there a way I can make either or both more verbose (e.g. a debugging option)? Last night when I apt-updated my sid box, it replaced some of the X libraries. Today my X ser

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-06 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Walter Hofmann wrote: > LANG=de_DE mutt > > and it works fine (but mutt speaks german now, which I don't really > like). Try overwriting LC_MESSAGES, ie LANG=de_DE LC_MESSAGES=C mutt . mutt should speak English again, while showing German characters. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-06 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Sat, 06 Oct 2001, Stig Brautaset wrote: > I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. æ > and ø). The strange thing is that they work all fine on the command line, > and if I use more or less to view the mbox-file, they show up as they > are supposed to. It is, in other

Re: WordPerfect 8 problem (won't run)

2001-10-06 Thread Russ Cook
Thanks John Your information solved my problem. I have archive your message in case this situation should arise again. Thanks again, Russ On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, John wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 08:48:55AM -0500, Russ Cook wrote: > > I have WordPerfect 8 on CD, and recently reinstalle

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-06 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 21:06, Benjamin Diedrich wrote: > Thank you all for the fast reply on my problem. I finally figured it out > when I looked at the system log. The NVdriver kernel module was > complaining that an IRQ was not set for the VGA adapter. So, I rebooted, > enabled the IRQ for my vide

IPTables questions

2001-10-06 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all, I've decided to reinstall Debian on my gateway and throw away FreeBSD... But some questions come to my mind about iptables. Do iptables support active FTP's and DCC send/chat protocols? (ipchains supported these very well). Do iptables allow me to redirect incoming connections to the co

Re: ping works not on all sites

2001-10-06 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 19:26, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: > I had a similar problem, i could almost anything, ping, ICQ, dns > lookups. BUT i could not browse, fetch pop3 mail, i could browse an > ftp but not fetch. Regarding ftp I have similar probs; but - as with http - only some sites seem to be af

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:58:35PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 10:48, dman wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 11:00:22AM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > | It's a module. The natsemi module. It loads fine without there being > > | anything relating to eth0 anywhere und

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-06 Thread Benjamin Diedrich
Thank you all for the fast reply on my problem. I finally figured it out when I looked at the system log. The NVdriver kernel module was complaining that an IRQ was not set for the VGA adapter. So, I rebooted, enabled the IRQ for my video adapter in the BIOS, and X windows launched right up. The 3D

starting sympa fails

2001-10-06 Thread Hans Bausewein
Hello all, I've installed sympa, but starting it fails with: Can't modify reference constructor in scalar assignment at /usr/lib/sympa/bin/smtp.pm line 67, near "$rcpt;" Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/sympa/bin/sympa.pl line 22. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/sympa/bin/s

Startup

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Grover
In debian I don't find a rc.local file, is there a file that I can use to run some shell scripts at boot? maybe at final boot? thanks, mike

Re: How to fix device asignment oredre?

2001-10-06 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I have a machine that hs 2 SCSI adpaters, and 2 network cards in it. How >can I control what oreder the devices for these are asigned in? Both are >PCI if it maters. If they use different drivers, and are compiled in the kenel as modules, y

Re: Assembler -to- Binary vs. C -to- Binary

2001-10-06 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 22:57:16 +0530, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I compiled the same set of instructions : > 1. Using C > 2. Using Assembly > into Binary . > > I issued the file command to show the type of the resulting files > (assembler - > binary and C - Binary ) > > Both showed different r

Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 21:04

2001-10-06 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: "Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User List" Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 8:17 PM Subject: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 21:04 > I'm trying to set up a new machine this weekend, and i'm in trouble. > > I installed a minimal "stable

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-06 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Matthew Sackman wrote: >--snip--< > It's a module. The natsemi module. It loads fine without there being > anything relating to eth0 anywhere under /etc/modutils. > > Weird - I simply never knew this should be there. In fact, come to > think of it, on all the boxes I've set up I've never put eth0

Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 21:04

2001-10-06 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to set up a new machine this weekend, and i'm in trouble. I installed a minimal "stable" over the network. then upgraded to Progeny. Then I wen to istall the 2.4 kernel packages from http://people.debian.org/~bunk (thanks for the good work on these BTW). Now, I have a problem. The mach

Another debconf-db than config.dat

2001-10-06 Thread Alexander Hosfeld
Hi! For some packages I want to use an another debconf-database than /var/cache/debconf/config.dat. In /usr/share/debconf/debconf.conf you can IMHO only change the db globaly and in the templates.dat seems to be no way, too. Is there any easy (-> without changing the debconf-code) possibility to

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-06 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 10:48, dman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 11:00:22AM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > | On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:11:08PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > | > Matthew Sackman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > | > > Weird! Both of you that replied talk of putting eth0

Re: ping works not on all sites

2001-10-06 Thread Sergio E. Schvezov
* Timo Blazko Boewing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > well, actually the problem is not about ping itself. the problem ist > that DNS resolve works (e.g. nslookup), but it is like the webserver on > that machine won't give me data when trying with a browser. > But I know from my friends that these mac

Assembler -to- Binary vs. C -to- Binary

2001-10-06 Thread shyamk
I compiled the same set of instructions : 1. Using C 2. Using Assembly into Binary . I issued the file command to show the type of the resulting files (assembler - binary and C - Binary ) Both showed different results : 1. sangharsh.cexe : ELF 32-bit LSB Executable , Intel 80386 , version 1

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Problem

2001-10-06 Thread mikepolniak
On Fri, 05 Oct 2001 06:37:22 GMT "Z-Gen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not found during installation. > How can I set it up? > netconfig or linuxcfg? > Thanks in advance. Make sure your kernel has CONFIG_8139TOO=y or =m If its compiled as a module, make sure 8139TOO is loaded.

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-06 Thread Stig Brautaset
* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 04:39:48PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > | Hi, > | > | I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. ? > | and ?). The strange thing is that they work all fine on the command line, > | and if I use more or les

Re: NIS/NFS alternatives?

2001-10-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Alvin Oga: > for more secure rpc... secure portmapper etc.. ( bottom of link ) > http://www.linux-sec.net/Harden/services.gwif.html That's a portmapper with tcpd/libwrap support. In other words, the portmapper that Debian uses already. It doesn't have anything to do with "secure

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:16:29PM -0400, dman wrote: > > Why not put > > set pager=less > > in your .muttrc? I don't think the built-in pager was meant to be as > complete as a dedicated pager. Is there a way to get mutt's colour support with less? Mike -- Michael P. Souli

Re: WordPerfect 8 problem (won't run)

2001-10-06 Thread John
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 08:48:55AM -0500, Russ Cook wrote: > I have WordPerfect 8 on CD, and recently reinstalled it (I had a > system crash, and had to reload everything.) It used to run fine, > before I reloaded Debian (unstable) and all my software. Now, > when I try to start WordPerfect, I ge

Problems with dosemu

2001-10-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I know I must be missing something glaringly obvious here. I have been trying to get dosemu up and running on my debian linux system. As far as I can tell, I've followed all the directions in the README.Debian file, and I've tried it both with the freedos package (not debian of course) and my own

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-06 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 04:39:48PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: | Hi, | | I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. æ | and ø). The strange thing is that they work all fine on the command line, | and if I use more or less to view the mbox-file, they show up as they | are

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