Re: CD Writer

2001-11-19 Thread Sean
I currently use a Plextor 12/10/32 SCSI CDRW, and am very pleased with it. My burner before that was a Yamaha 4260t (4x2x6), and it is still running without any problems as well. I'm partial to SCSI burners sure, portability is nice, but I'd rather go with a SCSI burner any day. Sean On Tue,

CD Writer

2001-11-19 Thread Howland, Curtis
I would be interested to discuss things with someone who is using a CD writer under Debian. I don't need anything flashy, a USB connected device would be best from a convenience standpoint, but are there any non-obvious problems? Here in Japan, USB CD-RW drives are easy to get, but I would like to

Re: Question about dselect:

2001-11-19 Thread Brian Nelson
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20-Nov-2001 Petro wrote: > > I have a little...issue with dselect. > > > > I'm trying to set up a base configuration for a fleet of servers, > > and I want certain software, and *only* certain software on them. > > > > At lea

2.2.20 kernel strange problem ...

2001-11-19 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, I can not compile a working 2.2.20 kernel for my 486 box using my 686 box. It seems that it takes 686 params somewhere; The kernel always says: Out of Memory System halted It runs for 686 just fine. And I make all 2.4.x kernel for 486 compiling using 686 box, just fine. As the 486 is weak

Re: dhcp-client help

2001-11-19 Thread Donald R. Spoon
"D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > I have installed dhcp-client. > My /etc/network/interfaces is: > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > iface eth0 inet dhcp > I have made the files in /etc/network/ifup and > ifdown and they each have in them eth0. I have a > /var/dhcp/dhclien

Re: NFS tries following remote symlinks as if local!

2001-11-19 Thread Adam Warner
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 16:46, Adam Warner wrote: > I've now just found that current NFS implementations are specially > designed to NOT cross mount points: > > http://playground.sun.com/pub/nfsv4/nfsv4-wg-archive/1996/0004.html > >The NFS protocol is specified to not let a NFS client cross >

working icq client for debian?

2001-11-19 Thread Andreas Leitner
Hi, I am looking for a working ICQ client in debian. gnomicu (which i have been using till now) does not work well together with the new icq servers. they are working on implementing the new (v7 or so) protocol, but it might take some time until they are done. I have heard rumors that gaim supp

Re: debian-user: exim to ISP setup

2001-11-19 Thread Adam Warner
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 16:10, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > I have a few users on a LAN connected to an ISP via a permanent dial up > connection. Some messages with large attachments never get through to a > user is the USA (I'm in Australia). I'm thinking that there may be some > outs coming int

Debian rescue disk replaced kernel

2001-11-19 Thread Roman Mitz
Hi, I'm running into a problem here and wanted to see if anyone else saw something like it before. I was following the instructions in "Technical information on the Boot Floppies" to replace the Rescue Floppy Kernel, as I have a machine with a promise raid controller I want to use for the root.

Re: Question about dselect:

2001-11-19 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Petro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Is there a way to tell dselect ONCE AND FOR ALL that I have no wish > to install gcc on this machine? I don't know how this is done exactly, but I know you can create a dummy package and say that it provides gcc, etc. This way you and dselect c

Re: NFS tries following remote symlinks as if local!

2001-11-19 Thread Adam Warner
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 16:04, Rich Puhek wrote: > Don't be too hard on people who seem to underestimate your knowledge of > a subject... often it's easiest to start from a certain point in an > explanation to be certain everyone's on the same page... That's also > very handy for others following al

debian-user: exim to ISP setup

2001-11-19 Thread Brendan J Simon
I have a few users on a LAN connected to an ISP via a permanent dial up connection. Some messages with large attachments never get through to a user is the USA (I'm in Australia). I'm thinking that there may be some outs coming into play due to the slow dial up connection. I assume the exi

Re: galeon

2001-11-19 Thread DvB
Tom Goulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:55:02PM +, ben wrote: > >> > which package is galeon stored in? > >i don't have it. what's the appropriate syntax to apt-get just that package? > > Galeon is not in stable. If you are using stable you will have to add > som

Re: Via82cxxx locked at 48kHz: solution

2001-11-19 Thread hanasaki
Will this be rolled into woody? when? I am curious about the backround. Is this a different source of code for supporting the chipset, as was used before? Peter De Wachter wrote: This problem is solved for me with version 1.9.1 of the via82cxxx_audio driver. It is not yet included with the

Re: NFS tries following remote symlinks as if local!

2001-11-19 Thread Rich Puhek
Adam, Perhaps a hard link would work in the manner you're looking for? It does appear that there is no way to disable this behavior (as applied to symlinks). Note that NFS servers will return the pathname of a symbolic link, regardless of whether it is absolute or relative (the server really does

Re: Gnome: can't login

2001-11-19 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I thought I've seen the very same problem on this list before, but can't find it browsing the archives. After setting up the dial-in box, and getting used to bash, I now went on with installing woody on my secondary office machine. Everything worked fine, u

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread dman
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 02:15:11PM -0800, David Wright wrote: | On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Kelley, Tim (CBS-New Orleans) wrote: | | > I would say if you're gonna go ahead and share /usr you may as well go | > diskless. You can specify a directory on the server to serve as the root for the client(s). Y

Re: NFS tries following remote symlinks as if local!

2001-11-19 Thread Adam Warner
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 14:35, nate wrote: > Adam Warner said: > > Hi all, > > > > I've come across this crazy problem and I hope someone knows what's > > going on. > > > > I am using kernel-level NFS. Debian unstable. 2.4.14. I have > > exported / > > > > I can mount the remote filesystem on my clie

Re: kernel panic - no init found

2001-11-19 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Rory O'Connor wrote: welp, i'm not sure if linux will ever boot from my hard disk again! before I was having a problem with LILO hanging at "LI", and i deemed it a problem with my SCSI drive. I unplugged the SCSI drive, rebooted, and the MBR was found and the boot process began...only to end i

Re: Segmentation Fault w/ XF86Setup

2001-11-19 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Rafe B. wrote: I just tried to upgrade my "potato" box with XFree86 from "unstable." Bad idea? Not the best. This yields Segmentation Fault when I run XF86Setup. So my questions are: 1. Was it dumb to install XF86 4.1 on top of a 2.2r3 base (kernel 2.2.18pre21) ? Yes, if you mean

Re: Recommendations on Linux C/C++/Java IDE?

2001-11-19 Thread dman
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:46:47PM +, joe golden wrote: | Any recommendations for a good Integrated Devevlopment Environment? | | My brother has used MS Developer Studio and likes working with it. | | I'm encouraging him to make the switch to Linux. We've looked at code | warrior, code crus

Re: Client - Server Program Help !! (in C on Linux)

2001-11-19 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 22:00:19 +0530 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody ! > I had posted a few doubts to this list the last week > about network programming in C on Linux .(rpc, tcp ,udp ,Unix Sockets) . > My tcp programs , the server , running from 10.10.1.4 (listening at 9888) >

Re: added memory, should I increase swap?

2001-11-19 Thread dman
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 08:59:01PM -0500, Peter Christensen wrote: | I started with Debian 2.1 on my Pentium 200 MHz with 32 MB of memory, | then upgraded with apt-get to Potato. I recently replaced the single 32 | MB SDRAM with two 128 MB SDRAMs. | | When I installed Debian I created a 32MB s

Re: Printing in KDE

2001-11-19 Thread Nathan Weston
Update: after a bit more thought, I was able to work around the problem with a little ruby script that pulls out the -#num argument, if present, and calls lpr the correct number of times... but I'd still like to solve the original problem, if anyone has any ideas... Nathan On Monday 19 Novembe

Re: Print daemons

2001-11-19 Thread dman
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 02:47:31PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: | On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 10:41:37PM +, Ross Burton wrote: | > I am going to be printing via Samba to a printer on my girlfriends | > Windows 98 PC. The printer is a Epson Stylus Color 740. What daemons | > is easy to configure, l

PPPOE setup problems

2001-11-19 Thread Nick Jennings
Hello, I'm using testing, and have installed the pppoe package. I have followed the debian specific instructions in: /usr/share/doc/pppoe/README.Debain.gz I tried a: # pon dsl-provider This was the output from plog: # plog Nov 19 09:18:49 gateway pppd[402]: Serial connection establ

Re: Question about dselect:

2001-11-19 Thread Aniartia
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 01:08, Petro wrote: > I have a little...issue with dselect. > > I'm trying to set up a base configuration for a fleet of servers, > and I want certain software, and *only* certain software on them. > > At least one of these pieces of software is a perl mo

Re: dot matrix printing labels

2001-11-19 Thread dman
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:29:00AM +0100, Thomas Halahan wrote: | | Hi, | | I'm looking into printing labels from a roll of labels one | label wide on a dot-matrix printer from a debian box. I | don't want to print a whole page of them at once, only one | at a time - depending on when the stoc

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread nate
Petro said: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:49:05PM -0800, nate wrote: >> hanasaki said: >> > Is there some way to have: >> > >> > - Machine is assigned a DHCP IP >> > - Use the MAC to map to a hostname and then push the assigned IP >> > into Bind with the hostname? >> >> i don't know how you'd use

Re: Netscape6---no toolbars?

2001-11-19 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:52:11 -0800 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 07:16:33AM -0500, chris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Just installed netscape 6 and it only will come up without any > > toolbars. Could someone point me in the right direction to how to fix > > this. BTW it

Re: NFS tries following remote symlinks as if local!

2001-11-19 Thread nate
Adam Warner said: > BTW Samba does seamlessly follow remote symlinks. I'm using the > technique right now to access media that is mounted over a number > of remote partitions through a single mount point. But I cannot get > the underlying file permissions through Samba (which requires > further Sa

Re: Unwanted debug info from woody postgresql

2001-11-19 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:36:09 -0600 Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With postgresql 7.1.3-4 (the current woody version as of last Friday), > I'm getting a large number of messages logged by postgres at 4:00 > every morning, most of them prefaced with "DEBUG:". This strikes me as > rath

Via82cxxx locked at 48kHz: solution

2001-11-19 Thread Peter De Wachter
This problem is solved for me with version 1.9.1 of the via82cxxx_audio driver. It is not yet included with the standard kernel, but you can find it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/. Peter De Wachter

RE: interfaces and ip addressing

2001-11-19 Thread Ronneil Camara
Thank you all guys. It was very helpful. I'm switching to debian coz I've heard that it was built with security in mind just like openbsd. :-) Neil

Re: NFS trys following remote symlinks as if local!

2001-11-19 Thread nate
Adam Warner said: > Hi all, > > I've come across this crazy problem and I hope someone knows what's > going on. > > I am using kernel-level NFS. Debian unstable. 2.4.14. I have > exported / > > I can mount the remote filesystem on my client machine no problem. > But if I try to change to a remote s

Re: lseek error / LFS support with potato

2001-11-19 Thread Eric G. Miller
[snip] > > I think the trick is defining _FILE_OFFSET_BITS = 64. > > Yes, I found after sending the letter. But since this only works when > you compile the program yourself, and the database acording to the > support should not suffer from this limit, I thought maybe there was > some magic flip

Re: RealTek RTL8129/8139 Fast Ethernet driver for kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-19 Thread Oki DZ
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Dries Kimpe wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Coen De Roover wrote: > > > > I'll follow your advice :) > > The strange thing is however, that before I upgraded to 2.4.X everything > > worked fine .. > > > I noticed the same thing. > The card is a RTL8139C and since I switched to

Re: how to limit bandwith

2001-11-19 Thread Oki DZ
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > I have linux router wich handles my DSL line with an iptables > firewall. I someone downloads a file and i game on another computer on > the Internet (e.g. UT) then i get lots of game errors due UDP package > lost... Is there a feature to limit the ba

Re: Question about dselect:

2001-11-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Nov-2001 Petro wrote: > I have a little...issue with dselect. > > I'm trying to set up a base configuration for a fleet of servers, > and I want certain software, and *only* certain software on them. > > At least one of these pieces of software is a perl modules that >

Re: Custom CD-Image of Debian

2001-11-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Nov-2001 Chapman, Matt wrote: > Hi: > > Here is my plan. Take Tier system approach to a proxy/cache/filter setup > using debian as the linux distro. I want to setup a box and then slim it > down to just what it needs for the "appliance" type of system. How can I > then make an image (CD

Re: NFS tries following remote symlinks as if local!

2001-11-19 Thread Adam Warner
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 13:40, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:31:21PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote: > > I can mount the remote filesystem on my client machine no problem. But > > if I try to change to a remote symlinked directory I get, for example: > > > > bash: cd: backup2: No such

Re: RealTek RTL8129/8139 Fast Ethernet driver for kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-19 Thread Peter De Wachter
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Dries Kimpe wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Coen De Roover wrote: > > > > I'll follow your advice :) > > The strange thing is however, that before I upgraded to 2.4.X everything > > worked fine .. > > > I noticed the same thing. > The card is a RTL8139C and since I switched to

Custom CD-Image of Debian

2001-11-19 Thread Chapman, Matt
Hi:   Here is my plan.  Take Tier system approach to a proxy/cache/filter setup using debian as the linux distro.  I want to setup a box and then slim it down to just what it needs for the "appliance" type of system.  How can I then make an image (CD Install) of it so that a user could just get

Question about dselect:

2001-11-19 Thread Petro
I have a little...issue with dselect. I'm trying to set up a base configuration for a fleet of servers, and I want certain software, and *only* certain software on them. At least one of these pieces of software is a perl modules that wants to have libc6-dev, which is fine as f

Re: card with IRQ0?

2001-11-19 Thread mike
On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 23:56, Timo Boewing wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a very strange problem i nevr have had: i build a new computer > from scratch and installed woody. > The funny problem is that linux detects all cards but cannot use'em cos > they are assigned to interupt zero. Thus lspci

Re: NFS trys following remote symlinks as if local!

2001-11-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:31:21PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote: > I can mount the remote filesystem on my client machine no problem. But > if I try to change to a remote symlinked directory I get, for example: > > bash: cd: backup2: No such file or directory > > Because that directory doesn't exist

NFS trys following remote symlinks as if local!

2001-11-19 Thread Adam Warner
Hi all, I've come across this crazy problem and I hope someone knows what's going on. I am using kernel-level NFS. Debian unstable. 2.4.14. I have exported / I can mount the remote filesystem on my client machine no problem. But if I try to change to a remote symlinked directory I get, for examp

MathML support in Mozilla

2001-11-19 Thread Eric Nodwell
I thought that the Debian package of Mozilla had MathML support compiled in, but it fails on the Mozilla MathML test page: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/start.xml Mozilla package version: 0.9.5-5 Anybody know how to get MathML support? Eric

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread Petro
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:49:05PM -0800, nate wrote: > hanasaki said: > > Is there some way to have: > > > > - Machine is assigned a DHCP IP > > - Use the MAC to map to a hostname and then push the assigned IP > > into Bind with the hostname? > > i don't know how you'd use the MAC to map to a h

Re: Web-based email encryption / signing

2001-11-19 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 11:40:58AM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 11:22:04PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Are there any-web based email providers that allow you to sign or encrypt > > emails? > > http://www.hushmail.com > > > Would it still require that the computer

Re: interfaces and ip addressing

2001-11-19 Thread Petro
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:37:43PM -0800, Tom Goulet wrote: > >Can I also untar linux-2.2.19.kernel.source.tar.gz under /usr/src and > do > >the same stuff I've been doing for a long time? make menuconfig dep > >clean modules modules-install bzImage. Should I also copy the compiled > >kernel to /bo

Re: galeon

2001-11-19 Thread Tom Goulet
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:55:02PM +, ben wrote: >> > which package is galeon stored in? >i don't have it. what's the appropriate syntax to apt-get just that package? Galeon is not in stable. If you are using stable you will have to add some custom lines to /etc/apt/sources.list, install the

Re: interfaces and ip addressing

2001-11-19 Thread Timo Boewing
Ronneil Camara wrote: > I would like to know what file is used for setting up ip addresses and > gateway. What about interfaces, how can I create more than 2 lan cards > enable. Let say, I got 2 3com nics. The file of interest is /etc/network/interfaces, an example would be: # Used by ifup(8) a

Re: proper format for /etc/networks

2001-11-19 Thread nate
Rich Puhek said: > nate, > > I believe you just add an "alias" for the given network (so to > speak). Let's say you have a local ethernet on 10.0.0.0 and your > accounting dept. has their own subnet at 192.168.50.0. You might > want to do: > > localnet 10.0.0.0 > accounting 192.168.50.0 > > Then, i

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread nate
hanasaki said: > Is there some way to have: > > - Machine is assigned a DHCP IP > - Use the MAC to map to a hostname and then push the assigned IP > into Bind with the hostname? i don't know how you'd use the MAC to map to a hostname. you can use it to map to an ip ..but how would you determine

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread nate
David Wright said: > > Several posters have pointed out that I can get DHCP to assign IPs > based on MAC, which goes a long way toward solving my problem. I > guess if I share hosts using ldap, I can still give each machine a > unique name, too. > > Now the only problem I can think of with sharing

Re: galeon

2001-11-19 Thread ben
On Monday 19 November 2001 22:02, Kurt Lieber wrote: > Ummm...let's see: > > z8:/# apt-cache search galeon > galeon - Mozilla based web browser with GNOME look and feel > z8:/# > > Looks like it's in the "galeon" package. > > --kurt > > On Monday 19 November 2001 05:55 am, ben wrote: > > which pack

Re: interfaces and ip addressing

2001-11-19 Thread Tom Goulet
>I would like to know what file is used for setting up ip addresses and >gateway. What about interfaces, how can I create more than 2 lan cards >enable. Let say, I got 2 3com nics. The file is /etc/network/interfaces. See man interfaces for more information. >In redhat, I used rpm. What pkg inst

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread Petro
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 02:38:56PM -0800, Robert Waldner wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:35:21 CST, hanasaki writes: > >Is there some way to have: > > > >- Machine is assigned a DHCP IP > >- Use the MAC to map to a hostname and then push the assigned IP into > >Bind with the hostname? > uargh,

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread Richard Hector
David Wright wrote: > > Now the only problem I can think of with sharing /usr and /etc is that my > file server's /etc will contain stuff like /etc/exports, which will end up > telling every machine to be a file server. H. The server doesn't have to export its _own_ /etc - you could have a se

Re: Recommendations on Linux C/C++/Java IDE?

2001-11-19 Thread Anders Jackson
"joe golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any recommendations for a good Integrated Devevlopment Environment? Emacs, of course. With make(1) and cvs(1). Look at M-x gdb and M-x compile > My brother has used MS Developer Studio and likes working with it. > > I'm encouraging him to make the s

Re: C++: Indenting and formatting program sources.

2001-11-19 Thread Gary Turner
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 17:24:22 +0200, you wrote: >Can anyone recommend a program to indent and format C++ program sources >for consistency of style and perhaps better readability? >Specifying the used options or attaching a suitable configuration file >(like a .ident.pro for GNU indent) is desirab

Re: gtk related

2001-11-19 Thread Matthew Dalton
Jeffrin wrote: > Is there any chat channel specific to gtk programmer's ? Try looking at http://www.gtk.org

[OT] Dual head console?

2001-11-19 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi People! I've got dual head working in XFree, but am now curious - if I don't start up XFree, is there any way I can run consoles on both monitors? inittab doesn't seem to help and I can't find any kernel options and I can't find anything on the web. Does anyone have any ideas or is this just n

Re: proper format for /etc/networks

2001-11-19 Thread Rich Puhek
nate, I believe you just add an "alias" for the given network (so to speak). Let's say you have a local ethernet on 10.0.0.0 and your accounting dept. has their own subnet at 192.168.50.0. You might want to do: localnet 10.0.0.0 accounting 192.168.50.0 Then, instead of seeing "10.0.0.0" in your

Re: Help! Package Hell! :)

2001-11-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 09:05:26PM -, Ben Hill wrote: > I am trying to find my way through Debian at the moment, but am having > a bit of a nightmare with an installation of Ximian Gnome. > > I am trying to install the packages required for the dependancies > found by the installer but I have

Re: C++: no hash_map while it is there?

2001-11-19 Thread Phil Edwards
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 12:03:37PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 04:12:06AM +0100, Martin v. Loewis wrote: > > I also believe that the comment in this header claiming that it is > > internal is incorrect; the headers without .h are never internal, but > > meant for the user o

interfaces and ip addressing

2001-11-19 Thread Ronneil Camara
Hi, I'm new with debian, actually I'm 2 hours old now with debian. :-). I would like to know what file is used for setting up ip addresses and gateway. What about interfaces, how can I create more than 2 lan cards enable. Let say, I got 2 3com nics. In redhat, I used rpm. What pkg installer shou

Re: RealTek RTL8129/8139 Fast Ethernet driver for kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-19 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dries Kimpe) writes: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Coen De Roover wrote: > > > > I'll follow your advice :) > > The strange thing is however, that before I upgraded to 2.4.X everything > > worked fine .. > > > I noticed the same thing. > The card is a RTL8139C and since I switched to

RE: Problems with eth0 and 2.2R4

2001-11-19 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| -Original Message- | From: Daniel Hartman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Monday, 19 November, 2001 04:23 PM | To: Debian-Users List | Subject: Problems with eth0 and 2.2R4 | | | Hey all, | | I am having problems with my ethernet card after installing 2.2R4 on my | laptop. I have t

KDE 2.2 and cups / testing

2001-11-19 Thread Kelley, Tim \(CBS-New Orleans\)
Does anyone know how to get KDE to recognize CUPS? I have QT cups installed, and cups works great, but not sure how to proceed with telling kde how to use it ... Tim Kelley Cox Business Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]

proper format for /etc/networks

2001-11-19 Thread nate
whats the proper format for /etc/networks in debian? i've never had to use this file before but it looks like i do now in order to use certain options with snort. theres no manpage on it, i looked at the solaris version of networks and tried to do the file that way but it didn't seem to work. net

Re: ALSA compile problems

2001-11-19 Thread Ryan Sackenheim
Make sure you've downloaded the kernel-headers package. And when you run ./configure, make sure to include '--includedir=/usr/src/kernel-headers-x.x.x'. Good luck, -Ryan On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:08:04PM +0100, Morbo wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried to compile the ALSA drivers (both 0.90 and 0.50)

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread Rich Puhek
How about setting up a custom /etc/ for each client... doing something like: On NFS server: == /etc/ client1/ client2/ client3/ ... On clients: === mount :/etc/client /etc/ (where is the client number...) /etc isn't huge, so having multiple copies isn't a hug

Re: RealTek RTL8129/8139 Fast Ethernet driver for kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-19 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:36:51 +1100, mobtek mobtekl writes: >On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 11:57:35 -0600 >Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes. I solved it be throwing the cards in the garbage and installing >> real NICs. >> >> These cards were reporting overruns at a rate 10x that of properl

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:35:21 CST, hanasaki writes: >Is there some way to have: > >- Machine is assigned a DHCP IP >- Use the MAC to map to a hostname and then push the assigned IP into >Bind with the hostname? uargh, you're thinking of something like MSs "Active DNS" (or whatever it's called

Re: RealTek RTL8129/8139 Fast Ethernet driver for kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-19 Thread mobtek mobtekl
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 11:57:35 -0600 Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wierd, I'm using two of these cards on 2.4.13 without any probs whatsoever. I've generally found them to be really reliable cards. cheers peter vdm > > Yes. I solved it be throwing the cards in the garbage and insta

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread hanasaki
Is there some way to have: - Machine is assigned a DHCP IP - Use the MAC to map to a hostname and then push the assigned IP into Bind with the hostname? nate wrote: David Wright said: I have also thought of trying to make the workstations diskless and using DHCP -- but then how can I giv

Re: allowing root to display to a user's X session

2001-11-19 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 09:11, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > 'xhost +localhost' should fix the problem (this allows connections to > > your x session from your local machine). This actually gives me GTK+ errors and doesn't work. > > My preferred solution is to su to root and do: > > export XAUTHORITY=

Printing in KDE

2001-11-19 Thread Nathan Weston
I am running debian unstable, and I have a local printer that is working with lpr. However, when I try to print from KDE, it calls lpr with the -#num option to indicate the number of copies. lpr does not recognize this option and prints out a usage message. According to both the man page and th

mozilla + sawfish

2001-11-19 Thread Timo Boewing
Hello, currently i am using my GNOME with sawfish again but still having "problems" with mozilla. With enlightenment, everything worked pretty well, but w/ sawfish all moilla windows have the same size, no matter if a porperty window (e.g. bookmark window, image props, popup etc.). Thus, if a

Problems with eth0 and 2.2R4

2001-11-19 Thread Daniel Hartman
Hey all, I am having problems with my ethernet card after installing 2.2R4 on my laptop. I have to perform the following everytime I reboot my machine: # route add default eth0 # route add default gw Does anyone know what I might be missing? Am I not providing enough information? Th

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Petro: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:17:29PM -0800, David Wright wrote: > > > > I manage a cluster used for computational neuroscience at a University. > > The number of machines is starting to get to a point where it is difficult > > to maintain software synchronization across machines.

RE: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread Kelley, Tim \(CBS-New Orleans\)
> > Mounting just /usr over nfs is going to have non trivial > reprocussions > > with dpkg I would think. That is usually what /opt is for and > probably > > why debian does not use it. > > I don't understand this, but I certainly want to! Why would dpkg care > or > even know if the directory it

Problem with CUPS

2001-11-19 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I'm making the transition fromlpd to CUPS after hearing the rave reviews on this list. I have an HP Deskjet 1600C, and I have all the necessary packages installed, and I can print just fine with the cdj1600 driver that comes with cupsys-ppd. The thing is, I thought it would be a good

RE: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread David Wright
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Kelley, Tim (CBS-New Orleans) wrote: > I would say if you're gonna go ahead and share /usr you may as well go > diskless. I think you are probably right about this. > OR: run a centrally managed group of apps over X remotely (this could > get messy tho) this way they all run

Re: allowing root to display to a user's X session

2001-11-19 Thread Gary Hennigan
DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When troubleshooting on RedHat, I often log in to a X session as a user, > > then su to root in an xterm and run ethereal (a packet-sniffer with GUI) > > to watch the network traffic that results from my actions as a

Re: allowing root to display to a user's X session

2001-11-19 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Are you exporting your .Xauthority file? In .bashrc should be a line like: export XAUTHORITY='/home/login_name/.Xauthority' This should allow you X access as root without xhost TRS David Wright wrote: When troubleshooting on RedHat, I often log in to a X session as a user, then su to root

RE: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread Kelley, Tim \(CBS-New Orleans\)
I would say if you're gonna go ahead and share /usr you may as well go diskless. OR: run a centrally managed group of apps over X remotely (this could get messy tho) this way they all run on the same machine However what is the problem you're having with the machines having their own /usr? Can't

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread Petro
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:17:29PM -0800, David Wright wrote: > > I manage a cluster used for computational neuroscience at a University. > The number of machines is starting to get to a point where it is difficult > to maintain software synchronization across machines. Any tips? www.systemim

Re: galeon

2001-11-19 Thread Kurt Lieber
Ummm...let's see: z8:/# apt-cache search galeon galeon - Mozilla based web browser with GNOME look and feel z8:/# Looks like it's in the "galeon" package. --kurt On Monday 19 November 2001 05:55 am, ben wrote: > which package is galeon stored in?

galeon

2001-11-19 Thread ben
which package is galeon stored in?

managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread David Wright
Several posters have pointed out that I can get DHCP to assign IPs based on MAC, which goes a long way toward solving my problem. I guess if I share hosts using ldap, I can still give each machine a unique name, too. Now the only problem I can think of with sharing /usr and /etc is that my file s

Re: Postgresql doubt ..

2001-11-19 Thread p
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 08:36:30PM +, p wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 09:45:55PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] shyam]$ xhost + > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] shyam]$ su postgres > > bash $createdb shyamdb > > psql.connectDBStart() ... connect() failed : Cannot respond > >

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:31:27PM -0800, nate wrote: > im not sure if fixed-address will take an IP or not, the > examples i saw all took hostnames so you may have to have > DNS setup .. it works though. assigns the same ip every time. > i take the machine to the office and i have my dhcp server >

Re: Postgresql doubt ..

2001-11-19 Thread p
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 09:45:55PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] shyam]$ xhost + > [EMAIL PROTECTED] shyam]$ su postgres > bash $createdb shyamdb > psql.connectDBStart() ... connect() failed : Cannot respond > Is the postmaster running at 'localhost' & accepting connectio

Re: allowing root to display to a user's X session

2001-11-19 Thread DvB
David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When troubleshooting on RedHat, I often log in to a X session as a user, > then su to root in an xterm and run ethereal (a packet-sniffer with GUI) > to watch the network traffic that results from my actions as a user. > > I would like to do this on Debi

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:17:29PM -0800, David Wright wrote: > (Whatever happened to the very intelligent policy of configuring > programs in /bin in /etc, configuring programs in /usr/bin in /usr/etc, > and configuring programs in /usr/local/bin in /usr/local/etc?!) Wouldn't really help any, giv

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread nate
David Wright said: > > > I have also thought of trying to make the workstations diskless and > using DHCP -- but then how can I give each machine a fixed name and > IP address? i can't give a good answer for the rest but this one is easy. on my home network i tell dhcp to assign static ips via MAC

allowing root to display to a user's X session

2001-11-19 Thread David Wright
When troubleshooting on RedHat, I often log in to a X session as a user, then su to root in an xterm and run ethereal (a packet-sniffer with GUI) to watch the network traffic that results from my actions as a user. I would like to do this on Debian, but when I try to start ethereal, I get the err

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