Re: UPS hardware and software

2001-11-20 Thread Mark A. Bialik
Liebert equipment is true line-interactive hardware... you are always running from battery (which is continuously charging). Try running APC's in an environment with a backup power source (Diesel/Natural Gas) and see how they handle the switch-off... maybe you'll get lucky, maybe not. Liebert be

Re: woody and xhost

2001-11-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Have a peek at /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc, I have an option of '-nolisten' listed there which seems like it could be your problem.

Re: UPS hardware and software

2001-11-20 Thread Ron Farrer
Charles Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What brands of UPS's do you all use? What software do > you use on your debian boxen to interface with the UPS? > > = > - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hacking is a "Good Thing!" > See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html I have an APC Smart-UP

woody and xhost

2001-11-20 Thread Ben Hartshorne
Hello, I recently dist-upgraded from potato to debian. Unfortunately, it didn't go as well as planned... X broke; it didn't install xserver-xfree86. :( I also lost sudo and man. I have no idea why. Anyhow, minor problems aside, I have come across one that I havn't quite figured out yet.

Help with vtgrab..

2001-11-20 Thread Petre Daniel
Well..i downloaded the vtgrab package and compiled and tried on two servers.. nothing happened,like after i gave the root password nothing.. how's the exact syntax,what should i do on each side? the client and the server? how do i use it with ssh? the README filed that came with it it's very poorly

Re: Best debian for me

2001-11-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Nov-2001 Jonathan Hunt wrote: > Hi, > > I am probably going to repartition my hard drive and after being a satisfied > Debian 2.2r2 user I am going to do a clean install. I was wanting the > following things in my new setup: > > GCC >= 3.0 > XFree86 >= 4.0 > Linux kerne

lilo with LVM-root support

2001-11-20 Thread Russell Coker
I've compiled the latest lilo with support for LVM-root. I've put it on http://www.coker.com.au/lilo/ , check it out and let me know if it works (I haven't had a chance to test it at all). -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/

Best debian for me

2001-11-20 Thread Jonathan Hunt
Hi, I am probably going to repartition my hard drive and after being a satisfied Debian 2.2r2 user I am going to do a clean install. I was wanting the following things in my new setup: GCC >= 3.0 XFree86 >= 4.0 Linux kernel >=2.4.0 ReiserFS (instead of ext2 for m

Re: starting dselect with predefined package list

2001-11-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 07:59:54PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > If I use 'dpkg --get-selections >> packages' > > and then 'dpkg --set-selections packages' on another system, > > and finally run dselect, my selects will be set to those listed > > in 'packages'? > > basically. You shou

Re: working icq client for debian?

2001-11-20 Thread adcarlson
Its interesting that I've observed a lot complain about this...to my knowledge there are often problems in sending through the ICQ server as opposed to directly (when using LICQ for instance). I've never heard of any problems where a Windows client totally refuses messages from a Linux ICQ client

Re: Imap troubles

2001-11-20 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Bostjan Muller wrote: > The thing is I have mbox style mailboxes that are of size between > 5-20MB and that slowws down the system quite a while. I would like to > speed things up, but I really like the no-setup-neccessary-imap-server > ;)) so if there is anything that I could

Re: Imap troubles

2001-11-20 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Tom Allison wrote: > doesn't qmail do this and support imap directly? qmail is an MTA it doesn't support IMAP or POP3 itself as far as I know. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: starting dselect with predefined package list

2001-11-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Nov-2001 Jeff wrote: > Brian Nelson, 2001-Nov-20 10:32 -0800: >> Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Is there some way to do this? It would be cool to take a capture >> > of 'dpkg -l' and start dselect with an option to load that >> > package list so all I'd have to do is quickly veri

Re: Upgraded X to 4.1: Lost 1280x1024 mode

2001-11-20 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:06:18PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > Dust the modelines. X 4.1 doesn't need them any more (yay!). Make > sure that your VertRefresh and HorizSync lines are at the maximum > values allowed by your monitor. > I have put in the maximum values (found them fr

Re: starting dselect with predefined package list

2001-11-20 Thread Jeff
Brian Nelson, 2001-Nov-20 10:32 -0800: > Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there some way to do this? It would be cool to take a capture > > of 'dpkg -l' and start dselect with an option to load that > > package list so all I'd have to do is quickly verify the list > > loaded properly and

Re: Imap troubles

2001-11-20 Thread Tom Allison
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Bostjan Muller wrote: Hmm.. how can maildir be supported? In imapd you mean? it's a third-party patch by Miquel Van Smoorenburg. Mark Crispin (uw-imapd author) is very anti-maildir. I did not find anything about it? /usr/share/doc/libc-cli

[bjb: Re: Newbie comments & queries]

2001-11-20 Thread Brenda J. Butler
I hit reply too soon, I meant to copy this to the list. Here it is. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Consider registering as a bone marrow donor http://www.bloodservices.ca/english/ubmdr --- Begin Message --- On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:21:35PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: > Hi, all, > > Brenda told me not to

Re: Network not working, but card seems fine

2001-11-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Nov-2001 Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > > I have installed Debian on at least a dozen systems now (I guess I'm not > a total newbie now...) > > Anyway -- this is the first time I have had a system with a 905c 3Com > card not be able to get out on the network. (All but one of my systems > us 90

Re: weird messages in syslog

2001-11-20 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:09:10PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > I have the following in syslog (and in /var/log/messages): > > Nov 20 01:18:12 localhost SERVER[21311]: Dispatch_input: bad request > line > 'BBÜóÿ¿Ýóÿ¿Þóÿ¿ßóÿ¿XX%.156u%300$n%.21u%301$nsecurity%302$n%.192u%303$n\22

Re: Matrox G400 & DRI

2001-11-20 Thread Sean
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 20:16, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following in my XFree86.0.log: > (EE) MGA(0): [dri] MGADRIScreenInit failed because of a version mismatch. > [dri] mga.o kernel module version is 2.0.1 but version 3.0.x is needed. > [dri] Disabling DRI. > > How can I fix it? > Where

Re: weird messages in syslog

2001-11-20 Thread nate
Jim McCloskey said: > > I have the following in syslog (and in /var/log/messages): > > Nov 20 01:18:12 localhost SERVER[21311]: Dispatch_input: bad > request line > 'BBÜóÿ¿Ýóÿ¿Þóÿ¿ßóÿ¿XX%.156u%300$n%.21u%301$nsecurity%302$n%.192u%303$n\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220> > and so o

Re: Problems with eth0 and 2.2R4

2001-11-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya daniel i just assumed your manual route add command was a cut-n-paste of the commands from the email ...( not from your history files ? ) dont matter ... good that it was a single "bit" off from what ya wanted ... it(ifup) shoulda been self-correcting ... ( self correcting to wh

Re: iptables and syslog

2001-11-20 Thread Tim Moss
Apparently, on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 12:41:16PM +0100, Michael Hierweck wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I would like to log some paket I reject using iptables: > > > iptables -A mychain -j LOG --log-level warn > > But the messages are displayed on the current console. Switching warn to 4,7 > oder

Re: Problems with eth0 and 2.2R4

2001-11-20 Thread Daniel Hartman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do you mean *.244.241 or *.245.241 in gateway ... === you have a typo !! Ah! That was it. I modified my /etc/network/interfaces to reflect the correct gateway, rebooted, and everything works great. Many thanks. Ok, let's take a step back now. If networking w

Re: Change .deb to improve rsync

2001-11-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Andreassen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011120 04:01]: > > Hi, > > I've noticed that the .deb files are archives of tar.gz files. This isn't a > good format to maximise rsync's performance. If we changed to zip or > similar, in which individual files are compressed separately, rsync will > find

re: added memory, increase swap?

2001-11-20 Thread Peter Christensen
Thanks, everyone, for all the help. I checked the memory use (using "free") with Mozilla and a few other programs running. Memory use never went much above 85MB out of a total of about 250) , so I don't have to increase the swap partition, at least for now. And I will try removing unnecessar

Matrox G400 & DRI

2001-11-20 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I have the following in my XFree86.0.log: (EE) MGA(0): [dri] MGADRIScreenInit failed because of a version mismatch. [dri] mga.o kernel module version is 2.0.1 but version 3.0.x is needed. [dri] Disabling DRI. How can I fix it? Where can I get the newer mga.o? I use kernel version 2.4.5; shoul

Re: Problem with glade compilation

2001-11-20 Thread Javier Sieben
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 00:25:11 -0800 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 09:02:44AM -0300, Javier Sieben > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >^^ > Check your system clock. > Yes, I correct this. Was a little CMOS battery failure :(. > -- > Karsten M. Self > ht

Re: Problems with eth0 and 2.2R4

2001-11-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya ># /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) ># The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian > installation ># (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) ># automatically added when upgrading >auto eth0 >i

Re: 2.4.14 ...Masquerade has not been enabled in the kernel.

2001-11-20 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 07:10:19PM +0100, Eric Smith wrote: | Its been quite a saga - I have lost my (limited) hacking instinct. | Having failed to get ipmasq to work on 2.2.19 (possibly something to | do with eth0 eth1 being reversed i.e. eth0 on LAN side), I am now on | the 2.4.14 precompiled and

Re: Problems with eth0 and 2.2R4

2001-11-20 Thread Xingguo Pan
I would like to recommend you use DHCP to configure your interface. Try to change /etc/network/interfaces as: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp However, in your current approach, it seems that the address for eth0 is not configured properly. Can you try:

weird messages in syslog

2001-11-20 Thread Jim McCloskey
I have the following in syslog (and in /var/log/messages): Nov 20 01:18:12 localhost SERVER[21311]: Dispatch_input: bad request line 'BBÜóÿ¿Ýóÿ¿Þóÿ¿ßóÿ¿XX%.156u%300$n%.21u%301$nsecurity%302$n%.192u%303$n\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220 and so on and so on and so on. It's rep

Trouble with XF86Setup

2001-11-20 Thread ChadGSimpkins
I am running the current stable release that I downloaded two days ago. I did a base install and now I am trying to get X to work. I have installed all of the packages that I need. When I try to run XF86Setup I get an error stating that it can't find the file libXaw.so.6. This file was installed

Re: Problems with eth0 and 2.2R4

2001-11-20 Thread Daniel Hartman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | -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 2.2R

Network not working, but card seems fine

2001-11-20 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have installed Debian on at least a dozen systems now (I guess I'm not a total newbie now...) Anyway -- this is the first time I have had a system with a 905c 3Com card not be able to get out on the network. (All but one of my systems us 905x cards)... System sets up fine, ifconfig reports cor

Re: Debian ISDN & PPPoE installation HOWTO/instruction

2001-11-20 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hello people, > > I wonder if there is something like a step-by-step (complete and extensive) > HOWTO or instruction for installing, configuring and running ISDN and PPPoE > services under Debian GNU/Linux. A quick google search didn't show up any > useful resources. > > Regards, > >

Re: UPS hardware and software

2001-11-20 Thread Shaul Karl
> What brands of UPS's do you all use? What software do > you use on your debian boxen to interface with the UPS? > > = > - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hacking is a "Good Thing!" > See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html > You might want to look at http://www.exploits.org/nut and th

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

2001-11-20 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 12:01:01PM -0500, David A. Greene wrote: | dman wrote: | | | > python, bash, etc. For debugging I tend to use the 'print' technique, | > though for C/C++ gdb is _the_ debugger. (there may be others, but gdb | | gdb, in its current state, is most certainly *NOT* _the_ de

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2001-11-20 Thread ChadGSimpkins
I am running the current stable release that I downloaded two days ago. I did a base install and now I am trying to get X to work. I have installed all of the packages that I need. When I try to run XF86Setup I get an error stating that it can't find the file libXaw.so.6. This file was installed

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-11-20 Thread nate
David Batey said: > > I work at a midwest ISP, and we've got an opportunity to switch > from an older openBSD to something more recent -- and apparently > upgrading to the current openBSD might be as much of a chore as > switching to something entirely different, such as Debian. i switched a few s

sourceforge and ldap

2001-11-20 Thread Matt Fair
For some reason I cannot get ldap to work correctly so sourceforge does not install. My output is: You'll see some debugging info during this installation. Do not worry unless told otherwise. Creating initial Sourceforge database from files. Processing /usr/lib/sourceforge/db/SourceForge.sql Proc

re: foobar

2001-11-20 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Here's an obscure one for you. What's the word related to foobar that starts with a "t"? It was coined under the same circumstances as foobar and snafu were, I think world war II communications. If you can't figure it out, I'll tell you. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert So

Re: floppy install on 486dx/33 w/ no CDROM

2001-11-20 Thread FGL
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 12:12:05PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have done a base installation from floppies. Is there a > step-by-step somewhere for dialing up my ISP from a > console, and then proceeding with the installation from > debian.org?? Very simple. You need to have ppp insta

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-11-20 Thread john
Fred Bloom wrote: > Cobalt is a linux ISP out of the box. > > J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > Many people regard Cobalt as a piece of junk aimed at wannabe ISPs. My impression is that the original poster is working for an already established ISP. They are not secure out of the box, and can be a pa

Re: Bad install with SCSI (sym53c8xx - no hard drive found)

2001-11-20 Thread andrew
Some more data. This is what is printed to the console: [...] scsi: Detection failed (no card) NCR53c406a: no available ports found sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0 Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! IBM MCA SCSI: No microchannel-bus support present -> Aborting. megaraid: v107 (December 22,

eth0 <-> eth1

2001-11-20 Thread Eric Smith
According to Daniel Serodio on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 07:20:01PM -0200: > If your NIC's are different, try creating a file in /etc/modutils (eg, > 'nic') with eg: > > alias eth0 ne2k-pci > alias eth1 fealnx > > Run 'update-modules'. Then 'apt-get install ipmasq'. That's how I do it > (a

Re: /dev/hda is not a valid block device

2001-11-20 Thread Pollywog
I got it working but I don't understand why it works. I tried to mount the CD as /dev/hda then hdb then hdc and it did not work. I then tried hda again and now it works. -- Andrew On 2001.11.20 16:09 Pollywog wrote: Yesterday, I attempted to mount the CDROM and I got: /dev/hda is not a valid b

Re: 2.4.14 ...Masquerade has not been enabled in the kernel.

2001-11-20 Thread martin f krafft
to do masquerading: iptables -A POSTROUTING -s your.net.work.0/24 -j MASQUERADE -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without ac

Re: unable to mount cdrom

2001-11-20 Thread Dmitriy
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 10:48:01PM +, Hans Steinraht wrote: > First of thanks for the responses. > > I'm sorry, but I'm not very long working with Linux, enjoy it very much and > discover from time to time some behaviours that I never saw before. > So, again this time. > > After putting the

Re: ssh without password for secvpn [Clue #1]

2001-11-20 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Brooks R. Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > So I decided to try this from a potato to another potato. I used > ssh-copy-id to copy the id to the box, and voila; it worked. So now I have > to reconcile the differences from potato to woody! > > Any help? Protocol versions a

Re: Bad install with SCSI (sym53c8xx - no hard drive found)

2001-11-20 Thread andrew
How do I load a module? Once booted from CD I get the "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Main Menu" which only seems to let me configure keyboard or hostname. There's a "Install OS Kernel and Modules" option, but it won't work until the root filesystem is mounted (it says). I think I'm missing some

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-11-20 Thread Fred Bloom
Cobalt is a linux ISP out of the box. J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: [Please do not waste bandwidth with HTML mail] On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 13:28:36 -0600, David Batey wrote: I'm with an ISP having about 300 customers who use our servers for DNS, HTTP, POP, SMTP, and on one server we have FrontP

Re: Matrox G400 DualHead

2001-11-20 Thread Matthew Reath
Alex, I've been requesting some information on the Linux Support Forum at Matrox.  The list is very helpful and is a free signup.  I'm hoping between this list and the matrox list I can get some help. Because we both know that the Linux Power Desk and Drivers don't seem to directly suppo

Vim 6.0 on Potato?

2001-11-20 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
Has anyone built a .deb for Vim 6.0 on potato? I can go and do this myself (I know what else I need to build to make all of the dependencies, like all of the Debian build scripts, work), but my potato machine is pretty slow... if someone else has already done this, that would be great. Please CC

RE: NFS trys following remote symlinks as if local!

2001-11-20 Thread Adam Warner
On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 04:10, Kelley, Tim (CBS-New Orleans) wrote: > > Can you overcome your problem by using relative links, e.g. > > #ls -l > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/kdm -> ../../../../etc/kde2/kdm > > instead of > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/kdm -> /etc/kde2/kdm > > > This is one reason relative style

Re: Kernel

2001-11-20 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Denis wrote: > > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts/lxdialog all > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/scripts/lxdialog' > gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LO > C="" -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o

RE: ssh without password for secvpn [Clue #1]

2001-11-20 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| Greetings, | I am trying to set up the secvpn package between two boxes | (one potato, one | woody). I have the secvpn.conf figured out, no problem. My problem is a | little more basic. I can't get ssh to connect without a | password. On both | boxes, I did a 'ssh-keygen' which created

Re: Imap troubles

2001-11-20 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 20-11-01 at 20:44 Jaldhar H. Vyas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ [...] > > Coult you please tell me how to enable it or where to read more about > > it? > > There is not much to do. If a mailbox is a maildir, imapd will use it. [...] +and here the quote e

Re: Serve DHCP on a machine with 1 nic?

2001-11-20 Thread Bruce Z. Lysik
--On Tuesday, November 20, 2001 3:46 PM -0600 Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you tried binding your dhcpd server to the eth0:0 interface (I'm still looking for the elegant way) by adding the interface name in the init.d/dhcp file after dhcpd: __

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Re: Serve DHCP on a machine with 1 nic?

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 14:39, Bruce Z. Lysik wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have a machine with a static IP, on a network, plugged into a hub. This > box only has one nic. > > I'm trying to create an internal network on 192.168.1. for other machines > plugged into that same hub. > > What I'd like to

Re: Postgresql doubt ..

2001-11-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
p wrote: >> here's all i did: >> >> 1. # su postgres >> >> 2. createuser >> >> 3. createdb >> >> 4. $ psql >> >> >> >> synopsis: >> >> 1: to change to postres "administrator"; >> >> 2: to create "user"/non-root access (to the postgres >> "s

Bad install with SCSI (sym53c8xx - no hard drive found)

2001-11-20 Thread andrew
Hi, When I boot from CD (2.2r0) to install I am told (after configuring the keyboard) that no hard drives are present. This is not true - the machine has two SCSI disks hanging off a Symbios controller (sym53c8xx - 53c1010 ultra3). The machine came with Red Hat pre-installed (and it boots/works

Re: unable to mount cdrom

2001-11-20 Thread Hans Steinraht
First of thanks for the responses. I'm sorry, but I'm not very long working with Linux, enjoy it very much and discover from time to time some behaviours that I never saw before. So, again this time. After putting the cd in the cdrom it WORKED perfect Silly huh, I've never thought about tha

RE: S: Sound editor

2001-11-20 Thread Kelley, Tim \(CBS-New Orleans\)
Well, if you are comfortable with command line programs there is always sox and snd and friends. I don't think there are any good graphical sound editors for linux. But don't underestimate the command line ones, they're really not bad, but don't expect SoundForge or something. > -Original Me

Re: /dev/hda is not a valid block device

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 10:18, nate wrote: > Pollywog said: > > Yesterday, I attempted to mount the CDROM and I got: /dev/hda is > > not a valid block device. > > I have not changed /etc/fstab or my kernel config options, and I > > had no problems until yesterday. > > I am not sure just how long th

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-11-20 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:28:36PM -0600, David Batey wrote: > STABILITY: is Debian a good choice for heavy lifting? There are some legit concerns regarding the Linux kernel as opposed to the *BSD kernels as far as heavy lifting goes, but if you're considering Debian, then you probably feel that

Re: dhcp-client help

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 09:59, D. wrote: > Thanks for the help on this. This is what my > /etc/network/interface looks like now > auto lo eth0 > iface lo inet loopback > iface eth0 inet dhcp > When I did the auto eth0 on the same line I got the > error unable to configure auto=auto. When I did it

Re: UPS hardware and software

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 09:58, Charles Baker wrote: > What brands of UPS's do you all use? What software do > you use on your debian boxen to interface with the UPS? > I've never had a problem with APC Smart-UPS. I use nut to talk to the ups over the "special" serial cable. The nut-doc package ha

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-11-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
[Please do not waste bandwidth with HTML mail] On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 13:28:36 -0600, David Batey wrote: > I'm with an ISP having about 300 customers who use our servers for DNS, > HTTP, POP, SMTP, and on one server we have FrontPage extensions running. > We're wondering about Debian's scalabilit

Re: Task packages missing??

2001-11-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:51:24PM -0200, Francisco M. Neto wrote: > » Colin Watson disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > > It sounds very much like you've been running 'apt-get update' for a long > > time, so dpkg's available file is out of date. Perhaps there's a > > possible workaround in tasksel, alth

Re: Reconfiguring sendmail?

2001-11-20 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 01:00 pm, Stan Brown wrote: > How can I force debain to re-offer me the install time config options for > this package? dpkg --configure sendmail >From the dpkg man page: dpkg --configure package ... | -a | --pending Reconfigure an unpacked package.

Re: UW IMAP 2000 shows dates as 12/31/1969

2001-11-20 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote: > The MTA is postfix. The client is Outlook Express. > > Permissions are drwx--S--- for the directories. > And this is in your home directory or /var/mail? If the former do you have home_mailbox set correctly in /etc/postfix/main.cf? > Interestingly, when I no

Re: 2.4.14 ...Masquerade has not been enabled in the kernel.

2001-11-20 Thread Daniel Serodio
If your NIC's are different, try creating a file in /etc/modutils (eg, 'nic') with eg: alias eth0 ne2k-pci alias eth1 fealnx Run 'update-modules'. Then 'apt-get install ipmasq'. That's how I do it (actually, I compiled my own kernel, but this should work for any kernel where the N

Re: S: Sound editor

2001-11-20 Thread csj
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 02:53, Markus Grunwald wrote: > Hello ! > > Since there now is a "multimedia"-Debian distri, I start getting hope > again: is there SOME reasonable sound editor for Linux ? I am > searching since my Linux start (2.0.??) for something as powerful as > Cool Edit but everyt

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-11-20 Thread Dmitriy
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:05:42PM -0500, jeff wrote: > dear DD, > > before you go and delve into the world of new distros, you need only break > down your whole questionaire into one simple complete thought... > > my man, debian is fine for all of your tasks...the real question is, are you > r

Re: UW IMAP 2000 shows dates as 12/31/1969

2001-11-20 Thread jennyw
The MTA is postfix. The client is Outlook Express. Permissions are drwx--S--- for the directories. Interestingly, when I now try to move a message from one of the other folders (in mbx format) into the inbox, they disappear into space. Thanks! Jen - Original Message - From: "Jaldhar H

Re: unable to mount cdrom

2001-11-20 Thread Dmitriy
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:53:17PM +, Hans Steinraht wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem mounting my cdrom, maybe someone can help? > > When I look with dmesg, I see that my cdrom is recognized as "/dev/hdc" (hdc: > CD-ROM 36X/AKU, ATAPI CDROM drive). > > Next what I did was making a symbolic

Re: unable to mount cdrom

2001-11-20 Thread SaDIKuZboy
are you sure you inserted a cdrom disk into driver before mounting it ? - Original Message - From: "Hans Steinraht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 10:53 PM Subject: unable to mount cdrom > Hi, > > I have a problem mounting my cdrom, maybe someone

RE: unable to mount cdrom

2001-11-20 Thread Kelley, Tim \(CBS-New Orleans\)
1. Does mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom work? 2. Is there a cdrom in the drive? > -Original Message- > From: Hans Steinraht [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 3:53 PM > To: debian-user > Subject: unable to mount cdrom > > Hi, > > I have a problem moun

Re: emacs

2001-11-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> (setq global-font-lock-mode t) > I would recommend instead > (global-font-lock-mode 1) > The doc for global-font-lock-mode suggests setting the variable > manually may not always work. Hmm, ok. It was what i have in my .emacs (changed) :) -- begin OjE

Re: Sid: stty configurations changing -- backspace/del

2001-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 04:38:37PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Karsten! > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Any other clarifications I'm missing? > Which terminal emulator (console, aterm, xterm...), which shell, > and the output of echo $TER

Re: Mouse scrolling with xserver-xfree86 v4

2001-11-20 Thread Greg Lopp
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:31:39PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. > > I have installed a new video card with a new xserver-xfree86 v4. > I had version 3 before. Everything works fine accept for the mouse scrolling. > I have gpm daemon running just like before. > My mouse is a simple logitec

Reconfiguring sendmail?

2001-11-20 Thread Stan Brown
I have a Debian potato + Progeny + 2.4 kernel machien at work. Iam setting it up as an Amanda tapehost. All is going well. As a final setep, I want to foward some of it's mail to another amchine. I don't remeber what I told sendmail when I installed the machine, but in any case, it's not correct.

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

2001-11-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 20 Nov 2001, Anders Jackson wrote: > Look at M-x gdb and M-x compile and M-x global-font-lock-mode. Makes things a lot easier. -- wouter dot verhelst at advalvas dot be "Human knowledge belongs to the world" -- From the movie "Antitrust"

Re: Mouse scrolling with xserver-xfree86 v4

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 14:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. > > I have installed a new video card with a new xserver-xfree86 v4. > I had version 3 before. Everything works fine accept for the mouse scrolling. > I have gpm daemon running just like before. > My mouse is a simple logitech with 2 bott

Re: Matrox G400 DualHead

2001-11-20 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Matthew Reath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I installed Debian potato on a system with a Matrox G400 DualHead. > > I was wondering if anybody has worked with the Matrox Power Desk and > drivers for XFree86. > > I want to setup a TV on the secondary display that I can use Xine/Xawtv > on full s

Problem with LVM and ReiserFS on Woody

2001-11-20 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, I've got a problem with LVM and ReiserFS. I tried to migrate my Woody system to a LVM system with ReiserFS on the root partition. Everything works ok, but when I tried to merge some obsolete partitions to one my volume group was not found by the 'vgscan' program. Therefore 'vgchange' was not a

Re: dhcp-client help (more information)

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 14:03, D. 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

unable to mount cdrom

2001-11-20 Thread Hans Steinraht
Hi, I have a problem mounting my cdrom, maybe someone can help? When I look with dmesg, I see that my cdrom is recognized as "/dev/hdc" (hdc: CD-ROM 36X/AKU, ATAPI CDROM drive). Next what I did was making a symbolic link to /dev/hdc (ln -s /dev/hdc /dec/cdrom) and checked that /etc/fstab conta

vtund - limits?

2001-11-20 Thread nate
wanted to know if anyone was using vtund for vpns, and how many vpns they have established at once. ive been using vpnd for a couple years but am always hitting walls with slip interface limits. one system i can't get more then 6 connections. another system i can't get more then 1. im hoping vtun

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

2001-11-20 Thread Dries Kimpe
Another strange thing: The new driver (rtl8139) says it's an RTL8139C+ while the 2.4.14 kernel C+ driver says otherwise. 8139cp 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v0.0.5 (Oct 19, 2001) 8139cp: pci dev 00:09.0 (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip 8139cp: Try the "8139too" driver inste

Serve DHCP on a machine with 1 nic?

2001-11-20 Thread Bruce Z. Lysik
Hi folks, I have a machine with a static IP, on a network, plugged into a hub. This box only has one nic. I'm trying to create an internal network on 192.168.1. for other machines plugged into that same hub. What I'd like to do is have the machine act normally on eth0, but act as a gatewa

Re: Kernel

2001-11-20 Thread DvB
"Denis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Magellano:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12# make menuconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts/lxdialog all > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/scripts/lxdialog' > gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2

Mouse scrolling with xserver-xfree86 v4

2001-11-20 Thread list1
Hi. I have installed a new video card with a new xserver-xfree86 v4. I had version 3 before. Everything works fine accept for the mouse scrolling. I have gpm daemon running just like before. My mouse is a simple logitech with 2 bottons and a clickable wheel. Did I pick a wrong mouse type at dpkg-

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

2001-11-20 Thread Dries Kimpe
On 20 Nov 2001, W. Paul Mills wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bostjan Muller) writes: > > > * On 20-11-01 at 10:40 Emil Pedersen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > +Here quoted text begins+ > > [...] > > > I think it's important to be very precise what chip is used; I've heard > > > lots of tr

Re: Kernel

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 14:11, Denis wrote: > > > > > Magellano:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12# make menuconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts/lxdialog all > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/scripts/lxdialog' > gcc -Wall -Wstri

Re: Kernel

2001-11-20 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:11:08PM +0100, Denis wrote: > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory > make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/scripts/lxdialog' > make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 > Magellano:/usr/src/

Re: Xmodmap

2001-11-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I am confused. I had always thought that ~/.Xmodmap if present would be > passed to xmodmap when the X server starts. I've got a .Xmodmap file > (to swap the Windoze and Alt keys, so that windows == Alt as and alt == > Meta as far as X is concer

Kernel

2001-11-20 Thread Denis
Magellano:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LO C

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