Re: routing question

2001-11-27 Thread nate
shock said: > * nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > the broadcast / netmask scenario you described (while potentially > problematic) seems to be okay. unless i'm overlooking the obvious. yeah seems network config is ok..only other thing i'd do is run tcpdump on machine E and see what comes

Re: routing question

2001-11-27 Thread shock
* nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > from the looks of the info you gave machine A and E are on > the same hub..the cables seem to work as they can both get to > the dsl..so my guess would be theres a incorrect netmask or > broadcast address set on either A or E, and the DSL gateway > doesn

Re: Networking a Linux and a Window workstation

2001-11-27 Thread Kent West
Sam Varghese wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 04:12:07PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: I would now like to be able to print and possibly send files to my Linux box from the Windows machine. I have been doing some reading and have installed Samba, but have made little progress. I am not sure how

Tarjetas de Navidad

2001-11-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TEMAS DE VIDA CRISTIANA OfrecemosTarjetas de Navidad con motivos claramente cristianos. * Hemos procurado editarlas a muy bajo costo para que la difusion del mensaje del Nacimiento de Jesus llegue a muchas personas. * Los precios de dichas tarjetas van de forma escalonada: desde S/

Re: Finding missing packages

2001-11-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2001.11.28 01:53 Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 11:51:49PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > > Why would using dselect cause problems like that? If anything, it > > tends > > to create a more functional system, since it installs recommended > >

Re: OpenSSH & Mozilla & Woody

2001-11-27 Thread Dmitriy
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:51:55PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:45:33PM -0800, Dmitriy wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:27:33PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: [snip] > > AFAIK ssh2 package is non-free, and I always thought it was not OpenSSH. > > Furthermore, it is orphan

Re: Seeking clarification about mail program interaction

2001-11-27 Thread Brian Nelson
cmasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings, > > Now that I have my printer running properly, I'm trying to tackle the > problem of mail delivery. I've installed fetchmail, procmail, and exim, but > I have yet to make them interact properly. For the moment I am using > ~getmail~ (a fetchmail

Re: Lexmark 3200...

2001-11-27 Thread Eric White
Hello, I've got a lexmark 3200 up and running just fine, but it did take some work to get there. The linuxprinting.org site was very helpful, specifically this page: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=lxm3200 I went with the PDQ solution after having trouble with CUPS. I'm no

Re: panel launchers and environment

2001-11-27 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:54:26 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a gnome panel launcher for gvim. For the command it simply > says 'gvim'. I have ash as /bin/sh and /bin/bash is my shell. In > ~/.bashrc I have > > export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Thing is, when X starts up it doesn't rea

A couple of questions

2001-11-27 Thread samgrover
Hi, I am running a debian woody system (some packages are from the unstable dist too). uname -a returns: Linux kailash 2.2.19 #1 Sat Sep 22 22:08:47 EST 2001 i686 unknown I am quite new to debian (just a couple of weeks, got tired of redhat and rpms). I have a couple of questions: 1. I am trying

Re: Woody & XFree86: no screens found

2001-11-27 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:20:06 -0500 Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > @ 2:47:27 AM on 11/27/2001, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > >> Option "UseFBDev" "true" > > > Do you really want to use the framebuffer device? And, if so does > > your current kerne

Re: NEdit & Xdefaults (and maybe KDE)

2001-11-27 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:01:08 -0500 "Justin R. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spake J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > The various session scripts look for ~/.Xresources, not ~/.Xdefaults. > > mv or ln is your friend. > > That seems odd to me that this would have just up an

panel launchers and environment

2001-11-27 Thread dman
I have a gnome panel launcher for gvim. For the command it simply says 'gvim'. I have ash as /bin/sh and /bin/bash is my shell. In ~/.bashrc I have export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Any time I run gnome-terminal or if I start a subshell from gvim, echoing $LANG gives the above value. In addition, if I

Re: cvs security - ssh vs pserver?

2001-11-27 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:14:21 -0600 Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Yes, pswerver sends everything in the clear and all that. > Edit /etc/shadow and set your cvsuser's password to NP > (or whatever Debian uses to disable logins). Let your > users download the *private* key of cvs

RedHat to Debian migration

2001-11-27 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
Hello: Someone asked me about potential problems of migrating from RedHat to Debian, especially for script applications. Based on my own experience, I had some problems with the default "vi" (nvi) and "awk" (mawk). Both problems can by solved through /etc/alternatives. Is there any serious thing

Re: System Time Problems.

2001-11-27 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, November 27, Bulent Murtezaoglu did write: > > "JCR" == Jeremy C Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > JCR> Use something like: hwclock --systohc --utc > > Yes this would set the hw clock to UTC. I think the OP was asking for > how to notify the system that that is n

Re: How do you do this ...

2001-11-27 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, if you just want to have Debian and Redhat share the Kernel they're running, this can be achived by giving the kernel a parameter on where to find the root partition. Eg if you have Debian on hda1 and Redhat on hda2 vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 --> boots Debian vmlinuz root=/dev/hd

lprng ignores input filter

2001-11-27 Thread Kent West
I can't seem to make lprng execute my if filter. It's not really a filter at this time, but only a test script to see if lprng is executing it. Here's my /etc/printcap: lp :if=/home/westk/printtest :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp and here's my /home/westk/printtest "input filter" #!/bin/bash echo

Re: Seeking clarification about mail program interaction

2001-11-27 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:23:52PM -0400, cmasters wrote: > Greetings, > 1. fetchmail (currently getmail) retrieves mail from ISP and hold it locally fetchmail gets the mail and then hands it over to exim unless you told it to use procmail directly. The standard exim config will make exim hand i

Re: Where is the zope tutorial?

2001-11-27 Thread dman
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:56:30PM +1100, Nick Hastings wrote: | While we are on the topic of Zope, I just installed zope 2.4.2 | from the Sid distribution. I've found a few problems. | The other problem is that I can't install squishdot or zope-tinytable. This is likely do to python policy cha

Re: Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

2001-11-27 Thread dman
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:10:08AM -0200, Vitor Silva Souza wrote: | At 20:28 27/11/2001 -0500, dman wrote: | >A GUI can do the things the designer thought of quite easily, but they | >can't do anything else easily. Pipes and filters allow fairly simple | >programs to be combined to perform comple

Re: Finding missing packages

2001-11-27 Thread Carl Fink
Rather than upgrade a running system, you might try this: a)Back everything up b)Back it up again on different media c)Confirm that your backup is good* d)Run "dpkg --get-selections > installed.packages.txt. SAVE THAT FILE d)Repartition and refo

How do you do this ...

2001-11-27 Thread shyamk
I am running a dual-boot Win98-RedHat7.1 machine . AND , I wish (ardently) to also have Debian on my box . Since I am already using vmlinuz-2.4.2-2 , I want the prospective Debian OS , to take it from the /boot , that I had created for Red Hat Linux 7.1 . - I feel that since booting (as for

Re: Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

2001-11-27 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
At 20:28 27/11/2001 -0500, dman wrote: A GUI can do the things the designer thought of quite easily, but they can't do anything else easily. Pipes and filters allow fairly simple programs to be combined to perform complex and unique operations quite easily, once the learning curve of the utiliti

Re: Finding missing packages

2001-11-27 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.11.28 01:53 Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 11:51:49PM +, Pollywog wrote: Why would using dselect cause problems like that? If anything, it tends to create a more functional system, since it installs recommended packages and tells you about suggested packages, neither

Re: NEdit & Xdefaults (and maybe KDE)

2001-11-27 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The various session scripts look for ~/.Xresources, not ~/.Xdefaults. > mv or ln is your friend. That seems odd to me that this would have just up and changed. Regardless, I made a symlink, so I'll report once I next login (bunch of stuff runn

Re: Where is the zope tutorial?

2001-11-27 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, > I use the zope package 2.1.6-5.2. In the ZopeBook it says, that the > Zope Tutorial should be available via the Product add list. There is > an add button in the list of products, but there is no list. And I > didn't find the tutorial elsewhere so far... You have to make a link: ln -s

Re: Finding missing packages

2001-11-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 11:51:49PM +, Pollywog wrote: > On 2001.11.27 22:04 jennyw wrote: > > I've recenlty posted some upgrade woes (Potato to Woody) ... I've noticed > > that I have quite a few packages missing that I expected to be present. I > > seem to have limited fonts in X for one thing

Re: OpenSSH & Mozilla & Woody

2001-11-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:45:33PM -0800, Dmitriy wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:27:33PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > > For OpenSSH, if I want ssh2, where should I get this package? > > AFAIK, my potato server is _only_ ssh1. Would it be better to build > > from the source tarball? > > AFAIK s

Re: Potato system (Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody))

2001-11-27 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 08:41:03AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Long ago, I used unstable, which was potato. > Now, I use unstable, and I thought it was potato. That sounds a bit like a koan :). > I guess, now I'm using a potato system with woody's apps. Correct? It sounds like you've just been unsta

Re: Finding missing packages

2001-11-27 Thread DvB
"jennyw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks! I didn't know about tasksel. If more stuff turns up missing I'll try > that out and see how it works for reinstalling the whole lot. Thanks too for > the suggestion to reinstall xfonts-base ... that did clear up the problem (I > think; at least things

Potato system (Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody))

2001-11-27 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau wrote: > Potato uses version 3 X servers; Woody and unstable support both the > version 3 X servers and the shiny and new version 4 one. Long ago, I used unstable, which was potato. Now, I use unstable, and I thought it was potato. I guess, now I'm u

Re: WordPerfect 8 starts to load, then dies.

2001-11-27 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 27 November 2001 12:08 pm, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I thought that I had seen some posts about WP (which I did not read > at the time) but I can't find anything in the archives. If this has > been covered already, just point me in the right di

Re: Seeking clarification about mail program interaction

2001-11-27 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:23:52PM -0400, cmasters wrote: | Greetings, | | Now that I have my printer running properly, I'm trying to tackle the | problem of mail delivery. I've installed fetchmail, procmail, and exim, but | I have yet to make them interact properly. For the moment I am using | ~g

Re: SOLVED!!!! Re: Printer not functioning ~fully~

2001-11-27 Thread cmasters
Greetings, No problem. I hoped that slogging through man's would serve a purpose other than burning out my eyes. I'm almost tempted to write some version(s) in ~clear~ unambiguous language for newbies (like myself). Glad my solution helped C. Masters

Seeking clarification about mail program interaction

2001-11-27 Thread cmasters
Greetings, Now that I have my printer running properly, I'm trying to tackle the problem of mail delivery. I've installed fetchmail, procmail, and exim, but I have yet to make them interact properly. For the moment I am using ~getmail~ (a fetchmail replacement) to poll my ISP and deliver my mail i

Re: Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

2001-11-27 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:57:46PM -0200, Vitor Silva Souza wrote: | At 14:49 27/11/2001 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: | > > Question two: I'm looking for a good graphical frontend for | > > dpkg, sort of like a dselect for X. Any suggestions? I'm using potato | > > and don't want to upgrade to

Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody)

2001-11-27 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:21:23AM -0800, jennyw wrote: > > Anyway, the first thing you should do is try to apt-get remove (or > > dpkg --purge, if you're feeling vindictive and don't mind handling > > I just tried this; same results as before. We need to know what these results were! :) xserver-

Re: make-kpkg and 2.4.16

2001-11-27 Thread Adam Shand
> But in that case your initrd (or the 2nd floppy with the modules) will > need to contain the modules compatible with your new kernel too. i understand that, but make-kpkg is supposed to (and always has in the past) taken care of that for me. > Save yourself the headache and compile support for

Re: routing question

2001-11-27 Thread nate
shock said: > however, machine e (192.168.1.99) cannot ping or otherwise see > machine a (192.168.1.10). it can gateway through the router > (192.168.1.254) but that's it. what do i need to do in order to > allow machine e to see machine a? from the looks of the info you gave machine A and E ar

Re: System Time Problems.

2001-11-27 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:54:46PM -0800, Nick Jennings wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:59:01PM -0500, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote: > > But anyway, why not have the battery backed clock set to UTC? > > Because I am a simple man. unless you need to dual boot with windows, then setting the system

Re: make-kpkg and 2.4.16

2001-11-27 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Adam Shand wrote: > > It is perfectly possible to say "m" to all types of disks and all > > filesystems. But then your kernel will not be able to access the > > disk. Your boot disk must be built into your kernel. > > i thought initrd solved that problem by allowing modules

Re: Squid in a school - problems with https

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Allison
Phillip Deackes wrote: On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:44:00 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) wrote: IE has the tendency to not show the errors that are being generated by the remote server or by the proxy, but to replace it with its own error message. You can turn that off somewh

Re: Ogg Vorbis (was Re: mp3 encoding)

2001-11-27 Thread John Griffiths
> >True ... but if you're about to take a really long car trip, portable >players are nice. Also, it'd be nice to just copy what exists onto a >portable player instead of converting them to another format. Of course, I >have no experience converting from Ogg Vorbis to MP3 so maybe it's really >fas

Re: OpenSSH & Mozilla & Woody

2001-11-27 Thread Brian Clark
Hi Dmitriy, @ 7:45:33 PM on 11/27/2001, Dmitriy wrote: > If you really want to have 0.9.6 just get sources from unstable and > compile for woody. Or play with pinning packages, that may work with > too. I just figured this one out. I wasn't picking it up in apt because of my sources.list and th

routing question

2001-11-27 Thread shock
i think, as time progresses, it is becoming increasingly obvious that i don't /really/ know what i'm doing. i'm hoping there's an easy fix, but i'm prepared for the long haul if necessary. i have the following set up: dsl modem - 192.168.1.254 (to hub) machine a - 192.168.1.10 (to hub)

Re: System Time Problems.

2001-11-27 Thread Nick Jennings
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:59:01PM -0500, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote: > > But anyway, why not have the battery backed clock set to UTC? > Because I am a simple man. -- Nick Jennings

Re: OpenSSH & Mozilla & Woody

2001-11-27 Thread Dmitriy
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:27:33PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > Howdy Folks! > > What type of acrobatics will it take for me to get Mozilla and OpenSSH > (ssh2) into my woody workstation? :) > > For Mozilla, is it's perfectly OK to get Mozilla from potato or > [preferably?] sid without it busting

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-27 Thread Jeff
Jeffrey W. Baker, 2001-Nov-26 16:50 -0800: > On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 16:45, Marc Wilson wrote: > Er, what? I've installed several Debian unstable machines and every one > of them has ended up with font problems. Usually X won't start, > complaining about a missing 'fixed' font. Make sure that the

Re: OpenSSH & Mozilla & Woody

2001-11-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Howdy Folks! > > What type of acrobatics will it take for me to get Mozilla and OpenSSH > (ssh2) into my woody workstation? :) > > For Mozilla, is it's perfectly OK to get Mozilla from potato or > [preferably?] sid without it busting any existing depende

Re: VIA sound chipset

2001-11-27 Thread Peter De Wachter
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, francisco m neto wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm having some problems trying to have sound working on some > machines which have the via89xxx chipset. When using kernel 2.2.x, > mpg123, for example, will play a mp3 file at a higher rate than the > normal, i.e.,

Re: Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

2001-11-27 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
At 14:49 27/11/2001 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: It probably didn't show any matches because the string "dpkg frontend for X" didn't appear in the archives. Try separating the words with ;. Thanks. I'll try that. > Question two: I'm looking for a good graphical frontend for > dp

Re: How do I make my machine able to receive dial-ups ?

2001-11-27 Thread Shaul Karl
> What should I do to make my machine able to receive dial-ups ? What do I > need at > a) The hardware level > b) The OS level > c) The software level > > ? > Please guide me on this. > You might want to look at http://www.mgetty.org. > Warm Regards, > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Shyam > > >

Re: LibC6 Upgrades

2001-11-27 Thread Dmitriy
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:54:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to upgrade Libc6 with a .deb package. Whenever I do, all > packages dependent on libc6 default to REMOVE in dselect and I can't apt-get > anything anymore! I need to upgrade libc6 to run Sawmill .30. Does anyone

OpenSSH & Mozilla & Woody

2001-11-27 Thread Brian Clark
Howdy Folks! What type of acrobatics will it take for me to get Mozilla and OpenSSH (ssh2) into my woody workstation? :) For Mozilla, is it's perfectly OK to get Mozilla from potato or [preferably?] sid without it busting any existing dependencies? I was a little afraid to apt-get in that directi

Re: compiling .debs for potato on woody

2001-11-27 Thread Shaul Karl
As a last resort you can make a chroot environment on the woody machine on which you will install whatever is needed to build the deb in question. With this you'll have a potato environment on which you can make the potato deb. Hopefully there are automatic tools for the job and/or simpler sol

Re: How do I make my machine able to receive dial-ups ?

2001-11-27 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
a) modem with awsering capabilities b) linux is THE CHOICE c) there r some utilities, mgetty package I think. On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What should I do to make my machine able to receive dial-ups ? What do I > need at > a) The hardware level > b) The OS level > c) The so

sid - new lilo installed and boot error

2001-11-27 Thread Eric Smith
I installed the new lilo and let debconf create a new lilo.conf and add a boot sector. Before restarting, however I added an entry for Windows, then /sbin/lilo -v which reported nothing abnormal. However when i tried to reboot, I get: unable to mount root fs add a root= entry (or something to th

Re: port 25 disabled?

2001-11-27 Thread shock
* Paul 'Baloo' Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > @Home tech support's KB doesn't list 25 as being blocked (as of two > weeks ago, when I last worked there). @home began blocking ports 25, 80, 109 and 110 on my system about two months ago. i switched to a DSL provider and haven't had o

Re: ppp dropouts on a 2.2.20pre12 kernel

2001-11-27 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
I,ve had some problems alike too, but usually hangup's happen 30s to 10 minutes after dial up. I assume its a coincidence with the phone line noise, or isp trouble, because it is some how intermittent malfunction There was a weekend I couldn log for more thar 50 seconds. I dont remember the last

Re: System Time Problems.

2001-11-27 Thread Bulent Murtezaoglu
> "JCR" == Jeremy C Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] JCR> Use something like: hwclock --systohc --utc Yes this would set the hw clock to UTC. I think the OP was asking for how to notify the system that that is not the case. The place to do that is in /etc/default/rcS I believe.

Re: LibC6 Upgrades

2001-11-27 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:54:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi, I'm trying to upgrade Libc6 with a .deb package. Whenever I do, all | packages dependent on libc6 default to REMOVE in dselect and I can't apt-get | anything anymore! I need to upgrade libc6 to run Sawmill .30. Does anyone

Re: Finding missing packages

2001-11-27 Thread jennyw
Thanks! I didn't know about tasksel. If more stuff turns up missing I'll try that out and see how it works for reinstalling the whole lot. Thanks too for the suggestion to reinstall xfonts-base ... that did clear up the problem (I think; at least things look different now). As for getting a list o

LibC6 Upgrades

2001-11-27 Thread JakeCatfox
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade Libc6 with a .deb package. Whenever I do, all packages dependent on libc6 default to REMOVE in dselect and I can't apt-get anything anymore! I need to upgrade libc6 to run Sawmill .30. Does anyone know what I should do? Thx, Deven Gallo

Re: make-kpkg and 2.4.16

2001-11-27 Thread Adam Shand
> It is perfectly possible to say "m" to all types of disks and all > filesystems. But then your kernel will not be able to access the > disk. Your boot disk must be built into your kernel. i thought initrd solved that problem by allowing modules to be loaded into a ram disk before the disk was

Re: Ogg Vorbis (was Re: mp3 encoding)

2001-11-27 Thread jennyw
From: "John Griffiths" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well one consideration to make is the difference between listening on your PC > (with nearly unlimited storage), and on a portable player (extremely limited > storage) True ... but if you're about to take a really long car trip, portable players are nic

Re: Finding missing packages

2001-11-27 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.11.27 22:04 jennyw wrote: I've recenlty posted some upgrade woes (Potato to Woody) ... I've noticed that I have quite a few packages missing that I expected to be present. I seem to have limited fonts in X for one thing (no sans serif, for example). The Gnome Control Panel was missing. A

Re: Finding missing packages

2001-11-27 Thread Rebecca Dridan
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 05:00:45PM -0600, DvB wrote: > "jennyw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've recenlty posted some upgrade woes (Potato to Woody) ... I've noticed > > that I have quite a few packages missing that I expected to be present. I > > seem to have limited fonts in X for one thin

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:12:00PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 17:27, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:50:56PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 16:45, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > >

Re: System Time Problems.

2001-11-27 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Nick Jennings wrote: > How do I change the settings that tell the system what the BIOS clock > is set to. The only time i remember this question being asked is during > the install process. hwclock(1) is the tool for accessing the "hardware clock". Use something like:

Re: bash from testing broken?

2001-11-27 Thread nate
A.R. (Tom) Peters said: > I have had incompatibility problems with bash from testing. > Anyone else recognises these problems? I did report a bug, but > didn't get a response yet. try searching the archives(debian-user) for reports on libc problems. there was a few of these..i seem to remember t

Re: System Time Problems.

2001-11-27 Thread nate
Nick Jennings said: > Hello, > > For some reason our Debain server thinks the BIOS clock is set to > UTC, when it is really set to local time (PST). im not sure why but there are 2 different settings for timezone. one is /etc/timezone and one is /etc/localtime haven't tried to determine what the

Re: System Time Problems.

2001-11-27 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 17:21, Nick Jennings wrote: > Hello, > > For some reason our Debain server thinks the BIOS clock is set to > UTC, when it is really set to local time (PST). > > So when I set the timezone to Pacific/US, it offsets, based on the BIOS > time, > -8, making the system

Re: Installing problem with Woody 3.0

2001-11-27 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 02:42, Lorenzo De Vito wrote: > After installed Woody 3.0 I've always a problem... > every 4-5 minutes these strings appears on my screen: > > "Neighbour table overflow" > "Neighbour table overflow" > "Neighbour table overflow" > "Neighbour table overflow" Check to make sure

Re: System Time Problems.

2001-11-27 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 15:21, Nick Jennings wrote: > Hello, > > For some reason our Debain server thinks the BIOS clock is set to > UTC, when it is really set to local time (PST). > > So when I set the timezone to Pacific/US, it offsets, based on the BIOS > time, > -8, making the system

System Time Problems.

2001-11-27 Thread Nick Jennings
Hello, For some reason our Debain server thinks the BIOS clock is set to UTC, when it is really set to local time (PST). So when I set the timezone to Pacific/US, it offsets, based on the BIOS time, -8, making the system 8 hours behind. How do I change the settings that tell the syst

Re: cvs security - ssh vs pserver?

2001-11-27 Thread martin f krafft
* Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.27 15:06:00-0800]: > That was my point. If he's going to allow passwords to cross the net in > clear, then having passwords isn't really securing anything. Accessing > cvs in an ssh tunnel is the way to go. okay, sorry, then i misunderstood you. > What

Re: Woody & XFree86: no screens found

2001-11-27 Thread Brian Clark
Hi Eric, @ 2:47:27 AM on 11/27/2001, Eric G. Miller wrote: >> Option "UseFBDev" "true" > Do you really want to use the framebuffer device? And, if so does > your current kernel have framebuffer support compiled in? No, I don't have that in my kernel, but I think I'

Re: Framebuffer VGA settings

2001-11-27 Thread Timo Boewing
Hi Jan, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: [...] I never found settings to alter the refresh rate. Isn't it possible with vesafb? [...] Mh, goog question, i never thought 'bout that. Cos using a laptop, i do not have to care about this... I forgot to wrote that i have forgotten the source where i fo

Re: NEdit & Xdefaults (and maybe KDE)

2001-11-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 21:06:46 -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote: > Things work fine if I manually 'xrdb ~/.Xdefaults'. The various session scripts look for ~/.Xresources, not ~/.Xdefaults. mv or ln is your friend. HTH, Ray -- Gartner Group ?!? Never heard of them. What did they do in comp

RE: libgnomeprint-bin package problem

2001-11-27 Thread Mike Kuhar
Christian< I want to thank you. Not only for responding, but for providing a solution that worked. I deleted the package like you suggested, then did an 'apt-get install libgnomeprint-bin'. It went smooth. I never thought of doing that. Again, thank you. -mk -Original Message- Fro

Re: Finding missing packages

2001-11-27 Thread DvB
"jennyw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've recenlty posted some upgrade woes (Potato to Woody) ... I've noticed > that I have quite a few packages missing that I expected to be present. I > seem to have limited fonts in X for one thing (no sans serif, for example). make sure you haven't run int

Re: port 25 disabled?

2001-11-27 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, nate wrote: > are you on a cable modem? sounds like you are if your from > @home.com .many @home networks have port 25 filtered > along with a bunch of other ports. you may want to email > @home support to get a list of ports that are filtered on > the network segment your

Re: port 25 disabled?

2001-11-27 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Joe M Mar wrote: > I am using Exim and I am able to send messages but not able to receive > them. I can telnet to port 25 locally but I can't from a remote > computer. I think this is the problem as to why I am unable to recieve > email. I wonder how i can enable this. Docu

Re: cvs security - ssh vs pserver?

2001-11-27 Thread Craig Dickson
martin f krafft wrote: > * Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.27 10:28:10-0800]: > > But getting access to your CVS is okay? Might as well not bother securing > > it at all, then. > > uhm, hello? yes, it is necessary. with ssh, only those with the > identity file can get access to the cvs.

compiling a NIC driver

2001-11-27 Thread Paul E Condon
I am attempting to migrate another computer on my small family LAN to Debian. The next box in line uses a Netgear FA311 NIC. This does not seem to be supported by Potato. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) I got the source for the driver from scyld.com, including very detailed instructions. My problem is

Re: Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

2001-11-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Vitor Silva Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everyone, > > Question one: when I'm using the archive search form on > http://lists.debian.org/search.html, if I select all quarters on the > Date Filter, does it search in all quarters or just the first quarter > of the selection? I se

Re: cvs security - ssh vs pserver?

2001-11-27 Thread martin f krafft
* Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.27 10:28:10-0800]: > But getting access to your CVS is okay? Might as well not bother securing > it at all, then. uhm, hello? yes, it is necessary. with ssh, only those with the identity file can get access to the cvs. without cvs, anyone willing to pas

Re: Ogg Vorbis (was Re: mp3 encoding)

2001-11-27 Thread Aaron Hall
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote: > Are there any Ogg Vorbis portable players? Or support for Mac OS X? On OS X, Audion (my favorite player) should support Ogg Vorbis, though I've never tried it. http://www.panic.com/audion/ Shareware, but decidedly cool. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall :

Re: Ogg Vorbis (was Re: mp3 encoding)

2001-11-27 Thread John Griffiths
At 02:00 PM 11/27/01 -0800, jennyw wrote: >Are there any Ogg Vorbis portable players? Or support for Mac OS X? Playing >music on Linux and Windows is cool, but mp3s run everywhere. Of course, I >may try it anyway since I don't currently have a portable player. It looks >like a great project. > >Jen

Support for Adaptec 39160?

2001-11-27 Thread scott worley
Hi, Attempted to try Hurd tarball and everything was fine until Hurd attempted to access root partition during its boot phase. It couldn't find it. I'm guessing the aic7xxx driver is an older one with no support for the 39160 dual controller? thanks, scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Finding missing packages

2001-11-27 Thread jennyw
I've recenlty posted some upgrade woes (Potato to Woody) ... I've noticed that I have quite a few packages missing that I expected to be present. I seem to have limited fonts in X for one thing (no sans serif, for example). The Gnome Control Panel was missing. A few other things, too ... Is there

Re: Circular directory references (was re: ext2 file too big...)

2001-11-27 Thread Alan Shutko
"Chad C.Walstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, I should give you more background than this. These are not > symbolic links. This is a screwed up ext2 filesystem. There was either > a runaway sendmail process or a runaway mailman process that dumped some > nasties into /var. I'm seei

Ogg Vorbis (was Re: mp3 encoding)

2001-11-27 Thread jennyw
Are there any Ogg Vorbis portable players? Or support for Mac OS X? Playing music on Linux and Windows is cool, but mp3s run everywhere. Of course, I may try it anyway since I don't currently have a portable player. It looks like a great project. Jen

Re: make-kpkg and 2.4.16

2001-11-27 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001, Adam Shand wrote: > > > Likely you didn't include support for your root fs or the hardware > > controlling the disk. I once left out support for my IDE controller. > > It didn't work out too well :-). > > Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM > RAMDISK: Couldn't fin

Re: alternatives to minicom in debian stable or testing?

2001-11-27 Thread Peter Hicks
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 10:56, nate wrote: > i was wondering if anyone knew of good alternatives to > minicom that are available in testing or woody(or i suppose > 3rd party). looking for something with better ANSI support > and needs to support serial connections. don't need modem > support(th

Re: Squid in a school - problems with https

2001-11-27 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:02:44 -0500 Me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 08:05:05PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > You should contact the opera people and see if they will sponsor your schoool > and give you the full version to use. You could offer to distribute their ad > ver

Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

2001-11-27 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
Hello everyone, Question one: when I'm using the archive search form on http://lists.debian.org/search.html, if I select all quarters on the Date Filter, does it search in all quarters or just the first quarter of the selection? I searched for "dpkg frontend for X" and it returned "No matche

Re: Circular directory references (was re: ext2 file too big...)

2001-11-27 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:44:41PM -0600, Chad C.Walstrom wrote: | On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 03:26:31PM -0500, dman wrote: | > ls -ld | > | > to find out which is a symlink and which is a real directory, then | > remove the symlinks (if you really don't want them). | > | > It is not possible to hav

Re: make-kpkg and 2.4.16

2001-11-27 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Adam Shand wrote: > > Likely you didn't include support for your root fs or the hardware > > controlling the disk. I once left out support for my IDE controller. > > It didn't work out too well :-). > > hrm, i don't think so and i just doubled checked. i copied my .config >

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