Re: fetchmail

2002-01-18 Thread Ken Weingold
On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 12:12 , Adam Majer wrote: How did you configure it? I just used linuxconf and it works perfectly. You might want to set the options of forwarding to postmaster if unknown recipient instead of rejecting. and specify the postster. What does it say in the logs? [ma

epson stylus c80 under debian

2002-01-18 Thread nate
anyone have experience with this printer? its the first printer i bought in 10 years and i bought it because it was rated the best inkjet on linuxprinting.org but ive had little success using it under debian sofar. closest i can get is installing cups from source and using a generic color driver w

Re: where is the gdk-pixbuf???

2002-01-18 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:01:54PM +0800, asho wrote: > hello... > I want to build the drip package to rip my dvd > I built the drip and the error came out > > checking for gdk_pixbuf_scale in -lgdk_pixbuf... ./configure: > gdk-pixbuf-config: command not found > no > configure: error: gdk-pixbuf i

Re: fetchmail

2002-01-18 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 11:27:45PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > > On Friday, January 18, 2002, at 11:18 , ben wrote: > > >On Friday 18 January 2002 08:13 pm, Ken Weingold wrote: > >>Is anyone here using fetchmail? I ran it to get my mail from a POP > >>server to use with mutt, and I did see them

Re: where is the gdk-pixbuf???

2002-01-18 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:01:54 +0800, asho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello... > I want to build the drip package to rip my dvd > I built the drip and the error came out > > checking for gdk_pixbuf_scale in -lgdk_pixbuf... ./configure: > gdk-pixbuf-config: command not found > no > configure: erro

where is the gdk-pixbuf???

2002-01-18 Thread asho
hello... I want to build the drip package to rip my dvd I built the drip and the error came out checking for gdk_pixbuf_scale in -lgdk_pixbuf... ./configure: gdk-pixbuf-config: command not found no configure: error: gdk-pixbuf is needed I check the package.It seems no gdk-pixbuf... Is it true tha

Re: fetchmail

2002-01-18 Thread Ken Weingold
On Friday, January 18, 2002, at 11:18 , ben wrote: On Friday 18 January 2002 08:13 pm, Ken Weingold wrote: Is anyone here using fetchmail? I ran it to get my mail from a POP server to use with mutt, and I did see them all come in when it was running, but I don't see them with mutt. Anyone kn

Re: fetchmail

2002-01-18 Thread ben
On Friday 18 January 2002 08:13 pm, Ken Weingold wrote: > Is anyone here using fetchmail? I ran it to get my mail from a POP > server to use with mutt, and I did see them all come in when it was > running, but I don't see them with mutt. Anyone know where they could > be? > > Thanks. > > > -Ken

fetchmail

2002-01-18 Thread Ken Weingold
Is anyone here using fetchmail? I ran it to get my mail from a POP server to use with mutt, and I did see them all come in when it was running, but I don't see them with mutt. Anyone know where they could be? Thanks. -Ken

Re: setting up mail server

2002-01-18 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 04:12:16PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > Thanks for the reply about setting up smarthost. I reconfigured exim > > > for that and It works.But now All mail sent out from the machine > > > gets bounced, saying: > > >

Re: Caleb It 144MB Drive

2002-01-18 Thread Linda Macdonald
Does anyone know how to set up the Caleb It 144MB Drive. I can't find my installation instruction? LyndamacGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

Re: Emacs HTML modes

2002-01-18 Thread Arne W. Flones
> On 18/01/02 Arne W. Flones did speaketh: > > > Sorry, I do not run Xemacs (nor do I want to). I run emacs only in text > > mode. > > Furthermore, I do *NOT* want Emacs to render HTML, I merely want to use > > Emacs > > to edit it without the editor making stupid decisions for me, like indenti

Re: Emacs HTML modes

2002-01-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 18/01/02 Arne W. Flones did speaketh: > Sorry, I do not run Xemacs (nor do I want to). I run emacs only in text mode. > Furthermore, I do *NOT* want Emacs to render HTML, I merely want to use Emacs > to edit it without the editor making stupid decisions for me, like indenting > text 30 charact

Re: exim doubt

2002-01-18 Thread Jijo Jose A
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:16:31AM -0500, dman wrote: > $ host -t mx rediffmail.com > rediffmail.com MX 5 mail3.rediffmail.com > rediffmail.com MX 5 mail2.rediffmail.com > rediffmail.com MX 5 mail.rediffmail.com > > Can you create more MX records (and corr

Mozilla compile error!!

2002-01-18 Thread asho
Hello,I had a very strange problem when I build the mozilla-0.9.4-1. My step is like below ./configure make It appears the "internel compile error" like below ../../../../dist/include/nsIServiceManager.h: In method `nsGetServiceByCID::~nsGetServiceByCID()': ../../../../dist/include/nsIServiceMa

Re: need help compiling kernel: problems with make menuconfig

2002-01-18 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, seg wrote: > Just reinstalled a Debian/GNU system. I didn't install X, has it wouldn't > load up correctly and didn't it. Without X, to compile a new kernel I am > forced to use make menuconfig. Which supposedly requires the package > ncurses-dev. Using Debian's apt-get utilit

Re: need help compiling kernel: problems with make menuconfig

2002-01-18 Thread ben
On Friday 18 January 2002 05:22 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.19.0149 +0100]: [snip] > > > > you can also use make config for the kernel compilation. > > do you do so regularly? it's a "bitch" i find. > nope, but i would if i had no other choice.

Re: enforcing strong passwords with PAM

2002-01-18 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > I disable password for console access completely. If I can have console > acccess, I can always login with boot: init=/bin/sh trick :) Hmm, so what do you do when sshd dies and you can't reboot the box (e.g. it's a live server), and you need to

Re: enforcing strong passwords with PAM

2002-01-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Oops, you are asking something the other way. On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 05:28:37PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, not exactly a ansewr but more extreme option here: > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:44:50AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > hi, > > > > libpam-cracklib is a nice addition, but how can

Re: enforcing strong passwords with PAM

2002-01-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, not exactly a ansewr but more extreme option here: On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:44:50AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > hi, > > libpam-cracklib is a nice addition, but how can i use PAM to enforce at > least one symbol, one digit, and one "other"-case character (if p/w is > all uppercase, enfor

Re: need help compiling kernel: problems with make menuconfig

2002-01-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.19.0149 +0100]: > On Friday 18 January 2002 04:32 pm, seg wrote: > > Just reinstalled a Debian/GNU system. I didn't install X, has it wouldn't > > load up correctly and didn't it. Without X, to compile a new kernel I am > > forced to use make menuconfig.

Re: Upgrading Kernel the Debian way?

2002-01-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.19.0147 +0100]: > > Yeah, okay, I was harsh. For that I'm sorry. But on the plus side, it > > did have the intended effect of stopping a thread in its tracks, and > > probably gave some people the idea that, just because they don't use > > something does

Re: Upgrading Kernel the Debian way?

2002-01-18 Thread ben
On Friday 18 January 2002 04:28 pm, David B Harris wrote: [snip] > Yeah, okay, I was harsh. For that I'm sorry. But on the plus side, it > did have the intended effect of stopping a thread in its tracks, and > probably gave some people the idea that, just because they don't use > something doesn't

Re: need help compiling kernel: problems with make menuconfig

2002-01-18 Thread ben
On Friday 18 January 2002 04:32 pm, seg wrote: > Just reinstalled a Debian/GNU system. I didn't install X, has it wouldn't > load up correctly and didn't it. Without X, to compile a new kernel I am > forced to use make menuconfig. Which supposedly requires the package > ncurses-dev. Using Debian's

enforcing strong passwords with PAM

2002-01-18 Thread martin f krafft
hi, libpam-cracklib is a nice addition, but how can i use PAM to enforce at least one symbol, one digit, and one "other"-case character (if p/w is all uppercase, enforce one lower case, and vice versa)? i know about the dcredit, ucredit, lcredit, and ocredit options to the libcrack module (e.g. s

/etc/environment

2002-01-18 Thread martin f krafft
in light of the recent discussion on /etc/environment, check out [1], which is pretty good at explaining the powers of pam_env.so and also tells you what /etc/environment is *really* for. and it's not AIX documentation ;) 1. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/10/05/PamModules.html --

need help compiling kernel: problems with make menuconfig

2002-01-18 Thread seg
Just reinstalled a Debian/GNU system. I didn't install X, has it wouldn't load up correctly and didn't it. Without X, to compile a new kernel I am forced to use make menuconfig. Which supposedly requires the package ncurses-dev. Using Debian's apt-get utility I tried to install ncurses-dev. It retu

Re: Upgrading Kernel the Debian way?

2002-01-18 Thread David B Harris
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:39:53 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > man, i can't believe that you told dman--one of the most unreservedly > helpful and still modest people on this list--to shut up. that's damn > near slapping your mama in the face. dude, apologize. Well, firstly, I can also be a r

Re: setting up mail server

2002-01-18 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Thanks for the reply about setting up smarthost. I reconfigured exim > > for that and It works.But now All mail sent out from the machine > > gets bounced, saying: > > > > > > Remote host said: 550 relaying to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited by > > ad

rsync between debian and redhat

2002-01-18 Thread Matt Fair
Hello, I have a one of my computers localy with Redhat 7.2 installed on it, and my remote computer with debian installed on it. I am able to rsync between 2 debian computers no problem. I installed the same version (2.3.2 protocol version 21) on both machines, and still the same result. But an r

Re: how much can it take

2002-01-18 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I was inspired to write an article about stress testing web servers after I did some consulting for a client whose server fell over when put into production after testing out flawlessly during development. This was a consumer eCommerce site that was put online just in time for the Christmas shoppi

Re: my ximian gnome screws up window placement

2002-01-18 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 03:44:09PM -0800, Camilux wrote: > Hi! > > I apt-get'ed ximian gnome a while ago, i got 1 failed package (x- > screensavers) wich couldnt be fixed even with install -f , guess i'll > have to fetch the .deb manually , right? Well, what did it say? > anyway, the issue is t

Re: how much can it take?

2002-01-18 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:36:28PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya > > you can try to do a stress test on your server from the outside world > and see if its response time is still acceptable > > or simple way... > - when yur ids/monitoring tools says that the server doesnt > exist

Re: Emacs HTML modes

2002-01-18 Thread Arne W. Flones
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 06:21:10PM -0800, Arne W. Flones wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently updated my stable, but out of date, SuSE system to Debian > > Potato (2.2r4). I'm now trying to smooth out some of the wrinkles. > > > > I use a lot of html locally for internal documents, all of which I

Re: Upgrading Kernel the Debian way?

2002-01-18 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:39:53PM -0800, ben wrote: | On Friday 18 January 2002 01:22 pm, David B Harris wrote: | > On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:57:16 -0500 | > | > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > > Isn't that why I ran "vim /boot/grub/menu.lst" in the first place? | > > With a configuration as simp

Re: tty1 clogged up

2002-01-18 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:35:09PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: > Hi, > > I did make a post before on this, but it never appeared at my end > and neither did any replies, so where that went . > > I managed to lock up solid in mutt while using jove to edit an > email. I had to kill jove and m

Re: Memory recognition problem / large mem

2002-01-18 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:43:27PM -0500, Noah Massey wrote: > ok, first the problem: > my computer has 1024 M of RAM installed. > /proc/meminfo reports: > > total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: > Mem: 923058176 460623872 4624343040 33697792 172601344 > Swap: 317490

RE: gpm & xdm question

2002-01-18 Thread Harris, Jason
Well, have you looked into the /etc/rc?.d directories ? Assuming runlevel of 5 since you going into x, there should be a startup script for gpm in /etc/rc5.d named something like S88gpm. delete it. Now gpm won't start when entering level 5. It will still be running if you use another runlevel o

Re: Upgrading Kernel the Debian way?

2002-01-18 Thread ben
On Friday 18 January 2002 01:22 pm, David B Harris wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:57:16 -0500 > > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Isn't that why I ran "vim /boot/grub/menu.lst" in the first place? > > With a configuration as simple to manage as grub's is, I can't imagine > > why this would nee

Re: eth0

2002-01-18 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 07:56:20PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.18.1814 +0100]: > > A useful trick is to go into the network modules directory (e.g. > > /lib/modules/2.4.17/drivers/net I think) and running: > > > > $ strings * | grep 3c905c >

Re: setting up mail server

2002-01-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:44:02PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > Thanks for the reply about setting up smarthost. I reconfigured exim > for that and It works.But now All mail sent out from the machine > gets bounced, saying: > > > Remote host said: 550 relaying to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohib

Re: no más "ndc start"

2002-01-18 Thread dvanbalen
Fernando Hadad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hola amigos, quiero hacerles una consultilla... > > resulta que configuré un DNS y el sistema me funciona rebién, pero tengo el > problema de que debo hecharlo a andar a mano, es decir, el servicio no parte > sólo al bootear, sino que debo ejecutar "

Re: how much can it take?

2002-01-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya you can try to do a stress test on your server from the outside world and see if its response time is still acceptable or simple way... - when yur ids/monitoring tools says that the server doesnt exist or doesnt respond... you know its too heavily loaded and it'd be

how much can it take?

2002-01-18 Thread Matt Fair
Hello, I have a Dell PIII 800 MHz with 256 Meg Ram running debian and apache, along with mysql and sendmail. I have a redundant t1 connection to this server. I have a website that gets about 80 hits per month and transfers about 8403274 KB per month. The site gets an average of about 922 Hits p

no más "ndc start"

2002-01-18 Thread Fernando Hadad
Hola amigos, quiero hacerles una consultilla... resulta que configuré un DNS y el sistema me funciona rebién, pero tengo el problema de que debo hecharlo a andar a mano, es decir, el servicio no parte sólo al bootear, sino que debo ejecutar "ndc start" para que camine... alguien puede decirme

Re: Problem with email

2002-01-18 Thread Brian Schramm
I have my machine setup to work on the local network in fact I put a all:all in the hosts.allow file So I am still not able to get my mail by pop or imap Brian --- Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the tips!! > > Vittorio > > Alan Chandler [debian-user] <17/01/02 21:36 +>: >

Re: squirrelmail: apache/php and register_globals

2002-01-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.11.1427 +0100]: > Yes, there appears to be a serious bug in this thing all-right. > I just went to the system I have working, and tried to find out what is > happening there (where it works). it's quite bad. especially the fact

Re: Upgrading Kernel the Debian way?

2002-01-18 Thread darrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:57:16 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Isn't that why I ran "vim /boot/grub/menu.lst" in the first place? With a configuration as simple to manage as grub's is, I can't imagine why this would need to be automated. (X, yes; sendmail, yes;

Re: Installing a printer and using kde as a window manager

2002-01-18 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 January 2002 9:19 pm, dman wrote: > get the 'cupsys', 'cupsys-client', 'cupsys-bsd', > 'cupsys-driver-gimpprint', 'cupsomatic-ppd', and 'cupsys-pstoraster' > pacakges. (I think at least some of them aren't in potato) The CUPS > printing

Parallel port on DELL Optiplex GX400

2002-01-18 Thread Ken Kleiner
Hello... Debian 2.2r5 i386 on a DELL GX400. I can't seem to get the /dev/lp0 port to work at all. I've re-compiled the kernel with parallel port drivers loaded as modules, and loaded the modules. Redirecting to /dev/lp0 (i.e. date > /dev/lp0) just gives: /dev/lp0: No such device In dmesg,

my ximian gnome screws up window placement

2002-01-18 Thread Camilux
Hi! I apt-get'ed ximian gnome a while ago, i got 1 failed package (x- screensavers) wich couldnt be fixed even with install -f , guess i'll have to fetch the .deb manually , right? anyway, the issue is that every new window i open up in gnome gets placed at the upper left side of the screen, an

Help with parallel port on Dell Optiplex...

2002-01-18 Thread Ken Kleiner
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Re: Upgrading Kernel the Debian way?

2002-01-18 Thread David B Harris
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:57:16 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't that why I ran "vim /boot/grub/menu.lst" in the first place? > With a configuration as simple to manage as grub's is, I can't imagine > why this would need to be automated. (X, yes; sendmail, yes; grub, > not really) What

Re: What is wrong with gcc-doc?

2002-01-18 Thread Simon Law
On 18 Jan 2002, Paul Smith wrote: > Hmm, after much searching I found gcc-2.95-doc which seems to install > OK. > > I kind of wish it would have been called gcc-doc-2.95 instead as that > would have made my searches for it a _LOT_ more successful, but oh well :) Well, it is the documenta

Re: gpm & xdm question

2002-01-18 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 04:06:34PM -0500, Noah Massey wrote: | --begin quoted message from Klaus Neumann, | > (Debian newbie): | > How can I prevent gpm and xdm from starting up automatically at boot time? | > Thanks! | | cd /etc/rc3.d | mv S*gpm K20gpm | mv S*xdm K01xdm that might work, but th

Re: Installing a printer and using kde as a window manager

2002-01-18 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 08:11:28PM +0100, Claus Ladekjær Wilson wrote: | how do I install the filter for my hp 390 c ? get the 'cupsys', 'cupsys-client', 'cupsys-bsd', 'cupsys-driver-gimpprint', 'cupsomatic-ppd', and 'cupsys-pstoraster' pacakges. (I think at least some of them aren't in potato)

Re: gpm & xdm question

2002-01-18 Thread Noah Massey
--begin quoted message from Klaus Neumann, > (Debian newbie): > How can I prevent gpm and xdm from starting up automatically at boot time? > Thanks! cd /etc/rc3.d mv S*gpm K20gpm mv S*xdm K01xdm edit /etc/inittab so that the line that starts with 'id' says id:3:initdefault for more information

Left-click aborts program (viewmol)

2002-01-18 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I am having a strange problem with viewmol (woody, kernel 2.4.8) When I left click the mouse anywhere in the window, it aborts the program. This does not happen with any other program. I don't think it has anything to do with viewmol either, because on my home machine it works OK, th

Re: tty1 clogged up

2002-01-18 Thread Noah Massey
--begin quoted message from Ian Balchin, > Hi, > > > Am still stuck with the locked screen display. I don't want to have > to reboot to clear it, so how can I get tty1 back? Mutt and Jove are > dead. assuming you actually logged in to tty1: ps -aux | grep tty1 look for the job number of '-bash

gpm & xdm question

2002-01-18 Thread Klaus Neumann
(Debian newbie): How can I prevent gpm and xdm from starting up automatically at boot time? Thanks! Cheers, Klaus

RE: roff / tex comparison (was Re: OT: Rant)

2002-01-18 Thread darrell
i would like too throw my 2 cents in here, i started with lyx as a gui for latex, just installed the deb ( after wrestling with dselect ;) and am very happy with lyx, there were some post deb install issues that i had to fix, i am new to debian and dont want to track down the maintainer, so i

Re: setting up mail server

2002-01-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Ken Weingold([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Thanks for the reply about setting up smarthost. I reconfigured exim > for that and It works.But now All mail sent out from the machine > gets bounced, saying: > > > Remote host said: 550 relaying to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited

Re: lilo.conf

2002-01-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Herbert Schmitz([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello list, > > i have - surely - a small problem with my lilo-config. I have a 12G-harddisk > and install first win98, than debian-potato 2.2.17 with boot in the mbr and > than i install mandrake (i used it now 2 years and won` t st

Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-18 Thread sam rosenfeld
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:50:30PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:40:06 -0500 sam rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have tried unsuccessfully to install many packages and programs -- from > > math > > programs to pine, sawfish and libc6.2. In most cases the problem

Re: help installing printing-system ...

2002-01-18 Thread ben
On Friday 18 January 2002 11:34 am, Palfalvi Richard wrote: > Hi guys out there! > > I need some help on getting started my printer, a CANON-S450-inkjet. > oh yeah, one more thing--since calling lp0 with lpadmin is telling you that lp0 doesn't exist, maybe you should call it with the full path, i.

Re: help installing printing-system ...

2002-01-18 Thread ben
On Friday 18 January 2002 11:34 am, Palfalvi Richard wrote: > Hi guys out there! > > I need some help on getting started my printer, a CANON-S450-inkjet. > i don't know anything about turboprint, but it seems like overkill to have two different systems administering your printer. i just went throu

Re: mutt mark tagged as read?

2002-01-18 Thread neonatus
* On 18-01-02 at 20:22 martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > > read. Is there a way to tag all the wanted messages and than mark them > > all as read? > once tagged: > > ';Wn' [...] +and here the quote ends+ Thank you! Works great. regards B. --

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Re: eth0

2002-01-18 Thread Martin Atukunda
On Friday 18 January 2002 21:56, martin f krafft proclaimed: > also sprach Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.18.1814 +0100]: > > A useful trick is to go into the network modules directory (e.g. > > /lib/modules/2.4.17/drivers/net I think) and running: > > > > $ strings * | grep 3c905c > > >

Installing a printer and using kde as a window manager

2002-01-18 Thread Claus Ladekjær Wilson
I run Mandrake normally - how do I install the filter for my hp 390 c ? This was my first install of Debian and I am impressed of performance. I run potato 2.2r4 How do I change window managers? And kde isn't on the cdrom's I guess? I would like to use a 2.4 kernel - how to install such a thing? -

Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:40:06 -0500 sam rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried unsuccessfully to install many packages and programs -- from > math > programs to pine, sawfish and libc6.2. In most cases the problem is one in > which the 'make' closes with errors that list dependencie

Re: What is wrong with gcc-doc?

2002-01-18 Thread Paul Smith
Hmm, after much searching I found gcc-2.95-doc which seems to install OK. I kind of wish it would have been called gcc-doc-2.95 instead as that would have made my searches for it a _LOT_ more successful, but oh well :) PS. Is anyone else besides me having lots of problems connecting to the

tty1 clogged up

2002-01-18 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, I did make a post before on this, but it never appeared at my end and neither did any replies, so where that went . I managed to lock up solid in mutt while using jove to edit an email. I had to kill jove and mutt from # top thinking that would clear all for a new startover. But .

Re: What is wrong with gcc-doc?

2002-01-18 Thread John Kuhn
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:34:39PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > For a few months now I haven't been able to install the GCC > documentation. This is most annoying. However, there is no bug filed > so I'm wondering if maybe I've just got something broken? > > Here's what happens: > > # apt-get -

help installing printing-system ...

2002-01-18 Thread Palfalvi Richard
Hi guys out there! I need some help on getting started my printer, a CANON-S450-inkjet. situation: I want to install a central printer server. the printer server is an old 486er-box which is running stable on Debian-2.2r5 as IP-maskserver for over one year now. (I have no X and therefore no desk

serious dependency problems

2002-01-18 Thread sam rosenfeld
I have tried unsuccessfully to install many packages and programs -- from math programs to pine, sawfish and libc6.2. In most cases the problem is one in which the 'make' closes with errors that list dependencies it could not find. Occasionally, and perhaps unrelated, the error message reads s

What is wrong with gcc-doc?

2002-01-18 Thread Paul Smith
For a few months now I haven't been able to install the GCC documentation. This is most annoying. However, there is no bug filed so I'm wondering if maybe I've just got something broken? Here's what happens: # apt-get -s install gcc-doc Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tr

Re: setting up spamassassin (alternative)

2002-01-18 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 January 2002 7:13 am, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Friday 18 January 2002 1:04 am, dman wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:27:36PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > > ... > > > | # This transport does a spam check to look for spam and then >

Re: filesystem oddities

2002-01-18 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 08:15:46PM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote: | Hello. | Something strange has happened to my file systems: I've resized a | partition (ext2) with parted, installed windows on another. On my | other disk I have woody which I mostly use. But now parted says | /dev/hda1 is ext2, whe

Re: Which Imap server

2002-01-18 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On 18 Jan 2002, Ross Burton wrote: > On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 15:16, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > > Dear list - I am currently building a new server and have 'apt-cache > > searched' a few different imap servers. > > Any suggestions which is the best pick on Potato serving a few Outlook > > Express,

Re: mutt mark tagged as read?

2002-01-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.18.2010 +0100]: > I am using mutt as my prefered mail reader, and sometimes I just don't > want to read all the mail, so I just check the headers and mark them as > read. Is there a way to tag all the wanted messages and than mark them > al

filesystem oddities

2002-01-18 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello. Something strange has happened to my file systems: I've resized a partition (ext2) with parted, installed windows on another. On my other disk I have woody which I mostly use. But now parted says /dev/hda1 is ext2, whereas fdisk says it's amoeba. What's wrong?! I can't boot potato anymore! T

Re: USB Printer Setup Problem

2002-01-18 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 10:43:14AM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 04:23:00PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > > I have an Epson StylusColor 860 which I wish to use on a usb port. I > > compiled my 2.2.19 kernel with usb support, usb file support and usb > > printer. c

mutt mark tagged as read?

2002-01-18 Thread neonatus
Hi! I am using mutt as my prefered mail reader, and sometimes I just don't want to read all the mail, so I just check the headers and mark them as read. Is there a way to tag all the wanted messages and than mark them all as read? (I know how to tag, but marking all the tagged messages as read par

RE: sattellite connection for downloads

2002-01-18 Thread Jeff Bonner
> Has anyone every tried this? > Any comments in relation to bandwidth, configuration problems, and > anything else are welcome. I don't want to sound like I'm discouraging you from trying this, because I'm not. I just wouldn't want to see anyone burned. :) What I've heard from satellite users

Re: eth0

2002-01-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.18.1814 +0100]: > A useful trick is to go into the network modules directory (e.g. > /lib/modules/2.4.17/drivers/net I think) and running: > > $ strings * | grep 3c905c > > That will list all files containing the string "3c905c", which will in

RE: Fwd: Re: Upgrading Kernel the Debian way?

2002-01-18 Thread Jeff Bonner
> Cant i use a 2.4.x one? > > thanks > > > > Well, im using Debian 2.2 r5 (just upgraded a while > > > ago to that)... This method seems, IMHO, a *much* easier way to go about compiling a new kernel. Give it a try... http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/tutorials/kernel-pkg.en/index-kernel-pk g.ht

Managing a public Debain Gnome installation

2002-01-18 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hello everyone, I'm building up a box to be used publicly at our company for tasks such as archived fax viewing/printing, web browsing, and use of image libraries. I'd like to have a consistent starting point for all our company's users to being from. Here's my plan: 1) apt-get i

Re: eth0

2002-01-18 Thread Ross Burton
On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 17:04, Gary Hennigan wrote: > 04:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] (rev > 78) > > The 3c905C-TX is the important bit. Given that I can find out the > driver I need. In my case it's the 3c59x module, which I load via the > command "modprob

Re: apt-get update from CDROM

2002-01-18 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello, use apt-cdrom (man apt-cdrom). i suggest to make a backup of your sources.list before using it... you have to "add" each cd, then update... then you should be able to dist-upgrade as normal. jason On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:41:36PM -0500, Phil Beder wrote: | I'm running Debian 2.1 and hav

apt-get update from CDROM

2002-01-18 Thread Phil Beder
I'm running Debian 2.1 and have obtained a set of version 2,2 disks. how can I point apt-get toward my CDROM drive? ___ | Phil Beder| | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | www.brainlink.com/~phil | ^^^

Re: Alarm Tool

2002-01-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ovtavio if you are lookng for monitoring programs that tells you the status of your network/server... there are tons of um host/server/daemon monitoring http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Monitoring/ ( mon, bigbrother, ... some can be customized to send out a beep to your pag

RE: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-18 Thread Jeff Bonner
> > Does anyone out there use ICQ under Debian? So far I've > > tried licq and gaim with the ICQ plugin, and both of them > > have very annoying problems (messages get lost, or messages > > from previous sessions get delivered again on client startup... > > this is a problem when you have 20+ mess

Re: nVidia and X problems

2002-01-18 Thread Martin Atukunda
On Friday 18 January 2002 14:25, Benjamin Sommerfeld proclaimed: > > default window-manager: look at the links > /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager and /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager > they point to your default window managers. i think if you set the > x-session-manager to gnome for instance,

Re: Which Imap server

2002-01-18 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 03:32:14PM +, Ross Burton wrote: > > Cyrus is also supposed to be very fast, but as it doesn't use the unix > password database it means managing a seperate user database. Of > course, for many people that is exactly what is required... > It's not necessarily the cas

Re: euro char on US keyboard

2002-01-18 Thread Pete Ryland
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 06:08:32PM +0100, Andreas Leitner wrote: > Hi, > > I live in Austria, but for convenience use a keyboard with the standard > US layout. It actually got a Euro symbol printed on the "5" key (to the > right of the five, just like @ on the german keyboard is right to "2" > iir

RE: using xfwm as gnome's wm

2002-01-18 Thread Jeff Bonner
> > [...] Have your tried IceWM?[...] > > > Yes, i tried IceWM some time ago, but did not knew that it > has GNOME support... wait, let me do a apt-get... You might also try this URL: http://www.gnome.org/faqs/users-faq/x11.html#AEN211 That'll give you a list of various WMs that are supposed t

Re: Samba 2.2 and Potato

2002-01-18 Thread Scott Henson
On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 09:40, Mateusz Mazur wrote: > Hi. > > I wonder if someone could give me link to Samba 2.2 deb packages for debian > 2.2. > well you should be able to use apt-get or dselect. You can also go to debian.org and use the search function for packages. Just be sure to specify st

Re: setting up mail server

2002-01-18 Thread Ken Weingold
Thanks for the reply about setting up smarthost. I reconfigured exim for that and It works.But now All mail sent out from the machine gets bounced, saying: Remote host said: 550 relaying to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited by administrator Any ideas? Sorry if this is out of the scope of

Memory recognition problem / large mem

2002-01-18 Thread Noah Massey
ok, first the problem: my computer has 1024 M of RAM installed. /proc/meminfo reports: total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 923058176 460623872 4624343040 33697792 172601344 Swap: 31749038080 3174903808 MemTotal: 901424 kB ... I'm running woody,

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