Can't write to /usr/share/doc

2002-01-25 Thread Rob Rati
I was trying to install the .debs of the newest Wine build on my Potato system running kernel 2.4.4, and when apt tries to actually install the .debs, I get this error: error creating directory `./usr/share/doc/winesetuptk': No such file or directory For every single package I am trying to i

Re: Downloading huge files with Mozilla?

2002-01-25 Thread Sam Kennedy
wget works well for me. -- Sam Kennedy David B Harris wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 04:51:21 + Stig Brautaset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: links-ssl ? lol :) While links-ssl is a great browser which I use daily, it also has problems downloading large files ;)

error running texdoc

2002-01-25 Thread Dave Price
I have tetex-doc installed, but when i try to run texdoc i get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ texdoc geometry /usr/bin/texdoc: eval: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `&' /usr/bin/texdoc: eval: line 1: `xdvi /tmp/texdoc16758/geometry.dvi; rm -f /tmp/texdoc16758/geometry.dvi; clean_tmp; &' any

Re: Still having weird issues with Gtk...

2002-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 07:20:26AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Me previous request was that when su'ing to root, i could not > execute some graphical programs, with a Gtk error, i was told > about xauthorities, and did some tweaking with some success; i > put the Xauthority line in .bashrc

Re: Downloading huge files with Mozilla?

2002-01-25 Thread David B Harris
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 04:51:21 + Stig Brautaset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > links-ssl ? lol :) While links-ssl is a great browser which I use daily, it also has problems downloading large files ;) -- .--=-=-=-=--=---=-=-=. /David Barclay Harris

Re: Downloading huge files with Mozilla?

2002-01-25 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Michael D. Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Is there a way I can download a file with Mozilla in such a way that the > download file, while in progress, is saved in my home directory and not in > /tmp? > > I want to download a 110 MB file via HTTPS off a software vendor's website. >

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-25 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Andreas Leitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 03:03, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> >> On 25-Jan-2002 Michael Jinks wrote: >>> One thing you can do: hold left shift during boot to get a prompt, and >>> at the "LILO:" prompt enter "Linux init=/bin/sh" (possibly replacing

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Wow, I kind of knew there were ways to gain root access or even find out > the root password quite easily, but that's really really easy... > > On every standard Debian install, anybody can gain the root password > within minutes (given the attacker has phyiscal access to the box): > (warni

remapping keys

2002-01-25 Thread Titus Barik
So, here's the deal. I have a Solaris box right, with a good old Solaris keyboard. Of course, with the Solaris keyboards the control key is where the caps lock key is on a traditional PC keyboard. This is really annnoying for me when I have to switch between my Linux and Solaris box. So, in Debian

Hyperlink Howto?

2002-01-25 Thread Paul Mackinney
I used to be able to ctrl-click a hyperlink to launch my browser & go to the link, but this no longer works. I've looked in the FAQ & the list archives. Can anyone tell me how (or where to RTFM)? Also, is there any way to have mutt launch when I click a mailto: link? TIA, Paul -- Paul Mackinney

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-25 Thread Andreas Leitner
On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 03:03, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 25-Jan-2002 Michael Jinks wrote: > > One thing you can do: hold left shift during boot to get a prompt, and > > at the "LILO:" prompt enter "Linux init=/bin/sh" (possibly replacing > > "Linux" with another image name if your box doesn'

Downloading huge files with Mozilla?

2002-01-25 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Is there a way I can download a file with Mozilla in such a way that the download file, while in progress, is saved in my home directory and not in /tmp? I want to download a 110 MB file via HTTPS off a software vendor's website. They don't make the file available via FTP, or via non-secure HTT

Problems installing Debian 3.0 (pre) Woody

2002-01-25 Thread sstallone
Hi everybody, I think Debian is a great thing because it offers alot of packages (esp. many, many games). Unfortunately, I have problems installing Debian 3.0 (pre) Woody: 1) After inserting CD1, booting from it and pressing enter at the boot prompt, it boots to the display of my drives (hda, hd

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-25 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > (lower case 'linux init=/bin/sh' usually) I don't think LILO cares what case you throw at it. -- Baloo

Re: Debian newgroup

2002-01-25 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Paul E Condon wrote: > Am I correct in thinking that it is really the same good stuff, > only package differently? And read-only. -- Baloo

Re: latex? how to set up a document to print 8.5 x 11 landscape with two collums?

2002-01-25 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 07:02:11PM -0700, Dave Price wrote: > hi, > > there seem to be some latex gurus here. can any one tell me how to set I'm no guru whatsoever, but thinking that 8.5X11inch is letter size wouldn't the following do what you ask? \documentclass[landscape, twocolumn]{book}

Re: Quake III

2002-01-25 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 01:20:56AM +0100, Mathias Gygax wrote: > On Fre, Jan 25, 2002 at 06:12:15 -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > > Where does it say that? And if that's true, are the any other > > distributers of games for Linux? > > what about the FSF? Can I get Tribes 2 from them? :) - Adam

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Jason Majors wrote: > In my machines I've go a aureal vortex 2 (I had to > compile a driver from sourceforge), Btw, in case you weren't aware, I have an unofficial .deb for the vortex drivers available from http://www.braincells.com/open/ -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Jan-2002 Michael Jinks wrote: > One thing you can do: hold left shift during boot to get a prompt, and > at the "LILO:" prompt enter "Linux init=/bin/sh" (possibly replacing > "Linux" with another image name if your box doesn't have the default). > > The root fs will come up read-only. To

latex? how to set up a document to print 8.5 x 11 landscape with two collums?

2002-01-25 Thread Dave Price
hi, there seem to be some latex gurus here. can any one tell me how to set up a latex document that will print on 8.5 x 11 inch paper lanscape (sideways) in two collumns, so that i can cut it in half and bind into a small notebook? aloha (&TIA) dave

name server

2002-01-25 Thread Joe Wise
I'm trying to get my box to resolve DNS. I thought that I had correctly configured the name server, but I guess not. Any help as to where the DNS should be stored? Joe

Still having weird issues with Gtk...

2002-01-25 Thread camilo
Hi everybody, Although a lot of people were extremely helpful with my previous request, im still facing some weird issues with Gtk and Gdk... Me previous request was that when su'ing to root, i could not execute some graphical programs, with a Gtk error, i was told about xauthorities, and did som

Re: Protect yourself from mobile/cell phone radiation

2002-01-25 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 02:04:12PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > dman wrote: > > >On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:26:01PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > >| On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:13:17 +, The Phone Dome wrote: > >| > >| >ARE YOU BURNING YOUR BRAIN? GET THE PHONE DOME - ABSORBS 99% OF > >| >HARMFUL RADIA

Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-25 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, my problem as described in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and with some more details in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> returned, though only for some minutes. Simple description: Suddenly most programs won't start anymore but will give the error message: foo: relocation error: /lib/libnss_compat.so.2: symbol rect

Re: what is this? (sshd messages in log)

2002-01-25 Thread Acheron
PCAnywhere can also be configured to listen on port 22. It has the capability to scan a range of hosts for other listening pcanywhere servers. This is likely just somebody running a pcAnywhere scan. They might not even be aware they are doing it - some versions (as I recall) perform the scan

Re: name resolving doesn't work

2002-01-25 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 05:55:43PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:29:59AM +0100, Markus Grunwald wrote: > > Hm. According to "man resolv.conf", specifying both "search" and > "domain" with the same value is redundant. But it shouldn't cause a > breakage though... (act

Re: your mail

2002-01-25 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:11:03AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi list, > I am using the woody dist and my question how i can change the frambuffer > when i am using the kernel image 2.4.8 from the dist ... it cannot be > loaded as a module ... is there another way to set it to functionalit

Re: Quake III

2002-01-25 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Fre, Jan 25, 2002 at 06:12:15 -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > Where does it say that? And if that's true, are the any other > distributers of games for Linux? what about the FSF?

Re: netcams

2002-01-25 Thread John Cichy
Hello, Linux Journal has an article this month on this very thing... www.linuxjournal.com John On Friday 25 January 2002 19:05, Brian Schramm wrote: > I have been given a 3com netcam and would like to use it on my Linux > system. But I cannot find anything on the net about software for it. > Ha

electric eyes see far

2002-01-25 Thread p
debs, i dual boot: linux (potato) and windontz. whenever i've had to access windontz through linux, i'd have to be root first and then mount it (# mount /dev/hda1 /bt). but with ee, i can access that partition without getting "root" with it. this just doesn't seem "cricket." suggestions? t

Re: Quake III

2002-01-25 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 03:39:05PM -0600, Corey Halpin wrote: > Unfortunately, it seems that Loki is going out of business by the end of > January. Where does it say that? And if that's true, are the any other distributers of games for Linux? - Adam

netcams

2002-01-25 Thread Brian Schramm
I have been given a 3com netcam and would like to use it on my Linux system. But I cannot find anything on the net about software for it. Has anyone got it working? Thanks for the help. Brian Schramm -- Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 104442754 AIM schrammbrian www.linuxexpert.org

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-25 Thread Brian J. Zuk
I'd recommend Tom's Root Boot disk(http://www.toms.net/rb/). The boot disk maker will run in Linux or Windows(shuts down windows and runs Linux using loadlin). Boot the workstation with the Tom's disk inside, follow the directions, mount the harddrive(/dev/hda?) and either edit the password f

Re: Help with cron, please (SOLVED)

2002-01-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 04:17:04PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 02:09:18PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > > It is now gone, but cron continues to try to run > > > > rnews -U > > > > every hour, and then sends me, as sysadmin (ha, ha), warning me that it has > > failed t

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-25 Thread Bruce Burhans
Is Earthlink Linux friendly? Can I use Kermit or other terminal program to talk to it? Will it respond to a normal PPP connection? --David My connection uses PPP and UDP, and TCP/IP I have a 56k ac link voice modem. The authentication is MD5 CHAP, no compression on link, but is enabled

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-25 Thread Michael Jinks
One thing you can do: hold left shift during boot to get a prompt, and at the "LILO:" prompt enter "Linux init=/bin/sh" (possibly replacing "Linux" with another image name if your box doesn't have the default). The root fs will come up read-only. To be able to mount other filesystems and otherwis

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-25 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
what I would do: take the harddrive to another machine edit /etc/passwd and in the root entry delete the x next to the user name. after that, root access does not need password. place the hd back inthe workstation and turn it on. login as root and change the password as usual. There are better way

IPmasquerading

2002-01-25 Thread Pieter De Troyer
Hi folks, I'm setting up a full nat for the first time. went through the howto and executed the example firewall rules. Alas... the script first checks the availability of the concerned kernel-modules. They are found, but I get errors returned that the resource is busy... how do I solve this? pi

root password forgotten

2002-01-25 Thread Pieter De Troyer
Hi, After letting it catch some dust in the past months I dug up an old workstation that wasn't completely configured yet. Problem: don't remember the root password. Only the password from the only other user account on the machine. Booting in single user mode prompted me for the root password (o

Re: Quake III

2002-01-25 Thread Dave Carrigan
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > out of curiousity, what software have you been able to run under wine? Starcraft. Apple Quicktime. Various others such as the windows file manager, solitaire, etc. I don't use wine on a daily basis, but I've dabbled with it. It doesn't really seem any slower than

Re: fetchmail like prog to retriebe mails from mail.com?

2002-01-25 Thread Gary Turner
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:20:00 -0600, Keith G. Murphy wrote: >Bruno Boettcher wrote: >> >> >> But i think i am not alone with that sort of problem, so perhaps there >> are allready such sorts of script lying around? >> >Have you looked into using wget, then feeding its output through some >HTML

Re: Debian newgroup

2002-01-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 01:31:11PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 10:54, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > And groups.google.com (formerly deja.com) will still let yo

Re: Quake III

2002-01-25 Thread ben
On Friday 25 January 2002 03:07 pm, Dave Carrigan wrote: > Corey Halpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > God, with wine? That'd be _glacial_. > > Out of curiosity, why would you say that? Have you had experience > running anything under wine? I've never seen any significant performance > problems

Re: Quake III

2002-01-25 Thread Tobias Wolter
On 2002-01-25T15:07:57 +, Dave Carrigan wrote: > > God, with wine? That'd be _glacial_. > Out of curiosity, why would you say that? Have you had experience > running anything under wine? I've never seen any significant performance > problems with the software I've been able to run under Win

Re: Quake III

2002-01-25 Thread Dave Carrigan
Corey Halpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > God, with wine? That'd be _glacial_. Out of curiosity, why would you say that? Have you had experience running anything under wine? I've never seen any significant performance problems with the software I've been able to run under Wine. -- Dave Carr

Re: fetchmail like prog to retrieve mails from mail.com?

2002-01-25 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 09:56:48PM +, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > What about gotmail? It used to work until hotmail messed with the site > design. I > don't know how up to date it is - but it gives you a starting point at least. > If > I remember rightly gotmail used curl. that's exactly what

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 25 January 2002 6:12 pm, Randy Orrison wrote: > Hmmm... I must have missed the easy way to set up my sound card in > Debian. In Windows, it was automatically recognised and configured and > just worked. Is there really an easier way in Deb

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-25 Thread David Teague
Is Earthlink Linux friendly? Can I use Kermit or other terminal program to talk to it? Will it respond to a normal PPP connection? --David On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Bruce Burhans wrote: > On 1/24/2002 @ 1:41 AM, Ben wrote: > > [snip] > > the @ in the login wouldn't influence the network behavior

Re: Help with cron, please

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
> I am trying to clean out my potato. I recently removed network news, inn2, > because I installed it by mistake, thinking it was something else than it is. > I removed it by using dselect and marking it for removal. > It is now gone, but cron continues to try to run > > rnews -U > > every hou

Re: Help with cron, please

2002-01-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 02:09:18PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > It is now gone, but cron continues to try to run > > rnews -U > > every hour, and then sends me, as sysadmin (ha, ha), warning me that it has > failed to find rnews. > > How can I remove this cron job? > I have looked for cront

Help with cron, please

2002-01-25 Thread Paul E Condon
I am trying to clean out my potato. I recently removed network news, inn2, because I installed it by mistake, thinking it was something else than it is. I removed it by using dselect and marking it for removal. It is now gone, but cron continues to try to run rnews -U every hour, and then send

Re: Why don't we every see Debian articles on these sites?

2002-01-25 Thread J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz
Hey, I'd like to write something good about debian. Er, iT rocKs the house! Your hardware is more apt to break than debian. Debian has to be one of, if not the, most stable OSs on the Planet. I have been using debian for quite some time and have had my ups and downs with computers, but not debian.

RE: bind weirdness

2002-01-25 Thread justin cunningham
Cool. I see a lot of these too ns_forw: query(maxamp.com) All possible A RR's lame sysquery: query(mailhub.ynot-us.com) All possible A RR's lame but I did nslookups on a few and they don't exist. I was going to point something else out but too many distractions from users and now I forgot. An

Re: fetchmail like prog to retrieve mails from mail.com?

2002-01-25 Thread Andrew Pritchard
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 04:36:04PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > First reflex was to take curl and write my own retrieval script to circumvent > that problem, and sorta recreate that forwarding service, fetching the mail > through a script from that server and reinjecting it into my mail system

Re: DHCP v3.x in woody?

2002-01-25 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 03:43:15PM -0600, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > > It's been in the experimental distribution on all debian mirrors since it > > was first beta in 1999. > > Dare I ask . . . is it fairly stable? Yes it should be - the only reason why it is in experimental is because the dhcp cli

Re: hdparm settings, do they persist after reboots? hd performance

2002-01-25 Thread Andre Berger
* Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-01-25 16:36 -0500: > Just curious how this program accomplishes its changes > and whether the program has to run at boottime > to have the setting take effect? does it belong > in an rc script? You could either put it into /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh or apt-get

Re: DHCP v3.x in woody?

2002-01-25 Thread Bryan K. Walton
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 09:41:05PM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:31:49PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 11:42, Jeff Vincent wrote: > > > Has anyone used DHCP 3.0 on woody? > > > > The mantainer of the ISC DHCP client just went through a long discusio

latex2html / pnmcrop error

2002-01-25 Thread JFahnenmueller
Hi everybody, when I run latex2html, it does not convert any formulae but gives error messages like this (see below). In fact, the ps version and 2 pnm versions of the image are produced but the third one is an empty file (see attachments). Who can help? TIA, Joachim Converting image #5 De

Re: Quake III

2002-01-25 Thread Corey Halpin
God, with wine? That'd be _glacial_. http://www.lokigames.com/ Sells linux ports of many popular games. Yes, I know that it sucks to pay for games. It sucks more to run windows, IMO. Unfortunately, it seems that Loki is going out of business by the end of January. > where can i get a li

Re: Problem using ps2 mouse in X

2002-01-25 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
I think if you run gpm, in X the mouse should be configured with device "/dev/gpmdata" and protocol "MouseSystems". At least it works on my system, but I have a different mouse. You can try anyway... Regards, -- Joachim Fahnenmüller Lehrer für Mathematik und Physik Herder-Gymnasium Kattowitze

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Camilo, some things I like especially about debian: - the _excellent_ package management - the clear file hierarchy structure - bins, docs, configs, ... are where you expect them - some really well-designed details, e. g. the debian menu system - transparent configuration - no click-and-wonder

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread nate
> Hi people! > > This may sound like a stupid or minor question but i'd really like > to hear from all of you why do you think Debian is great, in > comparison to ALL of the other Linux distributions out there! > > For me , the Apt package managing tool solely is like 50% of the > reasons i like D

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:04:52 -0700 Jason Majors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > | And then there's my CD burner > xcdroast and gcombust both recognized by scsi burner and configured it > automagically. I hear IDE burners are a little more work. Using IDE CD-RWs w/ Linux is also a piece-of-ca

Printing only landscape with HP LaserJet 2200 and lpr-ppd

2002-01-25 Thread Martin Sanborn
I have a HP LaserJet 2200d connected to an Alphastation 250 running Debian woody with a 2.4.14 custom kernel (parport is built-in). Using the normal lpr command prints text and postscript just fine. What I'd like to do is take advantage of the options available through the ppd file, including resol

Re: ppp connection doesn't work

2002-01-25 Thread ben
On Friday 25 January 2002 11:55 am, Klaus Neumann wrote: > Hi, > Just switched from SuSE to Debian potato. Can't get my ppp connection to > work. I'm pretty sure I configured wvdial correctly. It dials, logs in, > then it says PPP negotiation detected, Starting ppp at . > Nothing more. that's al

Re: Mutt question

2002-01-25 Thread Andre Berger
* Bostjan Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-01-24 08:10 -0500: > Hi! > > I have noticed, that whenever read mail is saved to my mbox it gets > tagged as new. I would like to remove the new tags so I did this rule: > > folder-hook mbox push 'T\~N\n;WN\n;W*\n' Basically, it should work without the

Re: ppp connection works now - thank you!

2002-01-25 Thread Klaus Neumann
yes, you are right, it was the /etc/resolv.conf. Thank you! ---Original Message--- From: Jason Majors Date: Friday, January 25, 2002 12:09:26 PM To: Debian User Subject: Re: ppp connection doesn't work > Just switched from SuSE to Debian potato. Can't get my ppp connection to > work. I'm p

Re: DHCP v3.x in woody?

2002-01-25 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:31:49PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 11:42, Jeff Vincent wrote: > > Has anyone used DHCP 3.0 on woody? > > The mantainer of the ISC DHCP client just went through a long discusion > on the subject of version 3 on the debian devel mailing list. It's

RE: hdparm settings, do they persist after reboots? hd performance

2002-01-25 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| Just curious how this program accomplishes its changes | and whether the program has to run at boottime | to have the setting take effect? does it belong | in an rc script? They are not persistant after a reboot. IIRC, there is no startup script for hdparm, however; the hwtools package includes

Re: debian mirror

2002-01-25 Thread Martin Wuertele
hi, On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 02:16:54PM -0500, John Cichy wrote: > Can anyone tell me the aprox. size required to create a mirror with > 'anomftpsync' if I were to exclude everything execpt the i386 stuff? according to http://www.debian.org/mirror/size between 2.6 and 4.s gb plus 100-180 mb for

Re: fetchmail like prog to retrieve mails from mail.com?

2002-01-25 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 04:36:04PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > First reflex was to take curl and write my own retrieval script to > circumvent that problem, and sorta recreate that forwarding service, > fetching the mail through a script from that server and reinjecting it > into my mail sy

Re: Mouse stops in xfree86 4.1.0

2002-01-25 Thread briand
> "Jason" == Jason Majors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I have a serious problem that I think is with xfree86 >> 4.1.0. I boot into x-windows, KDE or gnome and can >> only use the mouse for about 1 minute before it stops. >> The mouse locks up as I move across window or applet >> bo

Re: hdparm settings, do they persist after reboots? hd performance

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
> Just curious how this program accomplishes its changes > and whether the program has to run at boottime > to have the setting take effect? does it belong > in an rc script? Settings like dma do not persist between reboots. You need to either compile it into your kernel or add it to a startup scri

Re: Mouse stops in xfree86 4.1.0

2002-01-25 Thread Alexey
> I have a serious problem that I think is with xfree86 > 4.1.0. I boot into x-windows, KDE or gnome and can > only use the mouse for about 1 minute before it stops. Sorry, it's not the solution of problem, but just another one (with the same subject). ALSA CS4232 driver worked fine with X 3.3.6,

Re: ppp connection doesn't work

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
> Just switched from SuSE to Debian potato. Can't get my ppp connection to > work. I'm pretty sure I configured wvdial correctly. It dials, logs in, then > it says PPP negotiation detected, Starting ppp at . Nothing > more. None of my browsers work. Can't open any internet site. When I try > Gnome

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
> | Hmmm... I must have missed the easy way to set up my sound card in > | Debian. Depends on the chip. In my machines I've go a aureal vortex 2 (I had to compile a driver from sourceforge), an sb16 (picked the module at install), an es1371 (picked the module at install), an sbLive (had to recompil

Re: Protect yourself from mobile/cell phone radiation

2002-01-25 Thread Kent West
dman wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:26:01PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:13:17 +, The Phone Dome wrote: | | >ARE YOU BURNING YOUR BRAIN? GET THE PHONE DOME - ABSORBS 99% OF | >HARMFUL RADIATION | | I suppose there are enough people that will believe this BS Mus

hdparm settings, do they persist after reboots? hd performance

2002-01-25 Thread Walter Tautz
Just curious how this program accomplishes its changes and whether the program has to run at boottime to have the setting take effect? does it belong in an rc script? -walter

Re: Network card newbee

2002-01-25 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 03:08:30PM +, Ben Edwards wrote: | Getting some ware with this one. Have discovered modconf but my card is a | 3com 3c5089-C and cant work out which driver to use. Any idea? I think, like some others, that you have too many digits in that model number. A lot of 3Com

test

2002-01-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
test - please ignore this.

ppp connection doesn't work

2002-01-25 Thread Klaus Neumann
Hi, Just switched from SuSE to Debian potato. Can't get my ppp connection to work. I'm pretty sure I configured wvdial correctly. It dials, logs in, then it says PPP negotiation detected, Starting ppp at . Nothing more. None of my browsers work. Can't open any internet site. When I try Gnomes dia

Re: CD-ROM issue

2002-01-25 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:34:58AM -0800, Shaun wrote: | Forgive me if this is a stupid question but I was having trouble finding out what parameters to | pass to the kernel during an install to allow the cd-rom to work. I have been through the mailing | lists, debian documentation, and lin

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:16:16AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: | On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:41:21PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > This may sound like a stupid or minor question but i'd really like to | > hear from all of you why do you think Debian is great, in | > comparison to ALL of the

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 06:12:13PM +, Randy Orrison wrote: | On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 17:12, Jason Majors wrote: | > > Almost any (choose your expletive here) can install a Microsoft product and | > > almost any (same expletive here) can install Red Hat. Think people, don't | > > just follow a f

Re: CD-ROM issue

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
> Forgive me if this is a stupid question but I was having trouble > finding out what parameters to > pass to the kernel during an install to allow the cd-rom to work. I have been > through the mailing > lists, debian documentation, and linuxdoc.org, and found nothing. SCSI vs. IDE? Cable n

Re: CD-ROM issue

2002-01-25 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Shaun ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Forgive me if this is a stupid question but I was having trouble > finding out what parameters to > pass to the kernel during an install to allow the cd-rom to work. I have been > through the mailing > lists, debian documentation, and linuxdoc.org

Re: Debian newgroup

2002-01-25 Thread dvanbalen
Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 10:54, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > And groups.google.com (formerly deja.com) will still let you post to > > > news groups after signing up for a free accoun. > > > > Much t

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread Craig Dickson
Ron Johnson wrote: > > Have a look at kudzu it might help you but personnally I would try > > kudzu Isn't that the Mandrake h/w detection system? Red Hat, actually. But it's packaged for Debian as well (testing and unstable only). Craig pgp9RwiRKauE7.pgp Description: PGP signature

CD-ROM issue

2002-01-25 Thread Shaun
Forgive me if this is a stupid question but I was having trouble finding out what parameters to pass to the kernel during an install to allow the cd-rom to work. I have been through the mailing lists, debian documentation, and linuxdoc.org, and found nothing. Any help is much appreciated

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 18:27:51 + Nick Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hmmm... I must have missed the easy way to set up my sound card in > > Debian. In Windows, it was automatically recognised and configured and > > just worked. Is there really an easier way in Debian? Apparently (I

Re: bind weirdness

2002-01-25 Thread nate
> I looked this up as well but found nothing on it. Anyone see this > before in syslog? If so what did you come up with as the cause? the first one i recieve often, i figure it is just a broken nameserver on the other side(have not ever heard any complaints), the 2nd one, running a quick sear

Re: Protect yourself from mobile/cell phone radiation

2002-01-25 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:26:01PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:13:17 +, The Phone Dome wrote: | | >ARE YOU BURNING YOUR BRAIN? GET THE PHONE DOME - ABSORBS 99% OF | >HARMFUL RADIATION | | I suppose there are enough people that will believe this BS Must be. The funni

debian mirror

2002-01-25 Thread John Cichy
Hi all, Can anyone tell me the aprox. size required to create a mirror with 'anomftpsync' if I were to exclude everything execpt the i386 stuff? TIA John

Re: DHCP-DNS dynamic update debugging help - FIXED!!

2002-01-25 Thread Jeff Vincent
I changed my resolv.conf to the correct domain and added 2 consecutive dots to the name causing the error. I wasted an entire day on this because of obscure and uninformative errors. I HATE OBSCURE ERRORS! >>> "Jeff Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/25/02 10:45AM >>> See below. >>> "Jeff Vi

bind weirdness

2002-01-25 Thread justin cunningham
Hey, I have some bind questions I can't answer nor find answers to via google so I was wondering/hoping someone here can help out! I have this guy in my company that sends out a pretty large email list ever week and I got a spamcop notice from one of his recipients so I went to the mail log to loo

Re: HOWTO->dd an MBR onto a HD

2002-01-25 Thread David B Harris
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:47:20 -0500 Courtney Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I assume that since I've copied all the filesystems from another > running HD onto a new HD, that if I copy over the MBR that then I'll > be able to boot and run the new HD as well. > > How do I properly copy over the

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread David B Harris
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:49:58 -0500 Noah Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Of course apt (which is nothing without the excellent work the > > package maintainers put in). I like the philosophical stance of > > Debian GNU/Linux being a big proponent of the GPL. I don't think KDE > > would even

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread Nick Sanders
> Hmmm... I must have missed the easy way to set up my sound card in > Debian. In Windows, it was automatically recognised and configured and > just worked. Is there really an easier way in Debian? Apparently (I > haven't tried it) I have to actually either recompile my kernel, or at > least a

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread Balazs Javor
>And then there's my CD burner and my printer to set up, both of which >"just worked" under Windows. My CD Burner scr*wed up on avg. 6-7 CDs out of 10 on Win2K. Burning would just freeze solid the whole stupid machine at some point, no matter what software or drivers or burning speed I've tried.

Re: Protect yourself from mobile/cell phone radiation

2002-01-25 Thread Gary Turner
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:13:17 +, The Phone Dome wrote: >ARE YOU BURNING YOUR BRAIN? GET THE PHONE DOME - ABSORBS 99% OF >HARMFUL RADIATION > I suppose there are enough people that will believe this BS gt Yes I fear I am living beyond my mental means--Nash

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