Re: Windows vs. Linux

2002-01-31 Thread ben
On Thursday 31 January 2002 09:49 pm, Bruce Burhans wrote: > Someone asked me what the difference between Windows and Linux was, > and I presumed to answer: > > Windows grew out of the work of self-involved gameplayers, and > Linux grew out of the work of people > concerned with using th

Weird CDRW issue?

2002-01-31 Thread Jeff
Running Debian Sid. When I recompiled to 2.4.16, I put SCSI CDROM emulation in the kernel and took out IDE CDROM support.. I can mount my drives as /dev/scd0 and scd1.. However, when trying to use any cd writing programs (the burner is scd0), they say they cant scan the SCSI bus?  No permission

Windows vs. Linux

2002-01-31 Thread Bruce Burhans
Someone asked me what the difference between Windows and Linux was, and I presumed to answer: Windows grew out of the work of self-involved gameplayers, and Linux grew out of the work of people concerned with using the computer to make the world a better place. That's my impression,

Re: x-configuration (initialization) problem - MOUSE

2002-01-31 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Claus [ISO-8859-1] ladekj?r wilson wrote: >Mouse doesn't work. At first it runs really fast and nobody knows where. >Then it disappears. I tried to work around with /etc/X11/XF86Config on >basis of older XF86Config's but with no good result. What is wrong? Well, if a mouse is

Re: ETH interface in full duplex mode

2002-01-31 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, [iso-8859-1] Jos? wrote: >hi all ! First of all, my .procmailrc is kinda borked at the moment, so I appologise if someones already said this. >how to verify if an ETH interface is in fdx (full duplex) mode ? >something in /proc ?? mii-tool >if the iface is in half mode , h

realplayer seem can not plugin to netscape477

2002-01-31 Thread eric
Dear realplayer tech or unix/linux programmers: On the netscape477, even I download realplayer, everytime I click vedio at cnn.com, it still repeat to ask me to get plug in again which I already did, that's why I get the rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin so at /usr/local/RealPlayer8/realplay, I c

Re: Borked mouse

2002-01-31 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Cory Snavely wrote: >My woody workstation's (2.4.17 kernel) mouse is acting a little funky like >that--typically brought on by heavy CPU load (from casual observation). > >/etc/init.d/gpm stop >/etc/init.d/gpm start > >will always resolve it, but I'm hoping I'll see a new gpm

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread ben
On Thursday 31 January 2002 09:17 pm, Brian Clark wrote: > * Jeremy L. Gaddis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Feb 01. 2002 00:13]: > > [...] > > > On the same note, I run Windows on my desktop machines because, at > > this time, Linux, IMO, sucks ass as far as desktops go. > > Let the worms runneth over. > >

Re: make xconfi

2002-01-31 Thread ben
On Thursday 31 January 2002 05:39 pm, Sheldon Lee-Wen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > i got what's below the line of x's from a google search. it implies that the problem is simply one of having a non default background in the console. given that the solution that perm

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread Brian Clark
* Jeremy L. Gaddis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Feb 01. 2002 00:13]: [...] > On the same note, I run Windows on my desktop machines because, at > this time, Linux, IMO, sucks ass as far as desktops go. Let the worms runneth over. On your mark, get set, go! *Pulling the fire alarm* -- Brian Clark | De

Re: gnome, mozilla question (potato)

2002-01-31 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:00:28PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 21:48, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > On 31 Jan 2002, Mario Vukelic wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 21:17, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > Why don't you use mozilla-0.9.7 from sid? > > > > Over the last year o

RE: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread Jeremy L. Gaddis
Are you saying that when I decide to read the debian-* lists I'm subscribed to, I should close Outlook, SSH to the mail server and read them using {elm|mutt|pine|other_mda}? Like anything else, it comes down to what you like best and what does the job well. I run Linux on my servers because it do

style parser

2002-01-31 Thread Thedore Knab
I used a program called perl beautifier make my perl programs somewhat readable. I was wondering if there was a program like this for dns db records. I have 27 db records from a bunch of different networks that I want to place in a rational readable format. Although our dns seems to work, the

RE: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread Jeremy L. Gaddis
"Because a person's e-mail address and password are used to sign on to the Passport server -- where account numbers are held -- an unscrupulous person at an ISP could easily steal credit card numbers, experts say." I'm sure the "experts" were hard at work researching this for months before they fi

Re: Netscape4, Mozilla - Now what is X? - How to stop X?

2002-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:33 PM +1300, Alan Shrimpton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Okay now X starts atomatically but I rather it not. I know it was my fault > because I said yes to have it as default.. Now, how can I change back. > Also once running how do I stop it? There's a short FAQ on GN

Re: errors ripping with cdparanoia

2002-01-31 Thread Titus Barik
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Titus Barik wrote: U> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, dman wrote: > > Can you mount a data cd? Do you have the drivers loaded? Whoah, hold that thought. I just tried cdparanoia as root, and it works, so it's definately a permissions problem somewhere. Titus Barik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) A

Re: errors ripping with cdparanoia

2002-01-31 Thread Titus Barik
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, dman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:52:48PM -0500, Titus Barik wrote: > | Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... > | Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface > | /dev/scd0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM. > | Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interf

/var/lib/dpkg/available strangeness

2002-01-31 Thread Tom Cook
Hello, I have just attempted my first non-CD (ie. LAN) install of Debian, and would like to relate my experiences for the edification of all ;-) My attempt to install potato was a minor disaster, but I am putting that down mostly to my incompetence and a suspect floppy disk. During this disaster

Re: Is Framebuffer needed?

2002-01-31 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:44:52AM -0500, John Kuhn wrote: | On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:36:14PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: | > In trying to optimize my Voodoo 3500 with mplayer I compiled my kernel | > 2.4.17 with framebuffer support. Is this necessary, or what advantages | > do framebuffers ha

Re: ssmtp for Hylafax? (Was: Re: MTA recomendations?)

2002-01-31 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:33:28PM -0700, Kevin Beauchamp wrote: | On 31 Jan 2002 15:10:52 -0500, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: | >On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 13:55, Stan Brown wrote: | | >> I'm seting up a new woody box for my wife to use. I need a recomendation on | >> an easy to set up, reliable MTA. | >>

Re: Sample exim config file?

2002-01-31 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:04:40PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | After listening to everyones recomendations on an MTA for my needs, I | decided to give exim a try. | | I used eximconfig, and took choice 2, but i'm afraid that I don't | understand the questions it asks well enough to arrive at a work

Re: errors ripping with cdparanoia

2002-01-31 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:52:48PM -0500, Titus Barik wrote: | Here's what I get: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/mp3$ cdparanoia -B | | ... | | /dev/cdrom exists but isn't accessible. By default, | cdparanoia stops searching for an accessible drive here. | Consider using -sv to force a more complete a

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:20:43 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 05:46:12PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > | On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:50:35 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:26:52PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > | > | On Fri, 1 Feb

Re: spamassassin blocks MDA with fetchmail

2002-01-31 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:54:18AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: | I installed the spamassassin package and set it up as per the docs. | The test routine works properly but when I added the entries to my | .procmailrc file, fetchmail failed to download any of the mail. There is | a message about a

Re: C Integrated Development Environment

2002-01-31 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:09:34AM +1000, john wrote: | dman wrote: | | > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:35:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: | > | Im setting up a machine for a friend and he needs an IDE for developing | > | C and C++. Anyone have a recomendation on a good one he could use. | > | > I

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread ben
On Thursday 31 January 2002 07:25 pm, csj wrote: [snip] > > Your earlier post said "small browser (albeit non-free) called xbrowse." > Are there any religious reasons why the Artistic License is considered > non-free? i actually meant to say non-deb. the coffee just isn't kicking in today. ben

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread csj
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:43:11 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 31 January 2002 06:46 pm, csj wrote: > [snip] > > > > http://www.browsex.com/ > > > > And like the real thing it's free (Artistic License). Says the site: > > "BrowseX has been written primarily in C and Tcl and clearl

Sample exim config file?

2002-01-31 Thread Stan Brown
After listening to everyones recomendations on an MTA for my needs, I decided to give exim a try. I used eximconfig, and took choice 2, but i'm afraid that I don't understand the questions it asks well enough to arrive at a working config. Here is what I'm trying to set up. I want all outgoing ma

Re: Installer fails to "Install base system"

2002-01-31 Thread Kent West
Frédéric L. MIR wrote: I have a Fujitsu laptop with 32 Mg of RAM, a CDROM drive, a floppy drive and a 4Gb harddrive which i repartitioned using PartitionMagic 7.0 (i kept 2Gb for Windows 98 on hda1 and created a Linux and a Linux swap partitions on hda5 and hda6 on the remaining space, the sw

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread csj
On 31 Jan 2002 20:52:19 -0500 David Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 20:44, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > I have a small system (100MHz pentium, 900M /usr, 1024K video ram) that I > > want to access the internet on. A problem that I have is that when the > > network that I u

errors ripping with cdparanoia

2002-01-31 Thread Titus Barik
Here's what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/mp3$ cdparanoia -B ... /dev/cdrom exists but isn't accessible. By default, cdparanoia stops searching for an accessible drive here. Consider using -sv to force a more complete autosense of the machine. More information about /dev/cdrom: Checking /

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status missing?

2002-01-31 Thread ben
On Thursday 31 January 2002 06:40 pm, ben wrote: > On Thursday 31 January 2002 06:35 pm, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > No such file (both 0 length). Is it possible to put a 0 length file and > > have it try to re-install or such? > > nah! you're screwed, as far as i know. if anyone knows better, spe

dvifb musixtex

2002-01-31 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Why won't dvifb display musixtex dvi's? I assume it should. tkdvi will display in X. Lance -- Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I see you, and you se

xawtv video0 not found

2002-01-31 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I have v4l compiled into my kernel but when I try to run xawtv I get: This is xawtv-3.68, running on Linux/i586 (2.4.17) can't open /dev/video0: No such device v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device no video

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread ben
On Thursday 31 January 2002 06:46 pm, csj wrote: [snip] > > http://www.browsex.com/ > > And like the real thing it's free (Artistic License). Says the site: > "BrowseX has been written primarily in C and Tcl and clearly > demonstrates that Linux applications can indeed bridge to Windows." The > cla

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status missing?

2002-01-31 Thread ben
On Thursday 31 January 2002 06:35 pm, Robert L. Harris wrote: > No such file (both 0 length). Is it possible to put a 0 length file and > have it try to re-install or such? > nah! you're screwed, as far as i know. if anyone knows better, speak up, and save us all that horror. i've taken to makin

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread csj
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:52:15 -0500 David B Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:44:01 -0500 > > So I was wondering about if there are any good, _small_ browsers like > > that. I tried mozilla on my system, and I had enough time to eat lunch > > while it started up (I have sin

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
all: see http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/09/10/010910oplivingston.xml On Thursday 31 January 2002 18:30, dman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:34:25AM +0800, csj wrote: > | On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:15:34 -0800 (PST) > | > | "Paul 'Baloo' Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > On T

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status missing?

2002-01-31 Thread Robert L. Harris
No such file (both 0 length). Is it possible to put a 0 length file and have it try to re-install or such? Thus spake ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thursday 31 January 2002 06:20 pm, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > I'm building a new machine. It crashed durring a dist-upgrade after > > basic in

Re: mac alternative to wine?

2002-01-31 Thread csj
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 23:55:38 +0100 Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:29:38PM -0800, Caleb Shay wrote: > > http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/B2Main.html > > > > > > On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 11:50, Stonelx wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I installed wine on my pot

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:34:25AM +0800, csj wrote: | On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:15:34 -0800 (PST) | "Paul 'Baloo' Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, John Cichy wrote: | > | > > Yes, but we might have to be more careful now, billy is going to | > > concentrate on security fr

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status missing?

2002-01-31 Thread ben
On Thursday 31 January 2002 06:20 pm, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I'm building a new machine. It crashed durring a dist-upgrade after > basic install and config. I went to install gnome after it cleaned the > disks and it says it can't find /var/lib/dpkg/status. > look for /var/lib/dpkg/status-old

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread csj
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:15:34 -0800 (PST) "Paul 'Baloo' Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, John Cichy wrote: > > > Yes, but we might have to be more careful now, billy is going to concentrate > > on security from now on... > > Do you honestly believe it's more than the sam

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 08:44:01PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote: | I have a small system (100MHz pentium, 900M /usr, 1024K video ram) that I | want to access the internet on. 'links' is real small and lightweight | A problem that I have is that when the | network that I use was set up, the gate

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status missing?

2002-01-31 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:20:22 -0700 "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm building a new machine. It crashed durring a dist-upgrade after > basic install and config. I went to install gnome after it cleaned > the disks and it says it can't find /var/lib/dpkg/status. > > Am I screwed

Re: VIRUS WARNING

2002-01-31 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:13:07PM -0800, Bruce Burhans wrote: | My Norton Anti-Virus program identified 2 viruses in the message | from erich (check spelling- I dumped it in a hurry) @ debian.org | The subject is a phrase that repeats over and over | with no breaks It's

/var/lib/dpkg/status missing?

2002-01-31 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'm building a new machine. It crashed durring a dist-upgrade after basic install and config. I went to install gnome after it cleaned the disks and it says it can't find /var/lib/dpkg/status. Am I screwed or can this be rebuild somehow? :wq!

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 05:46:12PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: | On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:50:35 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:26:52PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: | > | On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, John Griffiths wrote: | [snip] | > | http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread Caleb Shay
There's always hotjava. On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 17:44, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > I have a small system (100MHz pentium, 900M /usr, 1024K video ram) that I > want to access the internet on. A problem that I have is that when the > network that I use was set up, the gateway software that was decided

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread ben
On Thursday 31 January 2002 05:52 pm, David Moore wrote: [snip] > > Try Opera. It's non-free, but it seems like what you want. I personally > would prefer Galeon, but that won't work if you don't want to install > GNOME. there's a small browser (albeit non-free) called xbrowse that won't force you

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread Seneca Cunningham
David Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 20:44, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > I have a small system (100MHz pentium, 900M /usr, 1024K video ram) that I > > want to access the internet on. A problem that I have is that when the > > network that I use was set up, the gateway soft

Re: make xconfi

2002-01-31 Thread ben
On Thursday 31 January 2002 05:39 pm, Sheldon Lee-Wen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > For some reason, I can't make xconfig. I'm running sid, w/ 2.4.17 > > I get the following error: > cr595811-a:/usr/src/linux# make xconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ;

RE: kernel 2.4.17...2 strange things

2002-01-31 Thread Jeff Bonner
> > > The other problem is that with my previous 2.2.19 kernel the 3com > > > was detected at IRQ7 and 0x300 which is what it is set to... > > > (checked with the 3com utils) > > > > > > But with 2.4.17 it gives me IRQ12 and base 220which is the PS2 > > > port IRQ...(so no mouse either) I ch

"gdm stop" starts gdm

2002-01-31 Thread Jast
Hi debian-users, Among several little problems I'm having, this ones rather interesting: /etc/init.d/gdm stop This will actually start gdm on my system. When it's running it will say: "gdm already running. Aborting!" The gdm script is unmodified, so the command should indeed do the right

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread David Moore
On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 20:44, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > I have a small system (100MHz pentium, 900M /usr, 1024K video ram) that I > want to access the internet on. A problem that I have is that when the > network that I use was set up, the gateway software that was decided upon > requires the brows

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:44:01 -0500 > So I was wondering about if there are any good, _small_ browsers like > that. I tried mozilla on my system, and I had enough time to eat lunch > while it started up (I have since removed mozilla). > > I have X4 installed and working, but I don't want to install

What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread Seneca Cunningham
I have a small system (100MHz pentium, 900M /usr, 1024K video ram) that I want to access the internet on. A problem that I have is that when the network that I use was set up, the gateway software that was decided upon requires the browsers used to have java support. I can't get away from it, I nee

tk messed

2002-01-31 Thread Sheldon Lee-Wen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I cannot run any tk programs. I get unknown color name "Black" and it dies. Anyone else have this problem? I have tk8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 installed. ii tk8.0 8.0.5-9 The

make xconfi

2002-01-31 Thread Sheldon Lee-Wen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, For some reason, I can't make xconfig. I'm running sid, w/ 2.4.17 I get the following error: cr595811-a:/usr/src/linux# make xconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/u

Re: Borked mouse

2002-01-31 Thread Cory Snavely
My woody workstation's (2.4.17 kernel) mouse is acting a little funky like that--typically brought on by heavy CPU load (from casual observation). /etc/init.d/gpm stop /etc/init.d/gpm start will always resolve it, but I'm hoping I'll see a new gpm deb come over pretty soon--hearing other people's

Re: kernel 2.4.17...2 strange things

2002-01-31 Thread Cory Snavely
> > Today i upgared from potato to woody... > > with: > > dselect update > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > (just mentioning it cause this might be the wrong way?) > > > > And i switched to a 2.4.17 kernel. > > > > Now i have 2 NICsdifferent brands...realtek and 3com. > > eth0, the realtek, connnect

Re: I boot and get: L40 40 40 40 40...

2002-01-31 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Iván Filpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote [with attributions corrected]: > I'm getting insted of 40 a lot of 01's u think is probably the same ?. I'm > booting hda5, that's the root. the other partition has win2k installed so i > think that if i set in the lilo.conf to boot /dev/hda it will return an >

Installer fails to "Install base system"

2002-01-31 Thread Frédéric L. MIR
> Hi, > > This is my first attempt to install Linux ever, and this from the CD > coming with the book i just bought : Installing Debian GNU/Linux (version > 2.1). I know it is an old version, but it should work anyway, no ? > I have a Fujitsu laptop with 32 Mg of RAM, a CDROM drive, a floppy driv

Re: help

2002-01-31 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Jason Majors wrote: > Now that you mention it, it looks like the kind of email address that gets > sent to my junk_mail file 50+ times a day. Usually for a porn site. > Darn...if only I could read html in mutt. ;) Pine can handle it. -- Baloo

Re: help

2002-01-31 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Kelly Kwasniuk wrote: > Error: Please check the screen name and try again. >   > My screen name is Kelly3692! Thanks! Email AOL, not us. -- Baloo

xinetd problem (was Re: ssh problem )

2002-01-31 Thread Javier Sieben
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:26:34 -0300 Javier Sieben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello All > > I'm with a strange problem. I have two Debian boxes (the first > is called primer and the second is called segundo under anillo.org.ar > domain). I can connect via ssh from primer to segundo, but

Re: help

2002-01-31 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Jason Majors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: >> If you'd like assistance with your problem send an email, not a web >> page. :) >> >> __ >> >> I'm pretty sure that was a disguised commercial >> >> Bruce<+> > > Now that you mention it, it looks like the

At wits end, Xeon Dlt700/scsi problems.

2002-01-31 Thread Timothy
Short of it is, dlt7000 doesnt work. Ill go through what ive done to it. Linux phoenix 2.4.17 #4 SMP Thu Jan 31 10:24:19 EST 2002 i686 unknown phoenix:/usr/src/linux/linux# cat /etc/debian_version 3.0 Lilo parameters append="nmi_watchdog=0 mem=1279M st=64" dmesg shows the 4 cpus, 36gig raid5/8

Re: Netscape4, Mozilla - Now what is X? - How to stop X?

2002-01-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 01:30, benfoley wrote: > depending on whether it starts from xdm, gdm, or kdm, you can run > > update-rc.d remove > > when you reboot, you'll have a console prompt. to run x from there, use > startx. No need to reboot. Just go to a console (Alt-Ctrl F1) and do as

Re: Netscape4, Mozilla - Now what is X? - How to stop X?

2002-01-31 Thread benfoley
On Thursday 31 January 2002 12:33 am, Alan Shrimpton wrote: > Okay now X starts atomatically but I rather it not. I know it was my fault > because I said yes to have it as default.. Now, how can I change back. > Also once running how do I stop it? > [snip] depending on whether it starts from xdm

Re: C Integrated Development Environment

2002-01-31 Thread Joseph Dane
> "johnpf" == johnpf writes: johnpf> Actually, as much as it shames me to admit it, there is one johnpf> feature in the VC6 M$ bloat thing IDE I really want to see on johnpf> a Unix platform, and that's the incredibly powerful way it johnpf> can back reference callers, classes etc. Perha

Re: help

2002-01-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 01:07, Bruce Burhans wrote: > > I'm pretty sure that was a disguised commercial Damn. It's too late already, if gnome alpha 2 would finally stop building I could go to bed, too :) -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

Re: Installing Debian

2002-01-31 Thread benfoley
On Thursday 31 January 2002 10:10 am, Liam Black wrote: > Did I neglect to mention that I also tried "rescue root="? Well, that's my > problem that I didn't mention it, I guess. > > I tried linux root= because I noted that "linux" was specified as the > default argument, and thought that might wor

Re: help

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Majors
> If you'd like assistance with your problem send an email, not a web > page. :) > > __ > > I'm pretty sure that was a disguised commercial > > Bruce<+> Now that you mention it, it looks like the kind of email address that gets sent to my junk_mail file 5

Re: help

2002-01-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 00:33, Kelly Kwasniuk wrote: >Hi, my name is Kelly and I have aol instant messanger. I forgot my >password and tryed to go to forget password but i got this error >Error: Please check the screen name and try again. >My screen name is Kelly3692! Thanks! You sent thi

Re: help

2002-01-31 Thread Bruce Burhans
Jason wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 06:33:30PM -0500, Kelly Kwasniuk scribbled... If you'd like assistance with your problem send an email, not a web page. :) __ I'm pretty sure that was a disguised commercial Bruce<+>

Re: IP Chains question

2002-01-31 Thread David Gardi
Rick Macdonald wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Eric G. Miller wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:08:45 -0500 (EST), Matt Kopishke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have set up a firewall using ipchains and the bridge patch (bridgein) under potato (2.2.19). The one snag I had was although the firewall

Re: help

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 06:33:30PM -0500, Kelly Kwasniuk scribbled... If you'd like assistance with your problem send an email, not a web page. :)

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:50:35 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:26:52PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > | On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, John Griffiths wrote: [snip] > | http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/software/putty.exe > | > | Before this bob took a better job as a sec

mkisofs - size limit exceeded?

2002-01-31 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I've run into a strange thing that I know I've seen discussed before, but I can't find it in the archives right now. The following: mkisofs -o image.iso -R /cdrom fails with: 'File size limit exceeded' at exactly 10240 bytes every time. Now I know it's possible to have larger files,

help

2002-01-31 Thread Kelly Kwasniuk
Hi, my name is Kelly and I have aol instant messanger.  I forgot my password and tryed to go to forget password but i got this error     Error: Please check the screen name and try again.   My screen name is Kelly3692! Thanks!     KellyMSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your phot

Re: Installing Debian

2002-01-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:16:23 -0800 (PST) Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Question I've always had regarding Debian install: why a _rescue_ > > disk when I'm doing a virgin install? > > Seemed intuitive enough when I switched from Wi

Re: [woody] floppy access error

2002-01-31 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Ok, scratch that. It seems that drivers-3 and -4 don't have this problem (that's ata100-ext3 woody boot disks, btw), so it's not my hardware. Looks like floppy driver in 2.4.17 is way too wobbly -- rawrite doesn't have a problem writing to these floppies. Dima (now lesse if they boot) -- The wom

Re: LAN setup

2002-01-31 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Jason Majors: > I'd suspect exim is set up incorrectly then. Run eximconfig and set up all > your boxes as type 1 (Internet Site). That's how mine is setup. But I have > fetchmail running on my mail server pull mail from the other boxes, so I > only have one mail account to check. But I

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread John Cichy
On Thursday 31 January 2002 18:15, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, John Cichy wrote: > > Yes, but we might have to be more careful now, billy is going to > > concentrate on security from now on... > > Do you honestly believe it's more than the same bullshit lipservice as > before

Re: mac alternative to wine?

2002-01-31 Thread Stonelx
> > Besides, why would you want to run MS or Apple closed source when > you > have all this wonderful Debian free software at your disposal? ;) I totally agree, yet, I have a mail client from my job that only supports the mac and PC side, they say they're working on the unix client. but I would

VIRUS WARNING

2002-01-31 Thread Bruce Burhans
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: sWdesktopdesktopsampledesktopdesktopdesktopdesktopsampledesktopsamplesam plesamplesamplesamplesampledesktopsampledesktop Date: Thursday, January 31, 2002 2:00 PM this one, with attachment VIRUS VIRUS VIRUS Bruce<+>

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, John Cichy wrote: > Yes, but we might have to be more careful now, billy is going to concentrate > on security from now on... Do you honestly believe it's more than the same bullshit lipservice as before? -- Baloo

[woody] floppy access error

2002-01-31 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Hi all, anyone knows of any gotchas with devfs and floppy? Or maybe woody floppies? -- I'm getting # dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0 Jan 31 17:07:03 odyssey floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 1, sector 1, size 2 dd: writing to /dev/fd0': Input/output error 19+0 records in 18+0 records out # dd

VIRUS WARNING

2002-01-31 Thread Bruce Burhans
My Norton Anti-Virus program identified 2 viruses in the message from erich (check spelling- I dumped it in a hurry) @ debian.org The subject is a phrase that repeats over and over with no breaks Bruce<+>

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread John Cichy
On Thursday 31 January 2002 18:02, benfoley wrote: > On Thursday 31 January 2002 08:00 am, Geoff Beaumont wrote: > > At 16:01 31/01/2002 +0100, you wrote: > > >Chris Mueller wrote: > > >>Hi, > > >>7 mails with virus W32/Myparty got into my inbox - > > >>all of them from linux-mailinglists. > >

Re: C Integrated Development Environment

2002-01-31 Thread john
dman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:35:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > | Im setting up a machine for a friend and he needs an IDE for developing > | C and C++. Anyone have a recomendation on a good one he could use. > > I recommend Debian for the IDE!! > > What do I mean by that? Well, he

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread benfoley
On Thursday 31 January 2002 08:00 am, Geoff Beaumont wrote: > At 16:01 31/01/2002 +0100, you wrote: > >Chris Mueller wrote: > >>Hi, > >>7 mails with virus W32/Myparty got into my inbox - > >>all of them from linux-mailinglists. > > > >How many harmed your debian system ? 0 ? Ahh, the wonders of

Re: MTA recomendations?

2002-01-31 Thread dsr
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 08:00:56PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:55:59PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > > I'm seting up a new woody box for my wife to use. I need a recomendation on > > an easy to set up, reliable MTA. > I'd recommend qmail (fast, reliable, secure) or po

Re: mac alternative to wine?

2002-01-31 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:29:38PM -0800, Caleb Shay wrote: > http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/B2Main.html > > > On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 11:50, Stonelx wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I installed wine on my potato box and have > > really enjoyed it! > > I'm interested to know if there is a similar pac

Re: MTA recomendations?

2002-01-31 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:55:59PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | I'm seting up a new woody box for my wife to use. I need a | recomendation on an easy to set up, reliable MTA. I like exim. The docs are _excellent_ and the config is easy to work with. -D -- Whoever gives heed to instruction prosp

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:26:52PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: | On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, John Griffiths wrote: | | > >This makes no sense to me. If you're on a Linux mailing list, just why | > >are you using software by the antichrist? | > > | > | > You might have heard of a little thing calle

Re: C Integrated Development Environment

2002-01-31 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:35:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: | Im setting up a machine for a friend and he needs an IDE for developing | C and C++. Anyone have a recomendation on a good one he could use. I recommend Debian for the IDE!! What do I mean by that? Well, here is a major difference

Re: Installing Debian

2002-01-31 Thread Andrew Agno
I've done a few installs from a hard drive with previous data (like a /home directory, for instance). There are some things omitted from the manual when I last checked it. Basically, it's the same as the floppy stuff, which you seem to have figured out. I've never tried putting the driver floppy

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, John Griffiths wrote: > >This makes no sense to me. If you're on a Linux mailing list, just why > >are you using software by the antichrist? > > > > You might have heard of a little thing called work http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/software/putty.exe Before this bob took a b

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