Re: Mail Help ! What is the MTA ?

2002-02-13 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Feb 14, 2002 @02:48:12PM -0800, Rodney posts : > for eg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] not [EMAIL PROTECTED] is there a > way to get it back to normal as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you kindly tell what Mail Transfer Agent are you using ? With Exim, you can re-write your headers via the /etc/email-addresses f

Re: Browsing workgroup from command line

2002-02-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:39:09 -0800 "Patrick Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps I need to rephrase my question. > > There is a printer I want to be able to print to and then able to offer it > to the LAN through LMHOSTS. I can print to it. But I cannot share it Stupid question: where is

mozilla 0.9.7-6 printing less flexible (woody)

2002-02-13 Thread Jameson Burt
The new mozilla-browser, version 0.9.7-6, package, has a "user friendly" print selector. As it works with my lprng package, I am left with only a default selection, so menus offer no alternatives. And menu clicking within Mozilla offers no way to add another printer choice. Before, we could enter

CUPS

2002-02-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'm trying to do a first time cups install for my HP parallel printer. The "cupsomatic-ppd" package in sid claims to have the cupsomatic script to configure it but I'm not finding it. Is there a tool to easily configure cups for one of these? :wq! ---

Re: Help with Expect & Xterm

2002-02-13 Thread Jay Mallar
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 9:46 pm, Cameron Kerr wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Jay Mallar wrote: > >spawn telnet > >sleep 5 > >send "login " > >sleep 5 > >send "" > > Look at the docs (man expect) for log_user, and interact I've been reading the man page all day. If it made sense to those of

Re: Bind/DNS

2002-02-13 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Feb 13, 2002 @09:22:54PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck posts : > Does anyone have a down and dirty, current and quick HOWTO on setting > up BIND for a few domain names ? Not dirty anyway, bind9 specific http://cvs.linuxfromscratch.org/index.cgi/~checkout~/hints/bind.txt?rev=1.3&content-type=te

can't connect to samba shares from 'doze

2002-02-13 Thread Tom Cook
Hi all, I am running samba 2.0.8 on a potato system. I have samba shares set up on my linux machine, and from another linux machine 'smbclient -L pinky' reports this: Domain=[NEW] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.8] Sharename Type Comment - ---

Getting mutt to respect mailto ?Body

2002-02-13 Thread csj
Okay, it seems I want to get mutt to dance. I've created a snippet of HTML (attached) with a link that's supposed to trigger an email with the body filled out. Mutt respects the To: and Subject: of the mailto: link, but not the option for Body, which is jammed into the Subject: line. The HTML code

RE: via-rhine fails to get Ethernet card address

2002-02-13 Thread Wim van der Meer
I solved my own problem by moving the NIC to a different PCI slot. > -Original Message- > From: Wim van der Meer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 1:29 PM > To: Debian-User > Subject: via-rhine fails to get Ethernet card address > > > I am a new Linux user, a

Re: kernel again

2002-02-13 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Quoting Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:33:37 -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > > > >I know this has been coming up, but the solutions I've seen offered > >haven't worked for me. > > > >I'm trying to upgrade to 2.4.17 and getting the "vfs: cannot mount > >root" error. > >

Re: Help with Expect & Xterm

2002-02-13 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Jay Mallar wrote: >spawn telnet >sleep 5 >send "login " >sleep 5 >send "" Look at the docs (man expect) for log_user, and interact >Starting up three xterms isn't a problem, but automating the logins is.. Is there any reason you can't do it the right way and use ssh, with

RE: Sound

2002-02-13 Thread Grégory Karékinian
Hi, Did you add yourself to the audio group (assuming that the modules are correctly loaded) ? adduser your_login audio with the root account. Later. > -Original Message- > From: Alan Shrimpton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: jeudi 14 février 2002 04:47 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.

Re: Auth with PAM

2002-02-13 Thread Brian May
> "Tim" == Tim Dijkstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tim> It does, it has a set of functions for doing pam Tim> authentication. It's about exim. The problem is it runs as Tim> mail:mail so it can't handele /etc/shadow. libpam-modules has this setuid helper program: -rwsr-xr-x1

Mail Help !

2002-02-13 Thread Rodney Agha
Hi , I've just added a user for the email system, Now the whole company's email's when sending come up with for eg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] not [EMAIL PROTECTED] is there a way to get it back to normal as [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with iptables and 2.4.17

2002-02-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:10:25PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: > I'm trying to get iptables working with a recently built 2.4.17 > kernel. I think I enabled the correct options, but I get the following > errors when I attempt to load the ip_tables module: > > /lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/net/ipv4/net

Re: mySQL 3.23.x on potatoe

2002-02-13 Thread nate
> I've just tried to upgrade mysql on potato from 3.22.32 to > 3.23.47-1 (from woody). > It breaks because of a whole bunch of dependencies. I'm afraid to > upgrade libc6, libncurses5, libreadlin4 and libstdc++2.10... Can I > try to upgrade them or do I risk to mess up everything? For the > moment

Re: broken gpm

2002-02-13 Thread Brian May
> "Ian" == Ian Balchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ian> Hi, all, Some time back my mouse stopped marking on the Ian> screen in console mode. It is standard 2-button type. Ian> I have tried various things with gpm.conf to no avail. Same here. I have a number of systems, the mouse

Sound

2002-02-13 Thread Alan Shrimpton
Can someone tell what to check if your sound doesn't work. I only just reinstalled Debian and installed the modules esssolo1 and soundcore during the installation process. These modules are loaded but I get no sound. Previously I got sound when I had Debian installed and manually had to install

Re: kernel again

2002-02-13 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:33:37 -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > >I know this has been coming up, but the solutions I've seen offered >haven't worked for me. > >I'm trying to upgrade to 2.4.17 and getting the "vfs: cannot mount >root" error. > >I've tried with and without initrd support. The only differ

Re: broadcast 2000

2002-02-13 Thread Florian Struck
On Thursday 14 February 2002 03:30, Tim Moss wrote: > Apparently, on Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:15:55AM +0100, Florian Struck wrote: > > Hi i was looking for broadcast200 does someone know if there is a debian > > capable version out there? > > thx > > Florian > > You might try checking the demudi (De

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:49:04PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > > I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX > > > (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) > > > before they go to the rubbish. > > I must disagree here, worked for me on 386 with 4MB RAM, just forge

Re: ati radeon XF86Config

2002-02-13 Thread Aaron Brashears
Thanks for the info - you're spot on. The maintainer says he's working on 4.2 right now. On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 01:01:17AM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > You need 4.2 for 7500.. 7500 is basically identical to "regular" Radeon > just different ID that's why it's not detected. > > I would file a bug a

Re: Kernel 2.4:After Bunk....

2002-02-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:14:04PM +, Vittorio wrote: > I was used to upgrade my 2.4 kernel from Bunk's stuff. > > Now that Bunk is no longer a Debian developer I wonder who's going > to take over and guarantee the upcoming versions of kernel 2.4? Adrian has new site working: http://www.f

Re: mouse freezing

2002-02-13 Thread christophe barbé
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:16:22PM -0700, Dan Owens wrote: > On Wednesday 13 February 2002 02:50 pm, christophe barbé wrote: > > I see the same problem with a USB mouse. > > It occurs only when I am using the mouse and when the CPU is occupied. > > I can restore the mouse by switching to the consol

Re: broadcast 2000

2002-02-13 Thread Tim Moss
Apparently, on Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:15:55AM +0100, Florian Struck wrote: > Hi i was looking for broadcast200 does someone know if there is a debian > capable version out there? > thx > Florian > You might try checking the demudi (Debian Multimedia Distribution). http://www.demudi.org/ Add the

Bind/DNS

2002-02-13 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Does anyone have a down and dirty, current and quick HOWTO on setting up BIND for a few domain names?

Re: Kernel 2.4:After Bunk....

2002-02-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:14:04PM +, Vittorio wrote: > > Now that Bunk is no longer a Debian developer I wonder who's going > to take over and guarantee the upcoming versions of kernel 2.4? > I don't think anybody is going to offer a similar collection of packages. IMHO, this is a good thi

broadcast 2000

2002-02-13 Thread Florian Struck
Hi i was looking for broadcast200 does someone know if there is a debian capable version out there? thx Florian

Problem with iptables and 2.4.17

2002-02-13 Thread Norman Walsh
I'm trying to get iptables working with a recently built 2.4.17 kernel. I think I enabled the correct options, but I get the following errors when I attempt to load the ip_tables module: /lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved symbol nf_unregister_sockopt /lib/module

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-13 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Seneca Cunningham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > Do think it is possible for me to get it onto my 386 with 1M RAM? I can > do my own compiling on a pentium, but I would need to get it onto 1.2M > floppies (I can't get into my 386's BIOS, so it can't boot off of its > 1.4M drive (only th

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-13 Thread Tom Cook
Hans wrote: > > Thanks. That did the trick. The box is not on a network (never will) so no > worries about security. --Hans Now there's a brave, brave man. '2 digits? Sure, it won't be running by 2000...' Tom

RE: Messenger (GAIM)

2002-02-13 Thread Vaughan, Curtis
Great now I'm totally fucked. I was just using stable packages. After running through these suggests a second time, now my kde is broken, or so it seems. Running the suggested routine below updated a number of packages. Going to dselect I see that there are a number of additional packages that it

Re: mouse freezing

2002-02-13 Thread Dan Owens
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 02:50 pm, christophe barbé wrote: > I see the same problem with a USB mouse. > It occurs only when I am using the mouse and when the CPU is occupied. > I can restore the mouse by switching to the console and then back to X > or by unpluging and re-pluging the mouse. >

Re: [Fwd: Re: shutdown/halt as user]

2002-02-13 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 01:43 PM, Jason Ramey wrote: correct, an example is as follows: puckALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/pico -w /etc/bind/[A-z]* I'm letting puck edit anything in /etc/bind/ using sudo, no password required. this should fit your needs. Remember that most editors l

Re: floppy tape

2002-02-13 Thread James Nord
I gave up on the 2.2 kernels - never got it working properly with them - played for days with it. Good news is I have it working with 2.4.x (17 at least) I scrapped the module and compiled it statically into the kernel and it works. Otherwise - just a guess from your kernel but my old modules

Re: Messenger (GAIM)

2002-02-13 Thread debian
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 13 February 2002 15:14, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 18:07, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > > What is the sources structure I need to type in my sources.list file for > > > that? i.e., > > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable

Re: Help with Expect & Xterm

2002-02-13 Thread Jay Mallar
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 6:09 pm, Cameron Kerr wrote: > You can't use expect to interact with X stuff, only terminal stuff. So you > can control the shell _inside_ the terminal, but not an xterm. Therefore, > you should start your expect script inside a new xterm > > xterm -e myexpectscript >

Re: Bandwidth limiting

2002-02-13 Thread Guillaume
Thank you all, iproute was what I was looking for so long. just with this I reduce a little my outgoing bandwidth, but interactivity is greatly increased as well as my ping and DL bandwidth ! # tc qdisc add dev ppp0 root tbf rate 240kbit latency 30ms burst 1700 Raising the burst (=bucket) incre

Re: Emulate real ip's to access intranet hosts from outside

2002-02-13 Thread Rupa Schomaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Ramon Acedo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know that apache can manage vhosts and I could redirect to a intranet > host all the web traffic coming to www2.mydomain.org, the same can be > done with wu-ftp or proftp where u can have multiple domains/dubdomains >

Re: Asian languages in linux (was ????????? ??? ?????? ????????? ???)

2002-02-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:59:44AM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > Speaking of which, I know it is possible to write Japanese in Debian, > but how easy is it to set up? E.g. if I want to add a user to my > typically en_NZ.utf8 machine that will be using Japanese, how many > steps do I have to do? I

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-13 Thread Matthew Dalton
Seneca Cunningham wrote: > Do think it is possible for me to get it onto my 386 with 1M RAM? I think you might be struggling with only 1Mb of ram to get any Linux distribution running. Even Small Linux (http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/) requires a 386 with 2Mb ram.

Re: Help with Expect & Xterm

2002-02-13 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Jay Mallar wrote: >I can't seem to get expect to talk to my xterm. You can't use expect to interact with X stuff, only terminal stuff. So you can control the shell _inside_ the terminal, but not an xterm. Therefore, you should start your expect script inside a new xterm xter

Re: Need help setting up Xserver

2002-02-13 Thread Rich Johnson
Günter Knab wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 06:06:39PM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: > > I need some help setting up an Xserver on an older Mac. > *snipped** > > May be 'xf86config' works for you if your hardware is in the database. > There were no obvious choices for keyboard (ADB, macintosh-exten

Re: Need help setting up Xserver

2002-02-13 Thread Rich Johnson
Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Rich Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hey folks-- > > > > I need some help setting up an Xserver on an older Mac. > > The machine is a stock PowerMac 8500 with 172MB memory and has a clean > > woody install. > > > > Does anyone have an XFree86Config for this suc

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-13 Thread Michel Loos
Em Qua, 2002-02-13 às 21:49, Seneca Cunningham escreveu: > Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Em Qua, 2002-02-13 às 15:40, Mark Janssen escreveu: > > > On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 19:16, Gerard Robin wrote: > > > > > > hello, > > > I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX

Help with Expect & Xterm

2002-02-13 Thread Jay Mallar
I can't seem to get expect to talk to my xterm. Here's my current script: spawn xterm puts "sleeping" sleep 3 send "telnet" puts "sent" puts "sleepting" sleep 2 exit 0 - It all looks okay, xterm starts, I see all the puts output, but the command "telnet" never makes it to the x

Re: Messenger (GAIM)

2002-02-13 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 15:14, Scott Henson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 18:07, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > What is the sources structure I need to type in my sources.list file for > > that? i.e., > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main non-free contrib > > I think you need to point t

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-13 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Em Qua, 2002-02-13 às 15:40, Mark Janssen escreveu: > > On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 19:16, Gerard Robin wrote: > > > > hello, > > I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX > > (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) > > before the

Re: LILO other=/dev/hda6 (boot logical partition)

2002-02-13 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 04:59:49PM -0800, ben wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2002 04:28 pm, Michel Loos wrote: > [snip] > > > > As far as I know Windows can only boot from a primary partition. Since > > you have more then 4 partitions some must be secondary partition: you > > won t be able to boot

FW: Config error of some kind

2002-02-13 Thread justin cunningham
Sorry Patrick for replying to you and not the list. Multi-tasking failed me!! Justin -Original Message- From: justin cunningham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 3:27 PM To: 'McGillan, Patrick' Subject: RE: Config error of some kind Did you try adduser test p

keysigning and updates from keyring.debian.org to public servers

2002-02-13 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello, does anyone happen to know how often keyring.debian.org will send updated pgp updates to other keyservers? ... for keys who aren't in the debian keyring? i'm wondering if my signed key was lost somewhere in transport or if it only updates in a cron.monthly job or such! tia, jason ---

Re: Borked mouse

2002-02-13 Thread ben
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 01:44 pm, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020201 00:13]: > > in /etc/gpm.conf, do > > > > repeat_type=raw > > > > and in /etc/X11/XF86Config, do > > > > Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata" > > > > i'd be interested in your analysis of why this should w

Re: gnome question

2002-02-13 Thread Tom Cook
Matt Thompson wrote: > > Hoe do I make it so gnome does not blank out my screen after 3 minutes? It > is getting really annoying when i am reading something. I've looked online, > but been unable to find anything. Also grep BlankTime /path/to/XF86Config Also have a look for StandbyTime, Suspe

Re: sample resolv.conf

2002-02-13 Thread Tom Cook
> yes of course - if you don't setup dns it will be difficult to get a name > resolution :o) > but if you don't define/write a resolv.conf file, it doesn't exist... and it > depends on your configuration/provider... that's what I wanted to say, sorry > if my English is not so good ;o) (but you were

RE: Emulate real ip's to access intranet hosts from outside

2002-02-13 Thread justin cunningham
Hi, I didn't read the prior thread so this may be irrelevant but wouldn't this be accomplished by running bind locally and put those mappings in named and put the ip of the local machine with named as the primary dns and your real ns1 as the secondary. That way queries to bla at mydomain would go

Re: spamassassin. CAREFUL ON UPGRADE

2002-02-13 Thread Brian Clark
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Feb 12. 2002 15:52]: [...] > | But, FWIW, I ran into the same problem with spamassassin and had to > | move my old .cf to /etc/spamassassin/local.cf and it seemed to go > | OK. (This was a few days ago.) > This should have happened automatically. It worked for me, bu

Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lndbm

2002-02-13 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, February 12, Erik van der Meulen did write: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 13:36:46 -0600, Jordan Evatt wrote: > > > A quick search using apt on #debian gave me this: (/usr/include/db1/ndbm.h) > > in devel/libc6-dev > > Maybe you don't have libc6-dev installed? Check for that first. I

Re: autofs

2002-02-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi mirek i bet the user "elf" cannot mount a floppy either but "root' can root# mkdir /mnt/floppy root# mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy df and ls elf# mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy df if "elf" cannot mount it ... good to fix automounting of the floppy for users... y

Config error of some kind

2002-02-13 Thread McGillan, Patrick
Hi, I had to back my laptop off from Woody back to the stable version. Everything seems to work, except only root is allowed in. In fact, even though there is a root passwd, it doesn't ask for it when I enter root for user name and hit enter. Any attempt to login in as a normal user, goes no where.

Re: usb mouse [added some detail]

2002-02-13 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 13 Feb 2002, Jason Majors wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:25:06PM -0700, Jason Majors scribbled... > > How do I get a USB mouse to work? > > I'm running Sid with kernel 2.4.17, and have enabled: > > > > CONFIG_INPUT > > CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV > > CONFIG_USB > > CONFIG_USB_UHCI > > CONFIG_U

PPTP-Linux

2002-02-13 Thread Charlie Grosvenor
Hi     I have installed the PPTP-linux package and am not sure how to configure it from there. I have a Alcatel Apeed Touch Pro ADSL router which you can use PPTP to connect to the internet though it, it works fine with windows, but i would like to use it with debian. How do i configure the

custom locale creation

2002-02-13 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
Hi, I've been playing around with my locale settings lately, and was happy to get gnucash to display the euro symbol, but now I have a problem: If I want the euro symbol, I must set (at least) LC_MONETARY to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but this also means I have to use the comma (,), not the period (.)

Re: windows commander clone

2002-02-13 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 15:43, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi, > > Does exist a clone of the Windows Commander file manager for Debian? It is > great. I don't feel very confortable using gmc... > > Thanks in advance, > > Marcelo If you're using KDE you can try krusader (on sid and woody). -

Re: Messenger (GAIM)

2002-02-13 Thread Scott Henson
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 16:57, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Well, I don't understand something. I downloaded GAIM, followed the > instructions by running ":./configure" and then "make install" as root. > Supposedly, all I have to do is run "gaim" and all is good. But there is no > gaim. Anyone know

Re: g++-3.0 problem (with include files?)

2002-02-13 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 13 Feb 2002, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:31:13 +0100, Anders Lennartsson wrote: > > But with g++3.0 it reports some errors. If I run with -v it displays all > > the paths compiled in, which do seem ok. Why doesn't it find the correct > > location of the include fil

Re: mutt address list ?

2002-02-13 Thread Al Nikolov
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 11:28:40AM -0500, dman wrote: > (excerpt from 'man muttrc') Yes, i HAD read it. OK, i'll formalize my question: What is the difference between 'subscribed' (and also 'known') list and just 'known' list? Second, what is means: 'removes from known or subscribed'?? May be

Re: mouse freezes

2002-02-13 Thread christophe barbé
I am sorry to tell you that but you are clearly off-topic here with your explaination on how to setup gpm to repeat data for X. Read the previous mail, it speak about a problem when using X (the mouse is already configured). The mouse freeze under heavy CPU use. Christophe On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 a

mySQL 3.23.x on potatoe

2002-02-13 Thread Philip Iezzi
I've just tried to upgrade mysql on potato from 3.22.32 to 3.23.47-1 (from woody). It breaks because of a whole bunch of dependencies. I'm afraid to upgrade libc6, libncurses5, libreadlin4 and libstdc++2.10... Can I try to upgrade them or do I risk to mess up everything? For the moment we need to k

Re: usb mouse

2002-02-13 Thread Jason Majors
> Goto /dev > Then run "MAKEDEV input" Ahh...I tried mkdir /dev/input; cd /dev/input; MAKEDEV mouse0. > > You can check to see if the mouse is working by typing the following: > "proc /dev/input/mice" > > wiggle the mouse about, if you see characters on the screen the mouse is > probably working

Re: Messenger

2002-02-13 Thread Jason Ramey
GAIM is excellent, I prefer it over any IM client now. If for no other reason, tabbed IM windows, saves so much desktop space. On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 15:26, Scott Henson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 14:59, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > Is there an application that will allow me to communicate with p

Re: mouse freezing

2002-02-13 Thread christophe barbé
I see the same problem with a USB mouse. It occurs only when I am using the mouse and when the CPU is occupied. I can restore the mouse by switching to the console and then back to X or by unpluging and re-pluging the mouse. I am not sure but I have the impression that it occurs less since I've en

Re: Messenger (GAIM)

2002-02-13 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Well, I don't understand something. I downloaded GAIM, followed the instructions by running ":./configure" and then "make install" as root. Supposedly, all I have to do is run "gaim" and all is good. But there is no gaim. Anyone know why?

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-13 Thread Hans
Thanks. That did the trick. The box is not on a network (never will) so no worries about security. --Hans At 11:59 AM 2/13/02 -0700, Jason Majors wrote: >> How can I let a normal user use the "halt" or "shutdown" command? I need >> this for the remote control of my TV box. I tried changing permiss

Re: Borked mouse

2002-02-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020201 00:13]: > in /etc/gpm.conf, do > > repeat_type=raw > > and in /etc/X11/XF86Config, do > > Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata" > > i'd be interested in your analysis of why this should work. all i know is > that it does. I just spoke to this in another threa

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

2002-02-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ibrahim Shaame ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020131 23:18]: > --- "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux X display manager > > disabling you may > > find useful, at: > > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html > > > > Thank you. > > I think before sending him t

Re: mouse freezing

2002-02-13 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 04:22:30PM -0500, christophe barb? wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:11:12AM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Running unstable, I'm getting my brand new optical PS/2 mouse freezing at > > random times. This just

Re: mouse freezes

2002-02-13 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 04:19:54PM -0500, christophe barb? wrote: > Is your mouse a usb one ? > If yes, which kernel do you use ? nope it's ps/2 -- Rudy Gevaert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.webworm.org - keyserverID=24DC49C6 - http://www.zeus.rug.ac.be Thank you for send

Re: mouse freezing

2002-02-13 Thread Jason Majors
> Is there any obvious solution (like I picked the wrong mouse driver?) or does > amybody know what the command/ioctl to reset the PS/2 bus is so that I don't > have to restart X? > There's a similar thread (with the same subject I think) running right now. Both the poster of that message and I

Re: Messenger

2002-02-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 11:59:08 -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Is there an application that will allow me to communicate with people > using MS Instant Messenger (or whatever it's called)? Besides the clients that interact with MSN messenger directly, you may also want to consider a Jabber client

Re: Mounting CD-R?

2002-02-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Fu-Dong Chiou wrote on Wed Feb 13, 2002 um 03:09:56PM: > the CD-R multiple (say, 3) times using "write session" feature under > cd-recording program? Thanks in advance! apt-cache show cdfs-src man mount See the loop option. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- "Unix ist ein Konzept! Windows h

Re: mouse freezing

2002-02-13 Thread christophe barbé
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:11:12AM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Running unstable, I'm getting my brand new optical PS/2 mouse freezing at > random times. This just affects the mouse, I can alt-tab to a xterm and run > commands fine, I can e

Re: mouse freezes

2002-02-13 Thread christophe barbé
Is your mouse a usb one ? If yes, which kernel do you use ? Christophe On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:09:01PM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to get sid working on my computer. I am also running redhat > 6.2 > > I installed woody's base system and upgraded to woody, and then to

mouse freezing

2002-02-13 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Running unstable, I'm getting my brand new optical PS/2 mouse freezing at random times. This just affects the mouse, I can alt-tab to a xterm and run commands fine, I can even restart X to get the mouse working again, but it is still a pain. It fre

Re: mouse freezes

2002-02-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Rudy Gevaert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020213 12:16]: > My mouse also freezes in X, I have the same X installed in redhat, with > the latest matrox drivers, and in sid also. In redhat my mouses freezes > but when I switch to console and back to X my mouse works fine (I can > live with this), but in s

Re: Messenger

2002-02-13 Thread Tim Dijkstra
Curtis Vaughan wrote: Is there an application that will allow me to communicate with people using MS Instant Messenger (or whatever it's called)? One that will let me log in to hotmail.com as well? thanks Everybuddy is an app that will work for you. It is having some problems with other

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-13 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:59:25 -0700 Jason Majors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can I let a normal user use the "halt" or "shutdown" command? I need > > this for the remote control of my TV box. I tried changing permissions, but > > that didn't help. --Hans > > > I just did > chmod a+s /sbin/s

Re: Messenger

2002-02-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Scott Henson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020213 12:31]: > GAIM is what you are looking for. It has plugins that allow it to do > MSN. I havent used it, but I hear it is stable and alright. It sure is. I can't speak for the MSN plugin, but I use it for AIM and Yahoo messenger, and it works like a dr

Asian languages in linux (was 实现您 百 万富 翁的梦 想)

2002-02-13 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 05:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ÅóÓÑ£º G, and I was so looking forward to seeing some mor unintelligable kanji... I was almost starting to not mind Korean spam since every time I saw it I thought: Look at all those pretty c

Re: gkrellm and imaps

2002-02-13 Thread Michel Loos
Em Qua, 2002-02-13 às 03:04, Vineet Kumar escreveu: > * Michel Loos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020212 16:47]: > > Hi, > > > > continuing around e-mail applications with imaps:) > > Is there any way to use gkrellm with an imaps server ? > > Seems the buildin mail application does not work and I was unabl

Re: kernel again

2002-02-13 Thread Bob Thibodeau
I wish it were that simple. Thanks for the input, though. (yes, I did just double-check) Bob On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:41:30PM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:33:37PM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > > > I know this has been coming up, but the solutions I've seen offered

Re: Messenger

2002-02-13 Thread Scott Henson
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 14:59, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Is there an application that will allow me to communicate with people using > MS Instant Messenger (or whatever it's called)? One that will let me log in > to hotmail.com as well? GAIM is what you are looking for. It has plugins that allow i

Re: Printing problems

2002-02-13 Thread Johannes Franken
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 12:44:58PM -0600, Ernesto Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > coping this file to /dev/lp0, it works, but when I use lpr with the same > file, I have again the blank page at the end. Could be a blank banner page. Have you tried lpr -h ? -- Johannes Franken Professional unix/network

Mounting CD-R?

2002-02-13 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, I have a quick question. How do I mount all the filesystems if I write the CD-R multiple (say, 3) times using "write session" feature under cd-recording program? Thanks in advance! Best wishes, Chip The Shortest DVD Unscrambler (created in March 2001) #!/usr/bin/perl # 472-byte qrpff

mouse freezes

2002-02-13 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hello, I am trying to get sid working on my computer. I am also running redhat 6.2 I installed woody's base system and upgraded to woody, and then to sid. Everything boots fine but, my computer is making me deaf and my mouse freezes in X. Both problems occur in redhat also, but not as frequent

Re: Messenger

2002-02-13 Thread Jason Majors
> Is there an application that will allow me to communicate with people using > MS Instant Messenger (or whatever it's called)? One that will let me log in > to hotmail.com as well? If by hotmail.com, you mean the web-based email service, try Konqueror (I noticed you're using KMail, so I guess y

Messenger

2002-02-13 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Is there an application that will allow me to communicate with people using MS Instant Messenger (or whatever it's called)? One that will let me log in to hotmail.com as well? thanks

Re: kernel again

2002-02-13 Thread Chris Hilts
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:33:37PM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > I know this has been coming up, but the solutions I've seen offered > haven't worked for me. > > I'm trying to upgrade to 2.4.17 and getting the "vfs: cannot mount > root" error. This sort of error always makes me want to double

Re: Mixing Debian releases the easy way - HowTo - questions

2002-02-13 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:11:31 -0800 (PST) tluxt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gustavo: A definitive version of this topic should also probably be put > into the APT HowTo: > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html > You could probably do a whole chapter on pinning & APT::Default-Re

Why does netbase REQUIRE iptables etc

2002-02-13 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just noticed on my internal (private network) workstation that I have to install one of iptables | ipchains | ipfwadm because netbase REQUIRES it rather than just suggesting it. This seems to be true of woody and unstable - no idea about potato W

kernel again

2002-02-13 Thread Bob Thibodeau
I know this has been coming up, but the solutions I've seen offered haven't worked for me. I'm trying to upgrade to 2.4.17 and getting the "vfs: cannot mount root" error. I've tried with and without initrd support. The only difference being whether the kernel can't mount root at 1:x or 3:x I've

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