Re: Xwindow problems ASUS A7N266-VM board (nForce)

2002-10-07 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Cam Ellison wrote: > > Well, after some fiddling around, and downloading and installing > 2.4.19, it's all working like a hot dam. Thanks for your re Cam. I'm very interested in this board aswell. Are you usingthe USB2.0 (not USB1.0 modi) interfaces? Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: DEFAULT WINDOW MANAGER

2002-10-07 Thread Nick Hastings
Please wrap your lines at about 72 characters. * Felipe Martínez Hermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021008 17:08]: > > Hi everybody! > > I am trying to set up wmaker to be my default wm. When I log in > through xdm I only get X working with one shell window (I assume > there's no wm running). I have

DEFAULT WINDOW MANAGER

2002-10-07 Thread Felipe Martínez Hermo
Hi everybody! I am trying to set up wmaker to be my default wm. When I log in through xdm I only get X working with one shell window (I assume there's no wm running). I have to "exec wmaker &" to get wmaker running. I have tried including "exec /usr/bin/wmaker" in ~/.x

Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-07 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Jack O'Quin wrote: > > Carel Fellinger writes: > > > There is a space in the command, so you need quotes, try : > > > > set editor="emacs -nw" Sorry, this doesn't seem to work - even wouldn't do. In both cases, mutt overrides these settings in .muttrc and uses vi for composing mail. Irritat

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-07 Thread Chris McCormick
At 18:32 7/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: >On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 16:40, Chris McCormick wrote: > > I'm suspecting i might have some kind of broken glibc action going on. I > > think that it might not be able to re-attach to tar because of an actual > > corruption in the library binaries

Ext3 and Reiserfs

2002-10-07 Thread Chavdar Videff
Dear list,   I went through most of the documentation at debian.org, however I could not find any reference to which file systems are best supported by Woody 3.0. I had a hard disk failure that of course was not caused by any file system corruption but I guess physical damage. But nonetheles

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-07 Thread Chris McCormick
At 08:32 7/10/2002 -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: >Hi, >What does your /etc/apt/sources.list say? Hello, deb http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian potato main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ pot

Re: cd's listing

2002-10-07 Thread Nick Hastings
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021008 10:03]: > > You might not want to download the CDs at all, then. Just download what > you need for installation, and install the rest from the net. The first CD image is enough for this. It will give you a fully operational system with X and friends. O

Building a small distribution, reprise,

2002-10-07 Thread jurgen . defurne
Dear all, I think that I have not stated clear what I want to do with Debian. Some here thought that I wanted to install Debian, but I use it already three years on three computers, so that is not my problem. For me, Debian is a giant collection of parts, governed by a policy, the Debian instal

Re: procmail "safety net"

2002-10-07 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:11:18 +0930 Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 0, Gerald Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK -- I got courier IMAP up and running. Now, I'd like procmail to > > sort and deliver to the maildir foldres I've got created. Right now > > I pick up with fetchmail a

Re: Debian on SunBlade 100? Forget about it.....

2002-10-07 Thread Alan D. Salewski
--JYK4vJDZwFMowpUq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:22:14PM +, Doug MacFarlane spake thus: > On 04 Oct 2002, 00:22:29, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > same for one of my freebsd boxes(my liv

dial-in server

2002-10-07 Thread Joey Quevedo
hi, how do i set-up a dial-in server in debian? what are the necessary files to configure? i have a debian 3.0 with 2.4.9 kernel. i appreciate all the help. thanks in advance! joey (still a newbie) : This e-mail is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient you must not disclose, dist

Re: procmail "safety net"

2002-10-07 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Gerald Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK -- I got courier IMAP up and running. Now, I'd like procmail to > sort and deliver to the maildir foldres I've got created. Right now I > pick up with fetchmail and it drops everything in > /var/mail/username plain old mbox style. I want pro

Re: mail relay from local to internet

2002-10-07 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, louie miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have this two mailserver's my 1(mx) connects to the internet directly. > My 2(mx) is in my local lan. I want to achieve that my 2(mx) will use 1(mx) > to > relay and sends email over the internet, recv of email is not my goal just > sending.. >

Re: Apache problem

2002-10-07 Thread Gottfried Szing
Am Mon, 2002-10-07 um 23.39 schrieb David Grant: > I'm having a bit of trouble getting Apache to work in Woody. I can > reach it from http://localhost:8080, but I can't get to it from > http://:8080. I've allowed incoming connections to the web port > 8080 using Guarddog, and I'm fairly posit

Re: mail relay from local to internet

2002-10-07 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, louie miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have this two mailserver's my 1(mx) connects to the internet directly. > My 2(mx) is in my local lan. I want to achieve that my 2(mx) will use 1(mx) > to > relay and sends email over the internet, recv of email is not my goal just > sending.. >

Re: Too many open files

2002-10-07 Thread Alan D. Salewski
--T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:17:26PM +0200, Fred spake thus: > Hi, >=20 > It 's the third time my debian is complaining, just > after booting, with a "too many open

RE: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-07 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I use make menuconfig, and find it does what I want. Presumably the file could be created in a text editor, but this would be needlessly hellish task imo. I think there is another method, but it simply asks for a y/n for each and every option, again, hellish, imo. I'm fairly new to this linux la

RE: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-07 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I definitely have a Packet Socket option. I also have Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers selected in Code maturity level options. Matthew Joyce -Original Message- From: paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 8 October 2002 2:19 PM To: Joyce, Matthew; [EMAIL

Re: locales

2002-10-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 07 October 2002 19:55, Matt Price wrote: > Hi, > > can someone explain to me what locales are for and how to set them? > I'm having some problems in openoffice which seem to be related to > locale issues... there's a man entry for "setlocale", which I would > have thought to have been t

Re: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-07 Thread paul
what do you use to edit your configuration file? i've used make menuconfig, as I don't have X up on my debian box. can you suggest a better way to edit the config from a text console? p. > I recently had a similar problem, I had to add a couple of modules to my > kernel (2.4.18) and recompile.

Re: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-07 Thread paul
yes the old kernel, 2.4.18bf2.4, gets an ip via dhcp. i use make menuconfig to setup the kernel options, so i'll run that again and add packet filtering, although the description of packet filtering sounds geared towards gateways/firewalls. thx, p. - Original Message - From: "Shyamal Pra

procmail "safety net"

2002-10-07 Thread Gerald Livingston
OK -- I got courier IMAP up and running. Now, I'd like procmail to sort and deliver to the maildir foldres I've got created. Right now I pick up with fetchmail and it drops everything in /var/mail/username plain old mbox style. I want procmail to do the same thing at first so I can add recipes one

Re: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-07 Thread paul
I have 'network packet filtering' disabled. I think that's used for a gateway/firewall configartion. I don't see 'socket packet' but there is 'socket filtering' which is also disabled. what would you suggest? thx, p. - Original Message - From: "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'

how to use web based change LDAP password?

2002-10-07 Thread axacheng
As title, Does anyone knows how to use web based to change LDAP password ??? what's tools that can slove this question? how about "Poppass" or others? -- Trust & Unique ... Axacheng's PGP Public Key http://www.navigation.idv.tw/pgpkey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

mail relay from local to internet

2002-10-07 Thread louie miranda
I have this two mailserver's my 1(mx) connects to the internet directly. My 2(mx) is in my local lan. I want to achieve that my 2(mx) will use 1(mx) to relay and sends email over the internet, recv of email is not my goal just sending.. Any info's? or ideas.. sendmail + exim, im using.. -- th

Re: network - notwork! unable to access lan and net

2002-10-07 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"deshmukh" == deshmukh writes: deshmukh> subsequently, i have edited /etc/network/interfaces by deshmukh> hand and set the things right - by hand! i used vi for deshmukh> the first time and was amazed at the facilities it deshmukh> provides. all *i mean it* win editors look

Re: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-07 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"paul" == paul miller writes: paul> Hello, I've recently compiled a fresh kernel (to get my paul> audio working) and have lost connectivity. I have a sis900 paul> adapter built in to my board and I configured the kernel to paul> include the sis900 driver. The driver seems t

RE: Uninstalling Exim uninstalls Apache

2002-10-07 Thread Michael Olds
OK, here is the problem, now solved. I had managed to get Exim up and running, but was only able to get e-mail delivered to root when root set up an account with my username. No matter what I did with permissions nothing would change it. I uninstalled Exim and Kmail alternatively and together and

RE: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-07 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I'm sure I had to include "Packet Filtering" and "Socket Packet" in the Networking Options in make menuconfig, before my dhcp client would work. Matthew Joyce -Original Message- From: paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 8 October 2002 1:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-07 Thread paul
if i boot with my old kernel, a 2.4.18bf2.4, everything works properly, so the configuation and client are sound. when i boot with my custom compiled kernel nothings happens, no error messages. if i try 'ifconfig -a' the adapter is shown, but without an IP. I checked the dhclient & interfaces m

Re: some one have installed vchkpw??

2002-10-07 Thread George C.
hello in principle it wanted to thank for the answer them comment that I have proven with that of ulimit [...]A comment in a similar bug suggested removing the ulimit from /var/lib/dpkg/info/vchkpw.postinst and running 'dpkg --configure vchkpw'[...] of the following way ulimit -f unlimited

Re: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-07 Thread paul
i tried etherconf with no luck. my configuration boots with the 2.4.18bf2.4 kernel, but not my custom 2.4.18 kernel, and I assume the configurations should work with both if i have all the necessary kernel options enabled. p. - Original Message - From: "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting up network interfaces?

2002-10-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 07/10/02 Marc Shapiro did speaketh: > > > > > Where do I set up these items so that they will be initialized at > > > bootup, instead of using dhcp? It looks like I need to change > > > /etc/interfaces and possibly /etc/hosts, but I'm not sure

snmpsniff ???

2002-10-07 Thread Michael D. Schleif
anybody know of a deb for this? more to the point, anybody know where to find its source? its homepage? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The mor

locales

2002-10-07 Thread Matt Price
Hi, can someone explain to me what locales are for and how to set them? I'm having some problems in openoffice which seem to be related to locale issues... there's a man entry for "setlocale", which I would have thought to have been the right command, but debian doesn't find the command when I l

Re: Xfree 4.2?

2002-10-07 Thread Paul Smith
%% Charles Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: cb> I have been told that my laptop won't do graphics without version cb> 4.2 of xfree. I tried downloading some files in a directory cb> "branden" with names like xfreecommonv14.2.deb and also a cb> v24.2.deb. ??? No idea what those are.

Re: Xfree 4.2?

2002-10-07 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 15:17, Charles Blair wrote: >I have been told that my laptop won't do graphics without > version 4.2 of xfree. I tried downloading some files in a > directory "branden" with names like xfreecommonv14.2.deb and > also a v24.2.d

Re: Inn2 shows empty LISTs after upgrade to Woody

2002-10-07 Thread Iain.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Iain.) writes: > I'm finding that INN is returning empty replies to requests for lists > in /var/lib/news/, like active and newsgroups. It does however list > stuff in /etc/news like overview.fmt and motd. No takers? Oh well - I'll have to purge it and try installing it from s

RE: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-07 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Well you could try configuring with a static address, and prove the hardware, network is actually working ok. I recently had a similar problem, I had to add a couple of modules to my kernel (2.4.18) and recompile. CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER I think Matthew Joyce -Original Message---

Re: A ? for all you old time linux users

2002-10-07 Thread Paul Smith
%% Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jh> Yes, and I suppose it will be until someone works out how to fix jh> all the breakage turning on the optimizations caused last spring. Do other distros like Red Hat also build glibc without any optimizations? -- -

Problem with kernel-pcmcia-modules and/or kernel packages?

2002-10-07 Thread John Seebach
Greetings, I was just going to report this one as a bug, but I'm not sure which package is in fact causing the problem. I found a few older postings by people who'd had similar problems, but it seemed that the maintainers of each package blamed the maintainers of the *other* package, so I tho

Xfree 4.2?

2002-10-07 Thread Charles Blair
I have been told that my laptop won't do graphics without version 4.2 of xfree. I tried downloading some files in a directory "branden" with names like xfreecommonv14.2.deb and also a v24.2.deb. After using dpkg --intsall on these, it still seems to be trying to run 4.1 unsucessfully. Cou

Re: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-07 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, paul said: > my interfaces file looks like this: > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > why doesn't this work? Do you have a DHCP client (pump, dhcp-client) installed? Have you looked at the configuation file/manpage for same?

Re: A question about X 4.2.1-1

2002-10-07 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:30:07AM +0200, Claudio Bley wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 01:47, Seneca wrote: > > I just upgraded from X 4.1.0-17 to 4.2.1-1. After the upgrade, I had to > > remove my .xsession file in order for startx (or logging in with xdm) to > > work. Is this a bug with X, or is

Re[2]: [despammed] Re: odd networking problem

2002-10-07 Thread Ed McMan
Monday, October 7, 2002, 8:53:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (debian-user) wrote: Stephen> This one time, at band camp, Ed McMan said: >> Argh. Now I'm just more confused. OK, tethereal picks up the pings >> leaving the machine. So, that means there must be some kind of queue >> or rate limiter b

Re: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-07 Thread paul
my interfaces file looks like this: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp why doesn't this work? p. - Original Message - From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 12:53 PM Subject: Re: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting >

resolv.conf in the DNS server.

2002-10-07 Thread Simon Tneoh Chee-Boon
Hello all, Thanks in advance for any help. If my server is a DNS server itself, should I put its own IP in the resolv.conf file? eg: search domain.com nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver dns.server.ip1 nameserver dns.server.ip2 What are the differences between put it in and don't put it in, in te

RE: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-07 Thread Joyce, Matthew
You could try running etherconf to help construct a valid /etc/interfaces If it not already installed apt-get install etherconf If is is already installed dpkg-reconfigure etherconf Matthew Joyce -Original Message- From: paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 7 October 2002

Re: A question about X 4.2.1-1

2002-10-07 Thread Claudio Bley
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 01:47, Seneca wrote: > I just upgraded from X 4.1.0-17 to 4.2.1-1. After the upgrade, I had to > remove my .xsession file in order for startx (or logging in with xdm) to > work. Is this a bug with X, or is there some other file (or syntax) that > I should use instead? > > M

Re: Setting up network interfaces?

2002-10-07 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:27:12PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Do I just add a line at the beginning of /etc/hosts in the format: > > 10.100.xxx.xxx foo.domain.edu foo Something like that. The above will resolve "foo" and "foo.domain.edu" to 10.100.xxx.xxx > and where do I set DNS numb

Re: some one have installed vchkpw??

2002-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:19:17PM -0300, George C. wrote: > when treatment to install the package vchkpw, during the process of > installation, dpkg show the following error: Hi, Please check the bug tracking system: http://bugs.debian.org/vchkpw (It's an open bug on an unmaintained package a

Re: Setting up network interfaces?

2002-10-07 Thread Marc Shapiro
> On 07/10/02 Marc Shapiro did speaketh: > > > Where do I set up these items so that they will be initialized at > > bootup, instead of using dhcp? It looks like I need to change > > /etc/interfaces and possibly /etc/hosts, but I'm not sure just what I > > need to change in these files. Also,

some one have installed vchkpw??

2002-10-07 Thread George C.
hello list when treatment to install the package vchkpw, during the process of installation, dpkg show the following error: localhost:/home/jcf# apt-get install vchkpw Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, vchkpw is already the newest version. 0 packages upgrade

Re: A ? for all you old time linux users

2002-10-07 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Nelson wrote: > > 1. glibc, because it is THE library that all programs rely on > > For a while (since version 2.2.2-3), Debian's glibc was compiled with no > optimizations at all. Is this still true? Yes, and I suppose it will be until someone works out how to fix all the breakage turni

Re: Problem using joystick after upgrading to kernel 2.4

2002-10-07 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, Joe Nahmias wrote: > I am running testing, and I just upgraded to kernel version > 2.4.19 from 2.2.21. I have managed to get all my devices working except > for my analog joystick (MadCatz, 2-axis, 4-button) which hooks up to the > game port on my SoundBlaster PCI 128 (es1371). The j

Re: A ? for all you old time linux users

2002-10-07 Thread Brian Nelson
Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's feasible, and if you recompile from Debian sources, you can meet > all of the dependencies. There's only one problem though: most > packages are compiled with (reasonably) sane optimizations. There won't > be many performance gains. If I had

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Re: [despammed] Re: odd networking problem

2002-10-07 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Ed McMan said: > Stephen>> tcpdump/etheral on the box in question at the same time as on the router > Stephen>> - is the box sending packets that the router never sees? > Ed> I didn't try that. I'm going to try that now. > Stephen>> pinging hosts on the internal net

Re[3]: [despammed] Re: odd networking problem

2002-10-07 Thread Ed McMan
Monday, October 7, 2002, 7:46:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (debian-user) wrote: Stephen>> Firewall on the box in question? Sounds like something is rate-limiting Stephen>> the pings, and if the box just stops sending them, it's probably the box Stephen>> itself, rather than anything past it. Ed> No

Re: Can't access 1 IP address on Lan

2002-10-07 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Mon, 07 Oct 2002 15:16:33 -0700 Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our network is 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0 > I can access any address in our network except 10.0.1.1, which is our > mail server. It won't ping it or anything. Any ideas? Please provide more information... such as the

RE: Uninstalling Exim uninstalls Apache

2002-10-07 Thread Michael Olds
Thanks Colin and Corrin, I got as far as seeing the interdependancies. Removing Exim removes two packages on which Apache depends. But what was bothering me was why I was unable to Remove Exim without removing those two other packages...as though I was not able to UNINSTALL a broken program, not

A question about X 4.2.1-1

2002-10-07 Thread Seneca
I just upgraded from X 4.1.0-17 to 4.2.1-1. After the upgrade, I had to remove my .xsession file in order for startx (or logging in with xdm) to work. Is this a bug with X, or is there some other file (or syntax) that I should use instead? My (former) .xsession: gom -G & -- Seneca [EMAIL PRO

Re: Problem with an S3 Virge Trio 64+ Video Card

2002-10-07 Thread Russell
"Wm.G.McGrath" wrote: > > Hi all, > > A long time linux user recently wrote a bad review of > Debian/Libranet on another list based on his experiences in trying > to install it on slow Pentiums equipped with S3 Virge Trio 64+ video > cards. Before I reply to him I thought I'd check and see if an

JFS boot disks

2002-10-07 Thread Mitchell Smith
Hi list, Sorry about the cross post, I wasn't sure which was the correct list for this question. I have managed to break a JFS system and was wondering if there are JFS rescue / root disks available for Debian or will I have to build my own? I know there are boot disks out there for XFS and Rei

Re: Problem with an S3 Virge Trio 64+ Video Card

2002-10-07 Thread Kent West
Wm.G.McGrath wrote: >Hi all, > >A long time linux user recently wrote a bad review of >Debian/Libranet on another list based on his experiences in trying >to install it on slow Pentiums equipped with S3 Virge Trio 64+ video >cards. Before I reply to him I thought I'd check and see if anyone >is u

Re[2]: [despammed] Re: odd networking problem

2002-10-07 Thread Ed McMan
Monday, October 7, 2002, 3:48:39 PM, Stephen Gran (Stephen) wrote: Stephen> This one time, at band camp, Ed McMan said: >> Monday, October 7, 2002, 12:39:40 PM, you wrote: >> >> Jeff> Ed McMan, 2002-Oct-06 19:22 -0400: >> Jeff> >> >> Here is the weird part. This computer works fine using the

Re: Too many open files

2002-10-07 Thread Russell
Fred wrote: > > Hi, > > It 's the third time my debian is complaining, just > after booting, with a "too many open files", creating > each time many files in my home directory I log to. > Searching in Google, some files in /proc/sys/fs enable > to change this behaviour. > > -Why do I have this

Re: free software version of MATLAB

2002-10-07 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 0, Oleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 07 October 2002 02:54 am, Musang S.X. wrote: > > > Hi! I notice many students are using MATLAB at my > > > school/campus, and I suspect most are pirated > > > versions... > > > > > > Is there any free

Re: Can't access 1 IP address on Lan

2002-10-07 Thread Curtis Vaughan
route information follows: route -n DestinationGateway Genmask 10.0.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.010.0.1.2540.0.0.0 Exactly the same as on another Debian computer, but it ping 10.0.1.1 no problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: tiny mouse howto update - console gpm, X and mouse wheel

2002-10-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:51:09AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 06:03:58PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... > > 2. What do you think of Debian Reference description? > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ > > Chapter 3.3 Mouse configuration O, and wh

Re: simple shell scripting question

2002-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 07:03:25PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > But re: the here script: They're actually usually called "here documents" or "heredocs". > does this work if I write it ina simple shell script? Yes. > That is do I write a script thus: > cd ~!/website That ! looks odd ... did you

Re: simple shell scripting question

2002-10-07 Thread Matt Price
Michael, thanks for the ref to ncftpput. I'l\l look into that and lftp, as someone else suggested. But re: the here script: does this work if I write it ina simple shell script? That is do I write a script thus: cd ~!/website ftp -i origin.chass.utoronto.ca< On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 05:44:53PM

Problem with an S3 Virge Trio 64+ Video Card

2002-10-07 Thread Wm . G . McGrath
Hi all, A long time linux user recently wrote a bad review of Debian/Libranet on another list based on his experiences in trying to install it on slow Pentiums equipped with S3 Virge Trio 64+ video cards. Before I reply to him I thought I'd check and see if anyone is using this card, or has trie

Re: Uninstalling Exim uninstalls Apache

2002-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 03:17:09PM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: > Before I break down and ask for help again setting up email which I have > thoroughly messed up once more...can someone explain to me why when I > uninstall exim apache also gets uninstalled? apache depends on logrotate which depends

Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-07 Thread Jack O'Quin
Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is a space in the command, so you need quotes, try : > > set editor="emacs -nw" I would normally put "export EDITOR=emacsclient" in my .bash_profile for stuff like this. Many programs will use $EDITOR, if defined. If you're using csh, put

Re: tiny mouse howto update - console gpm, X and mouse wheel

2002-10-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 06:03:58PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > I am going over ML for the next "Debian Reference" over the mouse > configuration. > > I found a thread with your names quite interesting. In order to refresh > all, I put all participants in TO list. Excuse me. > > I have

Re: Setting up network interfaces?

2002-10-07 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Marc Shapiro said: > I recently was given authority over an old AlphaServer that has been > lying around our college campus, unused, for several years. I installed > Debian from the LinuxCentral CD and initially set the networking to use > dhcp. > > I was just told,

Re: Setting up network interfaces?

2002-10-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 07/10/02 Marc Shapiro did speaketh: > Where do I set up these items so that they will be initialized at > bootup, instead of using dhcp? It looks like I need to change > /etc/interfaces and possibly /etc/hosts, but I'm not sure just what I > need to change in these files. Also, these files o

Problem using joystick after upgrading to kernel 2.4

2002-10-07 Thread Joe Nahmias
msg05847/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP message # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_ISA=y # CONFIG_SBUS is not set CONFIG_UID16=y # # Code maturity level options # # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is not set # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVER

RE: Uninstalling Exim uninstalls Apache

2002-10-07 Thread Michael Olds
Nevermind the direct answer to this, exim and apache share a couple of other packages that removing exim tries to remove. The real question is, why am I not being allowed to remove exim by itself? When I tell it to not remove the two packages needed for apache, it won't remove exim. Why should it

Setting up network interfaces?

2002-10-07 Thread Marc Shapiro
I recently was given authority over an old AlphaServer that has been lying around our college campus, unused, for several years. I installed Debian from the LinuxCentral CD and initially set the networking to use dhcp. I was just told, today, that a static IP address visible to the world at larg

Uninstalling Exim uninstalls Apache

2002-10-07 Thread Michael Olds
Hello, Before I break down and ask for help again setting up email which I have thoroughly messed up once more...can someone explain to me why when I uninstall exim apache also gets uninstalled? I am using Synaptic as my front end for the package manager, and it is not too clear about what it int

Can't access 1 IP address on Lan

2002-10-07 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Strangest thing. Our network is 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0 I can access any address in our network except 10.0.1.1, which is our mail server. It won't ping it or anything. Any ideas? Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:56:59PM +0200, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote: > On the way trying to convince mutt > to use emacs -nw instead of vi by > editing .muttrc as: > > set editor=emacs -nw There is a space in the command, so you need quotes, try : set editor="emacs -nw" -- groetjes, carel

Re: simple shell scripting question

2002-10-07 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 05:44:53PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > command line, far as I can tell. so: is there a way to pass these > instructions on to ftp from a shell script? I imagine this must be a The first thing I'd suggest is using one of the script-oriented FTP tools that was designed to w

Re: simple shell scripting question

2002-10-07 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-10-07 23:44]: >I have a webstie which I manage both from home (mac) and work >(woody). I use sitecopy at work but my access is only via ftp, so >sitecopy can't identify newer files on the website. So after I >upsdate the site form home, I usually log in

debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-07 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
On the way trying to convince mutt to use emacs -nw instead of vi by editing .muttrc as: set editor=emacs -nw ...which didn't work - I came across a whole bunch of links related to emacs: rland@MINI:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/emacs lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           23 Feb 12  2001 /usr/bin/emacs -

simple shell scripting question

2002-10-07 Thread Matt Price
hi everyone, just trying to learn how to do shell scription, assigned myself a simple task: I have a webstie which I manage both from home (mac) and work (woody). I use sitecopy at work but my access is only via ftp, so sitecopy can't identify newer files on the website. So after I upsdate the

TV-Out problem

2002-10-07 Thread Volker Cordes
Hi, I'm using a composite cable to connect my PC (ATI Radeon 7000 graphics adapter) with the TV, because I don't want to use a monitor. I see the output on the TV but only in text mode. In WinXP I can use resolutions up to 1024x768 but I didn't get X working. I see a picture but the lines are

Apache problem

2002-10-07 Thread David Grant
I'm having a bit of trouble getting Apache to work in Woody. I can reach it from http://localhost:8080, but I can't get to it from http://:8080. I've allowed incoming connections to the web port 8080 using Guarddog, and I'm fairly positive that is okay. I've also tried port 80 before, so I'

Re: Would like some recommendations on Laptap: must satisfy the following ->

2002-10-07 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-10-07 21:56]: >-- Thorsten Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >(on Monday, 07 October 2002, 09:43 PM +0200): >> I just got a really sweet Notebook meeting most of your requirements. >> There are a lot of people running Linux on it, some BSD is al

Re: Accessing USB Camera pics

2002-10-07 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 15:03, Craig Dickson wrote: > Alan Chandler wrote: > > > As a result of what you have done, you should see the contents of your > > camera on /etc/sda1 (unless you already have scsi devices when it may > > be something different. > > Only if the camera supports USB Mass Sto

Re: j2se-common (was Re: java debs, where?)

2002-10-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
Hi Jaye, This showed up on the debian-user list a while back. You need to add main to the /etc/apt/sources.list line. I have: deb http://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian woody main non-free Bob On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 04:58:49PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

Re: Too many open files

2002-10-07 Thread Gottfried Szing
Am Mon, 2002-10-07 um 22.33 schrieb Michael Heironimus: > On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:17:26PM +0200, Fred wrote: > > -How do I solve this ? Echoing a different max number ? > > is it a definitive solution (how about the next boot) ? > > I'm not sure why you have so many files open, but yes, you ca

Re: X-server fault on Deb. 3.0

2002-10-07 Thread Seneca
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 03:55:00PM +0200, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: I'm moving this back to the list so that other people can see what is happening. > Ok, Seneca here are my files, Hope you can help me out > Thank you !!! [snip most of XF86Config-4] > Section "Device" >Identifier"Generic Vid

Linux discussion board

2002-10-07 Thread Karsten Strunk
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Re: kill no longer functioning, curious?

2002-10-07 Thread Gottfried Szing
Am Mon, 2002-10-07 um 22.36 schrieb Michael Heironimus: > On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 08:47:31PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > I noticed today that not everything responds to SIGTERM anymore... > > SIGKILL, SIGSTOP and SIGCONT still work, but SIGTERM does not.. in some > > cases. > > I don't

Re: persistent windows in gnome+sawfish?

2002-10-07 Thread Claudio Bley
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 21:52, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Is there a way to make certain windows persistent across the > Workspaces in sawfish+gnome? I'd like my xbiff windows to stick around > on all my workspaces. These are remote xbiffs and so the only way I > can start them is by logging in to the r

Re: kbdrate set by normal users

2002-10-07 Thread Jeff
Jason Pepas, 2002-Oct-07 14:50 -0500: > > I'm not sure I know what you mean by "globally". Do you mean for all > > users? Does it work at all? > > when I say globally, I mean it actually didn't work at all. I have noticed > that if I change kbdrate in an xterm, and then switch to tty2, the kb

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