Re: Annoying OpenOffice Errors

2004-01-14 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Scarletdown wrote: > Why am I getting a bunch of errors every time I save a document in > OpenOffice 1.1.0? > > This always happens the first time a document is saved after OO is run. > I get a whole bunch of error messages similar to this one... > > http://webpages.charter.

Openoffice 1.1.0

2004-01-13 Thread Stephen A. Witt
Is there a problem with the Debian/Woody Openoffice 1.1.0 from ftp.freenet.de? It was added to that mirror last week I think, but now seems not to be there anymore. I upgraded several machines to 1.1.0 at that time, but didn't get all of them and now I have a mixed Openoffice installation among a s

Re: Cross Compilers

2004-01-08 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > working on various platforms, it would ease my job really a lot if I > would find pre-configured/compiled/packaged cross-compilers for Debian > (sarge) built by the pros. Or differently: > > Is anyone aware of a location where I can find variou

Re: Newbie installation query

2003-11-26 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > I am a former RedHat user and now want to try out Debian. I have dabbled in > debian before but have always messed up, usually in the installation > (using dselect). Plus, I only got kde 2.2 even after I updated the woody > install. This time

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I work with a very small non-profit and over the years they have been > keeping documents in various formats (most often MS Word or > WordPerfect). From these documents they generate printed booklets (so > postscript output good), and the documents ar

Re: latest gcc

2003-08-19 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:10:14 +0200, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote: > > > Dear list, > > I have the following questions: > > > > Does the latest gcc/g++ (I think 3.3) exists for Debian woody? If yes, > > where can I find the deb files? > > You might try h

Re: jabberd configuration

2003-07-16 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:00:14AM -0700, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > > On a woody system I'm trying to configure jabberd. I installed the > > woody jabber package and have configured it using the info from > > www.jabber

jabberd configuration

2003-07-16 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On a woody system I'm trying to configure jabberd. I installed the woody jabber package and have configured it using the info from www.jabber.org and in the associated documentation. I changed the hostname and spool location in the jabber.xml and jabber.cfg files, created the spool directory and ch

Re: The GNU C compilers

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Jim Woodruff wrote: > > I'm running Debian unstable on a DEC Alpha machine and I have three > version of the GNU C compiler installed on my system. They are: > 2.95, 3.2.1, and 3.3.1. I understand 2.95 is required for the Compaq > ccc compiler, but do I need both of the others

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Jerry Quinn wrote: > Hi, all. I have a debian box serving as my firewall/router/dhcp > server. The dhcp does the job fine, except for dns. > > I'd like to have dns lookups work correctly for my internal network. > So is there a simple means of having my dhcp clients being ab

Re: install XFree86 4.3 on Woody?

2003-04-02 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Santiago Hirschfeld wrote: > Hi all, > > Im running woody with some packages installed from unofficial sources found > in apt-get.org, and i was wondering if it's a good idea to switch to XFree86 > 4.3, everything is working so well now, that i wouldn't like to reinstall > ever

Re: [OT] no space after defined \newcommands in LaTeX

2003-03-31 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > this has been pissing me off recently. if i define a new command > > \newcommand{\TM}{Turing machine} > > and then say in my document > > ... the \TM defined by blah blah ... > > i will get the output ``the Turing machinedefined by blah blah.'' > Use

Re: Detect DAT tape

2003-03-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, GBV wrote: > How can I know if my DAT tape device is properly installed and configured? > I have a SCSI DAT tape on one machine, so I only have experience with a SCSI DAT. When the machine boots up, you should see the SCSI adapter driver print a list of the SCSI devices that

Re: Mail filter..

2003-03-17 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Vivek Kumar wrote: > Hi all, > > Can you suggest me some good mail filter software/program ?? One's I've used: procmail - has IMHO a rather cryptic syntax for defining filters, but worked well exim - if you use exim it has a builtin filter language that is

Re: tune gcc

2003-03-17 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 02:35:52 +1100 > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> If setting CFLAGS is the answer, do you need to set all of them, or > >only> the one you want to change? > > > Hm, I don't think I quite got what you meant there...You j

Re: Print postscript to cups.

2003-03-13 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Rus Foster wrote: > I'm sure this is an easy one. I've got a .ps file and want to print it to > cups. Is there a nice command to do that? something like lpq ? > -- % lpr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: is there a debian hardware database?

2003-03-12 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Ray wrote: > is there a website with information about what hardware has been known to > work with debian out of the box or with light tweaking? > > (light tweaking = manually adding a couple of lines to a text file) > There is not one for Debian specifically to my knowledge.

Re: default gateway

2003-03-11 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > Hello all, > I am looking for the file that I have to modify in order to have static route > enabled. > I add the gateway manually with route add -net default gw 192.168.100.1 > and I would like to find the config file. > I am using woody 3.0.r1,any id

Re: Switching to unstable

2003-03-11 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Matthias Szupryczynski wrote: > Hi list, > > I am thinking to switch from stable to unstable these days. Is this > advisable at the moment, or is the unstable branch suffering from mayor > problems right now (libc broken etc.) > > Please cc to me as I am not on the list. > Wh

exim + spamprobe/bogofilter

2003-03-11 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On a woody system, using exim 3.35, I'm trying to install either spamprobe or bogofilter from source (as the packages don't exist in woody yet). The issue I have is that I can't seem to figure out how to correctly modify the exim configuration to have the spam program operate correctly. All of the

Re: [newbie] Setting up network

2003-03-10 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi there: > > Untill now, I only got online using a dial up connection. Now i am going to > dormitory, and in order to get online I have to connect to my dormitory's > LAN. I can setup the network using the following two commands: > > ifconfig eth0 my.ip.a

Re: 486 kernel images

2003-01-21 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, machoamerica wrote: > > i'm looking through the kernel-image packages and i see packages for all > flavors of intel/amd processors except the 486. can i use either > kernel-image-2.4.x-386 or kernel-image-2.4.x-586 or do i have to muck > around with a kernel-source-2.4.x pack

Re: how to stop spamassassin from scanning some messages?

2002-12-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:55:18PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:17:01AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > > You are using procmail to filter your mail aren't you? In that case, > > > just move the rule that filters your

Re: pine binaries

2002-09-30 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello All > > At http://www.braincells.com/open/ I notice that there > are binaries for sid and potato but not for woody. Does > anyone know where I could get binaries for woody or does > one have to compile pine. > I've heard that someone was maint

Joining Large Files

2002-09-07 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I've got a 12 GB tar file (full of mp3 files) that I split up into 1 GB segments using 'split'. My intention was to transfer these segments to another computer and join them together using 'cat'. But it seems that cat is limited to the 2 GB filesize limit. I've looked all around the net in an atte

Palm Pilot

2002-06-11 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I'm running woody and have just been handed a Palm Pilot at work. I'm not really sure I want the thing, but thought I would check it out. I was going to install a syncing application with my woody desktop, but found there were several palm pilot apps in the distribution. Is a question like 'which i

Re: kernel compile in woody

2002-06-07 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > are the steps to compile a new kernel in woody the same as in potato? > Yes. The easiest way, IMHO, is to use the kernel-package method, which is well documented in /usr/doc/kernel-package/README after you have that package installed. -

Re: 2 pcmcia ethernet cards?

2002-06-04 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Dave Price wrote: > Hi, > > I have two pcmcia ethernet cards which do work. I am running them as a > firewall and would like to have a bit tighter control about how and when > they load. What is the control that you want here? It sounds like you just really want to be able to

Re: the desperate, boring

2002-06-04 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Quenten Griffith wrote: > I have wrote to him three times now ,we need to do something 100's of > spam replys is really annoying to go through. > Yeah, it is really annoying, but on the positive side, it caused me to figure out how to delete all of the messages he had sent. I

Re: 802.11b

2002-04-02 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Jason Majors wrote: > I'm thinking of getting an 802.11b network, so I can carry my debian based > notebook around the house without running cables everywhere. > I'll be getting a PCMCIA network card, and a receiver that I can plug into > my existing 10/100 switch. > Any sugges

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-26 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > I have an x86 server computer containing two network cards: > > eth0 --> 192.168.1.130 > eth1 --> 192.168.1.131 > > Both cards work fine alone. As you can see, both cards are on the same > network. The subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. I can disable eit

Re: home gateway

2002-03-11 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, James Bruce wrote: > i need to set up a gateway for my home computer and id like to do with > debian . the machine i have is: > > pII 450 8mb gfx card, 10gb disk. > > i would like it set up as a firewall initially, and eventually a web > server and samba etc, incluyding basic

Re: copying/cloning root partition

2001-11-07 Thread Stephen A. Witt
Thanks for the responses everybody, I've got some work to do now to work these out. Thanks again...

copying/cloning root partition

2001-11-05 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I'm trying to figure out how to clone the root partition of a Debian Linux installation. The installation is pretty small and hosted on a small, PC-104 based system that has only a root partition and runs without swap. I would like to be able to "clone" its root partition onto other disks but am ru

Re: How to find out what service is running on a port

2001-10-09 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Sean Kelleher wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've got errors that are continually popping up to STDERR about a > packet being rejected by my firewall, bound for port 65535. this > behaviour itself is normal -- my firewall should reject this packet -- > but i'd like to know what service

Re: Debian From Scratch: How Low Can You Go?

2001-09-28 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > > smaller than this. It's only barely a Debian system, though. :) > > Hello: > > Currently, I am maintaining three Linux distros: > - Debian GNU/Linux (for system servers) > - Linux Mandrake (for "ordinary users") > - LinuxRouter (for sy

Max number of filesystem mounts

2001-09-27 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I've added a couple of 80 GB IDE hard drives to an NFS server running Debian stable with a 2.2.19 kernel. It now has 3 IDE drives and one SCSI drive and we want it to have about 14 local filesystem mounts (including swap, proc, and devptr -- if those count as mounts) and normally two NFS filesystem

Web Filter

2001-09-11 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I've been following the 'web blocker' thread with some interest and, on a related note, was wondering what software is available for limiting access to certain web sites for specific users. I've a couple of elementary school age kids that are starting to become interested in the web. I think I need

Re: Can't install latest gnucash

2001-09-04 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I've been wanting to use gnucash for some time now, but wasn't willing to use the 1.3.x in woody when 1.6.2 is the current version. So I just compiled it :). What a rollercoaster ride that was. gnucash has a ton a dependencies and I ended up having to compile a bunch of other support packages. It w

Re: KDE2 installation

2000-11-01 Thread Stephen A. Witt
How is KDE 2.0 working? Is it ready for general use now, or still more in beta form? Thanks...

Re: Key mapping in X

2000-10-24 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Rob Hudson wrote: > I'm a big vim user and would like to switch the functionality of the > Caps_Lock key and the Escape key. I have found where to do this in > the console. Which file to I edit to swap these in X? > Well, one way to do it is using the xmodmap program. I us

Re: Key mapping in X

2000-10-24 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Rob Hudson wrote: > I'm a big vim user and would like to switch the functionality of the > Caps_Lock key and the Escape key. I have found where to do this in > the console. Which file to I edit to swap these in X? > Well, one way you can probably do it is with the xmodmap

Re: Syncronize pc-clock w/timeserver

2000-10-16 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: > > Hi, > > > I would like to use netdate to syncronize my computer's > timesetting with that of a timeserver but no matter what > timeserver address I pass to netdate I get the following > lacklustre message: > > Connection with udp to x

KDE time and date display

2000-10-16 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I feel a little silly asking this question, but... I've a few machines running Debian at work. Some were installed from the start recently with potato and some have been around a while and were slink machines that have since been updated to potato. I notice that in the older machines, on the Panel

Re: Scheme/lisp and music was: Common Lisp

2000-10-16 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Thomas Guettler wrote: > Hi all! > > I want to learn lisp or scheme, too. I have read the faqs at > www.faqs.org, and I am still not convinced which language I should > start to learn. Scheme is much smaller, Common Lisp has more > libraries > > What I want to do: I want

Re: apt-getting from behind a proxy

2000-10-10 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, maarten wrote: > Hi, > I'm fairly new at Debian, and GNU/Linux in general, so please: no flaming ;) > > I've got a winmodem (oh, the agony), and two computers forming a network. > The computer with the modem has a windows installation access to the > Internet. It's also got

Re: include dirs

2000-09-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, jereme wrote: > hi all, > > I hope this question is directed to the correct group and not > too redundant. I checked the list archives and the policy manual > before mailing this off. What i would like is for someone to point me > towards a good source of information

Netscape helper application configuration

2000-09-14 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I'm trying to figure out how to get Netscape to open up an application to view a Word document. I've edited the Applications category within the Navigator preferences to start StarOffice when a Word document is selected. StarOffice does start up, but it doesn't open the Word document. So, I'm think

Re: Brand_Spankin_Newbie

2000-08-25 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Brian Vozza wrote: > Whats up everyone > > I have been a windows programmer for several years...and I am > finally converting over to linux. Only problem is.Dont know where > ta start. Ive managed to install potato on my machine but am > clueles as to w

Re: Background mail transfers

2000-07-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Barry Samuels wrote: > I normally work within a window manager environment (mostly KDE) when > using Debian Potato and have used KMail to download mail directly from my > ISP pop3 accounts. > > I recently decided to setup fetchmail to poll my pop3 mail servers in the > backgr

Re: How do I get flexible email headers and sigs?

2000-07-14 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Tony wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone figured a nice way of doing the following: > > I have several "identities" I'd like my mail to go out under - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my academic work, [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the > start-up I sometimes act for, [EMAIL PROTECTED] for personal

Re: kpkg

2000-07-11 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, cls--colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > i read yesterday that "kernel-package" is the 2d most > beneficial feature of dlinux (after > apt-get--untouchable!)so i thought i'd give it a > whirl. > > using kernel-package (6.05), i've been trying to test a > custom (compliled) 2.2.

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Chip Salzenberg wrote: > > Actually, from what I've been told, rpm has at least one serious > > technical flaw: The order of execution for pre-install and > > post-install scripts is nonsensical for upgrades. > > I wouldn't call it nonsens

Laptop PPP/Ethernet

2000-04-13 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I've installed potato on a laptop and want it to be able to have a PCMCIA Ethernet connection and be capable of a direct PPP connection (without a modem). During the installation, I configured PCMCIA and then the network parameters for the Ethernet interface. I included PPP when configuring the dri

Re: Unknown problem connecting

2000-04-06 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Kent West wrote: > "J. Hartzelbuck" wrote: > > > > Hello friends, > > > > Using Debian, I've installed wvdial and can connect very nicely, but > > commands issued don't do anything! Ping doesn't respond, lynx doesn't > > respond. I'm new to all this, so don't know where I mig

Administering large groups of Debian machines

2000-03-01 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I seem to have started a Debian thing in the company that I work for. It seems to be spreading. As the number of machines that we configure with Debian grows, system administration issues start to raise their ugly heads. We've recently gotten a dedicated sysadmin guy to take over the admin tasks. H

LaTex - Adding packages

2000-02-04 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I'm trying to add the 'titlesec' package to my Debian 2.1 system and having a problem. After a little research, my understanding of the process is to add additional Tex packages into one of the home or local directories as defined in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and then run texhash. So, on my system the

Re: Drivers-EMERGENCY>HELP IMMEDIATELY

2000-01-26 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Hutchinson, Floyd wrote: > I install Debian version 2.1.r4 on a Dell Optiplex GX1. But I am having > trouble locating the drivers for the ‘3com Fast EtherLink XL 10/100MB TX” > and ‘ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 2x’. Can anyone help locate these drivers and > help me with installin

Re: IP without host

2000-01-14 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Dave Wiard wrote: > is there any way i can set up my machine to use IP but NOT go looking for > a host, anywhere? i have 2 machines completely isolated and i'd like to > let them talk (ipx would be fine also, but i can't seem to get that > compiled in correctly). i've got an

apt sources list

2000-01-04 Thread Stephen A. Witt
Now that Debian 2.1r4 has been released, I'm wondering what an appropriate /etc/apt/sources.list file should be. I have been using the following to pick up all the updates, etc. that have been made to the slink baseline: deb http://ftp.netgod.net x/ deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ slink-update

Re: Multiple IP Addressing

1999-11-16 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Jason Taylor wrote: > My apologies, as I was not as clear as I should have been. Load balancing is > not what I meant, I would merely like to assign two IP addresses that are on > the same subnet to each NIC in the server. To be honest whether or not 1 NIC > can handle the loa

Re: Multiple IP Addressing

1999-11-16 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Jason Taylor wrote: > I am new to the Debian world and am working on a new in house system that > has 2 3com 10/100 PCI NIC's in it. I got the system to find the NIC's okay > now I am wondering how I configure /etc/init.d/network file to load balance > between the NIC's. I add

Re: What Port Does Ping Use?

1999-11-12 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Onno wrote: > At 10:23 AM 11/11/99 -0600, Lyno Sullivan wrote: > >At 08:44 AM 11/10/99 -0800, aphro wrote: > > >On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: > > > > > >alemas >Which port number does ping use in Debian Linux? > > > > > >I do not believe ICMP uses ports, there a

Re: CVS repository directory

1999-11-11 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Lyno Sullivan wrote: > Last night when I was installing Slink it asked me to name the directory > for my cvs repository. I hunted all over debiag.org but found no guidance. > I did a Altavista web search and found no guidance. I finally named > /var/cvsroot. What should I

RE: What do I REALLY need for Potato upgrade?

1999-11-11 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 10 Nov, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote about "RE: What do I REALLY need for > Potato upgrade?" > > > > On 10-Nov-99 David J. Kanter wrote: > >> I'm in the process of going from Slink to Potato, but I've got a modem. I'm > >> not going to download all t

Re: cvs over network

1999-11-11 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Micha Feigin wrote: > How do I use cvs over a network? > I have a telnet and ftp conection to the computer who is supposed to host > the cvs repository. > Also, will it work if the versions of cvs on both computers is deferent? > I couldn't find an answear to this in any of th

Re: 3com 3c905b

1999-10-28 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Michael Hammonds wrote: > what driver do I use to install a 3com 3c905B Network card > You would use the 3c59x driver, also identified as the "Vortex" driver.

Re: nfs install

1999-10-28 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am just trying to get my first debian box up and running. I am > having problems with the nfs installation process. The main problem I am > having is the detection/configureing of my 'Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ LAN > Adapter' card. >

Re: Error installing 3COM driver

1999-10-20 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Evan Burkitt wrote: > All: > > I am attempting to install Debian 2.1. My NIC is a 3COM EtherLink III > 3C509B ISA card. In the driver configuration part of the installation > process I choose the 3c509 driver and attempt to enter the command line > "io=0x300 irq=10" which

Minimal Install

1999-10-14 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I'm trying to do a minimal install of Debian 2.1. I'd like to squeeze it into 30 MB of disk space or so for use on a 40 MB disk. This system would need to have only very basic functionality and would be used as a basic router, so would need the IP stack, PPP and a couple of Ethernet drivers, etc.

Re: Lotus Notes

1999-10-11 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Jim Penny wrote: > This is far, far, far from my favorite topic. > > Has anyone been able to get the lotus notes binary to run > undeer Debian? > > If so, what was done? > > Thanks. > > Jim Penny > There is another alternative to trying to get Notes working under Linux an

Re: problem of installing 2 network cards

1999-08-31 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Liu Chung Him wrote: > Dear all, > > I have 2 3com network cards (3c509B and 3c905). I plugs the 3c905 first > and install the linux. It can work and can connect to the Internet. > Then , i plugs the 3c509B. However, when the machine boot up. It only can > detect the eth0 whi

Multiple EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA cards?

1999-08-25 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I'm trying to add a second Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA NIC card to a system and have had no luck so far. I've read the Ethernet HOWTO and Multiple Ethernet Card Mini-HOWTO but the advice in there hasn't helped so far. First I installed the second NIC and configured it using 'softset2' to NOT P

Re: diald

1999-07-08 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Mateusz Lapsa wrote: > Hello. > I'm using slink, and recently I wanted to configure this package. > Unfortunatelly there some problems. > After instaling and configuring it it isn't responding for any traffic, > which is beeing sent to sl0 device. Strange. However when I start

Java Documentation

1999-07-02 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I'm looking for the java source documentation in the slink jdk1.1.7 distribution but can't seem to find it anywhere. This is what all the java texts say should be in jdk1.1.7/doc, or the html versions of the source files. In /usr/doc/jdk1.1/README.Debian it says that there is a package jdk1.1-doc t

Re: [Linux] where is tip or cu?

1999-06-23 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Howdy, > > I need to talk to my serial port. On other Unices I would > use tip or cu. Any idea which package contains these tools? > (I know they both exist for Linux since I used them before, > unfortunately I reinstalled Debian and I can't fin

Re: Getting there

1999-06-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > I am not able to code, but I am willing to > pay! :) Yeah, how much?

Re: xfree 3.3.3 for slink

1999-06-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Alec Smith wrote: > > > For Slink XFree86 3.3.3.1, use > > > > deb http://ftp.netgod.net x/ > > > > in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. You'll get X 3.3.3.1 in addition to > > other updates for Slink. > > > > Note: I don't beli

Re: 2.2.10 and SMP

1999-06-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Gareth wrote: > G'day all, > I have 2 LINUX systems (one redhat one DEBIAN )that I recently > upgraded to kernel 2.2.10 the DEBIAN one will not compile unless I have > SMP enabled. if I don't have it enabled I get an error and make exits with > an error 1. > > They are

Re: 8MB PCI 1600x1200@76Hz video card suggestion?

1999-06-10 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Jeff Noxon wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 12:59:31PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I found: > > STB Velocity 4400 > > Creative Labs Graphics Blaster Riva TNT > > ASUS V3400 TNT (AGP only) > > Diamond Viper V550 > > Hercules Dynamite TNT > > > > What version of

PPP & Multicast

1999-05-21 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I'm trying to figure out how to do multicast IP over PPP. More specifically, how to get the MULTICAST interface flag set for a PPP network interface. I searched through the mailing list archives and found no direct answer to my question, but I did find numerous examples that had been sent in of 'if

NIS and /etc/group

1999-05-19 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I've just set up NIS on a small group of Debian machines with one NIS server and the rest as clients. Everything seems to be working fine, with one small exception. Most of the users need to be able to use minicom or kermit to connect as a dumb terminal to some devices in our lab and so I've added

What group does Apache run as?

1999-05-12 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I'm trying to install Jitterbug, which is a bug tracking system, and I ned to be able to figure out which group apache runs as. I've been fiddling around with 'ps' and whatnot, but its just not obvious to me how to get this info. HELP! Thanks...

Re: Dial-on Demand with Masq Setup Box

1999-04-06 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Russell Rademacher wrote: > Hello guys. > > Okay.. I got a little project to work on in few days and I would > appreciate some pointers and help on this one. > > Basically I am little familiar with the Masq system...but what I > would like to do is setup t

Re: Some questions about IP Masquerading

1999-03-25 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I've been using IP Masquerade at home for at least a year now and it has been working great. I'll try to answer some of these. On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > I am currently trying to install IP masquerading at home. I've been > reading the Mini IP Masquerading HOWTO, and I have som

KDE Questions

1999-03-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I've just upgraded to KDE 1.1 and have a couple of questions. I should probably ask on the KDE mailing lists, but I'll try here first. 1) I'm having trouble modifying X resources using xrdb. In my .xsession file I do: if [ -f ~/.Xdefaults ]; then xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults fi before I start

Re: Help connecting with earthlink

1999-03-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Obi wrote: > hello, > > I'm trying to setup my linux box to connect to earthlink, but with no luck. > I've done that quite a few times with different ISPs, but this time I cannot > set it up. > > It works fine under windows98, but under linux no. This is the important part

Pine 4.10

1999-02-26 Thread Stephen A. Witt
Is it my imagination or does pine 4.10 seem a lot faster than 4.05? Faster in terms of navigating mail folders and such.

leafnode expiring news groups

1999-02-24 Thread Stephen A. Witt
leafnode seems to stop fetching articles from news groups that haven't been read after 2 days. This is too short for me, I can't always read all of the groups I follow at that rate, seems I do a lot of reading on the weekends. This doesn't seem to be configurable, at least I wasn't able to find any

Re: mutt with pgp support?

1999-02-05 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Chris Frost wrote: > Does the mutt included with debian (hamm) include support for pgp v5 (or > gpgp)? > > I'm thinking of switching over to mutt from pine after hearing how many > people use it here, and after a day of fixing problems trying to get it to > compile on my boxes

Re: resolv.conf problems

1999-01-12 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I mistyped my DNS ip address when setting up networking here. I > fixed resolv.conf to reflect the actual ip. Here's the problem: after a > boot, names don't resolve. If I su to root and take down the network > and restart it (via "/etc/inet.d/ne

Re: Network setup problems

1999-01-06 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, John Stevenson wrote: > Here is the info you asked for: > > Our office network is fairly simplistic, basically we use the > ISDN modem as a router / gateway to the internet. It has an > internal IP address of 172.16.1.1 which I set on my laptop to be > the address of the gate

Re: Network setup problems

1999-01-05 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, John Stevenson wrote: > > Do I need to add a route to my web server, or change my configs > to represent it? > Do I need to have DNS services running?? > > Can anyone help me ?? I've been looking at the info you provided and I don't think there is enough to troubleshoot your

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Jon Burchmore wrote: > Hello All, > > I currently use MS Outlook 98 on a Windows PC to read my Email (I get > about 600-700 messages/day from various mailing lists). I would *really* > like to switch over to a Debian-based solution, but I haven't been > able to find a mail cl

Re: DNS-DHCP solution for linux?

1998-12-01 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Ben Jorgensen wrote: > Is there any such? It would be nice not having to update the DNS server by > hand all the time. And using DHCP to assign IP:s automatically could solve > this if there was a tool for updating the DNS server. > This is still in the protocol definition st

Re: About network daemons in a multi homed workstation

1998-11-30 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have Debian 2.0 in a PC with three different Ethernet interfaces, each > interface in a different subnet. I notice that network daemons like > telnet, ftp and NFS only work via the first interface (eth0) and > completely ignore the othe

Re: Where can I find KDE debs?

1998-11-30 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Phillip Deackes wrote: > This question may have been asked before - if so please excuse me. > > I want to install KDE on my system but am finding that there are no > debian packages of KDE available anywhere - ftp.kde.org appears to have > some libc5 binaries available in con

Re: RIP on Debian?

1998-11-24 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > Is the routing protocol RIP available as part of a debian package? If so, > which package? > > Thank you, > > -- > Pedro I. Sanchez > Yes: dpkg -S routed libc6-dev: /usr/include/protocols/routed.h netstd:/usr/man/man8/routed.

Re: technical problems with kde and debian (loading of libs fail)

1998-11-24 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Mikael Suomela wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got following problem: when I try to launch kde it fails > complaining about missing libraries. I've installed kde using .debs from > ftp.kde.org and qt 1.41 from a .deb from ftp.funet.fi (a mirror of > ftp.debian.org). Any kde users

Re: Qt .deb files

1998-11-13 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Marc van der Vossen wrote: > Hi, > > I am thinking of installing debian again, but I am wondering were I can find > the Qt free stuff as a .deb file. I do not have much Linux knowledge, but > would like to run KDE if possible. > > Thanks for your help. > > Marc > [EMAIL PRO

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