Re: isapnp.conf

2000-05-22 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 22:35, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I'm trying to get my ethernet NE2000 clone to work in linux. The HOWTO > said to read up about isapnptools, so I started looking at the > README.debian, and it has someone's config file here. Anyways, I can't > make any sense of i

Network problem.

2000-05-22 Thread Robert
Hi. I connect Debian to NIC in Novell server . Novell is a network "router" . I can ping from Novell server on Debian NIC and ping from Debian to Novell server. But when i ping to station i another subnetwork i have : ping 10.0.16.2 -v PING 10.0.16.2 (10.0.16.2) :56 data bytes ping: send to : Oper

Re: Help: Netgear or Linksys NIC's? Please?

2000-05-22 Thread montefin
Ethan, You bring up an interesting point. One alternative to my Plan is a.) yes, upgrade from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian Potato on the Pentium II box, but b.) install OpenBSD in place of Debian on the 486DX firewall box. Any opinions on that from anyone? Ethan Benson wrote: > > > 2.) Linksys's ETHE

I see everything twice.

2000-05-22 Thread montefin
Hi all, How come I'm receiving two of most replies from this list. Not that I'm complaining. The advice I receive here is ten times as informed and actionable as from any other user-list. Just curious. And, concerning the subject line of this email, can anyone identify what book it comes from? I

Re: Help: Netgear or Linksys NIC's? Please?

2000-05-22 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:40 PM 5/21/00 -0600, montefin wrote [in part]: >> Did whoever told you this realize that you were connecting a Linux-based >> fiewall to the router? >> > >Ray, yes. But since it's the folks at my ISP, I'm not sure whether they >put their knowledge of my system plan together with the package

Re: I see everything twice.

2000-05-22 Thread Pollywog
On Mon, 22 May 2000, montefin wrote: > Hi all, > > How come I'm receiving two of most replies from this list. Not that I'm > complaining. The advice I receive here is ten times as informed and > actionable as from any other user-list. Just curious. So it isn't just me; I am getting two also. I wi

.xsession

2000-05-22 Thread Dennis Pho
i have a problem when i load .xsession in unix. i can't seem to get the background, and the rest of the side bars to appear!! pls help!! Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Minor Samba issues

2000-05-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake Philip Lehman on Sun, May 21, 2000 at 12:15:19PM CDT > > When printing from either client, I get an extra blank page after each > print job. This is mentioned in the docs but I'm only advised to check > the printer config on the server and the settings on the clients, > whatever that me

OpenBSD (was Re: Help: Netgear or Linksys NIC's? Please?)

2000-05-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 11:18:53PM -0600, montefin wrote: > Ethan, > > You bring up an interesting point. One alternative to my Plan is a.) > yes, upgrade from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian Potato on the Pentium II box, > but b.) install OpenBSD in place of Debian on the 486DX firewall box. > > Any opini

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

2000-05-22 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 07:46:47PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > i think dlocate really takes care of the problem nicely, for things > like status and file lists dlocate is quite fast. its unfortunate that > it was removed from potato for a *ONE LINE BUG* with a fix in the > bts... why oh why could

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

2000-05-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake w trillich on Sun, May 21, 2000 at 01:49:35PM CDT > > which is why it should not surprise any gurus on this list that > newbies upgrading from slink know nothing about APT or its magic. > they don't rtfm because they don't know about it. > > NEWBIES: check out 'apt-get'! it's better tha

Re: Please help - network incredibly slow...

2000-05-22 Thread John Pearson
A couple of general comments... You don't have standard PC hardware - regular PCs only have IRQs 0-15 whereas you're using IRQ 18 & 19. I assume that they are supported on your hardware, but if your problem relates to your specific platform then those familiar with your platform may be better-eq

Re: Help .gtkrc FAQ?

2000-05-22 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Thanks for getting back to me. I checked out the site before posting and it has some nice intro stuff. I wondered is there was anything with more depth? Jonathan > Try this: > > http://gtk.themes.org/php/docs.phtml?docid=37&secid=1.2 > > or the whole documentation section at gtk.themes.org.

Re: Kernel revision info command?

2000-05-22 Thread kmself
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 04:45:22PM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote: > I am in bash. What do I type to determine the current revision of the > kernel? Or if you can't do it there, how? $ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.2.14 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 2313 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #1 Mon

Re: Screen Saver

2000-05-22 Thread kmself
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 09:58:00PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > If my monitor goes black,(i.e. screen saver I think) how do I turn that off. > The monitor doesnt shut off just goes blank. Sounds like the screen saver > but I have no idea where to check.. >From console mode: man setterm >From X Windo

files > 2G possible?

2000-05-22 Thread Shmulik Elmakias
Dir Madam/Sir, I need to have files bigger than 2G. What can I do? I use debian linux with kernel 2.2.14 Thanks, Shmulik Elmakias Quark Biotech Inc.  System Administrator

Re: Kernel revision info command?

2000-05-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Also.. $ uname -r or $ uname -a (for more information) Thus spake kmself@ix.netcom.com on Mon, May 22, 2000 at 01:31:23AM CDT > On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 04:45:22PM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote: > > I am in bash. What do I type to determine the current revision of the > > kernel? Or if you can

Re: Telnet Security

2000-05-22 Thread kmself
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 10:05:32PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Is there a way to keep my Telnet port open but still have security? Disable your network connection. The general answer is no, ssh should be used instead. There is also a telnet-ssl secure mode, though I haven't used it. On the very r

Re: Help: Netgear or Linksys NIC's? Please?

2000-05-22 Thread montefin
Ray, Yes! Ray Olszewski wrote: > > I don't know that router {the Flowpoint 2200 DSL}, so I have no opinion. But > if you (lucky you!) > actually have an ISP that understands about Linux, I wouldn't be too > concerned. > Ray, I must share this. About a year ago, totally out-of-the-blue, I dec

Re: .xsession

2000-05-22 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 10:59:52PM -0700, Dennis Pho wrote: > i have a problem when i load .xsession in unix. i can't seem to get > the background, and the rest of the side bars to appear!! pls help!! What on earth are you talking about? background? sidebars? For background, I assume you mean the

finger

2000-05-22 Thread Rostislav Vorobyev
Dear friends, Can someone explain me why people are not set 4755 permission on a finger program? I see good reasons to do that: if a user does not allow to see his/her ~user tree, finger will display .plan, .project and maybe .pgp -- depends on finger version -- in any case. Maybe is there the spe

Re: finger

2000-05-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 07:01:00AM +, Rostislav Vorobyev wrote: > Dear friends, > > Can someone explain me why people are not set 4755 permission on a finger > program? I see good reasons to do that: if a user does not allow to see > his/her ~user tree, finger will display .plan, .project and

Re: files > 2G possible?

2000-05-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 09:31:25AM +0200, Shmulik Elmakias wrote: > Dir Madam/Sir, > I need to have files bigger than 2G. What can I do? > I use debian linux with kernel 2.2.14 buy a computer with an alpha chip (or any other 64bit chip will do) kernel 2.4 supposedly has some kludges to allow for

Re: finger

2000-05-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
It's possible to make .plan or .project to be named pipes, which means that the act of reading them can cause code to be executed. If finger executes suid root, then said code can execute as root. The potential for mischief should be obvious. Thus spake Rostislav Vorobyev on Mon, May 22, 2000 at

Re: I see everything twice.

2000-05-22 Thread montefin
But, Pollywog You have not addressed the main question! >From where comes the quote "I see everything twice."? montefin Pollywog wrote: > > On Mon, 22 May 2000, montefin wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > How come I'm receiving two of most replies from this list. Not that I'm > > complaining. The adv

RE: corel uninstallable

2000-05-22 Thread Dominic Blythe
It worked fine for me, but i know a few people who've has this/similar problem. no answers though :( -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 May 2000 17:19 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: hi with regard to this Hi, could anyone help me

Re: USB

2000-05-22 Thread Wyss, Otto
>Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Try a 2.3 kernel, it supports USB (I think there are also USB patches for >> 2.2 kernels but I'm not sure.). > >Yes there are 2.2.x patches. Haven't tried them but they're >there. Take a hop over to http://www.linux-usb.org and look for the >Backport of

fetchmail: removing stale lockfile

2000-05-22 Thread kmself
I'm getting the message: fetchmail: removing stale lockfile ...every time I run fetchmail (5.3.4-1) on my system. I just checked and I'm running the most current version. Running strace, I find the following: open("/home/karsten/.fetchmail.pid", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IF

Re: I see everything twice.

2000-05-22 Thread Vitux
montefin wrote: > > But, Pollywog > > You have not addressed the main question! > > >From where comes the quote "I see everything twice."? > > montefin > > Pollywog wrote: > > > > On Mon, 22 May 2000, montefin wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > How come I'm receiving two of most replies from thi

RE: I see everything twice.

2000-05-22 Thread Dominic Blythe
i think you get two of replies to your own questions because debian people, considerate beings that they are, "reply-all" to your messages - one reply to you, and one reply to the list (which is sent on to you). That's what happens to me anyway. Dominic Blythe

Re: I see everything twice.

2000-05-22 Thread Davide Libenzi
Drink less ;( Davide -- Feel free, feel Debian !

apache question

2000-05-22 Thread Dominic Blythe
i don't use inetd to start apache, i start it from a script which i can only run as root. if i chmod the script and try being any other user, it won't start. the documentation says "you will have to start apache as root and then it will switch to Nobody", it kind of does, I get one process runnin

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

2000-05-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Joey Hess wrote: > When we were talking about this at the office, we did come up with one > situaton where the rpm ordering actually let you correct problems in > a previous package in a way dpkg's ordering did not. However, I figured > out a workaround we could use if we ever ran into t

Re: apache question

2000-05-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 09:54:29AM +0100, Dominic Blythe wrote: > i don't use inetd to start apache, i start it from a script > which i can only run as root. if i chmod the script and try > being any other user, it won't start. it needs root privileges (or more presisly a capability to bind to pri

Re: ppp connection failure - re-post

2000-05-22 Thread John Gould
Hello everyone, I am re-posting this as no one seemed to be able to answer this the first time. If the worst comes to the worst I'll have to install 2.1r4. Thanks and regards JohnG Hello everyone, I am running potato with kernel 2.2.15 installed. Whatever I do I can

Re: Help .gtkrc FAQ?

2000-05-22 Thread Colin Watson
"Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [attribution lost] >> Try this: >> >> http://gtk.themes.org/php/docs.phtml?docid=37&secid=1.2 >> >> or the whole documentation section at gtk.themes.org. > >Thanks for getting back to me. I checked out the site before posting and it >has some nice intro

RE: Please help - network incredibly slow...

2000-05-22 Thread Christian Pernegger
> A couple of general comments... > > You don't have standard PC hardware - regular PCs only have IRQs > 0-15 whereas you're using IRQ 18 & 19. I assume that they are > supported on your hardware, but if your problem relates to your > specific platform then those familiar with your platform may b

No visible applications from Xwindows

2000-05-22 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Afterstep as windows manager, when left click a menu appears, with Debian gray, no links from there. System done from frozen bootfloppies, dselect+apt-get Several applications are installed, but none shows up. There is no even xterm, or eterm (which I installed) Any ideas??

Re: Minor Samba issues

2000-05-22 Thread Philip Lehman
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Lindsay Haisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The problem turned out to be in >/etc/printcap. The default printer pulled up in the share is 'lp', which is >basically a config for an old-fashioned dot matrix printer. It has no 'sf' >entry. Make sure the printcap entry definin

Re: fetchmail: removing stale lockfile

2000-05-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Mon, 22 May 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I'm getting the message: > > fetchmail: removing stale lockfile > > ...every time I run fetchmail (5.3.4-1) on my system. I just checked > and I'm running the most current version. > > Running strace, I find the following: > > open("/h

Re: Debian and the Linuxtag 2000

2000-05-22 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Alexander Reelsen's letter: > Right now, Othmar Pasteka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and me are doing the booth > coordination for the Debian booth. Here some facts about the linuxtag and > debian: > - ID-PRO sponsors about 1 cd's, which will be handed out at the LT2

Re: finger

2000-05-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> It's possible to make .plan or .project to be named pipes, which means that > the act of reading them can cause code to be executed. If finger executes > suid root, then said code can execute as root. The potential for mischief > should be obvious. > could you explain this a bit? from my knowl

Re: Please help - network incredibly slow...

2000-05-22 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 12:16:52PM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote > > A couple of general comments... > > > > You don't have standard PC hardware - regular PCs only have IRQs > > 0-15 whereas you're using IRQ 18 & 19. I assume that they are > > supported on your hardware, but if your problem re

Re: permssions

2000-05-22 Thread Radim Gelner
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 04:29:23PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > I am new at this, so this may be a simple question. I recently > > installed potato on my home computer, and have sound working. However I > > am only able to listen to cds when I am logged in as root. When I try > > to list

Re: Re[2]: exim mail routing...

2000-05-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> /var/spool/exim/messaglog: > 2000-05-21 22:27:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > local_delivery transport deferred: Permission denied: creating lock file > hitching post /var/spool/mail/admin.lock.alpha.cs.mum.edu.3928a93a.0ac9 > i had a similar problem. is solved it with "chmod 3

Re: NFS server setup problems...

2000-05-22 Thread Kelly Corbin
Yes, NFS is compiled into the kernel not as a module. > > Do you have NFS support compiled into your kernel? > > Mike Janssen - Jamuraa > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NFS server setup problems...

2000-05-22 Thread Kelly Corbin
Daniel Faller wrote: I have compiled NFS into the kernel (not as a module). And I have the nfs-kernel-package installed. Any other ideas? Thanks. Kelly > You have to compile a custom kernel including kernel-nfs, or use the user > space nfs daemon > (Package nfs-server instead of nfs-kernel-ser

reading/logging boot messages

2000-05-22 Thread Kelly Corbin
Is there a way to view/log boot messages besides those generated by the kernel i.e. besides dmesg? I believe my modules are not loading correctly at boot. Thanks Kelly Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reading/logging boot messages

2000-05-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Is there a way to view/log boot messages besides those generated by the > kernel i.e. besides dmesg? I believe my modules are not loading > correctly at boot. Thanks > look at /var/log/kern.log - at least on potato module output it there. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.s

Re: Re[2]: exim mail routing...

2000-05-22 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 04:08 PM 05/22/2000 +0200, you wrote: > /var/spool/exim/messaglog: > 2000-05-21 22:27:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > local_delivery transport deferred: Permission denied: creating lock file > hitching post /var/spool/mail/admin.lock.alpha.cs.mum.edu.3928a93a.0ac9 > i had a sim

Re: reading/logging boot messages

2000-05-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kelly Corbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is there a way to view/log boot messages besides those generated by the > kernel i.e. besides dmesg? I believe my modules are not loading > correctly at boot. Thanks Shift-PageUp (and PageDown) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 65

Re: reading/logging boot messages

2000-05-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Quoting Kelly Corbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Is there a way to view/log boot messages besides those generated by the > > kernel i.e. besides dmesg? I believe my modules are not loading > > correctly at boot. Thanks > > Shift-PageUp (and PageDown) > but note, that this works only, if the virt

Re: ppp connection failure - re-post

2000-05-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Gould ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >I am running potato with kernel 2.2.15 installed. Whatever > I do I cannot get ppp to connect to the local RAS server. Another box > running 2.1r4 works perfectly. I have re-built the kernel several times > and stripped out ppp and pppconfig

Bug in installation of modules (network)

2000-05-22 Thread Brett Dalla
Package: Initial installation and setup on a PC Version: Debian GNU/Linux Release 2.1 (I think it comes up as kernel version 2.036 ??) When installing the Linux onto the pc and going through all of the modules to install as part of building the core, I found an error in the NETWO

RE: rawrite broken from DOS-box under W98? (Was: Re: thinkpad install prob)

2000-05-22 Thread Richard Lyon
> -Original Message- > From: Martin Albert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 21 May 2000 5:52 PM > To: Karl M. Hegbloom > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: rawrite broken from DOS-box under W98? (Was: Re: thinkpad > install prob) > > CrossBrand - BIOS upgrade/referenc

RE: Realtime sched and floppy (Was: Re: rawrite broken from DOS-box under W98? (Was: Re: thinkpad install prob))

2000-05-22 Thread Richard Lyon
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Karl M. Hegbloom > Sent: Sunday, 21 May 2000 12:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Robert Waldner; debian-user@lists.debian.org; Michael Skipper > Subject: Realtime sched and floppy (Was: Re: rawrite broke

Re: I see everything twice.

2000-05-22 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 11:25 PM 5/21/00 -0600, montefin wrote: >Hi all, > >How come I'm receiving two of most replies from this list. Not that I'm >complaining. The advice I receive here is ten times as informed and >actionable as from any other user-list. Just curious. See if you get two copies of this one. If you d

Re: module loading problems

2000-05-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > He downloaded kernel version 2.2.9. > > It was my first time installing a kernel > and we read from various sources before he > became impatient. We then did the following: > > tar xzf /usr/src/kernel...tar.gz > . > . > . > make menuconfig > ma

RE: module loading problems

2000-05-22 Thread Dominic Blythe
if everything necessary was compiled in, could you just delete everything from /etc/modules? > -Original Message- > From: David Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 May 2000 16:35 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: module loading problems > >

Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-22 Thread Frank Mehnert
Hi, I'm using joe for many purposes. The only feature I miss is syntax highlighting in C. Are there any hints for such a small and fast editor in Debian with that feature built in? Frank -- Frank Mehnert ## Dept. of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany ## ## E-Mail: [EMAIL

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-22 Thread Sean
Frank Mehnert wrote: > I'm using joe for many purposes. The only feature I miss is syntax > highlighting in C. Are there any hints for such a small and fast editor in > Debian with that feature built in? VIM

Re: module loading problems

2000-05-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting Dominic Blythe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > if everything necessary was compiled in, > could you just delete everything from /etc/modules? Yes, though the comments there might indicate some advantage in putting noauto. But I much prefer not compiling everything in. (In fact, you can't if you wa

Cleaning up the dpkg status file? [Was: Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.]

2000-05-22 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 07:07:00PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > That is a result of the fact that rpm uses a binary database for its > > data, while dpkg uses a large number of text-files instead. The > > advantage of that is that it is robust (if a

upgrade to frozen failed.

2000-05-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
after a really successful upgrade of a slink machine to potato (a server) i got excited and tried to do an upgrade on a workstation(with pretty much everything from slink installed compared to a pretty bare installation on the server) and it failed. the package im hung at is gimp-manual. if i try

autmagically install -dev and -doc packages

2000-05-22 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Does anybody know an easy way to install -doc and -dev packages automatically when installing a certain package? Say I select libgtk1.2 in dselect and it suggests libgtk1.2-dev, libgtk1.2 and libgtk1.2-dbg, too. Adding "Suggests: *-dev, *-dbg" to each Package is a) much work b) annoying if yo

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-22 Thread Philip Lehman
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Frank Mehnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm using joe for many purposes. The only feature I miss is syntax >highlighting in C. Are there any hints for such a small and fast >editor in Debian with that feature built in? jed? -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

How did I break su??

2000-05-22 Thread Tony
Hello, When I now su, it says, after I've entered the password: su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted It used to work just fine, and I just can't think how I've done anything that influences su ... Any thoughts? Tony

Re: upgrade to frozen failed.

2000-05-22 Thread Ron Rademaker
I guess you should check out the different dpkg force options and install some packages manually, I've had several problems upgrading myself some time ago, what solved it at the end was installing main/base (the packages I needed) and main/lib with dpkg (using the dependencies-version and conflict

Re: How did I break su??

2000-05-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> When I now su, it says, after I've entered the password: > su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted > > It used to work just fine, and I just can't think how I've done anything that > influences su ... > probably it isn't setuid root anymore. make sure, that ls shows something like that

Re: No visible applications from Xwindows

2000-05-22 Thread Kent West
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Afterstep as windows manager, when left click a menu appears, with > Debian gray, no links from there. > System done from frozen bootfloppies, dselect+apt-get > Several applications are installed, but none shows up. There is no even > xterm, or eterm (which I installed)

POP3 port

2000-05-22 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi folks, I've trouble finding out, what port a POP3 server normally listens to. I tried 25, but that's SMTP (sendmail). And a look at the fetchmail man page didn't help me either. MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG:http://www.informatik.hu-

Re: Can't "make xconfig" for kernel-2.3.99-pre8

2000-05-22 Thread Justin Megawarne
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 04:29:15AM +, Pollywog wrote: > I was able to use 'make xconfig' on this kernel, but this kernel version has > been a disappointment for me. I could not get iptables to work, I cannot get > KDE to start under this kernel (kde 1.90 beta) and I can't even connect to >

Re: Mouse doesn't work in Xwindow, NFS, bug(3.)???

2000-05-22 Thread Justin Megawarne
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 06:22:23AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > A fresh installation using the boot floppies in frozen directory > (ftp.debian...), dselect + apt-get used to continue installation. > Problems: > 1. Mouse (/dev/psaux, ps2 with wheel) doesn't work after setting it up > through xf

Re: POP3 port

2000-05-22 Thread Davide Libenzi
110 Davide -- Feel free, feel Debian !

Re: Mouse doesn't work in Xwindow, NFS, bug(3.)???

2000-05-22 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What I did was that I removed gpm: dpkg -r gpm Now works in X. But not of much use, since I have no applications (see message with subject: no visible applications) Justin Megawarne wrote: > On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 06:22:23AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > A fresh installation using the boo

Re: fetchmail: removing stale lockfile

2000-05-22 Thread kmself
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 01:55:26PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Mon, 22 May 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > I'm getting the message: > > > > fetchmail: removing stale lockfile > > > > ...every time I run fetchmail (5.3.4-1) on my system. I just checked > > and I'm running th

xterm: Error 14, errno 13: Permission denied

2000-05-22 Thread Lee Bradshaw
I've upgraded several systems from slink to potato using a mirror I made a few weeks ago. On some of the systems xterm works fine, but on others it generates the error message: xterm: Error 14, errno 13: Permission denied rxvt works fine and seems to have the same permissions as xterm: -rwxr

Re: POP3 port

2000-05-22 Thread Robert Waldner
rechnah: [waldner:~] grep pop3 /etc/services pop3110/tcp # POP version 3 pop3110/udp hth, &rw On Mon, 22 May 2000 18:42:21 +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld writes: >I've trouble finding out, what port a POP3 server normally listens to. >I tried 25, but that's SMTP (sendma

Q: Slink w/APM Module?

2000-05-22 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I know you can compile apm in Slink, but can you also turn it on through the Debian equivalent of linuxconf? Thanks, Jonathan

Re: POP3 port

2000-05-22 Thread Ray Olszewski
"grep pop3 /etc/services" will tell you that pop3 uses port 110. In general. /etc/services is the file where you get answers to this sort of question. At 06:42 PM 5/22/00 +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I've trouble finding out, what port a POP3 server normally listens to.

Re: reading/logging boot messages

2000-05-22 Thread Colin Watson
Kelly Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a way to view/log boot messages besides those generated by the >kernel i.e. besides dmesg? I believe my modules are not loading >correctly at boot. Thanks Use Ctrl-S to pause the output and scroll up and down with Shift-PageUp and Shift-PageDown.

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, May 22, 2000, 8:36:38 AM, Frank wrote: > I'm using joe for many purposes. The only feature I miss is syntax > highlighting in C. Are there any hints for such a small and fast editor in > Debian with that feature built in? I'd highly recommend vim. I was die-hard set against any vi or

Re: hide the commabd executed from ps,who

2000-05-22 Thread kmself
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:25:19PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Eric G Miller writes: > EGM> On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:57:18AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> But for example,what if I want to write a shell script which will login > >> to the remote server automatically?e.g..for some cgi...e

Re: NFS server setup problems...

2000-05-22 Thread Kelly Corbin
My mistake. I reinstalled nfs-server instead of nfs-kernel-server, and everything worked fine. Kelly > > No idea, if you really compiled NFS server support (CONFIG_NFSD) in the > kernel, and not > only the filesystem (CONFIG_NFS_FS) it should work. > > After getting it to work I would recommen

Re: finger

2000-05-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake Oswald Buddenhagen on Mon, May 22, 2000 at 07:17:55AM CDT > > It's possible to make .plan or .project to be named pipes, which means that > > the act of reading them can cause code to be executed. If finger executes > > suid root, then said code can execute as root. The potential for m

RE: Realtime sched and floppy (Was: Re: rawrite broken from DOS-box under W98? (Was: Re: thinkpad install prob))

2000-05-22 Thread Michael Skipper
>> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Behalf Of Karl M. Hegbloom >> Sent: Sunday, 21 May 2000 12:08 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Cc: Robert Waldner; debian-user@lists.debian.org; Michael Skipper >> Subject: Realtime sched and floppy (Was: Re: rawrit

Re: ppp connection failure - re-post

2000-05-22 Thread Jo Hoffmann
> Hello everyone, >I am re-posting this as no one seemed to be able to answer > this the first time. If the worst comes to the worst I'll have to > install 2.1r4. > > Thanks and regards JohnG > > > Hello everyone, >I am running potato with kernel 2.2.15 installed.

problems with fetchmail eand exim

2000-05-22 Thread Francois Fayard
Hi, I have problems using fetchmail with exim Here is the result of fetchmail -v -a: fetchmail: 5.3.3 querying clipper.ens.fr (protocol POP3) at Mon, 22 May 2000 19:21:43 +0200 (CEST) fetchmail: POP3< +OK QPOP (version 3.0b23) at clipper starting. fetchmail: POP3> USER fayard fetchmail: POP3< +

installation problems

2000-05-22 Thread Carlos Pena - Jefe Division electrica
Hi Folks, I?m a newby with all this Debian stuff, so please, excuse me if I?m asking something evident. I?m trying to install Debian 2.1 (slink) in a Dell computer: Pentium III (550 MHz), 128 MB RAM, 10 GB HD. I?ve made the following partition (don?t forget I?m a newby...): /dev/hda1/ ..

Re: problems with fetchmail eand exim

2000-05-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> And then it stop itself > (One time it said something like : unable to connect to localhost) > is your loopback device set up correctly? (output of "ifconfig lo"?) have you a "user fayard is " in your fetchmailrc? -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Win

Re: installation problems

2000-05-22 Thread Ron Rademaker
Not having a non-us and a non-free isn't bad, you'll just miss a few packages (like ssh, netscape and others). Error code 1 can be lots of things: please post the output! Ron Rademaker On Mon, 22 May 2000, Carlos Pena - Jefe Division electrica wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I?m a newby with all this D

afbackup

2000-05-22 Thread Brian Schramm
I am wanting to use afbackup on my home network but I cannot seem to figure out the sintac of the command. I have tried several diferent commands to no avail now. I have read everything that I can find on it and I still cannot get it to work. Can someone give me a hint as to how to use this

(dumb?) IPMASQ question- pkg. vs. own ipchains script

2000-05-22 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I beat my head against a(ny) wall for quite a while, figuring out ipchains and deciding to use the Hall-Beyer script mentioned in Linux Gazette (#46). (my understanding of the rules was not missing... I simply had no clue about a good generic implementation. I'll always be a newbie in this regard

Re: problems with fetchmail eand exim

2000-05-22 Thread Francois Fayard
Hi, There is no problems with my fetchmailrc, it used to work with SuSE with sendmail Here is the result of ifconfig lo: loLink encap:Local Loopback LOOPBACK MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overrun

Re: ppp connection failure - re-post

2000-05-22 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 22 May 2000 18:25:43 BST, Jo Hoffmann writes: >> May 18 17:32:17 heman pppd[666]: Serial connection established. >> May 18 17:32:17 heman pppd[666]: Using interface ppp0 >> May 18 17:32:17 heman pppd[666]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1 >> May 18 17:32:18 heman pppd[666]: sent [LCP ConfReq i

Re: I see everything twice.

2000-05-22 Thread w trillich
when i post a message and someone replies, they often send a CC: directly to me, and then i see it twice. when i cross-posted to debian-www and debian-doc, folks replied to both while also CC:ing me, so i've been seeing triple! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Their is five errers in this se

NTP

2000-05-22 Thread A. Scott White
Can anyone tell me how to get ntp running? I installed the package using dselect, and it looks like it's there. The daemon is running, and the run-level start scripts exist. Unfortunately, my time is still wrong. Any suggestions? Thanks. A. Sc

scsi disk question: u2w vs. uw

2000-05-22 Thread John F. Davis
Hello This is not a Debian linux question per se, but I know someone on this list will know for sure. Can you mix scsi disks on a Adaptec 2930u2 adapter and not have the slower disk slow down the faster one? I.e, I have a computer which currently has a u2w disk with a u2w card and I want to know

Re: I see everything twice.

2000-05-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 01:32:09PM -0500, w trillich wrote: > when i post a message and someone replies, they > often send a CC: directly to me, and then i see > it twice. > > when i cross-posted to debian-www and debian-doc, > folks replied to both while also CC:ing me, so > i've been seeing trip

Re: NTP

2000-05-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 01:40:44PM -0500, A. Scott White wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to get ntp running? I installed the package using > dselect, and it looks like it's there. The daemon is running, and the > run-level start scripts exist. > > Unfortunately, my time is still wrong. > > Any su

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