Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody

2000-09-05 Thread Gregg C
From: "S.Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 00:58:46 -0400 > "OM" == Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> split /usr amd /usr/local if they're just

Re: search contents of a tar.gz

2000-09-05 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:10:50PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there a way to search the contents of a tar.gz file withouth having > > to extract everything. Specifically, I want to determine the disc-id of > > an audio CD, so I downloaded the

Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody

2000-09-05 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:58:46AM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > Why would you want to mount /usr read-only ? In addition to the security issues mentioned by other posters, for those of us without a UPS mounting large partitions r-o can save waiting for fsck to do its thing after a power flicker

Re: search contents of a tar.gz

2000-09-05 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:10:50PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Is there a way to search the contents of a tar.gz file withouth > having > > > to extract everything. Specifically, I want to determine the > dis

Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody

2000-09-05 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
"S.Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "OM" == Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> split /usr amd /usr/local if they're just partitions on the same > >> drive? > I could see doing that if they were on seperate disks > >> to gain a little bump > in access spe

Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody

2000-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:39:37PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:58:46AM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > Why would you want to mount /usr read-only ? > > In addition to the security issues mentioned by other posters, for > those of us without a UPS mounting large partiti

Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody

2000-09-05 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 07:49:27PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > These are optional. > /opt 2048 MB No suid. Place to play with non vendor stuff Symlink to /usr/local instead. Simpler space management, fewer partitions. > /var/spool 12 GB No suid This is where my new

Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody

2000-09-05 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 09:56:02PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > Well, I have think the following organization: > > / of 100 mb in a primary partition at the beginning of the disk, so > lilo or grub can boot it. > /usr of 3 gb (no comments... but should it be bigger?) > /usr/local of

RE: sendmail reports I/O problem

2000-09-05 Thread J.T. Wenting
> >I mean, I pay for their service, regardless of how intensively I use it. > > Let me guess: "unlimited (fair use)" or friends somewhere in the > contract? That´s a marketing gag, nothing else. Most, if not all, ISPs > have a *very* clear idea what "fair use" is in GB/month...real flat > rates

Re: New installation (again!)

2000-09-05 Thread Åsmund Ødegård
Tue, 05 Sep skrev Helgi Örn: > Greetings all ye Debians! > > I gave it another go; installed Debian 2.2 'potato', this time only a > minimal installation although with GNOME, which turned out to be a flop > of course: > > Errors were encountered while processing: > gmc > gnome-control-center > gn

RE: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-05 Thread J.T. Wenting
> > > > That makes RedHat seem like Windows. > > redhat is a Windows clone built with GNU/Linux technology. > always suspected as much... They even have a RedHat Certified Engineer program... MCSE for Linux, anyone? Jeroen T. Wenting [EMAIL PROTECTED] Murphy was wrong, things that can't go wrong

Re: search contents of a tar.gz

2000-09-05 Thread mcclosk
|> Is there a way to search the contents of a tar.gz file withouth |> having to extract everything. Specifically, I want to determine |> the disc-id of an audio CD, so I downloaded the freedb database in |> tar.gz format. Of course, it's a very large file. I would like to |> grep the contents t

"Joe" editor

2000-09-05 Thread Adrian Nims
I didn't found the editor "joe" in Debian. I used "joe" in other distribution and I like to use it in Debian also. Can someone give me an advice ? What can I do ? Adrian Nims

Re: "Joe" editor

2000-09-05 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:28:23AM +0300, Adrian Nims wrote: > I didn't found the editor "joe" in Debian. I used "joe" in other > distribution and I like to use it in Debian also. Can someone give me an > advice ? What can I do ? apt-get install joe? -- John__

apt-get install task

2000-09-05 Thread John Griffiths
g'day all can someone explain how i would get a list of tasks for apt-get install task-***? thanks

nVidia geForce + X == error?

2000-09-05 Thread J.T. Wenting
Is there an X server for geForce cards (specifically Asus V.6600)? Probing during Debian install did not detect a compatible card, it said... Jeroen T. Wenting [EMAIL PROTECTED] Murphy was wrong, things that can't go wrong will anyway

OT: flat rates (Re: sendmail reports I/O problem)

2000-09-05 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000 08:01:53 +0200, "J.T. Wenting" writes: >> >I mean, I pay for their service, regardless of how intensively I use it. >> >> Let me guess: "unlimited (fair use)" or friends somewhere in the >> contract? That´s a marketing gag, nothing else. Most, if not all, ISPs >> have a *very*

Re: apt-get install task

2000-09-05 Thread Åsmund Ødegård
Tue, 05 Sep skrev John Griffiths: > g'day all > > can someone explain how i would get a list of tasks for > apt-get install task-***? apt-cache pkgnames | grep task may be suitable for you? -- Åsmund Ødegård Scientific Programmer, TPV, Ifi, UiO http://www.ifi.uio.no/~aasmundo/ j: 22 84 00 63

Re: upgrading kernel

2000-09-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >kernel upgrades are independent of distribution. > >> So that's my goal... what do I do to update to the newest kernel >> Debian's got on their FTP? =20 > >If you want to use a compiled image: > >$ apt-get install kernel-image > >If you prefer t

Re: apt-get install task

2000-09-05 Thread John Griffiths
thank you very much i new about apt-cache but not that it could be used this way At 08:41 AM 9/5/2000 +0200, Åsmund Ødegård wrote: > >Tue, 05 Sep skrev John Griffiths: >> g'day all >> >> can someone explain how i would get a list of tasks for >> apt-get install task-***? > >apt-cache pkgnames |

gcd (playing audio CDs)

2000-09-05 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Hi, I installed the gcd package and I was able to play music CDs that way. However, when gcd is running and there's no disc in the drive, I get a constant stream of the following in the logs: Sep 4 02:20:08 kronstadt kernel: ATAPI device hdc: Sep 4 02:20:08 kronstadt kernel: Unknown Error Typ

Burn in an ethernet device

2000-09-05 Thread Adrian Nims
I recompiled the kernel, I introduced an "append" line in lilo.conf in order to burn in an ethernet device. At reboot, the sistem (debian) see the ethernet board as eth0, everything seems OK but after boot, when i say "ifconfig" it appears to me only the loopback device. What must I do in order

Re: multi line isdn

2000-09-05 Thread Sebastian Moerchen
Attila Csosz wrote: > > I've connect with ISDN to the internet. I've 128K capable line(s) but I've > only 64K connection. > > I've the following devices/files in /etc/isdn > > total 45 > -rw-r--r--1 root root12080 ÁPR 9 02:09 device.ippp0 > -rw-r--r--1 root root

Re: apt-get install task

2000-09-05 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:45:08PM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: > thank you very much > > i new about apt-cache but not that it could be used this way See also 'apt-get install tasksel' -- Can call it to select from predefined "task" options. Most of these tasks install gobs of stuff you may nev

Re: New installation (again!)

2000-09-05 Thread Helgi Örn
Thank you! Several useful things for me to work on. HÖ "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:14:22AM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote: > > Greetings all ye Debians! > > > > I gave it another go; installed Debian 2.2 'potato', this time only a > > minimal installation although with GNOME

[Fwd: New installation (again!)]

2000-09-05 Thread Helgi Örn
--- Begin Message --- It sure enough never asked for the 3rd CD only the 2nd, I'll give it a try. Thanks! Helgi Örn Mike McNally wrote: > > In my install it would say insert disk 2 or disk1, but what was really > needed was on the 3rd (marked non-us) disk. So go back to install in > dselect

Re: Getting in Graphical Mode after Login

2000-09-05 Thread Helgi Örn
It's never stupid to ask if you don't know! Have you configured X-window? If not then run the command XF86Setup as written (case sensitive), it is an easy to handle config program. Just don't move your mouse untill it is set and applyed. Move around with Tab & arrow keys, confirm with Space or En

Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody

2000-09-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"kmself" == kmself writes: kmself> On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 07:49:27PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> These are optional. >> /opt 2048 MB No suid. Place to play with non vendor stuff kmself> Symlink to /usr/local instead. Simpler space management, fewer kmself> partitions.

helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-05 Thread Anselm Almeida
Hi there, Will the helix-gnome .deb packages at the helix site work with Debian 2.2? The Debian site says that helix-gnome .deb packages are available at the helix-gnome site, but the only .deb packages available there are meant for woody. Are they compatible with Debian 2.2?

Re: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-05 Thread Rino Mardo
Yes you can and I have it working with potato. Here's part of my sources.list: deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian woody main You have to install it as "apt-get install task-helix-core". On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:05:59PM +0530 or thereabouts, Anselm Almeida wrote: >

Re: apt-get install task

2000-09-05 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:36:36PM +1000 or thereabouts, John Griffiths wrote: > g'day all > > can someone explain how i would get a list of tasks for > apt-get install task-***? > > thanks > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > I think that depends on

Helix and Galeon

2000-09-05 Thread Rino Mardo
Hi. I have gnome-helix installed from woody and been wanting to try Galeon. Anyone done it yet? Is there a .deb package for Galeon? Cheers --- Who's watching the watchmen? ICQ: 15096825

Re: New installation (again!)

2000-09-05 Thread Helgi Örn
Heja Norge! Thanks for your reply. Åsmund Ødegård wrote: > [snip] > If you really want to use GNOME, just skip gnome when you install debian, then > add 'deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main' > to your /etc/apt/sources.list, then apt-get update and > apt-get in

Re: nVidia geForce + X == error?

2000-09-05 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
> Is there an X server for geForce cards (specifically Asus V.6600)? > Probing during Debian install did not detect a compatible card, it said... You may compile X 4.0.1 from source and nistall driver from nVidia (www.nvidia.com). It will give you the full power of hardware acceleration. -- Alex

Re: search contents of a tar.gz

2000-09-05 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:05:06AM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > I would like to grep the contents to find the CD that I'm looking for, > but I don't want to extract everything. It sounds like you're looking for 'zgrep' which is included with gzip. -- // André

Netscape Bookmarks

2000-09-05 Thread Shel Johnson
Hi everyone.. Is there an easy way to import your bookmarks from win9x to linux??... Thanks!! = Shel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ- 23454126 AIM- CacheMonet Trying to master Storm Linux 2000 http://www.stormix.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free

/etc/reslov.conf

2000-09-05 Thread Adrian Nims
I can't find any /etc/resolv.conf file in Debian distribution. Do you know were it is or what similar file do I need to configure in order to set up this Debian box to specify the LAN DNS he should use ? Adrian Nims

Re: Apache mod_rewrite and Alias ?

2000-09-05 Thread Jaume Teixi
hi RewriteRule ^/stats(.*)/reports/%{SERVER_NAME}$1 but it only forwards to /_document_root_/reports/virtualhost.com as I see on rewrite log then reports 404 so Alias /reports/var/reportshas no effect how to enable rewrite and then alias to change document_r

Re: /etc/reslov.conf

2000-09-05 Thread Nate Amsden
if there is no /etc/resolv.conf then you can create it. debian prompts for DNS settings during install but if whoever installed it did not enter them i imagine it wouldn't create a resolv.conf. you can (as root) do: echo "nameserver IP_OF_NAMESERVER" >/etc/resolv.conf to create a basic resolv.c

Re: Netscape Bookmarks

2000-09-05 Thread Nate Amsden
netscape bookmarks are stored in 1 html file, just copy the file to ~/.netscape if you are a more advanced user and have access to a apache webserver, you can use mod_roaming(see www.freshmeat.net for it) ive been usign it for almost 2 years i think and it's great, go anywhere in the world and hav

RE: Netscape Bookmarks

2000-09-05 Thread Helgi Örn
Yo! Yes there is; copy the file: C:\Program\Netscape\Communicator\Program\defaults from Windows & drop it into your ./netscape folder or you do it from the program: Bookmarks -> Edit Bookmarks -> Import Piece of cake! Helgi Örn > -Original Message- > From: Shel Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL

Compiling VMware 2.0.2

2000-09-05 Thread Rino Mardo
When compiling VMware in potato, it would complain that the include headers (/usr/include) are for kernel 2.2.15 whereas potato comes with 2.2.17. How can I fix this this? --- Who's watching the watchmen? ICQ: 15096825

Re: Compiling VMware 2.0.2

2000-09-05 Thread Nate Amsden
be sure to install the kernel source and kernel header packages for the kernel you are using, the include files in /usr/include are from the libc6-dev package. and when compiling the vmware modules make sure its pointing to /usr/src/wherever/the/kernel/source/is and not /usr/include i compile my

Re: Burn in an ethernet device

2000-09-05 Thread Danny Pansters
Hi Adrian, On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Adrian Nims wrote: > I recompiled the kernel, I introduced an "append" line in lilo.conf in > order to burn in an ethernet device. At reboot, the sistem (debian) see the > ethernet board as eth0, everything seems OK but after boot, when i say > "ifconfig" it appears

Re: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Yes, it will work. There is no big difference between the two yet. (potato and woody). Anselm Almeida wrote: > Hi there, > > Will the helix-gnome .deb packages at the helix site work with > Debian 2.2? The Debian site says that helix-gnome .deb packages are > available at the helix-gn

Re: Apache mod_rewrite and Alias ?

2000-09-05 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:22:56AM +, Jaume Teixi wrote: > RewriteRule ^/stats(.*)/reports/%{SERVER_NAME}$1 > > but it only forwards to /_document_root_/reports/virtualhost.com ok, so the rewrite rule is working. > as I see on rewrite log then reports 404 > so Alias

Re: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-05 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:04:33AM -0400 or thereabouts, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Isn't that apt-get install task-helix-gnome? > either works. --- Who's watching the watchmen? ICQ: 15096825

galeon CVS debian packages ; building debs for M18?

2000-09-05 Thread Jared Johnson
I've started making debian packages of the latest galeon CVS trees available over at: http://silverchair.futureks.net/~solomon/galeon/ The 0.7.3 deb available there has been slightly enhanced as well, see the changelog.Debian. Potato users will probably want to read http://silverchair.futureks.n

Where to add default gateway

2000-09-05 Thread Adrian Nims
Where should I add the default gateway ? If I make a "route add default gw xxx.yyy.zzz.ttt" then the debian will forget it after reboot. How should I make it in order the debian box not to forget it ? Adrian Nims

Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody

2000-09-05 Thread Danny Pansters
Hi, this might be a bit off-topic, but I've read in several manuals that a swap over 128 MB doesn't make much sense, but I never understood why. Can anyone enlight me on that? I'm using 128 MB of RAM and have a 128 MB swap, which is fine, but pretty soon I'll be putting together a server box

Re: Netscape Bookmarks

2000-09-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
Shel Johnson wrote: >Hi everyone.. Is there an easy way to import your bookmarks from win9x to >linux??... Thanks!! Netscape bookmarks are in a file called ~/.netscape/bookmarks.html. If you can export your bookmarks from IE, you should be able to edit the resulting file into the right forma

Re: Where to add default gateway

2000-09-05 Thread Nate Amsden
Adrian Nims wrote: > > Where should I add the default gateway ? > If I make a "route add default gw xxx.yyy.zzz.ttt" then the debian will > forget it after reboot. How should I make it in order the debian box not to > forget it ? on 2.2 it is /etc/network/interfaces format looks like: # The firs

Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody

2000-09-05 Thread Nate Amsden
on my systems i dont like more then 120-130MB of swap per physical hd, more then that(unless the drive is _really_ fast) could drag the system down real bad. i usually make it a rule for me to include a 128MB swap partition per hd no matter how much/little ram i have. the box im on now is 512MB, wi

Potato APT confusing lines in sources.list

2000-09-05 Thread Jesper Gertz
Hi I have done a complete new Debian Potato installation from the official 3 CD set. When I look in "sources.list" to figure out from where APT sources .deb packages it says: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ -Official i386 Binary-3 (2814)] / unstable contrib main non-US/contrib no

Re: stupid question

2000-09-05 Thread Marco Pantaleoni
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 10:01:34PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > Can you enlighten us on why you have such strong feelings about display > managers? Some people really seem to dislike them and I can't see why. > Useless eye candy? Wasteful of resources when unused? Potential > security hole? /

Re: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Isn't that apt-get install task-helix-gnome? Rino Mardo wrote: > Yes you can and I have it working with potato. Here's part of my > sources.list: > > deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian woody main > > You have to install it as "apt-get install task-helix-core". > > On Tue

Re: Where to add default gateway

2000-09-05 Thread Web Administration account
Adrian; /etc/init.d/network is how I do it and I believe thats the "normal" place for it at least in Potato and Slink. Not sure about Woody which you should not be running unless you like the bleeding edge and have experience. It looks like this snippet: ##/etc/init.d/network #! /bin/sh ifconfig

RE: stupid question

2000-09-05 Thread J.T. Wenting
> > On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 10:01:34PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > Can you enlighten us on why you have such strong feelings about display > > managers? Some people really seem to dislike them and I can't see why. > > Useless eye candy? Wasteful of resources when unused? Potential > > secur

Local network ip

2000-09-05 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi everybody, I just want to ask which is the better ip network to be set up for a home network: 192.168.0.x or maybe 192.168.1.x ?? I'm currently using the second one... Thanks -- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Become a GNU! (http://ww

Re: [SLU] Re: Netscape Bookmarks

2000-09-05 Thread Shel Johnson
Ok, here's a dumb one.. How do you find a file directory that starts with a dot?.. Are they hidden?.. I know the location is: /home/shel/.netscape , but when I look for it, all I see is: /home/shel .. Does that make any sense??... Shel Johnson wrote: >Hi everyone.. Is there an easy way to import

Debian installation

2000-09-05 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, as I posted in another message, I'm going to buy a new hard drive and reinstall debian from scratch. The system I'm running now was installed from a slink cd and then updated to woody, but I don't like this. I'm planning to download the latest boot-disks (potato or woody?) and then insta

Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody

2000-09-05 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 09:07:09PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > / 500M So much? > /usr 5G > /usr/local3G > /var 1.5G (keep cahe/apt/archives there too) > /tmp 500M > /home 7G (why mess with /misc too if you're the only user) I would like

Re: Netscape Bookmarks

2000-09-05 Thread ktb
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Shel Johnson wrote: > Hi everyone.. Is there an easy way to import your bookmarks from win9x to > linux??... Thanks!! Win -edit bookmarks -file -save as -send your self an email with the "saved as" attached Debian -download mail -click on the link hth, kent

horde: install problem

2000-09-05 Thread Joel Gautschi
hi, if i try to install the horde debian package (horde 2:1.2.0-12) for debian unstable i get the following warning: --- Working, please wait...Checking non-HORDE config files WARNING You stated your using PostgreSQL as a database and that it is local yet the install program canno

Re: gphoto--/dev/ttyS?: resolved

2000-09-05 Thread cls-colo spgs
debs, prob resolved via: "chmod 667 /dev/ttyS0" (q > gooberfile) thx. bentley taylor. (potato on 2.2.16) // cls-colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > in trying to config gphoto, i get, " the user doesn't > have read or write access to the selected serial > device. please check the permissions..."

lm-sensors

2000-09-05 Thread Frederik
I've installed lm-sensors using apt-get install lm-sensors-source, recompiled the kernel, installed the new kernel with dpkg -i, installed the 2 created .debs (i2c and lm-sensors) and rebooted. I ran sensors-detect, and modified /etc/modules: i2c-isa sis5595 This is what sensors report: [EMAIL PR

Re: X problem with 2.2.17

2000-09-05 Thread Igor Mozetic
> installed the patch for 2.2.17 from linux.kernel.org, ran 'make [...] > The new kernel seems to run fine in a text console, but if I start X, I > get four tiled copies of my screen and the mouse cursor is a big > smudge. Are there some new "features" in 2.2.17 which affect XFree86? I have been

RE: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya i say ( my silly opinion ) - give the customer what they want( convincing um otherwise is usually futile after 5 mintues of say why one is better than the other examples i point out ( preferably with them sitting there for first hand experience - ask um what they expect t

Re: lm-sensors

2000-09-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya frederik you probably want to see the cpu temp measurements ??? its at /proc/sys/dev/sensors/<*sis5595*>/temp1 you can see all the stuff its recording in the /proc tree and if you're nuts like me i run a cron job to copy the cpu temperature every 5 minutes copy it into a web dir

2.2.17 and ReiserFS

2000-09-05 Thread Anonymous Luser
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I am going to give it a shot anyway... I've been trying to compile all the pre-releases of the 2.2.17 kernel on ReiserFS, and none of them worked. I am wondering if anyone knows what nesessary steps do I have to take, to make it work?

logging interaction between minicom and modem

2000-09-05 Thread alice
Is there a way to log the interaction between minicom and modem similar to what chat sends to ppp.log and syslog? Ever since I upgraded to potato last weekend chat hasn't gotten along with my modem (external 57600 USR sportster) when I look in ppp.log or syslog I see things about chat sending

"Cross-window-paste-facility-thing" ???

2000-09-05 Thread Glyn Millington
Greetings. Before last Friday, when I installed Debian Potato, I used Mandrake 7.1 I had it set up so that I could highlight something in Netscape, with the mouse, and then by clicking the middle mouse button could paste it straight away into, say, GVim. Really useful! Such is my memor

autolog error message

2000-09-05 Thread Ariel O. Garcia
Hello, I am running autolog (up-to-date potato), but I get the following errors: --- From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -x /usr/sbin/autolog && /usr/sbin/autolog autologout: Can't get status of user's terminal (No

Re: sound card support? - intel SE440BX-2 onboard yamaha

2000-09-05 Thread Ariel O. Garcia
Hello, > I have the Intel SE440BK-2 motherboard with the onboard yamaha sound > chpiset. I haven't managed to get it to work with linux. > Does anyone have any expirience with getting this onboad sound card to > work with linux, or has any idea where to start? Yes it works but you need OSS (non-f

Netscape 4.75 problems

2000-09-05 Thread Dale L . Morris
I've tried to get Netscape 4.75 on my machine and I have trouble with the following: 1.)I am unable to view text/html links. When I try to open the link I get an error that vi won't execute the command. (I forget the actual error message and I don't have 4.75 on my computer right now. 2.)When Net

Re: "Cross-window-paste-facility-thing" ???

2000-09-05 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Emulate Third Button in X setup. third button does the pasting of highlighted text (in case of a 2-button mouse you have to click two simultaneously) Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer

Wierdness w/MidNight Commander editor: may be bug??

2000-09-05 Thread John Foster
Any time I try to edit a file using the "mc" internal editor as root I get this error message with the option to Dismiss it. Editing seems to be O.K. after I do Dismiss it. This does not happen if I am logged on as a regular user. To make this even weirder this seems to be only when I am editing th

Re: logging interaction between minicom and modem

2000-09-05 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000 15:22:12 you wrote: > Is there a way to log the interaction between minicom and modem > similar to what chat sends to ppp.log and syslog? > > Ever since I upgraded to potato last weekend chat hasn't gotten along > with my modem (external 57600 USR sportster) > > when I lo

Re: Weird sound problem

2000-09-05 Thread Arun Ivar Gurung
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > I had some problems with sound in > 2.2.14 kernels. Anyway, I played > with my /etc/modutils/aliases a bit and now all seems to be working > okay. I don't know if these are exactly correct, but for reference: > > #alias off > options opl3 io=0x388 > alias sound-slo

Re: Apache mod_rewrite and Alias ?

2000-09-05 Thread Jaume Teixi
thank you Craig, I've tried both on global and on vhost config but has no effect for rewrite engine any points how to get that /stats pointing ot differeent _document_root ? thanks jaume. Craig Sanders wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:22:56AM +, Jaume Teixi wrote: > > RewriteRule ^/

Changing named forwarders on ppp startup?

2000-09-05 Thread Thomas Hood
When I dial up my ISP, the ppp scripts modify the /etc/resolv.conf file so that it lists the two nameservers that the ISP says to use. The latter nameservers appear second and third in the list, the first being 127.0.0.1, which is taken from /etc/ppp/resolv/my-ISP. Thus the first nameserver to be

Re: Helix and Galeon

2000-09-05 Thread Joey Tsai
:: Rino Mardo :: > Hi. I have gnome-helix installed from woody and been wanting to try Galeon. > Anyone done it yet? Is there a .deb package for Galeon? I don't think there is a Galeon Debian package, in either Debian "proper" or from Helixcode. I heard Helix was going to package it, but I als

Re: Changing named forwarders on ppp startup?

2000-09-05 Thread Thomas Hood
I wrote: > What I would like to know is how I can set up named so that it uses > the two ISP-provided namservers as forwarders. Is there a standard > way of doing this? If so, what is it? If not, should the ppp > scripts be enhanced to do it automagically? I should have mentioned that I don't w

Re: X problem with 2.2.17

2000-09-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
I downloaded a pristine copy of the 2.2.17 source and recompiled. No more problems. The 2.2.16 kernel I patched also had the win4lin patch applied. I don't see how that could have created the problem, but I need to explore this further. Thanks Bob On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:49:23PM +0200, Igo

Re: Netscape 4.75 problems Solved!

2000-09-05 Thread Dale Morris
I figured this one out :-) Put "deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free" in apt sources.list file and then do the apt-get upgrade apt-get update and presto! the working netscape 4.75 is installed! I've tried it on text links and it seems to work fine

Patching The Kernel

2000-09-05 Thread Michael Epting
Nobody here answered my question about using kernel-patch .deb files, so I'm going to answer myself. This way, anybody searching the list archives will at least gain a little info and maybe get over this hump more quickly than me. I have had a separate email exchange with Manoj Srivastava, the au

Re: Linux crashed a lot - more info

2000-09-05 Thread Keith G. Murphy
John Reinke wrote: > > > Yet another problem I've had that you reminded me of - the CPU fan will > occasionally speed up and slow down. I've seen it stop almost completely, > too. Sometimes, it makes a nasty rattling sound, but it seems to be > attached well enough to the CPU that it shouldn't fa

Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody

2000-09-05 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:08:32PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: :On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 09:07:09PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: : :> /500M : :So much? Yeh, your right... I'd be comfortable at 250M since /var and /tmp are split off. : :> /usr 5G :> /usr/local 3G

sound

2000-09-05 Thread Wayne Sitton
Hey guys, I finnally got Debian 2.2 installed and running on my laptop. My biggest problme was X, Why can't these companies just use normal video chipsets? Anyhow, it's working!!! I have a ess solo sound card. I installed it as a module, and it works fineunder root It will not work under m

Guru needed.

2000-09-05 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, im getting this error message: /proc/ksyms: Not normal can someone explain ?? Thanx. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potenciado por Debian GNU/Linux http://ww

IT NEWS WEEKLY

2000-09-05 Thread news
  IT.NEWS WEEKLY September 5, 2000, NO. 14   Welcome again to IT.NEWS - BlueCom's weekly newsletter for all players in the international IT Channel - vendors, distributors, resellers, dealers and brokers. Read about the latest trends in the IT market, products, prices, partnerships, major co

Re: Mutt & Outlook Express

2000-09-05 Thread Charlie Kroeger
>the REAL problem is all the broken MUAs and mail clients that do not >support RFC 2015, if you use such a mailer tell your vendor to fix >this brokenness. Apropos to that, why won't K-Mail work with GnuPG. I installed this version to my home directory and K-Mail then showed a signing and encryp

gcl 2.2.1-6 "truncate" broken

2000-09-05 Thread Danny Heap
We recently installed gcl 2.2.1-6 on our intel machines. The "truncate" function is broken, as shown by the example below (from the gclinfo page). Should we downgrade to a version that works, or what? Thanks for any suggestions. Danny Heap gibbs.med.utoronto.ca -

Re: Local network ip

2000-09-05 Thread Spinfire Magenta
on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:50:57PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal sent 20 bytes on their merry way: > I just want to ask which is the better ip network to be set up for a > home network: 192.168.0.x or maybe 192.168.1.x ?? I'm currently using > the second one... I have a network at home that is

Re: lm-sensors

2000-09-05 Thread Frederik
Problem seems to be related to lm-sensors itself. I've seen one report of a similar problem. Probably due to the motherboard: a MB-741LMRT. If someone has any experience on setting up lm-sensors with this kind of motherboard: i'd be interested :-) Thanks for the help! Frederik

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-09-05 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > window manager, and at present the only window manager with full > support for Gnome seems to be Enlightenment, AKA `E'. That's nonsense, many window managers have Gnome support now, e.g. icewm-gnome, wmaker, sawfish-gnome. Most integrated in Gnome is

cable modem: does my hostname matter?

2000-09-05 Thread Krzys Majewski
My cable provider tells me my hostname is cr275960-a. So I've put cr275960-a in /etc/hostname and everything works. My /etc/hosts looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 24.115.135.172cr275960-acr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com Anyway, cr275960-a is a pretty ugly name for my machin

Firewall message in /var/log

2000-09-05 Thread Barry Samuels
Can anyone tell me why I should keep getting this message in my /var/log/messages (I'm afraid I don't speak ipchains): kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 192.14.17.1:513 192.14.17.255:513 L=136 S=0x00 I=244 F=0x T=64 (#30) I set my firewall up with PMFirewall supposedly to ignore my

Re: secure ftp

2000-09-05 Thread Michael Smith
If you're working on a workstation with X, GFTP (the recent version) can use sftp for secure, guix ftp. Just make a connection with ssh to get the key, and then select the ssh protocol in GFTP. brian moore wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 05:41:46PM -0700, Tal Danzig wrote: > > Hello, > > > >

Re: LILO-rific

2000-09-05 Thread USM Bish
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:08:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm a little confused about boot being set, since shouldn't that maybe be > hda1, since windows MBR, er... I really don't get that part so well. The > last question is: As of now I'm using a floppy to boot to Linux. Otherwi

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