Re: HELP! with ethernet

2000-09-11 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 08:37:12PM +0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > How do I force the system to identify the ethernet card? > I have put the following line in lilo: > ether=0,ox300,eth0 to force probing That should be obsolete because it is a PCI, isn't it? > How do I compile the rtl8139.c file (I

Re: security of deb pkg's proftp and sftp

2000-09-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:02:18AM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > Could you explain the steps necessary to do this ? I am running sshd (v1 > I think) on my home system (woody) which is on a cable connection. I if you track woody then your probably using openssh v2. to forbid password authentic

Re: gnapster

2000-09-11 Thread John Bagdanoff
Another alternative is to grab knapster.rpm, convert it to a deb package via alien. I did this months ago because I never could get gnapster to work. I've never had problems with knapster. John On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 05:53:59PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > I've found that gnome-napster works

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-11 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 05:48:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not berating people because of the Distro they Choose. Well, I wasn't accusing you. It just seems that every time there is a discussion of distribution, people are forgetting the fact that the distributions aren't that diff

Re: kernel update?

2000-09-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Dale" == Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> Thanks for the reply, I downloaded the 2.2.17 kernel from Dale> kernel.org and compiled it, that's actually easier for me than Dale> the debian way for now. Incidentally, you can use make-kpkg on kernels downloaded from kernel.

FW: 2.4.0-test8 and ssh (OpenSSH_2.1.1): error: socket: Address family not supported by protocol

2000-09-11 Thread Christophe Broult
Has anyone had the same problem here? Thank you, Chris --- Begin Message --- Hello, I have just compiled the last version of the Linux kernel (2.4.0-test8) and somehow I am no longer able to use ssh and get the following message: Received disconnect: Command terminated on signal 11. In /va

Re: FW: 2.4.0-test8 and ssh (OpenSSH_2.1.1): error: socket: Address family not supported by protocol

2000-09-11 Thread George Bonser
Works fine here: chester:/tmp# ssh -l root localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last login: Mon Sep 11 00:34:40 2000 from localhost on pts/4 Linux chester 2.4.0-test8 #1 SMP Sun Sep 10 16:06:26 PDT 2000 i686 unknown Most of the programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are freely re

RE: ClassyTcl

2000-09-11 Thread Bill Barnes
>= Original Message From Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >> Have not found a deb for ClassyTcl. >> I'm running 2.2 woody and have problems compiling the source. >> > > >What error messages do you get? > The make failed to find a directory /usr/local/unix... I have since then tried to

Re: replace chars in filenames?

2000-09-11 Thread Lars O . Grobe
Addressed to: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> debian-user@lists.debian.org ** Reply to note from Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 10 Sep 2000 09:42:25 -0700 (PDT) Hi Krzys! Thank you!!! I must find out now if the apple clients will like the files than. CU, Lars.

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-11 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, John L . Fjellstad wrote: > Well, if you want stability and security, having used both, I must say, > both are pretty much the same. I still aren't convinced that Debian > is somehow more stable than Redhat. Doesn't make sense. Enlightenment > 0.16.3 doesn't magically become

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-11 Thread George Bonser
> > I'd take any sweeping generalization as to the stability of a distro > with a grain of salt, especially when I don't know if the one doing > the reporting has longtime and wide ranging experience with a number of > distributions on various hardware combinations. Having had some experiance wit

RE: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-11 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: John L . Fjellstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 8:43 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian VS. Red Hat > > [...] It just seems that every time there is > a discussion of distribution, people are forgetting t

Re: Weird messages after kernel compiling...

2000-09-11 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 09:59:13PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > for me i'd rename it to /lib/modules/2.2.17-old in case i need 'em back ;-) Actually, I do the same, until I get the new kernel tested and working. Otherwise, in cases where I go from one version to another, like 2.2.15-2.2.17, I woul

RE: German keys on console

2000-09-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > That's got nothing to do with the keymap (which is fine.) > > Two things are important: > > 1) in /etc/inputrc set 'convert-meta off' must be uncommented >(it maybe by default in 2.2r1, it wasn't in tc3. The metakey > still works fine, BT

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-11 Thread Shao Zhang
William Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Bill > > > > Vim supports several options to munge tabs in various ways. One is > > "expandtab", which will replace each TAB character with the number of > > spaces defined by "tabstop". But this replaces the TAB, which may not > > be what some people

Re: changing partiton size

2000-09-11 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:08:10AM +0200, QBA wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a problem because in a few days will have no free space > > on one of my partitons. I mounted on it /var directory and gave > > only 150MB for use. But now

installing gdm

2000-09-11 Thread Robin Faichney
I have Debian 2.2, and would like to substitute gdm for xdm. I'm a recent convert to Debian, and not entirely at ease with the package management utilities. Using dselect, and selecting gdm, I'm told that it conflicts with xdm which will therefore be removed. But task-x-window-system depends on x

Problems Installing Oracle 8i

2000-09-11 Thread James Grant
Hi, I am trying to install Oracle 8i on a Debian box and even though I have followed the directions to the tee, I keep recieving the same error when I try to run the "./runInstaller" command. This is the error I am recieving: Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /usr/local/jre/bin/jre. Pl

Re: Problem installing Oracle 8i

2000-09-11 Thread Jaume Teixi
James, if you are installing 8.1.5 I think that install manual explicity says that you have to install exactly JRE 1.1.7 (or 1.1.6 I couldn't remember) and also a symlink from ORACLE_HOME/bin/jre ---> /usr/local/jre/bin/jre then be sure to install patch for 8.1.5 if you are installing 8.1.6,

Re: no ping

2000-09-11 Thread Michael Soulier
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Dahlqvist wrote: > > > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all > > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies > > > > > They're there already. However, a ping localhost still works... > > Notice the "1" in the above statements. T

Re: installing gdm

2000-09-11 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Robin Faichney wrote: > I have Debian 2.2, and would like to substitute gdm for xdm. > > I'm a recent convert to Debian, and not entirely at ease with the > package management utilities. Using dselect, and selecting gdm, I'm > told that it conflicts with xdm which will there

Re: Seminar on "Cyber Law for Everyman"

2000-09-11 Thread isme
Dear Sir / Madam, Attached please find the details of the seminar on "Cyber Law for Everyman" for your information. Thank you for your kind attention and hope to meet you in this seminar. Please contact us at: Tel.: (852) 2851-3778 Fax: (852) 2877-8299 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PR

Re: FW: 2.4.0-test8 and ssh (OpenSSH_2.1.1): error: socket: Address family not supported by protocol

2000-09-11 Thread Christophe Broult
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Works fine here: > > chester:/tmp# ssh -l root localhost > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > Last login: Mon Sep 11 00:34:40 2000 from localhost on pts/4 > Linux chester 2.4.0-test8 #1 SMP Sun Sep 10 16:06:26 PDT 2000 i686 unknown > > Most of the progra

Re: installing gdm

2000-09-11 Thread Julio Merino
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:56:54PM +0200, Robin Faichney wrote: > I have Debian 2.2, and would like to substitute gdm for xdm. > > I'm a recent convert to Debian, and not entirely at ease with the > package management utilities. Using dselect, and selecting gdm, > I'm told that it conflicts with

Re: Harddrive Weirdness

2000-09-11 Thread Julio Merino
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 11:14:09PM -0400, Gregg C wrote: > This is somewhat more of a hardware question but it might interest someone > here. > > I was installing (with the pci/ide disks) on a system that has very been > running 2.1 for 9 or 10 months (I built it when I loaded 2.1 on it, so it

Re: two apt-get questions

2000-09-11 Thread Julio Merino
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 11:32:15PM +0200, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote: > > "Sean" == Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> 2. How do I get apt-get to tell me which version of a package it > >> would install, without actually installing it, regardless of > >> the vers

Re: Debian Menu with Sawfish (Helix)

2000-09-11 Thread Julio Merino
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 04:01:46PM +0200, Kai Weber wrote: > Hi, > > has anyone the same experience with (all packages up-to-date) HelixGnome > and Sawfish: > > The middle mouse button, which brings up sawfish's root menu contained > under "programs" the whole Debian menu with apps ... Since so

MPI and parallel processing

2000-09-11 Thread Lukasz Walewski
Hi, Has anyone any experiences with parallel programming under Debian? I've been using Message Passing Interface under SGI/Irix; the Intel clone of this library is MPIH. Is there a .deb version of it ? Lukas -- --- Lukasz Wale

Re: HELP! with ethernet

2000-09-11 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 08:01:33AM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > How do I compile the rtl8139.c file (I have tried, but it keeps do you mean the rtl8139.c from the linux source tree? do not compile this file alone. use 'make config/menuconfig/xconfig' to configure linux, there you can choose

Re: Please help with some harddisk error

2000-09-11 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
Hi all, > I have seen such error messages below before too.it was when I decided > to enable dma support for the hd via hdparmcheck to see whether that > that has been enabled (hdparm /dev/hda). Anyway, after that incident, my > hardisk had bad cluster/sectors! dma support is on for the d

Re: logging interaction between minicom and modem - solved

2000-09-11 Thread alice
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:11:13 PST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hmm, that's odd I tried to set up wvdial just now and it's saying > that > /dev/mouse is linked to ttyS0, and sure enough it does seem to > could this be causing some of my problems? Is that something > that's safe to manually

Re: Debian or Stormix

2000-09-11 Thread Ray Percival
If you have been using FreeBSD I would just get Debian and for the same money you would spend on Storm get a good Debian book. Storm hides to much to really learn from IMO. -- Original Message -- From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "

Re: Debian or Stormix

2000-09-11 Thread mike
Well i used Stormix for a few months before i installed Debian potato. I used the free d/l from Stormix so i haven't seen their documentation. Basically i started with Stormix before Debian because i assumed the Stormix install would be easier. When i installed Debian potato from th

NSS db module, split from glibc

2000-09-11 Thread Ben Collins
Just a heads up, the nss_db module is going away from glibc. It was split from glibc upstream, and will be packaged seperately from now on. For a short while after glibc 2.1.93 is uploaded to woody, there will not be an nss_db module, until I get that package done. If you use this module... Ben -

Problems installing Oracle 8i

2000-09-11 Thread James Grant
Hi, I am trying to install Oracle 8i on a Debian box and even though I have followed the directions to the tee, I keep recieving the same error when I try to run the "./runInstaller" command. This is the error I am recieving: Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /usr/local/jre/bin/jre. Pl

Re: My orphaned packages.

2000-09-11 Thread Daniel Kobras
On 10 Sep 2000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > `scsh' ought to be taken over by someone who actually uses it. I've > not even looked at it in over a year. If nobody objects I'd like to do this together with Martin Gasbichler who wrote a fair part of scsh 0.6. But me having just applied for Debian m

Re: Source directory

2000-09-11 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 01:49:02PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Which is the proper place to uncompress and compile source code that > will be installed on /usr/local without any deb? It's /usr/src or > /usr/local/src? > > For example, any program that I download from

Power management (continuation)

2000-09-11 Thread Julio Merino
Hi, I've seen that there is a package called "acpid" and installed it. Now I have to install the 2.4 kernel to be able to try it, but this might be able to put the computer to sleep (no fans, no cpu, no harddisks, etc). I'm sure that my computer can do it, because I've seen it doing this from win

Re: what is a Machine Check Exception ?

2000-09-11 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0004<0>Bank 1: > f2000115general protection fault: Erk. Read bluesmoke.c in the kernel source. > Never seen this before, so I'd be interested in a (technical) > explanatation of exactly what ne

Oracle 8i problems.

2000-09-11 Thread James Grant
Hi, I am trying to install Oracle 8i on a Debian box and even though I have followed the directions to the tee, I keep recieving the same error when I try to run the "./runInstaller" command. This is the error I am recieving: Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /usr/local/jre/bin/jre. Pl

Deleted /dev/hda (MBR)

2000-09-11 Thread Dominik Bittl
UUUps !! I deleted /dev/hda as root and now i cant boot anymore (without disc) !! I tried to mkdir /dev/hda but it doesnt work with lilo !! My NT is still working. What can i do ?? Yeah i know it's stupid but what should i do ?? dominik

Re: Debian Menu with Sawfish (Helix)

2000-09-11 Thread Kai Weber
+ Julio Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The middle mouse button, which brings up sawfish's root menu contained > > under "programs" the whole Debian menu with apps ... Since some days I > > miss it! There are only some entries: xterm, Emacs, Netscape and others. > > You maybe removed the "menu"

Prefered Disk set?

2000-09-11 Thread Greg Vence
Hello All, Is there a prefered disk set vendor for the latest release. I'd like it all... non-us, contrib... TIA -- Greg.

Re: HELP! with ethernet

2000-09-11 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 03:28:12PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 08:01:33AM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote: No I did not write this! Just because we have the same name does not mean you are allowed to fake qoutes ;) > > > How do I compile the rtl8139.c file (I have tried

Re: Prefered Disk set?

2000-09-11 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:41:40AM -0400, Greg Vence wrote: -|Hello All, -| -|Is there a prefered disk set vendor for the latest release. I'd like it -|all... non-us, contrib... -| -|TIA -- Greg. I bought my CD's from http://www.linux-cd.com I bought N960-4, the 4 CD set for $40. CD's came in

mutt can burn in ****!!

2000-09-11 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- My frustration limit with Mutt and it's incredibly stupid GPG detached signature "feature" has reached it's limit. Sure *mutt* can handle verifying these signed messages, but *nothing* else can! Even in mutt, if I save all the MIME parts of the message to files

Re: Deleted /dev/hda (MBR)

2000-09-11 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:39:24PM +0100, Dominik Bittl wrote: > I deleted /dev/hda as root and now i cant boot anymore (without disc) !! How could this happen ;) > I tried to mkdir /dev/hda but it doesnt work with lilo !! My NT is still > working. > What can i do ?? Have a look at /usr/src/l

Sawfish - lisp error?

2000-09-11 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
I've been using sawfish 0.30.3-6 and whenever I open a new window the system beeps and prints this error to the error stream: Lisp backtrace: # ("áKãKäK+v" [0 (backquote-unquote 125.) sp-cost:overlap 0 (backquote-unquote 75.) sp-cost:focus-locality sp-cost:pointer-locality] 4) ni

Re: Prefered Disk set?

2000-09-11 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Greg Vence" wrote: > Hello All, > > Is there a prefered disk set vendor for the latest release. I'd like it > all... non-us, contrib... Note that `contrib' on the official CDs is incomplete. AFAIK, it only contains packages whose dependencies are fulfilled in the CD set (so nothing that de

Kernel COmpile Problems

2000-09-11 Thread Ronald Castillo
Hi... I had a small problem when I was compiling my kernel. when I typed the "make bzImage" command, at the end I got an error message saying "make: as86: Command not found" or something like that. Do I have to install any package? I'm using the rain distribution of Storm, based on Slink. Thank

Re: Kernel COmpile Problems

2000-09-11 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:31:15AM -, Ronald Castillo wrote: > Hi... I had a small problem when I was compiling my kernel. when I typed > the "make bzImage" command, at the end I got an error message saying "make: > as86: Command not found" or something like that. Do I have to install any > p

RE: Kernel COmpile Problems

2000-09-11 Thread Ronald Castillo
I'll do it. Thanks for your help!! -Original Message- From: Mirek Kwasniak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 3:40 PM To: Ronald Castillo Cc: Debian-User Mailing List Subject: Re: Kernel COmpile Problems On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:31:15AM -, Ronald Castillo w

RE: Kernel COmpile Problems

2000-09-11 Thread Ronald Castillo
Thanks for your help.. I'll do that. I also think kernel-source should recommend that. Otherwise, how would newbies like me do without help from this mailing list? -Original Message- From: Michal F. Hanula [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 3:42 PM To: Ronald Cas

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-11 Thread William Jensen
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:43:30AM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: John L . Fjellstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 8:43 AM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Debian VS. Red Hat > > > > [...] It just see

listres and viewres

2000-09-11 Thread Charles Kaufman
Hi listres and viewres fail with "Symbol 'XawWidgetArray' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking" followed by "Segmentation fault" There's some discussion about this under bug report #60390. Is there a way to get these programs to run? Thanks. Charles Kaufman [EMAIL PRO

Re: Kernel COmpile Problems

2000-09-11 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Ronald Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: rc> Thanks for your help.. I'll do that. I also think kernel-source rc> should recommend that. Otherwise, how would newbies like me do rc> without help from this mailing list? Well... I don't mean to be snippy but they _could_ read the docs

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-11 Thread Erik
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:56:52PM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > I just purchased two Athalon-based systems, each with 768M of ram. > However, under debian (potato runnin kernel 2.2.17) the OS sees only 65 > M of memory. I have tried to use the append command > > mem=768M > > but it still sees only

Re: German keys on console

2000-09-11 Thread Peter Malewski
Thanks to all who answered my question. The solution was really easy, but i doesn't came into my mind.. thanks -- P.Malewski, Maschplatz 8, 38114 Braunschweig, Tel.: 0531 500965, MH-Hannover: 0511 532 3194 / Fax: 0511 532 3190, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Harddrive Weirdness

2000-09-11 Thread Gregg C
From: Julio Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Julio Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Gregg C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Harddrive Weirdness Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:09:17 +0200 On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 11:14:09PM -0400, Gregg C wrote: > This is somewha

Re: Debian or Stormix

2000-09-11 Thread Phillip Deackes
"Ray Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have been using FreeBSD I would just get Debian and for the > same money you would spend on Storm get a good Debian book. Storm > hides to much to really learn from IMO. Maybe you could elucidate and tell us what exactly Storm Linux hides? I have

Oracle 8i

2000-09-11 Thread James Grant
Hi, I am trying to install Oracle 8i on a Debian box and even though I have followed the directions to the tee, I keep recieving the same error when I try to run the "./runInstaller" command. This is the error I am recieving: Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /usr/local/jre/bin/jre. Pl

getting exmh to display text as default on rude mime messages

2000-09-11 Thread hawk
I keep dinking around wiht options, but haven't found a way to work. There seems to be no solution to the rude and clueless who send mime messages with html. Unfortunately, exmh insists on defaulting to the html rather than the plain text. I see different ways to display/not display things,

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-11 Thread Jason Quigley
Does your bios have the setting memory hole at 64M activated? I'm not sure if that's the exact option. I only vaguely remember something like that as I haven't rebooted for such a long time - and sorry - I refuse to for this! ;-) Cheers, Jason. --On Monday, September 11, 2000 9:20 -0700 Eri

booting with lilo win2k

2000-09-11 Thread Arcady Genkin
Yesterday I had to install Win2000; while I suspected that it would overwrite the MBR (where lilo lives), I had a boot floppy ready and restored the MBR w/o problems. However I can't figure out how to multiboot into it using LILO as my main boot manager. Searching the web produced some suggestion

Re: Oracle 8i problems.

2000-09-11 Thread Kenneth Sims
What is the exact version of Oracle you are trying to install... I spent several days trying to get Oracle 8 version 8.1.5 to work with not success on my Debian box. Finally was able to download 8.1.6 and it installed painlessly. Ken At 10:23 AM 9/11/2000, James Grant wrote: Hi, I am trying

Re: booting with lilo win2k

2000-09-11 Thread Arcady Genkin
Just as a follow-up to myself, in case it matters, the partition where win2k is installed is in NTFS. -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.

Re: Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk

2000-09-11 Thread Bob McGowan
It could be that the BIOS "reconfigured" itself to see the IDE disk. I have an old Micron that has an IDE and SCSI, and at one point I "disabled" the IDE hard disk in the system BIOS, so it didn't get scanned/seen at boot and the system went to the SCSI device as the primary drive. The disk was s

Found a free Excel help resource

2000-09-11 Thread Ginny Dobbs
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SV: booting with lilo win2k

2000-09-11 Thread Jonas Moberg
> Yesterday I had to install Win2000; while I suspected that it would > overwrite the MBR (where lilo lives), I had a boot floppy ready and > restored the MBR w/o problems. However I can't figure out how to > multiboot into it using LILO as my main boot manager. Searching the > web produced some

Netscape Tar.gz files

2000-09-11 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I am finding it difficult to lacate the netscape binaries to install the Navigator or communicator from ftp.netscape.com. I was in particular interested in 4.73 but there are not binaries at the site. Can somebody please point me to a useful site where these can be found. Thanks. Seba

OFFTOPIC attn list admin: Debian.org in the RBL?

2000-09-11 Thread Pollywog
I am surprised to find that posts from the list are being rejected this morning. I have added debian.org to my rbl_exept list to get around this problem. Does anyone know what is going on? 2000-09-11 16:43:00 recipient <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> refused from murphy.debian.org [216.234.231.6] (RBL) --

Re: getting exmh to display text as default on rude mime messages

2000-09-11 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:27:47PM -0400, hawk (hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) wrote: > > I keep dinking around wiht options, but haven't found a way to work. > > There seems to be no solution to the rude and clueless who send mime > messages with html. Unfortunately, exmh insists on defaulting to the

sendmail: Domain must resolve

2000-09-11 Thread Krzys Majewski
I changed my hostname, after consulting this List, from the ugly one given by my cable provider to one that I like. There is no DNS entry anywhere for this new hostname. Now, I run sendmail not as a daemon but as an mda or mta or whatever: to send cron errors to my usual e-mail account.

Re: X won't start

2000-09-11 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:31:43PM -0600, Ray Percival wrote: > Just installed 2.2 when it boots it looks like xfs and xdm both start up. > When I type startx I get. > x: exec of /usr/bin/x11/xf86_svfg failed. I used xf86config to build a config > file this is a Diamond Viper 770 and I used the c

Re: mutt can burn in ****!!

2000-09-11 Thread Preben Randhol
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/09/2000 (17:07) : [snipped a lot of whining about mutt] > oh well. Sorry to vent my frustrations to the list. I'll be eternally > grateful and a whole lot more relaxed if somebody can help me > out. Thanks. My question is why the h... couldn

Re: eterm/mutt manual?

2000-09-11 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Anyhow, when I hit F1 in eterm, it brings up a menu block rather than > the manual for mutt. Any way around this? look for "bind anymod 0xffbe" in /usr/share/Eterm/themes/Eterm/theme.cfg and comment it out. good luck! -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Re

Using RSA authentication with SSH - mini HOWTO

2000-09-11 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:02:18AM -0400, S . Salman Ahmed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "NA" == Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > NA> if you want to keep 'hackers' out, i suggest using it and > NA> disabling password authentication in SSH and force RSA > NA> passphrase au

Re: changing partiton size

2000-09-11 Thread QBA
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 06:24:36PM -0500, ktb wrote: > What's filling the partition up that fast? Are you running squid or > something like that? I've heard people mention the package -- logrotate > Maybe you could try that? If you can trim down whatever is taking so > much space maybe you wo

ISDN newbie

2000-09-11 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I just received a isdn connection at home. Till now, I've a USR isa modem working great with Linux. The isdn standard in Brazil is the Europe Standard. The NT used has a RS232 adaptor and according to the telco, it has a internal isdn adaptor. Well, my

Re: Debian or Stormix

2000-09-11 Thread William Jensen
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:37:49PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: > "Ray Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you have been using FreeBSD I would just get Debian and for the > > same money you would spend on Storm get a good Debian book. Storm > > hides to much to really learn from IMO. > >

Re: booting with lilo win2k

2000-09-11 Thread William Jensen
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:15:55PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Yesterday I had to install Win2000; while I suspected that it would > overwrite the MBR (where lilo lives), I had a boot floppy ready and > restored the MBR w/o problems. However I can't figure out how to > multiboot into it using LI

Re: Debian or Stormix

2000-09-11 Thread Phillip Deackes
William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > An advantage of a "steep learning curve" is two-fold. Number one you > get a > nice confidence boost from the effort it took to learn something new > and > challenging. Second is you actually understand what the system is > doing. > For example, if

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-11 Thread Sven Burgener
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:02:45AM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > > Maybe the software in the distributions is about the same, but the > > distros themselves sure aren't. Right. > Support. OH yes support. The first time I set up RH (first linux ever) I > naturally had some problems and question

RE: no telnet in x

2000-09-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Sep-2000 Jacob Ian Stowell wrote: > Hi all, > > I am experiencing a strange problem. I am unable to telnet from X into > my home computer. However, what is weird is that I can telnet into home > from the console. Also, I can use rlogin from X, and everything works > fine. Further, anoth

Re: slrnpull failure

2000-09-11 Thread QBA
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 01:24:24AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with slrnpull or to be more precise with its connection > to ISP. I read file /slrn/slrnpull/QUICK_INSTALL and did all as it is > written there. So I run my /etc/ppp/ppp-on script to connect to ISP > (ev

RE: strange package dependencies

2000-09-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > So apt wants to replace libesd-alsa0 with libesd0. But why? Sure, > xtux depends on `libesd0 (>= 0.2.14-0.2)' but `libesd-alsa 0.2.17-7' > which is installed provides `libesd0'. What is the point in replacing > `libesd-alsa 0.2.17-7' with `libesd0 0.2.17-7'? > the problem lies in the fact

RE: wxGTK and wxPython debs

2000-09-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Sep-2000 Johann Spies wrote: > Does somebody know where I can get debian packages of wxGTK 2.1 and > wxPython 2.1? in woody no?

RE: shared libraries

2000-09-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Sep-2000 Robert Kerr wrote: > Hi all, > I'm working at compiling a program under slink and keep getting the error > (when trying to run it) that it can't find the > libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3. Of course, that happens for a very good > reason--the version on slink is libc6.0. How can I find o

Re: ISDN newbie

2000-09-11 Thread dirk
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 03:27:08PM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > > Well, my doubts are: is it possible to use this RS232 to connect > to Linux serial port and then to use ISDN4Linux? I don't think so. I had an external dynalink ISDN modem for some time but I just used wvdial

RE: laptop

2000-09-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
there is a list: debian-laptop. Just like debian-user but for laptop issues.

Re: Potato splitvt not working

2000-09-11 Thread Joey Hess
Wayne Topa wrote: > Followup to my own message. I received the 2.2 CD's today and did an > apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade on another debian 2.1 > box. Splitvt works fine on this box. > > The box the orignal problem showed up on was upgrades with just an > apt-get upgrade. Wha

Re: Netscape Tar.gz files

2000-09-11 Thread QBA
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:54:02PM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: > > I am finding it difficult to lacate the netscape binaries to install > the Navigator or communicator from ftp.netscape.com. I was in > particular interested in 4.73 but there are not binaries at the site. > Can so

Re: OFFTOPIC attn list admin: Debian.org in the RBL?

2000-09-11 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:28:46PM +, Pollywog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am surprised to find that posts from the list are being rejected this > morning. I have added debian.org to my rbl_exept list to get around this > problem. > > Does anyone know what is going on? Hmmm: [EMAIL P

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-11 Thread csj
"unlike rpm which you need to compile rpm to access a .rpm." I think not. I managed to open an .rpm using the Gnome file manager in a debian-based installation. An .rpm appears to be a cpio archive. Correct me, folks, if this is misinformation. Besides, you can always "alien"-ate an .rpm On Mon,

Re: vga-alike x11 font wanted

2000-09-11 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
> hi there, > > i found two fonts, which partly meet the criteria: > * vga - this one looks good and has the right proportions, but has a > wrong encoding (pc437) for a west-european xterm, so umlauts, etc. > are messed up. > * -etl-fixed-bold-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso8859-1 - it has the rig

Re: booting with lilo win2k

2000-09-11 Thread Dean
Hi Arcady: Does lilo show up on the screen while booting? If so hit shift to stop automatic boot-up. Then hit tab to see what choices are available. hth Dean Arcady Genkin wrote: > > Yesterday I had to install Win2000; while I suspected that it would > overwrite the MBR (where lilo lives), I

Re: Debian or Stormix

2000-09-11 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:38:17PM -0500, William Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > An advantage of a "steep learning curve" is two-fold. Number one you get a > nice confidence boost from the effort it took to learn something new and > challenging. Second is you actually understand what the

Re: hibernation on a desktop? Suspend-to-RAM on a desktop?

2000-09-11 Thread Thomas Hood
I suggest that you check out the "noflushd" daemon in the woody archive. Thomas Hood

Re: ISDN newbie

2000-09-11 Thread C. Falconer
Is there the potential for a winmodem-style ISDN adapter? I mean, an internal PC device that looks like a modem/ISDN adapter, but uses a special windows driver to do its processing... is it feasable? At 11:17 PM 9/11/00 +0200, you wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 03:27:08PM -0300, Mario Olimpio

muttzilla

2000-09-11 Thread Dale Morris
I'm trying to get muttzilla to work with netscape. I'm running version 4.75, and slocate shows I have libc6 in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins-libc6, when I click on a mail-to url, nothing happens. Anyone have this working? I've checked, but there's no man page for muttzilla. thanks --dale

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