Re: duplicating setup machine

2000-10-24 Thread Dennis
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, John Chambers wrote: > What are the easy ways to duplicate an existing > setup debian machine to other machines? There are (as usual with Linux) a number of different ways to do this. One quick and dirty way that I like is to boot off of something like Tomsrtbt floppy or Li

Re: Debian and Red Hat togheter

2000-10-24 Thread Willy Lee
"Scott" == Scott V McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sharing /home isn't so hard if there are only a few users. I do it > at home where there is just me and (occasionally) my wife. > I have thought of sharing /opt and perhaps /usr/local, but have been > worried that in addition to the stuff

Re: How do I do an ftp install?

2000-10-24 Thread jeff
If you have not yet been to the Debian site, here's a good place to get installation help: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install Basically, you download the Debian base system. Then configure your Internet connection and connect to the big package source in the sky. Then you can ea

Re: installing MATLAB

2000-10-24 Thread Mark Phillips
Prof. Le Baron O. Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Trying to do an install from the CDROM for v. 5.3 of MATLAB I can > not > get started. I get an error message: > can't load library 'libXt.so.6' > I find this library at /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6. I put a link to it > in /usr/X11R6 but th

Re: Console new mail notification

2000-10-24 Thread Moritz Schulte
Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running debian stable, and I've set up procmail to filter > messages into appropriate mailboxes. However, now that almost all > mail is filtered into /home/gila/Mail, none of it winds up in > /var/... so console mail notification doesn't work corr

wine (woody) can't find KERNEL32.dll

2000-10-24 Thread Mark Phillips
I just upgraded wine to the woody version. A program that used to run on the potato version now crashes at the start, complaining: err:module:fixup_imports Module (file) KERNEL32.dll needed by C:\etax2000_1.exe not found Now I thought kernel32 was a builtin thing. That's what is in the wine.co

Cron test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily]

2000-10-24 Thread Remco Rijnders
Hello all, I was hoping if any of you know the solution to the following problem reported to me by email: - Forwarded message from Cron Daemon - Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 06:27:35 +0200 (CEST) From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron ||

Re: Console new mail notification

2000-10-24 Thread Rino Mardo
Sure you can. Here's mine: MAILPATH='/home/rino/Mail/IN.debian-user?Mail has arrived for debian-user':'/var/mail/rino?Mail has arrived' Be vewy careful about the tick marks as it is very confusing. By default, your mails are checked when you login and then every sixty seconds. ---

Re: new machine: what's wrong?

2000-10-24 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:41:10PM -0400, Jack wrote: > Frustrated with my new machine. It's a self-assembled machine and it's > the first one I've made. (PIII, PC133, 128M mem) > > Tried to boot from the my old hard-disk, which has Win98, Win2k, > Debian installed on it. > > Win98 could be

Re: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
"CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I normally do is cp the .Xauthority from /home/ to > /root and starting X as root would then be okHowever, I am > unsure whether this would compromise certain security features, > etc This is also OK, but I would just set the

Re: problems with ippp0

2000-10-24 Thread Hanno Böttcher
Stephan Kiesel wrote: > hello, > > i configured my isdn card as /dev/ippp0 and every 10 minutes without any > activity, ippp0 connect to my isp-nameserver. > I plan to configure this host as internet gateway. > I don´t want to start or stop the device everytime i´m going online. > > tia > Stephan

Re: adding ftp user

2000-10-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:27:46PM +1000, Mario Zuppini wrote: > Does anyone know on the topic of ftp security, how we can limit the ftp user > that log's in to stay in the home dir you assign them, and not be able to > move up the directory tree ? echo lusername >> /etc/ftpchroot that is all tha

Re: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:36:25AM +0800, CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote: > If you have got the correct modules loaded...you'd need to chmod your > /dev/dsp and /dev/audio to allow your username write access to the > devices.try chmod 666 on the above devices! no don't run chmod 666. run 'a

Re: wine (woody) can't find KERNEL32.dll

2000-10-24 Thread Phillip Deackes
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just upgraded wine to the woody version. A program that used to run > on the potato version now crashes at the start, complaining: > > err:module:fixup_imports Module (file) KERNEL32.dll needed by > C:\etax2000_1.exe not found > > Now I thought kernel

Re: Debian and Red Hat togheter

2000-10-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:23:51PM -0700, Willy Lee wrote: > "Scott" == Scott V McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Sharing /home isn't so hard if there are only a few users. I do it > > at home where there is just me and (occasionally) my wife. > > > I have thought of sharing /opt and per

Re: wine (woody) can't find KERNEL32.dll

2000-10-24 Thread Frank Copeland
On 24 Oct 00 06:23:38 GMT, Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just upgraded wine to the woody version. A program that used to run >on the potato version now crashes at the start, complaining: > >err:module:fixup_imports Module (file) KERNEL32.dll needed by >C:\etax2000_1.exe not found >

Re: firewall & masquerade script availability - 'potato'

2000-10-24 Thread Rene Hogendoorn
> "Aaron" == Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... Aaron> By default, this package configures the system as a basic Aaron> forwarding firewall, with IP spoofing and stuffed routing Aaron> protection. The firewall will allow hosts behind the Aaron> firewall to get to th

Re: sources.list, installing via nfs.

2000-10-24 Thread hypo crite
Hi Will, hi all! > i can't believe that nobody saw the flaw, tho... The flaw? Unfortunately my printout of your apt-get-guide is 20 miles away... All right, I have to emulate an mirror. I thought it would be easier, cause it´s a usual thing to put your CDs on a harddisk. Somewhere I saw a HOW

Re: wine (woody) can't find KERNEL32.dll

2000-10-24 Thread Mark Phillips
Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I went through the same thing at the weekend. Just open up > /etc/ld.so.conf and add this line: > > /usr/lib/wine > > Do the usual ldconfig afterwards. /etc/wine.conf has changed a fair bit > recently so it would be a good idea to install the maintainer

Re: fullscreen video playback

2000-10-24 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, matt garman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:42:03PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > without proper video acceleration in X this is not > > > possible/reccomended. try using the double option in mpegtv and you'll see

broken libc6/nss-modules in woody

2000-10-24 Thread debian
Hello, after an "apt-get dist-upgrade" my system (woody) seems quite broken. Apache and lprng among other daemons/progs are no longer working: #/etc/init.d/apache start Starting web server: apache. /usr/sbin/apachectl: line 171: 1603 Aborted $HTTPD /usr/sbin/apachectl start: http

Re: backup/restore partitions

2000-10-24 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Dr. Michael Koltai wrote: > I'd like to backup a partition (and restore). How to do that? > I think using the 'cp' or the 'dd' programs. I'd like to create (if possible > compressed file) from a partition ( like /dev/hda1 ) and if I need > restore from this big file. If

Symlink compress --> gzip

2000-10-24 Thread Craig Law
Can anyone tell me how I do this? I need to create a symbolic link between the gzip in Debian and Redhats compress. I've been told that if I do this I will be able to install a particular piece of software correctly. Thanks Craig

Re: Help: gv not reading *.gz files?

2000-10-24 Thread kmself
Please keep list mail on list. on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:32:11AM +0200, Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi again, > > Thanks for getting back to me. Once I loaded the gsfonts, gv itself worked > fine on the *.ps.gz files. Ghostview doesn't. I just wanted to know if this > was normal?

Re: Symlink compress --> gzip

2000-10-24 Thread Rino Mardo
Odd. Any distro can use or unzip gzipped files. What exactly you want done? --- who watches the watchmen? - Original Message - From: "Craig Law" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:38 PM Subject: Symlink compress --> g

Re: Symlink compress --> gzip

2000-10-24 Thread Craig Law
Long story but trying to load NDS Corporate Edition (best installed on Redhat 6.1 or 6.2) onto my Debian server. I've been given instructions by someone who has done it before. The shell script which installs the product makes some reference to compress which apparently Debian doesn't have and I

Re: Symlink compress --> gzip

2000-10-24 Thread Rino Mardo
I see. Well as root just do a "ln -s /usr/sbin/gzip /usr/sbin/compress" assuming gzip is in that directory. Just edit where appropriate. -> who watches the watchmen? Key fingerprint - E619 726E 3815 7A48 EAC7 E49F DF93 4E33 B069 0883 - Original Message - From: "Craig Law" <[EMAIL PRO

[no subject]

2000-10-24 Thread
I try to work whit sendmail who use LDAP ROUTING method. I include the LDAPMAP with the file site.config.m4 into the directory /sendmail-8.11.1/devtools/Site/. I use the Build command in the directory /sendmail-8.11.1/sendmail/, it include the file described above, but after the include operat

Re: Symlink compress --> gzip

2000-10-24 Thread Craig Law
That did the trick - thank you >>> "Rino Mardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 24.10.2000 8:44:14 PM >>> I see. Well as root just do a "ln -s /usr/sbin/gzip /usr/sbin/compress" assuming gzip is in that directory. Just edit where appropriate. -> who watches the watchmen? Key fingerprint - E619 726E 3815

Using old libstdc library

2000-10-24 Thread Craig Law
I'm using Debian 2.2 distribution and have a piece of commercial software from Novell that won't install unless it has the following file ... libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 I've had a look at this distribution and Debian 2.2 uses libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 Is it possible to go backwards and am I likel

LDAP + Sendamail

2000-10-24 Thread
Excusme but in the first mail I forgot the subject I try to work whit sendmail who use LDAP ROUTING method. I include the LDAPMAP with the file site.config.m4 into the directory /sendmail-8.11.1/devtools/Site/. I use the Build command in the directory /sendmail-8.11.1/sendmail/, it include the

Re: Using old libstdc library

2000-10-24 Thread Rino Mardo
You are liable to break things if you do that. I'm not particularly sure which version has that software but if your software from Novell is not picky on the distro version then yes use slink or even hamm. -> who watches the watchmen? Key fingerprint - E619 726E 3815 7A48 EAC7 E49F DF93 4E33 B

dialup problem

2000-10-24 Thread Peter Fedichev
Hello, I have to access my internet service provider, send and recieve faxes from behind a mini-telephon station. If I pick up my phone, there is now long tone (dialing tone), so I have to press "0", then the long tone appears and then I can dial out. The problem is that the programs I am using

First post to list: Make .deb archive available to dselect?

2000-10-24 Thread Robin Collins
Hi, I've recently started using Debian after some time with SuSE and am finding lots about Debian I like better, not the least is dpkg/dselect/apt. One thing I've done is to accumulate a number of updated packages off the Web which replace those on the potato CD. I now want to re-install on a se

pop-authenticate before SMTP?

2000-10-24 Thread Jonathan Markevich
My ISP is going down the toilet (again) and can't/won't manage a SMTP server. I'm forced to look at another option... Yahoo has a SMTP server I can use, since I do have an account with them, but I have to pop-authenticate before I can use it. Does anyone know the best MTA to use that allows this?

Re: pop-authenticate before SMTP?

2000-10-24 Thread Markus Fischer
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 04:46:34AM -0700, Jonathan Markevich wrote : > Does anyone know the best MTA to use that allows this? I've tried > running fetchpop just before manually flushing the queue but it > doesn't seem to like it... Right now I'm using Potato's exim. > This smtp-after-p

Re: pop-authenticate before SMTP?

2000-10-24 Thread Moritz Schulte
Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My ISP is going down the toilet (again) and can't/won't manage a > SMTP server. I'm forced to look at another option... [...] Right > now I'm using Potato's exim. Then, why don't your let your local MTA deliver the mails directly, without a smart

gs eats all memory

2000-10-24 Thread Brian Almeida
[ I'm not on debian-user, so please Cc me on replies ]. Has anyone else experienced this behavior? When printing any file (using lpr -Plp somefile), such as this one: -rw---1 bma bma 1278 Aug 21 01:01 klingon-programmer.txt and using redhat's printtool, gs consumes every dro

aside: killfiles & mailing software

2000-10-24 Thread Damien
> > He's earned his way into my killfile. Fool me twice, shame on me > > And now mine. as an aside, does mutt have any capabilities like this? what mailer are you two using? i'm a vi person myself, but i've been told nothing beats gnus cheers damien pgpIy4dAP97Ee.pgp Description: PGP s

Re: fullscreen video playback

2000-10-24 Thread Damien
> without proper video acceleration in X this is not > possible/reccomended. try using the double option in mpegtv and you'll see it's in X4. it's called the xvideo extention, and it's supported by a number of cards already, including my g400. the oss dvd player supports it, and it scales a video

ftp - installation by newbie

2000-10-24 Thread guran remberg
Hi I am sorry that I am not responding, the correct way but I read tour mail in a beta-Linux where the mail is flaky. So here is my way: On a partition called /dev/hdb6, named /mnt/bettan/, I have a root directory called debian. From http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/debian/dists/potato/

RPC Fails after apt-get upgrade

2000-10-24 Thread Pete Foley
Hey, I recently updated my file server (running woody) and it looks like NFS is now broken. Actually, once I did the upgrade, all net services died, because for some reason it messed up my local IP addresses and everything broke. I have been able to get IP MASQ and stuff working again, so all of

Re: aside: killfiles & mailing software

2000-10-24 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Damien, > as an aside, does mutt have any capabilities like this? what mailer are you > two using? i'm a vi person myself, but i've been told nothing beats gnus I'm not sure that mutt does filtering itself - it's usually a function of the MDA. It'll sort of depend on how you arrange to deli

Re: Symlink compress --> gzip

2000-10-24 Thread Colin Watson
"Craig Law" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Long story but trying to load NDS Corporate Edition (best installed on >Redhat 6.1 or 6.2) onto my Debian server. I've been given instructions >by someone who has done it before. The shell script which installs the >product makes some reference to compress wh

Re: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-24 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Thanks to all trying to help me. Sound refuses to work although adding user rland to group audio, in fact the sound card output channel should make the boxes at least do some noise as just tested on the other PC -t doesn't. Does lsmod help tp clarify: MINI:/home/rland# lsmod Module

Dual O/S

2000-10-24 Thread Cavaiani, Don
When I split up my hard drive between WIN98 and Debian, I made the Debian partitions too small. Is there any way to go back in there now and "steal" back some of the empty space that WIN98 now owns - without re-loading anything ??

Re: where is old (3.2) Xfree86?

2000-10-24 Thread Jim Crumley
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 04:57:48PM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: > Jim, > > The TP 365xd had two different display types. If you got the TFT, you can use > the latest xfree builds. If you have the DSTN, nothing after 3.2 works. At > least this is what I've read on a couple of Thinkpad web sites

Re: aside: killfiles & mailing software

2000-10-24 Thread Damien
> It's possible that you might be able to do it through the MUA (like > mutt), but that's not the Unix Way (tm). ahah! that's what i was after *grin*. i actually have a procmail setup here, filtering debian-user into a different mailbox. it's functional enought, but i never bothered learning muc

2.4-pre5 especially susceptible to memory overload?

2000-10-24 Thread dochawk
I have had more system hangs in the last two weeks than in the last four years put together . . . (OK, so that make s 2 :) The first incident was loading (well, attempting to load) an excessively large file into beav (a binary file editor). 1G file, 160Mb memory. It ran out of memory, and even

Re: aside: killfiles & mailing software

2000-10-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:10:11AM +1100, Damien wrote: > > It's possible that you might be able to do it through the MUA (like > > mutt), but that's not the Unix Way (tm). > > ahah! that's what i was after *grin*. > > i actually have a procmail setup here, filtering debian-user into a different

apt-get dist-upgrade and powerfailure

2000-10-24 Thread Matt Grant
I was doing an dist-upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 and my power went out. Data is backed up but I had to rush out of the house to work. I didn't get to boot the system. When I do what should I expect. Will I need to format or will It begin where it left off(Just Hopeing). Any tips or suggestions would

Re: Using old libstdc library

2000-10-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:24:29PM +1100, Craig Law wrote: > I'm using Debian 2.2 distribution and have a piece of commercial software > from Novell that won't install unless it has the following file ... > > libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 > > I've had a look at this distribution and Debian 2.2 uses >

Re: broken libc6/nss-modules in woody

2000-10-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 10:33:28AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > after an "apt-get dist-upgrade" my system (woody) seems quite broken. > Apache and lprng among other daemons/progs are no longer working: > > #/etc/init.d/apache start > Starting web server: apache. > /usr/sbin/apache

Re: pop-authenticate before SMTP?

2000-10-24 Thread Jan Reilink
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 04:46:34AM -0700, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > My ISP is going down the toilet (again) and can't/won't manage a SMTP > server. I'm forced to look at another option... Yahoo has a SMTP > server I can use, since I do have an account with them, but I have to > pop-authenticat

Re: Debian and Red Hat togheter

2000-10-24 Thread Derek Homeier
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:18:20 -0800, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:23:51PM -0700, Willy Lee wrote: > > "Scott" =3D=3D Scott V McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Sharing /home isn't so hard if there are only a few users. I do it > > > at home where ther

Help: How replace comma with a tab in a text file?

2000-10-24 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I have a comma delimited ex-database file and I want to replace the commas with tabs. I tried using: sed s/,/\tab/ filename but no go. It was a guess anyway. I tried replacing the tab with a * and it worked, but only for first line of items, mleaving the rest of the fields with commas. Any s

Re: pop-authenticate before SMTP?

2000-10-24 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:16:20 +0200, Jan Reilink writes: >On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 04:46:34AM -0700, >* what is "MTA" ? a Mail Transport Agent as opposed to a Mail User Agent, the MTA is responsible for delivering and accepting mail, the MUA for presenting it to the user and feeding users mail to

RE: Help: How replace comma with a tab in a text file?

2000-10-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Oct-2000 Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I have a comma delimited ex-database file and I want to replace the commas > with tabs. I tried using: > > sed s/,/\tab/ filename but no go. It was a guess anyway. I tried replacing > the tab with a * and it worked, but only for first line of items,

X32-Session under Win32 doesn't work

2000-10-24 Thread Thomas Luft
Hi, I just installed Debian woody release (because of KDE) and want to connect my Win32 computer to the linux kdm. I am using StarNet's X-Server (X-Win32) and wanted to connect to the Linux machine via XDMCP (Broadcast and query). Unfortunately the Debian machine isn't willing to host any sessi

Re: upgrade; change from unstable to specific distribution?

2000-10-24 Thread Steve Juranich
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > I added unstable to my apt/sources.list, but want to restrict so that I am > upgrading to the current new distribution only (I needed a specific > package), and not always the b-leading edge. Can I just chane from unstable > to "woody" in teh list?

Re: Help: How replace comma with a tab in a text file?

2000-10-24 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: > Hi, > > I have a comma delimited ex-database file and I want to replace the commas > with tabs. I tried using: > > sed s/,/\tab/ filename but no go. It was a guess anyway. I tried replacing > the tab with a * and it worked, but only for first line of items, mleaving > the rest of

Re: Help: gv not reading *.gz files?

2000-10-24 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, >Not sure. I run gv fairly much exclusively, not Ghostview. Ok, thanks on the gs/gv stuff. > PS The gv loads xaw3dg and don't know how to remove it's effects, so I'm > back to > Ghostview for the moment... >What do you mean by "don't know how to remove its effects"? Does xaw3dg >interfere

Re: installing MATLAB

2000-10-24 Thread Steve Juranich
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Prof. Le Baron O. Ferguson wrote: > Trying to do an install from the CDROM for v. 5.3 of MATLAB I can > not > get started. I get an error message: > can't load library 'libXt.so.6' > I find this library at /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6. I put a link to it > in /usr/X11R6 but

Re: First post to list: Make .deb archive available to dselect?

2000-10-24 Thread Falchion DaSword
Easy. read the man on dpkg. if you stored all those .deb's in one dir I believe you can jsut use: dpkg -i *.deb :) Falchion Deep Linux/Life thought of the day: The answer to most problems is man. On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Robin Collins wrote: > Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 07:38:07 -0400 (EDT) > To:

Re: Help: How replace comma with a tab in a text file?

2000-10-24 Thread Jonathan Gift
Great. Thanks for the help. Much appreciated. Jonathan

Re: Cable Modem

2000-10-24 Thread Steve Juranich
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Alvin Smith wrote: > Thanks. I printed out and read those last week. I am having problems > compiling the programs that come in the sb1000-1.1.2.tar. All of the > instructions seem to be for older kernels without cablemodem support. From > what I was able to gather, potato

Voodoo 3 2000

2000-10-24 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi! I am trying to get a Voodoo 3 2000 to run under Debian 2.2 - with the added bonus that this instance would have to run on a 300Mhz AMD K6. Is there a way to do it or should I just return the card? Thanks in advance, Juergen

Re: aside: killfiles & mailing software

2000-10-24 Thread Steve Juranich
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Damien wrote: > i actually have a procmail setup here, filtering debian-user into a different > mailbox. it's functional enought, but i never bothered learning much of the > procmail syntax. now would be a good time to read up on it. > For procmail, you'd want to write the f

KDE2 keybindings and Emacs

2000-10-24 Thread Thomas Halahan
Previously with KDE 1.1.2 I had emacs working with the Meta function being my ALT key. However after installing KDE2 on debian the ALT key no longer responds in the emacs window as it is being used globally by KDE2. Even if I change the KDE keybindings emacs is not able access the ALT key. A

Re: fullscreen video playback

2000-10-24 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, matt garman wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:42:03PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > without proper video acceleration in X this is no

help: how install sendmail 8.11 with old libc6

2000-10-24 Thread Jaume Teixi
hi, I have a potato server running oracle who uses sendmail and apache from woody Last week I switched sources.list to woody to upgrade sendmail and apache. This causes upgrade of libc6, as I succesfully upgraded on a other server (a completelly woody one) I had no surprise.. but... ...oracle 8.1.

Re: help: how install sendmail 8.11 with old libc6

2000-10-24 Thread Miros/law `Jubal' Baran
24.10.2000 pisze Jaume Teixi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > well, which methods I have for installing apache and sendmail from > woody deb-src using old libc6 ? use only `deb-src' lines pointing to woody, all binary repositories data should point to potato / security-updates. Use then apt-get source send

Which are the packages for Navigator ?

2000-10-24 Thread Ezequiel Reyes
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Hi, I downloaded the first potato CD image and installed it, I have no chance to download the other two CDs, so I tried searching for the netscape navigator packages in the Debian site (I just want the web browser, not the e

kmail problems

2000-10-24 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I am trying to send email with kmail but whenever I try, exim complains about DATA being sent before RCPT TO. The exact message is: Response: 503 Valid RCPT TO must preced DATA I am using a smtp conection; I can send emails with others MUA (netscape, staroffice, etc) withou

Re: Voodoo 3 2000

2000-10-24 Thread Colin Watson
Juergen Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am trying to get a Voodoo 3 2000 to run under Debian 2.2 - with the >added bonus that this instance would have to run on a 300Mhz AMD K6. Is >there a way to do it or should I just return the card? It just works on my Debian unstable box, and worked whe

Whiteboard Software

2000-10-24 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi all, I have a situation here at work. My cow-orkers in another state wish to use a whiteboard application in our weekly teleconferences. They of course want to use Microsoft's NetMeeting. Well, I sit behind a firewall that makes use of NetMeeting problematic. What kind of whiteboard software

Any alternative to netscape for gnome ?

2000-10-24 Thread Ezequiel Reyes
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Another question, I use gnome, and I would like to know if there is any other browser with at least JavaScript suport for GTK that does not need/use the mozilla engine, something more "native", more gnome/gtk dependent. Than

Re: Idea: Master Debian FAQ (newbie-centric)

2000-10-24 Thread capslock2000
There is allready a lot of documentation around. Rewriting all of that would be pointless. It might be a good idea to create a big FAQ-index. eg: Disks & Drives Q How do I read a file from my Windows partition? A Mount package, Windows-To-Linux HOWTO Q How do I access my ZIP drive? A Mount package

Xfree86 symlinks gone

2000-10-24 Thread Rob Hudson
One day I attempted to get xinerama and XFree86 4.0.1 working on my box. I copied all the files from XF3 to a backup location, attempted to get XF4 up and running. I failed. And since this is my work machine, I needed XF3 back for the following Monday. I removed the new XF4 stuff, and copied ba

Re: Voodoo 3 2000

2000-10-24 Thread Juergen Fiedler
The first time I tried to install Debian on that machine, I installed the base system from floppies. Then, when I tried to install X by issuing an 'apt-get install task-x-window-system', I got an internal error after downloading the necessary files (if I was still at a download speed <=56K, the

Program started from cron cannot open display:?

2000-10-24 Thread John Ericson
I'm trying to launch a local Gnome program on my local X from crontab but in my mail report from the cron it says: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: And the program won't come up. My display is :0 and yes, X is running. Can anyone give me a hint here? -- * John Ericson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Squid problems

2000-10-24 Thread Tom Warfield
I have a squid proxy server that wont go to a specific site. The site its not going to is www.quill.com and i am sure that the only problem is the squid because I can get to it without going through the proxy server. Anyone have any ideas on why this wouldnt be working? What happens on the users

Re: Help: How replace comma with a tab in a text file?

2000-10-24 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 05:50:23PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: > > > > I have a comma delimited ex-database file and I want to replace the commas > > with tabs. I tried using: > > > > sed s/,/\tab/ filename but no go. It was a guess anyway. I tried replacing > > the tab with a * and it worked, but only

Re: deb package documentation

2000-10-24 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:26:04PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:42:05AM -0700, Stephen nyc wrote: > > I'm actually looking for the installation and > > configuration documentation in the package ipmasq.deb. > > I want to have it read and noted before I even try to > > in

Re: aside: killfiles & mailing software

2000-10-24 Thread kmself
on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 11:30:16PM +1100, Damien ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > He's earned his way into my killfile. Fool me twice, shame on me > > > > And now mine. > > as an aside, does mutt have any capabilities like this? what mailer are you > two using? i'm a vi person myself, but i'

Re: Dual O/S

2000-10-24 Thread mike
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:44:46 -0500, Cavaiani, Don said: > > When I split up my hard drive between WIN98 and Debian, I made the Debian > partitions too small. Is there any way to go back in there now and "steal" > back some of the empty space that WIN98 now owns - without re-loading > anyth

Re: pop-authenticate before SMTP?

2000-10-24 Thread Glyn Millington
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:19:24PM +0200, thus spake Moritz Schulte: > Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My ISP is going down the toilet (again) and can't/won't manage a > > SMTP server. I'm forced to look at another option... [...] Right > > now I'm using Potato's exim. > >

Re: pop-authenticate before SMTP?

2000-10-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 04:00:17PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > Moritz, If you can give me/us all the rundown on how to acheive this, or > point to some good docs that would be great. Tried ages ago on mandrake but > ran foul of the DUL list You'll still run into problems with the DUL. The s

Help on coma done--Thanks!

2000-10-24 Thread Jonathan Gift
Thanks to everyone who helped me out on the comma to tab replacement. A lot of grat suggestions and funny enough, not two alike! Jonathan

Re: Voodoo 3 2000

2000-10-24 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
> The first time I tried to install Debian on that machine, I installed the > base system > from floppies. Then, when I tried to install X by issuing an 'apt-get install > task-x-window-system', I got an internal error after downloading the > necessary files > (if I was still at a download speed

Re: Which are the packages for Navigator ?

2000-10-24 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Ezequiel Reyes wrote: > chance to download the other two CDs, so I tried searching for the netscape > navigator packages in the Debian site (I just want the web browser, not the > entire comunicator suite), but I get a large list of packages in the > resulting search page including the word "naviga

Re: Whiteboard Software

2000-10-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 10:50:57AM -0600, Robert Kerr wrote: > software is out there that I could use in this situation? Is there apt-cache search whiteboard says: | nte - shared text editor designed for use on the Mbone. | vat - LBNL audio conferencing tool over the internet. YMMV. > anythin

Re: Xfree86 symlinks gone

2000-10-24 Thread Hubert Chan
Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [cut] > Setting up libgnomeui32 (1.2.8-helix1) ... > ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 is not a symlink > ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.6 is not a symlink > ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXtst.so.6 is not a symlink > > What

Re: fullscreen video playback

2000-10-24 Thread Hubert Chan
matt garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello: > > Is there any way that I can play video on my Linux system in *fullscreen* > mode? By fullscreen, I mean that the images are scaled to the size of my > entire screen. > > I have smpeg (plaympeg) version 0.4.0 and SDL version 1.1.5 as well as >

Re: Debian crashes: sw, hw or malicious hacker/virus problems?

2000-10-24 Thread kmself
on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 08:57:59AM +0200, Jean Orloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, dear debian fellows! > > Please forgive my paranoid anonymity, in view of the last section of > this message. > > 1) My problem: > > I have happily used debian since 1995 (0.93R6 if I recall?). But since I

Re: fullscreen video playback

2000-10-24 Thread Frederik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24 Oct 2000, Hubert Chan wrote: > Try installing xmms (Debian package available) and the xmms-smpeg plug-in > (available from the xmms home page - www.xmms.org). It seems to scale the > movie to fit the whole screen. BTW, it requires smpeg 0.4.1.

Re: Program started from cron cannot open display:?

2000-10-24 Thread kmself
on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 03:39:53AM +0200, John Ericson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying to launch a local Gnome program on my local X from crontab but in > my > mail report from the cron it says: > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > And the program won't come up. My display is :0

Re: Xfree86 symlinks gone

2000-10-24 Thread Rob Hudson
Hubert Chan said these things on 20001024.1151: | Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | [cut] | > Setting up libgnomeui32 (1.2.8-helix1) ... | > ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 is not a symlink | > ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.6 is not a symlink | > ldconfig: wa

Re: Help: gv not reading *.gz files?

2000-10-24 Thread kmself
on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 05:46:23PM +0200, Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > >Not sure. I run gv fairly much exclusively, not Ghostview. > > Ok, thanks on the gs/gv stuff. > > > PS The gv loads xaw3dg and don't know how to remove it's effects, so I'm > > back to > > Ghostview f

Re: X32-Session under Win32 doesn't work

2000-10-24 Thread kmself
on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 05:45:08PM +0200, Thomas Luft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Debian woody release (because of KDE) and want to > connect my Win32 computer to the linux kdm. I am using StarNet's > X-Server (X-Win32) and wanted to connect to the Linux machine via > XDM

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