Re: Sendmail Virtualuser

On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:39:47 +0100, Grischa Schuering writes: >I can't find the file in the sendmail-debian version. How and where do I >manage to enter something like this: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] >@localdomain.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Put FEATURE(`virtusertable', `h

Re: DPMS on console?

on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 05:54:02PM -0500, Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there a DPMS-capable console blanker? man setterm -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don

Re: [OT] power supply meltdown, part ][

At 05:54 PM 11/12/00 -0500, you wrote: I've got one here on my vintage 1993 486/33, I've unplugged the fan on it coz it was noisy and I'm too lazy to go to the basement, hunt for a voltmeter, soldering iron, and play the old 12->7V conversion game again. So I'm wondering what are the chances it'l

Re: Need hardware recommendations

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > (1) Motherboard > > I intend to get a P-III CPU (probably 800EB). One store from where I got > a quote recommended the ASUS CUSL2 i815e mobo. My current system has a > BX-based ABIT BH6 whic

Re: Need hardware recommendations

At 12:49 AM 11/13/00 -0500, you wrote: I will be scavenging a sound card (SB PCI 128), video card (Matrox Millennium G200), and CD-ROM (Creative 52x) from the current desktop which will subsequently be turned into a headless server. ... Price isn't too much of a consideration since this deskt

Re: connection problem with T-Online

On Wed, 01 Nov 2000, TrEB wrote: > > I can't get a stable connection with my T-Online provider. > ... to Mobilcom's Freenet provider all is working fine. > ... t-online disconnects after 4-5 secs Hi, sorry for being late (prob: sendmail 8.9.3-23 compiled with the PICKY_HOST option doesn't go well

Re: unsuscribe

on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 09:47:53PM -0800, John Bagdanoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 07:38:10PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Colin Watson writes: > > > In the meantime, I draw your attention to the line at the bottom of every > > > mail to this list: > > > > > mail -s u

Q: Procedure to follow w/Compiled apps?

Hi, I have two related question on procedure it would be great to have the answer to... 1. I have compiled and installed a new kernel. I'll keep the source in place for future work, but what of the org bzImage? Does one leave that in place as well or is it ok to remove it? 2. I compiled and inst

Re: running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade --download-only If I run apt-get from inside dselect (with "U" in the main menu), then when I "S"elect packages the first time, all packages that are new will be displayed at the top of all packages, making it easy to select inte

Re: i810 and potato X

hi ya lee... you need to use XFree-4.x or XFCom_i810 from intel for Xfree-3.3.x you need to also install the agpgart.o modules here's mroe info/patches/howtos http://www.linux-1u.net/MotherBoard/*X11* have fun alvin http://www.linux-1u.net1U Raid5...3-5 Nics in 1U... On Sun, 12

Re: Getting gnome helix running on potato

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Martin Waller wrote: > I have a friend here who abandoned potato 'cos he couldn't get gnome helix > running under potato. > > Can it be done (without resorting to woody)? > How? Works fine for me. I just put this in my apt-sources: deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/dis

Re: Re(2): Boot Problem

On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Janos Kramar wrote: My error message was different (kernel panic during boot) but it was caused by the built-in "Boot virus detection" in my new ASUS CUSL2 motherboard. I could boot from floppy but not from the harddrive that I pulled out of my old P200 machine. I turned off t

Re: Need hardware recommendations

on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 12:49:54AM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have to get a new (desktop) system for my home use, and wanted to get > recommendations from this list about some of the hardware components. > > I will be scavenging a sound card (SB PCI 128), video card

Re: Q: Procedure to follow w/Compiled apps?

on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 09:43:00AM +0100, Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I have two related question on procedure it would be great to have the > answer to... > > 1. I have compiled and installed a new kernel. I'll keep the source in > place for future work, but what of the o

Re: running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 10:09:22AM +, Ekkehard Kraemer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade --download-only > > If I run apt-get from inside dselect (with "U" in the main menu), then > when I "S"elect packages the first time, al

user-specific lisp packages for xemacs?

Hi Is it possible to install elisp packages for only one user? The problem is that my admin does not like the auctex-package, but it would be really easier to write LaTeX stuff havin it... Thenks joerh

Re: Need hardware recommendations

Obviously Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thinks that: > I would avoid Soyo like the plague. I can't think about their Socket 7 > boards without running in horror... Hmmm, been running Soyo board with a PI/133 some time ago and worked pretty fine, for what I thought... Personally I had worst

mysql/errors rotating logs

Hi! I installed mysql-server on my potato system and changed the password for the mysql root user afterwards. i think this is a good thing(tm), but now i'm getting the following error from cron/logrotate in my mail: Subject: errors rotating logs errors occured while rotat

Re: running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > You may want to investigate 'capt', which replaces dselect. I will do that. But there seem to be a lot of "dselect replacements" lately... is capt the "official" replacement? > > Can this be achieved somehow, so I can keep track of "new" packages > > better? > Re-

Re: mysql/errors rotating logs

In a galaxy not too far away, Stefan Janecek spoke on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:18:49AM +0100: > Hi! > > I installed mysql-server on my potato system and changed the password > for the mysql root user afterwards. i think this is a good thing(tm), > but now i'm getting the following error from cron/

memory problem

i have installed debian potato with kernel 2.2.17 on a amd-k6 500 with VIA VT82C5 Apollo Chipset the bios recognizes the total of 128MB ram, but debian only uses 64MB - any hints? thanks Michael

xf86cfg error?

Hi all, Anyone successfully ran xf86cfg with X4? It says "cannot find card database". With ltrace i can see it looks for lib/X11/Cards, but none of the recent woody packages seems to contain such file (err, xfree 3.3.6 package does, but it would not make sense using 3.3.6 card databes with 4.0.1

xdm not getting/giving authority for X to allow login

Hey there folks. I've recently installed my nice debian system on my notebook and all is well... except that I can't use xdm. I can start it, get the login window and can type in my username and password. I hit return and login window vanishes, the display changes slighty and then instantly change

Q: Worried in Paris-Debian flaking out monitor?

Hi, I was fine running Linux at 1152x864 under Mandarke but since I've switched to Debian and the same configuration, I've noticed the off monitor weirdness... like a sudden flash of light on boot, then the sudden visual "implosion" of my desktop screen, something which lasted a fraction of a sec

Q: GCC: bash: a.out: command not found?

Hi, I installed the compiler with the default Debian 2.2 C/C++ tasksel. I compiled my kernel fine. But I tried a sipme hello world in C and when tried to run a.out I got: GCC: bash: a.out: command not found I got a feeling this is a path isue. But to what? I tried the gcc readme, the FAQ online

Re: Q: GCC: bash: a.out: command not found?

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:17:02PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > GCC: bash: a.out: command not found > I got a feeling this is a path isue. But to what? I tried the gcc readme, > the FAQ online and on disk. Nothing. Try ./a.out. By default the current directory is not on your path. -- Mark Br

problem building apache from source

Hi, Apache building crashes on a potato system with libopenldap-dev_1.2.11 could you helpme with this ? thanks, jaume. -- gcc -c -o auth_ldap_config.o -DLINUX=2 -DEAPI -DTARGET="apache" -DUSE_HSREGEX -DUSE_EXPAT -I../lib/expat-lite -DAUTH_LDAP_FRONTPAGE_HACK -DWITH_OPENLDAP -fpic -DSHARED

Debian installation from NT

Hi, folks: I've installed and configured Debian a lot of times in my local network, always from our linux local debian mirror. But I've never installed it from a NT mirror and now I'm having some troubles installing debian via NFS from it. When I set the server name and the root distributi

Re: Q: Procedure to follow w/Compiled apps?

Hi, Thanks for getting back to me... > 1. I have compiled and installed a new kernel. I'll keep the source in > place for future work, but what of the org bzImage? Does one leave > that in place as well or is it ok to remove it? >Sorry. Where's that bzImage? Under /usr/src/linux or in /boot?

sound-slot-0 not found

Hi guys, my computer gives the following error messages on boot time: sound-slot-0 not found sound-service-0 not found The curious is: my sound functions actually Can you give some help to solve this problem? Thnx Florian -- -

Re: Q: GCC: bash: a.out: command not found?

Hi, > Try ./a.out. By default the current directory is not on your path. I'm a moron, of course, that has to be it. I was just following the book blind... Much thanks. Jonathan

Re: problem building apache from source

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:40:55PM +0100, Jaume Teixi wrote: > Hi, Apache building crashes on a potato system with > libopenldap-dev_1.2.11 use libldap2-dev -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debi

firewalling

Hello, I am configuring a computer as a firewall and ip-masquerading server. Being on this adventure (it is my first time doing this), I have the following questions: - I did a nmap localhost and discovered that unwanted ports 'sunrpc' (111) and 'printer' (515) are open. I have not found these i

Re: Q: Procedure to follow w/Compiled apps?

In a galaxy not too far away, Jonathan Gift spoke on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:35:27PM +0100: > Hi, > > Thanks for getting back to me... > > > 1. I have compiled and installed a new kernel. I'll keep the source in > > place for future work, but what of the org bzImage? Does one leave > > that in p

Re: problem building apache from source

but how to build apache from libopenldap either than libldap ? ? > > Hi, Apache building crashes on a potato system with > > libopenldap-dev_1.2.11 > > > use libldap2-dev > thanks, jaume

build apache with APXS ?

howto thanks a lot, jaume.

Intel server box for NT, Linux

Hi. We've been running a Linux intranet server on an old Apple Mac. The use and content on the intranet is exceeding the capacity of our old 7200, and it looks like management will cough up for a new server to run Linux, with a tape-backup drive et al. I'd like a recommendation for a popular serve

User anacron run-parts

Hello, I have a few user scripts which run once a day. These are right now keeping track of their own time stamp, and are run regularly (for example by cron, or whenever logging in). Is the following line in /etc/anacrontab 1 5cron.SOMEUSER nice su - SOMEUSER bash -c run-parts --report

Re: firewalling

On 13/11/2000 at 14:14 +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > - I did a nmap localhost and discovered that unwanted ports 'sunrpc' (111) > and 'printer' (515) are open. I have not found these in inetd.conf and I > do not know how to turn these off. I have already tried removing sunrpc.o > from the modules,

Re: memory problem

Hi, On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, [iso-8859-1] Michael Bürkle wrote: > i have installed debian potato with kernel 2.2.17 > on a amd-k6 500 with VIA VT82C5 Apollo Chipset > the bios recognizes the total of 128MB ram, but debian only uses 64MB - any > hints? put 'mem=128M' in lilo.conf somewhere. I do not

lyx; how do I view/export a document as ps/dvi?

I'm not able to make LyX view or export documents as ps or dvi. I have (I believe) all relevant packages installed. What do I do to solve this problem? Thanks __ Denne eposten er sendt ved hjelp av http://www.Organizer.net - Norges

gnomeICU

Hey Guys, I just upgraded from gnomeicu .90b to .94. When I go to run it now, I get an error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> gnomeicu ** ERROR **: file extern.c: line 639 (s_panel_add_applet_full): assertion failed: (li != NULL) aborting... ** WARNING **: file applet-widget.c: line 934: Corba Exception: t

RE: memory problem

Put this line in your lilo.conf file: append="mem=128M" at the end of the file. Commit the changes to your lilo.conf file by running /sbin/lilo. Reboot, and you should be in business (you can verify by running top). --Nate -Original Message- From: Sebastiaan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

From Potato to Woody.

Hi.. I believe that this must be a FAQ, but here it goes anyway... How can I upgrade from Potato to Woody? I'm thinking of doing the following: 1) change all the lines in sources.list from stable to woody; 2) running "apt-get update"; 3) running "apt-get dist-upgrade". But

Ring0

Hi! I'm not really sure if I should be sending this mail to you... Anyway - I got here, because I told AltaVista to for anything about Ring-0. As far as I know, it's something that's blocking programmer-amatour acces to Win98 memory. I'd like to ask, if you could help me out with that? If the ans

dpkg 1.7.1 errors

Since upgrading to dpkg 1.7.1, I have experienced several problems with apt-get dist-upgrade. A few times, I had to manually install and deinstall the downloaded packages, 'cause apt-get wasn't able to pull it off. Today, I get this error message: Fetched 14.5MB in 3m40s (65.8kB/s)

Removing portmapper, Re: firewalling

Quoting Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > - I did a nmap localhost and discovered that unwanted ports 'sunrpc' (111) > and 'printer' (515) are open. I have not found these in inetd.conf and I > do not know how to turn these off. I have already tried removing sunrpc.o > from the modules, but the co

Re: Q: Worried in Paris-Debian flaking out monitor?

> I was fine running Linux at 1152x864 under Mandarke but since I've switched > to Debian and the same configuration, I've noticed the off monitor > weirdness... like a sudden flash of light on boot, then the sudden visual > "implosion" of my desktop screen, something which lasted a fraction of a s

Re: lyx; how do I view/export a document as ps/dvi?

> I'm not able to make LyX view or export documents as ps or dvi. I have (I > believe) all relevant packages installed. What do I do to solve this problem? > Thanks > run lyx from an xterm. watch for debugging output. you need dvi2ps (or it might default to dviprint, i'm not sure), and of cours

Re: Ring0

> Hi! I'm not really sure if I should be sending this mail to you... > Anyway - I got here, because I told AltaVista to for anything about > Ring-0. As far as I know, it's something that's blocking > programmer-amatour acces to Win98 memory. > I'd like to ask, if you could help me out with that?

What partition?

Out of curiosity I spent my weekend trying to reinstall Deb 2.2 out of floppies, on a 4GB HD. The installation kept sending me back to the floor, (the floppies would die before the end of the install of the base, or it wouldn't make the hd bootable). I was using a partition like /boot primar

Re: lyx; how do I view/export a document as ps/dvi?

"A.E. Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not able to make LyX view or export documents as ps or dvi. I have (I > believe) all relevant packages installed. What do I do to solve this problem? > Thanks You have a working LaTeX and can use xdvi on its own, can't you? LyX needs it. -- Check the

IPMASQ ??

Can anyone tell me how to remove or disable ipmasq Thanks in advance Bill

email

Hello all recently i inquired about configuring mutt to send and receive email. I thinks in retrorespect i was jumping the gun some what since i haven't quite grasped the first principles of sending and receiving email. I need to know these first principles. I would be very grateful to anyon

VI probs

Title: VI probs Hi, I just changed from SUSE to Debian and kind of have problems with the VI. When in INSERT mode I used to see that from the status line below, now there isnt anything. Also Delete isn't working as before, also when using the cursor keys, always the INSERT mode discontinues.

Re: lyx; how do I view/export a document as ps/dvi?

Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm not able to make LyX view or export documents as ps or dvi. I > > have (I believe) all relevant packages installed. What do I do to > > solve this problem? Thanks > > run lyx from an xterm. watch for debugging output. Good idea! > you need dvi2ps (or

problems upgrading to 2.2r1

Most packages have upgraded fine. However, because modutils will not upgrade correctly, a few packages are not upgrading. Has anyone else had problems upgrading modutils? Please find the error messages shown below. Ny idea how to fix? I am running kernel 2.2.17 and do not use kerneld demon. #

Re: Helix-Gnome not installable

Since the problem is a conflict between Helix and Debian versions of some libraries, perhaps you can temporarily comment out the Debian lines in your sources.list, do an apt-get update and then try apt-get install task-helix-gnome. Don´t forget to fix your sources.list afterwards or you won´t be

X on PowerMac 9500 w/ ATI Mach64

Hi We were trying to install the mach64 xserver, but we haven't found it. We searched the Mailinglist archive and found out, that the package is broken. So, does somebody can help, and say us, how does we can install it? The framebuffer device is not working correctly. Does somebody had already th

Re: failed to connect port 25

Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just installed Postfix mailerdeamon, and now I am unable to send > email out of the network. After searching, I discovered that I am also > unable to telnet to the smtp port of the delivery-mailserver. That is: > > $ telnet mail.somewhere.nl 25 > Tr

Re: firewalling

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 02:14:23PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Hello, > > I am configuring a computer as a firewall and ip-masquerading server. > Being on this adventure (it is my first time doing this), I have the > following questions: > > - I did a nmap localhost and discovered that unwanted

Re: VI probs

In a galaxy not too far away, Grischa Schuering spoke on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:30:13PM +0100: > Hi, > > I just changed from SUSE to Debian and kind of have problems with the VI. > When in INSERT mode I used to see that from the status line below, now there > isnt anything. Also Delete isn't wor

package AND source : how ?

Recently I upgraded to potato (from slink). There were dependency problems with Python packages (and related programs). The first error message was about a missing libtk8.3.so . However, tk8.3 _was not_ in .deb packages, so I installed it from source. It went to /usr/local/lib . However, the p

.deb (II)

Hi to all! On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 00:43:16 -0500, Valius wrote: >or use alien (I believe it should be in your RedHat distribution) and >``alienize'' .debs to .rpms > I would like to know if alien can be user to obtain a .deb from a .rpm. If this is the case, what happens with the directories were,

small question

I'm new user of Debian and I don't know how to configure the hadrware for the network. I know "ifconfig", but it is for soft configuration, and any time I want to use it, it tells me "unknown device" about eth0. Well, my hardware is correct : Corel Linux 2nd ed. configures without any problem. Wha

Re: Helix-Gnome not installable

Sometime this morning, Helix made new packages available. I´ll bet it all works OK now, so ignore my earlier post. On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 09:55:07PM -0500, Joel Dinel wrote: > I can't seem to install Helix Gnome on my woody box. > > dimmu:~# apt-get install task-helix-gnome > Reading Package Li

Re: What partition?

Paindavoine, Matthieu (MPAINDAV) wrote: Out of curiosity I spent my weekend trying to reinstall Deb 2.2 out of floppies, on a 4GB HD. The installation kept sending me back to the floor, (the floppies would die before the end of the install of the base, or it wouldn't make the hd bootable). I

Re: problems upgrading to 2.2r1

My system has modutils_2.3.11-10 and that seems to be what's currently on the ftp site: http://ftp.debian.org/dists/Debian2.2r1/main/binary-i386/base/ On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:35:54AM -0500, James D. Freels wrote: > Most packages have upgraded fine. However, because modutils will not > upgra

Re: VI probs

Grischa Schuering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GS> I just changed from SUSE to Debian and kind of have problems with GS> the VI. When in INSERT mode I used to see that from the status GS> line below, now there isnt anything. Also Delete isn't working as GS> before, also when using the cursor keys,

ISP accounting software

I am on the lookout for a light weight ISP accounting software, preferentially a command line version which can be fired from ppp scripts. Should have features of configuration for rates, volume of transaction etc Should output to a log file. Yes, kppp suits the bill fine but kde is too resource

My recent RedHat experience

Greetings, I just had to report my recent Red Hat experience. I desired to install Oracle 8i on a linux platform, and I happened to have some sort of CD that claimed to be Oracle 8i for Red Hat. I had been told by colleagues that Red Hat was the greatest thing since sliced bread, and that

Re: network printing

Andrew Dwight Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having some trouble getting my printer to work across my network. > The printer works like a champ on the local machine (sendack, > 192.168.1.1). But when I try from the remote machine (derico, > 192.168.1.2) nothing happens and when I run lpq

Re: VI probs

%% Stefan Janecek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sj> Whats called 'vi' in suse is actually vim. do 'apt-get install vim sj> vim-rt' and use vim to edit your files - it should behave like vi sj> on suse... Just a note: you don't need to use the command "vim" to edit your files. When you instal

My recent RedHat experience

> "Brooks" == Brooks R Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brooks> Greetings, [... lots of inane rantings deleted ...] Brooks> I love Debian, Sorry, the cheerleading list is right across the corridor. If you don't have a problem to report, or can't solve someone else's problem pl

Re: Ring0

On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Marcin Januchta wrote: > Hi! I'm not really sure if I should be sending this mail to you... OK, you're not being offensive. > Anyway - I got here, because I told AltaVista to for anything about > Ring-0. As far as I know, it's something that's blocking > programmer-ama

Re: disk hot-swap utilities

On 11 Nov 2000 12:31:13 +0100, Ramin Motakef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I recently had the opportunity to use a FreeBSD feature that I found > > extremely cool. I had built a machine, set it up as a server, deployed > > the server, then re

JOKER !

I said "thanks for any HELP", and no thanks for "more pb"... I use Unix since a long time, but not Linux : I have a NeXT cube and an UltraSparc station. I want to be familiar with debian because it's the only way to not fall in "commercial" products with my first "PC" (which I got for adding HD, b

Re: ISP accounting software

In a galaxy not too far away, USM Bish spoke on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:14:31PM +0518: > I am on the lookout for a light weight ISP accounting > software, preferentially a command line version which > can be fired from ppp scripts. Should have features > of configuration for rates, volume of tra

RE: small question

Thanks to you. It may be (certainly) the answer I searched for. > -Message d'origine- > De: Allan F. Caetano [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: lundi 13 novembre 2000 18:41 > À:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet:small question > > > "Gilles" == Gilles Malia

Re: .deb (II)

"Marcelo Chiapparini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 00:43:16 -0500, Valius wrote: >>or use alien (I believe it should be in your RedHat distribution) and >>``alienize'' .debs to .rpms > >I would like to know if alien can be user to obtain a .deb from a .rpm. Yes; in fact, that's

Re: My recent RedHat experience

"Allan F. Caetano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Brooks" == Brooks R Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Brooks> Greetings, >[... lots of inane rantings deleted ...] >Brooks> I love Debian, > >Sorry, the cheerleading list is right across the corridor. If you >don't have a probl

can't locate module tap0 (tap1,tap2,...,tap15)

How do I fix this? More generally, where do I look if I'm having problems of this form? -chris

Re: Removing portmapper, Re: firewalling

I think the cleanest way to do this is # cp -p /etc/init.d/portmap /root/ # update-rc.d portmap remove and then keep track of the links (which update-rc.d will tell you about) in case you need to put it back. # ls portmap* portmap portmap.links # cat portmap.links /etc/rc0.d/S10portmap

Re: .deb (II)

Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MC> I would like to know if alien can be user to obtain a .deb from a MC> .rpm. Yes. MC> If this is the case, what happens with the directories were, after MC> installation, files are installed? I mean RH may use some MC> directories and Debian anot

Re: small question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm new user of Debian and I don't know how to configure the >hadrware for the network. >I know "ifconfig", but it is for soft configuration, and any time I want to >use it, it tells me "unknown device" about eth0. That looks like you need to recompile your kernel with su

tape is ejected from drive after 10 mins => no unattended backups

Hello, I have a problem witha system installed with Debian 2.2 from scratch. The system has a SCSI DAT Tape drive, that works ok. The only problem is that whenever you insert a tape, if no activity occurs on the tape for 10 minutes, it is ejected automatically. This is a problem as backups cannot

Re: JOKER !

Install the driver for your network card in the kernel, or load the appropriate module. It usually goes with parameters for io and irq. Then you will have the eth0 device, and you can use ifconfig. Silver - Original Message - From: "Maliar, Gilles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't locate module tap0 (tap1,tap2,...,tap15)

Look in /lib/modules/x.y.z/ where x.y.z is your linux kernel version. If the modules are not there, you will have to compile them from the kernel sources. (first, check if they are not included as part of the kernel). Silver - Original Message - From: "Krzys Majewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

GnuPG unable to generate keys?

Hello, I'm running Potato and I've a strange problem with GnuPG. GnuPG seems to be unable to generate keys, if ~/.gnupg doesn't already exist. Here are the errors I get if i try to generate a key pair: <0>[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [~] $ gpg --gen-key [...] gpg: keyblock resource `/home/moritz/.gnupg':

Re: My recent RedHat experience

> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> "Allan F. Caetano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> "Brooks" == Brooks R Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Brooks> Greetings, >> [... lots of inane rantings deleted ...] Brooks> I love Debian, >>

Re: Sysadmin and.. (Non-renumbering of disks on bootup)..

Thanks, everybody for suggestions on how to get a debian box to NOT renumber scsi disks on bootup: One of our sharp debian guys found a way to build an /etc/scsi-alias file that contains the scsi serial number of a disk, with entries for each disk similar to: devtype=disk,serial_number=6496,al

Re: Debian installation from NT

At 10:44 AM 11/13/00 -0200, you wrote: I've installed and configured Debian a lot of times in my local network, always from our linux local debian mirror. But I've never installed it from a NT mirror and now I'm having some troubles installing debian via NFS from it. Does the local linux mi

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I've just upgraded my "unstable" installation to use XFree 4.0.1 (previously XFree 3.3.6) on a neomagic-based laptop. I run Helix GNOME and gdm with two displays active by default. Soon after installing I was moving from one X display to the other (Ctl-Alt-F8) and suddenly the mouse changed from th

Re: email

Subject: email Date: Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 02:59:16PM - In reply to:John-Mark Quoting John-Mark([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello all > recently i inquired about configuring mutt to send and receive email. I > thinks in retrorespect i was jumping the gun some what since i haven't q

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Hi! After the installation of Netscape3 from the potato CD using atp crashed, I am not able, using "atp-get uninstall netscape3", to uninstall the little stuff already installed . It appears that remain some files and directories in the HD. I would like to know the following: 1) where to see in o

Re: Q: Procedure to follow w/Compiled apps?

on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:35:27PM +0100, Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 1. I have compiled and installed a new kernel. I'll keep the source > > in place for future work, but what of the org bzImage? Does one > > leave that in place as well or is it ok to remove it? > > >Sorry. Wh

wm

Hi! I would like to know what window manager is the most popular in the Debian community. Thanks in advance! Marcelo _ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

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Re: Q: Procedure to follow w/Compiled apps?

Ok, thanks for the time and help. Jonathan

Re: Debian installation from NT

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, C. Falconer wrote: > At 10:44 AM 11/13/00 -0200, you wrote: > > I've installed and configured Debian a lot of times in my local > >network, always from our linux local debian mirror. But I've never installed > >it from a NT mirror and now I'm having some troubles installin

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