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2000-12-03 Thread disco No disco
hello - If I am using a Mac and OS 9.0.4 can I switch between my current OS and yours or is it one ot the other?

Re: hdparm

2000-12-03 Thread Willy Lee
"Ray" == Ray Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok all I have hdparm installed and working and with the help of a > couple of online articles I have what I think is a stable setup for > it (It's been running for about 2 weeks now with no problems and a > great increase in performance) but now

upgrading ide->scsi+ide

2000-12-03 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Since xmas comes I thought this might be a good time to play santa claus with me and putting in a scsi-disk for all except my mp3s, which will continue to reside on the already built-in ide-drive. Now there are a few questions bothering me: - what do I have to be aware of to be able to boo

Re: Terminals/dim screens = use bold everywhere but dselect is...dim

2000-12-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
S Taylor wrote: >Do color monitors die after four years? The boot messages are barely >visible; seems they've gotten worse over two months since I installed >Debian 2.2. I've got the monitor buttons for brightness and contrast >at maximum, setterm=bold within Linux, so I can see. And X allo

Re: Terminals/dim screens = use bold everywhere but dselect is...dim

2000-12-03 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > S Taylor wrote: > >Do color monitors die after four years? The boot messages are barely > >visible; seems they've gotten worse over two months since I installed > >Where can I find "HOWTOs to configure this 'terminal', a magitronic

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-12-03 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 02 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Adding an "apt-get autoclean" to your cron'd "apt-get dist-upgrade > --download-only" will automatically flush out redundant .debs. > Particularly if you add the autoclean *after* the download. OTOH, if one has enough space for that, just use a

Re: Win4Lin

2000-12-03 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 12:02:15AM -0300, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Which is the RPM based distribution closest to Debian? > > Win4Lin only comes in rpm and i don't want to mess my intallation. > > Thanx. > > -- > __

Re: mouse middle button not working in X

2000-12-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Dec 2000, Jeremiah H. Savage wrote: > When I was using a ps/2 mouse, I got the middle buttom to work by > changing the Device in the "Pointer" Section of /etc/X11/XF86Config from > Device > "/dev/psaux"<-- yours might have something else > to > Device > "/dev/gpmdata" > >

Re: Dual booting Debian and MacOS (was )

2000-12-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 12:57:57AM -0500, disco No disco wrote: > hello - If I am using a Mac and OS 9.0.4 can I switch between my current OS > and yours or is it one ot the other? yes it is possible to dual boot your machine between MacOS and Debian, the way you accomplish this varies based on wh

Re: upgrading ide->scsi+ide

2000-12-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 07:51:41AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > Since xmas comes I thought this might be a good time to play santa > claus with me and putting in a scsi-disk for all except my mp3s, which > will continue to reside on the already built-in ide-drive. > > Now there are

closing open ports

2000-12-03 Thread patd
i just did an nmap to a machine i'm servicing and i have 2 open ports that i cannot account for. they are: PortState Protocol Service 781 opentcphp-collector 779 openudpunknown looking at /etc/services 779/udp is for moir

who listens on the port?

2000-12-03 Thread Erik Steffl
the nmap shows: 785/tcpopenunknown the netstat confirms: tcp00 jojda:785jojda:3984 TIME_WAIT tcp00 *:785*:*LISTEN how do I find who listens onj this port? another mystery: I remember that during setup of some networking packa

Re: closing open ports

2000-12-03 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 04:31:18AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i just did an nmap to a machine i'm servicing and i have 2 open ports > that i cannot account for. they are: > PortState Protocol Service > 781 opentcphp-collector > 779 open

Re: Quake installation

2000-12-03 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Yobb wrote: > Help. Am I missing something? I downloaded and tried to install the > following: > > quake-lib_1.06-10.deb > quake-x11_0.1.1-1.deb > > I got the following error: > > # dpkg -i quake-x11_0.1.1-1.deb > (Reading database ... 46278 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparin

Re: who listens on the port?

2000-12-03 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 01:43:50AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > the nmap shows: > > 785/tcpopenunknown > > the netstat confirms: > > tcp00 jojda:785jojda:3984 TIME_WAIT > tcp00 *:785*:*LISTEN > > how do I find who listens onj thi

kbdconfig

2000-12-03 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, I just can't configure my keyboard table. I ran kbdconfig and awnsered all the questions, then I tested my new configuration when kbdconfig asked me. Everything is fine, all the 'oe's and 'ae's and 'ue's are showing up as they should. But then, after kbdconfig finished ( and i answered y when

Re: mutt startup view

2000-12-03 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 10:03:30PM +0100, Timo Benk wrote: > Can I configure mutt that way that the first screen is the folder view. > If I use mutt -y not every folder shows up, even if I mentioned it in the > mailboxes directive. I figured it out by myself, I wrote in my .muttrc: mailboxes

wxgtk-config?

2000-12-03 Thread Johann Spies
I am trying to build a debian package from the wxgtk and wxwindows sources in woody on my potato system. Compiling wxgtk ends with : --- configure: error: Is gtk-config in path and GTK+ is version 1.2.1 or above? make: *** [build-stamp] Error 1

reinstall windows?

2000-12-03 Thread Dale Morris
I want to reinstall windows on a computer I've been using linux on. (I'm going to give it to my mother-in-law). I have an old OEM copy of win95, of course I have no cd-rom driver disks and I have the 'upgrade version' of win98 and a windows 98 startup disk. The computer has a 4.6hd master and a 2

Re: mutt startup view

2000-12-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:40:21AM +0100, Timo Benk wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 10:03:30PM +0100, Timo Benk wrote: > > Can I configure mutt that way that the first screen is the folder view. > > If I use mutt -y not every folder shows up, even if I mentioned it in the > > mailboxes di

Re: reinstall windows?

2000-12-03 Thread scr
Dale Morris schrieb: > > I want to reinstall windows on a computer I've been using linux on. (I'm > going to give it to my mother-in-law). I have an old OEM copy of win95, > of course I have no cd-rom driver disks and I have the 'upgrade version' > of win98 and a windows 98 startup disk. > > The

Re: reinstall windows?

2000-12-03 Thread Martin Würtele
> > I want to reinstall windows on a computer I've been using linux on. (I'm > going to give it to my mother-in-law). I have an old OEM copy of win95, > of course I have no cd-rom driver disks and I have the 'upgrade version' > of win98 and a windows 98 startup disk. > > The computer has a 4.6hd

Re: Progeny Linux

2000-12-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 23:45:00 -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > My latest copy of Maximum Linux Magazine has an ad for Progeny Linux > "built by debian's founder and leading Debian developers"... See e.g. http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/printer.pl?issue=online&article=progeny http://www.li

Re: wxgtk-config? -- solved

2000-12-03 Thread Johann Spies
Sorry to waist bandwidth. I have solved the problem by installing libgtk1.2-dev. -- J.H. Spies - Tel. 082 782 0336 / 023 55 11 568 "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" Romans 8:31

Re: reinstall windows?

2000-12-03 Thread Sebastiaan
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Dale Morris wrote: > I want to reinstall windows on a computer I've been using linux on. (I'm > going to give it to my mother-in-law). I have an old OEM copy of win95, > of course I have no cd-rom driver disks and I have the 'upgrade version' > of win98 and a windows 98 startup

Re: reinstall windows?

2000-12-03 Thread Sebastiaan
Oooops, forgot something. Swapping partitions is not the same as swapping the disks. For this I used a bios swap in lilo: other=/dev/hdb1 label=dos table=/dev/hdb map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 This swaps the drives on BIOS level, so w

Re: fips/win swapfile ?

2000-12-03 Thread Mike Phillips
> I looked through the control panel¬>system and I didn't see anything. > There isn't one !!!. (You can manually set the file to a zero/small size in the Virtual Memory tab, but there is no need.) What they mean is to delete the win386.swp (???) file from the harddrive because it is read-only an

Re: Wrong message - Was: How to install LAMP the Debian way

2000-12-03 Thread Gregor Anders
Hallo Rino Mardo, > anyway, here's my problem: > > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in > /var/www/test2.php on line 15 > You also need to install php4-mysql to use php4 with mysql. apt-get install php4-mysql -- Bye Gregor Anders |-

xmms and xmps go bonkers

2000-12-03 Thread Christoph Groth
Hello! My box is running potato r1 with some packages from woody. I usually play my mp3s with mpg123 but sometimes I've been using xmms also (originally it worked!). But since some time it doesn't function properly (I cannot recall any possible reason why). On startup it says "shared object not

Re: "multiple" logins NIS

2000-12-03 Thread Florian Kessler
Am 02.12.2000 11:05 Uhr schrieb Miquel van Smoorenburg unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Florian Kessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> we use a network with NFS / NIS here. Actually it´s possible to use one >> account to login to more than one computer at the same time.

Re: Progeny Linux

2000-12-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
If there is a better Debian -Progeny-, also GPL, does it mean that Debian will become somewhat a testing -beta stage- for Progeny? Also, will there be iso images of Progeny? Or it will be some kind of apt-get -f -dist-upgrade? It probably is too early to tell. At least there is very little chance

Re: mouse middle button not working in X

2000-12-03 Thread Karl E. Jørgensen
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 04:15:22PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Yes, I used to have "/dev/gpmdata" as well at one time. I tried it again > now and it does allow the mouse to work both in console and X. However, > the middle button still doesn't work, but I've gone back to a 2-button > genuine M

Re: "multiple" logins NIS

2000-12-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Florian Kessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >we are a few volunteers here administrating a network at a school. As we >aren´t financly (is this a correct english word?) supported, we have to >charge our "customers" (pupils!) to keep our net alive! But a few customers

sql help

2000-12-03 Thread Rino Mardo
hiya. can anyone assist me in finding out what's wrong with the ff: mysql -uroot -e"insert into user(Host,User,Password) values('localhost','guestbook',password('guestbook')" mysql that's what i type from the bash prompt and it gives me a syntax error and the following error message: ERROR 106

Re: dselect problem

2000-12-03 Thread Christoph Groth
"Javier Sieben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a problem with dselect (or was the dependencies involved). I > would use the libesd0-alsa that provides libesd0 and conflicts with > libesd0. That's Ok. I deselect libesd0 and select for install the > alsa part. And then dselect follow the depe

problems with last dist-upgrade (woody)

2000-12-03 Thread Olaf Foellinger
Hi, yesterday I've started the weekly update with apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade which failed with the following message: Preparing to replace xlibs 4.0.1-5 (using .../xlibs_4.0.1-9_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xlibs ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-9

Re: xmms and xmps go bonkers

2000-12-03 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 01:49:29PM +0100, Christoph Groth wrote: > properly (I cannot recall any possible reason why). On startup it > says "shared object not open" twice and when I try to play some mp3, No idea. > the progress indicator moves very fast (5x the normal speed or so) and > it d

MACRO key, how to use it under X?

2000-12-03 Thread Richard Klinda
Hoi All! My 7-year-old keyboard has a unique key named "MACRO" on its lower left corner. `showkey' shows its keycode as 112, but under X I can't use this key, even xev doesn't notice when I press/release it. Any hints how can I use this button under X? -- ignotus

Re: problems with last dist-upgrade (woody)

2000-12-03 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Olaf Foellinger wrote: > Preparing to replace xlibs 4.0.1-5 (using .../xlibs_4.0.1-9_i386.deb) > ... > Unpacking replacement xlibs ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-9_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults',

Re: Command to determine resolution

2000-12-03 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:54:26PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Karsten M Self writes: > KMS> I note that my system is running at 75 dpi. Will 100 dpi give more or > KMS> less resolution, and how do I set resolution anyway? > > That number is basically a measurement of how big fonts are; a bigg

Re: sql help

2000-12-03 Thread Kjetil Thuen
Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hiya. can anyone assist me in finding out what's wrong with the ff: > > mysql -uroot -e"insert into user(Host,User,Password) > values('localhost','guestbook',password('guestbook')" mysql > You are just missing the last ). Add another one behind the last

Re: Progeny Linux

2000-12-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 08:14:55AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > If there is a better Debian -Progeny-, also GPL, does it mean that `better' is a very subjective term. progeny will target a different audience then Debian does. the question is not whether debian or progeny is better, but rath

Re: mouse middle button not working in X

2000-12-03 Thread Jeremiah H. Savage
If you have usb ports, I recommend the Belkin 3-button mouse. See: http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=1&Section_Id=38&pcount=&Product_Id=22121&Section.Section_Path=%2FUSB%2FMultimed%2E%2E%2Eeyboards%2F There are clear instructions for setting up usb devices at http://

Re: sql help

2000-12-03 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 03:14:49PM +0100 or thereabouts, Kjetil Thuen wrote: > Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > hiya. can anyone assist me in finding out what's wrong with the ff: > > > > mysql -uroot -e"insert into user(Host,User,Password) > > values('localhost','guestbook',password

Re: who listens on the port?

2000-12-03 Thread mikpolniak
On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 01:43:50 -0800, Erik Steffl said: > the nmap shows: > > 785/tcpopenunknown > >the netstat confirms: > > tcp00 jojda:785jojda:3984 TIME_WAIT > tcp00 *:785*:*LISTEN > >how do I find who listens onj

Re: xmms and xmps go bonkers

2000-12-03 Thread Christoph Groth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timo Benk) writes: > Try the following: > right mouse key -> options -> preferences > there you'll find a list labeled OutPut Plugin. It's possible that > the diskwriter plugin is turned on. Change this and maybe it will > work. Oh, how embarrassing -- it works now, thanks! B

Re: Command to determine resolution

2000-12-03 Thread David Z Maze
Brian Potkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BP> If I understand you correctly you are saying that using -dpi 75 informs BP> an application which wants to display a 72 point font that it will be BP> allowed 75 pixels whereas with -dpi 100 it will get 100 pixels. Having BP> spent some time in the recen

Re: dpkg dependencies

2000-12-03 Thread David Z Maze
patd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pd> i'm thinking of removing python, but before i do, i want to know which pd> packages depends on it. is there a dpkg/apt command that will show me pd> what the dependencies are? (1) Start dselect. (2) Find the appropriate Python package. Type '-' to remove i

man: hanging indented lists without space between items?

2000-12-03 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi people, As the subject says, I'd like to have a list with hanging indentation in a manual page. Basically, I want to see this list in xmms(1): * Audio MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (with mpg123 plug-in), * WAV, RAW, AU (with internal wav plug-in and MikMod plug- in), *

Re: mouse middle button not working in X

2000-12-03 Thread Juha Erkkila
> Yes, I used to have "/dev/gpmdata" as well at one time. I tried it again > now and it does allow the mouse to work both in console and X. However, > the middle button still doesn't work, but I've gone back to a 2-button > genuine Microsoft mouse which can at least emulate 3 buttons (essential > f

Re: reinstall windows?

2000-12-03 Thread Dale Morris
I made windoze a primary partition (bootable) on the 4.6hd. But, I'm trying to install win95 using a win98 startup disk. I don't have a driver disk for the cd rom, and win98 is the cheapie upgrade from win95 version. Will it work this way? Martin W?rtele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I want t

Opinia

2000-12-03 Thread pocztaonet
Wiecie, co jest za darmo? - to, czego nikt nie chce kupić. Bill Gates pewnie nawet nie słyszał o waszym zakichanym systemie. Walcie sie na ryj z tš waszš strychninš.  I zmieńcie nazwę na 'dewiant" (hue hue hue..) -- Szybkość - Bezpieczeństwo - FTP - SQL - ASP - 100 MB dla Twojego serw

Re: reinstall windows?

2000-12-03 Thread Sebastiaan
> I made windoze a primary partition (bootable) on the 4.6hd. But, I'm > trying to install win95 using a win98 startup disk. I don't have a > driver disk for the cd rom, and win98 is the cheapie upgrade from win95 > version. Will it work this way? > There is not much difference between win95 and w

Killing Post in innd

2000-12-03 Thread Hung Hin Lik, Shell
Hi all, Well, would anyone tell me how can I kill post in innd ? I have tried to remove the Xfer file and remove the entry in 'history' file, also I tried 'ctlinnd', but the post still be there, are there're any method I can kill the post ? Thank you ! p.s. Sorry for all

Re: Opinia

2000-12-03 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
On Dom 03 Dic 2000 18:44, pocztaonet wrote: Clear as water, I understood everything you said ;-) (not a single word) > > Wiecie, co jest za darmo? - to, czego nikt nie chce kupiæ. Bill Gates > pewnie nawet nie s³ysza³ o waszym zakichanym systemie. Walcie sie na ryj z > t± wasz± strychnin±. I zmi

Re: Opinia

2000-12-03 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 12:45:22PM -0500, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > Clear as water, I understood everything you said ;-) (not a single word) > > > Wiecie, co jest za darmo? - to, czego nikt nie chce kupiæ. Bill Gates > > pewnie nawet nie s³ysza³ o waszym zakichanym systemie. Walcie sie na ryj z

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2000-12-03 Thread SPEROLEEM
is it possible to double boot windows and debian on a PIII pc, perhaps using system commander? sm

Re: (no subject)

2000-12-03 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
On Dom 03 Dic 2000 19:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lilo will do that for you. > > is it possible to double boot windows and debian on a PIII pc, perhaps > using system commander? > > > sm Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII"; name="Adjuntos: 1" Con

modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-0000

2000-12-03 Thread Christophe Broult
Hello Debian users, Is there anyone who could tell me why I am getting the message in the subject? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ uname -a Linux madison 2.4.0-test11 #1 Thu Nov 23 10:45:11 CET 2000 i586 unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ Thank you, Chris -- "Man is distinguished from all other creature

logs

2000-12-03 Thread chiappa
Hi to all! I am concern about the size of the log files in the system. I am new to Linux, so I am rather surpresed that every process in the system seems to write to a log file, which becomes bigger and bigger in time! Does exists a way of do a housekeeping over all logs in the system? Thanks in

Re: reinstall windows?-SOLVED!

2000-12-03 Thread Dale Morris
Got it!! Problem was I needed to format the partition using windoze, and it gave the partition a label. Thanks for the help :) Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I made windoze a primary partition (bootable) on the 4.6hd. But, I'm > > trying to install win95 using a win98 startup disk. I don'

Escape from RH

2000-12-03 Thread QBA
Hi, At last I decided to install Debian 2.2. Now I have RedHat6.2 installed and I don't know what to do with all my important files (about 1GB, specially don't wanna lose all my offline sites and netscape bookmarks). I have 8 partitions on my disk but wanna delete them and change their size. I hav

.gnome-error

2000-12-03 Thread chiappa
Hello I am running helix-gnome. Today I was looking to the .gnome-error file and I found inside of it a lot of the following two lines: "GTX-warning ** = Unable to locate loadable module in module_path='libpixmap.so'" "/dev/dsp: Permission denied" What does they mean? Thanks in advance! Marce

Re: .gnome-error

2000-12-03 Thread Jérôme Zago
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 04:41:33PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "GTX-warning ** = Unable to locate loadable module in > module_path='libpixmap.so'" Dunno about that. > "/dev/dsp: Permission denied" That means you can't play sounds on your box, because you don't have the right permissions.

Re: reinstall windows?

2000-12-03 Thread scr
Sebastiaan schrieb: > > Oooops, forgot something. Swapping partitions is not the same as swapping > the disks. For this I used a bios swap in lilo: > other=/dev/hdb1 > label=dos > table=/dev/hdb > map-drive=0x80 > to=0x81 > map-drive=0x81 > to=0x80 >

Re: Escape from RH

2000-12-03 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
On Dom 03 Dic 2000 19:12, QBA wrote: > Hi, > Tar everything you want to keep, mount your win partition and copy your tar-balls to it. Where do your bookmarks come from? If they do from Netscape they should be under /home/user/.kde > At last I decided to install Debian 2.2. Now I have RedHat6.2 i

Re: Escape from RH

2000-12-03 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
On Dom 03 Dic 2000 19:51, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > On Dom 03 Dic 2000 19:12, QBA wrote: > > Hi, > > Tar everything you want to keep, mount your win partition and copy your > tar-balls to it. > Where do your bookmarks come from? If they do from Netscape they should be > under /home/user/.kde Sor

Re: Woody Progress

2000-12-03 Thread Richard Taylor
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:31:30AM -0700, Rando Christensen wrote: > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Richard Taylor wrote: > > > ObDisclaimer: IANADD > > > > First off, I would like to apologize if this is not the right list to ask > > this question, and secondly, I would like to apologize if it is not > >

Re: logs

2000-12-03 Thread Karl E. Jørgensen
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 04:33:05PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am concern about the size of the log files in the system. I am new to > Linux, so I am rather surpresed that every process in the system seems to > write to a log file, which becomes bigger and bigger in time! Does exists > a wa

Re: reinstall windows?

2000-12-03 Thread Sebastiaan
That is true, but windows also does not like being installed on a scsi harddisk when booted from floppy. Some bioses can only set their bootsequence to A:, C:, SCSI or SCSI, A:, C:, so the latter works fine when windoze is installed because bios maps the scsi bootable drive to be no1 (just like lil

Re: .gnome-error

2000-12-03 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 04:41:33PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > > I am running helix-gnome. Today I was looking to the .gnome-error file and > I found inside of it a lot of the following two lines: > > "GTX-warning ** = Unable to locate loadable module in > module_path='libpixmap.so'

Laptops for Debian GNU/Linux?

2000-12-03 Thread Dexter Graphic
The site is a rich source of information on GNU/Linux laptops. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ But it's almost too much information and to general in nature to be of immediate use. I still have no idea how to go about comparing the hundreds of models listed and what each on

Sample crontab/at GUI

2000-12-03 Thread Parrish M Myers
Hi all, I have been tinkering around with a gui for crontab and at. I just wanted to get peoples opionions, 'cause I'm not satisfied with it quite yet. Images can be seen at http://home.earthlink.net/~monkey1s2/gcron Thanks Parrish Myers =

Re: Woody Progress

2000-12-03 Thread Richard Taylor
Sorry folks, my brain must have suffered a power-outage, I have posted the preceding message to the wrong list. Sorry.

Re: .gnome-error

2000-12-03 Thread David Z Maze
Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MC> I am running helix-gnome. Today I was looking to the .gnome-error file and MC> I found inside of it a lot of the following two lines: MC> MC> "GTX-warning ** = Unable to locate loadable module in MC> module_path='libpixmap.so'" My guess on this

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #705 etc

2000-12-03 Thread john gennard
I have started to receive lots of Digests (with different #xx numbers). The following is an example showing 'SENT' date as 12th Jan, 2000 - the others are dated Jan to Mar 2000. Can anyone explain why this could be happening. John. On Sunday 03 December 2000 5:23 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

SCSI

2000-12-03 Thread john gennard
I've not had anything to do with the Scsi interface. A little while ago in anticipation of trying it, I picked up a PCI board made by Iwill and called a 2930U+ plus a secondhand 2.1Gig IBM OEM harddrive (also a S/H CDRom Drive which I shall leave for the time being). There's plenty of literatu

disable remote connections to local ports?

2000-12-03 Thread Krzys Majewski
How can I set things up so that connections to a local port, say , are only accepted if they are coming from localhost? More generally, how can I shut off all outside access to my machine, except for the ssh daemon? I've got ALL: ALL in /etc/hosts/deny, and ALL: 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts/

Re: Woody Progress

2000-12-03 Thread Rando Christensen
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Richard Taylor wrote: > > > of many reasons Debian is the only linux I use. > > > Also, those of us who read the lists understand what the reasons are, and > > > to my mind, they were sound, but up until recently, the `man on the > > > street' > > > still sees us as the last

Re: dpkg dependencies

2000-12-03 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 12:41:46AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i'm thinking of removing python, but before i do, i want to know which > packages depends on it. is there a dpkg/apt command that will show me > what the dependencies are? aptitude shows this directly.

IGRP vs OSPF

2000-12-03 Thread Peter Welte
Hello, does anyone have any opinion as to which is better, Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) or Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and/or know if a Linux(Debian) router can be set up to use one or both of them? So far, the majority of info i've found is from Cisco's site, and seeing as how I

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #705 etc

2000-12-03 Thread kmself
on Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 09:24:05AM +, john gennard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sunday 03 December 2000 5:23 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ** Original Message ** > > FROM: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > SENT: Fri 12/01/2000 11:47 AM > > TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > SUBJECT: debi

Failing Debian Installation

2000-12-03 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
Hi All I have installed debian on atleas 20 diffrent computers, but now I have come across a problem I cannot solve. Im installing on AST Bravo P133MHz 128 Mb ram, onboard MACH64, PCI128, 3c905b, one 1.3 Gb disk and one 15Gb drive. All hardware should be compatible with Linux. Problems: * During

Monolithic kernels and init scripts

2000-12-03 Thread scr
Hi all! I´m a litte confused about init scripts from /etc/init.d when used booting from a monolithic (ie.e non-modularized) kernel (beeing new to debian *and* 2.2 kernels). It looks like (I haven´t digged deeply) those scripts `modutils´ and `kerneld´ from /etc/init.d are responsible for several

Re: disable remote connections to local ports?

2000-12-03 Thread Nate Amsden
if you are looking for something system-wide the only way to do it is firewall. hosts.allow/deny only work for programs that are compiled with tcp_wrapper support. you can set the default incoming policy to deny, and an an accept statement for localhost. or setup a packet filtering firewall(i just

Re: disable remote connections to local ports?

2000-12-03 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 12:07:30PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > How can I set things up so that connections to a local port, say , > are only accepted if they are coming from localhost? More generally, > how can I shut off all outside access to my machine, except for the ssh > daemon?

Re: Sample crontab/at GUI

2000-12-03 Thread Nate Amsden
the GUI i favor most for crontab is webmin (www.webmin.com) web based administration, supports SSL as well. quite a nice package and works very well with debian 2.1/2.2(not sure about woody) nate Parrish M Myers wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have been tinkering around with a gui for crontab and at.

Re: Laptops for Debian GNU/Linux?

2000-12-03 Thread Nate Amsden
I would say Avoid toshiba Dell, and IBM laptops seem to work very well with Linux, and from what i gather from the catalogs elinux.com sends me it seems the new compaqs work well with linux. I have personally setup several dell latitude(not sure what model, but it had a celeron 400 128MB ram, 12G

Re: disable remote connections to local ports?

2000-12-03 Thread Jérôme Zago
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 12:07:30PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > How can I set things up so that connections to a local port, say , > are only accepted if they are coming from localhost? More generally, > how can I shut off all outside access to my machine, except for the ssh > daemon? I've

gcc error

2000-12-03 Thread Willi Dyck
Hi list, i'm trieing to install gnapster 1.4.1a doing ./configure i get the following: loading cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for working aclocal

Re: reinstall windows?

2000-12-03 Thread Kent West
Dale Morris wrote: I made windoze a primary partition (bootable) on the 4.6hd. But, I'm trying to install win95 using a win98 startup disk. I don't have a driver disk for the cd rom, and win98 is the cheapie upgrade from win95 version. Will it work this way? I would suggest making a directory

Re: IGRP vs OSPF

2000-12-03 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 12:27:45 PST, Peter Welte writes: >does anyone have any opinion as to which is better, >Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) or Open >Shortest Path First (OSPF), and/or know if a >Linux(Debian) router can be set up to use one or both >of them? I know OSPF from personal expe

Re: who listens on the port?

2000-12-03 Thread Tim Uckun
At 10:18 AM 12/3/2000 -0500, mikpolniak wrote: > >any ideas which particular package does it? > You can use update-inetd to remove or disable these entries in inetd.conf so the inetd daemon won't listen on these ports. To find the ports daemons not in inetd.conf try ls0f | gr

Re: scanner doesn't scan...

2000-12-03 Thread Peter Wollny
Ok, I have this line in the /dev/sane.d/mustek.conf file. But the thing still doesn't work. I don't understand why everythig seems to recognize the scanner except xsane. Le Saturday 02 December 2000 10:06 vous avez ?crit: > I think what Dirk meant was he's got an /etc/sane.d/mustek.conf which

Re: gcc error

2000-12-03 Thread scr
Willi Dyck schrieb: > > checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler > cannot create executables. Output of `gcc -v´ is? scr

PS/2 mouse on serial port?

2000-12-03 Thread jakemsr
Hey all, I was given an old Pentium 75. It has two serial ports on the back, one labeled "mouse" and one labeled "com2". No PS/2 ports. I can't seem to find any real serial port mice, so I got a cheapo PS/2 (micro solutions, works as a PS/2 on a PS/2 port with X), and a PS/2 to serial adapter.

Re: logs

2000-12-03 Thread Erik Steffl
use logrotate erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi to all! > > I am concern about the size of the log files in the system. I am new to > Linux, so I am rather surpresed that every process in the system seems to > write to a log file, which becomes bigger and bigger in time! Does exist

Re: who listens on the port?

2000-12-03 Thread mikpolniak
On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 14:18:31 -0800, Tim Uckun said: > At 10:18 AM 12/3/2000 -0500, mikpolniak wrote: > > > > > > > >any ideas which particular package does it? > > > > > You can use update-inetd to remove or disable these entries > >in inetd.conf so the inetd daemon won't listen

Re: Command to determine resolution

2000-12-03 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:38:21AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: [Very informative font discussion snipped] > What you probably actually want for "10-point Courier" is > > -*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 > > which will get you a monospaced font from some foundry named

Re: PS/2 mouse on serial port?

2000-12-03 Thread Karl E. Jørgensen
> I was given an old Pentium 75. It has two serial ports on the back, one > labeled "mouse" and one labeled "com2". No PS/2 ports. I can't seem to find > any real serial port mice, so I got a cheapo PS/2 (micro solutions, works as > a PS/2 on a PS/2 port with X), and a PS/2 to serial adapter. I'

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