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2000-12-07 Thread AC
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Re: samba 2.0.7 vs. 2.0.5

2000-12-07 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 15:40:19 -0200, Rogerio Brito writes: >On Dec 06 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: >> I still use a 2.0.38-kernel (that box is only apt-get upgrade´d, not - >> dist-upgraded, to potato) because of some legacy-software, so for me >> it´s essential that kernel-version-dependencies ar

Re: DPMS not working

2000-12-07 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
"chris" == Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: chris> Try putting chris> Option "DPMS" chris> in the Monitor section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config. Thanks! This did the trick. \\// | R | T R | L B | //\\ ~ Michael Abraham Shulman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re: Route annoncement on web

2000-12-07 Thread Neale Banks
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Adrian Nims wrote: > Does anybody know a web site where I can see route announcement ? I > want to see from outside if my routes are announced correctly or not. There's a pretty good list at http://neptune.dti.ad.jp/ HTH, Neale.

Re: Deb linux compatability

2000-12-07 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:50:49PM -0700, Mark R. Martinez wrote: > Hello, > THank you for your time. I was wondering if there is a Debian > version available (stable or devel) that is compatible with an IBM RS/6000 > PowerPC currently running AIX. We have cureently 'inherited' these > mach

Re: Xemacs 21.1 and Gnus 5.8.3

2000-12-07 Thread Willy Lee
"Gary" == Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Willy Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Hm, this doesn't seem right. Should be #.newsrc-dribble#, and that >> should be deleted after quitting Gnus. Gnus should save the groups >> and read articles to the .newsrc and .newrc.eld files a

Re: 3dfx/Mesa on Potato

2000-12-07 Thread Willy Lee
"Rob" == Rob VanFleet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been trying to set up mesag3-glide2 to work with a Voodoo3 on > my Potato box, and I've met a few snags. Here is my primary > problem, specifics will follow: Any time I try to execute any OpenGL > app, like the morph3d, I get this message:

Re: php segfaults

2000-12-07 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:15:19PM +0100, Michiel Meeuwissen wrote: > I'm using the latest/greatest woody, and the following php-code segfaults in you are not alone http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=78709&repeatmerged=yes and yes i need a fix ASAP too :D -- ciao bboett ===

[Fwd: DHCP troubles]

2000-12-07 Thread Calyth
Calyth wrote: > Hi, I'm using [EMAIL PROTECTED] and recently got word that I'm suppose to be > fully dynamic. Now i've download dhcp-client and configured it, and it > gives me my ip address. The only problem is that even though I require > DNS, it is not being used. ie. whois www.yahoo.com says t

Re: Deb linux compatability

2000-12-07 Thread Colin Watson
"Mark R. Martinez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > THank you for your time. I was wondering if there is a Debian >version available (stable or devel) that is compatible with an IBM RS/6000 >PowerPC currently running AIX. If I remember correctly, the PowerPC box on which I installed potato (r0)

Re: why not dselect (i now know the answer)

2000-12-07 Thread Colin Watson
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i just removed netscape from my system. > >an error flashed by during the remove, and quickly was replaced by the >main dselect menu. i saw enough to know that SOME directory couldn't >be deleted, but i don't know which one or why. Those errors are of

dhcpd problem

2000-12-07 Thread Martin Würtele
hi, i have a problem with the dhcpd: nt clients get a correct ip address, the name servers, the subnet mask and everything but the default gateway my dhcpd.conf as follows: opition domain-name "office.factline.com"; option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.10, 195.34.133.10, 195.34.133.11; option su

Re: Spam admin autoresponder (was Re: mutt question)

2000-12-07 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth kmself@ix.netcom.com, > There are also several resources listed at Freshmeat, in particular: > > parp: http://freshmeat.net/projects/parp/ > ricochet: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ricochet/ > spam.pl: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spam.pl/ > Spamkill: http://freshmeat.n

Re: kernel-module confusion

2000-12-07 Thread maart
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:29:01PM +, maart wrote: Hai all. This is my first ever post to a newsgroup, so please forgive me if I do/say something weird... I use potato, and have been trying the 2.4test-kernels for a couple of weeks. I have trouble using modules

AuthUserFile directive not working?

2000-12-07 Thread Anthony Treanor
Hi, I've been trying to configure a .htaccess file on a new installation of Debian. The authentication module is running, since this works AllowOverride FileInfo .htaccess ErrorDocument 404 test.html IE if I access http://www.onexus.com/images/wrongstuff I get the correct response, a sil

Re: How to make diald coexist with eth0?

2000-12-07 Thread kmself
on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:30:03AM -0800, Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > > > You want to re-set your routing tables with your network configuration > > scripts. There are mechanisms in place for doing this with the ifup and > > ifdown commands -- direc

oracle on debian

2000-12-07 Thread Knud Sørensen
Hi I have tried to install oracle on debian. The database is running but when I try to connect it gives the error ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel Does anybody know what is wrong ! Knud

Second post: How get chrome/themes working in Mozilla?

2000-12-07 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I dl the chrome from themes.org and Mozilla M-18 said it was installing them, but nothing happened. I have several *.jar files from Netscape. How canI get them in as themes and do I need the 26MB java dl from Sun? I'm on a 56k, so anything simpler is appreciated. Thanks, Jonathan --

exmh and star office broken

2000-12-07 Thread Dominique ROUSSET
Hello, Since a couple of days exmh was broken ; I mean that any key input within the compose window makes in segfaulting. I just dicovered that it's also the case of StarOffice 5.2's text processing module. Any clue ? D. P.S. By the way bugs.debian.org seems to be buggy itself ! Not Found

Re: RESOLVED: all mail getting deferred

2000-12-07 Thread Brian McGroarty
I once had a problem similar to what you originally described. The culprit turned out to be a secondary mapping in hosts for the address record of the MX. In this case, it was a very bad nonsense address in the 192.168.x.x block. Whether mail would be delivered or deferred seemed to rely on a com

Re: Opera web browser

2000-12-07 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:22:29AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Is there any way to apt-get Opera, or must one just download the deb from > opera.com and use dpkg to install it? opera possibly doesn't allow redistribution of their software, including debs. so i guess it's not apt-get'able, even not

Slow NFS-Directory

2000-12-07 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi there One of my computers is configured as NFS-server for one user's home directory on my other computer. The problem ist, that when this user tries to eg. save a file from within emacs, it takes about 5-10 seconds to write it (the file size is not the problem ~4kB). ftp works rather fast betwe

(deb potato) How to set default window manager for a) system b)indivdual users

2000-12-07 Thread Martin Waller
Hello, The subject line says it all...there's no /etc/X11/window-managers file any more in potato and I want to change the default system window manager and find out how to get users to be able to change their own on login. Martin __

MySQL

2000-12-07 Thread Dominic Blythe
any MySQL tool for dumping/loading schema? my ability in SQL is low, so I use phpMyAdmin to set up databases. It's difficult then to replicate them. On other (non-free!) dbs I use you can dump out an sql file of the schema and then just run it on the next machine to build the database. pls copy r

Re: (deb potato) How to set default window manager for a) system b)indivdual users

2000-12-07 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi Martin If you use gdm (gnome desktop manager), it will promt each user logging in for the session he wants (and asks if he wants this session for default in future). The sessions are defined in /etc/gdm/Sessions, and the system-wide default session is a symlink /etc/gdm/Sessions/Defaults -> /e

xlibs error

2000-12-07 Thread Gareth Bowker
Hi, I've recently done a dist-upgrade which I haven't done since before XFree4.01 went into woody - I was getting the packages from branden's repository before then. However, I've come up against an error which I'm not sure how to resolve. Something broke on the upgrade and now whenever I d

Locale question

2000-12-07 Thread Morten Brix Pedersen
Hi, I want to use scandinavian characters in console, I can solve this by using 'export LC_ALL=da_DK' (Danish), but then msgs become Danish as well, and I don't want my mutt to show Danish msgs, I want English application and system msgs, but I still want to be able to use scandinavian characters.

Re: Opera web browser

2000-12-07 Thread Digital Overdrive
Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:22:29AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > > > Is there any way to apt-get Opera, or must one just download the deb > > from opera.com and use dpkg to install it? > > opera possibly doesn't allow redistribution of their software, > including

OT:postgres user to beging using PostgreSQL?

2000-12-07 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Sorry for this off topic. I just installed Postgresql on a Potato box. I am trying to create new users but I get errors saying that the user I am using is not present in pg_shadow. Docs say only user present there by default is user postgres. Should I be logged in with user postgres to be able t

box help needed

2000-12-07 Thread James Preece
My box died a horrid death, and know you lot all helped build it a few years back, but due to power upsets at my isp the disk fried ;-( I can offer you all a login but I need help to set up the dns server and then the apache and also the sendmail stuff. I know its a lot to ask but anyone

Re: Opera web browser

2000-12-07 Thread Lee Maguire
[2000-12-07] Digital Overdrive wrote: > But see the URL first because there are 2 versions (and why does > Netscape load the .deb instead of downloading it automaticly ?) Because uunetnl.linux.tucows.com is setup to serve .deb as the mime-type text/plain - and your browser is set-up to display tex

Re: NIS / NIS+?

2000-12-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mathias Wiklander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want help to configure NIS for my network. >How do I configure the diffrent computers Read /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz Mike.

Mail Problems

2000-12-07 Thread krpa
Hi   Can anyone help me with this problem, which I suspect is permission related.   When accessing mail through  MS Express I get - ERR Error locking your mailbox.   On the mail server - SendMail - I get  - cucipop: Error opening keith's mailbox.   Mail in my (and everyone elses) mailbox is

Re: OT:postgres user to beging using PostgreSQL?

2000-12-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
Daniel de los Reyes wrote: >Sorry for this off topic. >I just installed Postgresql on a Potato box. I am trying to create new users > >but I get errors saying that the user I am using is not present in pg_shadow >. >Docs say only user present there by default is user postgres.

Re: Digital music editor?

2000-12-07 Thread Frederico S. Muñoz
Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > > Hi, > > Can anyone recommend a good digital music editor for Debian/Linux? > I'd especially like one capable of slowing down a sound file without > changing the pitch. Free is preferable, but commercial would be okay > too if there isn't a good enough free on

Anyway to get silent pon?

2000-12-07 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Any way to slide in a string to get a silent dial in connection? And from where, pon? Thanks, Jonathan -- "Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-"

X4.0 after upgrade

2000-12-07 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I upgraded woody X4 from potato 3.3.6 today. I use a SiS 530 video card. All is ok, but fonts are ugly. See the shot at: www.olinux.com.br/imagens/x4.0.jpg and the errors generated by startx 2> errors. What can be wrong? Thanks for an

Re: sendmail

2000-12-07 Thread Nitebirdz
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Brian Schramm wrote: > I am running Debian Potato as up to date as possible. I stay online all > the time through a 56K modem I have no trouble sending mail to anyone on > the web except for Mindspring.com addresses. This just started recently > (within the last 3 months).

Re: One more question

2000-12-07 Thread Jim Lynch
Guess I am stuck in the past. 8) I've always had one. Thanks, Jim. Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 03:43:55PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > > Jim Lynch wrote: > > > > > > What ever happened to /usr/tmp? It wasn't created on this system. > > > > is that abnormal? i dont have

Re: Anyway to get silent pon?

2000-12-07 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:55:19PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > Any way to slide in a string to get a silent dial in connection? And > from where, pon? Edit /etc/chatscripts/provider, change ATDTx to ATM0DTx there's some possibility to let your modem to do it by default, read you

Re: apache again

2000-12-07 Thread Jim Lynch
OK, it's working again. I found ifup and /etc/interfaces. But why am I still getting all of the unresolved symbols with modules? During the make menuconfig step I selected a bunch of stuff as modules but I'm having a hard time figuring out what the names of some of them are. Is there a way to

Re: kernel panic

2000-12-07 Thread Ian Lee
From: "Robert Feri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:  Subject: kernel panic Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 00:08:59 - What can i do (unless reinstall the system) if a message kernel panic appears while booting the system (debian 2.2) ? Robert Just in case this was overlooked. Re-installing is not necess

Recipe for installng Tomcat on (Debian) Linux?

2000-12-07 Thread Gregory Guthrie
1) Is there a simple recipe for installing Tomcat and all required Java components for Debian? Last time I did it I got caught in various version incompatibilities w/ JDKs, JVM, etc. Debian did not have current versions at that time. The only JDK in dselect was from IBM, and incompatible with T

Re: Second post: How get chrome/themes working in Mozilla?

2000-12-07 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Thanks for getting bcak to me. I gave read/write permision as you suggested to the chrome directory and it dl and showed up in the themes. So progress. Butw hen I selected it, the whole thing crashed. I had to delete my home personal mozilla to get it to start again and when I did the new them

Re: Anyway to get silent pon?

2000-12-07 Thread John Hasler
Jonathan Gift writes: > Any way to slide in a string to get a silent dial in connection? Yes. > And from where, pon? pppconfig. Go to 'Change Connection', select the connection you want to change, go to 'Advanced' and then to 'Modeminit' and replace 'ATZ' with whatever your modem's manual sugge

eth0 problem after installing netscape

2000-12-07 Thread Dale Morris
I just did a dist-upgrade and installed netscape 4.76. Now it seems my eth0 connection (cable modem) won't stay active. I am unable to connect to anything and then when I switch to init 1 and back [ctrl-d] then I have a connection that works. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm wondering if it'

Re: Recipe for installng Tomcat on (Debian) Linux?

2000-12-07 Thread Ray Percival
Have you checked Woody? With many,but not all, packages it is really easy to just add unstable line to your apt sources run apt-get update and then grab the package take the line out run update again and you should be on your way. It has worked for me for a couple of packages that I just could n

New to Debian -- simple questions

2000-12-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
Okay, I recently switched to Debian after using RedHat and Mandrake-Linux for 2-3 years... Right off the bat, there are two things I'd like to change. 1) Get rid of the login message that displays at the console after typing in my name and password. I read through /etc/login.defs and there was a r

TeXfonts in X?

2000-12-07 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, Is it possible to use TeX-Fonts in X? I know, that TeXmacs uses TeX-Fonts for its menus, so do I need a nasty hack to do this, or can I do this in a simple way and make TeX-Fonts available to every X-App? TIA Regards, Daniel

X after booting

2000-12-07 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hi! I'm trying to make some kind of automatic login for a normal user after booting Linux in X. Made a script "kiosk" and placed it in /etc/init.d, made a link for runlevel 4 in order to start it when typing "linux 4" at the bootprompt. The script contains (shortened) something like that: #!/b

Re: OT:postgres user to beging using PostgreSQL?

2000-12-07 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello * Daniel de los Reyes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sorry for this off topic. > I just installed Postgresql on a Potato box. I am trying to create new users > but I get errors saying that the user I am using is not present in pg_shadow. > Docs say only user present there by default is user p

Re: (deb potato) How to set default window manager for a) system b)indivdual users

2000-12-07 Thread Sergey Suleymanov
> "Joerg" == Joerg Johannes writes: Joerg> I have no idea how to do this without graphical-login Joerg> manager... update-alternatives --config x-window-manager -- Sergey Suleimanov

Re. : New to Debian -- simple questions

2000-12-07 Thread minh-quang . yvonet
See the /etc/motd textfile and change it to whatever you want (or delete it). You may also check your rc files. On my system (debian woody distro), there is a /etc/rc.S/S55bootmisc.sh that updates the motd at bootup. Minh Quang. Pour :"Debian User" cc : Objet : New to Debian -- simple

Re: X after booting

2000-12-07 Thread Gareth Bowker
Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > I'm trying to make some kind of automatic login for a normal user after > booting Linux in X. I'm not sure about running X as a standard user during init, but take a look at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kiosk-HOWTO.html for general kiosk-type things. HTH, Gareth --

Re: TeXfonts in X?

2000-12-07 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 15:48:10 +0100 (MET) Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello there, > > Is it possible to use TeX-Fonts in X? I know, that TeXmacs uses TeX-Fonts > for its menus, so do I need a nasty hack to do this, or can I do this in a > simple way and make TeX-Fonts available to e

Re: X after booting

2000-12-07 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Thursday 07 December 2000 15:58 schrieb Gareth Bowker: > Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > I'm trying to make some kind of automatic login for a normal user after > > booting Linux in X. > > I'm not sure about running X as a standard user during init, but take a > look at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/

Re: Mail Problems

2000-12-07 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 10:27:22PM +1000, krpa wrote: > Hi > > Can anyone help me with this problem, which I suspect is permission related. > > When accessing mail through MS Express I get - ERR Error locking your > mailbox. > > On the mail server - SendMail - I get - cucipop: Error opening

Re: New to Debian -- simple questions

2000-12-07 Thread Sam TH
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Okay, I recently switched to Debian after using RedHat and > Mandrake-Linux for 2-3 years... Right off the bat, there are two > things I'd like to change. > > 1) Get rid of the login message that displays at the console after > typi

Re: New to Debian -- simple questions

2000-12-07 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Okay, I recently switched to Debian after using RedHat and > Mandrake-Linux for 2-3 years... Right off the bat, there are two > things I'd like to change. > > 1) Get rid of the login message that displays at the console after > typi

Re: RESOLVED: all mail getting deferred

2000-12-07 Thread Rino Mardo
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:42:19AM -0800 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't know how..or why .. but when i got in to work today i checked my > system at home and all mail was delivered(haven't gone bakc in the logs > yet), i sent another test mail from 2 different internet accounts

Re: X after booting

2000-12-07 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 04:05:27PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > Am Thursday 07 December 2000 15:58 schrieb Gareth Bowker: > > Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > > I'm trying to make some kind of automatic login for a normal user after > > > booting Linux in X. > > > > I'm not sure about running X as a s

Re: New to Debian -- simple questions

2000-12-07 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:11:22AM -0600, Sam TH wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > Okay, I recently switched to Debian after using RedHat and > > Mandrake-Linux for 2-3 years... Right off the bat, there are two > > things I'd like to change. > > > > 1) Ge

Compaq prolian 2500

2000-12-07 Thread Thomas Braun
hello group i have problems installing debian on an compaq proliant 2500 it use a smart2/e raid controller and i dont get it to work! what must i do to install debian on it! i have booted with the cd and it doesent prob for a smart 2 array controller! then i tryed a root disk but i dont find t

Re: Quality of Helixcode's Debian Packages (was: Re: spidermonkey.helixcode.com down?)

2000-12-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 06:08:54 Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:17:30PM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote: > > On Dec 04 2000, Willy Lee wrote: > > > Anyone else seeing this? > > > > Well, I don't have any problems connecting to spidermonkey, > > but I'd like to bring up a new point

Re: Xdefaults being ignored?

2000-12-07 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Both methods (renaming .Xdefaults to .Xresources or using xrdb) worked equally well. Finally, I can have my xterm black on white. Why did I want to do that again? Thanks so much! j On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:09:15PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > > Brian Potkin writes: > > bp> On Wed, Dec 06

man errors when no man page available

2000-12-07 Thread Robert Guthrie
Sometimes when I try to view a man page that doesn't exist (try man nomanpage, or man foo), I get these errors: man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz is a dangling symlink man: can't open /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1: No such file or directory man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz: bad sym

HELP!! with lilo.conf

2000-12-07 Thread Cam Ellison
I have a network set up (one other machine) and have now decided to go to cable for Internet access (phone service here is painfully slow, and won't be going to DSL within the next decade). I installed another card (rtl8139), which the BIOS recognises, but the kernel does not. The Ethernet and Bo

k2.4.0 -- LSR safety engaged.

2000-12-07 Thread Matthieu Paindavoine
Hello, I am trying to get the new kernel on my laptop, so I got the .deb for the test5 version of 2.4.0. I compiled it, it seems to run fine until I start X, where it hangs, without a chance of appeal (Dec 12 is not my deadline though). Looking at dmesg, I see occurences of "LSR safety engaged!" A

Re: LI- Lilo just stops working

2000-12-07 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Tuesday 05 December 2000 15:31, Scott Patterson wrote: > I would assume it's not a virus since the "LI-" is common when your MBR is > messed up. Did you install a new kernel recently? > Yes, but after the re-boot, it worked for at least 2-3 reboots before the problem reared it's homely head. >

Re: Anyway to get silent pon?

2000-12-07 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Great, thanks for the help. I used to know all these modem commands when dialing into BBS... Works like a charm. Jonathan > Edit /etc/chatscripts/provider, change ATDTx to ATM0DTx -- "Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-"

Re: bind & sendmail both as non-root

2000-12-07 Thread Krzysztof Mazurczyk
Sorry, but I'm using sendmail as MTA server. Moreover I don't use X. But if you still interested in email settings let me know and please qualify what means 'email settings' for you. Regards -Oryginal message- From: Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

RE: HELP!! with lilo.conf

2000-12-07 Thread Jason Holland
What does your lilo.conf file look like? You should have something like this append="ether=0,0,eth1" in your image section Jason > > > I have a network set up (one other machine) and have now decided to go > to cable for Internet access (phone service here is painfully slow, and > won't be g

Re: building postgres 7.0.3 on potato?

2000-12-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 05:51:16PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > Do you have bison and flex installed? They're required for the parser. Oh, shoot, I thought I'd checked on bison, but I just re-checked, and you're right. I'm a moron. Thanks. -- Andrew Sullivan

Re: X after booting

2000-12-07 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
> > > Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > > > I'm trying to make some kind of automatic login for a normal user > > > > after booting Linux in X. > > guess the user kiosk is not allowed during system boot, usually only > root is able to login then, so maybe it will not su then too, maybe > you could try mak

Re: WM for GNOME

2000-12-07 Thread Marcin Landowski
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 01:30:38AM +0100, Ignasi Tura wrote: > F12 on wmaker -> window managers -> info panel... OK, I'll try from the second side ;-) > wmaker says it's Gnome compliant. There are a pair of options in > WPrefs, at the far right of the menu, regarding compatiblity wit

Re: way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?

2000-12-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:57:24AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > dpkg --get-selections --root=/whever-you-have-mounted-your-dead-system > may work. This worked beautifully, once I constructed a "fake" path under a temporary directory. Thanks for the suggestions, all. A -- Andrew Sullivan

Re: why not dselect (i now know the answer)

2000-12-07 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 07 Dec 00, 8:45 AM, Colin Watson said... > Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >i just removed netscape from my system. > > > >an error flashed by during the remove, and quickly was replaced by the > >main dselect menu. i saw enough to know that SOME directory couldn't > >be del

Re: X4.0 after upgrade

2000-12-07 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 07 Dec 00, 11:31 AM, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira said... > Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! there's probably a better answer than this, but in case nobody replies, if you delete the line FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server from t

Re: X after booting

2000-12-07 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Don, Dez 07, 2000 at 03:45:26 +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to make some kind of automatic login for a normal user after > booting Linux in X. > Made a script "kiosk" and placed it in /etc/init.d, made a link for runlevel > 4 in order to start it when typing "linux 4" at

Re: Exim questions..

2000-12-07 Thread Rino Mardo
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 11:22:39AM +1030 or thereabouts, Paul Schulz wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a pototo(2.2) debian system on which I'm trying out exim_3-12-10 > as the Mail Transport Agent. > > Questions/Problems: > > 1. How do I delete a frozen email messages from the queue. ( I have >

Re: mysql backup

2000-12-07 Thread Rino Mardo
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 10:14:06AM +1100 or thereabouts, John Griffiths wrote: > okies well i've figured out the answer to functional (possibly even correct) > mysql backup and restore on debian potato. > > i know i'm not the only person on this list who needs to know this so i'm > posting up wh

Re: MySQL

2000-12-07 Thread Gavin Scott
On Thursday 07 December 2000 04:58, Dominic Blythe wrote: > any MySQL tool for dumping/loading schema? > > my ability in SQL is low, so I use phpMyAdmin to set up databases. > It's difficult then to replicate them. On other (non-free!) dbs I > use you can dump out an sql file of the schema and then

OT? Prob after today's helix sawfish update (0.34-helix1)

2000-12-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, I use hlix gnome on potato. After today's apt-get upgrade to sawfish_0.34-helix1, sawfish draws a window frame for my gnome panels (menu panel and edge panel). I also can't unhide the edge panel anymore. Tried to tell sawfish to use "Frame-Type: None" for the menu panel, but then the panel

Re: (deb potato) How to set default window manager for a) system b)indivdual users

2000-12-07 Thread Timothy C . Klein
If you are not using gdm, perhaps you like xdm or whatever, but there is another way. In each users home directory create an .xsession file. This should be an executable shell script. In the script, put a line to run whatever window manager you want for the user. Thus, for blackbox, use only

Re: apache again

2000-12-07 Thread Rino Mardo
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 08:37:02AM -0500 or thereabouts, Jim Lynch wrote: > OK, it's working again. I found ifup and /etc/interfaces. > > But why am I still getting all of the unresolved symbols with modules? > reason is when you didn't rename /var/lib/modules/2.2.x to /var/lib/modules/2.2.x-o

Re: Second post: How get chrome/themes working in Mozilla?

2000-12-07 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I've been using a more recent nightly build from mozilla and installing the chromes works fine for me. You have to have software installation enabled and, as with everything else in Mozilla, you have to have write access to the mozilla directory to install them. I run my mozilla from a non-

Re: Anyway to get silent pon? Resolved!

2000-12-07 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Thanks. Somoene got back to me and so I'm posting this so as not to bother anyone else. I used to know this back in BBS time ... Big difference, the noise was driving me nuts. Jonathan > > pppconfig. Go to 'Change Connection', select the connection you want to > change, go to 'Advanced' a

Re: New to Debian -- simple questions

2000-12-07 Thread Jos Lemmerling
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:11:22AM -0600, Sam TH wrote: > > > 1) Get rid of the login message that displays at the console after > > > typing in my name and password. I read through /etc/login.defs and > > > there was a reference to a file that I t

Sawfish and Gkrellm

2000-12-07 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, this has been an ongoing problem for a long time for me, but I just wanted to see if others experience the same thing. I run Gkrellm with Sawfish. I have Gkrellm always started when I login by Gnome. I have Sawfish set to "Automatically remember other window attributes". I have Gkrellm set

Re: why not dselect (i now know the answer)

2000-12-07 Thread Colin Watson
[Please don't Cc: me on list mail, as per the Mail-Followup-To: header I set. Thanks.] On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 at 08:06:17 -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Thu 07 Dec 00, 8:45 AM, Colin Watson said... > > Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >i just removed netscape from my system. >

Re: dhcpd problem

2000-12-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:44:00AM +0100, Martin Würtele wrote: > hi, > > i have a problem with the dhcpd: > nt clients get a correct ip address, the name servers, the subnet mask and > everything but the default gateway > > my dhcpd.conf as follows: > opition domain-name "office.factline.com"; >

setting up dns

2000-12-07 Thread James Preece
I have managed to get named running, but there is no /vary/named dir. Can someone help me start building the zone files etc, or run through what I need to do. Thanks for your time James.

Re: setting up dns

2000-12-07 Thread Gareth Bowker
James Preece wrote: > > I have managed to get named running, but there is no /vary/named dir. > > Can someone help me start building the zone files etc, or run through what I > need to do. Without being sat at home I can't be 100% but IIRC look at /etc/named/named.conf HTH, Gareth -- Gareth B

Re: (deb potato) How to set default window manager for a) system b)indivdual users

2000-12-07 Thread Jonathan Gift
Sorry to barge in, but I've been using .xinitrc. Aren't they comparable or are there differences. Running Linux didn't speak of any. And, since the first thing I did was remove xdm, still have an active xdm.log even though it's been apt-get removed -purged...? On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:26:10AM

Re: Second post: How get chrome/themes working in Mozilla?

2000-12-07 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, tahnks for getting back to me. > installation enabled and, as with everything else in Mozilla, you have > to have write access to the mozilla directory to install them. I run my > Ok, I'll give it a shot. I got some advice like that earlier. But what of the jar I dl from netscape? I see l

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-07 Thread David Teague
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Ray Percival wrote: > > > That would be backwards ftp is faster but sometimes it is easier to get > > http through a proxy and with some proxies it would be possible that > > http might be faster. > > Er, no it isn't. http is faste

Re: man errors when no man page available

2000-12-07 Thread Chad '^chewie' Walstrom
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:28:55AM -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote: > Sometimes when I try to view a man page that doesn't exist (try man > nomanpage, or man foo), I get these errors: > man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz is a dangling symlink > man: can't open /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1: No su

Re: setting up dns

2000-12-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 05:02:05PM -, James Preece wrote: > I have managed to get named running, but there is no /vary/named dir. > > Can someone help me start building the zone files etc, or run through what I > need to do. Debian puts all config files in /etc. The config for bind is in /et

Re: setting up dns

2000-12-07 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have managed to get named running, but there is no /vary/named dir. Debian keeps the zone files under /var/cache/bind The named config file is /etc/bind/named.conf > Can someone help me

Re: New to Debian -- simple questions

2000-12-07 Thread Chad '^chewie' Walstrom
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Okay, I recently switched to Debian after using RedHat and > Mandrake-Linux for 2-3 years... Right off the bat, there are two > things I'd like to change. > > 1) Get rid of the login message that displays at the console after > typi

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