What is CORBA

2001-01-05 Thread MrHobbit420
I don't know how but all of a sudden there is a CORBA directory in my /etc directory. and CORBA directory contains the X11 directory and the xservers directory. whenever I try "startx" it is giving the error : /etc/X11/X is not executable. But the directory /etc/X11 is now nonexistent. I t

Re: changing icewm themes

2001-01-05 Thread irvine
Sorry for getting back in touch so late and, of course, thank you for replying to my mail. >Is IceWM actually running ?? Yes it is. The problem is this. The very first time that I started X, it started with icewm as this was the only window manager that I had installed. The default

Re: XDM startup screen

2001-01-05 Thread N. Raghavendra
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:33:25PM +0100, Koen Colpaert wrote: > After some experimenting with Suse, Slackware and Mandrake I > turned to Debian. After installing and configuring X I was > presented with a grey xdm-display as a loginscreen. I was > wondering if there aren't any better background i

Re: X in startup

2001-01-05 Thread N. Raghavendra
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:36:36AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:20:47AM +0530, N. Raghavendra > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > What I have been doing to stop /etc/init.d/ scripts (like > > xdm) from being executed at bootup is to put the line exit 0 > > at t

2.4 kernel rescue disk?

2001-01-05 Thread Mark Phillips
Now that kernel 2.4 is officially released, is there going to be a kernel 2.4 based rescue disk produced? I really need one with the ReiserFS support compiled in (ReiserFS requires a patch). My reason is that I am using LVM and ReiserFS --- which means that if anything ever goes wrong, I won't be

Re: What is CORBA

2001-01-05 Thread Brian May
> "MrHobbit420" == MrHobbit420 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MrHobbit420> I don't know how but all of a sudden there is a CORBA MrHobbit420> directory in my /etc directory. and CORBA directory MrHobbit420> contains the X11 directory and the xservers MrHobbit420> directory.

Re: Converting .mp3 to .cdr

2001-01-05 Thread Amal Phadke
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 05:39:19PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: > I would like to convert some mp3 files to the .cdr format for writing > an audio CD. The CD-Writing-HOWTO recommends using mpg123 as in > mpg123 --cdr -s track1.mp3 > track1.cdr > but the version of mpg123 in mpg123_0.59q-2_i386.deb

Re: quake 2 server lists probs

2001-01-05 Thread Nate Amsden
David Purton wrote: > > I've managed to install quake 2 and get it to run without too many > problems, but whenever I try to refresh the server list it complains > that the broadcast address of 224.1.0.0 is unreachable and no local > servers are displayed. > > How can I get quake 2 to broadcast o

Re: i810 compatible?

2001-01-05 Thread Nate Amsden
Marcello Mezzanotti wrote: > > Is i810 compatible with xfree potato? > 'cause i compiled 2.2.18 kernel (with i810 module (acitved) suport) > but x doesnt display a i810 driver in setup get the xfree86 3.3.6 source from ftp.xfree86.org extract it and find the agpgart module there and compile/insta

Re: Best ways to secure POP/SMTP on server?

2001-01-05 Thread Irwan Hadi
At 12:43 AM 1/5/01 +0100, andreas palsson wrote: But I also realize that by doing that, my system could be misused by other people than my users. Just don't make it open relay then ;) I am most worried about SMTP, in which there seems to be no(?) actual password-verification. Just use POP b

Re: formatting new partition

2001-01-05 Thread john gennard
On Thursday 04 January 2001 7:37 pm, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # It seems formatting can be done with 'mkfs' - most of the manpage > # is (hopefully!) clear, but I have seen no guidance on what block > # sizes would be appropriate or what the advantages/

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-05 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040101 17:44]: > > unstable is a symlink to sid now. sid is permanent unstable it will > never be released, it will never be frozen. Why is this? rob

Re: quake 2 server lists probs

2001-01-05 Thread David Purton
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Nate Amsden wrote: > David Purton wrote: > > > > I've managed to install quake 2 and get it to run without too many > > problems, but whenever I try to refresh the server list it complains > > that the broadcast address of 224.1.0.0 is unreachable and no local > > servers are

How send mail one user to another/One account?

2001-01-05 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I'm having trouble with my ISP, so copies to me personally appreciated if I have to jump off the list again. I have one account with my ISP but have set up two users. Now my SO can send me mail from MS Outlook, but I can't sem to send out without it bouncing straight to me in folder with a c

copying file system

2001-01-05 Thread ktt
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. hello, I configured Debian system on one computer and would like to copy file system to another computer (identical hardware). What command or program should I use for this? 1.Then I have ethernet connection. 2.Then I don't have it. Thank you in adv

no kernel level autoconfig

2001-01-05 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I just upgraded my kernel to 2.2.18, but I can not let it work correctly. I copied the .config file of my 2.2.17 kernel to the 2.2.18 source dir, ran menuconig and compiled the kernel. As with my previous kernel, I have enabled the kernel_level_autoconfiguration->bootp, which has worked fi

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread Sebastiaan
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:02:49PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > > I guess you are mixing up MBit and MByte. > > > Phil > > You too, it is Mb for megabit and MB for megabyte. > > Same for kB = kiloBy

Re: copying file system

2001-01-05 Thread Sebastiaan
hello, I configured Debian system on one computer and would like to copy file system to another computer (identical hardware). What command or program should I use for this? 1.Then I have ethernet connection. This was discussed before, I will repeat: tar cf - / | ssh -C client 'cd /mnt; tar -xf

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread Michal F. Hanula
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:25:10AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > KB = Kelvin Byte > > IIRC `K' as in KB means 1024 (2^10), while `k' as in kB (or kg, or almost anything else) means 1000 (10^3). Still not confused? Miso&

HELP: X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicoius ownership, aborting.

2001-01-05 Thread Berthold Cogel
Hello! After updating to XFree86 4.x I'm unable to start a local X session. I can start XFree86 manualy, but startx or xdm give me the message 'X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicoius ownership, aborting.'. After a reboot, /tmp/.X11-unix is set to owner 'root' and group 'staff'. Setting group as 'root' f

parallel port cdrom drives

2001-01-05 Thread Jonathan Tweed
Hi Is it possible to install Debian using a parallel port CD-ROM drive? I have tried without success. Thanks Jonathan Tweed

Re: HELP: X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicoius ownership, aborting.

2001-01-05 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Berthold Cogel wrote: > Hello! > > After updating to XFree86 4.x I'm unable to start a local X session. I > can start XFree86 manualy, but startx or xdm give me the message 'X: > /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicoius ownership, aborting.'. After a reboot, > /tmp/.X11-unix is set to own

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread Sebastiaan
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:25:10AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > > KB = Kelvin Byte > > > > IIRC `K' as in KB means 1024 (2^10), while `k' as in kB (or kg, or almost > anything else) means 1000 (10^3). Still not confused? Ok, and what about Mega

Re: Parallel Printer Port Problem

2001-01-05 Thread Jo Geraerts
Hello, On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Jeffrey S. Coppock wrote: > Jan 4 07:36:20 localhost kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, > dma 3 [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2] > Jan 4 07:36:21 localhost kernel: parport_probe: succeeded > Jan 4 07:36:21 localhost kernel: parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJE

Hylafax Help

2001-01-05 Thread Angel Parra
I am trying to install a fax server with Debian using hylafax. Can anybody tell me where to find howto and which windows cliente can I use? Angel

potato r0 -> r2 via cdrom

2001-01-05 Thread mgriffa
Hi, I have both cdroms of potato r0 and r2, I installed a system with r0, and now, I'd like to know how to upgrade to r2 with cdroms. Also, how do I change to sid? Thanks!

Window maker and Segmentation Faults

2001-01-05 Thread csnyder
I have recently upgraded my motherboard and CPU...after doing so I have been unable to get into Window Maker (I really do not think that there is a tie between the two, but that is the only thing that I did before this happened). After I log into the system Window Maker begins to open up, and o

Backspace key not working, and Xkeyboard not running.

2001-01-05 Thread csnyder
After installing some ICQ programs (LICQ, GnomeICQ, and Everybuddy) I found that my backspace key did not work in XWindows. I tried to set up the keyboard again, but I was told that Xkeyboard is not running or configured. Can anyone tell me what happened, and how I can fix it? Thank you, Chri

Can't create Moden Lock file

2001-01-05 Thread Frank Rocco
Hello, I am only able to dial in as root, when I try as a user, I get a message that PPP is unable to create modem lock file. Any idea on what I can do? Thanks Frank

RE: kernel and SmartRaidV controller SOLVED

2001-01-05 Thread Alexis Roda
Alexis Roda wrote: > > Hi, > this morning I have upgraded a computer from slink to potato, the > process went very smooth and all seems to be fine. My problem is when I > try to get the kernel (2.2.17) to detect the SmartRaidV controller. I've > downdoaded some patches from adaptec's web site and

buggy vesa framebuffer.

2001-01-05 Thread Kent Nyberg
I was going to try LPP today so i patched the 2.2.18 kernel against that and it worked perfect. I compiled the kernel with vesa framebuffer and edited lilo to: vga=0x301 append="console=/dev/tty2 CONSOLE=/dev/tty2" It workes perfectly, the logo shows when i boot as it should do. But when i for

Re: Can't create Moden Lock file

2001-01-05 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Frank Rocco wrote: > Hello, > > I am only able to dial in as root, when I try as a user, > I get a message that PPP is unable to create modem lock > file. > > Any idea on what I can do? > > Thanks > > Frank adduser frank dip -- Cheers! .~. /V\ // \\ /( )\ ^`~´^ < hugge >

Re: HELP: X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicoius ownership, aborting.

2001-01-05 Thread Berthold Cogel
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Berthold Cogel wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > After updating to XFree86 4.x I'm unable to start a local X session. I > > can start XFree86 manualy, but startx or xdm give me the message 'X: > > /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicoius ownership, aborting.

what to download?

2001-01-05 Thread Norton Seron
Hi. i would like to down load Debian and try it after a horrible experience with redhat and mandrake, problem is.i cant figure out what to download. Could someone please answer this email and provide explicit fool-proof instructions on exactly what directories i need to down load from th

Re: font-lock, xemacs, latex

2001-01-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Peter Mickle wrote: > Thanks for your reply. as I mentioned previously, I believe font-locking > in latex in xemacs was enabled by default, because I believe I used to > see that behaviour without specifically requiring font-latex, or without > doing anything with Customization menus. Don't know

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:44:34AM +0100, Michal F. Hanula wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:25:10AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > > KB = Kelvin Byte > > > > IIRC `K' as in KB means 1024 (2^10), while `k' as in kB (or kg, or almost > anything el

Re: font-lock, xemacs, latex

2001-01-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:19:51PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Giulio Morgan wrote: > > don't know why this was necessary, I imagine it may be from > > trying to run both xemacs and fsf emacs. > > I don't think so. They are both identical (and both a bit > outdated). One difference tha

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread Sebastiaan
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:44:34AM +0100, Michal F. Hanula wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:25:10AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > > > KB = Kelvin Byte > > > > > > IIRC `K' as in KB means 1024 (

Re: what to download?

2001-01-05 Thread ktb
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 11:46:35PM +1000, Norton Seron wrote: > Hi. i would like to down load Debian and try it after a horrible experience > with redhat and mandrake, problem is.i cant figure out what to download. > Could someone please answer this email and provide explicit fool-proof > in

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread Robert Waldner
>> IIRC `K' as in KB means 1024 (2^10), while `k' as in kB (or kg, or almost >> anything else) means 1000 (10^3). Still not confused? > >That's true and this is well defined in the SI. >But does that mean, we have to distinguish between mb, Mb, mB and MB? yes. cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Wal

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:24:49PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Just curious: when you write an article in which you use MegaBytes and > MegaBits a lot, how do you distinguish between them? Somewhere I have read that it is common to use Bits when talking about data that has to be transmitted and B

Upgrading from 2.0

2001-01-05 Thread Casper Gielen
I'm upgrading a Debian 2.0 system. According to the manual I downloaded and installed the static versions of dpkg and apt. When I do a apt-get update apt is unable to connect to the download sites. I'm double-checked the /etc/apt/sources.list against those of other machines and I'm sure it is corre

System security question

2001-01-05 Thread Martin Bishop
Hi, Netstat shows the following services on my home machine: Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp0 0 *:printer *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread garyjones
At Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:24:49 +0100 (MET) , Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:44:34AM +0100, Michal F. Hanula wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:25:10AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: >> > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Phili

Re: System security question

2001-01-05 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Martin Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Netstat shows the following services on my home machine: # Is it safe to leave it as it is? I've closed of all services in # inetd.conf and I'm using Firestarter as my firewall. I'm a little # paranoid that my system is listening for connections. But I

Re:[Update]yet another ppp failure story....

2001-01-05 Thread W. Crowshaw
Just in case anyone is interested, or if anyone searches archives of these messages for a solution to a problem similar to the one I experienced, I thought I would post my solution. My problem was that every time I tried to start a ppp connection, the modem would hangup. My debugging output l

Re: UPDATE: Problems running commercial app

2001-01-05 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Stewart James wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > a little while ago I reported I was having problems with running a > commercial app. This app was netscape console. The setup program was > segfaulting. > > Well after a few headaches etc I eventually got to looking at rpm files. I > remove the old libte

Re: Hylafax Help

2001-01-05 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Angel Parra wrote: > > I am trying to install a fax server with Debian using hylafax. Can > anybody tell me where to find howto and which windows cliente can I use? > You should go to www.hylafax.org for more information. There's also a Hylafax mailing list that's useful. Windows clients? WHFC

X keyboard- stuck shift & other

2001-01-05 Thread Mithras
I've tried to RTFM but I haven't been able to find anything about my particular keyboard problems. It seems that every keyboard problem describes some other odd bug. On my system, sometimes the shift appears to get 'stuck', in an X session. I have to restart X (going back to the xdm login) to st

MKBOOT problems

2001-01-05 Thread Tom Schuetz
Thanks to everyone for the ongoing responses to my newbie dreck. Why, when I MKBOOT VMLINUZ-2.2.12, would the system come back to me on three different BRAND NEW disks with a "write protected or other error"? I really doubt it's the disks. Is there a known problem with that version?

Raidtools2 with kernel 2.2.18

2001-01-05 Thread Luca Micheletti
Hi, i have a debian potato 2.2 with kernel 2.2.18. It is possible use raidtools2 with this kernel On the packages raidtools2_0.90.990824-5.deb suggest a kernel-patch-2.2.10-raid but my kernel is 2.2.18 The question is for use raidtools2 i must change my kernel with an older kernel or can i

Re: MKBOOT problems

2001-01-05 Thread cls/cs
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:42:04AM -0800, Tom Schuetz wrote: > Thanks to everyone for the ongoing responses to my newbie dreck. > > Why, when I MKBOOT VMLINUZ-2.2.12, would the system come back to me on three > different BRAND NEW disks with a "write protected or other error"? > > I really doubt

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Hi Steve, hi all. Tried dd if=/dev/scd0 of=d3.iso with my deb official cd 3 (potato rev2). md5sum d3.iso gives not the supposed value. When I do it from xcdroast I get the right md5sum. Where is the problem? Are you sure that there no options left out somewhere? Thanks, AR. Steve McIntyre wrote:

Re: 2.4 kernel rescue disk?

2001-01-05 Thread Jon Pennington
Mark Phillips wrote: > > Is there any way I can create my own custom rescue disk? Is there a > package for doing this? Is there a HOWTO? I'm pretty new to this list, but this has come up a lot. Have a look at: # man make-kpkg # man mkboot -- -=|JP|=-"Why, oh, why didn't I

Re: Raidtools2 with kernel 2.2.18

2001-01-05 Thread Jon Pennington
Luca Micheletti wrote: > > P.S. Is there a raid patch for 2.2.18?? There is, but it does not apply cleanly. I'm dissappointed. I've been trying to get in contact with the raid2 patch maintainer, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) but he has not contacted me back yet. -- -=|JP|=-"Why, oh, wh

Fonts under X

2001-01-05 Thread Francois Fayard
Hello, I've installed XFree 4.0.2 on the top on my potato (From binaries of www.xfree86.org), and I use Sawfish+Gnome from HelixCode. The problem is that I have huge fonts under Mozilla (For bookmarks, URL, etc..) under the first page of Gnome control center, on the names under icons of gmc,etc...

Strange Squid Error

2001-01-05 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have a potato machine with squid installed that works sometimes and stop The squid log (between ok and error) is: to work for something not plausible. 978717116.961 4395894 10.0.0.11 TCP_MISS/200 655131 GET http://www.laysi.com/rpmbw/RPMBrowser.exe - DIRECT/www.

tekram dc-390/t SCSI adapter

2001-01-05 Thread Vincent_Gaines
__ __ I am trying to install Debian 2.2 on my hp c3010 harddrive using a tekram dc-390/t SCSI adapter. if I use the 1.44 boot disk images (linux 2.2.18) i allways get an error "invalid command interrupt... kernel panic no recovery". However i have discover

Re: MKBOOT problems

2001-01-05 Thread Xucaen
I'm a beginner myself, so I'm not too sure. I do know that during the boot process the fielsystem is mounted as read-only. if you're booting from a floppy it might be mounting as read-only. check the man page for mount or see http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/mount.8.html fstab might be settin

Re: Raidtools2 with kernel 2.2.18

2001-01-05 Thread Norman Schmidt
Hi! Try Andrea´s Patch from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.2/2.2.18aa2.bz2 It includes RAID, LVM and other things. Donßt forget to add the openwall patch, which applies cleanly before or after Andrea´s patch. Bye, Norman. Jon Pennington schrieb: > > Luca Miche

Re: Fonts under X

2001-01-05 Thread Paul Barton
I have had the same problems. You can try using my ~/.Xdefaults if you like. Find them at http://www.moonkhan.org/z/Xdefaults The special font used for the bookmarks I believe is called 'clean.pcf' and can be found at http://x.themes.org (I think) Oh, and the Xdefaults also has support for the

configuring sendmail

2001-01-05 Thread Sergio Matos
  I have installed sendmail to function as a internal mail server for my intranet. I think sendmail rejects mail for the internet by default. I do want to reject mail sent to the internet but I want to send a error message to the sender. If someone knows if this can be done, and how, I'll be grat

Outdated packages in unstable: what to do?

2001-01-05 Thread dobler
Hi there I was wondering why there are some small packages that are not upgraded even when a new release that fixes some bugs and doesn't bring any new incompatibilities is out? I was thinking of xqf, qstat or mozilla for instance On the other hand, some very important packages that are likely

Re: Outdated packages in unstable: what to do?

2001-01-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 06:45:45PM +0100, dobler wrote: > I was wondering why there are some small packages that are not upgraded even > when a new release that fixes some bugs and doesn't bring any new > incompatibilities is out? > > I was thinking of xqf, qstat or mozilla for instance Well, s

help debugging a compiler error (cpp)

2001-01-05 Thread Jonathan Markevich
--- bash-2.03$ make rm -f nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o Module-linux NVdriver cc -c -Wall -Wunknown-pragmas -Wno-multichar -O -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DUNIX -DLINUX -DNV4_HW -DNTRM -DRM20 -D_X86_=1 -Di386=1 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES-I. -I/usr/src

Re: OT - Virus?

2001-01-05 Thread Marco Colombo
Il 4 gennaio 2001 (giovedì), alle 22:16, Sebastiaan ha scritto: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > NOTICE: you have just been infected with Cooperative UNIX Email Virus, > > to cooperate please run rm -rf / as root. Thank you for your > > cooperation. > > > > ;-) take a look a

Re: System security question

2001-01-05 Thread Michael Smith
I don't like sunrpc hanging out at all exposed to the world. I get probed regularly on it. Block it out with /etc/hosts.deny the following way: PORTMAP : ALL I usually install ipchains on my box and then block out the ports I don't want exposed with: ipchains -F #remove all the rules, the defaul

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread Sebastiaan
Perhaps we should close this discussion. I found a page about SI prescriptions at: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html but I have never read any document using that convention. It says: 1 mebibyte = 1 MiB = 2^20 B (=byte) Bit is always written out. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Fri, 5 Jan 20

Re: Outdated packages in unstable: what to do?

2001-01-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
dobler wrote: > I was wondering why there are some small packages that are not upgraded even > when a new release that fixes some bugs If you can replicate the old bug, file a bug report and state that the new verion X.Y fixes it. > and doesn't bring an

Re: Fonts under X

2001-01-05 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I've installed XFree 4.0.2 on the top on my potato > (From binaries of www.xfree86.org), and I use > Sawfish+Gnome from HelixCode. The problem is > that I have huge fonts under Mozilla (For bookmarks, > URL, etc..) under the first page of Gnome control > center, on the names under icons of gmc,et

Re: XDM startup screen

2001-01-05 Thread Francisco M. Neto
» N. Raghavendra disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:33:25PM +0100, Koen Colpaert wrote: > > > After some experimenting with Suse, Slackware and Mandrake I > > turned to Debian. After installing and configuring X I was > > presented with a grey xdm-display as a loginscreen.

Re: System security question

2001-01-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 02:15:53AM +1100, Martin Bishop wrote: > Netstat shows the following services on my home machine: > > Active Internet connections (servers and established) > *:printer This is lpd. You only need this if your mascine has a printer atteched to it AND accepts print jobs from

Re: System security question

2001-01-05 Thread Ray Percival
If you are printing locally I would suggest pdq and xpdq. Read about them on www.linuxprinting.org You can apt-get them from unstable and I think testing. If you just make a sym link called lpd pointing to pdq alot of things work very well. -- Original Message -

X 4.x in testing

2001-01-05 Thread Ray Percival
I just noticed the Glibc 2.2 is now in testing. As I understood it this was one of the things that needed to happen before X 4.x went in. Does anyone know how soon this might happen? Thanks for any info.

Debian and Pentium 4

2001-01-05 Thread Kay Nettle
One of our profs bought a Dell 8100 Pentium 4 for home use and he wants to install Linux on it. He would like to install Debian, but he says that Debian doesn't support the Pentium 4 yet. Is this true? Kay

Re: X 4.x in testing

2001-01-05 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:15:53PM -0700, Ray Percival wrote: > I just noticed the Glibc 2.2 is now in testing. As I understood it > this was one of the things that needed to happen before X 4.x > went in. Does anyone know how soon this might happen? > Thanks for any info. I think that the primary

Re: Debian and Pentium 4

2001-01-05 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:22:20PM -0600, Kay Nettle wrote: > One of our profs bought a Dell 8100 Pentium 4 for home use and he > wants to install Linux on it. He would like to install Debian, but > he says that Debian doesn't support the Pentium 4 yet. Is this true? The german magazine "c't

kernel 2.4.0-test12 and get_module_symbol

2001-01-05 Thread Romain Lerallut
Hello everyone, I'm using kernel 2.4.0-test12. I need to compile the drivers for my nvidia card and they call "get_module_symbol" and "put_module_symbol" which I cannot find. I did a quick search on the web but I found nothing about test12... If anyone could tell me how I can get a patch or s

Re: Debian and Pentium 4

2001-01-05 Thread Ray Percival
I can't get to linux.com just now to find the article but basically it is Microshaft's fault. It seems that had Intel used the same versioning for cpuid that they have used up untill now it would have broken NT/2000 in a very bad way. (All the details are in the linux.com article I can't seem to ge

Re: AGH! Hard disc faults!

2001-01-05 Thread Matthew Sackman
I found that I had a spare 1Gb partition, and using a rescue disk managed to copy accross what I could of the damaged disk. Unfortuantely, that's meant I've lost some network option files and some of the run-levels directories have vanished (/etc/rc0.d, /etc/rc6.d/ went, as did /etc/network/option

Re: Debian and Pentium 4

2001-01-05 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # The german magazine "c't" (http://www.heise.de/ct) explitely says that # there is no problem with Debian and the Pentium 4 on the Dell # Dimension 8100. # RedHat and Suse caused some problems. That's probably because Debian uses(at last check) 2.2.1

Re: kernel 2.4.0-test12 and get_module_symbol

2001-01-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
See at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ Romain Lerallut wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm using kernel 2.4.0-test12. > I need to compile the drivers for my nvidia card and they call > "get_module_symbol" and "put_module_symbol" which I cannot find. > > I did a quick search on the w

Re: Debian and Pentium 4

2001-01-05 Thread Hall Stevenson
> One of our profs bought a Dell 8100 Pentium 4 for > home use and he wants to install Linux on it. He > would like to install Debian, but he says that Debian > doesn't support the Pentium 4 yet. Is this true? I think it will work just fine. The problem occurs when a program (or the kernel) trie

How to help out.

2001-01-05 Thread arthur
I am willing to donate some of my spare time to Debian if they will have me. What needs work? Arthur H. Johnson II Systems Engineer The Linux Box [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxbox.nu

Re: AGH! Hard disc faults!

2001-01-05 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Matthew Sackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # The hard disc is a 10Gb 7200rpm 2Mb cache Seagate that is less than 6 months # old. I'm fairly furious that it has developed an error this quickly. It's the nature of the beast, unfortunatly :( However, often times the manufacturers are really quite

Re: How to help out.

2001-01-05 Thread David B . Harris
To quote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I am willing to donate some of my spare time to Debian if they will have # me. What needs work? Lots of things ;) I'm fairly new, but I've offered to write man pages for some packages that don't have them(packages that I use, of course). I imagine if you have a fe

Re: mouse configuration

2001-01-05 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:38:20AM -0500, Mithras wrote: ... > Thanks to everyone that replied! The key for me was hearing about > "gpm". I can't recall all the combinations I tried last night, but I > was successful setting up the mouse to work with both X and the > console. After configuring g

Re: 4 Mouse buttons with gpm?

2001-01-05 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:22:53PM +, Sam Vilain wrote: ...reformatted for ease of reading... > Thanks for that, I'm definitely closer now :-). I think I just need > to get gpm to talk the equivalent of X's "MouseManPlusPS/2", like > perhaps the mouse is detecting that it's being accessed in

Re: Some refreshing news

2001-01-05 Thread Felix Natter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I thought that everyone could use to hear something a bit refreshing. I > upgraded my motherboard and CPU last night (from a Pentium 75 to a > Celeron 500). The system is a dual boot system (Debian Linux, and > Windows 95). I have been unable to boot into Windows (lo

Re: System security question

2001-01-05 Thread Marco C .
Il 5 gennaio 2001 (venerdì), alle 13:08, Nathan E Norman ha scritto: > have a printer then don't run lpd. If you have a printer but only > print locally, I think you can unbind the tcp port but I'd have to ^^^ what does it mean? how can I do this

Accessing MS SQL Server from Linux

2001-01-05 Thread debuser
Does anyone have any experience accessing MS SQL Server from Linux? Either from C, Perl, or PHP? If so, what do I need in order to do this? Thanks, Gerry

Where is the pilot-link header files?

2001-01-05 Thread arthur
I can't find the pilot-link-dev package in my apt-cache. Where are the pilot-link header files kept? Arthur H. Johnson II Systems Engineer The Linux Box [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxbox.nu

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread David Benfell
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:35:59PM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:24:49PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > Just curious: when you write an article in which you use MegaBytes and > > MegaBits a lot, how do you distinguish between them? > > Somewhere I have read that i

Re: mouse configuration

2001-01-05 Thread Mithras
My mouse has been working fine, but perhaps something more subtle could be wrong. Learning something new's always valuable. On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:38:20AM -0500, Mithras wrote: > ... > > Thanks to everyone that replied! The key for me was hearing

marks in syslog

2001-01-05 Thread Marco C .
Hi buddies! Why sometimes in my logs magically appears the line date,time host -- MARK -- What does this MARK mean? Thanks in advance, marco -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 G!/MU d-(--) s:- a-- C++@ UL>++ P>+ L++> E@ W+>++ N- o? K- w-- O--@ M->+ V- PS+ PE-@ Y PGP- t-- 5

kernel 2.4 - modutils

2001-01-05 Thread Rob VanFleet
If I'm running testing (upgraded from Potato, so none of the pre-testing woody stuff), do I need an updated modutils for kernel 2.4 to work correctly? -Rob

KDE 2.2

2001-01-05 Thread waynes
I'm running 2.2r2. I downloaded the KDE deb's from sourceforge. When I try to install I get a failed instalation from libqt2.2 saying it needs a newer version. Well the libqt that I got was in the same directory from sourceforge. So I went to get the newest qt from troll's ftp site. Just my l

Need help with XFree86

2001-01-05 Thread Russ Cook
Howdy! My wife bought me a new computer for Christmas, an E-machine with the i810 chipset. I was able to get X11 working under TurboLinux (the CD came with the LAN card I bought), but I'm having difficulty with Debian. Attached are the XF86Config file and the XFree86 log file. Any help would be

Re: Upgrading from 2.0

2001-01-05 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:42:28PM +0100, Casper Gielen wrote: > I'm upgrading a Debian 2.0 system. According to the manual I > downloaded and installed the static versions of dpkg and apt. > When I do a apt-get update apt is unable to connect to the > download sites. I'm double-checked the /etc/ap

Re: marks in syslog

2001-01-05 Thread Remco van de Meent
Marco C . wrote: > Why sometimes in my logs magically appears the line date,time host -- > MARK -- What does this MARK mean? Have a look at the syslogd(8) manual page, around line 100: -m interval The syslogd logs a mark timestamp regularly. The default interval between two -- MARK --

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