Re: How to get vi to delete characters

2001-01-09 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:03:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Most of the time I can get vi to insert characters after entering 'i' > > Also know how to :wq etc > > But I can't figure out how to delete characters: my book says > ndd will delete N lines; but it doesn't work. In insert mode

Re: apt-get update and upgrade

2001-01-09 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 11:01:59AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > I have the following line(s) in my /etc/apt/sources.list file: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib > non-free > > ## gnom

Re: How to help out.

2001-01-09 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:59:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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 check some of the other

Re: mail client

2001-01-09 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:42:25PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: | Casey Webster wrote: | > [snip] | i use pine and netscape mostly ..i tried to use mutt but the mutt in | potato | doesn't have SSL support so for remote mail servers i use netscape. ?? I installed potato. It came with mutt 1.2.5 (ch

Re: XDM background

2001-01-09 Thread Benjamin Black
COLPAERT, Koen wrote: I installed Debian without any difficulties but I'm not amused with the grey loginscreen from XDM. Someone told me to change this using xbanner but that didn't satisfy me. Another user pointed me to some backgrounds for XDM at http://x.themes.org . I took a nice Debian bac

mutt - save-hook question

2001-01-09 Thread Manuel Hendel
Hi all, can anybody help me solving my problem with save-hooks. I want to save mails matched by ~f (From) and want to save it to special directory (not the normal mailfolder) and their with the full eMailaddress. Is this possible? I tried severel things with save-hook and its patterns and with the

snmpd package do not have processor load in snmp tree?

2001-01-09 Thread Tam, Vincent
Dear all, We're using Debian 2.2 system. We've installed the snmpd package and configured read access. The problem is we cannot find any place in the snmp tree that show the processor load?! We do an snmpwalk and found that under "host.hrDevice.hrProcessorTable" there is only: host.hrDevice.hr

Connection troubles

2001-01-09 Thread Matthias Wieser
I have got now Debian Sid (with 2.4-kernel) installed, but I have one problem: I can connect to the internet: however I can't do any of the usual things like ssh, telnet, get a webpage or so. I am able to use ping and can ping anybody. (numerical or names work) (Icq works, have not dound out what

Re: Command line search and replace

2001-01-09 Thread kmself
on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:53:51PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:54:34AM +0800, csj wrote: > > :for i in *.txt ; do mv $i $i.tmp ; sed s/foo/boo/g $i.tmp > $i ; done > : > :Can anybody comment on this little script? This appears to work, but >

Apache graceful as non-root

2001-01-09 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Is there a way to do "apachectl graceful" as non-root user? Because when I do, I get an error about denied permission for binding to port 80. Cheers, Sven

Re: snmpd package do not have processor load in snmp tree?

2001-01-09 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:41:07 +0800, "Tam, Vincent" writes: >We're using Debian 2.2 system. We've installed the snmpd package >and configured read access. The problem is we cannot find any place in >the snmp tree that show the processor load?! Are you sure that you found the cpu-load? I was n

Re: mail client

2001-01-09 Thread Nate Amsden
D-Man wrote: > Check again, you might be pleasantly surprised. :-) wish you were right:( i asked here a few days ago and someone pointed out that it did not have SSL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/stuff/aphro$ mutt -v [...] System: Linux 2.2.17 [using ncurses 5.0] Compile options: -DOMAIN -DEBUG -HOMESPO

Re: Apache graceful as non-root

2001-01-09 Thread Nate Amsden
Sven Burgener wrote: > > Hello > > Is there a way to do "apachectl graceful" as non-root user? Because when > I do, I get an error about denied permission for binding to port 80. you could i bet if you made apachectl setuid root but if security is an issue i wouldn't reccomend it. to do this do

Re: menuconfig error

2001-01-09 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, are you sure you have installed all packages that are needed for compiling the kernel? Maybe some of there need to be updated (maybe unstable). For compiling I need libc6-dev bin86 libncurses5-dev Hope that helps, else you have to run 'make config', or 'make xconfig' with tk8.2-dev also insta

Re: whoops -subject meant to be software RAID

2001-01-09 Thread patrick q
--- John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ># Would this be worthwhile? How hard is it to set > up a software raid? > >what do I do? does it matter that i want the whole > OS as well as the > >data storage mirrored? > > > >Fairly easy. Read the appropriate HOWTOs are > http://www.linuxdoc.org

Re: Linux related employment

2001-01-09 Thread kmself
on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:50:36PM -0700, Ray Percival ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is a general question for some of you who may be lucky enough to > be able to use Linux in your jobs. Besides coding what skillsets would > really set someone apart as a person looking for a Linux job? I'm > c

Re: Apache graceful as non-root

2001-01-09 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Nate [yes, do CC: me] Nate Amsden wrote: > > Sven Burgener wrote: > > > > Is there a way to do "apachectl graceful" as non-root user? Because when > > I do, I get an error about denied permission for binding to port 80. > > you could i bet if you made apachectl setuid root but if security

Re: potato instalation (despair)

2001-01-09 Thread sg . au
-- > De: Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Para: Antonio A. Lobato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Assunto: Re: potato instalation (despair) > Data: Terça-feira, 2 de Janeiro de 2001 21:08 > > "Antonio A. Lobato" wrote: > > > > I already tryied many ways to i

Re: [2.4.0] migration to devfs

2001-01-09 Thread Stefan Nobis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Can you give us a rundown on how to get this to work? I followed the > instructions in the README but the permissions and owner/group bits never > stayed the way I wanted them. (eg: root.audio for all of /dev/sound, If you use devfsd from unstable then there is a fil

Installing Netscape Communicator 4.7x from official Debian 2.2r0 CDs

2001-01-09 Thread Walther, Christoph
Dear community, I have installed Debian 2.2r0 from the 3 official CDs, a basically running X-Windows. Now I'd like to install and to configurate Netscape Communicator 4.7x on my system. apt-get install communicator tells: Package commuinicator has no available version, but exists in the databa

Re: Apache graceful as non-root

2001-01-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
I aint expert but... someidea. Perl has SUID module (havent used it... but heard.) Alternatively write a super short C program which runs your script and make its binary SUID. Good luck. On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:38:59AM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hello Nate > > [yes, do CC: me] > > Nate

Mail not bouncing back?

2001-01-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I don't know what I changed recently, nothing that I know of, but mail not bouncing back. I tried using [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it went through and no bounce back. I assume it's fetchmail? Any help appreciated. Jonathan PS No killing fields apply, etc. -- "Hey, I think I finall

Re: Firewall Rules

2001-01-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
ipmasq is good way to start ip masq running. But it has very relaxed policy for ip connection. I use it with some mod. I added few new rules which basically shut off all unused server connection (1-1023) and my ISP's NNTP portscans. You will be surprised how much strange connection try I get on

Re: Connection troubles

2001-01-09 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I guess the problem is your /etc/resolv.conf. Here you have to add your domain AND dns-servers. It looks like: domain myispdomain.net nameserver 130.1.2.1 nameserver 130.1.2.2 search mydomain.com myispdomain.net myfavorite.org The important one are the nameservers. Try specifying them tw

Re: IP spoofing protection

2001-01-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
I wondered about the same thing... BTW, imasq as install has almost no firewall capability unless you add script to it. But they have cure script to autodetect ethernet ports. Anyway, I ended up adding several firewall scripts in ipmas style scripts and put them in the /etc/ipmasq/rules direct

Re: Voodoo 3

2001-01-09 Thread Peter Gruber
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, David Steinberg wrote: > But I'm completely lost as to what to do to get it to work... > > I've installed the following packages (from potato): > libglide2-v3 > libglide2-dev > glide2-base > mesag3-glide2 > mesag3-widgets > mesag-glide2-dev > mesag-widgets-dev > > Okay, so th

Re: Connection troubles

2001-01-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
It is nice to have more than one DNS as the fall back, but one is sufficient if it is working. I setup my own gateway machine as DNS and working for all my home LAN clients. 192.168.1.1 is the only one listed. Also, his ping-by-name indicates DNS in action. I use "ipchains -L -n" to check my 2

Re: pdflatex and dvips+ps2pdf

2001-01-09 Thread Vicente
> Have a look at: > http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/543e.htm > > Essentially you're getting bitmap fonts in the PDF, which is what makes it > look so ugly. The above link discusses solutions. For more related links > have a look at (at the bottom of the page): > http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/

Re: Apache graceful as non-root

2001-01-09 Thread Martin Maciaszek
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:04:07AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > Sven Burgener wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > Is there a way to do "apachectl graceful" as non-root user? Because when > > I do, I get an error about denied permission for binding to port 80. > > you could i bet if you made apachectl se

Re: Installing Netscape Communicator 4.7x from official Debian 2.2r0 CDs

2001-01-09 Thread Andre Berger
"Walther, Christoph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear community, > > I have installed Debian 2.2r0 from the 3 official CDs, a basically running > X-Windows. > Now I'd like to install and to configurate Netscape Communicator 4.7x on my > system. > > apt-get install communicator tells: > Packa

Anything on CD to read GIFF in Gimp?

2001-01-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
Title says it all really. Any add on to red and write GIF? Thanks. Jonathan -- "Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-"

hi all

2001-01-09 Thread Sathish C
Hi All can anybody tell me tha maximum number of users that can be created on debian linux if there i sany such limit. Please don't say that as many users as in any other linux, because I don't know how many can be users created on other variants of linux also. Please tell me how I can find such

Re: hi all

2001-01-09 Thread Corey Popelier
I think I remember reading somewhere that because users have 16bit uid's by default, the maximum is 64k or so (65,536). But you can have 32bit uid's if you're brave I also believe. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Sathish C wrote: > Hi Al

AW: Installing Netscape Communicator 4.7x from official Debian 2.2r0 CDs

2001-01-09 Thread Walther, Christoph
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Andre Berger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet am: Dienstag, 9. Januar 2001 12:08 An: Walther, Christoph Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Installing Netscape Communicator 4.7x from official Debian 2.2r0 CDs "Walther, Christoph" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: dazed and confused - pop3 port

2001-01-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:32:54PM +1100, Matt Chipman wrote: ... > i added > pop3stream tcp nowait mail/usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d > > thinking along the lines of the redhat box, ..but she no work :( The > port is now open (i can telnet to it ) but exim doesnt reply. it's n

Re: mail client

2001-01-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:01:22AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: ... > note the -USE_SSL :( when i tried to configure mutt to use > SSL it failed. i know i could recompile mutt but that would be > quite a bit of work for all the machines i work on as i don't know > how to make debian packages. also i

Re: Connection troubles

2001-01-09 Thread Matthias Wieser
Thank you for the replies, but it was none of the mentioned :-| I guess i have to include more information: I started the followoing three apps (to have some apps running using the internet): ftp ftp.debian.org telnet pluto.tu-graz.ac.at ssh -v ftp.tu-graz.ac.at Output by ssh (I started it

RE: Unable to Install Debian From CD

2001-01-09 Thread Holp, John Mr.
sg.au, I have been trying to install Debina "official" distribution for the past 2 to 3 days - version 2.2.17 There is no problem with my CD in that installation takes right off when you boot with the first CD in the drive. I CANNOT get "Make Linux Bootable Directly From

Re: dazed and confused - pop3 port

2001-01-09 Thread Matt Chipman
Thanks to you and all the other replies i recieved, the problem is now fixed, i installed ipopd and was away in under 3 minutes flat! I guess i was just used to NT doing everything for me without having to make choices (or having the oportunity) :) thanks again -Matt - Original Message

Re: How do I enable ocaml font-highlighting in emacs?: Solved

2001-01-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 06:06:16PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I could not find something in the ocaml-documentation so far on how > to enable it. That was because the important README files was not included in the binary package. After compiling Woody's ocaml-3.00 it and installing its .debs i

RE: Unable to Install Debian From CD

2001-01-09 Thread Casey Webster
Your problem is likely that you kernel resides on disk above the 1024th cylinder and your bios cant handle that. You might try creating a small partition 10-15 megs is more than plenty, and make sure this is the first partition on your disk and select this partition to be /boot. this will insure

Re: hi all

2001-01-09 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Well the user id field in the password file is an unsigned int, i.e. 32bits on a PC... So .. lots ! Course, it may be limited by other considerations..lol Cliff I think I remember reading somewhere that because users have 16bit uid's > by default, the maximum is 64k or so (65,536). But you can

Re: IP spoofing protection

2001-01-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 02:25:38AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... > Anyway, I ended up adding several firewall scripts in ipmas style > scripts and put them in the /etc/ipmasq/rules directory. > > You can see my script in www.aokiconsulting.com/pub. doesn't seem to be up now, so I'll try later.

Re: Whirl logo instead of Tux

2001-01-09 Thread Francois Menard
Where is that patch, does it work for 2.2.18? On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Mircea Luca wrote: > Francois Menard wrote: > > > > Has anybody update the patch that enables the Whirl logo instead of the > > Tux logo on boot ? > > > > -=Francois=- > > > > Yes, it works,but you have to recompile the kernel

Re: Anything on CD to read GIFF in Gimp?

2001-01-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:31:52PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Title says it all really. Any add on to red and write GIF? Thanks. Installing the gimp-nonfree package will allow GIMP to read and write GIF files. As the name suggests, it's in non-free so it won't be on official CDs but it might

Re: XDM background

2001-01-09 Thread Diego Biurrun
David Purton wrote: > > > I installed Debian without any difficulties but I'm not amused with the > > grey loginscreen from XDM. Someone told me to change this using xbanner > > but that didn't satisfy me. Another user pointed me to some backgrounds > > for XDM at http://x.themes.org . I took a ni

Re: AW: Installing Netscape Communicator 4.7x from official Debian 2.2r0 CDs

2001-01-09 Thread Andre Berger
"Walther, Christoph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Andre Berger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet am: Dienstag, 9. Januar 2001 12:08 > An: Walther, Christoph > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: Installing Netscape Communicator 4.7x from off

Kernel 2.4.0 support for potato 2.2r2

2001-01-09 Thread Francois Menard
Hello, I've compiled 2.4.0 on my potato firewall, and it seems to be booting nicely. However, there seems to be some issues with the location of the kernel modules. I'm sure that there are other issues like the support for netfilter and the reconfiguration of the ipmasq package for that. Is th

32bit uuids ... Re: hi all

2001-01-09 Thread Francois Menard
16 bits worth of users, although some people are working on 32bit UUIDs What's the status for that on Linux ? -=Francois=- On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Sathish C wrote: > Hi All > > can anybody tell me tha maximum number of users that can be created on > debian linux if there i sany such limit. > Plea

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 support for potato 2.2r2

2001-01-09 Thread Casey Webster
Make sure your modutils is up to date with what the kernel expects, you can find this in /usr/src//Documentation/Changes. This file lists all the required programs and thier versions to have a working 2.4 system. The modules for 2.4 are stored in a different hierarchy than 2.2 so your current mod

AW: Installing Netscape Communicator 4.7x from official Debian 2.2r0 CDs

2001-01-09 Thread Walther, Christoph
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Andre Berger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet am: Dienstag, 9. Januar 2001 13:35 An: Walther, Christoph Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: AW: Installing Netscape Communicator 4.7x from official Debian 2.2r0 CDs "Walther, Christoph" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: ldap, ldap everywhere

2001-01-09 Thread Frank Copeland
On 7 Jan 01 01:01:20 GMT, Known Human Nick Rusnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm going to be running a moderately sized network, and I was wondering how >difficult it would be to setup ldap as teh authentication for it? Having just done exactly that I can say it's probably more frustrating than

Re: Command line search and replace

2001-01-09 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:52:26PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: :> My vote for most elegant: :> :> find . -name *.txt -exec sed s/foo/boo/g {} \; :> {} refers to file found ^ ^must have \; to terminate :> -exec : :This solution doe

Antwort: Kernel 2.4.0 support for potato 2.2r2

2001-01-09 Thread "Martin_Tanzer"
You need to install modutils from woody. Then it worked for me, but test12 was not stable on my system. martin Francois Menard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09.01.2001 14:24:58 An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Kopie: debian-user@lists.debian.org (Blindkopie: Martin Tanzer/dvs/DE) Blindkopie:

Re: Command line search and replace

2001-01-09 Thread list
csj schrieb: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:56:45AM +0800, I wrote: > > Is there a tool to do a search-and-replace from the command line? > > Something along the lines of: > > > > replace "string one" "string foo" files-to-process > > sed is it! Thanks to John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michal > <[EMAI

Antwort: Re: ldap, ldap everywhere

2001-01-09 Thread "Martin_Tanzer"
I did some research with ldap - the point for me is the use in network for different operating systmes and netscapes roaming profiles. I was able to set up this, but some things (Addressbook, ...) don't work (yet) with Version 2.0.x - there is very little documentation. Thers is a Samba-Version

[Sorry] Re: Command line search and replace

2001-01-09 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
sorry guys, I actually didn't intend to bounce that message -- I had the focus on the wrong X window while typing something unrelated, which obviously turned out to be a valid mutt key sequence... Anyway, thanks for your effort :-) (ok, ok, I'll shut up now...) On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 02:33:34

tekram dc-390/t SCSI adapter

2001-01-09 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 discovered that ftp.tekram.com had boot disk images fo

Wordperfect 8 in .deb ?

2001-01-09 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! Can anyone tell me if wordperfect 8 is available in a .deb package anywhere (not on a corel cd-rom which a person would have to buy), but downloadable from the net? Thx in advance! Bostjan -- Boštjan Müller [NEONATUS], [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://neonatus.net/~neonatus For my PGP key finger:

Re: whoops -subject meant to be software RAID

2001-01-09 Thread David B . Harris
To quote John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # ># Would this be worthwhile? How hard is it to set up a software raid? # >what do I do? does it matter that i want the whole OS as well as the # >data storage mirrored? # > # >Fairly easy. Read the appropriate HOWTOs are http://www.linuxdoc.org # > # >

Re: Is there an easy way to get back from unstable to testing?

2001-01-09 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Stephen Rueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Hello! # # I made a silly mistake and did an apt-get upgrade and forgot that my # sources.list was pointing to unstable instead of testing. Then I made # a even more silly mistake and didn't looked at what apt-get was # doing. So now I have an testing

OT Any Gimp lists?

2001-01-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I subscribed to the list recommended on the gimp home page and after a day, not a single message. Are there any others out there? Thanks, Jonathan -- "Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-"

potato + certain unstable packages

2001-01-09 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! How can I achieve that if I want only certain packages from the unstable distribution (i.e. modutils) when doing an "apt-get dist-upgrade" but all other packages upgraded from the stable distribution? The fear that I'm having is that as soon as I have a reference to "unstable" in my "/etc/apt

Re: Apache graceful as non-root

2001-01-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:38:59AM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hello Nate > > you could i bet if you made apachectl setuid root but if security is > > an issue i wouldn't reccomend it. to do this do chmod u+s apachectl > > Tried it. Doesn't work; Linux seems to silently drop suid root privilges

Re: dazed and confused - pop3 port

2001-01-09 Thread Sergio Matos
Matt Chipman wrote: Hello list currently i have a nice setup of debian  potatoe and trying to add exim as a mail server.  I want to check my mail with outlook express/pegasus/whatever via the pop3 port from the windows boxes Initially i had this setup under Red hat and sendmail (before i saw the

Re: Whirl logo instead of Tux

2001-01-09 Thread Jon Pennington
Mircea Luca wrote: > > Francois Menard wrote: > > > > Has anybody update the patch that enables the Whirl logo instead of the > > Tux logo on boot ? > > > > -=Francois=- > > > > Yes, it works,but you have to recompile the kernel after you apply the > patch for the new logo. I'd go one better and

Re: Apache graceful as non-root

2001-01-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:50:31AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I aint expert but... someidea. > > Perl has SUID module (havent used it... but heard.) > > Alternatively write a super short C program which runs your script > and make its binary SUID. > > Good luck. > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:

Re: Voodoo 3

2001-01-09 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear peter and david, i couldn't get the voodoo3 to work until i installed X 4.0 and used the DRI drivers. pete On Tue 09 Jan 01, 11:34 AM, Peter Gruber said... > On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, David Steinberg wrote: > > > But I'm completely lost as to what to do to get it to work... > > > > I've install

Re: dirt-level networking

2001-01-09 Thread Jon Pennington
tom wrote: > > one box has an isa card, the other a pci, but they're both > ne2000 compatable (pnp, unfortunately). > > Once I get the two connected, I'm gonna move my modem to the > 486. Am I gonna have to jump thru too many hoops to switch to a > dsl modem later? (I'll have to add another nic??

Re: Whirl logo instead of Tux

2001-01-09 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Francois Menard wrote: > Has anybody update the patch that enables the Whirl logo instead of the > Tux logo on boot ? I'm trying to make sense of this thread, but I guess I'm too dense: exactly when would this boot logo show up? 1) post LILO but pre kernel load? 2) post kernel load but pre init?

postfix, cyrus and procmail: need to forward mail for one account

2001-01-09 Thread Chris Mason
I have Debian 2.2 with Postfix and Cyrus Imap working great. I need to have one account's mail be forwarded on to other users. I have created an account on the machine for every user. Is procmail the best way to do it or is there a better way. Does anyone have the procmail recipe for this? Chris M

Re: OT Any Gimp lists?

2001-01-09 Thread D-Man
There's the windows one. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -D On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:01:30PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: | Hi, | | I subscribed to the list recommended on the gimp home page and after a | day, not a single message. Are there any others out there? | | | | Thanks, | | Jonathan | | --

Re: Anything on CD to read GIFF in Gimp?

2001-01-09 Thread D-Man
This issue is covered on the gimp pages. Gif's aren't free so they have a separate plug-in that does the job. Someone already said that .deb packages are available. -D On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:31:52PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: | Title says it all really. Any add on to red and write GIF? Th

Re: Mail not bouncing back?

2001-01-09 Thread D-Man
Why are you expecting your mail to bounce? Doesn't bouncing usually mean there was an error? -D On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:56:20AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: | Hi, | | I don't know what I changed recently, nothing that I know of, but mail | not bouncing back. I tried using [EMAIL PROTECTED] a

Re: Whirl logo instead of Tux

2001-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:12:30PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > I'm trying to make sense of this thread, but I guess I'm too dense: exactly > when > would this boot logo show up? > > 1) post LILO but pre kernel load? > 2) post kernel load but pre init? > 3) Is it used as a background pic

X 4.0.2 and Sparc wierdness

2001-01-09 Thread Stephen M. Przepiora
I have recently upgraded to X 4.0.2 and my keyboard is messed in X. No matter what I type it comes out as something different. I have a type 5 keyboard/mouse and have recently gotten the mouse to work. TIA, Steve Przepiora

Recommend Version/book/cd source

2001-01-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I would like to load Debian and need some recommendations. >From the Debian site it would seem that 2.2r2 (potato) would be a good choice. I would prefer something that would have the least problems installing, running etc. This will be the users first taste of Linux and my first install of d

Re: mail client

2001-01-09 Thread Juergen Fiedler
At Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:51:21 -0600 (CST), Casey Webster wrote: > > Hello, > > I've noticed debian doesnt distribute pine on its package mirrors, and > as i've only really used pine under unix for mail, what mail clients do > you guys use, so i can check them out. > > thanks > -casey Right now,

Re: OT Any Gimp lists?

2001-01-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
D-Man wrote: > > There's the windows one. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] You know teh subscribe offhand, like default add -subscribe? Any actovity? I've been on the defualt one for a day now and nota single message. I ran a yodel test and got a nice reply, so people are out there and it is working... Jo

RE: Need help with XFree86 (fwd)

2001-01-09 Thread Daniel Oxenhandler
Russ, Have you tried a lower default bit depth, say 16? I know the docs say that 24bpp is supported, but it may be worth a try. We trying to get this chipset working on a Dell Optiplex 110, still trying to get the correct combination of module, server and config. Cheers, Daniel -Original M

Mail not bouncing back on errors?

2001-01-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
D-Man wrote: > > Why are you expecting your mail to bounce? > > Doesn't bouncing usually mean there was an error? > Boy, lot's of help from you... I should have been more clear, errors are not returning. I'm ued to getting mail bounced by on errors. it's not happening and I wonder what in my pr

invalidfontAladdin

2001-01-09 Thread Nikolaus Neumaier
Hi I do run a testing system (woody) whenever I try to display a postscript file generated by a2ps, grace or scigraphica or another programm, I get following error message from ghostscript: Error: /invalidfontAladdin Ghostscript: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 in findfont Operand stack: Tim

Jazip config problem

2001-01-09 Thread Giulio Morgan
I installed jazip yesterday (from "testing"), and I have not been able to configure the tool successfully, or to mount my internal zip drive. From the start up messages, it appears that the Zip drive is seen: Jan 4 16:47:23 pieno kernel: hda: WDC AC28400R, ATA DISK drive Jan 4 16:47:23 pieno ker

Re: potato + certain unstable packages

2001-01-09 Thread Zach Loafman
Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > How can I achieve that if I want only certain packages from the unstable > distribution (i.e. modutils) when doing an "apt-get dist-upgrade" but all > other packages upgraded from the stable distribution? It's not trivial. I think your best bet

Re: Anything on CD to read GIFF in Gimp?

2001-01-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:31:52PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Title says it all really. Any add on to red and write GIF? Thanks. $apt-cache search gif | grep gimp gimp-nonfree - GIF and TIFF support for the GNU Image Manipulation Program gimp - The GNU Image Manipulation Program gimp1.1-nonfree

Re: potato + certain unstable packages

2001-01-09 Thread Zach Loafman
Appending to myself: > cp /etc/apt/sources.list.stable /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > cp /etc/apt/sources.list.unstable /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update > apt-get install This method doesn't please me conceptually, though. Anyone know a better method?

Re: Mail not bouncing back?

2001-01-09 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know what I changed recently, nothing that I know of, but mail > not bouncing back. I tried using [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it went through > and no bounce back. I assume it's fetchmail? There's so many things that are happening here I'm not sure w

Anything on CD to read GIF- Answered!

2001-01-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
D-Man wrote: > > > Someone already said that .deb packages are available. Yes, it was answered. I'll post this as such. Thanks. Jonathan -- "Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-"

Re: Recommend Version/book/cd source

2001-01-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
Eric Richardson wrote: > > >From the Debian site it would seem that 2.2r2 (potato) would be a good > choice. I would prefer something that would have the least problems > installing, running etc. This will be the users first taste of Linux and > my first install of debian. Do you agree? Debian is

Re: hi all (number of users)

2001-01-09 Thread Jim McCloskey
> can anybody tell me tha maximum number of users that can be created on > debian linux if there i sany such limit. Well under the 2.4 kernel, the maximum number of users and groups seems to be a mere 4.2 billion, if Joe Pranevich is to be believed: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=200

Re: OT Any Gimp lists?

2001-01-09 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
did you try to look for one? i went to www.yahoo.com and did a search on +gimp +mailing +list and found: * an official gimp user mailing list * a official gimp developer's mailing list * an official gimp announce mailing list * a japanese gimp mailing list

Re: Mail not bouncing back on errors?

2001-01-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:47:48PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Boy, lot's of help from you... I should have been more clear, errors are > not returning. I'm ued to getting mail bounced by on errors. it's not > happening and I wonder what in my present setup is doing that. It > happened in W98 Ou

X Window Manager

2001-01-09 Thread cdryburgh
Have got an old 386 with Debian Linux on it. Have loaded X and am looking for a window manager for it. There are a lot of them. I was hopping that if I give some specs that someone could narrow down the list. 1. Have limited memory resources so must not use much. 2. Have small monitor 14". Must al

Re: Whirl logo instead of Tux

2001-01-09 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Peter Hugosson-Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I'm trying to make sense of this thread, but I guess I'm too dense: exactly when # would this boot logo show up? # # 1) post LILO but pre kernel load? # 2) post kernel load but pre init? # 3) Is it used as a background picture for xdm or gdm? #

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Re: potato + certain unstable packages

2001-01-09 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Zach Loafman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Appending to myself: # # > cp /etc/apt/sources.list.stable /etc/apt/sources.list # apt-get update # > apt-get dist-upgrade # > cp /etc/apt/sources.list.unstable /etc/apt/sources.list # apt-get update # > apt-get install # # This method doesn't please

Re: X Window Manager

2001-01-09 Thread Jon Pennington
cdryburgh wrote: > > 1. Have limited memory resources so must not use much. > 2. Have small monitor 14". Must allow for maximum screen viewing. > 3. I am a programmer so will probably be doing GUI's and CORBA related > stuff at some point. Sounds like a perfect candidate for Blackbox 0.61.x, pack

Re: Recommend Version/book/cd source

2001-01-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Jonathan Gift wrote: > > Eric Richardson wrote: > > > > >From the Debian site it would seem that 2.2r2 (potato) would be a good > > choice. I would prefer something that would have the least problems > > installing, running etc. This will be the users first taste of Linux and > > my first install

Re: Jazip config problem

2001-01-09 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Giulio Morgan wrote: > I installed jazip yesterday (from "testing"), and I have not been able to > configure the tool successfully, or to mount my internal zip drive. From the > start up messages, it appears that the Zip drive is seen: > > Jan 4 16:47:23 pieno kernel: hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI

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