Re: Can't create file larger than 1G on console ?

2001-01-25 Thread Martin Albert
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Tommy Wu wrote: > I've try kernel 2.4.0, 2.4.1-pre8 - 10. > > I can't create file larger than 1G on console (tty1 - tty6 and X11 > terminal), but I can > create such file from telent. For the same OS, kernel... only a telnet > session can create > large file more tha

Help w/ pcmcia

2001-01-25 Thread Nick
hello, I am currently using a compaq 1220, I have the linksys pcmcia 10/100 adapter I got it because it can w/ linux(turbo) so I had to assume it was compatible I have a base installation of 2.1 w/ 2.0.38 kernel What driver can I use for this card Thanks for any insight

ipmasqadm portfw vs autofw vs rinetd ?

2001-01-25 Thread aphro
hi today i had a small problem trying to get portfw to forward connections to another netowrk. what i wanted to do was send connections from port X accross our T1s to a place on the other side of the country(all the internal traffic is using non routable ips..) however it did not work .. connectio

HowTo Install SendMail on Debian2.2

2001-01-25 Thread Vikas Jolly
 Hi   I have been using the Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 ("potato").I want to install sendmail. I have the latest version of sendmail : "sendmail.8.11.2.tar.gz". I have searched different sites regarding the installation but everyone gives different methods and directory structures.   Kindly let me

Re: HowTo Install SendMail on Debian2.2

2001-01-25 Thread John Ferlito
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:10:57PM +0530, Vikas Jolly wrote: > Hi > > I have been using the Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 ("potato").I want to install > sendmail. I have the latest version of sendmail : "sendmail.8.11.2.tar.gz". I > have searched different sites regarding the installation but everyone g

Re: xinitrc isn't being read??

2001-01-25 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I created ~/.xsession and added the line Try 'chmod +x ~/.xsession'. David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)

Re: kernel problems?!?!

2001-01-25 Thread kmself
on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:03:49PM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > I have two webservers running Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 with apache > and resin java servlets (www.caucho.com) handling 500.000 page views. > By two months or so, they

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-25 Thread kmself
on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 02:01:06PM -0700, Stefan Srdic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying to get my cd-burner working under Debian 2.2. I've configured > my system so that the ide-scsi module is loaded at boot time and I've > also added the "hdd=ide-scsi" parameters to my LILO configuration.

After upgrading to 2.4.0 popper works via Ethernet and doesn't via PPP

2001-01-25 Thread Romanenko M.A.
We have a network as shown in the picture: (Internet) |

re: small fonts in netscape

2001-01-25 Thread Joshua Kruck
These HOWTOs talk about files i don't have, specifically .Xdefaults and .Xreasources. They also mention a microsoft font pack for X. Does anyone know anything about this/ what i can do about it? thanks Joshua There's a couple of HOWTOs on fonts that helped me. Both of them have a section on Netsca

Re: how to forward a mail including attachments AND add comments

2001-01-25 Thread Martin Würtele
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:30:21PM -0600, ktb wrote: > Are you 100% sure you aren't sending an attachment using "f"? If I get > you right the file you attached can be viewed at the end of the email > but you are looking for a "packaged file?" Hit your "v" key and see if > you can view the attachm

Re: need a lilo.conf which does not mess up existing linux / partition

2001-01-25 Thread James Sinnamon
Dear Debian users, Sorry for the last badly conceived e-mail., and my apologies if anyone went to went to any trouble over it.t Just in case anyone out there might be interested: One needs to have EACH kernel, which is pointed to by lilo.conf 'image = ' record on a partition which is MO

Re: Galeon

2001-01-25 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Solved. Thanks. :) Em Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:19:24 +0700 Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I read yesterday about the following line: > > deb ftp://galeon.sourceforge.net/pub/galeon/nightly/debian galeon/ > >

.Xdefaults problem

2001-01-25 Thread Torben Korte
in the ~/.Xdefaults file i have put some thinks for xemacs but the file isn't read on startup? Did I get the wrong file or the wrong place for the file? Thanks -- cu Torben Korte [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .Xdefaults problem

2001-01-25 Thread Justin B Rye
Torben Korte wrote: > in the ~/.Xdefaults file i have put some thinks for xemacs but the file > isn't read on startup? Did I get the wrong file or the wrong place for > the file? Thanks ~/.Xresources -- Justin B Rye - writing from but not for Datacash Ltd

Compiling source .debs

2001-01-25 Thread Johan Groth
Hello, I'm a newbie to Debian (a former Red Hat user) and am wondering how to recompile a .deb from a src .deb with different compile options than the default ones? In Red Hat you change rpmrc and then type rpm -rebuild . I assume there is something similar in Debian. Regards, Johan -- Johan Gro

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Usually Karsten's comment are correct on this mailing list but this time I think differently. I have IDE CD-RW connected with scsi emulation driver like yours. So, in my /etc/fstab there exists: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 If you set this with /

Re: Compiling source .debs

2001-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
Johan Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm a newbie to Debian (a former Red Hat user) and am wondering how to >recompile a .deb from a src .deb with different compile options than the >default ones? In Red Hat you change rpmrc and then type rpm -rebuild >. I assume there is something similar in De

DIFF : Galeon : Installation trouble :

2001-01-25 Thread Joris Lambrecht
I've been experiencin trouble with installing / compiling galeon and some other programs.Now i've read that the 2.4.0 kernel and/or Woody supply a compiler wich might cause trouble. Rolling back to a 'good' version of the compiler is not supported by Dselect. Are there any other ways of com

Re: xinitrc isn't being read??

2001-01-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
Out of curiosity, I made .xinitrc a symlink to .xsession. Is this okay ?? Saves me from having to edit two files in case I change from using xdm or starting X with startx... Regards Hall > xdm runs .xsessionrc, startx runs .xinitrc > > > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Xucaen wrote: > > > Hi all. > > I ad

NIS with shadow passwords

2001-01-25 Thread Pedro Pereira
Hi. I have NIS installed and working good on my LAN. But I'd like to install shadow passwords as well. I've tried it, but as I compile the NIS maps, the users aren't no longer able to login :( Could somebody please help me? Thanks. -- Pedro Pereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux do DEEC - FEUP

Re: small fonts in netscape

2001-01-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
> These HOWTOs talk about files i don't have, specifically > .Xdefaults and .Xreasources. Simple. Create them in your home directory. > They also mention a microsoft font pack for X. Does > anyone know anything about this/ what i can do about > it? thanks See those HOWTOs you referenced below ??

Re: Can't create file larger than 1G on console ?

2001-01-25 Thread Tommy Wu
Martin Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ulimit ? Yes. But... I set the 'ULIMIT 2097152' in /etc/login.defs, it will cause the console and X11 got only 1G ulimit, I remove the setting for ULIMIT (just remark it), it will be no any ulimit. Why ? If I can't set the limit from he

Re: Installing Debian

2001-01-25 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:21:37PM -0600, Lute Mullenix wrote: > Hi, > > My brother got me a set of 2.2 release disks, and I would like to install them > on an IBM PC 750. I have tried a couple of times, but am quite new at Linux > and have not been able to get my printer to work, or get online on

Re: xinitrc isn't being read??

2001-01-25 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: -| -|Out of curiosity, I made .xinitrc a sym link to .xsession. Is this okay -|?? Saves me from having to edit two files in case I change from using -|xdm or starting X with startx... -| -|Regards -|Hall -| Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the ".xs

Re: xinitrc isn't being read??

2001-01-25 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:26:24AM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > -| > -|Out of curiosity, I made .xinitrc a sym link to .xsession. Is this okay > -|?? Saves me from having to edit two files in case I change from using > -|xdm or starting X with

wheelmouse and Netscape 4.76

2001-01-25 Thread Andreas Donath
Hi, I've got a problem to get the wheel mouse cooperating with my netscape (V4.76). The Pointer Section in /etc/X11/XF86Config reads like this: Section "Pointer" Protocol"imps/2" Device "/dev/mouse" Resolution 100 Buttons 3 ZAxisMapping4 5 EndSecti

Re: DIFF : Galeon : Installation trouble :

2001-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OR, does anybody know why a newer compiler would say that it cannot find >/usr/ld : -ldb >when compiling/installing Galeon and other software ? Because you haven't got libdb2-dev installed, perhaps? That gives you /usr/lib/libdb.so, among other thin

Re: small fonts in netscape

2001-01-25 Thread mike polniak
Joshua Kruck wrote: > These HOWTOs talk about files i don't have, specifically .Xdefaults and > .Xreasources. They also mention a microsoft font pack for X. Does anyone > know anything about this/ what i can do about it? thanks > Joshua > > There's a couple of HOWTOs on fonts that helped me. Both

tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread Saqib Shaikh
hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done so far is: 1. installed dos 2. changed the fs type for fat16 to xenix, and windows then installs fine since it doesn't find dos. 3. installed linux. 4. now, i can boot either windows or linux fine. 5. if i now change xenix ba

RE: Console question (2x)

2001-01-25 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> > Incidentally, X uses the next free tty. So if you have 'getty's up to > tty11, X will be on tty12. > I was under the impression that X had tty7 hardcoded into it (or was that xdm?) hmmm... Brooks

How to install a kernel module?

2001-01-25 Thread Miller, Jim
I have a kernel module from intel to drive the Gigabit Intel Network adapter. It is setup and insmod rmmod all work fine. This is not a standard kernel module I got the src from Intel. How do I set it up to automatically load into the kernel when eth0 is initialized? Or where is the best place

Re: Console question (2x)

2001-01-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > Incidentally, X uses the next free tty. So if you have > > 'getty's up to tty11, X will be on tty12. > I was under the impression that X had tty7 hardcoded > into it (or was that xdm?) I don't think it's hard-coded because I've had X running on tty8 before and don't know how or why it was the

Re: How to install a kernel module?

2001-01-25 Thread David A. Rogers
Add the line alias eth0 modulename to /etc/modutils/aliases then run update-modules. There is a lot of good information on modules in the Debian University document that I'm writing. http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt Cheers, dar On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Miller, Jim wrote: > I

Re: what is '=20' at end of line in Mutt?

2001-01-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting mike polniak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):> In some messages i am getting '=20' at the end of lines. Anyone know > what generates this? Here's what it looks like in my Mutt pager: What you're seeing is MIME's quoted-printable, though there may be more than one reason why you're seeing it. As

Re: Console question (2x)

2001-01-25 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Brooks R. Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # > # > Incidentally, X uses the next free tty. So if you have 'getty's up to # > tty11, X will be on tty12. # > # I was under the impression that X had tty7 hardcoded into it (or was that # xdm?) Nope, neither. It just uses the next availab

Re: Mutt, unnoticed new mail and improper access/change times

2001-01-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Yep, that seems to be the tradition in Open Software Circles anyway, > so be my guest:) I improved a bit on that recepy (better locking): > | cat >>$FOLDER && touch -m -d "next sec" $FOLDER Thanks - I've had to modify it slightly for a Sun

Re: xinitrc isn't being read??

2001-01-25 Thread Pollywog
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 05:41:27 -0800, Eric G . Miller said: > > Actually, I think on Debian at least, one only needs an .xsession file > for both modes (other distributions are different). At least, it has > always worked here. Should be that /etc/Xsession is always run, and it > sources ~/

Re: Mutt, unnoticed new mail and improper access/change times

2001-01-25 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:42:47PM +, David Wright wrote: ... > Thanks - I've had to modify it slightly for a Sun because touch isn't > so clever, and it becomes either > > cat >>$BOX && sleep 2 && touch -m $BOX > > or, better locking but much worse looking, > > cat >>$BOX && env TZ=EST tou

~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
> To quote Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # I created ~/.xsession and added the line > > Try 'chmod +x ~/.xsession'. > Hi all.. here's what's happening: I created ~/.xsession and it causes X to restart immediately upon login (I type my password, hit return(enter) and poof! the screen flickers and

Re: Ip Aliasing the Debian Way...

2001-01-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:36:14PM -0800, Willy Lee wrote: > Nathan E Norman wrote: > > 2) You're missing the "network" line from your iface stanza. Since it > > looks to me like you're adding a different subnet this is kinda > > important. > > Ok, I thought (from man interfaces) that the "networ

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread Ken Weingold
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done so > far is: > 1. installed dos > 2. changed the fs type for fat16 to xenix, and windows then installs fine > since it doesn't find dos. > 3. installed linux. > 4. now, i can boot e

Re: ~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
--- Pascal Hos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > here's what's happening: > > I created ~/.xsession and it causes X to > restart > > immediately upon login (I type my password, > hit > > return(enter) and poof! the screen flickers > and > > I'm prompted again for user name and > password) > > > > I'v

Re: NIS with shadow passwords

2001-01-25 Thread Nate Amsden
Pedro Pereira wrote: > > Hi. > I have NIS installed and working good on my LAN. > But I'd like to install shadow passwords as well. > I've tried it, but as I compile the NIS maps, the users aren't no longer > able to login :( > Could somebody please help me? > Thanks. use NIS+ ..i believe the NIS

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread Saqib Shaikh
where can i get system commander? is it free? saqib Please visit my home page at: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~sshaik - Original Message - From: "Ken Weingold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 4:31 PM Subject: Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux > On Thu, Jan 25,

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread Ken Weingold
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > where can i get system commander? is it free? saqib No, but it's worth it. Check out http://www.systemcommander.com . -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

debian packets for ltsp ?

2001-01-25 Thread Knud Sørensen
Hi Does the exist any debian packets for linux terminal server project ? (www.ltsp.org ) Knud

Re: Installing Debian

2001-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
> You can use printtool to set up printing and pppconfig to set up your > dial up. > kent Currently printtool is only available in testing/woody. (Buggy, seems to require lprng, see bug reports for details) To be safe, I suggest try apsfilter first. Stable and simple. Regards, Osamu -- + O

multi os boot and sys commander

2001-01-25 Thread hanasaki
Anyone have experience with moving / resizing / del partitions and Linux failing to boot? how did you fix it? Ken Weingold wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > > hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done so > > far is: > > 1. installed dos > > 2.

Re: playing .mov files in a browser (quicktime) possible?

2001-01-25 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:33:10PM -0800, jdls wrote: > Greetings! > > I would like to know if I can somehow play quicktime files (.mov) > embedded in a browser and just plain .mov files in linux. 1) Complain to Apple about their disingenuous claims of believing in 'open source' and ask for so

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote: -|hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done so Visit: http://raster.cibermillennium.com/gageng.htm Multiple bootloader is FREE and works from floppy or your HD. I used the floppy to boot until I made sure everything worked

Re: small fonts in netscape

2001-01-25 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:49:10AM -0500, mike polniak wrote: > The tiny fonts in Netscape arise because X interprets font sizes to > be about 2 points smaller than windows does. So Netscape type in linux appears > smaller compared to windows (which most sites use). This is not too bad at >

Re: Installing Debian

2001-01-25 Thread mike polniak
Osamu Aoki wrote: > > You can use printtool to set up printing and pppconfig to set up your > > dial up. > > kent > > Currently printtool is only available in testing/woody. > (Buggy, seems to require lprng, see bug reports for details) Well i used printtool to set up my Epson 8

Re: Installing Debian

2001-01-25 Thread ktb
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:15:40AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > You can use printtool to set up printing and pppconfig to set up your > > dial up. > > kent > > Currently printtool is only available in testing/woody. > (Buggy, seems to require lprng, see bug reports for details) > > To be safe,

Re: Compiling source .debs

2001-01-25 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
Anyway to get this to work with 'apt-get --compile source '? It would be really nice if there were a way to override the default compile flags on a system wide basis. Tim Colin Watson wrote: Johan Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm a newbie to Debian (a former Red Hat user) and am wonde

Re: How to install a kernel module?

2001-01-25 Thread mike polniak
Miller, Jim wrote: > I have a kernel module from intel to drive the Gigabit Intel Network > adapter. It is setup and insmod rmmod all work fine. This is not a > standard kernel module I got the src from Intel. How do I set it up to > automatically load into the kernel when eth0 is initialized?

xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
hi all.. sorry about all the stipid questions is there an xsetroot HOWTO out there? :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bitmap ~/new.bmp xsetroot: bad bitmap format file: /home/xucaen/new.bmp [

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread ktb
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:05:27PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > > where can i get system commander? is it free? saqib > > No, but it's worth it. Check out http://www.systemcommander.com . > This is just a suggestion but there is a free boot loader cal

Re: Netscape Woes

2001-01-25 Thread Ray Percival
apt-get install netscape Also works well and get all the depends right. I do agree though that three or four installs are about right for learning. I would suggest that you try to apt-get everything you can things IMHO just work better that way. -- Original Message --

Re: xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls > aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bitmap ~/new.bmp > xsetroot: bad bitmap format file: > /home/xucaen/new.bmp > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > I made new

jpeg bad bitmap format file (was: xsetroot -bitmap)

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
--- Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls > > aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bitmap > ~/new.bmp > > xsetroot: bad bitmap format file: > > /home/xucaen/new.bmp > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mutt, unnoticed new mail and improper access/change times

2001-01-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):> > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:42:47PM +, David Wright wrote:... > > Thanks - I've had to modify it slightly for a Sun because touch isn't > > so clever, and it becomes either > wonder what happens of you go to far west and hit the date border:)

Re: xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:40:30AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > hi all.. > sorry about all the stipid questions > is there an xsetroot HOWTO out there? :-) Just the man page. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls > aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm > [EMAIL PROTEC

poff doesn't exit connection properly (was: Problems with apt-get and pppd)

2001-01-25 Thread Frank Preut
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:01:49AM +0100, Frank Preut wrote: > hello everyone, > > i have two problems with my potato system which _really_ get on > my nerves.. > > 1) i use pon/poff for my dialup connection.. the problem with this is > that poff somehow doesn't seem to completely close the

Re: ~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Hi all.. # here's what's happening: # I created ~/.xsession and it causes X to restart # immediately upon login (I type my password, hit # return(enter) and poof! the screen flickers and # I'm prompted again for user name and password) # # I've tried about 5

Re: xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
--- brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:40:30AM -0800, > Xucaen wrote: > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls > > aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bitmap > ~/new.bmp > > xsetroot: bad bitmap

Re: my maxed out memory - still ok?

2001-01-25 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:33:49PM -0600, Casey Webster wrote: > any time you are lookin at memory usage, you need to subtract out the > totals for buff and cache. Right now your system is only using roughly [...] If you use free instead ot top, it shows you (or me): oskar:~$ free t

Re: IRC and Firewall

2001-01-25 Thread Rino Mardo
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:12:15PM -0500 or thereabouts, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I'm sitting behind a firewall and want to use IRC. The > > firewall does masquerading and is also limiting incoming > > and outgoing traffic. I thought the problem may be identd > > which can not access my machine be

SOLVED: Re: ~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
Hi all.. thanks foir all your help, because of you I figured it out. for some reason, fvwm starts automatically (I haven't figured out why) and when I created my .xsession, fvwm no longer loaded, so I had to load it myself from my .xsession script. so now my last line of my .xsession is: exec fvwm

SOLVED! Re: problem playing audio CD's

2001-01-25 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hi, I solved my "problem" :) - I just didn't log out and back in before trying to setup cdcd I also changed myself and the cd-drive to the cdrom group :) Thnaks a lot! Philipp Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Hi Philipp, > > Did u log out, and back in? This typically takes care of that. A

nfs-common

2001-01-25 Thread Brock Murch
I have been getting this error every so often in the syslog: Is this a nfs-common bug? or a syslogd bug? running: Linux brockwell 2.2.17 #2 Thu Sep 14 06:08:37 EDT 2000 i486 unknown all packages from the stable upgrade of that time. Jan 18 19:16:45 brockwell Jan 18 19:16:45 brockwell syslogd

Re: Compiling source .debs

2001-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
"Timothy H. Keitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Colin Watson wrote: >> Johan Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I'm a newbie to Debian (a former Red Hat user) and am wondering how to >>> recompile a .deb from a src .deb with different compile options than the >>> default ones? In Red Hat you chang

Re: xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread Touloumtzis, Michael
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:40:30AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > hi all.. > sorry about all the stipid questions > is there an xsetroot HOWTO out there? :-) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls > aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bit

Problem with X (Intel i810) ...

2001-01-25 Thread NVasconcelos
Hello, I´m having problems with X instalation I won, one time, view the X, but when rebooted the machine the X crashed !! Machine: IBM NetVista 6229, chipset i810. There are attached: x.log -> X log; dpkg.log -> out of

unofficial pine 4.32 .debs available

2001-01-25 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
I've updated my unofficial binary (i386) .debs of pine, pilot, and pico to 4.32 which was released last week. You can get them from http://www.braincells.com/debian/pine/ or by adding the following lines to your apt sources: deb http://www.braincells.com/pub/debian/Local sid/ deb-src http://www

Re: nfs-common

2001-01-25 Thread Philippe Marzouk
Le jeu, 25 jan 2001 19:19:11, Brock Murch a écrit : > I have been getting this error every so often in the syslog: > > Is this a nfs-common bug? or a syslogd bug? It is an attack attempt. Look in the archives of debian-security there was some discussions on this on January, 9th Philippe -- P

Re: nfs-common

2001-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
Brock Murch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have been getting this error every so often in the syslog: > >Is this a nfs-common bug? or a syslogd bug? > >running: > >Linux brockwell 2.2.17 #2 Thu Sep 14 06:08:37 EDT 2000 i486 unknown > >all packages from the stable upgrade of that time. > > >Jan 18 1

building pine from debs

2001-01-25 Thread Romain Lerallut
Sorry if it's a usual problem, but I can't find info in the archives. Here it is (it's pine 3-96) apt-get source -b pine and then: install bin/pine debian/tmp/usr/bin install: cannot stat `bin/pine': No such file or directory make[1]: *** [binaryPine] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr

Re: SOLVED: Re: ~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread Pollywog
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:22:51 -0800 (PST), Xucaen said: > > does anyone know why creating .xsession causes > fvwm to NOT load anymore? I'd really like to know > why I don't think you need the "&" following your window manager. -- Andrew

Re: Another newbie (problems with installation)

2001-01-25 Thread Kent West
Patrick Klee wrote: I'm not sure what problem you're describing. If your machine will boot off the CD, don't worry about floppies (except to make a boot floppy near the end of the install for emergency purposes). If your machine won't boot off the CD, you have to create some boot/root floppies

am i hacked?

2001-01-25 Thread cls/cs
debs, i just ran uptime on my single-user box connected to the office dsl pipe. it shows 3 users; and there's only one non-root account. 1. how do i find out who are the other 2 users? 2. does this mean that i've be hacked? ia, t. bentley taylor. running: debian gnu/linux ( http://www.d

Files that aren't supposed to be there

2001-01-25 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, Someone recently mentioned a deb that would look through your system and basically find files that were not supposed to be there. I would think that this would be to remove those last bits of configuration files that don't get cleanly removed by dpkg (i.e. foo not empty...), but

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread Ralf Batri
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:09:42PM -, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done so Just take grub, it's in debian stable/testing It's GREAT booting WinXX, BSD and Linux without any probs ! Ralf

RE: am i hacked?

2001-01-25 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
man who > -Original Message- > From: Debian User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of cls/cs > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 6:47 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: am i hacked? > > > debs, > > i just ran uptime on my single-user box connected to the office dsl pipe. >

Re: am i hacked?

2001-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
cls/cs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i just ran uptime on my single-user box connected to the office dsl pipe. > >it shows 3 users; and there's only one non-root account. > >1. how do i find out who are the other 2 users? Type 'who'. >2. does this mean that i've be hacked? Chances are it's thr

Re: Files that aren't supposed to be there

2001-01-25 Thread Glyn Millington
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:42:45PM -0600, thus spake Brooks R. Robinson: > Greetings, > Someone recently mentioned a deb that would look through your system and > basically find files that were not supposed to be there. I would think that > this would be to remove those last bits of configur

Re: SOLVED: Re: ~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread mike polniak
Xucaen wrote: > Hi all.. > thanks foir all your help, because of you I > figured it out. > > for some reason, fvwm starts automatically (I > haven't figured out why) > and when I created my .xsession, fvwm no longer > loaded, so I had to load it myself from my > .xsession script. > so now my last

Re: am i hacked?

2001-01-25 Thread Philippe Marzouk
Le jeu, 25 jan 2001 13:47:17, cls/cs a écrit : > debs, > > i just ran uptime on my single-user box connected to the office dsl > pipe. > > it shows 3 users; and there's only one non-root account. > > 1. how do i find out who are the other 2 users? > > 2. does this mean that i've be hacked?

Re: HowTo Install SendMail on Debian2.2

2001-01-25 Thread Rick Rezinas
I did this on 2.0 and it seemed pretty straightforward. If you are concerned about compatibility with debian stuff, try installing the sendmail package, configure it to your system, copy the mc and cf files, uninstall sendmail and then do the manual install of 8.11 using the old configs as models.

Re: Files that aren't supposed to be there

2001-01-25 Thread Jon Forsberg
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:42:45PM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Greetings, > Someone recently mentioned a deb that would look through your system and > basically find files that were not supposed to be there. I would think that > this would be to remove those last bits of configuration

Re: SOLVED: Re: ~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Hi all.. # thanks foir all your help, because of you I # figured it out. # # for some reason, fvwm starts automatically (I # haven't figured out why) # and when I created my .xsession, fvwm no longer # loaded, so I had to load it myself from my # .xsession sc

Re: Help w/ pcmcia

2001-01-25 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:12:47PM -0800, Nick wrote: > I am currently using a compaq 1220, > I have the linksys pcmcia 10/100 adapter > I got it because it can w/ linux(turbo) so I had to assume it was compatible > > I have a base installation of 2.1 w/ 2.0.38 kernel > What driver can I use for

Re: jpeg bad bitmap format file (was: xsetroot -bitmap)

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
--- Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just tried it and I got an error message > saying > > "bad bitmap format file" > > > Heh, don't know... sorry ;-( > > I've seen the program "xv" suggested before, > but many get all worked up > 'cause it's not a *free* program in the Debian >

problems with glide and voodoo2

2001-01-25 Thread Erling Ringen Elvsrud
Hello I run debian 2.2 and have a creative voodoo2 card when i run /usr/bin/test3dfx after installing libglide2-v2 and glide2-base i get this error message: test00: Clear screen to blue 2.53 Resolution: 640x480 Press A Key To Begin Test. gd error (glide): _GlideInitEnvironment: libglide2x.so exp

Exim and critical Header

2001-01-25 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi all I saw, that exim is sending lots of critical data in the eamil header (you can watch it). How can i configure exim don't to do that? I don't want such things as my login name and domain name in the headers. cheers, Raffaele

how to configure a socks client?

2001-01-25 Thread John F. Davis
Hello I am behind a socks firewall and I need to be able to get past it. I put the following line in my /etc/socks.conf file: sockd @socks.domain.com 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 direct 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 Where domain.com is "changed to protect the innocent." I tested the configuration by trying to do a ssh and

RE: lpr(ng) not filtering through enscript for remote printer

2001-01-25 Thread Lewis, James M.
> Hi, > > Normally, with magicfilter installed, printing out a .c file will give > a two collumned small font sized landscape printout, because it uses > enscript. > > If you make a small tst.c and: > $ cat tst.c|/etc/magicfilter/ljet4m-filter >~/me.ps > $ gv me.ps > you will see what I mean (an

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-25 Thread Martin Albert
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Stefan Srdic wrote: > I'm trying to get my cd-burner working under Debian 2.2. I've configured > my system so that the ide-scsi module is loaded at boot time and I've > I know that the module is loaded and functional because I can see the > > However, I'm not sure which param

Re: Help w/ pcmcia

2001-01-25 Thread Moritz Schulte
Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am currently using a compaq 1220, > I have the linksys pcmcia 10/100 adapter [...] > I have a base installation of 2.1 w/ 2.0.38 kernel > What driver can I use for this card Ehm, Debian 2.1 with Linux 2.0 is very old. I don't know, wether Linux 2.0 has PCMCIA

connect laptop via serial port

2001-01-25 Thread Ville Harju
Hello ! Is it possible to install debian into laptop trough serial port ? Maybe null-modem cable or something would do it, but how ? any suggestions ... TIA Ville harju<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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