Re: apt-get via firewall

2001-03-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 08:49:02PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Not necessarily: an authenticating proxy http firewall may pose > problems. I bet you are right. (I thought about it, too. I was thinking ftp while writing it.) Is there any way to know whether proxi exit or not? Just curi

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-03-03 Thread David B . Harris
To quote MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:42:15PM -0800): # > $ startx & exit # > # > ...which is what I use (do what I mean, not what I say). I can assure # > you there are no console sessions on this box. # # this will kill my X imme

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-03-03 Thread Jonathan Gift
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Yes, launching X from a console w/o securing (or exiting) the console > session is a security hole. However, securing or exiting the console > session is trivial. > I had just taken xlock off yesterday and i read this thread first thing this morning. Good timing.

Mouse goes nuts in X

2001-03-03 Thread John McPeek
Hi, As soon as I start X the mouse looks fine, sitting in the middle of the screen. The moment I move it the cursor jumps to the top left and other than bouncing around and jumping back to the corner I can't get it to do anything. I have already tried different mice(PS2) wheel mouse and a optical

Re: xfree4.0 and 3d accel

2001-03-03 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
oh, sorry -- i thought you were talking about quake 3. do yourself a favor. don't compile the original quake source. there's a project quakeforge which is a group of people doing a re-write of quake, similar to how prboom and doom legacy are working with the original doom code. if you want to p

Re: Mouse goes nuts in X

2001-03-03 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
do you have gpm already running? what kind of mouse? peter On Sat 03 Mar 01, 2:28 AM, John McPeek said: > Hi, > As soon as I start X the mouse looks fine, sitting in the middle of the > screen. The moment I move it the cursor jumps to the top left and other than > bouncing around and jumping

Re: can i740 work in accelerate mode?[math]

2001-03-03 Thread Jens Gecius
maths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > my vedio card is i740, could display 800X600, 16bp (or higher, but i only use > this mode). the color is beautiful but very slowly. i tty, i could see this > message: > > (**) SVGA: Chipset: i740 > (**) Option "noaccel" > > . > (**) (SVGA) Acceleration d

zone own?

2001-03-03 Thread Livia Admin
I'm not sure what it's called. but I want to do something like this if i'm the owner of domain.com... and got a subdomain sub.domain.com. I want 202.202.202.202 to be the dns of *.sub.domain.com. so that he'll own everything below sub.domain.com. what do i do in my config? thanks

Re: Voice Mail

2001-03-03 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:20:58AM -0500, Cory Rudder wrote: > Does anyone know of a linux voice mail package I could use with an excutone > IDS phone system? > Thanks I am not sure whether this is the answer, but I saw this in a freshmeat newsletter: [005] -

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sat 03 Mar 01, 1:56 AM, Colin Watson said: > > >debian-user goes to a folder (via procmail), and the only way i have to read > >my debian mail is by using vi on the mailbox it gets sent to. > > Surely you could type the folder name in manually, even without knowing > the TAB trick? yeah --

Re: Mouse goes nuts in X

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:28:50AM -0500, John McPeek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > As soon as I start X the mouse looks fine, sitting in the middle of the > screen. The moment I move it the cursor jumps to the top left and other than > bouncing around and jumping back to the corner I can't

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:32:19AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat 03 Mar 01, 1:56 AM, Colin Watson said: > > > > >debian-user goes to a folder (via procmail), and the only way i have to > > >read > > >my debian mail is by using vi on the mailbox it gets sent to. >

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread Glyn Millington
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:32:19AM -0800, thus spake Peter Jay Salzman: > do you happen to know offhand how to change the default directory to look in > for mail folders? if you know it offhand, cool. if not, i can RTFM. Put this line in ~/.muttrc set folder=~/Mail # where i keep

/ is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread jdls
Greetings, My root filesystem suddenly shows 100% usage even though there's almost nothing there...df shows its 100% but I am sure it's not...I tried to move and even delete, uninstall some files, applications to check if the usage somehow goes down...it doesn't..du doesn't show anything extraordi

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 08:06:30AM +0100, Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > Yes, launching X from a console w/o securing (or exiting) the console > > session is a security hole. However, securing or exiting the console > > session is trivial. > > >

Re: How to re-enable ports

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 05:56:55AM -0800, Matheson Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey, > > I need to enable my FTP port (21), so that I can use > FTP with my proxy server. How do I do this? (or is > their a better way?) Your question doesn't make sense. How did you disable this port, if

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jd... whats teh rest of your partitions looking like ?? post the results of df use "du" and see if you see anything odd du /root du /lib du /proc du /boot du /dev du /etc du / all the root stuff ... du /home is

Re: mail configuration questions

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:55:46AM -0800, Tom Schuetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Please set your linewrap to 72 characters. > Is there a single .*rc kind of file where I establish the info for my > POP3 server (their DNS #, url, etc.) and that is referred to by mail, > fetchmail, emacs, etc?

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
"jdls" wrote: >Greetings, > >My root filesystem suddenly shows 100% usage even though there's almost >nothing there...df shows its 100% but I am sure it's not...I tried to move >and even delete, uninstall some files, applications to check if the usage >somehow goes down...it doesn't..du

Re: zone own?

2001-03-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hui ya livia... if you have shacknet.nu and wanna host your friends sites tom.shacknet.nu 192.168.1.* dick.shanet.nu 192.168.2.* harry.shacknet.nu 192.168.3.* you dont need to do much just give them diff ip# they would connect

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:15:00AM -0800, jdls ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings, > > My root filesystem suddenly shows 100% usage even though there's almost > nothing there...df shows its 100% but I am sure it's not...I tried to move > and even delete, uninstall some files, applications to c

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Matthias Wieser
2Q: In what package can I find fuser? in What package can I find lsof? Thank you - mattHias /** *Hiaslboy* * alias Matthias Wieser * *Kreuzgasse 20/15* * A -

Re: kernel menus

2001-03-03 Thread Jo Geraerts
Hello, On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > # ls -l /usr/include > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 29 Mar 1 14:46 /usr/include -> > kernel-headers-2.1.17/include how the heck did u accomplish this?? in /usr/include i have a link to the kernel include files, but /usr/in

Partitioning: speed & track position (was Re: Setting Up Partitions:Solved,Thanks)

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 11:14:08PM -0500, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:08:47PM -0800): > > Advice I've heard (no emperical evidence myself) is that higher > > utilization is best placed toward the physical midpoint of the disk > > ra

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Martin Fluch
Try as root: find / -xdev -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -s | sort -nr | less And you will see all files sorted by size (in blocks, bigest first) on your root partition... Martin On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, jdls wrote: > Greetings, > > My root filesystem suddenly shows 100% usage even though there

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:48:37AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:32:19AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > set folder=~/Mail > > mailboxes ! \ > +mbox \ > +debian-user > > <...> or, if you're piggish (like me) just

Re: kill: cannot kill some processes

2001-03-03 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Ron Peterson wrote: > > away. They don't consume any CPU time, or any other resources other than > > the slot in the process table and the less than 1K of memory required to ... > Not entirely true. Init can inherit enough zombie processes that it > hits its process limit (10

x11 - not loading

2001-03-03 Thread David Aldred
Hi, I have just, for the first time installed Linux (YAY) but, although it is installed, I can't get x11 too start. I try entering 'startx' but it says it cannot find the config files.   I can post the full errors given if needed   Thanks for your help! :o)

Re: x11 - not loading

2001-03-03 Thread Matthias Wieser
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, David Aldred wrote: > Hi, I have just, for the first time installed Linux (YAY) but, although it is > installed, I can't get x11 too start. > I try entering 'startx' but it says it cannot find the config files. > > I can post the full errors given if needed > > Thanks for yo

Re: kernel menus

2001-03-03 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Thanks all. Problem solved. It was merely shooting myself in the foot. In the course of comparing use of header resources for compiling ltmodem.o, I temporarily renamed /usr/include --> /usr/Include Temporarily means, I forgot to /usr/Include --> /usr/include immediately after the little experiment

Re: x11 - not loading

2001-03-03 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, have you installed everything of X with 'tasksel' (perhaps during installation)? Have you ran anXious? Do you know what kind of video chip you have? Does Linux know this too? The XF86Config is usually in /etc/X11/ and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/. I believe that the latter is prefered. You can try to

Q: Need cron is anacron loading?

2001-03-03 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I don't have my box on 24hrs a day and cron never worked its magic until I loaded anacron. But I noticed on boot that both cron and anacron are loading. Do I need cron if I have anacron? Or do they complement one another? Thanks, Jonathan -- /* Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] */

/var getting full

2001-03-03 Thread Dale Morris
I just did a new cd install of 2.2. I have a 15g hard drive, 5g of which is a windoze partition, 5g for Linux and another 5 free space for BSD when I finally get around to installing it. I just started watching the disk contents, because I've set up disk partitions with 300megs for /var and /200 fo

Re: Optical mice

2001-03-03 Thread Lee Elliott
Thanks to all who responded on this. Looked like Logitech or M$ - in the end, the local store only had M$ - gah! - but it works fine. Perhaps I'll take it apart and spray it a different colour, or something;-) LeeE

PPP connection

2001-03-03 Thread Steve Linksted
Hi, I am installing Debian for the first time, on a clean hard disk.  I got through the basic installation OK, and have now reached the APT setup part.  It asks to configure PPP, which I have done, and it then goes off and dials the modem and seemingly connects succesfully.  However, when it

invoking manual

2001-03-03 Thread Dale Morris
Recently I did a 2.2 cd install of debian. Before I'd been running the libranet version of debian. I am sourcing the keybind-1.2i file and it has F1 linked to the mutt manual. But, it doesn't work. Trying to get vim to read a .gz file doesn't work either, whereas it used to work with the libranet v

PPP

2001-03-03 Thread Steve Linksted
I am installing Debian for the first time, on a clean hard disk.  I got through the basic installation OK, and have now reached the APT setup part.  It asks to configure PPP, which I have done, and it then goes off and dials the modem and seemingly connects succesfully.  However, when it th

Video/sound card

2001-03-03 Thread Jesse Goerz
I'm looking to buy a new video and sound card and I was wondering what everyone recommends to get for Debian 2.2r2. Specifically, I'm looking for something which is easy to install and setup. TIA, Jesse P.S. I'm not on the list please cc me.

invoking manual

2001-03-03 Thread Dale Morris
Recently I did a 2.2 cd install of debian. Before I'd been running the libranet version of debian. I am sourcing the keybind-1.2i file and it has F1 linked to the mutt manual. But, it doesn't work. Trying to get vim to read a .gz file doesn't work either, whereas it used to work with the libranet v

Re: kill: cannot kill some processes

2001-03-03 Thread Cory Snavely
> > One thing about zombie process: Don't worry about trying to "make" them go > > away. They don't consume any CPU time, or any other resources other than > > the slot in the process table and the less than 1K of memory required to > > hold their state information. They are not worth worrying ab

Re: /var getting full

2001-03-03 Thread Sean
Check out /var/cache/apt/archives ... this is the default place apt puts downloaded packages. apt-get autoclean will clear out old packages, apt-get clean will delete all the packages and if you install apt-move, apt-move update will generate a local mirror for you using the packages in /var/ca

Re: Optical mice

2001-03-03 Thread Sean
Personally, while I don't care much for their software, I think MS makes pretty good mice. I have an MS Optical Trackball at home and a Logitech Marble Trackball at work, and much prefer the MS one but that's just a personal preference of course, both perform the same as far as I'm concerne

Re: Video/sound card

2001-03-03 Thread Sean
As far as video card goes, I really like my Matrox G400. The 32MB cards are still going for over $100, which I think is overpriced. If I were looking at buying one today, I'd look at either a Radeon or a Geforce2. The support for the G400 is very very good, so the ease of installation is quite

Re: PPP connection

2001-03-03 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, are you sure you want to do an install over your telephone line? I have no experience with this, but have you provided nameservers? (see /etc/resolv.conf for it). Can you ping/telnet when manually starting up ppp (with: pon )? What do the logs say? For example, do on one terminal tail -f /var

Re: apt-get testing

2001-03-03 Thread mike polniak
MaD dUCK wrote: > hey, how can i use apt-get to get something like postfix-0.0.20010228-1 > out of testing? i have testing/main and some other testing's in my > sources.list, but > > apt-get --download-only install testing/postfix > > doesn't work, and > > apt-get --download-only install postfix

P2P Networking Question

2001-03-03 Thread Jason Nord
I have a windows 98 <-> Debian LAN at home, and I can't seem to get either computer to ping the other one.  Are there any special configurations I have to set up to make a doze box talk to a linux box?  A website address would be very useful if you could supply it.  Thanks :)   -Jason

Changed: mutt: setup multiple mailboxes

2001-03-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Good point, but... On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 04:17:57AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > or, if you're piggish (like me) just use > > set folder=~/Mail > set spoolfile=+inbox > mailboxes `echo ~/Mail/[a-z]*` > > that way everything that's in ~/Mail/[a-z]* is treated as a mbox; > your

Re: invoking manual

2001-03-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Did you install less and gzip? Check with: $ dpkg -l less gzip If not apt-get install is nothing but running zless. The way you described sounds like missing gzip. It is required package. Regards, Osamu On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 05:36:38AM -0800, Dale Morris wrote: > Recently I did a 2.2 cd

Re: Video/sound card

2001-03-03 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Saturday 03 March 2001 10:02, you wrote: > On Saturday 03 March 2001 13:46, Jesse Goerz wrote: > > I'm looking to buy a new video and sound card and I was wondering what > > everyone recommends to get for Debian 2.2r2. Specifically, I'm looking > > for something which is easy to install and set

Re: /var getting full-SOLVED!

2001-03-03 Thread Dale Morris
this is an easy one, /var was being filled by apt-cache and cleaned up by running apt-get clean Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just did a new cd install of 2.2. I have a 15g hard drive, 5g of which is > a windoze partition, 5g for Linux and another 5 free space for BSD when I > finally

Re: manually installing mozilla plugins

2001-03-03 Thread Dave Carrigan
Matheson Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering if their was a way to manually install > mozilla plugins. I need the java one, but I can't get > it because I can't get FTP to work with my proxy > server (help with that too please). I did manage to > download it from a Windoze mach

Re: How do I set the default printer?

2001-03-03 Thread Chris Gray
On Fri, 02 Mar 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > On Fri Mar 2 08:47:15 2001 Sebastiaan wrote... >> >>Hi, >> >>I think it has to do with the order in /etc/printcap. Put the >>default printer on top. I am not sure, but it seems logical. >> > > Thanks > > While this may seem logical to you, it'

Re: Q: Need cron is anacron loading?

2001-03-03 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:34:54PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I don't have my box on 24hrs a day and cron never worked its magic until > I loaded anacron. But I noticed on boot that both cron and anacron are > loading. Do I need cron if I have anacron? Or do they complement one > anothe

Installing Mozilla

2001-03-03 Thread Wesley Aman
I just installed Version 2.2r2, and downloaded Mozilla0.6. When I try to install Mozilla, I get the error message: "mozilla-bin: error in loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory". It would appear I'm missing a package, but,

Re: Installing Mozilla

2001-03-03 Thread bryan
You can search for specific libraries at: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages (the second search category: searching for contents) A search for the library in question reveals you need the following package: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 Cheers, Bryan On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 09:14:57AM -0800, Wesley

message: ¨depmod: multiply defined¨

2001-03-03 Thread Andre Cia
The message: "depmod: multiply defined" appeared when the machine is starting... how can I resolve this problem?

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread Tyler Braun
This is a bug with the version of mutt included with unstable. I missed this feature bad, so I went to www.mutt.org, downloaded the source for mutt1.6.13i, compiled it, and rather than do a full install I just moved the mutt binary over my old binary, which I of course saved incase this failed horr

RE: Getting to the GUI...

2001-03-03 Thread Rick Commo
So here I sit looking at potato running WindowMaker and scratching my head! But before I launch into the saga let me thank all who replied to my posts, especially Manuel Reiter and David Wright. Besides giving me some insights, their input kept me from scrubbing everything Debian off the disk in d

Re: apt-get testing

2001-03-03 Thread Colin Watson
MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hey, how can i use apt-get to get something like postfix-0.0.20010228-1 >out of testing? i have testing/main and some other testing's in my >sources.list, but > >apt-get --download-only install testing/postfix > >doesn't work, If you've got apt 0.5.0, postfix/t

Re: apt-get via firewall

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:19:57PM -0800, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 08:49:02PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Not necessarily: an authenticating proxy http firewall may pose > > problems. > > I bet you are right. (I thought about it, too. I was think

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-03-03 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 09:52:27PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:07:58PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:52:17PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > > > > When /var went down, I was able to tar and bzip2 up /home /etc /root > > > and drop them i

potato and kernel 2.4.1

2001-03-03 Thread Ankit Jain
I have a fresh installation of Debian 2.2r2(Potato) with kernel 2.2.18pre21. I compiled and installed kernel 2.4.1 (following the instructions given in kernel-package) It installed fine.. but when i boot it , it can't find any modules! the mods are installed in /lib/modules/2.4.1 How can i get 2

Re: Installing Mozilla

2001-03-03 Thread Wesley Aman
That did the trick! Thanks. Wesley Aman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You can search for specific libraries at: > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages (the second search category: > searching for contents) > > A search for the library in question reveals you need the following > package: > libstd

[OT] vmware / boot floppy

2001-03-03 Thread ktb
I'm trying to set up vmware in order to test debian boot floppys. VMware installed fine on slink, 2.4.1 kernel. The problem I'm having is when I try to install potato as a test with boot.bin I get the message, "Operating system not found" The virtual bios is set to boot off the floppy. The seek

/usr/share and multiple versions

2001-03-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
My network runs a mix of stable/potato and testing/woody systems. I'm considering consolidating their /usr/share directories, but I'm not sure how safe that would be. Specifically, if I put all of them into a single NFS-exported location, will using apt to update the potato machines be prone to wi

Re: potato and kernel 2.4.1

2001-03-03 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, you need some new packages. Install binutils and ppp from woody. That will work. See Changes (or something) in the /usr/src/linux directory. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Ankit Jain wrote: > > > I have a fresh installation of Debian 2.2r2(Potato) with kernel > 2.2.18pre21. I com

Re: xfree4.0 and 3d accel

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:10:08AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > oh, sorry -- i thought you were talking about quake 3. > > do yourself a favor. don't compile the original quake source. there's a > project quakeforge which is a group of people doing a re-write of quake, > similar to how prbo

Re: potato and kernel 2.4.1

2001-03-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I have a fresh installation of Debian 2.2r2(Potato) with kernel > 2.2.18pre21. I compiled and installed kernel 2.4.1 (following > the instructions given in kernel-package) It installed f

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:23:02AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > ***NEVER*** delete large files on an impacted filesystem, *unless* you > first zero them out, *and* insure nothing's accessing them: Isn't that a flaw in the system then? I can understand if a process still has the file o

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-03-03 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Jonathan Gift (on Sat, 03 Mar 2001 08:06:30AM +0100): > 1. XDM? just to get this back... why *not* xdm? you don't have to write functions, it is guaranteed to work, and it's really not inconvenient. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach will trillich (on Sat, 03 Mar 2001 04:17:57AM -0600): > mailboxes `echo ~/Mail/[a-z]*` oh. nice. didn't know muttrc can execute `` martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "and if the cloud bursts, thunder in your

Re: Hot to install a different Xserver

2001-03-03 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Il Saturday 24 February 2001 08:04, Rick Commo ha scritto: > Newbie Debian user... > > I accidentally installed the wrong Xserver. During the install I thought I > would be given a choice so I said to when asked if I wanted to install > XF86_VGA16. > > The one I need is XF86_MACH64 for my ATI Exp

mail2web interface?

2001-03-03 Thread MaD dUCK
hey, on a couple of servers, i am running postfix with qpopper to provide POP3 service to my clients. since i have disabled telnet and would much rather not give shell access the first place, i would like to meet my clients' demands of remote mail access with a nice mail2web interface, which works

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > yeah -- i just figured out that folder names are relative to $HOME, not > $HOME/Mail. Actually, folder names are relative to your current working directory. It just so happens that most people start mutt while they're in $HOME. > do you happen to know offhand how to

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:23:02AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > ***NEVER*** delete large files on an impacted filesystem, *unless* you > > first zero them out, *and* insure nothing's accessing them: > > Isn't that a flaw in the system then? No, it's a

Re: /usr/share and multiple versions

2001-03-03 Thread Bill Wohler
Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My network runs a mix of stable/potato and testing/woody systems. > I'm considering consolidating their /usr/share directories, but I'm not > sure how safe that would be. FYI, from the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.1/f

Gnus or Slrn for newsreader?

2001-03-03 Thread mike polniak
I have been using Pan as my newsreader. Its really not bad. Very easy to set up and use the gui.But i plan to try Gnus or Slrn. Any comments about either in terms of ease of setup/use, features and basically is either one worth the effort compared to Pan. -- LINUX~~nobody owns it~

Re: Q: Need cron is anacron loading?

2001-03-03 Thread Jonathan Gift
Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: > > It isn't a full-time daemon. It has to be executed from boot > scripts, from cron-jobs, or explicitly [...] > Thanks. I'll research some more. So much to learn . Jonathan -- /* Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] */

Re: potato and kernel 2.4.1

2001-03-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Ankit Jain wrote: > I have a fresh installation of Debian 2.2r2(Potato) with kernel > 2.2.18pre21. I compiled and installed kernel 2.4.1 (following > the instructions given in kernel-package) It installed fine.. > but when i boot it , it can't find any modules! the mods are > i

Re: /var getting full-SOLVED!

2001-03-03 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Dale Morris wrote: > this is an easy one, /var was being filled by apt-cache and cleaned up by > running apt-get clean Actually, /var/cache/apt is both filled and cleaned by apt-get. As I understand it, apt-cache is for querying and manipulating the contents of /var/lib/apt/lists. And yes, whoe

Re: kill: cannot kill some processes

2001-03-03 Thread brian moore
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 08:52:36AM -0500, Cory Snavely wrote: > Right now on a big Solaris machine of mine I have about a dozen zombied > Perls--parent process (Apache) long gone, and when I -9ed them, their PPIDs > became 1 (init). Classic zombie. Hrrrm? Not quite. Init eventually inherits zomb

Re: Gnus or Slrn for newsreader?

2001-03-03 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 03 March 2001 13:27, mike polniak wrote: > I have been using Pan as my newsreader. Its really not bad. Very > easy to set up and use the gui.But i plan to try Gnus or Slrn. > Any comments about either in terms of ease of setup/use, features > and basically is either one worth the

RE: ppp-accounting

2001-03-03 Thread M G Berberich
Hello, John Hasler wrote: > M G Berberich writes: > > I'm thinking about switching to the commandline (pppconfig and Co.). > > You can use pppconfig to configure ppp and still control ppp from a GUI. > Try gpppon. > > Is there a way do the same with the debian-ppp-scripts? > It shouldn't be too

Re: Gnus or Slrn for newsreader?

2001-03-03 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
mike polniak wrote: > I have been using Pan as my newsreader. Its really not bad. Very > easy to set up and use the gui.But i plan to try Gnus or Slrn. > Any comments about either in terms of ease of setup/use, features > and basically is either one worth the effort compared to Pan.

X Setup

2001-03-03 Thread Jesse Lee
I installed X windows 4.0.1 and all the packages (including debconf). I got no dependency errors(I downloaded ALL files for X from the website). The config program never ran. I've even tried reistalling and dpkg-reconfigure. XF86Setup and XF86Config do not exist. This is a fresh install of debi

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:26:44AM -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Michael P. Soulier wrote: <...> > kmself's point is that the file isn't deleted until the process stops > using it. If you rm the file first, you won't know which process is > keeping the disk space o

I can hang up my potato every time...

2001-03-03 Thread Marcin Landowski
Hi It's idiotical, i haven't seen it before. Linux debian 2.2.17 Potato kde 2.0, kdm 2.0-20001004-0 luxman 0.41-11 Celeron 333MHz 64MB RAM, ATI RAGE PRO When I switch to text console (ctrl+alt+Fn), login and start luxman game, the system every time has been hang up!!! I can

hdd troubles

2001-03-03 Thread Nate Amsden
hello.. one of my hdds(my / actually) started to give me problems recently(sector read errors). i ran several fsck's on it, fixed many problems however even after that e2fsck says "file system modified" when it doesn't tell me about any errors. i tried using the -v flag, and using the badblocks pr

Re: /usr/share and multiple versions

2001-03-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:26:47AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > FYI, from the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.1/fhs-4.7.html: > > Note, however, that /usr/share is generally not intended to be > shared by different OSes or by different releases of the sam

Re: HP LJ III with Jet Direct and Linux

2001-03-03 Thread robhr
> on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 01:30:11PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have an old HP Laserjet III with an old JetDirect card in it that I > > have purchaed used. I have to use the parallel port to print to it, > > but would like to use the network card instead. It was con

Absolutely REAL MONEY!!!!!

2001-03-03 Thread dogreadswell
ABSOLUTELY REAL MONEY This is a very effective way to earn money using Internet. All you need is to spend about 2-3 hours/ day. You may earn up to $50.000 in a couple of months!!! Or up to $300.000 per year It's not a joke - this is absolutely real money - I'm already receiving them!

Debian site down?

2001-03-03 Thread Glenn Becker
Wondering if anyone else is finding the main Debian site inaccessible this afternoon ... It's been hours since I've been able to pull up the site and I was hoping it was not just me ... Glenn Becker Online Producer, Community SCIFI.COM

Re: Debian site down?

2001-03-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Wondering if anyone else is finding the main Debian > site inaccessible this afternoon ... > > It's been hours since I've been able to pull up the site > and I was hoping it was not just me ... It appears to be "just you"... ;-) I just checked the site and it's there. Hall

Re: Debian site down?

2001-03-03 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 03 March 2001 15:26, Glenn Becker wrote: > Wondering if anyone else is finding the main Debian site inaccessible > this afternoon ... > > It's been hours since I've been able to pull up the site and I was > hoping it was not just me ... Hmm. I just went right to it -- no apparent pro

making thumbnails

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. Is there an easy way to make thumbnails for large numbers of images? I'm thinking of Image Magick, but the mogrify -geometry argument doesn't maintain the aspect ratio. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this

Re: manually installing mozilla plugins

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 08:46:20AM -0800, Dave Carrigan wrote: > > Just load it into mozilla. i.e., load the URL > > file:///path/to/jre.xpi > > Mozilla will offer to install the plugin, and do a bunch of stuff then > hang. Then, you get out of mozilla, cd to the plugins directory and > > ln

Re: [OT] vmware / boot floppy

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:47:51PM -0600, ktb wrote: > I'm trying to set up vmware in order to test debian boot floppys. > VMware installed fine on slink, 2.4.1 kernel. > The problem I'm having is when I try to install potato as a test with > boot.bin I get the message, "Operating system not fou

Re: Debian site down?

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 04:26:08PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > > Wondering if anyone else is finding the main Debian site inaccessible > this afternoon ... > > It's been hours since I've been able to pull up the site and I was hoping > it was not just me ... Works for me. Mike -- Mi

Re: making thumbnails

2001-03-03 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 03 March 2001 15:32, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. Is there an easy way to make thumbnails for large > numbers of images? I'm thinking of Image Magick, but the mogrify > -geometry argument doesn't maintain the aspect ratio. I used to have a python module that would genera

Sound for onboard VIA chipset?

2001-03-03 Thread Jeffrey Nowakowski
My motherboard has a builtin sound card using the VIA VT82C686A chipset, but when I try to load sound support with: # modprobe via82cxxx I get the following: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, includi

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