Ethernet Bonding

2001-03-28 Thread Rocky Borrego
Has anyone figured out hot to configure ethernet bonding using two or more NIC's??? I'm using Woody with 2.4. Thanks, Rocky.         Rafael BorregoSystems NSC TechWorks, Ltd. 1100 Landmeier Rd.Suite 200Elk Grove Vil

Re: Sid vs unstable

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Richardson
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:54:47PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Jim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JR> I am in the process of converting from SuSE to debian, if I choose to > JR> use testing/woody, will the upgrade automatically follow woody as it > JR> moves into stable? That is, if I be

One floppy ppp capable linux distro?

2001-03-28 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Does anybody know of a one (or two) floppy distribution that is able of making ppp connections? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r2 __

Re: home network

2001-03-28 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Daniel Freedman wrote: > If you don't want to get down-and-dirty with configuring IP-masg with > two-NIC's on one box to serve as internet gateway, you can buy a combo If you're going to have your Linux system online anyway, you may as well let it do the masquerading. It's n

Re: sources.list - reasonably stable

2001-03-28 Thread Mark Devin
Nate Amsden wrote: > its amazing how many people want to run unstable.. you are likely to get > a broken system at one point or another. it may not require expert skills > but it may be a pain. ive been using unix and linux for almost 7 years now > and i won't go near unstable still. i'm very con

RE: fifo devices

2001-03-28 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, yes, this is what I was looking for. Unfortunately, it does not work like I wanted it to. Thanks! Sebastiaan On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, R. M. Alarcon wrote: > did you try mkfifo? > > -Original Message- > From: Sebastiaan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 2:16 PM

Q: Any Linux on 2MB Ram?

2001-03-28 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I don't think so. I have an old, very old, laptop floating around with 2MB ram on it. Anyone know of a Linux distro that will run on it? Maybe one of the embedded one's? Ironic that PDA's are more powerful nowadays. Thanks, Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Q: Any Linux on 2MB Ram?

2001-03-28 Thread Matthew Dalton
Jonathan Gift wrote: > I don't think so. I have an old, very old, laptop floating around with > 2MB ram on it. Anyone know of a Linux distro that will run on it? Maybe > one of the embedded one's? If it's a 386 or higher you might find a floppy based distro that will run on it. http://lwn.net has

Re: sendmail 8.9.3-23 woes

2001-03-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:07:00 CDT, Richard A Nelson writes: > >Try using `dnl ' instead of `#' a thanks to all who made me aware of m4. once I realised that sendmailconfig uses m4 to expand the macros (and installed m4-doc and walked through...) it slipped in place. cheers, &rw -- -- When you

Re: One floppy ppp capable linux distro?

2001-03-28 Thread a . de-villele
Hi, DdlR> Does anybody know of a one (or two) floppy distribution that is able of DdlR> making ppp connections? what about freshmeat, google ??? it would have given you : floppyfw, lrp ... -- Arnaud

Kernel Compile Fails

2001-03-28 Thread Scott E . Graves
When doing a make install in /usr/src/linux for kernel 2.4.2 I receive: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.2/arch/i386/boot' ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary bbootsect.o -o bbootsect ld: cannot open binary: No such file or directory

Re: jvm and mozilla 0.8

2001-03-28 Thread christophe barbe
I believe you need to enable java in edit/preferences/advances. Christophe On mer, 28 mar 2001 07:49:26 joeytsai wrote: > Hi, has anyone gotten the jvm plugin working with Mozilla 0.8? I've been able > to download it, install it (I got the "Installation successful" screen), but > when I restart

Re: Kernel Compile Fails

2001-03-28 Thread Scott E . Graves
On Wednesday 28 March 2001 02:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:55:38AM -0600, Scott E. Graves wrote: > > When doing a make install in /usr/src/linux for kernel 2.4.2 I receive: > > > > make[1]: Entering directory > > `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.2/arch/i386/boot' ld -m e

NVIDIA GeForce2MX problem

2001-03-28 Thread Dieter Schicker
Hello, I have a new graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX) and downloaded the latest drivers (NVIDIA_kernel-0.9.769 and NVIDIA_GLX-0.9.769). When I do the "make install" run I get the following error messages: [...] depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/video/NVdriver /lib/modu

Other c++ coded wm than blackbox?

2001-03-28 Thread Klaus Stylianos Ade Johnstad
I need to know if there exist any other windowmanager coded in c++ than blackbox. Thanks. Klaus

Re: fifo devices

2001-03-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:05:45AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > yes, this is what I was looking for. Unfortunately, it does not work like > I wanted it to. There has to be both a reader and a writer for the FIFO. You can't just park some data there indefinitely... That's what regular file

why does it use swap?

2001-03-28 Thread Martin Würtele
why does my server user swap if top givex me: 10:36am up 19:06, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.00 123 processes: 121 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.5% user, 0.9% system, 0.0% nice, 98.4% idle Mem: 1029200K av, 534364K used, 494836K free, 0K shrd, 2772

Re: Q: Any Linux on 2MB Ram?

2001-03-28 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jonathan Gift wrote: > I don't think so. I have an old, very old, laptop floating around with > 2MB ram on it. Anyone know of a Linux distro that will run on it? > Maybe one of the embedded one's? You can make Linux boot in 2MB. However, 1.2 was the last kernel that would do

Re: Getting dselect to read .deb files without Packages,Release,etc files

2001-03-28 Thread csj
On Tuesday 27 March 2001 23:15, Colin Watson wrote: > Those are the only tools I know of that will create the Packages > file. Note that you need to gzip the Packages file if you use > dpkg-scanpackages; I think apt-ftparchive will do that for you. I don't think so. All the programs in my syst

ipchains

2001-03-28 Thread Christopher Clark
On the uk.comp.os.linux newsgroup recently, a gentleman remarked that he re-initialised his (type -P input DENY style ) firewall every ten minutes from a cron job. When asked why, he said because of ipchains -F; ipchains -X In other words flush rules one by one then delete rules one by one. I

Re: sources.list - reasonably stable

2001-03-28 Thread smokez
On Wednesday 28 March 2001 07:42, Mark Devin wrote: > Nate Amsden wrote: > > its amazing how many people want to run unstable.. you are likely to get > > a broken system at one point or another. it may not require expert skills > > but it may be a pain. ive been using unix and linux for almost 7 y

Re: Q: Any Linux on 2MB Ram?

2001-03-28 Thread Jonathan Gift
William T Wilson wrote: > > You can make Linux boot in 2MB. However, 1.2 was the last kernel that > would do so, IIRC. See if you can scare up an ancient Slackware > distribution from 1994 or so :} This is really ancient history Linux-wise; > a fun project just to prove you can do it, but doubtf

OT: FreeDOS work on own?

2001-03-28 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I have an old 286/386 notebook that's not much good and since I can't load Linux on it, I need to put DOS. Anyone got a DOS boot disk I can transnfer the OS over with? Or can I use FreeDOS, and if so, how? Thanks, Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Pentium 4

2001-03-28 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Yesterday i've read that the next-gen AMD cpu will support FULL sse, the end of PIV ? Also, since there ARE Athlon optimized gcc compiler you might get a real performance boost from recompiling. I don't know about 3DNOW support in linux but it should also provide some substantial performance boost

Re: Howto change default keymap

2001-03-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 07:49:57AM +0200, Marcus Geiger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:05:20PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 06:35:41PM +0200, Marcus Geiger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > how do I change the default keyma

Re: Q: Any Linux on 2MB Ram?

2001-03-28 Thread Glyn Millington
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > William T Wilson wrote: >> >> You can make Linux boot in 2MB. However, 1.2 was the last kernel that >> would do so, IIRC. See if you can scare up an ancient Slackware >> distribution from 1994 or so :} This is really ancient history >> Linux-wise;

Re: NVIDIA GeForce2MX problem

2001-03-28 Thread Johan Groth
Dieter Schicker wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a new graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX) and downloaded the latest > drivers (NVIDIA_kernel-0.9.769 and NVIDIA_GLX-0.9.769). When I do the "make > install" run I get the following error messages: > > [...] > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/mod

Re: jvm and mozilla 0.8

2001-03-28 Thread Chung, Ha-Nyung
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:49:26AM -0500, joeytsai wrote: > Hi, has anyone gotten the jvm plugin working with Mozilla 0.8? I've been able > to download it, install it (I got the "Installation successful" screen), but > when I restart the browser and try "about:plugins" - the plugin doesn't show >

Re: OT: FreeDOS work on own?

2001-03-28 Thread Jonathan Gift
albi wrote: > > > I have an old 286/386 notebook that's not much good and since I can't > > load Linux on it, I need to put DOS. Anyone got a DOS boot disk I can > > transnfer the OS over with? Or can I use FreeDOS, and if so, how? > > > i don't quite get your plan, Thanks for getting back to m

Re: Other c++ coded wm than blackbox?

2001-03-28 Thread Brent P Buchholz
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:26:53AM +0200, Klaus Stylianos Ade Johnstad wrote: > I need to know if there exist any other windowmanager > coded in c++ than blackbox. > kwm. Others? Brent

Re: lm-sensors with kernel-package

2001-03-28 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hallo Jens! Am Die, 27 Mär 2001, schrieb Jens Gecius: > > Now what shall I do? > > Simply type > > make-kpkg -revision=X.X. modules_image > > and then > > dpkg -i ../modules.X.X.deb Thanks for your message. I did the following: make-kpkg clean make-kpkg -revision=custom.1.14 kernel_image ma

Re: why does it use swap?

2001-03-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Martin Würtele wrote: > > why does my server user swap if top givex me: > > 10:36am up 19:06, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.00 > 123 processes: 121 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 0.5% user, 0.9% system, 0.0% nice, 98.4% idle > Mem: 1029200K av, 534364K use

Re: permissions and fstab

2001-03-28 Thread Justin B Rye
Carel Fellinger wrote: > Or look through /etc/passwd. > >$ grep carel /etc/passwd >carel:x:1001:1001:Carel Fellinger,,,:/home/carel:/bin/bash Or for variety (and a saving of milliseconds) do it this way: $ getent passwd jbr jbr:x:1013:1013:Justin B Rye,,,:/home/jbr:/bin/bash

OT : Carefull people : read those security advisory's

2001-03-28 Thread Joris Lambrecht
I know this is rather rude to those who're aware of the threat for some time now but ... there is a Linux BIND (DNS) worm spreading and it's NASTY. Since some major sites don't post on this i'd thought it would be worth mentioning. Basically the safest thing to do is update the version of BIND you

[neonatus@neonatus.net: Re: Other c++ coded wm than blackbox?]

2001-03-28 Thread Brent P Buchholz
- Forwarded message from Bostjan Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brent P Buchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Other c++ coded wm than blackbox? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bostjan Muller) * On 28-03-01 at 12:04 Brent P Buchholz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

RE: Promise Raid Card

2001-03-28 Thread Bill Lumsden
Thanks for the info, I installed SuSe and alll seems to work fine with the Promise Fastrack Raid Ide controller. Will keep lookng for a Debian patch as this is my prefered dist Regards Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Daniel Sand Sent: We

Re: lm-sensors with kernel-package

2001-03-28 Thread Jens Gecius
Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Now what shall I do? > > > Simply type > > > make-kpkg -revision=X.X. modules_image > > > and then > > > dpkg -i ../modules.X.X.deb > > Thanks for your message. > > I did the following: [...] > debian:/home/juh# modprobe i2c-piix4 > /lib/

Re: Other c++ coded wm than blackbox?

2001-03-28 Thread Ilya Martynov
KSAJ> I need to know if there exist any other windowmanager KSAJ> coded in c++ than blackbox. windowmanager from KDE -- Ilya Martynov AGAVA Software Company, http://www.agava.com

Re: NVIDIA GeForce2MX problem

2001-03-28 Thread Ilya Martynov
JG> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that the NVidia drivers require kernel JG> 2.4.x. It is wrong. I run them (version 0.96) on linux 2.2.17 -- Ilya Martynov AGAVA Software Company, http://www.agava.com

PPPD problems

2001-03-28 Thread ypadhye
I have a problem connecting to my ISP with Debian Potato 2.2r2 and Wvdial It dials correctly and pppd is started properly but I can not ping to any web adress ping command just hangs my /etc/resolv.conf has proper DNS entries what could be the problem I recently started using debian I also use red

Re: lm-sensors with kernel-package

2001-03-28 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hallo Jens! Am Mit, 28 Mär 2001, schrieb Jens Gecius: > > There are no /dev/i2c files around. How can I create them. Is there a > > skript? > > Sorry, I forgot: if you want to use the i2c-interface, you also need > the i2c-source package. These are some additional modules to make > available the

how to access files on another machine in the network

2001-03-28 Thread Robert Voigt
I set up a network and I can ping between the machines, but how do I access files over the network? I want to see them in a file manager and read and write them. I haven't found any documentation on that. Could someone please give me a hint or point me to the right location?

Re: ASLA troubles

2001-03-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:36:25AM +, Nic Strong wrote: > Wondering if someone can help me with my ALSA config (0.5) with 2.2.18 > kernal. > > When running alsaconfig when I it trys to load the module it gives the > following error: > > Loading driver: > Starting ALSA sound driver (version no

Re: Time

2001-03-28 Thread Andre Berger
* Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010328 12:03 +0200: > stephen wrote: > > > > I'm having a heck of a time getting my system time set correctly. > > /etc/localtime is a symlink to the proper time zone. I've looked in > > /etc/default/rcS and switched

Re: Q: Any Linux on 2MB Ram?

2001-03-28 Thread Andre Berger
* Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010328 12:03 +0200: > I don't think so. I have an old, very old, laptop floating around with > 2MB ram on it. Anyone know of a Linux distro that will run on it? Maybe > one of the embedded one's? There was a floppy distro that clai

Re: how to access files on another machine in the network

2001-03-28 Thread Gregor Anders
Betreff: how to access files on another machine in the network Datum: Wed Mar 28, 2001 at 01:41:46PM +0200 Absender Robert Voigt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hallo Robert Voigt, > I set up a network and I can ping between the machines, but how do I > access files over the netwo

RE: Time

2001-03-28 Thread Holp, John Mr.
Stephen, This comes up quite often so let me help. First there are two clocks; system clock and hardware clock. The one we tend to know about is the system clock and we invoke the date & time with the command; date The one we tend to not know about is the hardware

Re: jvm and mozilla 0.8

2001-03-28 Thread joeytsai
:: christophe barbe :: > I believe you need to enable java in edit/preferences/advances. Yeah, I had it enabled. If it isn't enabled, then you won't even get the prompt for the plugin to download. Any other hints? // joey tsai

Re: permissions and fstab

2001-03-28 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:19:46AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > 2) Mount by root, but for a specific user: >in /etc/fstab change the entry for that dos partition like this: > >/dev/hda1 /winfun vfat defaults,uid=1001,gid=1001,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 2 > >this will allow root but also

USB 2.0

2001-03-28 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hi all, Is there support underway, or allready here, for USB 2.0 and will it support the peer-to-peer networking that might be possible with this version of USB ? > It adapted some firewire feature ... < thank you, joris

Re: jvm and mozilla 0.8

2001-03-28 Thread joeytsai
:: Chung, Ha-Nyung :: > Installing mozilla0.8-dev may solve the problem. Even though it is not just > mozilla0.8-dev package that really solve it, some package on which > mozilla0.8-dev depends on seems to be able to. I just installed mozilla-dev and reinstalled the plugin, but still no luck. :

Re: modconf problem

2001-03-28 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:06:30PM -, john smith wrote: |Hi, | |I have recompiled my kernel with kerneld support and some modules |(sound,vfat,etc) then rebooted, executed depmod -a but when I run |modconf..there is no modules to select from? I have checked in syslog and |there are no unreso

Re: Sid vs unstable

2001-03-28 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:07:51AM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: |Stephen Boulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | |> Can someone tell me (who's new to Debian) what the difference |> between sid and unstable is? | |Debian distributions have a 'code-name': | |(the current) stable -> Potato |

Re: XFree 4.0.2 and gpm probs

2001-03-28 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 10:03:45AM -0800, Henry House wrote: |On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 12:11:14PM -0600, Stephen Boulet wrote: |> I have a logitech firstmouse+ (imps/2 protocol for both gpm and xfree). |> |> The mouse is erratic in X unless I first kill gpm. | |Let X use /dev/gpmdata as its mouse d

Re: jvm and mozilla 0.8

2001-03-28 Thread Gary Coady
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:49:26AM -0500, joeytsai wrote: > Hi, has anyone gotten the jvm plugin working with Mozilla 0.8? I've > been able to download it, install it (I got the "Installation > successful" screen), but when I restart the browser and try > "about:plugins" - the plugin doesn't show

Re: Q: Any Linux on 2MB Ram?

2001-03-28 Thread Jonathan Gift
Andre Berger wrote: > > There was a floppy distro that claimed to run on 2 MB (and X on 4 > MB), but the link, as mentioned in the 4 MB RAM Laptop HOWTO, was broken. > I'd be happy to hear the distro still exists... I was recommended SmallLinux off Tom rtbt links and I see from the FAQ that it w

Re: jvm and mozilla 0.8

2001-03-28 Thread William Leese
On Wednesday 28 March 2001 14:51, Gary Coady wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:49:26AM -0500, joeytsai wrote: > > Hi, has anyone gotten the jvm plugin working with Mozilla 0.8? I've > > been able to download it, install it (I got the "Installation > > successful" screen), but when I restart the

Talk problem again

2001-03-28 Thread Jana Kasparova
Hi, I have a problem with talk on the same machine. What I receive is: Checking for invitation on caller's machine I noticed some discussion about this problem on this mailing list but I didn't find any solution. So, I open two xterms as user janca, both have mesg y, talk janca pts/1 gives only

Re: Help: apt-get -f install

2001-03-28 Thread destruss
Hi Christian: Since the problem is with pert-*-suid can you rm that first? HTH Dean On 28 Mar 2001, at 15:23, Christian Eyre wrote: > Hi, > has anyone had luck with this sort of problem. I have tried to use dpkg -i on > the individual packages, but no luck. The perl perl-5.004-suid keeps g

Re: fifo devices

2001-03-28 Thread Sebastiaan
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:05:45AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > yes, this is what I was looking for. Unfortunately, it does not work like > > I wanted it to. > > There has to be both a reader and a writer for the FIFO. You can't just >

Re: fifo devices

2001-03-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am looking for a fifo device. I need a device where I can store some > data, and read it with another program, and deleter the existing data > (just a fifo stream device). > > Looking in the kernel documentation, I found rtl* devices, realtime linux > f

UML tools

2001-03-28 Thread Paweł Krupa
Where can I find UML tools for Debian?

Installing Debian

2001-03-28 Thread Shawn Garbett
I'm thrasing trying to get Debian installed like I like it. I found the article: http://www.linux.com/firststep/installguide/debian/ more helpful than the help info on Debian.org. It probably should be linked from the debian.org site. I have a CDROM installed on the second IDE connector as Ma

Re: home network

2001-03-28 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, John Griffiths wrote: > >i thought 10baseT only allowed 10Mbs connections, even between 100Mbs > >capable cards. > > > >also, i bought a 4 port D-link switch for 25 plus shipping. at that price, > >you might as well buy the switch. the resale value is better. :) > > > > a

RE: Time

2001-03-28 Thread Lewis, James M.
> > > I'm having a heck of a time getting my system time set correctly. > /etc/localtime is a symlink to the proper time zone. I've looked in > /etc/default/rcS and switched UTC from yes to no and back again. > And, I've read the man page for hwclock a few times. Still, > my system time is alw

how do i chop wav files with sox

2001-03-28 Thread Jake R. Johnson
I have some really large wav files...120minutes and I would like to chop it into 6 single files so that i have 6 tracks on a cd. How can i do this? Thanks

Re: Talk problem again

2001-03-28 Thread Moritz Schulte
Jana Kasparova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a problem with talk on the same machine. What I receive is: > Checking for invitation on caller's machine Have you checked wether something interesting gets logged in /var/log/daemon.log? Have you installed the talkd? moritz -- Moritz

Re: UML tools

2001-03-28 Thread Gopal Narayanan
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 03:52:50PM +0200, Pawe³ Krupa wrote: > Where can I find UML tools for Debian? dia - the diagram editor has UML support. Try apt-get install dia -- Gopal Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux Developer Dept. of Astronomy, University of Massachu

Re: Talk problem again

2001-03-28 Thread Jana Kasparova
Well, it was a good hit! I didn't checked whether I had talkd. Thanks a lot, now it works. Sorry for making such silly mistake. Jana On 28 Mar 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Jana Kasparova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a problem with talk on the same mac

Re: Ethernet Bonding

2001-03-28 Thread Igor Mozetic
> Has anyone figured out hot to configure ethernet bonding using > two or more NIC's? Enable bridging in the kernel and use the bridge-utils package. -Igor Mozetic

Re: Pentium 4

2001-03-28 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
Just to add my 2 cents... > I'm about to buy a new computer. I have been offered a > really good deal on a P4 system. > But since the architecture is so different from previous > pentiums I am a little hecitant. Unless you've been offered a REALLY good deal, it's likely worse than the cost of

Recommended mailer software

2001-03-28 Thread Joakim Nordlander
If I gather correctly Smail was once the recommended or the standard mail processing software with Debian. But as of version 2.1 Smail was dropped from Debian due to some serious bugs or something like that. I decided to stay with Smail for a little longer as I knew Smail pretty well, and I didn

Re: why does it use swap?

2001-03-28 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Martin Würtele wrote: > > why does my server user swap if top givex me: > > 10:36am up 19:06, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.00 > 123 processes: 121 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 0.5% user, 0.9% system, 0.0% nice, 98.4% idle > Mem: 1029200K av, 534364K use

Re: cdrecord does not accept /dev output files?

2001-03-28 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 06:46:31PM -0600, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > I have a CD writer located at '/dev/burner'. > > It's an IDE drive, but I use ide-scsi to make it look like a SCSI device > with bus ID '1,1,0'. > > It works fine. I've just always wondered why I have to do 'cdrecord > dev=1,1,0

Re: Recommended mailer software

2001-03-28 Thread Ilya Martynov
JN> If I gather correctly Smail was once the recommended or the standard mail JN> processing software with Debian. But as of version 2.1 Smail was dropped JN> from Debian due to some serious bugs or something like that. JN> I decided to stay with Smail for a little longer as I knew Smail pretty

Cyrus imapd 2.0.12

2001-03-28 Thread jennyw
Does anyone know if there's a .deb package for the latest Cyrus imapd? Thanks! Jen __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text

Re: Recommended mailer software

2001-03-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:03:19 +0200, Joakim Nordlander writes: > The mailing list is currently using Majordomo, but I'm thinking of moving >to Smartlist. Try listar. Fast, flexible and with a _very_ helpful mailing list. cheers, &rw -- -- C'mon, which [luser] is it, standard or metric? I'd say

Re: Recommended mailer software

2001-03-28 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:03:19 +0200, Joakim Nordlander writes: > > The mailing list is currently using Majordomo, but I'm thinking of moving > >to Smartlist. > > Try listar. Fast, flexible and with a _very_ helpful mailing list. Listar also has a lovely

Re: Recommended mailer software

2001-03-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:30:18 BST, Gavin Hamill writes: >On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: > >> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:03:19 +0200, Joakim Nordlander writes: >> > The mailing list is currently using Majordomo, but I'm thinking of moving >> >to Smartlist. >> >> Try listar. Fast, flexible a

Re: Recommended mailer software

2001-03-28 Thread Alan Shutko
Gavin Hamill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Listar also has a lovely web-configuration frontend so lusers who can't > figure out how to use a -request admin address can adjust their settings Is it better than mailman's web frontend? Considering that mailman lusers still can't seem to unsubscribe

OT : Pentium 4 : Article on AMD upgrade

2001-03-28 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Nice article to give you and idea ... To point out what you can 'gain' by choosing for an Athlon based system have a read http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/tbirdproject/default.asp Just change the components with P4 material and you'll (don't forget the RDRAM) see

Re: ipchains

2001-03-28 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:11:41AM +, Christopher Clark wrote: > On the uk.comp.os.linux newsgroup recently, a gentleman remarked that he > re-initialised his (type -P input DENY style ) firewall every ten minutes > from a cron job. When asked why, he said because of ipchains -F; ipchains -X

Re: Time

2001-03-28 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 07:06:59AM -0500, Holp, John Mr. wrote: > Stephen, > > This comes up quite often so let me help. First there are two > clocks; system clock and hardware clock. [snip] very nicely done! care to contribute that to the newbiedoc project over at sourceforge? http:

Re: mutt-1.3

2001-03-28 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:21:45PM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:22:00PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:25:03AM +, Robin Gerard wrote: > > > I see that many debian users are using mutt-1.3 > > > Does it exist a web site where mutt-1.3 i

Re: Talk problem again

2001-03-28 Thread Kent West
Jana Kasparova wrote: Hi, I have a problem with talk on the same machine. What I receive is: Checking for invitation on caller's machine I noticed some discussion about this problem on this mailing list but I didn't find any solution. So, I open two xterms as user janca, both have mesg y, tal

Re: Talk problem again

2001-03-28 Thread Jana Kasparova
Yes, I didn't have talkd. Moritz Schulte gave that hint. Jana On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Kent West wrote: > It's been a while, but I think the solution I finally stumbled on was to > install talkd (I would've figured that talkd would be a dependency for > talk, but . . . ). > > Kent > >

Re: jvm and mozilla 0.8

2001-03-28 Thread DvB
joeytsai wrote: Hi, has anyone gotten the jvm plugin working with Mozilla 0.8? I've been able to download it, install it (I got the "Installation successful" screen), but when I restart the browser and try "about:plugins" - the plugin doesn't show up. // joey tsai This is actually a kno

Re: sources.list - reasonably stable

2001-03-28 Thread Nate Amsden
Mark Devin wrote: > What about "testing"? Is that reasonably stable enough in your opinion, or > would I be just playing with fire? Especially given that I have significantly > less experience than you. it should probably be ok, but once if it was my system and i had upgraded to testing(i haven

Re: SVGATextMode

2001-03-28 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:13:08PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > In console mode, check your fonts used under SVGATextMode. I > have the following font entries in /etc/TextConfig (I think > they're default): > > Option "LoadFont" > > FontProg "/usr/bin/consolechars -f" > FontPath "

Login-Problems

2001-03-28 Thread Marcel Frehner
Since I accidentally switched off my computer simly using the power-button instead of "shutdown -h now", I can't log in anymore as user to fvwm2. It still works if I log in as root. I tried to add a new user but I had the same problem with logging in again. The problem only arises with fvwm2 everyt

alsa driver

2001-03-28 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hi I don't know how to install alsa drivers on my potato machine with the 2.4.2 kernel. I downloaded from the potato server the following packages and I succesfully installed them alsa-base_0.4.1i-5.deb alsa-headers_0.4.1i-5.deb alsa-source_0.4.1i-5.deb alsaconf_0.4.2-3.deb alsaplayer-alsa_0.99.2

Re: sources.list - reasonably stable

2001-03-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:42:16PM +1000, Mark Devin wrote: > What about "testing"? Is that reasonably stable enough in your opinion, or > would I be just playing with fire? Especially given that I have significantly > less experience than you. One very important thing to remember about testing

Re: Pentium 4

2001-03-28 Thread Dan Reinhardt
To WHom It May Concern, A few months ago I would be recommending Intel based systems, but since I went AMD in December. To tell you the truth I will not go back to to Intel. I have seen better performance and Winblows of all things runs more stable. My AMD Duron 800 out performas my old P3 500 b

Re: Login-Problems

2001-03-28 Thread Nate Amsden
Marcel Frehner wrote: > > Since I accidentally switched off my computer simly using the power-button > instead of "shutdown -h now", I can't log in anymore as user to fvwm2. It > still works if I log in as root. I tried to add a new user but I had the same > problem with logging in again. The prob

Re: why does it use swap?

2001-03-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:37:48AM +0200, Martin Würtele wrote: > why does my server user swap if top givex me: > > 10:36am up 19:06, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.00 > 123 processes: 121 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 0.5% user, 0.9% system, 0.0% nice, 98.4%

lpd init script

2001-03-28 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
Through some absolute idiocy on my part, I managed to trash my /etc/init.d/lpd script this morning. To further prove that I'm incapable, I don't have a back up of it. Does anyone know where I can download this script, or could someone possible email me their's? I've made no modifications to min

Re: alsa driver

2001-03-28 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi > > I don't know how to install alsa drivers on my potato machine with the > 2.4.2 kernel. > I downloaded from the potato server the following packages and I > succesfully installed them > > alsa-base_0.4.1i-5.deb > alsa-headers_0.4.1i-5.deb >

Re: NVIDIA GeForce2MX problem

2001-03-28 Thread Zac Epkes
Hmm, im not sure you have to be using 2.4 but it wouldnt help... make sure you have to correct kernel source in /usr/src/linux it does make a difference. Then after make install do modprobe NVdriver otherwise hte driver maybe possible require 2.4.x kernel... Right now im running the 0.97 nVidia

Re: how to access files on another machine in the network

2001-03-28 Thread Robert Voigt
> Read more about it on: > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO Thank you, this was one of the rare occasions when I could just read a HOWTO and it works.

Mime Type of Debian package

2001-03-28 Thread Delavigne, Ken
Hello, When I download a Debian package I get a huge amount of weird text on my Netscape Navigator window. I assume this is because I don't have NN tuned to handle "deb" packages properly. I went into PREFERENCES/NAVIGATOR/APPLICATIONS and tried to specify a new "deb" type, but Netscape in

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