Did I tell you about GotoWorld.com? Get Paid to surf FREE!

2001-04-02 Thread jack
Hey people, I found a company that will pay you to surf the Net and Instant Message. They even make it easier to find what you want on the Net and give you tons of free powerful tools such as email, fax, hard drive space, software, and much more. Now I can make extra $$ in my spare time, and I

Re: stupid exim problems (NEWBIE-ish)

2001-04-02 Thread Mark Wagnon
At 10:59 PM 4/1/2001 -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, This cursed exim has proved quite painful to set up. I'm trying to get it to work through my proxy server, so I ran eximconfig. I chose option 2 (receive mail w/ fetchmail, send with smarthost). I told it my visible mail name = cmath

mailx-->logrotate-->lilo

2001-04-02 Thread Mircea Luca
Ethan Benson wrote: > > it is NOT appropriate, no user should be a member of that group. > mailx simply can't be used to read mail any more. Deal with it. > > -- Sorry for jmping in here,but then what is the solution to this small dilema : lilo depends on logrotate,logrotate depends on mailx S

dpkg can't find ldconfig?

2001-04-02 Thread jennyw
Weird problem ... I tried installing some software I downloaded (compupic -- software to manage images) using dpkg -i and dpkg returned: 'ldconfig' not found on PATH. I searched the file system and there is no ldconfig anywhere. I tried 'apt-get install ldconfig' and it says: Reading Pac

Mail & News Reader

2001-04-02 Thread Axel Schlicht
Hi everyone. Sorry for using high priority, but for me the matter is very urgent. I hope this question has not been asked ad nauseam before, if yes, please except my apology and direct me to the place this list's storage area. So far I have been using a Windows 3.x based newsreader (OUI) but it

Re: globally setting tab=4 spaces?

2001-04-02 Thread John Galt
If you can't be helpful with your words, be helpful by your silence, Bill. Will, I think it's in terminfo. man 5 terminfo points you to the it variable. But it looks like /etc/terminfo/l/linux is a binary... It's days like this when I curse the day that Debian switched from termcap to terminfo.

Re: whereis code for telnet?

2001-04-02 Thread John Galt
apt-get source telnet on a Debian box. On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Denzil Kelly wrote: >Where do I find the code for telnet? I've downloaded >the kernel source, and I have not been able to find >the source code for telnet. I ask because my networks >class has been given the task of looking at several >l

Re: Mail & News Reader

2001-04-02 Thread Mark Wagnon
At 07:54 AM 4/2/2001 +0200, Axel Schlicht wrote: [snip] As far as I know I should have the following to receive and send emails and participate in usenet newsgroups: - ISDN for Linux - a mail retrieval program : fetchmail ? - a mail transport agent (MTA) : procmail ? exim ? - a mail reader : ti

Re: Mail & News Reader

2001-04-02 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001, Axel Schlicht wrote: > Hi everyone. > > Sorry for using high priority, but for me the matter is very urgent. > > I hope this question has not been asked ad nauseam before, if yes, > please except my apology and direct me to the place this list's storage > area. > > So far I

Re: should /var/spool/mail/ have a the sticky bit set? ...

2001-04-02 Thread Andre Berger
* Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010401 22:41 +0200: > Previously I could not delete mail. NOt clear whether being in the mail group > is > appropriate... Just to delete mail, you might try "cat /dev/null > /var/spool/mail/$YOU" Andre

Re: Mail & News Reader

2001-04-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 07:54:59AM +0200, Axel Schlicht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > With a new ISDN card installed I can now - finally - switch over to > Linux for email and news retrieval. > > I need a program / programs able to to the following: > - retrieve email / newsgroups automatically o

Re: Repost (Apologies for HTML): Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2001-04-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:13:26PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I added testing (woody) to my sources.list some days ago and carried > out an upgrade of my potato box. I got two main problems (amongst others I > may not noticed so far): > > - It broke my lilo, leav

Re: apt-get and dependencies

2001-04-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 01:09:35PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi All > > What does apt-get mean if he says this: > > [Some large error text] > fidoconf: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.2-2) but 2.2.2-4 is to be installed > Break:

Re: custom packages

2001-04-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 03:44:37PM -0500, Michael Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey guys. What's the recommended method for custom Debian packages? > > Situation: I need xterm with logging enabled so I can log long builds at > work. No, script is not enough. > > I would like

Re: dpkg can't find ldconfig?

2001-04-02 Thread Jan Schlesner
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 10:51:46PM -0700, jennyw wrote: > Weird problem ... I tried installing some software I downloaded > (compupic -- software to manage images) using dpkg -i and dpkg > returned: > > 'ldconfig' not found on PATH. > > I searched the file system and there is no ldconfig anyw

Re: globally setting tab=4 spaces?

2001-04-02 Thread ha shao
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 11:56:26PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > terminfo. I'd have suggested you just change the termcap entry, but I'm > not too hot on the process for changing terminfo. I hope this gives you a It is 'tic' with 'infocmp' -- Best regard hashao

Re: should /var/spool/mail/ have a the sticky bit set? ...

2001-04-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 03:44:32AM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > * Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010401 22:41 +0200: > > Previously I could not delete mail. NOt clear whether being in the mail > > group is > > appropriate... > > Just to delete mail, you might try "cat /dev/null > > /var/spoo

Re: globally setting tab=4 spaces?

2001-04-02 Thread ha shao
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 03:54:39PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 11:56:26PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > terminfo. I'd have suggested you just change the termcap entry, but I'm > > not too hot on the process for changing terminfo. I hope this gives you a > > It

icecast system requirements

2001-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
Hi guys... ive just barely got icecast running on an old 486 but the connection keeps rebuffering even on the local network. any ideas on the minimum requirements? also what bitrate should i start it at if thats the problem? ta, John

Re: mailx-->logrotate-->lilo

2001-04-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 09:48:06PM -0700, Mircea Luca wrote: > > Sorry for jmping in here,but then what is the solution to this > small dilema : > lilo depends on logrotate,logrotate depends on mailx lilo depending on logrotate is an absurdity is it not? > So if I try to remove mailx I can't boo

Oracle and DBI

2001-04-02 Thread Dave Whiteley
Clues sought, I am trying to set up read only access to an Oracle database (of which I have no control) using Perl. I have used Perl/DBI/DBD to access mysql databases sucessfully, but am stuck trying to access Oracle. Most of the documentation seems to assume that you are trying to access an Orac

Re: dpkg can't find ldconfig?

2001-04-02 Thread Mathias
> Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Note, selecting ldso instead of ldconfig > Sorry, ldso is already the newest version > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not > upgraded. Hmm, this looks like a dependence problem. You s

Re: whereis code for telnet?

2001-04-02 Thread Mathias
> Where do I find the code for telnet? If telnet is a part of your debian system you can type # grep -n ´Package: telnet´ /var/lib/dpkg/available to find the position of this package in your available list. If you then edit this file with # vi + /var/lib/dpkg/available and source package has a

Re: package removal

2001-04-02 Thread Mathias
> need command for removing a package dpkg --purge

Re: newbie Qs about Debian 'Potato'

2001-04-02 Thread Mathias
> What kernel comes on the offical debian Potato release? I know it doesn't > matter that much, bit I would like to know. :-) > I heard the installation CD is not bootable? Any reason for this? > Thanks for the info :-) I had never hered that this CD´s are not bootable. My first debian CD set work

Re: KDE

2001-04-02 Thread Mathias
> I was wondering how others are installing KDE with Debian. I select apt-get > install kde, and it can't find it. Do I have to add a line to my > /etc/apt/sources.list file? Or, do I have to go and download the KDE files > myself and manuallly install them? if you add deb http://tdyc.com pota

Re: MS-questin

2001-04-02 Thread Mathias
> Dear Friends, > > I would like to know if I can run MS terminal server > on Debian 2.2. > Thanks and best regards/David Liu Hey David! You should write a text into your object line! And pleas don愒 send in HTML format. Some linux users will send it to /dev/null without reading it (securety and v

mkttfdir problems

2001-04-02 Thread Johan Groth
Hi, I wanted TrueTypes on Linux box so I installed fttools (I'm using testing) and copied the TrueTypes from a win98 partition to /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType and then ran mkttfdir. The result was a segmentation fault. The fonts.dir-file was partially completed (35 fonts out of 53) after mkttfdir ha

RE: OT : Anti Virus Software for Linux

2001-04-02 Thread Joris Lambrecht
i did try to apologise, my only defence is i'm working in a MS oriented company because i have to, darned hard to find a Linux job over here in belgium -Original Message- From: Roberto Diaz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zaterdag 31 maart 2001 20:13 To: Joris Lambrecht Cc: 'debian-user@li

login binary source

2001-04-02 Thread Langdon Green
I am trying to create a boot disk from my debian 2.2r2 machine.  I have a rootfs with all the basic binaries req, and another disk to boot from.   It boots, Ok and loads the rootfs ok, Login prompt OK, When I type username and password, it comes up with pam errors (ie can't find username and

xvlib and potato

2001-04-02 Thread benny k
Hey, I'm trying to install some digital video tools (kino 0.4 and libdv 0.5) on potato. Both of these programs seem to require xvlib (xvideo). A quick google search has turned up a package from woody that contained the libraries. The problem is that they are for xfree 4.0.x Do these libraries e

Re: Debian 2.2 install - potato

2001-04-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Is hdd yor boot drive? That means you may have ultra66. Then you need kernel with that patch. umda66 is the one, maybe. 24 MB is not enough to keep / /boot /bin /sbin all in one partition. You may want to get 50MB and make it as /. That may be simpler than doing /boot for this one. YMMV. Inst

Alsa

2001-04-02 Thread Shawn Garbett
I had an old working RedHat version with also installed. I went to move my changes to /etc/modules.conf over to the new Debian version. I opened up the /etc/modules.conf and it said, "don't edit me", and directed me into other files, upon which I got lost trying to figure it out. How do I conf

few questions about .deb

2001-04-02 Thread M G Berberich
Hello, I have a few questions about Debian-packages: - Is there an easy way (not ar+tar) to see what files a package will install bevor it is installed? (after install 'dpkg -L' will do it) - If I build a debian-package for a program that needs p.e. /var/log/ppplog. Should '/var/log/ppplog'

Re: LISP (Was: Re: pyton & perl)

2001-04-02 Thread Emil Pedersen
> > Ok, It seems like the cool-factor of LISP is as high as you can get, but what > are it's practical merits? If one intends to hack Emacs, then LISP is of > course essential, but does it go beyond that? (I'm thinking practical, it of > course would be quite interesting to learn from a CS standpo

Re: MS-questin

2001-04-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:08:12AM +0200, Mathias wrote: > WINE? This is the best open source WINdows Emulator i think. But i don´t Wine Is Not an Emulator -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpI6hL94P4cP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: stupid exim problems (NEWBIE-ish)

2001-04-02 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, > I may be totally wrong, but I think that a proxy is just for web content. > For your smarthost, you're going to want to add your isp's mail server. > What did you enter for your mailservers in mozilla? my proxy server gives me a local email address (in my case, [EMAIL PROTECTED]), i'm

Re: Home/End Keys with Putty (Woody)

2001-04-02 Thread Heiko Ordelt
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:43:47AM +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote: Hi Gavin! > I had this problem, too and solved it by including the following line in > .bash_login in my home directory > > export TERM=linux Thanks. It works ;) cu, Heiko

Re: apt-get and dependencies

2001-04-02 Thread Joerg Jaspert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 2. April 2001 09:13 schrieb Karsten M. Self: > > [Some large error text] > > fidoconf: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.2-2) but 2.2.2-4 is to be installed > > Break: Error, could not install > > It depends on libc6 >= 2.2.2-2 and 2.2.2-4 is install

Re: newbie-esque: how to cut & paste?

2001-04-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jim Richardson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 02:37:13PM -0600, Bud Rogers wrote: > > Wait til you type 'shutdown -h now' on the workstation in front of you > > and nothing happens, then from the other room (where all the servers > > are...) you hear, "Hey! What the [EMAI

Re: Home/End Keys with Putty (Woody)

2001-04-02 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Heiko Ordelt wrote: > Hi there! > > After i upgraded my debian box to woody i can't use the Home/End keys with > Putty anymore ;( > > Anyone knows a solution for this problem? Hello Heiko... I had this problem, too and solved it by including the following line in .bash_login

latex *pk files in /var?

2001-04-02 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! after running xdvi I noted that several *pk files appeared in /var/spool/texmf/pk/ljfour/public/cm. Why this? Thanks in advance, Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: login binary source

2001-04-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 07:20:59PM +1000, Langdon Green wrote: > I am trying to create a boot disk from my debian 2.2r2 machine. I have a > rootfs with all the basic binaries req, and another disk to boot from. > > It boots, Ok and loads the rootfs ok, Login prompt OK, When I type username > an

Re: globally setting tab=4 spaces?

2001-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 07:12:03PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: >> Yes, this is Linux. This means that the standard for hard tabs is 8 >> characters wide. >> >> If you ever want to exchange files with anyone else, and you want >> them to be able to re

Re: #!/bin/bash

2001-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >yes but a much more portable way to do this is to use printf: > >printf "Restarting apache web server: " > >echo "done" > >echo is notoriously inconsistent across *nix platforms. and the SUS >(single unix specification) has or at least did mandate that echo

Re: libgnome-dev uninstallable?

2001-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >on debian testing: > >jojda:/home/erik# apt-get install libgnome-dev >... >Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > libgnome-dev: Depends: libgnome32 (= 1.0.56-3) but 1.2.8-3 is to be >installed >Depends: libgnorba-dev but

Re: newbie Qs about Debian 'Potato'

2001-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
"Mathias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What kernel comes on the offical debian Potato release? I know it doesn't >> matter that much, bit I would like to know. :-) >> I heard the installation CD is not bootable? Any reason for this? >> Thanks for the info :-) > >I had never hered that this CD´s a

Re: LISP (Was: Re: pyton & perl)

2001-04-02 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Gudmundur Erlingsson wrote: > Ok, It seems like the cool-factor of LISP is as high as you can get, but what > are it's practical merits? If one intends to hack Emacs, then LISP is of > course essential, but does it go beyond that? (I'm thinking practical, it of > course would b

Re: wrong libc6 - ouch! (fwd)

2001-04-02 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 07:35:54PM +0200, A. L. Meyers wrote: > So now my libc6 is .17 (should be .13 according to dpkg error message) > and is trashed. When trying to correct using e. g. "apt-get -f install" > I only get: "ldconfig missing". The install scripts exit. Try manually getting the vers

Re: newbie-esque: how to cut & paste?

2001-04-02 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 12:05:25PM -0800, Jim Richardson wrote: > > Wait til you type 'shutdown -h now' on the workstation in front of you > > and nothing happens, then from the other room (where all the servers > > are...) you hear, "Hey! What the [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > Or do the same thing

Re: ssh2 <--> openssh public key authentication

2001-04-02 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 01:01:08PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > Rob> Hello, I am trying to set up public-key authentication > Rob> between a SunOS box ("larry") running ssh2 and a dialup > Rob> Debian box ("peon") running potato with OpenSSH 1:2.5.2p2-1 > Rob> compiled from sid. From

installed program as only run as su

2001-04-02 Thread JACKSON, DEAN
I have installed a program and can only run it when logged in as su location of directory is /home/dean what command do i have to run to make it so all users can run it especially dean? chmod -R 755 /home/dean springs to mind but don't want to try it till i get confirmation (newbie who doesnt

Re: [OT] spam filtering with exim

2001-04-02 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 11:11:08PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > OK, the names and IP addresses of the other networks/hosts have been > > changed. mail.foo.com is hop right before reaching my mail server > > (spider.morgul.net). The thing is, mail.foo.com is the open relay, but > > exim is on

Re: XFree

2001-04-02 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 09:39:03PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: > I had similar problems with the mouse. I solved it by uninstalling gpm. Not sure what the original question was, but I'd recommend against this if possible; you'll want gpm if X ever breaks and you find yourself needing to cut and pa

Re: #!/bin/bash

2001-04-02 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 05:33:42PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > is it ok when acripts start with #!/bin/bash even if they shouldn't ? [...] > echo -ne "blahblah\n" > to > echo "blahblah" > > (wtf do we need the first?) It took me a second to see your point here; echo -ne "\n" is pretty s

Re: do you know what may cause depmod: unresolved symbol?

2001-04-02 Thread eric
Mathias wrote: When I dpkg -i kernel-image242.deb I got error about depmod : Unresolved symbol Do you know how to fix that? Hi Eric! This error means that depmod is not shure whether it can use this symbol (part of a module like parameters). It can have much causes. I think you should g

Re: Mail & News Reader

2001-04-02 Thread mike polniak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Axel Schlicht) writes: > > As far as I know I should have the following to receive and send emails > and participate in usenet newsgroups: > - ISDN for Linux > - a mail retrieval program : fetchmail ? > - a mail transport agent (MTA) : procmail ? exim ? > - a mail reader : tin,

Re: ssi and web passwords

2001-04-02 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 04:07:47PM +, John-Mark wrote: > Hello all > I wonder if anyone could tell me which modules to apt-get in order to get > Server side includes and .htacces password protection > Thanks in advance-- > John-Mark apache -- ,---. > N

Unidentified subject!

2001-04-02 Thread Sergio E . Schvezov
hello debian users i'm writinng this message to find out if u can orient me into fixing a problem i have with A.P.M., here's my procedure: crush:~# hdparm -Y /dev/hda /dev/hda issuing sleep command //and the hd turns off // but 30 seconds later :( crush:~# hda: irq timeout: status 0xd0

Re: Vortex/Vortex 2?

2001-04-02 Thread andrew.dixon
A HA! It's based on the Crystal/Cirrus Login CS4630 chip. I found the source (cs46xx.c) in drivers/sound but there's no option for this chip set in either make config or make xconfig. Any Ideas on how I could compile this as a module without using those utilities?? Thanks, Andy On Sat, 31 Mar 2

Re: few questions about .deb

2001-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
M G Berberich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >- Is there an easy way (not ar+tar) to see what files a package will > install bevor it is installed? (after install 'dpkg -L' will do it) Yes, 'dpkg -c foo.deb' (--contents). 'dpkg -I foo.deb' (--info) shows you some other information about the package.

Re: installed program as only run as su

2001-04-02 Thread ktb
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 02:50:34PM +0100, JACKSON, DEAN wrote: > > I have installed a program and can only run it when logged in as su > > location of directory is /home/dean > > what command do i have to run to make it so all users can run it especially > dean? > > chmod -R 755 /home/dean >

Re: mail client that works through proxy

2001-04-02 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:29:59PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 04:29:39PM -0800, Matheson Cameron wrote: > > Wow, > > > > sorry everyone. It appears my proxy server just sucks > > (Analog X). Mail doesn't work through any of the > > computers, even the Windoze ones

modules

2001-04-02 Thread Andrew D Dixon,,,
Hi All, I'm trying to compile support for my sound card into my kernel but I can't find an option for it in make config or make xconfig. I have, however, found the source for the right driver in sound/driver (it's cx46xx.c, I've got a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz based on the CS4630 chip). I was

Re: Kernel settings for parallel printing?

2001-04-02 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 03:26:53PM -0700, Dan Owens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > What items need to be turned on in the kernel to allow parallel port > > printing? > > Parallel port support. > *And* "PC-style hardware". *And* "parallel printer support".

FW: Why does gnome pager no longer iconize open apps on the panel bar

2001-04-02 Thread Rick Commo
Finally found the answer to my own question turned out to be a "Doh!". Sorry to bother the list. Somewhere along the line I had inadvertently removed the TaskList from the Gnome Panel. It's back - all is well with the world. For the moment at least! ;-) Cheers, -rick -Original Message

Re: DSL with pppoe

2001-04-02 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > [Description of complicated problem omitted] > > I am very confused. Can anyone give me a hint, how to setup DSL? > > Thanks! > juh > > > I set up pppoe as written in README.Debian. So I edited > > /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider and all the other files. > I'm not sure

Problems mounting floppies and cdroms.

2001-04-02 Thread Pad Bambury
Hello all, I'm a new user who's been through the installation etc successfully but am finding it impossible to mount any floppies/cdroms. Command [as root] "mount /dev/fd0 /floppy" gets response "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device". And the command "mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom" gets respons

Problems mounting floppies and cdroms.

2001-04-02 Thread Pad Bambury
Hello all, I'm a new user who's been through the installation etc successfully but am finding it impossible to mount any floppies/cdroms. Command [as root] "mount /dev/fd0 /floppy" gets response "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device". And the command "mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom" gets respons

RE: mail client that works through proxy

2001-04-02 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Alson, -might be all wrong, let me know- Since you mention AnalogX you "MUST" be using a windows machine as a proxy. Tss Tss. I think that if you want to keep using this proxy you should download the Analogx portmapper also to redirect these ports to your proxy port. To be honest, don't use thos

Re: libgnome-dev uninstallable?

2001-04-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Colin Watson wrote: > > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >on debian testing: > > > >jojda:/home/erik# apt-get install libgnome-dev > >... > >Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > > libgnome-dev: Depends: libgnome32 (= 1.0.56-3) but 1.2.8-3 is to be > >installed > >

RE: mail client that works through proxy

2001-04-02 Thread Joris Lambrecht
My apologies to alson for the confusion, just started typo-ing away. Should've been Matthew ... -Original Message- From: Joris Lambrecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maandag 2 april 2001 17:36 To: 'Alson van der Meulen'; Debian User List Subject: RE: mail client that works through pr

Re: Problems mounting floppies and cdroms.

2001-04-02 Thread Frédéric de Villamil
Hi, as root, just add this line in your /etc/fstab file, it may be usefull /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 and every user will be able to mount you cdrom device typing mount /dev/cdrom or mount /cdrom and /dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user then mount /d

Re: dpkg can't find ldconfig?

2001-04-02 Thread jennyw
Thanks to everyone for the responses! I think I know what caused the problem, but fixing it is still a mystery. I tried installing mcrypt at one point, which required libc6 2.2.1-2 or greater (a newer version than the one in potato). Later on, when I tried to install something via gnome-apt, it

Re: icecast system requirements

2001-04-02 Thread Robert Voigt
The icecast mailing list is a better place to ask a question like this. http://www.xiph.org/icecast/list.html www.icecast.org

RE: Alsa

2001-04-02 Thread Wojciech Milek
You can create a file in directory /etc/modutils file contain your modules and run update-modules to recreate /etc/modules.conf W > I had an old working RedHat version with also installed. I went to move > my changes to /etc/modules.conf over to the new Debian version. I opened > up the /etc/modu

RE: modules

2001-04-02 Thread Wojciech Milek
Which kernel do you have? I can't find this module in 2.2.18 W > Hi All, > I'm trying to compile support for my sound card into my kernel but I > can't find an option for it in make config or make xconfig. I have, > however, found the source for the right driver in sound/driver (it's > cx46xx

problems opening web sites in Netscape

2001-04-02 Thread Dale Miller
I don't know what is happening. I try to go to site like www.inprise.com, www.rational.com and numerous others and they time out. I am using Netscape 4.76. I have noticed this for the last 2-3 months and more and more sites seem to be failing. I can ping the sites, but traceroute to them seems to f

Re: Alsa

2001-04-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 08:28:20AM -0400, Shawn Garbett wrote: > I had an old working RedHat version with also installed. I went to move > my changes to /etc/modules.conf over to the new Debian version. I opened > up the /etc/modules.conf and it said, "don't edit me", and directed me > into othe

Re: installed program as only run as su

2001-04-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 02:50:34PM +0100, JACKSON, DEAN wrote: > what command do i have to run to make it so all users can run it especially > dean? Hard to say without knowing what the program does. It may need to run with elevated privileges (in which case you probably don't want normal users r

Re: Problems mounting floppies and cdroms.

2001-04-02 Thread Robert Voigt
> Command [as root] "mount /dev/fd0 /floppy" gets > response "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block > device". I get this error when I forgot to insert a floppy. This won't help you much I guess. If you have a line like this in /etc/fstab: /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 you

Re: Security trough paranoia

2001-04-02 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 05:13:12PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote: ... > How exactly are you proposing to keep change shadow passwords back and > forth from MD5 without having the user re-input every password? > > This is Very Hard to Do. :) Well, it seems I didn't think of How Things Work and the w

Re: Alsa

2001-04-02 Thread Robert Voigt
> I had an old working RedHat version with also installed. I went to move > my changes to /etc/modules.conf over to the new Debian version. I opened > up the /etc/modules.conf and it said, "don't edit me", and directed me > into other files, upon which I got lost trying to figure it out. > > How d

Re: debian 2.2

2001-04-02 Thread Felix Natter
Peter Millard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all > > I am thinking of changing to debian 2.2 I wonder does it come with something > like StarOffice or something similar most 2.2-distributions do not include staroffice, but there is one (from linuxland, I believe), which includes staroffic

tty5 respawning too fast - disabled

2001-04-02 Thread Jason Pepas
lately i have been having a problem where the console reports "INIT: ID5 is respawing to often and will be disabled for 5 minutes"   ID5 i figured out is tty5, because I cannot access it when this happens (at first I thoguht it meant PID 5, which was kswapd).   I remember reading that certai

Still problems mounting cdroms and floppies

2001-04-02 Thread Pad Bambury
Hey all, Thanks for the advice but still getting the same messages. Here's the fstab file, if anyone can see any problems and suggest solutions that would be great. # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /de

Setting lynx up to deal with a proxy server

2001-04-02 Thread Simmons-Davis
Dear Debian Group, My ISP uses a proxy server and so prevents Lynx from working properly (or at least that was a possiblility that someone else suggested). I know for sure that my ISP uses a proxy server as they told me themselves. Please tell me what information I need from my ISP and then where

Re: dpkg can't find ldconfig?

2001-04-02 Thread jennyw
Thanks to everyone for the responses! I think I know what caused the problem, but fixing it is still a mystery. I tried installing mcrypt at one point, which required libc6 2.2.1-2 or greater (a newer version than the one in potato). Later on, when I tried to install something via gnome-apt, it

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Re: xcdroast replacement?

2001-04-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Colin Marquardt wrote: > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > "Hall Stevenson" wrote: > > > > > > I tried gtoaster but I have to admit I don't understand its user > > > > interface a bit. > > > > > > It is somewhat odd... what are you trying to do ?? I've used for a > > > little

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Re: xcdroast replacement?

2001-04-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
albi wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 03:16:07PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > xcdroast from testing no longer works, and the one in unstble > > won't run either. What do other people used? > > > > I tried gtoaster but I have to admit I don't understand its user > > interface a bit. >

Re: what is 'slot-service-0-3' ?

2001-04-02 Thread Chris Majewski
FWIW, here's my /etc/modutils/alsa. If you're not using alsa, then you're probably using oss-free, in which case scroll down to OSS-FREE, below. Note that you need to say "update-modules" after editing a file in /etc/modutils. -chris # ALSA options snd snd_cards_limit=1 #opti

netcfg

2001-04-02 Thread Ted Gervais
Does Debian have such a utility as 'netcfg' to change/setup network installations? -- Ted Gervais Coldbrook, Nova Scotia Canada

Upgrading to perl 5.6 on potato

2001-04-02 Thread Chris Howells
Basically I need to upgrade to perl 5.6 (or better) on Debian potato, for a few things (such as GIMP 1.2.1 and parts of KDE 2.1.1). However judging from here: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=perl&searchon =names&version=stable&release=all the latest version in stab

StarOffice

2001-04-02 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
Is there a Debianized version of Staroffice 5.2 available somewhere? -- Christopher W. Aiken Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com www.cwaiken.com Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2

Re: tty5 respawning too fast - disabled

2001-04-02 Thread John Patton
I'm not sure why it happens exactly, but there is an easy fix for it. As root, edit /etc/inittab. Towards the bottom there will be a bunch of lines that look like the following: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 38400 tty1 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 38400 tty2 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 38400 tty3 4

Re: Setting lynx up to deal with a proxy server

2001-04-02 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Simmons-Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My ISP uses a proxy server and so prevents Lynx from working > properly (or at least that was a possiblility that someone else > suggested). I know for sure that my ISP uses a proxy server as > they told me themselves. Please tell me what information I n

Re: libapache-mod-perl / woody

2001-04-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Rob Torop wrote: > Recently I switched from potato to woody (modified sources.list and did > a dist-upgrade). I'd been using the combination of the apache and > libapache-mod-perl packages successfully under potato. > > I am by no means an expert, but it looks to me as though > libapache-mod-pe

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