Re: Can't compile an exact copy of kernel image.

2001-10-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:36:24PM -0300, Ricardo Gazoni wrote: > Yes, I did. In fact, step 1 loaded /boot/config-2.2.19pre17 and saved it in > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.19pre17/.config. To be precise, doing this via make > xconfig only adds comment lines to the .config file. I checked it out > c

Re: looping messages [was Re: Sendmail not sending queue's out.]

2001-10-05 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Craig Dickson, > I've been getting a lot of repeat messages from debian-user lately also. > I have the impression, based on the headers, that someone at best.com has > accidentally created a loop that somehow is getting past the list server's > loop detection. It's annoying, but I'm not sure

anyone using postfix in a home LAN setup?

2001-10-05 Thread Matthew Garman
This is slightly off-topic, but I thought I'd give it a go... Does anyone out there have a home LAN setup using non-routable IP addresses (e.g. 192.168.x.x)? And if so, do you have postfix running as the MTA on more than one machine in the LAN? Have you been able to get postfix to send mail to

sendmail hash in /

2001-10-05 Thread Mike Pfleger
OK, Richard et al; I've got a weird one for you here. On Monday, I did an apt-get upgrade of my Woody box, built a 2.4.10 kernel, and started playing with X4.10 which kicks serious butt :) However, I have found a very odd bunch of files hanging out in / . For your viewing pleasure: -rw---

IDE CD burning problem

2001-10-05 Thread Petteri Heinonen
Hello. I've tried to set up my IDE burner, following instructions in CD writing howto. I've compiled all necessary stuff in the kernel (2.4.9), except modules ide-cd , ide-scsi and ide-loop. I can load modules fine, and cdrecord -scanbus shows my burner. But burning itself fails. I might be able to

Re: how to install debian originally from cd but copied to HD

2001-10-05 Thread ramsubs
- Original Message - From: Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 3:40 AM Subject: Re: how to install debian originally from cd but copied to HD > On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 14:12, ramsubs wrote: > > i'm a linux newbie and playing around with debian to lear

Re: anyone using postfix in a home LAN setup?

2001-10-05 Thread James L. Morton
While I have have not ever used Postfix is that particular setup, I can't think of any reasons it wouldn't work. If you create an MX record for each host, as you would normally, but simply using internal IPs, it should work much the same as an Internet-routeable Postfix would. I'm not quite sure

libc6 problems in compilation

2001-10-05 Thread Indraneel Majumdar
Hi, I've gone crazy trying to figure this out: gcc -o test test.c as: error while loading shared libraries: as: symbol __libc_start_maan, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference g++ -o test test.C as: error while loading shared libraries: as: symbol __libc_start_m

Re: IDE CD burning problem

2001-10-05 Thread Jim Crilly
Disable DMA on the drive. On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 02:36, Petteri Heinonen wrote: > Hello. > I've tried to set up my IDE burner, following instructions in > CD writing howto. I've compiled all necessary stuff in the > kernel (2.4.9), except modules ide-cd , ide-scsi and ide-loop. > I can load modules

Re: LAPTOPS AND TWO DIFFERENT WORKPLACES (OT)

2001-10-05 Thread martin f krafft
* D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.04 10:28:19-0700]: > The system administrator at work is a subcontract > employee. He is also the administrator at his > company. The company that I work for also has > employe's from his company working here and they > travel back and forth between companies a

problems with diskless booting

2001-10-05 Thread Jason Pepas
Hey guys, I have been trying to set up a diskless linux workstation. I have a netboot floppy working - the diskless machine boots and correctly recognizes the network card, and starts to broadcast requests. I watch the hub and can see that it is really putting out requests, so I know the prob

Re: SPARC Station 5: how to find out what's the HW configuration?

2001-10-05 Thread James
Thus spake Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have a SPARC Station 5 with debian installed. It works fairly well, the > problem is I have no info about the HW configuration (I got it on sort of > garage sale from company going out of business (or moving, I am not sure > which)). Good rescue. T

italian keyboard

2001-10-05 Thread Vittorio
In a partition of my hd I've just upgraded my potato 2.2r3 to woody issuing: apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade Now, under a woody console, my keyboard has unfortunately moved from Italian (the initial setting) to US. How can I set the right keyboard? Vittorio

Re: Realplayer installer broken in sid?

2001-10-05 Thread Jesper Holmberg
* On Fri Oct 05, Nick Hastings wrote: >after a harddisk failure I reinstalled sid on one of my pcs. There were > no big problems. However the it seems that the realplayer installer may now > be broken. Exactly the same thing happens over here on Woody. Jesper -- Jesper Holmberg

Re: duplicate old posts?

2001-10-05 Thread ninchi
> > Responding to myself, I've gotten in touch with their admins and they're > trying to iron out the problems. > > --mike > That's right, Let's talk about the solution ...

RE: How can I use dselect from behind a firewall?

2001-10-05 Thread Bristow Paul-BPB007
I'm in a similar situation to this but my proxy requires a password to get through it. Is there anyway I can do this? Thanks, Paul. -Original Message- From: Gary Hennigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 October 2001 00:31 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How can I

Re: A Very Big Apology

2001-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:21:09PM -0700, Allen Wayne Best wrote: > i owe everyone on the list a very big apology, i'll bet. it appears that a > large number of messages from the list sent to my address got resent to the > list. > > my isp this week has changed everything i have with them, incl

Re: italian keyboard

2001-10-05 Thread Andrea
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 12:13, Vittorio wrote: > In a partition of my hd I've just upgraded my potato 2.2r3 to woody > issuing: > > apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade > > Now, under a woody console, my keyboard has unfortunately moved from > Italian (the initial setting) to US. > > How can I set

Warrior

2001-10-05 Thread Guillaume
Hello great ones :) Neither XMMS, nor FreeAmp are working anymore. XMMS: seg fault FreeAmp: No audio device Audio is fine (OSS) as mplayer still works ... XMMS and freeamp are the last versions. I looked at the Sound-howto/debian. Config: 90% testing-woody / 2.4.9 recompiled `by hand' for my la

Problem with hda1 ('/) at boottime, what now?

2001-10-05 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi, I am having a bit of trouble with one of my systems. At boot it says: --- /dev/hda1 was not cleanly umnounted, check forced. hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } / 21.9% hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=81949, sector=81948 end_reque

Re: OpenGL causes hard system lockups

2001-10-05 Thread Carlos Sousa
> (...) > Some of these 3D screensavers will unexpectedly lock up my system---and I > mean *completely* lock up my system, can't ctrl-alt-f[1-6] to switch to a > text console, I can't kill X with ctrl-alt-backspace, etc. Nothing works. Same here. Glad you mentioned it, 'cause I thought it ha

Problem apache+mod_rewrite

2001-10-05 Thread Jose Manuel Perez
Hi all. We are having some problems with Apache 1.3.19-1 and mod_rewrite. Using rewritemap rule we've got following error message in log file: [Thu Oct 4 12:38:23 2001] [error] [client 192.168.200.101] (37)No locks available: mod_rewrite: failed to lock file descriptor Aparently server is serving

need help with script

2001-10-05 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Hi! I want to write a script which makes a user authentification (username & password) and after that it shall check if the user is member of a special group. Can someone point me how to do it? Christian P.S. Please cc me, as I'm not able to read the list at the moment

Re: Tulip driver unresolved symbols (UPDATE)

2001-10-05 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Just in case my former got lost in the sauce, if you have a netgear card, your driver is probably ng_tulip rather than tulip. Information is not knowledge. Belief is not truth. Indoctrination is not teaching. Tradition is not

why does apt want to install this?

2001-10-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. So I'm about to do a dist-upgrade on Sid again, and I'm wondering why apt wants to install The following NEW packages will be installed: bonobo libbonobo2 vim Doing an apt-cache depends on bonobo, I can't see why it would want it. Furthermore, libbonobo2 _replaces_ bo

Crash postmortem.

2001-10-05 Thread oivvio polite
I've been experiencing some system instability lately. The system crashes like once a week or something. Ctrl-Alt-Delete has no effect. And I can't even ssh in from another host to do a graceful shutdown. Of course I'm not asking any of you to analyze my problem with this little informatation.

difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade

2001-10-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. So I just upgraded my system, and for the hell of it, I did a -s dist-upgrade to see what else apt wanted to do. tigger:~# apt-get -s dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVE

modules - can't get ip

2001-10-05 Thread BizarroBum
when i boot up i get the message modprobe: Note the file etc/modules.conf is more recent than the file /lib/modules/2.4.9/modules.dep and all the modules are not loading, this is a problem since my ethernet driver is a module, i've tried to recompile the ethernet driver to be included in the ke

Re: difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade

2001-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 07:28:32AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > The following packages will be REMOVED: > vim-rt > The following NEW packages will be installed: > bonobo libbonobo2 vim > The following packages have been kept back > gnucash > 1 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 1

Re: why does apt want to install this?

2001-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 07:16:52AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > So I'm about to do a dist-upgrade on Sid again, and I'm wondering > why apt wants to install > > The following NEW packages will be installed: > bonobo libbonobo2 vim > > Doing an apt-cache depends on bonobo, I can't

Re: sendmail hash in /

2001-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:36:37PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: > -rw---1 root root0 Oct 3 10:01 errs3cAjPx > -rw---1 root root0 Oct 4 10:20 errsBsXXgw > -rw---1 root root0 Oct 1 14:13 errsaNXMWD > -rw---1 root roo

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-05 Thread Sam Varghese
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 12:03:04AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > If you subscribe to and use Debian mailing lists, you WILL get > > spam. On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:41:37PM -0700, Karsten M. Self countered: > No shit. > $ apt-get install spamfilter > $ apt-g

Re: Q about autofs

2001-10-05 Thread Bill Benedetto
Bill> Under HP-UX, SunOS, and IRIX, I could have an entry in my Bill> /etc/auto.master file like this: Bill> Bill> /net -hosts Bill> Bill> which would allow me to access any exported filesystem from a Bill> remote system by accessing Bill> Bill> /net/REMOTE_MACHINE/EXPORT_FILE

Re: problems with diskless booting

2001-10-05 Thread Serafim Zanikolas
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 02:55:22AM -0500, Jason Pepas wrote: > I cant seem to figure out where the problem is. At least, the > diskless box should be attempting to download the kernel, which it > is not. > > Any ideas? Hello Jason, Check out the logs of both tftpd and bootpd. Consult th

Re: duplicate old posts?

2001-10-05 Thread Wayne Topa
[EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > > > Responding to myself, I've gotten in touch with their admins and they're > > trying to iron out the problems. > > > > --mike > > > > That's right, > Let's talk about the solution ... Using exim. In .forward if $h_MB

Default DHCP client for Debian

2001-10-05 Thread Andrew Nesbit
What is the default DHCP client with Debian? Is it dhclient or dhcpcd? TIA -Andrew

Re: Default DHCP client for Debian

2001-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:56:28PM +1000, Andrew Nesbit wrote: > What is the default DHCP client with Debian? Is it dhclient or dhcpcd? It was pump in potato, but will be dhcp-client in woody. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Network Cards

2001-10-05 Thread Mike Grover
Hi all, I am new to using debian. I have just finished installing ver 2.2 r3 and was wondering how I go about setting up network cards? I have a ne2000 in the machine, but when I type ifconfig, All I see is the local loop back interface. thanks, mike

Re: Tulip driver unresolved symbols (UPDATE)

2001-10-05 Thread D.
I checked again this morning and I have a Accton EN2242 NIC card.. So I asume that I still use the tulip.o driver. Thanks for the response. Don --- David Raleigh Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just in case my former got lost in the sauce, if you > have a > netgear card, your driver is prob

Trying to figure out where the kernel sources went.

2001-10-05 Thread HdV
Hi, I am trying to recompile the kernel so I can use the ltmodem drivers. This is a first for me, so I still have to figure out a loot of things. Please, bear with me. The docs said that the kernel-headers and/or sources are needed. So I check the kernel version with unuma -r, which told me that

Re: italian keyboard

2001-10-05 Thread Bernhard Aichinger
On Friday 05. October 2001 12:13, Vittorio wrote: > In a partition of my hd I've just upgraded my potato 2.2r3 to woody > issuing: > > apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade > > Now, under a woody console, my keyboard has unfortunately moved from > Italian (the initial setting) to US. > > How can I s

Unidentified subject!

2001-10-05 Thread kiran hiriyanna
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Re: Sendmail not sending queue's out.

2001-10-05 Thread Mike Dresser
> not me... Hell, I'm lucky if I remember to respond once ;-) Odd, just got another one. Nothing in my mqueue matches this.. I'm wondering why it keeps coming back. Anyways, i see a few connection reset by peer, a connection timed out, and a mailbox unavailable in my /var/spool/mqueue. Some ha

Re: What's making the list go back in time?

2001-10-05 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > debian-user is redelivering messages from several days ago. I just got a > batch of several dozen in the last minute, dated from the past week. > These aren't delayed messages; I already got them once. > > -jwb Yay, i thought _i_ was insane! It's do

package sig checking ?

2001-10-05 Thread christophe barbé
Is-it possible to configure apt-get to check package GPG signature before installing it ? Christophe -- Christophe Barbé Software Engineer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lineo France - Lineo High Availability Group 42-46, rue Médéric - 92110 Clichy - France phone (33).1.41.40.02.12 - fax (33).1.41.40.02.01

Re: Trying to figure out where the kernel sources went.

2001-10-05 Thread John Patton
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:00:31PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.19pre17 > > and also > > apt-get install kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17 You don't need the headers package if you install the source one... the headers come with the source. I would `dpkg -r kernel

Stable -> 2.4 kernel, best path?

2001-10-05 Thread Stan Brown
I have a stable machine, that I need to use the 2.4 kernel on. I remebr a while back lloking inot this. As I recall, I found 2 ways to do this. 1. Some kind soul had created a set of packages for this (kernel, lbc, file utilites ...) 2, Upgrading to Progeny Am I recalling this corectly? If so

NIS/NFS alternatives?

2001-10-05 Thread Greg Fischer
I'm administrating a network of Debian potato machines using NIS/NFS at a small high school right now. We're behind a pretty beefy firewall, but I still know it's not very secure. I couldn't get LDAP authentication working and I only had 2 days to do the whole thing. Probably at the end of the ye

Re: Stable -> 2.4 kernel, best path?

2001-10-05 Thread Max Lock
Hi there, Very simple thanks to the Debian Developers, whom I regularly worship... 1, add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main 2, run apt-get update 3, run apt-get dist-upgrade 4, install your 2.4 kernel 5, scoff a

Re: wm menus

2001-10-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:47:19PM -0500, Rory O'Connor wrote: > Somehow i managed to blow away my windowmaker menus for myself. but if i > start X as root i see that the structure is there for root. Does anyone > know what file the wm menus are stored in for root...and where i'd put them > to re

Re: duplicate old posts?

2001-10-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:35:54AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Using exim. In .forward > > if $h_MBOX-Line: contains "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > then > save /dev/null > finish > endif You don't have to actually (pretend to) save the message anywhere. Just if ... then seen finish endif -- W

diskless boot over network and DHCP

2001-10-05 Thread Pavel Jurus
I'm trying to boot diskless machine with 3c905C network card over network. I have set up DHCPd on server machine but i got only this message on client: DHCP ( with further dots until time-out ) but I know that DHCP server responds - here is snippet of DHCPd log: Listening on LPF/eth1/00

No ARP-Reply

2001-10-05 Thread seidel
Hi ! i am trying to publish an arp entry on my firewall as follows: arp -s [IP-Adress] [MAC-Adress] pub but when i ping this IP-Address from my internal network i do not get an ARP reply from it. What did I do wrong ? Thanks markus

How do you set time limits in ProFTP using PAM?

2001-10-05 Thread Kimsey-Hickman, Brian
I am trying to set time limits on when users can use our ProFTP site using PAM. I am using Potato 2.2 Rev 2. I opened /etc/pam.d/ftp and added the line: account required pam_time.so Then I opened /etc/security/time.conf and added the line ftp;tty* & ttyp*;username;Al-0500 Looking

Re: PDF viewer...

2001-10-05 Thread pacmac
I use acroread, and it works fine :-) apt-get install acroread On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:52:39PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ricardo Diz wrote: > > > Hi there! > > > > I wanted to know what is the best PDF viewer around. I installed > > Acrobat Reader, but I found

Re: PDF viewer...

2001-10-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
Unfortunately my experience is that acroread is the most reliable, particularly for commerically-produced pdf's like one finds on the web. It sure would be nice to have a non-Adobe option, given their recent behavior. ap -- Andre

Re: Characters can't be shown correctly on tty

2001-10-05 Thread pacmac
Try to do cat /etc/* to solvent the problem :-) On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:11:20AM +0800, Liu Tao wrote: > Hi > I typed "cat /dev/random" on tty1, and some strange characters scrolled , > so I pressed Ctrl-c to terminate cat. But after that, characters can't be > shown correctly on tty1, they are

Re: Stable -> 2.4 kernel, best path?

2001-10-05 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Stan Brown: > I have a stable machine, that I need to use the 2.4 kernel on. I remebr a > while back lloking inot this. > > As I recall, I found 2 ways to do this. > > 1. Some kind soul had created a set of packages for this (kernel, lbc, file > utilites ...) > > 2, Upgrading to Prog

HUGE .xsession-errors file

2001-10-05 Thread David Purton
at some point in the last day or so my .xsession-erros fil grew to an enormous size and completely filled up my hard disk (like almost 1GB in size). it seemed to contain binary junk, but I've delete it now (needed to download my mail :) ) what would cause this? cheers dc -

Re: PDF viewer...

2001-10-05 Thread Ricardo Diz
ok, then. I think I'm going to stick with Acrobat Reader. Thanks for the help, Ricardo Diz On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:52:39PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ricardo Diz wrote: > > > Hi there! > > > > I wanted to know what is the best PDF viewer around. I installed >

Re: LAPTOPS AND TWO DIFFERENT WORKPLACES (OT)

2001-10-05 Thread D.
Thanks for all of the suggestions that I received on this. I have passed them on. Don --- Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * D. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Hi all, > > The system administrator at work is a > subcontract > > employee. He is also the administrator at his > >

Re: Problem with hda1 ('/) at boottime, what now?

2001-10-05 Thread dman
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:58:20AM +0200, J.A. de Vries wrote: | Hi, | | I am having a bit of trouble with one of my systems. At boot it says: | | --- | /dev/hda1 was not cleanly umnounted, check forced. | hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } / 21.9% | hda: dma

Re: gs vs. gs-aladdin

2001-10-05 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:54:10PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: | Which one will do double-sided printing on my HP OfficeJet G85xi? This printer doesn't do double-sided printing regardless of what software you have. Only the bigger, expensive, usually laser printers have duplex units (duplex mea

Re: Trying to figure out where the kernel sources went.

2001-10-05 Thread Ricardo Gazoni
I'm a newbie also; when I installed the sources, they weren't unpacked. bzip2 -dc kernel-sources-2.2.19pre17.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - should do this for you. Think you don't need the headers... Best regards Gaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] gravada: > Hi, > > I am trying to recompile the kernel so I can use

Re: duplicate old posts?

2001-10-05 Thread dman
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:46:03AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: | On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:35:54AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: | > Using exim. In .forward | > | > if $h_MBOX-Line: contains "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" | > then | > save /dev/null | > finish | > endif | | You don't have to actually

RE: HUGE .xsession-errors file

2001-10-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Oct-2001 David Purton wrote: > at some point in the last day or so my .xsession-erros fil grew to an > enormous size and completely filled up my hard disk (like almost 1GB in > size). > > it seemed to contain binary junk, but I've delete it now (needed to > download my mail :) ) > > what

RE: Stable -> 2.4 kernel, best path?

2001-10-05 Thread Bob Koss
> Hello, > You can upgrade the kernel without messing with anything else - all you > have to do is either > a) download the latest kernel-source packafe (apt-gettable) and compile > in your needed options, make kpkg and so forth, or > b) download the tar.gz from www.kernel.org - what I generally do

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-05 Thread dman
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:37:48AM -0500, Mike Grover wrote: | Hi all, | I am new to using debian. | I have just finished installing ver 2.2 r3 and was wondering how I | go about setting up network cards? | | I have a ne2000 in the machine, but when I type ifconfig, All | I see is the lo

Re: duplicate old posts?

2001-10-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:04:10PM -0400, dman wrote: > Neat, thanks. (I want to switch from procmail to exim, but haven't > tested by rules yet). Say, how do you use maildir folders with exim > filters? IIRC, if you save to $HOME/Mail/foo, it goes into mbox format and if you save to $HOME/Mail/

Re: Problem with hda1 ('/) at boottime, what now?

2001-10-05 Thread Carlos Sousa
So I log in as root (glad I didn't disable that yet) and do: (none):~# mount -n -o remount, rw / There should be no space between the comma and "rw". But the next lines in your mail suggest that it worked, so now I'm puzzled... EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, ru

Re: duplicate old posts?

2001-10-05 Thread dman
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:22:00AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: | On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:04:10PM -0400, dman wrote: | > Neat, thanks. (I want to switch from procmail to exim, but haven't | > tested by rules yet). Say, how do you use maildir folders with exim | > filters? | | IIRC, if you sav

Re: anyone using postfix in a home LAN setup?

2001-10-05 Thread Darren Wyn Rees
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:13:02AM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote: > Have you been able to get postfix to send mail to different machines on > the LAN (completely internal, no external DNS routing)? I'm sure this is possible with a Postfix 'transport map', like your.host.name smtp:[192.168

Re: linux + winME

2001-10-05 Thread Matthew Garman
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 07:03:50AM -0700, kiran hiriyanna wrote: > i am running windows ME on my laptop. i have a lot of info on it. > without having to back up, can i install llinux over w/ME and later > erase w/ME? It depends on the setup of your disk that contains the WinME installation. If yo

Re: Can't compile an exact copy of kernel image.

2001-10-05 Thread Ricardo Gazoni
Michael Heldebrant gravada: > On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 19:36, Ricardo Gazoni wrote: > > Yes, I did. In fact, step 1 loaded /boot/config-2.2.19pre17 and saved it in > > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.19pre17/.config. To be precise, doing this via > > make > > xconfig only adds comment lines to the .con

Re: Can't compile an exact copy of kernel image.

2001-10-05 Thread Ricardo Gazoni
Osamu Aoki gravada: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:36:24PM -0300, Ricardo Gazoni wrote: > > Yes, I did. In fact, step 1 loaded /boot/config-2.2.19pre17 and saved it in > > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.19pre17/.config. To be precise, doing this via > > make > > xconfig only adds comment lines to the

Re: HUGE .xsession-errors file

2001-10-05 Thread burningclown
This happened to me, too. I reported some weird jumps in the % usage reported by df, and subsequently found that this file had mushroomed at some point (the other % were addressed by running apt-get clean). Glenn Becker On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, David Purton wrote: > at some point in the last day or

Re: duplicate old posts?

2001-10-05 Thread Wayne Topa
Dave Sherohman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:35:54AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Using exim. In .forward > > > > if $h_MBOX-Line: contains "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > then > > save /dev/null > > finish > > endif > > You don't have to actually (pre

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-05 Thread Wayne Topa
Mike Grover([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi all, > I am new to using debian. > I have just finished installing ver 2.2 r3 and was wondering how I > go about setting up network cards? > > I have a ne2000 in the machine, but when I type ifconfig, All > I see is the local

Snort - syslog, docs & packages [longish]

2001-10-05 Thread Robb Kidd
Okay, I'm trying to get to know the pig. I've only just installed it and have done no modifications to the default install other than answer debconf's questions. I notice that my snort-monitored interface leaves promiscuous mode and enters it again five seconds later. I'm assuming this is f

Re: Error files in /

2001-10-05 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:46:57PM -0500, Jeremy wrote: > > I'm running into a strange occurance. I evidentally have something that is > creating error files in my / directory. They're usually named something > like "errs9vkVeD" or "errskFcjY", always beginning with "errs", ending in a > seemin

RE: Instalation on a laptop advise...

2001-10-05 Thread Alexander Wallace
I have another debian system I'll try compiling the module today... But, what is it that I need to copy? just the tulip.o? will there not be dependencies and stuff like that? Can I put that tulip o in a floppy in /lib/modules/net or something like that and give it to it at startup? I tryed this alr

Kde

2001-10-05 Thread Eileen Orbell
Title: Message Hi all,    What windows manager do poeple on the list recommend using?  I have just installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (a.k.a. Potato) and was trying to find KDE.  Could someone point me to this or maybe recomment something else   Thanks   Eileen Orbell ISA Ma

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicate old posts?

2001-10-05 Thread Alexander Wallace
I am, but I thought it was a problem on my side, now I know it may be not... On 4 Oct 2001, hmike wrote: > The stuff I'm seeing seems to always be coming through: > > X-Envelope-Sender: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > and seems to have been received from the list server and then resent? > > Anyone else g

Re: Kde

2001-10-05 Thread Charles Baker
Personally, I prefer WindowMaker http://www.windowmaker.org/ I hope this doesn't turn into a flame war over window managers and/or desktop environments. --- Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > What windows manager do poeple on the list > recommend using? I have > just inst

Re: Kde

2001-10-05 Thread Ben Simpson
You'll have to wait for future versions of Debian to get KDE. Ben - Original Message - From: "Charles Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eileen Orbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 1:41 PM Subject: Re: Kde > Personally, I prefer WindowMaker > > http://www.windowmake

RE: Instalation on a laptop advise...

2001-10-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Oct-2001 Alexander Wallace wrote: > I have another debian system I'll try compiling the module today... But, > what is it that I need to copy? just the tulip.o? will there not be > dependencies and stuff like that? Can I put that tulip o in a floppy in > /lib/modules/net or something like th

Re: Kde

2001-10-05 Thread Mark Lanett
From: "Ben Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You'll have to wait for future versions of Debian to get KDE. Or go to the website from the future, kde.debian.net. deb http://kde.debian.net potato main crypto optional deb ftp://kde.debian.net/pub/kde potato main crypto optional deb http://kde.rap.uca

RE: Kde

2001-10-05 Thread Eileen Orbell
Thanks Mark for the source. Works sweet... -Original Message- From: Mark Lanett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 1:57 PM To: Subject: Re: Kde From: "Ben Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You'll have to wait for future versions of Debian to get KDE. Or go to t

apt-get do not yields to 'n'

2001-10-05 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I think apt-get is getting too smart (or independent); look at these lines: - voabaixo:/etc/apt# apt-get install kmail Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6 libc6-dev

Canon and CUPS (was Re: Printing with Epson 880, CUPS, & unstable - landscape only)

2001-10-05 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:56:24PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: | > Ok, here's the details : [ snipped here, if you want them see the old thread (I forgot to change the subject last time) or ask for a private post ] | Not boring dman, fascinating! Cool. | I must say it takes the

Re: Stable -> 2.4 kernel, best path?

2001-10-05 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake Stan Brown: > > I have a stable machine, that I need to use the 2.4 kernel on. I > remebr a > > while back lloking inot this. > > > > As I recall, I found 2 ways to do this. > > > > 1. Some kind soul had created a set of packages for this (kernel, > lbc, file > > u

installing debian on a Jaz

2001-10-05 Thread Maxime Gamboni
Hi all ! I am new to this mailinglist (as well as to the linux world :-) I want to install debian on my pc, but there's already windows installed on it, and I don't want to partition the hard disk (which is btw almost full already) for debian. Before I start downloading and installing and end u

Re: Snort - syslog, docs & packages [longish]

2001-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:15:16PM -0400, Robb Kidd wrote: > [packages] Also, I notice that snort is also suffering from poor > package descriptions. snort, snort-common, snort-doc, snort-mysql and > snort-rules-default all seem to have the following: [...] > ... which doesn't really he

Re: package sig checking ?

2001-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:15:00PM +0200, christophe barb? wrote: > Is-it possible to configure apt-get to check package GPG signature > before installing it ? You can install debsig-verify and change /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg to say 'debsig'. There are very few (none?) signed packages in Debian yet, tho

Re: sendmail hash in /

2001-10-05 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Richard A Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The hash/hash.db are a fluke, I'll look into that, but the others > shouldn't be sendmail... > > What version of sendmail did you install ? can you remove those two > files and run `/usr/share/sendmail/update_db` and see if they return ? Hi Richard

Re: how to install debian originally from cd but copied to HD

2001-10-05 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 01:35, ramsubs wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 3:40 AM > Subject: Re: how to install debian originally from cd but copied to HD > > > > On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 14:12, ramsubs wrote:

ping works not on all sites

2001-10-05 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
Hello everyone, I have a strange problem: I am using german DSL (T-DSL) and can reach almost all sites. However, some sites cannot really be contacted from my station. DNS resolve works, cos I get the IP from that site when pinging as well as the real hostname of a destination machine. I know fro

Re: anyone using postfix in a home LAN setup?

2001-10-05 Thread James D Strandboge
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:13:02AM -0500 or thereabouts, Matthew Garman wrote: > > Does anyone out there have a home LAN setup using non-routable IP > addresses (e.g. 192.168.x.x)? And if so, do you have postfix running as > the MTA on more than one machine in the LAN? > Yes. > Have you been ab

How can I get dselect's selection to match what's installed?

2001-10-05 Thread Stan Brown
OK, somehow I'v _reallY- got dselct's selection list munged up. It want's to dlete 200+ packages! How can I (short of spending hours ding it by hand), get dslect's "desired" selection to match what's installed on the system? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ping works not on all sites

2001-10-05 Thread James D Strandboge
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:23:53AM +0200 or thereabouts, Timo Blazko Boewing wrote: > I have a strange problem: I am using german DSL (T-DSL) and can reach > almost all sites. However, some sites cannot really be contacted from my > station. DNS resolve works, cos I get the IP from that site when

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