"Hard Install"

1998-02-05 Thread George R
Man, after hearing all the horror stories of Linux installs I had to try ;) Well, not being a patient one I ftp'd the disk images for Debian. Blew off the HOWTO's Total time(ftp, making disks from images, formating hard disk, scaning disk, and install) under 1.5 hrs. One problem, I set up mysel

Re: "Hard Install"

1998-02-09 Thread George R
On 02/09/98 at 03:20 PM, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 09:36:06PM +, George R wrote: >> That was easier than OS/2; about the same as DOS; tons easier than Win95. >> What is the fuss about? >I agree with your sentiments but I do

Re: "Hard Install"

1998-02-10 Thread George R
On 02/09/98 at 07:41 PM, "David E. Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >George R wrote: >> Has anyone had Win95 change your CMOS settings? >George, > I don't know: how could I tell, unless it's evidence would be a mess up >of something obvious like

Re: "Hard Install"

1998-02-10 Thread George R
On 02/09/98 at 07:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerald V. Livingston lI) said: >Try replacing the CMOS battery. I had one that would do strange things >when I shut it off - I figured if the battery got low enough it would >start going wierd on resets too. Not the problem, unless of course 3 differ

Re: "Hard Install"

1998-02-10 Thread George R
On 02/10/98 at 01:47 PM, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Well, anything can happen in a good-sized crash. Windows 95 can't change >individual settings because their locations aren't standardized between >BIOS manufacturers (AMI, Phoenix, Award, MR BIOS etc). Some of the basic >settings a

Re: "Hard Install"

1998-02-10 Thread George R
On 02/10/98 at 06:33 PM, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:56:49PM +, George R wrote: >> Is this just Win95 or do other OS's mess with the CMOS? In 10+ years I've >> only experianced this with Win95. >Well, Windows 95 ha

Help with move to CUPS

2003-12-03 Thread R Ransbottom
I starting to do an upgrade on a small network of debian systems. Moving from 1.3 to 3.0. It seems like time to replace lpr with CUPS. I am having a problem getting a handle on CUPS. Oh, I have set up single systems with attached printers without problems. I have never seen any setup of network

debian for amiga?

1997-07-01 Thread Jens R.
hello, i`m a new amiga-user in this list. here my question: is there any amiga package of debian available? thanks for replies Und Tschüss Jens Reimer -- EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailer: Thor 2.4 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trou

Re: Question about hard disk partition strategy for debian

2005-05-09 Thread R. Armiento
Lian Liming wrote: > I have 35 GB hard disk space for installing debian/ustable.I am a > common linux user and would like to do some web programming that means > I need X winodows with KDE and LAMP(linux, apache, mysql, php). To > limit damage upon system crash and better use the hard disk spa

Automatic package updating / upgrading

2005-05-09 Thread R. Armiento
Hi, I have a number of Debian servers that I will have to leave with very little maintance over a longer time period. I have tried to figure out a sane way of making some kind of autoupdating / upgrading to work. I am aware of the package cron-apt, as well as Clemen's secpack (http://clemens.endor

Re: Question about hard disk partition strategy for debian

2005-05-09 Thread R. Armiento
> "R. Armiento" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>The reason to put /usr on an own partition would be that IF the >>semi-frequent changes of this partition somehow would screw up the >>filesystem, you could still bring your system up in a semi-useful state >&g

quantlib-python doesnt work?

2005-05-09 Thread r help
hi before filing a bugreport i thought i should doublecheck whether im doing something silly. i installed quantlib-python (im running testing, python 2.3.5) im attaching what happens when i try to run scripts in /usr/share/doc/quantlib-python/examples. seems like a straightforward problem, the

Can't install debian 1.1

1996-05-30 Thread R. Gugisch
Hi. I tried to install debian 1.1 with Boot1440.bin from may 28, but there was a problem: I have a Pentium with Adaptec AHA2940 SCSI-controller and a Samsung PLS-31274S SCSI-harddisk. Here is a part of the output of the boot process: (...) aic7xxx: Burstlen = 8DWD, Latency timer = 32PCLKS aic

Can't install debian 1.1

1996-05-30 Thread R. Gugisch
Hi. I tried to install debian 1.1 with Boot1440.bin from may 28, but there was a problem: I have a Pentium with Adaptec AHA2940 SCSI-controller and a Samsung PLS-31274S SCSI-harddisk. Here is a part of the output of the boot process: (...) aic7xxx: Burstlen = 8DWD, Latency timer = 32PCLKS aic7

Capturing booting output

1996-05-31 Thread R. Gugisch
Richard G. Roberto wrotes: > > how did you capture the output? > I wrote it by hand. But by the side, capturing the booting output to a file would make sense. Ralf Gugisch [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help keeping a news spool

2000-09-08 Thread R. Ransbottom
I like to run a local news spool, but I only have newsreader access with my provider. I like to use trn or strn to read from the local spool. What is the best way to do this with Debian? Since Debian 2.0 or earlier I have been using leafnode and trn/strn with a customized Pnews script. Each D

init.d

2000-07-24 Thread R K
I've been having some problems getting startup scripts to work. Particularly with MySQL (latest binary release). From what I know, you're supposed to put the script in /etc/init.d and make a sym-link to /etc/rcX.d right? In any case, I put the script in init.d and made a symlink (S99mysql.se

re: cdrom ... and alsa

2000-08-03 Thread R K
ok at the recordable side of an rw, you'll see that it's less reflective than an r or a normal silver - hence the varying frequencies required. also, on a side note.. has anyone had problems with alsa under potato? there's basically no documentation (man pages and such), and it

Resetting user's gnome to initial state

2001-02-13 Thread R. Ransbottom
How do I initialize a gnome user to the state of a new user? Is there a skel directory for gnome and for enlightenment? If I delete the ~/.gnome directory will it get rebuilt? Set up another user and copy everything over? Some other approach? Thanks, rir

Re: Getting rid of Control-M in a file?

2001-03-18 Thread R. Wood
/ //g (where  = Control-V) HTH, R.

Changing to MD5 shadow passwords?

2001-03-19 Thread R. Ransbottom
I would like to convert all of my Debian 2.0 and 2.2 systems to MD5 shadow passwords. If I understand the docs correctly all that needs doing is to add md5 to the apropriate lines in /etc/pam.d/passwd and /etc/pam.d/login. Is this correct? rob Live the dream.

Re: X-window

2000-10-11 Thread A R
I have the same problem, is is only a small square in the center if the screen. My XF86Config file is here kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:45:49PM -0500, Cavaiani, Don ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Can anyone tell me why my X-window appears in a "letterbox" format -

[Fwd: X-window]

2000-10-12 Thread A R
hsync freq of 91.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "1600x1200" needs hsync freq of 93.75 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "1600x1200" needs hsync freq of 105.77 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 107.16 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "1800X1

Gradebook in Debian Potato 2.2

2000-10-19 Thread A R
I have problems installing Ggradebook (Gnu software), it complains that some libraries for gtk+ are absent. Next my failed installation sequence: ./configure -disable-gnome creating cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environmen

Re: Mirrors <<< Re: Debian Weekly News - October 25th, 2000

2000-10-25 Thread A R
Jeff Lessem wrote: > In your message of: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:20:27 EDT, you write: > >According to [1], the mirrors will be afected, so to create them it is said > >the > >some "exclude" tweaking must be done. Does anyone have the info -or the > >script- > >for what exactly is meant > >Mirro

Pine installation sequence

2000-10-27 Thread A R
What is it? I mean, after you get the pine files through apt-get or dselect. What's next? Thanks, Antonio.

scanner; linux-gazette

2000-10-29 Thread A R
1. My scanner is connected to a usb port, the man page indicates that the device must be preferable indicated through the preferences menu of the options. But I cant start it because there is device configured!!! 2. Is there any command to see the linux-gazette without browsing into the directories

graphicx for plain tex in potato

2000-11-02 Thread A R
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vanishing mail

2000-12-08 Thread A R
I tried fetchmailconf, but missundersatnding of the used terminology made me fail at that. So, after reading "info fetchmail", I changed my .fetchmailrc as follows: # Configuration created Tue Dec 5 14:18:33 2000 by fetchmailconf # and later edited by hand by me, tony,

Re: vanishing mail

2000-12-08 Thread A R
> The /var/spool/mail/tony is empty! > > > Should end up in /var/spool/mail/tony. > That if it is not there - check with ls -a /var/spool/mail/tony - that could > be due to a number of factors > > If you put this line into your .fetchmailrc > > set syslog > > it will send fetchmail's output to v

exim

2000-12-11 Thread A R
Can someone provide a simple exim.conf sample file, where pop3, smtphost, local user, remote user, password variables -over a dialup connection to at&t server- are set? The answers to eximconfig questions are not always clear, so I need some help in this. I've been using debian for over 1.5 years,

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-11 Thread A R
> > > i use cdrecord (no need to use xcdroast; cdrecord is a no-brainer) and > regularly burn CD's that are over 700MB. afaik, xcdroast is just a front > end for some other program, prolly cdrecord. > What cdrecord command do you use to read the image from cd, say, on /dev/cdrom to file /home/p

Re: exim

2000-12-11 Thread A R
I am inserting the needed info next to your statement, please indicate how the exim conf file will look THANKYOU > There are several sides to mail delivery on a linux system: > > 1) mail transport (send mail from one computer to another) >a) use exim for remote mail delivery using your isp's

Re: exim

2000-12-11 Thread A R
me failure while retrieving. Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 07:30:56PM -0500, A R wrote: > > I am inserting the needed info next to your statement, please indicate how > > the > > exim conf file will look > > THANKYOU > > > > > There

Re: exim

2000-12-12 Thread A R
Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:03:32PM -0500, A R wrote: > > Done. Works. Thanks. Now, there is still some details: > > What did you specify for exim's qualify_domain and local_domains? > the-sphere.org (just a top name I bought, hosted at G

Re: exim

2000-12-12 Thread A R
Carel Fellinger wrote: > > But it also tells me that there is some failure while retrieving. > > Pleas tell us what error messages you get? > Try "fetchmail -v -v" to get more info. (better do this before you tie > fetchmail to ppp) > Here I am attaching an attempt without success to fetch mail

Netscape gets killed w/o intervention

2000-12-13 Thread A R
Does anybody have any idea what could be the reason of Netscape getting killed w/o any apparent reason? It is happening frecuently later, some times while I type some message, which is annoying. Using communicator 4.75

Re: Netscape gets killed w/o intervention

2000-12-13 Thread A R
John Stevens wrote: > > > > It is happening frecuently later, some times while I type some message, > > Ok, then it isn't that . . . > > What else is going on while you are typing? > > John S. Last time only rsync was working on tty1, while I was on 7 in X

Re: exim

2000-12-13 Thread A R
Carel Fellinger wrote:Aha bingo, found the culprit, and it's me again:) Fetchmail as e precursion > checks that the sending host is how he claims to be, or something similar, > and mtiwgwc27.worldnet.att.net is not the same as the mailserver he is > talking to (postoffice.worldnet.att.net) so he

Re: Messaggio

2000-12-15 Thread A R
Gerardo wrote: > Potrei gentilmente sapere se esiste un sito dove posso scaricare linux > in floppy disk.Grazie anticipatamente.Gerardo I don't think you can get it on a floppy. Too big. Yo no creo que quepa en un flopy. Demasiado grande.

Re:exim (probably broken thread)

2000-12-16 Thread A R
Quote next *** To check this I think someone proposed to you earlier on in this thread to check whether you could connect to exim locally with this: $ telnet localhost smtp which should give output like: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Esca

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

2000-12-16 Thread A R
Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 09:36:53AM -0500, A R wrote: > ... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet localhost smtp > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > okee

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

2000-12-16 Thread A R
A R wrote: I did it, now look what's coming: > Before trying fetchmail again, I am going to close netscape to avoid conflict. > I have messenger set to retrieve every minute. So I will report back in a few > minutes. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/pruebas$ telnet localhost smt

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

2000-12-16 Thread A R
> Forgive me my curiousity, but are those glitches we saw before in the > fetchmail log (fetchmail: rejected..., & fetchmail: no local matches...) > still there? And if not, did you change anything to your fetchmailrc? > > -- > groetjes, carel > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

2000-12-16 Thread A R
r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 18:05:52 + fetchmail: line rejected, mtiwgwc21.worldnet.att.net is not an alias of the mailserver About to rewrite Sender: tony Rewritten version is Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] About to rewrite From: A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rewrit

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

2000-12-16 Thread A R
> Just to still my curiousity could you first try once more without this > "no dns" thingy,but with a longer aka list: > > aka mtiwgwc21.worldnet.att.net worldnet.att.net ... I did it, next my session: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail -v -v fetchmail: 5.3.3 querying postoffice.worldnet.att.net (pr

overly-strange reaction of modem to pon

2000-12-20 Thread A R
Not always when I "pon" I get my modem going. A lot of times it just lights a few of the little lamps. It is already the second external modem I use, and is the same. Now I am using a motorola 28.8, and most of the times when I pon only the second light (tr) turns on, the rest just remain off. Then

Re: overly-strange reaction of modem to pon

2000-12-20 Thread A R
What command exactly is needed? > Try to turn on debugging (debug/kdebug in the ppp option file) and > read the output. Most probably it'll give you a hint. > >

Re: overly-strange reaction of modem to pon

2000-12-20 Thread A R
Christoph Simon wrote: > On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 15:28:17 -0500 > A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What command exactly is needed? > > > > > Try to turn on debugging (debug/kdebug in the ppp option file) and > > > read the output. Most probably it'

Re: overly-strange reaction of modem to pon

2000-12-21 Thread A R
David Wright wrote: > Quoting A R ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Not always when I "pon" I get my modem going. A lot of times it just > > lights a few of the little lamps. > > It is already the second external modem I use, and is the same. Now I am > > using a moto

kde

2000-12-31 Thread A R
What is it that must be added to sources.list to get kde? Thanks

Re: kde

2000-12-31 Thread A R
A R wrote: > What is it that must be added to sources.list to get kde? > Thanks > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Found: deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde potato main crypto option

Building XFree86 from Debianised source

2000-05-06 Thread R Leigh
Dear All, >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 6 21:36:19 2000 Path: news.york.ac.uk!rl117 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R Leigh) Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux Subject: building Debian sources Date: 4 May 2000 16:52:14 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Lines: 15 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mess

Bug in new ext2 ??

2000-05-15 Thread R. Ransbottom
I normally use ext2 filesystems on floppies. After creating a filesystem with mke2fs from e2fsprogs 1.18-3 the program mount from e2fsprogs 1.12-4 fails to mount it with the message: EXT2-FS: 02:00: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features. Fsck from 1.12-4 would find no fault wi

glibc package

2000-02-23 Thread Fred R.
gg? TIA, -- Fred R

Re: glibc package

2000-02-24 Thread Fred R.
So for now, what should I do? Should I just force it to ignor dependencies? Or may be someone can point me to the location of binary file for libc6. I can try to install then manually. But I really need libc6 or I'm dead in the water. Thanks, Fred R. Shao Zhang wrote:

Re: [slightly OT] book recomendations?

2001-01-04 Thread R. Ransbottom
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all,, there have been some mentions of books > on the list, but nothing definitive... > can anyone recomend a good system > administration/network administration book? An addition to the other good recommendations you've received. _Unix_Backup_&_Recovery_ b

Re: how to grep without changing timestamps?

2001-01-10 Thread R. Ransbottom
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:04:57PM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Is it possible to grep a ton of files without modifying their > > date/timestamps? Currently if I use grep, it changes the access time > > of all files to

Official CDs to NFS tree???

2001-01-23 Thread R. Ransbottom
I have Official Debian 2.2r2 Intel Binary CDs. The 4 CDs. I'd like to install from my nfs server. What is the approach to take? Thanks, rir

DBD Pg problem

2001-07-06 Thread R Ransbottom
Using woody with unstable DB stuff I get the following error. What file or link am I missing? Thanks for any help. install_driver(Pg) failed: Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so' for module DBD::Pg: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so: undefined symbol:

how do i find out kernel-image parameters

2001-07-27 Thread R. Prabhakar
i have installed a debian progeny distribution. i want to know if the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY defined. how do i do this? in general is there a way to find out what options have been set in the kernel? thanks prabhakar

repair a harddisk partition

2001-08-29 Thread giri r
hello sir, i am having a 20GB HDD ,while partitioning i allocated 2GB for primary dos and the remaing for the extented dos partitions.But now i want to add more space to my c:\ drive. do i want to repartition the whole HDD once again or is it enough i can change any one of the

mount ntfs question

2001-11-27 Thread jim R.
Hi, i created a cdrom under win2k. now, i am trying to read it under the linux and it tells me: mount -f ntfs /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom I get: fs type ntfs is not supported under kernel. when i use other file systems in get medium not found. Jim __ Do Y

potato installs and the aftermath

2001-12-17 Thread brian r
Hi, I have a comment and a question. Installing: --- First, once I have Debian running I really like it. Especially the apt-get solution for upgrading. However, I have installed Debian on 3 different workstations and 1 file server and the process was very different each time. From th

cdrom and music cds

2001-12-18 Thread brian r
The following was buried in a previous post, however I didn't get any responses to my problem. cdrom and audio: - I want one of my workstations to be an MP3 server. It is a Pentium 150, 48 MB of RAM, and 15 GB HD. I installed Afterstep, and a bunch of cd/audio/mp3 software fr

tape drive: Error with sense data

2001-12-20 Thread brian r
Hi, I am having problems getting my tape drive working. Any suggestions? Sorry, if I gave to much output. The command I give: 'mt -f /dev/nst0 status' Error: 'st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00: sense key Illegal Request Additional sense indicates Invalid comma

Re: apt-get source?

2001-12-20 Thread brian r
Refer to man page 'apt-get' and edit /etc/apt/sources.list. Sequence is something like: apt-get update # update package list apt-get source # with the appropiate --compile option 'install-somehow' # obviously, I am unclear here. However, it says manpage of apt-get says the sources lists aren't

Mutt Procmail ...and Debian

2002-02-14 Thread R . Pac
Hello, I would like to know which software are better to use with Mutt. Exim with Procmail and Fetchmail or another configuration ? By the way how may I configure Mutt to take mail directly from a pop server without using fetchmail ? Thanks Best regards Pac

Exim configuration

2002-02-19 Thread R . Pac
Hi all, how do I configure Exim with eximconfig if I'm behind a firewall ? is there something special to do ? If I want to use my ISP's smtp server ? or should I use exim as smpt server directly ? Best regards Pac.

Re: Less and .gz files

2002-02-19 Thread R . Pac
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:51:02 +0100 Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > On my earlier SuSE system "less" was able to read gzipped text files. > Can i get less to do it also on Debian? > maybe you should try to use zless ? See you Pac

Re: Exim configuration

2002-02-19 Thread R . Pac
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 06:19:30 -0800 (PST) Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, R.Pac wrote: > > > how do I configure Exim with eximconfig if I'm behind a firewall ? > > is there something special to do ? If I want to use my ISP's smtp > > server ? or should I use

Re: Exim configuration

2002-02-19 Thread R . Pac
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 07:24:14 -0800 (PST) Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks. after eximconfig is exim restarted ? Pac

Re: Exim configuration

2002-02-19 Thread R . Pac
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 07:44:31 -0800 (PST) Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, R.Pac wrote: > > > after eximconfig > > is exim restarted ? > > I think exim is called by inetd, so the config goes into effect > automagically. > > -- I use mail to write my emails

Re: Exim configuration

2002-02-19 Thread R . Pac
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 07:49:10 -0800 (PST) Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, R.Pac wrote: > > > I use mail to write my emails. > > Is exim automatically used with mail programm ? > > I've still got some problems :( what does that mean ? " SMTP error from r

Procmail and Mutt questions ?

2002-02-19 Thread R . Pac
Hi all, how should I filter mail with procmail ? I want to put each mail from the same person in a directory like ~/Mail/person_name how may specify to mutt co keep a copy in ~/Mail/outbox/ directory each time I send a mail to someone ? Best regards Pac

Any good ftp front end

2002-03-04 Thread R . Pac
Hi , can someone give me any good ftp front end based on gnome or kde library . Best Regards R.Pac

Re: Any good ftp front end

2002-03-04 Thread R . Pac
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 20:33:17 +0100 Bastiaan Naber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try deadftp, although it is gnome I find it the > most usefull ftpclient I have found. > in which package will I find it ? R.Pac

Re: Linux in the company

2001-03-26 Thread R. Ransbottom
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Gregor Kaleta wrote: > Does somebody use Linux professional in the company? If yes, which > Distribution? Does Debian be used also in the professional area or is > the first election RedHat Linux? I have Debian running on every thing and have since 1.1, I think. Occasionally

Unidentified subject!

2001-04-16 Thread J R
Hello and good day. I am having a hard time installing my drivers for the internet on my Debian linux os. I am new to this all, and was wondering what a step by step guide would be to installing the internet drivers and the Xwindows. I have a @home At&T cable modem with my Windows 98. Is the

Re: NB : unsubscribing

2001-04-20 Thread R. Wood
im a nudge? I would appreciate any assistance rendered. Thanks in advance, R. On 20 Apr 2001, at 21:54, Colin Watson wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > >on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:58:00AM +0100, Colin Watson > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Try mailing [EMAI

Hello and 1st Question

2001-10-11 Thread Brad R
Hello everyone. Forgive me if my first several questions sound stupid, I've just begun with Linux and have tried to learn what I can, but there is so much to learn. I'm familiar with Unix protocols on the wire, but have never worked directly with the OS before a couple months ago. Microsoft has f

RE: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-11 Thread Brad R
e a matter of what is the best fit for the situation and individual. In my humble opinion, anyways. Hope this wasn't off topic. Brad R. -Original Message- From: John Gilger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 1:01 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: R

Tool to estimate ftp and/or http performance

2001-10-12 Thread R. Alexander
Say I have a list of mirrors from which to choose (for example Deian). Some may use ftp, some HTTP. My employers network is soo large and opaque (routing, proxy hyerarchy, etc.) to us poor end users that it's not always (or I should say almost never) true that FTPing or HTTPing to a mirror in my

OT: Hello and 1st Question

2001-10-13 Thread Brad R
created by VMWare sometime. Thanks again for your help. I'm sure I'll be posting more questions soon. Brad R. -Original Message- From: Steve Kowalik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 4:17 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Hello and 1

RE: Debian books

2001-10-14 Thread Brad R
more helpful than the book when I got stuck, but the book was usually my starting point and got me pointed in the right direction when I wanted to do something new. Brad R. -Original Message- From: Emerson Falcon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 4:00 PM Cc: debian

Any HOWTO on PAM ? (qpopper pop3 auth)

2001-10-15 Thread R. Alexander
I would like to have qpopper authenticating not on the system's userid/password but on it's own userid's/passords (to avoid passing system passwords in the clear). Someone told me that qpopper supporto PAM authentication ... >From here to getting what I want I am afraid I'll have to study quite a

Re: Pop server...

2001-10-16 Thread R. Alexander
Could you advice on names of Debian packages supporting secure POP3 and/or IMAP that can use be used via MS Outlook Express clients ? Than you very much. - Original Message - From: "Alvin Oga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alexander Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Kurt Lieber" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: dns and exim troubles ...

2001-10-17 Thread R. Alexander
cat /etc/resolv.conf what dows it say ? it should point to a working DNS to check if that DNS is up and running: nslookup - x.y.w.z where x.y.w.z is the IP address of the named daemon you are pointing to at the > prompt ask to resolve your hostname (fully qualified ending with a dot e.g. www.d

Administration interface ...

2001-10-19 Thread R. Alexander
I have a Debian box used only by a few friendly users for very practical services such as squid, dns, ftp, samba etc... The Debian system is sooo incredibly intelligent 8-> that it magically mostly takes care of itself. I just lazily have a look from now and then at the df output, sometimes check

backup to CD

2001-10-19 Thread R. Alexander
My Debian box has an internal scsi CD burner. I would like to periodically (weekly ?) backup my /etc (around 8 megs) and some (not all) of my /home directories. Can I setup some task to perform such backups on the CD (multiple sessions ? multiple files ?) until it's filled up ? Thank you. Bob A

PCMCIA, Token Ring and newer kernels

2001-10-22 Thread R. Alexander
I now have an unstable dist working fine on my PC ... only thing I am keeping back is the pcmcia-cs and source and the 2.2.19 kernel from potato since my Token Ring PCMCIA works with these ... For a number of other reasons I'd like to go to 2.4.10 ... any experience on the TR PCMCIA out there ??

Re: Xfree is not working

2001-10-24 Thread R. Alexander
What XFree level package did you install ? How did you generate the XF86Config-4 ? Cheers. Bob - Original Message - From: "Raffaele Sandrini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, 24 October 2001 1:13 Subject: Xfree is not working Hi, I have updated woody yesterday. As i could se

Re: Adding Drives

2001-10-24 Thread R. Alexander
Sorry but I am confused. If you add a physycal hard disk, the kernel upon recognizing it will assign a DRIVE id such as /dev/hda for the first IDE drive, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc for the third IDE and so on. Now, on you /dev/hdc drive you will need some partitions. Each primary partition is called /dev

Anyone able to help with PAM please ??

2001-10-29 Thread R. Alexander
Read the HOWTO twice ... still feeling totally dumb 8-< Situation: have a POP3 server (qpopper-4) which uses the following lines in it's PAM config file /etc/pam.d/qpopper authrequiredpam_unix_auth.soshadow accountrequired pam_unix_acct.so now the behaviour I would li

mount mac zip disk on debain question

2001-11-07 Thread jim R.
Hi, I have mac zip disk that i like to mount them on debian linux. How do i do this?. Jim __ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com

debian read mac formatted zip disk question (2)

2001-11-07 Thread jim R.
HI, What i meant was how can i make debian linux to recognize mac formatted zip disk?. mounting is easy. but how to mount so that linux can recognize mac formatted disk. drive on linux is parallel not scsi. Jim __ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post you

I must have mistreated a potato ;-> can anyone help me please ?

2001-10-09 Thread R. Alexander
I had a nice and clean potato installation. At a certain point I needed to install a qpopper 4.x debian package which forced me to upgrade libc6 to 2.2.4 After a certain number of problems with apt-get which I cannot clearly reconstruct I am in the following position. An apt-get -f install remov

Help with a large disk parition

2001-10-09 Thread R. Alexander
I have a 18GB SCSI HDD. I have created a first partition (around 6GB) which is labeled /dev/sdb1. It's in use and works great (a Squid cache). Now I would like to create a Debian rsync mirror on the last 12GB ... created the partition with fdisk. here is the pic: lori-renato:/home# fdisk -l /d

[newbie]Please help with Matrox G400 and XFree 4.1.0

2001-10-10 Thread R. Alexander
Dear friends, I have desperately searched some appends but really cannot understand if they apply to my case. With XFree 3.x I had a perfect XF86Config for my Matrox G400 driving my 16" TFT display. Upgraded to 4.1.10 (on a 2.4.10 kernel) and am not able to get the XF86Config-4 to work and I cann

Re: Lost cursor in X

2001-10-10 Thread R. Alexander
You would not believe this !!! I was banging my head with my Matrox G400 board and XFree86 4.1 and with a great help from other guys I had a visible screen but the cursor started jumping everywhere on the screen as soon as I touched it for the first time Your Option "sw_cursor" fixed this !!

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