Re: How do you repair a bad LILO?

2001-11-26 Thread jennyw
Thanks, Shaya. I did that and that's when it told me that lilo.conf didn't exist. At this point I suspected that the absence of lilo.conf might indicated that the problems with my filesystem were more severe than I thought so I did a reinstall ... however, is there a way to run without lilo.conf be

building and debugging

2001-11-26 Thread Mark Lanett
I've been having some problems with nmbd (in samba). I want to do step through it to see why it is failing, but can't quite figure out getting symbols. I changed debian/rules to add --with-debug to the configure step, rebuilt, and installed. No symbols. I commented out dh_strip and went though it

Re: How do you repair a bad LILO?

2001-11-26 Thread Aniartia
On Monday 26 November 2001 05:25, jennyw wrote: > I reinstalled Debian 2.2. After installing the base system, it rebooted > fine to finish the rest of the install. I logged in and used it for a bit > then decided to reboot again. This time it hung after showing "LIL-". I > asked on #debian on IRC a

Re: SSH v2 setup on potato

2001-11-26 Thread nate
Eric G. Stern said: > I have built almost ssh debs for potato from woody source. I don't > remember exactly why it didn't finish, but I built all the crypto > libraries and the ssh and sshd programs. There was a packaging > issue that prevented the debs from building. If you want, I can > send y

Re: Ximian Gnome on Woody?

2001-11-26 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 09:09:24PM -0800, jennyw wrote: > It helps to know why people are suggesting to not go with Ximian. I guess if > the same stuff is available via apt there's not much of a point. This is not the only reason -- Ximian's packages often conflict a bit nonsensically with package

Re: How do you repair a bad LILO?

2001-11-26 Thread Shaya Potter
well, if you didn't boot with the correct root filesystem, it won't be able to find the lilo.conf, unless you pass it as an option to lilo. so check if the correct / is mounted, if its is and /etc/lilo.conf is missing you'll have to rebuild it from scratch. If it's not the correct /, then mount

Performence: ext2/3 v's reiserfs, I/O per sec & gkrellm

2001-11-26 Thread Aniartia
hdparm is reporting harddrive performence of >30Mb/s, yet ext2 & ext3 when copying from 1 disk to another (on seprate channels) performence is sub 5k I/O per sec. but reiserfs I'm getting over 30k I/O's per sec EH? i've obviously missed something here Also how can I work out aprox. I/O's per se

Dell Flat Panel Monitor

2001-11-26 Thread Jim McCloskey
I seem to have acquired a Dell 1702FP Flat Panel Monitor. I have a Matrox G400 video card, and I'm running Xfree 4.1 from testing, using the mga driver from Xfree (rather than the one from Matrox). The monitor will in principle take either a digital or an analog input from the video card. Does a

Re: multithreading sounds

2001-11-26 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
> Try killing the root esd process and letting it auto spawn (and die) for > your user accounts. That means that I don't run anything and it should work? i've tried it and it didn't work, (mp3blaster don't start any daemon ) i haven't found any manpage to esd.conf, can you tell me which lines be t

Mouse not responding in Woody

2001-11-26 Thread dooshiant
Hello, I have a Logitech Serial Mouse which I can't get to work in Woody. When X starts, the cursor stops responding for a few seconds. At first I thought it was a gpm issue; removed gpm and reconfiguring X. But I still get the same problem. Any help/advice would be much appreciated. Thanks! d

Re: How do you repair a bad LILO?

2001-11-26 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 25 November 2001 08:25 pm, jennyw wrote: > I reinstalled Debian 2.2. After installing the base system, it > rebooted fine to finish the rest of the install. I logged in and used > it for a bit then decided to reboot again. This time it hung a

Re: Networking a Linux and a Window workstation

2001-11-26 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 04:12:07PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I would now like to be able to print and possibly send files to my Linux > box from the Windows machine. I have been doing some reading and have > installed Samba, but have made little progress. I am not sure how to set > up Samba -

Re: /bin/sh broken - now what?

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 02:13:10AM +0100, A.R. (Tom) Peters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:22:13AM +0100, A.R. (Tom) Peters ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I tried to install the G77 compiler, and got the latest stuf

Re: Dial up internet with dual connection?

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 09:30:12AM -0800, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:07:09AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Earthlink are a nationwide network -- you can dial in from just about > > anywhere. Pay an extra $1 for each hour you're running a dual > > connect

re:not getting onlind (DSL) after getting woody

2001-11-26 Thread Shawn Lamson
nonsensically i added ifconfig tap0 down to /etc/init.d/rc.local and added route add net 0.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.255 gw 192.168.1.1 to the same... i can ping whatever i want now! i know this isnt the right way to do this, though... where are eth0

Re: microsoft ttf in kde?

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:55:48PM +0100, pReJkEr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi > > is it possible to use ms ttf fonts ie. those for the web like verdana... > in kde? $ mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype $ cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype $ $ apt-get install ttmkfdir

Re: Printer configuration

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 04:38:19PM +0100, Andrea Merello ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello Debian World! > > Can you help me to install an configure the Epson Stylus Color 580 USB & > > Epson LQ 100 printers with my Debian 2.2? What, if anything, have you tried? Many people recommend CUPS th

Re: "fixed font missing"?

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 01:57:58AM +0100, Volker Schlecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > after doing an update on my woody system today, X wouldn't start > anymore, complaining about the fixed font missing. A forced > reinstall of xfonts-base solved the problem. > > Is anyone aware of a pa

Re: Digital photo archive

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 06:11:28PM -0800, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What is the best archiving approach for bundle of digital photos. > > Requirements: > 1) Use Debian with CD-RW > 2) Files (main photos) are in jpeg file as obtained from camera. > 3) There should be thumb nail images

Re: Mouse not responding in Woody

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 07:18:08AM +, dooshiant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Logitech Serial Mouse which I can't get to work in Woody. > When X starts, the cursor stops responding for a few seconds. > At first I thought it was a gpm issue; removed gpm and reconfiguring X. >

Problems creating a boot floppy

2001-11-26 Thread Nick Dodd
Hi I've been having problems booting Debian from floppy. The reason I boot from floppy is that I have 2 hard disks on my PC: Windows lives on the first, and linux on the second, with my root partition on /dev/sdb1. I installed Debian from CD, and this created a boot floppy pretty straightfor

Re: need "sr_mod" ?

2001-11-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 09:15:37PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > I've found my problem. CD-Writer HOWTO calls for several lines of > pre-install in /etc/modules.conf. Debian /etc/modules.conf start with: ### This file is automatically generated by update-modules So follow debian way if you want

Re: [bjb: Re: Newbie comments & queries]

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 07:44:37PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I hit reply too soon, I meant to copy this to the list. Here it is. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Consider registering as a bone marrow donor > http://www.bloodservices.ca/english/ubmdr > From: "Brenda

Re: multithreading sounds

2001-11-26 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Martin Kacerovsky: > > Try killing the root esd process and letting it auto spawn (and die) for > > your user accounts. > That means that I don't run anything and it should work? > i've tried it and it didn't work, (mp3blaster don't start any daemon ) > i haven't found any manpage to esd

Re: advice needed on portals and weblogs

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 10:12:56AM -0800, Greg Wiley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Good day! > > I need to set up an organizational web site that will have some > characteristics of a weblog (for editorial and news) and some of a > group site ( shared calendar and contacts, etc.) . I will need to

Re: Console characters are garbled after X initialization

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:48:15PM -0500, Andrew Hurt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all. > > Have pretty much had a successful transition from Progeny -> Woody. > > I am beginning to see, now ;-) > > My only real problem lies with the console display after I initialize X. > > When I Ctrl-A

Re: Digital photo archive

2001-11-26 Thread Kieren Diment
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 06:11:28PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > What is the best archiving approach for bundle of digital photos. > > My idea is simple script to create web page. Use "du -s" to check > archive size,... (imagemagic + perl script + make should do this.) > I do not like this to be com

Re: apxs Apahce script?

2001-11-26 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Monday 26 November 2001 01:52, Stan Brown wrote: > On Sun Nov 25 17:58:02 2001 Meir Kriheli wrote... > > >On Sunday 25 November 2001 18:57, Stan Brown wrote: > >> I'm trying to get php4 installed corectly on my potato + Progeny + 2.4 > >> kerenl machine, in order to use webvcr. > >> > >> I have

Re: Ximian Gnome on Woody?

2001-11-26 Thread Liam Ward
I put Ximian Gnome on a box I installed about a year ago because it seemed to me to be a much nicer desktop for a non-Unix user. However, since then, Debian Gnome has caught up and I prefer to stick with native Debian packages where possible. On that note, if anyone has backed out Ximian Gnome

Re: Dial up internet with dual connection?

2001-11-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
> By "dual connection" I meant dual simultaneous connections. E.g.: > dialing up from my laptop while my desktop is already connected to my > ISP. Rather than blocking this action, Earthlink charges $1/hr for the > simultaneous connection. I see. I remember seeing some 56kx2 modem (by diamond)

potato -> woody upgrade: 2 packages to go

2001-11-26 Thread Shawn Lamson
here is the latest from apt-get -f install: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up xserver-svga (

Printing a RFC on non-US PAPERsize

2001-11-26 Thread Lambrecht, Joris
[ Please reply to all - this address is not subscribed to the list ] Hi, A bit of an unusual question but ... I'm getting a stomach ache trying to figure out how best to print an RFC without having the impression i'm printing drafts of a draft. The formatting goes bananas when i try to print it

Re: xscanimage can't find device...

2001-11-26 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
is your scsi card configured properly? can you see the scanner in the output of cat /proc/scsi/scsi? did you try modprobe sg (kernel module for scsi generic devices)? make your tests with scanimage (no x involved, easier to troubleshoot). when you'll be able to see your scanner in the output of s

Re: sender line in outgoing mail

2001-11-26 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 10:07:12AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > * Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > It has been pointed out to me that while my "from" line when sending with > > Pine and exim on my debian system is correct, my sender line says "debian > > userCherylHomiak [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Printing a RFC on non-US PAPERsize

2001-11-26 Thread Richard Hector
"Lambrecht, Joris" wrote: > > [ Please reply to all - this address is not subscribed to the list ] > > Hi, > > A bit of an unusual question but ... > > I'm getting a stomach ache trying to figure out how best to print an RFC > without having the impression i'm printing drafts of a draft. The fo

Re: microsoft ttf in kde?

2001-11-26 Thread Thomas Fischbach
> $ ttmkfdir > fonts.dir in which package is ttmkfdir. i can't find it in stable.

Re: How do you repair a bad LILO?

2001-11-26 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Thanks, Shaya. I did that and that's when it told me that lilo.conf didn't > exist. At this point I suspected that the absence of lilo.conf might > indicated that the problems with my filesystem were more severe than I > thought so I did a reinstall ... however, i

Re: potato -> woody upgrade: 2 packages to go

2001-11-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 01:40:14AM -0800, Shawn Lamson wrote: > Setting up xserver-svga (3.3.6-39) ... > dpkg: error processing xserver-svga (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error > exit status 10 > Setting up xserver-vga16 (3.3.6-39) ... > dpkg: error processing xserv

Re: Fritz!PCI2

2001-11-26 Thread George Karaolides
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Ilja Vladimirov wrote: > Hi! > I've got a Fritz!PCI v2.0 -ISDN-card and just don't manage it to get this > card installed. Some days ago I got the new Kernel (2.2.14). > I'm new in Linux and'll be very thankful if someone could help me! > thx > Ilja Hi, Refer to http://w

Re: Installing PPP 2.4.0

2001-11-26 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:45, Ben Hill wrote: > but, when compiling the pppoatm.c file, it has complained about not finding > the atm.h file in the /usr/src/linux/include directory. After checking > there indeed is not an atm.h file there. However, there are no atm.h files > on my system that will wor

Which if any lists have usenet links?

2001-11-26 Thread Glyn Millington
Just wondered which Debian mailing lists, if any, are linked to usenet, so that one can pick them up froma newserver? Is there a list anywhere? (have tried Debian.org with no success. Glyn -- ** * Here we a

RE: Printing a RFC on non-US PAPERsize

2001-11-26 Thread Lambrecht, Joris
Hi Richard, Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately i cannot get postscript to print on my computer at work. Sysadmin locked etc thanks anyway :) Joris []-Original Message- []From: Richard Hector [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] []Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 11:25 AM []To: Lambrecht, Jori

Re: microsoft ttf in kde?

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:35:04AM +0100, Thomas Fischbach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > $ ttmkfdir > fonts.dir > > in which package is ttmkfdir. i can't find it in stable. It's its own package in unstable. Use with XFree86v4. If you're using XF86v3, see the older HOWTOs at the LDP. v4 s

latin1.kmap on ppc damaged?

2001-11-26 Thread Frank Escher
Hello, after installing the debian rev4 with 2.2.19 kernel, i could not use the german latin1.kmap. Only the ext2.de.kmap works fine. Is this a known problem? Machine is a PPC 6400 I tried it several times to install the latin1.kmap, i did not get any fault it is just unusable to use it. I

i got X; now i have the "mouse problem"

2001-11-26 Thread Shawn Lamson
hey - i didn't want anyone to have to compose a spurious answer to my questions about my route tables or apt-get woody problems re: this mouse problem, i think i remember seeing things posted on it, of course my problem could be different... i cant imagine why b/c i have the simples ps/2 mous

Re: Installing PPP 2.4.0

2001-11-26 Thread Ben Hill
Thanks! I am a relative newbie and learning lots! Thanks for taking the time to reply! Cheers, Ben At Monday, 26 November 2001, Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:45, Ben Hill wrote: >> but, when compiling the pppoatm.c file, it has complained about not finding

Re: scanimage can't find device...

2001-11-26 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
>is your scsi card configured properly? Yes. >can you see the scanner in the output of cat /proc/scsi/scsi? Yes. >did you try modprobe sg (kernel module for scsi generic devices)? No. I installed sg with modconf. lsmod reports sg present. >make your tests with scanimage (no x involved, easier

mouse jumping in X

2001-11-26 Thread Shawn Lamson
yep ps -A showed gpm running, trying to "be a mouse handler" took it out of /etc/rc2.d and now X is booming :) shawn __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1

Re: Printing a RFC on non-US PAPERsize

2001-11-26 Thread Martin WHEELER
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Lambrecht, Joris wrote: > [ Please reply to all - this address is not subscribed to the list ] > Does there exist a website, a tool or a procedure to make rfc's printable in > an adequate way ? Well, if it's all that big a problem for you, view it as a text file under a suit

Re: Radeon 7500 XFree86 support.

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten Heymann
* Tim Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011124 10:20]: > Apparently, on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 07:27:47PM -0800, Dmitriy wrote: > > ... > I don't have a Radeon card (yet) but I was just looking up info about it > on the XFree lists and it appears that support for it is only in the > XFree CVS right now. It

strange (xkbcomp) message with X

2001-11-26 Thread Christopher Pinon
Hi, I'm new to both Linux and Debian (one has to begin somewhere :-) ). I managed to install rev. 4 this weekend. The base system went smoothly, X was a bit trickier (the machine is a Thinkpad), but now it works. However, every time I start X I get the following (for me) cryptic message: Syst

LINUXwel.com

2001-11-26 Thread Choongbin Leem
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how to top the usage of smp cpu usage?

2001-11-26 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I have a smp machine running dual Pentium III. But I can't find the usage report in the "top" command. Is there any way to show the usage and status of smp? Thanks. -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Printing a RFC on non-US PAPERsize

2001-11-26 Thread Lambrecht, Joris
:-) Been there, done that, don't work. To bad. Thanks anyway. Why is it so hard to find an RFC that fits page/page onto an A4 format, boehoe . . . I kind of remember there was a website wich mirrored the rfc's in various formats including pdf ... maybe that's the one that worked for me. I don't f

Re: Dial up internet with dual connection?

2001-11-26 Thread John Hasler
Osamu Aoki writes: > I remember seeing some 56kx2 modem (by diamond) for windows and ISP > service to use them as a bundle to get ISDN like speed. I remember > seeing Netcomm being one of the supporting ISP. I thought you found a > way for Linix to bundle 2 dial-up connections. That's called 'mu

Re: matlab6 & java

2001-11-26 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We had some trouble getting Matlab to go until we installed the en_US locale, or something like that. We're running Debian unstable, and used... um... dpkg-reconfigure locales or something like that, and clicked the box for the en_US one. As I recall. : ). I'm still a l

Re: Printing a RFC on non-US PAPERsize

2001-11-26 Thread Martin WHEELER
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Lambrecht, Joris wrote: > Been there, done that, don't work. Ok, I'm with you now. Official ASCII RFCs only come pre-formatted to a number of lines/page that suits both American Letter and A4. > to find an RFC that fits page/page onto an A4 format, boehoe . . . I kind of >

Re: xdm and pam in potato

2001-11-26 Thread Serafim Zanikolas
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 05:36:42PM +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > Hello, > <...> > about it. Can anybody advise me how to set up pam for xdm? > Or point me to the right docs? $ apt-cache search pam | grep doc libpam-doc - Documentation of PAM $ apt-cache show libpam-doc Package

XFree - "320x204" only

2001-11-26 Thread Phil Beder
I'm having trouble with Xfree86. My display will only work in 320x204 resolution. In addition it will not scroll when I bring the cursor to the edge of the screen. I have used xf86config and XF86Setup and worked combining the two to create a XF86Config file. Found my dot clock speed in xf86conf

Re: xdm and pam in potato

2001-11-26 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> > about it. Can anybody advise me how to set up pam for xdm? -> > Or point me to the right docs? -> ->$ apt-cache search pam | grep doc ->libpam-doc - Documentation of PAM -> ->$ apt-cache show libpam-doc ->Package: libpam-doc ->Priority: optional ->Section: doc ->I

BSD inet services?

2001-11-26 Thread craig duncan
I want to enable rlogin/rcp etc on a debian box i have running woody/2.2.19. This should be very easy, thinks i, but going to inetd.conf i find: #:BSD: Shell, login, exec and talk are BSD protocols. and that is all. I make my way to the man pages on update-inetd and see that i could (although i

Re: Latest Galeon? will it work on potato?

2001-11-26 Thread Eric White
FWIW I've made the switch go Konqueror. I'm running Woody and Gnome and was able to apt-get konq with no problems. I like it so much I'm planning on testing KDE in its entirety. On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > I saw the slashdot articel on the latest galeon. > > Since i'm looking for

Re: microsoft ttf in kde?

2001-11-26 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 03:18:14AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:35:04AM +0100, Thomas Fischbach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > $ ttmkfdir > fonts.dir > > > > in which package is ttmkfdir. i can't find it in stable. > > It's its own package in

Re: Digital photo archive

2001-11-26 Thread Alan Shutko
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the best archiving approach for bundle of digital photos. The approach I use (though I won't claim it's the best) is at http://scrapbook.sf.net. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Life is to you a dashing and bold adven

Re: BSD inet services?

2001-11-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, craig duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to enable rlogin/rcp etc on a debian box i have running >woody/2.2.19. This should be very easy, thinks i, but going to >inetd.conf i find: > >#:BSD: Shell, login, exec and talk are BSD protocols. > >and that is all.

Re: Problems creating a boot floppy

2001-11-26 Thread Ian Monroe
Not an answer to your problem, but another way to do what you're trying to do is to simply install lilo or grub on a floppy disk. You could then use a kernel off the hard drive (like you would if it was installed on the MBR.) Ian Monroe http://mlug.missouri.edu/~eean/ On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Nick Do

RE: BSD inet services?

2001-11-26 Thread Frederico . S . Muñoz
> I want to enable rlogin/rcp etc on a debian box i have running > woody/2.2.19. This should be very easy, thinks i, but going to > inetd.conf i find: > > #:BSD: Shell, login, exec and talk are BSD protocols. > > and that is all. I make my way to the man pages on update-inetd and > see that i c

Re: Re: esd problem - was multithreading sounds

2001-11-26 Thread Paolo Falcone
Wasn't very careful when i posted the esd problem - didn't enable the esound plugins in xmms and realplay. just great... now i got that fixed by enabling them. sorry for the silly post... anyway, are there any more packages that are compatible with esd? afaik, there are some programs that don't wo

Re: BSD inet services?

2001-11-26 Thread craig duncan
I wonder what you'd find if you looked in your current /etc/inetd.conf? What you describe is what i expected to do except my inetd.conf _has_ no lines for that stuff anymore. It's been removed. All that's there is the #:BSD: line i mentioned. I know this #: notation allows the line to be uncomme

Para Oliver Elphick

2001-11-26 Thread Winston Elphick D.
Favor reenviar a Oliver Elphick.   Estimado Oliver:Hace un año nos escribimos... por esas cosas de la vida perdí tu correo. Ojalá que podamos vincularnos nuevamente.   Winston Elphick D.

Re: sieve (and cyrus) - doesn't work - how to troubleshoot?

2001-11-26 Thread Dave Carrigan
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought that the problem might be 700 permissions on my home > directory so I changed it to 777 (the same for ~/.sieve) but it still > does not work (the message is not rejected). The mode 700 on your directory would definitely be a problem; mail del

RE: BSD inet services?

2001-11-26 Thread Frederico . S . Muñoz
> -Original Message- > From: craig duncan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: segunda-feira, 26 de Novembro de 2001 16:05 > To: Frederico.S.Muñoz; debian-user > Subject: Re: BSD inet services? > > > I wonder what you'd find if you looked in your current > /etc/inetd.conf? > What you descr

Re: How do you repair a bad LILO?

2001-11-26 Thread jennyw
Thanks to everyone for the advice. Yep, it sounds like I did the right thing to reinstall (the right root filesystem was mounted but lilo.conf was MIA; I have no idea if anything else was also missing). But now I know how to construct a lilo.conf if I need to! Jen

PSION MX Workabout IrDA conect to debian.

2001-11-26 Thread raspa
Hi, I have a debian POTATO working in a Notebook. I would like to when i printing a document in my Psion MX WorkAbout(print in a IrDA port), debian take the information in IrDA port and print this. How to configure debian to work with this configuration? How Many people can configure a MX Work

Re: BSD inet services?

2001-11-26 Thread craig duncan
I already have rsh-client package installed, which provides rsh, rcp & rlogin. That's a thought, though. I'll take a look at the postinstall script and see if reconfiguring is all that's needed. Frederico.S.Muñoz wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: craig duncan [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: BSD inet services?

2001-11-26 Thread Frederico . S . Muñoz
-- > -Original Message- > From: craig duncan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: segunda-feira, 26 de Novembro de 2001 16:15 > To: Frederico.S.Muñoz > Cc: debian-user > Subject: Re: BSD inet services? > > > I already have rsh-client package installed, which provides rsh, rcp & > rlogin. >

Re: Woody FTP Install?!

2001-11-26 Thread Brian Clark
Hi Colin, @ 7:20:35 PM on 11/25/2001, Colin Watson wrote: >> In order to do an FTP install for woody, I need the baseX.tgz or the >> baseX.bin files. Only the drivers, root, and rescue images are >> available (no base install files): > base*.tgz files are no longer used for woody. Instead, base

Re: Digital photo archive

2001-11-26 Thread Michael Kaminsky
Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the best archiving approach for bundle of digital photos. > > Requirements: > 1) Use Debian with CD-RW > 2) Files (main photos) are in jpeg file as obtained from camera. > 3) There should be thumb nail images which fit in normal web browser. > 4) Readi

Re: multithreading sounds

2001-11-26 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 02:38, Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake Martin Kacerovsky: > > > Try killing the root esd process and letting it auto spawn (and die) for > > > your user accounts. > > That means that I don't run anything and it should work? > > i've tried it and it didn't work, (mp3blaster do

Exim help

2001-11-26 Thread Eric Brooks
Hi. I am trying to get Exim to work as my mail transport agent. I configured exim using eximconfig. I selected the smarthost option since I am running on a laptop connected to an ISP via an ISDN line. I have no trouble with the connection itself in that I can browse using Mozilla and send/recei

Re: BSD inet services?

2001-11-26 Thread craig duncan
Exactly right (i got confused). I don't have rsh-server installed. I do have ssh-nonfree installed, though. I installed that quite a while ago and then it seems like ssh stuff got removed from the distribution i had installed then. Can someone provide a synopsis of what the story with ssh was,

Re: Dell Flat Panel Monitor

2001-11-26 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Jim McCloskey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > I seem to have acquired a Dell 1702FP Flat Panel Monitor. > > I have a Matrox G400 video card, and I'm running Xfree 4.1 from > testing, using the mga driver from Xfree (rather than the one from > Matrox). The monitor will in principle take ei

Re: df redux

2001-11-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 07:09:50PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > NB I've tried the 'cruft' program to i.d. whatever might be taking up the > sudden 24% of this 15G partition. 'cruft' spits out a 500MB file when I run > it with no options. Well, at least then you know what's eating all the disk sp

postgresql in quotas?

2001-11-26 Thread martin f krafft
hi, i am hosting some users databases and i need to impose quota (not quotas, not quotae) on their databases. postgresql does not implement those, and storing the database as the user doesn't really work[1]. i can't find a way to have postgres tell me the size of a database, so there is always the

UPS - Question

2001-11-26 Thread Alexander Karelas
I just bought an MG Pulsar Ellipse 650S (S is for serial) and I'm trying to make it work with my Linux. This UPS model includes a cable, which has a 9-pin serial connector on the side that connects to the computer, and some connector that looks much like an RJ-45 on the side that connects to the U

RE: BSD inet services?

2001-11-26 Thread Frederico . S . Muñoz
> Exactly right (i got confused). I don't have rsh-server installed. I > do have ssh-nonfree installed, though. I installed that quite a while > ago and then it seems like ssh stuff got removed from the > distribution i > had installed then. Can someone provide a synopsis of what the story >

Re: UPS - Question

2001-11-26 Thread John Pochmara
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write: >I just bought an MG Pulsar Ellipse 650S (S is for serial) and I'm >trying to make it work with my Linux. > >My machine uses a Debian distribution, so I want to avoid using >mgeupsd since there is no debian package for it yet. Therefore what I Have

Re: sieve (and cyrus) - doesn't work - how to troubleshoot?

2001-11-26 Thread Erik Steffl
Dave Carrigan wrote: > > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I thought that the problem might be 700 permissions on my home > > directory so I changed it to 777 (the same for ~/.sieve) but it still > > does not work (the message is not rejected). > > The mode 700 on your directory wo

Re: matlab6 & java

2001-11-26 Thread David Wright
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:52:34PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: Hi, I'm in trouble .. I'm trying to run Matlab6, but it doesnt want to start in GUI mode and in /root appears file log.java.. It starts only in command mode, if i use -nojvm option. We had the same problem on a Red Hat sy

Re: Misc topics (was Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD)

2001-11-26 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 04:59:12PM -0800, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:40:37PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 02:12:17AM -0800, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > wrote: > > > > > Bruce Schneier identifi

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-26 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Johann Spies wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 04:04:36PM -0600, DvB wrote: > > God, I wish "YODA" would stop sending this crap :-( > > If you wish to address God about this issue, I don't think the list is > the right place to do it. > That would be 'debian-devel'. ;-)

symbolic links

2001-11-26 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hello, I was running this command: ls -l in here: /var/spool/ The file "mail" showed a link to somewhere, here's the output from mail .Apr 1 2001 mail -> ../mail My question: I'm guessing that the file "mail" is linked to here: /var/mail but the above output doesn't tell me that. If I wa

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-26 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Brian Nelson wrote: > > > Besides, isn't this the debian-user mailing list, for discussions > among debian users? > Hmmm, I'm right now using a mailer that is not running on Debian. Yet, I am a Debian user. I'm not even a newbie. How can this be? Open your mind to the possibilities...

Cluster?

2001-11-26 Thread raspa
I have 3 computers running a debian "distros" and another running Windows 2000. I am losing time when i execute a programs (waiting a lot of time and i not have a time). i use a lot of programs, nearby to ten or eleven, and my CPU is hot. ;) The question: Are posible to clustering, this progr

Re: Ximian Gnome on Woody?

2001-11-26 Thread spear
> I've seen some posts here saying that people should not install Ximian Gnome > if they use Woody. Is there a reason why? Hi there ! Here's the reply i got from Ximian about what you were wondering (Was in the same case, and, if i had known, would have been staying with potatoe : If it works, do

Font problem with xterm

2001-11-26 Thread Nicolas Lamirault
i have a problem with my xterm, aterm, ... i have anything ! < lam : nlamirault > aterm aterm: can't load font "7x14" aterm: can't load font "fixed" aterm: aborting < lam : nlamirault > eterm Eterm: Error: Unable to load font "fixed". Falling back on "fixed" Eterm: FATAL: Couldn't load the f

RE: symbolic links

2001-11-26 Thread Frederico . S . Muñoz
> -Original Message- > From: Mike Egglestone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: segunda-feira, 26 de Novembro de 2001 17:40 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: symbolic links > > > Hello, > > I was running this command: > > ls -l > > in here: > > /var/spool/ > > The file "m

Re: symbolic links

2001-11-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:39:33AM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: > .Apr 1 2001 mail -> ../mail > > My question: > I'm guessing that the file "mail" is linked to here: /var/mail > but the above output doesn't tell me that. Yes it does. It tells you that, if you're in /var/spool, 'mail' and '.

Re: Cluster?

2001-11-26 Thread David Wright
I have 3 computers running a debian "distros" and another running Windows 2000. I am losing time when i execute a programs (waiting a lot of time and i not have a time). i use a lot of programs, nearby to ten or eleven, and my CPU is hot. ;) Your best bet for clustering under Linux is Mosix

Re: xdm and pam in potato

2001-11-26 Thread Serafim Zanikolas
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 03:54:37PM +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > no mention about xdm here. there's no file in xdm distribution related to > pam. I tried set up /etc/pam.d/xdm but doesn't seem to work. xlogin detto > > can you provide me a default ? I am interested in groups config. Also >

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