Re: Virtual Desktop

2000-04-11 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Dan Hutchinson wrote: > How do you change to virtual desktop in X Windows to the same physical > size of your monitor. I have tried running xf86config and I get the > display with a Stealth 3D 2000 PRO In /etc/XF86Config: Section "Screen" Driver "accel" Device

Re: Sound problem after upgrading to woody [ solved! ]

2000-04-11 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hi. I did an apt-get update and got the new versions of some sound-related files... And it's working now. J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sendmail

2000-04-11 Thread Adam Shand
> I know this isn't the list for this, but I'm having some issues with a > sendmail config. I'm trying to configure sendmail to forward *all* mail > (incoming or outgoing) on a specific box to a different box (a mail > server) but everything I've tried has the following debug output: you need t

Re: how to enable MIT/SHM shared memory?

2000-04-11 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:31:15 PDT, "Joseph de los Santos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > hi, > whenever I login to X windows I get a warning that either I am running > enlightenment over a network connection (which I'm not) or an X server that > does not support shared memory in my lmlib config

how to enable MIT/SHM shared memory?

2000-04-11 Thread Joseph de los Santos
hi, whenever I login to X windows I get a warning that either I am running enlightenment over a network connection (which I'm not) or an X server that does not support shared memory in my lmlib configuration. My question is..how do I enable this MIT/SHM shared memory? _

Re: Web Browser

2000-04-11 Thread John Carline
Dan Hutchinson wrote: > Do you need to run X windows inorder to use armodilla or mozilla,etc.. > > Dan I'm afraid so, at least I've never been able to run it without X. (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) John > > > John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dan Hutchinson wrote: > >

ImageMagick / MPEG

2000-04-11 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
I'm trying to convert MPEG files to animated GIF images using ImageMagick's 'convert' program. It says sh: mpeg2decode: command not found convert: delegate failed (mpeg2decode -q -b %i -f -r -o3 %o%%05d). convert: no delegate for this image format (MPG). Can someone tell me if ther

sendmail

2000-04-11 Thread David Wiard
I know this isn't the list for this, but I'm having some issues with a sendmail config. I'm trying to configure sendmail to forward *all* mail (incoming or outgoing) on a specific box to a different box (a mail server) but everything I've tried has the following debug output: send to [EMAIL P

Re: Upgrading X (without buggering up desalect?)

2000-04-11 Thread Brian Greenfield
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 05:28:28 PDT, "Martin Waller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So, does this mean I have to upgrade X manually, and if so, will this screw >up dselect? Try adding deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main to your sources.list. This provides XFree86 3.3.6 (probably

Re: Porting YTalk to Windows

2000-04-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >Hello > >I am interested in porting YTalk to Windows. This has probably been done >before. Do you know where I can find information about this. Hi, I'm the ytalk maintainer. Unfortunately I don't know of any efforts to port it to windows, b

Re: Choosing private domain name

2000-04-11 Thread Bob George
"Brooks R. Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want an inexpensive domain name, go to http://www.nic.cx for .cx > (Christmas Island) domains. They will do mail forwarding and web site > redirection. (This is not intended as an advertisement, please don't bill me > $1999). You can also

Re: ppp check.

2000-04-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 07:09:56PM +0200, Kent Nyberg wrote: > Is there a program to check how long one have been on ppp ? > I used a program in windows to check how long i have been on internet.. so > that i do not get to expensive bills :) > So i would like one for linux :) > > I know its enough

xfs on unix domain socket

2000-04-11 Thread Bruce Stephens
The example config file /etc/X11/xfs/config has the comment that TCP port listening is switched off by default, but that unix domain connections are still permitted, which seems reasonable. However, what's the syntax for this? "xset fp+ unix/:-1" and variants don't seem to work: they just report

Re: slrn+NNTP help

2000-04-11 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 04:13:04PM -0400, John F. Davis wrote: > I don't know if this will help, but I had to set the read active flag to true. > Otherwise, I never got any groups from my isp. Nope, didn't help. Thanks for the try. -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toron

RE: Choosing private domain name

2000-04-11 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
If you want an inexpensive domain name, go to http://www.nic.cx for .cx (Christmas Island) domains. They will do mail forwarding and web site redirection. (This is not intended as an advertisement, please don't bill me $1999). Brooks > -Original Message- > From: Joachim Trinkwitz [mailto

Re: ppp check.

2000-04-11 Thread Rodrigo Castro
Hello, On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 02:31:15PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > I assume you mean "how long has this connection been active". > IF that is what you meant them take a look at wmppp. It shows > a running 'on-line" time. > > If you meant "How long have I spent on-line this (day/week/month)". >

Re: slrn+NNTP help

2000-04-11 Thread John F. Davis
> I'm having the darn hardest time to get the 'slrn' to use NNTP to access a > news server: it always insists for some reason on reading news from a > non-existent local spool! It does this despite me giving --nntp flag, -h > SERVER, setting NNTPSERVER in the environment, etc. I've done pretty mu

Re: postgresql 6.5.3 vs. debian

2000-04-11 Thread Jeff Noxon
Why, pray tell, are you trying to install RedHat postgresql RPMs on a Debian system? Debian has postgresql 6.5.3 already, in frozen. What you are doing with RPMs is just asking for trouble. The easiest thing to do is just upgrade your whole system to frozen. If you can't, then set up apt (/etc/

Re: kde in .deb

2000-04-11 Thread sam
You can find debs for KDE at Storm Linux's ftp, ftp.stormix.com and I'm pretty sure you could get them from Corel too. ~Sam On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Kent Nyberg wrote: > Where can i find kde in .deb ?? > I have licq fron potato so i dont want kde to get in trouble with > my existing qt libraries. >

postgresql 6.5.3 vs. debian

2000-04-11 Thread w trillich
aaugh! i'm having my fourth day of troubles trying to upgrade my 6.3 pgsql (came on the debian cd) to 6.5.3, and i'm hoping someone might have the insight i need to get over this hurdle... these are the postgres files i'd love to install: postgresql-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm or postgresql-

slrn+NNTP help

2000-04-11 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
Hello all, I'm having the darn hardest time to get the 'slrn' to use NNTP to access a news server: it always insists for some reason on reading news from a non-existent local spool! It does this despite me giving --nntp flag, -h SERVER, setting NNTPSERVER in the environment, etc. I've done prett

Re: bootup message and ppp

2000-04-11 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > The ppp dial-in is still unreliable. Usually the first attempt fails, > > [...] > > What might be the problem? Once the connection is settled, it seems to > > be stable. > > > this might be related to the above problem, as the serial port,

Re: OT: Video cards? Creating Athlon Debian box..

2000-04-11 Thread aphro
you should also take into account the linux kernel itself, only the most recent kernels suport the athlon, most of the older ones just crash on it. if i remember right if the distribution is 2.2.x based you need at least 2.2.13 for the kernel. if it is 2.0.x based there shouldn't be a problem(altho

install-info

2000-04-11 Thread Sascha Silbe
Hi! When trying to install an info file with install-info into /usr/local/info (which currently is empty) I get a locking error, the same one as in Bug #2904. With the install-info of the texinfo distribution it works fine. Why did you replace it with the one in the dpkg package? CU/Lnx Sascha

Re: ppp-compress-1 strangeness

2000-04-11 Thread aphro
the ABORT messages are normal, it just tells you it will abort if it recieves those signals from the modem. as for the modules, do an lsmod after your fully logged on and have network connectivity, typically the compression modules will be named "bsd_comp" and "ppp_deflate" if they are not loaded

Re: correct (PAM) syntax for per-user "no limit" on a resource

2000-04-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 06:14:36PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 07:44:09PM +, Jim Breton wrote: > > What is the correct way to give unlimited usage of a particular resource > > for a specific user? > > > > I want my own account to have a couple of exemptions from the de

Re: Partitioning

2000-04-11 Thread kmself
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 05:15:01AM +0800, Chan Chee Seng wrote: > I split them this way.. > > 1GB NTFS(for WinNT) > > 1GB Fat(for file sharing between NT and Linux) > > 1GB ext2 (Debian Slink) > is this ok? Depending on your use of NT, the 1 GB might be reduced. Your share partition could very

Re: 3 identical NICS on 3 Networks - configurating confusion

2000-04-11 Thread Bob George
"Josh Kuperman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've had a similar configuration, but on @Home. I don't know about RoadRunner, but on [EMAIL PROTECTED], you must specify a hostname parameter to get an address from their DHCP servers. I seem to recall that pump didn't allow this but that dhcpcd did, an

ppp-compress-1 strangeness

2000-04-11 Thread Vitux
Hi Debs When I do "pon" from an xterm, and watch the modem in xconsole, I get: pppd started by vitux, uid 1000 abort on abort on abort on abort on abort on send expect ATZ^M^M OK ---got it and then the dialing bit and the connection progresses. Is this normal or are the "abort"s errors? Aft

Re: 3 identical NICS on 3 Networks - configurating confusion

2000-04-11 Thread Josh Kuperman
Well after reading and finally realizing that "alias lance eth0" was a bad mistake and testing things out by installing using "insmod lance irq=5,4 io=0x300,0x320", I managed to get the three cards recogized. After I put the three alias lines and one option line in /etc/modutils/modconf [ and reali

Re: sslwrap: how do I use it?

2000-04-11 Thread Adam Shand
> I have installed sslwrap, but I don't understand how do I actually _use_ > it. I want to encrypt a [ftp,pop,etc...] connection between my computer > and a remote machine. The remote machine has sslwrap installed too. What > client do I use to connect, say, to the remote pop3 server, but with > e

Re: ppp check.

2000-04-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: ppp check. Date: Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 07:09:56PM +0200 In reply to:Kent Nyberg Quoting Kent Nyberg([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Kent> Is there a program to check how long one have been on ppp ? Kent> I used a program in windows to check how long i have been on internet.. so Kent>

Re: raid patches for 2.2.14

2000-04-11 Thread Brian Lavender
For the latest linux raid patches and howto visit: http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/ I just built a couple of raid 1 2.2.14 debian boxes. This is exceptional code and is by far superior to the old way of doing raid. The raid tools dangerous tar ball also contains the howto and information about the l

Sound Setup

2000-04-11 Thread Guilherme Ceschiatti
Hi! There is no sndconfig in the debian packages. Is there any other sound config tool avaiable? []s Guilherme Ceschiatti

Re: OT: Video cards? Creating Athlon Debian box..

2000-04-11 Thread kvaughan
At 09:41 AM 4/11/00 -0700, you wrote: >It's not Debian you are matching your card up to, it's xfree86. In fact, >you will want to upgrade xfree86 to 3.3.6, so it will support your card. > >I just built a couple machines with Matrox G200 16 MB cards and they work >well. I am not a gamer, so I couldn

Re: OT: Video cards? Creating Athlon Debian box..

2000-04-11 Thread Brian Lavender
It's not Debian you are matching your card up to, it's xfree86. In fact, you will want to upgrade xfree86 to 3.3.6, so it will support your card. I just built a couple machines with Matrox G200 16 MB cards and they work well. I am not a gamer, so I couldn't give you much info as far as the 3D card

Re: kde in .deb

2000-04-11 Thread Harry ten Berge
>Where can i find kde in .deb ?? >I have licq fron potato so i dont want kde to get in trouble with >my existing qt libraries. Take a look at the 'KDE Linux Packaging Project' at http://kde.tdyc.com/

Re: Video cards? - impressions, not necessarily facts

2000-04-11 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 09:29:23AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Are you sure XFree supports dual-head on the G400 (without two > video cards)? Where the mga man page says `Multi-head > configurations are supported' I assumed it meant with mutiple > cards. I was mistaken. It seems th

kde in .deb

2000-04-11 Thread Kent Nyberg
Where can i find kde in .deb ?? I have licq fron potato so i dont want kde to get in trouble with my existing qt libraries.

ppp check.

2000-04-11 Thread Kent Nyberg
Is there a program to check how long one have been on ppp ? I used a program in windows to check how long i have been on internet.. so that i do not get to expensive bills :) So i would like one for linux :) I know its enough to check the /var/logs/ppp... But its not that funny :(

Re: Virtual Desktop

2000-04-11 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> How do you change to virtual desktop in X Windows to the same physical > size of your monitor. I have tried running xf86config and I get the > display with a Stealth 3D 2000 PRO but the actual desktop is always smaller > then the virtual desktop. > the virtual desktop will always have at least

Crypt::CBC and Crypt::DES

2000-04-11 Thread Fraser Campbell
I am trying to build Crypt::CBC and Crypt::DES on a Sparc machine. These perl libraries are need to run the OpenSRS domain registration client. Crypt::DES is giving me problems. I am using http://cpan.perl.org/authors/id/GARY/Crypt-DES-1.20.tar.gz to build. It built without complaint but "make

Re: win95 dialin to linux ppp server

2000-04-11 Thread Keith G. Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm trying to dialin from a Win95 pc into a linux PPP server. > After numerous attempts changing 'conf' files I managed to log in > but then Win95 times out. > I've also tried the no-dtr option in the inittab; '-m '"" AT&C1". > No luck. > I'm runni

Re: can I change the font of default "xterm"?

2000-04-11 Thread Kent West
john smith wrote: > I'd like to know if I can change the font of xterm. xterm is the default pty > terminal on the initial boot right? or am I mistaken? I would like to use my > ttf font for the default terminal (whichever it boots into before the xdm > login prompt) since I have configured xfstt

Re: nfssvc: Function not implemented

2000-04-11 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Nikos, On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Nikos Voutsinas wrote: > I found that I should recompile the kernel with the NFSD support... > The problem is that there isn't any NFSD option in the "Network FileSystem" > part, but only the "NFS filesystem support" > ...? I don't know if missing nfs code in

Re: [OT] Debian home page -- Jesusified!

2000-04-11 Thread Kent West
Matthew Dalton wrote: > http://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://www.debian.org > > funny stuff :) > Somebody has, I mean, hath, too much time on their hands.

Virtual Desktop

2000-04-11 Thread Dan Hutchinson
Thanks for everyones help with Xwindows and loading debian from floppies/cdroms. I have a simple question now. How do you change to virtual desktop in X Windows to the same physical size of your monitor. I have tried running xf86config and I get the display with a Stealth 3D 2000 PRO but the actua

Re: dselect deinstalled all software!!!

2000-04-11 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Mark, On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > When I start the machine the letters LI come on the > screen and then nothing happens. > In the meantime, I'm trying to advise him from afar. I am thinking he > needs to get a rescue disk from somewhere, That's definitely the right way t

Re: compiling spice from src

2000-04-11 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 04:43:30PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Attila Csosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I tried to compile spice 3f5 from source but I got the following error > [errors snipped] > > What is wrong? > > You need to install the termcap compatibility package, termcap-compat > and

HELP: strange things happens with X....

2000-04-11 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i still have the very annoying problem that xdm fires up by default on my machine but still does not accept any input from the keyboard, in fact it is as if the keyboard was suppressed: impossible to get back to a console i have to log into the machine from another one and kill the xdm

Re: Partitioning

2000-04-11 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 05:15:01AM +0800, Chan Chee Seng wrote: > I split them this way.. > > 1GB NTFS(for WinNT) > > 1GB Fat(for file sharing between NT and Linux) > > 1GB ext2 (Debian Slink) > is this ok? Yes. WIth only 1 GB for linux I wouldn't setup extra partitions for /, /usr, /var, etc.

Re: 2 ?'s, Pon & normal users, colour in config programs.

2000-04-11 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello John, On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, John Anderson wrote: > I tried putting normal users in /etc/group under dip like this: > > dip:x:1000:1001 > > still, the computer says, permission denied to /usr/sbin/pppd. Did I > configure it incorrectly? Is there anyway to get this working? Perhaps it wo

Re: Upgrading X (without buggering up desalect?)

2000-04-11 Thread Ron Rademaker
You could simply download potato debian packages for x and install them using dpkg: dpkg -i , however you might have to install more potato packages, because of dependencies with versions. Ron Rademaker On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Martin Waller wrote: > Hello, > > I have a nice new 8MB Savage4 Pro. XF

Re: Upgrading X (without buggering up desalect?)

2000-04-11 Thread kent nyberg
I was able to put potato in sorce.list and did apt-get install xfree. It worked for me.. I have gtk and gnome from potato on my slink and it workes pretty good. The only thing that does not work is sawmill and winowmaker. But use blackbox so it do not matter to me :) On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Marti

raid patches for 2.2.14

2000-04-11 Thread Robert Varga
Are there raid0.90 patches for 2.2.14 kernel? The last patch that I can find on the kernel mirror is 19990824 and it is against 2.2.11, however it cannot be applied to the kernel found in kernel-source-2.2.14 debian package. The last raid kernel-patch debian package is 19990724 and is against 2.

HP Mux should i try to make it work?

2000-04-11 Thread Chris Gielen
Hi,   I have a HP MDP RS 232-C FULL MODEM (part number 5062-3054) this is an 8 port mux got it from a HP 9000 / E45. Should i make an effort to try and get it to work on an Intel based machine with debian installed?   Maybe this is a longshot but who knows.   Thanks in advance   Chris

GLX Extension on Sun Workstation

2000-04-11 Thread William Pitchford
Greetings,         I am trying to x-window an application written with Image Vision from a SGI to a SUN Ultra 60 Creator 3D.       The Ultra 60 is running Solaris 2.7 and has OpenGL installed. The demo OpenGL applications will run ok.       The error I receive on the SGI side is:   X Error

sslwrap: how do I use it?

2000-04-11 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
I have installed sslwrap, but I don't understand how do I actually _use_ it. I want to encrypt a [ftp,pop,etc...] connection between my computer and a remote machine. The remote machine has sslwrap installed too. What client do I use to connect, say, to the remote pop3 server, but with encription?

RE: Partitioning

2000-04-11 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > > 1GB Fat(for file sharing between NT and Linux) > > > > > remark: kernel 2.4 will support ntfs write access (even though still > > experimental, i think). so you would not need a "share partition" > > Is 2.4 supported in potato?(Meaning just download the kernel and recompile > it) or it's goi

Upgrading X (without buggering up desalect?)

2000-04-11 Thread Martin Waller
Hello, I have a nice new 8MB Savage4 Pro. XFree 3.3.2 does not support it - I need a newer version of X. Seems Debian's getting a bit behind the times of late (? - well over a year since the last full release!) and there's no deb packages for newer X (for slink (2.1), that is, current stable)

Re: Partitioning

2000-04-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting Chan Chee Seng ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > 1GB NTFS(for WinNT) > > 1GB Fat(for file sharing between NT and Linux) Seems a bit big (though obviously only you know how you're going to use it). Think about whether lots of stuff is going to sit there or whether it's just a staging post. > 1GB

nfssvc :Function not implemented (plain text)

2000-04-11 Thread Nikos Voutsinas
Hello, I am trying to use my debian box as an NFS server. But this is what i get after /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server Starting NFS kernel daemon: export server.domain:/directory: Function not implemented nfsd nfssvc: Function not implemented mountd done. Any help? (Kernel version :2.2.14-4)

Re: nfssvc: Function not implemented

2000-04-11 Thread Nikos Voutsinas
I found that I should recompile the kernel with the NFSD support... The problem is that there isn't any NFSD option in the "Network FileSystem" part, but only the "NFS filesystem support" ...?  - Original Message - From: Nikos Voutsinas To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

ssi not working

2000-04-11 Thread Bill
Hi all, Below are parts of .conf files. is there something I've missed or another file to edit?? Thanks in advance Bill *** access.conf *** # /usr/lib/cgi-bin should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased # CGI directory

nfssvc: Function not implemented

2000-04-11 Thread Nikos Voutsinas
Hello,     I am trying to use my debian box as an NFS server. But this is what i get after /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server   Starting NFS kernel daemon: export server.domain:/directory: Function not implementednfsd nfssvc: Function not implementedmountd done. Any help?(Kernel version :2.2.14-

Re: error in exim log

2000-04-11 Thread Robert Mognet
Hello, On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 08:22:20PM -0500, ktb wrote: > What does this mean in my '/var/log/exim/mainlog' ? > > fire:/var/log/exim# less mainlog > 2000-04-10 20:17:37 Start queue run: pid=709 > 2000-04-10 20:17:37 12e8Iw-Zy-00 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=local_delivery > defer > (13): Perm

Need Help About SSL Certificate

2000-04-11 Thread Serhat Artun
Hi I have just install openssl modssl apache and I want to create a test certificate to show the people at the apache directory I can make $ make certificate it makes a certificate but it has been signed by Snake oil I dont want it to be like that I read Makefile there is a few more options lik

Re: can I change the font of default "xterm"?

2000-04-11 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I'd like to know if I can change the font of xterm. you have to edit your ~/.Xdefaults. add something like XTerm*Font: blabla you can pass it a command line option, too. > xterm is the default pty > terminal on the initial boot right? or am I mistaken? -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Cop

can I change the font of default "xterm"?

2000-04-11 Thread john smith
I'd like to know if I can change the font of xterm. xterm is the default pty terminal on the initial boot right? or am I mistaken? I would like to use my ttf font for the default terminal (whichever it boots into before the xdm login prompt) since I have configured xfstt font server properly.is

Re: Choosing private domain name

2000-04-11 Thread Radim Gelner
When I set up a small masqueraded private network, that is connected to Internet only by ppp link, I set up the domain for this network like 'whatever.loc'. Usually, I also build a DNS server, that is a master for whatever.loc, but also points to root servers on Internet. Sendmail is configured to

Re: Linux only sees half my RAM

2000-04-11 Thread Ron Rademaker
I don't know how, I once saw it happen. With a 2.0 all the ram was recognised and the system was stable, with a 2.2 only half was recognised and the system became instable if the ram was set on 128 with lilo (with a 2.3 all the recognised and stable, as far as you can call a 2.3 stable). Ron On M

Choosing private domain name

2000-04-11 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, some time ago, I had a private domain name (in-bonn.de) for my stand-alone PC with dialup connection and one of the numeric IP-adddresses, which are reserved for this purpose. As some ftp servers on the net won't let me access them (among others the german CTAN, ftp.dante.de -- german ftpp ad

Re: sending mail with 2 isp accounts

2000-04-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Apr 2000, ktb wrote: > Sorry for the confusion and the double post. I don't know what happened but > when I tried to send the messages mutt said "new message in outbox" not > "message sent" so I thought the other message hadn't been sent. It took > forever and then they came through. I don

Re: Questions about Debian

2000-04-11 Thread kmself
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 03:00:24PM -0600, Lachlan Robinson wrote: > To whom it may concern, > I am considering using Debian on my computer, but I have a question, is > Debian a GUI (Graphical User Interface)? I have installed and are using the > 'basic' installation (from the 7 1.44 meg images),

Re: Booting trouble.

2000-04-11 Thread kmself
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 11:37:48PM +0200, Hans wrote: > I installed potato (hda6) today next to slink (hda8). I installed lilo in > the mbr when installing potato. I added the slink entry to /etc/lilo.conf. > Now when I get the lilo-prompt I can boot potato (boots fine) and slink > (trouble). > >

hang trying to sync hardware clock ...

2000-04-11 Thread Adam Shand
hey. i'm hoping someone knows the answer to this. i'm trying to do a fresh potato install and i've had this problem no matter what i try and do. i get to the point where i reboot off of the hard drive, everything boots up as normal until this point: Starting portmap daemon: portmap. Setting t

Re: cd help please...

2000-04-11 Thread Matthew Dalton
Do you have a cable connecting the back of the cdrom to your soundcard? Can you hear the cd if you plug headphones/speakers into the headphone jack on the front of the cdrom? Joseph de los Santos wrote: > I have sound working ( I can hear sound through sound events of gnome) and > my soundcard

cd help please...

2000-04-11 Thread Joseph de los Santos
hello, I have sound working ( I can hear sound through sound events of gnome) and my soundcard is listed in procinfo. my problem is trying to play cdrom. I have xfreecd and have read access to the cdrom via chmod a+r /dev/cdrom but when I try to play cds I can't hear anything. I can see it pl

RE: ppp problem

2000-04-11 Thread Sandy Shapiro
>? Okay I think we might have the problem, because you said "name" of the >ISP. Here is my file: >search shadypond.com >nameserver 127.0.0.1 >Yours should look something like that. >after nameserver, put the IP address of your ISP's nameserver, NOT the >literal hostname; it has to be numeric.

quota problem

2000-04-11 Thread aphro
im about ready to deploy my new server but i have a question about quotas. all of my users sit on /users a seperate partition(2 9gig drives in raid1) many of the users show identical disk/file usage for both the root filesystem and /users i was wondering, what could be causing this? i am sure th

Re: Video cards? - impressions, not necessarily facts

2000-04-11 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 09:09:00PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > interesting :) and have trouble deciding on a video card. > > I thought 3dfx was supposed to be a good choice (looking > > at the 3000), as was Matrox (the G400). > > I would go foor 3dfx and Matrox based cards, when co

Re: help on multiple search/replace

2000-04-11 Thread Brad
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 12:31:02AM +0800, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: > > i dont know whether i successfully sent the first email i wrote. > anyway. You did, and you got a few replies. Or else there's another Chad A. Adlawan posting around here ;) > can someone please help me on writing a scrip

Re: Embarrassing question: what does `NMU' mean?

2000-04-11 Thread John Hasler
Eric Hanchrow writes: > I can't figure out what it [NMU] means. Non Maintainer Upload. It means that this version was uploaded by a developer other than the official maintainer of the package. > I confess, I feel dumb. Why? It isn't documented anywhere, and it isn't at all obvious. -- John Ha

Re: no wonder... part 2

2000-04-11 Thread Oki DZ
On 8 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (base-system + essential packages, and are now installing > more according to our needs...) An inquiring mind wants to know... Does your "more" include the X Window System...? Oki

Embarrassing question: what does `NMU' mean?

2000-04-11 Thread Eric Hanchrow
I often see this acronym in changelog files. For example, in /usr/share/doc/gnucash/changelog.Debian.gz, I see gnucash (1.2.5.cvs.2204-1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low * NMU of the unstable version to frozen, since the new upstream version fixes an RC bug (fixes: #60615).

RE: ppp problem

2000-04-11 Thread Pollywog
On 11-Apr-2000 00:04:02 Sandy Shapiro wrote: > yes, it lists the name of the isp ? Okay I think we might have the problem, because you said "name" of the ISP. Here is my file: search shadypond.com nameserver 127.0.0.1 Yours should look something like that. after nameserver, put the IP address

Re: kernel panic: unable to mount root fs...

2000-04-11 Thread John Kiff
OK. I booted from the rescue floppy and ran fsck on /dev/hda2. Judging by the messages that streamed by, there were a lot of problems that were fixed. However, when I went back to boot up the system, I got another mess of nasty looking messages: INIT: No inittab file found Enter runlevel: INI

Re: ppp problem

2000-04-11 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 08:09:24PM -0400, Sandy Shapiro wrote: > > cat /proc/net/route > > Here it is: > Dest Gateway Flags RefCnt Use Metric Mask MTU Window IRTT > 42006E89 00050 0 0 00 > ppp0 42006E89 00030

Re: intellimouse/XF86Setup

2000-04-11 Thread Peter Ross
Check to see whether or not you have gpm installed, and if it is running. If it is, you should use /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device. If it isn't you could try installing gpm and let it auto detect your mouse. Also make sure that your kernel has PS/2 support compiled into it, by finding a line li

Re: Web Browser

2000-04-11 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 10:27:20PM -0400, Shao Zhang wrote: > I am very surprised that no one mentioned about w3m on this thread. > Personally, I think w3m works far more better than lynx. Wow, and just an hour ago I thought "links" was the seventh wonder of the world. 'w3m' is incredible! I lo

Re: ppp problem

2000-04-11 Thread Sandy Shapiro
>On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:43:27PM -0400, Sandy Shapiro wrote: > I >installed Debian (Slink) on another computer, and I think I may have > >missed something in setting up the ppp connection. >> >> I can dial out, connect to, and log on to my ISP. But when I try to ping a >> site, I get the error

RE: ppp problem

2000-04-11 Thread Sandy Shapiro
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/10/00 at 10:26 PM, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >On 10-Apr-2000 18:43:27 Sandy Shapiro wrote: >> I installed Debian (Slink) on another computer, and I think I may >> have >> missed something in setting up the ppp connection. >> >> I can dial out, connect t

[OT] Debian home page -- Jesusified!

2000-04-11 Thread Matthew Dalton
http://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://www.debian.org funny stuff :)

Re: Web Browser

2000-04-11 Thread Shao Zhang
I am very surprised that no one mentioned about w3m on this thread. Personally, I think w3m works far more better than lynx. Shao. Dan Hutchinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know of a web browser that displays jpg and gif images? > I like the speed of lynx and don't like netscape. I

Re: How much free space does apt need in /var?

2000-04-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 07:33:27PM -0600, montefin wrote: > Hi, > > First the question: how much free space in /var do you think I need for > apt-get upgrades? it depends, how many packages are installed, and how many of those are being upgraded, and how many packages you might install in the fut

Re: Partitioning

2000-04-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 11:27:32PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > 1GB Fat(for file sharing between NT and Linux) > > > remark: kernel 2.4 will support ntfs write access (even though still > experimental, i think). so you would not need a "share partition" are you sure? i was perusing kerne

Re: correct (PAM) syntax for per-user "no limit" on a resource

2000-04-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 07:44:09PM +, Jim Breton wrote: > What is the correct way to give unlimited usage of a particular resource > for a specific user? > > I want my own account to have a couple of exemptions from the default > resource limits, and one of them should be unlimited CPU time.

Re: MX300

2000-04-11 Thread Jason Christensen
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Alan Todd wrote: > wondering if anyone has installed and got sound for this device > i got it to work with mandrake and redhat but not debian > > http://linux.aureal.com is where i got them from to start with > > Thanks for the help > I don't own an Aureal chipset based sou

Re: ppp problem

2000-04-11 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:43:27PM -0400, Sandy Shapiro wrote: > I installed Debian (Slink) on another computer, and I think I may have > missed something in setting up the ppp connection. > > I can dial out, connect to, and log on to my ISP. But when I try to ping a > site, I get the error messag

MX300

2000-04-11 Thread Alan Todd
wondering if anyone has installed and got sound for this device i got it to work with mandrake and redhat but not debian http://linux.aureal.com is where i got them from to start with Thanks for the help Alan Todd

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