Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 11:08:02PM -0500, Brad wrote: > > For the curious, the command i used to find non-free packages was: > grep-status -F Status ' install' | grep-status -s Package -F Section \ > non-free - or you could install the vrms package. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erb

Re: LAN/NAS problem.

2000-06-07 Thread Kevin Smith
The address you are using is the "network" address for that /27 range. This would not be considered as a valid address for any *interface* on that network. Typically I would expect to see the first valid address in the subnet as the gateway address in this case it would be 203.28.51.129 - and yo

procmail/formail to change subject?

2000-06-07 Thread Lev Lvovsky
I'm using procmail to process a number of mailing lists. Having just subscribed to several Debian lists, and having them all be delivered to a "Debian" mailbox, I'd like to make it obvious which specific debian list they are all from (and I don't want to make extra mailboxes for each list). Is it

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-07 Thread Brad
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 01:25:13AM +, Chuan-kai Lin wrote: > > There is a General Resolution proposed by developer John Goerzen that > is under discussion on both debian-devel and debian-project, maybe also > a few others that I am not aware of. The nature of the GR is to amend > the Social C

Re: Where is Xdefaults? (new to X tweaking)

2000-06-07 Thread John Foster
Vitux wrote: > > Hi debs > I thought .Xdefaults was supposed to be in /etc/X11/yadayada, > but I can't seem to locate it. Do I make this file myself? (I > *am* using the -a option with ls...) > Running potato, 2.2.14, Afterstep or fvwm. > Regards > Vitux ===

Re: text-to-speech

2000-06-07 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to know how to download a system which can speech my letters allowed. > > thanks for any help > I can't tell you how to download the tts, but I can recommend Festival. For best synthesis you will also need Mbrola. Festival is packaged for

Think-and-do fonts in potato

2000-06-07 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I have upgraded three computers to potato (2.2.15). On two of them, a laptop and a desktop, fonts for Netscape and other applications have gotten BIG. I have done some searching to no avail. Has anyone had similar experiences? What did you do? Arthur H. Edwards 712 Valencia Dr. NE Abq. NM 87108

Samba .deb defaults

2000-06-07 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hello, I'm in the process of experimenting with Samba and Netatalk in combination, and would like to have Samba compiled with the interoperability between these two turned on. How do I know what options the Samba .deb file has been compiled with (or all .deb files for that matter), and how, after

Re: How to find a package containing a given executable

2000-06-07 Thread M. Tavasti
Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's a search form you may find useful at the bottom of > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Anything usable without net? I have local mirror of debian archive, if it helps -- M. Tavasti / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / +358-40-5078254 Poista sähköpostios

Re: LAN/NAS problem.

2000-06-07 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 12:10:01PM +1000, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote > hi all, > Hello, Marc! > we have an ascend server that serves a dial up customer sitting on > 203.28.51.128. > > routing table on the ascend server: > > 203.28.51.128/27 203.28.51.128 wan12rGT120 265755

Re: locate/updatedb on crack

2000-06-07 Thread Pat Mahoney
> > now with "gimpinitl.h." > > gimpintl.h != gimpinit.h > > > The other found gimp.h, which is in the same dir as gimpinit.h. But > > it still can't locate gimpinitl.h. Well, that's embarassing. Stupid typos... Maybe I'm dyslexic (is that spelled right?, ispell flags it, no suggestions thoug

Re: gv

2000-06-07 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 07:14:10AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote > > > On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, John Pearson wrote: > > Ghostscript uses its own fonts when interpreting postscript, > > provided in gsfonts. Try installing that. Xfonts may be used > > by gv to draw your document, but that comes later. > > Tha

Re: Way OT: C++ function to clear screen

2000-06-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Way OT: C++ function to clear screen Date: Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 06:03:31PM -0600 In reply to:Cameron Matheson Quoting Cameron Matheson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Hey, > > I'm sorry even to mail the Debian list about this, but I can't find this > information anywhere.

text-to-speech

2000-06-07 Thread EDSONCANTOR
I need to know how to download a system which can speech my letters allowed. thanks for any help Edson

LAN/NAS problem.

2000-06-07 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hi all, we have an ascend server that serves a dial up customer sitting on 203.28.51.128. routing table on the ascend server: 203.28.51.128/27 203.28.51.128 wan12rGT120 265755169 203.28.51.128/32 203.28.51.128 wan12rT 60 141505169 they are given the

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-07 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On 8 Jun 2000, Chuan-kai Lin wrote: > There is a General Resolution proposed by developer John Goerzen that > is under discussion on both debian-devel and debian-project, maybe also > a few others that I am not aware of. The nature of the GR is to amend > the Social Contract so that Debian will s

Re: gv

2000-06-07 Thread dyer
> > > BTW, what kind of tool do you use to convert .ps to .pdf? gv can do .pdf > to .ps, acroread does the same thing too. > > Oki > > Strangely enough, it's called ps2pdf. I think it's in the gs package. Works great, just used it today. dyer

Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-07 Thread Chuan-kai Lin
Just a heads-up guys, There is a General Resolution proposed by developer John Goerzen that is under discussion on both debian-devel and debian-project, maybe also a few others that I am not aware of. The nature of the GR is to amend the Social Contract so that Debian will stop distributing non-f

Us ROboTİCS

2000-06-07 Thread magul
http://www.3com.co.uk/products/modems/prod-faxmod-ext.html <-- this is my modem. i used kppp kwdial minicom . i used all linux versions, i compiled kernels. and last betas, i configured DNS ,ifconfig. there are no errors in the packets, there are no conflicts on IRQ s. my problem is that my modem i

Way OT: C++ function to clear screen

2000-06-07 Thread Cameron Matheson
  Hey, I'm sorry even to mail the Debian list about this, but I can't find this information anywhere.  I'm wondering what a function would be in C++ that I could use to clear the screen at the beginning of the program (this is just a console program).  Sorry to bother you. Thanks, Cameron Mathe

locate/updatedb on crack

2000-06-07 Thread Pat Mahoney
Locate has been acting strangely lately, please have a look: I just ran updatedb two minutes ago; updatedb.conf appears below. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate /usr/include/libgimp/gimpintl.h /usr/include/libgimp/gimpintl.h # ok, it found it [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate gimpinit.h #

gmc icons end up with title bars on Helix Gnome?

2000-06-07 Thread Graham Williams
I've installed Helix Gnome on a Debian "Potato moving to Woody" machine. It works great, and the extra bit of effort that Helix has put into the presentation is really worth it (IMHO). I've installed a number of user accounts starting from scratch for each one of them (removing previous .gnome et

X forwarding using openssh.

2000-06-07 Thread aphro
ive seen a few posts about this in the list but i still can't get it workin. here's what i got goin. 1 Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 machine running OpenSSH 1.2.3 1 Linux Mandrake 7.1 machine running OpenSSH 1.2.2 both are on the same (local) network. infact they are with 15 feet of each other. but i wa

Re: gv

2000-06-07 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, John Pearson wrote: > Ghostscript uses its own fonts when interpreting postscript, > provided in gsfonts. Try installing that. Xfonts may be used > by gv to draw your document, but that comes later. Thanks, it's working now. One might wonder why gsfonts pkg is not included

Re: files/dirs under /var/www/

2000-06-07 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 09:43:42PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > > I had this same dilemma and couldn't find anything on it in policy, so > > I just changed DocumentRoot to /usr/local/share/www. > > > > (Web files are mostly static anyway, why under

Re: Demand Dialing with pppd and ipmasq

2000-06-07 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:05:45PM +0200, Vitux wrote: > Did you add the user that's trying to run "pon" to the > dip-group? > Strong indications of a permissions error ;-P Actually, I think it is something to do with the way ipmasq works. If you don't have the ppp interface available on boot the

removing cupsys and keeping samba? (was: STILL! problem printing with cups)

2000-06-07 Thread Ron Farrer
Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I still cannot print, it's been several days and I still cannot get cups > to work at all. When I try to reinstall lprng, apt wants to remove > "samba samba-common smbclient smbfs swat" along with cups... Setting > those packages to "hold" doesn't help. Anyo

Re: Apt and dselect dis-agree what should be done

2000-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Tavasti) wrote: >Why quite often with newly upgraded system, dselect still would >install some packages, and maybe get some problems? apt-get ignores Suggests: lines in package dependencies; dselect will offer them for the user's attention ... also, I *think* apt ignores Reco

NFS & Potato -- client crashes server.

2000-06-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have multiple potato machines here, and am testing them with 1 redhat 6.2 machine and 1 mandrake 7.1 machine. When i try to mount a NFS volume from them from potato, both the mandrake and redhat boxes crash, hard -- have to hit reset button but the rh and mandrake boxes get along fine as far as

Re: help with web security

2000-06-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi shao from the autoated cgi scripts... you can easily add new users to .htpasswd files to allow them to access web stuff... allowing users to add themself to your "main system" and update dns, qmail and other stuff is giving the hacker (indirectly) complete control of your machine... - dont d

Re: Booting from floppy

2000-06-07 Thread Robert Mognet
Hi, On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:43:38AM -0700, Shane wrote: > > Hello, > I have created a boot floppy with the > following commands(debian 2.2). > > # dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 conv=sync > # rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda ^ I believe this should be your root partition. Is i

Re: Installing from CD-ROM from dselect

2000-06-07 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 12:21:12PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/06/2000 (12:15) : > > But my question is. Is there an easy way (in dselect) to tell the > > program that I want to install from a series of cdroms and not from the > > net. I don't have

Re: Ghostvie won't read recent .pdf files

2000-06-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 13:02:38 -0400, David Teague wrote: > ghostview crashes when I try to read .pdf files created recently. Is there > a fix? Have you tested how "xpdf" deals with them? Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig

Re: Where is Xdefaults? (new to X tweaking)

2000-06-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 21:39:11 +0200, Vitux wrote: > I thought .Xdefaults was supposed to be in /etc/X11/yadayada, per-program system-wide X resources can be found in /etc/X11/Xresources/ HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission t

Re: How to set permissions on CD?

2000-06-07 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 12:43:54PM -0500, Ron Flory wrote: > did you remember to specify mkisofs options to preserve file > attributes? I did use gcombust. And gcombust per default uses '-R -r' which of course is the reason for my problem. Thanks to all who answered. Michael -- Michael Meskes M

Where is Xdefaults? (new to X tweaking)

2000-06-07 Thread Vitux
Hi debs I thought .Xdefaults was supposed to be in /etc/X11/yadayada, but I can't seem to locate it. Do I make this file myself? (I *am* using the -a option with ls...) Running potato, 2.2.14, Afterstep or fvwm. Regards Vitux -- "I'm not a crook" Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zo

Re: 3Com 3C920 Help

2000-06-07 Thread cls--colo spgs
Philipp Kolmann wrote: > > Declan Grady wrote: > > [snip] > > Also, how do I use a boot-manager (and where do I get one !) ? - I need to > > boot either W98 or debian, each on its own partition .. at present I can use > > cfdisk and fdisk to set the active partition then reboot. > > > lilo = Linu

Re: PCMCIA modules recompilation: Undefined symbols

2000-06-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
Christophe TROESTLER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I needed to recompile a kernel to support some hardware on my laptop. > Thus also the PCMCIA modules needed to be build. I issued: > make-kpkg modules_clean > make-kpkg modules_image > and installed. All went fine. Except with depmod

Re: Is there way to modify Toolbars in Netscape?

2000-06-07 Thread Vitux
John Foster wrote: > > Title says it all. I want to modify the tool bar that has the Shop, Stop > etc. buttons. Either make them smaller or be able to add to and delete > them. I absolutely hate the Shop button. I often hit it instead of the > Stop button--wonder if that's an accident :-) > > --

Re: Demand Dialing with pppd and ipmasq

2000-06-07 Thread Vitux
Matt Kopishke wrote: > > Hi, we are trying to set up a box that acts as a router for our office. I > have ppp and ipmasq working. When I configure ppp to demand dial (the demand > and idle options in /etc/ppp/peers/provider) we seem to run into > problems. I start pppd with pon, but when I want

RE: PCMCIA modules recompilation: Undefined symbols

2000-06-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
try asking on debian-laptop.

Re: Sendmail

2000-06-07 Thread t.bedlam
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 06:18:06PM -0700, Jay Kelly was only escaped alone to tell thee: First, are you sure you wish it to go to `NEWtec'? > Im running potato with kernel 2.2.15. I am using sendmail and am able to > receive mail but when I send mail using mutt it comes back. Here is the > he

Kernel 2.4.0-test1 - ipchains problem

2000-06-07 Thread Karsten Bolding
Hi I know it's the bleeding edge and maybe I should stay away but anyway I wanted the support for my on-board sound card (and yes it works). I've read that the new netfilter method should be able to operate in a backward compatibility mode with ipchains - however I can not get it to work. I've tr

PCMCIA modules recompilation: Undefined symbols

2000-06-07 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi, I needed to recompile a kernel to support some hardware on my laptop. Thus also the PCMCIA modules needed to be build. I issued: make-kpkg modules_clean make-kpkg modules_image and installed. All went fine. Except with depmod (in the postinstall script or otherwise) which gi

STILL! problem printing with cups

2000-06-07 Thread Ron Farrer
Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The thing is, is that not even the stcolor.ppd driver that comes with > the cups source works! (I grabbed the source since the deb didn't come > with ANY drivers!) I still cannot print, it's been several days and I still cannot get cups to work at all. Whe

Re: Building root filesystem as regular user

2000-06-07 Thread Anton Emmerfors
Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 06:53:06PM -0800 skrev Ethan Benson: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 01:55:16AM +0200, Anton Emmerfors wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm in the process of building a small single disk linux for my > > firewall (and yes, I'm aware of the prefab alternatives, I'm just a > > DIY kind of guy =

Re: secret data for php pages

2000-06-07 Thread Robert Varga
Unfortunately we are serving only web- and mail services currently and we don't have an ip-block, only one server. Regards, Robert Varga On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> apache runs as the vhost user. One apache daemon group per v host. > >> > > > > Nope. It may be true f

Re: secret data for php pages

2000-06-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
>> apache runs as the vhost user. One apache daemon group per v host. >> > > Nope. It may be true for ip-based virtual hosts, but surely not for > namebased virtual hosts. > we ran IP based, I assumed most people did, sorry. Guess you just have to cross your fingers and hope.

Re: secret data for php pages

2000-06-07 Thread Robert Varga
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 07-Jun-2000 Robert Varga wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > >> > >> On 07-Jun-2000 Robert Varga wrote: > >> > > >> > That is not the same problem. When I refer on users, they are meant as > >> > syst

Re: mysql question..

2000-06-07 Thread Sven Gaerner
In Debian the mysql support for PHP is a seperate file called mysql.so that has to be loaded in your PHP source file. e.g. : dl("mysql.so"); : will load the mysql.so module If you don`t want this you have to recompile PHP and make a PHPLIB with a built-in mysql support At Mon, 5 Jun 2000

Re: Ipchains Questions

2000-06-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i really dont think you know what yer talkin about :) what do u mean by 'stealth' the firewall i set on your box will not affect outgoing traffic in any way. and as for blocking 139, it is blocking it, showing it as 'closed' is GOOD, that is what would show up if there was nothing running o

problem with "install kernel modules"

2000-06-07 Thread Christian Mathes
Hi all, I currently install Debian 2.1 from an ATAPI (IDE) CD-ROM drive. I have problems to execute the step "install kernel modules". The setup software refuses to mount my CD-ROM drive. I get a list with entries from /dev/hda/ to /dev/hdh/. I tried all alternatives but in all cases I recieved th

Re: secret data for php pages

2000-06-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Jun-2000 Robert Varga wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> >> On 07-Jun-2000 Robert Varga wrote: >> > >> > That is not the same problem. When I refer on users, they are meant as >> > system users on the webserver, not web visitors. >> > >> > What I need is a

Re: Nessus & potato

2000-06-07 Thread Dan Christensen
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You do need to install nessusd on the machine you are going to scan, right? Really? I don't think that is the case. I thought the whole point was to be able to scan a machine from the outside The solution to my problem turns out to be a missing directory:

Re: secret data for php pages

2000-06-07 Thread Robert Varga
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 07-Jun-2000 Robert Varga wrote: > > > > That is not the same problem. When I refer on users, they are meant as > > system users on the webserver, not web visitors. > > > > What I need is a way to provide separate mysql databases to all > >

Problems of /dev/ttyS0 permissions using wvdial

2000-06-07 Thread Francois Fayard
Hello, I use wmppp to start and stop my ppp-connexion. Everything works well, but sometimes I have problems with my permissions on /dev/ttyS0 (my modem) that are changed. I'm obliged to do a chmod g+rw /dev/ttyS0 to reconfigure my permissions. my starting script is : wvdial my stopping script is :

Re: files/dirs under /var/www/

2000-06-07 Thread Robert Varga
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Will Trillich wrote: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 01:08:04AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 01:52:10PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > > Just a quick question: how (un)safe is it to create your own files and > > > directories below /var/www/? Are there

Re: secret data for php pages

2000-06-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Jun-2000 Robert Varga wrote: > > That is not the same problem. When I refer on users, they are meant as > system users on the webserver, not web visitors. > > What I need is a way to provide separate mysql databases to all > virtualhosts and webserver users, without a possibility for them

Re: Video problems during 2.2 install

2000-06-07 Thread Vitux
Larry Elmore wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 06:30:59PM -0600, Larry Elmore wrote: > > > I have a 20" fixed-freq monitor that uses a special Permedia2 video > > > card. It works fine except for some DOS games that like > 640x480 > > > resolution (like Harpoon 2 -- it doesn't _require_ higher

Re: secret data for php pages

2000-06-07 Thread Robert Varga
That is not the same problem. When I refer on users, they are meant as system users on the webserver, not web visitors. What I need is a way to provide separate mysql databases to all virtualhosts and webserver users, without a possibility for them to access each other's databases. Regards, Rob

RE: secret data for php pages

2000-06-07 Thread Robert Varga
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 07-Jun-2000 Robert Varga wrote: > > > > Is there a way in which I can store some data (eg. mysql passwords) safely > > from other users on a website and retrieve it from php3/4? > > > > include the files from your script. The file can be

Re: secret data for php pages

2000-06-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Jun-2000 Marcin Kurc wrote: > I might be wrong but ... > If you have users on your server, and they are able to run web pages, > one can write a php3/4 script to include the file with passwds for example > and > make use of it. > they have to be able to read certain files, a well confige

Re: secret data for php pages

2000-06-07 Thread Marcin Kurc
I might be wrong but ... If you have users on your server, and they are able to run web pages, one can write a php3/4 script to include the file with passwds for example and make use of it. On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 10:51:00AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 07-Jun-2000 Robert Varga w

RE: secret data for php pages

2000-06-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Jun-2000 Robert Varga wrote: > > Is there a way in which I can store some data (eg. mysql passwords) safely > from other users on a website and retrieve it from php3/4? > include the files from your script. The file can be elsewhere, the server just has to be able to get to it.

secret data for php pages

2000-06-07 Thread Robert Varga
Is there a way in which I can store some data (eg. mysql passwords) safely from other users on a website and retrieve it from php3/4? The site is running php3 or php4 as an apache_module, and I need to provide separate mysql databases for each users inaccessible to all other users, so each user's

Re: files/dirs under /var/www/

2000-06-07 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 01:08:04AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 01:52:10PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Just a quick question: how (un)safe is it to create your own files and > > directories below /var/www/? Are there any names taken (besides dwww > > and index.html)?

Re: network installer uses HTTP instead of FTP to load base2_x.t

2000-06-07 Thread Ron Flory
hi: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > Ron Flory wrote: > > As I am new to Debian, please let me know if I've overlooked some > > fundamental Debian design philosophy. > nope, we just did not have the time to get everything in we wanted. > Sorry for the inconvenience. > > Of course, you can still

Re: Lpd-problem

2000-06-07 Thread Vicente Torres
The problem was the lack of the line #!/bin/sh -x at the beginning of the filter. Impossible to guess with the info I gave... Vicente Torres wrote: > > I have following problem: > > lpd does not execute the filter script associated with a local printer. > > The /etc/printcap entry is: > >

Re: How to set permissions on CD?

2000-06-07 Thread Ron Flory
Michael Meskes wrote: > > Could anyone tell me how I can set permission on a CD? I have a > directory with mode 700 and a file in it with mode 600. However, > after burning it to CD both have mode 555. did you remember to specify mkisofs options to preserve file attributes? ron

RE: Freeze on supend in text mode

2000-06-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Jun-2000 Dominique Rousset wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running up-to-date potato (ker. 2.2.15-ide) on a HP vectra VLi8 Cel. 466. > > I had to enable APM mainly to get the fan control working (and making the > machine very quiet) with append = "apm=on" in the lilo.conf file. > > I'm using the

Re: problem with cfdisk

2000-06-07 Thread Bolan Meek
Christian Mathes wrote: > > Hi all, > > I currently try to install Debian 2.1. I have problems > to configure my hard disk drive properly. Just as friendly assistance in your English usage -and I see that your English is quite good- the gerund form, in this case, "configuring", is more often use

RE: network installer uses HTTP instead of FTP to load base2_x.t

2000-06-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > As I am new to Debian, please let me know if I've overlooked some > fundamental Debian design philosophy. > nope, we just did not have the time to get everything in we wanted. Sorry for the inconvenience. Of course, you can still install from http.us.debian.org or somesuch, and it is only

Free Shares in a new Search Engine

2000-06-07 Thread RegisterNow65
Hi, A new search engine is about to be launched on the internet. It promises to promote your web site in more ways than any other search engine currently available. As part of our launch we are giving away shares in the company. Register on our mailing list by sending a blank e.mail to [EMAIL

Re: both vi and vim hang when I type CTRL-X,CTRL-S

2000-06-07 Thread Åsmund Ødegård
Thu, 08 Jun skrev Wan Hing Wah: > On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Saisanthosh Balakrishnan wrote: > > > > > > When I am using vi,I careless type the emacs Hotkey for saving > > > file. (CTRL-X,CTRL-S). But then the vi hang. > > > > Scroll Lock is turned on when you press Ctrl-S. Switch it off. > > > NO..

Re: No Subject

2000-06-07 Thread Bolan Meek
"Phillip Payne (PAYNEPH @ GBNUHO)" wrote: > ... > Hi, > > I have been trying to unsubscribe from this list, because it just > generates tto much mail, without any success. The two methods i have tried > so far have been :- > > sending mail to > > 1. [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of uns

problem with cfdisk

2000-06-07 Thread Christian Mathes
Hi all, I currently try to install Debian 2.1. I have problems to configure my hard disk drive properly. With the help of cfdisk 0.8, I created a partition table with this shape: nameflags partition type file system size hda1boot

Re: both vi and vim hang when I type CTRL-X,CTRL-S

2000-06-07 Thread Wan Hing Wah
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Saisanthosh Balakrishnan wrote: > > > When I am using vi,I careless type the emacs Hotkey for saving > > file. (CTRL-X,CTRL-S). But then the vi hang. > > Scroll Lock is turned on when you press Ctrl-S. Switch it off. > > -- > saisanthosh > NO..the scrolllock led havn't tu

Booting from floppy

2000-06-07 Thread Shane
Hello, I have created a boot floppy with the following commands(debian 2.2). # dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 conv=sync # rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda # rdev -R /dev/fd0 1 The system starts to boot and then it hungs with this message. Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs What am I doing wrong? A

How to set permissions on CD?

2000-06-07 Thread Michael Meskes
Could anyone tell me how I can set permission on a CD? I have a directory with mode 700 and a file in it with mode 600. However, after burning it to CD both have mode 555. Okay, they cannot have a writing mode, but why is other set while it wasn't in the beginning? How can I fix this except mounti

Re: sources.list with local mirror?

2000-06-07 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
something like deb file:/cdrom/ debian/main/binary-i386/ I think that you need to keep the tree from debian down. Please someone correct of wrong. Thanks "Robert L. Harris" wrote: > Ok, > If I download binary-i386 to cd, and burn it so that /cdrom contains > the contents of binary-i386, what g

Re: Ghostvie won't read recent .pdf files

2000-06-07 Thread David Teague
Thanks Martijn, and others for your replies. I don't think the files are encrypted. Everybody I talk to says ghostscript has trouble with newer .pdf. When I had encrypted .pdf files a couple of years ago, ghostscript complained that I needed a decrypting package, and when I got it, ghostview read

Re: SSL certs

2000-06-07 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 10:38:43AM -0500, Marcin Kurc wrote: > We'd like to buy SSL cert from thawte. The test cert that comes with debian > apache-ssl is in pem format. However, thawte says it's not what we want, > they offer crt formats. > > What is the best solution? AFAIK (though I've been kn

Re: Ghostvie won't read recent .pdf files

2000-06-07 Thread Martijn Meijers
Hi Are you sure those files aren't encrypted? Otherwise install an extra 'viewer' for ghostview, called: gs-pdfencryp This package provides the modifications necessary to view encrypted PDF files with the gs and gs-aladdin packages. Good luck... On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Daniel Reuter wrote: > AFAI

Re: Configuring X for two possible screens

2000-06-07 Thread Ron Rademaker
I would make 2 XF86Config files (eg. one called XF86Config-int and one called XF86Config-ext) and create to scripts (eg. startx-internal and startx-monitor), in those scripts, a file /etc/X11/XF86Config is removed, a symlink is made to the needed config file, with the name /etc/X11/XF86Config, afte

SSL certs

2000-06-07 Thread Marcin Kurc
We'd like to buy SSL cert from thawte. The test cert that comes with debian apache-ssl is in pem format. However, thawte says it's not what we want, they offer crt formats. What is the best solution? -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu

Re: qmail

2000-06-07 Thread Eric 'Alibut
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 07:48:58AM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > I thinking of switching over to qmail from sendmail and wanted to know if I > install it with apt-get install? You need to slow down, and you need to do the following: 1) Realize that this list is not a help-desk. All you do is post q

Re: qmail

2000-06-07 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hmm, it's lists.debian.org --^ Perhaps this is just a typo in the mail or it could be the problem! Ron Rademaker On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > I thinking of switching over to qmail from sendmail and wanted to know if I > install it with apt-get install? when I use sendmail

Configuring X for two possible screens

2000-06-07 Thread Moore, Paul
Hi, I have a laptop which I can run either using the internal 800x600 screen, or an external monitor which will run at 1024x768. I'd like to be able to set up the system so that I can start X to run on whichever is connected (eg, I could have aliases startx-internal and startx-monitor). I can set

Re: GTK slowness

2000-06-07 Thread Reid Sutherland
I am, but I was before and it was fine :/. What can I do to get proper speed? Thanks for your reply. - Original Message - From: Eric G . Miller To: Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 9:01 PM Subject: Re: GTK slowness > On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 12:06:55PM -0400, Reid Sutherland wrote: > > Run

Re: both vi and vim hang when I type CTRL-X,CTRL-S

2000-06-07 Thread Saisanthosh Balakrishnan
> When I am using vi,I careless type the emacs Hotkey for saving > file. (CTRL-X,CTRL-S). But then the vi hang. Scroll Lock is turned on when you press Ctrl-S. Switch it off. -- saisanthosh

Re: Ghostvie won't read recent .pdf files

2000-06-07 Thread David Teague
Daniel Thanks for your reply. I have embeded some responses to your comments. I prefer free software, but if someone will pay me, I'll even use MS software. I'm revising a text for a publisher and noted author, and myh copy to edit is .pdf. I went out to adobe's site and fetched acrobat reader.

Re: sources.list with local mirror?

2000-06-07 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, If I download binary-i386 to cd, and burn it so that /cdrom contains the contents of binary-i386, what goes in the sources.list? Do I need to maintain the /debian/dists. tree? Part of the problem is one of my machines has a floppy, but no CD, thus the multiple questions. Robert Th

Re: qmail

2000-06-07 Thread Robert Varga
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > I thinking of switching over to qmail from sendmail and wanted to know if I > install it with apt-get install? when I use sendmail I am able to mail some > addresses but not others. For example when I try to mail You need to install qmail-src and ucspi-tcp

Re: qmail

2000-06-07 Thread Arcady Genkin
Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > addresses but not others. For example when I try to mail > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I receive an error "Host not found" but I can > mail other email addresses. > any thoughts will help It's @lists.debian.org (note the `s' in the end of `lists'). -- Arcady Genkin

Re: PacBell DSL and Linux

2000-06-07 Thread Stan Kaufman
Pollywog wrote: > > Has anyone been able to set up DSL (PacBell, specifically) without recourse > to any OS other than Linux? I believe PacBell's DSL requires the first login > to be via a Windows machine. > > -- > Andrew Andrew, it's quite easy to set things up, at least with the "Basic DSL" a

both vi and vim hang when I type CTRL-X,CTRL-S

2000-06-07 Thread Wan Hing Wah
Hello, When I am using vi,I careless type the emacs Hotkey for saving file..(CTRL-X,CTRL-S)..But then the vi hang... I first think is it related to X Windows so I goto the console and try vi again...but still hang too and the terminal freeze.. I need to kill the vi and bash to make it wor

Re: Suspend and X

2000-06-07 Thread Saisanthosh Balakrishnan
> I'd prefer to go back to the same virtual terminal I was on. Is there > a way to query the system for what tty is active? > "/usr/bin/tty >/tmp/ttysuspend" into my script. /usr/bin/fgconsole > /tmp/ttysuspend -- saisanthosh

qmail

2000-06-07 Thread Jay Kelly
I thinking of switching over to qmail from sendmail and wanted to know if I install it with apt-get install? when I use sendmail I am able to mail some addresses but not others. For example when I try to mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] I receive an error "Host not found" but I can mail other email addresses

Re: sources.list with local mirror?

2000-06-07 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Tha is what I would do, burn it, that way you have all in safe mode. "Robert L. Harris" wrote: > Ok, > Say I mirror /debian/dists/potato/main/*i386 to /mnt/debian on a local > machine that has both ftp and nfs installed. Once complete, I want to > install a new machine from the local mirror.

Re: Suspend and X

2000-06-07 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:34:59AM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: >> I set replies to go to debian-laptop. > > And you added debian-user to the addresses? No, I was replying to a message from debian-user. I left both groups this time since others have. > >> I actually posted one solution to t

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