Re: Fw: failure notice

2000-07-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
user gone absent debian-user subscribed quota exceeded montefin wrote: > Lucky it doesn't originate From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

midi html tags

2000-07-18 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, Rather silly querry, but needs asking; I built my website using M$ frontpage, and it worked well. browsing it with M$ browsers etc produces midi. Not so with netscape. is there a fix to make netscape work with the M$ midi tag? I can browse sites that were built with netscape and the m

Re: Upgrade openssl .deb? or purge old ver and install new?

2000-07-18 Thread montefin
Well, I vote for wipe both clean, 'apt-get install' Woody's openssl-0.9.5a and build openssh-2.1.1p4 from source tomorrow morning. montefin looks at all the votes. Er...vote. H. I won! Somebody stop me! montefin montefin wrote: > > Hi, > > Just hoping for a little guidance before I up

Re: Fw: failure notice

2000-07-18 Thread montefin
Ethan, Yep. Even though, by Poetic Law, a sonnet may only have 14 lines. Lucky it doesn't originate From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. That! would be pushing it. Love to Tia, montefin Ethan Pierce wrote: > > Does everyone else get this failure notice whenever they post to the group?? > - Orig

Re: NE2k problem

2000-07-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
Try (as root) # depmod -a (you only have to do this once, unless you compile a new kernel) # modprobe ne2k-pci If that doesn't work, you probably have to recompile your kernel with the driver either in the kernel or as a kernel module. 'man modprobe' and 'man depmod' will give you more informat

NE2k problem

2000-07-18 Thread SCOTT FENTON
Hi. I have a problem with my NE2000 PCI clone. Whenever I do an insmod on the module, it comes back with an `unresolved symbols' error. If anyone has tips out there it would be appreciated. TIA Scott Fenton ps. please cc any replies to me, since I'm not on -user.

Re: LINUX ON FAT32

2000-07-18 Thread Alan
Hi Vijay, Are you using fips v 2.0 (partitioning fat32 is new in this version). I've repartitioned a Win98 PC with fips recently - no problem. I picked up the source and binaries a wee while ago - can't remember the URL (reply to me directly and I can email them to you...).. Cheers, Alan ---

Re: LINUX ON FAT32

2000-07-18 Thread Ron Rademaker
Do you want to remove win98? If so, you can repartition your hd during the installation of Debian (uses cfdisk), in this process you remove the fat32 partition(s) and you can make ext2 and a swap partition, if you also want win98, you can also make a fat32 partition where you can install windows (y

Re: How stable is WINE?

2000-07-18 Thread Frank Copeland
Ethan Pierce wrote: >In my opinion WINE isnt all its cracked up to be, but better than it has >been in the past. I don't know that wine has ever been cracked up to be more than it is, at least not by the developers. It is certainly getting better. >If you want to run windows apps in linux, ins

Re: Turn off delay after failed login?

2000-07-18 Thread Bill Goudie
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 12:24:50PM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote: > Hello, > I tried to turn off the delay after a failed login. I changed the line > in /etc/login.defs to this: > > FAIL_DELAY 0 > > But it is not working. To me it seems like setting it to "1" results > in a delay of a

RE: I need help please

2000-07-18 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi I'm running Debian on the Sat Pro 4270 ... and the problem's with running X on this machine have been well documented on this list, and the debian-laptop list (have a flick through the archives). However, I haven't tried the new X server for the 3D Savage card available @: http://www.probo.co

Re: Compiling Kernel with debian

2000-07-18 Thread dyer
Jens Helweg wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed my first debian disrtibution (Potato 2.2) and I > wanted to compile a new kernel but get the > following error message when I execute make menuconfig: > > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts/lxdialog all > make[

Re: Fw: failure notice

2000-07-18 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:06:45PM -0400, Ethan Pierce wrote: > Does everyone else get this failure notice whenever they post to the group?? > > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at webmail1.sonnet.de. > > I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following > addresses. > > This is

RE: I need help please

2000-07-18 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Don't know about the rest of the hw but Debian/GNU Linux does support the 3Com cardhowever, I would suggest that the potential buyer obtain the latest pcmcia packages(tgz) from the pcmcia homepage.have fun! > -Original Message- > From: Melissa Stirling [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sen

Re: Compiling Kernel with debian

2000-07-18 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Jens Helweg say > Hi, > > I've just installed my first debian disrtibution (Potato 2.2) and I > wanted to compile a new kernel but get the > following error message when I execute make menuconfig: > > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scr

Re: network/ethernet card configuration problem?

2000-07-18 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 12:00:46PM -0300, James Polson wrote > Hi, > > Thanks to all who answered my call for help! This message here is in > response to the one from John Pearson. > > > > Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:15:56 +0930 > > From: John Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sub

Re: pppd error

2000-07-18 Thread John Hasler
M.Henry writes: > I have not been able to successfully connect to my ISP using Debian/GNU > Linux. > > Any help would be appreciated. Undo all the damage you did by following the instructions in the ISP-Hookup-HOWTO. The simpest way to do this is to reinstall ppp with 'apt-get install ppp' as ro

Compiling Kernel with debian

2000-07-18 Thread Jens Helweg
Hi, I've just installed my first debian disrtibution (Potato 2.2) and I wanted to compile a new kernel but get the following error message when I execute make menuconfig: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear Debians, > > I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian > and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome. > > If I can't convince some people here at work, I'm about to be told to > disconnect fr

Re: How stable is WINE?

2000-07-18 Thread Ethan Pierce
Not to put down Trelos, (I havent tried it) but vmware has sound, networking and runs just about everything aside from dvds What do you mean by large? The space it takes up is the size of a win98 install and any apps. I even run office 2000 in there :) No kernel compilation necessary. I will

Re: How stable is WINE?

2000-07-18 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Hi! IMHO, vmware is a rather large solution to just running windows - if you're looking for something commercial, you might take a look at win4lin (www.trelos.com). I have been using the eval version for about a week and I like it alot - it required a modified kernel, but once you get that do

LINUX ON FAT32

2000-07-18 Thread VIJKOLLURU
Hi, I have win98 on FAT32. I want to partition the h/d with fips, but it is not allowing me since my pc is with FAT32. I want to load linux after paritioning. Thx. -Vijay.

Re: Command line setting of background in helix gnome

2000-07-18 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 01:21:02PM +0100, The Flying Hamster wrote: > Anyone know of a command line tool to set the background under > gnome/sawfish? If you don't want to use the gnome-control-center to set it you can use: xsetroot display (imagemagick) others I'm sure... -- According to Mega

Re: pppd error

2000-07-18 Thread Bob McGowan
I believe that pppd recognizes a "nodetach" option, which prevents it from forking/exec'ing to run in the background. Since you are using the 'exec' shell command, I'd say you want it in the background, so you can get that result by running the command as: pppd connect 'chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chatsc

Fw: failure notice

2000-07-18 Thread Ethan Pierce
Does everyone else get this failure notice whenever they post to the group?? - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 8:03 PM Subject: failure notice > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at webmail1.sonnet.de. > I'm afraid I wasn'

Re: How stable is WINE?

2000-07-18 Thread Ethan Pierce
In my opinion WINE isnt all its cracked up to be, but better than it has been in the past. If you want to run windows apps in linux, install vmware (www.vmware.com). It runs VERY fast depending on how much virtual ram you can afford to allocate. I use 128mb for my virtual machines. Ive even had

Re: staroffice

2000-07-18 Thread David Teague
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > StarOffice is a bloated stuck pig. It handles MS file formats fairly > well though. I do a lot of revising of documents, and find that SO doesn't export 'tracking changes' to MS Word. If you can work exclusively with SO its word processing for

pppd error

2000-07-18 Thread henrymar
After I finished reading the ISP-Hookup-HOWTO and making sure all my files were as the HOWTO instructed I did this from the bash command line: exec pppd connect \ 'chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chatscript' \-detach crtscts modem defaultroute \ user (myusername) \ /dev/modem 38400 Then I got the following

Re: How stable is WINE?

2000-07-18 Thread Frank Copeland
Cameron Matheson wrote: >I'm waiting for the new Debian to come out, and I need some information >about WINE. In Potato, how stable is WINE? In my experience the wine currently in potato is as stable as any version of wine I've used, and better than most. However, it is classified as alpha softw

Re: Enlightenment and X

2000-07-18 Thread Morten Liebach
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 09:18:24PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > 2) Is there any way to 'enhance' mutt slightly within X? I mean, do you > guys just start it within a console in X or what? Hi sven. I have this script I use to start mutt: #!/bin/sh rxvt +sb -g 80x50 -fg white -bg black -T Mutt -f

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Brian May
> "," == , Ted Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ,> A line of virus which might well be possible, and ,> platform-independent, is the planting of Java in HTML. This ,> could hit UNIX/Linux and Windows equally, though I haven't ,> heard of it on Linux. A lot of Linux MUAs can

Re: Why not diff binaries?

2000-07-18 Thread Bruce Stephens
"Pavel M. Penev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone tell me a sensible reason for not having a 'diff' > equivalent for binary file? What do you want to do? If you want the following: Given a binary (or text) file A and a variant of it A', generate a patch delta(A,A') repr

Re: How do I get flexible email headers and sigs?

2000-07-18 Thread Joey Hess
Damon Muller wrote: > For example, I have mail from this list go into ~/mail/debian-user, so I > have the following in my .muttrc > > # Stuff for the debian-user list > folder-hook +debian-user my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Which sets my email address for this list. You just have to remember

Re: Background mail transfers

2000-07-18 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 07:35:20PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: [snip] > You can set up a script /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ZZZ so that it will be > executed when any other script has finished, something like > > #!/bin/sh > wall /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/done-message > wall will display the contents of /etc/ppp/ip-u

Re: minicom connection to router

2000-07-18 Thread Bolan Meek
michelle wood wrote: > > looking for some help in making minicom 1.82.1. connect via a serial > connection to cisco router. I think that I can help. I've connected to several Ciscos with serial cable, mostly though using M$ HyperTerminal. I _have_ connected with one older Cisco, an IGS, using m

Re: Background mail transfers

2000-07-18 Thread Andre Berger
Barry Samuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I normally work within a window manager environment (mostly KDE) when > using Debian Potato and have used KMail to download mail directly from my > ISP pop3 accounts. > > I recently decided to setup fetchmail to poll my pop3 mail servers in the > backgr

Upgrade openssl .deb? or purge old ver and install new?

2000-07-18 Thread montefin
Hi, Just hoping for a little guidance before I upgrade both ssl and ssh. With a new (Potato-based, linux-2.2.16) firewall in place between my SDSL connection and my internal network, I now want to open a secure telnet connection (port 22) to and from the outside, and to close the regular telnet c

Re: X Terminals

2000-07-18 Thread Matt Kopishke
Never mind, I found it, I had to edit Xaccess. Thanks anyways, -Matt- On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Matt Kopishke wrote: > Hi, I am trying to set up an "x terminal". The way I used to do this is > install xdm on the host, then run "X -query host" on the client. Now on > my potato machi

X Terminals

2000-07-18 Thread Matt Kopishke
Hi, I am trying to set up an "x terminal". The way I used to do this is install xdm on the host, then run "X -query host" on the client. Now on my potato machines I get "XDMCP fatal error: Manager unwilling Host unwilling". Any ideas? -Matt-

Re: Enlightenment and X

2000-07-18 Thread Ashley Clark
* Sven Burgener in "Re: Enlightenment and X" dated 2000/07/18 21:18 * wrote: > 1) Is there any browser I can use in enlightenment? I dont particularly > *like* Netscape, so are there any other options? (not lynx - I *need* > / want graphics) You can try Mozilla, I've been using the one in woody n

Re: Enlightenment and X

2000-07-18 Thread Ethan Pierce
Hey Sven, yes Enlightenment ownsif you can get your middle working in E let me know, I have the same ps/2 mouseman + and cant for the life of me get it working in E or any other WM for that matter. For desktop backgrounds drop the jpgs or bmps in ~/.enlightenment/backgrounds...then you can rig

Re: Enlightenment and X

2000-07-18 Thread Ashley Clark
* Sven Burgener in "Re: Enlightenment and X" dated 2000/07/18 21:13 * wrote: > Hello > > Yet more Qs: > > 1) How to get the middle mouse working in enlightenment? I had it > working under KDE before. (Logitech PS/2 mouse) Are you starting X differently? xdm vs. startx maybe? But it should be de

minicom connection to router

2000-07-18 Thread michelle wood
looking for some help in making minicom 1.82.1. connect via a serial connection to cisco router. hope i don't offend anyone because i'm using redhat. a friend i work with raves about debian and suggested this list... *running redhat 6.1 *when launching minicom, modem in initialized. modem is

Re: Enlightenment and X

2000-07-18 Thread Sven Burgener
God, sorry this'll be the last time I post another mail on the same topic without waiting for answers. :) 1) Is there any browser I can use in enlightenment? I dont particularly *like* Netscape, so are there any other options? (not lynx - I *need* / want graphics) 2) Is there any way to 'enhance

Re: Enlightenment and X

2000-07-18 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Yet more Qs: 1) How to get the middle mouse working in enlightenment? I had it working under KDE before. (Logitech PS/2 mouse) 2) How do I choose backgrounds from those -theme-whatever packages? They are installed, yet I can't find a way to choose them. It seems I cannot do that in "Deskto

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Eudora mail client behind MASQ'ing debian?

2000-07-18 Thread C. Falconer
Eudora 4.3 sounds like the best option. http://www.eudora.com/ Please - why so many masqerading layers? Who is dialing-up who? Where is her mail server in relation to the masq boxes? At 09:44 AM 7/18/00 -0600, you wrote: i have a client going trough the roof cause she can't send any mail

bugs during install of Potato TC2

2000-07-18 Thread Manuel Segura
Package: boot-floppies Version: kernel 2.2.15, potato test cycle 2 i386 Architecture: i386 model: PII 233MHz, chipset 440BX RAM: 128MB SCSI: Adaptec Ultra 160 In CD1 "Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 "Potato" - test-cycle-2 i386" french doc: "Installer Debian Linux 2.2 sur Intel x86" version 2.2.15, 06 June,2

Re: How stable is WINE?

2000-07-18 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Potato Wine package can be very outdated. Quoting Andrei Ivanov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If it helps at all, I tried WINE few month ago off their site, building > from source. Had quite a good success with it (Was able to run Starcraft, > MS Word95). Not sure what version potato has, though.

Enlightenment and X

2000-07-18 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello (Pardon my newbie-ness on this topic) 1) I can get into enlightenment fine; after having executed enlightenment.install. I have some basic KDE stuff installed also. Is that necessary? 2) In enlightenment, the screen looks somewhat unclear; it 'flicker' slightly. How to solve that? This is

Re: Howto start X server on psuedo-tty or a FIFO

2000-07-18 Thread David Z. Maze
Dinesh Nadarajah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DN> Is it possible to start the X server (and hence all DN> the apps that run under it) on a psuedo-tty or a FIFO DN> device? This doesn't make sense. What are you really trying to do? DN> When X starts up, it run on tty1 or something like that. Norm

Re: How stable is WINE?

2000-07-18 Thread Andrei Ivanov
If it helps at all, I tried WINE few month ago off their site, building from source. Had quite a good success with it (Was able to run Starcraft, MS Word95). Not sure what version potato has, though. If you want the latest one, try it off the www.winehq.com Andrei ---

Re: How stable is WINE?

2000-07-18 Thread Krzys Majewski
I tried the potato wine a few days ago and it was basically useless. The only thing it could sort of run was the windows calculator and even then it had trouble. Anyone had better luck? -chris On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I'm waiting for the new Debian to come out, an

Re: difference between running perl from command line and web

2000-07-18 Thread Michael Urman
I've been having this difficulty as well, although i'm not convinced it's a pre 5.005 -> 5.005 change (i think i've been at 5.005 the entire time). What i would suggest (and did in my case) was to change from using a `lynx` to using the LWP modules. perldoc LWP::UserAgent. -m On Tue, Jul 18, 20

Re: Background mail transfers

2000-07-18 Thread Simon Michael
hmm.. surely fetchmail normally would take this in stride, re-fetching the message next time ?

Re: Background mail transfers

2000-07-18 Thread John Hasler
Barry Samuels writes: > ...if I disconnect from my ISP without thinking I can cut a mail download > off in mid-stream. This should not cause any problems as fetchmail will not tell the server to delete the message until it has received the whole thing and successfully delivered it. Truncated mess

Re: Background mail transfers

2000-07-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Barry Samuels wrote: > I normally work within a window manager environment (mostly KDE) when > using Debian Potato and have used KMail to download mail directly from my > ISP pop3 accounts. > > I recently decided to setup fetchmail to poll my pop3 mail servers in the > backgr

RE: Problem with Samba after upgrade to frozen

2000-07-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, > > > IIRC, that is a bug with the 2.0.x kernels and the newer samba. > > If you are running a 2.0.x kernel, try changing to a 2.2.x one. > > I am running a 2.0.x kernel. If it's as simple as that, then I'll certainly > do it (one

How stable is WINE?

2000-07-18 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm waiting for the new Debian to come out, and I need some information about WINE. In Potato, how stable is WINE? Does it run better than windoze? Also, What's the speed like, is it as fast as the app would run in windoze? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Background mail transfers

2000-07-18 Thread Barry Samuels
I normally work within a window manager environment (mostly KDE) when using Debian Potato and have used KMail to download mail directly from my ISP pop3 accounts. I recently decided to setup fetchmail to poll my pop3 mail servers in the background, download any waiting mail and pass it on to procm

Servlets and Apache

2000-07-18 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi guys I am looking for starting pointers on setting up Servlets on Apache. Anyone got some useful links handy for that? >From what versions on is Apache servlet-capable? Thanks Sven -- The UNIX Guru's view of sex: unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount sleep

Problems with the shaper modules.

2000-07-18 Thread Gianluca Montecchi
Hello. i am trying to set up the shaper modules, following the istructions that I found with the linux kernel, without any success, so I have some questions: - I need in any case two or more network adapter ? (there is nothing to say yes or not into the docs) - I configured ip_alias, ip_forw

Debian + Windows98 on the same large disk problem

2000-07-18 Thread Dimitris Dracopoulos
Hi, I have recently got a new hard disk 40GB, in which I decided to install both Windows98 and Debian, FreeBSD. (I never wanted to install this Win98 stuff on my machine but job matters force...) I repartitioned the hard disk using slink Debian's cfdisk into a first FAT32 partition of 12GB and 3

[OFFTOPIC] Eudora mail client behind MASQ'ing debian?

2000-07-18 Thread Alberto Brealey
i have a client going trough the roof cause she can't send any mail with Eudora (v3.01 or around there). her machine is behind a debian box (potato not-so-current, k2.2.14) which masq's. that potato box is behind another one that masq's her (same potato), which in turn is behind a really old POS s

asking x not to listen on an interface

2000-07-18 Thread Mathew Johnston
I've been lookin in the docs, and I cant find any info on how to do this... I want to stop X from listening on a particular interface... or even stop it from listening on any tcp port at all. I'd prefer that it just use a unix socket or something - something non public. Any ideas? Thanks Mathew J

Re: Old Macs

2000-07-18 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
on 7/18/00 11:05 AM, Sear, Mick at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1) Does anyone know if Linux can be installed on the 7100? MkLinux will work on that box, if I'm not mistaken. See http://mklinux.org> > 2) The built-in ethernet isn't working on the G3, so I want to use a PCI > card. I have an Intel

Old Macs

2000-07-18 Thread Sear, Mick
I have 2 old Macs I'd like to install Linux on: 1) PowerMac 7100 (NuBus) 2) Beige G3 My questions: 1) Does anyone know if Linux can be installed on the 7100? 2) The built-in ethernet isn't working on the G3, so I want to use a PCI card. I have an Intel 10/100 Pro card that I'd like to use. Any

Howto start X server on psuedo-tty or a FIFO

2000-07-18 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
Hi: Is it possible to start the X server (and hence all the apps that run under it) on a psuedo-tty or a FIFO device? When X starts up, it run on tty1 or something like that. I would like to run on a psuedo-tty or a FIFO so that it can receive all input from them. Thanks. -Dinesh __

Re: network/ethernet card configuration problem?

2000-07-18 Thread James Polson
Hi, Thanks to all who answered my call for help! This message here is in response to the one from John Pearson. > Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:15:56 +0930 > From: John Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: network/ethernet card configuration problem? > To:d

RE: Problem with Samba after upgrade to frozen

2000-07-18 Thread Lewis, James M.
> Hi, > > > IIRC, that is a bug with the 2.0.x kernels and the newer samba. > > If you are running a 2.0.x kernel, try changing to a 2.2.x one. > > I am running a 2.0.x kernel. If it's as simple as that, then I'll > certainly > do it (one of the reasons for moving up to frozen was go use the 2.2

Re: kerneld message / Workaround

2000-07-18 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, brian moore wrote: > > > Perhaps you should file a bug on it? > > > > Don't be that fast. > > Why not? A bug is a bug. 'man kerneld' is quite clear that kerneld > should -not- be run on a 2.2 kernel. Yet /etc/init.d/kerneld is quite > happy to run it on a 2.2 kernel bec

Re: What is /dev/log ?

2000-07-18 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, etienne grossmann wrote: > > Hello, > > would anyone know where the file /dev/log comes from? > > >> ls -l /dev/log > srw-rw-rw-1 root root0 Jul 18 07:46 /dev/log > > "RTFM" is an acceptable answer, especially if the man page is > specified. >

Re: I need help please

2000-07-18 Thread Ashley Clark
* Melissa Stirling in "I need help please" dated 2000/07/18 10:22 * wrote: > I have a customer who would like to purchase a Toshiba from me and > intends to run Debian Linux as the operating system. > > His question is this: > > He will either buy the Satellite Pro 4320 or 4270 which have with a

RE: Problem with Samba after upgrade to frozen

2000-07-18 Thread BEL List Manager
Hi, > IIRC, that is a bug with the 2.0.x kernels and the newer samba. > If you are running a 2.0.x kernel, try changing to a 2.2.x one. I am running a 2.0.x kernel. If it's as simple as that, then I'll certainly do it (one of the reasons for moving up to frozen was go use the 2.2 kernel anyway).

Re: Command line setting of background in helix gnome

2000-07-18 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 01:21:02PM +0100, The Flying Hamster wrote: > Anyone know of a command line tool to set the background under > gnome/sawfish? have a look at /usr/X11R6/bin/setup-background from the fvwm-common package. it's windowmanager independend. moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte

Re: kerneld message / Workaround

2000-07-18 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 01:05:42PM +0300, Pavel M. Penev wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, brian moore wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 11:51:06AM +0100, Jonathan Heaney wrote: > > > David Wright wrote: > > > > The scripts /etc/init.d/{kerneld,modutils} have to be able to handle > > > > both

What is /dev/log ?

2000-07-18 Thread etienne grossmann
Hello, would anyone know where the file /dev/log comes from? >> ls -l /dev/log srw-rw-rw-1 root root0 Jul 18 07:46 /dev/log "RTFM" is an acceptable answer, especially if the man page is specified. Cheers, Etienne

RE: Problem with Samba after upgrade to frozen

2000-07-18 Thread Lewis, James M.
> Hi, > > After upgrading to 'frozen' at the weekend, I can't get samba to work. > > Whenever anyone tries to connect, I get an error logged, complaining that > samba can't change the group id (this is in /var/log/smb). It appears to > be > trying to change to the group of the user that is tryi

Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help! (fwd)

2000-07-18 Thread Pavel M. Penev
Subject: Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help! On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Pavel M. Penev wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > > > For the starting of x-windows, I guess you could but startx in .login in > > > the us

Re: Getting apache, PHP3, and PostgreSQL working together.

2000-07-18 Thread Remco Rijnders
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Sullivan wrote: >On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:31:15AM +0200, Remco Rijnders wrote: > >> So now with the cause pinned down, what can I do to fix this? I'd like >> to run potato on this machine but really need version 7.* of >> postgreSQL because of the foreign ke

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 04:24:42PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > For all intention's purposes, there are no Linux virui. Strickly > speaking this is not true -- there have been virii created for Linux in > the past, but they are not 'in the wild'. For those who like a pointless bit of language t

Re: installation startup problems...

2000-07-18 Thread Kai Weber
+ Screwy Squirrel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Howdy all! I'm trying to get Debian installed on my new system. It is an > 800Mhz Athlon on an Asus motherboard. Anyways, when I try to boot off of > the CD(I have Debian 2.1 CDs from LSL, and a 2.1 CD from the Sams book), > the boot up never finishes. >

Re: modem dialin init string

2000-07-18 Thread Kai Weber
+ A. M. Varon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Anybody has a good init string for a v.90 rockwell based modem(dlink > dfm-56E)? this will be used for dialin purposes. Mr. Modem should have one for you: http://www.spy.net/dustin/modem/ Kai. -- + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~bond/

Re: Getting apache, PHP3, and PostgreSQL working together.

2000-07-18 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:31:15AM +0200, Remco Rijnders wrote: > So now with the cause pinned down, what can I do to fix this? I'd like > to run potato on this machine but really need version 7.* of > postgreSQL because of the foreign key support. Would upgrading just > the php3-pgsql package wor

Re: Subject: Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!

2000-07-18 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote: > Hi Pavel, > > Thank you. I would really appreciate it if you can send me your > programs... if you don't mind that is :) > > > > Pavel M. Penev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This here is absolutely wrong. The X11 system uses its own signal

Re: Remote Apps

2000-07-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ethan Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Id like to be able to run ftp and telnet to my home machine from > work...normally this works fine. Today I thought I would just boot up my > home machine to the login and leave it there to save some > processor...theoretically this is supposed to wor

About Staroffice

2000-07-18 Thread nianwei xing
Hi, there: Anyone know where to find the commands for StarMath? I use StarOffice 3.1. Thanks in advance! Nianwei __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/

Re: kerneld message / Workaround

2000-07-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting brian moore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 11:51:06AM +0100, Jonathan Heaney wrote: > > David Wright wrote: > > > The scripts /etc/init.d/{kerneld,modutils} have to be able to handle > > > both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels with kerneld or kmod. You will see they do > > > this by test

Command line setting of background in helix gnome

2000-07-18 Thread The Flying Hamster
Anyone know of a command line tool to set the background under gnome/sawfish? tia -- The Flying Hamster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well not so much flying as sitting on the tube... All computers are evil, just remember that. -- Me.

Re: What is SIOCSIFFLAGS, and when will he be back?

2000-07-18 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Raymond L. Zarling wrote: > Yes, I have booted linux both from a cold start and after running windows, > with no difference. But I guess that indicates some kind of Plug and Play > problem. I don't think that's what's going on in my case, since the dmesg > output (recorded

Re: [Debian]:was machen wenn *.deb zu alt ist?

2000-07-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Im meinem speziellen Fall geht es um alsa. Ich wuerde mir gerne > die 0.5.8 installieren als debianpacket gibt es nur die 0.4.1 $ dpkg -l alsa-base Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Ha

Re: simple grep command twister

2000-07-18 Thread Frodo Baggins
john smith scripsit: >Hi! > mind twister break? >how to use grep to show all the paladrome words in the linux dictionary? > >grep '\(.\)\(.\)\(.\)\3\2\1' \usr\dict\words partly works? You simply can't. period. palindrome (not palandrome) is a context-free concept, that is to say you can't express

Eterm Backspace and Del?

2000-07-18 Thread John Conover
What does one put in MAIN for Eterm to control Backspace and Del keysym's? Thanks, John -- John Conover[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.johncon.com/ 631 Lamont Ct. Tel. 408.370.2688 http://www.johncon.com/ntropix/ Campbell, CA 95008 Fax. 408.379.9602 http:

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Don't think so. I'm administering the Debian boxes myself. It seems > their prime concern (for the moment?) is anti-virus software. A > system that runs any version of Windows 95 or better (is there? ;-) > and has Norton Anti-Virus installed and run

Re: Dialpad - debian firewall

2000-07-18 Thread John Bagdanoff
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 10:00:16PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > I'm using Debian 2.2.15 as a firewall, configuring IPCqHAINS with > PMfirewall. I would like to be able to use Dialpad from my windows machines > but after reading all the info I could find I cannot get it to work. Anyone > ever succee

Turn off delay after failed login?

2000-07-18 Thread Philipp Schulte
Hello, I tried to turn off the delay after a failed login. I changed the line in /etc/login.defs to this: FAIL_DELAY 0 But it is not working. To me it seems like setting it to "1" results in a delay of about two seconds. Is it possible to turn it off or set it to exactly one second?

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread C. Falconer
Okay - call it a Martian[1] solution, but the only way your linux box could hold a virus is if the data was writeable by users. I have 18 Gb of CDROMS shared via samba - the entire partition is mounted read only, and clients can't write to the share anyway. OR the other solution is to run you

I need help please

2000-07-18 Thread Melissa Stirling
I have a customer who would like to purchase a Toshiba from me and intends to run Debian Linux as the operating system. His question is this: He will either buy the Satellite Pro 4320 or 4270 which have with an AGP or PCI 3D Savage graphics card built in, does Debian support this hardware pleas

Re: How do I get mail archives?

2000-07-18 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Bolan Meek wrote: > "Pavel M. Penev" wrote: > > > > (I know you like to help, so here is something to make you feel good... ) > > Well, thank you for the opportunity! > > > Can you, please, inform me on what is the procedure of getting a mail > > archive? What I have foun

Re: Help compiling Xlib

2000-07-18 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > I tried all sorts of combinations but don't seem to be > able to get it going. What is the name of the Xlib > library files? Here are the things I tried. Any other > advice? > > Thanks. > > --- "Pavel M. Penev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >

Re: kerneld message / Workaround

2000-07-18 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, brian moore wrote: > On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 11:51:06AM +0100, Jonathan Heaney wrote: > > David Wright wrote: > > > The scripts /etc/init.d/{kerneld,modutils} have to be able to handle > > > both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels with kerneld or kmod. You will see they do > > > this by te

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