console mutt emacs problem

2000-09-01 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I have a problem using emacs inside of mutt. This has just occured recently. If I try to write an email in mutt the editor is emacs. When I try is now it locks up the console. I have to use 'kill' to free it up again. I can, however, open mutt up through a window in X and get emacs to work as

wmaker menu problem

2000-09-01 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am using potato and windowmaker. I have run into a problem recently where my menu has disappeared. When one right-clicks on the mouse I should have a dialog box appear but nothing happens. Anyone have a clue what I can try to fix the menu? This happens as root or as a user. It has disappeare

Re: Apache

2000-09-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:09:54PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > edit /etc/apache/httpd.conf > > change these to your liking: > MinSpareServers 5 > MaxSpareServers 10 > StartServers 5 > > and do /etc/init.d/apache restart > > see www.apache.org for full docs on what these are, apache has excellent

flushing IPAC ?

2000-09-01 Thread Nate Amsden
Im tryin to get stats on my dsl connection i have 1 rule for incoming and 1 for outgoing: All Incoming Data Traffic|in|216.39.172.116|all|| All Outgoing Data Traffic|out|216.39.172.116|all|| I had a bunch more rules before that but i took them out as i didnt want them anymore, i ran ipacset, and

X login keeps repeating

2000-09-01 Thread Mark Simos
I am messing around with debian 2.2 in a VMware window in my win2k box, so it is all in vga mode and that is cool with me. i do have a weird problem going on though... when i install a window manager (xdm, gdm, etc.): it prompts me for user/pass at boot. I enter it. it prompts me for user/pass I

access to /var/log/messages

2000-09-01 Thread Peter Firmstone
William, The command you need is usermod, add the administrator (adm) group to your user: $ usermod -g [ your main group] -G adm, [other groups you may want to add separated by commas] Your can learn more information about groups and suchlike by looking at the howto's in the /usr/doc/ director

Re: Helix Gnome solved!

2000-09-01 Thread Dale L . Morris
The fault is mine (as usual), there is a second part to the install which entails apt-get install task-helix-gnome, which I'm doing now.. Dale L . Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I always have trouble with Helix Gnome. This time I downloaded > everything using apt-get update. But when I change

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-09-01 Thread Alec Smith
I would doubt there's a text-based version of WordPerfect 8 on any platform... If there is, I'd love to know how to make it work. Until then, I'll stick to WP 5.1/DOS for my work. In a decade of use its never crashed or otherwise let me down. :) On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Fri,

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-09-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:45:51PM -0600, David Karlin wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 05:06:02PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: > > If I could get WP5 for UNIX up on Linux I'd run for it! > > I did my share of editing in Wordperfect, too. > > I suppose you could try running the old DOS version in do

netscape-mozilla problems

2000-09-01 Thread xee
In potato, after dialing with wvdial, I can ping the www.debian.org. But Mozilla doesn't work. It says it cant find www.mozilla.whatever. Also, I can't make netscape work. How do I get a more advanced version than the one that comes with potato? apt-get update netscape doesn't get me anything.

ppp problems

2000-09-01 Thread Rubbish5
Hi, I'm not sure if I sent something to this effect already, I've tried a few lists and I kind of lost track (does anyone ever use debian-isp? I haven't gotten one message from it yet) so I apologize if you've already heard this. --- Begin Message --- Hi, I've been having manymany problems with

Re: Helix Gnome

2000-09-01 Thread Dale L . Morris
I always have trouble with Helix Gnome. This time I downloaded everything using apt-get update. But when I change my .xsession file to read gnome-session, I'm back into the old gnome desktop that came with 2.2. What am I doing wrong now? I'm running potato, but that shouldn't make a difference, cor

Localhost port connection problem

2000-09-01 Thread Gauthaman Ravindran
Hello, all: On one of my machines, which I call "lear", I am running Apache with the Jserv module. The Jserv module works by accepting requests on port 8007 on localhost. And it works -- sometimes. This machine is connected via a hub to another Linux box (called "router") acting as

Unattended cable modem server - APM required...

2000-09-01 Thread Hogan
One of my jobs has a cable modem attached to a computer in a public demo area.. This server has two network cards and is currently being trialled running WinProxy. As the machine is in a demo area - and is indeed a demo model, its configuration is frequently stuffed by various people installing he

Potato Creams Kernel. Film at 11:00

2000-09-01 Thread Nick Cook
Sigh. This is a frustrated vent, so feel free to move on... Just did the apt-get upgrade from slink to potato. 1. The install process failed with a "depend" something error (I've had to decamp to another computer, for reasons you'll see below). I can't get any more info than that from dpkg or ap

Re: access to /var/log/messages

2000-09-01 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:05:47PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Greetings Debians, > > I'd like to give access to the directory /var/log/messages to my user > account so I can watch what messages are being displayed there. I'd > do this with tail -f /var/log/messages. Problem is my user accnt

Re: FAQ-O-Matic (was: Re: join us!)

2000-09-01 Thread Joey Hess
John Hasler wrote: > Paul D. Smith writes: > > For the second, it's fine for me for small editing jobs; > > I find it frustrating for anything. > > > I do the work in my editor and paste the results into the window. > > I hadn't tried that. I'd rather just download the file, edit it, and then >

CAP calendar client?

2000-09-01 Thread Greg Baker
Does there exist a calendar client that can talk to a remote calendar server with CAP (Calendar Access Protocol)? I'd like to work with the Sun Calendar server at work from home. There seems to be an aborted attemt by the Mozilla group and good intentions by Helixcode to add this functionality to

Re: Can Mondo be used over lan

2000-09-01 Thread Peter Firmstone
Hugo Rabson wrote: > Mondo can't do anything over a LAN - not yet, anyway - but he _could_ back up > a Linux (or Windows) PC with Mondo, burn several CDs of the resultant ISO > file, then restore several PCs at once. > > So long as they all can boot from CDs, there should be no problem. :) > > B

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-09-01 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
aside from the need to spell check my outgoing messages, I have one more thing to add :) If you have the kernel sources you can find the magic recipe for /dev/* in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt you still need support compiled into the kernel or a module to use the device of course. -Jo

Re: ReadmeName and HeaderName in Apache

2000-09-01 Thread Nate Amsden
the users of the list have NO power to unsubscribe you you must do it yourself nate felix opare wrote: > > please unsubscribe me. I do not want to be part of this anymore > > -Original Message- > From: Mike Brownlow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 1:35 PM >

multi line isdn

2000-09-01 Thread Attila Csosz
I've connect with ISDN to the internet. I've 128K capable line(s) but I've only 64K connection. I've the following devices/files in /etc/isdn total 45 -rw-r--r--1 root root12080 ÁPR 9 02:09 device.ippp0 -rw-r--r--1 root root 8134 ÁPR 18 14:46 init.d.functions -r

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-09-01 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
man mknod then ls -l /dev/null on a working linux box I'm not the kind of guy who just sreams RTFM all the time so here's the long(er) version... [EMAIL PROTECTED] jon]$ ls -l /dev/null crw-rw-rw-1 root root 1, 3 May 11 21:08 /dev/null ^ ^^

Re: Strange KDE2 Language Problem after recent update, help pls.

2000-09-01 Thread Danny Pansters
I run kde2 from the deb packages provided at kde.tdyc.com, I use apt to update them, kde2 works well (bit slow though). Did you try to dpkg --purge any international kde packages (the ones that are about other charsets/languages)? I think something might be broken there (?) -- Danny Pansters [

RE: ReadmeName and HeaderName in Apache

2000-09-01 Thread felix opare
please unsubscribe me. I do not want to be part of this anymore -Original Message- From: Mike Brownlow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 1:35 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ReadmeName and HeaderName in Apache Amir Ish-Hurwitz wrote: > Hi, > > Bo

Strange KDE2 Language Problem after recent update, help pls.

2000-09-01 Thread Todd Suess
Greetings, I have been running KDE2 and Woody for some time now with no problems, however after a recent update, several things happened. First of all, my console keymap got changed to a non us one, so I could not login. Once I figured out what was happening, I determined how my keyboard was

Re: linux telephony?

2000-09-01 Thread Danny Pansters
This might have been said earlier in this thread (in which case I apologise), but I think there is a HOWTO on Linux Telephony.. $ cd /usr/doc/HOWTO/en-txt $ zless LINUX_TELEPHONY_OR_THE_LIKE.gz I don't think it's trivial though. Dan -- Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ricin.com

test

2000-09-01 Thread Attila
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Re: What are the Essential Packages?

2000-09-01 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sat, 02 Sep 2000, I. Tura wrote: > The fastest way I use is: > > > Download the file /dists/stable/main/binary-i386*/Packages.gz > > *Or your architecture > > Uncompress it and search there the packages you'll need. keywords: > sawmill > or wmaker for the window managers, for

RE: Please remove me from the subscription list......

2000-09-01 Thread Ronald Castillo
Just send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the SUBJECT. Leave the body blank. That should do it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 11:16 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.or

Re: Please remove me from the subscription list......

2000-09-01 Thread John Hasler
Pollywog writes: > U Just follow the instructions below, which appear at the bottom > of all posts. Just how do you propose that he do that, running Windows as he is? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Please remove me from the subscription list......

2000-09-01 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sat, 02 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote: > On 01-Sep-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please remove me from the subscription list.Thank > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > U Just follow the instructions below, which appear at the bottom > of all posts. > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -

RE: Linux crashed a lot - more info

2000-09-01 Thread Larry Elmore
> From: John Reinke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Larry Elmore wrote: > > > Did you try replacing the power supply? This sounds suspiciously like an > > almost-good power supply. That is one item that one should > _never_ skimp on, > > but a lot of low-end clones do to save a fe

Re: ReadmeName and HeaderName in Apache

2000-09-01 Thread Mike Brownlow
Amir Ish-Hurwitz wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Thanks, it works fine! Also as a general config, not just for a specific > directory! But how come? Shouldn't it have worked without forcing the > type? I'll look into it... > > Amir Yeah, it used to work ok. I think some function is not setting the content

Re: FTP and Firewall

2000-09-01 Thread Danny Pansters
On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Christoph Simon wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've three machines behind a firewall provided by IP Masquerading (all > > machines running Potato). One of this machines is a web server updated > > by Windows Users by FTP. > > > > The problem is that conections provided inside a IP

RE: Please remove me from the subscription list......

2000-09-01 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Sep-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please remove me from the subscription list.Thank > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > U Just follow the instructions below, which appear at the bottom of all posts. > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null

Please remove me from the subscription list......

2000-09-01 Thread m5d4
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Re: FTP and Firewall

2000-09-01 Thread Mike Phillips
> > The problem is that conections provided inside a IP Masquerading > environment can't transfer files. But in your homes (using a real IP > connection) he can. > > Any hints? > Have you tried using passive mode to transfer the files ? Mike

Re: linuxconf problems

2000-09-01 Thread Mike Phillips
Did you log in as a regular user and su to root and then try to run linuxconf. If so you need to allow root to access the X server, either log in as root or as a regular user type xhosts + which will allow any user to run an X app on the original users X session. Mike

Re: Directory always defaults to /usr/bin

2000-09-01 Thread Kent Pirkle
> Have a look in your ~/.gnome directory and see if you can find any > configuration files for the panel which have /usr/bin/ in them, this > might be your problem. You could probably start by doing an rgrep for > /usr/bin/ in ~/.gnome and see what you come up with (I have no idea what > file I cha

Problems with dell serial terminal

2000-09-01 Thread Colin McDowall
Hi. I have an old dell mt-15 serial terminal that i am trying to use with my debian box. There was no terminfo for mt-15 but the terminal could be set to emulate a tvi925. I added a getty line to inittab, sorted out all the baud and text bits. Everything is fine but it is printing an extra bla

Re: Apache

2000-09-01 Thread Nate Amsden
edit /etc/apache/httpd.conf change these to your liking: MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 10 StartServers 5 and do /etc/init.d/apache restart see www.apache.org for full docs on what these are, apache has excellent documentation nate Daniel E Baumann wrote: > > Hello list. I was wondering if

Apache

2000-09-01 Thread Daniel E Baumann
Hello list. I was wondering if anyone knows off hand how I could make apache not spawn so many slave processes. When it first starts up it spawns sbout 6 processes. The reason being is that I am running it on my own machine and it only has 64MB RAM. I noticed that when I accees a PHP script it spa

Re: FTP and Firewall

2000-09-01 Thread Christoph Simon
> Hi all, > > I've three machines behind a firewall provided by IP Masquerading (all > machines running Potato). One of this machines is a web server updated > by Windows Users by FTP. > > The problem is that conections provided inside a IP Masquerading > environment can't transfer files. But in

RE: ReadmeName and HeaderName in Apache

2000-09-01 Thread Amir Ish-Hurwitz
Hi Mike, Thanks, it works fine! Also as a general config, not just for a specific directory! But how come? Shouldn't it have worked without forcing the type? I'll look into it... Amir Mike Brownlow wrote: > Amir Ish-Hurwitz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Both ReadmeName and HeaderName somehow don't work

Re: linux telephony?

2000-09-01 Thread I. Tura
There was something at the pages of Linux under Winmodems... One of the most famous... One of the persons that wrote that was a Quake programmer, like John Carmack or similar name... Didn't payed much attention because although I have _two_ winmodems (yes, feel free to insult) I don't have

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-09-01 Thread I. Tura
Don't know about WP8 running under GNU/L, but if it converts and saves WP5.1 documents with the same grace and style as WP8 for Windoze, no great deal. (Personal note: I was a fan of DOS WP5.1 and continued the useless trend of upgrading until I got tired as I wanted some decent co

Re: What are the Essential Packages?

2000-09-01 Thread I. Tura
The fastest way I use is: Download the file /dists/stable/main/binary-i386*/Packages.gz *Or your architecture Uncompress it and search there the packages you'll need. keywords: sawmill or wmaker for the window managers, for example. You'll need the packages that

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-09-01 Thread David Karlin
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 05:06:02PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: > If I could get WP5 for UNIX up on Linux I'd run for it! I did my share of editing in Wordperfect, too. I suppose you could try running the old DOS version in dosemu. (Don't know about licensing issues, though.) -- David Karlin [EMAI

RE: Linux crashed a lot - more info

2000-09-01 Thread John Reinke
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Larry Elmore wrote: > Did you try replacing the power supply? This sounds suspiciously like an > almost-good power supply. That is one item that one should _never_ skimp on, > but a lot of low-end clones do to save a few bucks. Of course, there's other > possible causes. My wif

Re: sound blaster live

2000-09-01 Thread Wilson Fung
No, sblive uses the emu10k1 chip set which for the longest time was not supported. But thanks to David Bellows's suggestion, I finally got it working by downloading the unstable release of the alsa debian packages. I'm not sure about SB Live, but shouldn't it also work as es1371 just like

FTP and Firewall

2000-09-01 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I've three machines behind a firewall provided by IP Masquerading (all machines running Potato). One of this machines is a web server updated by Windows Users by FTP. The problem is that conections provided inside a IP Masquerading environment can't transfer files. But in your homes (usin

Re: keyboardless operation

2000-09-01 Thread Lazar Fleysher
It stops after "Console: colour VGA+ 80x25"... basically the first boot message.. On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > where does the system stop booting ? i have many machines without a > keyboard running they run fine. i read that linux 2.4 is including new > code to enable systems withouy

Re: /etc/passwd & user IRC

2000-09-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > hmm will it be fixed or isn't it treated as a bug ? dpkg -s only knows about a file if it is actually in a package. /etc/passwd is not contained in one package. The installation creates it, then base-passwd updates it. This is not a bug.

RE: Linux crashed a lot - more info

2000-09-01 Thread Larry Elmore
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This is scary. I had a problem similar to this on my old work > computer. Netscape > would crash all the time, xterms wouldn't start, library errors, compiling > errors, ftp checksums incorrect, etc. The system never crashed > but was very > unreliable. Turns out the m

Re: fetchmail errors when my Netscape mails to @3rvs.com

2000-09-01 Thread Nate Amsden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Exim is rejecting the mail because of the trailing . in the domain name > of the sender. This is perhaps a bit picky, but seems reasonable (I > haven't actually checked the specs to see if the trailing . is allowed). it is allowed, i read about something like this(unre

Re: /etc/passwd & user IRC

2000-09-01 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> On 01-Sep-2000 Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar wrote: -> > Hello, -> > -> > I was searching for UID of irc user (some time ago I've seen such user -> > exists); now I can't find it. adding of irc package runs adduser -> > --system which is nice but I don't prefer that method (some UIDs were -> > alrea

Re: keyboardless operation

2000-09-01 Thread Nate Amsden
where does the system stop booting ? i have many machines without a keyboard running they run fine. i read that linux 2.4 is including new code to enable systems withouyt keyboards to boot..probably a kernel workaround for what the bios should handle on it's own(and does handle on the vast majority

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-09-01 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:09:05PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:09:21PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > > Not to be mean or anything, but FYI fetchmail can be made > > silent with "-s": > > -s, --silent work silently > > > > But then again, you probably already kn

keyboardless operation

2000-09-01 Thread Lazar Fleysher
HI I would like to operate a machine without a keyboard (in server mode) The keyboard is disabled in bios, but the system does not boot without it. Should I compile the kernel in a special way? Thank you Lazar Take these b

Re: ReadmeName and HeaderName in Apache

2000-09-01 Thread Mike Brownlow
Amir Ish-Hurwitz wrote: > Hi, > > Both ReadmeName and HeaderName somehow don't work in my Apache. Nothing > is appended to any directory listing while README and HEADER exist in the > relevant directory and are readable to all users. I have Apache 1.3.9, > Apache-SSL 1.3.9 (both Debian packages)

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-09-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 11:46:54AM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote: > wow, what a great explanation! (after reading the initial posting, i > wondered what > does /dev/null do? (which was the question i was going to post.) then i read > man > "null," and thought, "okay, that's what 'null' does." th

Re: Followup: access to /var/log/messages

2000-09-01 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:49:05PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > I used adduser adm and it worked like a charm. My question is why > does it work? The folder /var/log is owned by root and has root group. Why > does adm have rights to that...how does that all fit together? If you do

ReadmeName and HeaderName in Apache

2000-09-01 Thread Amir Ish-Hurwitz
Hi, Both ReadmeName and HeaderName somehow don't work in my Apache. Nothing is appended to any directory listing while README and HEADER exist in the relevant directory and are readable to all users. I have Apache 1.3.9, Apache-SSL 1.3.9 (both Debian packages) and Apache 1.3.12 (compiled myself).

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-09-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:09:21PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:35:46PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > > what's redirecting to '/dev/null' good for? here's > > an example. if you're not running 'fetchmail' as its > > own background daemon, to yank your email from various

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-09-01 Thread Mike Werner
Ian Zimmerman wrote: > I tried both KDE and Gnome; in fact I tried installing Gnome multiple > times, and always came to the same conclusion (which is: I run KDE :). > The problem I have with Gnome is a bit subtle, and not obvious to > someone who's installing Linux or even a Linux GUI for the fir

RE: /etc/passwd & user IRC

2000-09-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Sep-2000 Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar wrote: > Hello, > > I was searching for UID of irc user (some time ago I've seen such user > exists); now I can't find it. adding of irc package runs adduser --system > which is nice but I don't prefer that method (some UIDs were already > allocated for som

Re: sound blaster live

2000-09-01 Thread Danny Pansters
I'm not sure about SB Live, but shouldn't it also work as es1371 just like SB128? or does it have a different chipset? -- Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ricin.com

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-09-01 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Felix" == Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Helgi> Of course it depends on who you ask.:-) Generally I like Helgi> KDE because it is locical in so many ways, but I don't like how Helgi> big it is and therefore takes a lot of resources, and it's not Helgi> 'free'. Gnome is faster

Followup: access to /var/log/messages

2000-09-01 Thread William Jensen
I usually add myself to the adm group. That way, I get access to the file /var/log/messages. You can use either adduser or usermod utilities. The latter can mess thigs up if you don't list your groups carefully -- read the man pages. Andrew, I used adduser adm and it worked like a charm. My

Debian site

2000-09-01 Thread mheyes
Looks like they're back up now.

/etc/passwd & user IRC

2000-09-01 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
Hello, I was searching for UID of irc user (some time ago I've seen such user exists); now I can't find it. adding of irc package runs adduser --system which is nice but I don't prefer that method (some UIDs were already allocated for some users sometie ago, why not to use them?). dpkg -S /etc/pa

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-09-01 Thread Danny Pansters
On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Will Trillich wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 08:58:43PM -0700, Jeremiah Hunter Savage wrote: > > Okay, > > > > This is definitely a newbie question. I keep on reading about sending > > things to /dev/null. So I thought I would give a try: > > > > mv file /dev/null > > > > Yes

Re: Debian site down?

2000-09-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Geordie Birch: > THUS SPAKE Miquel van Smoorenburg, on Sep 1: > > > > You can use one of the mirrors, ofcourse. www..debian.org > > doesn't work for the canadian one: http://www.ca.debian.org is in chinese. > there are a lot of chinese speakers in canada but i don't think that's the

Re: RealTek NIC card problem

2000-09-01 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hello everybody, > > I have a machine running 2.0.36 kernel and a RealTek 8139B card installed. > When I sit at the consol, everything is fine, however, if I connect to the > machine via, say ssh, and run netscape, the network card stop

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-09-01 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:35:46PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > what's redirecting to '/dev/null' good for? here's > an example. if you're not running 'fetchmail' as its > own background daemon, to yank your email from various > servers, you can have cron do it for you. the thing is, > you get lot

Re: wvdial

2000-09-01 Thread John Hasler
Rubbish5 writes: > I linked ttyS14 to my /dev/modem (or maybe the other way around, either > way I did it out of a book, so I know it's right :-) The book is wrong. Use the ttyS* device directly. Don't use the traditional /dev/modem link (that doesn't account for your problem, though). Where is

RealTek NIC card problem

2000-09-01 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hello everybody, I have a machine running 2.0.36 kernel and a RealTek 8139B card installed. When I sit at the consol, everything is fine, however, if I connect to the machine via, say ssh, and run netscape, the network card stops responding and on the consol I see the message: eth0: Transmit time

Re: Linux crashed a lot - more info

2000-09-01 Thread John Reinke
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is scary. I had a problem similar to this on my old work computer. > Netscape > would crash all the time, xterms wouldn't start, library errors, compiling > errors, ftp checksums incorrect, etc. The system never crashed but was very > unreliable.

access to /var/log/messages

2000-09-01 Thread William Jensen
Greetings Debians, I'd like to give access to the directory /var/log/messages to my user account so I can watch what messages are being displayed there. I'd do this with tail -f /var/log/messages. Problem is my user accnt has no permissions on that directory. I could change the permissions on t

Patching the kernel

2000-09-01 Thread Michael Epting
I'm trying to apply the IDE patch so I can get UDMA with my ASUS P5A (Aladdin chipset) motherboard. I know how to build a kernel using make-dpkg and I have successfully applied patches also, but I have not before used a Debian kernel-patch deb. The docs are giving me a splitting headache. I'm t

Re: Debian site down?

2000-09-01 Thread Geordie Birch
THUS SPAKE Geordie Birch, on Sep 1: > THUS SPAKE Miquel van Smoorenburg, on Sep 1: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 10:17:44AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > >> Is the www.debian.org down for long? (do you know

Re: Linux crashed a lot - more info

2000-09-01 Thread Scott_Patterson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/01/2000 12:08:02 PM This is scary. I had a problem similar to this on my old work computer. Netscape would crash all the time, xterms wouldn't start, library errors, compiling errors, ftp checksums incorrect, etc. The system never crashed but was very unreliable. Turns

wvdial

2000-09-01 Thread Rubbish5
Hi, The story thus far: I'm using Debian 2.1. I loaded up the ltmodem.o driver and all that's working just perfectly. I linked ttyS14 to my /dev/modem (or maybe the other way around, either way I did it out of a book, so I know it's right :-) The problem is, when I run wvdial, it displays a f

Re: Debian site down?

2000-09-01 Thread Geordie Birch
THUS SPAKE Miquel van Smoorenburg, on Sep 1: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 10:17:44AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > >> Is the www.debian.org down for long? (do you know?) > > > >according to a mail in debian-dev until

Re: Install of 2.2 not recognising Compaq Array

2000-09-01 Thread staf wagemakers
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 10:43:23AM +0100, Tony Holroyd wrote: > I am installing Debian 2.2 on a Compaq Proliant 800 with a p200 MMX > processor (1998 vintage) > The CD boots ok but does not recognise the Smart 2dh Array. (I know the > array works because the Novel 3.2 can still see it) Debian has

Re: fetchmail errors when my Netscape mails to @3rvs.com

2000-09-01 Thread mheyes
I noticed the trailing "." as well. Is the sending system you refer to the remote system at the where the mail is being stored (ISP) or the mail agent I'm using (Netscape)? I'll look into rewrite options in the exim configuration file as well. Michael Heyes Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-09-01 Thread Felix Natter
Helgi Örn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > Of course it depends on who you ask.:-) > Generally I like KDE because it is locical in so many ways, but I don't > like how big it is and therefore takes a lot of resources, and it's not > 'free'. > Gnome is faster (for me) but I got problems

Re: groaster - missing libgtkmm

2000-09-01 Thread Felix Natter
"Greg Strockbine." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been using linux less than a week. > Last night I wanted to burn a CD, I thought > a front end to cdrecord would be nice. > I went after groaster_0.2513.2.deb, an > unstable package. > > everything was going cool till it got to > libgtkmm,

Re: jdk1.2 deb package

2000-09-01 Thread Felix Natter
Thomas Kirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joerg Mueller wrote: > > > Hi! > > I'm developing in Java and need at least jdk1.2, 1.3 would be better. Is > > there any .deb package for this available? I can only find jdk1.1. Until > > now I took the tarball from blackdown and installed it under /us

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-09-01 Thread Ted Harding
On 01-Sep-00 Paul Seelig wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 11:38:19AM -0400, Joseph C. Tuttle wrote: >> >> I've heard this before, but I haven't been able to find WP 5.x on >> either of the two WP 8 CDs I have. >> > It is only included in the retail server edition. Check for yourself > at "http:/

Re: sound blaster live

2000-09-01 Thread Wilson Fung
I thought that was the case, (not knowing how to recompile the kernel yet) and I just installed the base, I just went and reinstalled the base with those support, so I believe they're compiled in the kernel now, but I still get the same messages. Le 2000-09-01 00:15:33 +, Wilson Fung écr

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2000-09-01 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
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Re: Potato or Woody

2000-09-01 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: cwa> I see all of the code names "Potato & Woody" mentioned in cwa> a lot of the discussions. Who is newer, Potato or Woody? cwa> How do I know which version that I just got in the mail? cwa> My "official" CD's indicate that I have Ve

make-kpkg problem

2000-09-01 Thread Larry Holish
I just upgraded from slink to potato rather successfully. I am having a problem upgrading my kernel from 2.0.38 to 2.2.17. I installed kernel-package, and grabbed the Debian kernel-source-2.2.17 package, unzipped/untarred it from /usr/src, creating the new directory /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17.

Re: Potato or Woody

2000-09-01 Thread Michael Smith
Woody is the development version Potato is the stable version, also called version 2.2. If you're looking for stability and reliability for a production machine (high-availability webserver), go for potato. If you want the "bleeding edge", go for woody. Or, if you're completely insane, like me,

Re: Potato or Woody

2000-09-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
Debian 2.2 is potato. Woody is the current "unstable" version, which will receive a number when it is released. On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 01:41:30PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > I'm obviously a Debian newbie, although I've been using > Linux and FreeBSD for several years as a "home workstat

Re: Potato or Woody

2000-09-01 Thread Nate Amsden
woody is newer, but it is "unstable" potato is the current stable(only a few weeks old) i'd highly reccomend sticking to potato and only installing individual woody packages if they are not in potato unless you want to get into some testing, as woody is evolving all the time. right now woody/potat

Potato or Woody

2000-09-01 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
Sorry if this is a repeat, I lost my phone connection just I mailed this off. I'm obviously a Debian newbie, although I've been using Linux and FreeBSD for several years as a "home workstation". I see all of the code names "Potato & Woody" mentioned in a lot of the discussions. Who is newer, Po

Potato or Woody

2000-09-01 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I'm obviously a Debian newbie, although I've been using Linux and FreeBSD for several years as a "home workstation". I see all of the code names "Potato & Woody" mentioned in a lot of the discussions. Who is newer, Potato or Woody? How do I know which version that I just got in the mail? My "off

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