Re: new machine: what's wrong?

2000-10-23 Thread Jack
Thanks for the reply! However, I've already tried that with no luck. The installation (boot from cd) of Debian and Redhat 7.0 failed with same kind of error message. BTW, my old machine is not so old indeed, PII 400. On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:39:21PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Thats mos

Re: Debian and Red Hat togheter

2000-10-23 Thread Scott V. McGuire
Sharing /home isn't so hard if there are only a few users. I do it at home where there is just me and (occasionally) my wife. I have thought of sharing /opt and perhaps /usr/local, but have been worried that in addition to the stuff that I install by hand some rpms or debs will put stuff there.

Re: root's PATH

2000-10-23 Thread CaT
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 09:22:08PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > Hi, I'm having some weirdness happening with root on my system. In > root's .bashrc file I set his PATH with: > PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin > export PATH > This works fine when he is just working in a gnome-terminal or > s

root's PATH

2000-10-23 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I'm having some weirdness happening with root on my system. In root's .bashrc file I set his PATH with: PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin export PATH This works fine when he is just working in a gnome-terminal or something, but when he works in the console, $HOME/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin don't ge

RE: Sendmail and Virtual Domains

2000-10-23 Thread Tom Warfield
Alright finaly i figured it out... I had astcorp.com in the from field in my rules so even though it was suppost to overide that, for some reason it did not. Tom -Original Message- From: Tom Warfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 10:36 PM To: Debian Users Group

Re: adding ftp user

2000-10-23 Thread Mario Zuppini
Does anyone know on the topic of ftp security, how we can limit the ftp user that log's in to stay in the home dir you assign them, and not be able to move up the directory tree ? - Original Message - From: "Nate Amsden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, Octo

Re: deb package documentation

2000-10-23 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:42:05AM -0700, Stephen nyc wrote: > I'm actually looking for the installation and > configuration documentation in the package ipmasq.deb. > I want to have it read and noted before I even try to > install debian and set it up. i've had occasion to wish i could've read th

Re: recommendation of software to use for web-based systems?

2000-10-23 Thread Stan Kaufman
LTG wrote: > > I just setup the most recent ver. of potato at home. I also have two NT > machines. I want to setup my linux box as a intranet server and build a > web-based system on top of it using all free or almost free software. It > should include a database (like oracle), a middle tier, li

Re: new machine: what's wrong?

2000-10-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Thats most likely because you are booting a system that was build on your old box...different hardware, totally. I've had something like that happen to me when I booted a kernel from old system into new one (different architectures, 486->Pentium). System booted, but behaved very badly. Same story w

new machine: what's wrong?

2000-10-23 Thread Jack
Hi, Frustrated with my new machine. It's a self-assembled machine and it's the first one I've made. (PIII, PC133, 128M mem) Tried to boot from the my old hard-disk, which has Win98, Win2k, Debian installed on it. Win98 could be booted into DOS mode just fine. Win98 itself (even safe mode) an

Sendmail and Virtual Domains

2000-10-23 Thread Tom Warfield
Okay i thought at first, hey this looks easyso hrmmm why the heck aint it working :) Here is what is going on. I have a virtual domain that i want my astcorp.com server to host the email for. So with that in mind I have it working properly, well at least somewhat properly. If you send a email

Re: adding ftp user

2000-10-23 Thread Nate Amsden
William Jensen wrote: > > I've just installed ftpd from the stable potato packages. Anonymous ftp > cannot log in because ftp user does not exist. I've setup a chroot jail > in /home/ftp. What's the best way to add user ftp in a security conscious > way. I tried useradd ftp, then in /etc/passw

Problem with desktop icons

2000-10-23 Thread Casey Henderson
Hi all, I have a weird problem in GNOME. The icons for my desktop shortcuts keep changing back to the default icon (a piece of paper) for no reason. I didn't do anything (that I'm aware of) to change the icons, they just all got reset by themselves. When I try to change them, it won't work. I

Re: How to get more screensavers for Windowmaker

2000-10-23 Thread Pat Mahoney
Please don't send html emails (use plain old ascii). Those screensaver programs are in the xlockmore package afaik. Either install this package, or, if it is installed, try running update-menus. -- Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For children with short attention spans: boomerangs that don

Re: installing MATLAB

2000-10-23 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 05:39:49PM -0700, Prof. Le Baron O. Ferguson wrote: > Trying to do an install from the CDROM for v. 5.3 of MATLAB I can > not > get started. I get an error message: > can't load library 'libXt.so.6' > I find this library at /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6. I put a link to it

Re: Cable Modem

2000-10-23 Thread Alvin Smith
Thanks. I printed out and read those last week. I am having problems compiling the programs that come in the sb1000-1.1.2.tar. All of the instructions seem to be for older kernels without cablemodem support. From what I was able to gather, potato has support for cm in the kernel. Is that why I

Re: Cable Modem

2000-10-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
You need to read Cable-HOWTO and Ethernet-HOWTO in order to find your NIC-specific information (NICs distributed by cable companies may not work out of the box). Other than that, get NIC working properly (proper kernel modules), fire up dhcp client of your choice with hostname you were given, and i

Re: fullscreen video playback

2000-10-23 Thread matt garman
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:42:03PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > without proper video acceleration in X this is not > > possible/reccomended. try using the double option in mpegtv and you'll see > > Well, if you define a videomode closer to t

Cable Modem

2000-10-23 Thread Alvin Smith
Hello. Is there anything special that I need to know in order to get a sb1000 cable modem to work under potato? Alvin Smith

RE: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-23 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
If you have got the correct modules loaded...you'd need to chmod your /dev/dsp and /dev/audio to allow your username write access to the devices.try chmod 666 on the above devices! HTH, YMMV Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL P

RE: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-23 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
What I normally do is cp the .Xauthority from /home/ to /root and starting X as root would then be okHowever, I am unsure whether this would compromise certain security features, etcCan anyone on the list comment on this method? Not sure about the sound card problem...what does your lsmod

adding ftp user

2000-10-23 Thread William Jensen
I've just installed ftpd from the stable potato packages. Anonymous ftp cannot log in because ftp user does not exist. I've setup a chroot jail in /home/ftp. What's the best way to add user ftp in a security conscious way. I tried useradd ftp, then in /etc/passwd I changed it's shell to /bin/fa

recommendation of software to use for web-based systems?

2000-10-23 Thread LTG
I just setup the most recent ver. of potato at home. I also have two NT machines. I want to setup my linux box as a intranet server and build a web-based system on top of it using all free or almost free software. It should include a database (like oracle), a middle tier, like weblogic, and a web

ppp and pppoe packages for Debian 2.1 (slink) users

2000-10-23 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Howdy, folks! I realized today that there's a need for PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet) packages for Debian 2.1 (slink) i386, as I couldn't find any online. I built up-to-date pppoe (and ppp, which it needs a newer version of) packages in a slink chroot, and I've uploaded them to: http://people.debian.o

How to get more screensavers for Windowmaker

2000-10-23 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hello I had a lot of screensaver installed on my windowmaker before to upgrade to potato, do you know how to reinstall those again? In my screen->lock menu I have any screensaver. Thanks -- Rogelio E. Castillo  

Re: fullscreen video playback

2000-10-23 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > without proper video acceleration in X this is not > possible/reccomended. try using the double option in mpegtv and you'll see Well, if you define a videomode closer to the resolution of the video you're playing, SDL fullscreen mode should switch th

installing MATLAB

2000-10-23 Thread Prof. Le Baron O. Ferguson
Trying to do an install from the CDROM for v. 5.3 of MATLAB I can not get started. I get an error message: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' I find this library at /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6. I put a link to it in /usr/X11R6 but that did not help. I would appreciate any suggestions as to what

Console new mail notification

2000-10-23 Thread Aaron Brashears
I'm running debian stable, and I've set up procmail to filter messages into appropriate mailboxes. However, now that almost all mail is filtered into /home/gila/Mail, none of it winds up in /var/... so console mail notification doesn't work correctly. Is there any way to configure bash to check i

Re: Netscape error: "The security library has experienced an error."

2000-10-23 Thread Mark Phillips
I solved my problem. I needed to configure SSL-v3 differently. Cheers, Mark. Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to download some software from the Australian Tax Office, > but when I clicked on the button to download, it gave the error: > > The security library has experi

Re: Netscape error: "The security library has experienced an error."

2000-10-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
first check www.fortify.net and click on SSL check check to make sure your using 128bit ssl not 40bit, that could cause the error. if you are using 40bit then upgrade tot he latest (using apt) to netscape 4.75(or is it .76 ?) or download fority's patch for 4.73 i believe they stiull jhave them av

Re: fullscreen video playback

2000-10-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
without proper video acceleration in X this is not possible/reccomended. try using the double option in mpegtv and you'll see what i mean. even on my p3-800 512MB with voodoo3 in 16bit doublesize in mpegtv on a 30fps mpeg is pretty much unbearable. by comparison back in 1996 i had a #9 imagine 128

fullscreen video playback

2000-10-23 Thread matt garman
Hello: Is there any way that I can play video on my Linux system in *fullscreen* mode? By fullscreen, I mean that the images are scaled to the size of my entire screen. I have smpeg (plaympeg) version 0.4.0 and SDL version 1.1.5 as well as mtvp (MpegTV) version 1.1.0.7 on my system. They both

Re: duplicating setup machine

2000-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 03:30:35PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: duplicating setup machine > Date: Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 02:14:38PM -0400 > > In reply to:John Chambers > > Quoting John Chambers([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > What are the easy ways to duplicate an existing > > setup d

Re: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:10:01PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > When trying to start emacs out of a xterm with su permissions the > system complaines: > > MINI:/home/rland# emacs > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > emacs: Ca

trois bons logiciels en shareware

2000-10-23 Thread tt
@alWay Software est une socité spécialisée dans la conception et le développement de logiciels pour l'Internet, à ce titre nous vous présentons nos dernières créations:

Re: Anyone using 2.2 (potato) with an AMD 486 DX4?

2000-10-23 Thread Jacob Nevins
Yesterday I wrote: > If so, are you able to successfully compile e.g. kernels with the > supplied gcc (2.95.2)? I'd be interested in positive or negative > replies to rule out potential causes of a problem I'm having. Er, never mind, I fixed it by reseating everything. It's a bit odd that only one

Re: Apt-getable CD-ROMs

2000-10-23 Thread Jesse Goerz
Just wanted to add one more thing to this post that may help others trying to do the same thing. I ran man apt-move which led me to a couple of scripts that worked great for generating the packages.gz files necessary to make apt-getable cd-roms. (in case the program you want to backup and make ap

most install problems

2000-10-23 Thread kmself
Just a heads-up, I've noticed problems in post-install for the most package under Woody in recent days. I didn't explore, but a script was creating a subshell and not exiting. This produced a number of interesting side effects: - Subsequent apt or dpkg operations failed with conflict messages

problems with ippp0

2000-10-23 Thread Stephan Kiesel
hello, i configured my isdn card as /dev/ippp0 and every 10 minutes without any activity, ippp0 connect to my isp-nameserver. I plan to configure this host as internet gateway. I don´t want to start or stop the device everytime i´m going online. tia Stephan

Netscape error: "The security library has experienced an error."

2000-10-23 Thread Mark Phillips
I am trying to download some software from the Australian Tax Office, but when I clicked on the button to download, it gave the error: The security library has experienced an error. You will probably be unable to connect to this site securely. Does anyone know what's wrong? I am using Netsca

Apt source for nonus...?

2000-10-23 Thread Jan- Hendrik Palic
Hi to all... I've git a stupi question, but the default- source in Apt's sources.list for non-us - Software doesn't work. May anyone mail me, what I should add to sources.list for non-us - Software? thnx Jan -- One time, you all will be emulated by linux! Jan- Hendrik Palic Url:"http:/

Re: deb package documentation

2000-10-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:42:05AM -0700, Stephen nyc wrote: > I'm actually looking for the installation and > configuration documentation in the package ipmasq.deb. > I want to have it read and noted before I even try to > install debian and set it up. I don't know how you'd open the package to r

Re: where is old (3.2) Xfree86?

2000-10-23 Thread David A. Rogers
Jim, The TP 365xd had two different display types. If you got the TFT, you can use the latest xfree builds. If you have the DSTN, nothing after 3.2 works. At least this is what I've read on a couple of Thinkpad web sites. I tried using 3.3.6 from Potato and no dice. dar On Mon, 23 Oct 2000,

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #323

2000-10-23 Thread Brendan Cully
On Monday, 23 October 2000 at 17:31, fraser at bydesign-elab.net wrote: > > take me off thsi leist > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null ok. But you are not allowed to subscribe to any more mai

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #323

2000-10-23 Thread fraser at bydesign-elab.net
take me off this list --- Begin Message --- debian-user-digest Digest Volume 100 : Issue 323 Today's Topics: upgrading debian with an aol connect [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: IMWheel help [ Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] Re: a whole bunch o

Re: where is old (3.2) Xfree86?

2000-10-23 Thread Jim Crumley
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 09:08:07PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:01:49 -0500 (Central Daylight Time) > From: "David A. Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: where is old (3.2) Xfree86? > To: Debian User List > > I have just inherited an old Thinkpad 365xd which I t

Zope

2000-10-23 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, Anyone have any idea how to config Apache to work with Zope? Or a good Zope-Apache howto. I have the Zope server working but cannot bring it up in a browser. Thanks Eileen Orbell Software & Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Fear the Penguin.

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #323

2000-10-23 Thread fraser at bydesign-elab.net
take me off thsi leist --- Begin Message --- debian-user-digest Digest Volume 100 : Issue 323 Today's Topics: upgrading debian with an aol connect [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: IMWheel help [ Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] Re: a whole bunch

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #325

2000-10-23 Thread fraser at bydesign-elab.net

Spanish language install disks?

2000-10-23 Thread Patrick R. Wade
I have been looking for a Spanish-language set of install disks; i get the impression from the Spanish installation instructions that such an install set exists, but i can't seem to find it anywhere. Is there something i'm missing? Some site i haven't seen yet? Any pointers would be appreciated

Re: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "robert" == robert wilhelm land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: robert> When trying to start emacs out of a xterm with su permissions the robert> system complaines: robert> MINI:/home/rland# emacs robert> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server This is OK. You don't have permission to open wid

Mysql error

2000-10-23 Thread KoV
hello all my mysql server keeps telling me: Starting MySQL database server: mysqld...failed. I've tried to uninstall, reinstall... I remade all my http system to try to fix it... looking inside the logs I found that it is not finding file "host.ISM". What can I do to fix it? thanx -- ---

Re: Conexion a internet

2000-10-23 Thread KoV
Alo amigo, yo soy Brasiliano, entonces no sei hablar espñol mucho bien, mas si "portuñol". Tu tienes problemas com DNS entente editar el arquivo /etc/resolv.conf e coloca: nameserver 000.000.000.000 canbeando 000.000.000.000 pelo IP de su ISP o entente instalar el pacote "named"

Re: Mail not configured. Best mail program?

2000-10-23 Thread JP Sartre
I did an apt-get upgrade today.. it upgraded sylpheed so I think it's on the regular US sites now.. if not I'll send the deb to you.. JP On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Can you please indicate the site, or may be email it to me? Are the docs > included? > Thanks, > Antonio. > >

Wine

2000-10-23 Thread Robert Lazzurs
Hey, I was wondering if anyone knew what happened to the wine.sym file in the woody version of WINE. Is there any way to generate this file, and if so could you please tell me how. Thanks in advance - Rab (PS, could you please cc me because I am not on the list, thanks) -- Robert Lazzurs

Re: Help: gv not reading *.gz files?

2000-10-23 Thread Colin Watson
"Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have no trouble reading *ps.gz files using hghostview and gv under >Mandrake, but loading ghostview and gsfonts under Debian I find myself >unable to open *.gz ending files. I have to uncompress them to read. Any >thoughts? Maybe a default config Mandra

Re: duplicating setup machine

2000-10-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: duplicating setup machine Date: Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 02:14:38PM -0400 In reply to:John Chambers Quoting John Chambers([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What are the easy ways to duplicate an existing > setup debian machine to other machines? > dpkg --get-selections > packages th

Re: where is old (3.2) Xfree86?

2000-10-23 Thread Colin Watson
"David A. Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have just inherited an old Thinkpad 365xd which I think has a DSTN >display. From searching the net, it looks like only xfree86 3.2 works >with that display. Does anyone know where I can find a .deb of 3.2? Wow. Well, in theory you can try the sour

Re: Idea: Master Debian FAQ (newbie-centric)

2000-10-23 Thread Kristian Rink
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 14:22:35 -0500 William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your interested in this project or have suggestions please feel free to > contact me on the list here or privately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] It would > be a shame to let all the talent that people on this list have stor

where is old (3.2) Xfree86?

2000-10-23 Thread David A. Rogers
I have just inherited an old Thinkpad 365xd which I think has a DSTN display. From searching the net, it looks like only xfree86 3.2 works with that display. Does anyone know where I can find a .deb of 3.2? Thanks, dar -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Schiller

Re: backup/restore partitions

2000-10-23 Thread kmself
on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 08:38:01PM +0200, Dr . Michael Koltai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to backup a partition (and restore). How to do that? > I think using the 'cp' or the 'dd' programs. I'd like to create (if > possible compressed file) from a partition ( like /dev/hda1 ) a

Re: deb package documentation

2000-10-23 Thread kmself
on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:42:05AM -0700, Stephen nyc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > --- kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:19:58AM -0700, Stephen > > nyc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Folks - > > > > > > Where can I get a copy of the documentation > > included > > > in a

Re: I need a specific for AC/DC Adaptor for VD56SM modem

2000-10-23 Thread kmself
on Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 08:38:26PM +0200, Tommaso Finizio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I need a specific for AC/DC Adaptor for VD56SM modem: > output voltage and current I'd suggest going to the manufacturer for hardware and/or specs. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evang

RE: PCMCIA issues installing potato on an old laptop

2000-10-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Oct-2000 Damon Muller wrote: > Hi gang, > > I have an old 486 laptop, an NEC UltraLite VERSA, with 8m of RAM. Up > until today I'd been happily running bo (I think, a few releases ago > anyway) on it, mainly using it as a dumb terminal so I can lay in bed > and read my email. For a while I'

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-23 Thread Christoph Simon
> :: Michael P Soulier writes: > > > I have a /etc/init.d/network script on my potato box with these > > commands: > > > #! /bin/sh > > ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 > > route add -net 127.0.0.0 > > Hm, I did > > socrates:/home/jeronimo# ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 > socrates:/home/jeronimo# route add

Re: how to upgrade from potato to woody

2000-10-23 Thread Iain Georgeson
Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Iain Georgeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I notice I don't have potato-proposed-updates in my sources.list. What > > can I expect to find in it? > lynx http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/potato-proposed-updates > There are (important) updates for

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-23 Thread Christoph Simon
> > I remember having had a similar problema (long time ago), and since > > then I always give a local address to ``mybox.mynet'', which is > > different from 127.0.0.1 > > What do you mean? How did you do that? (Or, where can I find some more > info about it?) 127.0.0.1 localhost 1

Re: Conexion a internet

2000-10-23 Thread Christoph Simon
> Hola, me llamo roberto y os escribi un e-mail el otro dia. Mi pregunta > era y sigue siendo la siguiente: Hola también. No sé si te has dado cuenta, pero en esta lista la mayoría no habla español. Así puedes tener algun problema esperando una respuesta. Pero aqui voy a intentar ayudarte. > com

backup/restore partitions

2000-10-23 Thread Dr . Michael Koltai
Hi, I'd like to backup a partition (and restore). How to do that? I think using the 'cp' or the 'dd' programs. I'd like to create (if possible compressed file) from a partition ( like /dev/hda1 ) and if I need restore from this big file. If it possible I'd like to store this on a floppy disk( o

Re: deb package documentation

2000-10-23 Thread Stephen nyc
I'm actually looking for the installation and configuration documentation in the package ipmasq.deb. I want to have it read and noted before I even try to install debian and set it up. - Steve --- kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:19:58AM -0700, Stephen > nyc ([EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Idea: Master Debian FAQ (newbie-centric)

2000-10-23 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 02:22:35PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > As a newcomer to Debian I, like many since I've joined this list, ask typical > newbie questions about the some basic things. > Each one of those topics probably has a handful of "how do I" associated with > it that a very new use

Re: Debian and Red Hat togheter

2000-10-23 Thread USM Bish
Yes, I have Slackware and Debian on the same system. The only things I share are the swap partition, /opt and an unusual partition I use called /archive which holds my software archives, downloads, html, music, graphics, and shared data files. I tried to share /home, but gave up because of th

Re: Conexion a internet

2000-10-23 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Shortly: Thinks connects to isp with Debian 2.2 potato, modem zoltrix external 56k, pentium 200 ,wvdial. Netscape does not go beyond "looking" If you want wide help, write in English -si quieres amplia ayuda, escribe en ingles-. ROBERTOCALVENTE wrote: > Hola, me llamo roberto y os escribi un

duplicating setup machine

2000-10-23 Thread John Chambers
What are the easy ways to duplicate an existing setup debian machine to other machines? John Chambers

Re: deb package documentation

2000-10-23 Thread kmself
on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:19:58AM -0700, Stephen nyc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Folks - > > Where can I get a copy of the documentation included > in a .deb package (ipmasq specifically). What exactly do you mean? Do you want a description of the .deb file format, or the contents of a specifi

Re: Help: gv not reading *.gz files?

2000-10-23 Thread kmself
on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 05:12:51PM +0200, Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I have no trouble reading *ps.gz files using hghostview and gv under > Mandrake, but loading ghostview and gsfonts under Debian I find myself > unable to open *.gz ending files. I have to uncompress them

Re: DB2

2000-10-23 Thread kmself
on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 08:37:42AM -0500, Cavaiani, Don ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have downloaded DB2 for Linux from IBM. I am on version 2.0.38. Has > anyone tried to install this trial DB2 on Debian yet?? Will it work with > 2.0.38 or do I need to upgrade?? > > If upgrading is necessary

Re: fsplit

2000-10-23 Thread kmself
on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 02:36:17PM +0200, Danny Lathouwers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear community, > > Does anyone know whether the fsplit utility is packaged? > (fsplit splits binary or source files in more likable pieces). $ apropos split returns, among others, split: $ man spli

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Christoph Simon writes: >> > Hello... >> > >> > This is probably a known problem. I checked the BTS some time ago, >> > and tehre was a bug filed against telnet, I guess... It couldn't >> > resolve "localhost". > Do you have an alias for localhost, something like > 127.0.0.1 localh

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Michael P Soulier writes: > I have a /etc/init.d/network script on my potato box with these commands: > #! /bin/sh > ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 > route add -net 127.0.0.0 Hm, I did socrates:/home/jeronimo# ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 socrates:/home/jeronimo# route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0

Apt-Get troubles

2000-10-23 Thread Wikoff
I have just installed debian with the minimum install option. I was in the process of using apt-get to install blackbox (my favorite windowmanager ) when I had some depend problems I let apt-get download the depends and finished the install. The problem I am having is now when I use apt-get I get

kmail (kde2) and exim

2000-10-23 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm trying to use kmail from kde2 as MUA but it's not relating well with exim. Whenever I try to send an email, after set mail smtp host and port, exim complains about DATA being sent before RCPT TO. The exact message is: Response: 503 Valid RCPT TO must preced DATA

Re: (Psion) plptools compilation error

2000-10-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: >> The code then compiles fine - well, there are a few warnings >> (two-digit years - I can only hope this is just something that the Psion >> link protocol requires), but nothing fatal. > >Now I get: > >Making all in plpftp >make[1

Re: upgrading debconf error

2000-10-23 Thread Joey Hess
Jaume Teixi wrote: > Setting up debconf (0.4.02) ... > Can't locate object method "value" via package > "Debian::DebConf::Question" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 31. > > dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): > > how can I proced with shuch error ? This is fixes in debconf 0.4.

Kernel-image 2.2.17 and disk write pauses

2000-10-23 Thread Snowfox
I'm using the 2.2.17 kernel-image on a system. The whole system seems to pause briefly when commiting data to the IDE hard drive. This has never happened with my own kernel builds, however I can't see any relevant differences in the configuration. I just tried this on another system and I see a si

Conexion a internet

2000-10-23 Thread ROBERTOCALVENTE
Hola, me llamo roberto y os escribi un e-mail el otro dia. Mi pregunta era y sigue siendo la siguiente: como me puedo conectar a internet con Linux? Tengo instalada la Debian 2.2 potato, un modem zoltrix externo 56k y pentium 200 MMX. Lo intenté con el wvdial y parece que conecta ya que

Re: IMWheel help

2000-10-23 Thread Snowfox
I use: gpm: mouse type imps2 coming off /dev/psaux, repeat type "raw" x windows: mouse type imps2 coming off /dev/gpm I never have to restart gpm. The only time I have a problem is when interrupts are missed for unrelated reasons; that sends the mouse driver into a funny mode, from which you ca

deb package documentation

2000-10-23 Thread Stephen nyc
Folks - Where can I get a copy of the documentation included in a .deb package (ipmasq specifically). I haven't installed debian yet, and I'm currently sitting on an NT box at the office. Is this available on-line, or do I have to get it from the package? Is there an NT based tool that will open

Re: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:10:01PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > The error recommends to use "xhost" - but this seems to be a GUI app > and therefore dies for the same reasons as previously launching emacs. > How can I help myself, would running xhost fruit in a working GUI when > changing

Re: IMWheel help

2000-10-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
I realize that the mouse won't work in both gpm and X (without the repeat function) in many cases, but it does for me so I haven't really questioned it (!) /dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/psaux, of course. I have a problem with gpm occasionally not working correctly, but '/etc/init.d/gpm restart'

upgrading debian with an aol connection

2000-10-23 Thread Jenserikthys
could somebody tell me how i could upgrade debian 2.2 trough an aol connection with windows ; downloading first the files to the hd and dselect with the file option ? .~.Linux : le meilleur moyen de faire fonctionner ses neurones /V\ // \\ Linux : the best therapy there is

Re: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-23 Thread Leo Cacciari
robert_wilhelm_land scripsit: > >The error recommends to use "xhost" - but this seems to be a GUI app >and therefore dies for the same reasons as previously launching emacs. >How can I help myself, would running xhost fruit in a working GUI when >changing to su? Hi, no. xhost ISN'T a GUI applic

Re: broken woody

2000-10-23 Thread David Z. Maze
debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: d> after a "apt-get dist-upgrade" my system (woody) seems quite d> broken. Yup, it happens.If this is a problem for you, don't run a distribution that advertises itself as "unstable". Or, even better, find the problem and file appropriate bug reports. --

Re: inetd in netbase package

2000-10-23 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> My question is why inetd is part of netbase. I would like to have a system -> that don't run inetd but I would like to be able to use the other commands -> that are part of netbase, like telnet (out from the machine), traceroute -> etc. Well,personally I want to havce inetd services but I wandt

upgrade; change from unstable to specific distribution?

2000-10-23 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I added unstable to my apt/sources.list, but want to restrict so that I am upgrading to the current new distribution only (I needed a specific package), and not always the b-leading edge. Can I just chane from unstable to "woody" in teh list? Thanks, Gregory Guthrie --

Re: (Psion) plptools compilation error

2000-10-23 Thread Andre Berger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >Has anyone managed to compile plptools (unfortunately there's no > >> >Debian package)? I found no email address, and I couldn't even find > >> >out w

a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-23 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
When trying to start emacs out of a xterm with su permissions the system complaines: MINI:/home/rland# emacs Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0. Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.

Re: network config

2000-10-23 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Ethan Benson wrote: > yup dhcp sucks, for potato configure your interfaces in > /etc/network/interfaces > Does this relate to the current deb2.2 distribution? Robert

Re: IMWheel help

2000-10-23 Thread robhr
I notice in your config that you don't have gpm being used as a repeater device (I.E. the -R option). That won't work will it? I've always had to make gpm repeat and have X use /dev/gpmdata in order to make gpm and X work correctly with the mouse. How can you get gpm and X to both work without t

Help: gv not reading *.gz files?

2000-10-23 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I have no trouble reading *ps.gz files using hghostview and gv under Mandrake, but loading ghostview and gsfonts under Debian I find myself unable to open *.gz ending files. I have to uncompress them to read. Any thoughts? Maybe a default config Mandrake used but Debian doesn't? Thanks, Jona

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