Re: SSH (was Telent)

2000-11-22 Thread ktb
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 04:42:19PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > >First off don't use telnet...use ssh instead. Telnet isn't secure at all > >because > >it's completely clear text. And yes, there are debs for the ssh system (but > >you'll need a non-US deb source). > > what clients do you recom

wu-ftp problem

2000-11-22 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, I just upgraded to potato. I had installed wu-ftpd earlier and the upgrade installed the new version. It is functional. Earlier when I would ftp to this machine using lftp, I could press tab and change directories, etc (as in bash). Now that is not possible. Is wu-ftpd compiled without that fe

SSH (was Telent)

2000-11-22 Thread John Griffiths
>First off don't use telnet...use ssh instead. Telnet isn't secure at all >because >it's completely clear text. And yes, there are debs for the ssh system (but >you'll need a non-US deb source). what clients do you recommend? what command would i invoke? (for instance i've always just done "tel

Re: Telent

2000-11-22 Thread ktb
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:28:03PM -0800, Trainer wrote: > I have a question. Is there some configuration that I need to make in order > to telnet in to my Linux box. I have a static ip, and i can log on locally. I > have the gateway configured. I get the log in thru telnet and enter root and >

Re: X configuration help needed (3.3.6)

2000-11-22 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 08:56:45PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > try changing to 16bit color depth see if the problem goes away ? That worked great, after I found out that worked I changed the color depth back to 32 but lowered the video ram line to 4096, and it still works great. Thanks, that was t

Re: Telent

2000-11-22 Thread Cheng H. Lee
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:28:03PM -0800, Trainer wrote: > I have a question. Is there some configuration that I need to make in order > to telnet in to my Linux box. I have a static ip, and i can log on locally. I > have the gateway configured. I get the log in thru telnet and enter root and >

Re: Telent

2000-11-22 Thread Steven Kurylo
You cannot use root to login with telnet. Its disabled by default for security reasons. At 11:28 PM 22/11/00, you wrote: I have a question. Is there some configuration that I need to make in order to telnet in to my Linux box. I have a static ip, and i can log on locally. I have the gateway c

Re: Telent

2000-11-22 Thread Hung Hin Lik, Shell
> Trainer wrote: > > I have a question. Is there some configuration that I need to make in > order to telnet in to my Linux box. I have a static ip, and i can log > on locally. I have the gateway configured. I get the log in thru > telnet and enter root and then password. Everytime I get incorre

Re: Telent

2000-11-22 Thread John Griffiths
Jeff said: I have a question. Is there some configuration that I need to make in order to telnet in to my Linux box. I have a static ip, and i can log on locally. I have the gateway configured. I get the log in thru telnet and enter root and then password. Everytime I get incorrect login I know th

Re: dselect

2000-11-22 Thread Steven Kurylo
I am sure you will get several replys like this, however as a Debian newbie aswell I find console-apt (capt) to be extremely easy to use and I can always find what I need. "apt-get install console-apt" to install it and "capt" to run it. Never truely got the hang of dselect either :-)

Telent

2000-11-22 Thread Trainer
I have a question. Is there some configuration that I need to make in order to telnet in to my Linux box. I have a static ip, and i can log on locally. I have the gateway configured. I get the log in thru telnet and enter root and then password. Everytime I get incorrect login I know this is

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-22 Thread Nate Amsden
be sure both your isp and the remote end's isp is routing GRE packets, if not PPTP will fail. GRE is also an option in the kernel config if your using a linux box as a firewall/router. btw, i use vpnd for my vpns, i have about 10 vpns going 24/7 and it works great... nate Pollywog wrote: > > On

Re: Talk refused by default?

2000-11-22 Thread Nate Amsden
Neil Darlow wrote: > If I execute mesg y on the remote machine I can talk to it. What am I > missing here? nothing ? seems its working, if you want talk enabled by default put it(mesg y) in the login scripts most servers i build dont even have talk installed.. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 htt

Re: X configuration help needed (3.3.6)

2000-11-22 Thread Nate Amsden
try changing to 16bit color depth see if the problem goes away ? nate Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > > Yesterday I left a message that the upgrade from potato r0 to potato r1 > erased my X configuration. I have since been able to correct some of the > problems (I fixed the keyboard problem by editin

RE: xfee86 in woody?

2000-11-22 Thread Marc Wilson
No it most certainly has NOT. - Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson -Original Message- From: Hubert Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hubert Chan Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 10:49 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian

Re: Preserving config across updates

2000-11-22 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
> There are a few things which seem to reset themselves to defaults when > upgraded without offering an option to keep the old config: > - Eterm resets all of its 'system' (i.e., the ones in > - My default window manager _usually_ stays at WindowMaker but, in my last > system themes instead of c

X configuration help needed (3.3.6)

2000-11-22 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
Yesterday I left a message that the upgrade from potato r0 to potato r1 erased my X configuration. I have since been able to correct some of the problems (I fixed the keyboard problem by editing /usr/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 and adding +dvorak to the xkb_symbols lines, then changing XF86Config to

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-22 Thread Pollywog
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:57:02 -0600, Timothy C. Phan said: > Hi, > >Is there any VPN client software for Linux? TIA! There are pptp packages for Linux on Debian's website, for Potato and Woody only. -- Andrew

Re: integrating latest matrox driver

2000-11-22 Thread Damien
> > I noticed that matrox has a linux driver for my g400 that is supposedly > better than the one in XFree86 4.0.1. According to their docs, however, > I need to download and compile XFree86 by hand with the new driver in > the appropriate directory. Is there another way to use their driver? How >

Re: where's plperl?

2000-11-22 Thread Damien
> The perl way to communicate to a database > is called the DBI(db interface) module, > available at your nearest CPAN mirror. > > ... > > DBI is a very popular module. you missed their point :) they want to use perl inside postgres, not perl to reference postgres. cheers -- We don't know ho

Re: x-tt

2000-11-22 Thread ktb
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 03:22:36AM +0100, Nico Galoppo wrote: > Hi, > > i'm currently using xfs-xtt (xfs with the x-tt module for truetype > fonts). Apparently, all the truetype fonts get rendered at 75 dpi by > default. Is there a way to change this? I have 'default-resolutions = > 100,100,75,75'

Re: question about swap space

2000-11-22 Thread ktb
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:40:50AM -0800, Tristan wrote: > i am somewhat a newbie to linux, and have a question about the swap space > i configured when i installed debian. > I have read that i should set aside as much space as I have RAM (currently > 96Mb), but even when i have many different prog

Re: question about swap space

2000-11-22 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, swap is used for memory storage that the system doesn't expect to need in the near future, but data is only put there to conserve real memory, so you must not be doing very memory intensive stuff. Try creating a 1200x1200 RGB image in gimp then look at your swap :) My system currently have o

3dfx, Potato and X 4.0.1, is this possible? 2

2000-11-22 Thread Ian Lee
I am still having problems, after all the help.   A number of quetsions, now   Am I making it hard on myself using potato, and putting X4.0.1 on that? As going through the HOWTO on debian planet, my system did not like libglide3*, as potato has libglide2*.   Now for the problem, when runing t

Bad gpg signatures on debian-security-announce

2000-11-22 Thread Walt Mankowski
Lately I've been noticing a number of messages on the debian-security-announce list with bad gpg signatures. I compared these messages to the same ones posted to the web archives and discovered that they were not identical. Interestingly, the messages in the archives had GOOD signatures, while th

Re: starting gnome from kde

2000-11-22 Thread rkuntz
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:22:54AM -0500, Andrew Dwight Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > I'm an old-school fvwm fan but I recently decided to try gnome and kde > because I told my sister I'd help her install Linux and she'll > definitely want to use one or the other. Anyway, to make a long story > short,

Re: getting XFree (3) to work with geforce MX

2000-11-22 Thread Daniel Borgmann
On Wednesday 22 November 2000 18:32, you wrote: > I had a machine with this card as well. At the time I looked, the > documentation on xfree86.org said that this card is supported in the > developement version of X 4.?.?, but not currently supported in the > official release, but will be in the nex

question about swap space

2000-11-22 Thread Tristan
i am somewhat a newbie to linux, and have a question about the swap space i configured when i installed debian. I have read that i should set aside as much space as I have RAM (currently 96Mb), but even when i have many different programs running and or most of my memory is being used hardly any sp

x-tt

2000-11-22 Thread Nico Galoppo
Hi, i'm currently using xfs-xtt (xfs with the x-tt module for truetype fonts). Apparently, all the truetype fonts get rendered at 75 dpi by default. Is there a way to change this? I have 'default-resolutions = 100,100,75,75' in /etc/X11/xfs/config, but it simply doesn't do the trick. Anyone got a

Talk refused by default?

2000-11-22 Thread Neil Darlow
Hi, Out of curiosity (how else do you learn *nix systems?), I attempted to talk between two logins on separate Debian 2.2 machines. I received an error message that the remote-end was refusing connects which seems contrary to the lines in /etc/default/devpts e.g. TTYGRP=5 TTYMODE=620 The co

Re: Using putty for an X session

2000-11-22 Thread Matthew Dalton
"adam.edgar" wrote: > > Unfortunately at work I must use a windows machine, but Id like to be able > to use Putty to connect to my machine. I can bring up a standard SSH2 > session but I am ignorant when it come to starting an X session remotely. > How do I go about getting X on my machine at work

Re: I want out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2000-11-22 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hello, I was the first to respond to your post, I responded directly not to the list and gave very clear directions: send an email TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBJECT: unsubscribe you will notice the new footer: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Emacs shell with ^M's ???

2000-11-22 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, This is a second hand question and the machine in question is not reachable for testing, but... On a fresh install of Slink emacs19 and emacs20 are both producing ^M's in the out put of some (but not all) shell commands. The word I have is: The ^M's I was referring to were in a shell wi

Re: Off-Topic Kinda .........

2000-11-22 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hey Doug, Might wanna browse http://linuxmall.com and see what you think. Best regards On Wednesday 22 November 2000 13:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello,I am looking for someone or someplace that does clothing with a > Debian logo or Linux theme. Sweatshirt specifically. > > >

Re: html man pages, tutor?

2000-11-22 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Antonio, Have been looking here: http://www.linux.org/lessons/index.cgi and I think it is a pretty good start. See what you think. Best regards On Wednesday 22 November 2000 12:36, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Does anyone know of a downloadable HTML comprehensive tutorial? Do we > have one i

Re: debian 2.2 CRASHES often & easily

2000-11-22 Thread Neil Darlow
Hi Folken, The do_try_to_free_pages failures are symptoms of a bug in the 2.2.17pre6 kernel that ships with 2.2. I have a K6/2 233 machine with 64M RAM which displays these errors occasionally. They don't appear to be fatal but could be leaking memory? I also have a 486SLC 33 machine with 8M RAM

Re: good sound cards?

2000-11-22 Thread Chris Gray
> "Kevin" == Kevin Krafthefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kevin> Hello, I am adding sound to my debian machine and have had Kevin> bad luck so far*. Could those of you fine list subscribers Kevin> that have had a positive, enriching experience with Kevin> installing and using

Re: good sound cards?

2000-11-22 Thread Robert Frank
* Kevin Krafthefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [22-11-2000 12:56 PM -0600] > Hello, > > I am adding sound to my debian machine and have had bad luck so far*. > Could those of you fine list subscribers that have had a positive, > enriching experience with installing and using your sound card on your > GNU/

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-22 Thread Pollywog
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 21:10:48 +, Erik Steffl said: > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:48:12 -0800, Erik Steffl said: > > > go to linuxdoc.org and search for vpn howto > > I will try that. I thought pptp was the Linux implementation of PopTop > and I did not think it was designed for an all

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-22 Thread Erik Steffl
pptp is for ms vpn, I haven't been able to make it work, it does something but never receives response from the other side (and the other side (server) works fine with ms vpn client). erik Pollywog wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:48:12 -0800, Erik Steffl said: > > > go to linuxdoc

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-22 Thread Pollywog
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 19:21:39 +0100 (CET), Sebastiaan said: > Hello, > > I use pptp for my adsl connection which goes through a vpn. As far as I > know there is no pptp package for potato, so I downloaded the source and > patched it with a woody patch. Are there instructions somewhere (a HOW

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >well, the thing is that /etc/init.d/portmap doesn't get run. symlinks to it >from within the rc.\.d directories do. i guess i could just blow away the >portmap script, and that might do it once and for all. but it's w

Re: Voodoo 3 on debian?

2000-11-22 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 01:08:20AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Chris Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CP> Anyone running a 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 on Debian? > CP> Just curious if it works well or not. My Voodoo3 2000 worked fine with the older Glide stuff in X 3.3.6, and works fine with the DRI st

Re: Error upgrading to xserver-xfree86 (4.0.1-6)

2000-11-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Error upgrading to xserver-xfree86 (4.0.1-6) Date: Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:07:44PM -0500 In reply to:tim Quoting tim([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Any ideas how to fix this. > Yes, read the list! The fix was reported here today. > During the install I get the following error

Dia won't load native Dia files

2000-11-22 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I know I updated Dia today, but I'm not sure if this problem is a result of that or not. If I make a drawing in Dia and save the drawing to a file and then try to shut down Dia and then start it up again and load the drawing back from the file, Dia gives a message saying that the file is no

multi-session, multi-ISO?

2000-11-22 Thread Brian
I back up about 80 megs of data nightly. I'd like to burn this straight to a CD-R as part of the backup script, but I'd hate to use a new CD-R every day. Is there a way to add files to sessions to a CD and still have a mountable filesystem? Do any of the CD filesystems available support this? __

To configure sis620 video on potato...

2000-11-22 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hi, How can I setup a video card Sis620 with Potato. I've a sis620 onboard motherboard. Any help are welcome. -- Rogelio E. Castillo

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-22 Thread Pann McCuaig
Search the list archives. I suggested a (relatively clean) method no more than a couple of weeks ago. On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 14:59, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > bleah. how do i keep this program from starting on boot? > > i looked in /etc/init.d. can't even find a startup script for this thing!

Re: eximconfig option 2: why not send mail directly?

2000-11-22 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:54:04PM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 2) direct delivery: > > > > Depending on your exim configuration outgoing mail is sent directly to > > your > > ISP via SMTP or [...] > > To the ISP? Outgoing mail is sent "di

Re: html man pages, tutor?

2000-11-22 Thread Colin Watson
Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does anyone know of a downloadable HTML comprehensive tutorial? Do we >have one in the man pages? If you want a reference, rather than a tutorial, you could try the doc-html-w3 package (which contains the official HTML 4.01 specification). Otherwise, a

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-22 Thread Matthew Dalton
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > well, the thing is that /etc/init.d/portmap doesn't get run. symlinks to it > from within the rc.\.d directories do. They're just symlinks to the files in /etc/init.d. The files in /etc/init.d *are* the ones actually being run. > i guess i could just blow away the

apt-get && 'something wicked happened' problem.

2000-11-22 Thread Russell Davies
Just wondering if anyone knows whether this problem has been laid to rest once and for all. Recently my place of work firewalled outgoing dns traffic so my workaround (which was to use dnscache instead of bind [http://dnscache.com]) can no longer work. Surely this a bug of such significance tha

VCD/SVCD - Kernelpatch

2000-11-22 Thread Michael Mertins
Hi, I know you can watch vcds with tools like mtv or the smpeg-plugin for xmms or with xtheater (http://xtheater.sourceforge.net) but what really interests me now is: Is there a VCD-Kernel-Patch Out there? if yes, where? else, plz tell me where I could search for it. My Actual problem is, I want t

Preserving config across updates

2000-11-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
There are a few things which seem to reset themselves to defaults when upgraded without offering an option to keep the old config: - Eterm resets all of its 'system' (i.e., the ones in /usr/share/Eterm/themes) themes back to the default settings on every upgrade, requiring me to keep backed-up cop

Re: add new Tex packages!?

2000-11-22 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Manuel Hendel wrote: > can anyone tell me how to add new texpackages, for example the package > letter. I coppied it in the Texpath, where all the other .sty and .cls > files are, but this didn't work. Latex said it can't find the package and > asks for the path, when I insert

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-22 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
well, the thing is that /etc/init.d/portmap doesn't get run. symlinks to it from within the rc.\.d directories do. i guess i could just blow away the portmap script, and that might do it once and for all. but it's wierd how the thing gets run but isn't mentioned in the rc directories. there was

Re: How to enable my Linux network for W98 machines?

2000-11-22 Thread Chris Kenrick
OT?: How to enable my Linux network for W98 machines?>Does someone have a hint on how to set up W98 machines to work in my (small) >Linux (eth-based, 100Mbps) network. One Linux box is used as a >gateway, the others have their traffic routed using ipchains. Setting >up the ipchains rule and the gat

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-22 Thread Pollywog
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:59:52 -0800 (PST), Peter Jay Salzman said: > bleah. how do i keep this program from starting on boot? > > i looked in /etc/init.d. can't even find a startup script for this thing! > it's not in inetd.conf either. how does this thing get started? > I have a portma

add new Tex packages!?

2000-11-22 Thread Manuel Hendel
Hi, can anyone tell me how to add new texpackages, for example the package letter. I coppied it in the Texpath, where all the other .sty and .cls files are, but this didn't work. Latex said it can't find the package and asks for the path, when I insert the path it works. What do I have to do to ge

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-22 Thread Christoph Simon
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:59:52 -0800 (PST) Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > bleah. how do i keep this program from starting on boot? > > i looked in /etc/init.d. can't even find a startup script for this thing! > it's not in inetd.conf either. how does this thing get started? >

how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-22 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
bleah. how do i keep this program from starting on boot? i looked in /etc/init.d. can't even find a startup script for this thing! it's not in inetd.conf either. how does this thing get started? pete

Re: setting gateway IP from command line

2000-11-22 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 22 November 2000 16:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm sure this is a very basic question but I have zero experience > with debian. I work at a computer shop and we installed debian on a > pair of new machines for a customer. He needs to assign an IP and > gateway to one of them and

Re: where's plperl?

2000-11-22 Thread Michelle Murrain
> The perl way to communicate to a database is called the DBI(db interface) module, available at your nearest CPAN mirror. yeah, that's if you want to write a perl-script that addresses a DB... DBI is a very popular module. i bet :D but what i am searching for is a sort of embedded pe

Re: setting gateway IP from command line

2000-11-22 Thread Michael Smith
Check out route. The command should be something like "route add default gw IPaddressofgateway" (this is off the top of my head, so might not be 100% correct) You can see the current route by "route" or "route -n" to see it without the machine names resolved. Once you have that, edit /etc/net

Re: CVS / NFS problems

2000-11-22 Thread Brian May
> "Dahiroc," == Dahiroc, Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dahiroc,> hi all i'm having a cvs problems. when i try to make a Dahiroc,> tag i get the error: cvs tag: nothing known about Dahiroc,> .nfs35FE cvs [tag aborted]: correct the above error Dahiroc,> first! Dahiroc

Re: html man pages, tutor?

2000-11-22 Thread Kevin Krafthefer
hmmm, html isn't really something that should have a man page. Check out www.webmonkey.com Krafty Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Does anyone know of a downloadable HTML comprehensive tutorial? Do we > have one in the man pages? > Thanks. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a

setting gateway IP from command line

2000-11-22 Thread abramo
I'm sure this is a very basic question but I have zero experience with debian. I work at a computer shop and we installed debian on a pair of new machines for a customer. He needs to assign an IP and gateway to one of them and could not figure out how to do it so he brought the machines back t

Re: Converting to SCSI. HELP!!!

2000-11-22 Thread Carl Johnson
"Brandt Dusthimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Me is dumb. I figured that DMA would already be in place. . . hehe. GUESS > NOT SMART ONE! Uh, you wouldn't happen to be able to provide me with the > info how to enable it, perferable in the best performance mode. If it > envolves creating a ne

SOLVED! Was: (Re: xinetd and fetchmail)

2000-11-22 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [221100 12:12]: > Debian Users, > > I'm trying to be security conscious. I've heard xinetd is the way to > go when it comes to an internet super-server so I apt-get installed it. Only > problem is that I can't get it to work with fetchmail. > > My xinetd.

Re: debian 2.2 CRASHES often & easily

2000-11-22 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 07:22:06PM +, Tom Huckstep wrote: > I think this is your problem. Adding 128 M of swap to 64 M of > physical memory solved it for me. > > Unfortunately, unless you have some free space on your hard disk(s) > you are going to have to delete a partition and recreate _it_

Re: dpkg --getselections, apt, and update-menus

2000-11-22 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Mmm. I'm reading via the web site, as I am not subscribed to this list... makes replying a little harder. Maybe I ought to specifically ask CC:'s to me. > >> getselections is supposed to be current. A package marked deinstall is > >> removed, but not purged. Or at least it is expected to be. > >

Re: Ispell in woody?

2000-11-22 Thread Colin Watson
"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thus spake Allan F. Caetano ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> > "Robert" == Robert L Harris >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Robert> Can't open /usr/lib/ispell/default.hash >> >> Robert> Anyone know which package is missing? >> >> That'

Re: good sound cards?

2000-11-22 Thread Scott Patterson
>The SBLive is a great card with *really* good support. I got mine well over a year ago I have no idea what they cost >now but they are sweet cards. I just bought a Sound Blaster Live Value for $42 dollars on the net ($52 after shipping). Go to http://www.thedukeofurl.org/ and then select "Pric

Re: eximconfig option 2: why not send mail directly?

2000-11-22 Thread Moritz Schulte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > Apart from the other reasons mentioned already, a lot of people reject > mail coming from known dial-up IP addresses, since it's a technique > often used by spammers. Thus using your ISP's smarthost generally > increases the likelihood of your mail being

Re: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help?

2000-11-22 Thread Ernest Johanson
Herbert, A few things to check: 1. Remove the quotes in your Directory statement, i.e. instead of . 2. Make sure the directory you are trying to execute cgis in is under your DocmentRoot if you're using a statement. If what you want is to serve pages and execute cgis from your user directory

Re: 3dfx, Potato and X 4.0.1, is this possible?

2000-11-22 Thread Scott Patterson
>I installed the stable version of Debian. > >I then changed to kernel 2.4 test10, thats including all updates to = >modutils, util-linux etc, etc... > >I stuck KDE2.0 on. > >Everything ok so far sound and all. > >I then installed the 4.0.1 binaries, configured it. >Now I get a screen of 640x480

Re: Off-Topic Kinda .........

2000-11-22 Thread Martin Fluch
On 22 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, I am looking for someone or someplace that does clothing with > a Debian logo or Linux theme. Sweatshirt specifically. http://www.copyleft.net Martin -- This is Linux Country. In a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. For public GnuPG-ke

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-22 Thread Pollywog
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:48:12 -0800, Erik Steffl said: > go to linuxdoc.org and search for vpn howto I will try that. I thought pptp was the Linux implementation of PopTop and I did not think it was designed for an all-Linux system. -- Andrew

Re: IPCHAINS

2000-11-22 Thread Moritz Schulte
Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to install a NAT server in my box and I'm using ipchains 1.3.9 > I want the private netwrok 192.168.1.0/24 to be able to get to the > internet using my linux box as a gateway. Ok. > The L:inux only has one network interface (

Re: Using putty for an X session

2000-11-22 Thread Steven Kurylo
Unless I am reading the putty "wishlist" wrong, putty doesn't support X in its current form http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist.html Unix/X (need a local-xterm back end) At 02:08 PM 22/11/00, you wrote: Unfortunately at work I must use a windows machine, but Id like to

Re: Debian 2.2r1

2000-11-22 Thread Moritz Schulte
Shel Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I run an "apt-get dist-updgrade" command and already have 2.2, will I > be upgraded to 2.2r1?.. You need the 'normal' entries in /etc/apt/sources.list for potato (or stable), then you'll get always the latest revision. Sure, you've to update your pack

Re: eximconfig option 2: why not send mail directly?

2000-11-22 Thread Colin Watson
Griffith Feeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm in the process of setting up exim/fetchmail/procmail/mutt on Debian >2.2. I've used eximconfig option 2, for which outgoing mail is sent via a >"smarthost" and incoming mail is picked up from one or more POP servers. > >Getting incoming mail from POP

Off-Topic Kinda .........

2000-11-22 Thread linux
Hello,I am looking for someone or someplace that does clothing with a Debian logo or Linux theme. Sweatshirt specifically. Doug http://www.dougdine.com .

Re: I want out!

2000-11-22 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:54:18AM -0800, Willy Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "USM" == USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Don't know if you noticed, but it's no longer necessary. Seems the > list maintainers finally listened. :) But...I tried to run the command in the sig and it didn't wo

3dfx, Potato and X 4.0.1, is this possible?

2000-11-22 Thread Ian Lee
I installed the stable version of Debian.   I then changed to kernel 2.4 test10, thats including all updates to modutils, util-linux etc, etc...   I stuck KDE2.0 on.   Everything ok so far sound and all.   I then installed the 4.0.1 binaries, configured it. Now I get a screen of 640x480 at a

Re: eximconfig option 2: why not send mail directly?

2000-11-22 Thread Moritz Schulte
Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2) direct delivery: > > Depending on your exim configuration outgoing mail is sent directly to your > ISP via SMTP or [...] To the ISP? Outgoing mail is sent "directly" to the DNS MX records of the given host (if the DNS MX lookup succedes).

Debian 2.2r1

2000-11-22 Thread Shel Johnson
If I run an "apt-get dist-updgrade" command and already have 2.2, will I be upgraded to 2.2r1?.. = Shel ICQ- 23454126 AIM- CacheMonet Trying to master Storm Linux 2000 http://www.stormix.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Sto

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-22 Thread Erik Steffl
go to linuxdoc.org and search for vpn howto erik "Timothy C. Phan" wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there any VPN client software for Linux? TIA! > > --- > tcp > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xinetd and fetchmail

2000-11-22 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Robin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [221100 13:54]: [snip salutations] > RAJ> My xinetd.conf only contains one stanza. Here it is: > > > RAJ> service smtp > RAJ> { > RAJ> socket_type = stream > RAJ> protocol= tcp > RAJ>

IPCHAINS

2000-11-22 Thread Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar
I'm trying to install a NAT server in my box and I'm using ipchains 1.3.9 I want the private netwrok 192.168.1.0/24 to be able to get to the internet using my linux box as a gateway. The L:inux only has one network interface (so I set up an alias using: ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.1.1) my input chain i

html man pages, tutor?

2000-11-22 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Does anyone know of a downloadable HTML comprehensive tutorial? Do we have one in the man pages? Thanks.

Re: eximconfig option 2: why not send mail directly?

2000-11-22 Thread Walter Tautz
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Griffith Feeney wrote: > I'm in the process of setting up exim/fetchmail/procmail/mutt on Debian > 2.2. I've used eximconfig option 2, for which outgoing mail is sent via a > "smarthost" and incoming mail is picked up from one or more POP servers. > > Getting incoming mail

boot-floppy problem

2000-11-22 Thread Frank Frijns
Dear readers, My PC hangs as soon as I boot from the rescue-floppy, created with rawrite2 As soon as I hit the -key for booting it shows the message 'booting...', followed by 'boot failed change disk and press a key to continue' adding parameters (linux mca aic7xxx mono etc) makes no difference.

Re: eximconfig option 2: why not send mail directly?

2000-11-22 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:01:18AM -1000, Griffith Feeney wrote: ... > Getting incoming mail from POP servers makes sense, since I'm only > intermittantly connected, but why not have exim send mail directly? What is > gained or saved by going through the "smarthost"? I think you are mixing two dis

Using putty for an X session

2000-11-22 Thread adam.edgar
Unfortunately at work I must use a windows machine, but Id like to be able to use Putty to connect to my machine. I can bring up a standard SSH2 session but I am ignorant when it come to starting an X session remotely. How do I go about getting X on my machine at work? I know it has to do with star

Re: SSL in mozilla M18 and Netscape 6

2000-11-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jan- Hendrik Palic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When Mozilla or galeon provide good ssl- connections, then, I hope, I'm able >to throw the F** Netscape 4* away... :) Well, M18 crashes more often than NS4 still, and it uses quite a bit of memory as well: USER

Re: Ispell in woody?

2000-11-22 Thread Allan F. Caetano
> "Robert" == Robert L Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> Nope, but I bet that'd do it. You'd think part of it's install Robert> would be to check for a dictionary and say you need one, etc. Robert> Thanks, Robert> Robert Problem is, 'ispell-dictionary' (the meta

Re: debian 2.2 CRASHES often & easily

2000-11-22 Thread Moritz Schulte
Folken Lacour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ... Known problem in Linux 2.2.16 and also 2.2.17pre's. Upgrading to Linux 2.2.17 or even Linux 2.2.18pre should solve the problem. moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de

Re: Ispell in woody?

2000-11-22 Thread Robert L. Harris
Nope, but I bet that'd do it. You'd think part of it's install would be to check for a dictionary and say you need one, etc. Thanks, Robert Thus spake Allan F. Caetano ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > "Robert" == Robert L Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Robert> I just installed isp

debian 2.2 CRASHES often & easily

2000-11-22 Thread Tom Huckstep
Folken Lacour writes: > I'm a Linux newbie, but I know this should not be > happening. I can't get an uptime > 36 hours -- Linux > just freezes in X. Occassionally, I'm able to switch > over to another VC, where I see > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ... I had exactly this problem wh

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