Re: HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?

2000-12-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:28:08PM -0600, Dan Griswold wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an internal IDE/ATAPI ZIP 100 in my box. I can mount, > read/write, and umount it. But I cannot eject it. :-( > > Now, I know I've done it before. But that was under SuSE 6.1 (some > time ago). And of course, I cou

Re: Relation(exim,fetchmail,mutt)=?

2000-12-12 Thread Timmy Douglas
Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Can someone explain what's the relation between exim, fetchmail >and mutt or any other reader? If fetchmail fetches it, then why >the servers have to be defined again for exim or mutt? fetchmail gives received mail to exim exim gives received mail to procmail

Re: The truth about PSM and other XPI's

2000-12-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 11:29:05AM -0600, Joe piman Wreschnig wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:12:20PM -0300, Sebastian Silva wrote: > > The thing is the default permissions for /usr/lib/mozilla are too tight. > No, they're fine, Mozilla is just horrid about multiuser systems. correct > > Mi s

Re: HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?

2000-12-12 Thread D-Man
I had this problem too. Not sure what changed on my system to correct it. Actually, since I rarely use it I'm not even sure if it still works. Zip drives are kind of buggy with respect to ejecting. Sorry I can't be of help. -D On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 23:28:08 Dan Griswold wrote: | Hi all, |

HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?

2000-12-12 Thread Dan Griswold
Hi all, I have an internal IDE/ATAPI ZIP 100 in my box. I can mount, read/write, and umount it. But I cannot eject it. :-( Now, I know I've done it before. But that was under SuSE 6.1 (some time ago). And of course, I could boot into some unmentionable OS and eject the disk. Ugh. So, I figure th

Re: Q: How change Fr-US keyboard in terminal?

2000-12-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 05:14:09AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I ealize it's an easy matter in X, but I initiallys etup my system with > a French keyboard and wish to switch to a US one now that I have it. The > question is, I see no reference in lilo. Does that mean reconfiguring > the

Re: SCREENSHOT - what software/method to use

2000-12-12 Thread Glenn Becker
ack - i meant Afterstep, not WM. sheesh, sorry! _ | // G l e n n B e c k e r|

Q: How change Fr-US keyboard in terminal?

2000-12-12 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I ealize it's an easy matter in X, but I initiallys etup my system with a French keyboard and wish to switch to a US one now that I have it. The question is, I see no reference in lilo. Does that mean reconfiguring the kernel? Thanks, Jonathan -- "Hey, I think I finally got th

Re: Sound Problem

2000-12-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
Thank's to everyone who offered help, especially to Philipp Schulte and Gian Piero Ascenso. My sound is now working. I can get Real Audio over the net and I can play music CD's. Now I can realax to some peaceful music. -- Marc Shapiro "If you drink melomel every day, [EM

Re: SCREENSHOT - what software/method to use

2000-12-12 Thread Glenn Becker
I don't know if it is worth mentioning, but Window Maker allows you to very simply take a screen or window shot. I was all ready to use the scrot package when I found that if you click with the alternate mouse button in WM, you get the options "take a screenshot" and "take a windowshot." _

Re: Debian Apache package

2000-12-12 Thread Eirik Dentz
Actually I got it wrong the doc root for suexec is not /usr/lib/cgi-bin, I did a little more research and this is what I found on the apache package page: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/apache.html in the apache_1.3.14-2.diff.gz file I found the following lines(9877-9905): --- apache-1.

Re: Relation(exim,fetchmail,mutt)=?

2000-12-12 Thread D-Man
I think the problem with your statement is the word *have*. I don't know anything about exim and very little about mutt. I use fetchmail, procmail, and elm/balsa/mahogany (depending on the situation). fetchmail : fetches the mail and hands it off to a local MDA procmail : a local MDA that can f

configure snort to dynamic ip?

2000-12-12 Thread Debian Benutzer Arne
Hello I`m using snort on potato but i dont know how to set the option for dynamic ipadress in /etc/snort/snort.conf DEBIAN_SNORT_STARTUP=dialup DEBIAN_SNORT_HOME_NET="ppp0_ADDRESS" DEBIAN_SNORT_OPTIONS="-p" DEBIAN_SNORT_STATS_RCPT="user" DEBIAN_SNORT_STATS_TRESHOLD="1" The snortlogfiles are alway

Re: Debian checks filesystems at every boot

2000-12-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:29:23PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:35:28PM +0100, Nico De Ranter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I just got a new computer and installed Debian on it (ofcourse :-). > > The installation uses 2 partitions, 1 of 5GB and

Re: Mailing list archives?

2000-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >on Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 12:51:37AM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson): >> CW> Depending on your news server, you may find them in the linux.debian.* >> CW> hierarchy (e.g. linux.debian.user). >> >> Thanks a lot for

Re: Mailing list archives?

2000-12-12 Thread kmself
on Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 12:51:37AM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson): > > CW> Depending on your news server, you may find them in the linux.debian.* > CW> hierarchy (e.g. linux.debian.user). > > Thanks a lot for the advice, I found them under

Re: SCSI Tape Drive on a HP NetServer E60

2000-12-12 Thread Patrick Cheong Shu Yang
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:12:08AM +0800, Patrick Cheong Shu Yang wrote: > Hi people, > > I have just installed Linux onto a HP NetServer E60 which uses the Adaptec > AIC7XXX. I am attempting to restore users data into /export/home from a > tape but have been unable to. I have used the mt comman

RE: system checks

2000-12-12 Thread Marc Wilson
Remove or reconfigure whatever program you installed that's doing it... probably iplog. - Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson -Original Message- From: Eddie Torres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 8:34 PM To:

Re: Compiling stuff

2000-12-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:34:41PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > > I've just put my brave hat on and compiled my kernel for the first > time. Thanks to Robert Guthrie and his tip to use kernel-package, > and KMDWAF, everything just worked first try! > > I do have a couple of questions, th

Re: small blocks or more inodes?

2000-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >To follow up on an email i sent not to long ago I have been digging >through ext2 documentation to try to find what is the best setup for >storing tons of small files(tens/hundreds of thousands). I believe that the parameters mke2fs uses when you say

Re: Debian checks filesystems at every boot

2000-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:35:28PM +0100, Nico De Ranter >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> I do ofcourse always make sure to turn off the machine by typing >> "halt". > >This is your problem. Try: > > $ shutdown -h now Is halt(8) wrong, then? If halt or reboot

Re: how can I get back to console?

2000-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
Eddie Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 17:23:37 Ken Weingold wrote: >> It is really irritating the state the keyboard is right now in X and I >> want to get back to the console. The machine has the X login screen >> on boot, and when I close Window Maker or hit CTRL-ALT-+, it

Re: problem with charset in xterm

2000-12-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 07:13:48PM +0100, Martin Würtele wrote: > hi, > > i have the following problem with woody: > i can't type äüö or ß in xterm (works here thanx to vim) but i'd like to > use these chars in xterm as well. btw works in the console... > > any ideas? > > LC* does NOT do the job

Re: PCMCIA Help

2000-12-12 Thread dude
yes. It hangs with the card both inserted and not. These are the things that i know (specifically) will hang the system 1. running 'probe' in the pcmcia package 2. running 'cardmgr' under /cardmgr i believe you adressed the problem about how when port scans are done it will hang the system (

/home owner and group changed

2000-12-12 Thread ktb
I don't know how but all the directories and files in my /home directory changed group and ownership. They were listed as - 1000 1000 I don't have a backup and don't remember each group and owner. I wasn't allowed to change the group. I got the following er

Re: The truth about PSM and other XPI's

2000-12-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:12:20PM -0300, Sebastian Silva wrote: > I tried all this with the Java plugin from sun (yes, I am brave) > I had done this with Mozilla on my previous distro and it had worked, > but now, even though Java seems to be installed, no applets recognize > it. > > For the bra

Re: Using Postgres SQL with Staroffice?

2000-12-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 04:45:43PM +0100, Manegold wrote: > Hi! > > How can I use Staroffice (the database stuff) as a front end to Postgres > (I can't get the supplied Adabas to work with me without major > investment of time, and I need to to relational database stuff [more > than one tabel], wh

Re: where's dexter

2000-12-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
dexter appears to hold the record for the shortest-lived debian utility. >From /usr/src/doc/xserver-common/changelog.Debian.gz: * dexter has been obsoleted; all its questions have been made debconf questions instead; the "dexconf" tool is a backend that generates XF86Config files from d

Re: how can I get back to console?

2000-12-12 Thread Eddie Torres
go into /etc/initab and the first line to 2 or 3 instead of 5. Do it as root. On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 17:23:37 Ken Weingold wrote: > It is really irritating the state the keyboard is right now in X and I > want to get back to the console. The machine has the X login screen > on boot, and when I clos

ssh as root

2000-12-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm curious if this is a bug or a config option or am i smoking crack. I have 2 identical (more or less) potato systems, and wanted to scp a tar file to the other machine. the command was: # scp /tmp/filename.tar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp I get ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remot

Gnome package problems

2000-12-12 Thread Michael Hansen
Not sure if this is the right list or not, but since this was a problem with the install, I'll put it here.  I'm new to debian, and when I tried to install debian using the "official" 2.2 r0 x86 binary CD's from LinuxCentral, I got an error that stated something to the effect that the Gnome

Re: messages to root

2000-12-12 Thread Eddie Torres
Heidi, Yes it was installed and I went ahead and removed it. I'll post again if that took care of it. Thanks. Eddie On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:00:20 Hedi Berriche wrote: > > "Eddie" == Eddie Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Eddie> Hello, > Eddie>How do I stop the emails from my

Re: Debian Apache package

2000-12-12 Thread Michael Smith
What about the ScriptAlias option in httpd.conf, or am I missing the point? I believe you can put it in a virtual host, so that it looks like the following: ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /home/virtualhost1/html ScriptAlias /home/virtualhost1/cgi-bin Eirik Dentz wrote: > > I want

Re: invalid group name / home directory changed

2000-12-12 Thread Erik Steffl
ktb wrote: > > I don't know how but every file and directory has recursively changed in > my home directory. What has changed is group and owner of all files. > they are all now "1000". > > I can change the owner to "kent" but not the group. When I try to do > that I get - "invalid group name '

where's dexter

2000-12-12 Thread Pascal Hos
I just did an apt-get upgrade on my woody machine and now dexter seems to have dissapeared from the xutils package. Has it moved to another package or is this a mistake by the packager? Pascal Hos [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: user not authorized to run X, strange variant

2000-12-12 Thread sena
On 12/12/2000 at 14:40 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > that's the problem. the default is secure but the most typical (my > assessment) setup cannot be made secure as you have to let anybody run > X. what's the use of security measure that has to be disabled in most > cases? > > so while I agree w

Debian Apache package

2000-12-12 Thread Eirik Dentz
I'm relatively new to Debian and Apache (Did my first install about a month ago). I've gotten the apache .deb up and running without any problems, but I've got a few questions about customizing the apache layout without disabling suexec support I want to set up some basic virtual hosts inside my

Gnome Launcher

2000-12-12 Thread Chris
Hello, I think that I have successfully used apt-get install Netscape to install Netscape on my computer. Now I would like to use it from within Gnome. I am unable to locate anything but a program called communicator(static4.76)Browser.desktop Have I installed the wrong thing

Re: exim

2000-12-12 Thread A R
Carel Fellinger wrote: > > But it also tells me that there is some failure while retrieving. > > Pleas tell us what error messages you get? > Try "fetchmail -v -v" to get more info. (better do this before you tie > fetchmail to ppp) > Here I am attaching an attempt without success to fetch mail

Relation(exim,fetchmail,mutt)=?

2000-12-12 Thread Debian User
Can someone explain what's the relation between exim, fetchmail and mutt or any other reader? If fetchmail fetches it, then why the servers have to be defined again for exim or mutt? Thanks, A.R.

Re: how can I get back to console?

2000-12-12 Thread Edward Craig
CTRL-ALT-F(1-6) will get you to text shell logins (X will still be out there at F7, though). On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Ken Weingold wrote: > It is really irritating the state the keyboard is right now in X and I > want to get back to the console. The machine has the X login screen > on boot, and whe

invalid group name / home directory changed

2000-12-12 Thread ktb
I don't know how but every file and directory has recursively changed in my home directory. What has changed is group and owner of all files. they are all now "1000". I can change the owner to "kent" but not the group. When I try to do that I get - "invalid group name 'kent'". I looked in /

Re: how can I get back to console?

2000-12-12 Thread kmself
on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:23:37PM -0500, Ken Weingold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It is really irritating the state the keyboard is right now in X and I > want to get back to the console. The machine has the X login screen > on boot, and when I close Window Maker or hit CTRL-ALT-+, it goes > ri

Re: Sound card interrupt problem (ESS ES1878)

2000-12-12 Thread D-Man
Playing CD is different than playing other sounds. The cd drive sends the audio directly to the sound card with no software intervention. (I had a cd playing after the system had shutdown). I have an ESS1869 that works just fine; that is once I fixed the IRQ (or was it the DMA channel?). I ha

Re: how can I get back to console?

2000-12-12 Thread Ken Weingold
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:23:37PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > > It is really irritating the state the keyboard is right now in X and I > > want to get back to the console. The machine has the X login screen > > on boot, and when I close Window Maker

Re: how can I get back to console?

2000-12-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:23:37PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > It is really irritating the state the keyboard is right now in X and I > want to get back to the console. The machine has the X login screen > on boot, and when I close Window Maker or hit CTRL-ALT-+, it goes > right back to the login

does there exist a lib for userspace producer/consumer?

2000-12-12 Thread Britton
I am looking for a library that addresses the producer/consumer problem for buffers in userspace (probably using the pthread library. So instead of saying /* Bunch of thread startup order synchronization stuff */ /* do what is to be done to a segment of the buffer */ /* lock next negment */ /* r

small blocks or more inodes?

2000-12-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To follow up on an email i sent not to long ago I have been digging through ext2 documentation to try to find what is the best setup for storing tons of small files(tens/hundreds of thousands). The filesystem is composed of 2 9.1GB Ultra160 drives in raid1. I have 2 identical systems setup with d

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 08:36:24PM -0500, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > I think I will need a filter setup, even though I thought I wouldn't > need one with a PS printer, since the Optra E312 only seems to > Postscript Level 2. > > Using a printcap supplied by another member of this list, I get > stair

Re: Mailing list archives?

2000-12-12 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson): CW> Depending on your news server, you may find them in the linux.debian.* CW> hierarchy (e.g. linux.debian.user). Thanks a lot for the advice, I found them under muc.lists.debian.*. linux.debian.* seems to be a different hierarchy altogether.

Re: Voodoo 3000 3d acceleration -- look ma, no non-debian-packaged files.

2000-12-12 Thread Joel Ståbis
* Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > for X 4.0.1 you need very recent kernel, either one of the pre 2.4 or > 2.2.18 (that would be 'pre' as well), the howto for this combination is > at debianplanet. Sorry if this mail comes twice, but my last mail didn't seem to reach the list. Hi. I ha

SOLVED! (was Re: KDE 2.0.1 for stable doesn't come up?

2000-12-12 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
It turned out that /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-window-manager was flawed. It caused creation of a link to /usr/bin/kwin instead of /usr/bin/kde2. After I changed the relevant line in the above file everything was fine. :-) -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. htt

Re: Can't establish a ppp connection with the base system...

2000-12-12 Thread John Hasler
> Seems everything be good.. but why this SIGHUP? You may be using the wrong authentication method, or your ISP may want to see a return at the end of the chat (most don't). To test the latter try changing CONNECT \d\c at the end of the chatscript to CONNECT \d -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Voodoo 3000 3d acceleration -- look ma, no non-debian-packaged files.

2000-12-12 Thread Joel Ståbis
* Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > for X 4.0.1 you need very recent kernel, either one of the pre 2.4 or > 2.2.18 (that would be 'pre' as well), the howto for this combination is > at debianplanet. Hi. I have configured X 4.0.1 to use hardware gl on my Voodoo3 as described in the howto

Re: user not authorized to run X, strange variant

2000-12-12 Thread Erik Steffl
sena wrote: > > On 12/12/2000 at 11:35 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > > my point was that these options do not help in what I think is by far > > most common situation. then again, I have no lies neither statistics to > > support this:-) > > > > I mean the most common situations should be solved

how can I get back to console?

2000-12-12 Thread Ken Weingold
It is really irritating the state the keyboard is right now in X and I want to get back to the console. The machine has the X login screen on boot, and when I close Window Maker or hit CTRL-ALT-+, it goes right back to the login screen. Thanks. -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: Scopus

Re: Help meaning pgp: Can't check signature...

2000-12-12 Thread Chris Gray
> Jonathan Gift writes: jg> Hi, I've installed pgp, set up my publick key, and got rid of jg> the majotrity of heading pgp referencing msgs. the only one jg> left is: jg> 1. pgp: Signature made Monday... Which is a confirmation of jg> the other's signature, I understand t

Re: MP3 players

2000-12-12 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 12:04:11PM +0100, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > brian moore wrote: > > > The Pjbox does. Works great. You can get one from thinkgeek: they're a > > Yes, the pjbox is nice. Unfortunately ThinkGeek won't ship outside the > US. And with the current rate Euro/Dollar it costs a

Re: Sound problem

2000-12-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:54:56PM +0100, Gian Piero Ascenso wrote: > Hi Marc, > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 06:33:12PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > > So far, however, I am unable to use CD audio. My CD-ROM drive works > > fine reading data, but when I try to load something like xfreecd I get

Re: Sound card interrupt problem (ESS ES1878)

2000-12-12 Thread Michael Sauer
> Sound initialization started > ESS chip ES1878 detected > ESS1688: Invalid IRQ 8 > sb: Interrupt test on IRQ8 failed - Probable IRQ conflict > at 0x220 irq 8 dma 1,5 > Sound initialization complete > > Does anyone have any ways of changing the IRQ and DMA settings > without recompiling the kern

Re: Help meaning pgp: Can't check signature...

2000-12-12 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:36:31PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed pgp, set up my publick key, and got rid of the majotrity > of heading pgp referencing msgs. the only one left is: > > 1. pgp: Signature made Monday... > Which is a confirmation of the other's signature, I unde

Re: XDM and Variable X Server Configurations?

2000-12-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:39:58PM -0700, John Stevens wrote: ... > I'm asking 'cause my boys are the ones who want to be able to play this > game (Quake II), and while a seven year old can do GUI, as it is the > simplest way to get this stuff done, command line activities may be a > bit much, espe

Re: Recipe for installng Tomcat on (Debian) Linux?

2000-12-12 Thread Stefan Gybas
Gregory Guthrie wrote: > Starting Tomcat servlet engine: touch: creating > `/etc/apache/mod_jk/tomcat-auto': No such file or directory Sorry, I was assuming that mopd_jk was installed in the init script. This should be fixed in 3.2-4 (available as usual at http://master.debian.org/~sgybas/tomcat/

Re: exim

2000-12-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 04:02:31PM -0500, A R wrote: > > Carel Fellinger wrote: > > What did you specify for exim's qualify_domain and local_domains? > > the-sphere.org (just a top name I bought, hosted at GANDI, forwarded to AT&T) okee, this shouldn't give raise to problems > > Pleas tell us

Re: SCREENSHOT - what software/method to use

2000-12-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Everyone, Thanks all for pointers. Import and gimp seems to be the best ones for me. Osamu On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:41:18PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:05:03PM -0800, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I am looking for screenshot program/method fo

Sound card interrupt problem (ESS ES1878)

2000-12-12 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Hello... I recently installed Debian on a Compaq Armada 7770DMT laptop with an ES 1878 sound card. I've compiled support for the Soundblaster into the kernel (2.2.17), which allows me to play audio cds, but gives a weird echo effect when I try to play wave files using 'play'. I've compiled the ke

Re: Debian checks filesystems at every boot

2000-12-12 Thread kmself
on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:35:28PM +0100, Nico De Ranter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Howdy, > > I just got a new computer and installed Debian on it (ofcourse :-). > The installation uses 2 partitions, 1 of 5GB and 1 of 15GB (hey I have > to do something with all that diskspace don't I :-). I d

Re: es1371

2000-12-12 Thread csj
Funny, but I have an ES1371 card and I didn't have to recompile. The debian installer took care of it (with some gentle prodding). Vendor: Ensoniq Model: ES1371 (AudioPCI-97) Kernel Module: es1371 Bus Type: PCI On Tuesday 12 December 2000 18:43, Manegold wrote: > romain lerallut wrote: > > Hello

Re: user not authorized to run X, strange variant

2000-12-12 Thread sena
On 12/12/2000 at 11:35 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > my point was that these options do not help in what I think is by far > most common situation. then again, I have no lies neither statistics to > support this:-) > > I mean the most common situations should be solved first, then special > case

Re: debian insall over ppp connection

2000-12-12 Thread John Hasler
Erik Steffl writes: > The problem was that it created new config files for pppd and chat but > pon used the default ones (the pppd and chat config files themselves were > OK, it was the configuration of pon that was unusable). Was it perhaps that you were unaware that pon defaults to 'provider' un

Re: Can't establish a ppp connection with the base system...

2000-12-12 Thread John Hasler
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls writes: > btw - I have had prob's with pppconfig - it will not delete the older > file and pulls password out of the wrong file - I remove them by hand. Could you explain this problem in more detail, preferably in a bug report? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Da

Re: Mozilla PSM downloaded, but not installed? (did Debug -> Install PSM)

2000-12-12 Thread Ard Righ
([<> On 11 Dec 2000, some witty mortal wrote: <>]) > There is a bug in the psm module. Has anyone tried to download the PSM module via the Mozilla website ? Didn't have any problems doing that myself... :o) Ard Righ S' Rioghal Mo Dhream! http://www.Challenge-NZ.com/ ([XXH<>%<>HXX])===

KDE 2.0.1 for stable doesn't come up?

2000-12-12 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, yesterday I've installed KDE 2.0.1 for Debian 2.2, but I'm facing unexpected problems getting it to run. First, kdm runs fine. But when I try to log in, or rather after I've logged in the KDE desktop doesn't come up. The rastered grey background just sits there waiting forever. The s

Re: Logging FTP

2000-12-12 Thread Leen Besselink
> Does anyone know if FTP-transfers/connections are logged? I'll try to answer this. > > I tried to find any logging info in the syslog/daemon.log but it seems > like it doesn't log anything. sure it does (kinda) the only it logs in the file /var/log/syslog: Dec 12 22:45:00 debian in.ftpd[4509]

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-12 Thread csj
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 09:36, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "c" == csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > c> Can you (the original poster) print to file using your CUPS > c> setup? If you can print to file, but not to the printer, it's > c> probably a printer-queue problem. My own

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-12 Thread David Zoll
Peter Wollny wrote: > > I had a look on the docs for cdrecord and found out that it is > not possible to burn in DAO, only TAO. How can I avoid the two > seconds of silence between the tracks? The cdrdao package works great for that. Even better, it will let you create hidden tracks, divide

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-12-12 Thread Leen Besselink
> What ever I put in It say it can't find 'images-1.44/something/rescue.bin. I think there was also an option for it to 'list' possible files that it can use, I think also that's what the manual means. The proper path should be something like: /dists/potato/main/disks-i386/images-1.44/something

Can't establish a ppp connection with the base system...

2000-12-12 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi all If i try to connect to the intenet(with pon) I get the following in the messages file: Dec 12 20:43:29 debian pppd[345]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 Dec 12 20:43:30 debian chat[346]: abort on (BUSY) Dec 12 20:43:30 debian chat[346]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Dec 12 20:43:30 debian chat[

Re: v4.0.1 xserver-xfree86 setup

2000-12-12 Thread Erik Steffl
Craig Coles wrote: > > I am running Woody, have done for quite a while, and just updated to the > newer xfree86 server, when installing the new 4.0.1 xserver through dselect > it had me go through a simple configuration to set up X. It either didn't > write the file where I can find it, or I some

Re: Can't log in after apt-get upgrade

2000-12-12 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > I had the identical systems. Logging in on a text console (alt-ctl-F1, ^^^err, meant to write "symptoms" there. Sorry, I'll proofread more carefully next time) > then log in), and examining the file .gnome-errors in my ho

Re: user not authorized to run X, strange variant

2000-12-12 Thread Erik Steffl
sena wrote: > > On 12/12/2000 at 09:33 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > > and how come Xwrapper.config is not found by dpg -S Xwrapper.config? > > Is there any documentation for it? > > > On the latest woody upgrade, a window (console-based :)) shows up saying > that /etc/X11/Xserver is no longer use

Re: exim

2000-12-12 Thread A R
Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:03:32PM -0500, A R wrote: > > Done. Works. Thanks. Now, there is still some details: > > What did you specify for exim's qualify_domain and local_domains? > the-sphere.org (just a top name I bought, hosted at GANDI, forwarded to AT&T) > > > >

UDMA66 boot problem/HPT370

2000-12-12 Thread Alexander Sawallich
When I try installing Debian 2.2r2 on my HPT370 Raid/UDMA100 controller, with the UDMA66 boot floppies, the system halts during the boot process. Why? Thnanks for any help. I´m sorry this description got so long, but if someone really wants to help he might need some of the info below. I´m b

UDMA66 boot problem /HPT370

2000-12-12 Thread Alexander
When I try installing Debian 2.2r2 on my HPT370 Raid/UDMA100 controller, with the UDMA66 boot floppies, the system halts during the boot process. Why? Thnanks for any help. I´m sorry this description got so long, but if someone really wants to help he might need some of the info below. I´m b

Help meaning pgp: Can't check signature...

2000-12-12 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I've installed pgp, set up my publick key, and got rid of the majotrity of heading pgp referencing msgs. the only one left is: 1. pgp: Signature made Monday... Which is a confirmation of the other's signature, I understand that. 2. gpg: Can't check sigature: public key not found Now, is the

Re: XDM and Variable X Server Configurations?

2000-12-12 Thread John Stevens
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 11:06:40AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > I'd suggest either use 16 bpp Acckk!! No, thanks. I regularly do true color graphics work. I need all 24 bits. > all the time or simply switch to virtual > console, run startx -- -bpp 16 and use this second X server for GL stuff

Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-12 Thread kmself
on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:30:12PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On 12-Dec-2000 Erik Steffl wrote: > > if you mean that you can use vnc to view windows desktop but not to > > view your 'normal' linux X desktop, that's sort of true, it's not > > possible with 'straight

Unidentified subject!

2000-12-12 Thread Stephen Hore-Lacy
Hi guys, I am trying to install debian 2.2 on my second hard drive. The official cd I have boots up (using disc 2) and I set the keyboard, partition and initialise the native and swap partitions. I choose not to be compatible with pre 2.2 kernals. It is now time to install kernal and modules

Re: v4.0.1 xserver-xfree86 setup

2000-12-12 Thread Juergen Fiedler
In general, you can reconfigure packages with 'dpkg-reconfigure ' This procedure, applied to xserver-xfree86, should give you a file '/etc/X11/XF86Config-4'. If you want to reconfigure X later on, dexter does a decent job of it. HTH, j On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 07:30:14PM +, Craig Coles wrote

Unidentified subject!

2000-12-12 Thread Stephen Hore-Lacy
Hi guys, I am trying to install debian 2.2 on my second hard drive. The official cd I have boots up (using disc 2) and I set the keyboard, partition and initialise the native and swap partitions. I choose not to be compatible with pre 2.2 kernals. It is now time to install kernal and modules

Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-12 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 12-Dec-2000 Erik Steffl wrote: > > Manegold wrote: > >> > >> Alson van der Meulen wrote: > >> > > >> > > When it comes to controlling a Linux X display, I'm a little more > >> > > hazy. > >> > > > >> > > Near as I can figure, if you want to control a Linux box using

Re: WinModem

2000-12-12 Thread Lazar Fleysher
I've heard that Lucent provides modules for their Winmodems for linux. But again, "I've heard"... On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, urbanyon wrote: > i've heard the same thing, and from several reliable sources. with my > system, i bought a new modem. > > On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Stephan Kulka wrote: > > > >

Re: BIOS local time to UT time

2000-12-12 Thread Lazar Fleysher
thanks, I knew I saw it somewhere, but could not find it when it was needed. Thanks again Lazar On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Just edit the file > > /etc/default/rcS > > and change the line with UTC to > > UTC=yes > > Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > > > I u

Re: debian insall over ppp connection

2000-12-12 Thread Erik Steffl
John Hasler wrote: > > erik writes: > > part of the install is ppp configuration. it produced unusable files, but > > it was fairly easy to manually fix it... > > Unusable how? Did you file a bug report? it was a long time ago (slink) and at that time I didn't even know I can file a bug repor

Re: BIOS local time to UT time

2000-12-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Just edit the file /etc/default/rcS and change the line with UTC to UTC=yes Lazar Fleysher wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I used to have a machine running Windows and Linux, but now I decided to > get rid off win. > > Currently, I have setup which relyes on BIOS clock set to local time. > Since, I

Re: Can't login--more info

2000-12-12 Thread Erik Steffl
Ross Boylan wrote: > > (Follow up to my previous message) > I see the following suspicious entry in the logs: > > wheat modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than > /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep > > Also, there was quite a lot of disk repair when I initially restarted. The > indi

Re: Can't log in after apt-get upgrade

2000-12-12 Thread J. Bruce Fields
I had the identical systems. Logging in on a text console (alt-ctl-F1, then log in), and examining the file .gnome-errors in my home directory, I found that gnome was complaining about not being able to find a certain shared library file. (Can't remember the name--something with pixbuf in it some

Re: Voodoo 3000 3d acceleration -- look ma, no non-debian-packaged files.

2000-12-12 Thread Erik Steffl
Gryn wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:36:18AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > > what kernel and what version of X? if its kernel 2.2 and Xfree 3 i can > > help ive done countless installations. > > Ah yes, that would have ben prudent to include. I'm running 2.4.0-test10, > and XFree86 4.0ish.

Re: XDM and Variable X Server Configurations?

2000-12-12 Thread Erik Steffl
I'd suggest either use 16 bpp all the time or simply switch to virtual console, run startx -- -bpp 16 and use this second X server for GL stuff or modify xdm config to start two X servers - one with your regular settings, the other one for 3D stuff there are probably some other ways as well

Re: Sound problem

2000-12-12 Thread Gian Piero Ascenso
Hi Marc, On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 06:33:12PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > So far, however, I am unable to use CD audio. My CD-ROM drive works > fine reading data, but when I try to load something like xfreecd I get > an error message saying: > > cdrom_init(CDROMREADTOCHDR-2): Inappropria

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