Re: Installing KDE 2 using apt-get

2000-12-29 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 04:41:54AM +, Thiago Araujo Silva wrote: > > Please, do someone know how to install KDE 2 using apt-get ? I tried it but I > couldn't, maybe because my servers don't have it :/ Add this to your /etc/apt/sources-list: deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional

Konqueror help needed

2000-12-29 Thread David Bellows
Hello everyone, OK, I just had this harrowing experience with apt-get. I wanted to upgrade KDE to the latest version (2.1 I think) from the unstable section. I wasn't paying close attention and doing so broke X -- it replaced my working XF3.3.6 with parts of XF4.0. I managed to get X back to wh

Re: Installing KDE 2 using apt-get

2000-12-29 Thread Earl F Hampton
On Thursday 01 January 1970 00:00, Thiago Araujo Silva wrote: > Please, do someone know how to install KDE 2 using apt-get ? I tried it but > I couldn't, maybe because my servers don't have it :/ > > Thanks a lot, > Thiago go to http://kde.tdyc.com if will tell you what to stick in your /etc/apt/

Re: Installing KDE 2 using apt-get

2000-12-29 Thread Dean
Hi Thiago: I could be wrong, but I heard you need to be on a woody instead of potato installation. hth Dean Thiago Araujo Silva wrote: > > Please, do someone know how to install KDE 2 using apt-get ? I tried it but I > couldn't, maybe because my servers don't have it :/ > > Thanks a lot, > Thia

Re: `who` vs `w` ?

2000-12-29 Thread Brian May
> "will" == will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: will> but there's only one of me! will> % ls -l /dev/pts total 0 crw--- 1 will tty 136, 0 Dec 29 will> 21:04 0 will> what's up with this? It may be that logins are getting recorded in /var/run/utmp, but logouts aren't

Installing KDE 2 using apt-get

2000-12-29 Thread Thiago Araujo Silva
Please, do someone know how to install KDE 2 using apt-get ? I tried it but I couldn't, maybe because my servers don't have it :/ Thanks a lot, Thiago

Re: Can I run Debian2.2 on a Sun Ultra10??

2000-12-29 Thread Colin Watson
"Hango" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can I run Debian2.2 rev2 on a Sun Ultra10?? According to http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html, which is referred to by http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/sparc/ch-hardware-req.en.html, yes. >-=-=-=-=-=- >[Alternative: text/html] >-=-=-=-=-=- Keeping e-mails pla

Re: `who` vs `w` ?

2000-12-29 Thread ktb
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 09:06:25PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > when i try "w" it says '3 users' but only shows me. > % w > 9:03pm up 105 days, 21:22, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT > will pts/0wdt

Re: X11 headers

2000-12-29 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Which package includes the X11 headers? >I'm running Woody. If that's woody as in the new testing, xlib6g-dev; if that's woody as in an unstable installation from when it was still called woody, xlibs-dev. (But xlib6g-dev will do the right thing on both.) -- Colin Watso

Re: emacs & w3m -- "Cannot open load file: poe"

2000-12-29 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 02:28:07PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > Discovered there's a w3m module, but when I launch it under either emacs > > > or xemacs I get (different) error messages. Why not try good ole plain w3? It's a fairly nice browser, and with gnus it is really the cat's m

Re: ppp.log rotation

2000-12-29 Thread Denis Kosygin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Alex V. Toropov") writes: > Sorry for a stupid question, but I cann't find out which cron job > is rotating ppp.log files every day. Depending on time of day > it is some script from cron.daily. But I don't know which one. > I have statndard (not modified) Debian 2.2r1 install

`who` vs `w` ?

2000-12-29 Thread will trillich
when i try "w" it says '3 users' but only shows me. % w 9:03pm up 105 days, 21:22, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT will pts/0wdt 9:02pm 0.00s 0.37s 0.04s w when i try "who" it shows me, thr

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-29 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 08:10:52PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Brian Keck wrote: > >On the question of /usr/src/linux & symlinks, Linus sent a couple > >of messages to linux-kernel a few months ago ... > > > Yes, but these refer to the commonly found link from /usr/include/asm > into /usr

Re: Laptop eth0 problems

2000-12-29 Thread NOKUBI Takatsugu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> I've got an HP Pavillion 5195 laptop, pretty new. I did some research, and >> found out that supposedly the internal ethernet card on this thing used >> tulip >> drivers. In fact the support folks from Accton, the folks who made the ca

Re: Apache Error: srm.conf

2000-12-29 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:49:50PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > According to the online Apache documentation [0], the directive > "AddDefaultCharsetName" does not exist. The "AddDefaultCharset" line > appears to do the right thing; I don't kow why that other line got in > there. Comment it out

Re: mouse question

2000-12-29 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
On December 29, 2000 07:57 pm, Cam wrote: > Hello, > > I recently bought a Logitech Cordless Mouseman Wheel mouse and I am > unable to get the wheel to work at all. Here is what I have in my > XF86Config-4 file for my mouse: I haven't tried this on my Debian machine, but here is what Mandrake di

Re: potato instalation error

2000-12-29 Thread Ignasi Tura
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 10:33:19PM -0200, Antonio wrote: > I`m trying too install the potato with CDROM (with the 5 boot`s floppies: > rescue, root, driver1, driver2 and driver3). > It`s all well until the Base System instalation. I select the CDROM > instalation and it begin read the Debian

Re: Locale annoying warning

2000-12-29 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hola Pedro, On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:13:00AM -0500, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > I have a fresh unstable install and every time I operate on the packages > with apt-get I get the following: > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: >LAN

Re: newbie: 3c905C eth0 card not detected

2000-12-29 Thread Irwan Hadi
At 09:32 PM 12/29/00 +0100, Ralf Batri wrote: On Fre, Dez 29, 2000 at 01:49:50 -0500, D-Man wrote: > Both 3Com and RedHat say that the 3c905b card does NOT work with > Linux. I don't know about the 3c905c. I bought a much cheaper > LinkSys card instead and have been very happy with it. If defi

Re: potato instalation error

2000-12-29 Thread ktb
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 10:33:19PM -0200, Antonio wrote: > Hello! > > I`m using a IBM 586 , 100MHz, HD 544, RAM 16, CDROM 2x. How you can see, a > old computer. > > I`m trying too install the potato with CDROM (with the 5 boot`s floppies: > rescue, root, driver1, driver2 and driver3). > It`s al

mouse question

2000-12-29 Thread Cam
Hello, I recently bought a Logitech Cordless Mouseman Wheel mouse and I am unable to get the wheel to work at all. Here is what I have in my XF86Config-4 file for my mouse: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "Imps/2"

X11 headers

2000-12-29 Thread Shaun Jackman
Which package includes the X11 headers? I'm running Woody. Thanks, Shaun

potato instalation error

2000-12-29 Thread Antonio
Hello! I`m using a IBM 586 , 100MHz, HD 544, RAM 16, CDROM 2x. How you can see, a old computer. I`m trying too install the potato with CDROM (with the 5 boot`s floppies: rescue, root, driver1, driver2 and driver3). It`s all well until the Base System instalation. I select the CDROM instalation

Re: [OT] See you next year...

2000-12-29 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:36:16PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 09:50:47PM +, sena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'll be going in a new-year vacations until 3 January. As someone suggested > > in another thread, I'll be using procmail to redirect debian mailing

potato instalation error

2000-12-29 Thread Antonio
Hello! I`m using a IBM 586 , 100MHz, HD 544, RAM 16, CDROM 2x. How you can see, a old computer. I`m trying too install the potato with CDROM (with the 5 boot`s floppies: rescue, root, driver1, driver2 and driver3). It`s all well until the Base System instalation. I select the CDROM instalation

Re: qt 2.2.3 for debian

2000-12-29 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 10:08:16PM +0100, Hans-Christian Armingeon wrote: > Hi, > I searched and searched but didn't find any qt packages for debian. Does > anybody know, where to download them? > > Please reply to my e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I'm not on debian-user. try http://p

Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-29 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:37:54PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:01:25AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:35:33PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > > > Is that the only file that needs to be changed? How do I determine > > > the IP, netmask, and gateway for e

Personal: Osamu Aoki -- mail is bouncing

2000-12-29 Thread kmself
I got your message regarding partitioning, would be happy for Tony to use it. However my mail to both of you is bouncing right now: - Transcript of session follows - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Deferred: Connection refused by mail.csoft.net. 5

Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-29 Thread Ed Kear
At 04:38 PM 12/29/00 -0600, Pascal Hos wrote: On Friday 29 December 2000 04:37 pm, JD Kitch wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:01:25AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:35:33PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > > > Is that the only file that needs to be changed? How do I > > > d

Re: DHCP Client

2000-12-29 Thread Ed Kear
At 02:40 PM 12/29/00 -0600, Jon Pennington wrote: Phillip Deackes wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:32:55 -0800 (PST) > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > edit /etc/init.d/ script. Each one has an argument for which > > eth to > > listen on. For pump it is -i eth0. > > What

Can I run Debian2.2 on a Sun Ultra10??

2000-12-29 Thread Hango
Can I run Debian2.2 rev2 on a Sun Ultra10??

Re: Switching between KDE & Helix-Gnome

2000-12-29 Thread csj
On Saturday 30 December 2000 00:10, Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi Noah! > > Thanks a lot for your quick reply! > > On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > You don't need KDM in order to start KDE, nor do you need GDM to start > > GNOME. Either of these display managers will allow you to choos

Re: qt 2.2.3 for debian

2000-12-29 Thread John Hasler
Hans-Christian Armingeon writes: > I searched and searched but didn't find any qt packages for debian. Does > anybody know, where to download them? >From your favorite Debian mirror: Package: libqt2 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: libs Installed-Size: 3538 Mai

Re: Tools for creating a movie from a sequence of images?

2000-12-29 Thread Jon Pennington
"Michael A. Miller" wrote: > > Are there any tools (or libraries) in Debian that will allow me > to create an animation from a sequence of images? > > Mike Depending on the image format, you should look at The GIMP and it's assorted plugins. -- -=|JP|=-"Why, oh, why didn't I ta

Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-29 Thread Pascal Hos
On Friday 29 December 2000 04:37 pm, JD Kitch wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:01:25AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:35:33PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > > > Is that the only file that needs to be changed? How do I > > > determine the IP, netmask, and gateway for eth1,

Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-29 Thread JD Kitch
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:01:25AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:35:33PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > > Is that the only file that needs to be changed? How do I determine > > the IP, netmask, and gateway for eth1, and then for the internal > > machine? > i use 192.168.*.* fo

Re: formatting mod

2000-12-29 Thread Jon Pennington
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > this question might sound quite stupid, but: How to format an MOD of > 640MB as superfloppy with dos filesystem? > > Until now I only needed ext2fs. I used fdisk (fdisk -b2048 /dev/sdc), > deleted the partition, wrote the new data to the disk and could > lat

Re: emacs & w3m -- "Cannot open load file: poe"

2000-12-29 Thread kmself
on Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:41:45AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:02:11AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com > (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > > I'm reaquainting myself with emacs after a several years absense. > > > > Discovered there's a w3m mod

Re: kernel: scsi conflict

2000-12-29 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:46:05AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > But when starting LILO and adding: > linux aha152x=0x340,11 > everything works fine. > > The problem is, I can not use LILO, because the image is supposed to work > on a diskless workstation. When you load this image via tftp as Net

What /potato/main/disks-i386/ image to burn into CDR

2000-12-29 Thread csj
Having been converted to the Debian download-as-needed way, I am now reluctant to download entire ISO's of irrelevant .debs (either raw or thru the pseudo image kit). Now, what I want to know is: what floppy image from debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.20.0.1-2000-12-03/ do I need to down

Tools for creating a movie from a sequence of images?

2000-12-29 Thread Michael A. Miller
Are there any tools (or libraries) in Debian that will allow me to create an animation from a sequence of images? Mike

Re: qt 2.2.3 for debian

2000-12-29 Thread Bud Rogers
On Friday 29 December 2000 15:08, Hans-Christian Armingeon wrote: > Hi, > I searched and searched but didn't find any qt packages for debian. > Does anybody know, where to download them? > > Please reply to my e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I'm not on > debian-user. http://kde.tdyc.com -- Bud

Re: Making new tasks known to tasksel (2)

2000-12-29 Thread Juergen Fiedler
I am not sure whether this has been mentioned before, but running 'Update' from within dselect adds the tasks to tasksel. j Holger Rauch wrote: > > Hi all! > > I forgot to mention something in my last mail concerning this issue. I > didn't run "tasksel" right after "apt-cdrom add". What I did

Re: Laptop eth0 problems

2000-12-29 Thread Jo Geraerts
Hello, On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Michelle Murrain wrote: > The generic tulip failed during the install. Then, in trying their tulip - I > put thier tulip.o into /lib/modules/2.2.17/net, and added the line: Maybe you can get it working with the ne2000 driver. Greetz, Jo

qt 2.2.3 for debian

2000-12-29 Thread Hans-Christian Armingeon
Hi, I searched and searched but didn't find any qt packages for debian. Does anybody know, where to download them? Please reply to my e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I'm not on debian-user. Thanks Johnny

formatting mod

2000-12-29 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, this question might sound quite stupid, but: How to format an MOD of 640MB as superfloppy with dos filesystem? Until now I only needed ext2fs. I used fdisk (fdisk -b2048 /dev/sdc), deleted the partition, wrote the new data to the disk and could lateron install an ext2fs with "ext2fs -b2048

Re: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 29 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > Thanks a lot! I switched to xterm, which is lighter and better as an > x-terminal-emulator, IMHO. Just a hint: if you can live with a stripped down version of xterm that is easier on RAM, then use rxvt. I use it here and it is al

Re: problem with perl in unstable

2000-12-29 Thread aperrin
Just as a guess: have you installed perl 5.6.0 on this machine from source? If so, you'll need to provide access to the older 5.005_03 libraries for some of the apt scripts to work. I used some symlinks within the /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 directory to point to libraries in /usr/lib/perl5/5.005, which

Re: magneto optical, driver support

2000-12-29 Thread kmself
on Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:08:41PM +0100, Matthieu Paindavoine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > Found a pinnacle magneto optical 650. I am looking for a driver. Has > anyone seen one? SCSI device? SCSI should be all you need. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evang

Re: problem with perl in unstable

2000-12-29 Thread Thomas Delany
That looks almost identical to a problem that I have been having with a number of packages in unstable. Unfortunately, no one has been able to help me either. I wish Iknew what was going on.If I get any answer, or figure anything out, I'll let you know. I'd appreciate it if youwould do the same

Re: DHCP Client

2000-12-29 Thread Jon Pennington
Phillip Deackes wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:32:55 -0800 (PST) > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > edit /etc/init.d/ script. Each one has an argument for which > > eth to > > listen on. For pump it is -i eth0. > > What is ? I have no /etc/init.d/eth0 or /etc/init.d/dh

Re: newbie: 3c905C eth0 card not detected

2000-12-29 Thread Ralf Batri
On Fre, Dez 29, 2000 at 01:49:50 -0500, D-Man wrote: > Both 3Com and RedHat say that the 3c905b card does NOT work with > Linux. I don't know about the 3c905c. I bought a much cheaper > LinkSys card instead and have been very happy with it. If definatly using the 3c905b and 3c905c on all of my m

xinetd, tcpd (tcpwrappers), twist

2000-12-29 Thread Seth R Arnold
Greetings friends. Perhaps someone here can help me. (BTW -- a CC would sure be nice, if you reply. :) I am trying to build a short and sweet http redirector using the twist function from hosts_options(5). I did this before, with ftp, and inetd. Trouble is, now I am using a machine with xinetd (Ve

Installing Debian over NFS

2000-12-29 Thread Denis Laroche
Hi all, I'm new to Debian and I'm trying to install the current distribution using NFS on a i486 PC that has an Ethernet 3Com 3C509B adapter in an ISA slot. I had RedHat Linux running on the PC before and the NIC was working fine (with Donald Beckers's 3c509.o module). I read through the installa

Re: DHCP Client

2000-12-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Dec-2000 Phillip Deackes wrote: > On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:32:55 -0800 (PST) > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> edit /etc/init.d/ script. Each one has an argument for which >> eth to >> listen on. For pump it is -i eth0. > > What is ? I have no /etc/init.d/eth0 or /etc

Re: newbie: 3c905C eth0 card not detected

2000-12-29 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 08:55:04PM +0100, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: > At 13:49 29-12-00 -0500, you wrote: > >Both 3Com and RedHat say that the 3c905b card does NOT work with > >Linux. > > 3c905b does not work, they say? Take a look at this: I'm glad it works for you. It was a few years ag

Re: DHCP Client

2000-12-29 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:32:55 -0800 (PST) "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > edit /etc/init.d/ script. Each one has an argument for which > eth to > listen on. For pump it is -i eth0. What is ? I have no /etc/init.d/eth0 or /etc/init.d/dhcp or anything like that - all I have whic

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
Brian Keck wrote: >On the question of /usr/src/linux & symlinks, Linus sent a couple >of messages to linux-kernel a few months ago ... Yes, but these refer to the commonly found link from /usr/include/asm into /usr/src/linux/include; that is the link that should not be there. Linus is saying

Re: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry writes: > mine: > [submenu] (Blackbox) {} > [config] (Configuration) > [submenu] (Styles) {} > [stylesdir] (/usr/share/blackbox/styles) > [stylesdir] (~/.blackbox/styles) > [end] > [workspaces] (Workspaces) >[end] >> >> This

Re: newbie: 3c905C eth0 card not detected

2000-12-29 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
At 13:49 29-12-00 -0500, you wrote: Both 3Com and RedHat say that the 3c905b card does NOT work with Linux. 3c905b does not work, they say? Take a look at this: /sbin/lspci -v 00:13.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 64)     Subsystem: 3Com Corporation: Un

Re: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Think I left off the menu: [submenu] (Blackbox) {} [config] (Configuration) [submenu] (Styles) {} [stylesdir] (/usr/share/blackbox/styles) [stylesdir] (~/.blackbox/styles) [end] [workspaces] (Workspaces) [end]

Re: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Dec-2000 Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: >:: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry writes: > you should see a Blackbox/Styles menu. Look at /etc/X11/blackbox/blackbox-menu. >>> >>> Er... This is what I have after a fresh install (and after running >>> update-menus): >>> >>> [submenu] (Blackbox) {} >

Re: How-to for potato udma66 support?

2000-12-29 Thread Glenn Murray
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Jon Pennington wrote: > Get the directory > /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/udma66 (this is > from memory) somewhere local, like a CD-ROM or get them from the ftp > site. Then for each of these files: > > - rescue.bin > - root.bin > - driver-1.bin

apt problems

2000-12-29 Thread Michelle Murrain
The result of a dumb mistake: I wanted to upgrade a particular package from woody, and in the middle, it stopped because it didn't have a newer copy of libc6. I decided at that point that I would forgo the upgrade. However, somehow, part of it got installed somehow, and now I can't install anyt

Re: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry writes: >>> you should see a Blackbox/Styles menu. Look at >>> /etc/X11/blackbox/blackbox-menu. >> >> Er... This is what I have after a fresh install (and after running >> update-menus): >> >> [submenu] (Blackbox) {} >> [exit] (Exit) >> [reconfig] (Reconfigure) >> [resta

Re: 'testing' & dep conflicts

2000-12-29 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:44:55PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:10:41AM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > > 1. Why are packages kept back like follows? [ snip ] > First, since you're upgrading from potato to woody (you've changed > distributions), you should use `apt-get

Re: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Dec-2000 Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: >:: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry writes: > >>> The styles are installed in /usr/share/blackbox but after running >>> update-menus, they still do not show up in the menus. I did add links >>> to them in my ~/.blackbox, and that semes to work. >>> > >> you should

Re: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Colin Watson writes: >> Ok... Now, dlocate -S x-terminal-emulator didn't find >> anything. Running it starts powershell. > It wouldn't: x-terminal-emulator is an alternative (see 'man > update-alternatives') pointing to one of various things like xterm, > rxvt, Eterm, gnome-terminal, konsole

Re: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry writes: >> The styles are installed in /usr/share/blackbox but after running >> update-menus, they still do not show up in the menus. I did add links >> to them in my ~/.blackbox, and that semes to work. >> > you should see a Blackbox/Styles menu. Look at > /etc/X11/black

Re: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Colin Watson
Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can't help with your first problem, but: > Also, some applications in the menus are text-based, but won't start > when I click on them; on the console, I get this everytime I try to > run a text-based app from the menus: > >$ Error on option -T: unkn

RE: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Dec-2000 Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > Hello... > > Something strange happens with blackbox here (this is sid, but the bb > package is not new, I think): > > The styles are installed in /usr/share/blackbox but after running > update-menus, they still do not show up in the menus. I did

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-29 Thread Brian Keck
On the question of /usr/src/linux & symlinks, Linus sent a couple of messages to linux-kernel a few months ago ... Brian Keck --- Forwarded Messages >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 27 17:49:26 2000 X-Authentication-Warning: palladium.transmeta.com: mail set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using

blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello... Something strange happens with blackbox here (this is sid, but the bb package is not new, I think): The styles are installed in /usr/share/blackbox but after running update-menus, they still do not show up in the menus. I did add links to them in my ~/.blackbox, and that semes to wor

Re: newbie: 3c905C eth0 card not detected

2000-12-29 Thread Jon Pennington
D-Man wrote: > > Are you sure about that? The question was about a 905 series card, > not a 590 series card. The 905 series are PCI cards, and I believe > the 590 series (or was it 509 series?) are ISA. Quite sure. The 3c905 and 3c590 are both Cyclone-series cores, I believe that the 905 is ca

Re: newbie: 3c905C eth0 card not detected

2000-12-29 Thread D-Man
Are you sure about that? The question was about a 905 series card, not a 590 series card. The 905 series are PCI cards, and I believe the 590 series (or was it 509 series?) are ISA. Both 3Com and RedHat say that the 3c905b card does NOT work with Linux. I don't know about the 3c905c. I bought

Re: Apache Error: srm.conf

2000-12-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:19:13PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Invalid command 'AddDefaultCharsetName', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a > module not included in the server configuration > > I'm somewhat leery of removing the offending line, as it seems to be a > security > fix for cross-site

Re: putting Apache into chroot()-prison

2000-12-29 Thread JoshNarins
From what I've been able to gather, chroot can be secure,   but only if the user can never get root. FreeBSD's jail had a recent problem. Mounting /proc inside the chroot is not a good idea. In a message dated 12/27/00 7:01:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: not to dis

magneto optical, driver support

2000-12-29 Thread Matthieu Paindavoine
Hello, Found a pinnacle magneto optical 650. I am looking for a driver. Has anyone seen one? Thanks, Matthieu

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 10:21:30AM -0600, David A. Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: > I understand your comment about fakeroot. However, I didn't include any > documentation on it for a couple of reasons. > > First, I've instructed the reader to read the kernel-package

Re: Switching between KDE & Helix-Gnome

2000-12-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 05:10:48PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > > You don't need KDM in order to start KDE, nor do you need GDM to start > > GNOME. Either of these display managers will allow you to choose a > > "session" from a menu when you log in. > > If I understand you right, it is probabl

RE: DHCP Client

2000-12-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Dec-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How do ou make the dhcp client only listen on one eth*? Whenever dhcp > client is tarted it listens on every network interface on the system, how > do I change this? > edit /etc/init.d/ script. Each one has an argument for which eth to listen on. F

Greek fonts in X - how?

2000-12-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
I installed the Greek X fonts from from Potato but when I use them the characters are still in Latin type. What else needs to be done to make them appear in Greek? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Over 100 book reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bo

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-29 Thread David A. Rogers
Carel, Thanks for your input. I appreciate knowing what people think of the document. On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 08:12:05PM -0600, David A. Rogers wrote: > > Kernel 150 - Compiling the kernel - is open for enrollment (The Debian > > University documen

Re: PS Help ISP/Fetchmail

2000-12-29 Thread Jonathan Gift
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:46:00AM -0800, Michael Epting wrote: > > >From 'man fetchmail': >The -L or --logfile option (keyword: >set logfile) allows you to redirect status messages emit- >ted while detached into a specified logfile (follow the >option with th

Re: Help Fetchmail Expected Length error?

2000-12-29 Thread Jonathan Gift
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:48:35PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > In that case, have you tried a different program to get yoyr mail from > your IPS, like mutt's build in pop, or even netscape, just to verify > that it's not fetchmail specific? Good point and first thing I did. It seems they wo

Re: Switching between KDE & Helix-Gnome

2000-12-29 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi Noah! Thanks a lot for your quick reply! On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > You don't need KDM in order to start KDE, nor do you need GDM to start > GNOME. Either of these display managers will allow you to choose a > "session" from a menu when you log in. If I understand you

DHCP Client

2000-12-29 Thread gregh
How do ou make the dhcp client only listen on one eth*? Whenever dhcp client is tarted it listens on every network interface on the system, how do I change this? later, greg

Re: mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel ??

2000-12-29 Thread Jon Pennington
Jack O Max wrote: > > Recently, I have rebuild my kernel. > > Everything runs fine, except I try to mount the floppy > disk... > > mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /mnt > mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel > > Which module should I included to fix this problem? Try the module `vfat' ;) >From t

Re: PS Help ISP/Fetchmail

2000-12-29 Thread Michael Epting
> > > yes. ("man fetchmail" could explain it better). > > Yes, I add it to the command line. Any way to log that? And see it, so > > not just "fetchmail >Log"? > Not sure, but I would say "fetchmail -vv 2>&1 | tee Log" >From 'man fetchmail': The -L or --logfile option (keyword: set

Re: mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel ??

2000-12-29 Thread ktb
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:34:38AM -0800, Jack O Max wrote: > Recently, I have rebuild my kernel. > > Everything runs fine, except I try to mount the floppy > disk... > > mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /mnt > mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel > > Which module should I included to fix this prob

mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel ??

2000-12-29 Thread Jack O Max
Recently, I have rebuild my kernel. Everything runs fine, except I try to mount the floppy disk... mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /mnt mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel Which module should I included to fix this problem? Thanks in advance. Jack p.s. I had already enabled the module for MSDO

Re: Mail only account

2000-12-29 Thread Jon Pennington
Sergio Matos wrote: > > How can I create mail only accounts on linux? > Thanks for the help, > > Sérgio Matos This may not be the proper way to handle it, but I use this. After adding the user, /etc/passwd shows: jpennington:x:1004:102:Jon Pennington,,,:/home/jpennington:/bin/bash I simply

Re: newbie: 3c905C eth0 card not detected

2000-12-29 Thread Jon Pennington
M K Saravanan wrote: > > hi, > > I have been using RH linux. after reading several success stories of debian, > decided to switch over to deb. I installed Debian2.1. It is not detecting my > ethernet card [3Com 3c905c 10/100]. how to activate it? I hope you can get a copy of Debian 2.2 soon; 2

Re: How to make a new rescue boot disk for new Kernel?

2000-12-29 Thread Jon Pennington
Jack O Max wrote: > > Can someone tech me step by step to create a new escue > boot disk in Debian after I built a new Kernel 2.2.18 ? If you used make-kpkg (see the thread `New course for Debian University), and used dpkg to install the new kernel-image package, dpkg will ask you if you'd like t

Re: How-to for potato udma66 support?

2000-12-29 Thread Jon Pennington
Glenn Murray wrote: > > Let me rephrase the question. How do you use > the udma66 support files contained in the > potato distribution to install on a > computer using a Promise Ultra 66 card? > I can't find any documentation on these > files anywhere, and it's driving me nuts. Get the directory

Re: Sendmail

2000-12-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 02:45:25PM +, Sergio Matos wrote: [Please trim material not needed for context - there's no need to replicate the entire message to which you're replying] > I want to prevent users from the intranet to send mail to the internet. Presumably this could be done by not al

Re: Apache Error: srm.conf

2000-12-29 Thread Florian Reiser
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:19:13PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > Apache has been running fine for some time now, and for some reason (I suppose > it was from something being upgraded, but I don't remember seeing anything > apache related) I'm now getting this error whenever attempting to start >

Mail only account

2000-12-29 Thread Sergio Matos
How can I create mail only accounts on linux? Thanks for the help, Sérgio Matos

Re: Help Fetchmail Expected Length error?

2000-12-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:16:41PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > > Note that I'm by no means an expert on mail, but anyhow... > > This socket/length error makes me think that something goes wrong > > in the local smtp connection (don't know, just guessing:). > > If so you could try to shortcircuit

Re: Sendmail

2000-12-29 Thread Sergio Matos
Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 04:53:45PM +, Sergio Matos wrote: > > > I'm needing help about sendmail. > > How can I config sendmail to reject mails to outside my domain? > > What exactly is it you're trying to do? If you're trying to prevent > non-local users from submitting ma

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