Re: "Upgrading" to Progeny ?

2001-04-10 Thread Zac Epkes
>From what i know, apt-get will install the latest version that is available to it, so it should downgrade to the "newer" packages in its list... and if it doesnt download the older "upgrade" software it shouldnt matter... - overid3 =) On Tuesday 10 April 2001 12:18, Hall Stevenson wrote: > >

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-10 Thread ktb
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:37:32PM -0400, Kevin Stokes wrote: >Once again I find myself helpless. As unreliable and as frustrating as > Windows is, in Linux it seems like you can't do anything without asking for > help. > > I wanted to remotely login from a Windows machine to my linux mach

ssh problems

2001-04-10 Thread Tomaas Ortega
hey guys im getting these errors when running ssh i was wondering if anyone could help me   debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_2.5.2p2debug1: load_private_key_autodetect: type 0 RSA1Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host keydebug1: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0.   all keygens are installed

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-10 Thread Known Human Nick Rusnov
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written: > Anyway... Does anybody know what steps I need to do in order make ssh >work so I can log in remotely? I wanted to try to use Tera Term Pro with >the SSH extenstion to log onto my Linux machine from a Windows machine on >the local network. > >Righ

water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-10 Thread Kevin Stokes
Once again I find myself helpless. As unreliable and as frustrating as Windows is, in Linux it seems like you can't do anything without asking for help. I wanted to remotely login from a Windows machine to my linux machine. So I wanted to install telnetd. Everyone said, 'shame on you, te

Re: [OT] (floppy?? and win 95) two questions -> VMware

2001-04-10 Thread Elfert
Our Family is in a very similar situation to JH. We have Mom and Dad both working in home office and two teenage boys all working on four networked computers. Everybody needs some windows stuff but is tired and frustrated with regularly reformatting. So finally we decide to put in a big mother

Re: pb ethernet

2001-04-10 Thread b3
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:33:55PM +0200, Govaere Jan wrote: > I try an debian install in expert mode but i don't know how to confogure the > ethernet card. It's a compaq. Before, i was working on a Mandrake and all > was automatic ! 1) What brand/model is the card? If you're not sure, the foll

HP Scanjet4200C

2001-04-10 Thread Glen Snyder
Hi Brian, I have had a 4200c for over a year now, and it took me quite awhile to get it working with Debian. Here's what I had to do: Go to Sourceforge and download the SANE drivers as tarballs. Download a patch for the 4200c and apply it to the SANE driver. Install the Patched SANE driver (I could

Re: combo GUI/text mail client

2001-04-10 Thread Dan
Well you could tell Netscape to keep messages on server, so your wife will still have all e-mail she has read and the new ones. Then after about a week have download all the mail and take it off the server. Thanks, Dan - Please do n

combo GUI/text mail client

2001-04-10 Thread Joseph Dane
Here's what I'd like to have: a mail client that I can access via a nice, flashy GUI when I'm sitting at my desk, or via a simple text-mode interface when I'm connecting remotely. Actually, it's my wife I'm primarily thinking about. She uses our computer at home (Debian, natch) to read/send mail

Err: Cannot open display

2001-04-10 Thread MaRCeL FiGUeRoLa EsTRaDa
Hi there! I'm new to debian and I've just installed Debian Linux 2.2 r2 "Potato". During installation Anxious couldn't find a suitable grafic card and so it's not yet configured properly. When I try to go to the X-Windows the following error message appears: Gtk-WARNING ** : cannot open display

getting mlc++ to compile under debian

2001-04-10 Thread Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm
Well being the ambitious programmer(not terribly good but I can at least code medium level data structures). Well anyrate I decided to try to get together a little program that would do some nice AI in a possibly non pattern matching way (basically pattern matching is considered a cheat of the T

Re: broken ssh?

2001-04-10 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, just wanted to make sure it was known and also not just me. Robert Thus spake Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:15:44PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > I just got this trying to connect to my file server. > > > > {0}:wally:/home/nomad>ssh lh > > OpenSS

Re: Woody nukes Gnome

2001-04-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 06:48:45PM -0700, David Steinberg wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > you must purge all ximian and helix packages before upgrading to > > woody, then install woody's gnome. ximian does not support unstable > > or testing. and there is no reason whatsoeve

Re: Woody nukes Gnome

2001-04-10 Thread Known Human Nick Rusnov
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written: >On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: >> you must purge all ximian and helix packages before upgrading to >> woody, then install woody's gnome. ximian does not support unstable >> or testing. and there is no reason whatsoever to use ximian there >

Re: Woody nukes Gnome

2001-04-10 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 06:48:45PM -0700, David Steinberg wrote: > Is there a simple way to remove the Ximian packages and replace them with > the Woody ones? I was forced to pretty much purge everything that showed up with 'dpkg -l | grep ximian', and then reinstall x/gnome/enlightenment from the

Re: Woody nukes Gnome

2001-04-10 Thread David Steinberg
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > you must purge all ximian and helix packages before upgrading to > woody, then install woody's gnome. ximian does not support unstable > or testing. and there is no reason whatsoever to use ximian there > anyway since woody/sid have up to date gnome (1.4

Re: broken ssh?

2001-04-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:15:44PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I just got this trying to connect to my file server. > > {0}:wally:/home/nomad>ssh lh > OpenSSL version mismatch. Built against 90600f, you have 90601f I believe SSH is broken in unstable at the moment. I experienced the same pr

Re: Woody nukes Gnome

2001-04-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 08:32:03PM -0400, Glen Snyder wrote: > Just did an apt-get dist-upgrade > I'm using Woody, and have not had any problem with ximian's Debian > install of Gnome for the past couple months, until now. > The upgrade trashes Gnome big time, as well as Sawfish, Gnumeric, you > na

Galeon for potato

2001-04-10 Thread Francois Fayard
Hi, I want to try galeon on my Potato+Ximian. I have mozilla from potato, and I've tried to find a deb of galeon. They all depends on xutils (>=4.0.1) and I don't want to install XF4. So I try to compile it but I have the error : checking for gnome-config... /usr/bin/gnome-config checkin

Woody nukes Gnome

2001-04-10 Thread Glen Snyder
Just did an apt-get dist-upgrade I'm using Woody, and have not had any problem with ximian's Debian install of Gnome for the past couple months, until now. The upgrade trashes Gnome big time, as well as Sawfish, Gnumeric, you name it... It was something in the upgrade that was added just today5

Re: problem with XF86config.... HELP!

2001-04-10 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, tomo kiwc wrote: > i have potato 2.2 and i tried to configure my video card with XF86config > (XF86setup doesnt work with my card). > my card is SiS6326 and it is listed on the video card list, so i just chose > it from the list (the server is SVGA). i also know my monitor

Re: auto add 127.0.0.0?

2001-04-10 Thread DvB
Barbara> How do I set up the general loopback network address Barbara> 127.0.0.0? First off, I think you're wanting 127.0.0.1 and not 127.0.0.0... the former is the standard loopback address, if you want to conform to standards. Second, a good way to set up the loopback address is

Re: broken ssh?

2001-04-10 Thread Daniel T. Chen
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, I wrote: > It appears that the host you're connecting to has updated libssl0.9.6 ^ Oops, this should be *your* host, not the host you're connecting to. Sorry, brain fart. Cheers, dtc

Re: broken ssh?

2001-04-10 Thread Daniel T. Chen
It appears that the host you're connecting to has updated libssl0.9.6 (at least 0.9.6a-1) while your OpenSSH package(s) was(were) compiled against 0.9.6-[1,2]. I've personally recompiled packages of 2.5.2p2 with the latest Sid packages (ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade about four hours ago) if

broken ssh?

2001-04-10 Thread Robert L. Harris
I just got this trying to connect to my file server. {0}:wally:/home/nomad>ssh lh OpenSSL version mismatch. Built against 90600f, you have 90601f I get the same error message with ssh -v... Robert :wq! --- Robert L. Har

Re: Need a way to install driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001, Gavin Hamill wrote: > > Hi. I responded to your message above about the 3c905c. You seem to > > be taking my word that you can't get the driver for this card. > > That's daft :) We use nothing but 3c905c's at work > > The module you need is '3c59x' and is part of the s

Re: auto add 127.0.0.0?

2001-04-10 Thread Brian May
> "Barbara" == Barbara and Rory Campbell-Lange writes: Barbara> Will lots of help from this list I have configured the lo Barbara> and eth0 interfaces to load at system startup by Barbara> correctly setting these up in the etc/network/interfaces Barbara> file. Barbara> Ho

Re: dpkg help

2001-04-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:29:35PM +0530, omicron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi > i've libc6 2.2.4-* and i want to upgrade from the old to the new. > I dont have a very fast net connection so i've to download it to some > other place and then trasfer it here. i also have most of the depende

Re: How can I install/configure an Xproxy/Xfirewall?

2001-04-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:08:17AM +0100, Pedro Guerreiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello. > > I'm having some trouble installing an Xproxy in my system, can someone > give some (ANY) ideas? What exactly do you mean by Xproxy? If you're looking for remote X access, you're trying too hard. >

Re: URGENT! help w/ Linux@work

2001-04-10 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:25:09AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:24:00PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > I just finished installing Debian 2.2r2 at work (boss gave me > > permission), but I don't know how to get the net working through a > > gateway. We have a linu

Re: I'm looking for install

2001-04-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:58:48AM -0400, Adelheid Kim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I downloaded ghecker 0.9.9.1.19991229.deb How do I do the > installation? man dpkg man apt-get -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There

Re: Setting up a network printer

2001-04-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 05:14:49PM +0200, Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello List > > How do I enable access from another host to my printer? > > The client gives me the error: "connect: Connection refused", > so I assume that the /etc/printcap on this machine is ok, but I'm > mi

Re: 8-bit characters

2001-04-10 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:46:34PM -0500, will trillich wrote: | pooh. i tried setting LESSCHARSET=iso8859 (and latin1) via | bash 'export' so it'd be an environment variable, but even LESS | still displays high-bit (8-bit) characters as chinese: | | % export LESSCHARSET=latin1 | % zless /etc/cons

Re: /USR/SBIN/CRON[22385]: (CRON) error (can't vfork)

2001-04-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:41:55AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On debian woody with kernel 2.4.3 I keep getting this error in syslog: > /USR/SBIN/CRON[22385]: (CRON) error (can't vfork) Sounds like a resource problem, most likely too many active processes for the system

Re: module sound with potato 2.2 r2

2001-04-10 Thread robin
Robert Voigt wrote: > > > With potato r0, I have to recompile the kernel to have the sound > > on my machine. > > > > Is there any other way to enable the sound with potato r2 ? > > Try modconf and look in the misc section if you find a module that matches > your soundcard. Selecting a module the

Re: sources.list

2001-04-10 Thread Geordie Birch
said will trillich, on Apr 8, > > I just installed potato on a laptap, then switched to woody in > > sources/list and did dist-upgrade. Then I went to install emacs19 but it's > > not in woody. So I added the potato line and then installed emacs19. I > > have tons of emacs19 custom lisp that I hav

Re: auto add 127.0.0.0?

2001-04-10 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Barbara and Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > How do I set up the general loopback network address 127.0.0.0? You should not need to do this in any 2.2.x or newer Linux kernel... (I don't know about The Hurd, though). The Linux kernel will automatically route packets using the inte

problem with XF86config.... HELP!

2001-04-10 Thread tomo kiwc
i have potato 2.2 and i tried to configure my video card with XF86config (XF86setup doesnt work with my card). my card is SiS6326 and it is listed on the video card list, so i just chose it from the list (the server is SVGA). i also know my monitor's characteristics so it was no problem of choo

Re: iso

2001-04-10 Thread Piotr Patan
English users - please ignore this mail! To jest anglojezyczna lista wiec powienienes zadac w tym jezyku. Sadzac po pytaniu jestes uzytkownikiem M$ Win wiec np: Adaptec Easy CD Creator Piotr - Original Message - From: Krzysiek To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 200

Re: Need a way to install driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Daniel Freedman wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2001, Adam Bender wrote: OK, I just installed the base Debian system, and now I need a way to install packages. My big problem is that there is no driver module for my ethernet card in the kernel. Therefore, I can't use a network to

Re: Need a way to install driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Kent West
Daniel Freedman wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2001, Adam Bender wrote: OK, I just installed the base Debian system, and now I need a way to install packages. My big problem is that there is no driver module for my ethernet card in the kernel. Therefore, I can't use a network to get packages. I h

auto add 127.0.0.0?

2001-04-10 Thread Barbara and Rory Campbell-Lange
Will lots of help from this list I have configured the lo and eth0 interfaces to load at system startup by correctly setting these up in the etc/network/interfaces file. How do I set up the general loopback network address 127.0.0.0? at the moment I am using the keyin route add -net 127.0.0.

Re: Need a way to install driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Gavin Hamill
> Hi. I responded to your message above about the 3c905c. You seem to > be taking my word that you can't get the driver for this card. That's daft :) We use nothing but 3c905c's at work The module you need is '3c59x' and is part of the standard distribution - yeh I know it's not terribly l

iso

2001-04-10 Thread Krzysiek
Witam!!!   Sciągnełem instala Debiana jako plik z rozszerzeniem iso i nie mogę go nagrać na płytę. Proszę o przesłanie informacji jakim programem mogę go nagrać na płytę.     Dziękuję   Paweł Tomasiak [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need a way to install driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001, Adam Bender wrote: > OK, I just installed the base Debian system, and now I need a way to > install packages. My big problem is that there is no driver module for my > ethernet card in the kernel. Therefore, I can't use a network to get > packages. I have a driver for th

Re: Need a way to install driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Gavin Hamill
> Somehow mount the DOS partition and read files from there? Yep :) mkdir /mnt/msdos mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/msdos > Format a disk so Linux will read it, and copy the files from DOS to there? Yep :) mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat is the Windows9x long-filename support ... you can al

Need a way to install driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Adam Bender
OK, I just installed the base Debian system, and now I need a way to install packages. My big problem is that there is no driver module for my ethernet card in the kernel. Therefore, I can't use a network to get packages. I have a driver for the card, but the only thing I can do is put it on

Re: ssh2 into woody

2001-04-10 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:17:01PM -0500, Jorge Santos wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone knows if there is any chance that OpenSSH 2.* will make it > into Woody? > > How does the inclusion/upgrade of new packages into testing works > anyhow? Hi... I downloaded the sources from sid and buil them,

Re: URGENT! help w/ Linux@work

2001-04-10 Thread Robert Cymbala
Cameron Matheson wrote: >Hey, > >I just finished installing Debian 2.2r2 at work (boss gave me >permission), but I don't know how to get the net working through a >gateway. We have a linux server (192.168.0.1). I added it to the >/etc/network/interfaces file (as the gateway), but when I try t

pppoe connection

2001-04-10 Thread eja
Hi.. I just install Debian potato in my machine.. but then I have a problem to connect to the internet.. in previous Linux Distribution i used (Mandrake), I don't have to configure the network card (or either it's already detected), and also I downloaded the script pppoe to make it connected, bu

Re: internet filter

2001-04-10 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:36:22AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:01:28PM -0500, John Patton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My son just turned 10, and I was interested in being able > > to set up some sort of internet filter for him. I don't > > need to

Re: Installing network card driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001, Nate Amsden wrote: > Adam Bender wrote: > > > > I just installed potato on my system. I can't find a driver for my network > > card in modconf (it's a 3Com 3C905C-TX), and therefore I can't download any > > use the 3c59x module it should work.. Hi, I may be wrong, but I b

Re: Upgrade to unstable

2001-04-10 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On 10 Apr 2001, Jorge Santos wrote: > > I'm thinking on upgrading the machine I use at work to unstable, but I > can't afford too much time fixing problems since I have to get *some* > work done :). So I was wondering, have anyone here done the upgrade > and would like to share some comments? It

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-04-10 Thread Forrest English
i tried it. here's a message i sent to my lug. "alright, i gave it a shot. i repeal my defense of progeny. wanna know how to break a progeny install, even one from scratch really fast? uncheck installing gnome. tell it you don't want sawfish... boom. dependancy hell, which i tried for

Re: mysterious ipchains deny from 192.168.*.* ??

2001-04-10 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote: > here's a logcheck message i got recently, where ipchains is > logging certain unwelcome hits (based on what's primarily the > default ipmasq filtering rules)-- > > - Forwarded message from root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > Security Violations > =-

Re: koffice -- how-to?

2001-04-10 Thread Chris Howells
From: will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > there seems to be a bunch of nouns missing there. how do i figure > out (where be the fligging manual) what command to issue to get > into spreadsheet (kspread) or wordprocessing (kword)? I'm not familiar with the apt-get method of install KDE (since I jus

Re: [OT] (floppy?? and win 95) two questions

2001-04-10 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Kent West wrote: > > opperating system is much slower and more "buggy". I have plenty of > > RAM and hd space for win 98 but like the idea of the smaller footprint > > of win95. Any thoughts? > > I prefer Win95 to 98, but that's just a personal preference. I've found Win98

[Fwd: "Upgrading" to Progeny ?]

2001-04-10 Thread DvB
--- Begin Message --- Hall Stevenson wrote: On Tuesday 10 April 2001 14:27, Hall Stevenson wrote: I'm currently running Debian "sid" or unstable and the idea of upgrading (is it really upgrading ?? :-)) to Progeny has crossed my mind. Is doing so feasible ?? Can apt-get handle the differences

Strange connection problem

2001-04-10 Thread C Mead
Hi all, Here's the setup, (I also attached a gimp'd up a gif of the setup). I have a cable modem connection that gets split by a hub into 2 Linux servers, each with its own ip. The main server is RH 6.2 used for IP Masq'ing DHCP, file and printer sharing between apples and Mac's and my linux noteb

Re: kmidi/timidity configuration

2001-04-10 Thread John Gay
I've allways use timidity myself. I like the sound it give through my Crystal ISA card. I've never had any problems with timidity and timidity-patches loading and configuring automagically on my various Debian systems. The thing I've never got to work properly was kmidi. It opens, will load a mid

Progeny Debian

2001-04-10 Thread Net Owl
Hey Users... I caught this article over at /. that other day. It was discussing Progeny Debian. It seems kinda like a neat Idea...What does the list think? Any ideas? anyone already tried it? Thanks, --Net Owl "Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste" "I guess then, that he had had

Upgrade to unstable

2001-04-10 Thread Jorge Santos
I'm thinking on upgrading the machine I use at work to unstable, but I can't afford too much time fixing problems since I have to get *some* work done :). So I was wondering, have anyone here done the upgrade and would like to share some comments? jorge santos

DHCP Server Config Question

2001-04-10 Thread Dave Bacon
Hello, I'm working on creating a backup Linux DHCP server for our network. (Our primary DHCP server is an NT server which is working just fine for all subnets) The Linux backup DHCP server is on the 172.32.128.0 subnet. Any PC located on the same subnet as the Linux server (172.32.128.0) is able

Escalade 5000 or Some other sort of raid for a fresh install :)

2001-04-10 Thread Tim Brown
Ok Heres the deal, Im currently running Windows 98, Im ditching microsoft completly on my desktop, its a PIII750 Dual IBM 20Giggers on a Promise FastTrak66, Radeon 64MB DDR, 256MB Ram LCD Flat panel Sound blaster live etc. etc. My problem lyes in the fact that i want to run RAID0, Im thinking about

mysterious ipchains deny from 192.168.*.* ??

2001-04-10 Thread will trillich
here's a logcheck message i got recently, where ipchains is logging certain unwelcome hits (based on what's primarily the default ipmasq filtering rules)-- - Forwarded message from root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Security Violations =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Apr 8 17:45:10 server kernel: Packet log

Re: trouble building ncftp-3.0.2 from source

2001-04-10 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
Please CC me (I'm not on the list). # lsb_release -a LSB Version:0.0 Distributor ID: Debian Description:Debian GNU/Linux Release:2.3 Codename: woody # cat /etc/debian_version testing/unstable # gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.3/specs gcc version 2

sendmail

2001-04-10 Thread Lopolito, Thomas
Title: Maize I installed sendmail and was running an X window app that allowed entry for POP and SMTP and password etc. I had entered the data incorrectly but now can't remember what the name of the app was so I can reenter. Does anyone know? -tom .

Re: 8-bit characters

2001-04-10 Thread will trillich
pooh. i tried setting LESSCHARSET=iso8859 (and latin1) via bash 'export' so it'd be an environment variable, but even LESS still displays high-bit (8-bit) characters as chinese: % export LESSCHARSET=latin1 % zless /etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz [snip] compose '^' 'u' to 'û' compose '"' 'U' to

RE: update apt about installed X

2001-04-10 Thread Szatori Péter
What worked for me: First I installed the xfree-common package from the Debian dist, and then installed the xfree 4.0.2 binaries and of course after it I used the 4.0.3 upgrade binaries. This way apt never complained for me. > -Original Message- > From: Gil Elad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

non kde app font size

2001-04-10 Thread Thomas Halahan
dear deb-user i have just increased my working resolution on X11, as well as upgrading to kde2.1.1. despite, in the control panel, selecting non-kde apps to have same fonts as kde fonts, my menu fonts for netscape and friends are big and bold. do you know how i can change this?? regards, t

Re: /etc/hosts.allow

2001-04-10 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tuesday 10 April 2001 04:39, Robert Voigt wrote: To restart daemons just use the scripts in /etc/init.d/ like this #/etc/init.d/portmap restart The server needs the following daemons running: portmap, nfs-common, nfs-server The client needs portmap and nfs-common My question is, can you mou

problem with setxkbmap

2001-04-10 Thread Jorge Santos
Hello, Whenever I try to use setxkbmap I get the following error: Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property I'm using an up-to-date potato. Any ideas? jorge santos

Re: /etc/hosts.allow

2001-04-10 Thread MPfeifer
> I'm too lame to find out how to re-start portmap. And rebooting didn't fix > it. /etc/init.d/portmap restart mek

Re: [OT] (floppy?? and win 95) two questions

2001-04-10 Thread Robert Voigt
> 2) I'm thinking of not installing a floppy drive. I have a rewritable cd > drive and rarely use a floppy drive. I am thinking less wattage less heat, > more open space in the case. Any thoughts? > There's one case you should consider: If you have to reinstall Windows for some reason, it will pr

debconf problems(potato)

2001-04-10 Thread aphro
i get this on one of my systems during a apt-get upgrade: 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 43.8kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main ntpdate 1:4.0.99g-

ssh2 into woody

2001-04-10 Thread Jorge Santos
Hello, Does anyone knows if there is any chance that OpenSSH 2.* will make it into Woody? How does the inclusion/upgrade of new packages into testing works anyhow? thanx jorge santos

Re: /etc/hosts.allow

2001-04-10 Thread Robert Voigt
> Did you re-start portmap after adding that line? That should fix it. > > noah I'm too lame to find out how to re-start portmap. And rebooting didn't fix it.

Re: [OT] (floppy?? and win 95) two questions

2001-04-10 Thread francisco m . neto
» jh said this and I say that: > 1) I intend to setup a Debian desktop. I will be re partitioning my 6.4gb > drive allowing approx 4gb for Debian. I need to keep my windows system > going for a while because of some of the apps I and my wife use. I am > contemplating putting win95 instead of wi

Re: [OT] (floppy?? and win 95) two questions

2001-04-10 Thread Kent West
jh wrote: Hello. I am still a Debian want to be. All that I know is win98. I am in the process of a major hardware upgrade and have two questions I wanted to run by the list. 1) I intend to setup a Debian desktop. I will be re partitioning my 6.4gb drive allowing approx 4gb for Debian. I nee

Re: Exim PAM SMTP Authentication, help!

2001-04-10 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Why is this? It would seem that unix_chkpwd would be able to do this, > and afaik, pam_unix uses it automatically. At least, it did on RHL. unix_chkpwd only authenticates the calling uid.

koffice -- how-to?

2001-04-10 Thread will trillich
# grep kde /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://kde.rap.ucar.edu stable main crypto optional qt1apps deb http://ftp.sourceForge.net/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb stable main # apt-get update [snip] # apt-get install koffice Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... D

[OT] (floppy?? and win 95) two questions

2001-04-10 Thread jh
Hello. I am still a Debian want to be. All that I know is win98. I am in the process of a major hardware upgrade and have two questions I wanted to run by the list. 1) I intend to setup a Debian desktop. I will be re partitioning my 6.4gb drive allowing approx 4gb for Debian. I need to keep my

Re: /etc/hosts.allow

2001-04-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:39:44AM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: > To allow the other machine on the LAN access to mine again I put the line > portmap: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 > in /etc/hosts.allow > but the other machine still can't mount anything. It gets the error message > mount: RPC: program n

debian mailing lists now available via NNTP at news2.sinica.edu.tw

2001-04-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
It is with extra large pleasure that [EMAIL PROTECTED] has given me permission to announce the uni-directional read-only, no posting allowed availability of lots and lots of debian, free-bsd etc. mailing lists, via NNTP server news2.sinica.edu.tw . Any mail regarding this should be sent to him and

[OT] jumper for CPU Host Clock (Thanks and solved)

2001-04-10 Thread jh
I finally found some info on the mb website. Says to place jumper on 100MHz then change CMOS setting alowing memory to run at the CPU bus plus an extra 33MHz. -Jeff H At 09:35 AM 4/10/01 -0600, you wrote: Hi. I am building my computer today and have a question about a jumper setting. I need

Re: Brother HL 730

2001-04-10 Thread Felix Natter
MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi, > trying to use apsfilter to get a Brother HL 730 working on linux. > someone on the linuxSA mailing list said they'd used it with the > LaserJet II emulation, since it (supposedly, acc. to brother.com) > emulates PCL4. however, when i am printing the tes

Re: "Upgrading" to Progeny ?

2001-04-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
> On Tuesday 10 April 2001 14:27, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I'm currently running Debian "sid" or unstable and the idea > > of upgrading (is it really upgrading ?? :-)) to Progeny has > > crossed my mind. Is doing so feasible ?? Can apt-get > > handle the differences in package version numbers, if

Re: Exim PAM SMTP Authentication, help!

2001-04-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But exim *must* run as root to be able to authenticate using the system > passwords in /etc/shadow. I know of no way around it, except for making > /etc/shadow world readable, which is even more dangerous than having exim > run as root. Why is this? I

Re: unstable to testing

2001-04-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:51:17PM +0200, christophe barbe wrote: > I've made a mistake and upgraded a potato box to unstable. > What I wanted was to upgrade to woody and now I realize that woody == testing. > > Is it possible to do a dist-upgrade from unstable to testing. > Can expect to not relo

Re: sources.list and locally generated debs

2001-04-10 Thread csj
On Tuesday 10 April 2001 00:38, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Chris Gray wrote: > > On Mon, 09 Apr 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>My locally generated debs, e.g. from kernel compiles, show up > > >> as obsolete in dselect. Is there an ea

Re: New to Debian....compilation problems

2001-04-10 Thread Morgan Terry
omicron wrote: > > hi.. > > On 8 Apr 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > > gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 4 > mea culpa. it _was_ 11. <...> When I was getting sig 11's on my box, it turned out to be a bad CPU fan. I replaced it and haven't had any problems since.

>2Gb files

2001-04-10 Thread david . jackson
Hi, I'm looking for hints on using > 2GB files I'm using a 2.4.3 kernel-image compiled from debian kernel-source package. After installing the corresponding kernel-headers deb I created, I have recompiled glibc (2.2.2-4) with a #apt-get --build source glibc then installed the created debs...

Re: New to Debian....compilation problems

2001-04-10 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001, omicron wrote: > hi.. > > On 8 Apr 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > > gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 4 > mea culpa. it _was_ 11. Hi, If it was signal 11, you probably want to run memtest86 as it is quite possibly a memory error. 'apt-get in

Re: update apt about installed X

2001-04-10 Thread David Z. Maze
Gil Elad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GE> I downloaded and installed XFree86 4.0.2 on my Potato box from GE> www.xfree86.org, NOT via apt-get. How do I update apt so it won't GE> shout about dependency problems because I supposedly don't have X, GE> when I try to download other packages? I assume y

Cupsys doesn't play nice(ly)

2001-04-10 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am running an up-to-date version of unstable with cupsys 1.1.4-3. My problem is that if I try to print from external programs (i.e. Konqueror , enscript), the print margins come out all wrong. I have set up an HP LJ4000 as an lpd printer calle

RE: Exim PAM SMTP Authentication, help!

2001-04-10 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > But isn't that a bad thing(tm) ? It can be. > Surely you must be able to get a simple yes no on auth out of PAM with > it rather doing things as root? Sure, PAM works fine without exim ru

Re: New to Debian....compilation problems

2001-04-10 Thread omicron
hi.. On 8 Apr 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 4 mea culpa. it _was_ 11. > have you overclocked your system? Well, it is about Signal 11, but > perhaps it's useful, too: http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/. perhaps i should upgr

dpkg help

2001-04-10 Thread omicron
hi i've libc6 2.2.4-* and i want to upgrade from the old to the new. I dont have a very fast net connection so i've to download it to some other place and then trasfer it here. i also have most of the dependencies and "recommended" packages of libc6. I've kept them in a directory /misc/tmp.

Re: Help! Accidentally started deleting /usr

2001-04-10 Thread omicron
hi one trick is touch -- -i in all the key directories, beginning wtih /. then rm -fr / makes it look as though it is rm -rf -i , which makes it interactive again. or else touch .NODEL /usr/ chattr +i /usr/.NODEL hope this helps regards omicron On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, David Wri

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