RE: dselect and getting kernel source files...

2001-07-12 Thread Gladimir
I am new to linux and 2.2.12 is what came on my O'Reilly CD, but I think it should be more than capable of running the apache web-server and inn usenet server that I intend to setup on it. Chances are that I will upgrade the kernel in the process of tuning my existing kernel, eventually. I alread

Re: Swap fscked in 2.4.5?

2001-07-12 Thread Paul Wright
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:39:30 EDT, Mike wrote: > > The 128 MB limit on swap partitions went away in the 2.2 series. I > think it is 2 gig now. > I had forgotten that, What about swap on raid? -- Paul T Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot So

RE: dselect and getting kernel source files...

2001-07-12 Thread Gladimir
I am new to linux and 2.2.12 is what came on my O'Reilly CD, but I think it should be more than capable of running the apache web-server and inn usenet server that I intend to setup on it. Chances are that I will upgrade the kernel in the process of tuning my existing kernel, eventually. I alread

Re: CVS breaks Makefile (pattern contains no "%" ??)

2001-07-12 Thread Matthew Dalton
"Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > should i use something different? > > Use the -ko flag to "add" in CVS for the generated files to stop keyword > expansion. If you want to use keyword expansion, then you have to be > careful in your usage (especially with perl or shell scripts). You can change/add -k

Re: RAM size.

2001-07-12 Thread Alexey
> mem=128M Thanks, it's OK. You know, while running DOS or Windows, the CPU is hot (I can touch it), even if I do nothing. It becomes cool under Linux!!!

Building an SRPM on Debian?

2001-07-12 Thread Paul D. Smith
I have an SRPM that I need to build on my Debian box. Really, I don't need to build it I just need to get to the patch phase (-bp) so that it constructs the proper source hierarchy and applies the patches (there are a lot of patches and they have to be applied in a certain order). I'd installed t

Re: tunl0? (etc)

2001-07-12 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:46:03PM -0400, Jeff Maxson uttered: > > Musta done something wrong in the install. After a lot of frustration, I > figured out that I needed to do an "ifconfig down tunl0" from root to kill > whatever "tunl0" is before my connection to the internet works. So, once > it

Re: dselect and getting kernel source files...

2001-07-12 Thread David Z Maze
Gladimir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> The default debian installation did not install my kernel source G> files, so I am using dselect to get those files. I'd just get a kernel tarball off of ftp.kernel.org or a mirror and unpack it somewhere handy. G> I found the source files and marked kerne

Xemacs and MetaPost (corrected) sorry

2001-07-12 Thread Giulio Morgan
oops - cut & paste error - sorry! original post I am using Xemacs 21.4 (testing), and it is installed without meta-mode.el, which is installed, however, for emacs 20.7. Is there a (good) reason for this, or is it safe to take meta-mode from CTAN and install it in the Xemacs loadpath? Thanks fo

Re: DocBook User Documentation

2001-07-12 Thread David Z Maze
David H Silber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DHS> I would like to use DocBook to create the documentation for a project DHS> I'm working on (see signature) but have been unable to find instructions DHS> for generating various formats of output. DHS> I guess what I'm really loooking for is a cookbook

new.net tlds, resolve.conf, squid

2001-07-12 Thread ray p
I'm trying to set up my Woody box to see the TLDs served by new.net's root servers to do this I added the line "search new.net" to my /etc/resolve.conf now I can ping the servers on the new tlds (maxim.free) and when I run a browser that does not go through my Squid I can browse to them. But bro

netscape encryption

2001-07-12 Thread xucaen
hi all quick question: I have installed navigator-smotif-476 4.76-1 does this have 128 bit encryption? thanks

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-12 Thread Kent West
ray p wrote: Or better yet get putty. It supports SSH 2 with public key authentication. And is small enough that you can put a key the client and the scp and sftp (FTP tunnled through SSH) client on ~2 floppies It can be run from the floppy and can connect to any SSH server has a lot of very cool

Re: DocBook User Documentation

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:07:36PM -0400, David H. Silber wrote: | Greetings, | | I would like to use DocBook to create the documentation for a project | I'm working on (see signature) but have been unable to find instructions | for generating various formats of output. See the newbiedoc project,

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:00:25AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: | also sprach Hall Stevenson (on Thu, 12 Jul 2001 03:16:30PM -0400): | > If you use mutt to read your mail, tell it that you subscribe | > to "debian-user" mailing list. Then, when you want to reply to | > a message and have it go *o

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-12 Thread Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:22:39AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > | also sprach Michael A. Miller (on Thu, 12 Jul 2001 06:16:15PM -0500): > | > Can anyone suggest a way to scp from a machine where I'm not > | > allowed to install scp? (For example, win98 and

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:22:39AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: | also sprach Michael A. Miller (on Thu, 12 Jul 2001 06:16:15PM -0500): | > Can anyone suggest a way to scp from a machine where I'm not | > allowed to install scp? (For example, win98 and win2000 machines | > in our libraries) | |

Xemacs and MetaPost

2001-07-12 Thread Giulio Morgan
I am using Xemacs 21.4 (testing), and it is installed without meta-mode.el, which is installed, however, for emacs 20.7. Is there a (good) reason for this, or is it safe to take meta-mode from CTAN and install it in Util Buffers Files Tools Edit Search Mule Field Message MML Help

Re: Arrg! I want DVD

2001-07-12 Thread Mike McGuire
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:12:59AM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I just compiled the latest version of oms, but when I try to play a dvd, > it gives me these errors: > I've a few things to suggest you check from the error messages... > > Using MMX for IDCT transform > Using 3DNOW fo

Re: DocBook User Documentation

2001-07-12 Thread Harold Bibik
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:07:36PM -0400, David H. Silber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled > Something Debian-specific would be ideal (e.g. "Install this package, do > this to create a PDF."), but I'll take something less specific if that's > all that is out there. Any suggestions? you might want

bandwidht delimiter

2001-07-12 Thread Disem
how can I limit a specific-bandwidht-size to an user ? here's the scenario: the user login to the system via ssh, he use wget to download from an url, and I don't want him to download at the maximum available speed, .. is that possible ? best regards edward.

getting dhcp package

2001-07-12 Thread Kevin Lee
Hi,     I wonder what kind of dhcp package I need to install to make my network work.  There are 5 packages found at package list for the stable distribution of debian: stable  dhcpcd 1:1.3.17pl2-8   (36.3k)     DHCP client for automatically configuring IPv4 networking stable  dhcp-relay 2.0

dhcp

2001-07-12 Thread Kevin Lee
    stable dhcpcd 1:1.3.17pl2-8   (36.3k)   DHCP client for automatically configuring IPv4 networking stable dhcp-relay 2.0pl4-2   (136.4k)   DHCP Relay stable dhcp-client 2.0pl4-2   (

Re: Thin-X-Client-Laptop

2001-07-12 Thread Tim Connors
> I want to run X-Applications on my (old) laptop (486; Debian 2.0) while > connected (via PLIP) to the Server (Pentium, Suse 7.1). > > On the laptop I installed the X-server - that means - I am able to move the > mouse-cursor on the screen only (no menues, no window). > On the server I installe

DocBook User Documentation

2001-07-12 Thread David H. Silber
Greetings, I would like to use DocBook to create the documentation for a project I'm working on (see signature) but have been unable to find instructions for generating various formats of output. An exception to that complaint is the set of instructions in docbook2x-doc for translating DocBook do

Re: ssh to a machine with sshv2

2001-07-12 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:16:12AM -0300, Alejandro Garín wrote: > Hi to all: > > I'm having a problem with ssh. > One machine is a Solaris 8 with this version of ssh: > "ssh: SSH Secure Shell 2.2.0 (non-commercial version) on > sparc-sun-solaris2.8" > and my machine is a i386 with Debian potato (

Re: dselect and getting kernel source files...

2001-07-12 Thread Alan Shutko
"Gladimir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am I correct in assuming the tk-dev files are for writing X > interfaces, for kernel management, using tcl? Right. It's for "make xconfig". make config and make menuconfig both work fine without tk. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety o

tunl0? (etc)

2001-07-12 Thread Jeff Maxson
Musta done something wrong in the install. After a lot of frustration, I figured out that I needed to do an "ifconfig down tunl0" from root to kill whatever "tunl0" is before my connection to the internet works. So, once it is dead, things are peachy. Couple questions then: 1) what's tunl0, so

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - mounts

2001-07-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya brian... good ... and yes.. do NOT sign that liability doc... and if you have to.. to get the job to work there...hire an attorney to do the signing for the mounts... if you are mounting their unix exported fs... than its their option to allow you to read and/or write into it... if you a

Re: 3com NIC question

2001-07-12 Thread Alan Shutko
Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12 Jul 2001 17:25:42 +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > To 3com's credit, they did offer a utility that allowed one to disable > > the madn^H^H^H^Hplug-n-play. > > Really? Do you know where I can get that? 3c5x9cfg.exe... should be on the driver disk

dselect and getting kernel source files...

2001-07-12 Thread Gladimir
The default debian installation did not install my kernel source files, so I am using dselect to get those files. I ran dselect, performed an update, and went to the selection screen. I found the source files and marked kernel-source-2.2.12 for installation, but I was sent to the dependency resol

Re: Can't play audio CDs

2001-07-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Can't play audio CDs Date: Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:26:58AM -0400 In reply to:Nathan Weston Quoting Nathan Weston([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have an ATAPI CD-ROM drive (actually a Creative Dxr2 DVD drive), which I > can't get to play audio CDs under debian. > I am new to de

Re: devel libc6 hosed my sendmail

2001-07-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: devel libc6 hosed my sendmail Date: Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 07:23:38PM -0500 In reply to:Ian Marlier Quoting Ian Marlier([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I upgraded my system to the newest libc6 in order to get iptables to > work, and discovered 2 things: > 1) iptables still doesn't w

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-12 Thread Brian Stults
Thanks for the tremendous response to my initial question. As many of you suspected, the sysadmin mainly needed to know that I was more than a casual user of linux. I politely, and deferentially, explained that I would only need to run an ssh server, and that I am quite conscientious when it come

Unable to create native thread

2001-07-12 Thread Nelson Chan
Hi There,   I'm benchmarking a chat server and after a little over 100 connections (each connection requires two Java threads) the program failed with the message: "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread at java.lang.Thread.start(Native Method)" ..

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-12 Thread ray p
Or better yet get putty. It supports SSH 2 with public key authentication. And is small enough that you can put a key the client and the scp and sftp (FTP tunnled through SSH) client on ~2 floppies It can be run from the floppy and can connect to any SSH server has a lot of very cool features. U

Re: CVS breaks Makefile (pattern contains no "%" ??)

2001-07-12 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:26:25AM -0500, will trillich wrote: [snip] > Makefile.PL contains only > > use ExtUtils::MakeMaker; > # See lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm for details of how to influence > # the contents of the Makefile that is written. > WriteMakefile( >

Re: apt-getting licq

2001-07-12 Thread Colin Watson
Al Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using libranet linux which is based on debian and I want to >install licq1.0.3 and that package is in the testing section and I was >wondering what apt source line I could add to install licq-1.0.3. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main

Re: devel libc6 hosed my sendmail

2001-07-12 Thread Colin Watson
Ian Marlier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I upgraded my system to the newest libc6 in order to get iptables to >work, and discovered 2 things: >1) iptables still doesn't work >and >2) sendmail is broken now, because of the berkeley DB 2 problem. > >But I can't just use apt or dpkg or something to go

Re: Using apt

2001-07-12 Thread csj
On Thursday 12 July 2001 19:20, Jamie Wood wrote: > > you have to make the directory structure (e.g. > > dist/potato/whatever..) > > Hi - Thanks for your reply - but do I need to create a Packages.gz > file that seems implicit in the search? Is so how? If not thanks! > I'll give it a try. > > Cheer

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-12 Thread Jason Healy
At 994979775s since epoch (07/12/01 19:16:15 -0400 UTC), Michael A. Miller wrote: > > "Haim" == Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1. as many people stated, DON"T use ftp. it's the most > > dangerous protocol. use scp instead. > > Can anyone suggest a way to scp from a

Re: 3com NIC question

2001-07-12 Thread Cameron Matheson
On 12 Jul 2001 17:25:42 +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > To 3com's credit, they did offer a utility that allowed one to disable > the madn^H^H^H^Hplug-n-play. Really? Do you know where I can get that? Cameron Matheson _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-12 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > can't you install a cygwin version into your homedirectory??? If the university computers there are anything like the one at my university, there is no such thing. The only way to do it in

devel libc6 hosed my sendmail

2001-07-12 Thread Ian Marlier
I upgraded my system to the newest libc6 in order to get iptables to work, and discovered 2 things: 1) iptables still doesn't work and 2) sendmail is broken now, because of the berkeley DB 2 problem. But I can't just use apt or dpkg or something to go back to the stable version of libc6, because

Re: Probs with HTP370 ATA100/RAID Controller.

2001-07-12 Thread Martin Stjernström
I tried the the ATA66 dist on the cd, and my hd:s where detected. But the install part "make linux bootable from you drive" did not work, I thought this had something to do with the lilo.conf... so after the installation where finished, I checked in lilo.conf. some info from the file: LBA32 BO

Re: From IDE ATAPI cdrom to scsi simulation : trouble -> help

2001-07-12 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've been making a fresh installation of potato r.3, to > get scsi support I "made-kpkg" a new kernel image with > scsi support, rebooted with the new image, but now I am > unable to read from cdrom. > I know that the symbolic links for devices mu

Re: From IDE ATAPI cdrom to scsi simulation : trouble -> help

2001-07-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:40:51PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been making a fresh installation of potato r.3, to > get scsi support I "made-kpkg" a new kernel image with > scsi support, rebooted with the new image, but now I am > unable to read from cdrom. > I know that the symbolic

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP -scp

2001-07-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya michael > > 1. as many people stated, DON"T use ftp. it's the most > > dangerous protocol. use scp instead. > > Can anyone suggest a way to scp from a machine where I'm not > allowed to install scp? (For example, win98 and win2000 machines > in our libraries) am assumig you know

Kernel 2.2.19: Unimplemented SPARC system call ???

2001-07-12 Thread Guenter Millahn
Hello dear Debian SPARC friends, I have some strange notices in dmesg log on 2 Woody Sun4M boxes (LX and SPARC 10 MP). Both have Kernel 2.2.19 (downloaded the kernel-images via apt-get from a package mirror). I tried to make both systems very small (<200MB) and removed all unneeded packages. Have

Re: tty5 Displays Gibberish

2001-07-12 Thread pmackinney
> > > > here are some relevant tips from my collection-- > > > > > > When all else, like "reset" fails, I can (literally) blindly type: > > >echo -e \\033c > > > > > > It fixes most cases of terminal state corruption. > > > > really? "reset" can fail -- but "echo c" can fix it? > > i'm gonn

RE: [OT] detecting the RAM speed

2001-07-12 Thread Ian Perry
Martin, I would assume that they are 133MHz, although I cannot find any reference of these chips on ICMASTER, nor KOWA as a manufacturer of memory sticks on the web. The sticks should also have a large sticker on them detailing the model of the sticks themselves with either PC100 or PC133 giv

From IDE ATAPI cdrom to scsi simulation : trouble -> help

2001-07-12 Thread arodriguez
I've been making a fresh installation of potato r.3, to get scsi support I "made-kpkg" a new kernel image with scsi support, rebooted with the new image, but now I am unable to read from cdrom. I know that the symbolic links for devices must point to sdx, but seemingly I am somewhat lost, since

Re: apt-get/dselect-problem

2001-07-12 Thread Graham Williams
On 12/07/01 22:38 +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote: [...] > Hm, I yust wanna update few debs day by day. If I understand it the right > way, I can make an 'apt-get update' and then install my wanted deb with > "apt-get [deb]. Right? [...] # apt-get install emacs20 will get emacs20 deb and requi

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-12 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Michael A. Miller (on Thu, 12 Jul 2001 06:16:15PM -0500): > Can anyone suggest a way to scp from a machine where I'm not > allowed to install scp? (For example, win98 and win2000 machines > in our libraries) can't you install a cygwin version into your homedirectory??? martin;

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-12 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Haim" == Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. as many people stated, DON"T use ftp. it's the most > dangerous protocol. use scp instead. Can anyone suggest a way to scp from a machine where I'm not allowed to install scp? (For example, win98 and win2000 machines in our

Re: your mail

2001-07-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Sean Quinlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010702 14:28]: > X 4.x has an nv server which will work with your card, but you'll have > no 3d accelleration, so if you want 3d accelleration, you'll want to > get the official Nvidia drivers from here (once you've got X running > with the nv server): > > http

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-12 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Hall Stevenson (on Thu, 12 Jul 2001 03:16:30PM -0400): > If you use mutt to read your mail, tell it that you subscribe > to "debian-user" mailing list. Then, when you want to reply to > a message and have it go *only* to the list, hit the letter > "L" (or is it lower-case "l" ??) instea

Re: [users] xset (and therefore Abiword) doesn't work

2001-07-12 Thread George Fischer
Thanks for the offer. Actually, a little more research led me to the answer. I found a post on comp.os.windows.x that referred to the problem. It seems that when I got the 4.x version of XFree86, the config script I used did not create the statements to load all of the appropriate font modules.

Re: xfree 4.0 debs for potato?

2001-07-12 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Bostjan Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-12 19:40): > Does anyone know of any .deb archive for XFree v4 for potato? These are unofficial, but I've had good results with them: http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf403_potato/READ.THIS Cheers, Sean -- Sean Quinlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: new to debian have questions

2001-07-12 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:23:31 -0400 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mart van de Wege wrote: > > Aye, there's the rub: IT DOESN'T! Sorry for shouting, but the way > dselect > > handles suggests and recommends is braindead, to say the least. > > If I want to install some package and not the su

Re: Swap fscked in 2.4.5?

2001-07-12 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:48:06PM -0400, Paul Wright wrote: > The fix was to have twice as much swap as RAM (or more). This may require > one to have multiple swap partitions, if you have more than 64M of RAM. > The 128 MB limit on swap partitions went away in the 2.2 series. I think it is

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:42:33PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: | On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:16:30PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > If you use mutt to read your mail, tell it that you subscribe | > to "debian-user" mailing list. | | Or, better, just tell it that debian-user is a list. Maybe I'm

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-12 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, User zos wrote: Uz> Since debian offers so many lists to look at and to subscribe to, why not Uz> have the name of the list appear in the subject automatically? For Uz> instance this list would be: Uz> Uz> [Deb-User] Subject use procmail to filter your mail .. Uz> Also sin

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-12 Thread John Covici
But this doesn't solve my problem -- why am I getting errors which say no such file or directory -- its looking for a file which isn't there -- but why is it looking? If I look in the relevant directory at ftp.us.debian.org there is no util-linux later than April 15 which I already have -- and yet

Re: installing gcj, is this ok? (gcc-3.0)

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:13:04PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: | On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:44:30PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | | > I want to install gcj on my system. I am running woody, and when I | > try and apt-get install gcj it says it needs gcj-2.95. Ok, so I add | > that to the apt line. Now

Re: Swap fscked in 2.4.5?

2001-07-12 Thread Paul Wright
To all experiencing the 2.4.5 swap problems, you guys should follow the kernel lists or read kernel-traffic when running the latest kernels. IIRC, shortly after kernel 2.4.5 was released there was a report of problems involving swap and memory use. The fix was to have twice as much swap as RAM

Re: ssh strangeness

2001-07-12 Thread Andrew Dixon
Anthony Fox wrote: > > Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > here it is: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -v -l andrew.dixon stiq > > OpenSSH_2.5.2p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090601f > > debug1: Seeding random number generator > > debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, origina

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-12 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Kurt Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: kl> OK, I've read with great amusement all the chest-thumping going on kl> about MUAs, MTAs and how Microsoft email products are things that kl> you scrape off the bottom of your shoe. ... kl> If there isn't, then I hope the person who stated

Re: md5 password authentication

2001-07-12 Thread Andrew Dixon
Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > > Hello all, > > How can I get my passwords to be md5-authenticated? > > as root: #dpkg-reconfigure base-config then answer yes when prompted for md5-authentication. Andy

Re: GRUB & Rieserfs

2001-07-12 Thread csj
On Thursday 12 July 2001 14:42, Guy Geens wrote: > > "csj" == csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [Line from GRUB menu.lst] > csj> I don't think so. The line: > > csj> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.5 root=/dev/hda3 single > > csj> is an instruction for the OS kernel. By this time the kernel > csj> shoul

RE: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-12 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, July 12, Kurt Lieber did write: > I'm wedded to the way Outlook displays information. With one look at > the main Outlook screen, I can tell how many unread messages I have in > each account, the content of the first unread message in my primary > account (via the preview pane) a

Re: Swap fscked in 2.4.5?

2001-07-12 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... [trouble with the vm in 2.4.5] > I'm told that this is a bug in the 2.4 series Correct > does anyone know if upgrading to 2.4.6 will help this problem at all? I don't know if 2.4.6 has tot

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-12 Thread aidanc
Breathe, man, breathe... On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:20:53 "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote: > > "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Joost> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:52:46AM -0400, John Covici wrote: > >> I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could > they >

Re: applying a patch to nullmailer

2001-07-12 Thread john gennard
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:59:59PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > You need to apply the patch before building the deb, obviously. > > > Don't use the '-b' option to apt-get. > > > > > >

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:16:30PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > If you use mutt to read your mail, tell it that you subscribe > to "debian-user" mailing list. Or, better, just tell it that debian-user is a list. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong, but whenever I add a "subscribe " to my .mutt

Re: ssh strangeness

2001-07-12 Thread Anthony Fox
Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > here it is: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -v -l andrew.dixon stiq > OpenSSH_2.5.2p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090601f > debug1: Seeding random number generator > debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be > trusted. > de

md5 password authentication

2001-07-12 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
Hello all, How can I get my passwords to be md5-authenticated? -- Jonathan Daugherty Dept. of Computer Science / UCNS Workstation Support Group The University of Georgia /^.{10}\ +\d+\ +(\d+|\w+)\ +(\d+|\w+)\ +(\d+(\.\d+|)(M|k|G|)).*/ - master ls!

Help with icewm-gnome

2001-07-12 Thread Paul Mackinney
I'm running gnome, want to use icewm with the default theme. Unfortunately, the Gnome Control Center's Window Manager caplet is empty. How can I get icewm listed in there with all the themes, etc.? Here's how I got to this state: - Installed potato base. - Added woody sources.list lines - Used dse

Re: apt-get/dselect-problem

2001-07-12 Thread Martin Bretschneider
moin moin Joost! On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 18:13:44 +0200 you were able to write: [...] > If you want to update from ftp, uncomment all but the ftp uris. OK. > If you do not want to update all packages, put the ones that you do > not want to upgrade on hold. If you want to track only a few packages

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Brendon Leese wrote: If you wish to use GNU/Linux nonetheless then perhap you could use wine (www.winehq.com). "Wine is animplementation of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs on top of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer". Simply mount your old Windows partition containing O

Re: MTA choice

2001-07-12 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Paul Tansom wrote: > I'm just about to start configuring a mail server with IMAP support on a new > Debain 2.2r3 install. Does anyone have any views on the best MTA - no flame > wars please ;-) > > I was looking to install Postfix with Cyrus for IMAP support. I need to check > up on the folder a

Re: Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system

2001-07-12 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Tommy McDaniel wrote: > That doesn't seem like to me like what I want to do, but it could be. > Basically, I downloaded the basic files to install Linux on my Windows > partition and now want to use dselect to install packages, which will also > have to be downloaded onto the Windows partition bef

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-12 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:52:46AM -0400, John Covici wrote: >> I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they >> be out of date? Joost> If you do a "dselect-upgrade" with apt-get, it will use th

Re: ssh strangeness

2001-07-12 Thread Andrew Dixon
"Martin F. Krafft" wrote: > > also sprach Andrew Dixon (on Thu, 12 Jul 2001 01:57:48PM -0400): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -l andrew.dixon stiq > > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host > > this is most likely due to a combination of a faulty DNS entry and > reverse zone

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-12 Thread User zos
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > 1- Because you lose valuable screen space > 2- Because you can sort messages into separate folders anyway >(e.g. procmail) > They are generally considered bad. In other mailing list that do > this, I have mistakenly sent personal replies to the

Getting the booting part of a bootable CD-ROM

2001-07-12 Thread Tiago Alves Macambira
Does anyone know how one can extract the bootable part of a CD .iso or from a CD-rom? I know i cant create a bootable CD-rom with mkfs but what to do if all i want is to edit a iso image keeping it's bootable part? []s MaCa -- "I may be drunk, but in the morning I will be sober, while y

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-12 Thread User zos
I'm sorry. I guess this has all been discussed before. Don't mean to bring it up again. I was just thinking about it, that's all. :P On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > User zos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Since debian offers so many lists to

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-12 Thread Martin Rowe
On Thursday 12 July 2001 17:28, Kurt Lieber wrote: > OK, I've read with great amusement all the chest-thumping going on > about MUAs, MTAs and how Microsoft email products are things that you > scrape off the bottom of your shoe. I'm tempted to drop the from the sentence ;-) > I, for

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
[ I missed this one the first time. ] | User zos wrote: | | Also since everyone here finds it in good taste to keep all replies | directed to the list (so we can all benefit) why not add a simple | reply-to: line? | | reply-to: debian-user@lists.debian.org Don't make this mistake. Instead rea

Re: ssh strangeness

2001-07-12 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 03:20 p.m. 12/07/01 -0400, D-Man wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:57:48PM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: | Hi All, | I've been having some weird problems with ssh. I can connect to our | server (RH 7.1) but when I try to connect to another Debian box on the | network (PPC) I get the following me

Re: new to debian have questions

2001-07-12 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 02:20 p.m. 12/07/01 -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:23:31AM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > > >>That said, I tend to be highly suspicious of anyone that posts email to >>this list with a MS mail client. It's one thing for a newbie that's >>having ins

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:16:30PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | Mutt also has a "G" or "g" function for "groups" but I don't | use it. FYI, "g" stands for group-reply, which is called "Reply To All" in some other MUAs. "G" is used to retrieve mail from a POP3 server. -D

Re: ssh strangeness

2001-07-12 Thread Andrew Dixon
Anthony Fox wrote: > > Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -l andrew.dixon stiq > > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host > > Perhaps the versions of ssh are incompatible. Post the output of > > ssh -v -l andrew.dixon stiq here it is

Re: Summary: MUA clients similar to Outlook

2001-07-12 Thread DvB
Kurt Lieber wrote: Mozilla Mail/News -- http://www.mozilla.org/ Screenshot: Didn't find any, but since I'm assuming most of you have already tried Mozilla, I didn't look too hard. :) I've used Mozilla Mail back when I set up my first RedHat box a couple of months ago. I can't remember exactl

Re: Summary: MUA clients similar to Outlook

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:14:56PM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote: | Thanks to all who posted constructive feedback regarding my question | about MUAs. Here's a synopsis of the suggestions, along with URLs for | the various products: | | KDE2.2/Kmailer -- http://www.kde.org/ | Screenshot: http://www.kd

Re: gnumeric lacks .tex-export

2001-07-12 Thread Alan Shutko
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I upgraded to woody this week and was quite shocked that gnumeric no > longer provides an export to a .tex file. The version in sid seems to offer LaTeX and LaTeX 2e export. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! The devil finds

RE: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-12 Thread List Manager
You could also run vmware (http://www.vmware.com) on your machine, and just run outlook on top of that. I've personally never done it, but I have seen people at work using it to run Lotus Notes on their linux boxes. - g -Original Message- From: Brendon Leese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen

Re: ssh strangeness

2001-07-12 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 02:50 p.m. 12/07/01 -0400, Anthony Fox wrote: Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -l andrew.dixon stiq > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host Perhaps the versions of ssh are incompatible. Post the output of ssh -v -l andrew.dixon sti

Re: Summary: MUA clients similar to Outlook

2001-07-12 Thread Nathan Weston
On Thursday 12 July 2001 03:14 pm, Kurt Lieber wrote: > KDE2.2/Kmailer -- http://www.kde.org/ > Screenshot: http://www.kde.org/screenshots/large/kde2b3_2.png > > Looks promising. However, as I mentioned in my previous message, I'm > brand-new to Linux so I'm going to stick with Gnome for now unt

Re: SSH AND IPTABLES

2001-07-12 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 03:03 p.m. 12/07/01 -0400, dude wrote: Very simply what should i read and what would it look like to enable ssh on my firewall so that it accepts ssh connections (only) from the outside? I just checked /etc/ssh/sshd_config #ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 uncomment this line and put there the outte

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