Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?

2001-08-31 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > smoeone emailed me a *.mdb database. is there a *.mdb reader as > a debian package? (i presume it's some database format -- i'd > love to just get it into postgresql, or at least tab-sep-text.) > > $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* > pos

Re: fetchmail, 2 problems

2001-08-31 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, G. Crimp wrote: > I recently updated fetchmail to 5.3.3-1.2. I have noticed two Get 5.3.3-3 from http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato-proposed-updates/ That might help you. Also, do NOT run fetchmail 5.3.3 as root. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk t

Installing a single file

2001-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
Background: I just installed the vim text editor. When I try to access the help file with ":help", it says the file, /usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt, is not found. Question: How do I find and install this one single file from my CDs? Thanks.

server on a 486/100 with 408mb drive

2001-08-31 Thread Sam Varghese
i need to set up a server for my home lan and am thinking of using woody - if the hardware at hand is good enough - with a 2.4 series kernel. the hardware i have is an amd 486/100 with a 408 mb hard drive and 40 meg of ram. i would need to run a mail and web server besides a caching only nameserve

Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?

2001-08-31 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered: > smoeone emailed me a *.mdb database. is there a *.mdb reader as > a debian package? (i presume it's some database format -- i'd > love to just get it into postgresql, or at least tab-sep-text.) > Cheating, and mounting my *cough* W

Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?

2001-08-31 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered: > > $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* That isn't neccessay, dpkg -S includes wildcards for you, iirc. > postgresql: /usr/lib/postgresql/doc/html/app-vacuumdb.html > postgresql: /usr/share/man/man1/vacuumdb.1.gz > postgresql-

Debian partitioning error

2001-08-31 Thread JakeCatfox
Hi, I'm having a problem installing Debian on an 800mb (or so) hard disk. I partition it so that there is no swap and the entire drive is devoted to Linux. However, when I try to make Linux bootable from the HDD, it says LILO can't install and I might try making a /boot partition. What's the pro

how does a linux user open a */mdb file?

2001-08-31 Thread will trillich
smoeone emailed me a *.mdb database. is there a *.mdb reader as a debian package? (i presume it's some database format -- i'd love to just get it into postgresql, or at least tab-sep-text.) $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* postgresql: /usr/lib/postgresql/doc/html/app-vacuumdb.html postgre

Re: very O.T: memory prices

2001-08-31 Thread D. Hoyem
In Northern VA the memmory prices are around $80 for 128 sticks, the last I looked. --- Christopher Mosley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Haven't checked memory prices in a long time. Just > checked and it seems > to be very inexpensive. Maybe it was cheaper but I > wouldn't > know. So what is

[Fwd: Help with XMMS]

2001-08-31 Thread GECOS
Original Message Subject: Help with XMMS Resent-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:30:24 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:27:13 -0200 From: João Laureano Leme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I need to know how to fix xm

Re: Novice NFS

2001-08-31 Thread Anthony Lau
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 07:45:05PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: Hi Keith, FYI, I got 3 of these, so I'm replying to the one with the shortest header. =) > Anthony; > > > Does "keith" on all the machines have the same UID and GID? If not then > > you will have to run ugidd to map the client "

philosophy

2001-08-31 Thread GECOS
Everything within me I must face, for everything within me must surely lie outside of me...

Re: Debian 2.2R3 scanner problem...

2001-08-31 Thread idalton
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:19:23PM +0200, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > scanner help needed. > > > > > > I just installed a fresh Debian 2.2R3 and wanted to scan. > > > So I installed sane. > > > > > > But when I run xscanimage it says it can't find any devices. > > > > > >

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[Fwd: Re: PrettyGoodPrivacy]

2001-08-31 Thread GECOS
Original Message Subject: Re: PrettyGoodPrivacy Resent-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:08:59 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:03:37 -0700 From: Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" References: <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: how 2 replace xterm with rxvt?

2001-08-31 Thread john smith
Are you talking about icewm's toolbar or rxvt's? I'm assuming it's icewm's anyway, regardless of what I do rxvt STILL loads super SLOW...like something is stalling it from runningand then after a while it suddenly pops up... Here are some examples from my toolbar that work for

Re: bash: /dev/lp0: No such device

2001-08-31 Thread GECOS
John Kittel wrote: > > /var/log/ker.log has kernel entry > parport0: pc-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2] > the kernel found the parallel port LPT1 > modprobe -c has entry > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc > /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21-compact/modules.dep > has entry /*/*/parport.o and /*/*/parport_pc.0 > m

Re: Looking for a wireless ethernet solution...

2001-08-31 Thread Joey Hess
Francois Gouget wrote: >The access point does not need a pcmcia card. I thought that some of them used stock wireless cards, like origico cards. This may be well hidden, some people speak of opening the access point to get at the card. But I have never actually seen an access point, just assoc

[Fwd: Re: Mozilla & JAVA]

2001-08-31 Thread GECOS
Original Message Subject: Re: Mozilla & JAVA Resent-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:56:49 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 20:55:55 +0200 From: Georges Goncalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org References: <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Looking for a wireless ethernet solution...

2001-08-31 Thread Francois Gouget
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Joey Hess wrote: [...] > This would require you also buy a pcmcia adapter for your linux box, > since all the networking gear comes pretty much as pcmcia cards. I > believe that the access points don't come with a pcmcia card either, so > you'll need three in all. Gear list the

[Fwd: kernel problems with athlon + msi mboard]

2001-08-31 Thread GECOS
Original Message Subject: kernel problems with athlon + msi mboard Resent-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:03:05 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 19:41:49 -0400 From: Timothy Burt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi, Th

[Fwd: Re: PrettyGoodPrivacy]

2001-08-31 Thread GECOS
Original Message Subject: Re: PrettyGoodPrivacy Resent-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:32:17 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:29:10 -0500 From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org References: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

FYI

2001-08-31 Thread Jeff Reed
just wanted to give a BIG shout out to the Debian folks...the code monkeys, the QA peeps, EVERYONE. Debian is SO nice and VERY solid. i'm enjoying it immenseley. god job. good work. more power to yayou rock, you kick arse, you are da bomb, you rock my linux world, you make everythi

Re: question about hostname FOLLOWUP: EXIM

2001-08-31 Thread burningclown
Hi, 'kay, important things first: what is that there furshlugginer "HTH"? I notice lots o' people usin' it. :) I went onto the #debian channel on openprojects.net IRC and asked around about the exim/fetchmail thing. Was told to add this to my .fetchmailrc file: with mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T

Re: very O.T: memory prices

2001-08-31 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Christopher Mosley wrote: > Haven't checked memory prices in a long time. Just checked and it seems > to be very inexpensive. Maybe it was cheaper but I wouldn't > know. So what is a reasonable price/range for a pc100 256mb dimm. > >

Re: very O.T: memory prices

2001-08-31 Thread mark
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:04:56PM -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > > P.S. Are there any other debian/potato memory display programs besides "free" > "gmemusage". > memstat

Re: very O.T: memory prices

2001-08-31 Thread Wayne Topa
Christopher Mosley([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > Haven't checked memory prices in a long time. Just checked and it seems > to be very inexpensive. Maybe it was cheaper but I wouldn't > know. So what is a reasonable price/range for a pc100 256mb dimm. > Paid $40 each for 2 2

bash: /dev/lp0: No such device

2001-08-31 Thread John Kittel
/var/log/ker.log has kernel entry parport0: pc-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2] the kernel found the parallel port LPT1 modprobe -c has entry alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21-compact/modules.dep has entry /*/*/parport.o and /*/*/parport_pc.0 modprobe parport and modprobe parport_p

Re: anyone have pppoa (PPP over ATM) working properly?

2001-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:49:20PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > I'd like to package pppoa but due to hardware problems I can't test it. Does > anyone have it working who is prepared to test some packages if I create them? I run it at home and can test it for you. -- Colin Watson

APIC IO erros

2001-08-31 Thread nick lidakis
This isn't specific to debian per se, but here goes.. I recently upgraded to a Tyan Tiger 230 with dual 1Ghz P3 cpu's. After compiling with 2.4.7 on debian woddy dmesg showed no errors. Trying to compile kernel 2.4.8 returns a APIC IO error which i know nothing about. Doing a google search ret

very O.T: memory prices

2001-08-31 Thread Christopher Mosley
Haven't checked memory prices in a long time. Just checked and it seems to be very inexpensive. Maybe it was cheaper but I wouldn't know. So what is a reasonable price/range for a pc100 256mb dimm. Thanks P.S. Are there any other debi

looking for a game of hunt

2001-08-31 Thread Britton
Does anyone play hunt (from bsdgames package) anymore? I really got a craving for a taste of this classic today but was unable to locate any information on where the players are. Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."

Re: konqueror config error

2001-08-31 Thread Francois Gouget
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Greg Ward wrote: [...] > > First, I did an apt-get --purge remove list_of_all_kde_packages, > > then a reinstall of the same list. The config problem still persisted. > > > > I then repeated the purge, removed ~/.kde, /var/lib/kde2, /etc/kde2, > > and every other kde-related

kernel problems with athlon + msi mboard

2001-08-31 Thread Timothy Burt
Hi, This isn't specifically a debian problem, but having tried the non-debian solution already without success I'm hoping for some suggestions here. I have recently upgraded to a new system: MSI K7T Turbo mboard (Via KT133A chipset) and 1.2GHz Athlon (266MHz FSB) cpu. When I compile a kernel o

Re: OT: wireless peer-to-peer

2001-08-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Brian" == Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> I have a limited amount of money to try to upgrade my home lan (linux Brian> PC, linux laptop, and windows PC) to wireless. So for now, I was Brian> thinking of keeping the wired connection between the two PCs, and Brian> setting up

Re: how 2 replace xterm with rxvt?

2001-08-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* john smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010831 16:12]: > Hello, > > Pls CC me when replying...thanks! I want to replace xterm with rxvt..I have > > installed rxvt but haven't removed xterm yet...should I? Anyway, couple of > problems/questions > > rxvt should be smaller so it should load faster...y

Re: xterm -display 0:0 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2001-08-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Robert L. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010831 13:30]: > > > X11-4 box? vi /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc, make sure the 2 > words "-nolisten tcp" aren't there on the box you are trying > to display to. Better yet, use ssh -X remotehost -f xterm if you're not using ssh, you should be. If you are us

Re: Everybuddy or Gabber

2001-08-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ron Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010831 10:35]: > I'm trying to get Everybuddy or Gabber for Debian... but i installed Gabber, > > but i can't find it anymore... if anyone can help me, email me back > > (Gabber installed gpm so i've been dealing with that for a while->MS Mouse > Wheel) For f

Re: Manually bring up NICs not found at install and/or rebuilding Kernel

2001-08-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* John Purser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010831 10:34]: > Some success! > > The command I used was modprobe eepro100 and both NIC's came up. I'm > running a Red Hat 7.1 box also but I'm hesitant to set the Debian box up > exactly the same way because of formatting differences. > > So where should I pu

Re: question about hostname FOLLOWUP: EXIM

2001-08-31 Thread Cliff Rice
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 02:02:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > ... essentially, I'm floundering here, because at base I'm not sure WHAT > eximconfig option to choose at the outset. I have a DSL connection but it > seems like eximconfig option (2) (Internet site using smarthost)

how 2 replace xterm with rxvt?

2001-08-31 Thread john smith
Hello, Pls CC me when replying...thanks! I want to replace xterm with rxvt..I have installed rxvt but haven't removed xterm yet...should I? Anyway, couple of problems/questions rxvt should be smaller so it should load faster...yet it doesn't...it loads so slo... I try to load it (rxvt

Re: PrettyGoodPrivacy

2001-08-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* greg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010831 12:45]: > Still getting: `E: package gnupg has no installation candidate' What does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like? did you run 'deselect update' ? -- Vineet http://www.anti-dmca.org Unauthorized use of this .sig may cons

using mailman and exim

2001-08-31 Thread Jason Majors
I'm trying to setup a simple mailing list using exim and mailman. Every minute when the cron runs I get this: Aug 31 15:21:03 2001 qrunner(16682): Traceback (innermost last): Aug 31 15:21:03 2001 qrunner(16682): File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 275, in ? Aug 31 15:21:03 2001 qrunner(1

Re: Offline APT

2001-08-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
I would do quick job as follows using dpkg: $ cd download/directory/; su # dpkg -i *.deb If you need to install some package in some order, install them first. Cheers :-) On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:53:03PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > At home I run Debian Sid, but only have a dial-up connecti

q ad chrooted named and the FHS

2001-08-31 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I´m gonna get security a bit up and set up bind chroot()ed. No big deal, actually, but I want to conform with the FHS on that and can´t quite figure out where I´d put the chroot in my "normal" FS-hierarchy. Right now it resides in /var/local/bind, ´cause that´s my best guess fo far. H

Help with XMMS

2001-08-31 Thread João Laureano Leme
I need to know how to fix xmms. Xmms is playing the mp3 files very fast. I have Xmms 1.2.5 I have tried to change the output plugin, but not works... Any advices/Urls? João Laureano Leme.

Re: My superblock has been destroyed - please help!

2001-08-31 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hello! > > Hmm, the subject says almost everything... my almost new (!) IBM hard disk > suddenly had some bad sectors and one was the superblock of my linux > partition. So, I cannot boot into linux any more, and if I try to e2fsck > the partition, e2fsck doesn't

Re: dual boot problem

2001-08-31 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 04:55:50PM -0400, Narasimhamurthy Giridhar wrote: > > FAT32-thats how i formatted it. > here's a lilo.conf that i use on one of my debian boxes which has windoze on it as a dual-boot (windoze is on hda1, debian has a small /boot partition on hda2 and the root partition on

Re: Followup - Debian and Kylix open edition

2001-08-31 Thread MRZ
Didn't realize it was an "environment" var - Oops! never mind. Thanks! On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:12:46 -0700, MRZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone else had replied with: > > I installed it w/o any problems (as user). > > When I ran it, it complained about LC_ALL being set to C (is it some > > so

Re: dual boot problem

2001-08-31 Thread Narasimhamurthy Giridhar
FAT32-thats how i formatted it. Narasimhamurthy Giri, Clemson University Computer Science Dept. --- Judge not lest ye be judged yourself. --- O

Re: dual boot problem

2001-08-31 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:00:54PM -0400, Narasimhamurthy Giridhar wrote: > I am not sure though cos yday I removed Win2k , put back Win ME and only > then did the dual boot work. Owise i used to get that > "inlcuding Win9" > "Fatal: no image installed" error. Havent still figured out the problem.

Re: Mozilla & JAVA

2001-08-31 Thread Kent West
Georges Goncalves wrote:after making sure the link in mozilla/plugins/ I quit Moz and restart... about:plugins still empty... Arrhhh I think I tested all the possibilities and I still don't know what I'm doing wrong :(( I've about decided there's a glitch in

Followup - Debian and Kylix open edition

2001-08-31 Thread MRZ
Someone else had replied with: > I installed it w/o any problems (as user). > When I ran it, it complained about LC_ALL being set to C (is it some > sort of unnaceptable practice that I don't know about?). > I set LC_ALL to russian, and it said "Generating font matrix" Pardon my ignorance - but w

anyone have pppoa (PPP over ATM) working properly?

2001-08-31 Thread Russell Coker
I'd like to package pppoa but due to hardware problems I can't test it. Does anyone have it working who is prepared to test some packages if I create them? -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http

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Offline APT

2001-08-31 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, At home I run Debian Sid, but only have a dial-up connection (56k). At work, however, I run RedHat 6.2 but have a leased line. I followed the instructions in the offline document (/usr/share/doc/apt/offline.html) to get a package list from apt which can be retrieved via wget. So now I have

Re: xterm -display 0:0 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2001-08-31 Thread Robert L. Harris
X11-4 box? vi /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc, make sure the 2 words "-nolisten tcp" aren't there on the box you are trying to display to. Thus spake Theodore Knab ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello I am trying to run xterm from a remote machine. > > I tried xterm -display 0:0 > xterm -display 192

My superblock has been destroyed - please help!

2001-08-31 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Hmm, the subject says almost everything... my almost new (!) IBM hard disk suddenly had some bad sectors and one was the superblock of my linux partition. So, I cannot boot into linux any more, and if I try to e2fsck the partition, e2fsck doesn't find the superblock. Also, if I try with

xterm -display 0:0 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2001-08-31 Thread Theodore Knab
Hello I am trying to run xterm from a remote machine. I tried xterm -display 0:0 xterm -display 192.168.1.111:0.0 #host ip xterm -display 192.168.1.10:0.0 #client ip All give the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xterm -display 0:0 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: e

question about hostname FOLLOWUP: EXIM

2001-08-31 Thread burningclown
Hi, Following up on the discussion some days ago about the stuff below. I had my ISP point the static IP to the domain name (or vice-versa). I'm now trying to get exim/fetchmail to work. I suspect I have been picking all the wrong options in eximconfig, because no matter how many times I have go

Re: Mozilla & JAVA

2001-08-31 Thread Georges Goncalves
Le -08.31.2001 01:41:23-, « Jimmy Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) » a écrit quelques phrases célèbres sur « Re: Mozilla & JAVA » JR> I had the names in my symlink command backwards, it should be JR> JR> ln -sv /usr/lib/j2re1.3/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so javaplugin_oji-mozilla-0.9.3.s

Re: Novice NFS

2001-08-31 Thread Keith O'Connell
Anthony; > Does "keith" on all the machines have the same UID and GID? If not then > you will have to run ugidd to map the client "keith" UID/GID to the server > "keith" UID/GID. Luckily for me, I had the same UID/GID on both computers > so I disabled ugidd. > > The other way would be to synchro

Re: DRI

2001-08-31 Thread David Nusinow
I would try and make sure that the Voodoo portion is compiled as a module rather than right in to the kernel. I'm running an r128, but it didn't work unless it was a module. I would also make sure I have the right libraries installed for DRI, although I don't know what those are in potato. - Da

Re: PrettyGoodPrivacy

2001-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 01:47:29PM -0400, greg wrote: > Danie Roux wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:05:16AM -0400, greg wrote: > > > I've tried to install and use PGP but I'm having problems finding a > > > suitable package for my Debian/GNUlinux 2.2 system. Would anyone point > > > me in the

Re: Debian 2.2R3 scanner problem...

2001-08-31 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
> > Hi, > > > > scanner help needed. > > > > I just installed a fresh Debian 2.2R3 and wanted to scan. > > So I installed sane. > > > > But when I run xscanimage it says it can't find any devices. > > > > That makes me wonder, because: > > > > During bootup the the BIOS finds my SCSI scanner.

Re: Partitioning Advice

2001-08-31 Thread csj
On 30 Aug 2001 11:37:15 -0400, Rob Ransbottom wrote: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, John Purser wrote: > > > network gateway and provide DNS, DHCP, Web, and database service for my > > small network. Not a lot of users and not a lot of data. I'm a programmer > > who just wants a test network to play wit

Re: Everybuddy or Gabber

2001-08-31 Thread Harold Bibik
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:56:25AM -0700, Ron Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled > I'm trying to get Everybuddy or Gabber for Debian... but i installed Gabber, > but i can't find it anymore... if anyone can help me, email me back > > (Gabber installed gpm so i've been dealing with that for a

Re: Manually bring up NICs not found at install and/or rebuilding Kernel

2001-08-31 Thread Wayne Topa
John Purser([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello, > > I've repeatedly installed Woody (vanilla) and Potato on my IBM and neither > one recognizes the PCI NICs. Red Hat and W2K get them first try but I don't > want either one on this box. > > During the last attempted install of W

Re: PrettyGoodPrivacy

2001-08-31 Thread greg
Danie Roux wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:05:16AM -0400, greg wrote: > > I've tried to install and use PGP but I'm having problems finding a > > suitable package for my Debian/GNUlinux 2.2 system. Would anyone point > > me in the right direction ? > > Use GnuPG. It's compatible with PGP an

Re: PrettyGoodPrivacy

2001-08-31 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, greg wrote: > I've tried to install and use PGP but I'm having problems finding a > suitable package for my Debian/GNUlinux 2.2 system. Would anyone point > me in the right direction ? You've heard about gpg already... The international version of PGP 5 is available in a pac

DRI

2001-08-31 Thread Eric Whitestone
This is what glxinfo returned. It does say no next to direct rendering. Im not sure what to edit in xfree86config, and what module i need to load. I am using kernel 2.4.8 (is compiled for 3dfx vid card), and Xfree86 version 4.1.0. name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rende

Re: OT: Compaq Armada 1700

2001-08-31 Thread Brendon Leese
On Friday 31 August 2001 19:18, you wrote: > sorry for the OT post, and yes, i know they're ancient.. ;) > > does anyone know where the memory modules can be installed in this > thing? ooh, nevermind.. underneath the keyboard, apparently :/ ..ah well. why is it you can spend hours trying to

Re: Debian packaged 2.4.9 kernel prevents internet access to ISP ONLY?!?

2001-08-31 Thread DvB
Iain Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:11:00AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I've have a strange problem here... > > > > On my system I have various Debian packaged kernels (2.2.19 and 2.4.9). > > When I boot into my 2.2.19 kernel, my internet connection is

Setup news help needed

2001-08-31 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'm a linux newbie. I'd like to read news on a linux machine on our company network that accesses the internet through a firewall. I believe I'd like to use slrn, as I'm a sometimes mutt user. Do I need to setup a news server, or just the client? If a server is needed, which is recommended? Are t

Re: Everybuddy or Gabber

2001-08-31 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:56:25AM -0700, Ron Sanders wrote: | I'm trying to get Everybuddy or Gabber for Debian... but i installed Gabber, | but i can't find it anymore... if anyone can help me, email me back Everybuddy is available, even on potato cds. I like it. I know nothing of gabber thou

Re: ALERT: XFree86 4.1.0-3 maintainer scripts hosed; please wait for 4.1.0-4

2001-08-31 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:26:42AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: | dman wrote: | | > I use bash as my shell. However the depends for initrd and/or | > kernel-image want ash, so /bin/sh is ash. | | I have ash installed also, but my /bin/sh --> bash. So I don't think that | the ash install script ma

Re: Route Discovering tools (rdisc) ?

2001-08-31 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 03:42:30PM +0200, christophe barbé wrote: > I'm playing with rdisc a tool included in the redhat iputils rpm. > This tool allows automatic root discovery, I mean you do not need to add > manually static routes to reach a network behind a gateway running rdisc. There are rdi

Everybuddy or Gabber

2001-08-31 Thread Ron Sanders
I'm trying to get Everybuddy or Gabber for Debian... but i installed Gabber, but i can't find it anymore... if anyone can help me, email me back (Gabber installed gpm so i've been dealing with that for a while->MS Mouse Wheel) _

Re: Novice NFS

2001-08-31 Thread Anthony Lau
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 02:17:13PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I am in need of guidance. I can clearly not see the wood for the trees > here. > > I want to make a partition on "frodo" available to all users on both the > other machines on the network. I can mount the partition easy e

OT: Compaq Armada 1700

2001-08-31 Thread Brendon Leese
sorry for the OT post, and yes, i know they're ancient.. ;) does anyone know where the memory modules can be installed in this thing?

Re: parport driver problems

2001-08-31 Thread Wayne Topa
[EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I tried putting the append= directive in the region of the Linux series of > instructions .(mine is a dual-boot and therefore , obviously there is > "other=Win98" > series) > > When this did not work , I put the directive on to

Re: IDE tape drive

2001-08-31 Thread Wayne Topa
Martin F Krafft([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > hi guys, > i have a machine with an IDE tape drive, 20Gb in size or so. my kernel > has the ide-tape.o module, and /dev/ht0 exists. the logs are fine, in > short... i think the tape drive just might work. > > however, i have no clue ho

Re: ALERT: XFree86 4.1.0-3 maintainer scripts hosed; please wait for 4.1.0-4

2001-08-31 Thread Craig Dickson
dman wrote: > I use bash as my shell. However the depends for initrd and/or > kernel-image want ash, so /bin/sh is ash. I have ash installed also, but my /bin/sh --> bash. So I don't think that the ash install script makes that association, at least not if it's already pointing elsewhere. Craig

Re: Can MSN work on Debian?

2001-08-31 Thread petong
On Thursday 30 August 2001 06:09, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > :I don't see any reason why he can't. MSN is just > > :another ISP like Earthlink or Mindspring. Exim will > > :get your email from mail.msn.com and Konqueror > > :accesses the web just fine. All you need is the MSN > > :DNS IPs during you

Re: PrettyGoodPrivacy

2001-08-31 Thread Rino Mardo
just do an "apt-get install gnupg" as root. seems you're trying to install it using source. ooops, you mentioned "pgp". "gnupg" is the same as "pgp" so i'd install gnupg if i were you. - Original Message - From: greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 9:05 PM Subje

Re: dual boot problem

2001-08-31 Thread Rino Mardo
what about "table=/dev/hda" ? - Original Message - From: Greg Wiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 8:23 PM Subject: Re: dual boot problem > On Thursday, August 30, 2001 4:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:56:39PM +, Giri X wrote

Re: Manually bring up NICs not found at install and/or rebuilding Kernel

2001-08-31 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 06:23:01AM -0600, John Purser wrote: | Some success! | | The command I used was modprobe eepro100 and both NIC's came up. I'm The driver/module is "eepro100" :-). Driver and kernel module are basically synonomous. | running a Red Hat 7.1 box also but I'm hesitant to set

Re: bash: /dev/lp0: no such device

2001-08-31 Thread John Kittel
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > debian-qa is for Quality Assurance, not Questions/Answers. Please followup > to debian-user. > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:07:13AM -0400, John Kittel wrote: > > > more /etc/debian_version returns 2.2 > > lptest 36 7 returns 7 rows of 36 characters >

Re: Just a question

2001-08-31 Thread Brian Stults
BTW what does [ sed -e "s/^\([^,]*\).*$/\1/" ] accomplish? I'm just grooving on one liners lately and am curious. It seems like - awk -F : '{print $5}' /etc/passwd is all you need to spit out the full names. Not quite the same thing: $ awk -F : '/karsten/ {print $5}' /etc/passwd Karsten

Re: Debian packaged 2.4.9 kernel prevents internet access to ISP ONLY?!?

2001-08-31 Thread Iain Smith
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:11:00AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've have a strange problem here... > > On my system I have various Debian packaged kernels (2.2.19 and 2.4.9). > When I boot into my 2.2.19 kernel, my internet connection is fine. I can > access all sites and download my emai

Re: dual boot problem

2001-08-31 Thread Narasimhamurthy Giridhar
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Greg Wiley wrote: > On Thursday, August 30, 2001 4:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:56:39PM +, Giri X wrote: > > > | I recently installed Debian on a ayatem that had Win2k on it b4. I > made 2 > > > | [...] > > > | thing). There was no Wind

Re: Can MSN work on Debian?

2001-08-31 Thread David Turetsky
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:24:33AM -0700, Gilger.John muttered: --> -Original Message- --> From: Hall Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --> --> > I have a friend at work that is interested in trying --> > out Linux. The only problem that he has is that he --> > has signed up for one of

Re: apt-get - segmentaton fault

2001-08-31 Thread Dave Carrigan
"cdpye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > apt-get update is causing problems ever since I tried to install gnupg > > It failed to install due to a segmentation fault. Now whenever I try apt-get > update I get the following error, > E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object > > Could someone please tell

Re: Debian packaged 2.4.9 kernel prevents internet access to ISP ONLY?!?

2001-08-31 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:11:00AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I've have a strange problem here... | | On my system I have various Debian packaged kernels (2.2.19 and 2.4.9). | When I boot into my 2.2.19 kernel, my internet connection is fine. I can | access all sites and download my emai

Re: SoundBlaster 16 Vibra

2001-08-31 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On 2001.08.31 04:42 Eduard Bloch wrote: > Arthur Buijs wrote on Thu Aug 30, 2001 um 09:29:56PM: > > Does Debian Potato have a sound driver configuration utility? If not > > do I have to use pnpdump, isapnp.conf and isapnp? If so, how do I make > > isapnp run at startup? > Is it really a Plug-an-Pr

Re: vi: backspace and delete key

2001-08-31 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:49:53AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: | I've heard of problems with emacs and the backspace and delete key not | working properly. Now I'm wondering what the correct behavior for vi is. | My keys seem to be acting a funny. The biggest problem with backspace vs. delete was

Re: Emacs/X problems...

2001-08-31 Thread Aaron Traas
Yes, I am running KDE 2.1.1, and that was the problem! Everything works now. I did have to restart X to get this to work, however... Thanks for your help!! --Aaron Daniel Katz wrote: > > > "Aaron" == Aaron Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Aaron> I'm using Woody/testing, and XFree86 4.

Re: old bbkeys version

2001-08-31 Thread Calvin Chong
- Original Message - From: "Jorge Santos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 10:42 PM Subject: old bbkeys version > Hello, I just realized that the version of bbkeys in Debian (testing > and unstable) is quite old (0.3.6) while the current version is 0.8.2. > > Is it c

Re: apt-get - segmentaton fault

2001-08-31 Thread Calvin Chong
- Original Message - From: "cdpye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 10:44 PM Subject: apt-get - segmentaton fault > Hi, > > apt-get update is causing problems ever since I tried to install gnupg > > It failed to install due to a segmentation fault. Now whenever I try

Re: ALERT: XFree86 4.1.0-3 maintainer scripts hosed; please wait for 4.1.0-4

2001-08-31 Thread dman
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:31:29PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:54:40AM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 08:23:55PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: | > | Branden Robinson wrote: | > | | > | > * if your /bin/sh is ash, you will likely have

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