Can XF86_SVGA do 1280x1024?

1999-12-17 Thread Fethi Okyar
Hi: I have a 17" that can do 1280x1024 @ 60Hz, and a Matrox Millenium II /w 4 MB. I could do 1280x1024 in windows, but X does not like it. I use 1024x768 which is ok but I need more space. The problem is related with the server isn't it? I don't know why there is no dedicated server for these

Re: Remote Telnet

1999-12-17 Thread Marcin Kurc
Tell me more about the problem, what is your error? Also, check /var/log/syslog for any errors. Maybe just installing telnetd package will help. On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 05:45:25PM -0600, Dana G Haugli wrote: > I have recently connected my workstation to an ethernet network. I can ftp > from rem

Re: Can XF86_SVGA do 1280x1024?

1999-12-17 Thread Marcin Kurc
I used to have 1280x1024 on matrox m II. What version of XF are you running? On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 06:03:41PM -0600, Fethi Okyar wrote: > > Hi: > > I have a 17" that can do 1280x1024 @ 60Hz, and a Matrox Millenium II /w > 4 MB. > > I could do 1280x1024 in windows, but X does not like it. I u

XFree86 3.3.5 and slink

1999-12-17 Thread Rick Venable
Because of a newer graphics card, after installing Debian 2.1 (slink) from CDs I had to update my X11 software to XFree86 3.3.5. While most things seem to work fine, xdm login startup seems to ignore the list in window-managers, and keeps starting (ugh) twm instead of my indicated default. The X

MP3 Players and Encoders

1999-12-17 Thread Andrew J.F. Clark
I'd like to encode some cds I have as mp3s and I'm wondering what the best packages are to do this. I'd like a player similar to winamp if one is available. -- Regards, Andrew Clark

Re: R/W cdroms

1999-12-17 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Christopher Judd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm shopping for a computer for my work, and I need to know what support >> is available for re-writable CD-ROMs is. Can someone clue me in on that? > Check out the CD Writing and CD-ROM HOWTOs. Re-writable CD-ROMS These URLs should help:

Re: The clock has gone crazy...

1999-12-17 Thread Shao Zhang
Manuel Arenaz Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The file /etc/adjtime has the following two lines: > > cambados:~# cat /etc/adjtime > -115.758041 945099084 0.00 > 945097761 > > Is it important the fact that it has two lines? It depends. If you want your system clock(the time you see i

cannot run pgps in a cgi script under apache

1999-12-17 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have configured apache to run as root(Both User and Group). Now, I have a cgi perl script which calls pgps to sign a message. It works fine if I run it locally, but when I run it from the web, I got the following error from pgps: Cannot open configura

Re: MP3 Players and Encoders

1999-12-17 Thread Marcin Kurc
winamp - xmms under linux I use cdparanois to rip and bladeenc to encode, go to freshmeat.net or mp3.com and search for other ones On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 12:41:09AM +1100, Andrew J.F. Clark wrote: > I'd like to encode some cds I have as mp3s and I'm wondering what the > best packages are to do

Installation failure

1999-12-17 Thread Lee Barford
I am attempting to install Debian on an HP Kayak XU 6/200 and failing utterly. I have installed Red Hat on two indentical computers without a hitch. This is my first attempt to install Debian. The CD-ROM I'm using came with the O'Reilly "Learning Debian" book. I boot from the CD-ROM (so the drive

Re: HELP: Instructions for Netscape install in Deb2.0

1999-12-17 Thread ktb
Albert Hurd wrote: > > Can anyone direct me to instructions for a Netscape 4.5 install in > Debian 2.0. > Thanks. If you want 4.5 you can get it at, http://www.netscape.com/download/archive/client_archive4x.html you can use 'lynx' to download. If you can find the ftp site for the older browse

Netscape printing:diagnosis needed

1999-12-17 Thread Howard Mann
Hi All, I have just configured my HP Laserjet 5L printer with magicfilterconfig, stipulating the ljet4 filter. When I print an ASCII file from KFM ( KDE file manager) using lpr, the result is fine. When I print an e-mail message in Netscape Messenger ( or a page in Navigator) , the printed

Re: Modem does not work

1999-12-17 Thread ferret
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > >Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 15:30:16 GMT > >From: Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > >>Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 11:33:23 -0800 (PST) > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >>On S

Re: cannot run pgps in a cgi script under apache

1999-12-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On 17/12/99 Shao Zhang wrote: I have configured apache to run as root(Both User and Group). very bad Now, I have a cgi perl script which calls pgps to sign a message. It works fine if I run it locally, but when I run it from the web, I got the following error

Re: cannot run pgps in a cgi script under apache

1999-12-17 Thread Shao Zhang
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 17/12/99 Shao Zhang wrote: > > > I have configured apache to run as root(Both User and Group). > > very bad I know. > > I have tried to use SetEnv PGPPATH /root/.pgp with no luck. > > sounds like environment problems, should that PGPPA

Re: cvs behind a firewall?

1999-12-17 Thread Jonathan Lupa
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 04:52:32PM -0500, dyer wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > from /etc/services I get that it uses tcp port 2401. FWIW, my /etc/services has cvs's pserver using 2401 tcp AND udp. That said, I think I remember reading in the cvs FAQ that the current implementations only us

Re: cannot run pgps in a cgi script under apache

1999-12-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On 17/12/99 Shao Zhang wrote: I have no other choice. I need it to read the shadow passwd. It is only accessible within a private network and all traffic is SSL encrypted. So I guess it is pretty secure. well reading shadow password files from apache is bad anyway (i a

Re: Using 3com modem Independent Mode (without Windows)

1999-12-17 Thread ferret
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Alberto Bigazzi wrote: > > Thanks everybody for your answers. > > The end of it is that now I know that there exist at least two programs, > "KMsgModem" and "mepl" (see also www.freshmeat.net), > and some hack to get my 3Com modem use Independent mode under Linux. > > B

Re: cannot run pgps in a cgi script under apache

1999-12-17 Thread Shao Zhang
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 17/12/99 Shao Zhang wrote: > > > I have no other choice. I need it to read the shadow passwd. It > > is only accessible within a private network and all traffic is > > SSL encrypted. So I guess it is pretty secure. > > well reading shadow pas

Re: XFree86 3.3.5 and slink

1999-12-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On 16/12/99 Rick Venable wrote: I tried creating an ~/.xsession file, which works but creates conflicts when logging into non-Linux machines (common home dir, multiple platforms). not really a answer to your overall problem but i would suggest making your .xsession conditional based on which

Re: Can XF86_SVGA do 1280x1024?

1999-12-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have a 17" that can do 1280x1024 @ 60Hz, and a Matrox Millenium II > /w 4 MB. Ok > I could do 1280x1024 in windows, but X does not like it. I use > 1024x768 which is ok but I need more space. > > The problem is related with the serv

[no subject]

1999-12-17 Thread ntorys
Hi, I was wondering if you could shed some light on this problem. I have just decided to play with "potato" and it seems that kbd and/or console-tools seem to lock up at the following: Do you want the kernel's default keymap to be reloaded ? If you can't press 'n' and hit RETURN,

Re: MP3 Players and Encoders

1999-12-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I'd like to encode some cds I have as mp3s and I'm wondering what the > best packages are to do this. I like to use grip. > I'd like a player similar to winamp if one is available. One word: xmms. Extremely compatible with WinAMP - s

Re: your mail

1999-12-17 Thread Marcin Kurc
If you look above it it lists directories if I remember right it says /i386 /sun /mac ... goto i386 then /qwerty then choose us On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 10:00:15PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if you could shed some light on this problem. > > I have just decided to p

Re: Netscape printing:diagnosis needed

1999-12-17 Thread William Burrow
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 06:57:16PM +, Howard Mann wrote: > I have just configured my HP Laserjet 5L printer with magicfilterconfig, > stipulating the ljet4 filter. > When I print an ASCII file from KFM ( KDE file manager) using lpr, > the result is fine. > When I print an e-mail message in Ne

Re: cvs behind a firewall?

1999-12-17 Thread William Burrow
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 04:32:14PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to access a cvs server from behind a firewall. I don't think > I'm making it through our firewall. Can anyone give me any tips or pointers > to how I can do this. I can't seem to track down the ports/protocols > that cv

Re: MP3 Players and Encoders

1999-12-17 Thread Sean Johnson
For encoding, you want to use gogo. It's fast as hell (real time encoding on a Pentium 200MMX), and makes quality files. For listening, I like mpg123, but it's console based so it might not be what you're looking for. XMMS is used my a lot of people, and it is supposed to be a winamp clone. There

custom colors for 'ls'

1999-12-17 Thread ktb
I've set the folowing alias up, l="ls --color=always -alF" I like the coloration except my executables are in a light green color and I can barely see them. I looked a the 'ls' man page specifically the, "DISPLAY COLORIZATION" section. It says you can use "LS_COLORS" to change a default color.

Re: custom colors for 'ls'

1999-12-17 Thread Aaron Solochek
I set up colors using the following lines. in my .bashrc or .bash_profile alias ls="ls --color=auto" eval `dircolors ~/.dircolors` and I've attached my .dircolors -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] ktb wrote: > I've set the folowing alias up, > > l="ls --color=always -alF" > > I like the colo

Re: Can XF86_SVGA do 1280x1024?

1999-12-17 Thread Fethi Okyar
Marcin Kurc wrote: > I used to have 1280x1024 on matrox m II. > What version of XF are you running? I'm running version 3.3.2.2-4 of xserver-svga Phil Brutsche said: "First thing is check the refresh settings for the monitor" what can I do with this setting?? modify the modelines?? > >

Do Linux full-time... Hiring Linux specialists

1999-12-17 Thread Christoph Lameter
Capital Technologies is still having two open positions for Linux developers. Offering competitive pay, stockoptions and moving bonus. We are in the business of monitoring eCommerce applications and are developing a sophisticated solution for that purpose. IPO expected next year. Debian/Linux S

Re: Can XF86_SVGA do 1280x1024?

1999-12-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Marcin Kurc wrote: > > > I used to have 1280x1024 on matrox m II. > > What version of XF are you running? > > I'm running version 3.3.2.2-4 of xserver-svga I'm using 3.3.5-1.99 btw > > Phil Brutsche said: > "First thing is c

Here are your coupons

1999-12-17 Thread rureddy
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RE: Security

1999-12-17 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Let me start by stating that I am NOT a security expert. That said, for a hacker to *break into a system* that is not running any deamons, he would have to find a SERIOUS flaw in a client program or the OS. Incoming packets are pulled from the network device by the kernel, which will either handl

post date in slrn?

1999-12-17 Thread jack
hi, Can I let slrn show the post date of articles? Thanks, jack

Re: post date in slrn?

1999-12-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
"t" will toggle full headers. On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 12:23:46AM -0500, jack wrote: > hi, > > Can I let slrn show the post date of articles? > > Thanks, > > jack > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Bob Nielsen, W6SWE (RN2)Internet: [EMAIL P

Re: Can XF86_SVGA do 1280x1024?

1999-12-17 Thread Fethi Okyar
--- Begin Message --- --- Begin Message --- Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > Marcin Kurc wrote: > > > > > I used to have 1280x1024 on matrox m II. > > > What version of XF are you running? > > > > I'm running version 3.3.2.2-4 of xserver-svg

Re: Can XF86_SVGA do 1280x1024?

1999-12-17 Thread Fethi Okyar
Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > Marcin Kurc wrote: > > > > > I used to have 1280x1024 on matrox m II. > > > What version of XF are you running? > > > > I'm running version 3.3.2.2-4 of xserver-svga > > I'm using 3.3.5-1.99 btw > > > > >

Re: diskless

1999-12-17 Thread Ookhoi
Hi Marcin Kurc, > Anyone have any experience with diskless debian? > What would be the best way to create root directories for the diskless > machines? Install Debian, mount server:/usr/remote /mnt, copy / to /mnt, set up bootp, config your kernel with IP: kernel level autoconfiguration CONFIG_

library problem

1999-12-17 Thread ktb
I've had two library problems with two separate programs in the last two days. I did something stupid like downloaded some unstable .deb packages, some libraries and installed them on my Slink system. Some of the stuff I was messing with was Xlib6 and Xlib6g-dev. After doing that I lost most of

ping broken

1999-12-17 Thread Ethan Benson
hi, have a problem that just does not make sense.. i have 2 machines both running debian GNU/Linux potato using the 192.168.0.* IP addresses accessing the internet via a mac running a macos ip masq utility (not the ideal setup but I do not want to buy another modem right now) this usually wo

Netscape blows away preferences.js file when disk is full

1999-12-17 Thread Bob Horvath
I am seeing a recurring problem that is quite annoying. My disk space is at a premium. If I am doing something and the disk fills, I first get a "Error saving bookmarks" error. Netscape doesn't crash, but upon stopping it and restarting it, all of the preferences are gone. The preferences.js fi

Backup/Restore strategies on Debian

1999-12-17 Thread andreas pålsson
Hello. Lately I have been thinking alot about backups on Unix-systems. I don't have any mission-critical data or system, so "tar" and "gzip" are enough for me. But I was thinking, what is a good backup-strategy when I run Debian? I find it useless to "tar ... gzip" whole "/" and it's subdirector

Re: ping broken

1999-12-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On 16/12/99 George Bonser wrote: Which kernel version are you using. I think 2.0 would not masquerade ICMP. With 2.2 you have to have ICMP masquerading enabled in the kernel config. A clue is to look in your linux source tree if you built your own kernel and check in .config for the value of: C

xsession not executing

1999-12-17 Thread Cyrus Patel
Hi all, I recently installed gdm to see what it was like and then went back to xdm. When I installed xdm, it removed gdm, but now when I login at the xdm console it doesn't execute my .xsession file but instead just opens an xterm without a window manager. When I then type ./.xsession in the

Re: ping broken

1999-12-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On 16/12/99 George Bonser wrote: Oops ... missed the part about the mac doing ip masquerade ... yeah, it is probably not masquerading ICMP ... which is what ping uses. is there any other tests i could try that would prove that? I know it used to work and i have changed nothing in the mac ipm

Multibooting DEBIAN+REDHAT+Windows

1999-12-17 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
I have a laptop with 3 operating systems: Windows, Debian and RedHat (I already had Debian and I installed RedHat hoping it had better driver for my hardware). How can I configure LILO to boot the three of them? I tried configuring it from Debian, and it works well for it and for Windows, but if I

Re: Multibooting DEBIAN+REDHAT+Windows

1999-12-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On 17/12/99 Alessandro Ghigi wrote: I have a laptop with 3 operating systems: Windows, Debian and RedHat (I already had Debian and I installed RedHat hoping it had better driver for my hardware). How can I configure LILO to boot the three of them? I tried configuring it from Debian, and it works

Re: Multibooting DEBIAN+REDHAT+Windows

1999-12-17 Thread hservoma
Alessandro Ghigi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >image=/vmlinuz ^^^ > label=redhat > root=/dev/hda11 > read-only >image=/vmlinuz > label=debian > read-only > root=/dev/hda5 There's your mistake. Got it ? When you run /sbin/lilo from Debian it takes

/etc/apsfilterrc file

1999-12-17 Thread Peter Eades
HP 880c printer now running nicely using APS Filter and ghostscript. However I would like to be able to change some of the printers behavures in the /etc/apsfilterrc but when I make changes to this file and save them it has no effect. What am I doing wrong? Thanks as always for all suggestions Pete

Re: custom colors for 'ls'

1999-12-17 Thread John Bagdanoff
Hey, great tip Aaron. It's , err colorful :) John Aaron Solochek wrote: > > I set up colors using the following lines. in my .bashrc or .bash_profile > > alias ls="ls --color=auto" > eval `dircolors ~/.dircolors` > > and I've attached my .dircolors > > -Aaron Solochek > [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Can XF86_SVGA do 1280x1024?

1999-12-17 Thread Achim Bohnet
Hi, fwiw, maybe the problem is not (only) modeline related ... >>>Fethi Okyar wrote: > Phil Brutsche wrote: > > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > > > Marcin Kurc wrote: > > > > > > > I used to have 1280x1024 on matrox m II. > > > > What version of XF are

Re: cvs behind a firewall?

1999-12-17 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 23:14:25 -0400, William Burrow wrote: [...] >If you manage to get this to work, I'd like to know -- I've got a >machine behind IP Masqerading (NAT) and cvs doesn't work properly. Of course cvs via pserver protocol works over NAT. It's a relatively simple protocol. Just make

Re: FrameMaker 5.5.6 for LINUX

1999-12-17 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:51:17 -0600 (CST), Phil Brutsche wrote: >I can't run FrameMaker either with my slink setup; chances are that it's a >glibc2.1 binary, which is why it works under potato. Well, it explicitly SAYS so on the website that it's a 2.1.2 binary. -- Sign the EU petition against

cd iso image ? (fwd)

1999-12-17 Thread Tony Schonfeld
hello , Do you know where i can find slink r4 iso image ? i've try unsuccesfull ftp.cdimage.debian.org many thanks Tony

Bootable MSDOS filesystem from Linux

1999-12-17 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
I'm making a bootdisk that repartitions, erases, and mirrors from a network a Win9x (yeah, I know) system, but how do I get io.sys allocated to the boot sector so it will boot? Just copying it to the partition first doesn't work. (I basically need a SYS.COM-type program for Linux). Any suggesti

Re: FrameMaker 5.5.6 for LINUX

1999-12-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Well, it explicitly SAYS so on the website that it's a 2.1.2 binary. It does say that. It also say's it'll work with glibc 2.0.7, which is what slink uses. Imagine my disappointment... --

Help with Hamm to whatever????

1999-12-17 Thread Bob Brown
I've installed Hamm from a cd.  I need to upgrade X to 3.3.5 so it will support my i740 video card.  It would be nice to install StarOffice51, but that won't happen cause it needs glibc.  How can I get to where I need to be?

Can't Print

1999-12-17 Thread David Densmore
I'm running Slink and wanted to run kernel 2.2.13 so I upgraded all of the stuff listed in http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/running-kernel-2.2 to the Potato versions as recommended. After doing that and re- compiling ther kernel I can't start the print spooler. When I try to print somethin

Re: FrameMaker 5.5.6 for LINUX

1999-12-17 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 07:27:11 -0600 (CST), Phil Brutsche wrote: >A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > >> Well, it explicitly SAYS so on the website that it's a 2.1.2 binary. > >It does say that. It also say's it'll work with glibc 2.0.7, which is >what slink uses. Imagine

Re: Can XF86_SVGA do 1280x1024?

1999-12-17 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Fethi Okyar wrote: > > I start XF86Setup > choose the card in card settings > choose the monitor, enter the correct hsync and vsync > (i.e. ver_refres = 30-64, hor_refresh=47-104) ^^ In my experience here might be the typical pr

Re: Modem does not work

1999-12-17 Thread Shaul Karl
> >Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 15:30:16 GMT > >From: Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > >>Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 11:33:23 -0800 (PST) > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >>On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, dyer wrote: > >> > >>> > > >>> > >> > >>

Citrix ICA client on potato anybody?

1999-12-17 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I just downloaded the Windows Terminal Server client for Linux (actualy Citrix' ICA Client for the Metaframe version of Windows Terminal Server), but it appears to use libc5 in stead of 6. Is there anyway I can get this working? "tmp/./linux/echo_cmd: can't load library 'libc.so.5'" Ni

Re: xsession not executing

1999-12-17 Thread W. Paul Mills
check "/etc/X11/config" for the line "allow-user-xsession". [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cyrus Patel) writes: > Hi all, > > I recently installed gdm to see what it was like and then went back to xdm. > When I installed > xdm, it removed gdm, but now when I login at the xdm console it doesn't > exe

Re: Can XF86_SVGA do 1280x1024?

1999-12-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Fethi Okyar wrote: [ snip ] : BUT... : : when I save and exit , in my XF86Config file there is only one : modeline :Modeline "1024x768" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 768 771 777 : 806 -hsync : -vsync : nothing in regard to 1280x1024... : : So, the question is,

ESDI Disk

1999-12-17 Thread OBERLER
I have an rather! old IBM Thinkpad Model 720. It has MCA architecture and the disk is an ESDI disk, but no CDROM. Now I try to install Debian Slink. I have all diskettes available and the sytem boots OK. The PS/2 ESDI driver seems to initialize correctly and shows as last line: eda: eda1 eda2 ed

Re: only half of physical memory showing up

1999-12-17 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Hello, Can I know how much memory is available in my Debian linux box? Thanks in advance for your help, Manuel Arenaz

Re: XFree86 3.3.5 and slink

1999-12-17 Thread Rick Venable
> On 16/12/99 Rick Venable wrote: > >I tried creating an ~/.xsession file, which works but creates conflicts > >when logging into non-Linux machines (common home dir, multiple > >platforms). On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: > not really a answer to your overall problem but i would suggest

Re: Modem does not work (fwd)

1999-12-17 Thread 2
- Forwarded message from Robert Marlow - >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Dec 18 00:50:11 1999 From: Robert Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Modem does not work (fwd) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 23:36:42 +0800 (WST) X-Mailer: ELM [version

Re: only half of physical memory showing up

1999-12-17 Thread Evan Moore
cat /proc/meminfo On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > Hello, > > Can I know how much memory is available in my Debian linux box? > > Thanks in advance for your help, > > Manuel Arenaz > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >

Making a backup

1999-12-17 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Hello, I want to do a back-up of my system. Is there any tool to do it automatically? Which are the parts of the Debian system that is mandatory to back-up? Thanks in advance for your help, Manuel Arenaz

Re: Backup/Restore strategies on Debian

1999-12-17 Thread Matthew Bloch
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, andreas p?lsson wrote: > I don't have any mission-critical data or system, so "tar" and "gzip" > are enough for me. afio is similar to tar, but gzips individual files instead of the whole lot, so if you get a corruption it'll more than likely affect only the one file rather t

Re: Bootable MSDOS filesystem from Linux

1999-12-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Dwayne C . Litzenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm making a bootdisk that repartitions, erases, and mirrors from a > network a Win9x (yeah, I know) system, but how do I get io.sys allocated > to the boot sector so it will boot? Just copying it to the partition > first doesn't work. (I bas

X tty session

1999-12-17 Thread 2
Hey, I was wondering if someone could help me here for a tic. I run 12 ttys and unfortunately the one X uses (tty7) is smack bang in the middle of them which really annoys me. Can anyone tell me how to change it to something nice and outta the way like tty11? from da Bobstopper

Re: XFree86 3.3.5 and slink

1999-12-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Rick Venable ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Because of a newer graphics card, after installing Debian 2.1 (slink) > from CDs I had to update my X11 software to XFree86 3.3.5. While most > things seem to work fine, xdm login startup seems to ignore the list in > window-managers, and keeps starting

Re: Backup/Restore strategies on Debian

1999-12-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On 17/12/99 Matthew Bloch wrote: I'm not sure where you'd go to back up the list of installed packages so that you could automagically restore them, though. I think that dpkg --get-selections > installedpackages.bkup should do it, then you should be able to do a dpkg --set-selections < insta

still trying to login root after install

1999-12-17 Thread hawk
During installation, I used vc2 to change the root password (among other things) before vc1 got to do its song & dance (there were network issues, and I didn't wnat it starting until the network was properly configured). This has left my system in a state such that everything works, but that

Re: Netscape blows away preferences.js file when disk is full

1999-12-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Well, there probably isn't much you can do about this. Everything I've seen with Netscape indicates that it regenerates the preferences.js each time it runs. This means that when it's shutting down it probably opens the file for writing without the append bit. If the file system is full at this p

Re: Netscape blows away preferences.js file when disk is full

1999-12-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bob Horvath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am seeing a recurring problem that is quite annoying. My disk > space is at a premium. If I am doing something and the disk > fills, I first get a "Error saving bookmarks" error. Netscape > doesn't crash, but upon stopping it and restarting it, all of

Re: MP3 Players and Encoders

1999-12-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
Andrew J.F. Clark said: > I'd like to encode some cds I have as mp3s and I'm wondering what the > best packages are to do this. I use cdgrab/abcde (I don't remember which is its name in Potato and which is in Slink), which is a shell script that coordinates various other programs (cdparanoia, lam

Re: X tty session

1999-12-17 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Robert Marlow (2) writes ("X tty session"): >Hey, I was wondering if someone could help me here for a tic. I run 12 ttys >and unfortunately the one X uses (tty7) is smack bang in the middle of them >which really annoys me. Can anyone tell me how to change it to something >nice and outta the way li

Re: XFree86 3.3.5 and slink

1999-12-17 Thread Rick Venable
> Quoting Rick Venable ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Because of a newer graphics card, after installing Debian 2.1 (slink) > > from CDs I had to update my X11 software to XFree86 3.3.5. While most > > things seem to work fine, xdm login startup seems to ignore the list in > > window-managers, and keep

Is there a AWT package for Debian?

1999-12-17 Thread Tam Than Ma
Hi, I wanted to do some X programming using Java, but I couldn't find the Abstract Windowing Toolkit(AWT) anywhere. Can someone tells me if there is a AWT for Debian Slink 2.1? Tam

possible break-in

1999-12-17 Thread Robert Varga
Last weekend we have a misterious breakdown of one of our servers... It is one a leased line, fix ip, UPS. There was no powerouts. It has qmail, wu_ftpd, apache, sshd1, telnetd on it. It has all the patches on security.debian.org. DNS is 8.2.2p5-1 compiled by me from the potato source. Kernel i

Re: Is there a AWT package for Debian?

1999-12-17 Thread Robert Varga
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Tam Than Ma wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to do some X programming using Java, but I couldn't find the > Abstract Windowing Toolkit(AWT) anywhere. Can someone tells me if there is a > AWT for Debian Slink 2.1? Which jdk package are you using? I have no such problems (aside fro

Allowing weak passwords

1999-12-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm setting up a Linux box as an MP3 jukebox for a (technically non-sophisticated) friend to use at her dance studio. We've decided that we'll want to have separate login accounts for each instructor, but I don't want passwd forcing them to come up with 'good' passwords - the box isn't going to be

Re: Allowing weak passwords

1999-12-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 12:00:04PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I'm setting up a Linux box as an MP3 jukebox for a (technically > non-sophisticated) friend to use at her dance studio. We've decided that > we'll want to have separate login accounts for each instructor, but I don't > want passwd f

Very funny new Christmas song!

1999-12-17 Thread info
Dear Broadcaster, Please pass this e-mail along to personnel at your station responsible for acquiring new on-air content. FOUR NEW CHRISTMAS SONGS FROM SILAS BARNABY! By now you may have heard of the new hilarious holiday song "Christmas Stew", from Silas Barnaby. We invite you to visit the

Re: MP3 Players and Encoders

1999-12-17 Thread Bart Szyszka
> One word: xmms. Extremely compatible with WinAMP - similar UI (imo), and > has an identical skin format. > I don't have URLs for either, but you can find them at > http://freshmeat.net. Yeah, XMMS is awesome. You can 'apt-get install xmms' it too. It's site is at: http://www.xmms.org -- Bart S

New bind?

1999-12-17 Thread Robert L. Harris
Is there a blessed place to get the latest version of bind with apt-get? :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Low quality in a product happens. Senior System Engineer |That doesn't mean it's right and at

[Solved] PA-2013, K6-2 and AGP TNT2: Windoze runs, but Linux crashes

1999-12-17 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Just want to share my experience. Loading Linux 2.0.36 from windows (loadlin) worked for me. No crashes on hard loads (8 hours of continuous kernel copilation + gzip/gunzip of 0.5Gb file + data transfer over the net). I'm quite certain that the problem is in initialization of VIA chipse

HP Laserjet III

1999-12-17 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I bought a HP Laserjet III and it is printing ascii and with cat file > /dev/lp1 but it isnt printing with magicfilter ljet3. I'm using lprn, gsfonts, gs-alladin and magifilter at slink box. Any hints? -- Abraços,PH Paulo Henrique Baptista d

potato snapshot

1999-12-17 Thread Dan Brosemer
I was downloading a set of potato snapshot ISOs when the site I was getting them from went down. I have since been searching unsuccessfully for another site with snapshots. Does anyone know where I can download these? TIA -Dan -- "Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his

Re: Allowing weak passwords

1999-12-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
Ben Collins said: > Edit /etc/login.defs and modify the minimum password length config. That allows _short_ passwords, but not _weak_ ones. After changing it to 1, I just had the following exchange with passwd: Enter the new password (minimum of 1, maximum of 8 characters) Please use a combinati

How do I correctly set up an ntp server?

1999-12-17 Thread ferret
I've been wrestling with this one for a while now. I was using xntp3 from slink, but I've compiled ntp from potato and used that. The machine is a server for a small network on a single dialup line. My problem is that my ntp server is at stratum 16, precision -17, and my workstations refuse to sy

qt1g dependencies when I *have* that

1999-12-17 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, I'm trying to install a text-based HTML editor called webmaker from the kde.tdyc.com site (the web site has been having problems, but the apt source still works) and when I try to apt-get it, I keep getting this: - - - Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: webmaker: Depe

Invitación a participar en lista de educación

1999-12-17 Thread NILZA
Le estamos invitando a participar de un servicio de consultas en temas relacionados con la educación. La FUNDACION VOY CADA VEZ MEJOR, ha creado la lista "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" cuyo propósito es el de brindar a estudiantes, docentes, profesionales, instituciones educativas y entidades relaciona

RE: Is there a AWT package for Debian?

1999-12-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
AWT is actually a standard part of the Java libraries. It should be under the jre directory if you installed the blackdown vm (which is also available as a .deb package through dselect though it is an older version). Use find to look for files that have awt in their name-- and I am sure you will fi

RE: qt1g dependencies when I *have* that

1999-12-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> - - - > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > webmaker: Depends: qt1g (>= 1.44-4) but it is not installable > E: Sorry, broken packages > - - - > > The problem is that I have libqt1g from the potato source (version > 1.45 I think) and also libqt2 as well as the libqt

how much memory is too much... for X?

1999-12-17 Thread Aaron Solochek
according to top, X is taking up 60megs right now. Yesterday I think it was even more. This is Accelerated X 5.0.3, looks like a big memory leak to me, anyone have any experience with this? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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