Strange eth0 and eth1 dmesg

2000-03-17 Thread Patrick
Hi all, some machines are just plain unco-operative. After getting a custom aic7870 rescu and drivers disks, I got installed and then faced this set of messages on boot. My apologies if it seems long but I am assuming that the root of this oproblem lies with the scsi setup. the cards claim to

Re: automatically deleting ^M on text files

2000-03-17 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Yannick Jestin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > t s a d i <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > > > has the character "^M" all over it (caused when someone uploads a > text > > Olaf's solution is a bit complex, I'd say. It involves a 'rm', and > it can be dangerous ! Would you care to enlighten

Re: how to setup default.kmap.gz

2000-03-17 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:34:09PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Serves me right for installing random debs, eh? > > Still, the default keyboard setting ought to correspond with the kbd or > console-tools settings. If someone wants to adopt dvorak7min It's been up for adoption quit

Re: Communicator 4.72

2000-03-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean 'Shaleh' Perry) wrote: >On 16-Mar-2000 Timothy C. Phan wrote: >> Since there wasn't any deb package(s) that would install >> Communicator 4.72 without required libc5 stuff. I am >> going to get the tar ball and install it. >> >> Looking into the netscape ftp site a

no such device as /dev/lpt1

2000-03-17 Thread Kent West
Hi all! When I first set up my Debian box, and whenever I've recompiled/upgraded/etc, I've left the support for parallel ports out, because I didn't have a printer. Now I have a printer. I turned on the parallel port in CMOS (standard irq/io settings). I recompiled my kernel (using "make menucon

Re: Debian install cannot find ATA 66 hard drive

2000-03-17 Thread Greg Madden
Yes & no, it may depend on the chipset of your mb. My athlon system has the AMD chipset with onchip support ( not a card), debian (aka Corel Linux K=2.2.12) installs from cd no problem, it may or may not perform at the ata 66 spec, but that is another issue. Kernel ver 2.4 will have generic ata 66

Re: messed up terminal

2000-03-17 Thread t.bedlam
On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 06:17:47PM +0200, Ron Rademaker was only escaped alone to tell thee: > You can either type reset or setterm -reset (on the messed up prompt) On the advice of the keyboard/console HOWTO I put this in my .bash_profile: alias blow='echo -e \\\033c' In addition to cleari

Can a machine with a private class B IP (172.17.120.5) establish a ssh connection with a machine with legal IP ?

2000-03-17 Thread Shaul Karl
I use a proxy server to connect to the Internet since I have a private class B IP (172.17.120.5) and am behind a firewall and that way the net I am on is configured. I have to use socks for passive ftp and telneting. Recently the admin of www.linux.org.il, which is not found on the private net I

netscape bus error

2000-03-17 Thread eric k. wolven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Fellow Debian-users: I'm getting "bus error" when I start netscape navigator (4.72) from xterm. Also some "cranking" from hd when I menu-click, but then no go. Communicator 4.7 the same. No Plugger, but I did download RealPlayer7 per update and Deb wrapper in

Re: how to setup default.kmap.gz

2000-03-17 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
Actually, I might be interested in adopting it. I've been looking for a small project to get my feet wet with. And since I'm one of those crazy people that actually use Dvorak, this might be a start. Are there any procedures that need to be done? Marshal > "Joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL

Re: automatically deleting ^M on text files

2000-03-17 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 09:11:19AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Yannick Jestin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Would you care to enlighten me and the rest of the list? The original > file is only removed if `tr' succeeded. > > For reference, I suggested: > > for file in *; do > mv $fil

Re: mailinglist replying

2000-03-17 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hey Bart, It's pretty much up to you. I like to respond to the list becuase this can often help others. I rarely CC anyone unless another person is having similar problems I am (and you just KNOW that's rare!). tatah On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Bart Friederichs wrote: > since i am quite at mailin

Re: Voodoo3 at more than 8bpp?

2000-03-17 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> I don't know if any of this helps, but let me know if Colin> there's anything else in your setup you'd like to compare Colin> with mine! Bruce sent me a similar email, there's nothing unusual in either of your configurat

Free Internet connection

2000-03-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Does anybody know how to connect to the free ISP-s from Debian boxes? I want to drop my AT&T account, but I am not sure that it will work, since most of the free ISP say in their requirements windows. I have been considering BlueLight (yahoo). Any ideas? Thanks, Antonio.

Debian on the i-opener?

2000-03-17 Thread Wayne Topa
Has anyone got Debian running on the $99 i-opener yet? I will be trying to as soon as the 2.5" HD gets here. Should make a nice system when USB is stable. Wayne -- Basic, n.: A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in po

Re: mailinglist replying

2000-03-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 05:28:32PM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Hey Bart, > > It's pretty much up to you. I like to respond to the list becuase this can > often help others. I rarely CC anyone unless another person is having > similar problems I am (and you just KNOW that's rare!).

Re: netscape bus error

2000-03-17 Thread Colin Watson
"Eric K. Wolven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm getting "bus error" when I start netscape navigator (4.72) from xterm. >Also some "cranking" from hd when I menu-click, but then no go. Does switching to the libc5 version of Navigator (the navigator-smotif-472-libc5 package) solve your problem? --

Re: [OT] C help plz..

2000-03-17 Thread Matthew Dalton
One could easily expand the code snippet to something more like... int i; char c; unsigned long l; : : for (i = sizeof(unsigned long); i > 0; i--) { int shift_factor = (i - 1) * 8; c = (char)((l & ((unsigned long)0xFF << shift_factor)) >> shift_factor); putchar(c); } ... if you want t

swap partition

2000-03-17 Thread Kenneth Scharf
What is the max size of a swap partition under the 2.2 and 2.3/2.4 kernels. I know that the 2.0 kernels were limited to 128 (or 127?)mb, but you could have several of them. Did this change in 2.2-2.4? = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Fr

Re: Can't mount data CD burned using Windows SW

2000-03-17 Thread kvaughan
At 08:07 PM 3/16/00 -0500, you wrote: >> "CB" == Chris Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >CB> Sounds like the CDROM drive at home is having problems >CB> physically reading the data off of the media. This could have a >CB> couple of causes. Media could be one --- I have a 52x Crea

Re: Voodoo3 at more than 8bpp?

2000-03-17 Thread kvaughan
At 05:37 PM 3/16/00 -0800, you wrote: > >> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Colin> I don't know if any of this helps, but let me know if ... >Bruce sent me a similar email, there's nothing unusual in either of >your configurations. Hmm. > >Could you both send me the outp

Re: Can't mount data CD burned using Windows SW

2000-03-17 Thread kvaughan
At 08:07 PM 3/16/00 -0500, you wrote: >> "CB" == Chris Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >CB> Sounds like the CDROM drive at home is having problems ... >Turns out the problem was a bad CD-ROM drive. The CD-ROM refused to read ... I'm coming in on the tail end of this one, but ran into som

SMTP password

2000-03-17 Thread Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
Hello! I have a problem: my ISP ask me for username and password to send e-mail by smtp. With Netscape is easy to configure it, but I don't know how to do that with smail or sendmail. Can somebody help me? Thanks, Camilo Alejandro Arboleda. P.S. Sorry, terrible English. -- * De simio la conoci

Re: Voodoo3 at more than 8bpp?

2000-03-17 Thread Sean Johnson
Stephen Zander wrote: > Could you both send me the output of > > cat /proc/cpuinfo /proc/interrupts > > off-list would probably be better. I'm wondering if I need to enable > interupts for this card and whether running an SMP system is making a > difference. > I'm running a Voodoo3 2000 P

Is color printing an option?

2000-03-17 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hi All, I ran magicfilterconfig and set up my local printer on lp0. The closest thing to my hp560c was an hp530c driver. It prints ok, but only in black/white. Is there a way I can have linux print using colors too, or is this restricted to using one of my windows boxes? Set up is linux 2.2.

Re: swap partition

2000-03-17 Thread kmself
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:53:21PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > What is the max size of a swap partition under the 2.2 > and 2.3/2.4 kernels. I know that the 2.0 kernels were > limited to 128 (or 127?)mb, but you could have several > of them. Did this change in 2.2-2.4? RTM: /usr/src/linux/Do

Re: Free Internet connection

2000-03-17 Thread rick
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Does anybody know how to connect to the free ISP-s from Debian boxes? I > want to drop my AT&T account, but I am not sure that it will work, since > most of the free ISP say in their requirements windows. I have been > considering BlueLight (yahoo). Any i

Re: netscape bus error

2000-03-17 Thread rick
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > "Eric K. Wolven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I'm getting "bus error" when I start netscape navigator (4.72) from xterm. >>Also some "cranking" from hd when I menu-click, but then no go. > > Does switching to the libc5 version of Navigator (the > navigat

RealPlayer .deb

2000-03-17 Thread John Dalbec
Just apt-get removed realplayer because it was causing a bus error in Netscape. The maintainer may want to read the fine print on real.com: RealPlayer 7 for RedHat is a beta version. Do beta versions belong in a frozen distribution? John

Re: no such device as /dev/lpt1

2000-03-17 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:29:12PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > When I first set up my Debian box, and whenever > > I've recompiled/upgraded/etc, I've left the > > support for parallel ports out, because I didn't > > have a printer. > > > > Now I have a pr

Re: Free Internet connection

2000-03-17 Thread ktb
I haven't tried it but go to, www.teledyn.com/products/FreeWWW/ tell me how it works for you if you try it, I'm just curious. hth, kent - Original Message - From: Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 7:10 PM Subject: Free Internet connection > Does

xwindows

2000-03-17 Thread Beavis
try to set up x   installed the following packages xserver-common, xfonts-base, fonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-scalable   ran the following: apt-get install xf86setupXF86Config   do startx   i get the error messages: x: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA failed ..giving up xinit:

Re: xwindows

2000-03-17 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
Have you installed xserver-SVGA? Marshal > "Beavis" == Beavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > try to set up x >   > installed the following packages > xserver-common, xfonts-base, fonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, > xfonts-scalable >   > ran the following: > apt

Re: RealPlayer .deb

2000-03-17 Thread Joey Hess
John Dalbec wrote: > Just apt-get removed realplayer because it was causing a bus error in > Netscape. > The maintainer may want to read the fine print on real.com: > RealPlayer 7 for RedHat is a beta version. > Do beta versions belong in a frozen distribution? It's either that or expired non-bet

Re: Voodoo3 at more than 8bpp?

2000-03-17 Thread Stephen Zander
Sean> I'm running a Voodoo3 2000 PCI on a dual PPro system. My Sean> desktop is running at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and looks great. I've Sean> attached my XF86Config file, and the /proc/cpuinfo and Sean> /proc/interrupts info that you requested, though I don't Sean> know what good it'

xwindows

2000-03-17 Thread Beavis
i have been playing with the xf86config but can't seem to get everything to work   the best i can do is get to a grey scrren with an x in the middle.  it stays at that screen for about 5 sec and then  goes back to the normal command line screen   i looks like it almosts wants to load, then h

Re: Can a machine with a private class B IP (172.17.120.5) establish a ssh connection with a machine with legal IP ?

2000-03-17 Thread Richard Eckart
Hello Well... I'm not quite an expert about this, but I'd say you either need NAT (network address translation) enabled on your firewalling machine, so your address is masqueraded to the outside. Ssh connects from your machine to the outside would work fine then, but nobody from outside could con

Re: xwindows

2000-03-17 Thread C. Folstrom
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:11:01PM -0800, Beavis wrote: > i have been playing with the xf86config but can't seem to get everything to > work > > the best i can do is get to a grey scrren with an x in the middle. You need to add a line in ~/.xinitrc as follows: exec wmaker This would run Window

Re: Voodoo3 at more than 8bpp?

2000-03-17 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Stephen" == Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stephen> Thanks for your help. And thanks again, Colin, Bruce & Sean. I still can't get XFree86 3.3.6 to do the right thing, but I now have XFree86 4.0 running successfully at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 32bpp. It will run 1600x1200 a

Mail download problem

2000-03-17 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I am using fetchmail/exim to download my mail. Recently fetchamil quits in the middle of downloading mails with attachments and exim complains about a unexpected termination of SMTP. All other download works fine on my system. I have also tried using a MUA with it's own POP3 retrieval, but t

Unresolved symbol errors with custom kernel... .

2000-03-17 Thread Linux Information
I am getting 20+ 'unresolved symbol' errors after installing a custom kernel and modules under the potato freeze of Debian. Actually, now that I look at it, I get a lot more than 20, and the majority of them (I loose a lot from scrolling past the console buffer) are in /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc

Re: Voodoo3 at more than 8bpp?

2000-03-17 Thread John Gould
Hi there, Voodoo 3 should run fine under 3.3.6, I wouldn't mess with 4 just yet! Can you send me your XF86Config file privately and I'll take a look? It's in /etc/X11. Regards JohnG ps. You shuld get 8bpp, 16bpp and 24bpp resolutions no prob! _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

prevent eterm to automatically boot a program

2000-03-17 Thread Jaume Teixi
so , how to do that ? thanks!

Re: Unresolved symbol errors with custom kernel... .

2000-03-17 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I am getting 20+ 'unresolved symbol' errors after installing a custom kernel > and modules under the potato freeze of Debian. Actually, now that I look at > it, I get a lot more than 20, and the majority of them (I loose a lot from > scrolling past the console buffer) are in /lib/modules/2.2.

Midnight Commander without mouse?

2000-03-17 Thread David Densmore
When I installed Midnight Commander I recall that dpkg setup required a mouse to be present even thought mc can be operated without one. Now I'm about to install Debian on a machine which will have no mouse and want to use mc. What can I do?

Re: Mail download problem

2000-03-17 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I am using fetchmail/exim to download my mail. Recently fetchamil quits > in the middle of downloading mails with attachments and exim complains > about a unexpected termination of SMTP. All other download works fine > on my system. > > I have also tried using a MUA with it's own POP3 retrieval

Re: Midnight Commander without mouse?

2000-03-17 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> When I installed Midnight Commander I recall that dpkg setup required > a mouse to be present even thought mc can be operated without one. > > Now I'm about to install Debian on a machine which will have no mouse > and want to use mc. What can I do? > basically i see no problem with using mc w

Re: How to make SCSI only bootup

2000-03-17 Thread Patrick
I have the same problem with an aic7870 scsi controller. Please let me know if you find a way to boot it. Patrick On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:43:57AM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hiya > > i have a SCSI only system and i am not too sure how to load the drivers for > it to enable it to boot

Re: Midnight Commander without mouse?

2000-03-17 Thread Henry White
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 04:28:54AM -0600, David Densmore wrote: > When I installed Midnight Commander I recall that dpkg setup required > a mouse to be present even thought mc can be operated without one. > > Now I'm about to install Debian on a machine which will have no mouse > and want to

Re: no such device as /dev/lpt1

2000-03-17 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
hi, you have to compile the lowlevel parallel port drivers (as modules), too. with "make menuconfig" they are in "general setup" -> "parallel port support" (m) and "pc-style hardware (NEW)" (m) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:29:12PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > Hi

Re: Strange eth0 and eth1 dmesg

2000-03-17 Thread Philipp Letschert
Patrick wrote: > > Hi all, > > some machines are just plain unco-operative. After getting a custom > aic7870 rescu and drivers disks, I got installed and then faced this > set of messages on boot. > > My apologies if it seems long but I am assuming that the root of > this oproblem lies with the

Re: SMTP password

2000-03-17 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Hello! > > I have a problem: my ISP ask me for username and password to send e-mail > by smtp. With Netscape is easy to configure it, but I don't know how to > do that with smail or sendmail. Can somebody help me? > the problem is: smtp has NO password at all (AFAIK). the point is, you have to

Re: Strange eth0 and eth1 dmesg

2000-03-17 Thread Patrick
I did a search on google and found a report of this with a suggestion from Alan Cox that replacing the ne2k-pci modules with ne.o and setting the options to match those of the card in the bios. I forgot to mention that the person who I am doing this server for bought the kit from his brother who w

Re: mailinglist replying

2000-03-17 Thread Chirag
- Original Message - From: Bart Friederichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian userlist Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 5:06 AM Subject: mailinglist replying Hi > since i am quite at mailinglists like these, i was wondering, what is the > best way of replying to a posted message? reply to sen

Re: How to make SCSI only bootup

2000-03-17 Thread Gregory T. Norris
The "2FA:" prompt is generated by mbr... it looks like it doesn't know which partition to boot (you haven't gotten far enough to require the SCSI drivers yet). Just as a guess, I'd say that you didn't flag the relevant partition as "active" when you partitioned the disk. Try pressing "2" when you

Debian V2.1

2000-03-17 Thread Leanne Gibson
I have a client running Debian V2.1 via a dial up modem for e-mail. They were hit by virus the other day and are looking for anti-virus software for the above version. Please could you come back to me asap. Kind regards Leanne Gibson

Re: Midnight Commander without mouse?

2000-03-17 Thread David Densmore
No, I mean how do I INSTALL mc without a mouse? libgpmg is a required package for mc, and if it is not present dpkg complains and won't install mc. Since mc operates perfectly well without a mouse I can't imagine why this is so, but there it is. I guess I could go ahead and install libgpmg even

Re: How to make SCSI only bootup

2000-03-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > i have a SCSI only system and i am not too sure how to load the drivers for > it to enable it to boot up. I have specified the SCSI disk to be the boot > disk and it has written the boot/lilo onto it which is good, but when i > boot the machine i

Re: no such device as /dev/lpt1

2000-03-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Thanks Jim, for the response. That helps clear up a couple of things. So > now, when I do an "insmod lp", I get this: > > /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol > parport_ieee1284_nibble_mode_ok > /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbo

Re: Midnight Commander without mouse?

2000-03-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting David Densmore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > No, I mean how do I INSTALL mc without a mouse? libgpmg is a required > package for mc, and if it is not present dpkg complains and won't install > mc. Since mc operates perfectly well without a mouse I can't imagine > why this is so, but there it is.

Re: Midnight Commander without mouse?

2000-03-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "David" == David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David> No, I mean how do I INSTALL mc without a mouse? You can't, unless you recompile the package. Once it is compiled with gmp support, the lib has to be present. David> I guess I could go ahead and install libgpmg even though there David

Re: Debian V2.1

2000-03-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:46:51PM +0200, Leanne Gibson wrote: > I have a client running Debian V2.1 via a dial up modem for e-mail. They > were hit by virus the other day and are looking for anti-virus software for > the above version. Please could you come back to me asap. > > Kind regards I

Weird problem with Netscape and X

2000-03-17 Thread Joseph A. Martin
Hello, I am running an up to date Potato system. I am using the GNOME desktop and a locally installed copy of Netscape Navigator. Netscape lives in /usr/local/netscape. I have a symlink from /usr/bin/netscape to /usr/local/netscape/netscape. When I try to run Netscape from a menu ic

Default permissions of home directories

2000-03-17 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, I want to set all home directories on our server to 700, so that the users don't see each others files. How can I make this the default. Any hints and comments appreciated, even RTFMs, joachim

Re: no such device as /dev/lpt1

2000-03-17 Thread Kent West
David Wright wrote: > Quoting Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Thanks Jim, for the response. That helps clear up a couple of things. So > > now, when I do an "insmod lp", I get this: > > > > /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol > > parport_ieee1284_nibble_mode_ok > > /lib/modules

Re: xwindows

2000-03-17 Thread John Stevenson
This is of course assuming that you have installed the window maker package (wmaker). If you install a window manage (such as window maker) it should add itself to the alternatives in /etc, but I am no expert on that Johnny. "C. Folstrom" wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:11:01PM -0800, B

empty .ssh directory

2000-03-17 Thread John F. Davis
Hello Is it normal to have your .ssh direcotry in your home directory to be empty? I have been using ssh for some time now and all of a sudden all my .ssh directories are empty. I'm wondering if I have been hacked. To continue my tale of woe, My /var/syslog file was emptied of all old entries

Re: Debian V2.1

2000-03-17 Thread C. Folstrom
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:46:51PM +0200, Leanne Gibson wrote: > I have a client running Debian V2.1 via a dial up modem for e-mail. They > were hit by virus the other day and are looking for anti-virus software for > the above version. Please could you come back to me asap. > > Kind regards >

Re: xwindows

2000-03-17 Thread C. Folstrom
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:30:44PM +, John Stevenson wrote: > This is of course assuming that you have installed the window maker package > (wmaker). If you install a window manage (such as window maker) it should > add itself > to the alternatives in /etc, but I am no expert on that > Jo

Re: empty .ssh directory

2000-03-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
Are you also using ssh to log into other computers (not only to be able to log into your own using ssh), if that's so, it's not weird the directory is empty. If you are using ssh to log into other computers there should be a file: known_hosts. Empty syslog isn't weird either, every once in a while

Sony vaio

2000-03-17 Thread Tim Ryder
Does anyone have any info on getting the sony cd51 pcmcia cd player to work with debian it installs itself at ide2=0x180,0x386 I am using the sony vaio n505ve tim ryder please cc me on this because i am not currently on the mailing list

Re: RealPlayer .deb

2000-03-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
Only the installer is in frozen. Presumably Real Networks will eventually release a non-beta version (as they have done with previous versions) and the installer will work with that as well. On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 11:36:34PM -0500, John Dalbec wrote: > Just apt-get removed realplayer because it

Re: Default permissions of home directories

2000-03-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:56:48PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Hi, > > I want to set all home directories on our server to 700, so that the > users don't see each others files. How can I make this the default. > > Any hints and comments appreciated, even RTFMs, i thought adduser already di

Re: Midnight Commander without mouse?

2000-03-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
I have mc installed on a mouse-less system with no problems. On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 06:50:57AM -0600, David Densmore wrote: > No, I mean how do I INSTALL mc without a mouse? libgpmg is a required > package for mc, and if it is not present dpkg complains and won't install > mc. Since mc operates

Time taken by a script

2000-03-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
I've written a cgi script in perl an I would like to know how long (exactly, 10th of second) it takes to execute the script, how can I do this? Ron

LPD execv error

2000-03-17 Thread Michael W. Shaffer
I have an issue I am trying to solve with the BSD lpr package on a potato system. I have installed the following: - lpr - magicfilter - ghostscript - netpbm I have created a printcap using magicfilterconfig which appears to work fine. When I do something like: lpr tiger.ps I can hear

Re: Free Internet connection

2000-03-17 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:10:01PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Does anybody know how to connect to the free ISP-s from Debian boxes? I > want to drop my AT&T account, but I am not sure that it will work, since > most of the free ISP say in their requirements windows. I have been > considering

Re: no such device as /dev/lpt1

2000-03-17 Thread Ashley Clark
On N¨m, 16 Ba2000, Kent West wrote: > Thanks Jim, for the response. That helps clear up a couple of things. So > now, when I do an "insmod lp", I get this: > > /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol > parport_ieee1284_nibble_mode_ok > /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol

Re: dselect

2000-03-17 Thread FreeMan
I think my list isn't as long as you think. There are just 7 pages - that's all and I just can't find Samba. As I already told, it seems to there are only packages displaied, which are already installed. I already tried the search function but after typing in "samba", I just hear a short beep an

swat for samba???

2000-03-17 Thread FreeMan
Hi, I would like to use swat on my Linux-box for easier configuration of samba. I thought it would be a seperate package, but couldn't find it in dselect. Do I just have to enable swat by a parameter in a configuration file or is it really a seperate package and I have to get it from somewhere

make menuconfig

2000-03-17 Thread David Densmore
what packages must be installed to use make menuconfig?

Re: dselect

2000-03-17 Thread Erik Ryberg
Are you mounting your cd drive? You need to mount the drive before dselect. Also, is everything going correctly when you choose install method (the menu item). Select "apt" or "cdrom." Erik Ryberg FreeMan wrote: > I think my list isn't as long as you think. There are just 7 pages - > that's a

Re: swap partition

2000-03-17 Thread Chirag
- Original Message - From: Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 8:23 AM Subject: swap partition Hi > What is the max size of a swap partition under the 2.2 > and 2.3/2.4 kernels. I know that the 2.0 kernels were > limited to 128 (or 127?)mb, but you coul

Re: Can't mount data CD burned using Windows SW

2000-03-17 Thread Chirag
Hi I don't know anything about this. But does it have something to do with the differences among iso9660 extensions l Rock Ridge and Microsoft Joliet Level 3? Previ

Re: Debian install cannot find ATA 66 hard drive

2000-03-17 Thread Chirag
Hi. Linux Mandrake 6.0 kernels contained ATA66 support. They were usin 2.2.9 kernel. Previ

Re: dselect

2000-03-17 Thread John Stevenson
It seem that you have not pointed dselect (apt) to a more up-to-date distribution. As root, try running the apt-setup command and select a complete mirror. Then run dselect and chose the update option to get a new list of packages from the chosen source. Once the packages are updated, you are

Re: How to make SCSI only bootup

2000-03-17 Thread t.bedlam
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 12:56:28PM +, David Wright was only escaped alone to tell thee: > The BIOS needs to be able to read from the boot device without any > assistance from linux. If you're getting 2FA, then that task is done. > Now lilo needs to read the kernel from the partition where

How to set up printing in Netscape

2000-03-17 Thread Kent West
I just got my printer working, and I can print from the command line (i.e. "lpr bubba") and from such utilities as Nedit, but I can't print from such things as Netscape and Abiword. Anyone have any hints for me? (Please CC me as I'm currently unable to resubscribe to the list.) Thanks!

delete a mail from mail queue (exim)?

2000-03-17 Thread Attila Csosz
How could I delete a mail from the exim mail queue? Attila -- -- - Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian 2.2 Linux / 2.2.13 / exim- - Get my PGP key: gpg --keyserver keys.pgp.com --recv-key 0x2cc33acb -

Re: make menuconfig

2000-03-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting David Densmore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > what packages must be installed to use make menuconfig? A kernel-source package, its dependencies, recommendations, and suggestions apart from kernel-package, which I'd heartily recommend, and bin86, which is needed only on x86 architectures. (i.e. che

Re: Time taken by a script

2000-03-17 Thread Robert Davis
Ahoy You ask: > I've written a cgi script in perl an I would like to know how long > (exactly, 10th of second) it takes to execute the script, how can I do > this? Here's a crude way: #!/usr/bin/perl $now = time(); for( i=0; i<10; i++) { require("thescriptIwanttotime.pl"); } $then = time(

gpmconfig test works; gpm doesn't

2000-03-17 Thread Kent West
Hi. I've got a PC/2 (on /dev/psaux) mouse that works just fine in X. However, at a console, it doesn't work. So I've tried running gpmconfig, and the test (where you move the mouse and see the pointer move, and then press Ctrl-D to quit) works fine, but when I quit gpmconfig and gpm starts, my mous

Re: How to have quieter bootup messages?

2000-03-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jose Marin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > No, I don't mean the messages from the init scripts (I guess you can use > the VERBOSE variable in /etc/default/rcS for that); I mean the bootup > messages from the _kernel_, the ones you can read again with dmsg. Try Documentation/proc.txt and look a

Re: Debian on the i-opener?

2000-03-17 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Mar 16, Wayne Topa wrote: > Has anyone got Debian running on the $99 i-opener yet? I will be > trying to as soon as the 2.5" HD gets here. Should make a nice system > when USB is stable. Check out linux-hacker.net/i-opener. It's i386-based and Linux runs on it, so there shouldn't be any re

Re: Unresolved symbol errors with custom kernel... .

2000-03-17 Thread Linux Information
Here is what I did: 1. Untarred the kernel source (2.2.14) 2. Applied ppDev patch (for 2.2.14) 3. Applied ppSCSI patch (not for 2.2.14, for 2.2.10, I think.) 4. make xconfig; make dep; make clean; make bzImage; make modules; make modules_install 5. untarred the Soundblaster Live! so

Re: is there an HTTP C library?

2000-03-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Try libwww. You can get it from: http://www.w3.org/Library/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 12:38:44PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry generated a > stream of 1s and 0s: > > > > On 15-Mar-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What C/C++ libraries are available to get web pages from w

Re: SMTP password

2000-03-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I have a problem: my ISP ask me for username and password to send e-mail > > by smtp. With Netscape is easy to configure it, but I don't know how to > > do that with smail or sendmail. Can somebody help me? > > > the problem is: smtp has NO password at

Re: empty .ssh directory

2000-03-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting John F. Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Lastly, I have this process in my ps auwx output. If I kill it, it comes > back. I have no idea what it is. Could it be normal? For what it matters > , I run xdm. Yes, it's been mentioned here before, but I have no idea how to search for "-:0" in

Re: make menuconfig

2000-03-17 Thread David Densmore
Thanks, but I meant what packages are needed for make menuconfig to function, as in when I enter the command the pretty blue menuconfig app starts instead of an error message. In other words, I already have the kernel source installed and can use the make command, the hard to use one where you go

Re: Time taken by a script

2000-03-17 Thread Chirag
- Original Message - From: Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 8:14 PM Subject: Time taken by a script > I've written a cgi script in perl an I would like to know how long > (exactly, 10th of second) it takes to execute the script, how can I do > this? > >

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