fetchmail smtp connect failed

Hello, I have read in the documentation that if smtp failed connect during fetchmail -v means that fetchmail can't connect to my localhost. it was advised that I try to check if I can telnet to port 25 on my machine.Actually, I can't telnet to my machine using my hostname or localhost. So may

Telnet Security

Is there a way to keep my Telnet port open but still have security?

Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

Petr Cech wrote: > > On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 11:47:36AM +0200 , Svante Signell wrote: > > Following is a proposal on what to emphasize on the FIRST page: > > > > 1. Rewrite the Getting Started section, e.g. inform about the large > >number of architectures and packages supported. This surely >

Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

Karl, That is an inverter also - small, square wave and not really suitable for power supplies that are in computers. The square wave can do funny and bad things to some equipment. Caution is advised. Modified is a little better and formed sine wave (stepped) is much cleaner to deal with.

Re: Telnet Security

At 10:05 PM 5/19/00 -0700, Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a way to keep my Telnet port open but still have security? No. At least not *good* security. "Never tell me the odds!"--- Ray Olszewski-- Han Solo

Package Log

When I turn on setterm -msg on, i see: Package log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 172.19.32.10:1026 172.255.255.255:111 L=13 s=0x00 I=742 F=0x T=64 (#4) So what am I looking at and why does it continue to do this? Thanks for your help ahead of time

Re: Can't compile GTK programs in Slink

> "Cameron" == Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Cameron> Whenever I try to compile GTK+ or GTK-- programs, It says it can't find Cameron> glib-config.h. I have the rest of the glib headers, so I don't know why Cameron> I don't have this one. Anyway, Does anybody kno

Re: APM Disable

Jay Kelly wrote: > > It look like the monitor doesnt shutoff, the led on the front of the monitor > doesnt even change. I think whats happening is maybe a screen saver that > black is coming on. How do I see if thats the case. Try "xset -q" which will display the current X settings. Look in that

Re: Telnet Security

Jay Kelly wrote: > > Is there a way to keep my Telnet port open but still have security? Telnet is inherently insecure because it doesn't encrypt communication going across the wire, particularly passwords. That's why the world is migrating to SSH. Using TCP Wrappers you can tighten the security

Re: Successful upgrade to potato, with work...

> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> Most likely this close to release, I'll just add your (paraphrased) notes Ben> to the Release Notes for sparc. This should ease other users upgrades Ben> (sorry again that you had to be the one to do the trial and error :)

Re: man --> info?

On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:29:11AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > At 02:33 AM 05/18/2000 -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: > > >I think that the package you're looking for is dwww. It needs an httpd > >installed (boa is nice and lightweight), but it is well worth it. > > Dave, thanks a lot. > > I want

Re: Kernel Compile error: What am I missing?

Russel wrote: >Oops...I've got either a 2.2.10, 2.2.12, and 2.2.14. Tried em all. > >I've got the binutils and gcc versions required in Documentation/Changes >( I even checked using the commands listed in that file) > >If the file builds just fine on your computer...has the file changed >between

Re: Installation Problem

> "Joab" == Joab Schultheis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joab> hde: Quantum Fireball ST3.2A, 3079MB w/81kB Cache, CHS=6256,16,63, UDMA Joab> Partition check: Joab> hde: [PTBL] [782/128/63] hde1 hde2 , < hde5 > hde3 ??? Why is it `hde' rather than `hda'? Do you have more than

Re: man --> info?

> "Fabrizio" == Fabrizio Polacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Fabrizio> info docs are "guides", while manpages are pages of the Fabrizio> reference manual. Both type of docs are needed, as they Fabrizio> serve different purposes, but only the reference is Fabrizio> required. That attitude, to

How to configure xfree86 for a monochrome/greyscale monitor?

I have a fixed-frequency greyscale monitor which I was finally able to get to work after downloading the modelines from si87.com (very nice people) I have a stable X display and all. However, I am having a few problems. As this is a greyscale monitor (green signal) it only displays 256 out of 256

Re: fetchmail smtp connect failed

Joseph de los Santos wrote: > > Hello, > > I have read in the documentation that if smtp failed connect during > fetchmail -v means that fetchmail can't connect to my localhost. it was > advised that I try to check if I can telnet to port 25 on my ... I just ran into this myself and realized aft

Please use more descriptive article titles. (Was: Re: Configuration)

> "Jay" == Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jay> Im working on getting Samba to run and I came across: It would be helpful if the subject of your message read something more like "Samba Configuration", rather than just "Configuration". Be more specific, and try to mention somethin

Glimpse (Re: obsolete packages in dselect)

> "Gary" == Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> If you don't need them then it's generally safe to delete obsolete Gary> packages. I have a couple that I keep around because there's no Gary> replacement in potato. glimpse for example is obsoleted but there's Gary> n

Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

i'm glad this came up. i'm about to renter this zone myself, starting over from 2.1 slink cd's and then apt-get upgrading to potato again... Andreas Rottmann wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > Questions: > > 1:) What is the best way to make apt-get use the /archives

rawrite broken from DOS-box under W98? (Was: Re: thinkpad install prob)

> "Robert" == Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Michael Skipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> When I try to boot from the rescue floppy (downloaded from the >>> >> ch-install-methods.en.html#s-file-descs> area and writt

Re: xterm xterm-debian

> "Andrew" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> On Fri, 19 May 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tom> What's the best the best way to avoid having ot reset my terminal tom> variable everytime I telnet to a site that does not know what tom> xterm-debian is? Since this happens quite o

Re: Linux Telephony is it real?

> "VEVE" == VEVE ROUDY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: VEVE> Linux is a great headache that I support for longtime Please go to the university and study computer science (and english), then help us remedy the situation! -- Those who do not study Lisp are doomed to reimplement it - Poorly.

Re: changing default shells

Nick, 'man chsh' Good luck, Steve Nick wrote: > > i installed Tsch how do i get back to BASH > > thankx > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: APM Disable

my monitor shots off (led in front stays on, but no scan lines show up even at maximum brightness) in console mode after a few minuntes. xwindows ain't even running. before running into debian i'd tried freebsd, and their default install had a neat set of screensavers in console mode that switched

Re: init - autostarts

Dominic> all that "starting syslogd", "starting inetd" etc Dominic> when you're booting, it's controlled by init, right? Dominic> how do i tell it not to start the things I'd rather Dominic> not be running? if you're wondering about things like scsi-initialization and isdn setup, then i say "me to

Re: potato boot floppies and FTP/HTTP install

On 19 May 2000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > There are several `flavors' of i386 boot floppy sets. You might want > to try the `compact' or `idepci' version (see the README in the ftp > archive). With `compact', often the NIC driver for your card will be > built into the kernel, and you'll be ab

Re: power saving - A good idea

Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > I lost a hard drive on my firewall machine recently so I looked for ways to > > conserve the drive. I enabled power saving(?) in the BIOS so that the IDE > > spins down after 5 mins of inactivity. As it is the only machine on a lot of > > the time, the HD is rarely

Hosts.allow config

Ok I have two qeustion for the group, 1) I am wanting to use the finger command in my hosts.allow file to see who has been in my system. Im using spawn (/usr/sbin/safe_finger -l @%h | /usr/ucb/mail root) but I dont receive any mail. Am I doing this right? 2) When I try to edit my hosts.allow file

Re: apt-get install or upgrade from stored archive

Ron Rademaker wrote: > > I don't thinthat'll work because the directory structure isn't correct, on > a mirror you got > /dists//[main|contrib|non-free]/binary-i386/[base|admin|net|etc]/package.deb > you don't have that with your downloaded packages, the best thing you can > do is go to the downlo

Re: Screen Saver

On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 09:58:00PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > If my monitor goes black,(i.e. screen saver I think) how do I turn that off. > The monitor doesnt shut off just goes blank. Sounds like the screen saver > but I have no idea where to check.. man setterm fred -- **

Re: Telnet Security

On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 10:05:32PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Is there a way to keep my Telnet port open but still have security? > I just went through this. I installed ssh on my linux box & removed telnet. If you're connecting from a windows box to your linux box, get puTTY for windows. fred

RE: Telnet Security

Someone told me about security key but I cant remeber the web page where to download them. I guess you need to have a key installed on the remote pc that matches the server key. Anybody know what Im talking about? -Original Message- From: John Bagdanoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Frid

debian logo

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm sure it's been answered before, but could someone tell me where the debian logo comes from?... many thanks russell -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBOSY7X4iOLebNtPU7EQLqDA

Re: Kernel revision info command?

uname -a On Fri, 19 May 2000, Ron Stordahl wrote: > I am in bash. What do I type to determine the current revision of the > kernel? Or if you can't do it there, how? > > Ron > > > > > -- I can be immature if I want to, because I'm mature enough to make my own decisions. Who is John G

Re: man --> info?

On Thu, 18 May 2000 09:29:11 -0500, you wrote: >I want to try it, but apt-get wants to re-install an entire server and >tools for me, I have a stable apache+jserv, and don't want to install >another http server. > >Any way to convince apt to just get the add-on tool? Have a look at the equivs pa

Re: power saving - A good idea

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:37:21AM -0500, w trillich wrote: > > i have something similar which i haven't been able to disable > (not via bios, not via hdparm--at least i've not stumbled into > the right parameter yet)-- > > kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > kernel: ide1

Re: Hosts.allow config

2) When I try to edit my hosts.allow file with ae, it will not allow me to make any changes. Im logged in as root I make the changes then use ctrl x, ctrl s to save but it doesnt take the command. All I get it a x and s on the screen. Any thoughts???

Re: Telnet Security

On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 10:05:32PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Is there a way to keep my Telnet port open but still have security? > sure, in /etc/ssh/sshd_config change: Port 22 to Port 23 ;-) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpiQaynuNaSe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Telnet Security

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 12:03:04AM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Someone told me about security key but I cant remeber the web page where to > download them. I guess you need to have a key installed on the remote pc > that matches the server key. Anybody know what Im talking about? > All I know, is th

Re: Telnet Security

John Bagdanoff said: >On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 12:03:04AM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: >> Someone told me about security key but I cant remeber the web page where to >> download them. I guess you need to have a key installed on the remote pc >> that matches the server key. Anybody know what Im talking

Re: Clone of hard drive

On Fri, 19 May 2000 15:45:03 PDT, Jay Kelly writes: >Hello All, >Is it possible to clone my linux hard drive to an image or to another drive? >This way in the event of hard drive failure I can swap drives and be right >back up. If it is, how would I go about it? The best way is to have identical d

Re: Clone of hard drive

On 19 May 2000 18:26:43 PDT, Karl M. Hegbloom writes: > Don't use `dd' - it won't work well if the two drives are not the > same size. It works. The second disk has to be >= the first and be able to do with the same translation (so don´t have your disks on AUTO in the BIOS and specify the translat

Re: debian logo

>I'm sure it's been answered before, but could someone tell me where >the debian >logo comes from?... There are quite a few in various resolutions on the debian site. Check www.debian.org and find it. Sven

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

** On May 20, Sven Burgener scribbled: > Hi debians > > According to www.netcraft.com/whats , freshmeat.org is running on > windoze? Is this really the case!? How come? Is this for real? Yup, it is for real. http://www.freshmeat.org is running WinNT, but http://www.freshmeat.NET is running Linux,

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

Hi I realised shortly after that I tried the wrong TLD. My fault. I immediately posted a cancel message to the list thereafter. But whilst we're on that subject, how would such an "OS & Port 80 scan" be done not using this web-front-end?! TIA Sven

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

** On May 20, Sven Burgener scribbled: > Hi > > I realised shortly after that I tried the wrong TLD. My fault. I > immediately posted a cancel message to the list thereafter. I don't have it in my inbox yet... Nevermind :)) > But whilst we're on that subject, how would such an "OS & Port 80 scan

Re: Stuck...

Le sam, 20 mai 2000, w trillich a écrit : > > Hazelwood wrote: > I have typed in numerous characters and numbers to no avail. > > Trillich answered : > if you say 'to no avail' to mean 'nothing happens' > then maybe your keyboard isn't configured correctly...? > try 'help' or 'man ls' or 'startx'

Re: Package Log

On Fri, 19 May 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > When I turn on setterm -msg on, i see: > Package log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 172.19.32.10:1026 172.255.255.255:111 > L=13 s=0x00 I=742 F=0x T=64 (#4) > > So what am I looking at and why does it continue to do this? > 111 is the rpc port. as this ...2

Re: Netscape and MS Intellimouse

> Netscape used to have support for the Intellimouse in my Debian 2.1 box. > Now I have a fresh Potato install (new hard drive), only a few days old, > and the old ¨tricks¨ don´t work anymore. So far I have the line > >ZAxisMapping4 5 > the whole section: Section "Pointer" Protoc

Exim .forward file - how do I pipe a message?

I have installed sn - a news system like Leafnode but better for me in lots of ways. Anyway, it has the ability to process mailing lists and display them in a newsreader. In the sn docs it gives the following info: "Set up your mail system (.forward, .qmail, /etc/aliases or whatever) to pipe eac

Re: Exim .forward file - how do I pipe a message?

Hi {Philip,list} >"Set up your mail system (.forward, .qmail, /etc/aliases or > whatever) to pipe each incoming message to snmail, with the > command line similar to: > BINDIR/snmail -s mailing-list local. What you should do then is (if you run sendmail, that is), put the following in your ~/.for

Re: Telnet Security

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 04:17:23AM -0400, Brian Clark wrote: > John Bagdanoff said: > If you use the authentication type "RSA" in conjunction with SSH instead of > authentication type "password", you'll need to exchange keys with the host > for it to be able to authenticate you. If I understand

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

>There are at least three easy ways to check what operating system runs on >the remote machine (let's assume it's got the HTTP port open): > >1. nmap -O -p 80 host.name.com > You don't want to scan them :), that's why the -p What's the -O option? For some reason, I can't find any info for it; I

Missing header file conio.h

Hello, I am trying to compile a C++ program, which will be at some point a Reverse Polish Notation program. I am trying to use a function called getche() . Therefore, from what I have read, I need to #include The problem is on my Potato system, this file is missing even though, I have installe

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

** On May 20, Sven Burgener scribbled: > >There are at least three easy ways to check what operating system runs > on > >the remote machine (let's assume it's got the HTTP port open): > > > >1. nmap -O -p 80 host.name.com > > You don't want to scan them :), that's why the -p > > What's the -O op

Telnet security

The previous discussion on Telnet security interested me. I would thus like to ask: How do you tell that ssh is running during your Telnet/Rlogin connection? How do you set-up ssh to work? I'm afraid I've been thinking that ssh was already working on my Linux box, but actually it wasn't...??? :-p

Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

It's not boring, it's functional. And that's what matters.

re: ISDN and Sprint

Brian Schramm asked: >I live in a Sprint controlled area. And Ray Olszewski >How does Sprint "control" an area for ISDN? Good question! I am not sure I really understand how ISDN is provided. I live in an area where Sprint is the "telephone company" like Bell Atlantic or Bell South are in othe

RE: rawrite broken from DOS-box under W98? (Was: Re: thinkpad install prob)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Karl M. Hegbloom > Sent: Saturday, 20 May 2000 4:00 PM > To: Robert Waldner > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org; Michael Skipper > Subject: rawrite broken from DOS-box under W98? (Was: Re: thinkpad > install

Re: Missing header file conio.h

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 12:09:18PM +0100, Oliver Hingst wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to compile a C++ program, which will be at some point a > Reverse Polish Notation program. I am trying to use a function called > getche() . Therefore, from what I have read, I need to > > #include That's a D

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

On Thu, 18 May 2000, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: >> Assuming you are worried by people with promiscuous ethernet cards, >> packet-sniffing. Put in a second NIC, run a crossover UTP? I assume the >.. encrypting would solve that problem. or private network between two >ccomps. >And - if I could connec

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

Hi Marek >Full info comes right your way :)): Cheers a lot! But how come I don't have that? :*! There's sort of an empty man page describing that other infos can be found locally under /usr/doc/nmap/... *My* nmap doesn't recognise the "-O" flag. I am unsure about its version, but I'm running sli

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

** On May 20, Sven Burgener scribbled: > Hi Marek > > >Full info comes right your way :)): > > Cheers a lot! But how come I don't have that? :*! > There's sort of an empty man page describing that other infos can be > found locally under /usr/doc/nmap/... > > *My* nmap doesn't recognise the "-O"

Re: Telnet security

Hi >How do you tell that ssh is running during your Telnet/Rlogin connection? Not totally sure, but whilst you're in, running "ps" should show a process named sshd. >How do you set-up ssh to work? Assuming you have debian, run: for the client # apt-get update; apt-get install ssh and the daem

Re: ISDN question

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:25:07AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > A little more information would be nice... Wath ent (is going) wrong??? Sorry, if I wasn't precise. On my modem connection I do not have to worry about DNS setup. My /etc/resolv.conf is empty and /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/0dns-up creates one

Re: Debian-CD Image and Kernel versions puzzle

Could you indicate theURL wher you got the iso image from? Ron Stordahl wrote: > I am experimenting with installs of frozen potato and this is a puzzle (to > me): > > Using a CD ISO image I downloaded of potato about a month ago I do a CD Boot > to install the base system, then I select http for

Re: log file full of "-- MARK --"

Hi, On Fri, 19 May 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > /var/messages has a "-- MARK --" every 20 minutes; why? If a problem arises, you can see what time it showed up. E. g. I once was running an analysis on my Atari TT with Debian 2.0. The analysis presumably would have taken 9 days, but never got

RE: DSL and DEBIAN

Hi, On Fri, 19 May 2000, Alec Smith wrote: > Be careful though, not all providers use an external "modem". I know that > here in Ohio, Ameritech uses an internal PCI adapter. As far as I know, > Linux doesn't support these internal adapters. And here in Germany, you have to fiddle around to mak

Re: ISDN question

Sorry for the shouting, at the time I wrote it I was pretty drunk. When I was using ISDN I used the following script for both ip-up as ip-down, perhaps it can help you... #!/bin/sh /sbin/route del default >/dev/null 2>&1 /sbin/route add default netmask 0 Ron Rademaker On Sat, 20 May 2000, Mic

Re: Clone of hard drive

On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 06:26:43PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Don't use `dd' - it won't work well if the two drives are not the > same size. Partition and format the new drive using the standard > tools, then use a `cpio' archive or `cpio' in copythrough mode to > clone the filesystem.

Re: [Debian]:deb21r5 (slink) distributions-CD - Hilfe ....

Hallo Michelle, > was ist mit dpkg-scanpackages ??? Hm, habe mit debian keinerlei Erfahrungen ... Was sind dpkg-scanpackages ? > Habe erst die CD von Heiko auf die Platte kopiert, das ein update gemacht > und dann eben dpkg-scanpackages verwendet. Meine r5 funzt einwandfrei. Ist Heiko ein FTP-Ser

Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

No, I don't. I re-installed frtom the slink cd again, so all was lost. I have another problem now: After choosing the scientific workstation in slink 2.1, I did, pointing sources.list to frozen, 1. apt-get update 2. apt-get dist-upgrade Here all went smooth, but then, after I did 3. apt-get insta

Re: debian logo

> >I'm sure it's been answered before, but could someone tell me where > >the debian > >logo comes from?... > There are quite a few in various resolutions on the debian site. Check > www.debian.org and find it. This _will_ be hard. There is a page 'www.debian.org/logos' but it's very poorly main

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

> >Because Univ of Washington doesn't allow modified tarballs to be > >distributed, and you have to modify the tarball's paths to be Debian > >compliant. > It's not too hard to find pine*.deb. Use Fast FTP Search. Pine _is_ semi-officially available as a (contrib/non-free) part of debian. The pa

Re: init - autostarts

> Dominic> all that "starting syslogd", "starting inetd" etc > Dominic> when you're booting, it's controlled by init, right? > Dominic> how do i tell it not to start the things I'd rather > Dominic> not be running? > > if you're wondering about things like scsi-initialization > and isdn setup, the

Please help - network incredibly slow...

Hi! I've been chewing on this for three days - now it goes before the experts... :) My LAN looks like so: Machine 1 Dual P2/400/256 somewhere between potato and woody | Win NT 4sp6a eth0: D-Link DFE-530TX (10/100) - via-rhine.o from http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html -

Re: Telnet security

At 06:14 PM 5/20/00 +0700, Umum Wijoyo wrote: >The previous discussion on Telnet security interested me. >I would thus like to ask: >How do you tell that ssh is running during your Telnet/Rlogin connection? You don't. ssh is a different service from telnet, more or less a drop-in replacement for r

Re: Telnet security

At 02:31 PM 5/20/00 +0200, Sven Burgener wrote [in part]: >>How do you set-up ssh to work? > >Assuming you have debian, run: > >for the client ># apt-get update; apt-get install ssh > >and the daemon ># apt-get update; apt-get install sshd Did you check this? According to "apt-cache search ssh" (r

Re: Telnet security

>>for the client >># apt-get update; apt-get install ssh >> >>and the daemon >># apt-get update; apt-get install sshd > >Did you check this? According to "apt-cache search ssh" (running on potato), >there is no "sshd" package. My memory says that "ssh" installs both the >server (daemon) and the cli

permssions

Hello, I am new at this, so this may be a simple question. I recently installed potato on my home computer, and have sound working. However I am only able to listen to cds when I am logged in as root. When I try to listen as user, I get a message that says I cannot access the cdrom because perm

Re: permssions

> I am new at this, so this may be a simple question. I recently > installed potato on my home computer, and have sound working. However I > am only able to listen to cds when I am logged in as root. When I try > to listen as user, I get a message that says I cannot access the cdrom > because pe

Re: permssions

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 10:22:56AM -0400, Jacob I. Stowell wrote: > Hello, > > I am new at this, so this may be a simple question. I recently > installed potato on my home computer, and have sound working. However I > am only able to listen to cds when I am logged in as root. When I try > to li

Re: Screen Saver

On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 09:58:00PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > If my monitor goes black,(i.e. screen saver I think) how do I turn that off. > The monitor doesnt shut off just goes blank. Sounds like the screen saver > but I have no idea where to check.. What you'll want to do is `setterm -blank 0` .

Re: libfltk-dev: which "config.h"

Johann Spies hat gesagt: // Johann Spies wrote: > I am trying to compile the programs in /usr/share/doc/libfltk1/examples/. > > After copying the files to /tmp and gunzipping the .gz files I get the > following error when I run "make": > > c++ -I.. -g -fPIC -Wall -Wno-return-type -I/usr/X11R

koffice-cvs unresolved libs

(Please CC me on replies as I am not debian-user.) Just had a first look at the koffice work-in-progress using Ivan's fine kde archive, but there is something wrong with the dependencies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> kword kword: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkofficecore.so.1: undefine

Re: Outside subsystem installed, packages unaware, dselect trying to help...

At 11:33 PM 05/19/2000 -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: > > Any way to convince apt to just get the add-on tool? > > Greg > -- ... YOW! I bet you rolled your own apache rather than installing one from a deb package and this is apt's way of telling you that it wants something that

Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

> PS: > On the wish list for the distribution I would like to add an smp > kernel. Other distributions have. Today this has to be made manually, > even if excellent tools are available for this. > > Best regards, > Svante Signell > You would definitely want to build yourself a new kernel ASAP a

Re: power saving - A good idea

Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:37:21AM -0500, w trillich wrote: > > > > i have something similar which i haven't been able to disable > > (not via bios, not via hdparm--at least i've not stumbled into > > the right parameter yet)-- > > > > kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status

Re: Pine in Debian [Was:Debian vs Red Hat???]

Will Lowe wrote: > > > Can I ask why debian doesn't include pine? Just curious. I know Debian > > The license for pine doesn't allow you to redistribute "modified binaries" > (e.g., fix a bug in the source, compile it, and redistribute the > executable you get from this). Therefore, it can't b

Re: Successful upgrade to potato, with work...

On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 10:32:21PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ben> Most likely this close to release, I'll just add your (paraphrased) > notes > Ben> to the Release Notes for sparc. This should ease other users upgrades >

Easy to do Full backup /restore to dead system?

We have a small server, with no bulk backup device, but has network and CDrom reader. What is the easiest way to be able to recover everything in case of a crash? E.g. make big tar, ftp to remote site, and then restore? But I presume that one cannot overlay a running system. Thus boot to flopp

Re: Pine in Debian [Was:Debian vs Red Hat???]

At 05:44 PM 5/20/00 +0200, Vitux wrote [in part]: >Just a pitiful newbie wondering: I thought all *nix'es were >supposed to use basically the same filesystem-structure. How >come then, that Debian has proprietary placement of files? >(maybe I've missed a point here, but isn't that part of the >ide

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hi with regard to this     Hi,could anyone help me on this one?I'm trying to install Corel Linux on my PC(pentium II 350, 64 ram, 2 IDE HD Drives one of them 6.5G completely free to install linux)I can launch the CD ok, I create the disk, reboot (with disk and cdrom inserted)LILO

sslftp for Slink?

Hi. Can anyone please tell me where (if?) I can find sslftp or something similar for a box running Slink? Thanks in advance.

Re: Pine in Debian [Was:Debian vs Red Hat???]

Vitux writes: > Just a pitiful newbie wondering: I thought all *nix'es were supposed to > use basically the same filesystem-structure. The various Linux distributions are far more standardized in this then the various Unices ever were. > How come then, that Debian has proprietary placement of fil

Re: Telnet security

When I run apt-get install ssh (after first having run apt-get install update), I get an error message saying that there is no available version, but the package exists in the database. What's up with that? # apt-get install ssh Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Pack

Re: Telnet security

You need an entry in /etc/apt/sources.list for a "non-US" distribution site. Remember: those nasty US crypto-as-munitions export rules haven't actually ended yet! At 09:44 AM 5/20/00 -0700, Miguel Wooding wrote [in part]: >When I run apt-get install ssh (after first having run apt-get install >up

Re: Telnet security

Hi Miguel! On Sat, 20 May 2000, Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union wrote: > When I run apt-get install ssh (after first having run apt-get install > update), I get an error message saying that there is no available > version, but the package exists in the database. What's up with that? > my /etc/sour

Gnus 5.8.6 not sending attachments?

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win95 postscript printing via samba problem...

I've had this problem for a long time and I'm tired of it. ;-) I've found this bug report: which describes my problem. Basically printing from win95 to my Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 system via samba, using AdobePS 4 software "AdobePSDefaultPostScriptPrint"

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