qpop and netscape clients

2000-05-26 Thread deja luser
Does any one know of problems using netscape mail clients with qpopper? Didn't see anything in bugtrack. The clients can read mail, but not send. Seems like netscape versions 4.5 & 4.7 (on my Ultra10s) don't do pop correctly, qpopper complains about "too few arguments to authenticate". I can us

-lX11

2000-05-26 Thread Kreaped Ripping Reaper
hi.. i tried to compile something that needs -lX11 but gives me an error that says i dont have it... i'm using woody :) error is here [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ ]$ gcc -lX11 -lm -o xroy xroy.c /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ]$ dpkg -l

Re: Wine

2000-05-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 26 May 2000, John Leget wrote: > Does anyone actually have wine working on debian woody. > > For a long time now all ive been able to get it to do is just hog the > CPU with a black window. Eterm showing building font metrics, it never > seems to finish this. Try removing the sharefont o

Re: TNT2-OpenGL-Mesa

2000-05-26 Thread Didi Damian
I followed their instructions and got GL working. i've only tested it with xscreensaver-gl. It works but the screen flickers pretty bad in OpenGL screensavers. I'm quite interested to see what results you achieve. * Bryan Scaringe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [25-05-2000 11:37 PM -0400] > Does anyone know

Re: qpop and netscape clients

2000-05-26 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 26 May 2000 00:59:41 EDT, "deja luser" writes: >Does any one know of problems using netscape mail clients with qpopper? >Didn't see anything in bugtrack. The clients can read mail, but not send. >Seems like netscape versions 4.5 & 4.7 (on my Ultra10s) don't do pop >correctly, qpopper com

Re: Colormaps in Linux

2000-05-26 Thread John Carline
Pat Mahoney wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 03:33:19AM -0700, Eric Hagglund wrote: > > The problem I am trying to fix is that fonts and > > images in Netscape have never been properly displayed > > in Netscape. Instead of getting fonts, toolbars, > > scrollbars and images displayed as the applica

R: R: R: tulip.o kernel module

2000-05-26 Thread marco frattola
thank you for your correction. you never stop learning .. :) Marco Frattola (S3 - Sviluppo Software e Sistemi) - Cubecom S.p.A. Via de Marini,1 3 piano Torre WTC 16149 GENOVA tel. 010 6591184 > Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Inviato: giovedì 25 maggio 2000 19.45 > A: debian-u

Programowanie za pomocą skryptów

2000-05-26 Thread M P
Chciałbym przesłać do zaopiniowania programik, który moim zdaniem świetnie pasowałby do Linux'a. Jest on napisany w oparciu o bibl. curses i służy do łatwej budowy menu wyboru w skryptach. Nazywa się win3 i zwraca do shell'a wartość będącą numerem wybranego przez użytkownika skryptu wiersza.

Re: Howto find out why a connection is opened....

2000-05-26 Thread Tamas TEVESZ
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Philip Lehman wrote: > >...with isdn in autodial mode I guess. Try setting up ipchains and log > >all output over ippp0. put kdebug to a high level, 9 or something, and grep for "kernel: OPEN" in /var/log/messages, it will tell you the details of the packet that triggered t

Re: Firewall has holes

2000-05-26 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Jay Kelly wrote: > > I did a check on my firewall using grc.com and found I have a hole from port > 139 NetBios. Which I sure I did while I was playing with Samba. The question > is how can I reverse this and shut down netbois. I have try to comment out > netbios in /etc/sevides but I still have t

Re: qpop and netscape clients

2000-05-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, deja luser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does any one know of problems using netscape mail clients with qpopper? >Didn't see anything in bugtrack. The clients can read mail, but not send. Sending mail doesn't have anything to do with POP3 - SMTP is used for that. Yo

Re: Programowanie za pomocą skryptów

2000-05-26 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:07:56AM +0200, M P wrote: > Chciałbym przesłać do zaopiniowania programik, który moim zdaniem świetnie > pasowałby do Linux'a. > Jest on napisany w oparciu o bibl. curses i służy do łatwej budowy menu > wyboru w skryptach. > Nazywa się win3 i zwraca do shell'a wartość b

Re: SMB Printing

2000-05-26 Thread Radim Gelner
I had this problem too. I think it's because from the point of view of lprng the input filter outputs nothing. And that's true. You take all the data from the input, send it to the SMB printer, but after this you break the pipe by outputting nothing. Try just add echo "whatever" as a last line of t

Re: Debian GNU/Linux

2000-05-26 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Kent West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > If i download this program do i risk crashing windows? > I think what you mean is: "If I install Debian GNU/Linux, do I risk losing > Windows?" Do I risk losing Windows. If you install this "program", you riks losing intrest

RE: Debian GNU/Linux

2000-05-26 Thread Dominic Blythe
> From: Nils-Erik Svangård [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tue, 23 May 2000, Kent West wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > If i download this program do i risk crashing windows? > > I think what you mean is: "If I install Debian GNU/Linux, > do I risk losing Windows?" > > Do I

Corrupt apt status and available lists

2000-05-26 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
Hi! I have a woody system, and pretty unstable hardware. Yesterday I had a crash when running apt-get upgrade. Since then apt-get update wont work any more, complaining about the status file, and when I try to apt-get updata I get some problems with the available file. Any idea how to regenerate

Re: Kernel Config

2000-05-26 Thread Colin Watson
"Bart Szyszka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Alec Smith wrote: >> Actually, /usr/src/linux is the default -- Linus ships the tree in a >> format to go in a directory called linux. > >I don't use any "shipping" version of Linux. I think Alec meant the kernel tarballs. >> In general, you want to syml

Re: printing to SMB printer from unix

2000-05-26 Thread Peter Rybar
Try to see http://dmpc.dbp.fmph.uniba.sk/~rybar/unix/unix.html This works to me. On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 03:51:35PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been workin for about an hour tryin to print to a smb printer, and > it doesnt work. the smb server is win98. win98 shows the file being >

Re: system clock workaround

2000-05-26 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Owen, On Thu, 25 May 2000, Owen G. Emry wrote: > My firewall machine (a trusty old 486 DX4) has a bios that doesn't like the > year 2000. It isn't a major problem but several things (e.g. make) > complain, so is there an easy workaround? > I assume I can just set the real-time clock to,

Re: 3Dfx X Server and drivers

2000-05-26 Thread John Gould
Hi there, I can confirm that the 3dfx drivers work fine with Debian, both with 'Slink' running 2.0.36 and 2.2.14. I just grabbed the files from 3dfx's Linux site, converted them with alien and installed. You will probably need to manually install the actual driver as the dpkg install didn'

RE: Sound Question

2000-05-26 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 25-May-2000 Jay Kelly wrote: > I am trying to setup a SoundBlaster16 sound card, I have recomplied the > kernel for sound and pnp support. Now I see the howto is telling me to: > > Use pnpdump to capture the possible settings for all your Plug and Play > devices, saving the result to the file

Re: Trying to figure out trigger for diald callouts

2000-05-26 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I do have wwwoffle running in autodial... well - this is probably your problem. the two triggers are a dns-query and a http-access. www-access needs both of them ... so probably you've got to check your wwwoffle config. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- I

smb.conf

2000-05-26 Thread Robert Fendt
hi folks, i have a NT machine and a linux(samba) server connected via ethernet. 1) i read the smb howto, but it seems that in my case i need a [public] section for the linux-shares to be seen on my NT-client. if i specify a [global], [printers] and [homes] section the way described in the smb.howto

Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software

2000-05-26 Thread john s jacobs anderson
> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Felix Natter wrote: >> john s jacobs anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Oh, I'm with you -- I'll often use vi for small edits, even if >> > I have XEmacs open on another desktop, just because doing the >> >

Re: [LUGALIST] smb.conf

2000-05-26 Thread Marcel Beltz
Hi rob, 1)i have admin differend samba-server and my experience is: you don't need a public share, but you have to use the "brwseable=yes/no" in your shares or in the global section. 2)Don't care about the network environment ot NT. You are working with a M... Product. There is no way to force NT

RE: smb.conf

2000-05-26 Thread Eduardo Rohr
Have you tried with a Wins Server?? > hi folks, > i have a NT machine and a linux(samba) server connected via ethernet. > 1) i read the smb howto, but it seems that in my case i need a [public] > section for the linux-shares to be seen on my NT-client. if i specify a > [global], [printers] and [ho

Re: Problem with installing potato on i810 based PC. (No agpgart

2000-05-26 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 03:26:01PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > as someone who has installed quite a few i810 machines recently (including > a potato one) i suggest grabbing the XF86 sources and getting agpgart from > that. X server is very picky about what version of agpgart it uses > apparen

Re: -lX11

2000-05-26 Thread Chris Gray
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 01:31:24PM +0800, Kreaped Ripping Reaper wrote: > > hi.. i tried to compile something that needs -lX11 but gives me an error that > says i dont have it... > i'm using woody :) > error is here > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ ]$ gcc -lX11 -lm -o xroy xroy.c > /usr/bin/ld

Re: 3Dfx X Server and drivers

2000-05-26 Thread Patrick Maheral
On Fri, 26 May 2000, John Gould wrote: > Hi there, > probably need to manually install the actual driver as the dpkg install > didn't install the driver in /dev. If I remember correctly I moved the > driver to /dev and set up the symlink by hand. All then worked fine. Run > 3dfx's test programs to

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Re: -lX11

2000-05-26 Thread Justin Megawarne
And Kreaped Ripping Reaper bestowed upon us all: > > hi.. i tried to compile something that needs -lX11 but gives me an error that > says i dont have it... > i'm using woody :) > error is here > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ ]$ gcc -lX11 -lm -o xroy xroy.c > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 > c

Re: system clock workaround

2000-05-26 Thread Guentcho Skordev
Hello, I have a similar but yet another problem. The battery of the clock is old, and the clock is wrong if the power was off. It isn't a constant drift so "hwclock --adjust" wouldn't help. Because I am connected to a network, I have used netdate to get the correct time from the net. But I still

Re: Defalut kernel and ip masquerading

2000-05-26 Thread Stan Kaufman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Someone on this list wrote recently wondering if > they would need to recompile their kernel inorder > to get ip masquerading working. > > They are using a stock kernel version 2.0.38 that > came with slink and said that when they executed the > command... > > /sbin/

Re: IDE CD-RW + sound

2000-05-26 Thread Vicente Torres
I will ask my friend to check it. Thanks > If no CD Player works, most likely he is missing a cable > connecting the CD drive to his soundcard. > > John P. -- .'/,-Y" "~-. Vicente Torres Carot l.Y ^. Universidad

RE: Debian Qestuin of the Day....

2000-05-26 Thread A. Scott White
Jay Kelly: > ...Then I reboot the system and try ifconfig and eth0 is > fine has the same settings before I rebooted but eth1 has > NON SET where the ip and netmask should beWhat can I do > to keep the setting for eth1? Do you have an ifconfig setting for eth1 in /etc/init.d/network ? ===

Defalut kernel and ip masquerading

2000-05-26 Thread ulla . russell
Someone on this list wrote recently wondering if they would need to recompile their kernel inorder to get ip masquerading working. They are using a stock kernel version 2.0.38 that came with slink and said that when they executed the command... /sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny they got the followin

Re: xdm/kdm two terminal problem

2000-05-26 Thread Jo Hoffmann
The only thing I can suggest is to check your Xservers file under /etc/X11/kdm or xdm. It should have only one uncommented line looking something like this :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt7 (could be slightly different) Jo > I have kdm kick up two login screens on vt7 and vt8 at boot up

Re: Colormaps in Linux

2000-05-26 Thread jpenny
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 06:41:49AM +, John Carline wrote: > Pat Mahoney wrote: > > > On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 03:33:19AM -0700, Eric Hagglund wrote: > > > The problem I am trying to fix is that fonts and > > > images in Netscape have never been properly displayed > > > in Netscape. Instead of g

Remove Samba

2000-05-26 Thread Jay Kelly
If I want to completly remove samba how do I do about doing it. I was playing around on my firewall and install samba, Now I have port 139 netbios wide open. So I want to set up my firewall as it was before. and ides's guys Thanks Jay

Help: Quick Q Anyone LinuxMall Debian?

2000-05-26 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I just got the two CD version of Slink from LinuxMall and the multicd install in deselect doesn't work, but the single CD does. Is this really a one CD set then? I looked for the second being sources, but found nothing but another setup. Did I do something wrong, or do you use CD1 only? Thank

Firewall Q's

2000-05-26 Thread Jay Kelly
What's needs to be added to a Debian firewall to make it completely stealth. So from the outside my firewall doesn't exist. Im looking to better me security and need some idea's how to got about it. Thanks you guys are a huge help Jay

Re: Firewall Q's

2000-05-26 Thread Ron Rademaker
Check out ipchains, that's want you want to set up your firewall! What a good firewall is is different from situation to situation and depends on what YOU want. Ron Rademaker On Fri, 26 May 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > What's needs to be added to a Debian firewall to make it completely stealth. > S

Re: Defalut kernel and ip masquerading

2000-05-26 Thread Ron Rademaker
I guess there's some kind of module somewhere that should be loaded in (using modprobe). Ron Rademaker On Fri, 26 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Someone on this list wrote recently wondering if > they would need to recompile their kernel inorder > to get ip masquerading working. >

Re: apache question

2000-05-26 Thread Ernest Johanson
Thanks for this post. This is a change I needed to make. If you are running a recent version of apache, the cron job can be fixed by editing cron.conf in /etc/apache. Set the variable APACHE_CHOWN_LOGFILES to 0. Be default it is 1. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Semin

Re: system clock workaround

2000-05-26 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> (Maybe allowing someone to type in a date, if it is possible at all, is > somehow insecure, but I am the only user at the console). > try this in your ntpdate startup script: if ! ntpdate ; then while :; do read -p "ntpdate failed. please enter date by hand: " date date -s $date && br

Using gnuserv (Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software)

2000-05-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Here's why I use gnuserv all the time. Say I in a shell in a directory called /deb/potato/home/rhogee/deb/gri/CVS/gri/doc/cookbook and I want to edit a file in Emacs. I could go in Emacs and type C-x C-f and then type in (or cut/paste) the whole path. That's arduous. Instead, if I want to edi

executing programs on an ntfs partision

2000-05-26 Thread Richard Black
Hi all I am running a potato/NT system and want to be able to execute (linux) programs that I store on the NT partition (the partition is way too big, but as the computer is not mine, I can't resize it etc.--I just want to use it as storage) Anyway, I can _read_ the files okay, but I can't execut

Re: Help: Quick Q Anyone LinuxMall Debian?

2000-05-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Despite the instructions, I found that you have to use CD1 first to install slink, no matter what they tell you. So you are probably right. I recommend updating to potato as soon as you can. Antonio. Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I just got the two CD version of Slink from LinuxMall and the mu

Re: TNT2-OpenGL-Mesa

2000-05-26 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Complete failure. Quake 2 will signal 11 every time. like so: gravitywell:/mnt/.hdb4/quake2# ./quake2 +set vid_ref glx +set \ gl_driver libMesaNVidia.so.3.0 Added packfile ./baseq2/pak0.pak (3307 files) Added packfile ./baseq2/pak1.pak (279 files) Added packfile ./baseq2/pak2.pak (2 files) exe

scsi support for ide to enable cdrecord-ing

2000-05-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I have a frozen system working, with kernel 2.2.15 and lsmode shows: serial, sg, ide_scsi, ppp, slhc I have ATAPI CDROM DRIVE 36-X and HP CD-Writer +7200 both in the secondary IDE controller. When I try to run cdrecord, or xcdroast I get the message that I have to implement generic scsi support. Do

Network Cards

2000-05-26 Thread Jay Kelly
I have a quick qestion, I want my nic cards (eth0 and eth1) to keep the setting I configure such as ip, netmask after rebooting. Each time I reboot eth1 dumps all the information I put in the ifconfig setup. How can I get it to store and keep the information for both nic cards? Thanks

Anyone having trouble upgrading Helix-Gnome?

2000-05-26 Thread Phillip Deackes
For most of yesterday and today I have been trying to upgrade to the latest version of Helix-Gnome (based on Gnome 1.2). Following instruction exactly (the usual apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade with /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to Woody and spidermonkey.helix.com) the connection keeps timing

Helix Gnome mirrors?

2000-05-26 Thread John Ericson
Anyone got any URL to where I can find all mirrors of Helix Gnome? -- --- John Ericson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: Network Cards

2000-05-26 Thread Bolan Meek
Jay Kelly wrote: > > I have a quick qestion, I want my nic cards (eth0 and eth1) to keep the > setting I configure such as ip, netmask after rebooting. Each time I reboot > eth1 dumps all the information I put in the ifconfig setup. How can I get it > to store and keep the information for both nic

Q: Pump & Rogers @home

2000-05-26 Thread Katerina
Has anyone tried to use Pump (on a potato) with Rodgers @home? I can't seem to get it working. -- The address in the headers is not the poster's real email address. Do not send private mail to the poster using your mailer's "reply" feature. CC's of mail to mailing lists are OK. Problem repor

adding fonts in staroffice?

2000-05-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i was wondering if it is possible to add fonts to staroffice? it seems to only want to use it's own. i have 2 font servers running 1 is xfstt from potato with about 30 ttf fonts the other is the font server from corel office2k (not sure if anything but corel can access it or not) i cant find info

ip masquerading on debian slink

2000-05-26 Thread Brad Reid
hello i've got a LAN setup and would like a linux box on it to be a gateway. the LAN works fine but it is a class C network and i would like to enable ip masquerading on the linux box (debian slink). i'm having two problems: 1. debian distributions don't compile ip masquerading into the kernel,

Re: koffice-cvs unresolved libs

2000-05-26 Thread Felix Natter
Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (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

Re: samba question

2000-05-26 Thread Felix Natter
Paulo Henrique Baptista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > I want to setup samba. Anyone can send me a good smb.conf aside > the one that exists at SAMBA HOWTO. > I tried to setup and it didnt appear at explorer at windows client. > What commands I can use to log samba

Re: [OT] GTK-- 1.0

2000-05-26 Thread Felix Natter
Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey, > > I just downloaded GTK-- off of Vincent's bazaar > (www.debian.org/~vincent). Anyways, the GTK-- HOWTO on the official > GTK-- site is for version 1.2, and if I try their stuff, my programs > won't compile. I was wondering if anyone knew wh

Re: modem question

2000-05-26 Thread Felix Natter
Paulo Henrique Baptista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > HI all, > anyone has a US/Robotics 3Com external modem. > I'm trying to setup it and cant succed. > What are its configurations? > ioport, irq, setserial, ttyS? try http://www.linuxhardware.net -- Felix Natter

Re: Serial programming question

2000-05-26 Thread Felix Natter
"Alex V. Toropov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all ! > I'm trying to make my first progam, that will read series of bytes from > serial port. > But I have problems opening port. I makeing something like this: > > fd=open("/dev/ttyS0", O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY) > if(fd<0) > {printf("Error opening

Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

2000-05-26 Thread Felix Natter
Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is the kind of reply I was fearing, effectively shutting off the > discussion. Please read the whole content of my message. The intent > was NOT blinking text, images, animations, etc. It was about moving the > best properties of the debian distrib

Re: color syntax highlighting in emacs without X?

2000-05-26 Thread Felix Natter
"Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > GNU Emacs doesn't (currently) support colors under ncurses, only under > X. XEmacs, however, supports colors in both modes. there are "rumors" on gnu.emacs.help that Emacs 21 will support colors on tty's. -- Felix Natter

Re: g++

2000-05-26 Thread Felix Natter
Michiel Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think there is something wrong with my g++ (using the latest version of > frozen). > > If I make a file only containing > > #include > main(){} > > or > > $include > > then: > > ~$ g++ test.cpp > test.cpp:1: iostream: No such file or di

Re: libNoVersion.so missing?

2000-05-26 Thread Felix Natter
Richard Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is a propriatary piece of software (no source available). It is > essentially a > binary executable (which runs under Redhat 6.1) and debain if and only > if I copy the > above library try to find a source-package of the library, for example on www.

Re: C and C++ library docs

2000-05-26 Thread Felix Natter
"Roso Giuseppe (Beppe)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goodmorning, >I have to ask if someone know if there is a good documentation of Gnu C >and C++ libraries documentation in postscript, acrobat pdf or something >like format. I found only some old documents and often info or man >

Re: Anyone having trouble upgrading Helix-Gnome?

2000-05-26 Thread Marek Habersack
** On May 26, Phillip Deackes scribbled: > For most of yesterday and today I have been trying to upgrade to the > latest version of Helix-Gnome (based on Gnome 1.2). Following > instruction exactly (the usual apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade with > /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to Woody and sp

befuddled

2000-05-26 Thread Michael Skipper
I've installed potato (kernel 2.2.15) on my thinkpad from the install floppies, but some things seem wrong. I am a rank amateur which doesn't help, but (for instance) it seems as though I should see some kind of kernel (symlink or otherwise) at /usr/src but this directory is empty (save for . an

tsiag and key bindings

2000-05-26 Thread Alice M. Pinard
Hey, is there anyone out there currently using tsiag and who might know how to bind its commands to other forms who's willing to give a novice a tip or two? (it seems set up somewhat similarly to emacs, but I haven't used that yet either, so that doesn't help much :) (as an example of what I'm loo

sypberl and sybase on potato

2000-05-26 Thread Evan Moore
Has anyone been successfull with getting sybperl to work on a potato box? -- Evan Moore Cooperative Work Education Student U of Regina Labour Operations Applications Development Human Resources Development Canada

RE: befuddled

2000-05-26 Thread Michael Skipper
Thanks for the quick reply. I'll keep thrashing about. I was actually trying to get my cd recognizable so I could download and burn the rest onto a CD, thence to my 'pad. I tried to modify fstab but I can't get ae to save ... and thus the subject of my original post. Thanks again. > Subject: RE: b

startx problems

2000-05-26 Thread karthikeyan gourisankaran
I am using a thoshiba 2595CDT laptop.I am having problems satrting the xwindow. Can anyone please help me? Thanks. Here is the eror log file: XFree86 Version 4.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 8 March 2000 If the server is older than

Re: befuddled

2000-05-26 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, Because of size issues, lots of stuff is not included in the boot-floppies distribution. You need to install the following packages: man-db - not included in the base system manpages- general system man pages kernel-source-2.2.15- y

Re: Installing an earlier kernel?

2000-05-26 Thread Bruce Stephens
Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dumb question time, I'm sure. I've been running 2.2.15 for a while, > but in a desparate effort to get a modem that works on this laptop > before next Wednesday, I've built 2.2.12 (so I can run the damn > Lucent binary winmodem driver). You probably don'

Re: Anyone having trouble upgrading Helix-Gnome?

2000-05-26 Thread Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marek Habersack) wrote: > > No, I've got the same problem - the helix servers reset the connection > and > the transfer rate is 7Kb/s tops (compared to 80Kb/s previously). I > suspect > this is a problem with their servers being overloaded after announcing > R2 > with GNOME 1.2.

Re: ip masquerading on debian slink

2000-05-26 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:09, Brad Reid wrote: > hello i've got a LAN setup and would like a linux box on it to be a > gateway. the LAN works fine but it is a class C network and i would > like to enable ip masquerading on the linux box (debian slink). > i'm having two problems: >1. debian di

Re: dumbass wm question

2000-05-26 Thread Brad
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:42:29AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > >Unix, Windows, Mac, OpenVMS, etc. Client-server -- though the >nomenclature is backwards from the usual meaning, your display is a >"server", and applications are "clients", running on it. You'll >hear people

RE: mod_frontpage and original Debian Apache src

2000-05-26 Thread Sven Gaerner
Thanks, but I the files that were patched in the Apache 1.3.3 (is used before) and this one (1.3.9) are the same and the patches also. The only thing that might be different is the mod_frontpage.c, but that's all. I don't want to re-build the Apache from the sources because I wnt to use the Debi

Apache recompile with FP ext

2000-05-26 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, I solved this by grabbing the settings of the modules and paths of the debian/rules file and recompiled apache. After doing that I added the PHP4 module again. Now everything works fine (apache+php4+mod_fp). That's it... ;-) Bye, Sven

Re: Network Q again

2000-05-26 Thread Brad
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 12:06:46PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Where does Debiean keep all the network settings(ie ip, subnet, gateway)? I > need to change it and cant find anything in the howto's It depends. For a static ethernet configuration, /etc/init.d/network or /etc/network/interfaces. For an

Re: Java 1.2 JDK released for Linux...

2000-05-26 Thread Felix Natter
Robert Varga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IBM has also released a Technology Edition of their JDK 1.3 there is a third version available at http://www.blackdown.org (supports more hardware-platforms). -- Felix Natter

Re: FTP and GNOME

2000-05-26 Thread Felix Natter
Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 11:26:45AM -0500, Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote: > I also cannot get a URL to open with anything but Netscape. I edited > the properties of the link to no avail. Perhaps it's a bug? I can > edit the caption, so I thought I'd fi

Re: befuddled

2000-05-26 Thread Stan Kaufman
Michael Skipper wrote: > > I've installed potato (kernel 2.2.15) on > my thinkpad from the install floppies, but > some things seem wrong. I am a rank amateur > which doesn't help, but (for instance) it > seems as though I should see some kind of > kernel (symlink or otherwise) at > > /usr/src >

Kernel Compile

2000-05-26 Thread Jay Kelly
Ok Im trying to compile the kernel. So I go to /usr/src/linux the type "make menuconfig" and I get: rm -f include/asm ( cd included ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -c scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog` find: /usr/local/lib/: No Such file or directory gcc

Re: Kernel Compile

2000-05-26 Thread Colin Watson
Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ok Im trying to compile the kernel. So I go to /usr/src/linux the type "make >menuconfig" and I get: > rm -f include/asm >( cd included ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) >make -c scripts/lxdialog all >make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog` >find: /u

Re: befuddled

2000-05-26 Thread Justin Megawarne
And Michael Skipper bestowed upon us all: > I've installed potato (kernel 2.2.15) on > my thinkpad from the install floppies, but > some things seem wrong. I am a rank amateur > which doesn't help, but (for instance) it > seems as though I should see some kind of > kernel (symlink or otherwise) at

Re: scsi support for ide to enable cdrecord-ing

2000-05-26 Thread Peter Good
I had to set Use SCSI emulation, and remove IDE CDROM support for this setup to work on mine, incidentally with the same burner :) Peter. Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > I have a frozen system working, with kernel 2.2.15 and > lsmode shows: serial, sg, ide_scsi, ppp, slhc > I have ATAPI CDROM DRIVE

/var/lib/dpkg/status deleted! can i rebuild it?

2000-05-26 Thread niCLam
Hi...Thanks to a 'friend' who claims to 'know' much about unix matters, ive =deleted the file /var/lib/dpkg/statusWhy??? you say I have no idea (yes, i know less than him).Now, i cant use apt-get correctly, i receive all kind of 'unexpected =errors'.=20The question is this:- Is there any

IP firewall packet logging

2000-05-26 Thread Jay Kelly
Is IP firewall packet logging available in kernel 2.2.12?

Re: Problem with installing potato on i810 based PC. (No agpgart

2000-05-26 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya and it took me a while tooo...but...i finally got around to installing/testing xfree-3.3.6 and run X11 with the onboard SVGA controllers asus super810 and supermicro 370sea and intel ca810eal ( running rh-6.2, suse-64.slackware-7 has some fixed font problem 9 my boo-boo somepla

Re: ip masquerading on debian slink

2000-05-26 Thread Tom Furie
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 01:32:42PM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: > 2.0.x kernels don't use ipchains, but its predecessor, whose name > escapes me at the moment. That would be ipfwadm. Cheers, Tom -- The University of California Statistics Department; where mean is normal, and deviation standard.

Re: Network Cards

2000-05-26 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 01:42:35PM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote > Jay Kelly wrote: > > > > I have a quick qestion, I want my nic cards (eth0 and eth1) to keep the > > setting I configure such as ip, netmask after rebooting. Each time I reboot > > eth1 dumps all the information I put in the ifconfig set

RE: Network Cards

2000-05-26 Thread Jay Kelly
If I have my ip addresses set in the /etc/init.d/network (for slink), then upgrade to potato, do I need to redo the ifconfig but in /etc/network/interface. I use to run slink I configures my cards in the /etc/init.d/network then I upgraded to potato. Now if I look in the /etc/network/interfaces fil

Default Fonts of X Window

2000-05-26 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! Is the default Fonts of X Window setting by the first line of FontPath of /etc/XF68Config? Thanks

Re: Network Cards

2000-05-26 Thread Ashley Clark
* Jay Kelly in "RE: Network Cards" dated 2000/05/26 17:52 wrote: > If I have my ip addresses set in the /etc/init.d/network (for slink), then > upgrade to potato, do I need to redo the ifconfig but in > /etc/network/interface. I use to run slink I configures my cards in the > /etc/init.d/network t

Re: befuddled

2000-05-26 Thread Michael Skipper
Thanks Stan (and all) this seems to be the consensus, and I'll certainly work on it. Is there anything tricky I should know about dhcp--I can get access to an ethernet connection, but not to a specific ip. This would be the fastest surely. I have a supported card (3com) but I could not get connecte

Authenticating SMTP Server

2000-05-26 Thread Kirk Hilliard
I would like to configure my SMTP server to relay mail for a few friends who dial up and are dynamically assigned IPs. I certainly don't want an open relay, but I don't know what other options I have with Debian. A web search reveals several authenticating schemes -- some password protected, one

Re: FTP and GNOME

2000-05-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:40:16PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 11:26:45AM -0500, Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote: > > I also cannot get a URL to open with anything but Netscape. I edited > > the properties of the link to no av

Re: Default Fonts of X Window

2000-05-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 08:54:37AM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi! > > Is the default Fonts of X Window setting by the > first line of FontPath of /etc/XF68Config? > Not sure what you mean by "default". However, I believe X will give preference to the first version of a font that it finds (like,

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