Re: Hey

2000-06-17 Thread paul
Chris said:> On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 05:04:35PM -0700, Bill or Summer wrote: > > Can anyone help me with recompiling my kernel? I'm relatively new to > > Linux and am running the Corel V1.0 which is basically Debian. I've > > read all the man and HOWTO pages and none of the commands specified > >

Re: lilo problem (LI hang)

2000-06-17 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I had the LI problem on the first install of Linux. I believe that for me it occurred because my Linux boot partition was too far (>500MB) from the master boot block. In that case, a boot floppy worked instead. Arthur H. Edwards 712 Valencia Dr. NE Abq. NM 87108 (505) 256-0834 On Fri, 16 Jun 20

Re: impatient upgrage question

2000-06-17 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I had been equally cautions/timid about upbrading to a nominally unstable distribution. I have done so and , with a few minor annoyances, have been successful. Here is my sources.list # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror

Re: Huge font

2000-06-17 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I got help from this serve on the same problem. In /etc/X11/XF86Setup make sure the that 75dpi fonts appear before the 100dpi fonts. Arthur H. Edwards 712 Valencia Dr. NE Abq. NM 87108 (505) 256-0834 On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Glen Sawtell wrote: > > Hi, > I am a new debian user and I have a pr

Need Docs on Installing FrontPage 2000 Extensions on Apache:

2000-06-17 Thread John Foster
I have tried to set up FP2000 extensiona on the Apache server on a Debian Potato system. It seems to have installed but the server will not restart. I also had to use a lot of sym links to get it to install, as Debians file system is aparantly different than the expected setup. When I try to restar

Load sharing network

2000-06-17 Thread neutec
Hello All, Im running potato with kernel 2.2.15. I have three nic card installed(two for DSL connection and the other for Lan connection). I want to load balance between the two DSL lines. And if one connection fails the network switches over to the other connection. Where can I get information

Re: reorganizing disks

2000-06-17 Thread Joris
Hi Sven, Allmost right, you can us dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/sda but add the right partition number to it. so it would become dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/sda1. But I don't know if the kernel will like it to be moved around from ide to scsi. It should be compiled to work before moving it. Besides you'll

partial potato success...

2000-06-17 Thread balayo
partial potato success... howdy guys, Got slink upgraded to potato, along with ye olde spider-monkey gnome. alas, though, x does not start completely. I get a mouse-button menu for starfish, but no background, etc (you know, like snow on a tv...) do I need to do something other than simply sta

q ad removing /var/cache/apt/archives/*

2000-06-17 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Since bash-2.03# du -sk /var/cache/apt/archives 350958 /var/cache/apt/archives this takes up pretty much space, my question is: can I safely remove the contents of the archives-directory? I couldn´t find anything regarding this in the docs, but some pointer to the proper FM would do fine

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-17 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:08:54AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 05:45:27PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > > Is VMWare 2.0 significantly faster than 1.x? I used it for a while and > > gave up. > > Somewhat. There are some bugs, though, which haven't been resolved. Both

Re: Hey

2000-06-17 Thread Sven Burgener
>First of all, a bit of etiquette: please wrap your lines at less than >80 characters. Thank you. On this subject: how do you do that in mutt? As I saw, it doesn't do this by default... TIA Sven

Re: Hey

2000-06-17 Thread Bill or Summer
Uh... What's "mutt?" And... I checked my setup. It's at 76 (by default). Sorry for the offense. Just trying to get my Linux box to talk to my network -Original Message- From: Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Bill or Summer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: de

Processes

2000-06-17 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello all I am wondering, what it means when a process shows up with brackets around its name when I call "ps ax". For example, the sshd here: PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND [snip those procs] 170 ?SW 0:01 [sshd] [snip those procs] And why does apache create so many instances

Re: q ad removing /var/cache/apt/archives/*

2000-06-17 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > this takes up pretty much space, my question is: can I safely remove the > contents of the archives-directory? I couldn´t find anything regarding > this in the docs, but some pointer to the proper FM would do fine ;-) Yup. Go ahead. But have a look at a

Re: Hey

2000-06-17 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 12:41:38AM -0700, Bill or Summer wrote: > Uh... What's "mutt?" And... I checked my setup. It's at 76 (by default). mutt is a mail reader / writer that supports PGP keys amongs many other things. I use it right now - have only been using it for a day now :) - and I quite

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2000-06-17 Thread Des Beaty
I want to install debian on my pc and have it as a dual boot system. Last time I tried it I couldnt get the dual boot to work and I also couldnt get x-windows to load. Could someone please help me with some instructions so I dont have to format my hard-drive again. I have a p133+ with 48mb ram, a

command substition in .signature

2000-06-17 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all How can I put the stdout of a command like $(uname -a;echo -e "\n";uptime) in my .signature file? When putting that directly into .sig, it obviously doesn't interpret it the right way. I am using mutt/vi with Exim here. TIA Sven -- This is my .signature, like it or don't. pgpwx5EGCJHd

Re: Processes

2000-06-17 Thread Saisanthosh Balakrishnan
> I am wondering, what it means when a process shows up with brackets > around its name when I call "ps ax". For example, the sshd here: > > PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND > [snip those procs] > 170 ?SW 0:01 [sshd] > [snip those procs] these are processes that have no resident pa

udma33 with an udma66HD

2000-06-17 Thread Dietmar
Does anybody know whether it's possible to run a udma66 HD (Maxtor 20GB) in any dma-mode with a MB that only supports udma33? Thanks for advice, Dietmar

Problem with installtion bootup

2000-06-17 Thread Henti Smith
Hi all   I'm hopeing somebvody will be able to give me ahand with my problem.   I have a p-pro 200 that I use as a server currently running Mandrake, but I'm trying to move to debian.   I'm using slinky 2.1.   the CD boots fine on my workstation and installation is fine .. but on my server i

Re: command substition in .signature

2000-06-17 Thread Saisanthosh Balakrishnan
> How can I put the stdout of a command like $(uname -a;echo -e > "\n";uptime) in my .signature file? add, set signature=" uname -a; echo -e \"\n\"; uptime |" in ~/.muttrc -- saisanthosh

pgp / pgp5i

2000-06-17 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all I am new to pgp. So far, I did "apt-get install pgp". That installed some version of pgp for me. I then saw that I wasnt able to read some ppl's pgp keys in mutt with that version of pgp: -> the output of pgp (in mutt) advised me to upgrade to a newer version. So I purged pgp, and insta

Re: command substition in .signature

2000-06-17 Thread Sven Burgener
> set signature=" uname -a; echo -e \"\n\"; uptime |" >in ~/.muttrc Thanks. I assume the pipe means to pipe the output into the msg? Correct? TIA Sven

Re: Load sharing network

2000-06-17 Thread thomas lakofski
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello All, > > Im running potato with kernel 2.2.15. I have three nic card > installed(two for DSL connection and the other for Lan connection). I > want to load balance between the two DSL lines. And if one connection > fails the network switches ov

Re: udma33 with an udma66HD

2000-06-17 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Yes you can. This page on Maxtor's web site explains things: http://www.maxtor.com/technology/q&a/30026.html Tom Dietmar wrote: > > Does anybody know whether it's possible to run a udma66 HD (Maxtor 20GB) > in any dma-mode with a MB that only supports udma33? > > Thanks for advice, > > Dietma

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RE: lilo problem (LI hang)

2000-06-17 Thread Chris Mason
I've installed kernels many times in the last few weeks on my two Potato systems, but last night for the first, after installing 2.2.15, the sysem showed the same LI boot problem, would not go any further. I don't have a floppies, don't have floppy drives on the systems, but I do have the original

Re: udma33 with an udma66HD

2000-06-17 Thread Dietmar
Tom Pfeifer wrote: > Yes you can. This page on Maxtor's web site explains things: > > http://www.maxtor.com/technology/q&a/30026.html > > Tom > > Dietmar wrote: > > > > Does anybody know whether it's possible to run a udma66 HD (Maxtor 20GB) > > in any dma-mode with a MB that only supports udma3

Re: problem reading vim online dox

2000-06-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 10:24:07PM -0400, t.bedlam wrote: > > Ah, it's not just me. Vim seems to expect the contents of > /usr/share/vim/vim56 to be in /usr/share/vim . > > My quick and dirty fix before you look/leap was: > > su > cd /usr/share/vim > mv vim56/* . > rmdir vim56 > ln -s . vim56 >

parted, to expand ext2 by taking from linux-swap

2000-06-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I want to shrink my linux-swap partition, to give some to my ext2, because I am out of space already, and buying a new hard drive is not an option now. Running potato, 2.2.15. If someone could tell me the exact way for parted options would be great, I don't want to experiment at this point. Next ar

Re: problem reading vim online dox

2000-06-17 Thread t.bedlam
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 07:36:31AM -0500, Nate Bargmann was only escaped alone to tell thee: > Perhaps a simpler (or better, as it won't confuse the packaging system?) > approach is to put this in your ~/.bash_profile: > > export VIMRUNTIME=/usr/share/vim/vim56 Hmm. Okay, but what if I use t

make-pseudo-image

2000-06-17 Thread Andrew Dixon
Hi everyone, I'm going to install Debian for the first time as soon as I download it. This is the problem, the only site I can find that seems to work is: sunsite.org.uk But I'm in upstate NY and this is takeing FOREVER. Does anyone know of a reliable mirror that I can use to speed thing

uncompressing kernel

2000-06-17 Thread Jacob Stowell
hello, i was wondering if someone could help me. i need to install sound modules into the kernel (2.2.15) and i do have the kernel-source, but it is compressed in a .bz2 format. i am new to this and my last kernel was gzipped which i know how to handle. also right now i only have /usr/src/ dire

Re: Hey

2000-06-17 Thread Chris Gray
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 09:47:50AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 12:41:38AM -0700, Bill or Summer wrote: > > Uh... What's "mutt?" And... I checked my setup. It's at 76 (by > > default). > > mutt is a mail reader / writer that supports PGP keys amongs many > other things.

Re: uncompressing kernel

2000-06-17 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Jacob Stowell wrote: > is compressed in a .bz2 format. i am new to this and my last kernel was > gzipped which i know how to handle. also right now i only have Install package bzip2. Now, use bzip2 instead of gzip, as in "bzip2 -d" instead of "gzip -d". Also, tar -I instead

Re: uncompressing kernel

2000-06-17 Thread Mark Suter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jake, > i was wondering if someone could help me. i need to install sound > modules into the kernel (2.2.15) and i do have the kernel-source, but it > is compressed in a .bz2 format. i am new to this and my last kernel was > gzipped which i know how

Re: diald/pppd refused connection--PAP auth?

2000-06-17 Thread Jason Quigley
Hi! In your configuration file there is an option called 'user'. This is where you must supply your dial-up user id. You must also make sure that you have an entry in your pap-secrets file, which I assume you do as the other connection works. Cheers, Jason. At 13:34 -0700 16/6/00, Kenward Vaugha

Re: Hey

2000-06-17 Thread Jason Quigley
A proper subject wouldn't go amiss either. At 21:18 -0400 16/6/00, Chris Gray wrote: > >First of all, a bit of etiquette: please wrap your lines at less than >80 characters. Thank you. >

Re: inn2 & makehistory

2000-06-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 03:34:48AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > -rw-rw-r--1 news news 450 Jun 15 00:15 history.hash > -rw-rw-r--1 news news 300 Jun 15 00:15 history.index > Although INN appears to function, using only local.* groups so far, I wonder > at the siz

Re: getting a proper mail setup?

2000-06-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 06:55:49PM -0400, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm wrote: > 01987HTAVr RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 01987HTAV# -- policy result=-2, msg: > 01987HTAVw 553 5.4.3 Policy analysis found DNS error on the target > domain. > I assume that the problem has something do d

Re: mail problem

2000-06-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 12:55:56PM -0800, George A. Dowding wrote: > I am using exim as my MTA. I have a DSL with a static IP. Every once > in a while mail can not be delivered to certain hosts. I have > sucessfully sent a one line message to that host, but anything larger > causes this time ou

Re: S L O W mailserver

2000-06-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:42:00AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > My question is, can I some how trace all tcp/ip traffic to a file when I click > on my mail icon in KDE? Would be nice to start the file just prior to hitting > the button, then end the file folllowing the last message so I can

Re: Wheel mouse not working...oy.

2000-06-17 Thread Tim Jump
Just as a follow-up, I wanted to let all you kind people know that I got my wheel mouse working! How did I do this? I upgraded my xserver! DOH! Thanks to all who helped...I very much appreciate it. Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]

(help)-Install process hangs after DC390:0 adapters found

2000-06-17 Thread laurent
Hi all, I have a really BIG problem with the install process of a 2.1r4 Debian system. I've already managed to install it on 3 computers of mine : Celeron300/32M,486/8M,486/16M. Now I want to install it on my primary system, which is an Athlon650/128M. But the install process crashes just af

Re: make-pseudo-image

2000-06-17 Thread Andrew Dixon
-- Original Message -- From: Alec Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 10:02:25 -0400 (EDT) I just tried ftp://ftp.us.debian.org and I get an error message something like WARNING error while getting package ... could this be because I got the b

Subject: How to set up exim in potato for relaying messages sent by ssmtp (from SSL certified hosts)?

2000-06-17 Thread Wojtek Zabolotny
Hi All, I need to setup my box for relaying messages forwarded from trusted computers connected through different untrusted DIPs. My idea is to establish an SSL tunnel between SMTP and SSMTP ports on my box, available only for hosts presenting the valid certificate (provided by "my private CA").

Terminal clearing

2000-06-17 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all I'd like to know why the screen doesn't clear itself when logging out from a terminal (at the machine) as root. For regular users, the terminal clears itself when logging out and so why doesnt it do that for root? I mean, if it should be done, then for root, IMO, or am I missing s/t here?

Re: Hey

2000-06-17 Thread Bill or Summer
Hey man... no problem. Gave me an opportunity to learn what the heck you were talking about (LOL). Anyway, I do have another problem. Another fellow reader of this listserv was been diligent in assisting me in getting my network card setup (THANKS!!! you know who you are). Well, all was well un

Re: Terminal clearing

2000-06-17 Thread rhodion
Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 06:31:33PM +0200 you wrote: > I'd like to know why the screen doesn't clear itself when logging out > from a terminal (at the machine) as root. For regular users, the terminal > clears itself when logging out and so why doesnt it do that for root? I mean, > if it should be do

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 12:00:00AM -0700, Martin J . Hillyer wrote: > > Win4Lin works well (again, if you only want to run windoze). I've found > that for me it has a _much_ smaller performance hit than VMWare (both > 1.x and 2.0). YMMV. Has anyone gotten the evaluation version of win4lin to wo

make-kpkg

2000-06-17 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
hi i'm in the process of making kernel-2.2.15. how do i use make-kpkg? to i have to run make menuconfig first or will make-kpkg walk me through the kernel configuration? do i have to issue a separate make-kpkg command to make the modules? thanks pd

Re: make-kpkg

2000-06-17 Thread Bill or Summer
Here's some steps that were outlined to me 1) log in as root 2) cd /usr/src/linux you may need to get a kernel source tree... 2.2.16 is the latest stable as of yesterday 3) make menuconfig in this program you can set all the bits to compile as modules or into the kernel directly. I always compi

Re: Subject: How to set up exim in potato for relaying messages sent by ssmtp (from SSL certified hosts)?

2000-06-17 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote: ->Hi All, -> ->I need to setup my box for relaying messages forwarded from trusted computers ->connected through different untrusted DIPs. My idea is to establish ->an SSL tunnel between SMTP and SSMTP ports on my box, available only ->for hosts present

Re: Hey

2000-06-17 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 09:34:25AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > On this subject: how do you do that in mutt? > As I saw, it doesn't do this by default... That's something you would have to configure in whatever editor you use for mutt. Cheers, Tom -- He who is content with his lot probably has

Re: make-kpkg

2000-06-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
make-kpkg does a lot for you automatically, besides, it is made for debian: 1. cd kernel-source-tree 2. make menuconfig 3. make-kpkg clean 4. make-kpkg kernel_image At this point you will have an image in the parent directory -with respect the one you are at-: 5. cd ../ 6. dpkg -i kernel_image***

Re: make-kpkg

2000-06-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > make-kpkg does a lot for you automatically, besides, it is made for debian: > 1. cd kernel-source-tree > 2. make menuconfig > 3. make-kpkg clean > 4. make-kpkg kernel_image > At this point you will have an image in the parent directory -with respect > the one you > a

exim & mailing lists

2000-06-17 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
hi, well, this is the deal, all the mailing lists what i'm on have X-Mailing-List field in the message header, and i would like exim to mangle the Reply-To header so it contains whatever is in the X-Mailing-List [if there is one], because replying to a mailing lists is 99% of my outgoing mail and

Re: exim & mailing lists

2000-06-17 Thread Mike Werner
Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: > hi, > > well, this is the deal, all the mailing lists what i'm on have X-Mailing-List > field in the message header, and i would like exim to mangle the Reply-To > header so it contains whatever is in the X-Mailing-List [if there is one], > because replying to a mailin

Re: exim & mailing lists

2000-06-17 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Mike Werner wrote: ->Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: ->> hi, ->> ->> well, this is the deal, all the mailing lists what i'm on have X-Mailing-List ->> field in the message header, and i would like exim to mangle the Reply-To ->> header so it contains whatever is in the X-Mailing-

configure php4 problem

2000-06-17 Thread Chris Mason
I am compiling php4 from the tarball on my potato system, but each time I do the configure I get an error: FIREWALL:/usr/src/apache/php-4.0.0# ./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-apache=/usr/src/apache/apac he_1.3.12 --enable-track-vars loading cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD

Re: exim & mailing lists

2000-06-17 Thread Mike Werner
Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > > ->Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: > ->> hi, > ->> > ->> well, this is the deal, all the mailing lists what i'm on have > X-Mailing-List > ->> field in the message header, and i would like exim to mangle the Reply-To > ->> header

Re:

2000-06-17 Thread Bill or Summer
Well for starters I never had any luck with Redhat. It wouldn't see my CD-ROM drive no matter which of the three I used. If you are trying to install Corel Linux the dual boot (on my machine) occurs when you start the system in "Expert" mode. If you just boot it up normally dual boot won't occur

Re: Quake and Voodoo3.

2000-06-17 Thread Félix Almeida
Hi. Does anybody know how to run Quake using a 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP card? I've followed all the steps described in the linux.3dfx.com site but with no success at all... Any ideas? I'm running X 3.3.6, libc6 2.1 (potato), kernel 2.2.16. My computer is an AMD K6-III 400, 128MB RAM. Ah! The X i

Re: configure php4 problem

2000-06-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 03:10:03PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > I am compiling php4 from the tarball on my potato system, but each time I > do the configure I get an error: > > FIREWALL:/usr/src/apache/php-4.0.0# > ./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-apache=/usr/src/apache/apac > he_1

mouse in X again

2000-06-17 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, obviously, I was too fast when saying, that the mouse works under X now. The problem I am facing: The second mouse button does not work. I cannot cut and paste. Is this perhaps caused by the entry "Microsoft" in section pointer of XF86Config so that XF86 thinks, I have got a 2 button mouse?

Re: md5sum

2000-06-17 Thread Carlos Bustamante G.
> "Andrew D. Dixon" wrote: > > when I ran the rsync: > > rsync --verbose --progress --stats --block-size=8192 >sunsite.org.uk::publick/packages/debian-cd/binary-i386.iso > You should use: rsync --verbose --progress --stats --block-size=8192 sunsite.org.uk::publick/pac

RE: configure php4 problem

2000-06-17 Thread Chris Mason
Thank you, that worked wondefully. Can't thank you enough. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.a

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-17 Thread Geert-Jan Van den Bogaerde
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 10:06:51AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > Has anyone gotten the evaluation version of win4lin to work with > Debian? I'm running potato with kernel 2.2.16 and I applied the 2.2.16 > SMP version of the patch (the only 2.2.16 patch they had, even though I > don't use SMP) and co

user in group root

2000-06-17 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello all Is it "wise" to put a (power-)user into the root-group? TIA Sven -- Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

Re: AGP

2000-06-17 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 12:40:01PM +0200, Pablo Fanjul Gómez wrote: > Hi, > ¿exists any problem with AGP video card for configuring X? > sorry about my inglish, and thanks > > > My agp video card (ati [EMAIL PROTECTED] with mach64) worked with no problems. As far as I know, most agp car

Re: impatient upgrage question

2000-06-17 Thread Pat Mahoney
[snip] > > ftp.freesoftware.com is the Linuxy side of the BSD-aligned ftp.cdrom.com. > It is about three time as fast as ftp.us.debian.org. You need this speed, > I'm sure. When you're mostly upgraded, you can point to debian.org again for > the VERY latest. Or you could stick with the mirror t

Re: Keeping up2date with 'unstable' without beeing connected to the internet

2000-06-17 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 12:29:22AM +0200, Markus Fischer wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 10:57:01AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote : > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 04:35:29PM +0200, Markus Fischer wrote: > > > > > I'm running a few servers and workstation in a private network > > > where I work. For

Re: Keeping up2date with 'unstable' without beeing connected to the internet

2000-06-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Pat Mahoney wrote: > > The problem is: how do I know _which_ packages are new > > and which do I have to fetch to update my standalone mirror > > (without keeping a second mirror at the dial-up/home-cable > > machine). > > Run apt-get with the --download-only option. It

tracing route

2000-06-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What's the corresponding command in Linux to "tracert" from DOS to trace a rout? What package contains it? By the way, any body knows where else I can get the manual for "parted", the site http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~aclausen/parted-talk seems to be down.

Re: tracing route

2000-06-17 Thread Mike Werner
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > What's the corresponding command in Linux to "tracert" from DOS to trace > a rout? What package contains it? The command is traceroute, in the package traceroute. Another utility of that same type is called mtr, in the package mtr. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "

Re: pgp / pgp5i

2000-06-17 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 12:53:48PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi all > > I am new to pgp. So far, I did "apt-get install pgp". That > installed some version of pgp for me. > > I then saw that I wasnt able to read some ppl's pgp keys in mutt > with that version of pgp: -> the output of pgp (in

stupid question: eterm transparancy and xinitrc

2000-06-17 Thread Jonathan Lupa
I tried to dig an answer out of deja but failed. Basicly, my xinitrc has the following... -- # I'm a fat lazy slob (but I'm also unaddressable) xhost + & # It would be nice to use coral all the time... # xscreensaver -no-splash & # Setup the bottom window Eterm -M "" --name Messages --title Messag

Re: user in group root

2000-06-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 10:32:01PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hello all > > Is it "wise" to put a (power-)user into the root-group? I do not think it is, (though it should be IMO) there are a few reasons: gid 0 (root on linux) is usually only used as the `wheel' group, under BSD you add users

Re: tracing route

2000-06-17 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
on my system the command is called tracepath. is this basically traceroute renamed? On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 05:55:21PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > What's the corresponding command in Linux to "tracert" from DOS to trace > > a rout? What package contains it? > > The c

Re: pgp / pgp5i

2000-06-17 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 05:01:48PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > > Now, when I try to send a signed mail, mutt tells me that there is > > no /bin/pgp. Indeed there is no pgp link / binary installed. In the > > other version of pgp this wasn't so. > Try installing gnupg. Similar to the above (when

Re: exim, sendmail, smail, qmail .... ???

2000-06-17 Thread Irwan Hadi
you can find the comparison among the products above at http://www.linuxcare.com/products/prodmore.epl?PRODUCT_GROUP=Mail+Transfer+A gents

Re: mouse in X again

2000-06-17 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Hi, > > obviously, I was too fast when saying, that the mouse works under X now. > The problem I am facing: The second mouse button does not work. I > cannot cut and paste. Is this perhaps caused by the entry "Microsoft" in > section pointer of XF86Config so that XF86 thinks, I have got a 2 >

MS Access and Linux

2000-06-17 Thread Jed Shepardson
MS Access Applications on Linux/Samba Network. Are you using this kind of system? Are there any News Groups or Web Pages on this Subject? Would you like join one if we can set this up? Please Contact: Jed Shepardson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Instructions for installation

2000-06-17 Thread Shaul Karl
There should be a detailed documentation about this topic, both in the CDROM and online. IMHO the best way for a successful installation and a fruitful using is to read it. > I want to install debian on my pc and have it as a dual boot system. > Last time I tried it I couldnt get the dual boot

A Good word for GNOME

2000-06-17 Thread Ross Boylan
Since I griped about GNOME earlier, I thought I'd put in a good word for the more recent versions on potato. It now seems to be tracking sessions much better. I can delete windows and they stay deleted whenn I log on (before I had about 6 xman windows). Also, the windows stay in the correct pag

please help test debian frozen

2000-06-17 Thread Joey Hess
[ This is not an official announcement of the Debian project, just a Debian developer speaking up with his personal opinion. ] Debian is now well into its second test cycle for the "potato" (2.2) release of Debian. Now is an excellent time to help us test the distribution. Frozen is quite stable n

windows workaround

2000-06-17 Thread Andrew Dixon
I'm using rsync to get Debian which is causing a problem because I'm running Win98 (I have to, I have one of those anoying soft-modems) so my connection to my ISP is set up under Windows. Rsync, on the other hand, runs in DOS so Windows doesn't know that there is active trafic and tries to disc

samba config question

2000-06-17 Thread James Sasitorn
I have samba setup on my potato box, and I mounted an partition for sharing. I can read/write files fine, but when I try to copy dirs win->linux i get the following prompt: - You may not be able to access files created in the folder \\[computer]\[dir]\ Do you want to continue?

MOSIX under Debian

2000-06-17 Thread I. Tura
Hi people, Does anybody installed a MOSIX cluster over Debian? MOSIX people just used it in SuSE and RedHat: as a Debianist I am, I'd like to know if you have found any differences or trouble when you installed it into Debian. Thank you. Ignasi

RE: samba config question

2000-06-17 Thread Chris Mason
You need to set the permissions on the shared directory to allow the user or the world to write to the folder. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Gui

RE: samba config question

2000-06-17 Thread James Sasitorn
mm.. I think i tried that and it still gives the problem. linux box: ext2 partition mounted on /share w mode 777. excerpt from smb.conf: - [share] path= /share valid users = camus invalid users = root writeable = yes read only = no browseable = yes hide dot files = no create mask = 0777 d

Re: tracing route

2000-06-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 06:15:37PM -0400, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > on my system the command is called tracepath. is this basically > traceroute renamed? There are a number of programs that do the job. Another (the nicest in my experience) is mtr. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Try

Re: tracing route

2000-06-17 Thread jigglypuff2
Mark Brown writes: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 06:15:37PM -0400, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > > > on my system the command is called tracepath. is this basically > > traceroute renamed? > > There are a number of programs that do the job. Another (the nicest > in my experience) is mtr. > > -