apt-get sources.list error

2000-06-29 Thread Russ Pitman
In /etc/apt/sources.list I have, deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free non-US Running apt-get update gives the following, --start here Hit ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-free Packages Hit ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-free Release Get:1 ftp:/

Re: wu-ftpd (2000-06-23 security-fixed frozen version) constantly crashes

2000-06-29 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 02:56:39PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > Use ProFTPD. It has a MUCH better security record, is fast, i don't know if i would go that far... it is much younger then wu-root^H^H^H^Hftpd but it has quite an abysmal record from when it started. it however has been ok lately (as

dynamic IP addressing

2000-06-29 Thread S. Champ
hello. i have an ethernet card attatched to a DSL modem. i'll provide more hardware details, if requested, but for now i'm just wondering if there's a quick way to setting-up the dynammic ip-addressing. (preferrably: without having to go through the "DynIP howto" in order to get a net-connection,

Re: apt-get sources.list error

2000-06-29 Thread Corey Popelier
You need a separate line in sources.list for non-US, usually of the format: /debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Russ Pitman wrote: > In /etc/apt/sources.lis

re: Postfix Help + Dynamic-IP

2000-06-29 Thread S. Champ
hello. joachim wrote: > What about poor guys who don't have a valid hostname (dynamic IP) try http://www.ods.org : "The Open Domain Service" ( yourname.ods.org ) a UNIX binary and a PERL script are available for logging onto the ODS service. [ maybe it would help for the main Debain dist

Re: 2.1 or 2.2 help - correction

2000-06-29 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 01:09:59 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > My question is: > Should I Install 2.1 and upgrade the packages waiting until 2.2 become >stable; or install potato and upgrade for the 2.2 stable version when it >be released? I´ve installed potato yesterday and have yet to run i

Re: enlightenment themes?

2000-06-29 Thread Tom Dominico
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 09:57:01PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > I've found 2 themes for enlightenment in debian packages. I'm looking > for any more I can apt-install. Anyone know if there are any more in > .deb formats? > > Robert Robert, Just head over to e.themes.org, and find

Re: apt-get sources.list error

2000-06-29 Thread russ @ tasman . net . au
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 01:09:31PM +0800, Corey Popelier wrote: > You need a separate line in sources.list for non-US, usually of the > format: > /debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free > > Cheers, > Corey Popelier > http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas > Work Email: [EMAIL PROT

*.deb files : installation

2000-06-29 Thread S. Champ
hello. is dselect the only way to install a *.deb file? thank you. -- s.c.

Re: *.deb files : installation

2000-06-29 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >is dselect the only way to install a *.deb file? dpkg -i -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: need help with ip-forwarding

2000-06-29 Thread Lee Revell
Ipchains alone won't do portforwarding. You need ipmasqadm as well. I know it's braindead but that's how it is, hopefully in 2.4 there will be a unified interface to all those nifty ip forwarding features. HTH, Lee At 12:53 AM 6/29/2000, Nick wrote: this is my situation: i have a linux bo

Re: Help me mount Chorus/Mix partision on linux

2000-06-29 Thread kmself
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 10:42:23PM -0500, Joe piman Wreschnig wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 08:36:04PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 04:57:01AM +0400, Valera wrote: > > > > > May i mount drive with operating system "Chorus/mix" on linux ? > > > > I have no ide

Re: Help me mount Chorus/Mix partision on linux

2000-06-29 Thread kmself
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:39:17AM +0400, Valera wrote: > Hello , > > Thursday, June 29, 2000, 7:36:04 AM, you wrote: > > kinc> On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 04:57:01AM +0400, Valera wrote: > kinc> > Thanks, it for some trial program :) > kinc> Please fix your system clock

Re: netscape 4.73 & su -

2000-06-29 Thread kmself
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:22:42PM +0200, Marc O. Sandlus wrote: > Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a strange experience on my box. Here it goes: suppose you have > > two accounts "prem" and "sec". Do > > > > ... > > > everything is fine. If somebody know why this happens

Re: Boot kernel in order to test hardware?

2000-06-29 Thread kmself
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 06:29:15PM +0300, M. Tavasti wrote: > "I. Tura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Due to the fact that I don't know if the hardware still runs well, is it a > > good idea to run a floppy kernel ten times consecutively, for example, to > > take an initial (or decent) idea of

Re: Help me mount Chorus/Mix partision on linux

2000-06-29 Thread Joe \"piman\" Wreschnig
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:56:30PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 10:42:23PM -0500, Joe piman Wreschnig wrote: > > It appears (offline mail) that Valera's using a BSD variant OS anyway. > > Isn't Mix what Knuth used as his hypothetical OS in TAOP? The subtle diffe

Re: Firewall

2000-06-29 Thread Marc Dubrowski
If it can help, here is the scheme of our network. There are of course three NICS on the packet filter. Network 193.x.x.0/30 (= 193.x.x.0/24 for the internet, static routing table setup by our ISP: the rest of the world knows that the trafic must pass through x.x.x.2 to reach our network)

corel linux cable hookup

2000-06-29 Thread Eric Hall
    I have just purchased a cable modem from comcast out of Indiana.They have no idea of how to install it so I can run linux as my OS on the internet.How do I go about hooking upto the internet using a cable modem.They have a lan card.

Compiling a new kernel and dselect problems

2000-06-29 Thread Luca De Giorgi
Hi, I'm a new entry in the worderful Debian world. Previously i'd used Red Hat 6.x ad Mandrake but i thought i' was time to make a jump in the real Linux world and started using a potato release Well, my problem arise when i want to build a custom kernel the Debian-way. When i built it i found a

Confused Descriptions *and* Dependencies

2000-06-29 Thread Meme Engineer
The descriptions *and* dependencies need very badly to be to be cleaned up. I can't make head or tails of these: <---> http://www.debian.org/Packages/frozen/libs/libvx1.22.html [libvx1.22 1.22-1] "V - a C++ GUI Framework (Athena)." "This version is based on the Athena widget set.

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-06-29 Thread Stefan Nobis
Bill Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2% [2 potato/main 4344/821kB 0%] [1 unstable/main 27145/380kB 7%] > Err ftp://ftp.debian.org potato/main Packages > Data socket timed out apt could not get the new list from the server so you can't do anything with apt for this server. First get a *comp

Re: wu-ftpd (2000-06-23 security-fixed frozen version) constantly crashes

2000-06-29 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:56:39 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: >> my wu-ftpd is constantly crashing. :-( [...] >Use ProFTPD. It has a MUCH better security record, is fast, That's true, but it *also* has its security leaks. >lightweight, and configuration is a breeze if you have ever configured >Apache.

Connection terminated after 481.1 minutes

2000-06-29 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Can someone help me fix this annoying feature? No matter at what time I connect, after 481.1 minutes I get disconnected. Is it the script, or is it the AT&T server? Here is my plog: Jun 29 05:46:17 debian pppd[241]: Modem hangup Jun 29 05:46:17 debian pppd[241]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down started (pid

Re: Connection terminated after 481.1 minutes

2000-06-29 Thread dyer
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Can someone help me fix this annoying feature? No matter at what time I > connect, after 481.1 minutes I get disconnected. Is it the script, or is > it the AT&T server? Here is my plog: > Jun 29 05:46:17 debian pppd[241]: Modem hangup > Jun 29 05:46:17 debian pppd[241]:

Which PGP?

2000-06-29 Thread Wilson Yau
A quick question: Could anyone please (from your experience) suggest to me the best PGP plug-ins for mail clients like Netscape (both on Linux & Windows), outlook & outlook express? Many thanks. Wilson

Cheap printer?

2000-06-29 Thread Vicente Torres
I have recently bought an EPSON Stylus color 480 for my home use. It was a surprise for me to note that this printer has no button to push and everything must be controlled from Windows (including changing or installing the ink cartridge!). So, I must return it and buy another printer. Wich one

truetype fonts and xfree86 4

2000-06-29 Thread Vincent Murphy
i installed the pre-compiled xfree86 4 binaries from ftp.xfree86.org on a woody system, and have a Load "freetype" line in my /etc/X11/XF86Setup. it all works perfectly except xlsfonts doesn't load Truetype fonts, and so i can't use them in gimp/netscape etc either. what do i have to do to

Re: apt-get & kernel question

2000-06-29 Thread Ian Stuart
Dean wrote: > > Hi Eric: > Thanks for the reply. I checked and there is no ppp.o > in /lib/modules/2.2.15/net, but there is in my old > kernel at /lib/modules/2.0.36/net. Can I just > copy that to my 2.2.15 file? Or do I need to > make up a module? Dean You need to make a module (and tell th

xterm cannot execute xterm

2000-06-29 Thread Roy John Little
Dear list: While upgrading my glib-gtk libraries, I tried to first uninstall the originals using dselect. When I realized that my whole x-windows system was being uninstalled, I did a ^C. What I notice now is that xterm, the window I use for most of my work, will not execute x-type commands: xter

Re: Postfix troubles

2000-06-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 01:19:06AM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > But then how come sending email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends it correctly > to my local user account ? Why should [EMAIL PROTECTED] be treated/relayed > any differently than [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Postfix does alias database rewrites at

quick directory question

2000-06-29 Thread Andrew Kae
Hello, I am trying to list all the directories in a directory and put it into a file. So far I have : $ ls -all -F | grep /$ | awk '{print $8}' ./ ../ .netscape/ mail/ which almost gives me what i want but i need to get rid of that / at the end, can someone help me out? If anyone has an ea

RE: quick directory question

2000-06-29 Thread Wesley A. Wannemacher
you could use find: find ./ type d > some.file Wes Wesley A. Wannemacher Instructor, Network Administrator Northwestern College [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Andrew Kae [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: quick directory question

2000-06-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Well, to answer your first question, remove '-F' from the options list to ls. Regarding your second question, do a 'find . -type d'. Read the man page for find. HTH, noah On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Andrew Kae wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to list all the direct

wallpaper/background

2000-06-29 Thread Timothy C. Phan
hi, I've recently install a lot of themes for the WindowMaker and really enjoy. I'm wondering if the wallpaper images can also be installed in the console/tty (non-XWindow) mode? --- tcp

Re: problems with "options" in modules.conf

2000-06-29 Thread Oreste Salerno
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 07:11:00PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > then my reaction would be to put an > extra printk or two into the kernel source and see what it's actually > doing. > > 2.2.10 has: > > MOD_INC_USE_COUNT; > printk("ide-cd: will ignore %s\n", ignore); <- >

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-06-29 Thread jpb
Bill Barnes wrote: > > Thanks for the quick responses! > > > > >If you built postgresql on your own, you may find it easier in the long > >run to build the 7.0.2 debian packages from source, especially if you're > >planning on running it on more than one machine. > > Sounds like the right thing

Re: quick directory question

2000-06-29 Thread Andrew Kae
Hello again A co-worker just helped me out and I think i found a quicker solution. I noticed "find" can take some time. It's just: ls -all | grep "^d" | awk '{print $8}' Thanks again Get Your Private, Free E-mail from M

Re: Compiling a new kernel and dselect problems

2000-06-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 10:28:12AM +0200, Luca De Giorgi wrote: > Hi, > I'm a new entry in the worderful Debian world. > Previously i'd used Red Hat 6.x ad Mandrake but i thought i' was time to > make a jump in the real Linux world and started using a potato release > Well, my problem arise when i

Problem setting up Dialin PPP server

2000-06-29 Thread Nagarjuna G.
After setting up the ppp server, when I try to connect to the server ppp starts and immediately stops with the following error: peer refused to authenticate. Any clues? Jun 29 20:10:32 hbcse pppd[31618]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x1d8b13a] Jun 29 20:10:32 hbcse pppd[31618]: sent [LCP EchoRe

Re: dynamic IP addressing

2000-06-29 Thread Esko Lehtonen
"S. Champ" wrote: > > hello. > > i have an ethernet card attatched to a DSL modem. > > i'll provide more hardware details, if requested, but for now i'm just > wondering > if there's a quick way to setting-up the dynammic ip-addressing. (preferrably: > without having to go through the "DynIP how

BACK PAIN

2000-06-29 Thread The Luklinski Clinic
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Re: logrotate

2000-06-29 Thread Sven Burgener
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 06:33:57PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Read the debian policy document. Debian has additional crontabs > (apart from user crontabs and the root crontab) in > /etc/cron.{d,daily,weekly,monthly} > The logrotate thing is (not surprising) in /etc/cron.daily/logrotate. Than

Debian Installation -Simplest method

2000-06-29 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I want to install debian 2.2. Is there a simple way to install the system using a couple of floppies and a network connection. For e.g. I can install FreeBSD with 2 floppies and a network connection (the floppies contain the network card drivers, basic boot kernel, a dhcp client, etc.). There must

Re: free books on C in Unix and X programming using Athena widget

2000-06-29 Thread David Z Maze
a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: a> Do you know any web site that has free books on C programming in a> Linix and X programming using Athena widget? I'd recommend against using the so-called Athena Widget Kit; it looks ugly and it's hard to program in. Many Linux developers these days use the GIMP

Re: Debian Installation -Simplest method

2000-06-29 Thread Derek Wueppelmann
> I want to install debian 2.2. Is there a simple way to > install the system using a couple of floppies and a > network connection. For e.g. I can install FreeBSD > with 2 floppies and a network connection (the floppies > contain the network card drivers, basic boot kernel, a > dhcp client, etc.).

Re: quick directory question

2000-06-29 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Hi, your find is taking long time because find is recursive. Add -prune to the list of its arguments and you will probably get what you want :-) HTH Andrew Kae wrote: > Hello again > > A co-worker just helped me out and I think i found a quicker solution. I > noticed "find" can take some time.

Pb installing Debian 2.1

2000-06-29 Thread Benoit NOSS
Hello, In the installation process of the Debian 2.1 distribution, I missed an important step : I did something wrong and I could not choose an installation profile. I have a base system working. Can I use dselect with an option or something equivalent to install with a profile or do I have to inst

Re: Debian Installation -Simplest method

2000-06-29 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 08:53:51AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > I want to install debian 2.2. Is there a simple way to > install the system using a couple of floppies and a > network connection. For e.g. I can install FreeBSD > with 2 floppies and a network connection (the floppies > contain th

Re: dictd cannot access localhost

2000-06-29 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 07:04:10AM -0400, Valdemir Melechco Carvalho wrote: > Even if I restart dictd, it still doesn't work - it dies quickly, really > weird. It seens to be a dictd problem, I've already tried slink, potato > and woody dictd versions but it's all the same... Check your /var/log/

rpm2deb

2000-06-29 Thread S. Champ
hello. does anyone have a URL for rpm2deb ? thank you. -- s.c.

Re: rpm2deb

2000-06-29 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:34:08AM -0700, S. Champ wrote: > does anyone have a URL for rpm2deb ? Why not use alien for this? -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

RE: xterm cannot execute xterm

2000-06-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Jun-2000 Roy John Little wrote: > Dear list: > While upgrading my glib-gtk libraries, I tried to first uninstall the > originals using dselect. When I realized that my whole x-windows system > was being uninstalled, I did a ^C. What I notice now is that xterm, the > window I use for most o

RE: wallpaper/background

2000-06-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Jun-2000 Timothy C. Phan wrote: > hi, > > I've recently install a lot of themes for the WindowMaker > and really enjoy. I'm wondering if the wallpaper images > can also be installed in the console/tty (non-XWindow) > mode? > no, sorry. console does not work that way. GGI has s

Re: rpm2deb

2000-06-29 Thread Christopher Splinter
* "S. Champ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does anyone have a URL for rpm2deb ? Use alien.

Helix sawfish and minimizing

2000-06-29 Thread Stuart Ballard
Has anyone else noticed that it's impossible to minimize just one window if others have the same title? I frequently have lots of terminal windows up and if I try to minimize one, they all disappear. I'm using up-to-the-second helix GNOME on woody - so I guess I should technically take it up with

GDM don't load keyboard map.

2000-06-29 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Hi, I am running potato+last minute helix gnome. The gdm login screen seems not configured to handle foreign keyboards. Although I have a valid /etc/X11/Xmodmap for my Brazilian keyboard (abnt2), gdm don't load till the beginning of a gnome session. To solve this I have add a line to /etc/gdm/In

Re: problems with "options" in modules.conf

2000-06-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oreste Salerno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > 2.2.15 code is the same as the 2.2.10, as what regards this part. Adding > these extra printk showed me that the string ignore is composed only by the > first word, even if actually there are more than one. i.e if i put: > > options ignore='aa hdb h

...error: "only 1024-char blocks implemented"...?

2000-06-29 Thread Jeff Gordon
I'm trying to install a little utility program suite, that extracts information from Paradox database tables. All goes well when I run 'pxcsvdump' to stdout -- but when I try: pxcsvdump my_file.db > my_file.txt ...linux produces an error like so: 'll_rw error: only 1024-char blocks impleme

autofs and nis

2000-06-29 Thread Suresh Kumar. R
Hi, How do we know that the auto.master and other autofs files are available on the client machine via nis ? What I mean is , on a client machine we can check for the availability of the passwd files by typing ypcat passwd. What is auto*.* equivalent. Should we do anything on the nis server to m

...error: "only 1024-char blocks implemented"...?

2000-06-29 Thread Jeff Gordon
I'm trying to install a little utility program suite, that extracts information from Paradox database tables. All goes well when I run 'pxcsvdump' to stdout -- but when I try: pxcsvdump my_file.db > my_file.txt ...linux produces an error like so: 'll_rw error: only 1024-char blocks impleme

Re: terminal programming

2000-06-29 Thread Riku Saikkonen
Atila Nemet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Are there some good texts (tutorials, faqs, anything?) on web about >how to write terminal independent programs? I need to a make a very See /usr/share/doc/libncurses5-dev/ncurses-intro.html on your Debian system (in the package libncurses5-dev, which you n

Problems installing Netscape

2000-06-29 Thread Nitebirdz
I just installed Debian for the first time. It is Debian 2.1 slink. When I try to install Netscape via apt-get I get the following error message: Setting up netscape4 (4.0-15) ... ERROR: The Netscape archive must be in /tmp, owned by root, and under a name matching one of the following:

telnet vs ^Z

2000-06-29 Thread Will Trillich
i've got linux in the basement, cranking and serving like a dream. to administer, i'm upstairs and i get in via telnet on my local 192.168.*.* intranet. on the console (linux keyboard/mouse/monitor) i can use ^Z to suspend a foreground job, just like in the documentation. but ^Z seems to be ignor

Re: Problems installing Netscape

2000-06-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
Nitebirdz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just installed Debian for the first time. It is Debian 2.1 slink. When > I try to install Netscape via apt-get I get the following error message: > > Setting up netscape4 (4.0-15) ... > > ERROR: The Netscape archive must be in /tmp, owned by root, >

Password Comlexity

2000-06-29 Thread Sajjad Haider
Hello, I am a graduate student, just started working on the area of computer security. Few months ago, when I used Debian OS, I remembered when you create a new account and enter password for it, the kernel warns you if it categorize the password as simple. I want to learn about the procedure

RE: Password Comlexity

2000-06-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Jun-2000 Sajjad Haider wrote: > Hello, > > I am a graduate student, just started working on the area of computer > security. Few months ago, when I used Debian OS, I remembered when you create > a new account and enter password for it, the kernel warns you if it > categorize the password a

Re: Postfix troubles

2000-06-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 10:25:25AM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > I'll give that a try to see if that fixes the problem. Is there a > problem with my myorigin/mydestination variables above ? That looks reasonable, but according to the bounce you posted earlier on mail is actually being given a do

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-29 Thread Nitebirdz
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Philippe wrote: > Hi Adam, > > it takes just seconds to filter mail in Pine. From main menu, type S for > setup. Then R for rules. Then F for filter. Then A for add. Give the rule > a nickname by replacing the "no value set" in the menu. Put the Debian > user list address on

Re: Password Comlexity

2000-06-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:37:15AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 29-Jun-2000 Sajjad Haider wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am a graduate student, just started working on the area of computer > > security. Few months ago, when I used Debian OS, I remembered when you > > create > > a new a

FTP server and security

2000-06-29 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Group, I want to enable my potato box as a ftp server, I have removed proftpd and installed ftpd. I remember when install debian I said no to start the FTP server. Where do I enable this to start the server at boot time? Also is it true the enabling the ftp server will open up my server for a

Re: Cheap printer?

2000-06-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Jun 2000, Vicente Torres wrote: > > I have recently bought an EPSON Stylus color 480 > for my home use. > > It was a surprise for me to note that this printer has > no button to push and everything must be controlled from > Windows (including changing or installing the ink cartridge!). >

Re: Cheap printer?

2000-06-29 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Vicente Torres wrote: ... > So, I must return it and buy another printer. > Wich one would you recommend to me? > It must be cheap; I do not want to use color on my printings > and it must work fine with linux. > > Thanks > First: What kind of a cheap printer do you want? Th

Re: netscape 4.73 & fortify (potato)

2000-06-29 Thread Brad
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 09:02:45AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > JudiElaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [SNIP] > > > > Anyone have any recommendations as to forcing the fortify, > > downgrading netscape, or waiting for fortify to be upgraded? > [SNIP] > > I believe that due to the "relaxation" o

problem with cdrom

2000-06-29 Thread ANGELADURAND
hi, Can you help me?  My CD-ROM on the CPU seems to stop working, I put my CD in the drive and it doesn't seen to know it's there. lights flash but no response.  It use to start automatically but not anymore.  Went into the Device Management, says it's working but still I get no response fro

RE: Cheap printer?

2000-06-29 Thread Bill Barnes
FWIW Got into a tangle on another mailing list regarding inks, but here goes anyway. I buy Amazon inks for my Epson Stylus 800 and had no problems until I tried bulk ink and refilling cartridges. Print quality went south and is recovering with a return to new cartridges, but still not up to sn

Re: Cheap printer?

2000-06-29 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Harald Thingelstad wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Vicente Torres wrote: > ... > > So, I must return it and buy another printer. > > Wich one would you recommend to me? > > It must be cheap; I do not want to use color on my printings > > and it must work fine with linux. > > >

Re: Cheap printer?

2000-06-29 Thread Jeff Noxon
There is no such thing as a cheap inkjet printer IMHO. They all cost a fortune to operate. They work on the razor blade principle -- they give away the handle and expect to make money on the blades. I would personally suggest a used laser printer. I see HP laserjets at garage sales all the time

Debian and Webmin

2000-06-29 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
Has anyone tried managing Debian systems with Webmin (www.webmin.com)? It is a browser based system admin. tool for multiple OSs. Can anyone recommend a good book to understand Linux (esp. Debian and RedHat) administration (including network admin). Thanks. -Dinesh _

How to get dependencies also ...

2000-06-29 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I want to install a software package but I don't want to download each of it's dependencies and install them one by one. For e.g. if I wanted to install fvwm2, then is there a command like: apt-get -install fvwm2 which will download not only fvwm2 but also all of it's dependencies and install the

Re: Cheap printer?

2000-06-29 Thread Ron Farrer
Harald Thingelstad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > First: What kind of a cheap printer do you want? > The inkjet printers are known to be cheap to buy, but they charge a leg > and an arm for the ink. > Some manufacturers are known to sell their printers with a net *loss*, > earning their money on in

Re: Debian and Webmin

2000-06-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:58:54 -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > Has anyone tried managing Debian systems with Webmin (www.webmin.com)? It > is a browser based system admin. tool for multiple OSs. Webmin is a nice tool. Back in April, Jaldhar H. Vyas was working on packages to include it in Debia

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Nitebirdz wrote: > I got another question for you though. How do you select say all messages > in a certain folder in pine? Or perhaps from message 1 to message 45, in > order to save them, delete them... whatever. > Use the semicolon

Re: Debian and Webmin

2000-06-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > Webmin is a nice tool. Back in April, Jaldhar H. Vyas was working on > packages to include it in Debian. Jaldhar, do you have any news on those? Yes, I am happy to report that my packages have not destroyed anyones systems :-) and as there is a n

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-29 Thread Stuart Ballard
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > > There might be a special config option you need in order to turn this > feature on. If it doesn't work for you, let me know and I'll check my > config for a special setting. IMO the biggest problem with pine is that > UW wants it to be really dumbed down for the no

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-29 Thread Ernest Johanson
To be able to select messages and perform commands on them choose the enable-aggregate-command-set option in the config section. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Nitebirdz wrote: > Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:17:17 -0500 (CDT) > From: Nite

Re: Debian and Webmin

2000-06-29 Thread John Foster
Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > > Has anyone tried managing Debian systems with Webmin > (www.webmin.com)? It is a browser based system admin. > tool for multiple OSs. > > Can anyone recommend a good book to understand Linux > (esp. Debian and RedHat) administration (including > network admin). > > Th

Re: How to get dependencies also ...

2000-06-29 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:01:41 PDT, Dinesh Nadarajah writes: >I want to install a software package but I don't want >to download each of it's dependencies and install them >one by one. For e.g. if I wanted to install fvwm2, >then is there a command like: > >apt-get -install fvwm2 > >which will downlo

Subscription List

2000-06-29 Thread Andy & Page Hess
Please put me on your subscription list. I am new to Linux and I am having some problems. Hopefully someone will have some solutions to the problems.   My e-mail addressis [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Thanks, Andy Hess

Re: Problems installing Netscape

2000-06-29 Thread Nitebirdz
On 29 Jun 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Nitebirdz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I just installed Debian for the first time. It is Debian 2.1 slink. When > > I try to install Netscape via apt-get I get the following error message: > > > > Setting up netscape4 (4.0-15) ... > > > > ERROR: The Ne

Re: telnet vs ^Z

2000-06-29 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:51:35AM -0700, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: > Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i've got linux in the basement, cranking and serving > > like a dream. to administer, i'm upstairs and i get > > in via telnet on my local 192.168.*.* intranet. > > > > on the c

Re: Manipulating file content

2000-06-29 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Bolan Meek wrote: > > this one is for all the regexp, shell, and editing-experts... > > How about us perl hackers, hunh?! Got sumpin' g'inst us, buddy!? Of course not! How could I?! :) > Well, you could use regexp in sed, or use an awk script, but if > I had only 3x3 matrices to transform,

how to start gnome

2000-06-29 Thread Nick
i loaded gnome a long time ago and forgot how to start it i have tried gnome-sessionand not luck

RE: dynamic IP addressing

2000-06-29 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, Check out http://www.dyndns.org! They provide dynamic DNS service free of charge. I recommend a the ddup-client from http://www.ddup.org. It's really easy to use, just set it up as a cron job. Brooks > > hello. > > > > i have an ethernet card attatched to a DSL modem. > >

Ugly console font

2000-06-29 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
After I installed Debian 2.2 (potato), I found that the system was using VGA type fonts instead of the standard terminal fonts (not X windows). How can I get rid of this? There are more than 25 lines on the screen and some applications (like man) scroll only the last 25 (very annoying). Thanks. -

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 04:01:37PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > config for a special setting. IMO the biggest problem with pine is that Aside from the licensing? :-) > UW wants it to be really dumbed down for the novice users so they turn > most features off by default. Maybe it'd be a g

Modconf and Soundblaster

2000-06-29 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
The last time I installed Potato, I was able to install Soundblaster support using modconf. I have two systems with SB16 and Sb AWE 32 cards in them. Which drivers do I use to get these going and how can I install the drivers without having to recompile the Kernel? Thanks in advance. -Dinesh ___

Re: Subscription List

2000-06-29 Thread Ewing, Jeff I
You need to send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please see instructions at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 04:47:03PM -0400, Andy & Page Hess wrote: > Please put me on your subscription list. I am new to Linux and I am Jeff

Re: Problems installing Netscape

2000-06-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
Nitebirdz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That did it! Thanks a lot, Gary! > > Just one more little question, since I'm new to Debian. How can I notice > which packages are virtual and which other are not? Hmm. There are very few "virtual" packages. That's the only one I've ever run across, and

Re: Problems installing Netscape

2000-06-29 Thread Bruce Sass
On 29 Jun 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Nitebirdz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Just one more little question, since I'm new to Debian. How can I notice > > which packages are virtual and which other are not? > > Hmm. There are very few "virtual" packages. That's the only one I've Everything

2 things (ipmasq & apache mod_include)

2000-06-29 Thread Daniel Free
now this is basicly trying to kill to bords with one stone althugh the problems are unrealted. 1) ipmasq: In my flat my k6 200 running debian 2.2 is the firewall/gateway box. dialing up with a 33k modem etc. I have installed the package ipmasq and it worked sweetly. the only problem i have is

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