Eterm, environment variables, and exec

2000-08-16 Thread Damon Muller
Hi folks, Like many of us here, presumably, I use mutt as my MUA, and to use it in X I have an icon which launches an Eterm with my mutt theme. Part of this theme is the directive "exec mutt", which basically loads mutt automatically into the Eterm. All in all, I find this to be a good combination

a work partition on a dual boot machine

2000-08-16 Thread Stephen Kraig
Hi all, I am finally getting around to setting my main box (a pentium III currently running windoze 98) as a dual boot machine...I have set up linux only boxes before, but never a dual boot, and I am wondering if anyone has a suggestion for the following problem/desire   My plan for partition

Re: Dual-Boot Win2K & Debian

2000-08-16 Thread Nate Duehr
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 05:52:46PM -0400, Ethan Pierce wrote: > Its my experience that you cannot use lilo per se with the win2k and debian > combo. What I do is have the triple boot of debian, windows ME and windows > 2000. I use the dd utility to get an image of the bootsector. I then add

Re: Bandwidth Usage Check-out

2000-08-16 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi Wilson, if you need to monitor traffic on a lan i can suggest you both iptraf and ntop. The last one provide also a mini web interface with traffix matrix and statistics of any kind (very nice). Instead if you've to monitor wan traffic routed over boxes that support snmp the best (i thi

Re: Is Debian Linux 2.2 available in San Jose, Cal.

2000-08-16 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 15, 1980 at 02:17:00AM -0700, Ed Burke wrote: > Since the Linux conference is running in our area this week, I > thought someone or some resource would be available locally to > purchase an update CD. 2.1 didn't get the job done but I'm told > 2.2 should do the job.

Re: temporary allowing telnet to use x-windows

2000-08-16 Thread kmself
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 11:32:43AM +1000, Kenrick, Chris wrote: > > Well, John. Your user will have to install an X-server on his machine. > > IIRC, there used to be a free beer version of M/IX for Windows, but as of > > version 2.0, it isn't. So, you can go with that -- or MicroX or Exceed or >

Re: max file sizes and filesystems

2000-08-16 Thread kmself
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:49:57PM +0200, Anders Lennartsson wrote: > Hi > > How big can a single file be in the filesystems FAT32, ext2, and NTFS? 2GB FAT32 & ext2, AFAIK, under Linux, without special patches. LFS patches are available, though I'm not sure of terms. NTFS nominally supports dat

Re: potato froze up

2000-08-16 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 01:04:23PM -0400, Mathew Johnston wrote: > I have a potato box that is running samba, mysql, apache, proftpd, > Xwindows (but connects to another box to run all of its apps) and is a > masq firewall. Last night it froze up while running a screensaver > remotely (on the othe

Re: Netscape Bus Error

2000-08-16 Thread kmself
It means Netscape is crap software. It *will* crash. Frequently. Get used to it. Disable Java and Javascript. This will help. I've noticed sensitivity to libs, with significant changes in NS behavior between various system updates. Mozilla should improve much of this, but the default build i

[Q] Problem with Video Card Sis6326

2000-08-16 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Hi everyone, I've change my video card from some kind of S3 to Sis6326. Now I've problem: Some portions of windows are "blacked" or "whited" out. Most offen in list of e-mails in Netscape or in text. I've tried both XF86_SVGA and XF86_SiS Xservers with the same result. I'm using wmaker window mana

Re: Keyboard died

2000-08-16 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 09:49:12PM -0500, Andrew Martin wrote: > I installed debian and went as far as to make a boot floppy and reboot > the system. When it came back up and prompted me to pick a root > password the keyboard was dead. I picked the default keyboard > settings during installation.

Re: a work partition on a dual boot machine

2000-08-16 Thread kmself
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 01:24:15AM -0400, Stephen Kraig wrote: > Hi all, I am finally getting around to setting my main box (a pentium > III currently running windoze 98) as a dual boot machine...I have set > up linux only boxes before, but never a dual boot, and I am wondering > if anyone has a su

Re: Licensing Information Request

2000-08-16 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 03:08:03PM -0600, Dompnier, Frank wrote: > > Name: Frank Dompnier > > Company Name: Talisman Energy Inc. > > Address: Suite 3400, 888 3rd Street SW > > Calgary, Alberta T2P 5C5 > > Phone: (403) 237-1284 > > Fax: (403) 237-1674 > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Reques

Re: Proxy servers in Linux

2000-08-16 Thread kmself
The three general solutions I could think of for this are: - Port forwarding via ssh. Forward an internet-accessible port to the Oracle port of the database server. Traffic connecting to the external port will be forwarded to Oracle. This may be insecure and expose you

Re: Netscape Bus Error

2000-08-16 Thread kmself
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:38:04AM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:15:00AM -0700, > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > complex for a basic browser. Gzilla and/or Gnutella look like > > far more promising projects. Both are based on the Gecko > > rendering engine, but st

What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi, What is stormix by the way ? Thanks Suresh - Suresh Kumar.R Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Electronics & Communication College of Engineering, Trivandrum - 695 016 INDIA

Re: Netscape Bus Error

2000-08-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > It means Netscape is crap software. Not everyone has these kinds of troubles with Netscape. I'm not saying its great, because it isn't, but neither is it "crap" software. > > It *will* crash. Frequently. Get used to it. I manage to trip a b

Re: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

2000-08-16 Thread Wilson Yau
> try changing the boot device. Type STOP + a, then "boot floppy". Oh...I don't have a 'STOP' key on my Generic 105-key International (English, UK) keyboard. Is there any equivalence, like Esc, Ctrl or Alt, etc?

RE: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Coincidental you should ask that! Point your browser to http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=797. Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my > -Original Message- > From: Suresh Kumar.R

Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 16 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Mozilla should improve much of this, but the default build is far > too complex for a basic browser. Not to mention that this implies that Mozilla is *slow* (since it doesn't fit in core), depending on what it is doing (for basi

_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2000-08-16 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi, I've got a "funny" thing with Potato. When it has been running for a while (now 11 days but that happened before as well) and I try to launch an X client, I got the error message: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0

I need some information for help

2000-08-16 Thread TIAZZA AIT BENDAOUD
Hi my name is TIazza and I ama student at the "school of information science " in Morocco. I am planning for my final project next year and I want to build a database on the net for software distributers in Morocco but I do not know how to build such a database. I 've heard and read about the possi

starting a default window manager

2000-08-16 Thread suresh kumar
Hi, How to startup say fvwm95 on login *without* touching users home director located files such as .xsession etc. Any ideas? BTW, is there a general place to look for such information ? Thanking you Suresh = Suresh Kumar.R Dept of Electronics & Communication College of Engineering Trivan

adding a line to xdm display

2000-08-16 Thread suresh kumar
Hi, Which file I should tweak to add one more line in the display of xdm? Thanks Suresh __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/

Re: [Q] Problem with Video Card Sis6326

2000-08-16 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi, use SVGA server and then use xf86config to configure X. Try the video cards numbered 242 or 626. For us it worked with the Diamon Speedstart A50 case (ie 242) Best of luck Suresh - Suresh Kumar.R Email:

broken apt-get or dependency in slink?

2000-08-16 Thread Ross Hamilton
The Background: I originally installed my slink base system from the net and added some extras using the dselect front-end to apt-get via ftp. This worked fine, but a little too slowly for my liking over a 33k modem, so I picked up a CD set. Vaguely remembered reading something about how to

Re: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat SOLVED!

2000-08-16 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, Success in defeating the password! It was not that easy: Many of you wrote, that I should pull out the CMOS-battery. So I looked for one, but there was nothing on that board, which looked like a battery. So I copied the little program from Miroslav, which corrupts the checksum of the

Re: starting a default window manager

2000-08-16 Thread Josep Llauradó Selvas
In a previous release of Debian (Slink) there was a text file (/etc/X11/window-managers) where you could write it your preferences about which window manager run when there wasn't any .xinit or .xsession into the home dir. In potato you can modify the /etc/X11/Xsession or the /usr/X11R6/bin/star

RE: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Shel Johnson
Or go to their website.. http://www.stormix.com/ Coincidental you should ask that! Point your browser to http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=797. Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my >

RE: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Shel Johnson
Or have a look at their website.. http://www.stormix.com/ That's what I'm running... Coincidental you should ask that! Point your browser to http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=797. Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visi

Exim and multiple domains

2000-08-16 Thread Alec Smith
Using Exim, how can I configure it to process mail for multiple domains? Specifically I want mail to domaina.com processed by the .procmailrc in User A's home directory while mail to domainb.com is processed by the .procmailrc in User B's home directory. Exim is already configured to accept mai

Re: [Q] Problem with Video Card Sis6326

2000-08-16 Thread Christoph Simon
> Hi everyone, > > I've change my video card from some kind of S3 to > Sis6326. Now I've problem: Some portions of windows > are "blacked" or "whited" out. Most offen in list of e-mails > in Netscape or in text. > I've tried both XF86_SVGA and XF86_SiS Xservers with the same > result. > I'm using

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 04:48:02AM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > Not to mention that this implies that Mozilla is *slow* (since > it doesn't fit in core), depending on what it is doing (for > basic navigation, it is ok; opening a new window makes it > slow; navigating through the Preferences menus

Re: starting a default window manager

2000-08-16 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:49:23AM -0700, suresh kumar wrote: > How to startup say fvwm95 on login *without* touching > users home director located files such as .xsession > etc. If you want to set the default window manager you can do something like: update-alternatives --config x-window-manage

Re: still problems w/ horde/imp

2000-08-16 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi Ashley, On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Ashley Clark wrote: > > It should have at least: > extension=pgsql.so > extension=imap.so yes! I have all these lines and more. > > and possibly: > extension=ldap.so > > > Did you restart Apache? /etc/init.d/apache restart yes! I even restarted the system

building serial driver.

2000-08-16 Thread Sujit Agarwal
Hello, an anyone tell me how do we build only the serial driver for linux. I know we can build the complete kernel at once, but I want to build only the serial driver. Thanks, --Sujit. <>

Re: starting a default window manager

2000-08-16 Thread Lee Maguire
[2000-08-16] Josep Llaurad? Selvas wrote: > On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, suresh kumar wrote: >> How to startup say fvwm95 on login *without* touching >> users home director located files such as .xsession >> etc. > In a previous release of Debian (Slink) there was a text file > (/etc/X11/wi

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread Preben Randhol
Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 16/08/2000 (11:44) : > may continue to use w3m or links or lynx as our nice text > browsers. All three are packaged in potato. :-) w3m is now my default browser. I use it more than netscape as I'm more concerned about the content of the pages

Re: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

2000-08-16 Thread Wilson Yau
> > ... it looks to me like the SPARC is trying to boot from the network, as > Christopher said, hit Stop+A or Ctrl+Break to get yourself a prompt. On the > Sparc here, I have to type "n" for new command mode", and then "boot /fd" to > boot from the floppy ... > For my machine, it's Ctrl+Break

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread mike
Stormix is an easy way to get Debian potato up and running on your computer with a graphical installer. The Debian/Stormix distribution also includes the newest Helix-gnome and 2.2.16 kernel. You also get a very useful graphical front-end to apt-get and dselect, called Strom Pack

Seriously screwed up PostgreSQL. 8-(

2000-08-16 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. I tried to install PostgreSQL (apt-get install postgresql), but I happened to think about it at the same time that Potato was released, so most of my downloads failed. This wouldn't have been a problem, except that I kept trying, and so I seem to have screwed up the install. I never

bug in xmms´ dependencies?

2000-08-16 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Recently, after the [n]th apt-get upgrade to up-tp-date potato I noticed that xmms no longer worked: [waldner:~] xmms libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I removed&reinstalled xmms, but to no effect, so I looked for the package containing libGL.so.1 (mesa

isdn to modem

2000-08-16 Thread Thorsten Jaecks
hello list, i am currently using debian 2.1 as a mail and www-server for my network at home. because i move from germany to france next week, i have to change from ISDN to a MODEM-connection. can anybody tell me how to change things without destroying the existing isdn-configuration (for when i

Installing Debian into dos filesystem (umsdos)

2000-08-16 Thread Maisenbacher Matthias \(K3/EMW4\) *
Yes, I know it's better to have an own partition for Linux as i do for my private Linux box. But here at work I can't delete or shrink partitions. Therefore I'd like to install Debian (slink or potato) into an already existing dos filesystem with umsdos. What I have: PII 300 / 64 Mb 100 Mb free

Re: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

2000-08-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 09:47:01AM +0100, Wilson Yau wrote: > > > try changing the boot device. Type STOP + a, then "boot floppy". > > Oh...I don't have a 'STOP' key on my Generic 105-key International > (English, UK) keyboard. > > Is there any equivalence, like Esc, Ctrl or Alt, etc? Is there

Re: Exim and multiple domains

2000-08-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
I guess you should go to www.exim.org, somewhere on that site you can find examples on configuring things (a tar.gz), a while ago I also configured exim for multiple domains and one of the examples (I can't recall which one) was a great help! Ron Rademaker On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Alec Smith wrote:

Re: Exim and multiple domains

2000-08-16 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:23:15AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote > Using Exim, how can I configure it to process mail for multiple domains? > Specifically I want mail to domaina.com processed by the .procmailrc in > User A's home directory while mail to domainb.com is processed by the > .procmailrc in

Re: still problems w/ horde/imp

2000-08-16 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:45:27AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote > > Hi Ashley, > > > On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Ashley Clark wrote: > > > > > It should have at least: > > extension=pgsql.so > > extension=imap.so > > yes! I have all these lines and more. > > > > > > and possibly: > > ext

Perl 5.6 deb packages?

2000-08-16 Thread jens
hi there where can I get perl 5.6 debian packages? --

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread ferret
Are there any graphical browsers that will run on the console and render to framebuffer or GGI, and currently work fairly well? I remember hearing about one, but don't remember the name, and I recall at the time it was in alpha/developmental stage. On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On

RE: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: What is stormix Can somebody explain why Stormix only includes 1 CD for download whereas potato is a 3 CDs set? Isn't there something useful in the last 2 CDs that I would like to install? Just wondering before trying... Thanks Thierry Michalowski -Original Message- From

Syquest SparQ IDE Drive in Debian

2000-08-16 Thread Alejandro Arrieta
Hi I have 2 Syquest SparQ IDE drives and i want to use them in my Debian Box. In the hardware howto they are described as supported. Do i have to load a module or do something strange to make them work??? My BIOS recognize them as IDE hdd. But when i try to mount them it says that has a wrong part

debugfs and superblock

2000-08-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
I want to change the filesystem size (according to the superblock), because it's different from the physical size. I guess I should do this with debugfs (or perhaps fsck), if anybody has any ideas on how to do this I'd like to hear them. Ron Rademaker PS. For those who wonder how I managed to get

News Release from IBM FYI...

2000-08-16 Thread John Foster
Hey all; take a look at this! Seems IBM has finally decided to get on the wagon all the way :-) http://www.ibm.com/news/2000/08/153.phtml -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and workstations. We specialize in multiprocessor units. We install Debian Linux at no extra charg

Cyrus on Debian

2000-08-16 Thread Wilson Yau
Hi! Do anyone have any experience of playing Cyrus on Debian? One quick question I would like to ask: What is the max number of users supported and whether every user needs to have an account on that box?

kde mirror

2000-08-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, Sorry but I'm not subscribed to the list, so can you please answer directly? I actually use an rsync connexion to mirror sunsite.tut.fi, unfortunately, this one is hugely sloow, does anybody knows about a *fast*, reliable and up to date mirror (with rsync) for DEBIAN-KDE? Thanks in advan

Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2000-08-16 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > I've got a "funny" thing with Potato. When it has been running for a > while (now 11 days but that happened before as well) and I try to > launch an X client, I got the error message: > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno =

Re: Is Debian Linux 2.2 available in San Jose, Cal.

2000-08-16 Thread kmself
I tried to find online ordering information last night. I'll get it today at the expo and post it. If you have access to a high-speed connection *anywhere*, it's not too touch to D/L Debian over the net. I've done this over T1 and a 56K line, I've heard of people doing it at 28.8. They key is t

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Charles Lewis
RE: What is stormixThe Starter version only has 1 CD whereas the Deluxe version has 4 CDs. I found that the Starter version had everything I needed on it. And once you get it installed you can always change your sources.list to update from their site (all you have to do is uncomment the entries) an

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Denis J. Cirulis
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:07:01PM +0200, Michalowski Thierry wrote: Thierry.Michalowski> Can somebody explain why Stormix only includes 1 CD for download whereas Thierry.Michalowski> potato is a 3 CDs set? Thierry.Michalowski> Isn't there something useful in the last 2 CDs that I would like to i

Re: [Q] Problem with Video Card SiS6326

2000-08-16 Thread Aidan O'Reilly
Alex, Not sure of a solution, but here at work we've had the same problem with those cards (usually when using Netscape to access our intranet site), but running Windows NT! Our W98 machines don't have that problem. Haven't tried it with Debian, mainly using ATI cards there. Good luck! Aidan O'Rei

RE: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Phillip Deackes
Michalowski Thierry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can somebody explain why Stormix only includes 1 CD for download > whereas > potato is a 3 CDs set? > Isn't there something useful in the last 2 CDs that I would like to > install? > Just wondering before trying... Depends. The one-CD Storm distribu

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Greg Strockbine.
I just installed Stormix Linux before work this morning, took around 20-30 minutes. Nice graphical setup tool. Monitor is a snap to set up, just pick it from a list. Last night I down loaded the ISO image from http://www.stormix.com, took about an hour with DSL. Burnt a CD, booted into Stormix

RE: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread mike
The Debian/Stormix i downloaded and burned to cd contains about 1000 pkgs. You can easily search and install any of the remaining 3000+ pkgs from the net with the Storm Package Manager ,which is the graphical front end for Debian apt-get and dselect. Of course you may prefer to h

Re: Netscape Bus Error

2000-08-16 Thread Mark Walter
Hi, > > It means Netscape is crap software. > Not everyone has these kinds of troubles with Netscape. I'm not > saying its great, because it isn't, but neither is it "crap" software. Bus-Error occurs sometimes when you're using Java. Deactivate it and see how it goes. cu -- [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: News Release from IBM FYI...

2000-08-16 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hey all; take a look at this! Seems IBM has finally decided to get on > the wagon all the way :-) > > http://www.ibm.com/news/2000/08/153.phtml Something tells me they're only getting warmed up... -- -

Re: Netscape Bus Error

2000-08-16 Thread kmself
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 04:42:26AM -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > It means Netscape is crap software. > > > Not everyone has these kinds of troubles with Netscape. I'm not > saying its great, because it isn't, but neither is it "crap" software. I stand by

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
mike wrote: > The Debian/Stormix i downloaded and burned to cd contains about > 1000 pkgs. You can easily search and install any of the remaining 3000+ > pkgs from the net with the Storm Package Manager ,which is the graphical > front end for Debian apt-get and dselect. Not that you need

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Phillip Deackes
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not that you need Storm to be able to do this. > I use potato and have installed sl-stormpkg_1.0-1_i386.deb > from the stormix web site and it works fine. Exactly. Greg mentioned earlier in this thread that it is a pity Storm is a commercial distri

Re: still problems w/ horde/imp

2000-08-16 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, John Pearson wrote: > > Two possibilities: > > - php3 can be run either as an interpreter or as an Apache module, >and each has their own config file: /etc/php3/{cgi,apache}/php3.ini >Try checking the *other* config file, in case you are mistaken as to >which yo

xconsole

2000-08-16 Thread john gennard
Am using a second box to learn about Debian Slink which I've used for some months now on my main box. I've never fully understood permissions/ownership/groups etc and so have been experimenting by creating, deleting and so on. At one stage I found my users were both in root group, but was able (e

Unidentified subject!

2000-08-16 Thread Robert Flannery
(Reading database ... 25110 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking apt (from apt_0.3.19_i386.deb) ... dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) dpkg: error processing apt_0.3.19_i386.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 Err

port sentry

2000-08-16 Thread Debian Mail
Hello Debian Users, Can anyone tell me if they are using port sentry with potato 2.2 to any success? I was hoping that there would be a package *.deb for it soon, but it looks like there is none in the making. Just wondering if this program is difficult to install. Thanks, Debian Ghost.

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread romeu
How can I burn the CD, after downloading the image? Just copy the file to the CD (.iso extension?) ? Is there a special software to do so? I'm using Windows. mike

Re: Perl 5.6 deb packages?

2000-08-16 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi there > > where can I get perl 5.6 debian packages? > www.activestate.com They are not Debian policy compliant (install into /usr/local) and will not satisfy dependencies for other Debian packages which require perl but otherwise work well

Re: mutt -- in color

2000-08-16 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:42:24PM -0600, Rev GRC Sperry wrote: > Here's my color section of my .muttrc: [snip] hmm. i must have some odd video settings. i used your settings verbatim [thanks!], and i do see bold items here and there, but still no color. (mc has the same trouble -- monochrome and

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Greg Strockbine.
I used Adaptec's Easy CD creator on win98 to burn my stormix disk. You want the copy disk image option and you have to specify ISO. - greg s. On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How can I burn the CD, after downloading the image? Just copy the file to > the CD (.iso extension?) ?

Re: port sentry

2000-08-16 Thread Vee-Eye
There is a (non-free) package for woody: dpkg -s portsentry: Package: portsentry Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: non-free/net Installed-Size: 121 Maintainer: Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.0-1.4 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), netbase, sysklogd, procps, debconf,

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:04:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Are there any graphical browsers that will run on the console and render > to framebuffer or GGI, and currently work fairly well? I remember hearing > about one, but don't remember the name, and I recall at the time it wa

Re: OFFTOPIC connection attempts to napster port

2000-08-16 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 03:19:21AM +, Pollywog wrote: > Today, I have been seeing many (10 or so today) attempts to connect to my > napster port (6699). What could that be about? Could it be people trying to > make sure napster is really shut down? I have never run a napster server. D

compiling Pine in Debian 2.2

2000-08-16 Thread John Anderson
I have been trying to install Pine with unsuccessful results. I have compiler output, but I don't know how to transfer it to this computer from mine at home ( I connect via telnet). The error message I get is: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [pine

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
=?iso-8859-15?Q?Andr=E9_Dahlqvist?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > browser you can do so. I am pretty sure that we will see a browser-only > debian package of Mozilla pretty soon, and a mailnews package for those > who want that. Looking at mail headers over the years have tought me The current mo

Re: isdn to modem

2000-08-16 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 04:06:08PM +0200, Thorsten Jaecks wrote: > i am currently using debian 2.1 as a mail and www-server for my network at > home. > because i move from germany to france next week, i have to change from ISDN > to a MODEM-connection. > > can anybody tell me how to change

Re: Perl 5.6 deb packages?

2000-08-16 Thread Bernhard Josef Rieder
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:06:25PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi there > > where can I get perl 5.6 debian packages? > check out http://www.daft.com/pub/debian/experimental for perl 5.6 packages A list of inofficial APT-sources can be found at http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/de

Re: OFFTOPIC connection attempts to napster port

2000-08-16 Thread Pollywog
On 16-Aug-2000 Marko Cehaja wrote: > Dear > > On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 03:19:21AM +, Pollywog wrote: >> Today, I have been seeing many (10 or so today) attempts to connect to my >> napster port (6699). What could that be about? Could it be people trying >> to >> make sure napster is really s

Exim configuration

2000-08-16 Thread Alberto Pereira
Hi All, Someone knows how i can set exim to when a e-mail arrives for a unknow user its transfer to a mailbox of a know user. I try to put lsearch* in exim.conf and *: userknow in the aliases file. But all e-mails comes its tranfer to this userknow!! I want to transfer only the unknow users to thi

Re: compiling Pine in Debian 2.2

2000-08-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Yeah, pine uses ncurses. You should go to http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine/ to download unofficial .debs of Pine 4.21. Noah On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, John Anderson wrote: > I have been trying to install Pine with unsuccessful results. I have > compiler output,

Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2000-08-16 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Mirko Parthey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 > > ls -l /tmp/.X11-unix > xhost > xauth list > > and post the re

Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning

2000-08-16 Thread Andries . Brouwer
I happened to come across this mail - don't know about any earlier discussion. >> Did you try passing the disk geometry to the kernel at boot time? >> e.g. using lilo: >> LILO: somekernelname sdb=14100,24,424 This doesnt work. When you specify C,H,S (which almost never is a good idea), S can be

Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2000-08-16 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > Well, in the meantime I restarted the X server -- needed to do some > real work[tm]! I send nonetheless the info -- if you can spot > something wrong... > > $ xauth list > aiglenoir/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 17afba42b84d5952fce82446e7c3698e >

Linux Users Forum and Awards Presentations - 30 Oct 2000 - Wash. D.C. AWARDS... EXHIBIT AND SPONSOR OPPORTUNITIES

2000-08-16 Thread David C. Dickson
To:debian-user@lists.debian.org First Annual Linux User's Training Conference And Awards Presentation "New Enterprise Solutions Through Linux" October 30, 2000 Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington D.C. Atrium Ballroom PLEASE PASS THIS

(3Com) Ethernet card 100Base-only capable?

2000-08-16 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi guys I got myself a second box onto which I just installed potato! Yippie! I have one problem, though: the network card. :( Here is what dmesg says: Linux version 2.2.15 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 2313 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #1 Thu Jun 1 10:47:16 EST 2000 Detected 132632631 Hz

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread John Griffiths
even easier... most cd-burner software in windows world will assocaite the .iso extension just right click on the file from your file manager (windows explorer.. whatever) At 12:35 PM 8/16/2000 -0700, Greg Strockbine. wrote: >I used Adaptec's Easy CD creator on win98 >to burn my stormix disk. Y

webdav for debian ?

2000-08-16 Thread Adam Shand
does anyone know of a recent package for libapache-mod-dav? from searching around on the web i found: http://www.debian.org/~flight/libapache-mod-dav/ but it's an older version which requires a version of apache < 1.3.7-0. thanks, adam.

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:50:04PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > The current mozilla Debian package (M17-1 here) *is* a browser-only > version (unfortunately, it has no themes either). Someone said that this was not actually the case, and stated that it seamed more like a permission thing on

Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2000-08-16 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Mirko Parthey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry, I should have told you to censor the keys, because they are > sensitive info. :-( For your safety, I strongly recommend restarting > the X server on *all* machines mentioned in your listing (if you > haven't done yet after "x

Re: iBCS for 2.0.38 kernel

2000-08-16 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 02:15:17PM +0200, Gerjan Teselink wrote: > fix it manualy.. And there are kernel binary's for 2.0.33-35 but not for > 2.0.36-38 > Thank take the sources of iBCS for slink, take your kernel 2.0.38 or whatever as sources, and compile it. Please note my previous messa

unpartitioning with rescue disk

2000-08-16 Thread Ed Burton
I tried to partition with the Rescue disk, then lost my Win32 MBR. I am using EZ_Bios (installed from floppy) from Western Digital (I have a new 10.2g WD drive), so luckily I was able to restore the MBR. My Award BIOS cannot read above 2gb I wanted a 2gig partition for Debian (Potato, frozen, d

Re: webdav for debian ?

2000-08-16 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > does anyone know of a recent package for libapache-mod-dav? from > searching around on the web i found: > > http://www.debian.org/~flight/libapache-mod-dav/ > > but it's an older version which requires a version of apache < 1

Re: webdav for debian ?

2000-08-16 Thread Adam Shand
> I have a libdav.so that I custom-compiled for my Debian potato web > server running Apache 1.3.9. > > Should I send it to you? It needs the package libxmltok1 to run. no thanks, i just finished installing the module from source, i was impressed at how nicely it was put together. the only tri

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