Re: [Q] Problem with Video Card SiS6326 - SOLVED

2000-08-18 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Thanks everybody for response. I'v esolved this problem by disabling acceleration (New type of acceleration according to XF86_SVGA output on stderr)

potato netatalk/lpr problem

2000-08-18 Thread Ron Hale-Evans
After upgrading to Debian 2.2 the day it became stable, I ceased being able to print to my AppleTalk printer. Tonight I realised my AppleTalk module had been deinstalled, so I reinstalled it, and atalkd seems to be running fine, but I'm still having printing problems. papstatus shows the computer

Re: MONOCHROME mutt/mc, COLOR ls/elvis ...?

2000-08-18 Thread Dave Thayer
Mutt is pretty sensitive to terminal type, Try setenv TERM=xterm-color or setenv TERM=xterm-debian This is what I had to do to get colors under X. your pal dave -- Dave Thayer Denver, Colorado USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Soundblaster 64AWE problems

2000-08-18 Thread John Reinke
Well, from the suggestions I've gotten from people, it looked easy enough to get going, but I don't believe everything is correct. I've dumped about all the info I could think of below, in the hope that someone notices any problem(s) I may have. Also, what is the best way to test to see if it's wo

Re: Soundblaster 64AWE problems

2000-08-18 Thread Hans
> >- >/etc/isapnp.conf (skipping comments): > >(READPORT 0x0273) >(ISOLATE PRESERVE) >(IDENTIFY *) Get rid of the following two lines and try again (that is do another isapnp > /etc/isapnp.conf and then reboot. Check the boot messages for sb recognition. Might first want to unload the modules

Re: X can't find the mouse!

2000-08-18 Thread Morten Liebach
On 17, aug, 2000 at 09:30:28 -0700, Trevor Ramoutar wrote: > So I installed Debian 2.2. Everything went well but after the installation > I'm at the prompt and I type in startx and I get: > > Fatal Server Error: > Cannot open mouse (no such file or directory) > > and I don't know what to do! H

RE: X can't find the mouse!

2000-08-18 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 18-Aug-2000 Trevor Ramoutar wrote: > So I installed Debian 2.2. Everything went well but after the installation > I'm at the prompt and I type in startx and I get: > > Fatal Server Error: > Cannot open mouse (no such file or directory) > > and I don't know what to do! Help! You should con

RE: Re: What is stormix

2000-08-18 Thread tjipmeijer
Origineel bericht From: Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 17 Aug 2000 11:40:03 +0200 In-R I just tried the newest stormpkg_2.6.deb (without sl-) -- very fine tool indeed (needs Storm's gtksu, a graphical UI for su, so you can use stormpkg as a n

Resetting dselect

2000-08-18 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all Does anyone know a quick way to unselect (hold I guess) all the packages in dselect (as opposed to going through the whole list and hitting "=")??? thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDO

Re: [Debian]:Re: grub fuer Anfaenger

2000-08-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wird da noch jemand schlau draus? Wenn du grub 0.5.95 installiert hast, versuch's doch mal mit dem grub Installationsprogramm (man/info grub-install macht schlauer): # grub-install /dev/sda (oder welche Partition du nun haben willst, da werde ich a

Re: Resetting dselect

2000-08-18 Thread Craig McPherson
Highlight the very top entry in dselect, "- All packages -", and press the = key. Pressing an action key when highlighting any category heading applies that action to ALL packages in that category, and "- All packages -" is a heading that contains every package. Hope that helps. On Fri, Aug 18,

RE: Resetting dselect

2000-08-18 Thread Andrew McRobert
thanks, but that doesn't seem to be working ... (I'm still getting about 2 ga-zillion packages to install) Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 647

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-18 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:54:42PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote > On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:17:28AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > For some reason that I do not understand the authors of the "Hrad Disk > > Upgrade > > Mini How-To" claim about this or very similar one that > > > > Previous ver

Re: Apache -- SSL and normal on same system?

2000-08-18 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "kmself" == kmself writes: kmself> On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:19:20AM -0300, John Ackermann wrote: >> I've been running Apache successfully for a long time, and >> would like to add a secured virtual site to my collection. I >

Re: News Release from IBM FYI...

2000-08-18 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > This intrigued me: > > "Recently, IBM announced: Linux running on a wrist watch." > > Never could find a link for it... The link is: http://lwn.net/daily/linuxwatch_big.php3 Greetings, Holger

Firewall security and a RAID question

2000-08-18 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello lists, I have two questions: 1) I plan to install a small home LAN, so all machines can access the internet via dial up. The obvious solution is, of course, IP masquarading. The server that acts as a router will also serve as a NIS and NFS server and possibly local mail and DNS server. I

Re: Procmail w/Pine

2000-08-18 Thread Jack Morgan
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: >Your problem is not with procmail, but with pine. > >Under M(ain) --> S(etup) --> C(onfig), you want to put a nice little X >next to enable-incoming-folders. After you do this, up near the top, there >is a spot (incoming-archive-folders) where you want

Unreal Tournament + debian 2.2 ??

2000-08-18 Thread Chris . Smith
Hi, Does anyone know if Unreal Tournament works without too much 'frigging' like I had to do with SuSE? I'm totally fed up with SuSE changing everything I do to it, so I'm switching to Debian (now we have a 2.2.x kernel!). I've already searched the archives btw. I'm running potato and a Voodoo

Debian 2.2 setup problem

2000-08-18 Thread Conry, Lance
Hi list, Firstly, let me apologize if this shouldn't be posted here, if so, please let me know, and point me to a more appropriate source. I'm trying to set up debain 2.2. When getting to the stage where I make the hard disk bootable, I says it can't do it. I've tried using an 8mb partition (pri

Re: Emacs and ISO-8859-1 characters

2000-08-18 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:50:48PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > No, I haven't seen that. But what, in precise terms, does > "will not accept" mean? Does your computer beep? Does Emacs > segfault? Does it get your computer on fire? :-) This actually varies a bit depending on which character I try

Re: CONFIG_KMOD in kernel

2000-08-18 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:43:34PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > Out of curiosity, should I have CONFIG_KMOD on or off when configuring > kernel 2.2.17? If you want modules to be auto-inserted on demand I would suggest doing so, yes. > I have CONFIG_MODULES=y. Is CONFIG_KMOD the same sort of thin

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"tjipmeijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can run stormpkg as root, howewer using gtksu with stormpkg as normal > user failed. > No xterm appears! do you know how to use gtksu If you don't want to start stormpkg via the menu (it's both in the Gnome menu and in the normal Debian menu under App

RE: Bad Samba filesharing problem

2000-08-18 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: Bad Samba filesharing problem Could it be that stuff? Samba FAQ : http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/FAQ/#49 Please tell us your samba version, could be more useful. Otherwise, I think you have a super-optimized server (altough I don't know if kernel 2.4 has perf problems or not.)

Re: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

2000-08-18 Thread Wilson Yau
Hi! need your help again! Floppy installation of Debian was almost successfully finished, but the SUN box was not able to boot directly from the hard disk to continue the second part of installation. I have consulted the docs "Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 For SPARC" and "OpenBoot 3.x Command R

Support for ATI XPERT 2000 under Debian 2.1r4??

2000-08-18 Thread Conrad Delbert Seaman
I'm a newbie to unix, and I'm trying to get my X86 up and running, but I can't because there is no support for the ATI XPERT 2000 video card. I have DEBIAN 2.1r4 and the closest support seems to be the ATI all in wonder? Aparently there is support around for the XPERT 98 but I havn't found anything

Re: Bad Samba filesharing problem

2000-08-18 Thread Christoph Simon
> The situation here is that we have 1 Linux server running Samba, > one Windows NT client, and a scad of Windows 9x machines. The > problem is that filesharing between the server and the NT machine, > and between the server and one of the Windows machines, is having > problems. Copying a file fr

Re: Support for ATI XPERT 2000 under Debian 2.1r4??

2000-08-18 Thread Conrad Delbert Seaman
I'm a newbie to unix, and I'm trying to get my X86 up and running, but I can't because there is no support for the ATI XPERT 2000 video card. I have DEBIAN 2.1r4 and the closest support seems to be the ATI all in wonder? Aparently there is support around for the XPERT 98 but I havn't found anything

Re: Hardware Modems

2000-08-18 Thread romeu
It's not PCI. It's ISA ! It's a hardware modem for sure. The DOS config doesn't appear to work. I even made a firmware upgrade (I'm really desperate). Rob Clark (http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html) told me to use isapnptools : http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/ I'll try it out

problem getting packages for slink

2000-08-18 Thread Tam, Vincent
Hello, We have some servers still running old version of slink and don't want them to potato yet. However we still want to update our slink distribution. After we change the apt-get sources.list to: deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian slink main contrib non-free And updated the package information,

Sendmail question

2000-08-18 Thread Denis J. Cirulis
Hello ! Sorry for off-topic question. I use Exim and Postfix and now i must install sendmail on one of my servers so the question is How can i set the proper return-path header in sendmail ? -- My other computer is a 4000 node Beowulf cluster.

Re: Debian 2.2 setup problem

2000-08-18 Thread Ron Rademaker
What kind of errors do you get? I guess you get the problem when installing lilo, did you set the boot-flag on the partition (when partitioning the hd)? You don't need to load any drivers to complete the installation (except the driver for your network if you install over a network). Ron Rademake

Re: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

2000-08-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:46:44PM +0100, Wilson Yau wrote: > Hi! need your help again! > > Floppy installation of Debian was almost successfully finished, but the > SUN box was not able to boot directly from the hard disk to continue the > second part of installation. > > I have consulted the do

Re: Problem with a 2 GB+ Fujitsu SCSI disk, model M2952SYU

2000-08-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Alain Reinhardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have a 2 GB+ Fujitsu SCSI disk, model M2952SYU, dated 1997, that I have > "liberated" from a clumsy 9x system. I have several of these in their E configuration (i.e. SCA). > Under that system and also when I used it > with different Linux distrib

Re: MONOCHROME mutt/mc, COLOR ls/elvis ...?

2000-08-18 Thread Christopher Mosley
Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:25:10AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: >> Will Trillich wrote: >> > hmm. i must have some odd video settings. i used your .muttrc >> > settings verbatim [thanks!], and i do see bold items here and >> > there, but still no color.

Please help with command "man"

2000-08-18 Thread A. Tuazon
Hi, I'm a Linux newbie using version 2.2 of Debian GNU/Linux on an old 486 with 16megs of ram and 268 megs of HD space. I just installed Linux and read the tutorial found on-line at the Debian web site. While reading through the tutorial I came across the command "man" and it said to try the comm

Fetchmail / procmail / othermail

2000-08-18 Thread Geir Erik Nielsen
Hello, I have a new little problem that might be of interest here; I have a virtual domain mailbox that drops all the mail to a domain into it. Er...it is a pop mailbox that receives all the mail for a whole domain. Something will download this mail and distribute it locally once it is downloaded.

Re: Please help with command "man"

2000-08-18 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:07:51AM -0400, A. Tuazon wrote: > Could someone please help me and tell me how do I get the "man" command > working or installed into my system. Thank you ! 'man' is in the package 'man-db' - install this via 'apt-get install man-db'. > P.S. I checked the /usr directo

Re: Please help with command "man"

2000-08-18 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "A. Tuazon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: at> I typed in the command and I got the message " bash : man : at> command not found ". I went on IRC to the debian channel and the at> people there told me to go to logon root and type the command at> "apt-get install man" or "apt-get install m

Re: Procmail w/Pine

2000-08-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I looked at your .pinerc and it doesn't look like you've got an incoming folder for zope defined. Here is the relevant portion of my .pinerc: incoming-folders="Debian" mail/archive/debian-user, "work" mail/archive/work, "bugtraq" mail/archive/bug

xfs-xtt or xfstt --which font server for potato

2000-08-18 Thread mike
My recent Debian potato installed xfs-xtt as the font server. I also see another very similar font server pkg named xfstt. Whats the difference and which is better? Just looking for some clues before i make the changes. On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Date: Thu, 17 A

Re: Procmail w/Pine (solved)

2000-08-18 Thread Jack Morgan
Problem solved! Many Thanks to Nicole and Noah Pine rocks! Jack Morgan Debian GNU/Linux Enthusiast [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mandinka.org

Re: Fetchmail / procmail / othermail (solved)

2000-08-18 Thread Geir Erik Nielsen
I actually managed to solve this, so if I can help anyone, please ask me. -Geir On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Geir Erik Nielsen wrote: > Hello, > I have a new little problem that might be of interest here; > > I have a virtual domain mailbox that drops all the mail to a domain into it. > Er...it is a p

problems upgrading standard kernel to 2.2.17-ide

2000-08-18 Thread Dave Bresson
So with the new release of potato, i've gone and done a clean install onto a new machine of mine. The problem at hand (i think) stems from the fact that this machine has a HighPoint 66 card, so i thought it ideal to install the special 2.2.17-ide kernel included with potato. So during the fresh

Re: KDE-->GNOME, how to switch

2000-08-18 Thread Daniel Reuter
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, hogan wrote: > Check /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager symlink.. Or create a file called .xsession in your home-directory and put a line in it: gnome-session Regards, Daniel > > - Original Message - > From: "Greg Strockbine." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent:

Re: problems upgrading standard kernel to 2.2.17-ide

2000-08-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Dave Bresson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > So with the new release of potato, i've gone and done a clean install onto > a new machine of mine. The problem at hand (i think) stems from the fact > that this machine has a HighPoint 66 card, so i thought it ideal to > install the special 2.2.17-id

Re: adding modules into Debian 2.2

2000-08-18 Thread Shaul Karl
> I just upgraded from Debian 2.2 using the idepci disks. After > installation I noticed that there is no lp module for the parallel printer > port. The Debian website talks about adding additional modules into the > kernel after the installation. Can you point me to the exact location in www

ftape on woody

2000-08-18 Thread Spinfire Magenta
debian-user-ers, I have a generic QIC-80 tape drive which I know works with Linux/Ftape, as it was installed and working with a redhat 5.2 system. However, i now wish to get it working in my Debian Woody system, and have encountered many problems. The drive is the only device hooked up to the flo

Pilotes ATI

2000-08-18 Thread dfgxdgh nxhxbnf
Ou puis-je trouver des pilotes pour une carte ATI Rage 128 GL pour LINUX Debian ? Merci à l'avance. __ Boîte aux lettres - Caramail - http://www.caramail.com

Procmail handling

2000-08-18 Thread Christopher W. Curtis
I'm trying to get procmail to execute an external program and it doesn't seem to want to do so. Here is a recipe snippet: :0 c | echo foo > /tmp/foo And the output (with VERBOSE=1): procmail: Executing " echo foo > /tmp/foo" procmail: Error while writing to " echo foo > /tmp/foo" procmail: Assi

Re: MONOCHROME mutt/mc, COLOR ls/elvis ...?

2000-08-18 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:25:10AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > >> Will Trillich wrote: > >> > hmm. i must have some odd video settings. i used your .muttrc > >> > settings verbatim [thanks!],

Re: Procmail handling

2000-08-18 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:12:36PM -0400, Christopher W. Curtis wrote: > I'm trying to get procmail to execute an external program and it doesn't > seem to want to do so. Here is a recipe snippet: > > :0 c > | echo foo > /tmp/foo > > And the output (with VERBOSE=1): > > procmail: Executing " ec

Re: Pilotes ATI

2000-08-18 Thread Daniel Reuter
Salut, Si tu demande un "X-Server" pour ta carte, c'est dans le package xserver-rage128 (distribution potato). Tu peux le trouver à ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/xserver-rage128_0.990906-4.deb P.S.: Excuse mon francais, c'est pas très bien. Daniel On Fri, 18 Aug

Re: problems upgrading standard kernel to 2.2.17-ide

2000-08-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Please read /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.headers for an explanation of why /usr/src/linux does not exist. And yes, I do think that recompiling your patched ide kernel, and compiling the new 2com module with it are your best options. manoj -- The program isn't debu

Re: NFS'ing two Debian boxes

2000-08-18 Thread Sven Burgener
Thanks to all who replied. Good help. Sven -- "{sum += $2} END {print sum}", said Tom awkwardly.

Re: Please help with command "man"

2000-08-18 Thread Ron Rademaker
Try apt-get update before you try to install man. Ron Rademaker On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, A. Tuazon wrote: > Hi, I'm a Linux newbie using version 2.2 of Debian GNU/Linux on an old 486 > with 16megs of ram and 268 megs of HD space. I just installed Linux and > read the tutorial found on-line at the D

Re: Please help with command "man"

2000-08-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Please help with command "man" Date: Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:07:51AM -0400 In reply to:A. Tuazon Quoting A. Tuazon([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, I'm a Linux newbie using version 2.2 of Debian GNU/Linux on an old 486 > with 16megs of ram and 268 megs of HD space. I just inst

Re: problem getting packages for slink

2000-08-18 Thread Tres Hofmeister
On 2000.08.18, Vincent Tam wrote: : : We have some servers still running old version of slink and don't : want them to potato yet. However we still want to update our slink : distribution. : After we change the apt-get sources.list to: : : deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian slink main contrib non-fr

Help again with command "man".

2000-08-18 Thread A. Tuazon
Well I just found out why I can't use the method : apt-get install man-db manpages or all the other versions of that string. The machine running Debian is NOT connected to the internet. However, when I was installing the OS via floppies only, shouldn't the installation have installed "man" for me

Re: Support for ATI XPERT 2000 under Debian 2.1r4??

2000-08-18 Thread cls-colo spgs
Conrad Delbert Seaman wrote: > [snip] > ...I'm trying to get my X86 up and running, but > I can't because there is no support for the ATI XPERT 2000 video card. > [snip] > > any help would be appreciated... > > thanks in advance > Sincerely > Conrad Delbert Seaman > hi, i have an ati xpert 98

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-18 Thread Phillip Deackes
Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "tjipmeijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I can run stormpkg as root, howewer using gtksu with stormpkg as > normal > > user failed. > > No xterm appears! do you know how to use gtksu > > If you don't want to start stormpkg via the menu (it's

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-18 Thread cxpx
It's because root doesn't have 'rights' to your X display. You can't run any X programs as root if you su to root when you are logged into X as yourself. The command: xhost +host_name typed in as your user will allow root access to it. Be aware that I believe this is a security risk (anyone?)

Re: problems upgrading standard kernel to 2.2.17-ide

2000-08-18 Thread Dave Bresson
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, David Wright wrote: > > a) If you're compiling a kernel module, you need kernel headers. > When people write /usr/src/linux, they really mean "the kernel headers > for the running kernel". Okay, i *do* have the kernel headers in /usr/src, (/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.17/inc

RESOLVED: Re: KDE-->GNOME, how to switch

2000-08-18 Thread Greg Strockbine.
I figured out the answer to my own question, "How to switch from KDE to GNOME with the latest Storm release". The login dialog box has a little menu running across the top, and one of the items is "Session", from which you can choose: KDE GNOME Sawfish Debian it was that easy. There

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-18 Thread Brian E. Ermovick
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:17:08PM +1000, Bill wrote: > Hi All, > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror > a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact > > Thanks in Advance > Bill I've remapped partitions or even upgraded across drives ju

Re: Hardware Modems

2000-08-18 Thread David Teague
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [about hardware modems that don't work under linux and why.] Romeu: Well /explitive censored/ That is just awful. My 33.6 Modem says I get 66K throughput when compression is ineffect too. You ask "what is an oxymoron" a self contradiction. Oxy

Re: Duplicating a file system / re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-18 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:38:20AM +1200, Dan Griffiths wrote: > This command will take care of duplicating everything including device > files and permissions: > find -mount | cpio -dumpv I have a (bigger) SCSI disk that I want to move my system onto. (Currently my system lives on a smaller ID

Re: Help again with command "man".

2000-08-18 Thread Ron Rademaker
You should have man, but if you don't you can download the appropiate package (man-db), just go to a local mirror, or if you don't know any to ftp.debian.org and download the file man-db_.deb, get it to your system and do: dpkg -i man-db_.deb (of course replace by the version of man-db you've down

Re: Hardware Modems

2000-08-18 Thread Cliff Wise
An oxymoron is an element in classical rhetoric in which opposites are combined to sharpen a point, not to contradiuct it. An example would be *His empassioned plea was met by thunderous silence*. Giant shrimp probably exist as does the oft quoted non-oxymoron military intelligence. - Original

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-18 Thread Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's because root doesn't have 'rights' to your X display. You can't > run any > X programs as root if you su to root when you are logged into X as > yourself. No - this wasn't the issue. I installed the new version of Stormpkg and the gtksu window didn't appear when I

rm user

2000-08-18 Thread cls-colo spgs
debs, what's the command for removing user accts? ia, t. bentley taylor. //

RE: rm user

2000-08-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Aug-2000 cls-colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > what's the command for removing user accts? > userdel or deluser (equiv of useradd and adduser). Quick hint: at the bottom of man pages there are oftens references to similar commands. These two are listed in the man page for adduser and userad

RE: rm user

2000-08-18 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 19-Aug-2000 cls-colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > what's the command for removing user accts? userdel

tty-ldisc-3 module - anyone know what it is?

2000-08-18 Thread bsamuels
Just noticed the modprobe message in /var/log/daemon.log as shown below: Aug 15 20:34:36 DATAMAN nmbd[191]: Aug 15 20:34:36 DATAMAN nmbd[191]: * Aug 15 21:15:00 DATAMAN modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tty-ldisc-3 Aug 15 21:15:06 DATAMAN modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tt

USB with potato

2000-08-18 Thread Tibor D.
Hello, Could anyone give me a hint where to enable USB-support? Finally I'm test-installing Debian 2.2 (until know I sticked with deb2.1 with the 2.0 Kernel), I just reconfigured/recompiled my kernel, but I never found something (even with "prompt for experimental drivers = yes"). It's for an USB-m

Re: USB with potato

2000-08-18 Thread Cameron Matheson
You'll have to get a patch for the kernel. I can't remember the URL, but you could probably find it if you searched for 'USB patch for kernel' on google. Cameron Matheson "Tibor D." wrote: > > Hello, > Could anyone give me a hint where to enable USB-support? Finally I'm > test-installing Debia

Re: USB with potato

2000-08-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Tibor D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could anyone give me a hint where to enable USB-support? Finally I'm > test-installing Debian 2.2 (until know I sticked with deb2.1 with the > 2.0 Kernel), I just reconfigured/recompiled my kernel, but I never found > something (even with "prompt for experim

ports in use

2000-08-18 Thread Owen G. Emry
Sorry for such a lame-brained question. What tool can I use to see which ports various processes are listening on? Is there a good place where I can find information like this without cluttering up this mailing list? Thanks in advance, oge

Re: ports in use

2000-08-18 Thread pollywog
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 18:18:33 -0400, Owen G. Emry said: > Sorry for such a lame-brained question. > > What tool can I use to see which ports various processes are listening on? > > Is there a good place where I can find information like this without > cluttering up this mailing list? Have

Console MPEG video

2000-08-18 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, does anybody know how it is possible in Debian (Potato or Woody) to watch MPEG videos in reasonable quality on Linux console (with SVGAlib and SVGA-Textmode). I have tried framebuffer already, but the good video picture is at expense of numerous other problems (e.g. the non-functioning of zgv

Re: ports in use

2000-08-18 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Owen On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 06:18:33PM -0400, Owen G. Emry wrote: > Sorry for such a lame-brained question. Better than not asking at all. :) > What tool can I use to see which ports various processes are listening on? netstat is quite informative: # netstat --help usage: netstat [-veen

Fwd: Newbie questions

2000-08-18 Thread Nianwei Xing
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/--- Begin Message --- From: "nw x" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: redhat-install-list@redhat.com To: redhat-

Re: Support for ATI XPERT 2000 under Debian 2.1r4??

2000-08-18 Thread Torrey Peacock
I have the XPert2000 Pro, and it is working fine with X. The Rage 128 chipset has been supported in XFree86 since version 3.3.6, so it is definitely compatible with "potato" Debian. On my system, I could not use the XF86Setup utility successfully. I used xf86config instead, selected the SVGA

Re: Firewall security and a RAID question

2000-08-18 Thread Matt Stegman
Hello, Viktor, > 1) I plan to install a small home LAN, so all machines can access the > internet via dial up. The obvious solution is, of course, IP > masquarading. The server that acts as a router will also serve as a NIS > and NFS server and possibly local mail and DNS server. Is it save with

Re: Fwd: Newbie questions

2000-08-18 Thread C. Falconer
You're not going to get a huge response by asking the Debian mailing list about how to make users under Redhat. Now, if it was debian I'd run this command: useradd -u uid [-g group] [-G group,...] [-d home] [-s shell] [-c comment] [-m [-k template]] [-f inactive] [-e expir

getting ftape/zftape module to load automatically

2000-08-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
Where should I look for documentation on what I need to set up to get the ftape and/or zftape modules to load automatically when I try to access /dev/ftape (/dev/*qrt0; major 27, minor ...)? Do I need to add some alias to /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modules/aliases? Also, is this behavior correc

Re: ports in use

2000-08-18 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 06:18:33PM -0400, Owen G. Emry wrote: > Sorry for such a lame-brained question. > > What tool can I use to see which ports various processes are listening on? lsof, in addition to netstat. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.

Re: still-extant potato boot problems (kmod/runany modprobe loop)

2000-08-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Wookey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sun 13 Aug, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > Are there any fixes (or even diagnoses) yet for the following problem? > > Has anyone else even seen these symptoms? > > >- "start ppp0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not supported" > > ... > > This is a 'standar

Re: rm user

2000-08-18 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 08:38:21PM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > what's the command for removing user accts? It's often better to *leave* the account intact, but to disable access through it. This provides context for files and other residual data from the user, which otherwise appear

Re: adding modules into Debian 2.2

2000-08-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: "John Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I just upgraded from Debian 2.2 using the idepci disks. After > installation I noticed that there is no lp module for the parallel printer > port. The Debian website talks about adding additional modules into the > kernel after the installation.

Re: ### a problem with installing Deb 2.1

2000-08-18 Thread Open Source
I'm using an Atapi IDE CD-R drive which I am booting from with the Debian 2.1 bootable CD-Rom (it came with the O'Reilly book). Is this the correct CD I should be doing the install from? When I boot up, the messages fly by pretty fast... how and where do I look to see which dev the cd-r is on?

Re: problems upgrading standard kernel to 2.2.17-ide

2000-08-18 Thread Dave Bresson
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, David Wright wrote: > > a) If you're compiling a kernel module, you need kernel headers. > When people write /usr/src/linux, they really mean "the kernel headers > for the running kernel". Okay, i *do* have the kernel headers in /usr/src, (/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.17/inc

transferrate problems

2000-08-18 Thread Florian Petri
Hello! On monday I dated my slink up to the actual woody version via apt. My linux box is connected via a small baynetworks router in the local lan to the internet. Since my update I have a performance problem with data transfers, I don't started myself (eg. daily uucp polls via ip [uucico] or

Re: Soundblaster 64AWE problems

2000-08-18 Thread John Reinke
I went ahead and commented out the VERBOSITY and CONFLICT lines from /etc/isapnp.conf. I recompiled my kernel to add MIDI once I was at it, and rebooted. I'm able to play *.au files by catting them to /dev/audio, but that is the only way I can get sound. Whenever I try playing sounds in Enlightenm

Re: Re: rm user

2000-08-18 Thread Tal Danzig
Or, if you want to completly purge the user and the users home dir: userdel -r Tal On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:39:51 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 08:38:21PM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote: > > debs, > > > > what's the command for removing user accts? > > It's ofte

Re: Re: ### a problem with installing Deb 2.1

2000-08-18 Thread Tal Danzig
You should really be using potato (Debian 2.2). It is much more up to date, (and it should auto detect your CD) Or, you may want to go for something like Libranet (debian potato based), with an easier instal. Tall On 18 Aug 2000 16:59:45 -0700, Open Source said: > I'm using an Atapi IDE CD-R

gnokii

2000-08-18 Thread John Conover
Has anyone used gnokii to link Linux through Nokia cell phone to the Internet? Thanks, John -- John ConoverTel. 408.370.2688 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 631 Lamont Ct. Cel. 408.772.7733 Campbell, CA 95008 Fax. 408.379.9602 http://www.johncon.com

Selt-built kernel - complaints about modules!

2000-08-18 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello I have problems with my freshly baked kernel / modules: when booting, just after the "Calculating module dependencies..." message I get errors complaining about it not finding the modules smbfs, vfat, this, that and some more... (I also mv'ed /etc/init.d/kerneld to .old) With the standard

mozilla M-17

2000-08-18 Thread Michael Soulier
So I upgraded mozilla to M-17, and all it does is segfault. Has anyone had any luck with this package? Mike "To listen to the words of the learned, and to instill into others the lessons of science, is better than religious exercises." -- Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

Re: mozilla M-17

2000-08-18 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: > So I upgraded mozilla to M-17, and all it does is segfault. Has > anyone had any luck with this package? I ran it for a few minutes only while I was downloading the nightly snapshot. This was a week ago and it seem to run OK. ...RickM...

Re: mozilla M-17

2000-08-18 Thread pollywog
runs okay for me too. I even installed Galeon. -- Andrew On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 20:19:40 -0600 (MDT), Rick Macdonald said: > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: > > >So I upgraded mozilla to M-17, and all it does is segfault. Has > > anyone had any luck with this package? > > I

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