Re: easy numlock question

2000-08-29 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 07:48:09PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 07:56:56PM -0400, Mark Simos wrote: > > is there any way to make numlock on at boot every time? > > Configure this in your system BIOS. that does not work with GNU/Linux, the kernel loads its own keyb

cfingerd

2000-08-29 Thread Tomislav Renic
Greetings, I'm at my whit's end trying to figure out why my machines reject any finger requests from outside my domain. I've tried just about everything I can think of, and can't find anymore man pages or anything that will help me. Thanks for the help, and please cc me at this address as I'm on

Where is COM 5 ?

2000-08-29 Thread Jonathan Neufeld
After installing Debian I installed a new USR Modem (not a winmodem, I'm sure) in one of my PCI slots. I have an Asus K7V Athlon board with only PCI, if it makes any difference. I have my BIOS handling Plug-n-play, and Win98 found the modem and went about installing the correct driver. Windows sa

Re: Where is COM 5 ?

2000-08-29 Thread Nate Amsden
Jonathan Neufeld wrote: > > After installing Debian I installed a new USR Modem (not a winmodem, I'm > sure) in one of my PCI slots. I have an Asus K7V Athlon board with only > PCI, if it makes any difference. I have my BIOS handling Plug-n-play, > and Win98 found the modem and went about instal

Re: Where is COM 5 ?

2000-08-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
/dev/ttyS4 probably exists on your system, but you need to configure it with setserial. 'man setserial' On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:30:28PM -0700, Jonathan Neufeld wrote: > After installing Debian I installed a new USR Modem (not a winmodem, I'm > sure) in one of my PCI slots. I have an Asus

Re: ppp module gone in 2.2 (potato)

2000-08-29 Thread Vitux
André Wayand wrote: > > Hi, > I've upgraded my m68k distro 2.1 to 2.2 using dpkg -i kernel-imagexxx but > the ppp.o module did not get upgraded. There is no /lib/modules/2.2.10 > folder, either. Does anyone have an idea what to do to get all my modules > from the previous 2.0.36 folder updated int

Re: Where is COM 5 ?

2000-08-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:30:28PM -0700, Jonathan Neufeld wrote: > After installing Debian I installed a new USR Modem (not a winmodem, I'm > sure) in one of my PCI slots. I have an Asus K7V Athlon board with only > PCI, if it makes any difference. I have my BIOS handling Plug-n-play, > and Win9

Re: Installation os X

2000-08-29 Thread Vitux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't get it...I need help installing x.The one question I > have is, When you run X what does it mean to set up a server, should I > have found a choice for a server in deselect and installed > it..Basically, should a server type be installed from desel

Where should route commands get put?

2000-08-29 Thread Mathew Watson
/etc/network/interfaces has the correct information for my system; however, ifup -a fails to create a default route. I can, as root, type in a couple of route commands, and then I can ping systems all over the country. I want these commands executed at startup. Where is the proper place to put them

urgent base2_1 installation problem

2000-08-29 Thread Kevin Cheng
Hi all,   I am having trouble on installing the base system -- base2_1.tgz Everytime after I installed the base system, it will just bring me back to the installation menu that ask me to install the base system again I have basically tried every method install from 7 floppies, fr

Re: urgent base2_1 installation problem

2000-08-29 Thread Jeff Green
Check you have sufficient space, happened to me when I got the number of the root and boot partitions the wrong way around. If this is the case maybe you should do as I didn't (naughty me!) and submit a bug report asking for a useful error message. You need a fair amount of space in the / partition

Re: emacs color

2000-08-29 Thread kmself
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 05:32:43PM -0700, Dale L . Morris wrote: > When I upgraded to 2.2.17 I got a message that nvi had saved the file > .Xresources and it could be recovered with the -r switch. Which I did, > problem being that it wiped out the old config for emacs: > emacs*background:DarkSlateG

Re: fetchmail problems

2000-08-29 Thread Phillip Deackes
"Matthew Sackman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would love to know of the details in the .fetchmailrc file of anyone > who > is successfully selecting emails for themselves that are part of a > mailing > list (or any other information that could help!). OK Matthew - I subscribe to a number of

Dream Machine (sort of...)

2000-08-29 Thread Ronald L. Chichester
Does anyone have suggestions regarding what components would make up a good PC running Debian? I'm looking for something around the $2,000 range (without monitor). I'll happily build the box myself. What I'm looking for is a good match of CPU, motherboard, RAM, video, sound, etc. The important

Problem Installing the Base System

2000-08-29 Thread Peter Kim
Greetings all, I am trying to install Linux's base system using the network and entering the path as http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/base2_ 2.tgz file in the Installing the Base System step of the installation. However, I cannot connect with the http installat

chroot ssh on debian

2000-08-29 Thread Alexander Koch
Hi. Does anyone of you have a howto or some hints on setting up a chrooted "ssh-in-a-box" on debian system? This would be most appreciated. Thanks, Alexander

ipchains/routing gurus, pl help

2000-08-29 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi, I have a 486 with linuxrouter materhorn with charles extended scripts 1.0 installed, with 3 ethernet cards as shown in the following figure, in my university computer lab. External Network (BAD) | | eth0| |

Re: LILO problems . . .

2000-08-29 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 08:18:43PM -0500, luke b wrote: > I am having problems with lilo. When my computer boots, I have no > opportunity to type my other kernel labels. It just says "LILO", and I am > unable to type anything. Lilo is in my MBR. Please help . . . Does it say prompt timeou

Re: Dream Machine (sort of...)

2000-08-29 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 05:39:44AM -0500, Ronald L. Chichester wrote: > Does anyone have suggestions regarding what components would make up a > good PC running Debian? I'm looking for something around the $2,000 > range (without monitor). I'll happily build the box myself. What I'm > looking f

Re: Problem Installing the Base System

2000-08-29 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 07:48:30PM +0900, Peter Kim wrote: > First my computer has trouble resolving name. I get the error: > "nt_http_fetchfile :: http.us.debian.org couldn't be resolved, Host name > lookup failure (h_errno=2)" > > I've checked /etc/resolv.conf and it says: > nameserver 210.249

Linux: static NAT and proxy-mac

2000-08-29 Thread Pere Camps
Hello! I'm quite experienced in using ipchains as a static packet filtering device and Linux masquerading for our hide NAT (1:n) needs. However, I am now in the need of doing full static (m:m) NAT and I'm wondering if there's any way to get Linux to do it. I haven't researched ipf

Network disapeared after upgrade.

2000-08-29 Thread vince
Hello list, After the last upgrade my Potato box does not have any network device. Eth0 has disapeared. I've also lost my X11 configuration and when I try to use XF86Setup It is imposible to communicate with the mouse. Any idea where the problem coud be? Thanks

Plaympeg and fullscreen mode

2000-08-29 Thread Frederik
I've tried playing fullscreen mpeg with several viewers already, but plaympeg seems to be the closest to what i want (ie image and sound in sync ;)) Unfortunately, it's not really fullscreen. There is a lot of black space around the mpeg. How should I make plaympeg use the _full_ screen in fullscre

help: boot problem after recompiling the kernel (fwd)

2000-08-29 Thread Damiaan Persyn
I had no idea where to post this message,i hope it's ok here. Compiling the kernel was no problem. But when i tried to boot with the new image, i got "kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -h binfmt=464c, errno= 8" in the middle of the bootprocess, It fills the screen completely, so i can't

Re: How to convert multiple pages html doc to other formats?

2000-08-29 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Aug 25, Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:26:05AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:51:54PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > :What are the methods for converting multiple pages html document to > other > > > > :format

RE: Problem Installing the Base System

2000-08-29 Thread Peter Kim
Phillip, I appreciate you helping me out. Sorry, I'm really new to networking and linux so I really didn't know how to describe the problem. I'm only halfway through "TCP/IP for Dummies" book. Please find my comments to your questions below. > -Original Message- > From: Philipp Schulte

2.2.17 ?

2000-08-29 Thread Oliver Schoenknecht
Hey everyone, sorry for this possibly dull question but I have heard rumors that Kernel 2.2.17 is scheduled to be out and also in this newsgroup I do read this but where do I find it ? www.kernel.org doesn't show any trace of this... Thanks :-) ! -- Mit freundlichem Gruss [EMAIL

Re: [LRP] ipchains/routing gurus, pl help

2000-08-29 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
> I have a 486 with linuxrouter materhorn with charles extended scripts > 1.0 installed, with 3 ethernet cards as shown in the following figure, > in my university computer lab. > > External Network (BAD) > | > | > eth0| >--

Re: 2.2.17 ?

2000-08-29 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 03:46:21PM +0100, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: > sorry for this possibly dull question but I have heard rumors that > Kernel 2.2.17 is scheduled to be out and also in this newsgroup I do > read this but where do I find it ? www.kernel.org doesn't show any > trace of this...

RE: 2.2.17 ?

2000-08-29 Thread Peter Kim
Woops. Please ignore my previous email. I guess I don't know what I'm talking about. > -Original Message- > From: Moritz Schulte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 11:53 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: 2.2.17 ? > > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 03

Re: 2.2.17 ?

2000-08-29 Thread Ray Percival
Also as I understand it 2.2 has most of the 2.2.17 patches in it already. At least this is what the install implies. Can anybody confirm or deny this please. -- Original Message -- From: Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:53:11 +02

Re: ssh dsa key?

2000-08-29 Thread Chris Feist
What is the exact error message? On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:06:39PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > My machine is giving me a message about missing dsa key when > I boot... Help? > > Robert > > > :wq! > --- > Robe

Re: Radius and Livingstone

2000-08-29 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Pehaps I dont speak right. I want to know where is portslave package in Debian. Thanks, Paulo Henrique Quoting brian moore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:35:38AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I saw a r

new pine packages available

2000-08-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Jaldhar Vyas has built a new set of unofficial Pine, Pico, and Pilot packages which have been uploaded to my official unofficial mirror at http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine/ These new packages include LDAP support. The source packages are also there in case yo

potato ugrade confusion

2000-08-29 Thread André Wayand
Hello, I am completely confused. The kernel image file on the potato CD is called linux-kernel-2.0.something mac. Isn't that supposed to be a 2.2 kernel? I installed the .deb file, everything went fine, however it put the kernel file vmlinuz2.0.something into my /boot directory. Doesn't that mean I

Re: ssh dsa key?

2000-08-29 Thread Robert L. Harris
>From console output: Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshderror: Could not load DSA host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key Disabling protocol versino 2 ? Thus spake Chris Feist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What is the exact error message? > > On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:06:39PM -0600, Robert

Re: Where should route commands get put? ANSWERED

2000-08-29 Thread Mathew Watson
An anonymous list member graciously pointed me to the answer. (1) ifup & ifdown run both ifconfig and route. (I misread the man page) (2) the file /usr/share/doc/netbase/examples/interfaces has easy to read and understand examples showing how to add route commands. --Mat On 8/28/00 at 11:20 PM

Re: R: net install of staroffice 5.2

2000-08-29 Thread hawk
> yeah, i think i know what you are talking about. are you sure > you did it with 5.2? it was a snap with 5.1 .. but i don't see > it as an option using 5.2 (i.e. running the big so52-..-.bin file) I didn't have any problems installing 5.2 as a /net install. However, as an act of paranoia, I fir

Re: LILO problems . . .

2000-08-29 Thread luke b
i got it working. i just had to turn on the welcome message and an "alias", and it started working like i'm used to . . . luke From: Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: luke b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: LILO problems . . . Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 22:55:14 -0500

Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-29 Thread Greg Strockbine.
I moved to Linux to get away from the unstability of windoze, but I get an awful lot of apps crashing with Linux. The operating system itself seems stable, but not the apps. I'm running stormix hail, based on the latest Debian potato release. the crashes: - gnome desktop totally locked up on me o

proftpd won't allow me to connect

2000-08-29 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I'm trying to setup proftpd 1.2.0pre10 on my Debian 2.2 box. However whenever I try to connect I get a 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection message on the client and - ProFTPD terminating (signal 11) message in /var/log/daemon.log on the server. I tri

ppp install failing (loopback?)

2000-08-29 Thread hawk
I've never tried to install over ppp before. In fact, my one round of ppp with a working installation was a nightmare. However, I've trying to face it for my home machine (and will need to do so again for the kids). I made the resc1440 and root disks, and copied these and the base and driver

RE: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-29 Thread Pollywog
On 29-Aug-2000 Greg Strockbine. wrote: > I moved to Linux to get away from the > unstability of windoze, but I get an > awful lot of apps crashing with Linux. > The operating system itself seems stable, > but not the apps. > > I'm running stormix hail, based on the latest > Debian potato release.

Re: [LRP] ipchains/routing gurus, pl help

2000-08-29 Thread Ray Olszewski
I didn't work through your ipchains script because I don't think that's where your problem is. I see a problem in your routing table, which you report as: >203.200.144.162 dev eth2 scope link >203.200.144.160/28 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 203.200.144.163 >192.168.100.0/24 dev eth1

RE: proftpd won't allow me to connect

2000-08-29 Thread Pollywog
Make sure /etc/proftpd.conf has the correct ServerType for your setup, either "standalone" or "inetd" and if the latter, make sure /etc/inetd.conf knows about it. On 29-Aug-2000 Nico De Ranter wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm trying to setup proftpd 1.2.0pre10 on my Debian 2.2 box. > However whenever I t

Re: 2.2.17 ?

2000-08-29 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: > Hey everyone, > > sorry for this possibly dull question but I have heard rumors that > Kernel 2.2.17 is scheduled to be out and also in this newsgroup I do > read this but where do I find it ? www.kernel.org doesn't show any > trace of this... > >

Re: ppp install failing (loopback?)

2000-08-29 Thread cls-colo spgs
i've had success with the "script" command (to capture the fast-scrolling screen messages): ~ script [my madeup file name] ~ [type the command i'm trying to execute] ~ exit then i can use "cat [my madeup file name] |less" and read the output at my leisure, send it to the printer, paste in an ema

Re: ppp install failing (loopback?)

2000-08-29 Thread hawk
> i've had success with the "script" command (to capture the fast-scrolling > screen > messages): > > ~ script [my madeup file name] > ~ [type the command i'm trying to execute] > ~ exit > then i can use "cat [my madeup file name] |less" and read the output at my > leisure, > send it to the pri

Re: new pine packages available

2000-08-29 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:33:06AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Jaldhar Vyas has built a new set of unofficial Pine, Pico, and Pilot > packages which have been uploaded to my official unofficial mirror > at http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine/ These new packages include > LDAP support. Pine a

Re: ssh dsa key?

2000-08-29 Thread Chris Feist
Is that file there? If it isn't do this as root... ssh-keygen -d -N "" -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key it'll think for a bit and generate the keys for you.. then try rebooting (or restarting sshd) and see what happens. Chris On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 09:01:04AM -0600, Robert L. Harr

Re: ppp install failing (loopback?)

2000-08-29 Thread cls-colo spgs
hi hawk, ...not afaik, but maybe someone else has a deeper experience. bentley taylor (potato on 2.2.16) // hawk wrote: > > i've had success with the "script" command (to capture the fast-scrolling > > screen > > messages): > > > > ~ script [my madeup file name] > > ~ [type the command i'm

Re: ssh dsa key?

2000-08-29 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'll do it tonight when I can watch my console. Thanks alot. Thus spake Chris Feist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is that file there? If it isn't do this as root... > > ssh-keygen -d -N "" -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key > > it'll think for a bit and generate the keys for you.. then try rebooting >

Re: ppp install failing (loopback?)

2000-08-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting hawk (hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu): > > Unfortunately, pppconfig doesn't seem to like me. After changing an > irq, it now finds my modem. It takes all the information from me that > it thinks it should need, and then tells me that it failed to make a > connection. Judging by a brief flash

Re: Web-based CVS ci/co

2000-08-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 01:55:00 -0700, Rob wrote: > Just wondering if anyone has used/heard of an opensource Web-based CVS > client. > > CVSWeb does the browse/checkout/diff part find, but can't > ( to my knowledge ) do checkins and adds and imports, etc. I'm not aware of a web-based CVS client

Squid trouble with yahoo.com & yimg.com

2000-08-29 Thread Account for Debian group mail
We're having a slight problem with Squid (non-transparent) and Yahoo. When a browser (either one) is configured for the proxy server, the photographic images from the news pages on Yahoo do not load. Other GIF and JPG graphics are loaded normally, but the photographic images aren't coming through.

Re: Plaympeg and fullscreen mode

2000-08-29 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Frederik, I just tinkered and found a player using dselect - look for gtv.. It will handle up to double - perhaps more - I didn't look that close, but it does support sound and works! Good luck On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Frederik wrote: > I've tried playing fullscreen mpeg with several viewers al

doc-linux-pt

2000-08-29 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oi, estava observando hoje no dselect e notei que existem vários pacotes chamados doc-linux-país. que são HOWTOs, FAQs traduzidos para a língua de cada país. Está faltando um doc-linux-pt que seriam os documentos da LDP-BR. Seria uma boa desculpa para virar Debian Developer.

Re: ppp install failing (loopback?)

2000-08-29 Thread hawk
daved declared, > Quoting hawk (hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu): > > Unfortunately, pppconfig doesn't seem to like me. After changing an > > irq, it now finds my modem. It takes all the information from me that > > it thinks it should need, and then tells me that it failed to make a > > connection.

Squid... another problem : https-Pages

2000-08-29 Thread Oliver Schoenknecht
Hello everyone, as Marcus has recently mentioned SQUID, I have got another question regarding this kind proxy... Recently I have taken over the place of a network operator from a former colleague who changed the company... He has set up different Linux-Gateways and everyone of them is using Squid

Re: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-29 Thread Morten Liebach
On 29, aug, 2000 at 08:37:00 -0700, Greg Strockbine. wrote: > I moved to Linux to get away from the > unstability of windoze, but I get an > awful lot of apps crashing with Linux. > The operating system itself seems stable, > but not the apps. I can only say that that's contrary to my experiance

Re: Procmail

2000-08-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Martin Breidung wrote: > procmail: Suspicious rcfile "/home/alois/.procmailrc" > procmail: Couldn't read "/home/alois/.procmailrc" I would check for permissions and ownerships of this file.

Re: mkbook problems

2000-08-29 Thread cls-colo spgs
sorry if this is too late, but when i mkboot, i have to type the whole path: # mkboot /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16 (or substitute for the kernel version i was using that the time). hth. bentley taylor (potato on 2.2.16) // Richard Robbie wrote: > I am unable to successully execute "mkbook". I > log

Re: Very strange system/sound problem

2000-08-29 Thread Barry Samuels
Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am running Debian Potato on a machine which is totally SCSI ( I > > feel that way myself sometimes) and includes a PlexWriter > > CD-Writer and a SoundBlaster Live 1024. > > > > I hadn't used my machine this morning and I happened to enter the > >

Re: ppp install failing (loopback?)

2000-08-29 Thread Tal Danzig
Hello, Actually I've found pppconfig to work fine, but other curses programs (make menuconfig) to barf under script. Of course the pppconfig part of the output file is not likely to be readable, but that's not the part you need is it? Tal On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:30:57 -0600, cls-colo spgs said:

RE: Network disapeared after upgrade.

2000-08-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Aug-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello list, > > After the last upgrade my Potato box does not have any > network device. Eth0 has disapeared. I've also lost my X11 > configuration and when I try to use XF86Setup It is imposible to > communicate with the mouse. > if dpkg

RE: potato ugrade confusion

2000-08-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Aug-2000 André Wayand wrote: > Hello, > I am completely confused. The kernel image file on the potato CD is called > linux-kernel-2.0.something mac. Isn't that supposed to be a 2.2 kernel? I > installed the .deb file, everything went fine, however it put the kernel > file vmlinuz2.0.somethin

Re: Very strange system/sound problem

2000-08-29 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 19:08:02 BST, Barry Samuels writes: >Mains electricity supply (although the computer is on an UPS). >Faulty component somewhere. s/faulty/not properly grounded/ ? A tip: - Does it happen with headphones also? - Your speakers may have other grounding than your PC[1], so curre

Re: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-29 Thread Tal Danzig
Hello, On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:37:00 -0700 (PDT), Greg Strockbine. said: > I moved to Linux to get away from the > unstability of windoze, but I get an > awful lot of apps crashing with Linux. > The operating system itself seems stable, > but not the apps. > > I'm running stormix hail, bas

Verifying my debs / suggestion for ISO downloads

2000-08-29 Thread csj
So I'm now on the point of downloading my potato. What's the Debian equivalent of a Redhat ? This command is supposed to verify the package signatures (md5, pgp, gpg -- but I've gone only as far as the md5). How do I know if my download is all right? I have a more or less working Storm Linux inst

Linux Theam

2000-08-29 Thread Miroslav Stoykov
Hello I`m big maniak of Linux but i have big problem with installation Before 3 Weeks ago i buy new Personal Computer But my new Computer is with SCSI - Controler HPT - 370 for a IBM HDD I have 10 CD -s with Red Hat 6.0,6.2 --> Mandrake 6.0, 7.1 to But this Linuxs not supported my SCSI -Con

Re: easy numlock question

2000-08-29 Thread staf wagemakers
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 07:56:56PM -0400, Mark Simos wrote: > is there any way to make numlock on at boot every time? You can set mumlock to on with the "setleds" command, see man setleds for more information. The next script will turn numlock on for the first six consoles. #!/bin/sh INITTY=/de

Re: Very strange system/sound problem

2000-08-29 Thread Vitux
Robert Waldner wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 19:08:02 BST, Barry Samuels writes: > >Mains electricity supply (although the computer is on an UPS). > >Faulty component somewhere. > > s/faulty/not properly grounded/ ? > > A tip: > - Does it happen with headphones also? > - Your speakers may hav

Re: Linux Theam

2000-08-29 Thread Vitux
Miroslav Stoykov wrote: > > Hello > I`m big maniak of Linux but i have big problem with installation Before 3 > Weeks ago i buy new Personal Computer But my new Computer is with SCSI - > Controler HPT - 370 for a IBM HDD I have 10 CD -s with Red Hat 6.0,6.2 > --> Mandrake 6.0, 7.1 to But th

RE: Network disapeared after upgrade.

2000-08-29 Thread Pollywog
Just a thought: Are you using PCMCIA? -- Andrew On 29-Aug-2000 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 29-Aug-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> After the last upgrade my Potato box does not have any >> network device. Eth0 has disapeared. I've also lost my X11 >> con

Re: ppp install failing (loopback?)

2000-08-29 Thread John Hasler
Tal writes: > Actually I've found pppconfig to work fine, but other curses programs > (make menuconfig) to barf under script. Pppconfig does not use curses. It is a Perl program and uses whiptail for the menus. Whiptail uses Newt, which uses Slang. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)

Re: ppp install failing (loopback?)

2000-08-29 Thread Tal Danzig
Could have fooled me ;) Thanks for the correction. Tal On 29 Aug 2000 14:10:58 -0500, John Hasler said: > Tal writes: > > Actually I've found pppconfig to work fine, but other curses programs > > (make menuconfig) to barf under script. > > Pppconfig does not use curses. It is a Perl progr

Has AnyOne got StarOffice5.2/NET to use ANY database??

2000-08-29 Thread John Foster
Title says it all. I want to correspond with any Debian user that has got StarOffice 5.2 /NET installation to work with ANY type of database. If so please advise.. -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and workstations. We specialize in multiprocessor units. We install Debian

Re: Linux Theam

2000-08-29 Thread Nate Amsden
HPT370 is an IDE DMA/100 (or 66?) controller _NOT_ scsi. to install debian you must move the drive to the onboard IDE controller(DMA33) then you can try to find drivers for the DMA66/100 controller after installation is completed and move the drive back to the DMA66/100 controller. Unless you make

Re: Plaympeg and fullscreen mode

2000-08-29 Thread Nate Amsden
I've been using Mpegtv (www.mpegtv.com) for years and it works good, can even read VCDs. fullscreen is no problem provided you have the proper modelines in XF86Config. it is shareware tho. nate Frederik wrote: > > I've tried playing fullscreen mpeg with several viewers already, but > plaympeg s

Re: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-29 Thread Brad
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 08:37:00AM -0700, Greg Strockbine. wrote: > I moved to Linux to get away from the > unstability of windoze, but I get an > awful lot of apps crashing with Linux. > The operating system itself seems stable, > but not the apps. Personally, i've had much less crashing of apps

Cdrom install

2000-08-29 Thread Dr. Orange
I decided to check out the new installer and made a potato cdrom. When I install it I reach the point when I need to install the kernel and modules. I select cdrom and it finds the directory within instmnt. I hit continue, and after a little scanning of the cd a message appears telling me that it

Re: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-29 Thread alan
I have also just installed Storm (Hail) Linux - 2000 for eval. and have experienced some problems with apps crashing (when running KDE - I've swicthed to Gnome and things seemed to have quieten down though I haven't really thrashed it yet). I'm still sniffing things out - whilst I like the e

Odd CRC errors and md5 mis-matches - any ideas?

2000-08-29 Thread Pete Foley
Hey! I am having a very odd problem that I am unable to solve. I have a box setup at home which is a file-print server, running woody. When I try to copy large files to it, the files tend to get CRC errors. So at first I thought it was my network, so I did some testing. I made a CD image, a

Error installing kernel with kernel-package

2000-08-29 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I have managed to compile my kernel on my Dell laptop for the first time last week. I have created a kernel-image-2.2.17_dell.0.1+i386.deb and a pcmcia-modules-2.2.17_3.1.8-16+dell.0.1_i386.deb. They installed well with dpkg -i. Now I am determined to get sound working and I compiled again, creati

Re: new pine packages available

2000-08-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Dahlqvist wrote: > Pine and friends has a license which disallows re-distribution of > modified binaries. I think you are breaking that license by doing just > that. > Please don't turn me in kind sir, society made me do it. (Try actually reading the lice

Re: Error installing kernel with kernel-package

2000-08-29 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:54:42PM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > I have managed to compile my kernel on my Dell laptop for the first time > last week. I have created a kernel-image-2.2.17_dell.0.1+i386.deb and a > pcmcia-modules-2.2.17_3.1.8-16+dell.0.1_i386.deb. They installed well with > d

Re: Dream Machine (sort of...)

2000-08-29 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, August 29, 2000, 3:39:44 AM, Ronald wrote: > Does anyone have suggestions regarding what components would make up a > good PC running Debian? Depends on what you're wanting to do with it. For $2k my base machine would on an Abit BP6, dua

cgi-scripts

2000-08-29 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, what happened to cgi-scripts package ?? I can't find it. Tried many mirrors. Thanx. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potenciado por Debian GNU/Linux http://www.q

block pings

2000-08-29 Thread Nick
how do you stop linux from replying to pings like microsoft does. you can't ping www.microsoft.com or www.msn.com thankx nick

Re: new pine packages available

2000-08-29 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 06:17:33PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > (Try actually reading the license.) Okay, so binaries can be distributed if you append "L" to the version number. I can see you're doing that, so I'm happy. -- // André

Re: Verifying my debs / suggestion for ISO downloads

2000-08-29 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:03:18AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > So I'm now on the point of downloading my potato. > > What's the Debian equivalent of a Redhat ? This command > is supposed to verify the package signatures (md5, pgp, gpg -- but I've gone > only as far as the md5). > > How do I

Re: block pings

2000-08-29 Thread Spinfire Magenta
on Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 02:24:25PM -0700, Nick spewed forth on stone tablets: > how do you stop linux from replying to pings like > microsoft does. you can't ping www.microsoft.com or www.msn.com This is probably occurring because microsoft's servers are behind a firewall blocking ICMP pings. I

make-kpkg: a script for flavours, and several questions

2000-08-29 Thread Eduardo Nahum Ochs
Hi people, I need some help from the make-kpkg hackers... I learned enough about make-kpkg to be able to use flavoured version numbers (I'm attaching the script to do that below, as make-kpkg's docs aren't very clear on that point) but there's something else that I want to do that may involve deep

Re: block pings

2000-08-29 Thread Joey Hess
Nick wrote: > how do you stop linux from replying to pings like Find the big cable leading in to your box. Disconnect it. If you won't answer pings, what's the point of being on the net at all? "ICMP is actually an integral part of IP, and must be implemented by every IP module" -- RFC 792. --

Re: help: boot problem after recompiling the kernel (fwd)

2000-08-29 Thread Shaul Karl
> > > I had no idea where to post this message,i hope it's ok here. > > Compiling the kernel was no problem. But when i tried to boot with the new > image, i got > > "kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -h binfmt=464c, errno= 8" > > in the middle of the bootprocess, It fills the screen com

newbie Lilo question

2000-08-29 Thread Kevin Liang
Hi, I'm getting an x86 machine, and would like to install Debian along with Win98. So far, my Debian experience has been limited to the ppc (mac), so I don't know too much about LILO. Is the option for LILO in the install? And I heard something about the curent lilo supporting booting beyond

Re: LWE: Debian.org booth staff?

2000-08-29 Thread Joey Hess
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I believe this is the familiar face. Can anyone put a name (or email > address) on him? > > http://home.netcom.com/~kmself/Images/whoisthis.jpg Sean Perry. -- see shy jo

Re: block pings

2000-08-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 02:24:25PM -0700, Nick wrote: > how do you stop linux from replying to pings like > > microsoft does. you can't ping www.microsoft.com or www.msn.com Too bad you can still get to their web site(s). I agree with joeyh that disabling pings is silly and fairly unfriendly to

Re: Problem Installing the Base System

2000-08-29 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:36:07PM +0900, Peter Kim wrote: > > Was the module for your card loaded? Does your card have those little > > lights that can show activity and stuff like this? If so, does it show > > activity when you try to connect? > > Yeah. I've got five ethernet ports. I've chos

Re: block pings

2000-08-29 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Nick wrote: > how do you stop linux from replying to pings like > > microsoft does. you can't ping www.microsoft.com or www.msn.com > > thankx nick OK, I got curious since it involves icmp, so it's not done in /etc/inetd.conf, and I didn't know how to do it. All I can say i

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