Re: what is Helix-Gnome?

On 17-Sep-2000 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 09:39:42PM +, Pollywog wrote: >> I followed the instructions for installing Helix-Gnome via apt-get and I >> installed all sorts of things I did not want or need, like games and gdm. >> gdm is bad. I saw it and disabled the st

Problem with woody and 2.4.0-test*

I run Debian Woody on my system, and have been using 2.4.0-test kernels since test1, with devfs. The problem I've been having is that I can only open around three or four ptys (terminal windows, screen sessions, etc) before I get an error like 'Could not open /dev/pts/3 - permission denied'. If

Re: can anyone explain why ??

Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > so i guess, the driver is not the best in this regard - or is it an inherent > problem of atapi drives? its a problem of atapi drives mostly, if you have DMA turned on that can reduce cpu utilization some .. in the past it was not uncommon for an IDE drive to suck up 1

RE: what is Helix-Gnome?

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote: > This Helix-Gnome thing is very nice, but I wish I could get rid of the games > and stuff I don't use. I will have to suggest this to the developers. Uhh.. So why not just purge the games along with task-helix-gnome? Problem solved.

Re: APM: disable mouse interrupt?

On Sunday, 17 September 2000 at 14:31, Krzys Majewski wrote: > How can I disable the mouse interrupt for APM so that moving the mouse > does not resume the machine? (The mouse is on my desk, there are other > things on my desk, some of these things move occasionally, etc.) > I tried disabling IRQ

Re: PAM questions (was: RE: group 'root' does not exist?!)

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 06:38:13PM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: > > i would recommend against using group root for this purpose, instead > > add a new group `wheel' and use that. > > > > > for pam add this line to the top of your /etc/pam.d/su file: > > > > authrequisite pam_whee

Re: Sendmail and fetchmail problem

On Sep 15, staf wagemakers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:14:49PM -0400, John Ackermann wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, staf wagemakers writes: > > > > >You could add the next line to your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > > > > > >FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domai

Re: dns forwarding/cache

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:01:42PM +0200, Jonas Moberg wrote: > I noticed this article about securing your box over at rootprompt > (http://www.rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=903). It mentioned > tcpserver and dnscache by D. J. Bernstein which seemed to do > pretty much what I want. what a

RE: what is Helix-Gnome?

On 17-Sep-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote: > >> This Helix-Gnome thing is very nice, but I wish I could get rid of the >> games >> and stuff I don't use. I will have to suggest this to the developers. > > Uhh.. So why not just purge the games along with task-

VPN: ethertap? -- where to get? how to activate?

VPN attempt (via tunnelv) -- how do we get ethertap going? [or, is there a better way than tunnelv to do the VPN hookup?] the tunnelv README says only >To set up Tunnel Vision on a Linux machine, you need: > >- Linux 2.1.112 or higher with the "ethertap" and "netlink" devices > configured. Sorr

can't install star office 5.2

i downloaded the staroffice_5.2-xxx.bin file and i when i try to install it using the ./so-5.2-en.. command i get a permission denied warning. this happens if i su or log in as root as well as if i log in as the profile that downloaded the file. i've seen messages that it works can anyone

Re: can't install star office 5.2

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:03:55PM -0500, Moses Backman III wrote: > i downloaded the staroffice_5.2-xxx.bin file and i when i try to install > it using the ./so-5.2-en.. command i get a permission denied > warning. this happens if i su or log in as root as well as if i log in > as the prof

Re: can't install star office 5.2

I assume you chmod +x ? so that it's executable? Bill On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:03:55PM -0500, Moses Backman III wrote: > i downloaded the staroffice_5.2-xxx.bin file and i when i try to install > it using the ./so-5.2-en.. command i get a permission denied > warning. this happens if i su

SCSI bus busy

Hi everyone, when I try to boot my system (Potato) I get this error and then it hangs: scsi0: SCSI bus busy, waiting up to five seconds scsi0: bus busy, attempting abort this is weird because I don't even have a SCSI bus. I assume that it's looking for a bus that isn't there and

Re: can't install star office 5.2

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 18:13:36 William Jensen wrote: > I assume you chmod +x ? so that it's executable? > > Bill > > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:03:55PM -0500, Moses Backman III wrote: > > i downloaded the staroffice_5.2-xxx.bin file and i when i try to install > > it using the ./so-5.2-en.. co

Re: can't install star office 5.2

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 18:13:36 William Jensen wrote: > I assume you chmod +x ? so that it's executable? > > Bill > > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:03:55PM -0500, Moses Backman III wrote: > > i downloaded the staroffice_5.2-xxx.bin file and i when i try to install > > it using the ./so-5.2-en.. co

Re: a2ps with 4 up printing.

Michel Dänzer wrote: > Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > Is psnup part of some debian package ? > > Yep, psutils. Thanks, I couldn't find it with "apt-cache search psnup". Brendan.

Display problems with woody

Hello List: Just ran a dist-upgrade from woody, kde2, helixcode. Now gedit opens a display as non-root user, but as root, says Xlib: connection :0.0 refused by server Xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 there is an environment variabl

Re: Internet Cafe

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:26:50AM +1200, ChrisHellberg wrote: > > Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > > > This shouldn't be too tough. I'd look at radius for authorizing and > > accounting. It's > > built for this kind of stuff. As for automatically logging people out this > > should be > > <> > >

Re: Problem with woody and 2.4.0-test*

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 06:11:12PM -0400, Adam teferi Glasgall wrote: > I run Debian Woody on my system, and have been using 2.4.0-test kernels since > test1, with devfs. > The problem I've been having is that I can only open around three or four > ptys (terminal windows, screen sessions, etc) be

cleanly migrating from ide install to scsi system

Greetings, As some of you know I'm converting to a SCSI system this week when my hardware arrives. I've started giving a thought to what I need to backup, save, or generally have available to me offline so I can get my system back up and running in quick order. Then it occured to me it might be

Re: Howto make exim not listen on port inet 25

On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, George Bonser wrote: > ssmtp allows you do so much the same thing with a Unix workstation. You > set up your mail client ... say ... xfmail ... to pull the mail from your > pop3 account and to send via ssmtp. If you are offline, the mail will stay > in xfmail's outbox. Yep, I

re: Help set up Linksys LNE100TX on Debian 2.2 ?

With the help of the article at linuxnewbie.org ('...make sure you have the correct version of Tulip driver. Linksys is very picky about this'), the source code from scyld, looking through the binary of the driver that shipped with 2.2.17 to find the hard-coded version string, I've determined

Re: cleanly migrating from ide install to scsi system

:: On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 19:15:13 -0500, William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Is it possible to: > 1. boot the installation floppy > 2. launch a shell > 3. bit by bit copy everything from the ide drive over to the scsi > 3. go into the scsi drive and mod lilo to point to it > 4. install onto

Recommended Partitioning

Hey, im about to install deb2.2, can anyone recommend a specific partitioning scheme? Like if im willing to allocate 20 gigs. I figured id just do 128 for /swap, and the rest to /, but ive had friends tell me they do other partitions like /boot, /user, and /home. What do you guys recommend ? Al

Re: gnupg help

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 09:52:58PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: > > Hello people, > > Hi Carlos, > > The question sounds quiet familiar to me; I think you asked that one a couple > of days before and got some answers already, but anyway ... Yes, I too remember this... > > 1) Why don't you generate a

Re: gnome-users-guide

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:53:47PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > I've finally taken the step to change from helix to the original > Debian packages from woody. OK, three programs were missing > (bug-buddy, ghex and gnome-iconedit) and some others are laying one or > two version numbers behind

Re: free Interrnet provider for Linux?

On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:41:05PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > On 15-Sep-2000 Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > > > > Try: http://www.worldshare.net > > As I understand it, they offer free access only for MS Windows, not for Linux. Their site states that linux works, but they don't support it. They

Re: free Interrnet provider for Linux?

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:08:39PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > Apparently it is time to search yet again for a no/low -cost isp. > seems to be a good place to start. -- Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If puns were deli meat, this would be the wurst.

Re: help for new user

You can choose the window manager you want using the info from the Gnome homepage, that tells which window managers are full Gnome-compliant or not. I use sawmill (now sawfish), due to the fact that eats few resources and it's cute. Best, Ignasi At 12.4

Re: Internet Cafe

Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:26:50AM +1200, ChrisHellberg wrote: > > > > Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > > > > > This shouldn't be too tough. I'd look at radius for authorizing and > > > accounting. It's > > > built for this kind of stuff. As for automatically logging people

Re: Recommended Partitioning

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:32:48PM -0400, Rob wrote: > Hey, im about to install deb2.2, can anyone recommend a specific > partitioning scheme? > > Like if im willing to allocate 20 gigs. I figured id just do 128 for /swap, > and the rest to /, but ive had friends tell me they do other partitions

Re: Internet Cafe

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:35:54PM +1200, ChrisHellberg wrote: > > So it can be done over ethernet? Sweet. So I spose if I'm not going to well i must plead total ignorance on radius will it not operate over ethernet? > do down the radius path, and a simple app to boot them off the PC, would >

RE: any luck with ES1869 sound card?

Under Kernel 2.2.14 the following is effective: The critical kernel compile settings are: grep SOUND config-2.2.14 | grep -v not CONFIG_SOUND=m CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m CONFIG_LOWLEVEL Following advice in: /usr/src/linux-2.4-test7/Documentation/sound/ESS /usr/src

Printing--what am I missing?

Okay, I thought I had my printer working just fine (albeit without color); I've printed dvi's fine in xdvi, and I can print text files fine with lpr. But now I'm writing an essay in kword and when I try to print, it just does nothing. So then I printed to a ps file instead of the printer, opened

Re: free Interrnet provider for Linux?

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:29:31PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:08:39PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > > Apparently it is time to search yet again for a no/low -cost isp. > > > > seems to be a good place to start. > I hope no one co

Re: Bug in xconfig???

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Cam Ellison wrote: > After building the 2.2.17 kernel several times using xconfig, I have > come to the conclusion that it is incomplete or I'm either half-blind > or losing it. > > I cannot find any reference to setting up ppp. > > It is certainly there in menuconfig. > >

OL400

Hi, I have a Okidata 0l400 LED printer, what filter should I use in magicfilter? Thanks, -Matt- ---+--+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.ucook.com | A long time ago,

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:09:08PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > But now I'm writing an essay in kword and when I try to print, it just > does nothing. So then I printed to a ps file instead of the printer, > opened it up in ghostview, and tried to print from there, but _that_ > also did nothi

Re: Problem with woody and 2.4.0-test*

Har har. Besides the obvious. On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:48:49PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 06:11:12PM -0400, Adam teferi Glasgall wrote: > > I run Debian Woody on my system, and have been using 2.4.0-test kernels > > since test1, with devfs. > > The problem I've been ha

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:48:21PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > You shouldn't need to print postscript from ghostview. Does your printer > understand postscript? What print filter are you using? I don't know if it understands postscript; I'm using the dj550c filter. Here is what magic

Re: Recommended Partitioning

hi ya rob... the simple ones firstassumming you'd be using win2k and autocad... i'd try something like 8G-10G for win2k. as the first partition /dev/hda1 aka c: rest is up to linuxetc and if yu think you might want to boot debian and redhat and mandrake or something else e

Re: Howto make exim not listen on port inet 25

On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 05:44:36PM +0100, Terry Boon wrote: > > > PS: Is there any inetd replacement which can listen selectively on the > > various interfaces? Maybe this could be a solution for having both exim > > and leafnode not listening on the inet ports for home users, what do you > > thi

Re: cleanly migrating from ide install to scsi system

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:15:13PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Greetings, > > As some of you know I'm converting to a SCSI system this week when my hardware > arrives. I've started giving a thought to what I need to backup, save, or > generally have available to me offline so I can get my syst

Re: rsync trouble

Swoop wrote: > > "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > > > > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 20:33:56 +0200, Swoop wrote: > > > I'm using rsync to make a mirror of Debian - for a long time it had worked > > > very well, but suddenly this error appears: > > > > > > Resource temporarily unavailable > > > > > Does

Problem installing latest version of Debian.

Okay, this is my first (and probably not last) cry for help. I just intalled the latest stable version of Debian (2.2, from CD) and everything seemed to be going so I rebooted (from a floppy) and went to the bathroom. When I came back: "modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/m

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