Re: About Nestcape 4.75

2000-09-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:27:03PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > Actually, isn't it simply because communicator-*-475 packages are actually > > _different_ packages, and not new versions of the previous > > communicator-*-473 (or whatever) pac

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

2000-09-21 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 12:19:58 PDT, kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: >On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:21:42PM +0200, Robert Waldner ([EMAIL PROTECTED] >at) wrote: >> Also the RBL is used throughout the internet for *blackholing* all=20 >> IP-connectivity from spammers. If you misconfigured your MTA (or=20 >>

Re: system v

2000-09-21 Thread Adam Lazur
Manfred Kissel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > is there a tool in the debian distribution like "ntsysv" in red-hat > which i can manage my init scripts to start and stop in different > runlevels. Check out rcconf Description: Configure rc?.d/ scripts rcconf is the configuration tool of rc?.d/ direct

Re: FA310TX (tulip) and potato

2000-09-21 Thread Aaron Brashears
I've been using tulip/fa310tx combos for over a year now with great success. The key is that there are 2 different fa310tx cards out there. Rev 1 doesn't play nice with linux, whereas Rev 2 works great. There is a subtle difference in the serial number scheme which is detailed on the netgear websit

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

2000-09-21 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:27:13 MDT, Bruce Sass writes: >On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> Ask our list admins to unsubscribe these incompetents. Since we are >> only seeing responses to list postings, that will eliminate the >> problem. > >done I don´t think you´ve got the right (or all

Re: Do you recomend to upgrade to Woody?

2000-09-21 Thread Andre Berger
Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What's the best way to downgrade from woody to potato? > > I've never done it, but I think just editing /etc/apt/sources.list to > point to 'potato' instead of 'woody', then 'apt-get dist-upgrade', will do > it. apt-get & friends just know that woody

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

2000-09-21 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:27:13 MDT, Bruce Sass writes: > >On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > >> Ask our list admins to unsubscribe these incompetents. Since we are > >> only seeing responses to list postings, that will eliminate the > >> problem

Re: off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid

2000-09-21 Thread C. Falconer
Concur with Wesley - raid on one drive is like mounting a ramdisk as /tmp - pointless because any benefits from the technique are nullified by the way you've done it. Now for: raid 0 (striping) min drives 2, reads and writes faster, no reduncancy. raid 1 min drives 3, 2/3 of your total disk sp

Re: About Nestcape 4.75

2000-09-21 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:49:52PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:10:00AM -0500, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > > > To install netscape 4.75 on Potato, my sources.list must link to stable > > > o unstable version? > > >

yikes!!!

2000-09-21 Thread John Reinke
I just tried installing a .deb from an old CD, and I used apt-cdrom. Somehow, it must have decided to remove a lot of my applications the next time I ran dselect. I just hit enter and when I looked back, I found out that I had just removed a large percentage of my applications!!! Is there a way to

Re: this beeping makes me sick

2000-09-21 Thread Litwiniec Robert
QBA wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 02:10:54PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > > xset b off & > > > > I have that in my .xinitc and it works like a charm. > > > > I run this xset b off & and still beeping. I even disabled 'Keyboard Bell' > in my Gnome control center and either no result. > Wher

Re: Install of VMware

2000-09-21 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 05:29:12PM -0400, John C. Plummer wrote: > When it asked for the > headers location I gave it /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.12. Make sure this is the kernel you have. The command `uname -r` will tell you which kernel you are using. Make sure this is the headers you have. O

Re: mySQL errors

2000-09-21 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:15:55PM -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > > New mySQL install (3.22.32-3) on Debian 2.2 (kernel 2.2.17). I can easily > issue a /etc/init.d/mysql start|reload|stop okay, but once it's running I > try a simple "mysqladmin version" and the tty hangs. > > This

RE: isdn

2000-09-21 Thread Kjell Helge Strom
Got the same error with Potato install. Have not managed to configure my Isdn card yet. One major problem I see with linux is that you can't install only the boot diskettes for a distribution and then use network through your ISDN card to install/upgrade the rest of the distribution If you

Have to restart ssh(?)

2000-09-21 Thread Rino Mardo
I was trying to connect to my 2.2 box via ssh and noticed that I'm unable to. I haven't touched my box for about 3 days now and I know I didn't made any changes to it. So after checking /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny and my firewall script nothing has changed in order to block me from ssh to

Basic hostname question

2000-09-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
How are you supposed to form a hostname if you are not on a network but just connect intermittently to an ISP? Unless you have a dotted quad name, some hosts reject emails. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.pentelikon.freeserve.c

Re: Basic hostname question

2000-09-21 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Anthony Campbell, > How are you supposed to form a hostname if you are not on a network but > just connect intermittently to an ISP? > > Unless you have a dotted quad name, some hosts reject emails. Basically, you have to make your mails look from the outside like they are coming from your

Question about upgrading to version 2.2

2000-09-21 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
It's that time again! My wife is out of town for a few days, so I can sit down and make my annual attempt to install Debian Linux. I've been trying since 1997 to get Debian installed, so far without ever getting it into such a state that I can actually use it. My latest attempt resulted in a parti

Re: X launchbar?

2000-09-21 Thread Robin M. Stephens
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:29:15AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Does anyone know of a basic X launchbar? Basic as in doesn't depend on > too many libraries to run. Gets to be a pain to launch programs from > different machines to my local des

Re: Basic hostname question

2000-09-21 Thread Rino Mardo
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 09:37:05AM +0100 or thereabouts, Anthony Campbell wrote: > How are you supposed to form a hostname if you are not on a network but > just connect intermittently to an ISP? > > Unless you have a dotted quad name, some hosts reject emails. > What you can do is setup an acco

Re: Install of VMware

2000-09-21 Thread Tom Pfeifer
I'd guess (maybe incorrectly) that you are running a newer version of the kernel than 2.2.12, because the latest release of VMWare for Linux (2.02, build 621) has precompiled modules for kernels up to 2.2.15 including 2.2.12. So if you are actually running 2.2.12, then VMware should have just used

Re: Install of VMware

2000-09-21 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Tom Pfeifer wrote: > The precompiled VMware modules should be located in: > /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary Of course, they have to be located in /lib/modules/2.2.XX/misc at run time. The VMware installation should normally put them there during the install. Here's what you should see there: (on

Re: Getting an Internal Error trying to install 2.2

2000-09-21 Thread Jim Lynch
Thanks, but that didn't help. Something is screwed up. I manually installed everything in the list with an apt-get install and went back and attempted it again and got the same message. Oh well, I think everything is installed, but the auto upgrade is still hosed. Thanks, Jim. -- To see my .s

Re: Question about upgrading to version 2.2

2000-09-21 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Another related question: Browsing the archives a bit, I find references to "apt 0.3.19", which purports to be an "Advanced front-end for dpkg". I assume this to be an improvement to the somewhat unfriendly "dselect" that came with my 2.0 installation. 3) Can I install "apt 0.3.19" on my 2.0 in

Network configuration questions

2000-09-21 Thread Cory Echols
After a move I went from a cable modem w/static ip to DSL with dhcp. I'm trying to figure out what configuration changes to make to my machine. Since this is a dhcp machine now, what should I put in /etc/hostname? I tried putting a "hostname" in there and defining "hostname" as 127.0.0.1 in /et

How a Debian/GNU is Storm?

2000-09-21 Thread Örn
Yo Stormies, Debian's! I'm a devoted Linux user, been experimenting with almost all of the most common Linux distributions in several different versions. I am a great admirer of the Debian/GNU project and I have tried several times to configure and run Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 and 2.2, but without sat

Re: off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid

2000-09-21 Thread Mike Leone
>Now for: >raid 0 (striping) min drives 2, reads and writes faster, no reduncancy. >raid 1 min drives 3, 2/3 of your total disk space is available. Fault >tolerant. You mean minimum 2 drives, don't you? And usable space is 1/2? I believe raid 1 is also known as mirroring. -- *-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-

RE: Debian 2.2

2000-09-21 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:36:23PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Ask book store for replacement or use it as coffee coaster. I've found that CDs unfortunately don't make good coasters. Now I have a CD shaped stain on my table. It's easier just to throw them out.

Re: How a Debian/GNU is Storm?

2000-09-21 Thread Andrew D Dixon
"Helgi Örn" wrote: > * I've run pppconfig but when I run pon it says that no ppp is configured in > the kernel, which is not true. So, I'm without Internet in Storm. > I installed the slink base system, which configured the ppp conection right off the bat with no problems. The potato base syst

Re: Basic hostname question

2000-09-21 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Damon Muller wrote: > > Quoth Anthony Campbell, > > How are you supposed to form a hostname if you are not on a network but > > just connect intermittently to an ISP? > > > > Unless you have a dotted quad name, some hosts reject emails. > > Basically, you have to make your mails look from the out

Re: How to split up a mailbox

2000-09-21 Thread Yannick Jestin
Sergio Da Silva wrote: [...] > 2) How do I split up my mailbox into separate mails (debian-user-digest to x > single mail messages) ? Use formail. I use it to split the digest with these lines in my ~/.procmailrc: : *^(Resent-Sender|Resent-From|From): [EMAIL PROTECTED] *^Subject:.*debian-(user

How to instal Xmysql on a debian system?

2000-09-21 Thread Daniel Mashao
How can I install Xmysql on a Debian system? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.eleceng.uct.ac.za/~daniel

Re: junkbuster user-agent defaults to Mozilla 3.0 for Macintosh

2000-09-21 Thread caffeine
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:06:30PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > What's with this silly junkbuster default > > user-agent @ > > in /etc/junkbuster/config ? > > >From the manpage: > > "In Version 1.4 and later, if user-agent is set to @ (at) these > headers are sent unchanged in cases w

Perl

2000-09-21 Thread Oliver Schoenknecht
Hey everyone, I did recently upgrade from Perl 5.00404 (Original debian 2.1-version) to new 5.6 which I did compile by myself. Now I am either getting Server Configuration Errors when accessing Perl-Scripts or error messages related to @INC... e. g. "Can't locate neomail.conf in @INC (@INC contai

Re: [SLU] How a Debian/GNU is Storm?

2000-09-21 Thread Valerio Ferreira
"Helgi Örn": > > Yo Stormies, Debian's! > > I'm a devoted Linux user, been experimenting with almost all of the most > common > Linux distributions in several different versions. I am a great admirer of the > Debian/GNU project and I have tried several times to configure and run > Debian/GNU Li

Re: FA310TX (tulip) and potato

2000-09-21 Thread Gary Hennigan
Evan DiBiase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, this is the second comment I've heard to the effect of "the > FA310TX is not worth the circuit board it's printed on." I've always > had nothing but luck with them, and I don't particularly feel like > purchasing a 3Com NIC and getting it shipped over

Re: /lib/module/2.2.17/modules.dep

2000-09-21 Thread Patrik Magnusson
S&W Gilliland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see at least four messages describing problems booting/installing 2.2 > - all seem to be related to the the subject, and no one has gotten a > response yet. > > Is it a secret, or can someone point us to something to read? > > Thanks - Stewart. Have

sound in debian

2000-09-21 Thread Christopher Fonnesbeck
I am having a hell of a time getting my SB sound card working in Debian (2.2). I have tried loading it as a module and in the kernel, but to no avail. Modconf configures and installs the module without errors or conflicts, yet any audio application complains that there is no sound hardware availab

Re: Help!! with modules

2000-09-21 Thread Cam Ellison
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:40:57 -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: >On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 05:32:58AM +0800, Cam Ellison wrote: >> For some reason, I cannot get the modules loaded (or so it seems) with >> kernel 2.2.17. I go through all the steps: make menuconfig make dep >> make bzImage make modules make m

Fetchmail

2000-09-21 Thread w-valbue
Hi... I have some problem with Fetchmail. I have fetchmail with crond, to make POP , but some days ago I have this error: 18 messages for pajarito at pajarito.com (1934931 octets). reading message 1 of 18 (13987 octets) fetchmail: socket error while fetching from pajarito.com fet

junkbuster: how to pass through all cookies

2000-09-21 Thread Krzys Majewski
How do I tell junkbuster to leave cookies alone? I've tried putting > * < * in /etc/junkbuster/cookiefile, but I'm not convinced this works. -chris

Re: junkbuster: how to pass through all cookies

2000-09-21 Thread Adam Scriven
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 08:39:35AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > How do I tell junkbuster to leave cookies alone? I've tried putting > > > * > < * > > in /etc/junkbuster/cookiefile, but I'm not convinced this works. I just have * in mine, and it seems to work OK HTH Adam

Re: X launchbar?

2000-09-21 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, September 21, 2000, 2:40:19 AM, Robin wrote: > Do a google search for tkgoodstuff. Requires TCL/TK. > This neat toolbar is not in Potato :-( Cool, thanks for the pointer. :) - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm

Which netscape version works?

2000-09-21 Thread Krzys Majewski
I know netscape has its faults but I really need it for some of the sites I use, like my bank. Otherwise I'd be using lynx, really I would. OK now that that's settled.. I've got navigator 4.74 right now and it seems pretty buggy. A lot of sites just refuse to work with it. What's the b

Re: junkbuster: how to pass through all cookies

2000-09-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> How do I tell junkbuster to leave cookies alone? I've tried > putting > > > * > < * > > in /etc/junkbuster/cookiefile, but I'm not convinced this works. > -chris > a single * _should_ work for both directions. to verify it, enable cookie warning in netscape and visit a page which will flood

Re: About Nestcape 4.75

2000-09-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I'm also pretty sure there _used_ to be a netscape package that installed everthing (or maybe it was just an installer package). You need communicator-smotif-475 or navigator-smotif-475 $ apt-get install communicator-smotif-475 Peter Nate Bargmann wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:49:52PM -06

Impresora Canon BJC-3000

2000-09-21 Thread Manuel C. Arenaz Silva
Hello, I have tried to install a Canon BJC-3000 printer using magicfilter1.2-35, the default slink packet, but none of the filters for Canon printers worked. umia:~# ls -l /etc/magicfilter/bj* -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 4847 Nov 16 1999 /etc/magicfilter/bj10e-filter -rwxr-xr-x1 ro

python-visual and libgl1

2000-09-21 Thread Charles Kaufman
Hi I have a .deb file of python-visual from Carnegie-Mellon U. It depends on libgl1. I cannot find libgl1. Does anyone have any experience with this? Thanks. Charles Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I remove/unload isapnp?

2000-09-21 Thread Mark Schiltz
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I suspect that isapnp may be conflicting with the 5.9c ALSA drivers I'm > trying to load. How do I configure the system so that I save my > configuration files, but isapnp doesn't run? rename the file /etc/isapnp.conf to /etc/isapnp.conf.save: exa

Re: Which netscape version works?

2000-09-21 Thread John Reinke
There is a newer version - 4.75, which seems *slightly* less buggy for me. If you don't already have it, add the security line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file, and then run: apt-get update; apt-get upgrade and it will install the newer version, as well as any other security fixes you may need.

more mySQL errors

2000-09-21 Thread Account for Debian group mail
For those who read my earlier posting about mySQL troubles, I am also seeing the following error when trying to run the mysql_install_db script: /usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't create/write to file '/var/log/mysql.log' (Errcode: 13) However, this is what I have in the /var/log dir - as you can see the

apache doesn't find user

2000-09-21 Thread Sommer Guenther -MLA-
i'm using debian 2.2 (apache 1.3.9) i created with htpasswd a passwordfile and included it in httpd.conf httpd.conf: ... AuthType Basic AuthName "itnernal" AuthUserFile /web/pass/klbg/user require valid-user --- after the update to debian 2.2 it doesn't work any more. i createt the user-fil

Re: pptpdconfig.pl

2000-09-21 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:42:20PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:21:37PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > trying to get VPN going, still, this time with pptpd--and the > > config script seems kaflooey-- > > > > # apt-get install pptpd > > > > # pptpdconfig.pl

using apt-get to install unstable packages

2000-09-21 Thread Jason Hammerschmidt
Hi, I've installed potato but am looking to get my intel810 sound chipset to work, this requires the latest version of ALSA, but the ALSA that comes with potato isn't. So, can I use apt-get to install from the unstable packages list that contains a more recent version of ALSA? Even though I'm run

xmcd question

2000-09-21 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, when i start xmcd with an internet connection, after a few seconds, a pop-up window appears and says "file save error". i assume it's trying to save the CDDB information. the cd plays just fine, though. i tried using strace to figure out what file it's trying to write to, with no luc

French Canadian in console mode

2000-09-21 Thread Joel Dinel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How can I switch between US and French Canadian keyboard configuration while in Command Line Interface (Eterm or pure console) ? Or even better; how can I simply create the accents a la Windows (ALT-something) ? Thanks ! Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTE

ripping audio CDs to soundcard

2000-09-21 Thread Krzys Majewski
I posted a question a while back about using the soundcard's D/A instead of the one in the CDROM drive. I've since tried cdparanoia and cdda2wav. They both work, but they both spin the hard disk constantly when writing an audio file, even if the file isn't being written to the hard disk. Anyone

Re: Which netscape version works?

2000-09-21 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard John Reinke say > There is a newer version - 4.75, which seems *slightly* less buggy for me. > If you don't already have it, add the security line to your > /etc/apt/sources.list file, and then run: > > apt-get update; apt-get upgrade > > and it will install the newer v

Re: exim howto newbie ?

2000-09-21 Thread will trillich
welcome to the EXIM corner of our little dungeon... On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 10:00:27AM +1000, christo wrote: > when i send mail to :- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > all 3 receives them > > nowif i send emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED], > u

Print to windows Printer?

2000-09-21 Thread Robert L. Harris
Anyone have a quick and dirty on setting up a Potato box to print to a windows based printer, or a cut-paste they can send me? :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 : Senior System Engineer |Fo

apt-get tut

2000-09-21 Thread Ray Percival
Does anyone know of a place with good apt-get info? That and a couple of questions. How does one find out what packages are out there? I'm looking for helix code Gnome 1.2 in particular but would really like general info. Also is X 4.x apt-getable and if not how do you do a .deb that is not. Tha

More X questions.....

2000-09-21 Thread Ray Percival
Just switched from Red Hat I *will* get this to work in order to get the advantages of Debian. Thank you all for your help so far. I just had a thought I have copies of my X config files from RH setting around. Are these files distro specific? The only thing I'm having trouble with is X everythi

SmartList: problem subscribing

2000-09-21 Thread Wade Parker
I'm using Debian 2.2, Exim 3.1, procmail 3.13.1 and SmartList. I've installed Smartlist using dselect. I can create a list. But I cannot get anyone subscribed to the list or if I add an address manually, Smartlist will not send out any messages to that person. The only changes I've made to the

Re: off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid

2000-09-21 Thread C. Falconer
At 08:57 AM 9/21/00 -0400, you wrote: >Now for: >raid 0 (striping) min drives 2, reads and writes faster, no reduncancy. >raid 1 min drives 3, 2/3 of your total disk space is available. Fault >tolerant. You mean minimum 2 drives, don't you? And usable space is 1/2? I believe raid 1 is also kno

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

2000-09-21 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:21:42PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > I sent a (friendly) message to the postmaster at my.netvigator.com > already, informing them of the problem and pointing out directions to > fix it. You may want to do the same. i did too. three weeks ago. and last week. as you

Re: More X questions.....

2000-09-21 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
as with everything else, yes. and no. most of it should be distro independent, but off hand i can think of one thing which may NOT be distro independent -- your FontPath directives. i don't think there are others, but there might be. also note that the location of the file itself is distro dep

RE: apt-get tut

2000-09-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Sep-2000 Ray Percival wrote: > Does anyone know of a place with good apt-get info? That and a couple of > questions. How does one find out what packages are out there? I'm looking for > helix code Gnome 1.2 in particular but would really like general info. Also > is X 4.x apt-getable and if

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

2000-09-21 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 01:46:02AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > my.netvigator.com has a moron with root password instead of a system > administrator who knows how to configure an MTA (or replace it with > one that does not suck) > > this has been going on for at least 2 or more weeks. just add t

Re: Configuration router / gateway use

2000-09-21 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:40:45AM +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote: > vici:/etc/network# route > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface > localnet* 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 > 127.0.0.0 *

Re: More X questions.....

2000-09-21 Thread Jens P. Elsner
Hi, > Just switched from Red Hat I *will* get this to work in order to get the > advantages of Debian. Thank you all for your help so far. I just had a > thought I have copies of my X config files from RH setting around. Are these > files distro specific? The only thing I'm having trouble with

Re: /etc/init.d/network v. /etc/network/*

2000-09-21 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 06:26:47PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Could someone set me straight on the distinction between > /etc/init.d/network and the definition files under /etc/network: > interfaces, options, and spoof-protect. > > We've got a balky server which doesn't like coming on-

Re: More X questions.....

2000-09-21 Thread Jason Hammerschmidt
If you copy a RedHat XF86Config file, remove the line FontPath"unix/:-1" and replace with FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/X

Re: pptpdconfig.pl

2000-09-21 Thread Robert Waldner
(sorry, haven´t got the rest of the thread, and it´s not yet showing up in the archives, so forgive me if I´m stating the obvious, repeating something, not getting the point etc pp ;) >> On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:21:37PM -0500, will trillich wrote: >> > trying to get VPN going, still, this ti

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

2000-09-21 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:46:46 CDT, will trillich writes: >On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:21:42PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: >> I sent a (friendly) message to the postmaster at my.netvigator.com >> already, informing them of the problem and pointing out directions to >> fix it. You may want to do t

Netscape 4.75 ??

2000-09-21 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I just upgraded my Netscape to 4.75 via the "apt-get install". Took forever to download all the files on my 56K dialup. What a great tool "apt-get" is !!! Wow... Anyhow (there's always an anyhow) when I close Netscape it leaves process running so that I can not fire up another Netscape later on

Exim configuration

2000-09-21 Thread Alberto Pereira
Hi all, I have a exim server and I want to create a vitua domain. But i don't want to all users recive mail for both domains. like this, i have the domains domain.com virtua.com and I want to user joe only recive mail from domain.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] and don't recive e-mail from virtua.com And

Re: ripping audio CDs to soundcard

2000-09-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I posted a question a while back about using the soundcard's D/A instead of > the one in the CDROM drive. I've since tried cdparanoia and > cdda2wav. They both work, but they both spin the hard disk constantly > when writing an audio file, even if the file isn't being written to > the hard di

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

2000-09-21 Thread Cam Ellison
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 22:14:06 +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: >They´re not sending their bounces via the list (now? don´t know, have > deleted the mails). Still coming, as of this morning (which helped me discover a bug in the filter). I am simply bouncing them back, now (he says hopefully). Cam

EPSON-EPL-5700L

2000-09-21 Thread Marc Maute
hi, can you tell me how I must configure debian to use the the printer. If I use magicfilterconfig it doesnt work. Perhaps I have the wrong filter...? Marc -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: apt-get tut

2000-09-21 Thread Alberto Brealey
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:23:40PM -0600, Ray Percival wrote: > How does one find out what packages are out there? try apt-cache search , man apt-cache > I'm looking for helix code Gnome 1.2 in particular but would really like try deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian uns

Re: More X questions.....

2000-09-21 Thread David Z. Maze
Jason Hammerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JH> RH uses an X Font Server, Debian doesn't (at least potato doesn't). It does if you install the 'xfs' package. (Though just installing the package doesn't automagically tweak your XF86Config to use it.) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECT

resolv.conf question

2000-09-21 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i keep putting search ucdavis.edu in my resolv.conf, but every time i boot up, the search directive disappears! is there any reason why debian is deleting that line from resolv.conf? thanks! pete linux One wo

Can't make squid proxy requests to and from IIS

2000-09-21 Thread Robert M. Maguire
Let me explain in more detail, I am working with "YUCK" VB code for the >product, Not my choice,, I have NT 4.0 running IIS 4.0, also not my choice. >I put up a firewall using RedHat with IPChains and wanted to have the IIS >box behind the firewall with SSL. I installed squid on RedHat 6.1 and >c

RE: resolv.conf question

2000-09-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Sep-2000 Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > dear all, > > i keep putting > search ucdavis.edu > > in my resolv.conf, but every time i boot up, the search directive > disappears! is there any reason why debian is deleting that line from > resolv.conf? > you are running a dhcp client like

Re: Configuration router / gateway use

2000-09-21 Thread Stefan Bellon
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:40:45AM +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote: [snip] > hmm. maybe > # apt-get install ipmasq > and then after > # ifconfig > shows your ports and connections are fat dumb and happy (alive an

RE: resolv.conf question

2000-09-21 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i don't think i am (i use ppp): # ps ax | grep -i pump 1909 pts/0S 0:00 grep -i pump # ps ax | grep -i dhcp 1911 pts/0S 0:00 grep -i dhcp there was a script for pump in rc2.d, but it's not linked in any of the runlevels, and i greped for it in the scripts that are linked in rc

Re: EPSON-EPL-5700L

2000-09-21 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: > hi, > can you tell me how I must > configure debian to use the the > printer. > If I use magicfilterconfig it doesnt work. > Perhaps I have the wrong filter...? > > Marc Hi Marc! Bad news, though. According to www.linuxprinting.org the EPL-5700L doesn't work ("Known not to work"

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It's probably "emacs19" or "emacs20", or one of the xemacs varieties. jm> Neither! It's really strange. >> The simplest way to find out what package a particuler file belongs to >> is with dpkg -S; try something like: >> >> $ dp

RE: resolv.conf question

2000-09-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > anyway, i just removed pump from the system (interestingly, it didn't remove > the script, so i removed that by hand). > dpkg --purge, the file is a conffile, so --remove won't kill the file. > i'll reboot to do a test, but is there another possible cause? > pcmcia?

kernel-image-2.2.17 overrides local kernel?

2000-09-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
So, I got with the program and used kernel-pkg to build my local copy of 2.2.17. I followed the directions and named it with an extension of "custom.1.0". Now I do an "apt-get -s upgrade" (for woody) to see what's what, and it wants to install and configure the Debian kernel-image-2.2.17 package

RE: kernel-image-2.2.17 overrides local kernel?

2000-09-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > So. How can I convince apt-get to cleave only unto my customized kernel > package, forever forsaking all others, as long as we both shall live? > Is there any way other than rebuilding and reinstalling my kernel > package with an even _higher_ epoch, in a veritable arms race of package > vers

Re: ripping audio CDs to soundcard

2000-09-21 Thread Krzys Majewski
Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this is not tested (no audio cd at hand ...), so it possibly does not > work [as expected]: > cdda2wav -e -H -t1+ /dev/null > the -H switch _might_ be the solution. > or maybe -N? really no idea. just play around with it a bit. Thanks, that helps.

lprng: remote printing

2000-09-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
I haven't been able to contact the lprng folks (my mail was never posted to their mailing list, according to the archive, and I can't seem to subscribe due to mail address issues), so maybe someone here has an idea. I'm using Debian 2.2 + some woody, with lprng 3.6.24-2. I have a bunch of network

Re: Print to windows Printer?

2000-09-21 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:15:43PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > Anyone have a quick and dirty on setting up a Potato box to print to > a windows based printer, or a cut-paste they can send me? See [http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/umnaintained/mini/Print2Win] If that doesn't he

qt-designer compile failure

2000-09-21 Thread Bill Barnes
Hi All: running 2.2 woody. installed the new qt-designer package with apt-get and started tutorial. Looks great but having a problem running g++. First venture into qt-designer and C++ but the instructions are clear and I have reviewed my procedures. This is not bleeding-edge material or is

Re: About Nestcape 4.75

2000-09-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
You probably mean 'apt-get install communicator' or 'apt-get install navigator'. These packages are dummies which depend on the real packages. Bob On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:06:40PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > I'm also pretty sure there _used_ to be a netscape package that > installed ever

Re: Debian Menu with Sawfish (Helix)

2000-09-21 Thread Kai Weber
+ Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, I don't know if something was changed in the Helix packages > since I switched from Helix to pure Debian Gnome last week, but before > that the menu worked as it should. Maybe you should reinstall the > `menu' Debian package. Seems something change

irc server

2000-09-21 Thread QBA
Hi, I'd like to have my own irc server. But could you tell me if it is possible when having dial-up connection to internet. If yes, please suggest me some good software. Thank you, QBA

Re: irc server

2000-09-21 Thread FUF
Hosting an ircd for public use on a dialup machine is very inpractical.. however if you'd still like to give it a try you can obtain the ircu server daemon from http://ircu.sourceforge.net - Good luck - Original Message - From: QBA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, September 21,

Re: Install of VMware

2000-09-21 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
Hi, my suggestion is that you do what other helpful souls have already said: uname -r (or a for the full listing) to find which kernel you're running. And then get online go to a prompt and type apt-get install kernel-source.2.2.XX After that installs you should find kernel-source.

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