Re: sawfish doesn't work

2000-09-26 Thread Michael Smith
I think the default sweetpill theme for sawfish is missing from the sources. This means that you have no raise-lower buttons or even frames on the windows. Try using sawfish and then running the configuration tool. Change the appearance to microgui or anything else, and then close out all you

Re: Apt and NFS?

2000-09-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 08:42:34PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > apt-get install nfs-kernel-server *slaps forehead* Why didn't I think to look for that? > and install a kernel with knfs compiled in. thats all it takes. and > locking does work with it. Actually, there is one other step... Unm

Re: Can gpm and X live in peace?

2000-09-26 Thread Michael Smith
Sure, just set up x to use /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device, and X will use gpm to run the mouse. There's no conflict that way. It's also a little bit easier sometimes to configure the mouse in X if you've already got a working gpm. Steve Juranich wrote: > I was able to trace down a problem wi

Re: Can gpm and X live in peace?

2000-09-26 Thread Steve Juranich
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Bruce Sass wrote: > This usually works... > Tell gpm to repeat raw data, and X to use /dev/gpmdata. > gpm.conf: repeat_type=raw > XF86Config: Device "/dev/gpmdata" > use whatever protocol ("type" in gpm.conf, Protocol in XF86Config) is > suitable for your mouse. Thanks! It's

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-26 Thread Krzys Majewski
Timothy Bedding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to get my Sound Blaster card working. > > Can anyone suggest a simple test program that I can > run to prove that it is working? I use "saytime". For example: while true do saytime sleep 1 done I've been playing with sound lately (so

Getting X to work in Dell OptiPlex

2000-09-26 Thread Kelvin Chow
Dear all, For the past few days, I've been trying to get Debian (Potato) installed in my work machine. After sorting out the trouble with partitioning and in the end installed the system, I am now faced with a new problem -- setting up X. The Dell OptiPlex GX110 is using i810e chipset. I t

Re: Can gpm and X live in peace?

2000-09-26 Thread Taupter
Steve Juranich wrote: > Could somebody plaase tell me how I can run gpm and X run at the same time? There is a documented feature of gpm that enables some sort of a "pipe" between it and X. According to man 8 gpm the option is -R. It will create a fifo named /dev/gpmdata, and X can use it as a mou

Re: Portuguese accentuation

2000-09-26 Thread Krzys Majewski
Well, I do Polish, not Portuguese, but here's what I found. - You need to use the right font, under the console (man setfont) and under X if you're using X (man xrdb). - You need to use the right keymap to type the funny letters (man loadkeys under console, man xmodmap under X) - Every program yo

debian: C library man pages

2000-09-26 Thread Brendan J Simon
I can't find the C library manpages. I'm running Potato on a PowerMac and Intel system. I have install manpages, libc6 and glibc-doc. I can't find any other appropriate package by using "apt-cache pkgnames" or "apt-cache search". What package do I need to install to get the C library manpages.

Re: Apt and NFS?

2000-09-26 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 12:02:34PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The best way to do it is to use the kernel space NFS server, as it does > support file locking and will allow programs like dpkg to work as > intended. I *am* using the kernel NFS server, and it doesn't work.

Re: Getting X to work in Dell OptiPlex

2000-09-26 Thread Seth Cohn
> The Dell OptiPlex GX110 is using i810e chipset. > I think it's best to > describe what I went through. Been there, done that. Complained to Branden, because at the time, he didn't even HAVE the link he'd promised in the docs, on the website. He fixed that though. :) He doesn't include the mo

Re: OT: reccomended IMAP4 compadible server?

2000-09-26 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:15:01PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > currently the job i work at uses the UW imap server(since its the default > with redhat) i was curious if anyone had any ideas for a more robust IMAP > server that co-operated well with qmail if posssible. I'm

Re: debian: C library man pages

2000-09-26 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:31:22PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > What package do I need to install to get the C library manpages. Try package manpages-dev . -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBSICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: Apt and NFS?

2000-09-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 01:37:30AM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 12:02:34PM -0400, > Noah L. Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The best way to do it is to use the kernel space NFS server, as it does > > support file locking and will allow programs like dpkg to w

Re: Subscribing troubles

2000-09-26 Thread Colin Watson
Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have had a hell of a time subscribing to debian-user from home. I suspect >there is some issue in the email database, as I have subscribed successfully to >several other debian mailing lists. I usually find that, if I have problems with either the mail int

Re: mouse moving

2000-09-26 Thread Colin Watson
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It depends on your window manager. What you appear to want is "click to >focus" rather than "focus follows mouse". Another option is "sloppy >focus" where focus does not leave a window unless the cursor rests on a >new window for some period of time. I tho

Re: mouse moving

2000-09-26 Thread George Bonser
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It depends on your window manager. What you appear to want is "click to > >focus" rather than "focus follows mouse". Another option is "sloppy > >focus" where focus does not leave a window unless the cursor re

Re: Getting X to work in Dell OptiPlex

2000-09-26 Thread Kelvin Chow
Still not working... this is what I did. 1. I didn't download the tgz files as you have suggested from intel.com. Instead I continued using the patch downloaded from utah-glx site. 2. I made the necessary edit in the XF86Config file. Included all the lines you have below. 3. I typed i

Re: doesn't anybody use tunnelling / vpn?

2000-09-26 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:33:46PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > > Well, most will require that you build them from source with your current > kernel source tree someplace ( or at least access to the kernel-headers > package for the kernel you are running ). Debian has a CIPE package in > non-u

Re: zlib1g vs zlib1g-dev (potato)

2000-09-26 Thread Mark Brown
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 08:24:09PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:26:40PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > > zlib1g-dev: Depends: zlib1g (= 1:1.1.3-5) but 1:1.1.3-9 is to be > > > installed > > Well, that's fairly self-

Re: doesn't anybody use tunnelling / vpn?

2000-09-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:25:26PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > am i the only person trying to get these going? it seems like such > a no-brainer tool that i'd expect LOTS of us to be using vpn > (or trying to get it running). Most of the people using VPNs are probably companies, and probably mo

Re: Hard disk perfomance problems

2000-09-26 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 01:15:24AM +0200 or thereabouts, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:03:28PM +0100, Jaime Silvela wrote: > > > I recently installed Debian 2.2 on my computer after having used Debian > > 2.0 for a year and a half. My computer had been complaining often a

kdeinit

2000-09-26 Thread Douglas Eck
I'm running kde2 on woody. Is kdeinit supposed to run forever? I seem to have two of them going all the time. And one of them is very large: 32702 doug 6 0 7024 7024 6796 S 0 0.1 2.7 0:02 kdeinit 32737 doug 14 0 10136 9.9M 8864 S 0 0.1 3.9 0:01 kdeinit

Re: install from 3 CD's fails on floppy?

2000-09-26 Thread Rino Mardo
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 02:46:53PM -0600 or thereabouts, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > Nope, I actually downloaded the images on a fast line, burned em > and brought them up here. > > Robert when? the first set of images are corrupted and debian have to remake 'em. otherwise, if it's a recent

Re: doesn't anybody use tunnelling / vpn?

2000-09-26 Thread Damon Muller
Hi will, I don't know if it's sophisticated enough for what you want to do, but setting up port forwarding using ssh is very easy. If all you want to do is something like secure mail transfer, then it'll take you mere seconds to set up, and require no additional software or kernel compilation. If

Re: Apt and NFS?

2000-09-26 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:53:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > try this program i found it in the BTS regarding mutt and NFS: It seems to have the same problem. # ./a.out /mnt/apt/foo fcntl()=-1, errno=9 -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I will take the Ring, t

Re: kdeinit

2000-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 10:46:50AM +0200, Douglas Eck wrote: > I'm running kde2 on woody. Is kdeinit supposed to run forever? > I seem to have two of them going all the time. And one of them > is very large: > 32702 doug 6 0 7024 7024 6796 S 0 0.1 2.7 0:02 kdeinit > 32737 doug

Secondary mailserver

2000-09-26 Thread Andreas Palsson
Hello. How do I set up my debian-system to act as a secondary mailserver for another host? I know that his DNS should be configured like: "IN MX 10 mail.friendsserver.org." "IN MX 20 mail.myserver.org." But what I do not know is how to configure Exim on the primary and the secondary server. Any

Verifying corrupt /var/lib/dpkg. Anyone?

2000-09-26 Thread Douglas Eck
In upgrading I somehow corrupted my dpkg database. For example, /var/lib/dpkg/status showed net-tools installed but they weren't really there. That is, for example, ifconfig was *nowhere* on my hard drive. Oddly, when I looked in /var/lib/dpkg/info there were no net-tools* files. So it seems that p

Re: Apt and NFS?

2000-09-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 04:03:58AM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:53:18PM -0800, > Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > try this program i found it in the BTS regarding mutt and NFS: > > It seems to have the same problem. > > # ./a.out /mnt/apt/foo > fcntl(

disk error "no DRQ after issuing WRITE"

2000-09-26 Thread JP Glutting
Hi Everyone, I have just installed Potato on an old P233. I put it on a new 17GB UDMA drive (Seagate), which the bios does not recognize correctly. It works fine with kernel 2.2.17, but I get the following message from time to time: hda: status timeout: state=0xd0 { Busy } hda: no DRQ after issui

Re: Apt and NFS?

2000-09-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 02:52:26AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > oh did you check to make sure you have lockd running on both machines? i just remembered something else i had to do to get locking working, it seems that sometimes you have to compile in NFSD support into the CLIENT kernel as wel

where's xfree40 ?

2000-09-26 Thread Mariusz . Przygodzki
Why xfree4.0 packages disapeared from http://www.debian.org/~branden/ ? Where's "The X Strike Force" page now?

Re: Apt and NFS?

2000-09-26 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 02:52:26AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > oh did you check to make sure you have lockd running on both machines? > > i just remembered something else i had to do to get locking working, > it seems that sometimes you have to compi

Soundblaster 128PCI problems

2000-09-26 Thread Zeth Rodriguez
I've just installed Debian Potato, and during the installation process answeared yes for sound suport. How do I configure it? When I do a cat on /proc/pci the system finds the card, but when I try to load the modules I get "Unresolved symbol unregister_sound_mixeretc.". Also tried the "sndcon

Re: Debian 2.2 ¥i¤£¥i¥H¤ä´©TNT2??

2000-09-26 Thread mingkan
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I have the no DRQ... error, too.

2000-09-26 Thread Tóth Csaba
Hali! I have that error, too: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 {busy} hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE ide0: reset: success I build my kernel with the ide patch, because i need to use udma66. I need the speed... I enable the "sharing ide irqs" function, but i don't know it causes the problem or n

Re: mouse moving

2000-09-26 Thread nw x
Hi,George: Thanks for your information. and I am now using Gnome. So would you please tell me which file that I can change to finish this configuation? Thanks a lot! Nianwei From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: nw x <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: mou

Re: pppd error message. Thank you.

2000-09-26 Thread Debian User
Roger Waters wrote: > Debian User wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have the following error message when starting pppd: > > /usr/sbin/pppd -detach > > /usr/sbin/pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself > > /usr/sbin/pppd: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for > > i

Re: isdn Problem (newbie)

2000-09-26 Thread Clemens Hermann
Hi, > looks like the machine doesn't see your card. it does ;-) > check that it's properly > installed (pci slots are a bit hard to press a card into, sometimes), I am using this card in my SySE Linux (this message is sent via the card) and YAST2 detected it on the first try. > and also check

Re: Help!! I need my LS120

2000-09-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting Christopher W. Aiken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have an external, parallel port, LS120 floppy drive (128Mb). > When I tried MD 6.2, SuSE 6.2, MD 7.1, Caldera 2.4 flavors > of Linux all I had to do was: > > modprobe paride > modprobe epat > modprobe pf > mount -t vfat /dev/pf0 /mnt > > and I

Re: where's xfree40 ?

2000-09-26 Thread Richard P. Groenewegen
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 01:06:04PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why xfree4.0 packages disapeared from http://www.debian.org/~branden/ ? I guess this is what you're looking for: http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/woody/ Richard -- Security might make sense with banks and military facilities,

Re: enlightenment epplets

2000-09-26 Thread Frederik
> I installed the epplets package, but the enlightenment menu's epplets > section is still empty. I tried restarting enlightenment, but that didn't > help. > I can run them in a shell, but the menu doesn't list them. Shift+left mouse click -> Maintenance -> Regenerate Menus This should do

Re: isdn Problem (newbie)

2000-09-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi, > > I got a debian 2.2 set up but I do not get ISDN to run. > I want to use an AVM PCI Card which run under SuSE so it should be no > hardware proplem or similar. > > I have read the ISDN-Howto and the chapter in the debian linux guide. > The problem occurs when I try to load the hisax modu

ODP: where's xfree40 ?

2000-09-26 Thread Mariusz . Przygodzki
Thank you. I found. Mariusz -Oryginalna wiadomość- Od: Richard P. Groenewegen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wysłano: 26 września 2000 14:26 Do: debian-user@lists.debian.org Temat: Re: where's xfree40 ? On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 01:06:04PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why xfree4.0 package

MP3 streaming

2000-09-26 Thread Liam Ward
Hi all, I'm just about to begin my quest for an MP3 streaming server to run on 2.2. I need to support on-demand plus continuous streaming. If anyone has blazed this particular trail already and has some pointers I'd be very grateful. Thanks, Liam Liam Ward DV4 t: +353 1 672 7250 e: [EMAIL P

Re: quick upgrade help needed-kernel image not wanted

2000-09-26 Thread Nate Amsden
couldn't you just remove the kernel package? aphro:/home/aphro# dpkg -l | grep kernel ii device3dfx 2.3-6 Device driver for 3Dfx boards for 2.x kernel ii pciutils 2.1.2-2Linux PCI Utilities (for 2.[123].x kernels) ii pump 0.7.3-2Simple DHCP/BOOTP cli

apt-get size mismatch with woody

2000-09-26 Thread Jason Holland
hey all, ever since i upgraded to woody, i've been getting a size mismatch with apt-get. Get:2 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/main tetex-lib 1.0.7+2807-2 [33.4kB] Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/tex/tetex-bin_1. 0.7+2807-2.deb Size mismatch E:

Re: apt-get size mismatch with woody

2000-09-26 Thread Gareth Bowker
Jason Holland wrote: > > hey all, > ever since i upgraded to woody, i've been getting a size mismatch with > apt-get. > > Get:2 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/main tetex-lib 1.0.7+2807-2 [33.4kB] > Failed to fetch > ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/tex/tetex-bin_1.

Re: apt-get size mismatch with woody

2000-09-26 Thread somogyi lorand
try: apt-get update this will update your list, it seams that there is a new version on the net... Good luck, Lori. Jason Holland wrote: > hey all, > ever since i upgraded to woody, i've been getting a size mismatch with > apt-get. > > Get:2 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/main tetex-lib 1.0.7+

RE: apt-get size mismatch with woody

2000-09-26 Thread Jason Holland
Yep, usually running apt-get update twice fixes it for me also. A few times i had to manually install all the updates. Yuk! :) Thanks for the replies! Jason > > Jason Holland wrote: > > > > hey all, > > ever since i upgraded to woody, i've been getting a size mismatch with > > apt-get. > > >

Re: apt-get size mismatch with woody

2000-09-26 Thread Gareth Bowker
Gareth Bowker wrote: > I get this every so often too. I just rerun apt-get update. What seems > to happen is that the last byte of the packages isn't being downloaded > for some reason. Oops, I actually meant apt-get upgrade, not update. It's normally grabbing the lists that causes that problem

RE: apt-get size mismatch with woody

2000-09-26 Thread Jason Holland
Is there anyway to bypass the size check? I didn't see anything in the man page. Just curious.. Jason > > Gareth Bowker wrote: > > > > > I get this every so often too. I just rerun apt-get update. What seems > > to happen is that the last byte of the packages isn't being downloaded > > for som

Re: apt-get size mismatch with woody

2000-09-26 Thread Gareth Bowker
Jason Holland wrote: > > Is there anyway to bypass the size check? I didn't see anything in the man > page. Just curious.. Having never looked into the details of how apt works (well, I did once but I've since forgotten) I'd have thought that the final byte is probably quite important - after a

RE: apt-get size mismatch with woody

2000-09-26 Thread Jason Holland
yeah, that would be important. looks like I'm gonna be looking at some source code today. and to think my day started out boring. thanks! jason > > > > Is there anyway to bypass the size check? I didn't see > anything in the man > > page. Just curious.. > > Having never looked into the detail

Shutdown as normal user

2000-09-26 Thread Jörg
Hi I'm using Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 and the Helix-Gnome desktop. The problem is, that the 'gshutdown' program wants to be run as root. So I always have to log in as root and shut down the computer. How can I change 'gshutdown' so that a normal user can run it, too? I tried to set it suid root, but t

Unidentified subject!

2000-09-26 Thread dochawk
Subject: Re: PPP failure on the startup (serial line is looped back) In-Reply-To: Message from John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> of "25 Sep 2000 17:31:58 CDT." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-asci

Re: Shutdown as normal user

2000-09-26 Thread Joerg Friedrich
Look at the packages super or sudo On Die, Sep 26, 2000 at 03:35:21 +0200, Jörg wrote: > Hi > > I'm using Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 and the Helix-Gnome desktop. The problem > is, that the 'gshutdown' program wants to be run as root. So I always > have to log in as root and shut down the computer. How

Re: sawfish doesn't work

2000-09-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Michael" == Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> I think the default sweetpill theme for sawfish is missing Michael> from the sources. This means that you have no raise-lower Michael> buttons or even frames on the windows. Try using sawfish and Michael> then running the conf

scroll lock in rxvt

2000-09-26 Thread Ethan Benson
this seems obvious but i haven't found a solution yet.. control s activates the scroll lock, which in the console i can release by pressing the scroll lock key on my keyboard (i thought control w was also supposed to release it but it does not work on my systems) however in X using rxvt if i in

Re: isdn Problem (newbie)

2000-09-26 Thread Clemens Hermann
Hi, > Did you compile the kernel with the appropriate support? I did not compile a new kernel at all. I used the CD-Distribution from Linuxland. The Debian Linux Guide refers to this (and it is distributed with the CD-Set) so it should not be necessary to compile a kernel, should it? > BTW: You

Re: quick upgrade help needed-kernel image not wanted

2000-09-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting Nate Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > couldn't you just remove the kernel package? There isn't a "kernel" package. There are packages with names like kernel-package, kernel-image..., kernel-source..., etc. > apt-get has never(thankfully) touched my kernel(s). i run home brew > kernels on eve

Re: serial line loopback

2000-09-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > What does "serial line is looped back" mean? > > > It means that pppd is seeing its own LCP packets coming back. This usually > > happens when the host on the other end wants to see more text before it > > starts pppd and is echoing everythi

Re: debian: C library man pages

2000-09-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
Brendan J Simon wrote: > > I can't find the C library manpages. I'm running Potato on a PowerMac > and Intel system. > I have install manpages, libc6 and glibc-doc. I can't find any other > appropriate package by using "apt-cache pkgnames" or "apt-cache search". > > What package do I need to in

Re: debian: C library man pages

2000-09-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:31:22PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > I can't find the C library manpages. I'm running Potato on a PowerMac > and Intel system. > I have install manpages, libc6 and glibc-doc. I can't find any other > appropriate package by using "apt-cache pkgnames" or "apt-cache

Re: scroll lock in rxvt

2000-09-26 Thread Edward C. Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "EB" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EB> this seems obvious but i haven't found a solution yet.. EB> control s activates the scroll lock, which in the console i can EB> release by pressing the scroll lock key on my keyboard (i

attachment to the no DRQ error

2000-09-26 Thread Tóth Csaba
Halika! I probed a kernel without the "share ide's irq" option, and the error wasn't solved, so i gave up... Csaba Tóth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: debian 2.2 on Ultra160? (fwd)

2000-09-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: debian 2.2 on Ultra160? (fwd) Date: Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:07:11PM -0700 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > just in a reply to myself i tried going with mandrake7 with no luck it > crashed pretty hard within 30 seconds of insta

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #99

2000-09-26 Thread Fraser Campbell
will trillich wrote: > i'm going NUTS here... help! pointers would be handy, but i've > found many documents hither and yon on the 'net and NONE have been > turnkey... there's always some obscure obstacle or error message > that i have no clue as to the meaning behind it. Run ppp over SSH (http:/

[OT] History: GNUStep vs. Gnome

2000-09-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Hello. This crossed my mind more than once: why was the Gnome project started, when there was already something called GNUStep? Even if not a full desktop, one can certainly see the beginnings of desktop-like functionality in WindowMaker or AfterStep. Was it just not cool-looking enough? :( --

Re: Shutdown as normal user

2000-09-26 Thread George Bonser
As a general rule, you do not want to allow regular users to shut the system down but if you are at the console ... have you tried control-alt-delete? On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Jörg wrote: > Hi > > I'm using Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 and the Helix-Gnome desktop. The problem > is, that the 'gshutdown' p

Re: Secondary mailserver

2000-09-26 Thread George Bonser
In your /etc/exim.conf there is an item like this: relay_domains_include_local_mx make sure it looks like this: relay_domains_include_local_mx = true and that should fix the problem. On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Andreas Palsson wrote: > Hello. > > How do I set up my debian-system to act as a secon

Re: Shutdown as normal user

2000-09-26 Thread Kovacs Istvan
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:35:21 +0200, Jörg wrote: >I'm using Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 and the Helix-Gnome desktop. The problem >is, that the 'gshutdown' program wants to be run as root. So I always >have to log in as root and shut down the computer. If you log out of Gnome, you can perform a shutdown f

More details about "sharing ide irqs"?

2000-09-26 Thread Shaul Karl
Where can I find more details about "sharing ide irqs"? My motivation: currently I am using irq 14 for hda and irq15 for hdb, and I want to free one of these. -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com

Re: Subscribing troubles

2000-09-26 Thread Mike Fedyk
Michael Smith wrote: > > Were you sending the subscribe message in html or with a signature? That's > usually > the reason. > > Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have had a hell of a time subscribing to debian-user from home. I suspect > > there is some issue in the email database, as I h

RE: Search Tool for Your Site

2000-09-26 Thread ed_bauer
Hello, While visiting your web site (www.toasty.org), I found your email address and I wanted to let you know of a new search utility (FusionBot.com) that could simplify the process of maintaining your search index. FusionBot.com has recently been launched by my company, LOGIKA Corporation. LOG

Re: Subscribing troubles

2000-09-26 Thread Mike Fedyk
Colin Watson wrote: > > Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have had a hell of a time subscribing to debian-user from home. I suspect > >there is some issue in the email database, as I have subscribed successfully > >to > >several other debian mailing lists. > > I usually find that, if I

Re: sawfish doesn't work

2000-09-26 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Thanks. Problem solved. Andy Michael Smith wrote: > I think the default sweetpill theme for sawfish is missing from the sources. > This > means that you have no raise-lower buttons or even frames on the windows. > Try using > sawfish and then running the configuration tool. Change the appe

Re: Search Tool for Your Site

2000-09-26 Thread Digital Overdrive
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > While visiting your web site (www.toasty.org), I found your > email address and I wanted to let you know of a new search > utility (FusionBot.com) [.. snaped ..] Why have I the feeling that this wasn't a smart move ? :) Spamming around in a mailinglist...

Re: quick upgrade help needed-kernel image not wanted

2000-09-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:58:11AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > couldn't you just remove the kernel package? ... > i run my own kernels too but they usually have unique names for the most > part: ... I tried that but found that the installation process had not gotten far enough into things to crea

?? .Xdefaults ??

2000-09-26 Thread Peter Malewski
Some time ago I used a file ".Xdefaults" where things like emacs*Background: DarkSlateGray emacs*Foreground: White emacs*pointerColor: Orchid emacs*cursorColor: Orchid emacs*bitmapIcon: on etc. stands. I found in the initial .Xsession that the default place is usrresources=$HOME/.Xresources so

Any knowledgeable Afio people out there?

2000-09-26 Thread Barry Samuels
After Afio has created an archive it produces a message similar to: 'afio: Final count: 7m+12k+0 bytes written' Is the size given the size of the files before they were archived or is it the size of the compressed archive? My next query is not produced by Afio but by the SCSI Tape module when A

Re: [OT] History: GNUStep vs. Gnome

2000-09-26 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On 26 Sep 2000, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Hello. This crossed my mind more than once: why was the Gnome project > started, when there was already something called GNUStep? Even if not > a full desktop, one can certainly see the beginnings of desktop-like > functionality in WindowMaker or AfterStep.

kde2 for potato

2000-09-26 Thread Marc Maute
hi, can you tell me the package name for kde2 beta thanks -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Manual for apt

2000-09-26 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Where can I download/view a manual for apt? I have 2.0 installed, so there's no apt on my machine. -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur."

CD distro

2000-09-26 Thread endroo
can u guy there tell me where to get a economy/cheap CD distro of Debian 2.2 ? Cheap Byte?!! there are a few to choose there...and i don't know which is the installable. Thanks. -- .~. /V\ // \\ /( )\ ^`~'^ < endroo ®™ >

lvm

2000-09-26 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all, I have now a currently working Potato system organized in simple partitions as I posted in another message. Well, my question is about how can I use LVM. Can I convert my current installation structure in a LVM one ? Do I have to reinstall all my system ? HOW ? Potato install doesn't cont

Re: Shutdown as normal user

2000-09-26 Thread USM Bish
Solution 1: I use a program called "usershutdown", which I am using from my Slackware days 2 years ago. Don't remember where I got it from. Can send the source as an attachment in personal mail. Solution 2: 3 finger salute ! [Ctrl-Alt-Del] ciao USM Bish On Tue, Se

Re: CD distro

2000-09-26 Thread Mike Leone
>can u guy there tell me where to get a economy/cheap CD distro of Debian >2.2 ? Cheap Byte?!! there are a few to choose there...and i don't know >which is the installable. I've bought from CheapBytes before (http://www.cheapbytes.com) with good results (couple of versions of Slackware, few other

Upgrading to Xfree 4

2000-09-26 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Do you know how to upgrade to Xfree 4.0? There is something .deb package to use apt? or must be upgrading manually? If it's so, Is there some HOWTO to do that? TIA Rogelio

Re: how to handle perl modules not "debianed"

2000-09-26 Thread Bernd Worsch
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:48:24PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > good question. i wonder about that, too. > > and i just thought of a way to test it. > > find a perl lib that debian DOES have packaged, but > use CPAN to download and install it. > > test it to make sure all is well. > > you m

How to see module errors on bootup?

2000-09-26 Thread Kent West
I know "dmesg" will show the boot-up messages generated (by the kernel?); however, this apparently doesn't show the errors generated by modules being loaded. These messages go by too fast to catch, and then I haven't been able to find a way to read them again. Can anyone clue me in as to how I

Re: Soundblaster 128PCI problems

2000-09-26 Thread Christen Welch
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 11:10:36AM +, Zeth Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just installed Debian Potato, and during the installation process > answeared yes for sound suport. How do I configure it? > When I do a cat on /proc/pci the system finds the card, but when I try to > load

Re: CD distro

2000-09-26 Thread Larry Shields
- Original Message - From: "endroo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 12:34 PM Subject: CD distro I suggest purchasing Libranets CD with a full year of HELP!...Better than CheepBytes I can assure you of that... Check it out at there Website, http://www.Libranet.c

Linux on HP 9000 C-Class

2000-09-26 Thread alphaholidays
  Is any one there who can recommend Linux for an HP 9000 C-Class   Thanx Henry

Virus incident

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Virus incident

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Linux on HP 9000 C-Class

2000-09-26 Thread help
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Re: Sound testing

2000-09-26 Thread Timothy Bedding
Chris wrote > /dev/sndstat was never meant to be relied upon and is now listed as > obsolete in my kernel source (2.4.0-test7). Has it been superceded by something else? If so, what? Tim

RE: apt-get size mismatch with woody

2000-09-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Jason Holland wrote: > Is there anyway to bypass the size check? I didn't see anything in the man > page. Just curious.. No, technically the file is corrupt and should not be used without that final byte. Jason

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