Re: Canon BJC-1000 problem

2000-10-02 Thread loki
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 07:40:17AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > lpr: connect: Connection refused jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. > > Looks like an unrelated problem. I agree, and I've been having the same problems. Well technically a friend rather than me, but it's an odd problem. I eve

Re: [OT] History: GNUStep vs. Gnome

2000-10-02 Thread Ross Boylan
At 02:02 PM 9/26/2000, Daniel Reuter wrote: NeXTStep was the operating system on the NeXTstation, one of the most beautiful and technically well-designed computers that was ever built! (IMHO). Unfortunately, NeXT has been swallowed by Apple, and they ceased development of their OS. Instead, their

Re: Sshd2 group restriction

2000-10-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:59:06AM -0400, Dr. Orange wrote: > > Is there a way to set sshd2 to only accept logins from users in a specific > group? AllowGroups foo bar in /etc/ssh/sshd_config note that only works for primary groups, so if you use the private group scheme that won't do any good

Re: Sshd2 group restriction

2000-10-02 Thread Dr. Orange
So if I have a group called turkeys it would be: AllowGroups turkeys And that will reject logins from anyone not belonging to that group? Concerning "private groups" does any distro apart from RH use private groups. Maybe I'm mistaking the term. I use debian 2.2. Thanks :)) -S-

Re: Sshd2 group restriction

2000-10-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 03:07:34AM -0400, Dr. Orange wrote: > > So if I have a group called turkeys it would be: > > AllowGroups turkeys > > And that will reject logins from anyone not belonging to that group? no that would only ALLOW logins from users whose primary group is turkeys, to deny us

Re: traceroute & ping fail

2000-10-02 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 04:04:36PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > An update to myself...in case others are having this problem: > > I added the following rule to my script: > > $IPT -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 0 -j ACCEPT > > My understanding is now the box will accpet 'echo replies' that I wou

Re: Sshd2 group restriction

2000-10-02 Thread Dr. Orange
AllowGroups doesn't seem to be supported in sshd2. -S-

more ipppd/ISDN problems

2000-10-02 Thread Wolfram Kruschel
Thanks for the hint, he doesn't complain about a missing pap-secrets any more, although he says 'unknown comman in ipppd.ippp0: -> name <-'. But know i have the next problem: i get the message that "isdn_ppp_bind: Can't find a (free) connection to the ipppd daemon" . How could i fix this? Thanks f

Re: which java packages to install?

2000-10-02 Thread Bernd Worsch
Hi there! Still trying to start that java searchengine provided with my perl-cd-bookshelf:-( There were suggestions of the script beeing buggy, but i don't think so. Another idea was setting $CLASSPATH (which was not set), but a) Setting it to /usr/share/kaffe (Klasses.jar, comm.jar ..) didn't

Re: Sshd2 group restriction

2000-10-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 04:45:07AM -0400, Dr. Orange wrote: > > AllowGroups doesn't seem to be supported in sshd2. hmm, ok, then look into pam_access its configured in /etc/security/access.conf you should be able to do what you want there. ive only done a little bit with pam_access its a bit fi

Ati Rage Furo Pro 128

2000-10-02 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, I installed Debian GNU/Linux (potato). All went well except for the setup of my X environement. I have a Ati Rage Furo Pro 128 graphics card. (ASIC Type: Rage 128 Pro ASIC ID: 5046 Bus type: AGP Mem Size: 16 Mb SDR SGRAM 1:1 /SDRAM) I have the impression this is not supported by Xfree

maximum file number

2000-10-02 Thread 芦田克美
Hi,all I will manage about 100,000,000 files in near future. How many files does one directory has? I am afraid of the performance,and please teach me good idea for the problem. Katsumi.

PAGE_OFFSET_RAW undeclared

2000-10-02 Thread chris-x
Hello there, sometimes things get worse while screwing around ... I'm using Debian 2.2 which was updated from 2.0 by hand according to the hints in Documentation/Changes. It serves as File/Printserver and Internet-Gateway. - Kernel 2.2.4 is working well, 2.2.17 fails to boot with "VFS: unabl

Network crash, please help

2000-10-02 Thread Prestel
Can anybody help with network problem, I've got a laptop with a Psion Gold Card Netglobal 56K+10/100Mb cardbus card, 2.2.17 kernel,debian 2.2, PCMCIA 3.1.20. At bootup everything is OK, the network is up and I can ping my server, FTP, telnet... all seems fine. But network fails and hangs with erro

Re: Sshd2 group restriction

2000-10-02 Thread Dr. Orange
Hehehe, it doesn't respect pam either. I think the problem is the use of ssh2 rather than OpenSSH that does seem to work with PAM. I have yet to decide whether to change to it, but in any case I'm not going to do it right away and I just needed those restrictions for today. I can't believe ssh2 do

Re: Sshd2 group restriction

2000-10-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 06:42:22AM -0400, Dr. Orange wrote: > > Hehehe, it doesn't respect pam either. I think the problem is the use of > ssh2 rather than OpenSSH that does seem to work with PAM. I have yet to > decide whether to change to it, but in any case I'm not going to do it > right away a

Debian and compaq presario

2000-10-02 Thread Olivier Billet
Hi everybody, I've well installed --well, more or less : I just set the X server, some config files correctly-- Debian 2.2 on my Compaq Presario 1200 laptop, but I still have a problem: Is there somwhere someone that has successfully installed the so famous Lucent Winmodem correctly on the same c

debian-keyring + gpg 'keyring' option

2000-10-02 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi list! I added 'keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg' to my ~/.gnupg/options file, but interestingly this does not work. gpg tries to create a temporary file in /usr/share/keyrings/ when mutt verifies a signature. (That fails.) Of course I can import the keyring but then it'd be rath

Openssh errors

2000-10-02 Thread Dr. Orange
Argh, i tried to switch to openssh, but now I can neither install or remove it: Preparing to replace ssh 1.2.26-1.2 (using .../ssh_1%3a1.2.3-9_i386.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.prerm: /etc/init.d/ssh: No such file or directory dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

Re: Openssh errors

2000-10-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 07:59:47AM -0400, Dr. Orange wrote: > > Argh, i tried to switch to openssh, but now I can neither install or > remove it: > Preparing to replace ssh 1.2.26-1.2 (using > .../ssh_1%3a1.2.3-9_i386.deb) ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.prerm: /etc/init.d/ssh: No such file or direc

Re: debian-keyring + gpg 'keyring' option

2000-10-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 01:58:19PM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: > Hi list! > > I added 'keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg' > to my ~/.gnupg/options file, but interestingly this does not > work. > > gpg tries to create a temporary file in /usr/share/keyrings/ > when mutt verifies

Re: Openssh errors

2000-10-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 07:59:47AM -0400, Dr. Orange wrote: > > Argh, i tried to switch to openssh, but now I can neither install or > remove it: > Preparing to replace ssh 1.2.26-1.2 (using > .../ssh_1%3a1.2.3-9_i386.deb) ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.prerm: /etc/init.d/ssh: No such file or direc

Re: Extended descriptions of non-free/non-US packages.

2000-10-02 Thread Matthew Tuck
"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > Personally, I think this would clutter the package descriptions to little > benefit. A much more appropriate place IMO is /usr/share//copyright. The whole benefit of this proposal is so that you can know this information BEFORE you decide to install the package, sin

Re: debian-keyring + gpg 'keyring' option

2000-10-02 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > gpg tries to create a temporary file in /usr/share/keyrings/ > when mutt verifies a signature. (That fails.) Yes, gpg is funny like that :-) No concept of cleaning up lockfiles to avoid stupid deadlocks, no concept of timing out sockets (thus deadl

Re: Openssh errors

2000-10-02 Thread Dr. Orange
Correct, I was just about to email the solution. I had an ssh2 file there so I renamed it, and it worked, hehe. Sorry for the panic :P -S- On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 07:59:47AM -0400, Dr. Orange wrote: > > > > Argh, i tried to switch to openssh, but now

R: informazioni

2000-10-02 Thread marco frattola
Michele, you have to use english if you want to be understood let me translate your question: 'can you please tell me where can i buy your cd in italy? thank you' let me try to answer: if you go to www.debian.org there's a list of companies selling debian cds. i don't

Ati Rage Furo Pro 128

2000-10-02 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, I installed Debian GNU/Linux (potato). All went well except for the setup of my X environement. I have a Ati Rage Furo Pro 128 graphics card. (ASIC Type: Rage 128 Pro ASIC ID: 5046 Bus type: AGP Mem Size: 16 Mb SDR SGRAM 1:1 /SDRAM) I have the impression this is not supported by Xfree

What happened to X server web page?

2000-10-02 Thread Dale Amon
Does anyone know what happened to the X server page on www.debian.org? http://www.debian.org/~branden/ is claimed to not exist anymore! -- Use Linux: A computerDale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing Village Networking Ltd to wast

Re: NFS stability and file ownership problem

2000-10-02 Thread G.Angely
Did you receive any advice? (I read your mail about a month later) About ownership problem: did you install on the client machine the ugidd deamon (provided by the ugidd package). This happens to work when you specify the option "map_daemon" for the related exported files/dirs. Maybe it will help

Re: Need advice on Postscript/PCL printer

2000-10-02 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
Ooops, I forgot to ask both of you: 1) how much RAM do your respective printers have? 2) what Postscript version do they support? woud Postscript2 lack features that are supposed to be supported for currently-common Postscript docs/tools? Thanks a lot, Nicola -- If one day you find out t

X-Strike-Force page?...

2000-10-02 Thread Max Lock
Anyone know what's happened to the X strike force page? http://www.debian.org/~branden/ -Cheers Max.

Two Newbie X Questions

2000-10-02 Thread Cantoni, Mike
I am using the Black Box window manager and have two questions: 1) How would I specify which window manager starts by default? 2) How do I specify an image for X to display? Thank you for any help! Michael Cantoni

RE: Two Newbie X Questions

2000-10-02 Thread George Wright
I am using the Black Box window manager and have two questions: 1) How would I specify which window manager starts by default? Right now your /etc/alternatives/x-window manager is probably sym-linked to /usr/bin/something-er-other/ice-window-manager. Change this link to point to /usr/bin/bla

FW: Two Newbie X Questions

2000-10-02 Thread Cantoni, Mike
> I am using the Black Box window manager and have two questions: > > 1) How would I specify which window manager starts by default? > > 2) How do I specify an image for X to display? > > Thank you for any help! > > Michael Cantoni

strange things with netatalk

2000-10-02 Thread Christoph Baumann
Hi! I maintain a server in an apple network. Since I upgraded to potato strange things happen. The problem is that the connection to the apple share file server (netatalk) gets "unexpectedly" lost when opening certain files (most probably M$-Word files). This does only happen on the iMac in the ne

Konsole session switching...

2000-10-02 Thread Steve Lamb
Does anyone know if there is a way to switch between sessions in Konsole with the keyboard? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+

Re: What happened to X server web page?

2000-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
Dale Amon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does anyone know what happened to the X server >page on www.debian.org? >http://www.debian.org/~branden/ is claimed to not >exist anymore! va.debian.org (== www) had a hardware failure, and the admins are currently working on getting things back. http://samos

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Re: debian: mail spool directory ???

2000-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
"John L . Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 10:21:19PM -0500, will trillich wrote: >> why the change? i dunno. as long as the symbolic link is there >> you should be fat-dumb-and-happy still, like me. (not necessarily >> in that order.) > >The filesysten hierarchy stand

modem woes

2000-10-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. A friend of mine is having trouble with her internal modem on a Toshiba Laptop. The modem is apparently a Toshiba V.90 on COM 2, and hardware compatability should be fine. Whenever she tries an app to use it, kppp, minicom, it reports that it cannot initialize the modem. I'm

Can shell-script be setuid ?

2000-10-02 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Can I make a shell script setuid ? I'v try to do this but it seams that it runs under user's id who fired that script (not under root's as I wish) When I make a real C program it works as I expect, but script doesn't. Can anyone explain me where I'm wrong the script is file starting with #!/bi

nfs kernel server

2000-10-02 Thread Philipp Lehman
After installing the nfs kernel server, syslogd is flodded with messages like this one: rpc.mountd: dump request from 192.168.1.1 last message repeated 31 times last message repeated 61 times last message repeated 61 times 192.168.1.1 is the host running the nfs kernel server. What does "dump re

Re: printing to a windows printer

2000-10-02 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, David Erdman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i have done this in suse, and redhat but am thus far unsuccessful. >I need to print to an HP722C (win printer) that is hooked up to windows 98 on >an internal lan. looking at logs > >Oct 1 19:31:11 ganymede pnm2ppa[1192]: No pages pr

Re: debian: dos2unix and unix2dos utilities.

2000-10-02 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Are there any dos2unix and unix2dos command line utilities in any of the >debian pacages ??? >I've done an "apt-cache search ..." but can't find anything suitable. There is another one called "flip". -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: debian: dos2unix and unix2dos utilities.

2000-10-02 Thread Nico De Ranter
These should be in the sysutils package. ape:/var/lib/dpkg/info# dpkg -L sysutils /. /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/bogomips /usr/bin/procinfo /usr/bin/lsdev /usr/bin/fromdos /usr/bin/todos /usr/bin/dos2unix /usr/bin/unix2dos /usr/doc /usr/doc/sysutils /usr/doc/sysutils/copyright /usr/doc/sysutils/changel

Can not allocate colormap

2000-10-02 Thread Johann Spies
I get the following message when I run gvim or gv (maybe other applications also) on gnome (slink version): Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "gray71" Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "AntiqueWhite3" Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "AntiqueWhite2" Warning: Cannot a

Re: printing to a windows printer

2000-10-02 Thread David Erdman
sorry, i am pretty new in linuxi understand the lock part (i think), but how would someone create a trash bin dedicated to lpd? should I just comment the /dev/null out then? On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Philipp Lehman wrote: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, David Erdman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >i have do

Re: Can shell-script be setuid ?

2000-10-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 06:22:45PM +0400, Alex V. Toropov wrote: > Can I make a shell script setuid ? No. It's disabled in the kernel for security reasons. Binaries only. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of

Re: Can not allocate colormap

2000-10-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 04:43:59PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I get the following message when I run gvim or gv (maybe other > applications also) on gnome (slink version): > > Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "gray71" > Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "AntiqueWhite3" > War

Debian 2.2 CDs

2000-10-02 Thread Umum Wijoyo
Hi! Would like to ask how I can make a copy of Debian 2.2 CDs? Can I just download the iso files from a Debian ftp server, and burn them to a CD? Would I need the boot floppies, or will the CDs be bootable? Are there any manuals on these stupid questions of mine...??? ;-p TIA Umum Wijoyo

Re: Debian 2.2 CDs

2000-10-02 Thread tjm
Hello: Go to http://cdimage.debian.org for more information. Umum Wijoyo wrote: > > Hi! > > Would like to ask how I can make a copy of Debian 2.2 CDs? > Can I just download the iso files from a Debian ftp server, > and burn them to a CD? Would I need the boot floppies, or > will the CDs be bo

Problems installing X

2000-10-02 Thread David A. Rogers
I had problems installing X, and as I am new to Debian - though not Linux, I'd like to know if it was something I did or whether the Debian setup is not right. I previously installed 2.2 from a 2 CD set. Then I ran XF86Setup. When I chose the Diamond V770 (TNT2) from the hardware list, it told m

RE: new Debian user, problem with internal modem

2000-10-02 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
>It's marked "Telepath for Windows with X2 technology." > Could it be one of those modems that work only with Windows? Umm.. yeah, could be :-) I think the site to try is www.winmodem.org (or similar, cant remember exactly) >By the way

Re: X-Strike-Force page?...

2000-10-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 02:06:49PM +0100, Max Lock wrote: > Anyone know what's happened to the X strike force page? > http://www.debian.org/~branden/ Our web server had a disk failure, meaning www.debian.org has temporarily been pointed at another machine. The user web pages weren't part of t

Re: Help with System Crashes

2000-10-02 Thread kmself
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 05:31:36PM +0200, Martin Pfeilsticker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello > > I have a strange problem with one of my PCs: > It crashes for no obvious reasons, at least one time a day. > The system is completly frozen, ie no ping, no Magic-Key, no CTRL-AL-DEL, > only a HARD

Re: Subject: ATA-100, UDMA100, LILO

2000-10-02 Thread Vincent_Gaines
__ Disabling the "VIA" controller does not change the letter assignment to the promise controller. It remains "hde, hdf, hdg,hdh". Therefore there is no way to a.) Install using udma66 diskettes b.) Install a new kernel with ATA-100 patches c.) Disable the udma66 controller d.) B

Trying to setup Xwindows on the i810 chipset

2000-10-02 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
I've been followed the instructions for install the i810 driver on my Debian potato, but I need to know where I need to put the X link to XFCom_i810? Regards! Rogelio

Re: Mutt Address book

2000-10-02 Thread kmself
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 11:01:03PM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: <...> > Mutt has alias completion, so if you had an alias "associates" you could > type "assco" and then TAB and it would fill it in (or give you a menu for > multiple addresses. If you hit TAB on a empty "To:

Re: Mutt Address book

2000-10-02 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:51:56AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Mutt has alias completion, so if you had an alias "associates" you could > > type "assco" and then TAB and it would fill it in (or give you a menu for > > multiple addresses. If you hit TAB on a empty "To:" line it will give

Re: Trying to setup Xwindows on the i810 chipset

2000-10-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i setup 12 machines with i810 for machines that did not have X support for X out of the box i just replaced the XF86_SVGA binary. however on potato there is X support for i810 but you need the kernel driver which i dont think comes with potato ..the first time i seutp 810 on potato it took many h

Re: How does the mailing-list->usenet gateway work?

2000-10-02 Thread kmself
muc.lists.debian.user appears to be current. On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 05:47:53PM -0500, Jeff Howie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was informed that the linux.debian.user group has actually been > discontinued for quite some time. Apparantly it's still being kept > alive by Deja, but you won't see i

web-based mail

2000-10-02 Thread Umum Wijoyo
Hi! I'd like to provide a web-based mail service for my users. Are there any Debian packages for that? What abt its security (I mean, when a user enters his/her password)? OK! TIA Umum Wijoyo -- Bandung, Indonesia

Re: Mutt Address book

2000-10-02 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:11:43PM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:51:56AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > Mutt has alias completion, so if you had an alias "associates" you could > > > type "assco" and then TAB and it would fill it in (or give you a menu for >

Internet Stations

2000-10-02 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hi! I'm just opening an Internet/coffe business. I'll have only linux stations with a Debian Server as the link to internet. I need an application to control the time and fee for the customers, someone know about one to try or buy, or made it? And something have been resolve the linux - browser t

Re: Need advice on Postscript/PCL printer

2000-10-02 Thread Hubert Chan
Nicola Bernardelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks a lot for replying, > > I'll check out what equivalents/evolutions have the Brother HL-730 and I don't know if I'd recommend the HL-730. The construction isn't the greatest (I broke part of the output tray), it is meant to be a Windows pri

RE: Dual NIC Problem

2000-10-02 Thread Kimsey-Hickman, Brian
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christen Welch Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 1:52 AM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: Dual NIC Problem On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:05:30AM -0400, Kimsey-Hickman, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: Can shell-script be setuid ?

2000-10-02 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Alex V. Toropov wrote: > Can I make a shell script setuid ? No. Linux doesn't support this since it is insecure. It works with perl scripts only, because Perl does some extra checks and explicit handling to make it work. To get a setuid shell script you have to write a C wr

RE: Dual NIC Problem

2000-10-02 Thread Kimsey-Hickman, Brian
Thanks, for the advice. However I did notice that I do not have /etc/init.d/networks file. I have a /etc/init.d/networking file. I noticed this when I first started looking but thought that the file names might have been changed between Debian 2.1 and 2.2. Do you know, or anyone for that matte

Re: maximum file number

2000-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
"=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCMDJFRDluSH4bKEI=?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I will manage about 100,000,000 files in near future. >How many files does one directory has? > >I am afraid of the performance, You should be. The ext2 filesystem searches directories linearly, so performance on a directory cont

Re: web-based mail

2000-10-02 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 12:07:27AM +0700, Umum Wijoyo wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to provide a web-based mail service for my users. > Are there any Debian packages for that? What abt its > security (I mean, when a user enters his/her password)? apt-get install apache-ssl imp With apache-ssl, your

Re: web-based mail

2000-10-02 Thread Dan Hutchinson
Would you run the mail server and apache-ssl server on the same computer? Would this cause any security problems? Dan brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 12:07:27AM +0700, Umum Wijoyo wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'd like to provide a web-based mail service for my us

stty, xterm, solaris

2000-10-02 Thread Kevin Krafthefer
Hello, This is probably more of a solaris question than a debian one but I'm certain that some fellow debian users have encountered this same problem: When telneting (from a debian box ;^) ) into a solaris box with a ksh defaulted account, I lose usage of my backspace and arrow keys. I've found

Re: mounting /home?

2000-10-02 Thread USM Bish
It depends on whether your /home dir is an independent partition, or it is under root dir ("/"). 1. If seperate partition: a) Just ensure that you do not re-initialise this part- ition during re-installation. Just mount it as an "existing partition" without re-initialisation. b) You

Re: debian: dos2unix and unix2dos utilities.

2000-10-02 Thread USM Bish
Solution 1: ~~ By all probabilities you have it installed on our system already. In case you have a standard workstation model installed both dos2unix and unix2dos should be in your /usr/bin dir. Solution 2: ~~ In case not, check if you have recode installed (

Re: Konsole session switching...

2000-10-02 Thread USM Bish
I don't know about switching between sessions, but you can switch between 6 consoles using Alt-F1 through Alt-F6 on the same machine on console. HTH USM Bish On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 06:44:41AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a way to switch between sessions in Konsol

Re: User privelidges

2000-10-02 Thread USM Bish
There is a program called "xusermount" somewhere on the net (don't remember where). Got it by going thru lycos over a year ago. No .deb available. Maybe on freshmeat, give that a try as well. Can mail it as an att (PMO). HTH USM Bish On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:26:38PM -0700, ObeseWhale wrot

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 11:51:50AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > This isn't necessarily the case. It certainly appears to vary by > > region. They don't do it here (Denver, Colorado). Perhaps this is > > because DSL is so easily available :} > > One interesting thing that many providers are d

Re: Debian and compaq presario

2000-10-02 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 01:29:21PM +0200, Olivier Billet wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I've well installed --well, more or less : I just set the X server, some > config files correctly-- Debian 2.2 on my Compaq Presario 1200 laptop, > but I still have a problem: > > Is there somwhere someone that ha

Trying to get .menu directory to work

2000-10-02 Thread Bryan Walton
Greetings, I have been playing around with the menu program and have a question for everybody. I can make my own menu items and all works well when I place those items in /etc/menu. Create the entry, put in /etc/menu and then update-menus (as both user and as root). Things show up fin

Re: Debian and compaq presario

2000-10-02 Thread ESTEBAN P OSSES ANGUITA
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Olivier Billet wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I've well installed --well, more or less : I just set the X server, some > config files correctly-- Debian 2.2 on my Compaq Presario 1200 laptop, > but I still have a problem: > > Is there somwhere someone that has successfully insta

Re: mounting /home?

2000-10-02 Thread Dale Morris
Thanks for the reply. I've got /home mounted on a separate partition so I'll just do it as you suggest in "1.a)" below. What I want to do is get back to a potato version of debian. I did an [apt-get upgrade] with the helix-gnome website in my sources.conf file and it changed *lots* of stuff. Everyt

Re: Konsole session switching...

2000-10-02 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday, September 11, 2000, 3:05:16 AM, USM wrote: > I don't know about switching between sessions, but you can > switch between 6 consoles using Alt-F1 through Alt-F6 on > the same machine on console. Konsole, with a K, as in KDE's terminal emula

Re: Debian and compaq presario

2000-10-02 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Francesco Bochicchio wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 01:29:21PM +0200, Olivier Billet wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I've well installed --well, more or less : I just set the X server, some > > config files correctly-- Debian 2.2 on my Compaq Presario 1200 laptop, > > but I

Re: maximum file number

2000-10-02 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 07:02:22PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > "=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCMDJFRDluSH4bKEI=?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I will manage about 100,000,000 files in near future. > >How many files does one directory has? > > > >I am afraid of the performance, > > You should be. The ext2

Re: Dual NIC Problem

2000-10-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
This did change in 2.2. /etc/init.d/networking has replaced /etc/init.d/networks, although a normal upgrade will still use the old one (i.e., the symlinks to /etc/rc*.d aren't created if /etc/init.d/networks exists). On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 01:49:52PM -0400, Kimsey-Hickman, Brian wrote: > > Tha

ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style

2000-10-02 Thread Douglas Bates
I am using Debian Linux 2.2 (potato). I also have access to systems running 2.3 (woody) if that would help. I have created a presentation in LaTeX using the seminar style. I use landscape orientation for the slides. The room where I want to give the presentation has a computer running Windows w

RE: Internet Stations

2000-10-02 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
>Hi! >I'm just opening an Internet/coffe business. I'll have only linux >stations with a Debian Server as the link to internet. >I need an application to control the time and fee for the customers, >someone know about one to try or buy, or made it?

RE: maximum file number

2000-10-02 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
>I will manage about 100,000,000 files in near future. >How many files does one directory has? > >I am afraid of the performance, Do you really need to store Files as such? What kind of data are you keeping? Maybe you could use a good database server ins

ISDN-Configuration

2000-10-02 Thread Wolfram Kruschel
Hi! I've been trying to connect to my ISP with my ISDN-Card for a while now, but I keep on running into problems. So my question: is there anybody out there who could give my some help/hints, where e.g. I could find docs on how to set up ISDN under Debian 2.2? I looked through all the mans and howt

Need CPAN Perl mods help

2000-10-02 Thread John Foster
I have Akopia Interchange running on a Debian Potato system. I recently attempted to upgrade to the most recent Bundle::InterChange mod from CPAN. The results were that in so doing I was instructed by 'cpan' to remove the existing perl mods (debianized) from the system as they represented duplicate

pricmail recipe to detect fetchmailed addrs?

2000-10-02 Thread will trillich
(fetchmailed? i decree it to be a verb today.) i've got some old addresses [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and i use fetchmail to yank email from those into my active [EMAIL PROTECTED] account. i'd like to phase out the older accounts... what

Re: Need CPAN Perl mods help

2000-10-02 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 03:17:10PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > I have Akopia Interchange running on a Debian Potato system. I recently > attempted to upgrade to the most recent Bundle::InterChange mod from > CPAN. The results were that in so doing I was instructed by 'cpan' to > remove the existing

MX300

2000-10-02 Thread ObeseWhale
Do any of you have a Diamond Monster Sound MX300 or other au8830-based sound card working in Potato? I tried doing make install on the latest public release from linux.aureal.com and I get an error... Error 1 in particular. Matt "ObeseWhale" Grinshpun Site Director: The Darker Sector www.3dact

RE: web-based mail

2000-10-02 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
You wouldn't have to. Actually, IMP can be configured to access/read/use any IMAP or POP based server located anywhere. For example, I have IMP configured on a box so that I could go to any web browser connected to the internet (anywhere), http to my IMP site, and read mail any mail from locally

Re: printing to a windows printer

2000-10-02 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Don't know how to create the trash bin either (because I'm also quite new to Linux) but I suggest to you to use apsfilter instead of magicfilter. The newest versions have a *very* good setup script or program or whatever, you only have to insert the server and printer name and it will be ok

Samba and permissions

2000-10-02 Thread Alec Smith
I'm noticing that Samba 2.0.7 is creating files on my server owned by root.alec or root.foo instead of the permissions of the user who owns the home directory. Is there a way to get it creating files with the right permissions, such as alec.alec or foo.foo depending on the user? Relevant portions

Re: Internet Stations

2000-10-02 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Yes, I've heard about it, it's named Conquer or Conqueror, or something like that...but, since a discussion I heard about the License of KDE I'd prefer don't use it, and try only GPL programs... Thanks Tim. And about an accounting system for time and money? Rogelio E. Castillo "Anderson, Ti

RE: maximum file number

2000-10-02 Thread Frodo Baggins
Anderson, TimTL33E scripsit: > > >I will manage about 100,000,000 files in near future. > >How many files does one directory has? > > > >I am afraid of the performance, > > Do you really need to store Files as such? What kind of data are >you keeping? Maybe you

procmail recipe to detect fetchmailed addrs?

2000-10-02 Thread will trillich
i meant, procmail. it only FEELs like prickmail. anybody got some pointers here? On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 03:28:10PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > (fetchmailed? i decree it to be a verb today.) > > i've got some old addresses > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROT

Re: Internet Stations

2000-10-02 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 04:10:29PM -0500, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > Yes, I've heard about it, it's named Conquer or Conqueror, or something > like that...but, since a discussion I heard about the License of KDE I'd > prefer don't use it, and try only GPL programs... Thanks Tim. It's Konque

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