Re: setting memory limits for ssh and xdm logins

2000-10-03 Thread Dan Christensen
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:36:39PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > > I have put limits in /etc/security/limits.conf to prevent a user from > > bringing down my machine by using up all the memory, and I have > > uncommented the line > > > > sessionrequ

Re: MX300

2000-10-03 Thread loki
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 04:41:42PM -0700, ObeseWhale wrote: > 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. I h

Re: Can not allocate colormap

2000-10-03 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:49:24AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > 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 fo

install-info error when installing package

2000-10-03 Thread Alan Davis
One of the most usual errors I have received over the years when installing debian packages has been the failure of install-info. So what is the solution? The problem is an error in both prerm and postinst scripts when running install-info. Thanks in advance.

Re: setting memory limits for ssh and xdm logins

2000-10-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:09:40AM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > > Ahh, you are right, that solves the xdm problem. ulimit -v is what I > wanted. I missed this because I use tcsh which doesn't seem to have > an analog of this limit using its built-in limit command. Is there a > way to set a l

Runaway printer!

2000-10-03 Thread Glyn Millington
Can you help me with a runaway printer? (Canon BJ200, using Potato and with apsfilter). Somehow, being careless, I have managed to put a huge (around 1mb) file into the printer queue; and I cannot stop the SOAB from printing, reams and reams of Postscript code. I've switched it off and tried "l

Re: Canon BJC-1000 problem

2000-10-03 Thread loki
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 01:16:51AM -0700, Willy Lee wrote: > There was already a line there appearing to do the same thing, but > using enscript instead of a2ps. > > Now the problem is worse: after fiddling with it a bit and restarting > lpd several times, I get this error: > > geldar:~# a2ps

Re: mounting /home?

2000-10-03 Thread Willy Lee
"Dale" == Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is probably embarassingly simple, but I'd better ask.. I'm > thinking of doing a reinstall of 2.2 and would like to use my > existing /home directory. That will allow me to keep lots of > existing info. I tried this once before w/ Redhat but

RAM problems

2000-10-03 Thread Vincent Perdrix
Hi everyone. I just managed to get "Potato" but it seems that I have a problem with my RAM. I currently have 192M installed in my AMD/Athlon 700 Box. Of course I added the correct line, ie: append="mem=192M" in lilo.conf and ran /sbin/lilo. Linux swap partition: >600 MB Everything was fine, for

Re: Ati Rage Furo Pro 128

2000-10-03 Thread Willy Lee
"stefan" == stefan goeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 > /

ATI Rage Fury Pro 128

2000-10-03 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 Fury 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 that this card is not supported b

Re: RAM problems

2000-10-03 Thread George Bonser
> > The strangest thing is that the systems worked just fine > with 192MB installed but without the correct "append" line > in lilo.conf. > Which kernel are you running? Remove the line from lilo.conf, rerun lilo, reboot and see what cat /proc/meminfo says. If you are running 2.2-Linux or bet

Re: Canon BJC-1000 problem

2000-10-03 Thread Willy Lee
"loki" == loki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Firstly, does printing of other formats (eg. Postscript) work? If > so, I guess it's just that particular magicfilter line. If you > can't print anything, check your /proc/parport/0/hardware to make > sure you have one. Hm, I don't have anything in

Re: 3c509 troubles

2000-10-03 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Maybe, it could be a "normal" hardware resource conflict. But, why is the module loaded properly although the card has a conflict? I think, the card has a resource conflict, but the 3c509 module doesn't detect it. When ifconfig wants to configure the interface, it therefore cannot succeed.

Re: Re[1] RAM problems

2000-10-03 Thread George Bonser
> Current kernel: 2.2.17 > If I don't add the 'append' line to lilo.conf and run > /sbin/lilo after rebooting, a cat /proc/meminfo will > display that I have 64MB of RAM when 192MB are physically > installed. Hmmm, are you SURE? Maybe you dont HAVE more that 64MB even though you THINK you do. I

Re: partitions and lilo

2000-10-03 Thread Gil Elad
5 OS's ?! WOW good luck! you might have a problem loading some of them, though, if they start after the 1024th cylinder (roughly 8.5 GB). The BIOS won't be able to see your kernel image after that. If they're all linuces (that's plural for linux) try partitioning only the root partition (no more th

Re: procmail recipe to detect fetchmailed addrs?

2000-10-03 Thread Damon Muller
Hi will, Quoth will trillich, > i meant, procmail. it only FEELs like prickmail. While this probably isn't exactly what you are asking for, I believe maildrop and reformail will do what you want. Though I have never tried it, there is an example in the maildrop man page that seems very similar t

RE: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style

2000-10-03 Thread Stephenson, Paul
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 with Acrobat Reader > available. I would like to convert the s

No lyx mini-window in WindowMaker

2000-10-03 Thread G.Angely
Hello, this is a WindowMaker specific question (potato or woody version) LyX parameters are handle in a strange way by WindowMaker: While a mini-window appears the first time lyx is run, there in no way to post-generate a mini-window for LyX in WindowMaker. My problem: I lose the default mini-win

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-10-03 Thread Preben Randhol
Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28/09/2000 (00:57) : > Well, I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention and I had every unnecessary > port closed... or so I thought. I was still running the portmapper. So > when I ssh'd home today and nmapped myself, a couple of mysterious processes > p

Updated check-debian-cd

2000-10-03 Thread Francesco Potorti`
check-debian-cd is a shell script for quick checking of Debian CD images after having burnt them, and for checking of Debian CD images after having rsync'ed them. It is released under GNU GPL. Simple usage: check-debian-cd looks in /dev/cdrom and cheks the disc. Or: check-deb

Console didn't wake up from blank

2000-10-03 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hello, when I came home this afternoon I was rather looking forward to reading my e-mail - only to find out that my two ttys wouldn't wake up and rather stay blanked. Unfortunately I did not try to shut the machine down via ctrl-alt-del but panicked and brought it down via sysreq. I couldn't find

Listing only the package names with dpkg?

2000-10-03 Thread Preben Randhol
I'm trying to list out all the packages I have installed on my system. I can do a dpkg -l, but I only want the package names not the rest, as I'm going to use the package names. dpkg -l gives: ii xfonts-scalabl 3.3.6-2scalable fonts for X ii xfree86-common 3.3.6-10 X Window System

big problem !

2000-10-03 Thread Pep Ciuraneta
hello all ! i've got a big problem with my new Debian 2.2. yesterday, i want to add a new 3GB hard disk into my system (P120, 64MB, 3GB) substituting an old 540MB HD (my /tmp). i did it without problems, and partitioned it into three primary partitions: 1.- 2GB, 2.- 200MB 3.- 800MB. i intended d

Re: Listing only the package names with dpkg?

2000-10-03 Thread Colin Watson
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm trying to list out all the packages I have installed on my system. >I can do a dpkg -l, but I only want the package names not the rest, as >I'm going to use the package names. dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 ... or, if you need the version numbers

Re: Listing only the package names with dpkg?

2000-10-03 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Preben Randhol wrote: -|I'm trying to list out all the packages I have installed on my system. -|I can do a dpkg -l, but I only want the package names not the rest, as -|I'm going to use the package names. -| -|dpkg -l gives: -| -|ii xfonts-scalabl 3.3.6-2scalable font

Re: Konsole session switching...

2000-10-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Heh, all these list newbies thinking you're asking about VT switching don't realize that you've probably been on this list since before they heard of Linux. 8^) In any case, switching sessions in Konsole is done with + or . noah On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Steve Lamb

Re: debian: dos2unix and unix2dos utilities.

2000-10-03 Thread judd
On 2 Oct, Philipp Lehman wrote: > On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The sysutils package contains dos2unix and unix2dos (at least in potato). -Chris | Christopher Judd, Ph. D.

Re: Listing only the package names with dpkg?

2000-10-03 Thread Preben Randhol
"Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/10/2000 (14:49) : > I'm new to Debian (not to Linux/UNIX) but you could pipe the > results through "cut". For example: > > dpkg -l | cut -c 5-30 > my_log_file > > This will output only columns 5-30 of the output. yes, but dpkg -l doesn't sh

Re: Listing only the package names with dpkg?

2000-10-03 Thread Preben Randhol
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/10/2000 (14:49) : > Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm trying to list out all the packages I have installed on my system. > >I can do a dpkg -l, but I only want the package names not the rest, as > >I'm going to use the package names. > >

Re: RAM problems

2000-10-03 Thread Nate Amsden
George Bonser wrote: > > > > > The strangest thing is that the systems worked just fine > > with 192MB installed but without the correct "append" line > > in lilo.conf. > > > > Which kernel are you running? > > Remove the line from lilo.conf, rerun lilo, reboot and see what > cat /proc/meminfo s

Re: RAM problems

2000-10-03 Thread Nate Amsden
what brand/model of mainboard? what speed of ram? after having a bout with bad ram twice last week i would lean towards the ram. if its PC133 ram look at the speed it should say 6ns, i got 7ns which is 125Mhz but they sold it as 133, and of course it crashed like mad. once i put the ram at 100mhz(i

Re: partitions and lilo

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Leone
-- Original Message -- From: Gil Elad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:48:26 +0200 >5 OS's ?! >WOW good luck! I've been doing that with Partition Magic (DOS, Win98, WinNT, Win2K Pro, RedHat 6.2), across 2 IDE disks - 40G and a 17G. Never a pro

problems with festival

2000-10-03 Thread Jim Ziegler
I am having the following problem: bash-2.03$ g++ -o voxmail -g -lodbc -lFestival -lestbase -lestools -lestbase -leststring -lncurses voxmail.o Subscriber.o TelephoneNumber.o SQL_Database.o VMessageStore.o MyTime.o Lookup.o /usr/lib/libestbase.so: undefined reference to `esd_close' /usr/lib/li

bind and address rewriting

2000-10-03 Thread Thomas Voss
Hello, I have a linux box (Debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.17) running as an ISDN dial-on- demand gateway to my ISP. The ISP is assigning dynamic IP adresses, and I have address rewriting enabled (echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr). UDP packets from my internal network arriving for port 53 of the NS

Re: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style

2000-10-03 Thread Douglas Bates
"Stephenson, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 with

Re: Listing only the package names with dpkg?

2000-10-03 Thread Colin Watson
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/10/2000 (14:49) : >> I'm new to Debian (not to Linux/UNIX) but you could pipe the >> results through "cut". For example: >> >> dpkg -l | cut -c 5-30 > my_log_file >> >> This will output only columns

access.log (apache) not rotated

2000-10-03 Thread Andreas Palsson
Hello. Is it just me or isn't Apache's "access.log" rotated? When I browse it there's still information from 2-3 days ago. /Andreas - Debian Potato -- == andreas pålsson == [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==

Re: bind and address rewriting

2000-10-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > Hello, > > I have a linux box (Debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.17) running as an ISDN dial-on- > demand gateway to my ISP. The ISP is assigning dynamic IP adresses, and I > have address rewriting

Re: tr '\verb|\|000' '\verb|\|\n'?

2000-10-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 12:49:04PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > > Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > JS> but what is '\verb|\|000'? And the use of |\|? > > > > Are you reading this out of the source of a LaTeX document? > > No. It is a

Re: no ppp.log

2000-10-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> bentley taylor writes: > > i don't have a /var/log/ ppp.log, > > File a bug against ppp. [17:31:39 /tmp]$ zgrep -A9 "Syslog facility level" /usr/share/doc/ppp/README.Debian.gz | tail -10 - Syslog facility level: -- The default level of LOG_DAEMON has been overridden (as d

RE: partitions and lilo

2000-10-03 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Don't know if anyone's suggested this yet - it might be easier to manage if you put lilo on a partition and point to all your linuces from there. Solves the 1024 cylinder problem anyway. I use BootMagic (which comes with PartitionMagic) on my MBR to go to LILO or any proprietary OS. Tim

Re: Info

2000-10-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi > I want to know if Debian is suporting the arabic font ? > There are Arabic console fonts (/usr/share/consolefonts/iso06.f??.psf.gz) and I suppose you can find Arabic fonts for X too. However, as you are probably aware of, a major problem with Arabic support is its right to left requirem

strange errors on leaving Enlightenment

2000-10-03 Thread William Jensen
When I exit E, I notice this: libmikmod.so.2 <-- no found libGL.so.1 <-- not found I have a stock potato install except I added iptables, a 2.4-test7 kernel, and sftp from unstable. Does anyone know what might be calling to those files listed above? Or if/why I need them? Wm

shutdown problem

2000-10-03 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, I notice a strange behaviour when I want to shutdown my PC. When I do shutdown -h now it shuts down linux as it should. But when I then turn of the Power my PC restart after one or two seconds. I have the same behaviour with WinNT (i have a dual boot system) but i did not care about that

Re: shutdown problem

2000-10-03 Thread scott worley
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:53:23PM +, stefan goeman wrote: > Hello, > > I notice a strange behaviour when I want to shutdown my PC. > When I do shutdown -h now it shuts down linux as it should. > But when I then turn of the Power my PC restart after one or two seconds. > > I have the same be

RE: big problem !

2000-10-03 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
When you say you copied the files to the new partitions, do you mean you used cp? This doesn't preserve the permissions - you should have used tar instead. I don't know of a fix besides chmod 777 (horrible!) or reinstalling. At least you still have your /home. Tim -Original Messa

Re: Need CPAN Perl mods help

2000-10-03 Thread John Foster
will trillich wrote: > so i broke down and read the manual. i hate that. > > % man CPAN OOPS!! I was trying > man cpan with no results :-/ > > FAQ > > I installed a new version of module X but CPAN keeps saying, > I have

Software-RAID and partitioning

2000-10-03 Thread Christian Pernegger
I have 3 18GB SCSI disks I want to use in a "new-style" Soft-RAID-5 configuration. At the moment I have 1. partitionsd.4swap 2. partitionsd.3ext2(for squid) 3. partitionsd.1raid-auto This of course means I have to have the whole md device under one mountpoint (

Re: Need CPAN Perl mods help

2000-10-03 Thread will trillich
John Foster wrote: > > will trillich wrote: > > > so i broke down and read the manual. i hate that. > > > > % man CPAN > > OOPS!! I was trying > man cpan with no results :-/ go figure. the command-line command is % cpan but the perl packag

Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Erin Lewy
Hi. Well here I am finally subscribed. Actually I've been reading selected bits of the list for a while (ooh I wanted to join in on the why Debian vs Redhat thread...) because my BF is subscribed to this list and has been for a while (Hi, Tom!) The very short version of why I'm here is that I'm

Re: Software-RAID and partitioning

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Fedyk
Christian Pernegger wrote: > > I have 3 18GB SCSI disks I want to use in a "new-style" Soft-RAID-5 > configuration. At the moment I have > > 1. partitionsd.4swap > 2. partitionsd.3ext2(for squid) > 3. partitionsd.1raid-auto > > This of course means I have to h

Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:14:01PM +, Erin Lewy wrote: > So my question is, how do I set the static IP in such a way that it will > actually > work? Permanently? ;) A swift response would really be appreciated as I have > to go deal with more networking and web server people relatively earl

Re: strange errors on leaving Enlightenment

2000-10-03 Thread Aaron Brashears
Those are libraries used by xmms. You can do apt-get install libmikmod2 to get the first. I'm not certain about this, but I think that libGL.so.1 is supposed to be a sym link to your open gl library - such as mesa. William Jensen wrote: > > When I exit E, I notice this: > > libmikmod.so.2 <-- no

Onboard NIC problem

2000-10-03 Thread Matt Grant
I have Debian Potato 2.2 with Gnome running on this PC with an on board NIC. The motherboard is a PR440BX with 2 Ppro CPU's w/256 MB RAM and 2 scsi drive's I have win 2000 on /dev/sda and Debian on /dev/sdb Debian found the onboard Scsi Controller but not the NIC or 2nd CPU the 2nd CPU isn't import

Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Fedyk
Erin Lewy wrote: > > Hi. Well here I am finally subscribed. Actually I've been reading selected > bits of the list for a while (ooh I wanted to join in on the why Debian vs > Redhat > thread...) because my BF is subscribed to this list and has been for a while > (Hi, Tom!) > Heh, why isn't he

Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Fedyk
Christian Pernegger wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:14:01PM +, Erin Lewy wrote: > > > > So my question is, how do I set the static IP in such a way that it will > > actually > > work? Permanently? ;) A swift response would really be appreciated as I > > have > > to go deal with more

Re: Onboard NIC problem

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Fedyk
Matt Grant wrote: > > I have Debian Potato 2.2 with Gnome running on this PC > with an on board NIC. > The motherboard is a PR440BX with 2 Ppro CPU's w/256 MB RAM > and 2 scsi drive's I have win 2000 on /dev/sda and Debian on /dev/sdb > Debian found the onboard Scsi Controller but not the NIC or 2

Re: Onboard NIC problem

2000-10-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have Debian Potato 2.2 with Gnome running on this PC > with an on board NIC. > The motherboard is a PR440BX with 2 Ppro CPU's w/256 MB RAM > and 2 scsi drive's I have win 2000 on /dev/sda

modprobe problems

2000-10-03 Thread Chris Mason
I have a firewall using two rtl8139 cards, which I had to compile my own kernel to use. I have had probelms with uploading files through the firewall so I installed the kernel binary 2.2.17. I removed these cards and installed two linksys LNE100TX4 cards. The instructions with the card told me to u

Just had to share...

2000-10-03 Thread Erin Lewy
Well, I felt like posting this because it still baffles me and makes me laugh: a little snippet of some distro dick wars. ;) So as I was being dragged on board as this web server's co admin the question of upgrades came up and I voiced that if I was going to run anything on a server it would be De

glibc dependencies problem

2000-10-03 Thread Pascal Hos
Hi, I tried installing the kde2 packages from the woody tree into my potato distribution and it seems to have upgraded the glibc. The install was faulty otherwise too. Some of the packages couldn't be configures due to independencies (not sure what failed anymore). Now I'm trying to get my system

/dev/video: Operation not permitted

2000-10-03 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I am trying to install a Webcam to my Debian 2.2 Laptop. I run kernel 2.2.17 and have installed the backport to get usb working. This seems to work. Also I have the camera operational and I have installed xawtv which (according to people who have done so) can be used to display the camera image. If

OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Jim Lisi
Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Erin Lewy wrote: > > Okay. Here's the deal. The poor machine was an ANCIENT P75 running (I didn't > > Ancient, huh? How bout a 486 DX2 66, or a 486 DX4 100? That's what I have at > home as my firewall. :) > how about a 486DX-33? or a Kaypro II (bet you never heard of it!

Re: Onboard NIC problem

2000-10-03 Thread Peter Wilke
Hi Matt, try the EtherExpress100 driver. You can compile this code directly into the kernel or load it as a module. The module name is eepro100.o. If you NIC won't be found after that, specify the appropriate parameters for irq and io. You should have a diskette whith a little DOS-Program on it.

Re: Onboard NIC problem

2000-10-03 Thread Jeff Green
Intel 8255x network cards are better known as Ether Express Pro, to get multiple processors you need to use a multiple processor kernel and if you think Linux flies on one processor watch it on 2!! On the bios on that motherboard you can have 32 irqs, which makes it much easier if you have oodles o

Mozilla M17-3 on Woody

2000-10-03 Thread RvB
Hi ... I tried Mozilla M17-3 on Woody (mozilla_m17-3_i386.deb) and when i want to start it, it says: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ mozilla Starting Mozilla Could not obtain CmdLine processing service [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ what does this mean? ... it also happened with an

Samba problems

2000-10-03 Thread Alec Smith
I'm noticing that if I copy some files from Windows NT onto my Samba server I end up with the wrong permissions. Instead of files being owned by alec.mp3 as I'd like, they appear to be owned by root.mp3. 97153 drwxr-sr-x2 alec mp3 4.0k Oct 3 13:28 ./ 32385 drwxr-sr-x3 ale

Re: glibc dependencies problem

2000-10-03 Thread Kevin Krafthefer
I just had this problem, it's a pain but you don't have to rebuild your entire system. I think it's a bug but it is too low level for me to characterize very well. Anyway, this should help (it saved me from having to reinstall): http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0009/msg04260.html krafty P

Re: Listing only the package names with dpkg?

2000-10-03 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 02:53:00PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/10/2000 (14:49) : > > Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I'm trying to list out all the packages I have installed on my system. > > >I can do a dpkg -l, but I only want the pac

Re: /dev/video: Operation not permitted

2000-10-03 Thread Jens P. Elsner
> lrwxrwxrwx1 root root6 Oct 3 17:19 /dev/video -> > video0 > > Have I overlooked some obvious thing? Yes. /dev/video is a symlink. :) how about you set the right permissions on /dev/video0 ? jp

Re: Off Topic: mutt and threading

2000-10-03 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:11:21PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > When I change into debian-user folder I have to always use o t for sort by > thread. There has to be a way that I can tell mutt to always use threaded > mode? you've got part of the answer. what if you also want the mailboxes disp

RE: partitions and lilo

2000-10-03 Thread mike
The version of LILO that comes with potato doesn't have the 1024 cylinder limit anymore. I use it to boot 4 os . I am using a 13GB disc with 3 primary partitions and an extended partition. I have LILO in my last partition above 10GB. On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:50:20 -0400 , Anderson, Ti

Re: glibc dependencies problem

2000-10-03 Thread Pascal Hos
Thanks, that did the trick > I just had this problem, it's a pain but you don't have to rebuild your > entire system. > I think it's a bug but it is too low level for me to characterise very well. > > Anyway, this should help (it saved me from having to reinstall): > > http://lists.debian.org/d

Re: Debian and compaq presario

2000-10-03 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 02:07:53PM -0500, Daniel E. Baumann wrote: > 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 > > > c

RE: Debian and compaq presario

2000-10-03 Thread George Wright
Are there any card (pcmcia) type modems out there that anyone has had luck w/using the 2.2.17 kernel? Are any made that aren't so heavily "win"-driven? -Original Message- From: Francesco Bochicchio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 11:37 PM To: debian-laptop@list

RE: Debian and compaq presario

2000-10-03 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, George Wright wrote: > Are there any card (pcmcia) type modems out there that anyone has had luck > w/using > the 2.2.17 kernel? Are any made that aren't so heavily "win"-driven? > > > -Original Message- > From: Francesco Bochicchio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent:

bind and address rewriting

2000-10-03 Thread Thomas Voss
Hello Phil, PB> > the UDP packet is masqueraded PB> > correctly and triggers the PPP dial-out to my ISP. But PB> > finally, the UDP packet gets dropped out there because no PB> > address rewriting is done for UDP packets PB> If no address rewriting is done you need to check your ipchains P

RE: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Luxury. When I were a lad I had to run a webserver on a ZX81, without even a 16K RAM Pack. I 'ad to load all me data from C90 audio tapes and play'em over t'phone to me users. Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Erin Lewy wrote: > > Okay. Her

Fax (hylafax)

2000-10-03 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi I am trying to use the hylafax (tkhylafax) program to send a fax but, whenever I try to send the fax (or the other comands faxstat, ...) it ask me for a password, and I do nor know what to do, I have already tried my own password, the root password, ... Can you help me? Tank you. (Notice that

Confused on iptables and ftp..yes still...

2000-10-03 Thread William Jensen
My iptable rule: $IPT -A INPUT -p tcp ! --syn --source-port 20 --destination-port 1024:65535 -j ACCEPT I read this as any packed that is not a --syn type from source 20 on the ftp server i'm hooking up to, destined to my pc port 1024:65535 jumps to ACCEPT here's a snip of my log files: Oct 3

Re: Konsole session switching...

2000-10-03 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, October 03, 2000, 5:37:33 AM, Noah wrote: > Heh, all these list newbies thinking you're asking about VT switching > don't realize that you've probably been on this list since before they > heard of Linux. 8^) Ungh, don't remind me. :)

Re: /dev/video: Operation not permitted

2000-10-03 Thread Erik van der Meulen
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 20:12:45 +0200, Jens P. Elsner wrote: > > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root6 Oct 3 17:19 /dev/video -> > > video0 > > > > Have I overlooked some obvious thing? > Yes. /dev/video is a symlink. :) > > how about you set the right permissions on /dev/video0 ? Th

Re: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:21:31PM -0400, Anderson, TimTL33E wrote: > > Luxury. When I were a lad I had to run a webserver on a ZX81, > without even a 16K RAM Pack. I 'ad to load all me data from C90 > audio tapes and play'em over t'phone to me users. surely, now.

pty for Linux

2000-10-03 Thread Paul D. Smith
Has anyone had a go at porting Dan Bernstein's "pty" program to Linux? The latest I found was Oct 1990, in the comp.unix.sources archives, and it's pretty out-of-date. There were a _LOT_ of configuration options, and it wasn't at all clear to me how best to handle them for a Debian installation.

Re: partitions and lilo

2000-10-03 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, In response to a large number of replies, I'll send this via the deb-user list instead. Below are links to great reading and WHY I wasn't able to do what I originally tried. I did install 5 OS's tho, and left room for 2 more. I did run into the 1024 cylinder problem - anoying to say

Re: Confused on iptables and ftp..yes still...

2000-10-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > My iptable rule: > > $IPT -A INPUT -p tcp ! --syn --source-port 20 --destination-port 1024:65535 > -j ACCEPT > > I read this as any packed that is not a --syn type from source 20 on the f

Re: How to set Xserver resolution

2000-10-03 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:57:52AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Debian" == Debian Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Debian> You could set up an alias. HTH > > That doesn't work to well if you are starting X via gdm... > > Yes, you could alter /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, but this of

ISP modem connection

2000-10-03 Thread romeu
Hi, I'm sorry the long mail, but I would have no way of describing my problem without it. I'm trying to connect to my ISP, using my Lucent Venus Voice Modem, since august, 2000. I made these things: - ISA PnP issues, with pnpdump --> isapnp.conf - setserial /dev/ttyS1 - the port whas detected as

X-windows + Rage Fury Pro Vivo compatibility

2000-10-03 Thread Valentín Alba
Does anybody make X-windows run with ATI Rage 128 Pro with Debian 2.2? Even in VGA or SVGA mode? Thanks

2.4.0-test kernels?

2000-10-03 Thread Damian Menscher
Can anyone provide some info on how to get working with a 2.4 kernel? I need to switch so I can get my scsi card working with raid support. Other than the kernel, I'd prefer to have everything as stable as possible. So far I've learned that I need to get an updated modutils, but that causes al

Re: 2.4.0-test kernels?

2000-10-03 Thread Jeff Lessem
In your message of: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 15:44:31 CDT, you write: >Can anyone provide some info on how to get working with a 2.4 kernel? About a month ago I started running 2.4-testX on an otherwise potato system. I had to upgrade modutils, nfs-common, and nfs-kernel-server to make things work. If

[very OT] Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:21:31PM -0400, Anderson, TimTL33E wrote: > > > > Luxury. When I were a lad I had to run a webserver on a ZX81, > > without even a 16K RAM Pack. I 'ad to load all me data from C90 > > audio tapes and play'e

Re: 2.4.0-test kernels?

2000-10-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Can anyone provide some info on how to get working with a 2.4 kernel? > I need to switch so I can get my scsi card working with raid support. > Other than the kernel, I'd prefer to have

Re: partitions and lilo

2000-10-03 Thread csj
Now how did you manage to install FOUR different distros? I tried installing two (Mandrake + Storm, a debian derivative). While I was able to run stuff like Gnome (practically the whole bunch I guess), I ran into module loading problems. My Storm installation kept looking for the Mandrake modules.

Re: Off Topic: mutt and threading

2000-10-03 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:23:20PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:11:21PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > > When I change into debian-user folder I have to always use o t for sort by > > thread. There has to be a way that I can tell mutt to always use threaded > > mode? >

Re: Samba problems (fwd)

2000-10-03 Thread Alberto Pereira
The problem is the windows system not found the printers! I use potato with samba2.0.7-3 On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Alec Smith wrote: I use the default Samba printers share, and then the standard method of mapping the network printers on my Windows machine. There's nothing special to printing from Wind

Re: ISP modem connection

2000-10-03 Thread Christoph Simon
[...] > These are the last lines of my /var/log/syslog: > Oct 3 04:12:35 colorado pppd[664]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 > Oct 3 04:12:36 colorado chat[665]: abort on (BUSY) > Oct 3 04:12:36 colorado chat[665]: abort on (NO CARRIER) > Oct 3 04:12:36 colorado chat[665]: abort on (VOICE) >

Re: Samba problems

2000-10-03 Thread Alberto Pereira
Yes, the samba is rigth configured but the printer not appears in the windows net box!! :( All others folders appears in the net windows box. On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Alec Smith wrote: Can the Windows machine see other shares on the Samba machine? On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Alberto Pereira wrote: > The p

Re: Samba problems

2000-10-03 Thread Alec Smith
Your Samba machine does have a [Printers] share, right? If that share is there, I'm not sure what's wrong. I'm by no means a Samba god... :( On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Alberto Pereira wrote: > Yes, > the samba is rigth configured but the printer not appears in the windows > net box!! > :( > All other

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