Re: Suggestions for buying a modem

2000-10-12 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > It turns out that I have a lucent winmodem which will not work on Linux ( I > > have done around 2 weeks of research on it !!). So I have to buy a new A very few winmodems will more or less work nowadays. Of course they suck just as much under Linux

Re: Suggestions for buying a modem

2000-10-12 Thread John Griffiths
At 01:03 AM 10/12/2000 -0400, William T Wilson wrote: >On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > >> > It turns out that I have a lucent winmodem which will not work on Linux ( I >> > have done around 2 weeks of research on it !!). So I have to buy a new > >A very few winmodems will more or less

Re: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-12 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:39:20PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: > > The server IP_NUM isn't running SMTP ? > > There is a firewall between your host and IP_NUM ? > > You're not connected to the same network ? > > > The host is refusing your connection. It's either IP filtered, denied > > through /et

Re: 60 gig drive

2000-10-12 Thread Robert Waldner
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> i'd be more concerned with the bios then linux, especially if you plan to >> boot off the disk. make a small /boot-partition at the beginning of the drive, so you can put your kernel there (it should fit entirely into the 1st 1024 cylinders), and you should be off fi

Re: Suggestions for buying a modem

2000-10-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:03:49AM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > > If you really do have to buy a new modem, any modem which supports DOS, or > OS/2 will work, as will any external serial modem. But external modems > usually cost a lot more. they are typically more expensive because they are

Re: PHP - A new approach

2000-10-12 Thread Steve Simons
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:19:20 Andrew Sullivan wrote: > Make sure that apache turns on module support for php when it runs > apacheconfig: it never does do this correctly for me, and I _always_ > have to fix it by hand. Make sure that your apache configuration is > set up to process PHP files with t

Firewall (Linux new-comer)

2000-10-12 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi people! I´m sitting on a single computer. Yesterday i´ve read the firewall-HOWTO and was very confused cause there are examples for a network system. Is there any possibility to build a firewall or other usefull security systems for my machine? I like to use netscape navigator to have fun and f

Re: Firewall (Linux new-comer)

2000-10-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:07:04AM +0200, Matthias Mann wrote: > Hi people! > > I´m sitting on a single computer. Yesterday i´ve read the firewall-HOWTO and > was very confused cause there are examples for a network system. Is there > any possibility to build a firewall or other usefull security s

Re: Suggestions for buying a modem

2000-10-12 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:15:11PM -0800, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:03:49AM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > > > > If you really do have to buy a new modem, any modem which supports DOS, or > > OS/2 will work, as will any external serial modem. But exte

Re: pronounce

2000-10-12 Thread Geordie Birch
you'll have to ask linus torvalds ;) THUS SPAKE Yuji Toyoda, on Oct 12: > Simple question. How do you pronounce "apt-get"? > Especially I'd like to know how do everyone pronounce "apt". > > Thank you for your help.

Re: Suggestions for buying a modem

2000-10-12 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:15:11PM -0800, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:03:49AM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > > > > > > If you really do have to buy a new modem, any modem which supports DOS, or

[no subject]

2000-10-12 Thread David Vest
There's something funny in Woody, look at this: install_driver(mysql) failed: Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so' for module DBD::mysql: libmysqlclient.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm

RE: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-12 Thread Paul McHale
> Strongly recommend you take a look at this rant on problem reporting: Let's see if I can better address it using the points from a summary you mentioned. Point 1: The first aim of a bug report is to let the programmer see the failure with his own eyes. This really applies to bug reporting. I

Mustek Paragon 600 II CD

2000-10-12 Thread Marc Maute
hi, can zou tell me if this scanner works or where I can find some information. thanks -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: printer setup problem

2000-10-12 Thread Irger Armin
Seung-woo Nam wrote: > Hi: > I configured my printer setting with printtool, however, when I try to > print only thing I get is 'No spool file found' printed on the paper. > The entry in printcap is identical to the one in my redhat which is > working. I suspected ther is lp.lock file in /var/spoo

cron.daily problem

2000-10-12 Thread Igor Mozetic
I observed on one of our Debian 2.2 machines that daily cron still didn't finish after 5+ hours: # ps aux root 28990 0.0 0.4 1188 536 ?S06:25 0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON root 28991 0.0 0.6 1724 796 ?S06:25 0:00 /bin/sh -c test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts

IP masqing and caching

2000-10-12 Thread Triggs; Ian
Hi, I have searched the HOWTOs but can't seem to find out how to set up my firewall which is using IP masquerading to save cache, is this even possible? Thanks, Ian

Omniback II and Debian

2000-10-12 Thread Uwe Jans
I tried to back-up my Debian Host (Potato) with Omniback II. I had Problems with die correct DNS Lookup. A Redhat 6.2 System work without Problems. The two systems looks almost the same ;-) Here is the debug-file: 10/12/00 12:40:31 VBDA.14933.0 ["/src/lib/cmn/common.c /main/r31_split/8":913] A

raid setup

2000-10-12 Thread Chris Mason
I had a drive failure yesterday so I am re-thinking my file server. I would like to setup my debian machine as my file server with two drives, each 20 GB or more. I would like one to mirror the other, either as a raid setup or just copying files that have changed every hour. The idea is not to prot

pcmcia: Device busy

2000-10-12 Thread Rainer Dorsch
When I call /etc/init.d/pcmcia stop, I get from time to time the message # /etc/init.d/pcmcia stop Shutting down PCMCIA services: modulesds: Device or resource busy i82365: Device or resource busy pcmcia_core: Device or resource busy . The only real solution is then to reboot the laptop. Is ther

URGENT! Sendmail question (Redhat conversion) HELP!

2000-10-12 Thread Ferrell, Tim
Title: URGENT! Sendmail question (Redhat conversion) HELP! Let me start by saying I am not a network admin... but I play one on TV :-) I have recently switch to Debian from RedHat 6.2 and have hit major turbulence porting the sendmail config. The machine in question is our firewall/DNS serv

Re: Firewall (Linux new-comer)

2000-10-12 Thread mike
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:07:04 +0200, Matthias Mann said: > Hi people! > > I´m sitting on a single computer. Yesterday i´ve read the firewall-HOWTO and > was very confused cause there are examples for a network system. Is there > any possibility to build a firewall or other usefull security sy

Re: printer setup problem

2000-10-12 Thread Irger Armin
Seung-woo Nam wrote: > Hi: > I configured my printer setting with printtool, however, when I try to > print only thing I get is 'No spool file found' printed on the paper. > The entry in printcap is identical to the one in my redhat which is > working. I suspected ther is lp.lock file in /var/spoo

Package manager

2000-10-12 Thread egargiulo
Hi all. I'm new to the lists and to Debian too. I had installed Debian 2.2. The install process work fine but I don't know how to install, remove o query the packages of the distribution. I had used Redhat with rpm. Where can I find information about package manager on debian? Thanks and sorry fo

Installation problem

2000-10-12 Thread Claude Aeschlimann
Hi, I have a problem installing Debian 2.2 on my system (P166, 64MB RAM, Adaptec 1542 SCSI board, 4GB SCSI HD and 3,5 IDE GB (win)) : - The first part goes well (both my CD-ROM and CD-Recorder are recognized) and I can install the base system. But after the reboot, the installation procedure loops

Re: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: RE: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused Date: Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:39:20PM -0400 In reply to:Paul McHale Quoting Paul McHale([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > The server IP_NUM isn't running SMTP ? > > There is a firewall between your host and IP_NUM ? > > You're not

Re: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-12 Thread Alec Smith
If I recall, the correct line to be used with Sendmail is sendmail: all to allow all users. On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: RE: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused > Date: Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:39:20PM -0400 > > In reply to:Paul McHale > > Quoti

RE: BIOS32 entry (0xc00fa000) in high memory, cannot use

2000-10-12 Thread Lewis, James M.
> -Original Message- > From: LTG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 2:35 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Installing LinkSys LNE100TX on Compaq Prolinea 590 > > > I have been trying to install the latest GNU/Debian > release (Linux version 2.2.1

Re: Recording TV shows

2000-10-12 Thread Nate Amsden
not likely you can do this, i've found that even on a dual celeron 466 with 256MB of ram(ultra scsi hdds) i couldn't capture more then 5-10fps at the most. kwintv can capture ..so can broadcast 2000(http://heroinewarrior.com/bcast2000.html) again don't expect being able to capture 20-25fps. i'll

Re: 60 gig drive

2000-10-12 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Jeff Green writes ("Re: 60 gig drive"): >Assuming it is a scsi drive I know of no problems, we have several raid >arrays which Linux sees as single disks. I believe the largest single >partition we have in use is 240GB though this now uses ReiserFS as >running fsck on an ext2fs partition that size

Re: Suggestions for buying a modem

2000-10-12 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Shaji N V wrote: > Any one has any suggestions/for a cheap, good modem available ? > And it should work with Debian 2.2 > Get yourself a ZyXEL Omni 56K. It is cheap and very good value for its price. It also comes in USB port model...but I suggest U get the Serial one. Please look up http:/

Port 1002

2000-10-12 Thread Manuel Hendel
Hi, does anyone know whats on port 1002. I can't find it in the /etc/services and a nmap on the IP says unknown. thanks Manuel -- ** Manuel Hendel, Internet Engineer * Fon +49 89 92699-0 ** ** Cable & Wireless ECRC GmbH * Fax +49 89 92699-808 ** ** Landsberger St

Re: Package manager

2000-10-12 Thread John Travis
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:41:28 -0300 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Package manager > > Hi all. > > I'm new to the lists and to Debian too. > I had installed Debian 2.2. The install process work fine but I

Re: Package manager

2000-10-12 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: > Hi all. > > I'm new to the lists and to Debian too. > I had installed Debian 2.2. The install process work fine but I don't > know how to install, remove o query the packages of the distribution. I > had used Redhat with rpm. Where can I find information about package > manager on

suggestions for buying a printer

2000-10-12 Thread Alfredo Solano Martinez
Greetings, I want to buy a laser printer, and I have no idea of this field, maybe somenone can help. Thanks in advance.

Re: Package manager

2000-10-12 Thread Matthias Mann
> Hi all. > > I'm new to the lists and to Debian too. > I had installed Debian 2.2. The install process work fine but I don't > know how to install, remove o query the packages of the distribution. I > had used Redhat with rpm. Where can I find information about package > manager on debian? > > Tha

Re: PHP - A new approach

2000-10-12 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Steve Simons wrote: > >I had to uncomment the first one, and my script is now called >/home/steve/hello.php3 > >Still doesn't work - netscape still wants to download the file :-( > Move the file to /home/steve/public_html/hello.php3 and load http://localhost/~steve/hello.php3

what's wrong with my sound card?

2000-10-12 Thread doodler
Hi,all, My sound card is cmpci8738 .After I installed Debian 2.2 ,I recompiled the kernel and the module for my sound card is installed properly when the system boots. For weeks I can enjoy mp3 with mp3blaster and change volume with aumix ,but now I can not hear anything at all.The module

Re-enabling Debian menus in Helix GNOME foot menu

2000-10-12 Thread Thomas Hood
Here's something it took me a while to figure out. To enable the Debian menu hierarchy in Helix GNOME, you have to go into the GNOME Control Center (under Programs|Settings) and on the "Menu" tab in the "Global Menu" box enable "Distribution" either "in the menu" or "in a submenu". Thomas Hood

Re: Port 1002

2000-10-12 Thread J.A. de Vries
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Manuel Hendel wrote: > does anyone know whats on port 1002. I can't find it in the > /etc/services and a nmap on the IP says unknown. According to IANA port 1002 is unassigned. See http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers. HTH Grx HdV -- Support bacteria

Re: Package manager

2000-10-12 Thread Francois Fayard
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:41:28AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm new to the lists and to Debian too. > I had installed Debian 2.2. The install process work fine but I don't > know how to install, remove o query the packages of the distribution. I > had used Redhat with rpm. Whe

Re: suggestions for buying a printer

2000-10-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:19:46PM +0200, Alfredo Solano Martinez wrote: > Greetings, > > I want to buy a laser printer, and I have no idea of this field, maybe > somenone can help. Check http://www.linuxprinting.org for information on Linux-friendly printers (and warnings about some unfrie

Re: Trouble installing Debian

2000-10-12 Thread Glenn Murray
My understanding now is that I have a Promise Technology card for an ultra-ATA/66 (IDE) interface, and I need a Linux driver for this card. The ...disks-i386/current/udma66/ directory contains three files, viz.: drivers.tgz install.bat linux but no Readme, so I am a little at a loss. The drive

Re: port 113

2000-10-12 Thread Michael Steiner
Thank you to all who replied. Michael

Kerlnel NFS Daemon and Mounting

2000-10-12 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, I have some problems using the Kernel NFS Daemon. I used the Userspace Daemon before without any problems. Now I installed a 2.2.17 Kernel on a Potato box and got the problems. I can mount each exported directory. I'm using the option rw and the directory is also exported rw but I'm not able t

Menu editor crashes in Helix GNOME

2000-10-12 Thread Martin Weinberg
I find that the menu editor dies when one attempts to edit any user menu with the latest Helix version. The system is Helix + up-to-date Potato. Has anyone else seen this and/or know a fix? TIA, --Martin

Re: Installing LinkSys LNE100TX on Compaq Prolinea 590

2000-10-12 Thread Michael Steiner
We are using still some of old 590 machines. One I'm using for syslogd, bind etc... Does your machine has an onboard eth and vga device like ours ? Michael -- Michael Steiner, Minorgasse 35, A-1140 Vienna, Austria

RE: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-12 Thread Paul McHale
> If I recall, the correct line to be used with Sendmail is > > sendmail: all > > to allow all users. > This is what it was set to. I changed it to try the suggestion. Unfortunately, it did not improve. I think I might just upgrade to potato. I know this is not the best cure, but I am interested

NFS new-comer question

2000-10-12 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi people! Do i need anything for NFS at my single computer? I don´t plan to mount any filesystem over an internetconnection or somthing like this. Whilst booting i get this messages from the bootscript : Starting NFS common utilitis : statd lockd .. . Not starting NFS kernel kernel daemo

Re: Anacron fails on exim job

2000-10-12 Thread Francois Fayard
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:39:46AM +0200, Kai Weber wrote: > Hi, > > after updating from potato to woody I have these Mails in roots inbox: > > --- snip - > > /etc/cron.daily/exim: > Exim retry database in spool /var/spool/exim > Failed to open database file retry: Invalid argument >

Re: suggestions for buying a printer

2000-10-12 Thread David A. Rogers
Lots of useful information at www.linuxprinting.org. dar On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Alfredo Solano Martinez wrote: > Greetings, > > I want to buy a laser printer, and I have no idea of this field, maybe > somenone can help. > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- Against stupidity, the gods themse

Re: Anacron fails on exim job

2000-10-12 Thread Lee Maguire
[2000-10-12] Francois Fayard wrote: > > Failed to open database file retry: Invalid argument > Don't be afraid, I have the same problem. Just wait until the bug is fixed, > or switch back to Potato. I think you can fix this one by just going into /var/spool/exim/db/ and just deleting the database

Pine

2000-10-12 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, I have just installed Debian 2.2 after being a RH user for quite some time. I currently trying to install the pine package which I downloaded from us.debian.org. The commands I issued were dpkg -i pine4-src.1.deb I then changed to the usr/src/pine4 directory (AND READ THE READ ME FILE) is

Re: raid setup

2000-10-12 Thread Robert Varga
It is quite doable... I suggest you use the latest stable kernel with the raid0.90 patches which can be downloaded from http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches You will need to use the raidtools2 package instead of raidtools or mdutils. You can put everything on raid1 even root, if you want.

Re: Pine

2000-10-12 Thread Ray Percival
I have not looked in the recent past but have they cleared up the buffer overflow problems with Pine? If not you might be better off with something else. To try and answer the question have you tried apt-get install pine ? Should work like a charm. -- Original Message ---

Re: Pine

2000-10-12 Thread Robert Varga
You need to install the pine4-diffs package as well. It contains the patches and the dsc file, as well as the debian-package configuration files. You also will need libc-client4.7 and libc-client4.7-dev, and libncurses5-dev packages. After you have installed both, switch into /usr/src/pine4. Issu

Re: Pine

2000-10-12 Thread S.J. Black
Hi, Eileen - Unpack the source w/ : dpkg-source -x pine4_4.21-1.dsc (make sure you have dpkg-dev installed for this.) Then cd into pine_4.21, where you run : debian/rules binary cd back to /usr/src/pine4 Then run: dpkg -i pine_4.21-1_i386.deb This should do the trick. Hope it helps... alp

Unidentified subject!

2000-10-12 Thread David Walter
Subject: Re: dhcpcd weirdness References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: David Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12 Oct 2000 13:30:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: "Andrew Whitlock"'s message of "Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:25:31 -0400" Message-ID:

Re: Web based administration, how?

2000-10-12 Thread Pascal Hos
It is probably webmin, which can be invoked by typing http://localhost:1 in your webbrowser. Pascal On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:24:51PM -0400, Rafael E. Herrera wrote: > During installation I chose a web based administration option. After > installing Debian, it's not clear how you start usin

Re: NFS new-comer question

2000-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
"Matthias Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Do i need anything for NFS at my single computer? I don´t plan to mount >any filesystem over an internetconnection or somthing like this. No, you can go ahead and remove all the NFS packages if you don't need them. They aren't needed for normal networkin

problems with bin/sbin portions failing to install

2000-10-12 Thread Dave E Martin, XXIII
It turns out I sent this to the wrong place to start with, so here is attempt two: > > Using the unstable distribution today (oct-11-2000 at approx 3pm > > mountain daylight time), did an apt-get update; apt-get -u dist-upgrade, > > and then a reboot. > > Everything appeared to be fine, there were

Debian 2.2 3CD or 4CD?

2000-10-12 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I thought the new Debian 2.2 came on 3CD but someone or other is selling one version with a 4th; calling it non-free. That the case? Thanks, Jonathan

Re: debian-user: exim, unknown user.

2000-10-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 03:09:42PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > I have setup a mail server using exim. I have it working pretty well, > but I can't figure out how to send mail for non existant users to a real > user. eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't exist so I would like all mail sent to > this a

Re: what's wrong with my sound card

2000-10-12 Thread Scott_Patterson
>Hi,all, > >My sound card is cmpci8738 .After I installed Debian 2.2 ,I recompiled the kernel >and the module for my sound card is installed properly when the system boots. For weeks >I can enjoy mp3 with mp3blaster and change volume with aumix ,but now I can not hear >anything at all.The mo

Re: Port 1002 - how to figure what process is using a port.

2000-10-12 Thread C. Falconer
At 04:04 PM 10/12/00 +0200, you wrote: does anyone know whats on port 1002. I can't find it in the /etc/services and a nmap on the IP says unknown. To find out what is running on a port (as opposed to what a port is supposed to be for) (example uses port 2064) As root run fuser -n tcp 206

Re: Debian 2.2 3CD or 4CD?

2000-10-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Jonathan Gift" wrote: > I thought the new Debian 2.2 came on 3CD but someone or other is selling one > version with a 4th; calling it non-free. That the case? The three CDs are the Debian distribution proper (the section called `main'), plus whatever from the `contrib' section that has no depen

Re: Re-enabling Debian menus in Helix GNOME foot menu

2000-10-12 Thread Kai Weber
+ Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To enable the Debian menu hierarchy in Helix GNOME, > you have to go into the GNOME Control Center (under Any idea how to get the debian-menu back into the sawfish applications-menu which pops up when I press middle mouse button? It was gone some versions of H

PS Best Debian 2.3 CD source

2000-10-12 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I've narrowed it down to CheapBytes, LCs and LinuxCentral. All offer the 3CD set, only CheapBytes offers another 3 source. Any help appreciated as to quality, CD-R or not, etc. Thanks, Jonathan

Re: X-window

2000-10-12 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
See below kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Please us postfix followup. > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 02:41:10PM -0400, A R ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:45:49PM -0500, Cavaiani, Don ([EMAIL > > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Can anyone t

Re: URGENT! Sendmail question (Redhat conversion) HELP!

2000-10-12 Thread Damian Menscher
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Ferrell, Tim wrote: > Let me start by saying I am not a network admin... but I play one on TV Me too! > FEATURE(`mailertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable') > and in /etc/mail/mailertable I have the following line: > > mcgeecorp.comSMTP:[192.168.0.6] > > The c

Re: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Paul" == Paul McHale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Paul> This is what it was set to. I changed it to try the suggestion. Paul> Unfortunately, it did not improve. I think I might just upgrade to potato. Paul> I know this is not the best cure, but I am interested in testing the new Paul> sto

q´s ad adding driver to ghostscript

2000-10-12 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Please forgive any (more or less) ignorance, I´m not so new to debian/gnu/linux, but it´s the first time I hit the printing and apt-get source themes. 1: If I checked the docs[0] right, I have to compile ghostscript myself to get an additional driver[1] into it? 1a: How would one go for

Access to WWW via ISDN and Netscape Navigator (beginner)

2000-10-12 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi linuxuser! I had installed Debian 2.2r0 potato. First the basesystem and all packages of the directorys Imp and Std. Next i installed the X Window system Netscape and isdnutils. I think the ISDN-card is working cause i had a connection of one second by typing isdnctrl dial ippp0 on consiole. Is

root mail - cronjob

2000-10-12 Thread Techgod
I have this cronjob running, and everytime it runs, it emails root, to say it was successful. How do I get it to stop sending the email? Wayne

Debian book

2000-10-12 Thread Ted Wager
Hi. Could anyone tell me if there is a definitive Debain book or recommend any book specific to Debian ?? -- Regards Ted Packetmail :- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email :- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

INN2 and Suck, posts not propagating upstream.

2000-10-12 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. I thought I had this INN2/Suck thing all figured out, but apparently not. It's been working great, downloading the groups I want, archiving the way I want. Local posting is working just wonderful, but I noticed that the posts didn't seem to be getting any replies (I usually get at least

new network card defective?

2000-10-12 Thread William Jensen
Greetings everyone, I dropped an intel etherexpress pro/100 into the system this morning, redid the kernel to support. First time I booted up I saw the following as fast as it could draw to the screen: Oct 12 09:37:21 stimpy kernel: eth0: card reports no RX buffers. Oct 12 09:37:21 stimpy kernel

X errors while running make xconfig

2000-10-12 Thread Francois Gouget
Hi, When I'm running 'make xconfig' to configure a new kernel, I regularly get the following error: X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error) Major opcode of failed request: 49 (X_ListFonts) Serial number of failed request: 4170 Cu

Re: Port Forwarding (reverse masquerading)

2000-10-12 Thread Sean Furey
Hi Peter! > ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L extIP 80 -R 192.168.1.3 80 > > extIP is my IP if ya didnt catch on ;) but when I try to connect to > the router on port 80 it just hangs there.. saying contacting server.. > but if I go straight to 192.168.1.3 it loads very well.. Any ideas on > what is c

Re: cron.daily problem

2000-10-12 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:17:36PM +0200, Igor Mozetic wrote: > > I observed on one of our Debian 2.2 machines that daily cron still > didn't finish after 5+ hours: > > # ps aux > nobody 29273 0.0 0.4 1104 532 ?D06:25 0:01 find / ( > -fstype NFS -o -fstype nfs -o -fstype afs

emacs/xemacs and ispell-dictionary-alist

2000-10-12 Thread Johann Spies
In Slink I could use my custom Afrikaans dictionary with both emacs and xemacs by changing the ispell-dictionary-alist options which resulted in the following entry in my .emacs: -- (custom-set-variables '(ispell-dictionary-alist (quote (("afrikaanstex" "[A-ZÄËÏÖÜÁÉÍÓÚÂÊÎÔÛÀÈÌÒÙa

Re: Menu editor crashes in Helix GNOME

2000-10-12 Thread Richard Black
Me too. I reported to gnome as a bug. Martin Weinberg wrote: > I find that the menu editor dies when one attempts to edit > any user menu with the latest Helix version. The system is > Helix + up-to-date Potato. > > Has anyone else seen this and/or know a fix? > > TIA, > > --Martin > > -- > Uns

Re: new X server error

2000-10-12 Thread Max Kamenetsky
* Michiel Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10/12/00 12:46] wrote: > Max Kamenetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skribis: > > After upgrading to the latest and greatest version of woody today, I > > am getting the following error whenever I try to start X: > > > > > > Fatal server error: > > could not open

RE: Defrag in Win2000 no good for FIPS

2000-10-12 Thread Matthew Sherborne
I found a good defragger, and did the job. At the end, and some way through the disk were directory entries and one .cpl file. But the program I used allowed me to click on the sector, see what the file or directory was, then I copied it, deleted the original and renamed the copy. And best of all

Re: Firewall (Linux new-comer) mini-HOW-DID

2000-10-12 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:07:04AM +0200, Matthias Mann wrote: > I´m sitting on a single computer. Yesterday i´ve read the firewall-HOWTO and > was very confused cause there are examples for a network system. Is there > any possibility to build a firewall or other usefull security systems for my >

Re: Access to WWW via ISDN and Netscape Navigator (beginner)

2000-10-12 Thread Matthias Müller
* Matthias Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001012 21:39]: > Hi linuxuser! > > I had installed Debian 2.2r0 potato. First the basesystem and all packages > of the directorys Imp and Std. Next i installed the X Window system Netscape > and isdnutils. I think the ISDN-card is working cause i had a connect

console MP3 player

2000-10-12 Thread Joel Dinel
Is there such a thing as a console-only MP3 player for Debian? I spend a lot of time in Command Line lately, and I don't want to start X just to play a MP3. Thanks ! -- Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused Date: Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:22:45AM -0400 In reply to:Alec Smith Quoting Alec Smith([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If I recall, the correct line to be used with Sendmail is > > sendmail: all > > to allow all users. Hmm, migh

Re: PHP - A new approach

2000-10-12 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:51:04AM +, Steve Simons wrote: > /etc/apache/httpd.conf contains these: > > LoadModule php3_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp3.so > AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 > > I had to uncomment the first one, and my script is now called > /home/steve/hello.php3 see

Re: printer setup problem

2000-10-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: printer setup problem Date: Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 11:59:08PM + In reply to:Irger Armin Quoting Irger Armin([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Seung-woo Nam wrote: > > > Hi: > > I configured my printer setting with printtool, however, when I try to > > print only thing I get i

Re: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-12 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 06:41:30AM -0400, Paul McHale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Strongly recommend you take a look at this rant on problem reporting: > > Let's see if I can better address it using the points from a summary you > mentioned. > > Point 1: The first aim of a bug report is to let

Re: Access to WWW via ISDN and Netscape Navigator (beginner)

2000-10-12 Thread Erik Steffl
first check if your networking is really working, try few basic commands like netstat -i, ping various machines etc... if netscape is complaining it is probavly becuase of non-working network. did you set the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf? erik Matthias Mann wrote: > > Hi linuxuse

Re: X-window

2000-10-12 Thread Erik Steffl
if you are using csh (or derivative) us: startx >& startx.log you can also try to set up your monitor (using the buttons on the monitor), I guess playing with mode lines would help also... is the screen 1) squeezed (i.e. you still see all the lines) or 2) do you just see part of scr

Postgres module for ruby?

2000-10-12 Thread Johann Spies
I am a ruby newbie. I could not find a postgresql module for ruby in potato. Is there a deb available somewhere? Johann -- J.H. Spies - Tel/Faks +27-21-876-2337 Sel/Cell +27-82 898 1528 "Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not look to the proud, to those who tur

Filesystem free space and reserved allocation (was Re: Telnet to mail...)

2000-10-12 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:03:59PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Note that anything above 95% diskspace used is only available to root. This is not quite accurate. The ext2fs default is to reserve some number of blocks -- 10% of total, IIRC -- for root access only. Th

Re: suggestions for buying a printer

2000-10-12 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:19:46PM +0200, Alfredo Solano Martinez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings, > > I want to buy a laser printer, and I have no idea of this field, maybe > somenone can help. Look for postscript compatibility. Note that I'd highly recommend a low-end laserprinter

Re: xf86config problems

2000-10-12 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 08:29:39PM -0500, Bob Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings, > > I ran xf86 config and everything seemed to go well until I tried to run > startx and got the following error messages: > > /usr/bin/x11/Xauth: creating new authority file /root/ .Xauthority > xa

Re: console MP3 player

2000-10-12 Thread James Dietrich
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:22:14PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > Is there such a thing as a console-only MP3 player for Debian? I spend a lot > of time in Command Line lately, and I don't want to start X just to play a > MP3. mp3blaster works great. James

Re Pine

2000-10-12 Thread Eileen Orbell
Thank you to everyone who replied to my Pine problems. It works now. having always been a RH user I am slowly getting the hang of debian.. Thanks Eileen Orbell Software & Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Fear the Penguin.

dhclient and "domainname\000"

2000-10-12 Thread Brian
dhclient periodically appends a literal "\000" to the search domain in resolv.conf. This happens with Woody and an NT4.5 server, and Potato with a Win2K server. Have others run into this? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access

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