Re: Problem solved (was: Silly Problem: Unable to access deb-files via CD-ROM)

2000-10-20 Thread Markus Fischer
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 06:08:42PM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote : > However I want to be able to use /dev/hdb as well, as it is a > CD-writer. Do I have to install a specific module to make it work? Depends, what kind of manufactor, model, etc ? You know, without more details its a

Re: CD-drive blocked after successless mounting

2000-10-20 Thread Markus Fischer
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 11:53:09PM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote : > Well, that's funny: CD remains in jail again :) > I checked /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock: It did contain '0' (zero). > I have kernel 2.2.17 (potato). Since you have a fairly new kernel and you are talking about IDE cdro

Re: xcdroast permissions

2000-10-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:53:35PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > It can't run properly without root priviledges. It's probably not > installed suid root because suid root programs are a security risk. It turns out that the reason it's not installed suid is that I was asked whether to install it s

Re: LILO

2000-10-20 Thread Ken M. Mevand
i created a /boot partition as the first partition of the disk (about 40M), and it still doesn't work. is LILO screwed? whenever i boot, the screen is filled with "01". i can only boot using a floppy. anyone know how to fix this? -ken - Original Message - From: Barry Dexter A. Gonzaga <[

Help: Major screw-up installing XF86 4.01

2000-10-20 Thread Tim Wood
Hi, I installed potato on a desktop when it was unstable and have updated/upgraded since I then did a cdrom install on my laptop about 5 weeks ago. Both have Communicator 4.75 and I loaded Gnome 1.2.2 from woody. As things had gone reasonably well I decided I would try XF86 4.01 on my lapto

Re: netscape navigator-v304

2000-10-20 Thread Russ Pitman
Got it and thanks to all for the help. Just for the record I cut and pasted to the command line of; ncftp: unknown host ftp: unknown host lynx: connected but died three times at the end of file wget: connected, downloaded the index.html file and quit links: connected, retrieved the file ok fi

Re: Unresolved symbols with pcmcia-source

2000-10-20 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Pascal Hos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:35:32AM +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote: >> Now I get unresolved symbols in epic_cb.o when doing a 'depmod >> -a'. This is merely a cosmetic issue since I don't use this >> particular module, but I was wondering how

Re: calculating disk space

2000-10-20 Thread C. Falconer
Multiply them together C * H * S * kilobytes per sector sector size is normally 512 bytes/sector. caffeine:~# fdisk /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1048 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes caffeine:~# bc 255*63*1048*.5 8418060.0 <-- 8ish Gb At 11:20 PM 10/19/00 +

Re: Unresolved symbols with pcmcia-source

2000-10-20 Thread wmwaisse
Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Pascal Hos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:35:32AM +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote: >>> Now I get unresolved symbols in epic_cb.o when doing a 'depmod >>> -a'. This is merely a cosmetic issue since I don't use t

Re: Setting up a Soundblaster card

2000-10-20 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Casey Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So now I'm totally confused as to how to set up my card in Linux. I ran >sndconfig but when I go to set the resource settings, I can't seem to >get the right combination. It doesn't even list FF00h as one of the I/O >port addresses

Re: Setting up a Soundblaster card

2000-10-20 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Casey Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My sound card >is located on IRQ 10. As for the I/O ports, I got the following >results: > >0220h-022Fh Sound Blaster 16 PCI Legacy Device >0320h-032Fh Sound Blaster 16 PCI Legacy Device >0388h-038Bh Sound Blaster 16 PCI Legacy Dev

Re: Unresolved symbols with pcmcia-source

2000-10-20 Thread Andre Berger
Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just upgraded a machine from unstable potato to stable potato > and among other things, I recompiled the PCMCIA modules provided > by pcmcia-source. > > Now I get unresolved symbols in epic_cb.o when doing a 'depmod > -a'. This is merely a cosmetic i

Re: mouse not working in x

2000-10-20 Thread Matthias Mann
Do You have a serial or a PS/2 mouse? Some poeple told me that X mouse driver with gpm is not possible by using a PS/2 mouse. Or be they all mistaken? Matthias - Original Message - From: Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Matthias Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent:

Re: netscape navigator-v304

2000-10-20 Thread Russ Pitman
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:36:48PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:19:06PM +1100, Russ Pitman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > My bad!! > > I really should have seen that :-( However the error persists > > > > --- > > arjay:~# ftp > > ftp://archive.

Re: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed : QUEZACO ??

2000-10-20 Thread wmwaisse
>Sébastien Kalt wrote: >> Oct 5 14:13:28 kahuna kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for dpkg... >> Oct 5 14:13:29 kahuna last message repeated 2 times >> Oct 5 14:13:29 kahuna kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kupdate... >> Oct 5 14:13:29 kahuna kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages f

Re: GnuPG: prblem installing on Woody

2000-10-20 Thread Frederik
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Which gpg do you have installed? Post output of: > > $ gpg --version [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.3 Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software

Re: GnuPG: prblem installing on Woody

2000-10-20 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 11:03:55AM +0200, Frederik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > Which gpg do you have installed? Post output of: > > > > $ gpg --version > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --version > gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.3 > Copyright (C) 2000 Free

Re: mouse not working in x

2000-10-20 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Matthias Mann wrote: > Do You have a serial or a PS/2 mouse? Some poeple told me that X mouse > driver with gpm is not possible by using a PS/2 mouse. Or be they all > mistaken? It is possible to use a PS/2 mouse in X11 without stopping gpm. You just have to modify the

Re: LyX on woody crashes X server

2000-10-20 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
OK, seems I should give some more informations: I use a recent woody with XFree 3.3.6-11 and LyX 1.1.4-7, X server is SVGA (window manager: sawfish-gnome 0.31.1-2 on the newest Debian-only Gnome -- not the Helix distribution). Hardware: a Matrox card MGA G400 AGP with 16 MB RAM, the monitor is a fa

Re: mouse not working in x

2000-10-20 Thread Glyn Millington
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:08:51PM +0200, thus spake Kerstin Hoef-Emden: > > Hi, > > On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Matthias Mann wrote: > > > Do You have a serial or a PS/2 mouse? Some poeple told me that X mouse > > driver with gpm is not possible by using a PS/2 mouse. Or be they all > > mistaken? > >

Re: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed : QUEZACO ??

2000-10-20 Thread Mike Merten
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 05:07:26AM -0400, wmwaisse wrote: > > >Sébastien Kalt wrote: > >> Oct 5 14:13:28 kahuna kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for dpkg... > >> Oct 5 14:13:29 kahuna last message repeated 2 times > >> Oct 5 14:13:29 kahuna kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for >

# bye

2000-10-20 Thread makoto sugimoto
# bye

sources.list, installing via nfs.

2000-10-20 Thread hypo crite
Hi all, hi will! Thanks for crafting that apt-get-intro! It´s helpfull, but I still have probs with my sources.list. Even after reading the man page(s)and the files in /usr/doc/apt/examples. What I want to do sounds simple, but I´am more and more confused now. I copied my six patatos on a harddi

Re: LyX on woody crashes X server

2000-10-20 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Joachim Trinkwitz writes: > OK, seems I should give some more informations: I use a recent woody > with XFree 3.3.6-11 and LyX 1.1.4-7, X server is SVGA (window manager: > sawfish-gnome 0.31.1-2 on the newest Debian-only Gnome -- not the > Helix distribution). Hardware: a Matrox card MGA G400 A

OFF-Topic : UDMA & BP6 -- it works.

2000-10-20 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Hi all. I have been using a Abit BP6 for quite a long time now, and needed the UDMA interfaces. I have 2 IBM 5400tr/min, 15 Gb hdd connected to ide2. Yet, as many people did, I had an awful lot of problems setting up UDMA on this card (autotune would freeze the box at bootup, on Linux as well as

# bye

2000-10-20 Thread makoto sugimoto
# bye

Re: fetchmail

2000-10-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Oct 2000, Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 2000-10-19 09:40:41, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I think I *may* have fixed it by changing the order of entries in > > /etc/hosts. I had 127.0.0.1 local host first and other entries later; > > now I have: > > > > 127.0.0.1 aca

Re: Gradebook in Debian Potato 2.2

2000-10-20 Thread Norbert de Jonge
> > I have problems installing Ggradebook (Gnu > software), it complains that > > some libraries for gtk+ are absent. > > Installing the "libgtk-dev" package should do the > trick. > > # apt-get install libgtk-dev Or try reading this: http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/3695/2000/8/0/4272073/

Re: GnuPG: problem installing on Woody

2000-10-20 Thread Frederik
Well, after I did an apt-get upgrade this morning, I saw GnuPG being upgraded (Version: 1.0.4-1), and I hoped my problem would have solved itself. It didn't. So, what I did next was: apt-get -b gpg-rsa, which downloads and builds 2 packages, gpg-rsa and gpg-idea (both _2.1.1). Installing these did

Windows 9x/NT cvs client accessing Linux cvs server

2000-10-20 Thread Wilson H Yau
Could anyone suggest to me which is the best CVS client for Windows 9x/NT workstation to access a Linux CVS Server? Thanks for your help.

Re: GnuPG: problem installing on Woody

2000-10-20 Thread Frederik
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Frederik wrote: > Normally, gnupg should provide gpg-rsa, if I can rely on dpkg, so I'll try > to play around with that idea in mind a little more, but I'm not very > optimistic... In reply to myself: everything seems to be OK now. I purged everything relating to gnupg, gpg-r

Re: Windows 9x/NT cvs client accessing Linux cvs server

2000-10-20 Thread Danie Roux
WinCVS! On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 02:26:37PM +0100, Wilson H Yau wrote: > Could anyone suggest to me which is the best CVS client for Windows > 9x/NT workstation to access a Linux CVS Server? > > Thanks for your help. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >

Re: Windows 9x/NT cvs client accessing Linux cvs server

2000-10-20 Thread patrick . charbonnier
Have a look at http://www.wincvs.org To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc: (bcc: Patrick Charbonnier) Date: 20/10/2000 15:26 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Windows 9x/NT cvs client accessing Linux cvs server Could anyone suggest to me which is the best CVS client for Windows 9x/NT

c2ps and page size

2000-10-20 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello; I've been trying to use c2ps to print some C++ programs, but the generated page is always larger than the area which my printer can print, so I lose part of the page. The printer is an Epson Stylus Color 850, and the version of c2ps is that on woody (4.0-3). /etc/papersize sa

helix gnome & WindowMaker

2000-10-20 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, After an upgrade (and a reboot) I have problems running WindowMaker under Helix Gnome. Gnome complains saying running a non gnome compliant windowmanger and WindowMaker does not start and I can't use Gnome either. I have to delete my .gnome directory so that the sawfish windowmanager is

Re: exim help needed (fwd)

2000-10-20 Thread timmy
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 01:27:01PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > Dunno, what's that? I want my mail going to/from my school server. > > > > exim calls this a "smarthost". Rerun eximconfig and two of your canned > > configuration options will be > > > > (2) Internet site using smarthost:

ferret on debian

2000-10-20 Thread Karsten Bolding
Hello There is a program used extensively in the oceanographic and meteorological community called ferret - http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/. I would like to run this under debian/woody - but run into problems. I have to install 'termcap-comp' but it's not enough - doing a strace ferret I get -

Help: Replacing linuxconf user group & startup services

2000-10-20 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I was told recently that real men don't use linuxconf. Well, since I don't want to want to fool around with something so fundemental as my masculinity, I figure I had better try without. I've a new install anyway and I was only using linuxconf for two things: 1. To change my default group fro

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #297

2000-10-20 Thread Chris Hansen
I have a small problem, I would like to be taken off the debian users list but when I try to unsubscribe I do not find my email address on the list that I can choose from . If anyone can help please let me know. Great operating system, just made the mistake of sign

RE: Wanted: Advice on Video Cards

2000-10-20 Thread Chris Gray
Thanks, Yes, I discovered after I posted that my problem seems to be that at home I'm still using slink (getting ready to switch to woody) and between slink and potato Savage4 support was added to the SVGA server. So I may hold off on changing the video card, although I'm getting the itch for a T

Running procmail on an existing mailbox

2000-10-20 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
How can I run an already-flooded mailbox through procmail's filters, preferrably supporting both maildir and mbox input formats? -- Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. - Please have the courtesy to respond to any requests or quest

need to downgrade libc6!

2000-10-20 Thread Jaume Teixi
I've upgraded libc6 to 2.1.95 but need to downgrade to 2.1.3 due to connection to a database I've stable on sources.list but apt tells: # apt-get -f install --reinstall libc6 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, re-installation of libc6 is not possible, it cannot

Re: Setting up a Soundblaster card

2000-10-20 Thread Thomas Wegner
H Casey! Am Fre, 20 Okt 2000 schrieb Casey Henderson: > So now I'm totally confused as to how to set up my card in Linux. I ran > sndconfig but when I go to set the resource settings, I can't seem to > get the right combination. It doesn't even list FF00h as one of the I/O > port addresses as an

Re: Running procmail on an existing mailbox

2000-10-20 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 07:50, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > How can I run an already-flooded mailbox through procmail's filters, > preferrably supporting both maildir and mbox input formats? man formail Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~.

Re: exim help needed (fwd)

2000-10-20 Thread Moritz Schulte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > mutt will by default pipe its message to /usr/lib/sendmail (?) from muttrc(5): [...] sendmail Type: path Default: "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi" Specifies the program and arguments used to deliver m

RE: linux + its size

2000-10-20 Thread Fuad
HI, I like to know if it will fit on a 200mb hard disk and if the installation supports a SCSI hard disk   could u tell me?   fua

problem setting uplibglide

2000-10-20 Thread John Covici
I got the following error during my upgrade from potatoe to woody this morning. Setting up libglide2 (2000.08.08) ... Undefined subroutine &Debian::DebConf::Client::ConfModule::version called at /usr/lib/glide2/libglide2.conf line 29. dpkg: error processing libglide2 (--configure): subprocess po

Stormix and Brokerage Fees

2000-10-20 Thread Bill Ramsey
If you live in the US, be aware that if you order anything from Stormix you will charged a brokerage fee when the package is delivered. I ordered the deluxe boxed set from Stormix: Storm Linux 2000 Deluxe Edition 69.951 0.00

Help with groups, please.

2000-10-20 Thread Steve Simons
I want to give full access to /var/www/* to members of the group 'authors'. I created the group with 'groupadd authors', added steve to the group with 'gpasswd -a steve authors' and changed the group of the files with 'chgrp authors /var/www/*'. After logging out and in as steve, why do I get

Re: OT: Cross-platform document format?

2000-10-20 Thread Kent West
"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 13:52:04 -0500, Kent West wrote: > [HTML stripped - this is a mailing list, not a website] Sorry; I was using Mozilla M18, and my address book entry is set to not send HTML to this list; apparently the address book has problems (more than j

Re: exim help needed (fwd)

2000-10-20 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Moritz Schulte wrote: > > > Oh, I've an idea. Some mail servers (for example GMX's ones) filter > (yes, they just kick them out) mails, which have some header wrong > header entries. For example, if you have an "X-Sender: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" entry, it gets filtered out by GMX, > IIRC. Try sendin

Re: Help with groups, please.

2000-10-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:22:33PM +0100, Steve Simons wrote: > I want to give full access to /var/www/* to members of the group > 'authors'. I created the group with 'groupadd authors', added steve > to the group with 'gpasswd -a steve authors' and changed the group > of the files with 'chgrp aut

Re: helix gnome & WindowMaker

2000-10-20 Thread G Mc.Pherson
Hi Stefan, On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, stefan goeman wrote: > Hello, > > After an upgrade (and a reboot) I have problems running WindowMaker under > Helix Gnome. > Gnome complains saying running a non gnome compliant windowmanger and > WindowMaker does > not start and I can't use Gnome either. I have

Re: Java JSP Tomcat

2000-10-20 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 11:59 AM 10/19/2000 +0200, Marcus Crafter wrote: The package is already availabe at http://master.debian.org/~sgybas/tomcat/. Please read README.Debian and the Debian-Java mailing list archive for reasons why it's not yet in the official Debian archive. I'm still stuck on installing this;

URGENT: need to downgrade libc6!

2000-10-20 Thread Jaume Teixi
It's right if I download potato versions (the ones I want) of libc6, lbnss-db, libc6-dev, locales then apt-get remove --purge of unstable versions (the ones I don't want) dpkg -i each_potato_pkg.deb thanks, jaume posted message - I've upgraded libc6 to 2.1.95 but need to downgrade to 2.1

Re: Java JSP Tomcat

2000-10-20 Thread Marcus Crafter
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > At 11:59 AM 10/19/2000 +0200, Marcus Crafter wrote: > > >The package is already availabe at http://master.debian.org/~sgybas/tomcat/. > >Please read README.Debian and the Debian-Java mailing list archive for > >reasons why it's not yet in the official

rlogin and rsh for potato?

2000-10-20 Thread Tom Kuiper
I just installed potato (2.2) on a new server and tried unsuccessfully to set up a daily rdist to it from an old machine running bo (2.0). After rdist failed, I discovered that rsh, which rdist uses by default, (and rlogin) are seriously disabled under potato. I guess it's a security feature. Not

Re: Stormix and Brokerage Fees

2000-10-20 Thread Phillip Deackes
Bill Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you live in the US, be aware that if you order anything from > Stormix you will charged a brokerage fee when the package is > delivered. What is a brokerage fee? I am a fan of Storm Linux - but I have installed it from a Cheapbytes CD. The 'free' versio

ssh X forwarding error

2000-10-20 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hi everybody, I have a question regarding ssh configuration My home computer is behing an ip-forwarding server which does not have xwindows installed. When I login to my home computer through the server, I get the following error: Warning: Remote host denied X11 forwarding, perhaps xauth program

Re: Stormix and Brokerage Fees

2000-10-20 Thread John Foster
Bill Ramsey wrote: > > If you live in the US, be aware that if you order anything from > Stormix you will charged a brokerage fee when the package is > delivered. > > I ordered the deluxe boxed set from Stormix: > Storm Linux 2000 Deluxe Edition 69.951 0.00 >

OT: Mailing list help (was Re: GnuPG: prblem installing on Woody)

2000-10-20 Thread Chris Gray
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 02:27:04AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Better more data than less, particularly if I ask for it. I've been > getting mightily peeved lately by people who post "how do I solve foo" > to which I reply "post output of "...which never happens. > I'm going to start kill

OTP

2000-10-20 Thread Danny Heap
There is (otp) for generating one-time passwords. Is there a debian package for implementing OTP? Thanks. Danny Heap [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stormix and Brokerage Fees

2000-10-20 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 10:21:27AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > Bill Ramsey wrote: > > > > If you live in the US, be aware that if you order anything from > > Stormix you will charged a brokerage fee when the package is > > delivered. > Linux. If this is the case I will re-evaulate that decision.

Re: ssh X forwarding error

2000-10-20 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Lazar Fleysher writes: > Hi everybody, > I have a question regarding ssh configuration > My home computer is behing an ip-forwarding server which does not have > xwindows installed. When I login to my home computer through the > server, I get the following error: > Warning: Remote host denied

Two nics, two networks question

2000-10-20 Thread Matt Kopishke
Hi, is it possible to have one machine with two nics respond to two different TCP/IP networks with out any routing in between the nics? If it is possible could you please give an overview how, or point me towards some documentation? thanks, -Matt-

GREP

2000-10-20 Thread Cavaiani, Don
I read where the grep command (along with ? command) can be used to search your whole hard drive for any file that has a record containing the particular character string that you are looking for.

Re: ISDN help

2000-10-20 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, On 19 Oct 2000, Rodolfo Sikora de Melo wrote: > I need help to config my ISDN card... > I've already instaled it, but I can't connect anywhere. > Could somebody send me init.d.funcions and help me how to dial up? This is my one (/etc/init.d/isdn) #! /bin/sh # # Start the isdn Subs

Re: rlogin and rsh for potato?

2000-10-20 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, On the remote machine, you have to put an entry in the /etc/hosts.equiv file containing the name of your machine (locale !) and your user name. Then you should be able to use rlogin and rsh. There is an rsh client and server package in potato, although ssh is prefered. Greetings, Stefa

Re: Stormix and Brokerage Fees

2000-10-20 Thread Bill Ramsey
I've "complained" to Stormix by Email and phone messages. No response so far. >Complaining to stormix might help, though, as I doubt very much they >expect people to have to pay brokerage fees for such a >straightforward transaction. -- Bill Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ctrl-c kills local telnet instead of current remote process

2000-10-20 Thread mgi
Using telnet, I noticed that ctrl-c kills the local telnet process, instead of the current process on the remote machine. The manpages provide a lot of information, but I do not understand a word. Is there a way to configure telnet to pass ctrl-c to the remote host instead of terminating itself?

Re: Help: Replacing linuxconf user group & startup services

2000-10-20 Thread Chris Gray
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:41:08PM +0200, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I was told recently that real men don't use linuxconf. Well, since I don't > want to want to fool around with something so fundemental as my masculinity, > I figure I had better try without. I've a new install anyway and I wa

Re: OT: Mailing list help (was Re: GnuPG: prblem installing on Woody)

2000-10-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 11:23:54AM -0400, Chris Gray wrote: > When you say "post output of ", you probably have some > idea what's going on but want confirmation (otherwise, you'd just be > adding noise). Often that's not the case - people frequently ask questions but don't provide nearly enoug

Re: URGENT: need to downgrade libc6!

2000-10-20 Thread Chris Gray
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 05:08:23PM +0200, Jaume Teixi wrote: > It's right if I download potato versions (the ones I want) of libc6, > lbnss-db, libc6-dev, locales > then apt-get remove --purge of unstable versions (the ones I don't want) Don't do this step unless you have a statically linked versi

Re: GREP

2000-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
yes, that's true, are you asking what the '?' is or are you just stating the fact? anyway, the other command is find, see manpages for find and grep for more info. find is the one that finds file (based on name, time last accessed, type and various other criteria), grep searches the files for str

RE: new system to buy

2000-10-20 Thread Ingles, Raymond
> From: Brandt Dusthimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Also, look into a better video card. ATI doesn't support the Linux > cause at all. You can pick up a TNT2 for $50 and with XFree 4.0.1 you > can use NVidia's open source drivers. No offense, but that's a fair amount of incorrect information.

RE: OT: Cross-platform document format?

2000-10-20 Thread Ingles, Raymond
> From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > LaTeX or Lout (combined with say xfig or dia for graphics) > > may fit the bill, > Thanks for the response. I was looking for a common document > format, so that the students on campus would quit turning their > homework in as .DOC format. RTF i

Re: Stormix and Brokerage Fees

2000-10-20 Thread Bill Ramsey
Follow UP Stormix called -- they said I should not have been charged anything. They said they switched "fulfillment houses" and were trying to contact them about it. Then the "fulfillment" house called -- they said they have a "issue" with UPS right now and that it was UPS's faul

RE: OT: Cross-platform document format?

2000-10-20 Thread David Teague
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Ingles, Raymond wrote: > RTF is open enough. I know that WP and OpenOffice and the rest can > read it, and there's a native-RTF editor for Linux, too. Plus, Word > can be convinced to save as RTF, though of course it hates being > prevented from tripling the file size with bi

Re: OT: Mailing list help (was Re: GnuPG: prblem installing on Woody)

2000-10-20 Thread Chris Gray
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 04:35:39PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 11:23:54AM -0400, Chris Gray wrote: > > > When you say "post output of ", you probably have some > > idea what's going on but want confirmation (otherwise, you'd just be > > adding noise). > > Often that's not

what is modules.conf

2000-10-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i've never got this straight -- 1. what is modules.conf? what is it used for? 2. which applications use this configuration file? and when? only at boot time? 3. how is it generated? always wanted to know this... thanks! pete

Re: OT: Cross-platform document format?

2000-10-20 Thread Kent West
"Ingles, Raymond" wrote: > > > From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > LaTeX or Lout (combined with say xfig or dia for graphics) > > > may fit the bill, > > > Thanks for the response. I was looking for a common document > > format, so that the students on campus would quit turning the

Re: Stormix and Brokerage Fees

2000-10-20 Thread Pann McCuaig
The problem is UPS (at least in B.C.). They _will_ act as customs broker for their Canadian shippers and they _will_ charge the recipient a fee unless the shipper is big enough to make other arrangements. I doubt Stormix qualifies. You might suggest to Stormix that they use Canada Post unless the

Re: HELP - voodoo 3 trouble

2000-10-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi evan, i've tried and tried. can't get test3Dfx to work, even as root. it says "can't find or access board", even though it's detected at boot time: Oct 17 21:29:01 satan kernel: fb: Voodoo3 memory = 16384K Oct 17 21:29:01 satan kernel: fb: MTRR's turned on Oct 17 21:29:01 satan kernel: fb

Re: OT: Cross-platform document format?

2000-10-20 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:26:47PM -0400, David Teague wrote: > What is the "native-RTF editor for Linux"? > Is there a Debian package for it? apt-get install abiword

Re: Stormix and Brokerage Fees

2000-10-20 Thread Shel Johnson
--- Bill Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you live in the US, be aware that if you order anything from > Stormix you will charged a brokerage fee when the package is > delivered. Hmm.. that's odd.. I live in Texas and I wasn't charged that 'brokerage fee' when the cd's arrived.. I wonder if

Re: what is modules.conf

2000-10-20 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi Peter! /etc/modules.conf includes all the names of modules, they are installed into your kernel. I´m not shure whether modconf has generated this file. But modconf will write into it by selecting a module to put it into the kernel. The kernel reads this file to see which modules shall be load a

exim __newbie__

2000-10-20 Thread Steve Juranich
First off, I'd like to say that I have no intention or desire to use my box as a mail server, or even have mail delivered on my system. The only reason that I am compelled to configure exim on my box is to be able to use things like 'reportbug' and 'bugbuddy'. Right now, when I send a mail from m

RE: Stormix and Brokerage Fees

2000-10-20 Thread Robert H. Miller
I just got mine in the mail and didn't have to pay any brokerage fees. My copy was shipped from some place on the east coast in the US even though I ordered it through the Stormix web site. Robert Miller Robert H. Miller ISL suite 101Phone (858)535-9680ext124 6370 Nancy Ridge Dr Fax (

I/O to ZIP drive temporarily locks up machine

2000-10-20 Thread Krzys Majewski
I don't know how to say this properly.. when backing up files from my IDE hard drive to my parallel port ZIP100 drive, the machine occasionally blocks: it's like everything freezes for about half a minute before I can do anything again. This only happens when the ZIP drive is runni

Re: exim help needed (fwd)

2000-10-20 Thread Krzys Majewski
Yow. You mean I need to write my own daemon just to do this?! If that's the case I think I'll foresake the idealistic Mutt and go back to pine.. *sigh* chris > mutt will by default pipe its message to /usr/lib/sendmail (?) > and that will send the mail to the smtp server or whatever. > I

Re: GREP

2000-10-20 Thread Damian Menscher
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > yes, that's true, are you asking what the '?' is or are you just > stating the fact? anyway, the other command is find, see manpages for > find and grep for more info. find is the one that finds file (based on > name, time last accessed, type and various

gcc file : specs ; need infos

2000-10-20 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi You! I like to understand the specs file of gcc. In man gcc i had found no information about that. Do you know a HOWTO or another document where i can find an explanation of this file? Thanx, Matthias

Re: what is modules.conf

2000-10-20 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i've never got this straight -- >1. what is modules.conf? what is it used for? The main configuration file for kernel modules. Defines aliases and options used when loading modules. >2. which applications use this configuration

Re: what is modules.conf

2000-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > i've never got this straight -- > > 1. what is modules.conf? what is it used for? various information about modules, for example options (which irq to use etc.), you can also turn off the modules (for example if kernels looks for modules you do not have (and you

Re: calculating disk space

2000-10-20 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:30:43PM +1300, C. Falconer wrote: > C * H * S * kilobytes per sector Just what I needed. Cheers. Sven -- Powered by Debian GNU/Linux aka "The Rock"

Re: mouse not working in x

2000-10-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matthias, Water, and Glyn - I have a PS/2 Mouse hooked to a serial port. I don't know what I/O it is, but windows tells me I have a PS/2 mouse at IRQ 12. My bootup messages in debian linux say "PS/2 port recognized". Also, that I have a 16550A at both IRQ3 & IRQ4. I know this mouse will work with

Re: what is modules.conf

2000-10-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: es> Peter Jay Salzman wrote: >> 2. which applications use this configuration file? and when? >> only at boot time? Just to be perfectly clear, modules.conf is used to configure loadable _kernel_ modules only. It is not used for _any_ userspace a

Re: {BIG MISTAKE} - what is modules.conf

2000-10-20 Thread Matthias Mann
Hello again dear Peter! I´m so sorry! I exchanged /etc/modules.conf with /etc/modules! Forget my last mail. It has nothing to do with your questions! To /etc/modules.conf i only can write, that it includes some aliases for work with the system. I mean that this aliases will be needed for kernel to

Re: exim __newbie__

2000-10-20 Thread Tomislav Renic
I ran into this problem a while ago... Basically, I came to the conlcusion that you should configure your mail program to replace the from header. For Example, in Mutt, just add the following to your muttrc file: my_hdr From: Tomislav Renic \<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> my_hdr Reply-To: Tomislav Reni

Help-problems with programming

2000-10-20 Thread Jussi Seppala
I have written some programs and now I am trying to write a “pretty” simple (java) program (and run it in dos), which should draw a histogram of the course grades. I should just write down (type) the points of the students and the program should draw the histogram based on these numbers and wri

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