Re: apt && woody.

2000-11-03 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Maybe apt should simply retry after all the other stuff got downloaded? It can try forever, glibc always returns that :| Jason

VGA parameters at boot (Was:Lilo and vga=mode Question)

2000-11-03 Thread Marco Fioretti
Hello, I am very interested in having my PC booting right into a high resolution mode, because I have a fixed frequency monitor. Right now I have runlevel 5 , but this means that I cannot work in text mode, and that if some error message appears during boot I never see it. I know about the Svgatex

Re: whence "ping -w"?

2000-11-03 Thread Francois Gouget
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Will Day wrote: > A short time ago, at a computer terminal far, far away, Carel Fellinger wrote: > >> Can anyone tell me where to find this ping command that offers a "-w" > >> option (or any other option to set the timeout)? Or maybe I'm just crazy > > > >ping -i > > No, th

uptime losing time?

2000-11-03 Thread Matt Emmett
Hello all, Does noflushd affect uptime? I'm a little puzzeled as to why my uptime says 2:16 when in fact the machine has been on for about 2 weeks. Any insights? Thanks, Matt

Re: Mozilla M18 on potato (pentium100)

2000-11-03 Thread Pap Tibor
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Pap Tibor wrote: > > > On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Kristian Rink wrote: > > > In this case I recommend downloading the standard Mozilla build directly > > > from > > > > > > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release-notes/ > > >

Re: Lilo and vga=mode Question

2000-11-03 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:57:55PM -0500, David Bellows wrote: > The numbers in the second column are in hex. The proper way to specify > hex for lilo would be (for you specifically): > vga=0x0122 is there any way to change the console resolution after boot? or are we stuck with a microso~1 - li

Re: libc6 header problems

2000-11-03 Thread Pat Mahoney
In reply to myself (thanks to those who replied): On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:31:05PM -0600, Pat Mahoney wrote: > I keep getting these parse errors when trying to compile programs. > > compiling xmms (latest cvs): > > /usr/include/netinet/in.h:236: parse error before (' > /usr/include/netinet/in.

Re: Strange PPP Server

2000-11-03 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 06:14:38PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Flyitlow writes: > > The correct way to use noauth is to place it in the peers file, > > /etc/ppp/peers/[name]. > > pppconfig does that. Here's the latest, I used pppconfig, and got (some munging has taken place)... hide-password noa

Special dev access for users @ the console?

2000-11-03 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Hello debian ppl! I am a lab admin. I need to give access to the floppy (/dev/fd0), zip drive (/dev/hdd), and sound (/dev/dsp) to the person logged in at the console (x or tty). If this was my personal machine, I would just put the users in the group console. Unforfunately, this cannot be th

Re: World's largest mailing list?

2000-11-03 Thread C. Falconer
At 12:23 PM 11/2/00 -0700, you wrote: > Its not exactly a Debian/Linux question, but does anyone know how many > email addresses are on the world's largest mailing list, and the OS/HW > it runs on? Average messages per day? Well, I can tell you that the debian.org list server has 8 subscribe

Re: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-03 Thread wmwaisse
Stephan Kulka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From ??? Fri Feb 19 09: 25 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 1 16: 03 >Received: from murphy.debian.org (murphy.debian.org [216.234.231.6]) >by tbird.iworld.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id eA1L3eY12690: >for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 16: 03 >Re

Re: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-03 Thread Stefano Calza
Damien wrote: > > > I am not a newbie (using Debian for 3 years now, programming with pico for > > 5), I prefer clean interfaces, and to remain outside of the jihad of > > editors. > > pico is clean the same way the microsoft windows interface is clean. reality > is you've become quite adept in p

Re: Gnome or KDE2 ?

2000-11-03 Thread wmwaisse
Tom Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >what would you suggest Gnome oder KDE2 ? > >It would be great if you also could comment why the one you suggest is >better =) > >thx > >Tom > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > It would probably be better to intall and

Perl installation problem

2000-11-03 Thread Arcady Genkin
I suspect that there is a problem with the perl installation as packaged with Potato. I'm trying to install pilotmanager program (http://www.moshpit.org/pilotmgr/), and am getting the following error: Configuring PilotManager... You do not have the correct binary of the Tk module

Re:Re: File permissions for /dev/*

2000-11-03 Thread Jan Warnking
Hi everybody, this is just to say a big thank you to everybody who helped me repairing my device files. Everything works fine again now. Jan

Re: Lilo and vga=mode Question

2000-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:45:34AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:57:55PM -0500, David Bellows wrote: > > The numbers in the second column are in hex. The proper way to specify > > hex for lilo would be (for you specifically): > > vga=0x0122 > > is there any way to chang

Re: Lilo and vga=mode Question

2000-11-03 Thread ha shao
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:45:34AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > is there any way to change the console resolution after boot? > > or are we stuck with a microso~1 - like 'windont has detected > that you moved your mouse; would you like to reboot now?' > fbset should do the job. But when

Re: XFree 4.0.1

2000-11-03 Thread Chris Adams
Moritz Schulte wrote: > Try http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ I installed fine from here, however, when I tried to upgrade the fonts, things got weird. At that point, I was unable to start X and lots of dependency error. Eventually, I just downloaded the tgz's from xfree86.org and everything w

apt-get flexibility

2000-11-03 Thread Egbert Bouwman
Is it posible to organize apt-get and sources.list in such a way that I can see - and select from - what is available both on my potato cdroms and the woody ftp sites ? Most of the time I am quite happy with what the cd's offer, but sometimes I will prefer a newer version, I suppose. egbert --

Re: Re: Gnome or KDE2 ?

2000-11-03 Thread Kristian Rink
wmwaisse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 03.11.00: > It would probably be better to intall and try the two ones. > > If you don t have enough place on your hard disk, you will have to > choose one of them. > > As far as I'm concerned KDE1.2 is necessary for me as I need > kdevelop ( an Int

Re: Special dev access for users @ the console?

2000-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 02:05:44AM -0600, Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) wrote: > > Hello debian ppl! > > I am a lab admin. I need to give access to the floppy (/dev/fd0), zip > drive (/dev/hdd), and sound (/dev/dsp) to the person logged in at the > console (x or tty). If this was my persona

Re: Lilo and vga=mode Question

2000-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 05:33:29PM +0800, ha shao wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:45:34AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > is there any way to change the console resolution after boot? > > > > or are we stuck with a microso~1 - like 'windont has detected > > that you moved your mouse;

Re: XFree 4.0.1

2000-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 04:43:52AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Moritz Schulte wrote: > > > Try http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ > > I installed fine from here, however, when I tried to upgrade the fonts, > things got weird. At that point, I was unable to start X and lots of > dependency error.

RE: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-03 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Stephan, If you want something more lightweight than Emacs, and at the same time something more easy to use than vim, you could check out jed. It does nice syntax highlighting, automatic indentation and has a quite intuitive interface (IMHO) with a ncurses-based menu. > I started programmi

Re: Lilo and vga=mode Question

2000-11-03 Thread ha shao
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:50:55AM -0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > fbset should do the job. But when I run fbset on my debian 2.2 > > box, it said: "open /dev/fb0: no such device" but I have: > > > > crw--w--w-1 root tty 29, 0 Jul 6 01:44 /dev/fb0 > > crw--w--w-1 roo

Debian 2.2 and Dell PowerEdge 2400

2000-11-03 Thread thomas weyers
i'am using a Dell PowerEdge 2400 with two Adaptec SCSI cards AIC 7890/7880 (DD ATLAS/CDROM and a SEAGATE DDS4 STD 6401 LW). my problem is that i can't find a module for the DDS4 from Seagate. Can anyone help me ? thomas ___ Do You Yahoo!?

Re: Sendmail account setup

2000-11-03 Thread Jaume Teixi
You should consider using LDAP with Sendmail, check: http://www.sendmail.net/?feed=interviewlaird01 http://sendmail.net/?feed=donnellyldap01 http://sendmail.net/?feed=donnellydirtree regrads, jaume. > > Hello All, > > I have a question on Sendmail. I would like to give out email accounts but > >

Setting up Voodoo3 under Debian/potato

2000-11-03 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hello all I can't get my Voodoo3 (3500) running any 3d applications! I've successfully compiled the 3dfx.o poackage and created the /dev/3dfx file. I have also installed thze mesa3 - packages. When I try to get Quake3 running I get the error message "Could not open OpenGL Subsystem". Is there anyb

Re: Gnome or KDE2 ?

2000-11-03 Thread Irger Armin
Kristian Rink wrote: > wmwaisse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 03.11.00: > > > It would probably be better to intall and try the two ones. > > > > If you don t have enough place on your hard disk, you will have to > > choose one of them. > > > > As far as I'm concerned KDE1.2 is necessary fo

Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-03 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I'm upgrading my video card and have read several online breakdowns of the assorted cards and linux. I've narrowed it down to three but the real requirement is will they work with Debian 2.2 as is and not with either special drivers or wait until XF 4.0x. Voodoo 3 3000 AGP Matrox Millenium 54

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-03 Thread Kristian Rink
"Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 03.11.00: > I'm upgrading my video card and have read several online breakdowns of the > assorted cards and linux. I've narrowed it down to three but the real > requirement is will they work with Debian 2.2 as is and not with either > special drivers

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-03 Thread Kristian Rink
"Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 03.11.00: > I'm upgrading my video card and have read several online breakdowns of the > assorted cards and linux. I've narrowed it down to three but the real > requirement is will they work with Debian 2.2 as is and not with either > special drivers

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-03 Thread Kristian Rink
"Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 03.11.00: > I'm upgrading my video card and have read several online breakdowns of the > assorted cards and linux. I've narrowed it down to three but the real > requirement is will they work with Debian 2.2 as is and not with either > special drivers

Re: ISDN Dial In

2000-11-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> hello > > i just got my first debian cd's ever and everything worked fine yet. > but like every time i have problems setting up the ISDN connection (maybe > it's the most complicated task cause i can't get online help during the > configuration ;) > i installed the isdnutils package, the kerne

Re: whence "ping -w"?

2000-11-03 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 22:31:47 PST, Francois Gouget writes: > IIRC, most ping implementations send an 8 byte timestamp obtained >with gettimeofday as the payload of their ICMP echo request packets. >This payload is copied in the ICMP echo reply packets. So wwhen ping >receives an ICMP echo reply me

Re: Can't install Helix Gnome

2000-11-03 Thread Mario Vukelic
> I havn't been able to install Helix-Gnome in a while ... > (snip) Strange, I never had a probem with potato. Is this your sources.list line for helix? deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian woody main -- I did not vote for the Austrian government Linux: The choice of a

Printer & DOC's

2000-11-03 Thread Helgi Örn
Hi! I need to configure my printer (Epson Stylus Color 640) in Potato but I can't figure out howto do that, there's no doc's on that and not one word in 'Learning Debian GNU/Linux either, neither do I find the program 'xconfig' to get the right module (potato didn't want to install lp during the m

Re: Lilo and vga=mode Question

2000-11-03 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 03:56:36AM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: -|Hi Christopher! -| -|On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: -| -|> 9 0122 100x30 -| -|> BTW... I have tried all the modes and they all work for me. -|> I just want to automatically start in "mode=9". -| -|If you had rea

Re: Printer & DOC's

2000-11-03 Thread Mike_Jones
Helgi Örn wrote: > I need to configure my printer (Epson Stylus Color 640) in Potato but I > can't figure out howto do that, there's no doc's on that and not one > word in 'Learning Debian GNU/Linux either, neither do I find the program > 'xconfig' to get the right module (potato didn't want to in

Re: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 03:54:17AM -0500, wmwaisse wrote: > For sure, Vi and Emacs are the standards, but Since I discvered > Kdevelop 1.2 ( standard with Kde ), I always use it , and I earn > much time using it. I think one of the reasons why I use Vim is because it's very easy to build on

Re: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 10:01:06AM +0100, Stefano Calza wrote: > > Well, I've entered the thread right now, but I wonder why nobody talked > about emacs. I think it's simply great for everything. If you have to > learn "one" editor, emacs is the right choice (sounds like a commercial, > doesn't it

web browser

2000-11-03 Thread John-Mark
Hi I have recently installed Debian Linux as my first distribution of Linux. I cant find the web browser Netscape on the official cd's or any other web browser can any one tell me if there is a web browser on the cd's if not Netscape then what and how do i find it.Thanks jm

Re: apt && woody.

2000-11-03 Thread John Hasler
Peter Palfrader wrote: > Maybe apt should simply retry after all the other stuff got downloaded? Jason writes: > It can try forever, glibc always returns that :| I get that for at least one file almost every time I use apt-get. If I keep trying it eventually succeeds in getting everything. -- J

sed question

2000-11-03 Thread Jesse Goerz
I'm trying to write a script and as part of it I need to change the "/" in a variable to a "." and then put it right back into another variable. I've tried using sed but can't seem to grip these regular expressions 8-(. Here's what I got so far: echo $variable_before | sed s///./ variable_after

Re: Lilo and vga=mode Question

2000-11-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Christopher! On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 03:56:36AM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > -|vga=290 should work. > > Thanks !!! That worked. Where did you find docu on this stuff? > I must have tried "man" on everything I could think of. /usr/src/l

Re: Mozilla M18 on potato (pentium100)

2000-11-03 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Pap Tibor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Another question: > > I would like to use java support with mozilla. I've got the sun java > plugin 1.2.2 on a CD. Can I install this into mozilla? I don't want to > download another plugin if it's not necessary. (My internet connection > through modem is

Vim editor

2000-11-03 Thread Jesse Goerz
I just installed the Vim editor but seem to be having some problems. When I type help it says: "Sorry, help file "/usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt" not found" I tried typing help version5 and it says: No tags file Sorry, no help for version5 Am I missing a configuration file? I installed the v

Re: apt: prebuilt package same as src pkg + build?

2000-11-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Hello, > > > I'm a new Debian user and have a problem with apt-cache and > dselect using the source package CDs: They don't know about the > source packages! I can use apt-get to fetch and build the source > once I know the package I want, followed by calling dpkg to > install it. > dse

Re: Question about potato/woody

2000-11-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> I'm a potato user and I would like to know some things about it. > I use my computer at home just to work, but I would like to know if I should > upgrade to woody, because I would like to have the last packages of some > programs, and potato does not have the last version(stable or not), and It >

Re: sed question

2000-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 08:10:48AM -0500, Jesse Goerz wrote: > I'm trying to write a script and as part of it I need to change the "/" in a > variable to a "." and then put it right back into another variable. I've > tried > using sed but can't seem to grip these regular expressions 8-(. Here's

Re: sed question

2000-11-03 Thread Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul
Jesse Goerz wrote: > > I'm trying to write a script and as part of it I need to change the "/" in a > variable to a "." and then put it right back into another variable. I've > tried > using sed but can't seem to grip these regular expressions 8-(. Here's what I > got so far: > > echo $variabl

Re: Help Warning: Second attempt for an answer

2000-11-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi, > > Trying to post this again and see if I get any response this time. Got to > figure out a better subject heading I guess... > > Original Post: > > I've noticed with leaving X that I see in the X boot msgs the following: > > Warning: Ron = 43, Rloop = 10, Roff = 46 > > What is this and

Re: web browser

2000-11-03 Thread Chris Gray
lynx (text only browser) is usually installed by default. Mozilla (open source incarnation of Netscape) is the graphical browser that will be on the disks. You can get .deb file for Netscape but you'll have to get it from the non-free packages from a download site. Chris On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Jo

wmaker sound

2000-11-03 Thread Dale Morris
this is off topic, but there's not much traffic on the wmaker list so I figured I'd ask you guys for help. I'm trying to get sound in my wmaker desktop. I have sound working for cd's (wmixer wmrack, etc..) but there are no .wav files in my ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Sounds$ directory. So when I

Re: Q: Best partition breakdown one OS?

2000-11-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> I'm posting this again because I got a refusal first time, Debian mailbox > being full... > > Hi, > > Right now I have a dual boot system setup on a 5Gig drive. I gave W98SE > 2Gig, then set up Linux in the extended partitions with: > > /boot 15MB > /swap/100MB > / 2gig > /home 500MB > > The

Re: finding dependencies

2000-11-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> > --Ere3gl7haSgyRdoj > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > My apologies if this is blindingly obvious, but what's the best way to > find out what packages are using a given package? If I want to yank some

Re: web browser

2000-11-03 Thread Moritz Schulte
"John-Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi I have recently installed Debian Linux as my first distribution > of Linux. I cant find the web browser Netscape on the official cd's > or any other web browser can any one tell me if there is a web > browser on the cd's if not Netscape then what and ho

Re: pppd connection ok but no IP information from ISP

2000-11-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> Debian users > > I am having intermitent luck connecting with my ISP. I know that my > chat script is ok, but sometimes after the pppd starts the serial > connection my isp does not give my my dynamic IP address. sometimes > it does and sometimes it doesn't. > > Q> is there a way to get

PCMCIA serial/modem problem

2000-11-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
I am trying to use a modem PCMCIA card with a laptop. The card is registered and configured, but the chosen interrupt (IRQ 3) does not appear in /proc/interrupts; I think this is the reason why I cannot access the card. It is impossible to open it either for reading or for writing. I have checke

Re: Vim editor

2000-11-03 Thread David Z. Maze
Jesse Goerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JG> I just installed the Vim editor but seem to be having some JG> problems. When I type help it says: JG> JG> "Sorry, help file "/usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt" not found" JG> JG> I tried typing help version5 and it says: JG> JG> No tags file JG> Sorry, n

Re: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-03 Thread cjm2
I like "ee." I know some people dismiss it, and I don't really do "programming" as such, but I have to write a lot of html pages, and it makes my life easier. Later, Colin Jason Stechschulte wrote: > Newbie. > > Jason Stechschulte > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -Original Message- > From: Br

Re: Printer & DOC's

2000-11-03 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 13:45, Helgi Örn wrote: > I need to configure my printer (Epson Stylus Color 640) in Potato but I > can't figure out howto do that, there's no doc's on that and not one > word in 'Learning Debian GNU/Linux either, neither do I find the program > 'xconfig' to get the right m

RE: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-03 Thread Ingles, Raymond
> From: Kristian Rink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 03.11.00: > > > I'm upgrading my video card... > > Voodoo 3 3000 AGP > > Matrox Millenium 5400 32MB > > =G400? If yes, this one should do fine, as well Both of these are solid

Re: libc6 header problems

2000-11-03 Thread Chris Gray
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:43:46AM -0600, Pat Mahoney wrote: > In reply to myself (thanks to those who replied): > > /usr/include/string.h:37: parse error before `?' > > /usr/include/string.h:55: parse error before `?' > > A parse error seems like it should be an easy fix...too bad I'm > incompete

Re: web browser

2000-11-03 Thread Helgi Örn
Hi! I used the apt-get program to get the latest available Netscape from the Debian sites. First you have to configure the file sources.list in /etc/apt to point at the proper sites, then you run (with internet connection): apt-get install netscape and it will fetch it and install it in a beautif

Mac and DNS Problem

2000-11-03 Thread Andreas Rabus
Hi, i've got a Mac with OS 9.0... in an TCP/IP LAN with about twenty nodes. I also have three DNS Severs. :) Now i got "unapproved updates" and "zone transfers AXFR" from that Mac. The TCP/IP conf at the Mac seems clean, and i didn't find any checkboxes to tell the mac that he schouldn't da thos

Fwd: Re: ISDN Dial In

2000-11-03 Thread Daniel Borgmann
> > i just got my first debian cd's ever and everything worked fine yet. > > but like every time i have problems setting up the ISDN connection (maybe > > it's the most complicated task cause i can't get online help during the > > configuration ;) > > i installed the isdnutils package, the kernel m

Re: Mac and DNS Problem

2000-11-03 Thread David McBride
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Andreas Rabus wrote: > >Hi, > >i've got a Mac with OS 9.0... in an TCP/IP LAN with about twenty nodes. >I also have three DNS Severs. :) > >Now i got "unapproved updates" and "zone transfers AXFR" from that Mac. >The TCP/IP conf at the Mac seems clean, and i didn't find any che

Re: Presentation software

2000-11-03 Thread Helgi Örn
StarOffice perhaps? I installed it on my potato and it runs very well so far. Helgi Örn "Thomas R. Shannon" wrote: > > I'm looking for a graphics presentation progam similar to Power Point. > It has to be able to work in a full-screen slide mode and be able too > insert eps graphics files. The

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-03 Thread Kristian Rink
Obviously "Ingles, Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thinks that: > Yup. I've got a TNT and I'm gradually getting support going for it > in my Debian 2.2 installation. There are older, slower drivers for X > 3.3.x, but for full speed you need 4.0. > Yeah, that's *obviously* (believing what the utah

LAN traffic

2000-11-03 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Hi all. I have a masquerading linux boxx running between Internet and my Internal LAN. I want to know the load traffic for a given host of my LAN and the bandwidth I'm getting from my provider. Which tool can do It? PD: sorry again for my english! -- :%s/Micros~1/GNU\/Linux/g^M :wq!

Re: Question about potato/woody

2000-11-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 03:34:32PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > > I'm a potato user and I would like to know some things about it. > > I use my computer at home just to work, but I would like to know if I should > > upgrade to woody, because I would like to have the last packages of some > > programs

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-03 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Kristian Rink wrote: > > > Any other sugestions appreciated. I left off the NVIDIA 5or close to it) > > crds because the GeForce2 seem to prefer XF 4.0x. That is true. > > Basically, nvidia`s chipsets (at least for TNT2 I tried) also are >supporte

Re: pppd connection ok but no IP information from ISP

2000-11-03 Thread Thomas Halahan
Thanks for answering. I find the pppd options very confusing to understand. Anyway I think I have the solution. I reset the pppd option "connect-delay" to 2 seconds, and this waits longer before asking the isp for ip allocatioon. the default must have been too short previously. Tom On 0

ISDN

2000-11-03 Thread Gnanasekaran Thoppae
hi, how do i configure isdn on debian? i live in Munich, Germany and i have a T-online account with Deutsche Telekom. is there a GUI for gnome or kde specific for isdn? -gnana

Opera for Linux

2000-11-03 Thread USM Bish
Been on this list for the last few months. Never noticed anything posted on Opera web browser for Linux. I have a triple OS system (Win98, deb and slack) I am in the process of an upgrade from slink to potato and Slack 7.1. I have several programs, inclusive of Netscape, which run from /opt di

Re: Mac and DNS Problem

2000-11-03 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 03:54:51PM +0100, Andreas Rabus wrote: > > Hi, > > i've got a Mac with OS 9.0... in an TCP/IP LAN with about twenty nodes. > I also have three DNS Severs. :) > > Now i got "unapproved updates" and "zone transfers AXFR" from that Mac. > The TCP/IP conf at the Mac seems cle

Re: Vim editor

2000-11-03 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, David Z. Maze wrote: > Jesse Goerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JG> I just installed the Vim editor but seem to be having some > JG> problems. When I type help it says: > JG> > JG> "Sorry, help file "/usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt" not found" > JG> > JG> I tried typing help v

Mozilla M18 and Java

2000-11-03 Thread Adam Wilson
Has anyone succesfully downloaded the jre.xpi from netscape with Mozilla M18? Loads the Java 2.0 Plug-in window and shows two buttons, Java for Windows and Java for Linux though if I click on the Linux one it does nothing. I downloaded the jre.xpi manually but I haven't the slighest idea what

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-03 Thread mike
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 22:36:11 +051800, USM Bish said: > Been on this list for the last few months. Never > noticed anything posted on Opera web browser for > Linux. > > I have a triple OS system (Win98, deb and slack) > I am in the process of an upgrade from slink to > potato and Slack 7.1.

Re: Printer & DOC's

2000-11-03 Thread USM Bish
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 06:39:20AM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 13:45, Helgi Örn wrote: > > > Another question is; is there a friendly program for reading all the > > HOWTO's and FAQ's in a convenient manner? > > Install apache or boa and use a browser: > > lynx http://lo

Re: web browser

2000-11-03 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:15:33PM -, John-Mark wrote: > Hi I have recently installed Debian Linux as my first > distribution of Linux. I cant find the web browser Netscape on > the official cd's or any other web browser can any one tell me > if there is a web browser on the cd's if not Netscap

Re: sed question

2000-11-03 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul wrote: > Jesse Goerz wrote: > > > > I'm trying to write a script and as part of it I need to change the "/" in a > > variable to a "." and then put it right back into another variable. I've > > tried > > using sed but can't seem to grip these regula

Re: dead hoarse, crawling away.

2000-11-03 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Colin Watson wrote: > > Helgi =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D6rn?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >guran remberg wrote: > >> I have just read an article by a chap named Kurt Seifrieds, which was > >> mainly about security on Debian. I was alarmed and have decided to > >> switch to Red Hat as many experts advises

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2000-11-03 Thread Bill Barnes
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unstable ==? woody

2000-11-03 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Can I change my /etc/apt/sources.list from: deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free to deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free and it will be the same for now, but after the next release, I will then be in stable, instead of a

New user rant..urr, questions.

2000-11-03 Thread sysy
** WARNING ** I TYPE A LOT! DEAL WITH IT!! --+ I'm an experienced computer user, and have been looking at Linux closer and closer over the last few years. On a couple of occaisions I have attempted to install various flavours of Linux with.. umm.. "classic" results. You see, I'm cursed..

Re: Lilo and vga=mode Question

2000-11-03 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:33:21AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:45:34AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:57:55PM -0500, David Bellows wrote: > > > The numbers in the second column are in hex. The proper way to specify > > > hex for lilo would be

Re: ISDN

2000-11-03 Thread Moritz Schulte
Gnanasekaran Thoppae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how do i configure isdn on debian? Install the package isdnutils and have a look at /usr/share/doc/isdnutils/HOWTO.isdnutils.gz. It's really easy, just let isdnconfig create the template config files for you end configure them. > i live in Muni

Re: XFree 4.0.1

2000-11-03 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
ethan, it's been my experience that some tarballs don't respect where you want to locate them in the sense that they spew binaries, links and libraries wherever they please. i've seen many games install themselves in /usr/local, like i told them to, and then just push their libraries wherever they

Re: Lilo and vga=mode Question

2000-11-03 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:45:34AM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:57:55PM -0500, David Bellows wrote: > > The numbers in the second column are in hex. The proper way to specify > > hex for lilo would be (for you specifically): > > vga=0x0122 > > is t

attention: voodoo3 owners

2000-11-03 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear fellow voodoo3 owners, the debian driver for your card will NOT work with 2.4 kernels. not even if you compile it from the source code. the file operations table is an array of pointers to functions which implement file operations which would be useful to a device, like reading and writing.

Re: Presentation software

2000-11-03 Thread kmself
Also: MagicPoint. It's fairly powerful, but the syntax is a bit obscure. And it's free software. Both the Applix and Corel suites should have a presentation tool. Not sure what the KDE / Gnome suites have to offer in this department. HTML with a kiosked browser window is another option. As i

Re: ISDN Dial In

2000-11-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> > > i just got my first debian cd's ever and everything worked fine yet. > > > but like every time i have problems setting up the ISDN connection (maybe > > > it's the most complicated task cause i can't get online help during the > > > configuration ;) > > > i installed the isdnutils package, th

Re: unstable ==? woody

2000-11-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Gregory! On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > Can I change my /etc/apt/sources.list from: > deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > to > deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free > > and it will be the same for now,

Re: New user rant..urr, questions.

2000-11-03 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:28:30PM -0500, sysy wrote: > I'm an experienced computer user, and have been looking at > Linux closer and closer over the last few years. On a couple > of occaisions I have attempted to install various flavours of > Linux with.. umm.. "classic" results. You see, I'm cu

Re: Connecting to Netware servers.

2000-11-03 Thread Chris Baker
"Rogelio E. Castillo Haro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Someone here knows if Debian has a deb package to install a client to > login to a netware server? Install ncpfs. HTH, cbb

Re: New user rant..urr, questions.

2000-11-03 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:28:30PM -0500, sysy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ** WARNING ** I TYPE A LOT! DEAL WITH IT!! Not an issue if you can format text in such a way as to make it readable. Paragraphs and standard delmiters (the '+--+ crap is annoying as hell) strongly preferred. See below

Re: New user rant..urr, questions.

2000-11-03 Thread kmself
on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:21:12PM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: <...> > > --+ Anyhow. I would like some user help. I need a set of > > links pointing towards user stories on Debian, as well as > > various other user pages. There are no links on > > http://www.debian.org and

Re: XFree 4.0.1

2000-11-03 Thread Krzys Majewski
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > if you installed into /usr/local like your supposed to your fine, if > you just overwrote random stuff in /usr your hosed. X wants to go in /usr/X11R6, /etc/X11, and so on. What you want to do is make a backup of all the relevant dirs before proceeding

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