ssh-agent and ssh-add not talking?

2000-11-16 Thread Dave Wilk
Howdy folks, I recently upgraded from 2.1 where a compile-from-source install of Xfree86 4.0.1 was working fine to 2.2. I used ssh-agent and ssh-add to store my ssh keys for easy logging into remote hosts. However, upon upgrading to deb 2.2 I couldn't get X started with the old xinitrc (would st

changing window manager

2000-11-16 Thread adam.edgar
I recently upgraded to X4.01 and need to know where the default manager is set. i.e. I want to use gnome but the debian default is currently used. What file can I change. And can I not use "startx gnome-session" any more. Thanks,

Re: changing window manager

2000-11-16 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-11-16 00:21:32, adam.edgar wrote: > I recently upgraded to X4.01 and need to know where the default manager is > set. i.e. I want to use gnome but the debian default is currently used. > What file can I change. And can I not use "startx gnome-session" any more. gdm+gnome session, modify $

X on 3DLabs Oxygen VX1 card?

2000-11-16 Thread Willy Lee
Hello all, I just installed Debian on a machine at work today. I didn't install a lot of bells and whistles, but I did try to install X on it. I say "try" because neither the XF86_3DLabs nor the XF86_SVGA servers would work (the SVGA server managed to give me a 320x204 display, but I don't reall

KDE2

2000-11-16 Thread Joshua David Kruck
can some one tell me the line for apt-sources for kde2? thanks

Re: Tools available for..

2000-11-16 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:29:33PM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: > I am trying to set up a server, and I would like to know about some of > the tools I should be using for the following tasks: > > Bandwidth monitoring/restriction on a per-user basis > > Traffic (total data transfered per time unit) mo

Help: Needed final mail steps...

2000-11-16 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Ok, I read the exim FAQ, the exim home pages... the same for procmail and fetchmail and I have the following questions I'm trying to resolve: 1. Files .procmail/.fetchmail in user or root directory? 2. What is the fetchid file created in ~/? 3. I call fetchmail at the console right now- is th

Simple question

2000-11-16 Thread Salvador Petit Marti
Sorry, I am a newbie in debian mailing lists... Is debian-user a good place to ask questions about usability/problems with woody? or there is another place?. I am subscribed to debian-testing but it does not appear to have any traffic... Anyway, I am in woody cause of kde2. However, my current g

dpkg --getselections, apt, and update-menus

2000-11-16 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Lately I've been using console-apt for installations, but I tend to run dselect, just to see what packages are new. As such, everytime I ran it, a couple of package selections changed due to upgrades, depencencies, etc. I didn't care about it, as I don't use dselect anymore. I found it rather odd t

Does the stock kernel support VESA Framebuffers?

2000-11-16 Thread Joe Emenaker
I'm trying to run X on my Dell Inspiron 3700 with Debian. I've got X running, but it hangs when I try to do a suspend. All of the howto's I've read say that, in order for suspend to work, I need to be using the FBdev xserver... which requires that I start with framebuffers turned on with the

unsusbcribe

2000-11-16 Thread Marco Antonio Alfonso Vázquez
Bye and Thanks...

Re: jdk - installation

2000-11-16 Thread Michael Mertins
Hi, I'm pretty thankful your advices and tips, hadn't thought the HU-Berlin would do jdk-deb-builds on its own... pretty nice to study there hu? :)= j2sdk1.3_1.3.0-2_i386.deb <- that's the right package i suppose. farewell, michael > Thus spake Michael Mertins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Hi, > > I

SB AWE64 configuration problem

2000-11-16 Thread Willy Lee
Hello all, I finally got around to trying to get my SB AWE64 sound card configured. I am still using the default kernel that I installed with. I believe that it has the correct sound drivers as modules, so I shouldn't need to recompile the kernel to get sound working. I believe my isapnp.conf i

Re: NEWBIE: unable to read mail

2000-11-16 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, > > I guess this is something elementairy, but after some installs and > > different configurations of my mailerdaemon (Postfix), I discovered that I > > am unable to read mail with pine (the Inbox keeps standing at 0 messages). > > Even when I stop Postfix. I guess there has been some chan

Re: how_To_Handle_this? Re:final help for build php4 with oci8 on debian

2000-11-16 Thread Jaume Teixi
Silver wrote: > First making those links is not really clean, you'd better add a line in > /etc/ld.so.conf > pointing to your directory with the libs in it - if you really need to. (and > then run ldconfig -v) > > Anyway those libs are just needed by Oracle, and the php module, so : > just tweak c

Re: kernel 2.4 and isapnp

2000-11-16 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On 15 Nov 2000, Veit Waltemath wrote: > Hey, > did anybody know if there is a different handling in 2.4 with isa-pnp cards. > I don't get my NIC and my ISDN-Card to work.PNP and ISA-PNP are compiled as > modules. does your NIC have any jumper to disable PNP? BTW, it seems that PNP is working v

Re: how_To_Handle_this? Re:final help for build php4 with oci8 on debian

2000-11-16 Thread Silver
My guess is you're compiling to make a debian package (dpkg- output), but dpkg doesn't know about oracle libs. Why not just make your local compile for php+oracle ? Sorry, I can't help you much with making debian packages. Silver - Original Message - From: "Jaume Teixi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

X for windows...

2000-11-16 Thread Dominic Blythe
Not strictly a debian question, but does anyone know of a freeware X client/server for MS Win so's I can get my win-addicted workplace running gui *nx ? pls reply direct as this list traffic is too high for me to subscribe __ Do

Re: kernel 2.4 and isapnp

2000-11-16 Thread Veit Waltemath
Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 15 Nov 2000, Veit Waltemath wrote: > > > Hey, > > did anybody know if there is a different handling in 2.4 with isa-pnp cards. > > I don't get my NIC and my ISDN-Card to work.PNP and ISA-PNP are compiled as > > modules. > > does your NI

bookmarker/PHP/MySQL problem

2000-11-16 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings -- I use the bookmarker deb to store my web bookmarks, because I was already running a local webserver, and it seemed like the best solution to the "where did I bookmark that site" problem when bouncing around (as I currently am) between Net

Re: Dependency problems

2000-11-16 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Casey Henderson wrote: > > So I can't do the upgrade because I have "unmet dependencies" and I > can't fix the dependencies due to the above errors! It's like a > circular problem. I thought Debian was supposed to handle all I encountered the same problem yesterday. Try goi

Re: xlibs 4.0.1-4 version wont install

2000-11-16 Thread Victor Torrico
Thanks. What finally worked for me was using the Dpkg option of --force-overwrite to install xlibs 4.0.1-4. Best regards, Victor Quoting Corey Popelier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've found that for most of the 4.0.1 upgrades, I've had to remove > groff + man-db and install them again afterwards be

Debian Package HOWTO. Who ?

2000-11-16 Thread Egbert Bouwman
No day without questions or complaints about the debian package system. Yesterday it was Hugo van der Merwe. A couple of more or less random selected lines from his message: > ... some easy way to sync the selections with > what is currently installed ... > I admit to not have researched t

RE: disappearing packages? (webmin)

2000-11-16 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > > Browsing debianplanet.org, I found an article about webmin, so > > I thought I'd install it. The article mentioned that he'd apt-got > > it, but my apt could not find it, so I went to search for it manually. > > Same here. I apt-got it after r

Re: Debian Package HOWTO. Who ?

2000-11-16 Thread Colin Watson
Egbert Bouwman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >No day without questions or complaints about the debian package system. > >Yesterday it was Hugo van der Merwe. >A couple of more or less random selected lines from his message: > > ... some easy way to sync the selections with > > what is currently i

Re: emacs without backup option

2000-11-16 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Jay Ford wrote: > > > > Does someone know which option is regarded to avoid emacs from > > > imediately creating a backup file by opening a new or any other file? > > Put the following in ~/.emacs: > > (setq make-backup-files nil) ; Never create backup files > > It works for me. Just

Re: DMODVERSIONS causing a lot of problems

2000-11-16 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Colin wrote: > >After not getting the aureal sound driver to install, I'm so unsure > >about enabling or disabling this feature the next time I have to build > >a new kernel. Most astonishing is the first output of make: > > > >make install AUCHIP=AU8820 > >make[1]: Entering directory `/root/drive

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-16 Thread Allan F. Caetano
> "vijay" == vijay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: vijay> Well it is ok now. But it does teach people not to open attachments that they do not know about espcially when using M$ softwares. Atleast they should switch to some other MUAs as has been discussed in the list for the past few days

Re: DMODVERSIONS causing a lot of problems

2000-11-16 Thread Colin
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 at 13:42:52 +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > Colin wrote: > > > >make install AUCHIP=AU8820 > > >make[1]: Entering directory `/root/drivers/sound/aureal' > > ^^ > > >cc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DAU8820 -mpentium -O6 -fomi

Aarrggg! fonts & 4.0.1-4 (again :(

2000-11-16 Thread Ian Stuart
I did an upgrade to XFree86 4.0.1-4 (..-3 was fine) and now I' can't get X to start at all. I've got the same "Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'" that others have got. I've forced atp to do a reinstall of all the xfonts, freefont and the gsfonts; i've also forced xserver-xfr

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-16 Thread Allan F. Caetano
> "vijay" == vijay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: vijay> Well it is ok now. But it does teach people not to open attachments that they do not know about espcially when using M$ softwares. Atleast they should switch to some other MUAs as has been discussed in the list for the past few days

Re: NEWBIE: unable to read mail

2000-11-16 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 10:43:56AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, > > > I guess this is something elementairy, but after some installs and > > > different configurations of my mailerdaemon (Postfix), I discovered that I > > > am unable to read mail with pine (the Inbox keeps standing at 0 messages

basic xscreensaver question

2000-11-16 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I have two easy questions about xscreensaver:   1.    How can I make it load automatically (without starting the deamon from the menu everytime)?   2.    I have the GL screensavers turned on, but I get errors about not setting my MESA_GLX_FX variable.  Right now I have it so that it

Re: KDE2

2000-11-16 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Yes Joshua, It is: deb http://kde.tdyc.com stable kde2 (this is for potato) Joshua David Kruck wrote: > can some one tell me the line for apt-sources for kde2? > thanks > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Rogelio E. Castillo

Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-16 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Robert Guthrie wrote: > If you could give an example (including ascii diagrams) of what you're trying > to accomplish, and and explanation of what advantage you hope to get from > that setup, maybe we can get closer to understanding what you really want to > do. I don't think I'm really qualified

Re: D-Link Again!

2000-11-16 Thread Diarmuid Drew
I too have a D-link 530tx. DFE530TX. The base Debian setup didn't work for me so I went to Donald Becker's site and got the latest update. Compiled and installed the module... Whaaah its all up and running ! I'm using the 2.2.17 kernel. Donald's driver page gives a good description of what to do to

Re: NEWBIE: unable to read mail

2000-11-16 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, > > > > I guess this is something elementairy, but after some installs and > > > > different configurations of my mailerdaemon (Postfix), I discovered > > > > that I > > > > am unable to read mail with pine (the Inbox keeps standing at 0 > > > > messages). > > > > Even when I stop Postfix. I

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-16 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! >If you want Netscape 4, do "apt-get install navigator". The navigator package >is a meta package that depends on all the real netscape packages. Does this apply to the potato CD? I intended to install Netscape, but I only found Netscape3 in the CD and I didn't find any "Communicator". Does

Re: emacs without backup option

2000-11-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (robert_wilhelm_land) writes: rwl> Jay Ford wrote: >> >> > > Does someone know which option is regarded to avoid emacs from >> > > imediately creating a backup file by opening a new or any other >> > > file? Just a clarification: Emacs doesn't make a backup when yo

Re: DMODVERSIONS causing a lot of problems

2000-11-16 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Colin, thanks for the very very quick answer! > > CONF = $(wildcard /etc/modules.conf) > [...] > > install: compile > >mv -f $(CONF) $(CONF).old > >gawk -f mod_conf $(CONF).old > $(CONF) > >echo "alias sound $(NAME)" >> $(CONF) > >echo "alias midi $(NAME)" >> $(CONF) > > Beware;

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-16 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I have installed netscape, though I cannot remember if it was from the official cd or from an unofficial one. You can also try to install the package communicator-smotif-473 or navigator-smotif-473. Greetings, Sebastiaan On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > >If you

Re: Dependency problems

2000-11-16 Thread Michael Epting
I "fixed" this problem by doing: apt-get install libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data The trick is to have both packages in the same install command. On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:47:41PM -0500, Casey Henderson wrote: > Hi all, > I'm having a problem upgrading a couple packages on my system. I

Re: Squid authentication

2000-11-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, plutoplanet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >proxy squid[1284]: WARNING: authenticator #1 (FD 1) exited > >The relevent lines in my squid.conf are as follows > >authenticate_program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/shadow >acl trusted proxy_auth REQUIRED >http_access allow p

squid w/o directory icons

2000-11-16 Thread Johannes Zellner
Hello, is it possible to configure squid to provide /no/ directory icons? -- Johannes

Re: DMODVERSIONS causing a lot of problems

2000-11-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 at 15:02:57 +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > Colin, thanks for the very very quick answer! > > > > CONF = $(wildcard /etc/modules.conf) > > [...] > > > install: compile > > >mv -f $(CONF) $(CONF).old > > >gawk -f mod_conf $(CONF).old > $(CONF) > > >echo "alias

Re: basic xscreensaver question

2000-11-16 Thread Juergen Fiedler
I don't know about 1. - I'm using gnome-session and it seems to start the screen saver automatically. About 2.: It would probably be best to make the variable available globally. /etc/profile is a good choice for that. HTH, Juergen Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, I have two easy questions about x

Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-16 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 16 November 2000 07:41, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > MICKEY can ping GOOFY because of using the local C:\windows\hosts > MINI can ping GOOFY because of using the local /etc/hosts > > But GOOFY cannot ping MICKEY or MINI by name although GOOFY's > /etc/hosts containes: > > #file /etc/hos

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-16 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 21:16, John Carline wrote: > Ahh! I see. You're probably right, but that's caused by the dpkg command > isn't it - not the pipe? Didn't 'dpkg - l' by itself produce what was > wanted? > > If the full version is what's needed, it's listed in /var/lib/dpkg/status. > T

Re: Debian Package HOWTO. Who ?

2000-11-16 Thread Chris Gray
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:43:11PM +0100, Egbert Bouwman wrote: > No day without questions or complaints about the debian package system. > > Yesterday it was Hugo van der Merwe. > A couple of more or less random selected lines from his message: > > ... some easy way to sync the selections with

Re: Windowmaker and sound

2000-11-16 Thread Brian
It's there in potato. I don't a corresponding package with any kind of sounds. --- Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David A. Rogers wrote: > > > > Does the current version of WindowMaker do sound events? I > know earlier > > versions did with wmsound. But that was many versions ago > and wms

Help: Ramdac (sounds like a real bad alien)

2000-11-16 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I've noticed with leaving X that I see in the X boot msgs the following follows the Ramdac listing: Warning: Ron = 43, Rloop = 10, Roff = 46 What is this and should I worry? I have the right timings in my XF86Setup file for the monitor and it works fine. Thanks, Jonathan PS Ramdac is sort

Re: NEWBIE: unable to read mail (SOLVED)

2000-11-16 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I do not really know what I did, but I installed sendmail, hoping that that would solve the problem. Did not, removed sendmail, installed Postfix again, moved all mail from /var/mail to /var/spool/mail and removed /var/mail, and suddenly everything works! Magically! Thanks for all suggestio

X color depth question

2000-11-16 Thread Ray Percival
When I start X I get console messages that it is going into 8bpp color depth but once it is up it does not look like 256. I have tried commenting out everything but the 24 bit lines but then I get errors. I think the problem is the x server. I am using the SVGA server with a Viper 770 (TNT2) is

wvdial

2000-11-16 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! I am running a fresh debian machine as a single user. When I try to connect to my ISP through wvdial or pon from my personal account I get a message complaining that I have no privilege to do the operation, I should be root to do it. I don't want to log as root each time I need the connection.

Re: basic xscreensaver question

2000-11-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 06:35:57AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I have two easy questions about xscreensaver: > > 1.How can I make it load automatically (without starting the deamon from > the menu everytime)? make a ~/.xsession with something like this: #! /bin/sh xscreensav

Re: KDE2

2000-11-16 Thread Robert Guthrie
There's a new kde mailing list (debian-kde), which is mostly for developers, but just lurking on that list will let you in on anything that might concernt a kde user. Currently, they've uploade new packages for kde libraries and some programs, but not all, and this is causing some people troubl

Re: X for windows...

2000-11-16 Thread Ray Percival
Try www.microimages.com/mix . It is pretty good and of course free. Then IMHO once you get them to the point they want to pay for a pretty darned sweet package look at exceed. -- Original Message -- From: Dominic Blythe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 16 N

Run out of hd free space. Please help

2000-11-16 Thread Vicente
My system has run out of hard disk space. I have removed several files, but df always says that there is no free space available. # df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 1968508 1907024 0 100% / What should I do? -- #

Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-16 Thread Michael Epting
This advice applies to /etc/host.conf, not resolve.conf. On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 08:42:34AM -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote: > ... Something else to > look at first is your /etc/resolve.conf*. It should contain a line like > "order hosts,bind", which tells it to look first in /etc/hosts, and then

Re: fetchnews running automatically?

2000-11-16 Thread Mark Brown
> > does fetchnews install some cron/anacron/etc. script which makes it > > fetch news automatically? I have created a crontab entry which runs > > fetchnews every 4 hours, but it seems to me like it is run more often > > that every 4 hours... If you mean the fetchnews from Leafnode, then if you h

Re: Run out of hd free space. Please help

2000-11-16 Thread Jeff Green
a good bet is to delete loads of files in /var/log then reboot some handy logs attempt to write a logfile saying the disk is full, this is of course a self fulfilling prophesy. Jeff Vicente wrote: > > My system has run out of hard disk space. > I have removed several files, but df always says > t

Re: Run out of hd free space. Please help

2000-11-16 Thread Chris Gray
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 04:58:35PM +0100, Vicente wrote: > > My system has run out of hard disk space. > I have removed several files, but df always says > that there is no free space available. > > # df > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1

Re: Problem with cups and xpp or qtcups

2000-11-16 Thread Giuseppe Fierro
> Did you set 'Browsing' to 'on' in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf? The package > maintainer set it to 'off' by default. > > If yes, what is the output of 'lpstat -v -d'? Hi, Browsing is set to on and the output of 'lpstat -v -d' is device for Epson_760: parallel:/dev/lp0 system default destination: Ep

RE: X for windows...

2000-11-16 Thread Dominic Blythe
a couple of ppl have recommended MI/X, so this may be news... it's not free, it costs $25 a seat. It's free for macOs. the pricing might be new for v2.0 of MI/X. if version 1 was free, anyone know where i can get it? > -Original Message- > From: Ray Percival [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Se

Re: Tools available for..

2000-11-16 Thread Bill Goudie
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:29:33PM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: > port forwarding (I tried this one already, but had a tough time, perhaps > just direction to some good tools or docs). You can use the ipmasqadm utility. For example, if you wanted to ssh into a computer on the internal network you wou

Re: wvdial

2000-11-16 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 16 November 2000 12:53, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > connection. How should I define the right privileges in order to run > wvdial or pon from my personal account? > Thanks in advance! Add your personal account to the "dip" group. adduser youraccount dip -- Did you know that if yo

Missing lib.

2000-11-16 Thread Adam Wilson
I get this error whenever I try and compile most things, most recently balsa. Anyone happen to know what lib this is? /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb Thanks Adam

NetBus?!

2000-11-16 Thread Andre Berger
I'm using potato and Helix-Gnome. I just installed nmap, and it gives me Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED], www.insecure.org/nmap/) Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): PortState Protocol Service 9 opentcpdiscard 13 open

Re: Run out of hd free space. Please help

2000-11-16 Thread Robert Guthrie
How's your /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory? If you don't delete those files once in a while (dselect asks if you want to), that'll fill your hard drive pretty quickly. On Thursday 16 November 2000 09:58, Vicente wrote: > My system has run out of hard disk space. > I have removed several fil

quake - installation

2000-11-16 Thread Michael Mertins
Hi after installing the jdk I want to give Quake a try. i saw via apt-cache search quake that there's quake-3dfx available (I have a voodoo3-2000 running here). so can i just install the package and run the game by typing 'quake' ? cya michael -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: Run out of hd free space. Please help

2000-11-16 Thread Colin Watson
Vicente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My system has run out of hard disk space. >I have removed several files, but df always says >that there is no free space available. > ># df >Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >/dev/hda1 1968508 1907024 0 10

Re: X color depth question

2000-11-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Ray Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I start X I get console messages that it is going into 8bpp > color depth but once it is up it does not look like 256. I have > tried commenting out everything but the 24 bit lines but then I get > errors. I think the problem is the x server. I am u

Re: Run out of hd free space. Please help

2000-11-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 10:26:18AM -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote: > How's your /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory? If you don't delete those > files once in a while (dselect asks if you want to), that'll fill your hard > drive pretty quickly. The easy way to get rid of old debs that apt has down

Re: Missing lib.

2000-11-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:18:25AM -0500, Adam Wilson wrote: > I get this error whenever I try and compile most things, most recently > balsa. > Anyone happen to know what lib this is? > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb libc6-dev used to provide libdb, but since glibc 2.2, that is no longer the ca

Re: NetBus?!

2000-11-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Andre Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using potato and Helix-Gnome. I just installed nmap, and it gives > me > Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED], www.insecure.org/nmap/) > Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): > PortState Protocol Service > 9 open

8 bit color

2000-11-16 Thread Debian Ghost
Hey Guys, I am trying to export an application from a sun machine to my debian machine. When I export the 24 bit version of the program it will display fine. When I export an 8 bit version of the same program, it bombs out with this message: X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access

Re: Debian Package HOWTO. Who ?

2000-11-16 Thread John Hasler
Egbert Bouwman writes: > Looks like they adhere to the data hiding principle. Everything needed to create debian packages and all existing documentation on the package system is packaged and in the archive: apt-get install task-debian-devel maint-guide debian-guide debian-policy \ doc-debian pack

Re: wvdial

2000-11-16 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I am running a fresh debian machine as a single user. When I try to > connect to my ISP through wvdial or pon from my personal account I get a > message complaining that I have no privilege to do the operation, I should > be root to do it. I don't

RE: dpkg --getselections, apt, and update-menus

2000-11-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> - Maybe update-menus should rather look at what is currently installed, > rather than what the selections for the next "install/remove" operation > will be. It does seem to make more sense to me. getselections is supposed to be current. A package marked deinstall is removed, but not purged. O

Re: Run out of hd free space. Please help (SOLVED)

2000-11-16 Thread Vicente
Robert Guthrie wrote: > > How's your /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory? If you don't delete those > files once in a while (dselect asks if you want to), that'll fill your hard > drive pretty quickly. > 340MB on this directory was the problem!! Thanks

rsync w/ssh

2000-11-16 Thread Kelly Corbin,,,
I'm trying to setup a cron job to sync two servers using ssh and rsync. The problem is I'm promted for a password; which won't work when I stick it in cron. Here's the syntax of my command line: rsync -vnaz --rsh=ssh --delete somehost.com:/var/www/ /var/www/ Any ideas? Thanks! Kelly --

Re: a little too noisy, bye bye

2000-11-16 Thread Damien
> Sorry, this list has a lot of traffic, and most of it is above my head or > only for i386 and X4, so I am dropping and just sticking with 68k list. > Thanks for your time and hope ya liked my sig at least. I will soon add a > pc on a siamese network, but won't be using linux on it. :-{ L8tr's

Re: rsync w/ssh

2000-11-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Kelly Corbin,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to setup a cron job to sync two servers using ssh and rsync. The > problem is I'm promted for a password; which won't work when I stick it in > cron. Here's the syntax of my command line: > > > rsync -vnaz --rsh=ssh --delete somehost

Re: NetBus?!

2000-11-16 Thread Andre Berger
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Andre Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm using potato and Helix-Gnome. I just installed nmap, and it gives > > me > > Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED], www.insecure.org/nmap/) > > Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1):

Exim - mail delivery on a LAN

2000-11-16 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Apologies in advance for a long post. I have a two machine home network using 192.168.1.X static addresses, both running Debian potato and using Exim as the MTA. Both machines on that network can reach the Internet through a hardware router/firewall (Linksys BEFSR41), and then a cable modem. The

Re: NetBus?!

2000-11-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Andre Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > > > You can find out what process has a particular port open with the lsof > > command. I think it's: > > > > lsof -i > > > > for networking ports, but suggest "man lsof", or at least "lso

Re: Aarrggg! fonts & 4.0.1-4 (again :(

2000-11-16 Thread debuser
I was able to solve this problem by reinstalling xfonts-base. The problem is discussed in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz at the bottom. My problem was that the /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias file did not exist on the first install for some reason. The re-install fixed it. Gerry On Thu,

Re: Run out of hd free space. Please help (SOLVED)

2000-11-16 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 16 November 2000 11:02, Vicente wrote: > 340MB on this directory was the problem!! > Thanks As Dave Sherohman pointed out, apt-get clean will keep that directory clear of refuse. I'd suggest a cron job that runs /usr/bin/apt-get clean once a week or so. -- Did you know that

Quiero saber si, se puede trabajar todo en Castellano

2000-11-16 Thread Miquel Segovia Aparicio
Ante todo saludos Cordiales.   Tambien si es fácil, porque hay un itinerario o guía, para inexperto y sin ni Estudios Primarios.   Salut i Agro Eco Bellvitge

Re: wvdial

2000-11-16 Thread John Hasler
Bruce F. writes: > However, I've found that pppd, for some reason, occasionally changes the > permissions of the modem device to crw-r,... It always does that, for security. If it exits normally it changes the permissions back. > So I've switched to using pon and poff, and I've since had no

Re: Debian 2.2 installer boot floppys

2000-11-16 Thread paolo massei
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:55:25AM +, Chris Howells wrote: ...snip > I asked on #debian about this, and was told that I needed to edit the > file syslinux.cfg on one of the floppies, yet I am unsure how to do this > (or why even -- all I want to do is start the installer from the > CD-ROM?). T

Re: NetBus?!

2000-11-16 Thread Andre Berger
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Andre Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [snip] > > > > > > You can find out what process has a particular port open with the lsof > > > command. I think it's: > > > > > > lsof -i > > > > >

Re: NT4 in VMWare VM can't see Samba over network - Yes, PlainTextPassword set :)

2000-11-16 Thread Kent West
Robin Collins wrote: Not really a Debian issue but maybe someone can help me out here. There are two computers here, for the sake of discussion called A and B. B runs Samba 2.0.7a on Potato. A is multi-boot. When booted to native NT4 SP6a with PlainTextPassword set A can see B and access B's

Re: dpkg --getselections, apt, and update-menus

2000-11-16 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> getselections is supposed to be current. A package marked deinstall is > removed, but not purged. Or at least it is expected to be. On my machine, it definately doesn't work like that. I just tested it. Changed a selection in dselect, but didn't do an "Install", the selection change was eviden

Re: IDS

2000-11-16 Thread Adam Shand
> > I'm looking for recommendations for an Intrusion Detection system for my > > firewall. Preferably a debian package but not restricted to. > > Try aide http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/aide.html. aide or tripwire will both do host based intrusion detection. if you want network intr

Re: rsync w/ssh

2000-11-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why were you thinking you wouldn't be prompted for a password? In > order to do passwordless ssh you need to do the following: > > 1) On your local system run ssh-keygen and use a good passphrase when > prompted > > 2) Copy the contents of ~/.ssh/iden

Re: Zope newbie can't log in

2000-11-16 Thread Adam Shand
> I can log in on Zope as superuser and create a new user. But I can > not log in as that user although anything is correct as far as the > login name and password is concerned. i am new to zope as well but i just dealt with this the ohter day. it appears that the admin user can log in from any

Re: ssh authentication

2000-11-16 Thread Hubert Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (robert_wilhelm_land) writes: > logged as a normal user I would like to open up X-apps requiring root > permissions. I've been able to open X-apps as root using sudo. IMHO, sudo should be a required package in Debian. Hubert

Re: Exim - mail delivery on a LAN

2000-11-16 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > What I can't figure out is how to configure Exim to send mail from one > machine to the other on the LAN. And I suspect there is some basic > fundamental of email/networking that I don't und

Re: dpkg --getselections, apt, and update-menus

2000-11-16 Thread Colin Watson
Hugo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> getselections is supposed to be current. A package marked deinstall is >> removed, but not purged. Or at least it is expected to be. > >On my machine, it definately doesn't work like that. I just tested it. >Changed a selection in dselect, but didn

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