Re: ICQ with debian firewall

2000-12-11 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
I have licq and micq running nicely here. On Sunday 10 December 2000 19:31, Nate Amsden wrote: > Kyle Peterson wrote: > > I looked into that module and from what I gather its doesn't work with > > ICQ 200, just ICQ99. The only way I can see is to use port forwarding. > > possible...i only use

beans problem in gnujsp.

2000-12-11 Thread Choi Kyusic
I installed gnujsp and tested the examples in /usr/doc/gnujsp/examples and they worked. But, I cannot get the following jsp script to work. The Famous JSP Hello Program <% String s = "GNUJSP"; %> The following line should contain the text "Hello GNUJSP World!". If thats not t

Re: ICQ with debian firewall

2000-12-11 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, try the icq module first. It did not work for me, so I had to do a ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 10.161.67.65 4000 -R 192.168.1.1 4000 With this option, there is no need to reconfigure the icq clients. Even without this option, most parts of icq work, except filetransfer and some sort of cha

Re: ICQ with debian firewall

2000-12-11 Thread Kyle Peterson
I think port 4000 is used for ICQ99, ICQ2000 uses 5190 (i think). But thank you, I'll try that out. --- ICQ #:14518882 - Original Message - From: "Sebastiaan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kyle Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian Mailing List" Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 12:29 AM Su

Re: change xterm-debian

2000-12-11 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 05:12:13PM -0600, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was wondering if there was anyway to permanently change the > environment variable TERM from xterm-debian to just xterm? > When I access pine at work to read mail it flips out. The > server is runn

X error message

2000-12-11 Thread Lance Simmons
I recently started getting the following error message when I try to run xinit as a user: X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. I've been running XFree86 4 for awhile (about 2 months before it entered woody), and have never received this error message. I can't remember, but it s

Re: Very strange fetchmail problem

2000-12-11 Thread Glyn Millington
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:15:48AM +0200, thus spake Martin Fluch: > On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Timmy Douglas wrote: > reading message 1 of 3 (16420 octets) > fetchmail: timeout after 60 seconds waiting for listener to respond. I don't think your problem is with fetchmail, but with whatever is waiting

Re: Further apologies.

2000-12-11 Thread Glyn Millington
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:36:47PM -0500, thus spake Jim Kroger: > Dear List, > > I incorrectly stated that the managers of the Debian list sent copies > of all my emails to several professors, my boss, and Princeton. That > was incorrect, this and the voice mail were not from them, but from >

Re: X error message

2000-12-11 Thread John Travis
On Monday 11 December 2000 07:46, Lance Simmons wrote: > I recently started getting the following error message when I try to > run xinit as a user: > > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. > > I've been running XFree86 4 for awhile (about 2 months before it > entered woody), and

Q: Any advantage using primary/logical partitions?

2000-12-11 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I got some great help on re-partitioning a dos partition into several seperate primary partitions (wow, a mouthful)... But for future reference, is there a"preference" for using primary versus logical partitions? ie Next install should I use: Primary /boot Primary / Prima

Re: vanilla vs. compact

2000-12-11 Thread C. Falconer
At 03:32 AM 12/10/00 -0500, you wrote: What are the differences between the vanilla and compact install besides the obvious listed at the Debian site? When I installed with the vanilla method (hard drive floppy-less) the console looked fine. With compact, I have this low-res penguin image on top

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-11 Thread MH
Vi scribis: > > I have a Lexmark Optra E312 Postscript printer that I am trying, > unsuccessfully, to configure. > > I decided to use CUPS as the LinuxPrinting-HOWTO mentions that to be > quite easy. So I apt-get installed cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-client, > qtcups and xpp, the last two packages

Re: Creating CD's from ISO's

2000-12-11 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi Jack, since you are talking about CD-formats (iso9660,joliet), my first guess would be that you had your cd burning software create a new cd image containing the donloaded image as its only file. This is wrong! Try to pursuade the program to _not_ create an image, but burn your downloaded image

SOLVED: Re: Very strange fetchmail problem

2000-12-11 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:15:48AM +0200, thus spake Martin Fluch: > > On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Timmy Douglas wrote: > > reading message 1 of 3 (16420 octets) > > fetchmail: timeout after 60 seconds waiting for listener to respond. > > > I don't think yo

remote installing debian.

2000-12-11 Thread Knud Sørensen
Hi I have a server with a colocater which is running redhat. I have asked them to install debian, but almost a month have gone with now progress. So, is it possible to install debian via telnet or something ? Hope you can help! Knud.

Re: SIOCADDRT: File exists

2000-12-11 Thread Leen Besselink
> I use my Debian 2.2r2 as a router, but it always shows the message > "SIOCADDRT: File exists" at boot every time. > I use the kernel 2.2.17 that come with the debian 2.2. That's because your using the old /etc/init.d/network file, what you can do is edit that file and comment: #route a

Re: WDM broken in woody ?

2000-12-11 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi S! You wrote: > Can you drop me an email or post to debian-user once the corrected WDM > package has been uploaded ? I am stuck in XDM-hell!! A new wdm package (1.20-5) was installed in the archive last night, so it should be all right now (if your local mirror is up-to-date). -- Kind rega

Re: remote installing debian.

2000-12-11 Thread kmself
on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:15:42AM +0100, Knud Sørensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi > > I have a server with a colocater which is running redhat. > > I have asked them to install debian, but almost a month have gone > with now progress. > > So, is it possible to install debian via telnet

Case of login relevant?

2000-12-11 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, this is to raise the issue whether the case of the login (username, user-ID) is relevant on Linux. I today observed that ipopd 4.7c-1 does NOT pay attention to the case of the login, but that proftpd 1.2.0pre10-2 DOES honor the case of the login (this is on a pure Debian 2.2 system.)

Re: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd.

2000-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:14:00PM +, Colin Watson >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Bah. Try 2.2.{15,16} or 2.4.0-testsomething. :) I'm running 2.4.0-test6 >> here with no problems (um, apart from the annoying truncate() bug that >> occasionally bites INN, but I know

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-11 Thread Manegold
"S.Salman Ahmed" wrote: > > I have a Lexmark Optra E312 Postscript printer that I am trying, > unsuccessfully, to configure. > > I decided to use CUPS as the LinuxPrinting-HOWTO mentions that to be > quite easy. So I apt-get installed cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-client, > qtcups and xpp, the last

What is VNC?

2000-12-11 Thread Manegold
Hi! I'm wondering what VNC is. According to the package listing it is a remote display system. Therefore something like X. But what does that mean? Can I use it instead of X? Does it need special apps that make use of it, or can normal X/KDE/Gnome - apps make use of it? What are the advantages of V

Upgrading potato to woody (keymap problems)

2000-12-11 Thread Guido Kuhlmann
Dear all, I have upraged my potato to woody. I got the cd images from: ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial. After a few problems I got woody to start, but know there is a little problem. When I run a xterm window I can't use Alt Gr (no pipe symbol or "@" for example). If I go to m

Re: Office software - and printers

2000-12-11 Thread Andre Berger
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: >[snip some advice] > Notes: > > [1] At some point after I die, I *will* write the oft-promised essay > "The Office Suite is Dead". Meantime, suffice to say that the office > suite was created to solve a marketing problem -- selling software > people didn't want to

Re: APOLOGY!!!! for my earlier posts about unsubscribing

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 09:11:47PM -0500, Christopher Mosley > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > > on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 07:06:40PM -0500, Jim Kroger > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > My own comment

Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-11 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:20:03AM +0100, Manegold wrote: > Hi! > I'm wondering what VNC is. According to the package listing it is a > remote display system. Therefore something like X. > But what does that mean? Can I use it instead of X? > Does it need special apps that make use of it, or can no

direcpc satellite reciever

2000-12-11 Thread Livia Admin
anyone here tried using direcpc satellite reciever? or anyone got a driver in debian linux... i tried from helius.com but it supports only caldera and redhat. thanks K_r3aPeR

Re: ICQ with debian firewall

2000-12-11 Thread Sebastiaan
> it works ...provided you configure ipmasq, i suggest using the ipmasq > module. > > http://www.tsmservices.com/masq/detailform.php3?124 > > it's not perfect but works.. > No, it does not work for me. When I do a depmod -a I get an error regarding unresolved symbols, and I get a lot of them w

list codes?

2000-12-11 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I know this is not really Debian related, but I started wondering. Often I see terms like OT and AFAIK. What do they mean? I guess OT means something like 'unusual' and AFAIK gives me a dangerous feeling. Just wondering. Greetz, Sebastiaan

Re: HEllo

2000-12-11 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Montag, 11. Dezember 2000 01:02 schrieb annhilat: > Well, i just bought the Asus A7V mainboard, using a Promise UDMA 100 > chip... Well, i cant get Debian install system to identify my HD > controller, since its not an ordinary IDE controler... Please help me > with this issue.. What kind of co

Re: Password

2000-12-11 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Montag, 11. Dezember 2000 04:38 schrieb Anthony Ryan: > Hi, > I recently got a 486 with Debian 2.1 pre-loaded. I'm also > just getting into unix for the first time, and want a machine to muck > around with. The problem is, I don't know the password or login. I > don't have the OS on an ins

Upgrading Xemacs packages

2000-12-11 Thread Frodo Baggins
Hi debianers, I'd like to upgrade some of the lisp packages shipped with potato's XEmacs to their more recent version from http://www.xemacs.org Is there any "standard" procedure to do it in debian in order not to break the file structure? Thanks for your help. -- Leo TheHobbit -BEGIN GE

Going Debian: advice request

2000-12-11 Thread Rodolfo Canet-Castello
Hi all After long doubts and four years using Linux, I'm finally decided to use Debian as my distro and not change anymore. Would you kindly clear some things to me? I'm thinking of installing potato, since am really fed up of half-boiled distros (RH7, for instance), but I´d like to have some pac

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-11 Thread Carl Johnson
"S.Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a Lexmark Optra E312 Postscript printer that I am trying, > unsuccessfully, to configure. > > I decided to use CUPS as the LinuxPrinting-HOWTO mentions that to be > quite easy. So I apt-get installed cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-client, > qtcups

Re: dselect

2000-12-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Ken" == Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ken> Kind of, thanks. But I remember something even more general, Ken> like I could select Workstation, and it would install a whole Ken> bunch of packages that one might want, like editors, X, Internet Ken> stuff, etc. This was part of the Debi

Re: Going Debian: advice request

2000-12-11 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Rodolfo Canet-Castello wrote: > Hi all > > After long doubts and four years using Linux, I'm finally decided to > use Debian as my distro and not change anymore. Would you > kindly clear some things to me? > > I'm thinking of installing potato, since am really fed up of

RE: list codes?

2000-12-11 Thread michael.bartl1
>Hi, >I know this is not really Debian related, but I started wondering. >Often I see terms like OT and AFAIK. What do they mean? >I guess OT means something like 'unusual' and AFAIK gives me a dangerous >feeling. >Just wondering. I don't know OT myself, so someone else should answer this one!

kdm does not start local X server in woody

2000-12-11 Thread Salvador Petit Marti
I upgraded to kdm_2.0.1-2 from ftp.de.kde.org. The new kdm package seems to have problems to start the local X server. I'm using xserver-svga 3.3.6 for compatibility problems in a i386 dual processor machine. This is /var/log/xdm-errors: XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config (**) stand

Re: messages to root

2000-12-11 Thread Hedi Berriche
> "Eddie" == Eddie Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eddie> Hello, Eddie> How do I stop the emails from my computer to root about system check? Hedi> Do you have installed the package logcheck (dpkg -l logcheck), it's the one Hedi> responsible for such emails, so you may consider removing it

Slow LAN transfers on Deb laptop

2000-12-11 Thread sc
I've been fooling around with a 2.2 Debian distribution on a ThinkPad T20 (company laptop, *cough*), and the network transfers on my home LAN are really slow. After spending a few hours going through Deja and various HOW-TO's, I'm running out of hairs to pull... - The file transfers work fi

samba daemon not working

2000-12-11 Thread Mark Sanchez
Hi and Good Morning to everybody ! When I run 'smbd -D' I get the following message a smbd dies [2000/12/11 10:45:33, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(863) bind failed on port 139 socket_addr=0.0.0.0 (Address already in use) (taken from the /var/log/smb log file) Any hints ? Thank for yo

Re: list codes? Thanks

2000-12-11 Thread Sebastiaan
Thanks all! That makes me understand the discussions better. On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > I know this is not really Debian related, but I started wondering. > Often I see terms like OT and AFAIK. What do they mean? > I guess OT means something like 'unusual' and AFAIK gives me

inetd questions

2000-12-11 Thread David Purton
Hello, I have a couple of questions regarding inetd (and other things) 1) Is possible to control what interfaces the services in inetd bind to? 2) is possible to specify either a) what interfaces a particular user can log in through or b) what ip addresses a particular user c

RE: list codes?

2000-12-11 Thread sc
On 12/11/00 5:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >>Hi, >>I know this is not really Debian related, but I started wondering. >>Often I see terms like OT and AFAIK. What do they mean? >>I guess OT means something like 'unusual' and AFAIK gives me a dangerous >>feeling. >>Just wonde

RE: RE: list codes?

2000-12-11 Thread Michael Bartl
> >Von: sc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Datum: Mon, 11 Dec 00 05:05:34 -0600 >An: >Betreff: RE: list codes? > >On 12/11/00 5:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >wrote: >>>Hi, >>>I know this is not really Debian related, but I started wondering. >>>Often I see terms like OT and AFAIK. What do t

turning off icq sounds

2000-12-11 Thread David Purton
at the risk of being flamed for not reading the two important lines at the bottom of something :)... how can I stop licq from playing sounds when a message arrives? I've tried the obvious like unchecking the on events enabled checkbox. This gives some success, but somehow when I restart licq it'

Re: inetd questions

2000-12-11 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:34:04PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > 1) Is possible to control what interfaces the services in inetd bind to? I don't thik I understand what you want. Are you talking about a server which has several interfaces and you want i.e. smtp to be reached through eth0? > 2)

RE: RE: list codes?

2000-12-11 Thread Edward Craig
OT: means Off Topic (but maybe relevant or interesting enough to get answers or commentary on). Thus, this discussion is OT for debian-user. -- Ed Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Taxi (I need an income) GNU/Linux (I can afford a Free OS) Think this through with me, let me know

Re: inetd questions

2000-12-11 Thread David Purton
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:34:04PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > > 1) Is possible to control what interfaces the services in inetd bind to? > > I don't thik I understand what you want. Are you talking about a > server which has several interfaces

Re: Case of login relevant?

2000-12-11 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:42:51 +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: >I today observed that ipopd 4.7c-1 does NOT pay attention to the case of the >login, but that proftpd 1.2.0pre10-2 DOES honor the case of the login (this is >on a pure Debian 2.2 system.) Please disregard this message. It turned out

Re: list codes?

2000-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I know this is not really Debian related, but I started wondering. >Often I see terms like OT and AFAIK. What do they mean? >I guess OT means something like 'unusual' and AFAIK gives me a dangerous >feeling. OT stands for "off-topic", and AFAIK stands for "a

Re: inetd questions

2000-12-11 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:59:17PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > > 2) is possible to specify either > > > a) what interfaces a particular user can log in through or > > > b) what ip addresses a particular user can log in from? > > > > Sure. ssh and telnet (bad!) logins can be restricted t

Re: remote installing debian.

2000-12-11 Thread Jonathan Gift
Quick Q. I noticed after installing gnupg that creating a .gnupg directory got rid of most of the msgs errors around gnup I was getting on headers from certain people, like you. But there's one left: gpg: Signature made Mon gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found I assume the first

Re: configuring debian for network mail clients

2000-12-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:22:29PM -0500, Dwight Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > What is the name of the debian pop package? I do not see one in the list > of packages. I do not want imap. "apt-cache search pop" will give pages full of packages, you'll have a li

Re: Going Debian: advice request

2000-12-11 Thread Tom Pfeifer
To answer one of your questions Once a stable version is released, it only gets updated (primarily) with security fixes. In other words, you won't see XFree 4.X, etc. in potato. So potato will never become woody, but rather woody will become "frozen" for testing, and then "stable" when it's

problem with perl in unstable

2000-12-11 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao, I have the following problem: # dpkg --configure xserver-common Configuro xserver-common (4.0.1-10) ... Can't locate warnings/register.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/

ACPI Clients?

2000-12-11 Thread RP
Hi. Does any one knows if there are ACPI clients to suspend or to query battery state, like apm? Cheers. RP

Re: Netscape 4.76 problems

2000-12-11 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 06:09:21 -0500 "S.Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "CS" == Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CS> Hi! Anybody knows why netscape just hangs when trying to open > CS> this page: http://www.eddiedanielsclarinet.com/ I found similar > CS> p

Re: Netscape 4.76 problems

2000-12-11 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 06:23:18 -0500 serge delorme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wild guess...this site use flash, do you have this plugin installed ? Yes. I have all plug-ins installed. If I check help->plugins it is shown. Any other guesses? > > > Le dimanche 10 déc. 2000 à 08:48:38 -0200, C

Major X problem: Xwrapper.config missing!

2000-12-11 Thread Dan Griswold
Hi all, Please, I hope someone can help me with this. After an apt-get upgrade, I no longer can run X. I get these messages: X: unable to open wrapper config file /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting. giving up. So, these two files have disap

Network printing

2000-12-11 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, Firstly, thanks to everyone who helped me with my sound card worries, I finally have it all working nicely including Audio CD's working. I have had problems with sound for quite a long time so I am pretty damm happy. Anway's, another problem I have had for some time is the inability to

can't open initial console and kernel panic

2000-12-11 Thread Daniel Borgmann
hello! i have a really critical problem. i tried hdparm to enable dma access. but after some tests the system hung and i had to shutdown manually. now i can't boot debian anymore. the error messsage is: Warning: unable to open an initial console Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= optio

Re: Netscape 4.76 problems (different question)

2000-12-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > Doesn't hang when I visit the site with Netscape-4.76: > > > > ii netscape-base- 4.76-1 Popular World-Wide-Web browser software (bas > > ii netscape-base- 4.76-1 4.76 base support for netscape > > ii netscape-java- 4.76-1 Netscape Java support for version 4.76 > > ii

socks server

2000-12-11 Thread Ari Sigurðsson
hi, how do I install socks service on my debian machine? I need all traffic to go trough one machine, I allready have squid proxy installed and working. Please help me.

have I broken apt-get?!!!

2000-12-11 Thread Dan Griswold
Hi all, I'm not sure what happened, but things are really screwed up with apt after a recent apt-get upgrade sequence. Many packages are held back, and now I can't get things to install. Now, for example, if I do apt-get install xmms (which is one of the packages needing to be upgraded, and which

Re: Major X problem: Xwrapper.config missing!

2000-12-11 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Montag, 11. Dezember 2000 14:34 schrieb Dan Griswold: > Hi all, > > Please, I hope someone can help me with this. > > After an apt-get upgrade, I no longer can run X. > > I get these messages: > > X: unable to open wrapper config file /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config > X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such

Re: have I broken apt-get?!!!

2000-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm not sure what happened, but things are really screwed up with apt >after a recent apt-get upgrade sequence. [snip] >/var/lib/dpkg/info/leafnode.postrm: /usr/sbin/update-inetd: No such >file or directory The interpreter for /usr/sbin/update-inetd is /usr/bin/perl, an

db3 - is it close?

2000-12-11 Thread Josh Miller
It seems like db3 was close to being packaged for unstable last month...but all I can find is a .orig.tar.gz file in incoming...Are there usable, even if not completely finished, debs somewhere? - Josh

Re: Major X problem: Xwrapper.config missing!

2000-12-11 Thread Dan Griswold
> "Cajus" == Cajus Pollmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Cajus> I had this problem some time ago. Make a symlink: Cajus> /etc/X11/X -> /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 Cajus> Fill this in your Xwrapper.config: allowed_users=rootonly Cajus> ("console" or "anybody" depends on what you wan

Re: have I broken apt-get?!!!

2000-12-11 Thread Dan Griswold
> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I'm not sure what happened, but things are really screwed up >> with apt after a recent apt-get upgrade sequence. Colin> [snip] >> /var/lib/dpkg/info/leafnode.postrm: /usr/sbin/update

Re: no modules after kernel recompile

2000-12-11 Thread David A. Rogers
make-kpkg is the debian way to build the kernel. It is very nice. You'll need to apt-get the kernel-package. The signal issues are more serious. The gnu compiler uses lots of memory when compiling the kernel and/or the modules and really gives it a good workout. The common perception is that if

Re: socks server

2000-12-11 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:54:36PM -, Ari Sigurpsson wrote: > hi, > how do I install socks service on my debian machine? > I need all traffic to go trough one machine, I allready have > squid proxy installed and working. Please help me. There is one socks proxy from nec and a free one called da

Re: LAST QUESTION - MINICOM

2000-12-11 Thread Edward Craig
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Ken Weingold wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000, Est?v?o Becker wrote: > Hi, I know that I am > disturbing you but this is my last question: When I connect with the > minicom with my internet server, the program tells that I am connected > but I am not, when I try to open a web sit

Flexbackup

2000-12-11 Thread Ola Muan
Hi all, I am trying to configure Flexbackup to use a tape drive. I tried to launch it with this command string: '/usr/bin/flexbackup -fs all -level 1' But then I get this error message: "flexbackup version 0.9.8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bad name after afio' at /etc/flexbackup.conf line 103. synta

Re: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd.

2000-12-11 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:56:10PM +0100 or thereabouts, Frodo Baggins wrote: > Colin Watson scripsit: > >More accurately, it's a known bug in the Linux kernel (specifically, > >version 2.2.17, I think, and possibly certain 2.4.0-test versions as > >well). I'm told 2.2.18 will fix it. > > Well, It

Re: why does xmms take so long to start playing?

2000-12-11 Thread Ray Percival
It sounds odd but tweaking my HD with hdparm made alot of my mp3 problems go away to understand why try playing a mp3 off of a parallel port zip drive. :) -- Original Message -- From: Thomas Halahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun,

scanning SCSI-bus on a running system

2000-12-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi there I would like to get my scanner recognized when turned on at a runing system. I know I can do that on Win 98, so it should be possible to rescan the SCSI-Bus without "disturbing" any of the other devices. The only question is: How? Tahnks joerg -- Did you know that if you play a Window

help...

2000-12-11 Thread Dale Kosan
I have installed Debian and now have my network card working,still no sound but that is not important right now.The problem is my display,when I get into x my screen is bigger than the monitor and I have to move the mouse to the left and down to get to the start button and to see the clock.I

Re: autosetting time

2000-12-11 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Friday 08 December 2000 20:07, John Hasler wrote: > Robert Guthrie writes: > > It [chrony] is not the most accurate, nor is it probably the best package > > under most circumstances,... > > What do you think is wrong with it? Nothing _wrong_ per-se. Just not the most accurate time daemon, most

Netscape problems

2000-12-11 Thread Freddy Boy
Hi all ! Maybe someone can help me. I can't start netscape as normal user except one user account. When starting netscape it says 'Bus error'. Any ideas what is wrong? Thanks ! Ville Harju Samoilijantie 6F 32 70150 Kuopio [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ultra/66

2000-12-11 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:13:09PM +0100, Kocsis István wrote: > Dear Debian! > > Please help Me! > Why can I install debian into my ultra/66 driver? strange grammar... look at http://www.linux-ide.org for more info about linux + udma -- ,---. > Name:

Re: Who are the shitheads at Debian?

2000-12-11 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Friday 08 December 2000 21:10, Jim Kroger wrote: > unsubscribe me, stick these 60 emails a day up your ass > _ > James K. Kroger, Ph.D. > Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior > Department of Psychology Did you ever see that ER

Re: Dexter

2000-12-11 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 03:14:45PM -0800, Rick Loga wrote: > I updated woody which is now Xfree4 and the docs say to run dexter to > configure. Dexter wants my "xserver driver". What is that? The choices > make no sense to me. My video adapter is a Graphics Blaster 3D with 4 MB > memory made

Re: list codes?

2000-12-11 Thread Mailing list collection place
A package that I've found useful in decoding some of these messages is wtf when it's installed, the command $ wtf will return a plain English translation HTH, HAND Josh On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 02:19:32PM +0330, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hi, > >I know this is not really Debian related, but I s

Re: remote installing debian.

2000-12-11 Thread Chris Gray
> Jonathan Gift writes: jg> Quick Q. I noticed after installing gnupg that creating a .gnupg jg> directory got rid of most of the msgs errors around gnup I was getting jg> on headers from certain people, like you. But there's one left: jg> gpg: Signature made Mon jg> g

Re: exim

2000-12-11 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:06:58AM +0100, Christoph Groth wrote: > Hi Marcelo, > > Please note that I am not a network expert, so what I write might be > wrong. > > > with the help of people in this list finally I have a > > exim+fetchmail+mutt configuration working. > > Does the multiple SMTP-s

Re: samba daemon not working

2000-12-11 Thread Mailing list collection place
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:58:01AM +, Mark Sanchez wrote: > Hi and Good Morning to everybody ! > > When I run 'smbd -D' I get the following message a smbd dies > > > [2000/12/11 10:45:33, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(863) > bind failed on port 139 socket_addr=0.0.0.0 (Address already

Talk does not work after upgrading to woody

2000-12-11 Thread Preben Randhol
I upgraded to woody, and now the talk daemon cannot connect to other talk daemons nor itself. That is I cannot talk to myself on my machine. Has anybody else experienced this? Can this be due to some network setting? Thanks in adnvance -- Preben Randhol -- http://www.pvv.org

Re: help...

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 11 Dec 00, 10:29 AM, Dale Kosan said... > I have installed Debian and now have my network card working,still no sound > but that is not important right now.The problem is my display,when I get into > x my screen is bigger than the monitor and I have to move the mouse to the > left and dow

Re: remote installing debian.

2000-12-11 Thread Chris Gray
> Chris Gray writes: cg> from the person who claims to have sent it. Since you haven't meant s/meant/met/ -- Chris

Re: list codes?

2000-12-11 Thread Rob VanFleet
Since your main question was already answered by several others, I thought I might point you in the direction of a useful site: http://www.acronymfinder.com/ , it hasn't failed me yet. -Rob On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:19:49AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > I know this is not really Debian relate

Re: help...

2000-12-11 Thread Sebastiaan
High, you can switch to different resolutions with ctr+alt+num+ and num-. For using only one resolution check the /etc/X11/XF86Config and check the lines which describes which resolutions you want to use. Greetz, Sebastiaan ps: when something goes wrong, like sync-errors, you can kill the X serv

X: user not authorized to run the X server...

2000-12-11 Thread Dave Bacon
After doing a "general" update using dselect, only the root user has access to the X server. Any other user running "startx" receives the following error message: X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server

Re: turning off icq sounds

2000-12-11 Thread Rob VanFleet
As I remember licq doesn't save its settings automatically. Look around in the menu for a 'Save Settings' or something similar (sorry, it's been a little while since I've used it, so I don't know the exact name) - if you do that after turning off sounds, it should stay that way. -Rob On Mon, Dec

Re: APOLOGY!!!! for my earlier posts about unsubscribing

2000-12-11 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:43:49AM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > ...and let's not forget, if you're an American presidential candidate, > then it's considered quite acceptable to publicly describe someone as "a > major-league A**hole". In fact it probably wouldn't even stop you from > beco

dhcp

2000-12-11 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I have just installed dhcp, but my clients fail to retreive their addres. I am trying to set up a diskless workstation. How can I see if dhcp is running? There is no port opened for it. And is there some way to check if it works, when having only one computer (the compu I want to use is un

Re: Netscape problems

2000-12-11 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 05:46:11PM +0200, Freddy Boy wrote: -| -| -| Hi all ! -| -| -| Maybe someone can help me. I can't start netscape as normal user except one user account. When starting netscape it says 'Bus error'. Any ideas what is wrong? -| Try: Save your ~.netscape/bookmarks.html fi

HOWTO? Set $Socks-ns environmental variable to point at appro name server

2000-12-11 Thread DTi4565459
Get above message on one of my machines with eth0 connection. How to fix?? Thanks in advance, dave

Optra E312 printers (was Re: Setting up a postscript printer)

2000-12-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 09:02:32PM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > > I recently installed the same type of printer and had no problems, but > I didn't use CUPS. I just have the basic lpr and magicfilter packages > installed, and just told magicfilterconfig that I had a 600dpi laser > printer. It ce

Re: autosetting time

2000-12-11 Thread Robert Guthrie
Anybody able to translate and/or respond to this? It just landed in my inbox: Abwesenheitsnotiz: autosetting time From: "Walther, Christoph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zur Zeit bin ich nicht im Hause.  Herr Yaldiz (Tel.: 06151/818-5562) und Herr Grießmann (Tel.: 06151/818-5593)

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