Re: everything except for ping in IPmasq

2000-12-16 Thread Nate Amsden
David Purton wrote: > > Hi I've sort of got ip masqerading working now, in that I can browse the > web, ssh and ftp, etc from masqed machines, but ping does not work :( > > this was a hassle beacause I was using ping to test and it took me some > time to realise that anything was happening at all

strange fonts problem with X4

2000-12-16 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
I'm running woody (kernel 2.2.17) on a laptop with a Neomagic graphic card. Since the upgrade to X4 almost one month ago I am having the following problem, which has not disappeared with the last upgrades. When I use X4 some fonts are not properly displayed (e.g. some of the fonts in netscape, a

Re: About crontab

2000-12-16 Thread Erik Steffl
uland wrote: > > Hi, > I want to submit a job to crontab, and follow the "new" format > such as: > m h dom mon dow user command > 0 12 * * * someone /bin/somecommand > But it does not work for me. I find some message in syslog: > Dec 14 12:00:00 omega /USR/SBIN/CRON[11215]: (someone) CMD > (so

Re: How do I move a filesystem

2000-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
"cp -a" has always worked for me. tar would also work. i think cpio and dd would also. anything that preserves permissions, file ownership, and links should be OK. pete On Fri 15 Dec 00, 7:42 PM, Denzil Kelly said... > How do I go about moving my entire filesystem to > larger hard drive? >

SBLive+CreativeSource==BadMixer?

2000-12-16 Thread John Travis
I was just curious as to whether or not anyone has experienced this. First of all I'm runny woody and 2.4-test9. I like to use the source from creative becuase it provides a few extra channels in the mixer than the kernel source. But anything after about 10-01-2000 presents a strange problem

Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian

2000-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
d-man, you might want to set your wrapmargin a bit shorter. anyway, i just installed potato on my girlfriend's perario. it's a piece-of-shit computer that i wouldn't force feed to my dog, but it's not SO evil that bios flashes when it sees linux. i find that VERY hard to believe; almost absurd.

security question: running a public ftp server

2000-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i'm playing around with putting up a public ftp server on my woody box. i know that ftp has its security problems; in fact, the beowulf cluster i managed at school was broken into via a wuftpd vulnerability. can someone point me to documentation specifically aimed at beefing up securit

Blackdown Java on Debian

2000-12-16 Thread Tino Ionescu
Hello , Looking for a java debugger available on Linux I found at this site http://www.bluemarsh.com/java/jswat/ a debugger. Now , it uses *.jar file. If my understanding is correct, all java distributions available on Linux have JDPA enabled. With classpath correct set when I try: "java -jar

Re: SBLive+CreativeSource==BadMixer?

2000-12-16 Thread John Travis
Actually I just tried the latest snapshot and it should be a SigmaTel not a PCI Tel. A SigmaTel STAC9721/23 to be exact ;). jt

interesting xmcd conundrum

2000-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hello all, when i run xmcd, it reports: xmcd Fatal Error: Xmcd binary permissions error: It should be setuid root. Please have your system administrator correct this. even though: % ll /usr/bin/xmcd -rwsr-sr-x1 root root 1223 Nov 21 20:43

Re: OT - web browsers

2000-12-16 Thread Ken Weingold
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > > - middle click on link opens link in new window (in netscape browser, > email, newsgroups) > > - clicking on wheel (leftmost) button on the status bar > sort-of-toolbar opens new netscape window > > the second one might be what you want. or am I

apm

2000-12-16 Thread Glyn Millington
Good morning. In a fit of folly last night I recompiled my 2.2.17 potato kernel. Great - a lean mean kernel that boots up like lightning, but no apm :-( By no apm I mean that the machine will not power-off at the end of a "shutdown -h now" I've never persuaded it to do more than that! But that m

Netscape open button

2000-12-16 Thread Ken Weingold
FYI: here it is from 3.02 for the Mac. The buttons were the same on all versions. -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

Re: ssh: localhost: Temporary failure in name resolution

2000-12-16 Thread Andre Berger
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > on Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:36:17AM +0100, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I get "ssh: localhost: Temporary failure in name resolution" with > > > > ssh_1%3a2.2.0p1-1.1progeny1_i386.deb > > ssh-askpass-gnome_1%3a2.2.0p1-1.1progeny1_i386.deb > > > > bu

Re: xdm takes so long to start [was Re: New X Server crashes]

2000-12-16 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Freitag, 15. Dezember 2000 18:38 schrieb Erik Steffl: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Shao Zhang wrote: > > > xdm on my machine(laptop) takes about 50 seconds to start. > > > > > > If no one knows why, then I am going to fire up a bug report against > > > it. > > > > I've already tracked down this bug an

Re: About crontab

2000-12-16 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:22:17PM +, uland wrote: > Hi, > I want to submit a job to crontab, and follow the "new" format > such as: > m h dom mon dow user command > 0 12 * * * someone /bin/somecommand > But it does not work for me. I find some message in syslog: > Dec 14 12:00:00 omega /U

Unidentified subject!

2000-12-16 Thread Arthur Denisov
The author of this letter the student, citizen of Russia. I am addressed(paid) to you as to the kind, sympathetic man and I hope, that you can help the student requiring in money to training and habitation. Very much I ask to send me on the bank account in Russia: SABRRUMMMJ1 SAVINGS BANK OF THE

Perl 5.6

2000-12-16 Thread Peczoli Zoltan
Hi all, I've read in the newsletter that there were issues with the perl 5.6 update. Is it safe now to update? (i'm already using woody, last updated in autumn, september or so) My system is running several servers (apache, ftp, and so on...) and it would be a disaster if any of these stopped, w

DRIVERS

2000-12-16 Thread MICHAËL DERCHE
Salut,       J'ai un petit soucis, mon installation est foutu. Pourriez-vous me fournir les drivers?   Renercie. A+

Re: Signal 11 when using 'ps'

2000-12-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Chris Gray wrote: > Thanks for helping Chris. > > Ed Cogburn writes: > > ec> Athlon "Thunderbird" CPU, 1Ghz > > You lucky bastard. You don't want to know what a 1Ghz Athlon plus an Ultra160 SCSI drive can do for kernel compiles! By the time you're back from

Re: DRIVERS

2000-12-16 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I think you have a better chance for responds when you post here in English. In my broken French, I understand that you are looking for drivers. Which drivers? What does not work? Did Debian install correctly or was it broken. You need to be more specific. Salut, Sebastiaan On Sat, 16 Dec

Re: exim

2000-12-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hi, i fear this one is behond me:( there are two things that to my knowledge shouldn't be there if you're using the fetchmailrc I think you're using. I'll point to these two point below. I think you have in ~/.procmailrc something like: set postmaster "tony" set bouncemail set properties ""

Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian

2000-12-16 Thread JoshNarins
Since so many people are harping on them, I got a Compaq Presario 7478 with an extra 64MB (tot 128) and a Voodoo3 for < 1100USD. AMD K-6 II 500 30 Gig HD CD-RW DVD-R floppy 2 ISA, 4 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 USB decent keyboard Debian noticed both CD-RW and DVD-R right away. Red Hat only noticed one of them.

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-12-16 Thread Andre Berger
"Arthur Denisov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The author of this letter the student, citizen of Russia. I am > addressed(paid) to you as to the kind, sympathetic man and I hope, that you > can help the student requiring in money to training and habitation. Very much > I ask to send me on the b

Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian

2000-12-16 Thread dude
I have a compaq Presario 1700. Have a dual boot system of win98/Debian woody, but have to admit that while red hat installed and ran beutifuully on it, it was much harder to install potato on it. (because i had to figure out how to configure everything which was hard but did help me learn) b

Re: Messaggio

2000-12-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 09:10:51PM -0500, A R wrote: > Gerardo wrote: > > > Potrei gentilmente sapere se esiste un sito dove posso scaricare linux > > in floppy disk.Grazie anticipatamente.Gerardo > > I don't think you can get it on a floppy. Too big. > Yo no creo que quepa en un flopy. Demasiado

Re: OT - web browsers

2000-12-16 Thread D-Man
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 03:52:15 Ken Weingold wrote: | | Yeah, I think you are. I am talking about copying a URL from a | terminal window or even the web browser itself. Open a new browser | window and you still have text in the Location bar. | I don't have this problem : I set it to open a

Re: Debian checks filesystems at every boot

2000-12-16 Thread Martin Albert
> > > > on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:35:28PM +0100, Nico De Ranter ([EMAIL > > > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > 2.2 cd's. However with the new PC every time I boot Linux will > > > > > complain the filesystems weren't properly unmounted and will do > > > > > a full check of the filesystems. I do o

Re: I'm Confused with SBLive!

2000-12-16 Thread Martin Albert
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Javier Sieben wrote: > Hi! > > I tried to install the emu10k1 module from ALSA. Having any troubles with > it, I deinstalled it. When I read that the final kernel (version 2.2.17) > had these module in it, I download, compile and install it with the modules. > But I can't use

Re: how to fake from address in an email

2000-12-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Carel Fellinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:39:08PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > ... > > If they're using exim it's just a matter of adding a an appropriate > > rewrite rule, no need to worry about relaying or anything like that. I > > think that when you install exi

Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian

2000-12-16 Thread D-Man
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 03:04:09 Peter Jay Salzman wrote: | d-man, you might want to set your wrapmargin a bit shorter. What is the preferred size? I had it at 80, this time it's 70. :-) | as for lilo, you can have two devices on each ide chain. i assume | you have | windows on one hd and li

Re: Messaggio

2000-12-16 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
If the person speaks brazilian (portuguese), they will understand the given spanish answer. I believe the man spoke in "italiano". Carel Fellinger wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 09:10:51PM -0500, A R wrote: > > Gerardo wrote: > > > > > Potrei gentilmente sapere se esiste un sito dove posso sc

Re: how to fake from address in an email

2000-12-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 07:06:07AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Carel Fellinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > > I always wondered how this works. Can you still deliver mail in your > > local domain, say if you do: mutt -s hallo glhenni > would you get that mail, or would it first be sent to

Re:exim (probably broken thread)

2000-12-16 Thread A R
Quote next *** To check this I think someone proposed to you earlier on in this thread to check whether you could connect to exim locally with this: $ telnet localhost smtp which should give output like: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Esca

Exim question

2000-12-16 Thread Steve Barr
Are there any applications/scripts that build a usage graph of messages processed by EXIM? I currently run Webalizer on my Apache log, and I run eximstats to generate a text based E-mail that shows messages received and delivered messages. I am hoping to find something that will read the log and

Re: Printing to legal paper (urgent help needed)

2000-12-16 Thread Arcady Genkin
Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ag> psnup -plegal -Pletter -10 report.ps /tmp/rep10.ps > > First of all, have you tried it without the -Pletter in there? Yes, I put it in there later in hope that it would make a difference. > There's not too much output from "apropos paper" -- yo

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

2000-12-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 09:36:53AM -0500, A R wrote: ... > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet localhost smtp > Trying 127.0.0.1... > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ okee, this probably means that your /etc/inetd.conf got hoosed, unless you are running e

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread Jens Gecius
Jens Gecius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi folks! > > This time I really need help on short term. > > After my last dist-upgrade tonight mysql-server is broken. It always > gets an error in the postinst script. I tried to get it manually to > work, I tried to dpkg -i the old version (my curren

Kernel compiling on Debian

2000-12-16 Thread Hall Stevenson
What is the "debian way" of compiling a kernel ?? I've read mentions of using something like "kernel-pkg" or similar. Can someone point to a website with details ?? Or, can I simply download the kernel source and do it the way I've always done it with "lesser" distros ;-) ?? Thanks in advance Hall

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

2000-12-16 Thread A R
Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 09:36:53AM -0500, A R wrote: > ... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet localhost smtp > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > okee, this probably means that your /etc/inetd.co

Re: Different types of filesystems (was: Re: small blocks or more inodes?)

2000-12-16 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Dec 13 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Note, though, that ext2fs' linear directory searching makes it a > > poor choice for anything involving large numbers of entries in a > > single directory. ... > > BTW, the "right" solution to thousands

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

2000-12-16 Thread A R
A R wrote: I did it, now look what's coming: > Before trying fetchmail again, I am going to close netscape to avoid conflict. > I have messenger set to retrieve every minute. So I will report back in a few > minutes. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/pruebas$ telnet localhost smtp > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Co

Re: Kernel compiling on Debian

2000-12-16 Thread Hall Stevenson
Is this part of "kernel-package" ?? I just looked at it in aptitude and it does appear so. Reason I want to recompile is that vmlinuz is over 1mb in size, so it apparently has a lot compiled in, instead of modules. My older, customer kernels were usually less than 500k. I see on bootup, or via

Re: interesting xmcd conundrum

2000-12-16 Thread Chris Gray
> Peter Jay Salzman writes: pjs> hello all, pjs> when i run xmcd, it reports: pjs>xmcd Fatal Error: Xmcd binary permissions error: It pjs>should be setuid root. Please have your system pjs>administrator correct this. pjs> even though: pjs>

Re: Konqueror in GNOME, no response to Save Yourself

2000-12-16 Thread Manegold
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 04:06:11PM -0500, Anderson, Tim TL33E wrote: > > Hi, > > I run the Konqueror browser from KDE2 on a GNOME desktop, and it > > seems to work OK (as I expected). A minute or so after startup I get an > > error saying 'No respons

Re: Terminals/dim screens = use bold everywhere but dselect is...dim

2000-12-16 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: S Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Do color monitors die after four years? The boot messages are barely > visible; seems they've gotten worse over two months since I installed > Debian 2.2. I've got the monitor buttons for brightness and contrast > at maximum ... For your next monitor, make

Re: Where do I go from here? was: HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?

2000-12-16 Thread Kent West
Dan Griswold wrote: Seeing as my thread has peetered out, I was wondering if anybody had any ideas of where else I might ask the question. I have searched on Google and Northernlight, and none of the information retrieved there has gone beyond the good suggestions offered here. For those new to

Re: gs error - i can't view postscript files

2000-12-16 Thread Timmy Douglas
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Timmy Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> when i try to open a .ps file with gv or gs, i get this error: > >Is this with gs or gs-aladdin? > >gs-aladdin install >gs-aladdin-manual-deinstall

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

2000-12-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:28:03AM -0500, A R wrote: ... > I did it, now look what's coming: > Before trying fetchmail again, I am going to close netscape to avoid conflict. > I have messenger set to retrieve every minute. So I will report back in a few > minutes. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/pruebas$

Kernel panic

2000-12-16 Thread Clayton Stapleton
"Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:43" when starting SuSe 6.4 distro on a second hard drive. This happened after I tried to copy a file from the first hard drive to the second. I was following the directions in the Hard-Drive Upgrade mini Howto. This is what I did on the first har

Re: Where do I go from here? was: HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?

2000-12-16 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Dan Griswold wrote: Seeing as my thread has peetered out, I was wondering if anybody had any ideas of where else I might ask the question. I have searched on Google and Northernlight, and none of the information retrieved there has gone beyond the good suggestions offered here

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

2000-12-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:38:11AM -0500, A R wrote: ... > It is working god now, I was able to fetch it, and read it from the first > time. I suppose that next comes tying it to mutt, emacs, or whatever there. > Any > ideas, pointers, suggestions? Thanks again, Carel. > Tony. If fetchmail/ex

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread sena
On 16/12/2000 at 10:01 -0500, Jens Gecius wrote: > I found out, that mysqld is always seg-faulting. Even if I downgrade > via dpkg to 3.23.28-1 (this happened after upgrade to -7, actually, > package this was caused (everything else at that dist-upgrade went > well). > This is a known bug. There

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread sena
On 16/12/2000 at 17:02 +, sena wrote: > This is a known bug. There are two ways to solve it: > - Up/Downgrade to mysql-server 3.23.28-6 (which is working) or > - Edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf and comment this line: > skip-networking > ...it shouldn't segfault now... >

Installing xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-11.deb fails...

2000-12-16 Thread Thomas Besser
Hi all, I don't know, why I can't install this package on my debian (basicly potato and woody for kde2) and if it is a problem of my system or of the package?! All of the necessary and up-to-date packages are installed. On finally installing the xserver-xfree86 following error message appears:

w problems

2000-12-16 Thread Terry Warner
I have 4 machines running debian, 3 of them all have the same domain name (nuthouse.org) now one of them is the main www.nuthouse.org, and the other 2 are just hosts. On the nuthouse server when I ssh in from one of the other hosts, only the IP shows up in a w, yet it resolves fine in a nslooku

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread Jens Gecius
sena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is a known bug. There are two ways to solve it: > > - Up/Downgrade to mysql-server 3.23.28-6 (which is working) or > > - Edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf and comment this line: > > skip-networking > > ...it shouldn't segfault now... > > >

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread Randy Edwards
> Actually, the postinst doesn't go through and I ran into that on my laptop. I found that purging the package (make sure you don't have it set to kill your databases!) and a clean reinstall it would install perfectly. Not a slick solution, but a working one... -- Regards,

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

2000-12-16 Thread ktb
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:38:11AM -0500, A R wrote: > A R wrote: I did it, now look what's coming: > > > Before trying fetchmail again, I am going to close netscape to avoid > > conflict. > > I have messenger set to retrieve every minute. So I will report back in a > > few > > minutes. > > > >

mailagent question

2000-12-16 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! (May *very* well be a fscking stupid question) I can´t get mailagent to forward or bounce any mail. My latest try looks like: Content-Type: /application.*octet.*stream.*/i {BOUNCE [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Out of the man-page this should work, but mailagent simply ignores it... (If anyone has w

Re: remote management

2000-12-16 Thread Dave Thayer
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 09:49:36AM -0500, Bill White wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:32:08 EST, "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Opined: > > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:51:30PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > > :> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:31:57PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > > :> :I am managing

Re: mailagent question

2000-12-16 Thread D-Man
I don't know anything about mailagent, but I use procmail (in a very simple way). Here's a much shorter introduction than the man pages give: my procmailrc file looks like: :0: * ex: # debian-user :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists/debian-user You can also replace the with an e-mail address t

Re: security question: running a public ftp server

2000-12-16 Thread Henry House
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:09:22AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > can someone point me to documentation specifically aimed at beefing up > security of ftp and apache? everything is behind an LRP (linux router > project) firewall, so i'm pretty secure otherwise. i let hardly anything in > or o

Re: mailagent question

2000-12-16 Thread Robert Waldner
Thanks, but I have 2 difficulties: -there isn´t any procmail installed on this particular machine and I don´t have root-access -my (mailagent-) rules are a little over 700, so I won´t rewrite them by hand when it´s not really, really, really necessary ;-) TIA, &rw On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 12:45:02

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread Jens Gecius
Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Actually, the postinst doesn't go through and > >I ran into that on my laptop. I found that purging the package (make > sure you don't have it set to kill your databases!) and a clean reinstall > it would install perfectly. Not a slick solution

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

2000-12-16 Thread A R
> Forgive me my curiousity, but are those glitches we saw before in the > fetchmail log (fetchmail: rejected..., & fetchmail: no local matches...) > still there? And if not, did you change anything to your fetchmailrc? > > -- > groetjes, carel > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

2000-12-16 Thread A R
> > > If fetchmail/exim is working properly your mails get stored locally in > /var/mail/tony (or /var/spool/mail/tony which is really the same file > as /var/spool/mail is linked to /var/mail). Traditional unix programs > like mail and mutt and... look there to get at your mail per default, > so

Re: Kernel compiling on Debian

2000-12-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
Correct. Install kernel-package and take a look at /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz. There is a recommendation there to use an epoch when creating your package, which will prevent it from being overwritten during an upgrade. For your question regarding CD-Writing, I would recommend that y

2 linksys NICs

2000-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi guys. I just put 2 Linksys NICs in a Slink box that I'm going to upgrade if I can get them working. It's going to be my gateway. Now, the docs say to use the tulip driver, but I just get a "device or resource busy" error from that indicating it's the wrong driver. So, I tried a modprobe -t o

Unidentified subject!

2000-12-16 Thread sgeffro
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Re: 2 linksys NICs

2000-12-16 Thread David Bellows
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > Hi guys. I just put 2 Linksys NICs in a Slink box that I'm going to > upgrade if I can get them working. It's going to be my gateway. Now, the docs > say to use the tulip driver, but I just get a "device or resource busy" error > from that indicating it's the wr

Re: remote management

2000-12-16 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 08:58:36AM +0100, Leen Besselink wrote: > > Would this be a dial-in connection to the computer to manage it? What I > > need is > > to manage the computer remoteley all the way back to the lilo prompt. Are > > there > > Withut special hardware it's impossible to get to

Debian Potato --> Woody on a reiserfs + devfs micro-HOWTO

2000-12-16 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Here's how I installed a Debian Woody workstation that's got a Reiserfs filesystem. Wow! It makes `dpkg' a lot quicker, at least subjectively. (Though other factors may be involved; it is a snappier machine than the one I use at home. YMMV) The Debian potato installer does not support Re

Re: 2 linksys NICs

2000-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:22:24PM -0500, David Bellows wrote: > > I have the same card. The tulip drivers that come with kernel don't > work for me either and I tried several different kernel versions. My > Linksys actually came with a Linux driver floppy. The driver was called > tulip. I com

Re: 2 linksys NICs

2000-12-16 Thread David Bellows
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > Actually, I went to the linksys site, and I followed their incorrect > instructions that don't quite lead you to all the headers you need, and I'm > getting a compile error from the latest tulip source. > > I got it from here: > > ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/ne

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread Jens Gecius
Jens Gecius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Actually, the postinst doesn't go through and > > > >I ran into that on my laptop. I found that purging the package (make > > sure you don't have it set to kill your databases!) and a clean reinstal

Re: 2 linksys NICs

2000-12-16 Thread Juan Fuentes
* Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Actually, I went to the linksys site, and I followed their incorrect > instructions that don't quite lead you to all the headers you need, and I'm > getting a compile error from the latest tulip source. > > I got it from here: > > ftp://

Making-Debian-Packages-HOWTO

2000-12-16 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
Hey folks, is there any HOWTO or other good instruction for creating deb-packages? Patrick

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

2000-12-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 01:29:29PM -0500, A R wrote: ... > Well, it seems that there are some glitches yet: I've looked again at my own fetchmailrc file, and low and behold I appear to use an extra option:) Just add "no dns" to your poll postoffice...line and those glitches should be gone. I thin

Re: interesting xmcd conundrum

2000-12-16 Thread Eric G . Miller
Are you a member of the group "audio"? -- Eric G. Miller

Re: OT - web browsers

2000-12-16 Thread John Carline
Ken Weingold wrote: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > - middle click on link opens link in new window (in netscape browser, > > email, newsgroups) > > > > - clicking on wheel (leftmost) button on the status bar > > sort-of-toolbar opens new netscape window > > > > the second

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread Randy Edwards
> Tried that, too. Still segfaulting and postinst doesn't work. Sorry, I forgot to mention my entire procedure. Here's exactly what I did: 1) I purged mysql-server. 2) This of course, left my /var/lib/mysql subdirectory intact. I then moved /var/lib/mysql to something like /var/lib/mysql.g

Re: interesting xmcd conundrum

2000-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
yup. i racked my brains on this; i sent in a bug report. it happened right after woody was updated, so it prolly had something to do with that... p On Sat 16 Dec 00, 12:32 PM, Eric G . Miller said... > Are you a member of the group "audio"? > > -- > Eric G. Miller > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Making-Debian-Packages-HOWTO

2000-12-16 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Patrick! Patrick Schnorbus schrieb am Samstag, dem 16. Dezember 2000: > Hey folks, > > is there any HOWTO or other good instruction for creating deb-packages? Check out the info on http://www.debian.org/devel/>. You might be interested in the stuff below "Packaging Information" esp. the "New

Re: interesting xmcd conundrum

2000-12-16 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:32:26PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > Are you a member of the group "audio"? Actually, I should've asked: Are you a member of the group "cdrom" and does the drive device that represents your cdrom have perms root.cdrom ? -- Eric G. Miller

Re: Making-Debian-Packages-HOWTO

2000-12-16 Thread Chris Gray
> Patrick Schnorbus writes: ps> Hey folks, ps> is there any HOWTO or other good instruction for creating ps> deb-packages? $ apt-get install maint-guide $ netscape /usr/share/doc/maint-guide/maint-guide.html/index.html ps> Patrick -- Chris

Re: Restore the STATUS file

2000-12-16 Thread John Carline
Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi all, > > As i said, i'm new to debian. I tried lots of things. I have done lots of > shit with dselect. I don't have a clue what "tried lots of things" or "done lots of shit" means, but was one of the "done lots of shit" things reading the help pages of dselect whi

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

2000-12-16 Thread A R
> Just to still my curiousity could you first try once more without this > "no dns" thingy,but with a longer aka list: > > aka mtiwgwc21.worldnet.att.net worldnet.att.net ... I did it, next my session: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail -v -v fetchmail: 5.3.3 querying postoffice.worldnet.att.net (pr

Building a KDE1 application

2000-12-16 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
thanx for your fast response on my last question, but theres one more. I need to compile a KDE1 program. Since my system is KDE2/qt2.2.3 based, there aren´t any qt1.4x nor kde1 libs and headers. So i got qt1.45 from trolltech as source and compiled it - fine. But it seems to me that there isn´t a

Re: Restore the STATUS file

2000-12-16 Thread Debian User
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Re: Printing to legal paper (urgent help needed)

2000-12-16 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 09:55:33AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ag> psnup -plegal -Pletter -10 report.ps /tmp/rep10.ps > > > > First of all, have you tried it without the -Pletter in there? > > Yes, I put it in there later in hope that it would

fetchmaiconf

2000-12-16 Thread chiappa
Hi! running fetchailconf 1.23 with the "novice configuration" I get the following output when I test fetchmail (always from inside fetchmailconf) fetchmail:/home/chiappa/.fetchmailrc:7: parse error at = Done. I will appreciate very much any help. Regards, Marcelo

Re: ssh: localhost: Temporary failure in name resolution

2000-12-16 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:41:05AM +0100, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > > > on Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:36:17AM +0100, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > I get "ssh: localhost: Temporary failure in name resolution" with > > > > > > ssh_1%

exim configuration

2000-12-16 Thread Jesse Goerz
I'm trying to setup a server on my home network and I need some advice on how to setup exim. Here's my network config: One Debian server, one debian workstation, fiance's winbox. I use a 56k modem to connect to the internet. (Currently only 3 users, root, me, and fiance) I'm trying to keep al

Re: How do I move a filesystem

2000-12-16 Thread kmself
on Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 07:42:02PM -0800, Denzil Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Tell it you think it's beautiful, you love it, you want it to bear your children, and provide it with a large diamond ring. It will be moved. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evangelist, Zel

Re: exim configuration

2000-12-16 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I'm trying to setup a server on my home network and I need some advice > on how to setup exim. Sample config: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/exim.conf > Here's my network config: > One

Re: Abwesenheitsnotiz: exim configuration

2000-12-16 Thread Jesse Goerz
Mein Name ist Deutsch aber Ich spreche nur ein bischen. Nicht genug fur diese Gesprachsstoff. Es tut mir leid. Jesse On Saturday 16 December 2000 17:30, Walther, Christoph wrote: > Zur Zeit bin ich nicht im Hause. > Herr Yaldiz (Tel.: 06151/818-5562) und Herr Grießmann (Tel.: > 06151/818-5593

Packages sorted by group

2000-12-16 Thread Rudi Borth
Debian packages are listed alphabetically in indices/Packages-Master-i386.gz available from . About two dozen groups of packages are defined in . Question: Is there a file showing packages grouped under those

Re: Abwesenheitsnotiz: exim configuration

2000-12-16 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Jesse! On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Jesse Goerz wrote: > On Saturday 16 December 2000 17:30, Walther, Christoph wrote: > > Zur Zeit bin ich nicht im Hause. > > Herr Yaldiz (Tel.: 06151/818-5562) und Herr Grießmann (Tel.: > > 06151/818-5593) werden mich während meiner Abwesenheit vertreten. > > > > C

Re: 2 linksys NICs

2000-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 04:12:19PM -0500, Juan Fuentes wrote: > Hi Mike i had a problem with modversion.h not being found, is this part of > your problem? There is another issue, and that is that IIRC, the kernel Actually, it turns out that the sourcecode was kept on a vfat system, so it was

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