Re: kernel panic

2000-12-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
egads, man. don't reinstall an operating system! don't you have any spare kernels laying around? i always leave myself at least 1 other old kernel. as for vim, try: echo "set textwidth=76" >> $HOME/.vimrc p On Mon 18 Dec 00, 2:07 PM, q said... > debs, > > in one of my dual-boot de

mySQL-server segfault

2000-12-18 Thread Matthew Sackman
Dear all! I have been using Pronto for some time with the mySQL server running without problems, and providing very fast access to my many emails. However, on a recent apt-get dist-upgrade, the newly installed mysql-server refuses to install properly, and when trying to start the mysqld, I get a

Cyrus IMAP config

2000-12-18 Thread Chris Mason
I'm setting up a new server with Potato. My main use for the server is an Imap server. I have installed Exim and the Cyrus POP and IMAP server, common, and admin packages. At this point I am a bit lost configuring the system. Exim is configured for the domain, I installed qpopper and was able to ge

Re: Mutt and group reply

2000-12-18 Thread Rob Hudson
That's great. Thanks. When you turn this on, the 'to_chars' start showing up. I wasn't used to this so I changed those to all be empty: set to_chars = " "; -Rob. | --==( Brian Frederick Kimball said these things on 20001218.1316 )==-- | | Apparently any address in the "alternates" variable

Re: Stupid question

2000-12-18 Thread Matthew Sackman
It generally doesn't matter: so long as you are able to dial up then the other processes take care of themselves. If you use pppconfig to set up the configuration, and remember to add your own account to the configuration then once you dial up, a mail send process will be run, and others: the detai

Re: OT - web browsers

2000-12-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry for the OT, but the only browser I have used in X is Netscape, > up to 4.7x. I really pisses me off that they seem to have eliminated > the Open button. Does Mozilla, Netscape 6, Konqueror, or any of the > other liked browsers have it? Also, anyo

not all packages showing up with "dpkg -l"?

2000-12-18 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
Hello all, Just a quick question: what exactly does "dpkg -l foo" show? Let me explain: of recent, I've noticed that for certain (few) packages if I do "dpkg -l foo" and it produces no matches/output, a subsequent "apt-get install foo" *WILL* find and install the desired package. So if this pack

Re: not all packages showing up with "dpkg -l"?

2000-12-18 Thread Brian May
> "Maciej" == Maciej Kalisiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Maciej> Hello all, Just a quick question: what exactly does "dpkg Maciej> -l foo" show? Maciej> Let me explain: of recent, I've noticed that for certain Maciej> (few) packages if I do "dpkg -l foo" and it produces no

Re: not all packages showing up with "dpkg -l"?

2000-12-18 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Maybe it is because the name of the package is foo_16a, not foo > Maciej> Let me explain: of recent, I've noticed that for certain > Maciej> (few) packages if I do "dpkg -l foo" and it produces no > Maciej> matches/output, a subsequent "apt-get install foo" *WILL* > Maciej> find

Banner server avoidence

2000-12-18 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello list, I saw this in a posting in an Amiga mailing list that I'm still subscribed to: >The first place Genesis looks for anything is in db/hosts, and > if the ad-servers are listed there it will attempt to get the > banners from the address given there. Since there are none, > the banner com

Re: Which IMAP server to use

2000-12-18 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 12:56:53PM -0500, Martin Würtele wrote: > you can also try courier-imap, it uses mailbox format and supports ssl if > openssl is installed. According to http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/: > This IMAP server does NOT handle traditional mailbox files (/var/spool/mail, > and

Modules and kernel upgrades

2000-12-18 Thread dude
Hi all. im not sure where to find this information ive read some of the documetntaion the problem is that when i install and compile a new kernel and then make modules and make modules install everything seems to work, but when i boot up i see a lot of messages about modules not found what

Re: Which IMAP server to use

2000-12-18 Thread Martin Würtele
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 06:05:58PM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 12:56:53PM -0500, Martin Würtele wrote: > > you can also try courier-imap, it uses mailbox format and supports ssl if > > openssl is installed. > > According to http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/: > > > Thi

Re: Banner server avoidence

2000-12-18 Thread Michael Smith
Sure, /etc/hosts. Add something like the following: 127.0.0.1adserver.naughtybannerserver.com Alternatively, you could block out ads using ipchains: ipchains -A input -s adserver.naughtybannerserver.com -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j REJECT Or, you could use junkbuster to filter the traffic. --Mike

Re: Banner server avoidence

2000-12-18 Thread Mike
Lee Elliott wrote: > What happens with this particular package is that there's a local file > linking IP addreses to urls, that is checked before looking for it on > the net, rather like a local DNS. By linking ad/banner server urls to, > say the local IP 127.0.0.1, the look-up fails and is aband

KDE2 on potato

2000-12-18 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hi! Just upgraded KDE2 on a potato machine. Now "startx" or "kdm" don't work claiming: ksplash: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: undefined symbol: getButtonShift__14QPlatinumStyleRiT1 kdeinit: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: undefined symbo

Re: KDE2 on potato

2000-12-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > Hi! > > Just upgraded KDE2 on a potato machine. Now "startx" or "kdm" don't work > claiming: > > ksplash: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: > undefined symbol: getButtonShift__14QPlatinumStyleRiT1 You're probably missing the /usr/lib/libkdec

Mutt and mounted file system via nfs

2000-12-18 Thread Francois Fayard
Hi, I have a problem with mutt and /mnt/mail/fayard with is my mailbox (/usr/mail is mounted via nfs). Mutt can read this mailbox but can't write on it. I don't think it is a permission problem since pine has no problem to write on that file. So my suspection is on mutt. Does anyone has this prob

knapster static

2000-12-18 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
Howdee, i need knapster, but knapster is based on kde1, so i can´t use/compile it since i use kde2. may anyone of you make a static binary for me? that woud be a very nice xmas gift ;-) thanx, Patrick

How to remove 'helix' packages?

2000-12-18 Thread mikpolniak
In attempting to compile the 'gimp-print' plugin for use as a printer driver it appears that the 'helix' version of gimp that i installed is preventing me from installing some needed dev-libs. Has anyone removed 'helix' pkg-versions (task-helix-core + task-helix-gnome) without bre

Oracle

2000-12-18 Thread Eric Langager
Title: Oracle Greetings, We are currently in the process of setting up the curriculum for teaching the Oracle database system here at the University of Advancing Computer Technology.  I feel that it would be a good idea to teach Oracle administration on some sort of UNIX platform, and I a

Re: Debian 2.2: download stops during "apt-get update"

2000-12-18 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 10:56:35PM -0700, Jeff Kelm wrote: > I still haven't been able to get 2.2 to network properly. A suggestion > was a possible hardware problem. I don't see how this would explain > the problem. If I boot off the harddrive with Debian 1.3, everything > works fine. Booting

Re: The Debian way (kernel)

2000-12-18 Thread Jonathan Gift
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:58:35AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > As to your question, what you're looking for is the kernel-package > package. So > apt-get install kernel-package > cd /usr/share/doc/kernel-package > zcat README.gz|less I've compiled my default kernel num

Re: Mutt and mounted file system via nfs

2000-12-18 Thread Henry House
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 06:47:49PM -0500, Francois Fayard wrote: > I have a problem with mutt and /mnt/mail/fayard with is my mailbox > (/usr/mail is mounted via nfs). Mutt can read this mailbox but can't write > on it. I don't think it is a permission problem since pine has no problem > to write o

Re: PS Kill File

2000-12-18 Thread Jonathan Gift
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:48:58AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > Of course you'll want to be pretty careful with rules like this. If > you're not careful you might dump something of interest. Personally I > keep a separate file for Spam storage which I occasionally check and > clear. So my spam

Re: The Debian way (kernel)

2000-12-18 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Jonathan Gift wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:58:35AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > > > As to your question, what you're looking for is the kernel-package > > package. So > > apt-get install kernel-package > > cd /usr/share/doc/kernel-package > > zcat README.gz|less >

mc keeps reverting to sort by "Modify time"

2000-12-18 Thread Scott V. McGuire
I have installed helix gnome on my potato system. This has given me mc version 4.5.51-helix3. For some reason my sort order seems strangely attracted to "Modify time". I can change it to "Name" and it will stay that way even after exiting and starting again later. But, after logging out and rebo

Problems with Matlab 6.0 (R12) on potato

2000-12-18 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
[ Please CC me on replies.] At work, and on a computer which runs Debian 2.2, I upgraded Matlab today. The new Matlan version just some Java issues, which are probably libc6 interaction issues -- in fact, Matlab dies with a seg fault and leaves a java.log.PID logfile. The Java runtime environment

Re: Banner server avoidence

2000-12-18 Thread kmself
on Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:59:11PM +, Lee Elliott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello list, > > I saw this in a posting in an Amiga mailing list that I'm still > subscribed to: > > >The first place Genesis looks for anything is in db/hosts, and > > if the ad-servers are listed there it will at

downgrading to potato

2000-12-18 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
Hi. I would like to know how to downgrade the whole distribution from woody to potato. I am entering a period in which I will have to use the computer constantly and I don't want to have any problems with the new upgrades. So I would like to stick to the stable distribution. Is there any p

Re: Banner server avoidence

2000-12-18 Thread John Hasler
Lee Elliott writes: > I saw this in a posting in an Amiga mailing list that I'm still > subscribed to: > > >The first place Genesis looks for anything is in db/hosts, and > > if the ad-servers are listed there it will attempt to get the > > banners from the address given there. Since there are non

Re: downgrading to potato

2000-12-18 Thread Debian Ghost
You just change your sources in /etc/apt/sources.list to potato stable: deb ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non

Installing Debian Potato with ReiserFS on a laptop (take 1)

2000-12-18 Thread Chris Fearnley
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Installing Debian GNU/Linux on a laptop with ReiserFS When: Wednesday 20 December 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM

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.scr files

2000-12-18 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Does anyone know what a .scr file is? Have received several attachments with varios names. latest is midget.scr .. have no idea as I don't know the extention. Is this some type of virus? tia -- Jaye Inabnit, ARS ke6sls e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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