Re: Help on strategy for debian install needed

2001-02-10 Thread kmself
on Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 09:40:59AM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > I would suggest that you DON'T install everything :) Yes, you have the > room, and probably the box, but are you prepared to config many many new > applications, many of which you wil

Re: Using different sources.list (temporarily)

2001-02-10 Thread kmself
on Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:28:27PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I thought this should work, but doesn't: > > sudo apt-get -o Etc::sourcelist=/etc/apt/sources.list.unstable update > > What am I doing wrong? Dunno. But as an alternative: symlinks to a number

Re: etho: card reports no resources. (potato)

2001-02-10 Thread John Galt
You aren't alone. Try another kernel. Some kernels do that less than others: I don't know why. On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Stan Brown wrote: >I have sudddenly started geting a slew of these on the console > >The cars is a Intel Etherexpress Pro100 > >What's going on? > > -- I can be immature if I wa

Re: Using different sources.list (temporarily)

2001-02-10 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 06:23:38PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: :on Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:28:27PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: :> I thought this should work, but doesn't: :> :> sudo apt-get -o Etc::sourcelist=/etc/apt/sources.list.unstable update :> :> What am I

Re: application for website offline viewing

2001-02-10 Thread kmself
on Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 07:16:20PM -, john smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi, > can someone recommend an application that could copy an entire given website > for offline viewing..with features like the history button on ie/netscape > wherein the directory heirarchy is preserved, with dat

Re: dpkg force options

2001-02-10 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Pollywog wrote: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:21:12 -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball said: > > Use --force-depends, not --force-conflicts. > > > > Or better yet, don't install an out-of-date package that is about to > > be removed from testing and unstable. If you want the latest netscape > > 4 (4

Re: Network problem on dell optiplex GX115 3C905C

2001-02-10 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Manuel - If "ifconfig" output is correct, the next thing you should work on is "route". - Jim Van Zandt btw: you should have posted the output from "ifconfig". >Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 21:04:15 +0100 >From: Manuel Segura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Organization: ESCPI - CNAM > >He

Re: X woes....

2001-02-10 Thread kmself
on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:37:13PM -0500, Dale Kosan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a quick question, while trying to install Debian 2.2r2 on my Toshiba > Satellite I get as far as X set-up and get "video card not supported" I > checked to see wich version comes with the above release and it i

Re: Sig 11 in X4.02 using Matrox G450

2001-02-10 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Damon Muller, > Quoth Frederik Vanrenterghem, > > This is a link to the Matrox linux users forum. In this forum, you'll find > > many questions regarding the G450 and X4.02. Essentially, it seems to boil > > down to this: sorry, it doesn't work very well yet, wait for a driver > > update. >

Re: Keyboard (how to ping others)

2001-02-10 Thread DSC Lithuania
Okay, you have to look at a file named something like hosts in the directory etc. /etc/hosts See if it is there. That file then needs to define all of the other systems along with names. So first, you need a "local only" IP address for your network. This should be 192.168.x.y , where x can be

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-10 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Erik Steffl wrote: > > "Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote: > > > > Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:01:39PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > > > > > > >> Section "Files" > > > > >> RgbPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" > > > > >> FontPath "unix/:7101" > > > > >

alsa sound

2001-02-10 Thread Alan Chandler
I have an sb-live sound card and I am having trouble getting sound to work. I have installed (from unstable) alsa-base, alsa-modules-2.2.18pre21 (and kernel-image-2.2.18pre21), alsa-utils, libsound1, but in order for anything to work I seem to have had to manually add lines into /etc/modules for s

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-10 Thread Erik Steffl
"Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote: > > Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > "Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote: > > > > > > Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:01:39PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >> Section "Files" > > > > > >> RgbPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" > > > >

netstat masquerade

2001-02-10 Thread Livia Admin
Hello Debian users, How do I view netstat's masquerade options? I'm using 2.4.1 kernel and iptables for masquerading but when I tried 'netstat -M' ... $ netstat -M netstat: no support for 'ip_masquerade' on this system. $ pls help :)

Re: New sshd exploits...

2001-02-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 08:49:20PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 04:33:25PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > :there was a ssh update to stable yesterday with the following fixes: > : > :openssh (1:1.2.3-9.2) stable; urgency=high > : > : * Non-maintainer upload by Securi

Re: Using different sources.list (temporarily)

2001-02-10 Thread Igor Mozetic
> I thought this should work, but doesn't: > > sudo apt-get -o Etc::sourcelist=/etc/apt/sources.list.unstable update > Try apt-get -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/etc/apt/sources.list.whatever -Igor Mozetic

ssh version ?

2001-02-10 Thread Bram Dumolin
hello, I was wondering what the deal is with the version of ssh. 1.2.3-9.2 is the latest version shipped with Debian. But the original sources say : 2.3.0p1 Can someone enlighten me on this? -- /bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] People using html in email should be shot. By US Code Title 47, Sec

Re: Using different sources.list (temporarily)

2001-02-10 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 11:50:30AM +0100, Igor Mozetic wrote: :Try apt-get -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/etc/apt/sources.list.whatever : :-Igor Mozetic Eureka! Thanks, Jon

bind troubles

2001-02-10 Thread A. Demarteau \(linux rules!\)
hi, I just upgraded me bind package in potato to the version including security-fixes. However, now the files I provide for local (nonqualified) domains for the localnet don't work anymore. Evevnso, on a box behind the firewall on the localnet a query returns this: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ nslooku

Testing: Please disregard

2001-02-10 Thread USM Bish

Re: Cardmngr

2001-02-10 Thread Bud Rogers
On Monday 11 December 2000 21:42, dude wrote: > i read the pCMCIA HOWTO and it says something about if cardmngr hangs > you need to changea CORE_OPTS but i jhave no idea what file they are > talking about CORE_OPTS is in /etc/pcmcia.conf. Most of what you need to change, if anything, to make pc

list file by size

2001-02-10 Thread angus debian
Hi, I would like to list the files by size include all sub-directory. Which command I need to use and plesase send me some example Best Regards, Angus __ CyberMedian: Ultimate Internet desktop Get 25 MB web desktop, please goto http://www.cyberme

CAN YOU ADVERTISE TO OVER 20 MILLION E-MAIL ADDRESSES?

2001-02-10 Thread Luke6
TO BE REMOVED FROM FUTURE MAILINGS, SIMPLY REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE AND PUT "REMOVE" IN THE SUBJECT. 20 MILLION E-MAIL ADDRESSES FOR ONLY $249 **Over Night International Shipping Included** Many Call This "The "Perfect E-Mail List" Over 20-Million Of The Best E-Mail Addresses Ava

Re: X woes....

2001-02-10 Thread SquadBoy
This is , I assume, where anXious asks to autodetect the card. It can't detect alot of cards. Click past it finish the install (Go with simple). Then just set the card up usind xf86config and of cource xvidtune to get the modlines just right. Works with the TNT2 and I get the same error from an

Re: list file by size

2001-02-10 Thread Moritz Schulte
angus debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to list the files by size include all > sub-directory. Uhm, it's a quite ugly hack, because I'm not familiar with sed/awk, but this seems to work: find . -type f | xargs ls -lk | awk '{ print $5 "\t" $0 }' \ | sort -nr | sed -e 's/^[0-9

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-10 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess you can remove it, I did remove true type font server > (forgot which one I had) and I have the true type fonts. So, what font lines do you have in XF86Config? john. - -- -

Re: alsa sound

2001-02-10 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 06:56:58AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have an sb-live sound card and I am having trouble getting sound to > work. Which kernel-version do you use? In newer versions there is a emu10k1 module in the sound section so you don't need alsa at all. Before the kernel-module

LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2001-02-10 Thread Stan Brown
Whats the deal with LD_LIBRARY_PATH in Debian? I have a ORACLE::DBD perl module that needs this set to include the Oralce shared libs. I guess I can just set this in each users .profile. Sounds like there should eb a "Debian Way" of doing this though. ?? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to set DPI when running KDM?

2001-02-10 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi folks, I just went through my monthly apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade for woody, and noticed that X now is running with -dpi 100 when started with startx. This is great, finally I have a consistent font resolution. The only problem is that I'm running KDM, which will still run my X ser

What kernel is in testing?

2001-02-10 Thread Stan Brown
I need some of the new features of the 2.4 serries of kernels, but I also need a stable reliable system. Would I be better off installing a system from teh "testing" distribution, or installling "stable", and upgradeing the kernel? I specificly need large file (> 2 G) support, but I alos want to

Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2001-02-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 12:30:27PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > Whats the deal with LD_LIBRARY_PATH in Debian? > > I have a ORACLE::DBD perl module that needs this set to include the Oralce > shared libs. I guess I can just set this in each users .profile. > > Sounds like there should eb a "Debian

somewhat OT: Long Range Wireless LAN under linux

2001-02-10 Thread Peter Howell
This is a little off topic because it's more of a hardware question than a software question. Is there a system available that would let me have wireless connectivity with a range of at least 1500 feet. There is one building in the way, but it is otherwise open. I could even put the base an

Win4Lin 2.0

2001-02-10 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay! Has anyone had any experience installing win4lin 2.0 on a debian box? Does it work? Is it any good etc? Anything particular to look out for? How well do applications that are not those listed on the win4lin site work under win4lin? Any info most gratefully received. Matthew

Re: sources.list

2001-02-10 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 09:50:50AM -0800, Duane Powers wrote: > I have a question - I have a dozen boxen that I am maintaining, all with > Debian ( almost all potato - one woody) I would like to save bandwidth > and centralize administration by utilizing one of the boxes as a apt-get > source. t

Keyboard

2001-02-10 Thread Ales Jerman
Hello! I installed Debian 2.2 on 486. After reboot the keyboard started to act strangelly - When you tiped one "a" it wrote "aa", multiple letters, sometimes it didn't write even a letter. At the end it stopped working. At start I can push Del buton to get into BIOS, but ones that Linux

Re: application for website offline viewing

2001-02-10 Thread csj
I don't know about netconspiracy and history buttons. But I know of two web-getters/grabbers: pavuk and wget. Both apt-gettable On Saturday 10 February 2001 03:16, john smith wrote: > hi, > can someone recommend an application that could copy an entire > given website for offline viewing..with fe

pkspxycwrap

2001-02-10 Thread MaD dUCK
so my pgp6.rc file, which i use with mutt to enable embedded pgp, lists the following line: set pgp_getkeys_command="pkspxycwrap %r" however, pkspxycwrap (who the heck baptised that name???) doesn't exist on my system, and in fact, i have never seen it anywhere, not on debian, not on suse, not on

Re: Fatal Server Error: No Valid Modes Found

2001-02-10 Thread Joe Paxton
Originally sent to debian-powerpc, trouble getting X up on iMac. Startx log and XF86Config attached. Any ideas? Thanks, Joe -- Original Message -- From: Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 11:13:19 +0100 >Joe Paxton wrote: >> >> Whe

update-menus not working? Here is my info.

2001-02-10 Thread Xucaen
Hi. sorry it's taken me so long to do this. It's been very busy here. I am also replying to the list, in case someone else has something to add or is having a similar problem. --- Joost Witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:12:25AM -0800, > Xucaen wrote: > > is /etc/me

Re: How to set DPI when running KDM?

2001-02-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 06:41:29PM +0100, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Hi folks, > > I just went through my monthly apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade > for woody, and noticed that X now is running with -dpi 100 when started > with startx. This is great, finally I have a consistent font > resolu

Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2001-02-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Stan Brown" wrote: >Whats the deal with LD_LIBRARY_PATH in Debian? > >I have a ORACLE::DBD perl module that needs this set to include the Oralce s >hared >libs. I guess I can just set this in each users .profile. > >Sounds like there should eb a "Debian Way" of doing this though.

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-10 Thread Erik Steffl
"John S. J. Anderson" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I guess you can remove it, I did remove true type font server > > (forgot which one I had) and I have the true type fonts. > > So, what font lines do you have in XF

Re: Win4Lin 2.0

2001-02-10 Thread Matthew Sackman
Sorry - just found the last thread on this - ignore this thread please. Sorry, Matthew On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 06:10:01PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Hay! > > Has anyone had any experience installing win4lin 2.0 on a debian box? > > Does it work? Is it any good etc? Anything particular to

cyrus und mail-sorting

2001-02-10 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, I switched a server to cyrus-imapd. Before I did this I used the 'normal' imapd for storing mails and deliver for mail-sorting. I used one file for each mailfolder. Now deliver seems not work with my cyrus-imapd. How can I get deliver work with the cyrus-imapd? Thanks. Sven

Re: list file by size

2001-02-10 Thread Christopher Wolf
If the desire is literally the largest file in all the sub directories, just use ls -lR | sort +3 -W At 10:49 AM 2/10/2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: angus debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to list the files by size include all > sub-directory. Uhm, it's a quite ugly hack,

console-data or debconf bug?

2001-02-10 Thread Francois Gouget
I got the following message when upgrading to today's testing: Setting up console-data (1999.08.29-14) ... Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/li

Re: console-data or debconf bug?

2001-02-10 Thread Francois Gouget
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Francois Gouget wrote: > >I got the following message when upgrading to today's testing: > > Setting up console-data (1999.08.29-14) ... > Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC > contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 > /usr/loca

Re: cyrus und mail-sorting

2001-02-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Sven Gaerner wrote: > > Hi, > > I switched a server to cyrus-imapd. Before I did this I used the 'normal' > imapd for storing mails and deliver for mail-sorting. I used one file for each > mailfolder. Now deliver seems not work with my cyrus-imapd. > How can I get deliver work with the cyrus-imap

Re: gratuitous arp

2001-02-10 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:06:35PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i need to send a gratuitous arp to facilitate an ip-address takeover > scheme, so that other machines in the network will have correct > ethernet/ip address association. use fake/heartbeat which can do that, or if you want to do

Re: console-data or debconf bug?

2001-02-10 Thread Chris Matta
This is a perl package issue, you can clear it up by "hand" installing perl5.6 and perl-5.6-base. -c - Original Message - From: "Francois Gouget" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 2:57 PM Subject: Re: console-data or debconf bug? > On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Francois G

Re: How to set DPI when running KDM?

2001-02-10 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 10:44:43 -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: >On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 06:41:29PM +0100, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I just went through my monthly apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade >> for woody, and noticed that X now is running with -dpi 100 when started >> with

Re: alsa sound

2001-02-10 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 18:25:49 +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: >On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 06:56:58AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > >> I have an sb-live sound card and I am having trouble getting sound to >> work. > >Which kernel-version do you use? In newer versions there is a emu10k1 >module in the so

margin size for a2ps printing

2001-02-10 Thread mike polniak
When using a2ps to print in landscape mode, i lose four columns of print on the left (interior)margin. The a2ps default interior margin = 0. I've tried using a negative value, but that doesn't work. Apparently this is room for binding space, but i need to define a margin size that d

debian with install on reiserfs?

2001-02-10 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I would like to know if there are any debian floppies that would enable a person to install debian on reiserfs file system? I tested some I found on the freshmeat, but they had serious module conflicts with the ones from the debian iso's. THX in advance! Bostjan -- Boštjan Müller [NEONATUS]

Re: Problem

2001-02-10 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 10:25:11PM +0100, Abdejlil Chaabaoui wrote: > Ich habe debian in meinen PC installiert. > und habe ich eine alte Betriebsystem als win98. > Jetzt kann ich nicht win98 öffnen. > > ich habe diese config gemacht aber geht nicht. > > Other=/dev/hda3 > im

Re: console-data or debconf bug?

2001-02-10 Thread Francois Gouget
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Chris Matta wrote: > This is a perl package issue, you can clear it up by "hand" installing > perl5.6 and perl-5.6-base. So console-data and console-tools have a packaging bug in that they should depend on perl-5.6. I want for proof that perl-5.6 is not available in te

Re: debian with install on reiserfs?

2001-02-10 Thread Mircea Luca
Bostjan Muller wrote: > > Hi! > > I would like to know if there are any debian floppies that would enable a > person to install debian on reiserfs file system? I tested some I found on the > freshmeat, but they had serious module conflicts with the ones from the debian > iso's. > > THX in advanc

Re: console-data or debconf bug?

2001-02-10 Thread Joey Hess
Francois Gouget wrote: >Is this a bug in console-data or debconf or neither? It's a known bug in console data, it depends on a version of debconf that is not in testing. (One of the types of things that testing's automation, sadly, cannot detect.) -- see shy jo

Re: console-data or debconf bug?

2001-02-10 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Matta wrote: > This is a perl package issue, you can clear it up by "hand" installing > perl5.6 and perl-5.6-base. No, nothing to do with perl. The file it is looking for is only available in woody's version of debconf. -- see shy jo

Re: alsa sound

2001-02-10 Thread Warren Turkal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had problems with the alsa in 2.2.18pre21 also. I just upgraded to 2.4.0 kernel and a newer alsa. In ustable, do: apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.0 (or 1 if you like) alsa-source look in /usr/doc/alsa/README.debian.gz for install instructions On

Re: update-menus not working? Here is my info.

2001-02-10 Thread joost witteveen
At 2001/02/10(6)/10:02, Xucaen wrote: > > > ?package(jed):needs="text" \ > > > section="Apps/Editors" \ > > > title="jed" \ > > > command="/usr/bin/jed" [ ... and `dpkg -l jed' shows it's installed OK, still updates-menu ignores jed] A strange story

weird mail logs making me nervous

2001-02-10 Thread Bud Rogers
I starting to see a lot of these in the logs. Also I occasionally find return messages in the queue about failure to deliver one of those something.fsf@ emails. I figure a spammer is messing with me, but I haven't figured out exactly what's going on. Can anyone shed any light on this for me

Re: console-data or debconf bug?

2001-02-10 Thread Francois Gouget
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > Francois Gouget wrote: > >Is this a bug in console-data or debconf or neither? > > It's a known bug in console data, it depends on a version of debconf > that is not in testing. (One of the types of things that testing's > automation, sadly, cannot dete

ispell no hash

2001-02-10 Thread Todd V . Rovito
I have just installed Debian for the first time, and am very impressed with it. The ispell program seems to be missing the hash tables. I did "apt-get install ispell" to install ispell. Does anyone know where I can find the hash tables so ispell will function? Or how do I build them? I can not

XVideo with 3dfx V3

2001-02-10 Thread Joel Ståbis
Hi. I can't seem to find any info on this in the XFree docs. Does 3dfx Voodoo3 support the XVideo extension? If so, how do I get it to work? / Joel Ståbis / e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

odd delay with ssh and ipchains

2001-02-10 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
I just configured ipchains on my firewall box to only allow www and ssh access from outside the local net. Web access works like a charm, but when trying to connect with ssh, I get a 5-10 second delay before the connection completes. I'm running woody with 2.2.18. Here's the rule chain:

Corel WP 2000 and X4.02/testing

2001-02-10 Thread Damon Muller
Hi gang, I have wp2000 installed on my system, which I recently updated to testing, including X4.02. I haven't used wp2000 since I updated, but when I went to do it today, it didn't work. I got an error about the font server not running, which I presume is the fontastic font server, which wp2000

Small debian install

2001-02-10 Thread Neil Walsh
Hey all, I have this P75 with 500MB HD and 16Mb RAM just sitting there doing nothing (unwanted present from friend) so I'm going to install Debian on it. I was wondering has anyone managed to install debian on such a spec machine with an X server. Is it even feasible? Thanks in advance, Neil Wals

pppoe stop working after upgrading to Kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-10 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, Does anyone have trouble using pppoe after upgrading to Kernel 2.4.1? Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: ssh version ?

2001-02-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 06:13:25PM +0600, Bram Dumolin wrote: > hello, > > I was wondering what the deal is with the version of ssh. > 1.2.3-9.2 is the latest version shipped with Debian. > But the original sources say : 2.3.0p1 > Can someone enlighten me on this? perhaps you have your deb-src li

IP masq'ing with 2.4.1 - FA311 (83810 vs. 83815) - Kernel module symbol versionning

2001-02-10 Thread hogan
Well folks, I'm pretty much convinced that my past problems with my box are wholely based on the duty cycle of the modem (I gotta turn it off when it's not online or it overheats and slows down to a crawl - yay Auslinx :) Currently running 2.2.17 prepackaged (semi testing/unstable :) debian kernel

Re: New sshd exploits...

2001-02-10 Thread Joey Hess
Ethan Benson wrote: > i just wish the libc fix would come out soon :( (LD_PRELOAD file > overwrite thing) http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/3/mail#1 -- see shy jo

Re: New sshd exploits...

2001-02-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 04:23:46PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > i just wish the libc fix would come out soon :( (LD_PRELOAD file > > overwrite thing) > > http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/3/mail#1 different bug, this message refers to the RESOLV_HOST_CONF variable bug w

GDM, KDE2 & Port 1024+

2001-02-10 Thread Volker Schlecht
I noticed the following phenomenon when using the KDE2 binaries on a otherwise usual potato systen and GDM: When I log in the first time after booting up, KDE (?) seems to open port 1024. If I close the session and log in again, the port is closed. So far so weird, but it gets even better: If, a

Re: ispell no hash

2001-02-10 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 13:21, Todd V . Rovito wrote: > I have just installed Debian for the first time, and > am very impressed with it. The ispell program seems to > be missing the hash tables. I did "apt-get install ispell" > to install ispell. Does anyone know where I can find the > hash tab

Re: Small debian install

2001-02-10 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 23:52, Neil Walsh wrote: > Hey all, > I have this P75 with 500MB HD and 16Mb RAM just sitting there > doing nothing (unwanted present from friend) so I'm going to install > Debian on it. > > I was wondering has anyone managed to install debian on such a spec > machine with

moden, cd and video card

2001-02-10 Thread Antonio A. Lobato
Which modem, cdrom and video cards do you advice me to buy ? I have ~ U$130 (R$260 in Brazil) to buy all it. Speaking under other form: which modem, cdrom and video cards does have both middle price and works good with Linux ? Tom

I forgot

2001-02-10 Thread Antonio A. Lobato
I forgot. It`s good I talk my computer. I have ASUS CUV4X motherboard and Duron 700 processor. > > Which modem, cdrom and video cards do you advice me to buy ? I have ~ >U$130 (R$260 in Brazil) to buy all it. Speaking under other form: which >modem, cdrom and video cards d

apt-get: 93 Protocol error

2001-02-10 Thread Mike McNally
The full error is: Could not create a socket - socket (93 Protocol not supported) apt-get was working fine and then I made the mistake of attempting an upgrade which required editing the sources.list. To get a newer ver of gnome or kde or something like that. Eventually it was obvious that the

how do i configure network settings?

2001-02-10 Thread BizarroBum
the kernel in the potato install didn't detect my 3com mini pci(3c556B) ethernet card on my T20, so i compiled the 2.4.1 kernel and now it detects it. but the problem is i still can't get on the net because i didn't configure networking during install... so what program can i run to configure n

Re: how do i configure network settings?

2001-02-10 Thread ktb
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 09:55:35PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the kernel in the potato install didn't detect my 3com mini pci(3c556B) > ethernet card on my T20, so i compiled the 2.4.1 kernel and now it detects > it. but the problem is i still can't get on the net because i didn't > conf

kernel and tulip??

2001-02-10 Thread Chris Parker
O.k. I just installed kernel 2.2.18 that was a .deb on a 2.2.12 system.  How to get this kernel to start over the 2.2.12.  Tried to make boot disk for it but i got fd0 errorsabout bad block sectors.  Need new floppies??  It's on a dual boot with w98:( .  Also tulip will only run in half dupl

Re: odd delay with ssh and ipchains

2001-02-10 Thread Jason Schepman
Tim, I don't think you're doing anything wrong. I assume that you're running ssh as a daemon. If this is the case, mine does the same thing. Sometimes my ssh connections don't even go through until I attempt a second connection. It's almost as if the daemon has to 'wake up' before it will accep

Re: how do i configure network settings?

2001-02-10 Thread Susumu Takuwa
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 21:55:35 -0500 BizarroBum writes: B> the problem is i still can't get on the net because i B> didn't configure networking during install... so what B> program can i run to configure networking? and how do B> i configure the network when the network gives my B> dy

Re: how do i configure network settings?

2001-02-10 Thread mike polniak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the kernel in the potato install didn't detect my 3com mini pci(3c556B) > ethernet card on my T20, so i compiled the 2.4.1 kernel and now it detects it. but the problem is i still can't get on the net because i didn't configure networking during install... so what

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-10 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Erik Steffl wrote: > > "Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote: > > > > Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > > > "Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote: > > > > > > > > Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:01:39PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > >> Section "Files" > > > > > > >> RgbPat

Re: Small debian install

2001-02-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
You got faster machine! Just a reminder. If you are not emacs freak ot TEX talker, at the start of dselect select, make sure to disable(Purge) them manually. They are resource hungly. I have 486DX4 50MHz 24MB IBM Thinkpad which used to run RH5.2 with X (May have been loaded with potato but nev

Re: Networking, /etc/network/interfaces, mapping, iface, and multiple configurations

2001-02-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 03:43:39AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Question regarding use of /etc/network/interfaces to allow autmajick > detection and configuration of eth0 on a laptop that wanders widely. > > What I'd like is for the beast to configure itself to: > > - Standalone operati

Re: kernel and tulip??

2001-02-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 10:17:58PM -0500, Chris Parker wrote: > >O.k. I just installed kernel 2.2.18 that was a .deb on a 2.2.12 >system. How to get this kernel to start over the 2.2.12. Tried to >make boot disk for it but i got fd0 errorsabout bad block sectors. >Need new floppi

Newbie! Need help w/display config

2001-02-10 Thread matthew johnson
My brother and I are newbies! We have installed Redhat 6.0 on his Compaq Presario. When we boot, and GNOME starts, the desktop is HUGE! We must've configured the display modules wrong. He has a Compaq 700T monitor, and an NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 graphics card, with 8+M. We can barely move around the d

Perl warning on woody apt-get revisited

2001-02-10 Thread Glen Snyder
I still get warnings when using apt-get. I've tried using dpkg to install perl-5.6 and perl-5.6-base. It does not remove perl-5.005. If I try to do dpkg -r or apt-get-remove with perl-5.005, I have all sorts of dependency problems. So I have both perl versions installed. Do I have to force a replac

Re: I forgot

2001-02-10 Thread Nate Amsden
"Antonio A. Lobato" wrote: > > I forgot. It`s good I talk my computer. > I have ASUS CUV4X motherboard and Duron 700 processor. ack. Asus CUV4X is for Intel cpus only. Socket370/FCPGA. i REALLY hope your not trying to run a socket A processor in one of them :) I have 2. one runs P

Re: moden, cd and video card

2001-02-10 Thread Nate Amsden
"Antonio A. Lobato" wrote: > > > Which modem, cdrom and video cards do you advice me to buy ? I have ~ > U$130 (R$260 in Brazil) to buy all it. Speaking under other form: which > modem, cdrom and video cards does have both middle price and works good > with Linux ? modems are the most p

Re: Newbie! Need help w/display config

2001-02-10 Thread Susumu Takuwa
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 00:06:18 -0500 (EST) matthew johnson writes: mj> My brother and I are newbies! We have installed Redhat 6.0 on his Compaq This is Debian GNU/Linux User's list;) mj> Presario. When we boot, and GNOME starts, the desktop is HUGE! We must've mj> configured the di

Xlibs problem

2001-02-10 Thread vijay
I just noticed that the xlibs package (version 4.0.2-1) doesn't provide the shared libraries for some of the libraries, Xrender and Xft to name a few. The static versions of these are however available in xlibs-dev. The binary distro of Xfree86 from xfree86.org however has these in Xbin.tgz. Is it

Re: apt-get: 93 Protocol error

2001-02-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 08:32:57PM -0600, Mike McNally wrote: > The full error is: > Could not create a socket - socket (93 Protocol not supported) No idea what protocol 93 is (it's not listed in /etc/protocols). FTP should use the tcp protocol (6). > apt-get was working fine and then I made the

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2001-02-10 Thread unix,inc.
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Re: Perl warning on woody apt-get revisited

2001-02-10 Thread Joey Hess
Glen Snyder wrote: > I get something similar to this, whenever I use apt-get dist-upgrade. > > Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /usr/lib/perl5 > /5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 > /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/ > local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl