Re: maybe you can help

2001-03-19 Thread Rossen Naydenov
try www.debian.org I think taha I saw recently exactly how to build duobootable system with windows and debian ross Tom wrote: I am running windows 98 and want to keep it i was woundering if i could also run linux system on here as well as my windows 98 system with out haveing to loose my wi

Re: Problemas de instalacion

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:39:31PM +0100, El señor de los anillos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Estimado Sr: > > Hola, resulta que me he decidido a instalar Debian en un segundo > dico duro que tengo como esclavo, la instalacion se produce con > total normalidad, pero al cabo de un

Re: start up script operation

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 02:28:23PM -0500, John Kerr Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I have entered a start up script named in the /etc/init.d > directory. I issued the command stop 20 0 16 .> which seemed to work OK. When I restarted the computer > the changes (starting hdpar

ssh RSA key problem, Please help

2001-03-19 Thread Nick
I am getting the follwing message, how do I get rid of it?? fresh install of ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh 63.XXX.XXX.2 @@@ @WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ @@@

Re: view changelogs of new packages before installing them

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 09:05:01PM +0100, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > can I view a package's changelog without having to download it first? > This would be esp. useful for intended large downloads such as > kernel-source-*; even kernel-doc-* is more than one meg to downl

Re: Help with themes

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 12:10:02PM -0800, Alex Espinoza ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just switched from Slackware to Debian, and in the > installation everything wento ok. I have Gnome running > correctly, except for the themes. > > They don't seem to be working ok, since the themes for > the s

Re: keyboard won't work with netscape

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 02:15:44PM -0800, Denzil Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >From time to time, I lose the ability to use my > keyboard with netscape 4.76. It appears to happen > after entering infomation in a from, and on occasion > clicking enter or submit on a form will correct the > pr

Re: view changelogs of new packages before installing them

2001-03-19 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 11:27:31PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 09:05:01PM +0100, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > can I view a package's changelog without having to download it first? > > This would be esp. useful for intended large do

Re: Hdparm and 2.4 kernel

2001-03-19 Thread Chris Howells
Generally you need to be root to use hdparm. I am root! I wouldn't imagine it working it with a non-priveleged user. There seems to be a gerneral problem with hdparm not being happy under the 2.4 kernel -- if I boot 2.2.18 again it works fine. Even more generally you shouldn't need to use h

Re: Hdparm and 2.4 kernel

2001-03-19 Thread Chris Howells
Forrest English wrote: is your kernel compiled with dma support? because if it's not, thats not gonna work. Yup, pretty sure it is. I'll check though. Cheers, -- Chris Howells E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 93699029 Web: http://www.chowells.uklinux.net

Re: bash segfaulting and not being able to log in

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 09:44:51PM -0500, Anthony Fox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I have two questions: > > 1. Bash segfaults when I hit tab to autocomplete a filename. I have >checked the bash FAQ which does not address my specific problem. >Has anyone seen this? What versi

Re: [OT] Linux palmtop computers?

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:08:47AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Friday 16 March 2001 08:32, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:54:50AM +0800, csj wrote: > > > I'm looking for a Linux-based palmtop computer. Is there such an > > > animal? I have hit a number of pr

Re: fstab

2001-03-19 Thread Rossen Naydenov
when you log klike a root tri chmod-ing your file so it isn't read only and edit it your self Ross Robin Gerard wrote: hello, I have added a wrong line in my fstab file and when linux starts I have many errors. Under root I can open fstab with mc (or xemacs) but read only and Ican't change i

Re: Can't SSH. need help!

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
Please set your line length to 72 characters, without space padding. on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:11:17PM -0500, Mark Livingstone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > One of my boxes is running openssh_2.3.0 with only ssh2 enabled.. When > i first installed Debian and ssh i could easily connect to

D-Link DFE-530TX+ via-rhine.o module

2001-03-19 Thread David Carlile
Hi,   I am extremely new to Linux and I hope I am not wasting bandwidth here, but here goes.   I have a D-Link DFE-530TX+ nic card that wasn't in the list when I installed. A source file was included on the floppy that came with the card for Red Hat and I attempted to compile it, but it puk

Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory conflict with video card / scsi adapter

2001-03-19 Thread Franck Leclercq
Hello, I have installed a debian 2.2r2 on my PC. All is running fine expected the X SVGA server that hangs the computer when i try to start it in a mode superior to VGA 16 colors. My video card i

Re: Debian tutorials

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:34:15AM -0700, Don Collier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all. I have decided to make the jump from RedHat to Debian but > I am having some problems. If any of you know of some rather > informative web sites, howto's, tutorials, and anything else that > would be of

Re: backing-up a system?

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 06:30:22PM +0100, Angel Parra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello! > > I meed to make a back-up of a system, I can use removeble HD's and a > CD-RECORD, ... but how to make it correctly, oncly a tar from important > directories ??? Your post isn't parsing too well

Re:

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 12:00:34PM -0600, Chris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Please post a subject line. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5h

Re: Printer Problem

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 07:59:35PM +0100, Stephan Kulka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When I try to print out a file , I get the following message: > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] - cannot open connection Connection refused > >Make sure LPD server is running on the system. > > I am quite confused, because

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ via-rhine.o module

2001-03-19 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:15:29AM -0800, David Carlile wrote: > Hi, > > I am extremely new to Linux and I hope I am not wasting bandwidth here, but > here goes. > > I have a D-Link DFE-530TX+ nic card that wasn't in the list when I > installed. A source file was included on the floppy that came

Re: Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory conflict with video card / scsi adapter

2001-03-19 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:11:14AM +0100, Franck Leclercq wrote: > Hello, > I have installed a debian 2.2r2 on my PC. All is running fine expected > the X SVGA server that hangs the computer when i try to start it in a > mode superior

xset problem -- dpms keeps shutting off

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
Debian/Sid, x86. After a system update yesterday, I noticed: - A new splash screen for xscreensaver. - xset dpms keeps getting shut off. My monitor doesn't automatically blank, stand-by, and shut off. If I force dpms back on and a monitor shutoff, the monitor comes back on some time lat

RE: Linux Network Security: POP

2001-03-19 Thread Joris Lambrecht
I asssumed cable modems were encrypting there communications with some simple built-in algorithm -Original Message- From: Ethan Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zondag 18 maart 2001 14:59 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Linux Network Security: POP On Sun, Mar 18, 2001

RE: Linux Network Security: POP

2001-03-19 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > I asssumed cable modems were encrypting there communications with some > simple built-in algorithm It is my understanding that modern DOCSIS modems use encryption between the cable modem and the cable head end. The motorola cybersufr brand has been d

apt-get and growing cache

2001-03-19 Thread christophe barbe
Why all downloaded packages are saved in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory. Can I delete these files ? Where can I tell to not keep these file ? I see only one interest in keeping downloaded files, It' s to download only the diff when upgrading a package. But it's not what is done. Christoph

RE: Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory conflict with video card / scsi adapter

2001-03-19 Thread Franck Leclercq
Yes: I found the origin of the problem when booting an old ide disk with a win98 system installed on it: win98 showed that there was a conflict with the SCSI adapter driver: i could change the adress setting of the SCSI adapter in

FW: D-Link DFE-530TX+ via-rhine.o module

2001-03-19 Thread David Carlile
Thanks for the quick reply. I tried modconf and selected rtl8193. I didn't include any parameters. I got an error message: "Device or resource busy. Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or irq parameters." Any ideas? BTW, I checked the card and the

Re: apt-get and growing cache

2001-03-19 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In christophe barbe's email, 19-03-2001: > Why all downloaded packages are saved in the /var/cache/apt/archives > directory. > Can I delete these files ? > Where can I tell to not keep these file ? > > I see only one interest in keeping downloaded files, It' s to download only > the diff when up

Re: no sound with kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-19 Thread christophe barbe
Hi I've the same problem with Opl3sa2 and kernel 2.4.2. I have seen threads about that in the kernel mailing list. Currently I use alsa which works great and is certainly a good solution. IMHO the OSS ccode in the kernel are going to be replaced by alsa. Christophe On jeu, 15 mar 2001 19:16:09 Ph

Transferring Debian

2001-03-19 Thread
I've set up and tailored a terrific potato 2.2r2 + KDE2 on my laptop and now I'd like to replicate this same installation on my desktop via NFS. My question is: How can I copy a Debian installation from one partition of my laptop to another of my desktop? (I had a go at with "cp -R -d --target-d

Re: Realplayer

2001-03-19 Thread Oliver Payne
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 07:54:41PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm configuring a "stab;e" machine (with Progeny updates). I need RealPlayer, > and > the install package claims that I should get version 7 fro Real;s web sit. > > I'm afraid that I can only find version 8, am I overlooking soemthing?

Re: apt-get and growing cache

2001-03-19 Thread christophe barbe
Thank you to point me to the man command that I already know (-;. But you not really answer to my questions. Why are packages kept ? How can I stop this ? (how to say "stop keeping downloaded packages") Thank, Christophe On lun, 19 mar 2001 10:27:43 Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) wrote: > In ch

DHCP unavailable during installation

2001-03-19 Thread Justin Jones
Hello, I am currently setting up a Compaq Deskpro 2000 Pentium 166 MMX as a Debian box. It has a 3Com ethernet card, which doesn't seem to want to work with DHCP. I'm sure it must be a compatibility problem between Debian and the computer, because I had no problem using DHCP with Debian on a

Re: ssh RSA key problem, Please help

2001-03-19 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 15:29:33 -0800 Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am getting the follwing message, how do I get rid of it?? > fresh install of ssh > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh 63.XXX.XXX.2 > @@@ > @WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFIC

Re: Transferring Debian

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:36:42AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've set up and tailored a terrific potato 2.2r2 + KDE2 on my laptop and now > I'd like to replicate this same installation on my desktop via NFS. > My question is: How can I copy a Debian installation fro

Re: DHCP unavailable during installation

2001-03-19 Thread Frank Copeland
On 19 Mar 01 10:20:01 GMT, Justin Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >FreeBSD. Here is what is detected during startup: > >3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0x1440, 00:60:08:14:86:44 IRQ 3 ^ If you have the usual two serial ports with

Re: How best to install a TrueType font on Debian?

2001-03-19 Thread David Purton
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 00:13:46 -0500, you wrote: > > >I have Xfree86 v4 already; I am running (almost) the latest unstable. > >Therefore > >I do not use a separate TrueType font server. I guess then I am wondering > >what > >the best Debian way is to in

Re: deb for AT&T ksh ?

2001-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyone know where I can get a .deb of the AT&T ksh. It's Open Source >now, you know. It looks dodgy to me. If you're redistributing it, you have to periodically check the website for modifications, agree not to frame the AT&T website, agree not to break US

MySQL 3.23.xx on Potato

2001-03-19 Thread Bas van der Zalm
Dear all, I would like to have MySQL 3.23.xx on my Potato system, but unfortunately there isn't a debian-package available for it. Building one out of the source seems to be the solution. But I have always learned not to mix a package-setup system with custom build software. I need the new MySQL

Re: deb for AT&T ksh ?

2001-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
Jimmy Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm not sure where to go to look into doing that, but probably >can be found on the Debian web site. http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ (look for "RFP", a.k.a. "Request For Package"). >I have a few I am thinking about suggesting myself in case

apt-server

2001-03-19 Thread Bernhard Wesely
Hi all, A friend of mine built some debian-packages, and I now try to put them at an apt-server for easy installing the packages at my work. I looked at the Debian-Hompage, but didn't find anything. Has anyone a hint, where I can start my search again? Thank in advance, Bernie

Re: apt-server

2001-03-19 Thread Earl F Hampton
On Monday 19 March 2001 03:57, Bernhard Wesely wrote: dpkg -i packagename > Hi all, > > A friend of mine built some debian-packages, and I now try to put them at > an apt-server for easy installing the packages at my work. > I looked at the Debian-Hompage, but didn't find anything. > > Has anyone

Re: FW: D-Link DFE-530TX+ via-rhine.o module

2001-03-19 Thread Earl F Hampton
On Monday 19 March 2001 01:26, David Carlile wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply. > > I tried modconf and selected rtl8193. I didn't include any parameters. I > got an error message: "Device or resource busy. Hint: this error can be > caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or i

Re: apt-server

2001-03-19 Thread Bernhard Wesely
Oh sorry,... I just noticed, that my question was not clear. I know how to install debian packages, but I want to create a company-internal apt-server, and I don't know how to do that. Various pages stated only existing apt-servers or creating packages (maintainer manuals) Thanks in advance, Bern

Re: apt-server

2001-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
"Bernhard Wesely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A friend of mine built some debian-packages, and I now try to put them at an >apt-server for easy installing the packages at my work. >I looked at the Debian-Hompage, but didn't find anything. Look at dpkg-scanpackages(8), which scans a directory tree

Re: Transferring Debian

2001-03-19 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:36:42AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've set up and tailored a terrific potato 2.2r2 + KDE2 on my laptop and now > I'd like to replicate this same installation on my desktop via NFS. > My question is: How can I copy a Debian installation from one partition of my

Re: MySQL 3.23.xx on Potato

2001-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
"Bas van der Zalm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to have MySQL 3.23.xx on my Potato system, but unfortunately >there isn't a debian-package available for it. Building one out of the source >seems to be the solution. But I have always learned not to mix a package-setup >system with custom

Re: Hdparm and 2.4 kernel

2001-03-19 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > is your kernel compiled with dma support? because if it's > > not, thats not gonna work. > > Yup, pretty sure it is. I'll check though. If your chipset supports DMA, along with your drives, and you select the "Use DMA when available..." option in the kernel, it should already have DMA enabled

Re: apt-server

2001-03-19 Thread Earl F Hampton
On Monday 19 March 2001 04:13, Bernhard Wesely wrote: > Oh sorry,... I just noticed, that my question was not clear. > > I know how to install debian packages, but I want to create a > company-internal apt-server, and I don't know how to do that. > Various pages stated only existing apt-servers or

Re: apt problems and why?

2001-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I get the following error message > >home:/home/daniel# apt-get -f install >Reading Package Lists... Done >Building Dependency Tree... Done >Correcting dependencies... failed. >Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > libesd0: Depends: esound-common b

Re: ssh RSA key problem, Please help

2001-03-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 07:42:34AM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 15:29:33 -0800 > Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am getting the follwing message, how do I get rid of it?? > > fresh install of ssh > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh 63.XXX.XXX.2 > >

Re: Linux Network Security: POP

2001-03-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:24:09AM +0100, William Leese wrote: > On Monday 19 March 2001 00:41, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 05:04:02PM +0100, William Leese wrote: > > > knowing basically nothing about imap and ssl where would i look first to > > > see if this is suitable and how

A fact & a problem

2001-03-19 Thread
The fact Is there anyone out there able to explain how come, installing Debian potato on my desktop, Debian is unable to find my ethernet Realtek 8139 PCI card while even Red Hat 6.0 was able to? The problem I need to compile the module for the Realtek ethernet card which I downloaded from a

Re: Hdparm and 2.4 kernel

2001-03-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 07:59:57AM +, Chris Howells wrote: > > Generally you need to be root to use hdparm. > > I am root! I wouldn't imagine it working it with a non-priveleged user. > > There seems to be a gerneral problem with hdparm not being happy under > the 2.4 kernel -- if I boot 2.2

Re: ssh RSA key problem, Please help

2001-03-19 Thread Christoph Simon
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 03:39:37 -0900 Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well you should take your own advice and read the message, its > possible someone is doing something nasty, it would be prudent to > check with the admin of the site in question and find out of they > changed the host key

Re: Linux Network Security: POP

2001-03-19 Thread William Leese
> > > > knowing basically nothing about imap and ssl where would i look first > > > > to see if this is suitable and how it can be used? > > > > > > check to see if they have the imap-ssl port open (i don't know it > > > offhand) or the pop3-ssl... they probably don't. > > > > yatsu:$ nmap -sS p

Re: Linux Network Security: POP

2001-03-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 02:03:01PM +0100, William Leese wrote: > having taken a quick look at my providers homepage (which, i admit i should > have done first.. but i'm used to ISP pages with nothing but marketing talk) > i found something on pop-ssl. However aparently i need an email client tha

Re: Linux Network Security: POP

2001-03-19 Thread Ilya Martynov
> "WL" == William Leese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: WL> having taken a quick look at my providers homepage (which, i WL> admit i should have done first.. but i'm used to ISP pages WL> with nothing but marketing talk) i found something on WL> pop-ssl. However aparently i need an

Monitoring eth0

2001-03-19 Thread romain lerallut
Hello everyone ! Yesterday, I had (seemingly) no internet-related process running, but the "network monitoring Epplet" showed incoming traffic on eth0. How can I know what process uses eth0 ? Maybe some option of "fuser", but I couldn't find anything in the manpage (I know how to see which pr

mail::sendmail

2001-03-19 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Mail::Sendmail module i'm trying to get this to work using Perl 5.6.x on an NT4.0 system with IIS 4.0 should work fine except i get this error message Cannot send data (550 Unable to relay for [EMAIL PROTECTED]) What is causing this error ? Thank you, Joris

Re: ppp mystery

2001-03-19 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gil Elad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Thanks for the advice. It worked like a charm. I don't know why I hadn't > thought of it earlier. > I tried Isolating the one setting which is crucial that the modem received > in Windows and not > in Linux and found out it was AT&B1 which manages the modem

testing dist-upgrade (upgrade apt ... remove vital packages!?)

2001-03-19 Thread Bryan Walton
This morning I went in to work and started to perform the usual apt-get -f dist-upgrade on my testing box. Luckily I always throw in a -s into the equation first so that I can see what is about to happen: 1) I upgraded to the unstable apt (0.5.0) about a week or two ago. 2) Now, testing wants to

RE: testing dist-upgrade (upgrade apt ... remove vital packages!?)

2001-03-19 Thread Martin Marconcini
I see no problem. I will upgrade without problems. Regards, -- Martin Marconcini | UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ... | (also known as the Good, the bad and the | ugly..) -Original Message- From: Brya

Re: need help on setting up a ppp connection

2001-03-19 Thread David Wright
I'm not going to try and work out which machine you are listing these on or which machine(s) you are trying to dial out of, but I'll just make a couple of general points. 1) do you have defaultroute set on the ppp machine? Quoting Bill Shui ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > here's what I got when ppp is no

Re: bash segfaulting and not being able to log in

2001-03-19 Thread Anthony Fox
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 09:44:51PM -0500, Anthony Fox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have two questions: > > > > 1. Bash segfaults when I hit tab to autocomplete a filename. I > > have checked the bash FAQ which does not address my specific > >

summary failure when rebuilding Debian Package

2001-03-19 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I finally figured out samba package for Potato didn't print because it's got CUPS support disabled at compile time. from Changelog: samba (2.0.7-3) frozen unstable; urgency=high * Commented out the section in source/configure.in that * auto-detects CUPS support and then ran autocon

Re: testing dist-upgrade (upgrade apt ... remove vital packages!?)

2001-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
Bryan Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This morning I went in to work and started to perform the usual apt-get -f >dist-upgrade on my testing box. Luckily I always throw in a -s into the >equation first so that I can see what is about to happen: > >1) I upgraded to the unstable apt (0.5.0) about

Problems with talkd

2001-03-19 Thread Preben Randhol
I cannot get talk to work _to_ my machine. When people try to talk it says I refuse to talk to them. If I talk to them, then it works. Does anybody have a solution for this? I use Debian Woody (testing) Thanks in advance -- Preben Randhol -- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- +-

RE: Monitoring eth0

2001-03-19 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Check out lsof > -Original Message- > From: romain lerallut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 7:45 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Monitoring eth0 > > > Hello everyone ! > > Yesterday, I had (seemingly) no internet-related process running, > but

Re: NIC identification

2001-03-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:52:54PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > The NIC is likely a PCI device even when it's integrated into the MB. > So, try "cat /proc/pci" and look for an "ethernet controller" line. It > will probably give you the chipset it uses which is usually a pretty > good starting poi

Re: keyboard won't work with netscape

2001-03-19 Thread Mike Brownlow
Denzil Kelly wrote: > >From time to time, I lose the ability to use my > keyboard with netscape 4.76. It appears to happen > after entering infomation in a from, and on occasion > clicking enter or submit on a form will correct the > problem. Does anyone else have this problem? Yes. It normally ha

allowing ordinary user (non-root) to run apt-get...dpkg...

2001-03-19 Thread Walter Tautz
i suppose there are a number of solutions ... adding an appropriate group characteristic to the executables and the places apt, dpkg write to under /var and then adding users to the group... setuidnot a good idea some sort of server that runs on the host and receives requests for software a

Re: Flash Player ?

2001-03-19 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > What's the Debian way of installing a Flash Player plugin for Netscape? Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/ then do apt-get update, and apt-get install flashplayer-nonfree :) Regards, Gavin.

Re: ntpdate, /etc/timezone et all.

2001-03-19 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Check that /etc/default/rcS contains the line > > UTC=yes There's just a little more to it than that. Setting that parameter will make the /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh script use the correct switch for its hwclock commands, but you should get into the habit of

Re: allowing ordinary user (non-root) to run apt-get...dpkg...

2001-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i suppose there are a number of solutions ... > >adding an appropriate group characteristic to >the executables and the places apt, dpkg write to >under /var and then adding users to the group... > >setuidnot a good idea How about sudo? Cheers, -- Co

Re: bash segfaulting and not being able to log in

2001-03-19 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Lo, on , March 19, Anthony Fox did write: > I recompiled bash from a source .deb. Last night, while /bin/bash was > segfaulting, I ran the newly compiled bash and it worked just fine. > The differences in sizes of the binaries is large. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l bash-2.04/bash > -rwxr-xr-x

RE: Monitoring eth0

2001-03-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi roman to see what kind of traffic is on your lan you can run tcpdump - too much stuff - learn to read fast ?? showtraf- nice to/from output netwatch- shows you where traffic goes to/comes from mrtg(?) you should be able to expl

RE: NIC identification

2001-03-19 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> the kernel with the correct modules for the card. You should be able to > get the info you need from Dell, especially since they are now > supporting Linux on many of their systems. They may have a driver/module This seems to be your best idea. Your box should have a number on it that you can p

Re: NIC identification

2001-03-19 Thread Hall Stevenson
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:52:54PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > The NIC is likely a PCI device even when it's integrated > > into the MB. So, try "cat /proc/pci" and look for an "ethernet > > controller" line. It will probably give you the chipset it uses > > which is usually a pretty good st

Re: can potato handle USB and cable modem?

2001-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
KingM Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am thinking of installing potato, and wonder if I'll >have problems with USB and a cable modem. > >1. Will I be able to use USB? How much trouble will >it be? Do I have to recompile a kernel or just fix >some comfiguration files? I plan to use a USB mouse >a

Changing to MD5 shadow passwords?

2001-03-19 Thread R. Ransbottom
I would like to convert all of my Debian 2.0 and 2.2 systems to MD5 shadow passwords. If I understand the docs correctly all that needs doing is to add md5 to the apropriate lines in /etc/pam.d/passwd and /etc/pam.d/login. Is this correct? rob Live the dream.

OT : Powerpoint viewer with Wine

2001-03-19 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Some time ago there was a thread on Powerpoint in Linux. It was suggested (by me) to use the M$ freeware powerpoint viewer. Someone said he'd check it out. Are you still here ? How did it go ? This could prove to be a serieous advantage when trying to make a 'serious' linux desktop config. Since o

Re: Borland's JBuilder & O'Reilly's _Learning_Java_

2001-03-19 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi Judith! Try Sun's JDK 1.3.0. I use that on a Potato system. By the way, I use emacs as well (with JDE), since I don't like JBuilder's internal editor ,-) Greetings, Holger

Re: summary failure when rebuilding Debian Package

2001-03-19 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:37:50PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > I finally figured out samba package for Potato didn't print because it's got > CUPS support disabled at compile time. > So I downloaded samba's sources unpacked using dpkg-source, edited > configure.in and uncommented the line

Re: can potato handle USB and cable modem?

2001-03-19 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:18:44PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > KingM Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am thinking of installing potato, and wonder if I'll > >have problems with USB and a cable modem. > > > >1. Will I be able to use USB? How much trouble will > >it be? Do I have to recompile a

dhcp server config question

2001-03-19 Thread Rob Zietlow
I am trying to set up a DHCP server for my home network to run off of my eth1 interface while my eth0 interface receives a dhcp address from my ISP on my DSL. I get the following message about my eth0 interface Milhouse:/home/zietlow# /etc/init.d/dhcp start /etc/init.d/dhcp: [: =: unary operator

RE: mail::sendmail

2001-03-19 Thread Joe Rioux
Relaying on your SMTP mail server is disabled. You'll need to enable relaying for your IP on your SMTP server machine. -Original Message- From: Joris Lambrecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 8:51 AM To: activePerl (E-mail) Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subjec

start-stop-daemon, postgresql, and options

2001-03-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings. Running a locally-compiled postgresql 7.0.3, I'm still trying to get it to start up automatically at boot time. The trick is, of course, to get it to start as user postgres instead of root. I've got it mostly working, using start-stop-daemon; the command is: start-stop-daemon --start

pdf editor ?

2001-03-19 Thread Sven LUTHER
Hello, ... Seeing that most everything comes in pdf format these days, and that at least xpdf, acroread (well it is i386 only and non-free, but still usefull) and gv can read and display/print this format, i asked myself if would be possible to edit document in pdf format ? Is there a free pdf e

Apt, Debconf, and Perl.

2001-03-19 Thread Ray Percival
Does anyone know how to fix this. I have tried a reinstall of deboconf and it did not work. Once again thanks. Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/share/

Re: pdf editor ?

2001-03-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
Not sure there's literally such a thing as a "PDF Editor"; Acrobat doesn't let you do much with an existing PDF file. But if you're looking to *create* PDF files, that you can do with ps2pdf, dvipdf, pdflatex, ... - it depends on the source of the file you want in PDF form. Andy Perrin Sven LUTHE

Re: pdf editor ?

2001-03-19 Thread Sven LUTHER
Ok, that clarifies thing for me, so pdf is just another end-format, like ps, from which i know it is based. So no hope for me, i will need to get access to the source of said pdf document. :((( Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: pdf editor ?

2001-03-19 Thread Ilya Martynov
> "SL" == Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SL> Hello, ... SL> Seeing that most everything comes in pdf format these days, SL> and that at least xpdf, acroread (well it is i386 only and SL> non-free, but still usefull) and gv can read and display/print SL> this format

Re: Monitoring eth0

2001-03-19 Thread Willi Dyck
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 06:58:40AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi roman > > to see what kind of traffic is on your lan > > you can run > tcpdump - too much stuff - learn to read fast ?? > showtraf- nice to/from output > netwatch- shows you where

Debconf is running in web mode

2001-03-19 Thread Kevin Strong
When I run apt-get install for a package that I want to install. Debian states Debconf running in web mode. I was wondering if there is a way I can make Debian not do this. Thanks for the help in advance. Kevin Strong,BSBA User Support Coordinator McKessonHBOC Outsourcing Group Cookeville Region

Re: Hdparm and 2.4 kernel

2001-03-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > Even more generally you shouldn't need to use hdparm with 2.4.x kernels. > > 2.4.x has much better IDE support. > > I get much better benchmark results with DMA set on. Yes you will but y

Re: apt-get and growing cache

2001-03-19 Thread Frédéric de Villamil
Yes you can remove them without danger(and with new free space on your hd) (I think dselect asks you wether to remove them or not) fred On Monday 19 March 2001 10:24, christophe barbe wrote: > Why all downloaded packages are saved in the /var/cache/apt/archives > directory. Can I delete these file

Re: Problems with talkd

2001-03-19 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:44:44PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > I cannot get talk to work _to_ my machine. When people try to talk it > says I refuse to talk to them. If I talk to them, then it works. Does > anybody have a solution for this? I use Debian Woody (testing) > > Thanks in advance In

Progress : mail::sendmail

2001-03-19 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Found a good smtp host at the ISP we use. But now i get this message below, I've replaced the IP with some letters for paranoide reasons, as well as the email adres it returned. W:\>mail.pl Error sending to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied.

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