RE: ISDN setup

2001-04-03 Thread Thomas Wegner
Hi Matt! On 02-Apr-2001 Matt Thompson wrote: > Greetings, list! :) > > We are a casualty of the Northpoint closure, but fortunately have our > ISDN > line still in operation. I'm considering purchasing the Eicon DIVA > Pro > PCI ISDN adapter to install in the Potato server here. > > Can anyone

Re: ISDN setup

2001-04-03 Thread Robert Waldner
>On 02-Apr-2001 Matt Thompson wrote: >> We are a casualty of the Northpoint closure, but fortunately have our >> ISDN >> line still in operation. I'm considering purchasing the Eicon DIVA >> Pro >> PCI ISDN adapter to install in the Potato server here. >> >> Can anyone recommend or warn about t

Re: Howto setup eth0

2001-04-03 Thread ktb
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:58:56PM +1000, Mark Devin wrote: > ktb wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 01:55:33PM +1000, Mark Devin wrote: > > > When I installed debian, I didn't set up my ethernet card. Now I want > > > to set up ADSL using it but have noticed that the file > > > /etc/init.d/net

Re: Howto setup eth0

2001-04-03 Thread Mircea Luca
Mark Devin wrote: > > "Jeff Levy - [EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > > i assume your dsl provider is using dhcp, i could be wrong. > > > > if it is, grab a package called "pump", unless it's already installed. if > > you don't know, su to root (type 'su', enter password), type "pump", press > > enter

Gnome 1.4 "tranquility" debs anyone?

2001-04-03 Thread Price, Tim
Hi all, Question: I notice that Gnome 1.4 has come out. Does anyone know of anyone who's planning to package it? And Is Ximian still packaging debs? Cheers Tim Price CAUTION This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are privileged and confidential information intended for the use of the

RE: Howto setup eth0

2001-04-03 Thread Price, Tim
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 01:55:33PM +1000, Mark Devin wrote: How do I create this file? Is there a package which I must install which creates this with is installation scripts? >From the mouth of the great Joey Hess, replying to an earlier thread about installing shadow/md5 passwords after the

Newbie Question

2001-04-03 Thread Kevin Stokes
I'm a windows user who is trying to install debian, and I have a question: All is ok until I get to where I specify the APT configuration. Although my system is connected via a LAN to a cable modem, any attempt to ftp, telnet, or ping anything besides 'localhost' results in 'Network is unreach

Re: Package in bad state

2001-04-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> I'm trying to uninstall a package with dpkg, but it won't let me: > > mozart:~# dpkg --remove veepee > dpkg: error processing veepee (--remove): > Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should > reinstall it before attempting a removal. > Errors were encountered while processing: >

Re: /dev/dsp revisited

2001-04-03 Thread john smith
Are you starting the oss compatability layer? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep oss /etc/alsa/alsa-base.conf startosslayer=true I compiled from source bec my soundcard is not detected in alsaconf...so I am unable to use that command I do not have /proc/sound and have alsa working fine... did yo

Re: Howto setup eth0

2001-04-03 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hallo Mircea! Pardon me for intruding your thread. > /etc/init.d/network was the old script used in slink.You've been > reading some old docs.Not applicable anymore. Now in potato you > ahve the daemon /etc/init.d/networking which starts/stops/restarts > ALL interfaces listed in /etc/network/int

Re: few questions about .deb

2001-04-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Hello, > > I have a few questions about Debian-packages: > > - Is there an easy way (not ar+tar) to see what files a package will > install bevor it is installed? (after install 'dpkg -L' will do it) > More then one. For example: dpkg-deb -c > - If I build a debian-package for

Re: Mail & News Reader

2001-04-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 08:23:16AM +0200, Axel Schlicht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Just one additional question (sorry). > > As I have several e-mail accounts AND have to contact several news > servers (some of them not public, i. e. requiring different (of > course) user IDs and passwords) I

Re: Gnome 1.4 "tranquility" debs anyone?

2001-04-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:15:14PM +1000, Price, Tim wrote: > Hi all, > > Question: > > I notice that Gnome 1.4 has come out. Does anyone know of anyone who's > planning to package it? the late betas are already partially packaged in unstable, 1.4 will no doubt be in unstable soon. > And Is Xim

Re: Sys Admin

2001-04-03 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
Are you wanting to Learn UNIX or Linux, or both? There's no easy way to pick up UNIX/Linux skills overnight, but you might want to sign up for a beginning UNIX class with a local college. I don't know about where you're at, but the local community college where I'm at has two UNIX classes that ar

Re: Debian + exim + procmail

2001-04-03 Thread garyjones
Am Mon, 02 April 2001 schrieb "Noah L. Meyerhans": > On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:09:14PM +0200, Gary Jones wrote: > > My .forward file is: > > > > "|exec /usr/bin/procmail" > > delete that, and all will be well Thanks, I will try that. I've also been told that in standard configu

Unwanted gnome-session for root

2001-04-03 Thread Stefan Bellon
I'm running unstable on my notebook for quite a while now without major problems. But since the last upgrade, the root account starts up a gnome-session as well. It didn't do that previously and I don't want it to do it. Defaulting to a gnome-session for normal users is ok, but I just want fvwm2 a

Re: libapache-mod-perl / woody

2001-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Recently I switched from potato to woody (modified sources.list and did >a dist-upgrade). I'd been using the combination of the apache and >libapache-mod-perl packages successfully under potato. > >I am by no means an expert, but it looks to me as though >libapache-mod-pe

Re: black & white icons in Netscape

2001-04-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Apr 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:16:23PM -0600, Willem van Schaik wrote: > > One problem though: I installed Netscape 4.76, which works fine, but the > > toolbar-icons (back, forward, reload, home, etc.) are all in black and > > white. The content of the pages is

Re: xcdroast replacement?

2001-04-03 Thread Colin Marquardt
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [gtoaster] > Doesn't do anything when I do it. > > I do get a log full of : > > kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0) > kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0) > kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in

Re: up to date kernel programming

2001-04-03 Thread christophe barbe
I use two books from Oreilly: Linux Device Drivers - Alessandro Rubini Understanding the linux kernel - Bovet & Cesati The first one is a little old nut contains usefull informations. The second one is recent and really good. As the title said, it's focussed on the kernel understanding that on th

Re: netcfg

2001-04-03 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 02:34:48PM -0300, Ted Gervais wrote: > > Does Debian have such a utility as 'netcfg' to change/setup network > installations? vi /etc/network/interfaces ee,pico,nano or emacs work too -- ,---. > Name: Alson van der Meulen

kickstart on Debian

2001-04-03 Thread Brecht Samyn
Hi, Is there an install tool like RedHat's kickstart or Solaris jumpstart for Debian? Brecht -- Brecht Samyn, Systeemgroep Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Campus Kortrijk (KULAK) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. ++32 56 246 264

Compaq Smart2 Array

2001-04-03 Thread Nathan Ollerenshaw
Hi, Was wondering if there is a debian boot floppy with the compaq smart2 controller driver on it? I have a DL380 here that I would prefer debian was on, but unfortunately the standard boot floppies doesn't have it. Alternatively, if its as simple as just makeing a boot floppy on another linux bo

RE: netcfg

2001-04-03 Thread Joris Lambrecht
you should consider installing the linuxconf tool, this provides you with a graphical or even textbased interface (nice ansi graphics) to configure your network (among other things, it's a handy tool). Regards, joris -Original Message- From: Alson van der Meulen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problems with apt-get

2001-04-03 Thread Debian User
I installed Debian from cd-rom. I am networked. I want to now manage packages by downloading from http sites. I've copied /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/apt/sources.list from another working Linux box. When I run the same command in the other Linux box, "apt-get install ssh" works fine. However, I

RE: Compaq Smart2 Array

2001-04-03 Thread Nathan Ollerenshaw
Bah, answered my own question. Its on the 'compact' boot disks. Sorry for wasting your bandwidth :P --- "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." - Frank Zappa > -Original Message- > From: Nathan Ollerenshaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Se

Re: Problems with apt-get

2001-04-03 Thread Joerg Jaspert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 3. April 2001 11:50 schrieb Debian User: > However, I get an error when I run on my current box. > I get the following error: > W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://non-us.debian.org ... > Is there something else that I shoul

can't use cron

2001-04-03 Thread dko
hello I wrote a script and I want cron to start it everyweek I added 10 1 * * 5 root /root/update in crontab file and restarted cron when I put crontab -l, it says no crontab for root ?!? # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' # comman

RE: Compaq Smart2 Array

2001-04-03 Thread Nathan Ollerenshaw
Ok, the driver definately on there and the smart2 array controller is detected, but the debian installer doesn't find it after the keyboard configuration. It should be /dev/ida/c0d0 but opening an interactive shell and trying to find it, it's not there. Does anyone here have any experience with

unix sysadmin

2001-04-03 Thread vipe
There are several ways ( if you are motivated ) UNIX Get the solaris 8 unix fundamental at http://docs.sun.com and download ( with autorisation code ) X86 solaris 8 at http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/ LINUX Get a linux distr on a local ftp server If you haven't used linux before star

Re: Debian + exim + procmail

2001-04-03 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:09:14PM +0200, Gary Jones wrote: > Okay, exim has confused me again. I've just set up procmail, per that > app's documentation. Now exim says > > 2001-04-02 22:13:59 14kAi7-5E-01 ** |exec /usr/bin/procmail > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D=userforward T=address_pipe: "exec"

Re: (Unidentified subject!) now apm

2001-04-03 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:07:12AM -0300, Sergio E . Schvezov wrote: > well rob, your right, i've got /dev/hda5 mounted on /var. Score!! > okay here's what i want to know, is there a way to force it into suspend > state? > or not 2 make it write to /var when it's in that mode (suspend) I played

Re: can't use cron

2001-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
dko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I wrote a script and I want cron to start it everyweek >I added 10 1 * * 5 root /root/update in crontab file and restarted cron >when I put crontab -l, it says no crontab for root ?!? root's crontab is different from /etc/crontab (you edit root's crontab with 'cro

Re: Howto setup eth0

2001-04-03 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:10:01AM +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > Hallo Mircea! > > | #iface eth0 inet static # MY HOME NET > | # address 192.168.1.1 > | # network 192.168.1.0 > | # netmask 255.255.255.0 > | # broadcast 192.168.1.255 As usual, it's all in the Fine Manuals. For dhcp/p

Re: Repost (Apologies for HTML): Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2001-04-03 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi Karsten !! - It broke my lilo, leaving me with a missing library (/lib/ld-linux.so.2). > I got the file mailed to me by another user, boot using floppies, and > managed to repair the boot. So...is your problem resolved or not? - I managed to solve my missing library problem, but not m

Shutdown

2001-04-03 Thread Ales Jerman
Hello! Is there any combination like Ctrl+Alt+Del, but not for reboot system, but for halt or shutdown system? Thank you! Bye, Ales

Re: Shutdown

2001-04-03 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
What you are searching for is in /etc/inittab file. Fabio Ales Jerman wrote: > > Hello! > Is there any combination like Ctrl+Alt+Del, but not for reboot system, > but for halt or shutdown system? > Thank you! > Bye, > > Ales > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject

Re: (Unidentified subject!) now apm

2001-04-03 Thread Sergio E . Schvezov
well i guess i should give it up, it's not that it bothered me anyhow, it;s jsut that my roomate says it's 2 noisy well thanx again ps: should snip up the replys? * Rob Mahurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:07:12AM -0300, Sergio E . Schvezov wrote: > > well rob, your

GMT problems.

2001-04-03 Thread Karsten Bolding
Hi When I do: psbasemap -JM5 -R0.5/2.0/58.9/59.8 -B0.25 -P -K > station.ps I get psbasemap: Error returned by fcntl [F_WRLCK] It's the same with any other GMT program. My home directory is mounted from a DEC-alpha via nfs and I'm running 2.4.1. Any help will be appriciated. Karsten -- *

Re: Shutdown

2001-04-03 Thread Moritz Schulte
Ales Jerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any combination like Ctrl+Alt+Del, but not for reboot > system, but for halt or shutdown system? You can define what happens if you press Ctrl+Alt+Del in /etc/inittab. moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.chaosdorf.de

Re: Shutdown

2001-04-03 Thread Kim De Smaele
Hi Ales, yes there several commands: init 0 poweroff reboot and i'm not shure about this one: shutdown -h 0 May be there is a config file for hotkey's like ctrl + alt+ del but i don't know. And by the way, this is not windoze, you won't see any blue screens here :o) greets, Kim Ales Jerman wro

Re: can't use cron

2001-04-03 Thread Kim De Smaele
maybe it's just a litle mistake: make sure you are root ( I made this mistake once ! ) greets, Kim: Colin Watson wrote: > dko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I wrote a script and I want cron to start it everyweek > >I added 10 1 * * 5 root /root/update in crontab file and restarted cron > >when

Re: Shutdown ( sorry )

2001-04-03 Thread Kim De Smaele
sorry to reply on my one mail. I haven't seen the other replies on this mail. sorry greets, Kim Kim De Smaele wrote: > Hi Ales, > > yes there several commands: > > init 0 > poweroff > reboot > and i'm not shure about this one: > shutdown -h 0 > > May be there is a config file for hotkey's like

ppmtogif in Debian?

2001-04-03 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! Which package in Debian contains ppmtogif? "apt-cache search ppmtogif" didn't return anything. Thanks in advance for any hints! Greetings, Holger

RE: can't use cron

2001-04-03 Thread Kuhar, Mike
If you're trying to add the line as given: 0 1 * * 5 root /root/update remove the word root after the number 5. This field is for a command, not a user. You might also want to clean it up so that any test output is handled correctly, such as: 0 1 * * 5 /root/update > /dev/null 2>&1 # Some

[slightly OT] Agenda PDA

2001-04-03 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm interested in getting the developer's edition of the agenda PDA (I saw it on slashdot a few days ago). Anyway, I know they have been shipping since early December, so I was wondering if anyone w/ Debian had gotten one, and what they thought of it. Any chance of putting the embedde

Re: /dev/dsp revisited

2001-04-03 Thread Allan Wind
On 2001-04-03 07:04:39, john smith wrote: > >Are you starting the oss compatability layer? > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep oss /etc/alsa/alsa-base.conf > >startosslayer=true > > I compiled from source bec my soundcard is not detected in alsaconf...so I > am unable to use that command I do not

Re: tap0 which package?

2001-04-03 Thread Shawn Garbett
That did the trick. Thanks, John. Summary is as follows: Problem: After upgrading to sid, ppp quit working Diagnosis: type 'route -n' and noticed tap0 interface in the interface list. Solution: type 'apt-get remove diald' Thanks to everyone who helped me with this. I've gotten several emails a

Re: few questions about .deb

2001-04-03 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth M G Berberich, > Hello, > > I have a few questions about Debian-packages: > > - Is there an easy way (not ar+tar) to see what files a package will > install bevor it is installed? (after install 'dpkg -L' will do it) eval `/usr/bin/lesspipe` less filename.deb is one way... cheers, d

Re: Shutdown

2001-04-03 Thread D. Hoyem
Same subject different question. How do you shutdown your system if it is FROZE, Ctrl+Alt+Del, nor the system power button will not shut it down, the only way that I know is to turn off the power strip. Is there another way? --- Ales Jerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > Is there any combi

Re: FYI: webmin is back in Debian

2001-04-03 Thread albi
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 10:30:36PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: hello > webmin 0.85 was just installed into unstable yesterday. Another upload > For potato users, I've made packages available at the following apt source > > deb http://www.braincells.com/pub/debian/Local potato/ > deb-src htt

RE: Shutdown

2001-04-03 Thread Kuhar, Mike
Are you sure that linux is froze? You might try doing Ctl+Alt+F2 to see if you can open another virtual console. > -Original Message- > From: D. Hoyem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 8:57 AM > To: Ales Jerman; Debian List > Subject: Re: Shutdown > > > Same

Re: [OT] graphics card recommandation

2001-04-03 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Stephan Kulka, > I searched the archives and some hardware pages, but I couldn't find > anything useful. > So I ask the question: I am looking for a graphics card for using it > mainly for office programs, but also sometimes for a good game. > It is not necessary for drawing CAD or the like.

RE: Shutdown

2001-04-03 Thread D. Hoyem
I have tried that also..Ctl+Alt+F2, the cursor will not move either ie xdm is up and shows the cursor. --- "Kuhar, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you sure that linux is froze? You might try > doing Ctl+Alt+F2 to see if > you can open another virtual console. > > > > > -Original M

Re: The time is ...

2001-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I had "saytime" working. > > On Saturday I installed a new motherboard and since then calling > "saytime" does not say the time anymore but starts and ends with "The > time is..." > > I have reinstalled saytime, but it did not solve the problem. Does >

Re: dpkg can't find ldconfig?

2001-04-03 Thread destruss
Hi jennyw: Did you find anything. I had the same problem and located a place on the web to get it going again. I don't have an url but I made a hard copy so I could retype it and send what I found if you want. HTHDean On 2 Apr 2001, at 11:01, jennyw wrote: > Thanks to everyone for the res

RE: Newbie Question

2001-04-03 Thread Rick Commo
>>All is ok until I get to where I specify the APT configuration. Although >>my system is connected via a LAN to a cable modem, any attempt to ftp, >>telnet, or ping anything besides 'localhost' results in 'Network is >>unreachable'. It looks like your network card is not configured. Here's an

Re: Shutdown

2001-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting D. Hoyem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Same subject different question. How do you shutdown > your system if it is FROZE, Ctrl+Alt+Del, nor the > system power button will not shut it down, the only > way that I know is to turn off the power strip. Is > there another way? That depends. If the X

RE: Shutdown

2001-04-03 Thread Kuhar, Mike
Can you shutdown X with Ctl+Alt+Bksp? I would highly recommend that you find the source of the system hang, if that's what is happening. I would guess that you are sharing an IRQ with two devices that shouldn't be shared, i.e. your sound card and your NIC. Something along those lines. What migh

Re: [OT] graphics card recommandation

2001-04-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
> However, it's not without its issues. I've had heaps of problems > getting the framebuffer running properly (boot to a screen full of > garbage, which doesn't prevent X from running). I've been having a similar problem and have gotten nowhere with finding a resolution. I enable framebuffer s

OT: netscape

2001-04-03 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Hi All, I'm using Netscape 4.7 but the spelling feature is turned off. This is a real problem for me because I spell like an eight year old. I've got ispell installed and I can't think of what other package it might need. Any suggestions? Thanks, Andy

Re: Shutdown

2001-04-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Look into kernel documentation for "sysrq". Documentation/sysrq.txt Alt-Sysrq key will get you out from disastor if you compile kernel with this option. This is for Frozen X,... * What are the 'command' keys? ~~~ 'r' - Turns off keyboard raw mode. (THIS IS FOR

Re: Shutdown

2001-04-03 Thread Ilya Martynov
AJ> Hello! AJ> Is there any combination like Ctrl+Alt+Del, but not for reboot system, AJ> but for halt or shutdown system? AFAIK by default no. But see man 5 inittab. You can configure any key combinations you wish in /etc/inittab -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: OT: netscape

2001-04-03 Thread Ilya Martynov
ADD> Hi All, ADD> I'm using Netscape 4.7 but the spelling feature is turned off. This is ADD> a real problem for me because I spell like an eight year old. I've got ADD> ispell installed and I can't think of what other package it might need. AFAIK Netscape uses builtin spell checker. So install

Re: Shutdown

2001-04-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Look into kernel documentation for "sysrq". > > Documentation/sysrq.txt > > Alt-Sysrq key will get you out from disastor if you compile kernel with > this option. This is for Frozen X,... > > * What are the 'command' keys? > ~~~ > 'r' - Turns off keyboard raw mod

RE: Shutdown

2001-04-03 Thread D. Hoyem
I have also tried Ctl+Alt+Bksp and that will not work. This is not a constant problem, I can log on usually but it does happen a lot. I know that is a ambigious statement, but hard to explain. I have looked in the .Xsession error log after this happens and I can log on and do not see anything. I

woody-problems: perl, locale, ppp and X4

2001-04-03 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi all! I have 4 problems after dist-upgrading to woody: (in order of descending importance ;-) ) Problem 1:) When I start some programs (e.g. emacs) from an xterm, I get the following message: Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged I think this one is related whith the on

XDM

2001-04-03 Thread Ted Gervais
Well I finally got the KDE stuff loaded unto my newly installed Debian System. And it works well. However, how do I change things so KDE desktop is the default. Right now it is FVWM?? I thought it might be in a file called .xinit, or .xsession etc in my users directory but not so.. -- Ted Ge

RE: Shutdown

2001-04-03 Thread Kuhar, Mike
You might do cat /proc/interrupts to see who is sharing IRQ's. Check for IRQ sharing between video card and NIC or sound car and NIC. Things like that. -mk > -Original Message- > From: D. Hoyem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:31 AM > To: Kuhar, Mike; Deb

Alsa

2001-04-03 Thread Shawn Garbett
I tried alsa-config and it complained about drivers and the alsa system not being loaded. Is there a help FAQ somewhere on getting alsa running under Debian?

Re: ppmtogif in Debian?

2001-04-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:32:34PM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote: > Which package in Debian contains ppmtogif? > "apt-cache search ppmtogif" didn't return anything. netpbm-nonfree :( Mirek

Re: Debian + exim + procmail

2001-04-03 Thread Steven E. Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've also been told that in standard configuration exim doesn't even > need the .forward, that just seeing a .procmailrc will provoke it > into invoking procmail. That's right. Here's a snippet from a typical Debian exim configuration file: ,[ /etc/exim.conf fragm

Re: ppmtogif in Debian?

2001-04-03 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:32:34PM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi! > > Which package in Debian contains ppmtogif? > "apt-cache search ppmtogif" didn't return anything. > > Thanks in advance for any hints! Try going to the packages page at www.debian.org and searching. Try searching the package

Re: Sys Admin

2001-04-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 08:49:42PM -0700, Anthony @ PencilFight Design wrote: > I am looking into becoming a Unix System Administrator. I know a few that > all learned basically "on the job". I'm wondering if there is any one who > knows of a good way to start. Online classes? I've heard of the Re

Re: OT: netscape

2001-04-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:41:14AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > I'm using Netscape 4.7 but the spelling feature is turned off. This is > a real problem for me because I spell like an eight year old. I've got > ispell installed and I can't think of what other package it might need. IIRC, the sp

Connecting my browsers to Wvdial and the internet.

2001-04-03 Thread Simmons-Davis
Dear Debian Group, I am having problems with my browsers connecting to my internet connection as user: root. I have tried both Mozilla and Lynx (though not Netscape as I cannot get the archive files without an internet connection) and have encountered the same problem with both. When I dial up my

Re: modules

2001-04-03 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I see it under 2.2.18pre21. It's actually cs46xx.c. ^ Wojciech Milek wrote: > > Which kernel do you have? I can't find this module in 2.2.18 > > W > > > Hi All, > > I'm trying to compile support for my sound card into my kernel but I > > can't find a

Re: modules

2001-04-03 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I'm pretty sure it's the item "Crystal Sound Fusion" under "Sound card support". Are you using the 2.2.18pre21 kernel source package or some other? "Andrew D Dixon,,," wrote: > > Hi All, > I'm trying to compile support for my sound card into my kernel but I > can't find an option for it in make

2.4.3 + X 4.0.2 + star office = dead box

2001-04-03 Thread Jeff
not quite sure who to blame on this one, x? kernel? star office? whenever I start up star office installer, machine bombs. if I export my display from remote host -> troubled box and run star office from remote host, troubled box bombs. it's not my window manager, i've tried three. same effect.

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

2001-04-03 Thread Roberto Diaz
I am sending this here because according to mail-abuse.org I and the whole dynamic dns users are spammers just because we are using dynamic ip's. I want all the debian mail relay's administrators be very aware about this. They want to block the whole IP's which are dynamic so they can not send m

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

2001-04-03 Thread Roberto Diaz
And I insist that what you are doing with dynamic ip's has a name.. FASCISM. Sorry very much but this is the true.. spammers always will find a work-around since they have nothing better to do with their lifes. By blocking the whole dynamic segment of the internet you are not a solution anymor

Re: can't use cron

2001-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
"Kuhar, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you're trying to add the line as given: > >0 1 * * 5 root /root/update > >remove the word root after the number 5. This field is for a command, not a >user. That's true of normal crontabs, but the syntax of /etc/crontab is slightly different, and has

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

2001-04-03 Thread Remi Lefebvre
Roberto, Your IP is listed in the DUL list because it is in a dynamic IP range. There's nothing to whine about there since it really does belong in that list. The point to argue about is whether it is wise for relays to block based on the DUL. My personal opinion is its an inneficient way of file

Re: No polish chars (was: brak polskich znakow)

2001-04-03 Thread Krzysztof Mazurczyk
Hi there, Remark: CaT, your translation is very well ! I had fight with the same problem. The solution (workaround ?) is to comment out following lines in /etc/apache/srm.conf AddDefaultCharset on AddDefaultCarsetName iso-8859-1 I suppose that problem may exists in other national charsets out of

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

2001-04-03 Thread Alan Shutko
Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > They want to block the whole IP's which are dynamic so they can not > send mail anymore so every guy in the internet will have to depend > upon a third-party mail relay to send mail.. whats the next? The usual response to this is "Your ISP gives you a

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

2001-04-03 Thread Roberto Diaz
> If you absolutely want to run a real server, geez, get a real connection. I was using ddt for mail.. and for nothing else.. if you dont want me to use it.. OK but dont lie.. in your site you had specific instructions about how to run a mail server using ddt. Now I really dont advise anybody to

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

2001-04-03 Thread Roberto Diaz
> "Your ISP gives you a mailserver through which to relay mail. Set a > smarthost and get over it." > Why isn't that sufficient for you? I am telling about a principle.. nobody should put the entire dynamic internet segment into a black list.. Why isn't is this sufficient for you? Regards Ro

Re: OT: netscape

2001-04-03 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:30, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:41:14AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > I'm using Netscape 4.7 but the spelling feature is turned off. This is > > a real problem for me because I spell like an eight year old. I've got > > ispell installed and

dist-upgrade to woody

2001-04-03 Thread Patrick Mauro
Help. . I wasn't sure which list to send this to, since this is a user question, but from what I understand, woody is a debian-devel issue. Hopefully no one kills me for posting to both :) I have potato installed on my machine. When I upgraded to woody I got gross problems. First, as I unde

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

2001-04-03 Thread Alan Shutko
Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am telling about a principle.. nobody should put the entire dynamic > internet segment into a black list.. > > Why isn't is this sufficient for you? Because the Internet has changed, and most people either don't care about the DUL, or think it's a go

Re: Alsa

2001-04-03 Thread Michael Soulier
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:38:16AM -0400, Shawn Garbett wrote: > I tried alsa-config and it complained about drivers and the alsa system > not being loaded. Is there a help FAQ somewhere on getting alsa running > under Debian? I did the following: 1. unpack my kernel source 2. unpac

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

2001-04-03 Thread Remi Lefebvre
Hi, Ok, let's that get everything clear. DDT provides DNS services. Not mail services. However, there's a relation between mail and DNS as far as mail routing go (read about MX records for more). We do not provide any kind of SMTP services for DDT users whatsoever. Now, why would someone want to

Re: dist-upgrade to woody

2001-04-03 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Patrick Mauro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030401 12:33]: > I have potato installed on my machine. When I upgraded to woody I got gross > problems. First, as I understand it, I did the correct upgrade steps. > - modified sources.list to reflect that I want woody stuff now. > - apt-get update > - ap

Re: up to date kernel programming

2001-04-03 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, thank you for your interest, but do not expect too much from it now. It is the first time I am going to do something like this, so I have no idea how far I will come. But any help is really appreciated. Thanks for the books, Sebastiaan On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, christophe barbe wrote: > I use tw

Re: LaTeX to text (was Re: "firing up" DocBook)

2001-04-03 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 10:12:22PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 12:38:17PM -0500, Chris Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > What LaTeX buys is the ability to create rightly formatted ASCII > > > output including paginat

Re: he time is ...

2001-04-03 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:16:27PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I had "saytime" working. > > > > On Saturday I installed a new motherboard and since then calling > > "saytime" does not say the time anymore but starts and ends with "The > > time is..."

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

2001-04-03 Thread Roberto Diaz
> The problem you are having, Roberto, as nothing to do with DDT but with > you being on a dynamic connection. The truth is a static connection is > much better suited for servers, but it is possible to run a server on a > dynamic connection (much more affordable). One downside is some people > wil

Need a bit of help with 'network unreachable'

2001-04-03 Thread Kevin Stokes
Hi, I'm windoze guy trying to install Debian, and I've read How-To's 'till I'm blue in the face, but I'm stymied at the moment, and I sure would appreciate some help or a link to a HOWTO to help troubleshoot this. I've Debian potatoe vanilla installed to the point where I've created the root

Re: Howto setup eth0

2001-04-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:10:01AM +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > Hallo Mircea! > > Pardon me for intruding your thread. > > > /etc/init.d/network was the old script used in slink.You've been > > reading some old docs.Not applicable anymore. Now in potato you > > ahve the daemon /etc/init.d/

Re: Connecting my browsers to Wvdial and the internet.

2001-04-03 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Ry, This sure sounds like a dns failure to me. Probably your system isn't getting the dynamic info for dns lookup... The easiest way to fix it is to locate your servers IP numbers for there dns, and add them to the file in /etc/resolv.conf. Here is what mine looks like: nameserver 216.102

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