Re: lilo

2001-04-20 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hi Tomo, Yeah, you don't actually have to use lilo at all. Some folks want to keep windoz roaring on their pc's (can't imagine why) and don't want to be confronted by the lilo. If this is the case, simply make a boot diskette or CDrom. It'll boot up your box into linux and otherwise, will

grub <\rant>

2001-04-20 Thread Joost van der Lugt
OK so the darn thing is called grub, fine. hda1 = hd(0,0) fine to, if it has to be. But why the darn is there not a /etc/grub.conf file (or link) instead of the darn /boot/grub/file??? And why the %*&^ does the dos example not work? ( which I had to dig out of PAGE_5 of the html docs!!! ) W

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2001-04-20 Thread Abel Gascón
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Re: how to set correct time?

2001-04-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 08:37:46PM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: > date must be run as root, like so: > date MMDDhhmm (MM = month DD = day hh = hour mm = minute) That's for system clock(Linux). Also check "man hwclock" for hardware clock to get time right upon reboot. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~

Re: X configuration problems

2001-04-20 Thread Anthony Lau
At 12:50 AM -0400 4/19/2001, Adam Bender wrote: I just installed and configured X Windows on my system. I seem to have done it incorrectly, since when it loads, it's a mostly white screen with black dots on it. What makes it worse is that it now loads on startup, even before I login. How can

Re: not enough colors: I need 10 colors + 4 planes.

2001-04-20 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 07:33:21AM +, Joost van der Lugt wrote: > > Sorry for the repost, I changed the subject, just wondered if anybody > knows what this means, trying to get this game to work for my > daughter: ) > > > Hi all, > > > > A question. When trying to run a game I have last seen

RE: offtopic:gimp script-fu

2001-04-20 Thread Price, Tim
Check in the layers & channels to make sure there is only one layer before you save it as a jpeg or bmp (which will save only the background layer) Try (can't remember the exact menus): Layers & Channels ==>Merge visible layers Then save it. Good luck! Cheers Tim > -Original Message

Re: grub <\rant>

2001-04-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:16:28AM +, Joost van der Lugt wrote: > But why the darn is there not a /etc/grub.conf file (or link) instead of > the darn /boot/grub/file??? This makes sense. Bootloader seems to access to these files during booting. Just think your mobo is old and can access only

Re: not enough colors: I need 10 colors + 4 planes.

2001-04-20 Thread Andreas Kurth
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ flying -pool >> not enough colors: I need 10 colors + 4 planes. >> >> I should be running 1024x768, 24 bit ... It´s in fact too MANY colors for flying. Try changing to 8 bit. -- Andreas Kurth Mannheim, Germany http://sites.inka.de/wam56

Re: not enough colors: I need 10 colors + 4 planes.

2001-04-20 Thread Joost van der Lugt
Andreas Kurth wrote: > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ flying -pool > >> not enough colors: I need 10 colors + 4 planes. > >> > >> I should be running 1024x768, 24 bit ... > > It´s in fact too MANY colors for flying. Try changing to 8 bit. > I should have thought about that of course, a script only s

Re: not enough colors: I need 10 colors + 4 planes.

2001-04-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 07:41:12AM +0200, Andreas Kurth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ flying -pool > >> not enough colors: I need 10 colors + 4 planes. > >> > >> I should be running 1024x768, 24 bit ... > > It´s in fact too MANY colors for flying. Try changing to 8 bit. xn

Re: logout freezes system

2001-04-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:10:36PM +0200, Alexander Steinert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear list, > > when I log myself out from X the screen shows starnge vertikal lines. > The system doesn't react anymore (no keyboard, no mouse, no ping from > another host; just hard-reset) > > This happens

pcmcia startup order: was Re: /etc/network/interfaces

2001-04-20 Thread The Nose Who Knows
Eric Richardson wrote: > More than one person is having problems with the startup sequence with > pcmcia. Is this a problem with the distribution? I searched open and > closed bugs for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and could not find anything reported > about this. > > Is this a problem that needs to be looke

Re: pcmcia startup order: was Re: /etc/network/interfaces

2001-04-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:42:30PM +1000, The Nose Who Knows wrote: > Eric Richardson wrote: > > More than one person is having problems with the startup sequence with > > pcmcia. Is this a problem with the distribution? I searched open and > > closed bugs for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and could not find a

Re: how to set correct time?

2001-04-20 Thread gdj_list
Am Thu, 19 April 2001 schrieb Rory Campbell-Lange: > I foolishly don't know how to set the correct time for my system clock. > The timezone is correctly set to London/England, but the time is about 6 > hours out (date reports the time in 'BST' - I presume this is "British > Standard Time"). Proba

non-us bo archive

2001-04-20 Thread John R Lenton
Hello all. I'm looking for an archive (á la archive.debian.org) of the non-us part of bo. So far I've found dregs of one at wuarchive, but AFAICT pieces are missing: the Packages file lists apache-common apache-ssl bzip cfs crypt++el des-solnet mutt-i pgp-i pgp-us rsaref sambades ssh ssle

upgrading with dselect

2001-04-20 Thread Michael Novak
i've installed potato 2.2r2 and now i would like to have new version of qt library. so i added new source pointing on debian ftp unstable version into /etc/atp/sources.list and run dselect. after cache update dselect automaticaly(!) selects about 50mb packages! i supposed that after my qt selecti

Re: i810 woes... please help!

2001-04-20 Thread
Hey Phil, well, as I told you, I wanted to compile my own kernel (to tailor it to my portable PC hardware: no need for SCSI support, no need of all that stuff for every kind of network cards but only for my ethernet intel card, no need of raid, and so on. In so doing I spared 8 jucy MB of RAM o

Ximian Gnome on Potato

2001-04-20 Thread Jesper Gertz
I would like to install Ximian Gnome on my Potato 2.2 r3 using the "go-gnome" script as explained on www.helixcode.com Is there any problems doing that ? Or is APT-GET the best method to install Ximian Gnome? Thanks in advance

Re: Routing problems using metric [Does somebody undestood !]

2001-04-20 Thread fr ml
Sorry to insist, but does somebody reading this mailing list have any ideas of the way to resolv this problem. Or can you give me links or else to help me ! It a project on with I had to figth for Linux to be considered as an alternative rather than a commercial router product ! It would be a pity

Ximian Gnome on Potato

2001-04-20 Thread Jesper Gertz
I would like to install Ximian Gnome on my Potato 2.2 r3 using the "go-gnome" script as explained on www.helixcode.com Is there any problems doing that ? Or is APT-GET the best method to install Ximian Gnome? Has somebody done some experiences using Ximian Gnome on Potato 2.2? Thanks in advanc

Re: Need to resize a Win2K NTFS partition before I can install

2001-04-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Felix Oxley wrote: > Can you suggest a tool which can do this? Sure. Partition Magic. The NTFS driver for Linux is very unstable, so it follows that there's certainly nothing GPL'd which can rebuild the structure of an entire NTFS system :) If you could afford Win2000 in th

ADSL 3COM 812

2001-04-20 Thread javi
Hola!!     Enredando con el router ADSL 3Com 812 le he borrado la configuracion delete configuration a traves del telnet, ahora ya no puedo entrar y solo me queda la opcion de entrar por el puerto serie, pero en Linux como puedo acceder al puerto serie?, y con que programa me puedo autentificar c

Re: APT Questions.

2001-04-20 Thread Andrzej Swedrzynski
On 19 Apr 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Sorry, a typo. I meant 'apt-cache search'. 'apt-cashe search patter' was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks to everybody for answering my question. Regards, Andrzej -- http://kokosz.horyzont.net http://www.earthdawn.pl

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2001-04-20 Thread Felicity
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Re: Ximian Gnome on Potato

2001-04-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:53:58AM +0200, Jesper Gertz wrote: > I would like to install Ximian Gnome on my Potato 2.2 r3 using the > "go-gnome" > script as explained on www.helixcode.com > > Is there any problems doing that ? yes using that go-gnome script is the most irresponisble thing to do se

RE: Use Linuxdesktop to login to an NT server.

2001-04-20 Thread carl . tan
Hello Rick, Thanks for your reply. However, I am not sure if this would help me. I am going to try that just as soon as I rattle of this mail in Win98. Sorry for the thick-head that I have, but perhaps I better explain myself a little better. My office uses an NT server for file sharing purp

Multiple Network Interfaces per host -- possible?

2001-04-20 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, I installed a second network interface into my host. The problem that arises: only the old one gets configured even I included the driver for the new one into the kernel as well. The one I had before -- that must remain eth0 -- is a 3COM 3c905B. The new one is an AMD-79c970-based PCNet

mail lists

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Re: NB : unsubscribing

2001-04-20 Thread Colin Watson
Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Since this must be the first time i unsubscribe from debian-user (change o >jobs) i post a newbie question. For native English speakers, "NB" is short for the Latin "Nota Beni", and indicates an important piece of information. It's very confusing to use

Re: apt-get upgrading packages of same version

2001-04-20 Thread Colin Watson
CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Then I do my apt-get dist-upgrade hoping that the rest of the utilities >will be uploaded nicely and glibc will (obviously) be left alone as the >version installed is the same as that it would want to d/l but... If you recompile a package yourself, increment the ver

gnome and s3trio64+

2001-04-20 Thread Jens Lauterbach
hi! I've tried installing Gnome via deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main on my potato 2.2.17 and that went actually fine. but I have a problem with my s3trio64+ videocard. When I run startx it says 'no screen found' and before that it says colot depth 16 does

Re: lynx and proxy

2001-04-20 Thread Jim Farrand
Renai LeMay wrote: > how do I set Lynx to use a http proxy? >From the Lynx manpage: "Lynx supports the use of proxy servers that can act as firewall gateways and caching servers. They are preferable to theoldergateway servers (see WWW_access_GATEWAY, below). Each proto- col u

Ogolnopolski Wortal Turystyczny

2001-04-20 Thread www.poznajkraj.pl
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runaway modprobe loop ...

2001-04-20 Thread Barry Mathieu
I just finished rebooting following a, 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19' and during the boot sequence I saw a bunch of messages scroll up the screen that indicated something like, "...modprobe...error...". I captured the boot sequence using dmesg, and I don't see these "...error(?)..." message

Xemacs21-gtk - build against stable.

2001-04-20 Thread Glyn Millington
I've been visiting Robin Socha's xemacs site and drolling over the screenshots of Xemacs-gtk. (Yes, other things being equal I would judge a car by it's colour ;-) Has anyone succeeded in compiling this against Potato? Is it straightforward? Which packages were necessary to get a functioning X

Re: superblock corrupted

2001-04-20 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a serious problem with what seems to be a superblock corruption >on /dev/hda3. I fixed it. This is for the record: If you run into this kind of problem and feel kind of desperate, type "man mke2fs" and scroll down to the -S op

StarOffice 5.2

2001-04-20 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi, I have some problems with so52. I have downloadet the bin from sun. Now i want t install it. 1. SO can't find my java installation and even if i give the path it says that i couldn't find java... I have both java packages (jdk and jdk-dev) installed. 2. How must i install it so that a normal

Re: StarOffice 5.2

2001-04-20 Thread Jim Farrand
Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > 2. How must i install it so that a normal user can use it. First time i > installed SO as root in /opt/so52 but then my normal user couldn't use it. > Even if i set the right permissions... > Where are the errors? Can't help with your first query, but I've had this prob

Re: Woody, 2.4 Kernels, Ramdisks and ReiserFS

2001-04-20 Thread Herbert Xu
Jim Farrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the initial ramdisk there so that the kernel can load modules before > it has mounted the root partition? Yes. > If so, does this mean I can put my root partition on a ReiserFS > partition, even though ReiserFS is (in the default kernel-image package)

Re: nvidia_drv.o and XF864.0.2

2001-04-20 Thread Ilya Martynov
AL> (II) NVIDIA(0): Applying EDID constraints on remaining valid modes. AL> (EE) NVIDIA(0): No modes remaining for head 0 AL> Symbol XAARotateMonoPattern from module AL> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved! AL> Symbol XAAPatternROP from module AL> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drive

xserver-xfree86 4.0.2-13

2001-04-20 Thread Lukas Ruf
Folks, I doubt of my thinking :-) I try to install xserver-xfree86 4.0.2-13 by dselect. When I launch the process: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed.

Re: StarOffice 5.2

2001-04-20 Thread se-viaton-noita
>> Original Runes << On 4/20/01, 2:32:47 PM, Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spelled magical StarOffice 5.2: > Hi, > I have some problems with so52. > I have downloadet the bin from sun. > Now i want t install it. > 1. SO can't find my java installation

Re: StarOffice 5.2

2001-04-20 Thread Andre Berger
* Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-20 13:45 +0200: > Hi, > > I have some problems with so52. > I have downloadet the bin from sun. > Now i want t install it. > 1. SO can't find my java installation and even if i give the path it says > that i couldn't find java... I have both java p

Re: user=halt=halt, user=reboot=halt?

2001-04-20 Thread Ilya Martynov
LH> Hello, LH> I added users to halt and reboot, respectively, by making the formers login LH> shell /sbin/halt and the latter's /sbin/reboot. LH> If I login as the halt user, the system shuts down and powers off. Great. LH> When I login as the reboot user, the system shuts down and powers off.

Re: StarOffice 5.2

2001-04-20 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have some problems with so52. >I have downloadet the bin from sun. >Now i want t install it. >1. SO can't find my java installation and even if i give the path it says >that i couldn't find java... I have both java packages (jdk

Re: unsubscribing

2001-04-20 Thread Dean
Hi Joris: I just unsubscribed and subscribed as I have a change of address without any problems. But if you are having problems, use [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is also at the end of each message. HTH Dean - Original Message - From: "Joris Lambrecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursda

Re: how to set correct time?

2001-04-20 Thread Benjamin Black
to set the system clock to standard time, run (as root): rdate time.nist.gov that server is usually really slow so it may take a few tries to get through. see `man rdate`. you may have to install the rdate package; it's in opt/net. to set the hardware clock from the system clock (after r

mp3 encoder Deb

2001-04-20 Thread Wayne Brown
HI, Ive been looking for an mp3 encoder in a deb package, anyone found one? I have installed Grip and CDParanoia. TIA Wayne.

OpenSSH: How to do RhostsRSAAuthentication?

2001-04-20 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, please help before I tear my hair out. I'm trying to get RhostsRSAAuthentication to work. What I want is to be able to ssh between the machines on my home network without having to supply a passphrase/-word (also supplying it once with ssh-agent I'd like to avoid). The docs I've found on OpenS

Re: mp3 encoder Deb

2001-04-20 Thread Ilya Martynov
WB> HI, WB> Ive been looking for an mp3 encoder in a deb package, anyone found one? I WB> have installed Grip and CDParanoia. No, there is no such. As I understand there is some license issues with mp3. But you can use instead vorbis-tools to encode in ogg format. This format free and even has be

Re: OpenSSH: How to do RhostsRSAAuthentication?

2001-04-20 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 20 Apr 2001 15:22:25 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > (I'm afraid I wouldn't see it myself by now, > I'm already a bit dizzy after staring at the config files for hours) I also was too dizzy to attach my connect log, sorry OpenSSH_2.5.2p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090600f debug1: Seedin

Re: mp3 encoder Deb

2001-04-20 Thread Jason Healy
At 987805863s since epoch (04/20/01 09:31:03 -0400 UTC), Ilya Martynov wrote: > > WB> HI, > WB> Ive been looking for an mp3 encoder in a deb package, anyone found one? I > WB> have installed Grip and CDParanoia. > > No, there is no such. As I understand there is some license issues > with mp3. Bu

Re: lilo

2001-04-20 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:58:38PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Yeah, you don't actually have to use lilo at all. Some folks want to keep > windoz roaring on their pc's (can't imagine why) Im my case, I *need* to be in pace with the bureaucracy of my institution, which means that someti

RE: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread Michael Marziani
I have looked around for this but I can't find a list of bug fixes/improvements in 2.2.19. Anyone have a link? Thanks! -Mike -Original Message- From: Eric Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 6:42 PM To: Debian User Subject: Re: debian 2.2r3 ? Ethan Ben

Re: Use Linuxdesktop to login to an NT server.

2001-04-20 Thread Keith G. Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 3. Then download the startup script and map those same user directories to > somewhere on the ext2 fs tree. > > 4. Access files I created on the NT server (like Lotus notes databases, email, > etc.) > > Is this at all possible just by using samba? > Part of it is

RAM economy tips

2001-04-20 Thread giovanni sartoni
Hi everybody after a few months I am using Debian at home I keep wandering whether it uses too much RAM. I have 128MB RAM, I run Debian 2.2r3, run xfree86 with SVGA driver, xdm, and Gnome under WindowMaker. Evan when I log in to Gnome desktop with just 1 Xterm (nothing fancy is started up), I see

RE: lilo

2001-04-20 Thread Michael Marziani
If you must have windoze as well, it's very simple to make linux boot through the NTLOADER. It's actually pretty cool, you just have to dd the first 512bytes from your boot partition (so long as lilo is loaded onto the first sector) to a file (call it bootsect.lnx), then copy that file to your c:\

Re: RAM economy tips

2001-04-20 Thread Gordon Hart
> after a few months I am using Debian at home I keep > wandering whether it uses too much RAM. Dont forget that memory is used for caching and suchlike.. Why is is so bad to have 90% memory used after all is it better for it to be unused? you paid for it! ;) So it is used to speed things up, c

Re: grub <\rant>

2001-04-20 Thread mike polniak
Joost van der Lugt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > OK so the darn thing is called grub, fine. > > hda1 = hd(0,0) > fine to, if it has to be. > > But why the darn is there not a /etc/grub.conf file (or link) instead of > the darn /boot/grub/file??? > > And why the %*&^ does the dos example n

Re: lilo

2001-04-20 Thread Ilya Martynov
MM> If you must have windoze as well, it's very simple to make linux boot MM> through the NTLOADER. It's actually pretty cool, you just have to dd the MM> first 512bytes from your boot partition (so long as lilo is loaded onto the MM> first sector) to a file (call it bootsect.lnx), then copy that

Re: RAM economy tips

2001-04-20 Thread Jason Healy
At 987795117s since epoch (04/20/01 10:31:57 -0400 UTC), giovanni sartoni wrote: > Hi everybody > after a few months I am using Debian at home I keep > wandering whether it uses too much RAM. > I have 128MB RAM, I run Debian 2.2r3, > I see 70 - 80 MB used (whow seems worse than Win98 ?!?) > and the

Re:

2001-04-20 Thread JC Portlock
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Re: OpenSSH: How to do RhostsRSAAuthentication?

2001-04-20 Thread ray p
What you need to do is set up ssh-agent and agent forwarding to do what you want to do. ssh-agent is well documented on the web go forth and read. Have fun On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 03:22:25PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > Hi, > > please help before I tear my hair out. I'm trying to get > RhostsRS

RE: Use Linuxdesktop to login to an NT server.

2001-04-20 Thread Rick Commo
>>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sorry for the thick-head that I have, but perhaps I better explain myself a >>little better. Mistake was mine - misinterpreted I guess. Below is a similar question raised on a Linux-Mandrake reflector that I subscr

Re: RAM economy tips

2001-04-20 Thread Robert Voigt
> Dont forget that memory is used for caching and suchlike.. > > Why is is so bad to have 90% memory used after all is it > better for it to be unused? you paid for it! ;) So it is used > to speed things up, cache things you might need and re-used > when you request something in particular.. > >

Re: RAM economy tips

2001-04-20 Thread Jason Healy
At 987804674s since epoch (04/20/01 11:11:14 -0400 UTC), Robert Voigt wrote: > > In theory, this is fine. But on my system (512 MB RAM) it's not always like > that. What does free say? Are you really out of memory? Does top show anything that's eating a lot of memory? Finally, do free and top

Re: Getting Online with DSL Ethernet

2001-04-20 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Anthony wrote: > > Actually it's not a static IP. > Almost undoubtedly, then, it's PPPoE, and you need the Roaring Penguin client. Or a router that will do the PPPoE for you! But RoE works fine. (Do I have too many P's there?)

RE: RAM economy tips (OT: pre?)

2001-04-20 Thread Michael Marziani
What does the 'pre' mean in 2.2.18pre21? I'm using that kernel too. -Mike __ Michael Marziani Systems Administrator - OnFiber Communications Phone: 512.651.7455 Fax: 512.651.7327 -Original Message- From: Robert Voigt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAM economy tips

2001-04-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:11:14PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: > > Unless everything slows to a crawl, swaps like mad or runs > > out of memory you should take it with a pinch of salt (and > > maybe wonder why the other 10% isn't made to do something > > useful too) > > In theory, this is fine. But

Re: RAM economy tips (OT: pre?)

2001-04-20 Thread Jason Healy
At 987780469s since epoch (04/20/01 11:27:49 -0400 UTC), Michael Marziani wrote: > What does the 'pre' mean in 2.2.18pre21? I'm using that kernel too. 'pre' refers to a prerelease version of a kernel. A 'beta' of a kernel release, if you will. The 'stable' releases are 2.2.18, 2.2.19 ... 2.2.X,

ot: imap server-side filtering

2001-04-20 Thread Michael O'Brien
Hola~ I'm looking for a mail filtering program that runs on an imap server. I read e-mail thru imap. I use mutt on Linux and Irix, and Outlook on Win2k. Essentially, I want to setup mail filters to route messages into other imap folders based on some set of criteria. Does anyone know of a good p

Re: RAM economy tips

2001-04-20 Thread Robert Voigt
> What does free say? Are you really out of memory? Does top show anything > that's eating a lot of memory? Finally, do free and top show the correct > amount of memory for your system (512MB)? I didn't know free and top until now, I took the information from KDE system guard, which is probab

Re: (SOLVED): OpenSSH: How to do RhostsRSAAuthentication?

2001-04-20 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 20 Apr 2001 15:22:25 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: NOTE: For the case that other people have problems too (and for the archive), I'll annotate my original config with info on how it works > please help before I tear my hair out. I'm trying to get > RhostsRSAAuthentication to work. > [...] > I've

Re: Getting Online with DSL Ethernet

2001-04-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > Actually it's not a static IP. > > > Almost undoubtedly, then, it's PPPoE, and you need the Roaring > Penguin client. Or a router that will do the PPPoE for you! But > RoE works fine. (Do I have too many P's there?) Nope, Roaring Penguin Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet. Hall

Re: RAM economy tips

2001-04-20 Thread Robert Voigt
> The thing is, just because some swap space is used, that doesn't mean > that the pages aren't also in physical RAM. Linux is actually very good > about keeping things efficient, and you certainly don't need to reboot > to continue working. Things were getting really slow because the harddriv

Re: OpenSSH: How to do RhostsRSAAuthentication?

2001-04-20 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 20 Apr 2001 09:08:59 -0600, ray p wrote: > What you need to do is set up ssh-agent and agent forwarding to do what you > want to do. ssh-agent is well documented on the web go forth and read. Have > fun Thanks, but no :) I've just posted a solution. The problem was that RhostsRSAAuthenticatio

Re: superblock corrupted

2001-04-20 Thread omicron
hi this is very interesting...The same thing happened to me. I upgraded to the new e2fsprogs package and the mount,and friends. Then when the fsck checked 3 of my 4 ext2 filesystems because they reached maximal mount count, everything was ok. The next boot and i had a kernel panic on my han

Re: RAM economy tips

2001-04-20 Thread Jason Healy
At 987806447s since epoch (04/20/01 11:40:47 -0400 UTC), Robert Voigt wrote: > > > What does free say? Are you really out of memory? Does top show anything > > that's eating a lot of memory? Finally, do free and top show the correct > > amount of memory for your system (512MB)? > > I didn't kn

Re: 3C905c summary.

2001-04-20 Thread Gilbert Laycock
Michael Marziani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure how different our 3c905C cards could be, [ ..SNIP.. ] Unfortunately different revisions of the 3C905C can be quite different. The relatively recent 3C905CX-TX-M would not work with kernels up to and including 2.2.18 without patching the

Re: RAM economy tips

2001-04-20 Thread Gordon Hart
> > out of memory you should take it with a pinch of salt (and > > maybe wonder why the other 10% isn't made to do something > > useful too) > > In theory, this is fine. But on my system (512 MB RAM) it's not always like > that. After a few hours of work with a lot of opening apps and documents and

Re: mp3 encoder Deb

2001-04-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
> WB> HI, > WB> Ive been looking for an mp3 encoder in a deb package, anyone found one? I > WB> have installed Grip and CDParanoia. > No, there is no such. There's certainly no package available from any of the Debian mirrors... but add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://forcix.cx/ de

Re: Routing problems using metric [Does somebody undestood !]

2001-04-20 Thread John R Lenton
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:58:02AM +, fr ml wrote: > Sorry to insist, but does somebody reading this mailing > list have any ideas of the way to resolv this problem. > Or can you give me links or else to help me ! > > It a project on with I had to figth for Linux to be > considered as an alter

ipmasq in debian links?

2001-04-20 Thread Mark S
I'm going to try and set up a lan here at home with my linux box as a router/firewall. I've checked out a lot of ipmasq/ipchains howto's, but they're redhat biased. Does anybody have any good urls for debian friendly documents? Thanks

Re: ipmasq in debian links?

2001-04-20 Thread Michael Soulier
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Mark S wrote: > I'm going to try and set up a lan here at home with my linux box as a > router/firewall. > I've checked out a lot of ipmasq/ipchains howto's, but they're redhat > biased. > > Does anybody have any good urls for debian friendly documents? Actually, I

Re: RAM economy tips

2001-04-20 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:35:46AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: ... | The thing is, just because some swap space is used, that doesn't mean | that the pages aren't also in physical RAM. Linux is actually very good | about keeping things efficient, and you certainly don't need to reboot | to con

Re: ot: imap server-side filtering

2001-04-20 Thread Bruce Z. Lysik
--On Friday, April 20, 2001 8:43 AM -0700 Michael O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm looking for a mail filtering program that runs on an imap server. I read e-mail thru imap. I use mutt on Linux and Irix, and Outlook on Win2k. Essentially, I want to setup mail filters to route messages in

remove from all lists

2001-04-20 Thread Jair Szapiro - www.tecnomidia.com.br
somebody registered us in all newsletters please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apache startup script

2001-04-20 Thread peanut butter
Hi, I felt the need to remove the apache installation I had on one of my Debian boxes to reinstall it as some things weren't making sense or as I would expect so I decided to start from scratch (with the default httpd.conf, etc.). At some point I deleted the /etc/init.d/apache wanting to "refresh"

Re: Moving to a new hd

2001-04-20 Thread Jason Pepas
i seem to remember reading that you have to use tar in order to get a complete copy of a filesystem. unfortunately i dont remember the details. - Original Message - From: "Philipp Lehman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User" Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 2:52 PM Subject: Moving to a new

Re: RAM economy tips

2001-04-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:46:20PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: > > > The thing is, just because some swap space is used, that doesn't mean > > that the pages aren't also in physical RAM. Linux is actually very good > > about keeping things efficient, and you certainly don't need to reboot > > to c

Re: remove from all lists

2001-04-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:55:50PM -0300, Jair Szapiro wrote: > somebody registered us in all newsletters > please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've forwarded this to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is where it should have gone to begin with. noah -- __

Re: Moving to a new hd

2001-04-20 Thread Jason Pepas
check it http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] jason.pepas.com - Original Message - From: "Philipp Lehman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User" Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 2:52 PM Subject: Moving to a new hd > A while ago a bought a

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac 7600 with G3 upgrade

2001-04-20 Thread Aaron Hall
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > I don't have very much experience with installing Linux on the PPC > architecture but I believe that "yaboot" is the bootloader that you > want to use if you have a "newworld" machine. That being said I have > no idea if your is newworld. A 7600 isn't

Re: apache startup script

2001-04-20 Thread Moritz Schulte
peanut butter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At some point I deleted the /etc/init.d/apache wanting to "refresh" > this as well. Now I can't get it back. Upon several attempts to > re-install "apache" and "apache-common", I get the error: > > "Setting up apache (1.3.9-13.2) ... > update-rc.d: /e

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread Jorge Santos
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 01:22:16PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > > I track unstable/sid and also routinely do "apt-get upgrade" with no > > apparent problems. Every once in a while, I'll answer 'no' to doing the > > upgrade and then do a "apt-get -u

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread Jorge Santos
CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 02:24:58AM +1000, Kevin Easton wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 09:13:44PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > > > > apt-get update > > > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > > > > > don't you mean apt-get upgrade? It's not a full release of the

Re: apache startup script

2001-04-20 Thread peanut butter
Hi, good suggestion but already attempted this. This does provide dpkg with what it wants to continue with the apache install and go through the usual configuration of the same yet, when all is configured and done, the apache startup script is still 0 bytes, ie. I still don't get the startup scrip

linux crash

2001-04-20 Thread Bradley James Reid
i've got a problem at boot. my debian system crashes. it's using kernel 2.0.36. the error follows the check of the hardware. and the error is: unable to open initial console any help would be great. i've never had to deal with this so all information regarding booting from disk and any boot opt

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 01:22:16PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > > > > I track unstable/sid and also routinely do "apt-get upgrade" > > > with no apparent problems. Every once in a while, I'll answer > > > 'no' to doing the upgrade and then do a

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