Re: crontab running scripts

2001-05-31 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:50:53AM +0200, Andr? Borman wrote: > I would like to know how I can get e.g. this crontab entry > * * * * * /usr/local/bin/foo -options arg1 arg2 > to run right. > options and arguments. It seems that when foo is executed, the external > programs are not executed because

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Re: crontab running scripts

2001-05-31 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi... I'm not sure if this right... but this is what I put in my crontabs at the first line I put: #!/bin/sh PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin (or what ever paths you want) * * * * * command blah blah Hope this helps... Mike - Original Message - From: "André Borman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

gnumeric

2001-05-31 Thread Renai LeMay
can someone give me pointers as to why gnumeric is not apt-gettable in unstable? or a way to apt-get it? I'd rather not compile it from source. thanks, Renai

Re: gnumeric

2001-05-31 Thread David Nusinow
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 11:13 pm, Renai LeMay wrote: > can someone give me pointers as to why gnumeric is not apt-gettable in > unstable? or a way to apt-get it? I assume you mean the libgal6 problem. It's bug #99041 if you're curious. The gnumeric package has a dependency on the libgal6 packag

Re: mouseman wheel on X

2001-05-31 Thread Erik Steffl
tek kno3 wrote: > > Hi all, > > i'like some help to make the mouseman wheel work on netscape (if it does!?). > running potato 2.2.19pre17-ide; XF 3.3.6, enlightenment 16.2, netscape 4.77 > > i managed ok (Zaxis on XFconfig) to make the wheel work (eg. w/ xterm) but > nothing w/ netscape. later

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Email Problem

2001-05-31 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, Its so nice to be back in the land of the linux. I have been asked if it is possible to monitor specific outgoing email ? By specific I mean either from a specific email return address, or a specific IP number. We are using sendmail, SMTP, and POP3 It is easy enough to monitor the incommin

Re: Netscape problem in debian. Found the cause :-)

2001-05-31 Thread Andre Berger
* Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-05-31 07:49 +0200: > I heard that the newer version of icewm is called sawfish (which is > neatly packaged in a .deb). > CMIIW. sawfish (formerly called sawmill) is another window manager, not a newer version of icewm. A. B.

Re: Netscape problem in debian. Found the cause :-)

2001-05-31 Thread Andre Berger
* Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-05-31 07:49 +0200: > Yeah finnally I found the cause that I have complained > about netscape before, that ever you quit netscape by > click File / Exit, Netscape will still remain in > memory (actually still running but no window display). > Always like that.

speed up modem connection

2001-05-31 Thread John Joe
I surf with Netscape 4.0 for Linux and find it much slower than IE 5.0 of MS Winodws. I've change MTU to 576 (MTU is an argument to pppd) and it didn't help. I connect by 33.6k internal modem. I use Debian 2.1. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized e

swap vs. RAM

2001-05-31 Thread George Dancheff
Hi, I just compiled some kernels 2.4.x series , and it seems to me that all these builds prefer to use my swap space instead of my free memory , so the performance dropped :((( . I noticed when the mashine is not overloaded , free outputs the following : debian:/# free total u

Unofficial Galeon Package against Sid

2001-05-31 Thread christophe barbé
Hi, I've build unofficial galeon package against sid. The package is build against a patched version of kitame's mozilla. I provide package for the last official release of galeon and an another from cvs. If you want them you can add the following lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list : # mozilla 0

apache SSI trouble

2001-05-31 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I´m running apache on one of my boxes, but ran into trouble regarding SSI now. For some of the vhosts it works, for some not. A vhost with working SSI looks like this: ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /home/a.b.c/html ServerName a.b.c ErrorLog /home/a.b.c/logs/e

Re: swap vs. RAM

2001-05-31 Thread Dragos Delcea
George Dancheff wrote: > > Hi, I just compiled some kernels 2.4.x series , and it > seems to me that all these builds prefer to use my > swap space instead of my free memory , so the > performance dropped :((( . I noticed when the mashine > is not overloaded , free outputs the following : > debia

Re: mouseman wheel on X

2001-05-31 Thread Robert Voigt
On Thursday 31 May 2001 08:35, Erik Steffl wrote: > the fourth button doesn't work no matter what I do... anybody got it > working? It works here, but it does the same as the middle button. So not really useful. I'd like to have it do a "back" in Konqueror, and perhaps other useful stuff in ot

Re: looking for XMMS 1.2.5-pre1 deb-package

2001-05-31 Thread Thomas Hess
On Thu, 31 May 2001 00:48:58 -0400 (EDT), Daniel T. Chen said: > I built a deb on 12 May, let me know if you'd like me to post it. if files are ok on this list yes, otherwise just send it to me via email thx, tom -- Thomas Hess mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mouseman wheel on X

2001-05-31 Thread Lari Kovanen
Robert Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 31 May 2001 08:35, Erik Steffl wrote: > > the fourth button doesn't work no matter what I do... anybody got it > > working? > > It works here, but it does the same as the middle button. So not really > useful. I'd like to have it do a "bac

Re: Netscape problem in debian. Found the cause :-)

2001-05-31 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Steve Kieu wrote: > > Hi, > > Yeah finnally I found the cause that I have complained > about netscape before, that ever you quit netscape by > click File / Exit, Netscape will still remain in > memory (actually still running but no window display). > Always like that. The culprit is window manage

libpcap0 question

2001-05-31 Thread Curtis Hogg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've noticed that the Debian libpcap0 package comes with a shared object. tomoe-hotaru:# dpkg -L libpcap0 (...) /usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.6.2 (...) My question then, is this? How/where did the .so file come from? When I compiled libpcap 0.6.2 from source

middle mouse button

2001-05-31 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Hi there, since my mouse refused to work under X with gpm running I changed the entry in my XF86Config file from /dev/ttyS0 to /dev/gpmdata. Now I do have my mouse under X and on the console but under X the middle mouse buton is not working. Does anyone know a solution to this problem? Here is t

Re: First Debian Install Question

2001-05-31 Thread vester
it would help to know which setup program that was, and whether it is xfree4 or 3... basically to re-run configuration you add -reconfigure or something like that... but what i would suggest is to simply start your favourite setup program yourself, for xfree3: xf86config or XF86Setup (if you hav

Re: middle mouse button

2001-05-31 Thread Curtis Hogg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What do you have your repeater type set to for your gpm configuration? You may have a problem there. What's the actual type of your mouse. - -- Curtis Hogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- The real reason psychology

Slow Ximian Gnome 1.4

2001-05-31 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Hi I 'upgraded' my Gnome on 2.2.r3 to Ximian 1.4 and it now runs like a dog. I have a P400 with 128Mb RAM and a Matrox G200, running top with just a gnome terminal open shows 50% CPU idle with XSVGA and Nautilus being the biggest CPU hogs (even though all Nautilus windows are closed). On the same

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

2001-05-31 Thread John S. J. Anderson
> On Wed, 30 May 2001 10:53:22 -0700, Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Mike> To answer your question, I used xev to grab the information on Mike> the dreaded "menu" key. It reported (among other things): Mike> keycode 117 (keysym 0xff67, Menu) Mike> when the "menu" key was pressed wit

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

2001-05-31 Thread John S. J. Anderson
> On 30 May 2001 22:08:33 -0400, "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Paul> Second, my point is, with so many truly _useful_ and Paul> _interesting_ things to learn, why waste brain cells on Paul> something as basically useless and uninteresting (and baroque) Paul> as modmap syntax? Pers

Re: middle mouse button

2001-05-31 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Curtis Hogg wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > What do you have your repeater type set to for your gpm configuration? You > may have a problem there. Ok, I have to check this at home. > > What's the actual type of your mouse. It's quite an old Logitech 3button mous

Re: The use of source cds.

2001-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
"Simmons-Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to know exactly what purpose the source cds serve and who would >need to use them. I will only be using Debian for things like word >processing, email, the internet, etcetera and wouldn't be doing any >development or performing any major alte

man problems

2001-05-31 Thread harsha
hi, all of a sudden i can't view the man pages. man man man: can't set the effective uid: Operation not permitted. even when i work as the root it is the same problem. would appreciate help on this thanks in advance harsha

installation

2001-05-31 Thread Puppy
Hello every one, I'm a beginner and when i arrived at the step where i can choose the additional software during the installation i choose the voice simple Ok ! But when i arrived to simple menu install it not compare the packages (gnome ecc, ecc) What can i do for install a simple host with gnome

Re: crontab running scripts

2001-05-31 Thread Hamma Scott
I'd verify to see if you put the paths to these external programs into the PATH variable it would work. you can type $export PATH = ::$PATH = the absolute path of the external programs you are calling. If there are more than one, like the above example, use colons to separate. If that works, th

Re: The use of source cds.

2001-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >"Simmons-Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I would like to know exactly what purpose the source cds serve and who would >>need to use them. I will only be using Debian for things like word >>processing, email, the internet, etcetera and wouldn't be doing a

Re: man problems

2001-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
harsha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > all of a sudden i can't view the man pages. > >man man >man: can't set the effective uid: Operation not permitted. > >even when i work as the root it is the same problem. What version of the man-db package do you have? ('dpkg -l man-db') When you say "all of

Re: Slow Ximian Gnome 1.4

2001-05-31 Thread Moritz Schulte
Patrick Colbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I 'upgraded' my Gnome on 2.2.r3 to Ximian 1.4 and it now runs like a > dog. I have a P400 with 128Mb RAM and a Matrox G200, running top with > just a gnome terminal open shows 50% CPU idle with XSVGA and Nautilus > being the biggest CPU hogs (even thou

Re: installation

2001-05-31 Thread ktb
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:10:09PM +0200, Puppy wrote: > Hello every one, > I'm a beginner and when i arrived at the step where i can choose > the additional software during the installation i choose the voice simple Ok > ! > But when i arrived to simple menu install it not compare the packages >

Re: Framebuffer aty128fb - solved

2001-05-31 Thread Imre Vida
So, i searched back in the archives and found one short thread on this topic. There was one hint that the aty128fb in kernel 2.2.x does not accept cmdline options. So I compiled kernel 2.4.4 and indeed the cmdline options work there fine ... Then i went back to 2.2.19 and supprise: with the ve

Serial Port Question

2001-05-31 Thread Dana S. Wheeler
My system doesn't recognize ttyS0 (which makes it difficult to synch my Palm Pilot). I'm running Debian 2.2.r3 (Potato) on a Dell Inspirion 7500 with a PCMCIA modem card on /dev/ttyS2. I'm at a loss on what to do from here. The information I've been able to gather so far is as follows: bash-2.03$

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nfs-problem

2001-05-31 Thread Alexander Gun
hi all i have mounted my homedirs via nfs-kernel-server. fstab: obelix.home.gunix.de:/home /home/net nfs defaults 0 0 exports: /home 192.168.13.10(rw,no_root_squash) 192.168.13.10 is my workstation. now i get the following message at my workstations syslog, if i want to open my mailboxes in ~/

Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-31 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Ian Greenhoe wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:28:16AM +0530, Rajkumar S. wrote: > > Thanks, it was done. > > You're welcome. > > > How can I make apt-get to ask to erase the downloaded debs after install? > > Edit (or create) /etc/apt.conf and add the following to it: > > // Things that e

Re: USB CD burner recommendations?

2001-05-31 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Max Kamenetsky wrote: > > Hi all! > > Do you have any recommendations on a fast external USB-based CD burner I've never tried this and my info is probably a bit out of date, but, the last time I looked at the CD burning howto it said that cd burning did not work over USB. This may have changed

Re: Setting up NIS

2001-05-31 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Dave Sherohman wrote: > > I'm trying to get a NIS domain started and having little luck... I've > followed along through /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz (which is > great to have there!), but it doesn't seem to have worked. Check out the Network Administrators Guide and the NIS/NFS HowTo

xdm and gdm

2001-05-31 Thread Tushar Naik
Hi, I have been using xdm as my display manager recently on Debian Potato 2.2. I would like to replace it by gdm. For this I have the following queries :- 1) Recently I read in this mailing list that to use gdm I have to remove xdm. Cannot both of them coexist? i.e. both of them are installe

Re: Slow Ximian Gnome 1.4

2001-05-31 Thread vester
i think one of the main reasons is that nautilus draws the desktop...open nautilus and in the preferrences make sure that nautilus does *not* draw the desktop (let sawfish or whatever do that instead)...now check again...hope this improves speed! but then, if you want a fast desktop there's alway

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-31 Thread Alan Shutko
Renai LeMay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It only has a very small section on kword, which after all, is currently one > of the best Linux word processors out there. That's not saying much. Does KWord have a decent printing/font architecture yet? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a vari

Re: swap vs. RAM

2001-05-31 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Anyone able to explain why the 2.4 kernel prefers swap > instead of free RAM ??? It's a known problem that the kernel developers are trying to fix. - -- -

Re: firewall log message question

2001-05-31 Thread HdV
On Wed, 30 May 2001, will trillich wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:30:54AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Am 29. May, 2001 schw?zte will trillich so: > > > Security Violations > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > May 23 12:51:01 server kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=1 > > > 1

Re: xdm and gdm

2001-05-31 Thread George Dancheff
just type: # apt-get update # apt-get -f install gdm and Debian will do the rest Hope you have the relevant /etc/sources.list pointed to any Debian archive mirror. --- Tushar Naik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I have been using xdm as my display manager > recently on Debian > Potato

connessione ad internet?

2001-05-31 Thread linux User
ragazzi ho la deb 2.2r3 ma non riesco a connettermi appena effettua l'hadshake subito kiude la connesione :(   ki mi aiuta ??   premetto ke ho configurato tutti i file di confè il ppp mi risulta installato ma non mi conpare su ifconfig..è normale questo?   GRazie dell'eventuale risp ..ci

Re: USB CD burner recommendations?

2001-05-31 Thread glynis
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:22:18PM -0700, Max Kamenetsky wrote: > Do you have any recommendations on a fast external USB-based CD burner > that works well with the latest kernels (we're running 2.4.5 here)? > Any suggestions would be appreciated! i'm using the old iomega zip 650 cd with my laptop

Re: Problems with symbolic links under /dev

2001-05-31 Thread Dave Carrigan
Stefan Srdic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now when I use cdrecord to test my cd-burner configuration I get: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev# cdrecord --scanbus > Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling > cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. > c

lpr printing problem in sid---temp file error

2001-05-31 Thread Alan Davis
I am getting an error when trying to print in a sid system, with lpr as the print spooler. I get an error under netscape 4.77: temp file write error in an xterm: bash-2.05$ lpr -Plp wordcount lpr: wordcount: temp file write error lpr: wordcount: empty input

Re: About PGP signatures

2001-05-31 Thread Florian Weimer
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > Request: I'd like a list of clients supporting RFC 2015 attachments and > the plugins necessary to support this. Of particular interest: All Windows-based clients which support MIME only by translation at gateways (for example, Lotus Notes, and probably MS-Exchange-

Re: connessione ad internet?

2001-05-31 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> ragazzi ho la deb 2.2r3 ma non riesco a connettermi appena effettua > l'hadshake subito kiude la connesione :( > > ki mi aiuta ?? > > premetto ke ho configurato tutti i file di confè il ppp mi risulta > installato ma non mi conpare su ifconfig..è normale questo? come hai configurato la con

recompiling the debian way...

2001-05-31 Thread Yves Berthiaume
Hi there, Since I'm new to this list. I don't know if this *off-topic*... I'm having trouble installing my new kernel package. When I do a dpkg --install /usr/src/mynewkernelpkg... It complains that there is a conflict with pcmcia-module not being the same release number. Then quits... I don't

Re: mouseman wheel on X

2001-05-31 Thread Brian Nelson
Lari Kovanen wrote: > > Robert Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > And I'd also like to be able to scroll with the wheel in Emacs. Does anyone > > know how to do that? This is one of the things that worked out of the box > > when I had Mandrake, and don't work in Debian :( > > Install imwheel o

Printer woes

2001-05-31 Thread Sidney Brooks
After writing of my printer troubles several days ago and following every suggestion without success, I decided that my problem was that I had a vendor version of Debian potato. I then bought an "official" version and my Debian program still will not print. I have Windows, Redhat, and Debian o

abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-05-31 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list As a non-native english speaker, I sometimes find it difficult to figure out, what some abbreviations mean. It took me rather long to find out, that "hth" means "Hope This Helps", and so on. Could some of you explain to me (and, I'm sure, to some others as well) what the FUA (Frequently Us

Cannot find Mouse

2001-05-31 Thread Jim Darrough
Hello. I installed debian Potato on a K6-266 box with 64m memory and am having minor technical difficulties with the mouse. I did apt-get install Gnome, used tasksel to install all the x stuff, and did xf86config but when I try to start the x-server, it crashes and tells me that it can't find

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-05-31 Thread Andrew Perrin
IIRC: If I Remember/Recall Correctly AFAIK: As Far As I Know IMHO: In My Humble Opinion There is a good list at: http://www.cyberomics.com/mailtalk.html ap -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin

IPv6

2001-05-31 Thread DvB
I've noticed that the debian installer includes the option to add ipv6 support to the kernel. Are there any advantages/disadvantages to adding this to a workstation? Would it break compatibility with the current version?

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-05-31 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: JJ> Hi list JJ> JJ> As a non-native english speaker, I sometimes find it difficult to figure JJ> out, what some abbreviations mean. It took me rather long to find out, JJ> that "hth" means "Hope This Helps", and so on. JJ> Could some of you explain to me

Re: Cannot find Mouse

2001-05-31 Thread shock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 31 May 2001, Jim Darrough wrote: > > I installed debian Potato on a K6-266 box with 64m memory and am having > minor technical difficulties with the mouse. I did apt-get install Gnome, > used tasksel to install all the x stuff, and did xf

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-05-31 Thread Willi Dyck
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:09:46PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > As a non-native english speaker, I sometimes find it difficult to figure > out, what some abbreviations mean. It took me rather long to find out, > that "hth" means "Hope This Helps", and so on. > Could some of you explain to me (and

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-05-31 Thread Jason Healy
At 991346986s since epoch (05/31/01 11:09:46 -0400 UTC), Joerg Johannes wrote: > Could some of you explain to me (and, I'm sure, to some others as well) > what the FUA (Frequently Used Abbrevs) mean? > > ? IIRC If I Remember Correctly > ? AFAIK As Far As I Know > ? IMHO In My Honest Opinion (or:

Re: Noisy phone line drops connection

2001-05-31 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
[Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:04:16PM -0400] Scott_Patterson: > Is there some parameter or option I can set that won't > cause the connection to drop when there is some line > noise/static ? Try dialing up after adding 'ATS10=247' to your modem init string. -- ragOO, VU2R

Re: Customizing the console key map?

2001-05-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I already know how to do this; what I want to know is whether there is >> any way to do it in Debian, so that when I upgrade my Debian packages >> console-tools (or kbd, I don't care much which one) my customizations >> are kept automatically wi

Succes with Win4lin 3.0 on Potato?

2001-05-31 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi, I would like to run the new Win4lin windows emulator because I have problems with the resource hungry VMware. Those guys at Netravese do not support Debian (I wrote them about that). It requires some kernel patch and tweaks, I was wondering if anyone here has had a go at it yet. Any reports mos

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-05-31 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Petr [Dingo] Dvorak" wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > JJ> ? IIRC > JJ> ? AFAIK > JJ> ? IMHO > > IIRC - If I Recall Correctly > AFAIK - As Far As I Know > IMHO - In My Humble Opinion > > you can use www.acronymfinder.com to find out the rest .. :) Alternatively, install

Re: gnumeric

2001-05-31 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 23:26:54 -0700, David Nusinow wrote: > The gnumeric package has a dependency on the libgal6 package, but that's > been removed from sources (I think) and replaced with a new libgal7 > package. This broke the gnumeric package, and some other packages like > gabber. > I don't

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-05-31 Thread Martin Schulze
Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi list > > As a non-native english speaker, I sometimes find it difficult to figure > out, what some abbreviations mean. It took me rather long to find out, > that "hth" means "Hope This Helps", and so on. > Could some of you explain to me (and, I'm sure, to some others as

Mindterm and different font.

2001-05-31 Thread Preben Randhol
Is there a way to change the font when after logging into a Linux box with mindterm (Java SSH). I would like to be able to change to a iso-8859-7 font, but setfont doesn't work. Thanks in advance. -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- iMy favorite editor is Emacs!bcw

Re: mouseman wheel on X

2001-05-31 Thread Robert Voigt
On Thursday 31 May 2001 17:04, Brian Nelson wrote: > I prefer to configure the apps individually. For example, add something > like this to your ~/.emacs > > ; Allow mouse wheel to scroll > (defun up-slightly () (interactive) (scroll-up 5)) > (defun down-slightly () (interactive) (scroll-down 5))

Currency of packages

2001-05-31 Thread jennyw
I started using Debian because folks suggested it was easy to maintain (e.g. apt-get). I really like apt -- it certainly makes installing and downloading things a lot easier than other distributions.  However ... I'm not (yet) a heavy Linux user, and I find that a lot of times I want softwar

Re: IPv6

2001-05-31 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:33:35AM -0500, DvB wrote: > I've noticed that the debian installer includes the option to add ipv6 > support to the kernel. Are there any advantages/disadvantages to adding > this to a workstation? Would it break compatibility with the current > version? No, adding IP

Re: First Debian Install Question

2001-05-31 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Thanks for the replies. It was xf86config that I wanted. Now if I could just the settings correct. I've got an old Daewoo (CMX?) monitor, and a GeForce 256 card, and I can't seem to get it right. If anyone has a similar setup maybe they could share their config settings? I'll keep plugging away.

Re: anyone going to USENIX?

2001-05-31 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:49:40AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > We've had a Debian Bof at the last 3 Usenixes (Usenices?), so it'd be > a reasonable idea. Excellent. Hopefully we'll be running a booth in the expo so we'll get to meet there anyway. I will be helping to run the booth, but I d

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2001-05-31 Thread Firas-Sadat
Ich hab mich bei der Installation von Debian an die Installationsanleitung von Mark Stone gehalten. Doch an dem Punkt "Das System konfigurieren" scheitere ich, da es in der Installationsanleitung so aussieht, als hätte das System nach dem Login eine Windowsähnliche Oberfläche. Doch die Oberf

Re: Setting up NIS

2001-05-31 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:16:43PM -0700, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > Not necessarily suprising. I've found the most useful way to get data > from ypserv is to run it from a seperate [aEwx]term with the -d > switch. Word of warning: It can produce a *lot* of data. Or it might not... bradley:~# ypser

Re: The use of source cds.

2001-05-31 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
How about using the source cd's to roll your very own binary? Seems like that would be something useful for folks who love power computin'. On Thursday 31 May 2001 04:10, Colin Watson wrote: > Oh, I should point out that the other half of why we distribute source > code is because the licenses o

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

2001-05-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John S. J. Anderson) writes: >> On 30 May 2001 22:08:33 -0400, "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Paul> Second, my point is, with so many truly _useful_ and Paul> _interesting_ things to learn, why waste brain cells on Paul> something as basically useless

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-05-31 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hey Joerg, fwiw, I found a killer apt called 'wtf'. I'll let you do the math on what that means, but it is a great way to know what 'imnsho' means. Also, apt-cache search showed me that jargon is still available and will do the same job. It's small and useful. Just used it today when I see

Re: Succes with Win4lin 3.0 on Potato?

2001-05-31 Thread Paul Huygen
Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Those guys at Netravese do not support Debian (I wrote them about that). > It requires some kernel patch and tweaks, I was wondering if anyone here > has had a go at it yet. Any reports most welcome. About a month ago, I tried win4lin on Debian, an

Re: The use of source cds.

2001-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >How about using the source cd's to roll your very own binary? Seems like that >would be something useful for folks who love power computin'. Try out pentium-builder, which makes this easier. It's somewhat more hassle if you're tracking unstable, though (and not clear tha

Re: Setting up NIS

2001-05-31 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:53:44AM -0500, Dave Sherohman uttered: > > Check. I actually had tried shutting down NFS and then stopping and starting > portmapper and NIS in various combinations yesterday; NIS gives a completely > different set of errors when portmapper is shut down. > I seem to re

Re: nfs-problem

2001-05-31 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:05:44PM +0200, Alexander Gun uttered: > May 31 15:01:38 asterix kernel: nsm_mon_unmon: rpc failed, status=-13 > May 31 15:01:38 asterix kernel: lockd: cannot monitor 192.168.13.100 > May 31 15:01:38 asterix kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 192.168.13.100 > Make sure nfs-

Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-31 Thread Ian Greenhoe
> How do you down-grade a package? I get burned a lot by ximian and was > thinking that it would be really useful to have a list of what packages > I was running before upgrading so that I could revert to that state if > there packages were broken, again ;( ***

Re: [Galeon-user] Unofficial Galeon Package against Sid

2001-05-31 Thread Pablo Borges
Up and running. Looks good here... Tnx Christophe. []'s Pablo On Thu, 31 May 2001, christophe barbé wrote: > Hi, > > I've build unofficial galeon package against sid. > The package is build against a patched version of kitame's mozilla. > I provide package for the last official release of ga

Nokia 6210 + internet

2001-05-31 Thread Sebastian Deppe
hello ! is anybody out there who is using a nokia 6210 to connect to the internet ? i've got the nokia DLR3-cable on /dev/ttyS0 but i got "no carrier" with "kppp" . i'm using debian testing with kernel 2.4.4 . can anybody say me what i've to do ? thanks sebastian deppe

Log messages

2001-05-31 Thread shock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 recently, i noticed the following in my logs: May 30 07:42:24 cx633007-b kernel: Packet log: inp DENY eth0 PROTO=6 24.0.0.203:51622 24.179.76.38:119 L=44 S=0x00 I=15241 F=0x T=247 SYN (#1) May 30 07:42:24 cx633007-b kernel: Packet log: inp DENY et

net-pf-10 fork failed, errno 11

2001-05-31 Thread Dan Christensen
I get the following error message once or twice an hour in my syslog: May 31 13:25:55 ren kernel: request_module[net-pf-10]: fork failed, errno 11 This happens whether or not I have #alias net-pf-10 off# IPv6 commented out in my /etc/modutils/aliases file (and I did remember to run

qmail install help!!!

2001-05-31 Thread Hirn Wix
Hello everyone! By now I'm rather pissed off. I managed to install qmail 1.03 on my potato and when it comes to the point where I want to start the local delivery functionality, the log says some about "unable to switch to queue directory"... -and then I tried almost everything. read docs, faqs...

Re: Printer woes

2001-05-31 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Sidney Brooks wrote: > > > Can anybody tell me what is wrong? > I can't exactly say what is wrong but have you tried magicfilter? It worked like a charm the last time I had to get a printer going. later, Andy P.S. I've never trusted buying Debian CD's. People always seem to mess them up. Be

Re: Setting up NIS

2001-05-31 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:53:44AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Any further suggestions or anything seemingly relevant in this information? I think I know part of what your problem is. Either do in your yp.conf: domain mycompany.com server bradley.west.mycompany.com

stop users telnet

2001-05-31 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi all...   I have a bunch of users on my linux box that have access to some samba shares ftp to their home directoriesetc...   What do you suggest I do to stop them from accessing the system via telnet or ssh? (just in case some of them are curiousdon't want them looking in /etc

named/query () contains our address...?

2001-05-31 Thread will trillich
- Forwarded message from root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:02:03 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: server 05/30/01:17.02 system check Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= May 30 16:08:34 server xinetd[25723]: warning: can't get c

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