Re: [users] Mail from OE to linux and more

2001-07-09 Thread Paul Mackinney
Hi! This is a little long-winded, so bail now if you're not interested in newbie mail setup woes... I'm yet another person who'd love to completely transition from Windows to Linux. And yes, I use Outlook and yes, getting mail really working on Linux is the biggest obstacle to my completing the tr

pine and trn interaction

2001-07-09 Thread Jor-el
Hi, Does anyone know how to set trn up so that when a post is made to a newsgroup, a copy of the mail is stored in the sent-mail pine folder? Thanks, Jor-el mophobia, n.: Fear of being verbally abused by a Mississippian.

Re: [OT] sendmail FEATURE access_db - configuration help needed

2001-07-09 Thread Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Jimmy Richards wrote: > Greetings GNU/Linuxer's, > > I am hoping someone might be able to help me with the access_db > feature in sendmail. Here's what I did to try and get it to work. I > made a file /etc/mail/access containing one line followed by a newline, > is

Re: [users] Mail from OE to linux and more

2001-07-09 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:31:03AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > Task 1. While logged in to my debian system as 'paul', get my @Home mail > and send all outgoing mail through @Home's smtp server with > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' as the return address. As I understand it, I > should be able to do this wit

sharing /home and swap space between two Linux systems

2001-07-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I'm planning to buy a new computer and install Debian on it. I haven't got around to the buying yet, and I had a spare 2 Gig on one of the drives of my current computer, so I decided to install Debian on it. The install went very smoothly, though it was facilitated by the fact that I

Re: [users] Mail from OE to linux and more

2001-07-09 Thread Craig Dickson
Eric G. Miller wrote: > When you configure exim, you'll want it as a "smarthost" forwarding > everthing that isn't destined for a local user ("paul") to @Homes smtp > server. I tried that when I was first configuring exim, but it didn't work for me. I ended up just letting exim consider itself an

Re: [users] Mail from OE to linux and more

2001-07-09 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/09/01 02:31:03 -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > Hi! This is a little long-winded, so bail now if you're not interested > in newbie mail setup woes... I hope you can make some sense out of my reply. It's a little "all over the place". The bulk of my reply is at the bottom... > > I'm yet anoth

Re: xserver-svga geforce2 woes

2001-07-09 Thread Aquila
Why are you using the xserver-svga? Shouldn't you be using nvidia's own module with xserver-xfree86? As for KDE, you could choose that from gdm (after you install task-kde), or you can play around with your .xsession file (if you use startx). On 08 Jul 2001 20:43:42 -0700, Patrick Gray wrote: > >

Re: [users] Mail from OE to linux and more

2001-07-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:53:07PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > I tried that when I was first configuring exim, but it didn't work for > me. I ended up just letting exim consider itself an "internet site", > i.e. if mail is going from me to foo.com, exim goes straight to > foo.com's mail server to

Re: Acrobat Reader & Linux distributions

2001-07-09 Thread Johann Spies
(Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Folks, > > I'm having problems with Acrobat Reader (version 4.0) segfaulting > repeatedly on a SuSE-7.2. (This is with "Smooth text and images" > turned on -- turning this off seems to cure it). > > What are people's experiences with this version of

Re: NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-09 Thread Martin Fluch
> if you only wanted to change the local dot files... oh well... > we all learn and remember the hard way... :-) > shoulda been: chmod pattern ~/.* NO. ~/.* includes .. ~/.. too, if expanded by the shell. In this case this would be /root/.. which is nothing els but / ... the same mess agai

Installing on a new system... Is it possible to have the packages I select automatically build from .deb source versions and compiled specifically for my CPU?

2001-07-09 Thread mjevans1983011
I think the topic says most of what I want. For the first time in about 5 years I am expecting to get (build for my self in this case) a new computer system. With modern hardware packages can be compiled in a length of time where it is not unreasonable to expend a little more time up front and co

Disk related system hangs

2001-07-09 Thread Ross Boylan
For the 2nd time in about a month my system has hung while trying to access the disk. The first time the performance gradually deteriorated, and when I switch to a virtual console (if that's the lingo: ctl-alt-F1) I saw lots of errors about being unable to access the hard drive. It became complet

debian firewall and packet monitoring

2001-07-09 Thread Jason Majors
I'm setting up a debian machine as a firewall for a friend who has a cable modem that he wants to share with his family. But he wants to be able to monitor the email and yahoo chatting that his kids do. Is there an easy way to do this on a debian box? Thx.

Oups I did it again

2001-07-09 Thread Frédéric de Villamil
Hi, sorry for encrypted messages, I didn't see my mail client had automatic encryption activated. Fred

dpkg problem

2001-07-09 Thread David Fuchs
Hello Debian users!       I've recently installed Debian (Potato) on a personal computer, and I'm having some difficulty with the package manager (dpkg) that came with it.  The problem came up after I installed the Ximian Gnome packages (via apt-get).  Once that had completed, I had a workin

Re: NO! chmod strikes! -- oops

2001-07-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hiya marin > > if you only wanted to change the local dot files... oh well... > > we all learn and remember the hard way... :-) > > shoulda been: chmod pattern ~/.* > > NO. ~/.* includes .. ~/.. too, if expanded by the shell. In this case this > would be /root/.. which is nothing els but

Re: dpkg problem

2001-07-09 Thread Bek Oberin
David Fuchs wrote: > So the question is, why did dpkg not install the files properly? It thought it already had. > Obviously it's keeping track of what's installed (or should I say, > what it *thinks* is installed). dpkg's assumptions don't help me, > however, and I can't be certain my applicat

Re: isdn dialup

2001-07-09 Thread garyjones
Am Sun, 08 July 2001 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Firstly what is a MSN/EAZ and how do i find mine? MSN = Multi-Subscriber Number. Your telco has given you three(?) numbers, you can use any one of those. > How do i > switch international dialing off? Don't know about this one without my own b

Re: shutdown as user

2001-07-09 Thread christophe barbé
On machine with only one user, it's a waste of time to return to gdm to halt your machine. gshutdown allows to halt or restart your machine from the gnome session. On ximian box, when you logout from gnome, a dialog box prompt you for : 1. logout from X session 2. halt the machine 3. restart the

Re: debian firewall and packet monitoring

2001-07-09 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, yes, I found a good iptables firewall script. It is simple to configure to set y or n to a list of options. It also blocks trojans and ports you should not use. You can download it from: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/adsl4linux/ADSL4Linux/ADS L4Linux/templates/firewall.iptabl

Re: pine and trn interaction

2001-07-09 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know how to set trn up so that when a post is made to >a newsgroup, a copy of the mail is stored in the sent-mail pine folder? Try 'export AUTHORCOPY=$HOME/mail/sent-mail' (or wherever it is) in your shell initialization files. There's documentation of

Re: how to extract *.deb files, etc.

2001-07-09 Thread Stephen Jiang
Thanks Kent > > > As to your second question what video card are you using? > > > > I have used ASUS's CUSI-M with SiS 630E chipset (all in one mother board) > > on board VGA card with SiS 300 integrates a 2xAGP controller > > on board LAN card with SiS 7016/7014 (10/100Mb) ethernet controller > >

Re: dpms and X4

2001-07-09 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001 15:02:35 -0700 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > With one of the recent updates to xscreensaver (I'm running 3.32), power > management functionality previously resident in xset was incorporated > into xscreensaver. Moreover, xscreensaver silently overrides the > settings specifie

Time-Server

2001-07-09 Thread mseidel
Hi to all of you! I need your advise. Which client to use? I tried chronyd but was not able to update my Systemtime. chrony got the correct time, the problem is how to get it into the system. markus

Invalid version

2001-07-09 Thread Eugene Kaminenko
Или я чегото напутал, или я чегото непонимаю, или вы чегото напутали. Пытаюсь установить DEBIAN. все подготовил начал установку с дискет. (с винта не хотел устанавливаться немог найти файл /images-1.44/rescue.bin/ ) что я ему только не делал и папки переименовывал и большими буквами писал то

Re: Time-Server

2001-07-09 Thread Sebastiaan
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi to all of you! > > I need your advise. > Which client to use? > I tried chronyd but was not able to update my Systemtime. chrony got the > correct time, the problem is how to get it into the system. > > markus Hi, if you want to synchronize you

Re: upgrading to kernel 2.4.5

2001-07-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
I disagree here. Once you bastardize a perfectly good potato system there's no easy turning back. If it is running smoothly (and there's no reason it shouldn't) then I think you should let it keep doing well what it does well (everything). You'll notice no real difference to 2.4 unless you're runn

Re: help! can't start X anymore

2001-07-09 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Andrew Kae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-09 04:50): >Hi, > >I'm kinda digging up this thread from april becuause i'm having the >same problem and there didn't seem to be a definite answer to the >thread. > >I've been using xfree86-common 3.35 then decided to update to t

Re: upgrading to kernel 2.4.5, again!

2001-07-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
It should be noted that the "stable" vs "unstable" refers to the stability of the distribution, not of the machine running it. I've got a machine tracking unstable running for over a year without problems (but with smaller uptime due to hardware and kernel upgrades). Potato is stable in that chang

mc (Midnight Commander): View (F3) does not work on a .deb file?

2001-07-09 Thread Shaul Karl
Trying to View (F3) a deb file from within mc (Midnight Commander) gives me a red Error box with the message: `Empty output from child filter' It seems to me that the problem is my respective lines in ~/.mc/bindings: [13:14:57 tmp]$ grep -A4 '# deb' ~/.mc/bindings # deb regex/\.deb$ Ope

invalid version number

2001-07-09 Thread Eugene Kaminenko
if you can not read it text then read text file. Или я чегото напутал, или я чегото непонимаю, или вы чегото напутали.Пытаюсь установить DEBIAN. все подготовил начал установку с дискет. (с винта не хотел устанавливаться немог найти файл /images-1.44/rescue.bin/ ) что я ему только не делал и

Re: Reiserfs and disk spindown: separate /var partition?

2001-07-09 Thread Joerg Johannes
Christian Jaeger wrote: > > Hello > > I would like the hard drive to spin down (on a small server > overnight, on a powerbook, etc), but want to use reiserfs. Reiserfs > prevents noflushd from working since it bypasses the filesystem > buffer for writing it's log. So what can I do? > > I'm imagi

Re: uk.debian.org

2001-07-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
I show similar results. I'm using Mozilla under linux, and www.debian.org and other mirrors show up fine (mostly english with a few Chinese characters) whereas http://www.uk.debian.org/ displays in ~all Chinese. (/index.en.html displays correctly, of course). This seems like this particular mirror

Re: Problems with info

2001-07-09 Thread Leonard Stiles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis) writes: > When I run something like 'info info', I get this: > info: Cannot find node op'. What happens when you just run "info"? What is the INFOPATH environment variable set to? -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: PPP dialup utility

2001-07-09 Thread Victor
Hi Jaye, As a matter of fact I regularly use PPPconfig, pon & poff both as root and as user with no problem at all, of course, in a console or in a terminal under gnome. I thought that the PPP dialup utility resorted to the same definitions of PPPconfig, but it doesn't seem to be that way (if I d

invalid version

2001-07-09 Thread Eugene Kaminenko
sorry. previous text was wrote in russianI try install DEBIAN from Hard drive FAT32.but DEBIAN SETUP programm could not found , it 1file?I try to install from floppy disk and DEBIAN setup can not read DEBIAN setup message "this disk is 1 of 11 and version 14." I downloaded image file from>

Re: Microsoft Reader... argh!

2001-07-09 Thread Joris Lambrecht
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:26:34AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Greetings folks- > Hello Andy, Just read your mail below. IMHO the Microsoft Reader format has been licensed from Adobe and is thus very likely to be read-able by Acrobat Reader or any of it's clones. Since they're talking about

kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions

2001-07-09 Thread Victor
Having a wonderfully stable debian 2.2r3 box with kernel 2.2.19 compiled & tailored to my laptop's needs, I wonder if it is worth my while upgrading to kernel 2.4.5. My specific focus is on stability. What's your experience on this? Ciao Vittorio

Re: file transfer via serial link to windows box

2001-07-09 Thread David Purton
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > Does anyone know what simple small program I can uses to transfer files > > from the notebook to the desktop. > > All you need on the Windows side is HyperTerminal; on the Debian system

Re: Reiserfs and disk spindown: separate /var partition?

2001-07-09 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 12:43 Uhr +0200 9.7.2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: xfs can put the logfile on another physical disk (I don't think you can put it into a file, but only raw partitions). So, get yourself two HD's (a big one and a small one), install your system on the big one (using xfs) and put the log-partitions

Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions

2001-07-09 Thread olgnuby
Victor wrote: > > Having a wonderfully stable debian 2.2r3 box with kernel 2.2.19 > compiled & tailored to my laptop's needs, I wonder if it is worth my > while upgrading to kernel 2.4.5. > > My specific focus is on stability. > > What's your experience on this? > > Ciao > Vittorio I've seen t

Re: Time-Server

2001-07-09 Thread John Hasler
Sebastiaan writes: > if you want to synchronize your time with another computer, use ntp. Or chrony, which does eveything ntp does except support exotic hardware and works better on dialups. markus writes: > I tried chronyd but was not able to update my Systemtime. chrony got the > correct time,

apt-get plug

2001-07-09 Thread destruss
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2780164,00.ht ml Leibovitch has a nice article on apt-get's superior package handling abilities. Dean

Re: PPP dialup utility

2001-07-09 Thread John Hasler
Victor writes: > I thought that the PPP dialup utility resorted to the same definitions of > PPPconfig, but it doesn't seem to be that way... If you by "PPP dialup utility" one of the Gnome applets, probably not. I haven't looked at that particular one, but the "dialup utilities" I have looked at

Re: upgrading to kernel 2.4.5

2001-07-09 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 03:10:53AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > I disagree here. Once you bastardize a perfectly good potato system > there's no easy turning back. If it is running smoothly (and there's > no reason it shouldn't) then I think you should let it keep doing well > what it does well (ev

Re: PS/2 mouse problems

2001-07-09 Thread Khavkine Igor
Hmm, I think I'll try to boot with 2.2.9 and see if my PS/2 mous will work. If it does, then it really might be a bug that should be reported to the kernel people. I'd really like to get it to work because I'm running out of serial ports. :-) Igor -- On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 02:58:45 zerog wrote

Re: PS/2 mouse problems

2001-07-09 Thread Khavkine Igor
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 01:35:08 Col. Mojo T. Wiggley wrote: > >- Original Message - >From: Khavkine Igor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Newsgroups: linux.debian.user >Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 7:20 PM >Subject: PS/2 mouse problems > > >> I have an Asus P5A motherboard and I'm >> running Linux-2.4.5

where did my ps and top go?

2001-07-09 Thread Jeffery B Maxson
This past weekend I upgraded to woody using dselect, and everything seemed to work out well. However, I seem to be missing some rather important, basic stuff now. For example, "top" and "ps" now return a "command not found" type of error, whether I am root or just a normal user. Where did they g

Re: where did my ps and top go?

2001-07-09 Thread Colin Watson
"Jeffery B Maxson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This past weekend I upgraded to woody using dselect, and everything seemed >to work out well. However, I seem to be missing some rather important, >basic stuff now. For example, "top" and "ps" now return a "command not >found" type of error, whether

Re: Microsoft Reader... argh!

2001-07-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
Well, as far as I can tell from the web, the MS Reader format is a *compiled* binary form of the OEB (www.openebook.org) specification. Specifically, MS Reader reads ".lit" files, which can be generated, according to the web site, only by a couple of proprietary products, all predicably enough runn

proc sixe mismatch

2001-07-09 Thread Peter
Hi all Have you encountered the following problem? # w ps: proc size mismatch (51744 total, 1044 chunks) # ps -a ps: proc size mismatch (39072 total, 1044 chunks) # ps ps: proc size mismatch (39072 total, 1044 chunks) Why does it happen and how do i fix it? Tks Regards Peter

no logrotate

2001-07-09 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I have a program that writes its logs to /var/log, but I do not want logrotate to gzip them, just to be left alone. I have a file in /etc/logrotate.d/iptraf: /var/log/iptraf/*.log { nocompress } but logrotate still compresses the logfiles in /var/log/iptraf. Which options should I

LaserJet Plus and Samba

2001-07-09 Thread Jorge Santos
Hello, I'm trying to print from my Woody to an HP on a Win9x machine, I currently can print text (using LPRng and the smbprint script as input filter) but I'm clueless as to the way to print postcript files. Has anyone done something like this or has an idea on how it might be done. TIA jorge

Re: modem diagnostic?

2001-07-09 Thread burningclown
All, Still can't seem to dial out ... > In any > case, undo whatever -Running Linux- told you to do (simplest way is to > purge and reinstall ppp). Then run pppconfig as root, follow instructions, > and try to connect with pon. If you have trouble, run plog and post the > output. Here's the

XFree86 Rel. 4.1 Keyboard Configuration (SPARC)

2001-07-09 Thread Guenter Millahn
Hello XFree86 fellows, I try to configure XFree86 4.1 on my Debian Woody Sun LX (sparc4m arch). Nearly all works fine, but I cannot find correct settings for the keyboard layout. Kernel version is 2.2.19 I have a type 5c keyboard with US layout. Most of the letter keys work correctly but importan

Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba

2001-07-09 Thread Neil Durant
Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I'm trying to print from my Woody to an HP on a Win9x machine, I currently can print text (using LPRng and the smbprint script as input filter) but I'm clueless as to the way to print postcript files. Has anyone done something like this or has an idea on h

Re: modem diagnostic?

2001-07-09 Thread John Hasler
Glenn writes: > Connect script failed" to -me- says that the modem is dialing but that > the connection is crapping out because there's something wrong with the > configuration. Quite the opposite. Pppd knows nothing about modems. It calls the connect script and expects it do deal with the modem

Re: NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-09 Thread Dave Carrigan
"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, the best way to do what you wanted to do is this: > > $ chmod -R o-owx .[!.]* Or even better, ignore the -R in the chmod command and use find: find . -print0 | xargs -0 chmod r-owx -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| YOW!!

Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions

2001-07-09 Thread Victor
Thanks Charlie for your reply, and, by the way, I'm not that much younger than you are (51) even though still in production :-)! What I want (and I have now with kernel 2.2.19!) is a *STABLE* linux laptop (a) to use also at work (b) to run hylafax as a server when it is needed, (c) almost invariab

Re: mc (Midnight Commander): View (F3) does not work on a .deb file?

2001-07-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > Trying to View (F3) a deb file from within mc (Midnight Commander) > gives me a red Error box with the message: `Empty output from child > filter' > > It seems to me that the problem is my respective lines in ~/.mc/bindings: > > [13:14:57 tmp]$ grep -A4

Yamaha OPL2SA3 and 2.4

2001-07-09 Thread DvB
Has anyone gotten this working? I recently upgraded to the pre-compiled version of 2.4.5 on woody and had the same problem described in this thread on the kernel mailing list (which provides no satisfactory fix for it): http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0105.0/0159.html Since the prob

Re: mc (Midnight Commander): View (F3) does not work on a .deb file?

2001-07-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > Trying to View (F3) a deb file from within mc (Midnight Commander) gives me a > red Error box with the message: `Empty output from child filter' Hey, are you actually hitting F3 to view a deb file? The correct action, AFAIK, is to hit enter, and mc will

Apache, mod_auth_pam, pam_krb4, and you

2001-07-09 Thread Jason Rashaad Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm going slowly insane trying to convince Apache to pass a user/pass to pam_krb4, thereby validating a user for entrance into a secure directory. Is it too much to hope for that it's this simple? Oh, yeah, my info: Apache 1.3.19 compiled from sour

Re: [OT] sendmail FEATURE access_db - configuration help needed

2001-07-09 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:25:33PM +0800, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Jimmy Richards wrote: > > > Greetings GNU/Linuxer's, > > > > I am hoping someone might be able to help me with the access_db > > feature in sendmail. Here's what I did to try and get it to work

[OT] Port numbers

2001-07-09 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
In what documentation/manpage/whatever can I find a list of ports and their numbers (like the ports for telnet, http, etc.)? And also I'd like to know how to see which ports my computer has open. -- Thomas J. Hamman "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,

Re: mc (Midnight Commander): View (F3) does not work on a .deb file?

2001-07-09 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 09-07-01 at 17:29 Faheem Mitha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > Trying to View (F3) a deb file from within mc (Midnight Commander) gives me > > a > > red Error box with the message: `Empty output from child filt

Re: [OT] Port numbers

2001-07-09 Thread Jamie Heckford
Port number list is available in /etc/services. doing a: $netstat -an | grep LISTEN should give you a list of services that are listening in certain ports Jamie - Original Message - From: "Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 4:39 PM

Re: Apache, mod_auth_pam, pam_krb4, and you

2001-07-09 Thread Jason Rashaad Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The KTH distribution, installed from the following .debs: kerberos4kth-dev kerberos4kth-user kerberos4kth1 On Monday 09 July 2001 11:35, you wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote: > > I'm going slowly insane trying to convince Apac

Re: mc (Midnight Commander): View (F3) does not work on a .deb file?

2001-07-09 Thread User zos
> I get the same red boxed error message with F-3, and just a flashing > screen with an 'enter' > When I quit mc, the xterm says: > > gzip: mpcb_0.4-2_i386.deb: not in gzip format > > John It seems like the file associations are incorrectly set. For example, with MC I know that if you wish to vi

Re: mc (Midnight Commander): View (F3) does not work on a .deb file?

2001-07-09 Thread John Bagdanoff
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:28:31AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > Trying to View (F3) a deb file from within mc (Midnight Commander) gives me > > a > > red Error box with the message: `Empty output from child filter' > > Hey, are you actually hitt

new portslave release 2001-07-09

2001-07-09 Thread Russell Coker
This version will be uploaded to Unstable in a few days if there are no bugs reported. Please test it out and let me know how it goes. Russell Coker -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: new release 2001-07-09 Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 18:11:33 +0200 From: Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTE

USR modem problems

2001-07-09 Thread Jeremy
I recently purchased a USR internal 56k PCI modem (model 3CP5610A), but I've had no luck getting it working on my woody box. In the instructions in the box, it tells me that to get it working with linux, I need kernel 2.3 or above. "Good time to upgrade!" I thought, and I went for the 2.4.6 kerne

Re: mc (Midnight Commander): View (F3) does not work on a .deb file?

2001-07-09 Thread Lamer
it's native ar format, i believe. -- k h a o s * lamer new name, new look, new ftp: linux.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter) upload something before downloading, or your class C IP banned. - Original Message - From: "User zos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Bagdanoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C

Re: PS/2 mouse problems

2001-07-09 Thread Mike
Khavkine Igor wrote: Try posting both your /etc/gpm.conf and the mouse section from your /etc/X11/XF86config to the list. I'm using PS/2 mice on three different systems under a few different kernels with no troubles at all. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and

Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions

2001-07-09 Thread User zos
Wow...I wish more older people were as tech savvy as you. I haven't been able to get my mother at age 43 to even adapt to Windows9x. I am using a "vanilla" Linux 2.4.5 kernel asides from making the necessary updates on my potato distro. The good news is this. You can update whatever distro you are

Re: Internet connection

2001-07-09 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:09:58PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: | D-Man writes: | > Why do you say the [/dev/modem] link is a bad idea (serious question)? | | Locking. I didn't know it actually made a difference. Ok, without doing further research yet so I'll assume locking is a problem : How abou

Re: PS/2 mouse problems

2001-07-09 Thread Kent West
Khavkine Igor wrote: I have an Asus P5A motherboard and I'm running Linux-2.4.5, custom compiled. I have a problem using my PS/2 mouse port. I have enabled PS/2 mouse support in the kernel. I get this message when the computer boots up: ... Starting kswapd v1.8 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. <-

Re: NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-09 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dc> "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> BTW, the best way to do what you wanted to do is this: >> >> $ chmod -R o-owx .[!.]* dc> Or even better, ignore the -R in the chmod command and use find: dc> find . -print0 | xargs -0

Re: Internet connection

2001-07-09 Thread Kent West
John Hasler wrote: D-Man writes: Why do you say the [/dev/modem] link is a bad idea (serious question)? Locking. There was a discussion on this a couple of years ago; last I heard, Debian had just about that time become smart enough to check a symbolic link and lock the files appropria

Re: [OT] Port numbers

2001-07-09 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
"Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In what documentation/manpage/whatever can I find a list of ports and > their numbers (like the ports for telnet, http, etc.)? /etc/services > And also I'd like to know how to see which ports my computer has open. It think netstat can show you

Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions

2001-07-09 Thread olgnuby
The following is an excerpt from a message I was going to post the day before I decided to go ahead and make the leap anyway. ;-) -- OK! Deb. You win. Been used to doing things my way all my life and a lot of time's I'm used to doing things other Linux ways. Taking a good laugh at my

Re: Digital camera and Linux

2001-07-09 Thread Angus D Madden
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:39:20AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > This made me think the floppy thing was not viable. How does it > work out for you? > I'll put in another recommendation for the Mavica. I bought an ancient Sony Mavica FD-73 about a month ago and it does exactly what I need

Re: sharing /home and swap space between two Linux systems

2001-07-09 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:46:50AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: | Dear People, | | I'm planning to buy a new computer and install Debian on it. I haven't got | around to the buying yet, and I had a spare 2 Gig on one of the drives of | my current computer, so I decided to install Debian on it. The i

Re: creating a local mirror

2001-07-09 Thread Angus D Madden
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:06:51PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > we are using a local debian mirror for several reasons. we let rsync > run on one of the official servers once a week over the weekend, and > still have security.debian.org in the sources.list files on all > workstations. however,

Re: windows manager list in KDM

2001-07-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Karsten Heymann wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:00:38PM -0500 or thereabouts, techlists wrote: > > > ... > > > After the update I select to install GDM, to make sure everything is working > > fine. Once installed and after a reboot, GDM comes up and I see in its > > s

Re: Apache, mod_auth_pam, pam_krb4, and you

2001-07-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote: > The KTH distribution, installed from the following .debs: > > kerberos4kth-dev > kerberos4kth-user > kerberos4kth1 > > On Monday 09 July 2001 11:35, you wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote: > > > I'm going slowly insane

kernel-image

2001-07-09 Thread Jesper Holmberg
I recently installed Potato from discs, and then dist-upgraded to Woody. Now, I was looking into the subject of kernels, and I find I have no package named kernel-image, although of course there exists one (2.2.17 it seems) in /boot. Now, what would I do if I wanted to upgrade the kernel to 2.2.X

Re: modem diagnostic?

2001-07-09 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Still can't seem to dial out ... In any case, undo whatever -Running Linux- told you to do (simplest way is to purge and reinstall ppp). Then run pppconfig as root, follow instructions, and try to connect with pon. If you have trouble, run plog and post the ou

Re: Microsoft Reader... argh!

2001-07-09 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Greets, I bit my tongue with this original post.. I just registered for school and sat down with my wonderful councillor to finger out my schedule for the next four+ years of courses. I don't plan to do computers for profit, just kicks (needed for financial aid). As she started quoting of

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Re: Digital camera and Linux

2001-07-09 Thread Hall Stevenson
> The only major drawbacks to this camera: My biggest complaint about the camera was it's "auto-focus" feature was way too slow. And with the camera being balanced, or not balanced, the way it is, actually pressing the "take a picture" button could often cause the camera to move just ever so sl

kernel upgrade

2001-07-09 Thread Rafael Sasaki
Hi, I`m running a box with Debian Potato 2.2r3 and yesterday I did an upgrade on my kernel to the 2.4.6. I read the Linux Kernel HOWTO and I think i did every thing writen there. But when I boot to my new kernel the modules are not find. I did a make modules and make modules_install and it didn`t

Re: kernel-image

2001-07-09 Thread John Hasler
Jesper writes: > Now, what would I do if I wanted to upgrade the kernel to 2.2.X or > 2.4.X,... Install the kernel-image package of your choice, or install the kernel-source package of your choice, install kernel-package, and compile your own kernel. I suggest the latter. > ...and why don't I ha

Re: [users] NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-09 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Sun, 08 Jul 2001 04:17:34PM -0400): > I tried, in a subdir of /root, the command > chmod -R o-rwx .* > It changed the permissions on the parent directory, > the parent's parent directory, all the way up. > > Now only root can use my computer. > > Was chmod suppos

Re: [users] Re: [OT] detecting the RAM speed

2001-07-09 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Brian Nelson (on Sun, 08 Jul 2001 09:27:54AM -0400): > Well, I guess one way you could tell would be from the memory chips' > latency. For 133MHz, it would have to be lower than 7.5ns (inverse of > 133MHz) to be able to run. Can memtest86 detect the latency? Or > maybe the latency is

Re: kernel-image

2001-07-09 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 06:53:32AM +0200, Jesper Holmberg wrote: > I recently installed Potato from discs, and then dist-upgraded to > Woody. Now, I was looking into the subject of kernels, and I find I > have no package named kernel-image, although of course there exists > one (2.2.17 it seems) in

Re: shutdown as user

2001-07-09 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 09:35:54AM +0200, christophe barbé wrote: | On machine with only one user, it's a waste of time to return to gdm | to halt your machine. | | gshutdown allows to halt or restart your machine from the gnome session. Only when run as root. I recently noticed that program and

Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba

2001-07-09 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 09:18:06AM -0500, Jorge Santos wrote: | Hello, | | I'm trying to print from my Woody to an HP on a Win9x machine, I | currently can print text (using LPRng and the smbprint script as input | filter) but I'm clueless as to the way to print postcript files. Has | anyone done

Re: kernel upgrade

2001-07-09 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Rafael Sasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I`m running a box with Debian Potato 2.2r3 and yesterday I did an upgrade > on my kernel to the 2.4.6. > I read the Linux Kernel HOWTO and I think i did every thing writen there. But > when I boot to my new kernel the modules are not find. > I did a make

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