Re: /dev/ttS?? modules

2001-10-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Joe Barnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011001 16:06]: > $ ls -l /dev/ttyS* > ls: /dev/ttyS*: No such file or directory doh! one more question I hadn't even considered the first time around: is this using devfs? If *not*, then you probably need to create the device files like this: mknod /dev/ttyS0 c

Re: Pure-ftpd -- connection refused

2001-10-02 Thread Gustaf Erikson
"Mullins, Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Has anyone tinkered with the pure-ftpd package > >(http://pureftpd.sourceforge.net/)? I've installed it using apt-get, > >but when I try to connect to localhost I get "connection refused". I > >never even get a prompt. > > > >I can understand if I cann

Re: [error] install mozilla-browser

2001-10-02 Thread Timothy Ball
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 08:44:17PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > Jack wrote: > > > Setting up mozilla-browser (0.9.4-3) ... > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-browser.postinst: line 29: 1724 Segmentation > > fault regxpcom >/dev/null 2>/dev/null > > dpkg: error processing mozilla-browser (--con

Re: OT: html or text to rtf conversion tool?

2001-10-02 Thread P Kirk
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:32:42PM +0100, Andreas Obermaier wrote: >Patrick, > >thanks for the offer. And yes, I am trying to use my computer as a >tool. I want to find a solution to come up with an acceptable format >for my cv from within Linux. This should be consistent with your view >of comp

What is nvi?

2001-10-02 Thread Lars Jensen
I just did a dist-upgrade from potato to woody, and after that vi doesn't work. I get some error message like this: vi: wrapper couldn't execute /usr/bin/vi nor /bin/elvis-tiny Instead vi appears to have been replaced by nvi. Is nvi a replacement of vi? Why doesn't vi work? Lars. %%

Re: (OT) non-proprietary software merits

2001-10-02 Thread Carlos Sousa
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Today in CIS class, we talked about how software is kind of dangerous if it isn't proprietary. Also mentioned was Shareware, Freeware and Public Domain. (snip) If you have some good info that you wouldn't mind sharing with me privately, I would re

Re: What is nvi?

2001-10-02 Thread Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.
nvi is new vi, exist because original vi copyrighted and can not be redistributed. In this case, just install nvi Just a suggestion: install vim (and vim-rt), more features. -- bpdp On Tuesday 02 October 2001 3:04 pm, Lars Jensen wrote: > I just did a dist-upgrade from potato to woody, and aft

update

2001-10-02 Thread admin
Добрый день Подскажите пожалуйста, как я могу постоянно обновлять свою версию debian до ветки unstable(KDE, Gnome и т.д.), с удовлетворением всех зависимостей. И, если можно, чтобы загруженные пакеты сохранялись на диске. Заранее СПАСИБО Avatar

virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread martin f krafft
i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a server into /var/www. /var isn't made for stuff that's persistens like a homepage! in addition, where do virtual hosts go? in general, once a virtual host is defined, one had better defined a virtual host for the primary hostname

short reference for Unix commands

2001-10-02 Thread Alexander Steinert
Any URLs for that? TIA Stony

accounting total traffic

2001-10-02 Thread martin f krafft
hi, i operate a public server that hosts non-profit with merely the traffic volume paid for. i am looking for a way to unite account/shell traffic (ssh, scp transfers, rsync, etc.) with apache virtual domains and certain postfix aliases to be able to get daily/weekly/monthly usage stats on the amou

Re: OT: html or text to rtf conversion tool?

2001-10-02 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Andreas Obermaier wrote: Hmm, I think I was too fast in sending this mail. apt-cache search gave me the answer: enscript - Converts ASCII text to Postscript, HTML, RTF or Pretty-Print Did anybody make any good/bad experiences with enscripting RTF from text formats? Thanks again Andreas I

Re: short reference for Unix commands

2001-10-02 Thread Jia Baoyu
Alexander Steinert wrote: > > Any URLs for that? http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/Themes/UNIX_Basics.html http://www.linuxfocus.org/Deutsch/Themes/UNIX_Basics.html http://www.linuxfocus.org/Deutsch/November1998/article68.html http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/November1998/article68.html ht

Re: short reference for Unix commands

2001-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:35:51AM +0200, Alexander Steinert wrote: > Any URLs for that? 'apt-get install doc-linux-html', and try the DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO (/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html). It's designed for people coming from DOS/Windows, as the name implies, but it's

Re: fetchmail error

2001-10-02 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Cam Ellison wrote on Mon Oct 01, 2001 um 07:49:52PM: > I do not have an "auto lo" line, but I'm not sure that the localhost > going down is the problem. I use exim as an mda, and it has no And what prevents you from doing "ifup lo" instead of writting this E-Mail about your unsureness?

Re: short reference for Unix commands

2001-10-02 Thread Noxxus
"Linux In a Nutshell" 3rd ed. by Ellen Siever might be helpful. It's published by O'Reilly

Re: dynamic ip addresses

2001-10-02 Thread Ralf Batri
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 04:37:32AM -0400, Christy Schulte wrote: > I sent out an earlier message about setting up ddclient, but since no one > responded I'm assuming no one uses this particular program. > > So here's a more general question. Do any of you have dynamic ip addresses > and have somet

[SUMMARY] Debian From Scratch

2001-10-02 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
Hello: Thank you for all who hinted me on the issue of "Debian From Scratch", i.e. the problems of building a small size linux system. This following are cuts and paste from Here, There, and EveryWhere. First of all, the Debian Rescue/Install system **IS** a small size linux system (ca. 2.5 Mb

Re: update

2001-10-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
1. Change your apt-get sources file to reflect "unstable" 2. apt-get update 3. apt-get dist-upgrade 3. Answer no to question: Delete not needed packages? For nicer handling, use apt-move. 4. This list is in English, so, if you want good and many answers, ask in English. - Original Message -

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a > server into /var/www. /var isn't made for stuff that's persistens like > a homepage! in addition, where do virtual hosts go? in general, once > a virtual host is

Re: pppd cant' assign a remote ip and i'm desperate

2001-10-02 Thread Timeboy
Subject: Re: pppd cant' assign a remote ip and i'm desperate On Monday Oct 01 16:41 Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: > ** Well leaving that out the connection is kind of fine, i can ping, > ** connect to ICQ servers, but the problem comes up when i try to > ** do for example > **

how to configure a sound card

2001-10-02 Thread fouad HENNI
>Hello >I installed Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 (potato) on my PC and >I have no idea on how to get my sound card working. >I tried the commands: >sndconfig >soundconfig >but I had an error message. >Please help. ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Un e-mail gra

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Daniel Stone (on Tue, 02 Oct 2001 08:10:38PM +1000): > I think that a symlink from /var to /home is bad. Maybe if we stored it > under /home/www-data or such. that's one possibility, although i am more in favor of uniting sites into single directory hierarchies. what's the big point of

let's move this thread (was Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations)

2001-10-02 Thread martin f krafft
we have just founded an apache task force to work on long overdue issues with apache, so let's continue this thread there, and not on both lists. if you still have comments about my original post, go ahead and post them here, otherwise hop on over to https://lists.madduck.net/mailman/listinfo/d

Debian package security

2001-10-02 Thread George Karaolides
Hi all, It seems to me that this message belongs here rather than on debian-security or debian-security-announce, but please correct me if I'm wrong. :) I am running Debian potato on a number of machines. I have downloaded potato from the net, and used apt-move to make a local mirror on one of

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:43:43PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Daniel Stone (on Tue, 02 Oct 2001 08:10:38PM +1000): > > I think that a symlink from /var to /home is bad. Maybe if we stored it > > under /home/www-data or such. > > that's one possibility, although i am more in favor

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread xio
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a > server into /var/www. /var isn't made for stuff that's persistens like > a homepage! in addition, where do virtual hosts go? in general, once > a virtual host is

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread xio
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:10:38PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a > > server into /var/www. /var isn't made for stuff that's persistens like > > a homepage! in add

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:56:35PM +0100, xio wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:10:38PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: [excessive quoting trimmed] > > /var/log/apache(2)/default should be symbolic links to the relevant > > directories. > > Why not have virtual and default documents in /var/www/? >

Re: how to configure a sound card

2001-10-02 Thread xio
What soundcard are you using? What's the error that was reported? On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:27:41PM +0200, fouad HENNI wrote: > >Hello > >I installed Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 (potato) on my PC > and > >I have no idea on how to get my sound card working. > >I tried the commands: > >sndconfig > >sound

Re: SSSCA (was Re: OT or relevent?)

2001-10-02 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "Johnny" == Johnny Ernst Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johnny> Would this act have any impact on non US citisens and our Johnny> use of free software? Very likely. For one thing, Karsten's quite correct about the "find a strong point and normalize toward it" tactic. And, as

Re: how to configure a sound card

2001-10-02 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I installed Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 (potato) on my PC > and I have no idea on how to get my sound card > working. I tried the commands: > sndconfig > soundconfig > but I had an error message. The package that contains 'sndconfig' isn't normally installed with Debian. It is available though and work

Re: [error] install mozilla-browser

2001-10-02 Thread Jack
Thanks, that works for me. (dpkg -i locales_2.2.4-1_all.deb libc6*2.2.4-1*.deb) For the record, I managed (alien) to install galeon. It crashed on Slashdot.org when javascipt is on. Problem is Date(). Now, with the downgrade of libc6, everything works fine. Regards, Jack On Mon, Oct 01,

apt-get settings

2001-10-02 Thread Konstantin L Kouptsov
Can anyone send me the more-or-less comprehensive list of package resources for the use with apt-get? I have a couple of lines in sources.list which doesn't seem to include enough packages. I also need non-us/non-free. Konstantin.

Re: Sendmail not sending queue's out.

2001-10-02 Thread Mike Dresser
> Are you, by any chance, using stuff from the juniper suite - like > smtpfwd? > > Sam > -- > (Sam Varghese) > http://www.gnubies.com Negative. I do have inflex running in front, but that shouldn't affect it, no? Then again, I've had this problem long before i installed inflex sometime last yea

Re: apt-get settings

2001-10-02 Thread Noxxus
Konstantin L Kouptsov wrote: > Can anyone send me the more-or-less comprehensive list of package resources > for the use with apt-get? I have a couple of lines in sources.list which > doesn't seem to include enough packages. I also need non-us/non-free. Try: http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist h

Debugger for C programming?

2001-10-02 Thread mdevin
Is there a good debugger for C programming. You know, the kind of thing that lets you step through a line at a time running your program and put watches on variables etc. I am doing an assignment for Uni, and have been just adding printf statements in my code to check variable values etc. But ot

Re: Debugger for C programming?

2001-10-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Tue, 02 Oct 2001 11:32:40PM +1000): > Is there a good debugger for C programming. You know, the kind of thing > that lets you step through a line at a time running your program and put > watches on variables etc. gdb. and watch it kick micro$oft's butt. it takes

tripwire vs. aide

2001-10-02 Thread martin f krafft
anyone have any comments on tripwire vs. aide? i would like to hear some pros and cons, stories of success, failure, blood, sweat, and tears. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "it usually takes more th

ssh and debian

2001-10-02 Thread Brian Schramm
For some reason my debian box never propts me for a ssh password when loging into a sudo session. Is there some setting I need to do to tell it to ask me? Thanks -- Brian Schramm 919-871-6466 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debugger for C programming?

2001-10-02 Thread Jordi S . Bunster
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:32:40PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a good debugger for C programming. You know, the kind of thing > that lets you step through a line at a time running your program and put > watches on variables etc. gdb is the usually used debugger under Linux. There'

Re: how to configure a sound card

2001-10-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hiya fouad make sure "sound" is configured as a module ... turn on the sound card option that you have... turn on MIDI, turn on ESS, turn on OPL, diff kernel have diff options... -might need a couple pass as to which options you needsndconfig tells you what you need reboot

Re: AWE64 and isapnp in kernel

2001-10-02 Thread Jerome Cornet
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 18:20:16, Jason Boxman wrote >On Monday 01 October 2001 06:07 pm, Jerome Cornet wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I have some troubles using the linux 2.4 isapnp support with an awe64. >> I use the kernel-image-2.4.9-586 from http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian >> When I look at t

Re: Partition sizes...

2001-10-02 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thanks! I'll take that into consideration... Thanks again! On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, P Kirk wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:41:41PM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: > >Hello there... I just bought a server that has 2 4gb hd... I want to > >install debian to make it a server, and probably add a 20 g

Re: OT: html or text to rtf conversion tool?

2001-10-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:27:45PM +0100, Andreas Obermaier wrote: > Perhaps I should do some research to find out if xml/xsl can do rtf? > After looking into an RTF file, it looks like one could even write rtf > in an text editor? i.e. I should by able to write my own xsl stylesheet > for rtf out

Re: Partition sizes...

2001-10-02 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thank you for the response! The stuff you tell me gives me a good Idea of what to do, I still need to find out more about partitionin I guess since I don't know how I would share the 20 gb disk let's say between /opt and /home without creating an individual partition for each one Do you know

Re: problems with XFree86 on Thinkpad

2001-10-02 Thread David A. Rogers
Thanks. I'll give that a try. Do you have to have a 2.4.x kernel for that or will 2.2.18pre from potato work? dar On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:33:45PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:33:40AM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: > [video card specs, etc] > | Does anyone have any ideas? T

Re: OT: html or text to rtf conversion tool?

2001-10-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:04:06PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > Computers are tools, not philosophical statements. Perhaps, but that still doesn't excuse the "Unix guru wanted. Must dream in sed and/or awk. Will never be allowed to pass within 100 meters of hardware with Microsoft products installed.

Re: Virus Filter for Debian Mail Server - is it possible for a Linux user to be a Windows Virus Courier ?

2001-10-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:23:22PM -0400, Theodore Knab wrote: > I recently accidently sent an attachment from a Windows user to another > Windows user. > > I use Mutt as a client and an Exim as my mail server. > > Could I have accidently passed on a virus? Yes. Forwarding an infected attachme

Re: Sharing Printers w/ Win2K machine and Samba

2001-10-02 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 00:59, Joe Barnett wrote: > I'm trying to share my parrallel port printer through samba to my win2k > laptop, and getting the following error in my log.smbd when i try to > connect from the laptop: > > [2001/09/30 22:00:31, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(239) > littlejoe

Re: Debugger for C programming?

2001-10-02 Thread John Toon
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 14:32 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a good debugger for C programming. You know, the kind of thing > that lets you step through a line at a time running your program and put > watches on variables etc. > > I am doing an assignment for Uni, and have been just ad

apt-get sites

2001-10-02 Thread neville seed
Hello I am new to debian and am trying to find out where I should direct apt-get. I have a basic install of debian but would like to obtain some other parts and have updates via the www. thank you neville __ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! M

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a > server into /var/www. Because it can change during normal system operation (rules out /usr and anything that typically resides on the root device), doesn't belo

Re: problems with XFree86 on Thinkpad

2001-10-02 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:33:09AM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: | Thanks. I'll give that a try. Do you have to have a 2.4.x kernel for that | or will 2.2.18pre from potato work? I have 2.4 kernels. I don't know if 2.2 contains framebuffer support or not. I do know that the 2.4 kernels in the

Re: apt-get sites

2001-10-02 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 07:59:14AM -0700, neville seed wrote: > I am new to debian and am trying to find out where I > should direct apt-get. > > I have a basic install of debian but would like to > obtain some other parts and have updates via the www. Debian Planet has a good repository of unoff

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread P Kirk
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:01:43AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: >On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >> i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a >> server into /var/www. > >Because it can change during normal system operation (rules out /usr

RE: apt-get sites

2001-10-02 Thread Mullins, Ron
>I am new to debian and am trying to find out where I >should direct apt-get. > >I have a basic install of debian but would like to >obtain some other parts and have updates via the www. http://www.debian.org./misc/README.mirrors -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a littl

Re: accounting total traffic

2001-10-02 Thread Jason Healy
At 1002037145s since epoch (10/02/01 04:39:05 -0400 UTC), martin f krafft wrote: > > is there a tool that i can tell that a user "john" has the domains > "john.com" and "john.net" hosted on my server, receives all mail for > @john.{com,net} in addition to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and then > have that to

Re: Network with a PCMCIA card and kernel problems

2001-10-02 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:47:34PM -0500, Francois Fayard wrote: | Hi, | | I' running sid on my Dell Inspiron 8100. I connect to the network via a | PCMCIA card Xircom ethernet 10/100 in a LAN through DHCP. Everything is | fine with the 2.2.18pre21 kernel. But after switching to kernel 2.4.9 (Th

RE: apt-get sites

2001-10-02 Thread Mullins, Ron
>I am new to debian and am trying to find out where I >should direct apt-get. > >I have a basic install of debian but would like to >obtain some other parts and have updates via the www. Argh! Didn't read the post as you wrote it. Hate when I do that. Please disregard my previous post and just lo

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:10:38PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > The default web root will be /var/www/default. There must be no files in > /var/www; as a temporary measure, a daily cronjob may be implemented to > move all files from /var/www to /var/www/default. If you really feel that this is nec

Re: Debugger for C programming?

2001-10-02 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 03:38:17PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Tue, 02 Oct 2001 11:32:40PM +1000): | > Is there a good debugger for C programming. You know, the kind of thing | > that lets you step through a line at a time running your program and put | > watc

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread Angus D Madden
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > why is debian apache making /var/www be the main directory, and why is > debian apache not providing an easily extensible location for virtual > domain data? > I think it's because TIMTOWTDI, and everyone has their own prefere

Re: ssh and debian

2001-10-02 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:00:07AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: | For some reason my debian box never propts me for a ssh password | when loging into a sudo session. Is there some setting I need to do | to tell it to ask me? I'm not sure what you mean, sudo and ssh are two different things. sudo

file conflicts between packages

2001-10-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hello, i updated woody today and found that the new xlib package wanted to install a file over the mixviews package. Preparing to replace xlibs 4.1.0-5 (using .../xlibs_4.1.0-6_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xlibs ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.1.0-6_i386

Re: netscape plugins in konqueror

2001-10-02 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Monday 01 October 2001 15:17, David wrote: > On Saturday 29 September 2001 11:24 pm, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > > I'm having trouble setting up the Macromedia Flash plugin in > > Konqueror. I have Konqueror 2.1.1 and KDE 2.1.2, on today's woody. > I'm having the same problem and am as confused. My

Re: Debugger for C programming?

2001-10-02 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> Is there a good debugger for C programming. You know, the kind of > thing that lets you step through a line at a time running your > program and put watches on variables etc. > > Now I know that Linux rules for C programming, so what do all you > programmers use to debug your code? > > Thanks. >

crontab problems ...

2001-10-02 Thread Bruno BEAUFILS
I noticed a strange things in my /etc/crontab which seems to be installed by the cron and maybe modified by the anacron package. Here is my crontab : crontab-- # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-10-02 Thread John Tatum
oivvio polite wrote: > I might soon have to set up some 20 - 30 boxes supporting some 200 students. > They'll want to do word processing, browse the web, read mail. > > Of course any user should be able to log into his/her account from any box. > What are my options here? Have all applications run

Re: crontab problems ...

2001-10-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 06:03:27PM +0200, Bruno BEAUFILS wrote: > > I noticed a strange things in my /etc/crontab which seems to be installed by > the cron and maybe modified by the anacron package. > > Here is my crontab : > > crontab-- > # /etc/c

Re: Debugger for C programming?

2001-10-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin: Daniel Toffetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > > Is there a good debugger for C programming. You know, the kind of > > thing that lets you step through a line at a time running your > > program and put watches on variables etc. > > > > Now I know that Linux rules for C programming, so what do

Re: Beam Internet

2001-10-02 Thread Adam McDaniel
on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:21:04PM +0100, Hereward Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi there, > > Has anyone had _any_ experience with 'beam' satellite internet access. > It sounds pretty (very!) cool, and you can get it _anywhere_ in Europe. > I was wondering if it will work on linux, or you

Re: fetchmail error

2001-10-02 Thread Volker Schlecht
Eduard Bloch wrote: > Yes. The localhost server. And a shuted down lo interface is the top > reason for this. I frequently experienced the same problem with fetchmail-ssl as can be currently found in woody and fetchmail-ssl 5.9.3-1 fresh from unstable just five minutes ago. The problem so far o

Re: OT: netfilter inquiry

2001-10-02 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Rino, On Saturday, September 29, 2001 at 7:49:33 AM, you wrote (at least in part): RM> hey peter. lsmod always gives this: RM> ipt_LOG 3056 1 (autoclean) RM> iptable_filter 1696 0 (autoclean) (unused) RM> ip_tables 10400 2 [ipt_LOG iptable_f

Re: network

2001-10-02 Thread Hans Steinraht
I installed "compact" from floppy's, so maybe it's not compiled in this kernel, I let you know when I find it out. Another thing, I'm trying to do make meuconfig and make xconfig in the dir /usr/src/linux, as root and as normal user, but both my Mandrake an Debian machine it says: make: *

RE: file conflicts between packages

2001-10-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Oct-2001 Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > hello, > > i updated woody today and found that the new xlib package wanted to > install a file over the mixviews package. > >Preparing to replace xlibs 4.1.0-5 (using .../xlibs_4.1.0-6_i386.deb) ... >Unpacking replacement xlibs ... >dpkg: er

Re: network

2001-10-02 Thread P Kirk
>Another thing, I'm trying to do make meuconfig and make xconfig in the dir >/usr/src/linux, as root >and as normal user, but both my Mandrake an Debian machine it says: >make: *** No rule to make target `menuconfig'. Stop. > >Do I mis something? > >Hans > > > You have to check that bib86 a

nslookup disappearing?

2001-10-02 Thread Greg Wiley
This message appears when I run Woody's nslookup: Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases. consider using the 'dig' or 'host' programs instead. Run nslookup with the '-si[lent]' option to prevent this message from appearing. Has nslookup really fallen out of fa

Re: crontab problems ...

2001-10-02 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Bruno, On Tuesday, October 02, 2001 at 6:03:27 PM, you wrote (at least in part): > I noticed a strange things in my /etc/crontab which seems to be installed by > the cron and maybe modified by the anacron package. > Here is my crontab : > crontab-

Re: Partition sizes...

2001-10-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:41:41PM -0500, Alexander Wallace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello there... I just bought a server that has 2 4gb hd... I want to > install debian to make it a server, and probably add a 20 gb hd... My > question is, what partition should I put in the big hd (the 20 gb

Re: file conflicts between packages

2001-10-02 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: >Preparing to replace xlibs 4.1.0-5 (using .../xlibs_4.1.0-6_i386.deb) ... >Unpacking replacement xlibs ... >dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.1.0-6_i386.deb >(--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', whic

3com 905 driver/module

2001-10-02 Thread Darren Wyn Rees
During the installation process, I tried to find a module for the 3com 905 NIC, but could not find one under the module/net menu. Is there one thereabouts, or somewhere else ? -- Darren Wyn Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network with a PCMCIA card and kernel problems

2001-10-02 Thread Rino Mardo
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:47:34PM -0500, Francois Fayard wrote: > Hi, > > I' running sid on my Dell Inspiron 8100. I connect to the network via a > PCMCIA card Xircom ethernet 10/100 in a LAN through DHCP. Everything is > fine with the 2.2.18pre21 kernel. But after switching to kernel 2.4.9 (Th

Re: update

2001-10-02 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:29:01PM +0400, admin wrote: > ?? > > ?? ??, ??? ? ? ? ?? debian ?? > ? > unstable(KDE, Gnome ? ?.?.), ? ??? . ?, > ?, ? ??? ?? ??? ?? ?. > > ???

Re: file conflicts between packages

2001-10-02 Thread Craig Dickson
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > This is mixviews violating X policy. Check if there is a bug open and if not > file one. Are you sure? It seems strange. app-defaults is a directory, not a file. I would have thought that any X application's package could put a file in there. Is it really the sole pro

Re: Beam Internet

2001-10-02 Thread Hereward Cooper
once upon a time Adam McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:21:04PM +0100, Hereward Cooper > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Has anyone had _any_ experience with 'beam' satellite internet > access. > im curious, exactly how much are they going to charge

Re: OT: html or text to rtf conversion tool?

2001-10-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:59:02PM +0100, Andreas Obermaier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:47:22PM +0100, xio wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to find a common denominator with recruitment agencies who > > don't want to accept my cv either in html or text. Most of them

Re: nslookup disappearing?

2001-10-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:42:32AM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: > This message appears when I run Woody's nslookup: > > Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases. > consider using the 'dig' or 'host' programs instead. Run nslookup with > the '-si[lent]' option to prev

Re: 3com 905 driver/module

2001-10-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:49:57PM +, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > During the installation process, I tried to find a module for > the 3com 905 NIC, but could not find one under the module/net > menu. Is there one thereabouts, or somewhere else ? You want the vortex module, 3c59x -- Nathan Norm

Re: 3com 905 driver/module

2001-10-02 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 12:49, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > During the installation process, I tried to find a module for > the 3com 905 NIC, but could not find one under the module/net > menu. Is there one thereabouts, or somewhere else ? Try the 3c59x module. Or during compiling look for this tellta

Re: file conflicts between packages

2001-10-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Oct-2001 Craig Dickson wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> This is mixviews violating X policy. Check if there is a bug open and if not >> file one. > > Are you sure? It seems strange. app-defaults is a directory, not a file. > I would have thought that any X application's package cou

re: ssh and debian

2001-10-02 Thread Brian Schramm
Sorry for teh confusion. I use ssh to log in and sudo to change to the superuser account. I ment sudo and debian in my letter. Now here is my problem. I log into my remote machine by ssh and then change to the sudo system from there. No matter what I have tried it never askes me for a password

SSH port forwarding

2001-10-02 Thread Failure
I have some boxes behind a firewall that I need access to from the internet. I don't control the firewall, so I thought I would try to use OpenSSH port forwarding. I have placed "GatewayPorts yes" in the outside machine's sshd_config. The boxes involved both use Debian with OpenSSH 2.9p2. I conn

Re: Beam Internet

2001-10-02 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:55:54PM +0100, Hereward Cooper wrote: > once upon a time Adam McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > There prices for a single/home is: > > £500 Hardware (which i think is a rip off, as you're not actually buying > it, it still belongs to them!) > £150 Install Fee > £15

Printing using nprint to a HP8150 Series Printer

2001-10-02 Thread Theodore Knab
I am having trouble printing to a HP8150 Printer via nprint (novell). The print comes out without formating. Novell print command: server user password printer name file nprint -S CR-AACC-1 -U user1 -P passwd -q PQ-LIBR-121-HP8150N-2 test test file: This is line on

Where can I find the files for a floppy image

2001-10-02 Thread Mike Towery
I am new to Debian and Linux. My cd-rom based version of Debian is not booting. Where can I find the floppy disk boot disk image? Thanks, Mike __ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com

virtual pop3

2001-10-02 Thread Gludovatz Gabor
Hello, I need to set up a pop3 server which can access users' mailboxes even if they don't have a real user. The mails gets delivered to /var/spool/mail/USERNAME files, but none of the pop3 servers I tested is capable to access this mailbox without an existing user. thanks Gabor

Re: Debugger for C programming?

2001-10-02 Thread Rafael Sasaki
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 03:38:17PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Tue, 02 Oct 2001 11:32:40PM +1000): > > Is there a good debugger for C programming. You know, the kind of thing > > that lets you step through a line at a time running your program and put > > watc

Re: Where can I find the files for a floppy image

2001-10-02 Thread Jeff Green
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/ and pick the flavour you want, there is a README, you need to choose the right size floppies of course! Mike Towery wrote: > > I am new to Debian and Linux. My cd-rom based version > of Debian is not booting. Where can I find the

Re: Beam Internet

2001-10-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Adam McDaniel wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:55:54PM +0100, Hereward Cooper wrote: > I wouldn't get this satelite deal though, here in Canada there is a similar > service starting thats about CAD$150 / month, (~£60/US$100) ofcourse you > already need a digital cable terminal and be signed up

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