Mail: Cannot create lock file

2001-10-16 Thread Debian GNU
Hi all, In my new debian potato installation, I created a seperate partetion for mail and mounted it in /var/spool/mail. Mails are getting properly delivered. If I am using 'mail' command to read mails, I am getting the following error : mail: Cannot create lock file /var/spool/mail/.lock.

fakeroot on debian/rules binary?

2001-10-16 Thread Brian Lavender
How do you do a fakeroot when you build a package from source? $debian/rules binary brian

Samba 2.2.1a on potato?

2001-10-16 Thread Brian Lavender
Ok, I am trying to build a Samba 2.2.1a deb package for potato, but when I did a $ debian/rules binary it complained it could not find dh_installlogrotate So, I am wondering, what do I need to do to create my Samba package? I already tried grabbing the latest debhelper, but that has a number

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-16 Thread Patrick Lane
Jim McCloskey wrote: David Harrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> Therefore, I'm asking this esteemed group which combo of DVD Player |> software does it for you..plus what limitations does your chosen bit |> of software have? Xine is now very mature and very stable. The Debian packages (even

Re: Mail: Cannot create lock file - SOLVED

2001-10-16 Thread Debian GNU
Hi all, I could solve the problem. The group for the mail directory was root, and I changed to to mail. It solved my problem. Sorry for the trouble Deb --- Debian GNU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > In my new debian potato installation, I created a > seperate partetion for mail and mo

Re: Strange message from IMAP: "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA"

2001-10-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Mike Egglestone wrote: > > Hi, > I remeber awhile ago I had the same problem. > I not too sure, but I believe was initially running qpopper > first, and then installed imap. > Then that message started to appear. > I removed qpopper and just ran imap. > Everything is good now. > I think I like ima

Re: Sound not working in X/Gnome - Was:How to make on board VIA VT82C686B sound chip work?

2001-10-16 Thread Morbo
Hi, > I didn't realize that there was anyone else running a shuttle > mainboard. Cool. On an unrelated topic, do you get some garbage on the side of > your screen that seems to be caused by interence from something? My board > has a Savage S3 chip on board and I'm assuming that this is the cause o

kdm/xdm/woody problems

2001-10-16 Thread nate
hi. glad to be back on the list :) a few days ago i dist-upgraded my potato box at work to woody, phew! no major issues.. ive been running woody on my laptop for a few months, and tonight decided to do an upgrade so i could get xfree4.1 so i could use the new savage_drv.o. and it sorta works. i

Re: pictures systems 2001/munich

2001-10-16 Thread martin f krafft
* Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.15 16:10:46-0700]: > Bwahahaa! Dudes, indeed. Ha ha ha ha... > I would prefer "dudes" to be spelled using an umlaut, personally ;) you been smokin' too much again, mike! > On a serious note; nice clean images. What camera was it you used? a niko

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-16 Thread Arno
Patrick Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I like Mplayer (www.mplayerhq.hu). To my knowledge there is no debian > package > Some non-offical debs, for testing and unstable: http://marillat.free.fr/ I'm using the unstable ones, work great.

Re: `screen`ing an x-app

2001-10-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 12:17:32AM +0200, martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi there, > any chance you guys know of a way to `screen` an x-app? i.e. run xcalc > and detach it from the screen while keeping it running, and possibly > allowing it to be pulled up again on some other machine

Re: USB Keyboard

2001-10-16 Thread Tomoo Nmura
dman wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:39:45AM +0900, Tomoo Nmura wrote: | Hello, | | Sid kernel 2.4.9 i386, I tried to connect USB keyboard and mouse, which | are Apple G4's kerboard and ELECOM optical mouse. | | I tried, uhci, je, ohci, je+ohci, uhci+ohci but i coundn't. | | The messages a

Re: Minimum Potato Files

2001-10-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 01:31:52AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Saturday 13 October 2001 09:58, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > > Hey, this question has been asked before, and no one gave imo > > a really good answer. > > > > What is the minimum installation debs? > I believe the minim

Re: fakeroot on debian/rules binary?

2001-10-16 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 11:05:20PM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote: > How do you do a fakeroot when you build a package from source? > > $debian/rules binary $fakeroot debian/rules binary -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerp

Freegeek non profit SHOULD use non-profit libré Linux distro.

2001-10-16 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
The first in-a-rut NERDO that clackers about "flame bait" or "flame war" get's "E" (gnus-summary-mark-as-expirable) pushed on the message and I go on to read the coherent responses. ;-) I've been LIFTING WEIGHTS and can push it hard and fast if I have to. Wouldn't you rather I read your entir

How to disable the `single' parameter when booting?

2001-10-16 Thread Yuwen Dai
Hi, ALL For the sake of security, how to disable the `single' parameter when booting? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Dai yuwen _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

Re: neighbour table overflow from woody install easily fixed

2001-10-16 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Hi, The subject says most of it. I have not even finished the dselect process of the install and I am getting "neighbour table overflow". /etc/network/interfaces has no entries at this point. Easily fixed by adding loopback. Thanks, Paul

cnews: spool dir ownership

2001-10-16 Thread Jens Guenther
Hi! When I install cnews (potato) a directory /etc/news/spool/ with subdiretories is created owned root.root. Usually, it should be news.news, shouldn´t it? Or is this special to cnews? TIA Jens

Multiple copies of messages to list?

2001-10-16 Thread Glyn Millington
I've just swapped from using Procmail to carve up my post to using Gnus own mail-splitting facility. I find that I am getting up to four copies of individual messages on this list - hitherto procmail has weeded them out. Is that normal? Is it my system which is propagating them or the list or t

Re: How to disable the `single' parameter when booting?

2001-10-16 Thread Liu Tao
I paste my /etc/lilo.conf here Password is needed for "restricted kernel" when extra command line is given to that kernel. wish that helps. Regards Liu Tao # /etc/lilo.conf - See: `lilo(8)' and `lilo.conf(5)', # --- `install-mbr(8)', `/usr/share/doc/lilo/', #

Mutiple mail servers

2001-10-16 Thread Debian GNU
Hi all, I am using sendmail for mail distribution. I am planning to add one more mail server so that some users are in the first mail server and the rest in the new one (For the same domain). Internet mails arrive directly on the first mail server. Can I configure sendmail so that if a user is f

Re: Getting KDE2 into GDM

2001-10-16 Thread Joerg Johannes
"Darryl L. Pierce" wrote: > > I removed and then reinstalled GDM on my laptop. Now, though, > it no longer lists anything other than wmaker, afterstep, failsafe > and default as login options. How do I get gnome and KDE back > into the menu? > Look into /etc/gdm/Sessions/ Every Session you want

sources.list

2001-10-16 Thread Martin.Andrew
Title: sources.list New to Linux so bare with me, there is probably an easy answer. I'm having problems installing the php4-mysql package. I get the following messages. Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package php4-mysql has no avail

Ye old 'fixed' font bug -- solved?

2001-10-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
I just ran across the "cannot find font 'fixed'" on a Woody box running XF86v4. I found the following made a difference. In /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias wsa the line: fixed-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 Checking with xfontsel, this font wasn't ava

Partitions: Primary vs. Logical

2001-10-16 Thread Disem
Hi everybody :D What is the advantage of using Primary partitions rather than the Logical ones ? Does somebody know the difference between both of them (besides the limitation of times that can be the Primaries created) what do you people recommend ? thanks... edward

emacs and KDE

2001-10-16 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list I'm trying to run emacs with white text on black background. This works in GNOME and all other WM's I tried out. Only KDE makes a very strange thing: The background itself is black, only where text occurs, the boxes around letters are white, and the letters themselves are black again. (If

Re: Partitions: Primary vs. Logical

2001-10-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:47:46AM -0400, Disem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi everybody :D > > What is the advantage of using Primary partitions rather than the Logical > ones ? Does somebody > know the difference between both of them (besides the limitation of times > that can be the Primaries

bug priority -- uninstallable modutils now in testing

2001-10-16 Thread Blars Blarson
It appears that the maintainer of modutils set the priority of bug 114186 from grave to important, so the uninstallable modutils 2.4.10-3 made it into testing. Isn't a bug that makes a package uninstallable supposed to be given a higher priority that will prevent it from going into testing? For

ip_always_defrag

2001-10-16 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, I have a strange situation on my main gateway (firewall + masquerade using the ipmasq package on Debian 2.2r3 potato). The command cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag returns an integer which seems to vary all the time. I would like to set this (to 1) for security reasons, but seem to

Re: Pop server...

2001-10-16 Thread R. Alexander
Could you advice on names of Debian packages supporting secure POP3 and/or IMAP that can use be used via MS Outlook Express clients ? Than you very much. - Original Message - From: "Alvin Oga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alexander Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Kurt Lieber" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: sources.list

2001-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:47:44AM +0200, Martin.Andrew wrote: > I have downloaded the package but I can't seem to be able to install from > the correct directory, how do I modifiy the sources.list file to read a > specific directory rather than the CDROM. Don't. apt is for retrieving and installi

How do patch determine which file will be patched?

2001-10-16 Thread Liu Tao
For example, if the patch file "patch1" is like diff -u --recursive --new-file aaa/bbb/main.c bbb/main.c --- aaa/bbb/main.c Tue Oct 16 17:13:04 2001 +++ bbb/main.c Tue Oct 16 17:55:57 2001 ... and "patch2": diff -u --recursive --new-file bbb/main.c aaa/bbb/main.c --- bbb/main.c Tue Oct 16

Danish keyboard?

2001-10-16 Thread Søren Neigaard
I lost my Danish keyboard after upgrading to testing, how do I get it back? -- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, Søren Neigaard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."

Re: assembler and linux

2001-10-16 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
well info as seems to have information about particular programming features of each assembler language, as as supports several architectures. make info as a see the node machine dependencies and dont forget to install binutils-doc package to get all the as manual, or you will just see something l

CUPS and authenticating

2001-10-16 Thread Danie Roux
Ok, I'm officially confused: How do I get cups to authenticate to an lpd server running remotely? Entering lpd://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/queue in the web based interface gets accepted, but the user:passwd gets cut of when you view the printer. CUPS documentation is not very helpful. -- Danie Ro

RE: Danish keyboard?

2001-10-16 Thread David Harrigan
Oops, that should be 'install-keymap (no "s") mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 October 2001 12:13 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Danish keyboard? I lost my Danish keyboard after upgrading to testing, how do I get it back? -- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, Søren Neigaard mailto:[EM

RE: Danish keyboard?

2001-10-16 Thread David Harrigan
Hi. Try 'install-keymaps ' You can find the maps here: /usr/share/keymaps David. -Original Message- From: Søren Neigaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 October 2001 12:13 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Danish keyboard? I lost my Danish keyboard after upgrading to testin

Re: Spam impersonating me (was Re: Spam: the last straw)

2001-10-16 Thread Andrew Clark
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:39:30PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:23:08PM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:17:23PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > Cool, didn't know 'whois' took IPs... nslookup wasn't very useful o

Re: assembler and linux

2001-10-16 Thread Andrew Clark
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:47:31PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > > hello, > > In the package "binutils" there are : > > "as" and "ld". > > I did man as, man ld, info as, info ld, but > > I need a tutorial or a book which contain examples of programs... > > (the programs write with tasm of

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

2001-10-16 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"Christopher S. Swingley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't > > > seem to be respecting font sizes. For example, > A quick test is at: > > http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/test.html > > It's just a series of lin

Re: ls sort

2001-10-16 Thread Serafim Zanikolas
Hello fellows, On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 10:06:50PM +, andrej hocevar wrote: > hi jesper, ... > written. my beginner's try was simply "ls | grep "/"" which gives > the right result. but how do i make it print the result in columns? What about "ls -d */" ? > > andrej Cheers, -- Serafim Zani

/proc permissions and hsf modems

2001-10-16 Thread andrej hocevar
lately i've inherited my brother's rockwell modem, which is a hsf, meaning, as far as i know, it's a winmodem. so i took a look a http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Conexant+Rockwell-modem-HOWTO/hsf.html the instruction say to change the content of /proc/pci. which is the problem -- i cannot do it as i

Re: emacs and KDE

2001-10-16 Thread N. Raghavendra
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:04:40AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > I'm trying to run emacs with white text on black background. > This works in GNOME and all other WM's I tried out. Only KDE > makes a very strange thing: The background itself is black, > only where text occurs, the boxes around let

Re: How do patch determine which file will be patched?

2001-10-16 Thread Liu Tao
I see. It seems that patch is smart to find whether aaa/bbb/main.c or bbb/main.c is need to be patched, isn't it? On Tuesday 16 October 2001 19:02, Liu Tao wrote: > For example, if the patch file "patch1" is like > > diff -u --recursive --new-file aaa/bbb/main.c bbb/main.c > --- aaa/bbb/main.c

What packages do I need to be a NFS server?

2001-10-16 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to use a potato machien as an NFS server. I have installed: nfs-common nfs-server And I have no /etc/exports file, nor nfsd, at least "which nfsd" doesn't find it. Do I need some other package? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charl

nfs issue

2001-10-16 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Dear all - I seem to have a problem getting nfs to run. I would like to be able to mount a directory from my (Potato) server to my (also Potato) laptop. I have done the following: Laptop - Added to /etc/fstab: server:/home/erik /home/erik/mnt Server: - Created: /etc/exports - Added to /

Re[2]: Danish keyboard?

2001-10-16 Thread Søren Neigaard
Ok but what keymap is the right one for me, how do I figure this out (102 keys - Danish)? When I upgaded apt-get told me that my locale was save somewhere and I should activate it manually (or something like that), what does that mean and can I use this to anything? Tuesday, October 16, 2001, 1:2

Installation Problems

2001-10-16 Thread Theo Bierman
Hi, just tried to in stall debian for the first time. I downloaded everything on to two small hard drives (no cdrom ). I have made my rescue.bin and root.bin an d it goes into installation fine, all goes well from choosing the keyboard to pa rtion the hard disk but when it's time to install it

apt-get areas

2001-10-16 Thread Hamma Scott
I put the loop in for apt-get just to download files(thank you very much Karsten). However one of the areas I was pulling gave me an 404 not found error. Could I get the URL's to download Woody from its official site (or a site that works). Thank you in advance. Scott Hamma _

Re: pictures systems 2001/munich

2001-10-16 Thread p
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:59:48AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > * Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.15 16:10:46-0700]: > > Bwahahaa! Dudes, indeed. Ha ha ha ha... > > I would prefer "dudes" to be spelled using an umlaut, personally ;) > > you been smokin' too much again, mike! >

Re: upgrade of x

2001-10-16 Thread Timeboy
- Re: upgrade of x - On Friday Oct 12 17:28 Arno Baier wrote: > ** Hi > ** i am usen woody and had upgraded x to 4.1.0-6pre7v3. after that x didn't > ** work. > ** i edited /etc/X11/Xsessin.d/99xfree86-common_start for the " problem. > ** now only x is starting but kde don't

Re: x would not start after updat

2001-10-16 Thread Timeboy
- Re: x would not start after updat - On Monday Oct 15 00:02 rene koopal wrote: > ** Hi, > ** > ** With my last update with apt-get , xwindows 4.1.0-7 was installed om my > ** system running woody. > ** > ** however the system will not startx I guess it has something to

Re: Mailx problem

2001-10-16 Thread Timeboy
- Re: Mailx problem - On Saturday Oct 13 07:45 Antti Tolamo wrote: > ** > ** I have problem sending mail with mail command. Any other > ** user than root gets '/usr/sbin/sendmail/: Permission denied'. Do you made a # addgroup mail ?? > ** --

Re: Problems with keyboard layout

2001-10-16 Thread Timeboy
- Re: Problems with keyboard layout - On Monday Oct 15 21:30 Jonathan Schmitt wrote: > ** And now, there's the strange part, after a logout or a reboot, the > ** modifications work at the login prompt, but as soon as I type one of > those > ** letters, backspace isn't work

Re: keyboard win key enable?

2001-10-16 Thread Timeboy
- Re: keyboard win key enable? - On Tuesday Oct 16 02:42 Petre Daniel wrote: > ** i know that redhat can enable the windows key as a alt+fXX console > shifter. > ** how can i enable my windows keys under debian to swap consoles? > ** thx. This is anabled by default! Ti

Re: apt-get areas

2001-10-16 Thread D.
Scott, You can edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change the entries from stable to woody (on teh first three lines) and then download them from the debian sites. That is one way to do it. Don --- Hamma Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I put the loop in for apt-get just to download > files(thank y

nvidia-kernel + 2.4.12...

2001-10-16 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
im having problems with nvidia-*-1541*. i compiled 2.4.12 then dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-2.4.12*.deb nvidia-glx-*1541*.deb. I started X, works but when i exit out of X, after xserver shutdown, it won't display any prompt anymore that's why i have to resort in rebooting, but it won't reboot. it hangs..

Re: apt-get areas

2001-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:29:59AM -0700, Hamma Scott wrote: > Could I get the URL's to download Woody from its > official site (or a site that works). Thank you in > advance. Please see http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/ for the documentation. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

apt-get no X

2001-10-16 Thread shöck
What do i need to do in order to ensure that apt-get upgrade doesn't upgrade X-Windows? I have a fairly customized X-Windows set up, so I usually upgrade X myself. I've tried messing with dselect, but it's greek to me. I know it's fairly straightforward for 99% of planet earth, but it seems to b

Re: Pop server...

2001-10-16 Thread Alexander Wallace
I checked the link below that so kindly Alvin Oga (Thanks!) sugested to check out and it has several names of secure pop servers, one that I saw both there, and on the apt-cache list was qpopper so I installed that one... Hope that helps! On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, R. Alexander wrote: > Could you advi

booting with gdth disc array controller

2001-10-16 Thread Rainer Sigl
Hi, I have a internal Raidcontroller gdt6523RS and it works fine with debian 2.4.9 and the gdth driver. The only Problem is booting. I would like to boot from bei root-disc /dev/sda from my raid but I can only boot from floppy. I guess the driver for accessing the raid has to be known at boottime.

lost in kde packages

2001-10-16 Thread Bob Koss
I attempted to upgrade my working kde 2.1 system to 2.2. My attempt has left me with a half-working, error spewing, broken konqueror, mess. Attempting to complete the half-completed installation produces the following error: bear:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Depe

Re: Partitions: Primary vs. Logical

2001-10-16 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:07:18AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:47:46AM -0400, Disem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > Hi everybody :D | > | > What is the advantage of using Primary partitions rather than the Logical | > ones ? Does somebody | > know the difference betwe

Re: What packages do I need to be a NFS server?

2001-10-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:38:03AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm trying to use a potato machien as an NFS server. I have installed: > > nfs-common > nfs-server > > And I have no /etc/exports file, nor nfsd, at least "which nfsd" doesn't > find it. > > Do I need some other package? No. /etc/ex

modutils won't install on testing

2001-10-16 Thread DvB
My last apt-get upgrade tried to upgrade modutils and then bombed with the following message: Setting up modutils (2.4.10-3) ... depmod: Unexpected value (20) in '/lib/modules/2.4.9-686/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for ieee1394_device_size It is likely that the kernel structure has cha

Re: nfs issue

2001-10-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:50:39PM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Starting portmapper... Mounting remote filesystems... > mount: RPC: Program not registered > > I would much appreciate any hint or pointer. Have you started the portmapper (/etc/init.d/portmap start) and statd/lockd (/etc/

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

2001-10-16 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Joachim, > > > > I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't > > > > seem to be respecting font sizes. For example, > > > > It's just a series of lines from N = -5 to N = +5. > > Each line should display in a different size font. > > Here the lines from "Two" upwards s

Re: gnome sound

2001-10-16 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:12:20AM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: | On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:52:57PM -0400, dman wrote: | > Normally esd is started when you start up gnome. There is a way to | > disable it, I think, because I don't get error messages on my | > workstation (has no sound card). esd wi

Re: USB Keyboard

2001-10-16 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:25:22PM +0900, Tomoo Nmura wrote: | dman wrote: | > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:39:45AM +0900, Tomoo Nmura wrote: ... | > | hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1/1/1, assigned device number 4 | > | usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0x5ac/0x206) is not claimed by any active

What am I doing worng? NFS question

2001-10-16 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to get a potato (+ Progeney + 24.9 kernel) system to act as an nfs server to a HP-UX machine. Here is what I have in /etc/exports /dumpdisk2phse7(rw,insecure,no_root_squash) The Debian machine is debain, the HP-UX one is phse7. When I run "rpc.nfsd -d auth -F I get the fo

Re: ip_always_defrag

2001-10-16 Thread John Patton
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:29:36PM +0300, George Karaolides wrote: > The command > > cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag > > returns an integer which seems to vary all the time. > > I would like to set this (to 1) for security reasons, but seem to be > unable to do so because of this. I'm n

Re: Cannot print at all (Canon S400 + CUPS)

2001-10-16 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 11:26:48PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: | | This is the first time ever that I have difficulty printing on | Linux. Weird. | | Bootup reports: | parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2] | parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-dri

Re: Mailx problem

2001-10-16 Thread Antti Tolamo
At 16:44 16.10.2001, Timeboy wrote: - Re: Mailx problem - On Saturday Oct 13 07:45 Antti Tolamo wrote: > ** > ** I have problem sending mail with mail command. Any other > ** user than root gets '/usr/sbin/sendmail/: Permission denied'. Do you made a # addgroup mail ?? Nah, I had

Apache and virtual hosts

2001-10-16 Thread Rogier van Gemert
Dear Mr, Mrs, I'm running linux for a long time. Being loyal to RedHat, I came in contact with users of Debian. I downloaded this Distribution, Removed RedHat, installed Debian (wich was a breeze), and have a working system. Debian is FAR more faster and stable than RedHat. Thanks... The only

Re: upgrade of x

2001-10-16 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:43:51PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: ... | I noticed that .xsession file in homedir "must" be executable since | X in Woody is version 4.1.0-7. | | $ chmod u=rwx .xsession ^ Typo, should be : $ chmod u+rwx .xsession -D

more pictures from systems 2001

2001-10-16 Thread martin f krafft
this time more organized: day 2 on the systems 2001 fair. http://www.madduck.net/debian/2001.systems/ have fun. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "we should have a volleyballocracy. we elect a si

Re: What am I doing worng? NFS question

2001-10-16 Thread Hall Stevenson
> /dumpdisk2phse7(rw,insecure,no_root_squash) I don't know what the option 'no_root_squash' means, but I might assume it's either ignored or not valid. When you exported it, it spit back some 'status' info but no mention of that option. > But I get this from the HP-UX machine, when I try

Re: What am I doing worng? NFS question

2001-10-16 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 09:44, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm trying to get a potato (+ Progeney + 24.9 kernel) system to act as an > nfs server to a HP-UX machine. > > Here is what I have in /etc/exports > > /dumpdisk2phse7(rw,insecure,no_root_squash) > > The Debian machine is debain, the HP

Re: Apache and virtual hosts

2001-10-16 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Ah... you're forgetting the magical line that makes it all work properly for you: NameVirtualHost my.ip.number Without this using your IP address in the VirtualHost directive will not work as you expect it to... This is not Debian specific but is prolly a setting you just overloo

Re: Apache and virtual hosts

2001-10-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:55:39PM +0200, Rogier van Gemert wrote: > Just add something like: > > > DocumentRoot /location of the webpage > Servername subdomain.mydomain.com > > > and all worked well... NOT with Debian. Before the first VirtualHost block, you need to add: NameVirtualHost my.i

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

2001-10-16 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: [...] > http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/test_css.html > > It has font styles with 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, and 20 point fonts. > On my display 8 - 14 are exactly the same, 16 is a bit larger, and > 20 is a bit larger than that. > no pro

Re: lost in kde packages

2001-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:26:14AM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > I attempted to upgrade my working kde 2.1 system to 2.2. My attempt has left > me with a half-working, error spewing, broken konqueror, mess. > > Attempting to complete the half-completed installation produces the following > error: >

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

2001-10-16 Thread DvB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher S. Swingley) writes: > > http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/test_css.html > > It has font styles with 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, and 20 point fonts. > On my display 8 - 14 are exactly the same, 16 is a bit larger, and > 20 is a bit larger than that. > > At lea

Re: modutils won't install on testing

2001-10-16 Thread danielt
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:22:54AM -0500, DvB wrote: > My last apt-get upgrade tried to upgrade modutils and then bombed with > the following message: > > Setting up modutils (2.4.10-3) ... > depmod: Unexpected value (20) in > '/lib/modules/2.4.9-686/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for > ieee139

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

2001-10-16 Thread Craig Dickson
Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > Thanks. As it turns out, my HTML example was a poor one. The real bug > comes when using font sizes in style sheets. This can be viewed at: > > http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/test_css.html > > It has font styles with 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, and 20 p

Re: What am I doing worng? NFS question

2001-10-16 Thread Stan Brown
On Tue Oct 16 11:20:18 2001 Hall Stevenson wrote... > >> /dumpdisk2phse7(rw,insecure,no_root_squash) > >I don't know what the option 'no_root_squash' means, but I >might assume it's either ignored or not valid. When you >exported it, it spit back some 'status' info but no mention of >that o

Re: more pictures from systems 2001

2001-10-16 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 05:09:49PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: | this time more organized: day 2 on the systems 2001 fair. | | http://www.madduck.net/debian/2001.systems/ Cool. Nice job with the commentary. -D

Re: modutils won't install on testing

2001-10-16 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:37:13AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:22:54AM -0500, DvB wrote: | > My last apt-get upgrade tried to upgrade modutils and then bombed with | > the following message: | > | > Setting up modutils (2.4.10-3) ... | > depmod: Unexpected value (2

Re: What packages do I need to be a NFS server?

2001-10-16 Thread Stan Brown
On Tue Oct 16 10:32:15 2001 Dave Sherohman wrote... > >On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:38:03AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: >> I'm trying to use a potato machien as an NFS server. I have installed: >> >> nfs-common >> nfs-server >> >> And I have no /etc/exports file, nor nfsd, at least "which nfsd" doesn'

Re: PCMCIA under potato

2001-10-16 Thread Greg Wiley
On Sunday, October 14, 2001 7:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've installed and compiled the pcmcia source coming with Bunk's stuff > under potato and kernel 2.4.9 (of course enabling pcmcia in the > kernel). Then I've installed pcmcia-cs. > > Now when I start pcmcia service with two cards ins

Re: [suporte] Re: Strange message from IMAP: "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA"

2001-10-16 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I still have to provide POP to my users. It's shame that every user has to read this message. :( Thanks, Paulo Henrique Em Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:54:54 -0700 (PDT), Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Hi, > I remeber awhile ago I had the sa

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

2001-10-16 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> > http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/test_css.html > > This is how the above example URL looks on my mozilla nightly build > (from yesterday) on woody: > > http://home.jam.rr.com/dvb/css_font.jpg Thanks. I've installed 0.9.5-1 on more than one sid machine and the font sizes aren't

RE: lost in kde packages

2001-10-16 Thread Bob Koss
> > empty file details field `MD5sum' > > apt/dpkg bug, not sure which yet, and I've no idea why doc-linux-html > seems to be its favourite target today. Edit /var/lib/dpkg/available > around the line number it quotes (it should be in a paragraph starting > with "Package: doc-linux-html"), and re

Re: Multiple copies of messages to list?

2001-10-16 Thread Hamma Scott
I'll get duplicates of some messages and I'm using Yahoo through a browser. So it's not just you. Scott --- Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just swapped from using Procmail to carve up my > post to using Gnus > own mail-splitting facility. I find that I am > getting up to fo

Typespeed without bad words

2001-10-16 Thread joe golden
Typespeed is a good typing tutoring program. We have used it a little bit here at our school. My students were quite surprised to see words like whore, suck, prophylactic and hooker for words for them to type. I have never seen seventh grade boys run to the dictionary so quickly! I am not s

Re: Debian books

2001-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:04:44AM +0800, ramsubs wrote: > Also, he talked of installing KDE using task-KDE. But there is no > Task-KDE!! KDE was never included in Debian > 2.0 (if I remember > correctly), and the accompanying CD is at 2.2R2. He's really > out-of-whack. That's unfair. task-kde is

Re: offtopic: perldoc

2001-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 01:09:30PM +0200, Timo Blazko Boewing wrote: > Although dedicated to console, I sometimes prefer the HTML version of > that doc, not man nor pod or that; Try pod2html. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

linuxconf bugs?

2001-10-16 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there! I apt-got linuxconf and it all went ok, and it works ok, but I'm looking at some strange things, they may be more strange to me becouse I'm not very knowledgable on groups and users But, If I create a new user using linuxconf and then login with that username and mkdir public_html

FW: Typespeed without bad words

2001-10-16 Thread Scott Glover
bwuaahaha -Original Message- From: joe golden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 4:31 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Typespeed without bad words Typespeed is a good typing tutoring program. We have used it a little bit here at o

Re: What am I doing worng? NFS question

2001-10-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:20:18AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > /dumpdisk2phse7(rw,insecure,no_root_squash) > > I don't know what the option 'no_root_squash' means, but I > might assume it's either ignored or not valid. No, it's valid. root_squash causes root (on the client) to not h

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