RE: Setting up a server for XDMCP

2001-10-18 Thread Saeys, Peter
http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/LG/issue27/kaszeta.html Good Luck! Peter.S. > -Original Message- > From: Lars Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: den 18 oktober 2001 06:13 > To: Debian Users List > Subject: Setting up a server for XDMCP > > > How do I set up a server for XDMCP - do I

Re: Setting up a server for XDMCP

2001-10-18 Thread Adam John Henry
Yes. You must edit xdm-config, commenting out the appropriate line near the bottom. You should now be able to run X from a client, connecting to your server, with a statement such as: /usr/bin/X11/X vt8 :1 -dpi 100 -broadcast I am interested in learning a way to tunnel the XDMCP messages, an

Re: Shall I upgrade to Woody?

2001-10-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:03:55PM -0400, dman wrote: > Sometimes I point my sources at sid. Not all packages are in woody > (eg galeon, recent gnucash). I adjust source.list, run 'apt-get > update' to update the database, 'apt-get install ' to install > foo, put sources.list back, run 'apt-get u

Re: How can I get ntp working?

2001-10-18 Thread Robert Waldner
(please don't Cc me on list-mail, I read all the lists I post to. sigh) >> Unfortunately, if you've got a whole bunch of servers waiting to start >> to synchronize with your main time server(s). In a hierarchical >> environment you can get up to hours until they all are in sync :( >> >> Runn

Re: fuser and IPv6: Which way to go?

2001-10-18 Thread Craig Small
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:12:53AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Craig Small wrote: > > I know how to fix this, but it then leads to the question, which way is > > the correct way? There are three possibilities: > > Variant of your first option: > > - Default to to listing both ipv

Kernel build error

2001-10-18 Thread Craig Dickson
I've never seen this before when building a kernel. My guess is that it basically boils down to, "Your kernel's too bloody big, stop building it as a monolith and learn to use modules." Is that right? Craig make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed' tmppiggy=_tmp_$$pig

Re: Kernel build error

2001-10-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya craig did you use "make bzlilo" or sound like you did "make bzImage" if so... take out stuff from the kernel ... - turn it off if you dont use it - PNP, Video for linux, ISDN, Linux Telephone, - turn off all the graphics controllers you're NOT useing - SCSI

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-18 Thread martin f krafft
* Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.17 19:26:37-0500]: > Hi boys and girls, > anyone can tell me what the fuck is that dexconf crap and how do I > get rid of it? I mean, really, which genius came up with the idea > that I need to regenerate a perfectly working config file every time >

Re: Kernel build error

2001-10-18 Thread Daniel T. Chen
No, it appears the culprit is binutils. I just tried to compile 2.4.12-ac3 + Rik's vm patches and ld bombed out with the exact error described at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=116041&repeatmerged=yes Downgrade to 2.11.92.0.5-2 (it resolved the issue for me) and put binutils on h

How to allow a user to send a fax with mgetty

2001-10-18 Thread Kieren Diment
At the moment I need to su in order to send a fax. How do I fix it so that I can send a fax as a normal user? Pertinent info: Kernel 2.2.17 Mgetty running from Pototao 2.2R3 TIA Kieren

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2001-10-18 Thread Herbert Xu
Gerhard Kroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > README says: >>cd /usr/lib >>mkdir -p dosemu freedos >>ln -s ../freedos dosemu > my guess here: "mkdir -p dosemu/freedos; cd dosemu/freedos" before > linking? Nope, it's meant to be like that. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/

Re: GeForce3: X won't start!!!!

2001-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:45:05PM -0400, Aaron Traas wrote: > I just got a new GeForce3, and am having problems getting X working at > all. I'm using an AMD 760 based motherboard with a 1ghz Athlon and SB > Live!. > > I compiled a new kernel, and the NVIDIA kernel module and GLX package. I > mod

emacs20 - problem on woody

2001-10-18 Thread Johann Spies
After I made the mistake of doing a dist-upgrade on my stable woody system, emacs and a bug in the ocaml installation script gave me a lot of problems. Emacs is running on the console but rying to run emacs20 on X11 results in: emacs Font `-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--15-140-75

MySQL 3.23.xx on Potato

2001-10-18 Thread FPU . SHEPHD
--- Received from FPU.SHEPHD 799 366318-10-01 09:50 -- -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone help me getting MySQL 3.23.xx running on Potato. I found this mail in the archive from Mar 2001... > Use 'apt-get source' on the Debian mysql packages, and > '

Two complete lockups with kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've just experienced two complete lockups with kernel 2.4.12. I've gone back to 2.4.9 although I'm not sure it is the kernel that is at fault. Has anyone seen this? Anthony Campbell -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For an electronic book (The Assassins of Alam

distribution version numbering

2001-10-18 Thread Aurelio Turco
According to http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/footnotes.html, an increment in the last component of the version number (eg: 3 in 2.2r3) means "only security fixes and other major bug fixes". As for the meaning of an increment in any of the other two components I have not been able to find

Re: distribution version numbering

2001-10-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Aurelio Turco wrote: > As for the meaning of an increment in any of the other two components > I have not been able to find any documentation. That's because there is not one. > Could some kind soul outline what the meaning of an increment in the > other two components is, or

s3virge and Xfree 4.1 and wmaker

2001-10-18 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Hi, I would like to use the new Xfree 4.1 in woody with my S3 Virge/DX card but I am experiencing two problems: 1) When shifting from console to X (ctrl-alt-F7) it takes a couple of seconds for the dockapp icons on my desktop to be redrawn 2) The mouse pointer freezes ocassionally, usually

Re: Warning: Evolution broke when I updated Unstable

2001-10-18 Thread Adam Warner
On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 22:20, Matti Airas wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:06:22PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote: > > > I then added the official archive to my sources and was able to retrieve > > a newer version of libgnome-vfs0. This allowed me to start Evolution > > again. However To and CC are gr

Re: /proc permissions

2001-10-18 Thread andrej hocevar
dear karsten, did you deliberately insult me with your self-boasting remarks or was it just me reacting prickly? to me it seems that my question was pretty much clear and thus your reply does not make much sense. it's happened before to me that someone didn't like my subject in connection with the

a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread martin f krafft
goal: a 4-16 byte 7-bit character value that somehow encodes the time of creation such that it can be extracted if the encoding scheme/seed is known. the encoded value should be such that it is mostly impossible to change it so as to yield a later time of creation to be encoded. in general,

message htdig crondaily can't find /var/spool/htdig/db.wordlist.work

2001-10-18 Thread Walter Tautz
I get the following message: Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.daily/htdig: htmerge: Unable to open word list file '/var/spool/htdig/db.wordlist.work' How do I insure this file exists. All I see is db.wordlist.work.new

Re: Warning: Evolution broke when I updated Unstable

2001-10-18 Thread Matti Airas
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:02:25AM +1300, Adam Warner wrote: > downgrade gconf, libgconf11 and libgconf-dev to 1.0.4-3 Worked great. Thanks. -- Matti Airas [EMAIL PROTECTED] +358 50 34 64 256 http://www.iki.fi/mairas/ pgpy5tCvbmfap.pgp Description: PGP signature

just remove me

2001-10-18 Thread Aldo Chan
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Re: a challenge (no solution yet)

2001-10-18 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:58:10PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: | goal: a 4-16 byte 7-bit character value that somehow encodes the time | of creation such that it can be extracted if the encoding scheme/seed | is known. the encoded value should be such that it is mostly | impossible to chang

Re: Warning: Evolution broke when I updated Unstable

2001-10-18 Thread Rodrigo Araujo
On 19 Oct 2001, Adam Warner wrote: > On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 22:20, Matti Airas wrote: > > downgrade gconf, libgconf11 and libgconf-dev to 1.0.4-3 > Ok, I dowgrade this packages and my Evo is working fine now, but I'm with another problem, when I try to upgrade my system gconf 1.0.5-1 try to upgrad

apt-get upgrade to Woody errors out

2001-10-18 Thread Hamma Scott
I'm trying to upgrade from 2.2r17 to woody. I want to thank the responses for the proper areas to apt-get from. I did an apt-get update and then dist-upgrade -d to just download the files last night. I then ran apt-get with --nodownload option for dist-upgrade. It was scanning and at 83% I got th

Debian equivalents of Redhat installation and "kickstart"?

2001-10-18 Thread Guy A. Schiavone
I am a university professor and principal investigator on several new projects that require linux-oriented software development and the construction of several large Beowulf clusters. Currently I am setting up a linux lab for one of my classes, initially consisting of 12 Athlon 1.4 GHz workstation

Competing print models on woody

2001-10-18 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi, I managed to get printing enabled in woody by 'apt-get install printtool' and messing about with the filters until it worked (to cut a long story short). I then realised that lprng was the native print model for Debian so I apt-installed that. In the pr

customizing Emacs

2001-10-18 Thread Tuomas Pellonpera
Hi! I am trying to customize my Emacs and its cc-mode. I prefer "bsd" style, AKA Allman style, to the "gnu" style. With the help of http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/cc-mode_22.html, I was able to change the style to "bsd." However, I noticed that in bsd style the indentation level seems to b

Re: a challenge (no solution yet)

2001-10-18 Thread martin f krafft
* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.18 08:56:19-0400]: > I honestly don't know, but maybe Kerberos is what you are looking for? > (I know nothing except little bits I've caught in passing about > kerberos) no, i need to be able to do this on the shell and PHP... -- martin; (greeting

Re: Any windowing system in text mode?

2001-10-18 Thread joel_mayes
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 01:59:17PM +0200, Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote: > On 2001.10.17 12:00 ramsubs wrote: > > You can use twin. > Twin is a text-mode windowing environment > > http://linuz.sns.it/~max/twin/ What a cool idea!! Thanks Joel

Re: apt-get upgrade to Woody errors out

2001-10-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Debconf seems to rely on new perl. I do not know what exactly the reason because dist-upgrade should take care of this:-( At any rate, since you did download, following forceful stuff should resolve dependancy: # cd /var/cache/apt/archives # dpkg -i perl* ... repeat until it installs all You ma

UNSTABLE USERS: dpkg, doc-linux-html, and MD5sum fields

2001-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
I'm getting three or four reports a day about errors like this: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 88004 package doc-linux-html': empty file details field `MD5sum' E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) For the record, this is *not* a bug in doc-linux

Re: Debian equivalents of Redhat installation and "kickstart"?

2001-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:14:59AM -0400, Guy A. Schiavone wrote: > I am a university professor and principal investigator on several > new projects that require linux-oriented software development and the > construction of several large Beowulf clusters. Currently I am setting up > a linux lab fo

Re: GeForce3: X won't start!!!!

2001-10-18 Thread Aaron Traas
Yes, just now, but I'm not sure how it applies... I don't fully understand it, and does not mention the NVIDIA drivers. X worked before I upgraded my video card (from Matrox G200). --Aaron Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:45:05PM -0400, Aaron Traas wrote: > > I just got a new G

Re: Competing print models on woody

2001-10-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:16:12PM +1000, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Hi, > I managed to get printing enabled in woody by > 'apt-get install printtool' and messing about with the > filters until it worked (to cut a long story short). It looks like bug report time. printtool used

Re: Two complete lockups with kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-18 Thread Liu Tao
I am testing 2.4.12, 2.4.12-ac3 and 2.4.13pre3aa1 I experienced several lockups when testing "mtest01 -p 200 -w" but I never experience lockups during normal working on KDE2 Can you give more information on your lockups? Regards Liu Tao On Thursday 18 October 2001 18:25, Anthony Campbell wrote:

xmms queueing

2001-10-18 Thread Petteri Heinonen
Hello. Does anybody know a way to make enqueue as a default action when adding files to xmms's playlist? I know the command line option --enqueue, but it seems to affect only if I add files from command line. I've made a web site containing all my mp3's using Apache::MP3 (for my own use only), and

Re: customizing Emacs

2001-10-18 Thread Paul Smith
%% Tuomas Pellonpera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: You're probably much better off asking on the gnu.emacs.help group. tp> (defun my-c-mode-common-hook () tp> ;; use Allman (BSD) style for all C like languages tp> (c-set-style "bsd") tp> ;; other customizations can go here tp> ;;

Re: /proc permissions

2001-10-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:51:30PM +, andrej hocevar wrote: > dear karsten, > did you deliberately insult me with your self-boasting remarks or > was it just me reacting prickly? I did not read all of this thread. But I can assure you Karsten is a nice fellow with some wits. > > Please use

Re: customizing Emacs

2001-10-18 Thread Emil Pedersen
Tuomas Pellonpera wrote: > > Hi! > > I am trying to customize my Emacs and its cc-mode. I prefer "bsd" style, > AKA Allman style, to the "gnu" style. With the help of > http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/cc-mode_22.html, I was able to > change the style to "bsd." > > However, I noticed that i

Re: a challenge (no solution yet)

2001-10-18 Thread martin f krafft
* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.18 15:22:19+0200]: > * dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.18 08:56:19-0400]: > > I honestly don't know, but maybe Kerberos is what you are looking for? > > (I know nothing except little bits I've caught in passing about > > kerberos) > > no, i need to

RE: /proc permissions

2001-10-18 Thread Mullins, Ron
Andrej Hocevar wrote: >did you deliberately insult me with your self-boasting remarks or >was it just me reacting prickly? to me it seems that my question It would seem just a little of both. ;) Karsten is often brusque in requesting list etiquette be observed. I will share a better way to change

Re: GeForce3: X won't start!!!!

2001-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:40:31AM -0400, Aaron Traas wrote: > Yes, just now, but I'm not sure how it applies... I don't fully > understand it, and does not mention the NVIDIA drivers. X worked before > I upgraded my video card (from Matrox G200). If you are running xfree86-common 4.1.0-7, it may

Problem with htdig security update

2001-10-18 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I just applied the suggested security update to htdig (running Potato). I'm getting this error: # htdig -iv DB2 problem...: illegal flag specified to db_open htdig: Unable to open/create document database '/var/spool/htdig/db.docdb' I got some similar errors during the install. Anybody have a c

Joliet file names

2001-10-18 Thread Norman Walsh
This is marginally debian related since I'm trying to build a CD of the boot images for stable and testing... mkisofs reports: Error: stable/md5sum.txt and testing/md5sum.txt have the same Joliet name Joliet tree sort failed I've seen this before, but I've usually just tarred up the files an

Help : Keyboard + ATI Rage Fury Pro 128

2001-10-18 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Hi all, I've just tried to upgrade to woody from potato, but I've lost my French keyboard. Now, I have an American keyboard, and I don't know what to do to retrieve my original one. I'm using console-tools. Can anybody help me ? Additionally, I've tried to upgrade to "testing" because I did n

Re: xmms queueing

2001-10-18 Thread Örjan Persson
Petteri Heinonen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello. > Does anybody know a way to make enqueue as a default action > when adding files to xmms's playlist? I know the command line > option --enqueue, but it seems to affect only if I add files > from command line. I've made a web site containing all

Re: Competing print models on woody

2001-10-18 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:16:12PM +1000, Adam Bogacki wrote: | I then realised that lprng was the native print model for | Debian so I apt-installed that. In the process it deleted | a file used by printtool. There isn't a "native" print model. Instead there are several to cho

Re: customizing Emacs

2001-10-18 Thread DvB
Tuomas Pellonpera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, I noticed that in bsd style the indentation level seems to be 4. > I would like it to be 3. How could I accomplish this SIMPLE customization? > I tried to find the answer in > http://www.gnu.org/manual/emacs-20.3/html_mono/emacs.html, but no

Re: a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
What about using crypt() and the timestamp? Something like: #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; my $time = time; my $salt = 'md'; #mad duck $time = join('',reverse(split('',$time))); #reverse time because crypt() only # deals w/ first 8 chars print "

Re: x-window-system-core_4.1.0-7_all.deb

2001-10-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:37:05PM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: > I don't know what you did from 4.1.0-6 to 4.1.0-7, but it broke my Dell i5000e > (ATI Rage Mobility 128, using ati driver). The screen was covered with > random display glitches (correlated with CPU utilization), and when I > sw

Re: Two complete lockups with kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-18 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've just experienced two complete lockups with kernel 2.4.12. > I've gone back to 2.4.9 although I'm not sure it is the kernel that is > at fault. > > Has anyone seen this? I had 2.4.12 oops then D-state every process within 30 seconds of booting.

Rescye disk that understands Reiserfs ?

2001-10-18 Thread Stan Brown
One of my Debuan boxes crashed last night. As I watched it crawl trhough fsck'g a 40G partition, it dwaned on me that there was a better way to do this. So, I wnat to convert my root partiton to Reiserfs. I have 2 partions on that disk / and /boot. I have 2 other disks which are already Reiserfs.

i810 on asus

2001-10-18 Thread tomas kral
Hello,   I have i810 chipset on an asus m-board. After having read almost all available read about i810 vs XF86_SVGA, I am stuck not able to get past the following..   XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System .. (--) SVGA: PCI: Intel Unknown chipset (0x7121) rev 3, Memory @ 0xe400, 0xe38

Re: a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread martin f krafft
* Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.18 10:44:40-0400]: > Just an idea... nice. *but*: all the strings are prefix with 'md' which is the salt, just like: mdOnsGTiuYHX. doesn't this enable everyone to decrypt it? how do *i* decrypt it? furthermore, how can i convert these strings such tha

Re: a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread martin f krafft
* Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.18 10:44:40-0400]: > Just an idea... in fact, hold on... crypt is a hashing function, you can't decrypt it. but how then would i go about to check if a token had expired? assuming i get something like "mdIdT8MGyu.z2" there is no way to figure out if th

Re: a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
You're right - since you can't decrypt, you can't check expiration (easily). Although you could potentially run a loop to check against a range of values; depending on how precise you need it to be. For example, if tokens can expire on a 15-minute granularity then it's not too much of a problem to

Re: Help : Keyboard + ATI Rage Fury Pro 128

2001-10-18 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 18 October 2001 10:27, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just tried to upgrade to woody from potato, but I've lost my French > keyboard. > Now, I have an American keyboard, and I don't know what to do to > retrieve my original one. > I'm using console-tools. Can anybody help me

Re: Help : Keyboard + ATI Rage Fury Pro 128

2001-10-18 Thread the Edward Blevins
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 04:27:33PM +0200, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > I've just tried to upgrade to woody from potato, but I've lost my French > keyboard. > Now, I have an American keyboard, and I don't know what to do to > retrieve my original one. > I'm using console-tools. Can anybody help me ?

X problem: No startx or xinit

2001-10-18 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
Hello again, Here I am with one more problem... I installed potato using the CDs. I used dselect to select packages to install and I left it unchanged, that means I did not install any X packages. Afther that, I changed the apt source to testing and ran "apt-get dist-upgrade". Then I

emailing by IP question

2001-10-18 Thread Lance_Hoffmeyer
Is it possible to send email by IP instead of Domain? No one does it and I have never seen an example of it but it seems possible? If so, how? What would be an example? Lance

Grainy X?

2001-10-18 Thread Ken Mead
Hi all,   Just upgraded to woody, and along with that came xfree-4.1.07.   I have been reading that X is/was kind of broken lately. However I am noticing another problem that I havn't yet seen discussed.   I'm on a a20m IBM laptop, with a ATI rage mobilty vid card. Since I upgraded X this mo

Re: a challenge (SOLVED?)

2001-10-18 Thread martin f krafft
how about this: function get_token() { local now=`date +\%s` local ts=`echo -e "obase=16\n${now}" | bc | tr [A-Z] [a-z]` local md5short=`echo $ts | md5sum | cut -c9-16`; echo $ts$md5short } function check_token() { local ts=`echo $1 | cut -c1-8` local crc=`echo $1 | cut -c9-16` loca

exim & cyrus imap

2001-10-18 Thread Lance_Hoffmeyer
I am trying to gt cyrus imap running with exim but mail is not being delivered to the mailboxes. I can connect to the imap server and I have created cyrus mailboxes so I believe the imap end is running properly when I try su - lance echo *Subject: Testing : ./usr/sbin/exim -v lance I get *

Installing from floppies fails (chroot not allowed)

2001-10-18 Thread Stefán Freyr Stefánsson
Hello. I've been trying to set up (again) Debian linux. I've been trying to do this with floppies and trying to download the files I need through the net. I start up and compile the module for my ethernet card into the kernel and I'm able to configure the network via DHCP. All works fine until

Re: a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:58:10PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > goal: a 4-16 byte 7-bit character value that somehow encodes the time > of creation such that it can be extracted if the encoding scheme/seed > is known. the encoded value should be such that it is mostly > impossible to chang

apt preferences semantics (was Re: Shall I upgrade to Woody?)

2001-10-18 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:04:33PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: | On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:03:55PM -0400, dman wrote: | > Sometimes I point my sources at sid. Not all packages are in woody | > (eg galeon, recent gnucash). I adjust source.list, run 'apt-get | > update' to update the database, 'apt-g

Re: emailing by IP question

2001-10-18 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:29:54AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Is it possible to send email by IP instead of Domain? Yes. | No one does it and I have never seen an example of it | but it seems possible? If so, how? What would be an | example? echo "hello world" | mail -s "test message"

Re: Grainy X?

2001-10-18 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:29:57AM -0400, Ken Mead wrote: | I'm on a a20m IBM laptop, with a ATI rage mobilty vid card. Since I This Dell has the same card. ATI Rage Mobility P/M | upgraded X this morning when I run my window manager in this case | wmaker, the pixels seem huge and the screen is

Re: a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread Greg Wiley
On Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > goal: a 4-16 byte 7-bit character value that somehow encodes the time > of creation such that it can be extracted if the encoding scheme/seed > is known. the encoded value should be such that it is mostly > impossible to change i

Re: emailing by IP question

2001-10-18 Thread Mike Egglestone
Try sending an email like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Mike Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Is it possible to send email by IP instead of Domain? > No one does it and I have never seen an example of it > but it seems possible? If so, how? What would be an > example? > > Lance > > > -- > T

RE: a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread Justin Hahn
> You're right - since you can't decrypt, you can't check expiration > (easily). Although you could potentially run a loop to check against a > range of values; depending on how precise you need it to be. > For example, if tokens can expire on a 15-minute granularity then it's not > too much of a

Re: X problem: No startx or xinit

2001-10-18 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:27:11PM -0300, Vitor Silva Souza wrote: ... | I installed potato using the CDs. I used dselect to select packages to | install and I left it unchanged, that means I did not install any X | packages. Afther that, I changed the apt source to testing and ran "apt-ge

Re: emailing by IP question

2001-10-18 Thread martin f krafft
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.18 10:29:54-0500]: > Is it possible to send email by IP instead of Domain? > No one does it and I have never seen an example of it > but it seems possible? If so, how? What would be an > example? it's not adviseable as virtual hosts will choke on

RE: customizing Emacs

2001-10-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > However, I noticed that in bsd style the indentation level seems to be 4. > I would like it to be 3. If you decide you must do this, others have pointed the answer to you. I just want to say beware the path you are taking. Users of other editors will find editing your codce to be a royal n

logging Firewall traffic

2001-10-18 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I have 2 nics in my server with ipmasq installed. I would like to have some kind of information of how much data is passing through the firewall. I use squid for Internet access, and so I can use squid's logs to view web browsing, but it doesn't really tell me how much data went through, at wh

X server setup error

2001-10-18 Thread Greg Lopp
The following is what I see when I try to start X on my testing system. This system has a trident 3Dimage975. This worked fine under 3.3.6, wasn't supported by 4.0.3 and is still giving me trouble since support was added in 4.1.0 (http://xfree86.org/4.1.0/Status33.html#33) @@ X server setup

Re: Movie makers for Linux?

2001-10-18 Thread Preben Randhol
Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 17/10/2001 (12:08) : > If anyone else has other Linux solutions please pipe in! Try Gimp -- Preben Randhol --- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Re: gnome slowdown

2001-10-18 Thread Frank Preut
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:22:10PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > I just installed unstable freshly, including GNOME. I noticed that GNOME > was *totally* useless if esd wasn't running. Nautilus would hang for > 15-30 seconds at a stretch, as would Galeon. Logging out was impossible > or took

Re: Two complete lockups with kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Oct 2001, Liu Tao wrote: > I am testing 2.4.12, 2.4.12-ac3 and 2.4.13pre3aa1 > I experienced several lockups when testing "mtest01 -p 200 -w" > but I never experience lockups during normal working on KDE2 > Can you give more information on your lockups? > > Regards > Liu Tao > > On Thursd

installing

2001-10-18 Thread ivo jorris graad.p
I bought a set of Debian 2.2r3. the content is 3 source cd, 3 binary alpha cd and 3 binary i386 cd. I want to install Debian into DEC Personal Workstation 600a, I've upgrade the bios and now I'm using SRM console. I want to ask how to install Debian into my workstastion? I've read your site about i

Re: Kernel build error

2001-10-18 Thread Craig Dickson
Daniel T. Chen wrote: > No, it appears the culprit is binutils. I just tried to compile 2.4.12-ac3 > + Rik's vm patches and ld bombed out with the exact error described at > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=116041&repeatmerged=yes > > Downgrade to 2.11.92.0.5-2 (it resolved the is

man free

2001-10-18 Thread Bob Bernstein
I note that Debian's man page for 'free' contains a statement not found on other versions of that page, even other versions bearing the same date, to wit, words to the effect that the "shared" column is obsolete and needs to be ignored. Can anyone shed any light on this strange contingency? --

how to downgrade a package and set it to hold in dselect ?

2001-10-18 Thread tim haegele
hello all topic says all... I like to downgrade binutils from version 2.11.92.0.5-3 to 2.11.92.0.5-2 . How can I do this? Can it be done using dselect? thanks

Re: a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread Richard Hector
martin f krafft wrote: > > goal: a 4-16 byte 7-bit character value that somehow encodes the time > of creation such that it can be extracted if the encoding scheme/seed > is known. the encoded value should be such that it is mostly > impossible to change it so as to yield a later time of cre

Re: customizing Emacs

2001-10-18 Thread Aaron Brashears
Though the question has been answered, I think you'll find this resource valuable when dealing with emacs customization: http://www.dotfiles.com/ On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 04:23:06PM +0300, Tuomas Pellonpera wrote: > Hi! > > I am trying to customize my Emacs and its cc-mode. I prefer "bsd" style,

Modem PCTel HSP56Micromodem no Debian 2.2 r3

2001-10-18 Thread André Muniz Costa
Tenho um modem PCTel HSP56Micromodem ON BOARD e gostaria de saber se é possível usá-lo no Debian 2.2 r3. Se for possível, como faço para instalá-lo e configurá-lo. E onde consigo um driver para o modem.

Re: /proc permissions and other things

2001-10-18 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:12:07AM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote: > Andrej Hocevar wrote: > > >did you deliberately insult me with your self-boasting remarks or > >was it just me reacting prickly? to me it seems that my question > > It would seem just a little of both. ;) Karsten is often brusque in

Navegador para internet

2001-10-18 Thread André Muniz Costa
Como faço para instalar um navegador no Debian 2.2 r3? Já tentei instalar o Netscape pelo apt do próprio cd do Debian, mas dá erro.

Re: logging Firewall traffic

2001-10-18 Thread Aaron Brashears
I use ippl to track network traffic. I've never configured it to track things like NAT usage, or anything complex. However, by combining some carefully chosen ipchains with the -l option with ippl, you should be able to log most anything. http://pltplp.net/ippl/ http://packages.debian.org/stable/n

How can I make a boot disk from a runing system?

2001-10-18 Thread Stan Brown
After a crash this morning, I am on a mission to convert my / partition to Reiserfs. Here is the scenario. potato + Progeny upgrades + 2.4.9 kernel. 3 hard disks 1 partitioned as / and /boot (and swap). the other 2 are already Reisefs filesystems. So, it seems to me that I need to be able to boot

Re: Two complete lockups with kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-18 Thread Craig Dickson
Anthony Campbell wrote: > Where does one find the 2.4.12-ac kernels? You build them yourself. Download Linus' 2.4.12 sources, apply Alan's 2.4.12-ac3 patch, configure, build, and install. Craig

RE: how to downgrade a package and set it to hold in dselect ?

2001-10-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Oct-2001 tim haegele wrote: > hello all > > topic says all... > > I like to downgrade binutils from version 2.11.92.0.5-3 to 2.11.92.0.5-2 . > How can I do this? Can it be done using dselect? > you need to find the deb for the older version and install it with dpkg. Once this is d

IP for sending Email

2001-10-18 Thread Lance_Hoffmeyer
Is it possible to use an IP address to send email instead of a Domain name? If so, what would be an example? Lance

Re: Navegador para internet

2001-10-18 Thread Alexander Wallace
Trata: apt-get install mozilla como root On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, André Muniz Costa wrote: > Como faço para instalar um navegador no Debian 2.2 r3? > Já tentei instalar o Netscape pelo apt do próprio cd do Debian, mas dá erro. >

Re: Hard drive repartitioning..

2001-10-18 Thread David J. Roundy
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:47:26AM +0200, Petre Daniel wrote: > Well,i have a pc without a floppy disk,with only cdrom and a 3 gb hard > drive. > I've put a first 1,8 gb windows partition and a 1,2 gb debian > partition.Now,since i'm not using any X thingie,i'd like to know > an easy way to reparti

Dockable bandwidth monitors?

2001-10-18 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
I'm looking for something similar to the look of wmavgload, that will dock in wharf, that will do preferrably a line graph showing percentage of the pipe being used on a particular (virtual) interface. Is there anything like this or similar to this? -- Baloo

Re: a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:59:25AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:58:10PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > goal: a 4-16 byte 7-bit character value that somehow encodes the time > > of creation such that it can be extracted if the encoding scheme/seed > > is known. t

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