Re: Help on in.telnetd and route

2001-10-19 Thread Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Liu Tao wrote: > I am in a local net and I have a default gateway to visit internet. > And I want to provide telnet service to local net. > But there is something wrong with the gateway(win2k), > it returns the route information very slow. > > My route looks like > Kernel IP

Re: Dockable bandwidth monitors?

2001-10-19 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Dmitriy wrote: > > Is there anything like this or similar to this? > > Give wmnd a shot. Imo works great. I'm giving wmnet a shot right now, and so far I like it except for the up and down arrows being backwards. I'll give wmnd a shot after a while. -- Baloo

x starts in failsafe mode, but not regular mode

2001-10-19 Thread Kurt Lieber
I've set up xfree86-4 on my debian woody box using the nvidia binary drivers and KDE. Now, when I run the kdm, I get to the KDE login screen, but when I log in in default mode, the screen blanks for a minute, then a simple blue background displays with a black bar at the top, and then I am retu

exim and delayed deliveries

2001-10-19 Thread dman
On my debian box I use exim as the MTA. Since I use mutt as my MUA, it uses exim as the underlying transport mechanism. This is all fine. The problem that sometimes arises is that with a mainly default install, exim simply queues messages for delivery but doesn't actually deliver them until a cr

Re: IP Alias

2001-10-19 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
"Chad Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > eth0, IP Address A - can ping from my computer and from other computers > eth0:0, IP Address B - can ping ONLY from my computer but not from = > others. It is listed in ifconfig Are they in the same subnet? If you assign IP address A to eth0 and B to e

i810 on asus

2001-10-19 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: exim and delayed deliveries

2001-10-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:12:55PM -0400, dman wrote: > On my debian box I use exim as the MTA. Since I use mutt as my MUA, > it uses exim as the underlying transport mechanism. This is all fine. > The problem that sometimes arises is that with a mainly default > install, exim simply queues messa

RE: customizing Emacs

2001-10-19 Thread Tuomas Pellonpera
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > 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 nightmare. This last point didn't even cross my mind.

Mutt->Mozilla ?

2001-10-19 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi there, O Wise Ones ! I was wondering if anyone would know how to adapt /etc/procmailrc so that following up a link in Mutt would invoke Mozilla rather than Lynx. I have a need for this as some of my links need a GUI and do not function at all with Lynx. Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL P

Re: IP Alias

2001-10-19 Thread martin f krafft
* Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.19 09:12:47+0300]: > > eth0, IP Address A - can ping from my computer and from other computers > > eth0:0, IP Address B - can ping ONLY from my computer but not from = > > others. It is listed in ifconfig > > Are they in the same subnet? most l

Administration interface ...

2001-10-19 Thread R. Alexander
I have a Debian box used only by a few friendly users for very practical services such as squid, dns, ftp, samba etc... The Debian system is sooo incredibly intelligent 8-> that it magically mostly takes care of itself. I just lazily have a look from now and then at the df output, sometimes check

Re: Help on in.telnetd and route

2001-10-19 Thread Liu Tao
Thanks for your reply. It corrected my mistake :) route -n returns immediately, and route returns after sevel seconds. then how to make in.telnetd do not do a dns reverse lookup? Regards Liu Tao On Friday 19 October 2001 13:08, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Liu Tao wrot

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

2001-10-19 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:37:16PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > * martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.18 22:25:42+0200]: > > you know a word that has ADAC in it, and starts and ends with 'he'? > > say, what is PEBCAK??? you are giving me headaches!!! > > (2.5 rounds of recognition to t

backup to CD

2001-10-19 Thread R. Alexander
My Debian box has an internal scsi CD burner. I would like to periodically (weekly ?) backup my /etc (around 8 megs) and some (not all) of my /home directories. Can I setup some task to perform such backups on the CD (multiple sessions ? multiple files ?) until it's filled up ? Thank you. Bob A

Re: Help on in.telnetd and route

2001-10-19 Thread Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Liu Tao wrote: > Thanks for your reply. It corrected my mistake :) > route -n returns immediately, and route returns after sevel seconds. Cool, now we know what the problem is: Name resolution, more specifically IP->Name resolution. > then how to make in.telnetd do not do a

installing

2001-10-19 Thread ivo ivo
I bought a set of Debian 2.2r3. There are 3 source cds, 3 binary alpha cds and 3 binary i386 cds. 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 in

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

2001-10-19 Thread Nick Phillips
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:17:34AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > Hm. So you're telling me that you've answered debconf questions, yet you > don't have debconf installed? That's pretty weird. > > How'd you manage that? debconf-tiny, perhaps? -- Nick Phillips -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] This will be a

Large fonts in Mozilla/Galeon after upgrade

2001-10-19 Thread Preben Randhol
I upgraded galeon and mozilla to the latest version in sid and now I cannot get galeon to show webpages with a small font. I choose size 10-12 but it still shows the pages like it was size 14-16. I didn't have this problem before. It can look like the problem you sth gets when the (f... stupid) Xfr

Re: installing

2001-10-19 Thread Frank Zimmermann
ivo ivo wrote: One posting should be enough. Please send in plain test only. I bought a set of Debian 2.2r3. There are 3 source cds, 3 binary alpha cds and 3 binary i386 cds. I want to install Debian into DEC Personal Workstation 600a, I've upgrade the bios and now I'm using SRM console. I wan

Re: Large fonts in Mozilla/Galeon after upgrade

2001-10-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I upgraded galeon and mozilla to the latest version in sid and now I >cannot get galeon to show webpages with a small font. I choose size >10-12 but it still shows the pages like it was size 14-16. I didn't have >this probl

Re: font problem in kde

2001-10-19 Thread Tom Allison
Damon Muller wrote: Quoth Tom Allison, I'm experiencing a weird problem in kde: - when using kde wm, I can't access all fonts available in my system; it defaults to a very ugly and almost unreadable font (Arnold Boecklin). - when using another window manager, like wmake

It has been a while since potato was release

2001-10-19 Thread Victor J. Cubas
When is woody going to be released? It seams to me that perhaps the individuals currently assigned to packaging and releasing debian have dropped the ball. If that is not the case, please forgive my comments. Thanks

Re: Large fonts in Mozilla/Galeon after upgrade

2001-10-19 Thread Preben Randhol
Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 19/10/2001 (12:05) : > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > >Does somebody know what the problem is and how to fix it? > > http://bugs.debian.org/115689 Thanks! -- «Don't use C; In my opinion, C is a library programming language not an app prog

Re: customizing Emacs

2001-10-19 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Tuomas Pellonpera wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > 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 nightmare

Re: font problem in kde

2001-10-19 Thread Tom Allison
Just to follow up. Turning off Anti-Aliasing was exactly the problem. I think it has fixed several others as well. My term windows are much smaller now - more like I expected them to be. Turn off anti-aliasing from the control panel thingy. Most of the fonts you usually use can't be anti-alias

Download Documentation about debian.

2001-10-19 Thread bruno pau
Hello. Where can i get whole downloading documentation about installation, configuration, using, administration and update debian/GNU linux. I'm finding documentation only about debian/GNU linux in format txt, html or doc to download. Thanks. Bruno. Make a difference, help support the relie

Re: It has been a while since potato was release

2001-10-19 Thread Andy Toenz
On Friday, 19. October 2001 11.57, Victor J. Cubas wrote: > When is woody going to be released? http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/index.en.html: 'As usual, no specific release goals are being set, nor will a release date be specified in advance. To put it simply, "Debian releases when it i

Re: Settings for vim for C programming?

2001-10-19 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hey Mark, Try www.linuxbrit.co.uk for some good settings for lots of programs, including C. -rohan * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Earlier I set my tabstop to 4 to give me some more screen room in my C > program .c files. The problem is that when I print out the source code >

Re: font problem in kde

2001-10-19 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Damon Muller wrote: > Turn off anti-aliasing from the control panel thingy. Most of the fonts > you usually use can't be anti-aliased, and so all you're left with are a > few that can. > it seems that this fix the problem; but I'm curious: why the fonts works right in other w

Re: backup to CD

2001-10-19 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:02:31AM +0200, R. Alexander wrote: > My Debian box has an internal scsi CD burner. > > I would like to periodically (weekly ?) backup my /etc (around 8 megs) and > some (not all) of my /home directories. > > Can I setup some task to perform such backups on the CD (mult

how to use true type fonts in X 3.3.6

2001-10-19 Thread Paolo Falcone
Can XFree86 3.3.6 (the one shipped in Potato) use True Type Fonts in applications? I'm interested to use some True Type Fonts especially with my documents I write using StarOffice. If so, how do I configure such? Paolo Falcone __ www.edsamail.com

Re: Mozilla 0.95 Install problems

2001-10-19 Thread Berthold Cogel
Morbo wrote: > > I've tried to install Mozilla 0.95 on my Potato box, but I can't seem to be > able to run > the installer. > > It is looking for a libstdc++6.1-1.so.2, which I apparently don't have. > According to the mozilla.org site Debian 2.1 should be enough. > In dselect I've found only lib

Re: kdm/xdm/woody problems

2001-10-19 Thread Jens Müller
"nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i can startx no problem. X comes up. Hm ... I should maybe try ... > but kdm nor xdm lets me login > to anything but 'failsafe' which just brings up an xterm. i can > work around it by just typing 'afterstep' in the xterm and it > fires up my full session. b

Force mediatype with tulip

2001-10-19 Thread Jan Tammen
Hi folks, I got a ethercard with a DECchip 21140. I am using kernel 2.4.8, tulip driver 0.9.15-pre6 (July 2, 2001). As my linux-box is connected to a 10/100Mbps dual-speed hub/switch (namely D-Link DFE-905DX) and the "10M" indicator is active, I want to force media-type to 100baseTx. The driver is

/etc/modules does not exists

2001-10-19 Thread THIVENT Pascal
Title: /etc/modules does not exists Hello, I'm using potato with a 2.4.12 kernel. At boot time, I can see a message like this one : #dmesg ... cat /etc/modules: no such file ... I don't remember having deleted this file but, indeed, this file is absent from my system. I found in a debian

Re: Mozilla 0.95 Install problems

2001-10-19 Thread oly
have you tried "apt-get install mozilla*" ? - Original Message - From: "Berthold Cogel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Morbo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian User" Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 1:45 PM Subject: Re: Mozilla 0.95 Install problems > Morbo wrote: > > > > I've tried to install Mo

Re: [SLUG] Re: Mutt->Mozilla ?

2001-10-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > I was wondering if anyone would know how to adapt > > /etc/procmailrc so that following up a link in Mutt would invoke > > Mozilla rather than Lynx. > > I have no idea how to do anything in /etc/procmailrc about this. In > this case, what you need is man mailcap Easier than that, choos

Re: /etc/modules does not exists

2001-10-19 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
well theres nothing special about this file. If you dont have it, the most it can happen is that some modules are not loaded. The file /etc/modules has in it ( one per line) the modules names of the modules which you want to load automatically at startup. Do you have any problem about unloaded modu

Re: /etc/modules does not exists

2001-10-19 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
here's my /etc/modules I load modules sb for awe32 sound card # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are

Re: /etc/modules does not exists

2001-10-19 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
sorry for the third message:) see also man modules.conf

Re: /etc/modules does not exists

2001-10-19 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:41:48PM +0200, THIVENT Pascal wrote: > Could someone tell me the structure, permissions, ownership of this file. > Is is possible to generate this file or do I have to do it by hand ? > > It would be nice to recieve a /etc/modules in order to take a look at it :) > > Th

Re: Mutt->Mozilla ?

2001-10-19 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (19/10/01 17:03), Adam Bogacki wrote: > Hi there, O Wise Ones ! > > I was wondering if anyone would know how to adapt > /etc/procmailrc so that following up a link in Mutt would invoke > Mozilla rather than Lynx. > > I have a need for this as some of my links need a GUI > and do n

phpmyadmin problem

2001-10-19 Thread Nicolas Lamirault
i have a problem with the installation of phpmyadmin i'm on testing. I install mysql-client, mysql-server, php, apache i create 3 user on mysql : (user,password) (root, toto) (admin,tata) (nico,tutu) admin have the same rights as root i create a database test, and user nico could insert,delete, .

Re: Mutt->Mozilla ?

2001-10-19 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I was wondering if anyone would know how to adapt > /etc/procmailrc so that following up a link in Mutt would > invoke Mozilla rather than Lynx. I think you mean 'urlview' instead of '/etc/procmailrc', don't you ?? Look for a file called 'url_handler.sh' on your system (is urlview included with

Re: Help on in.telnetd and route

2001-10-19 Thread Liu Tao
Sorry, I am still not very clear about that :( Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote: > You can't make in.telnetd act as a DNS server. You should be able to add > the appropriate lines to /etc/hosts to make it work on your LAN. > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 192.168.0.1 win2kbox.your.domain

RE: Woody: X won't start after upgrade to 4.1

2001-10-19 Thread Tim Wood
On 15 Oct 01, at 15:47, David Harrigan wrote: > Hiya, > > This posting from previous: > > Victor Julien wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > When I use xserver-xfree86-4.1.0-7 the startx command crashes right after > the > > X screen was set up. The xinit command works correct. Going back to > 4.1.0-6 >

Re: backup to CD

2001-10-19 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Check out Mondo. There is also a script that was written and put out on the list a few months back that tarred/gzipped to a directory and then burned the tars onto CD you you wished. Lance > > I would like to periodically (weekly ?) backup my /etc (around 8 megs) and > > some (not all) of my /

xfonts

2001-10-19 Thread Nicolas SABOURET
Hi ! Does anybody know how the default X11 applications font is defined ? I'm talking about the font used for menus (for instance) in most X11 applications (e.g. emacs, xdvi, xfontssel), not the font of any specific application (usually defined in .Xresources). I installed xfonts-jmk and now the

Problem accessing some websites

2001-10-19 Thread elawson
I run a debian 2.2 box using IP Masqing to provide internet access for a small office. Recently, the users have found certain websites can no longer be accessed. These are important sites to obtain information such as the US PTO. It is required that these sites be available for the office to get it

Re: Font problem with Gnumeric etc.

2001-10-19 Thread Mark S. Mathews
This is a gtk widget setup problem. I had it myself. You need to set up a .gtkrc file with a default font specifier for class GtkWidget. I'd give you a copy of mine, but I don't have my laptop here at the moment. -Mark Mikko Hänninen wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a problem with some fonts dis

Help configuring debconf

2001-10-19 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Thak you, I got back my French keyboard. But now I have another problem : while trying to configure debconf (and the other packages depending on debconf), the configuring script issues the message "Debconf is running in web mode. Go to http://localhost:8001." Then the script seems to stop, may

Managing Netscape cache and cookies...

2001-10-19 Thread Dale Scheetz
I've been having some trouble with netscape connecting to sites that I've connected to before. Mozilla connects with them just fine, and after talking with several webmasters on the sites I've had trouble with, it looks like Netscape is keeping out-of-date cookies. As there are a lot of seemingly i

Re: It has been a while since potato was release

2001-10-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 05:57:11AM -0400, Victor J. Cubas wrote: > When is woody going to be released? It seams to me that perhaps the > individuals currently assigned to packaging and releasing debian have > dropped the ball. We're doing our best. -- Colin Watson

Re: Managing Netscape cache and cookies...

2001-10-19 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:57:06AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I've been having some trouble with netscape connecting to sites that I've > connected to before. Mozilla connects with them just fine, and after > talking with several webmasters on the sites I've had trouble with, it > looks like Nets

Re: /etc/modules does not exists

2001-10-19 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:41:48PM +0200, THIVENT Pascal wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using potato with a 2.4.12 kernel. > At boot time, I can see a message like this one : > > #dmesg > ... > cat /etc/modules: no such file > ... > > I don't remember having deleted this file but, indeed, this file is

Help needed getting mail working.

2001-10-19 Thread Stuart_Luscombe
Hi all, I am running debian sid, and have fetchmail and exim installed. I collected my mail from an ISP's pop server using fetchmail, and it runs through and collects it OK, but then the mail seems to just vanish, as when I run mutt, all I get is '/var/spool/mail/stuart file not found'

Re: Help needed getting mail working.

2001-10-19 Thread Peter Ross
> > I am running debian sid, and have fetchmail and exim installed. > > I collected my mail from an ISP's pop server using fetchmail, and it runs > through > and collects it OK, but then the mail seems to just vanish, as when I run mutt, > all I get > is '/var/spool/mail/stuart file not found'

Re: Remove a half-configured package on Potato/Progeny/Testing...

2001-10-19 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >testing. When I tried to install xserver-xfree86 >(4.1), it started out fine, identified my printer, and >then hung while installing/configuring. This also >Now though, I can't uninstall xserver-xfree86 - it >exits with error status 10, b

Re: Help needed getting mail working.

2001-10-19 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:19:51PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I am running debian sid, and have fetchmail and exim installed. > > I collected my mail from an ISP's pop server using fetchmail, and it runs > through > and collects it OK, but then the mail seems to just

WindowMaker 0.70.0-1

2001-10-19 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi, The lastest version of wmaker in testing/unstable (0.70.0-1) has the following bug: when "Option -> Onmipresent" from the title bar is checked, the CPU runs into highs (because of XFree86 and WindowMaker processes). If "Option -> Onmipresent" is then unchecked, everything go back to normal.

Re: [wm-user] WindowMaker 0.70.0-1

2001-10-19 Thread Julio Hugo Toloza
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:05:58 +0200 (CEST) Christophe TROESTLER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CT> Hi, CT> The lastest version of wmaker in testing/unstable (0.70.0-1) has the CT> following bug: when "Option -> Onmipresent" from the title bar is CT> checked, the CPU runs into highs (because of XFree86

XDM starting when not wanted

2001-10-19 Thread Barbara Pfieffer
I setup potato on an older Dell laptop. It worked great and I just kept updating everything, X windows and so on. It had uptime of 38 days when I finally decided to reboot. Somewhere along the way, xdm get set up to start on bootup for a graphical login. I do not want this, I want to boot to a

Re: XDM starting when not wanted

2001-10-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
apt-get --remove xdm -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Fr

Re: XDM starting when not wanted

2001-10-19 Thread Kurt Lieber
cd /etc/rc2.d and either delete or rename S99kdm. (you can rename it to anything you want as long as it doesn't start with a capital S or capital K -- I usuallly rename mine to _S99kdm which works fine.) --kurt On Friday 19 October 2001 h:22 am, Barbara Pfieffer wrote: > I setup potato on an

Re: XDM starting when not wanted

2001-10-19 Thread Greg Wiley
On Friday, October 19, 2001 8:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > How can I stop XDM from starting on > bootup? Easiest, IMO, is to just remove xdm: apt-get remove xdm But if you still want the package, you could use update-rc.d to disable the xdm startup script. Best, -=greg

RE: Settings for vim for C programming?

2001-10-19 Thread Kris Huber
Hi Mark, If you use a2ps to print you C files, you can use --tabsize=4 to make it look right. a2ps also does pretty-printing (changes fonts for C keywords, etc.). -Kris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 8:16 PM To: Debi

Re: backup to CD

2001-10-19 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Friday 19 October 2001 03:59, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Check out Mondo. There is also a script that was written and > put out on the list a few months back that tarred/gzipped to a > directory and then burned the tars onto CD you you wished. > > Lance > > > > I would like to periodically (weekl

phpmysql pb

2001-10-19 Thread Nicolas Lamirault
i try to install phpmysql on debian testing i have install mysql, apache, php3 i have 3 user in my config of mysql : (user, passwor) (root,toto) (admin,tata) (nico,tutu) user admin have the same rights as root user after i create a database : test with the commande line, i have no problem for t

how to make Lexmark Z11 work with Debian?

2001-10-19 Thread Jerry Wang
I installed the following packages:apsfilter, lprng, lprngtool and downloaded cZ11.tar.gz from http://www.kornblum.i-p.com/Z11/LexmarkZ11.html, after make and make install the cZ11 driver, I use lprngtool to setup printer, but lprngtool says there're 2 unrecongnizable printerafters. what shold I do

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

2001-10-19 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:17:34AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 02:01:25PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > Anyway, I'll just chmod/chattr the file to buggery, let's see if > > that POS manages to overwrite that. That's the kind of thing I'd > > do in windoze... congratulat

Installing Dniff on Potato.

2001-10-19 Thread Tommy Moore
Hi guys. I'm wanting to install a pakcage that doesn't appear in the Potato tree but is in the Woody and Unstable trees. Am I correct on my assumption here? To install this package I'd go download the source package for it and then either install or compile the source packages for the libraries it

Re: Help needed getting mail working.

2001-10-19 Thread Stuart_Luscombe
I think I saw an error on bootup about these, a friend suggested it may be a permission problem on the directory. Should I do a chmod on it? If so, what numbers should I give it? -- Stuart "Michael C. Alonzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 19/10/2001 15:58:57 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: exim and delayed deliveries

2001-10-19 Thread Greg Wiley
On Thursday, October 18, 2001 8:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem that sometimes arises is that with a mainly default > install, exim simply queues messages for delivery but doesn't actually > deliver them until a cron job runs and tells it to. > > My question is : is there a way to (

Re: Help configuring debconf

2001-10-19 Thread Joey Hess
Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > But now I have another problem : while trying to configure debconf (and > the other packages depending on debconf), > the configuring script issues the message "Debconf is running in web > mode. Go to http://localhost:8001."; > Then the script seems to stop, maybe waiting

Debian Potato

2001-10-19 Thread Jorge . Melhado
I´d like to know if exists some documentation in txt format for Debian Potato (2.2) about installation and use . Thanks Jorge Melhado

Newsgroup / mailing list (was: Upgrade Kernel to 2.4 or later)

2001-10-19 Thread Jens Müller
"Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please send a copy of your reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well as I > rarely have time to check this newsgroup. This is not a real newsgroup, it is a mirrored mailing list. Please send your posts and replies to debian-user@lists.debian.org, otherwise they won'

Re: Help needed getting mail working.

2001-10-19 Thread Kurt Lieber
> > is '/var/spool/mail/stuart file not found' so where is my mail By default (at least on Woody) exim puts mail in /var/mail/ (note the absence of /spool/) You might check to see if your mail is in there. If so, just point mutt to the correct location. hth --kurt

framebuffer bootup question

2001-10-19 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello, I recently got a 3dfx Voodoo3 card and thus enabled framebuffer support in the kernel. I would like to have my Debian system come up in 1024x764 mode with maximum vertical sync frequency, so according to Documentation/fb/modedb.txt in the Linux source I appended the following to my kernel

kdm/xdm don't start WindowManager

2001-10-19 Thread Reto
Hi! I have Debian Sid installed with the current XFree86 and current drivers for my GeForce. The X Server runs fine, I can start kdm or xdm without any problems. But when I start one of them and it asks me for login, it is not able to start the WindowManager itself. Screen is black, then it ret

Re: Installing Dniff on Potato.

2001-10-19 Thread Mark Carroll
You shouldn't need the source packages in particular - you can download the binaries packages for your architecture - just follow what it depends on, and upgrade/install them with dpkg. Of course, you often end up upgrading libc, etc. by going down that route: in the end, I gave up and just went wi

Re: framebuffer bootup question

2001-10-19 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:45:19PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Hello, > > I recently got a 3dfx Voodoo3 card and thus enabled framebuffer support > in the kernel. I would like to have my Debian system come up in > 1024x764 mode with maximum vertical sync frequency, so according to > Document

Re: kdm/xdm don't start WindowManager

2001-10-19 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:52:44PM +0200, Reto wrote: > But when I start one of them and it asks me for login, it is not able to > start the WindowManager itself. Screen is black, then it returns to the > login screen again. It sounds like you're being hit by a bug in xfree86-common that has aff

Re: Problem accessing some websites

2001-10-19 Thread tim haegele
hello have you enabled Explicit Congestion Notification in your kernel configuration ? try echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn to solve your problem, or recompile your kernel and take out ECN fix it tim On Friday, 19. October 2001 15:31, elawson wrote: > I run a debian 2.2 box using IP Masqin

Re: Debian Potato

2001-10-19 Thread dooshiant
Have a look at the Debian Documentation Project. http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp or /usr/share/doc in your Debian system. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I´d like to know if exists some documentation in txt format for Debian Potato (2.2) about installation and use . Thanks Jorge Melhado

Re: Mutt->Mozilla ?

2001-10-19 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Hall Stevenson: > > I was wondering if anyone would know how to adapt > > /etc/procmailrc so that following up a link in Mutt would > > invoke Mozilla rather than Lynx. > > I think you mean 'urlview' instead of '/etc/procmailrc', don't > you ?? > > Look for a file called 'url_handler.s

Re: It has been a while since potato was release

2001-10-19 Thread p
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:02:23AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 05:57:11AM -0400, Victor J. Cubas wrote: > > When is woody going to be released? It seams to me that perhaps the > > individuals currently assigned to packaging and releasing debian have > > dropped the ball. >

Re: Framebuffer is cool, but can I still use NVdriver module?

2001-10-19 Thread Tim Moss
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 23:39:46 -0500 "Lance Simmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have the framebuffer working in the console, while using > the > NVdriver modules for X? Is there some trick I should know? The > framebuffer howto doesn't seem to address nvidia cards. > > Or is there ju

Re: It has been a while since potato was release

2001-10-19 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake p: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:02:23AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 05:57:11AM -0400, Victor J. Cubas wrote: > > > When is woody going to be released? It seams to me that perhaps the > > > individuals currently assigned to packaging and releasing debian have >

Re: how to use true type fonts in X 3.3.6

2001-10-19 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Paolo Falcone: > Can XFree86 3.3.6 (the one shipped in Potato) use True Type Fonts in > applications? I'm interested to use some True Type Fonts especially > with my documents I write using StarOffice. > > If so, how do I configure such? > > Paolo Falcone I believe in x 3.x you have t

Re: framebuffer bootup question

2001-10-19 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Michael C. Alonzo: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:45:19PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I recently got a 3dfx Voodoo3 card and thus enabled framebuffer support > > in the kernel. I would like to have my Debian system come up in > > 1024x764 mode with maximum vertical

Q: dns /exim / inetd (?) slow startup (2)

2001-10-19 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi to all, I'm still trying to find out what may make name resolution and exim startup to slow down to a crawl ... (smrgol is my local host, ip: 10.1.1.1) If I do a ping smrgol I get an instant answer, but if I telnet smrgol it takes about 30s until I'm connected. On the other hand t

Re: Problem accessing some websites

2001-10-19 Thread elawson
- Original Message - From: tim haegele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: elawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 12:58 PM Subject: Re: Problem accessing some websites > try > echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn I had tried this and it did not solve the problem. Unfortuna

Printing in KDE 2.2.1

2001-10-19 Thread John Gilger
I'm running Sid and KDE. They are great except I can't print anything in Kword, Kmail, etc. I tried CUPS, but it does not work with my Epson Color Stylus 800. I configured LPR with Apsfilter and GS uniprint drivers. It works great with non-KDE apps. In KDE, my printer is displayed as the def

Re: Q: dns /exim / inetd (?) slow startup (2)

2001-10-19 Thread Mark Carroll
Just a random idea: could an outgoing connection (e.g. to a DNS server) being stalled because the server is doing an ident lookup, and the incoming packets to port 113 are being silently dropped? -- Mark

Configuring LILO to boot a backup installation

2001-10-19 Thread Morbo
Hi, I thought it would be a good idea to keep a copy of my installation on a different partition as a safety, before I try upgradeing to Woody. Currently LILO is installed on the MBR and boots hda1 as root. I would like to add an entry to optionaly boot hda2 as root where my backup is. But curren

upgrading to WOODY

2001-10-19 Thread D.
Hi All I'm running Potato 2.2.r3 on a HP Pavilion 5450 (PII 800 MGZ) with a EN2242 Nic Card that I had to configure the tulip driver for. I did a dist upgrade and keep receiving the error not preconfiguring the package apt-utils is not installed. My question is when you do a upgrade like this

KDM cannot start X

2001-10-19 Thread Reto
Hi! I have Debian Sid installed with the current XFree86 and current drivers for my GeForce. The X Server runs fine, I can start kdm or xdm without any problems. But when I start one of them and it asks me for login, it is not able to start the WindowManager itself. Screen is black, then it return

Moving Debian to a new PC

2001-10-19 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi,   I have bought me a new computer.   I i'm womndering how i can manage it to get ALL of the data from my Linux partition to the new system WITHOUT LOOSING ANY PERMISSION AND FILE DATA. I must be over the LAN. I can't change HDDs. I think that NFS is not good for that... due permission pro

Re: Settings for vim for C programming?

2001-10-19 Thread glynis
> Earlier I set my tabstop to 4 to give me some more screen room in my C > program .c files. The problem is that when I print out the source code > (eg. for a Uni assignment) or when someone else edits it, the tabstops > are by default 8 spaces. i run the code through expand(1) to have it expand

Re: It has been a while since potato was release

2001-10-19 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Once upon a time p spoketh thus: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:02:23AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 05:57:11AM -0400, Victor J. Cubas wrote: > > > When is woody going to be released? It seams to me that perhaps the > > > individuals currently assigned to packaging and relea

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