Re: Is there a way to get older packages?

2001-12-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:39:04PM -0800, jennyw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > For example, I'd like to install an older version of php (the current one in > Woody, which I'm using, is 4.0.100 which reports itself as being 4.1.0rc2). > Or do I need to download the source and build? Check list archi

Re: digital photo editing in linux---what do i need?

2001-12-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 05:49:27PM -0800, L. Vogtmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: <...> > kview, or konqueror if you run KDE. xv is simple and nice (though I > haven't seen it in unstable lately.) xv is non-free (personal-use shareware), and doesn't allow binary distribution. It's been remove

Re: Is there a way to get older packages?

2001-12-02 Thread Craig Dickson
Karsten M. Self wrote: > Check list archives. I belive someone's now archiving older > testing/unstable packages. Recent versions of unstable packages that I use on one or more of my machines are archived at http://crdic.ath.cx/debian . Craig

Re: just installed woody and have problem with X install

2001-12-02 Thread Robinder Bains
- Original Message - From: "Brian Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > % dpkg -l | grep xfree I got ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-9X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure only > ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-9X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure > ii xserver-xfree8 4.1.0

Re: just installed woody and have problem with X install

2001-12-02 Thread Brian Clark
* Robinder Bains <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 02. 2001 01:49]: > > % dpkg -l | grep xfree > > I got > > ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-9X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure > > only > > > ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-9X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure > > ii xserver-xf

mosaic

2001-12-02 Thread ben
anybody know where or how i can get hold of mosaic to run it in debian?

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicates? -- nope

2001-12-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mark duplicates ( to you) from me is probably just my reply to you and the deb list... you may or may not ( but probably will ) get 2 copies of this email...depends on how the mta is configured ... otherwise... i dont see duplicates c ya alvin On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

creating an ISO image of a cd.

2001-12-02 Thread Titus Barik
I'm trying to make an ISO image of a Windows 98 Second Edition CD. I've done this before in Windows, but not in Linux. I wasn't sure how to make an ISO, so I tried: cat /dev/cdrom > /tmp/cd.iso Unfortunately, that seems to always give me: cat: /dev/cdrom: Input/output error Does this mean the

Re: creating an ISO image of a cd.

2001-12-02 Thread John Griffiths
At 02:05 AM 12/2/01 -0500, Titus Barik wrote: >I'm trying to make an ISO image of a Windows 98 Second Edition CD. I've >done this before in Windows, but not in Linux. > >I wasn't sure how to make an ISO, so I tried: > >cat /dev/cdrom > /tmp/cd.iso > >Unfortunately, that seems to always give me: > >

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicates? -- nope

2001-12-02 Thread mdevin
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 10:58:28PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya mark > > duplicates ( to you) from me is probably just my reply to you and the > deb list... you may or may not ( but probably will ) get 2 copies of this > email...depends on how the mta is configured ... > > otherwise... i do

Re: logcheck/testing

2001-12-02 Thread Aaron Hall
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Volker Schlecht wrote: > I'm having a major problem with the version of logcheck currently in > testing. Apparently logcheck has by now decided that log entries by > iptables (which are found in /var/log/syslog, /var/log/messages AND > /var/log/kern.log, all of which are neatly

quoted-printable to 8-bit

2001-12-02 Thread Antti Tolamo
What are the ways to decode quoted-printable messages to 8-bit? I use Exim and I don't need system wide decoding(which doesn't exist in Exim), but rather I'd want a decoding combined to Exim filters. That's why I'd avoid installing procmail, I feel it is bit overkill for me. Right now I have f

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicates? -- nope

2001-12-02 Thread Glyn Millington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I haven't changed anything in my fetchmailrc, /etc/postfix/main.cf, or > .procmailrc files. And yet it seems to have stopped now. > > Very confusing? Mark, Don't know why you are getting them, but I have this in .procmailrc which weeds duplicates pretty effectively

Re: timezones and time setting

2001-12-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 13:01:29 +1030, David Purton wrote: > Is there a how-to or reference somewhere that explains the whole > timezone/time stting thing? Not that I'm aware of. > There are lots of points which I don't quite follow... > > like when I should use the (numerous) various different

Re: cable for APC Smart-UPS 3000RM ?

2001-12-02 Thread Shaul Karl
It probably depends on the exact model and/or software version you are using. It could be that the UPS documentation and/or web site has more details. I would consider posting this question to the ups list at http://lists.exploits.org. --- Begin Message --- Anyone know which cable I need to hook

Re: Debian woody with Openoffice. Can not install

2001-12-02 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Hi, > > I can not install Openoffice build 641b , when I > extract the big file and run setup, it only says: > > glibc 2.2.4 > then exit > > Is there any way to work around this bug? > > Thanks > > > > = > S.KIEU > You might try searching in the debian-openoffice mailing list ar

Re: mosaic

2001-12-02 Thread Shaul Karl
> anybody know where or how i can get hold of mosaic to run it in debian? > You might search for a deb in stable or older debian versions. I am quite sure you will not be able to run it on newer Debian versions. Does it supported upstream? Why are you looking for such an old browser? --

NIC Netgear FA311 : how do i make it work ?

2001-12-02 Thread spear
Hi there ! It seems that the drivers delivered with the mainboard are " Slackware/Redhat " designed ... I found another one, a natsemi.c file, but i never had to manage anything like this : how should i proceed ? What do i need installed to use it ? Thanks in advance ! Mathias

Kernel & Kernel-headers ??

2001-12-02 Thread spear
Hi there ! Coming to a kernel compilation, thing i done one time before, but don't remember :) , could anyone tell me what " kernel-headers " are ? Are these a specificity to our Debian ? What are they required for ? When you get a new kernel and tar xvzf-it , does it install these kernel-headers

Re: mosaic

2001-12-02 Thread ben
On Sunday 02 December 2001 01:47 am, Shaul Karl wrote: > > anybody know where or how i can get hold of mosaic to run it in debian? > > You might search for a deb in stable or older debian versions. > I am quite sure you will not be able to run it on newer Debian > versions. Does it supported upstre

Re: Another off-topic -- EXT3 question

2001-12-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 09:37:48PM -0500, Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) [011201 20:51]: > > on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:55:09PM -0500, Hall Stevenson > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I already tried mount as you mention. It basically looks ex

Re: Debian woody with Openoffice. Can not install

2001-12-02 Thread Steve Kieu
It might be incompatible glibc ? I have to forget this beast though, the setup is not script, it is ELF file, not any informative message given, any way I delete this big-stupid-useless file already.. :-) There has been reports about glibc 2.2.4 and openoffice but I found no answer for that yet,

Re: Another off-topic -- EXT3 question

2001-12-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 08:53:16PM -0500, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 05:47:03PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > | I discourage the practice of mounting system partitions with type > | 'auto'. Specify what you want. If you get it, great, if you don't, fix > | the

Re: creating an ISO image of a cd.

2001-12-02 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include John Griffiths wrote on Sun Dec 02, 2001 um 06:08:42PM: > >cat: /dev/cdrom: Input/output error Check the size of the image. ISO specification allows the last 2 sectors (iirc 4.6kB) to be not readable - they containa run-out data, which mastering or copying CD recorder uses to stop the w

Re: timezones and time setting

2001-12-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:44:51AM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 13:01:29 +1030, David Purton wrote: > > Is there a how-to or reference somewhere that explains the whole > > timezone/time stting thing? > > Not that I'm aware of. Some system admi

Re: apt-get (retry on failure)

2001-12-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 02:40:15PM +0700, Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Does apt-get have an option for "continue until finished"? Yeah, it's called the shell. while ! echo y | apt-get dist-upgrade -d do sleep 60 apt-get update done ...which will attem

nfs woes

2001-12-02 Thread Jason Pepas
Hi guys, I have a diskless workstation setup (which I had working fine) and am having trouble incorporating 100Mbps NICs into the picture. I have 10Mbps NICs and 100Mbps NICs, but netboot and etherboot only support the 10Mbps NICs I have. However there are ways around this - just have the workst

Re: running startx fails with: timeout in locking authority file ?

2001-12-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 01:43:32PM -0500, mikepolniak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When i try to start an X session as user mike by running startx it > fails with the message: > > xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/mike/.Xauthority Did you crash a prior session? What is ownership of

Re: setting environment variables for apps in KDE

2001-12-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:53:45AM -0800, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a non-KDE app (reportbug) that I launch from the KDE menu. It > does not pick up my EDITOR setting in .bashrc. > > Can anyone tell me where I should insert the setting of EDITOR so that > things launched fro

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicates? -- nope

2001-12-02 Thread mdevin
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 08:46:12AM +, Glyn Millington wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > I haven't changed anything in my fetchmailrc, /etc/postfix/main.cf, or > > .procmailrc files. And yet it seems to have stopped now. > > > > Very confusing? > > Mark, > > Don't know why you are

Re: large mailing lists with mailman

2001-12-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 01:33:59AM -0800, nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > most of my mailing lists are small (10 or less people, a couple have > 100-200 on it) > > couple days ago i added a new list with 2,723 people on it. i have > email notifications on for when users are subscribed and unsub

where to find gcc-3.x for potato

2001-12-02 Thread Paolo Falcone
Given the implications concerning gcc-3.x (such as not recommended for compiling 2.4 kernels), where can I find debian packages of gcc-3.0 for potato? I'm aware that there was a significant change of packaging for gcc starting with woody (such as parallel installs of gcc-2.72, 2.95 and 3.0 as main

Re: Debian woody with Openoffice. Can not install

2001-12-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:00:57PM +1100, Steve Kieu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > I can not install Openoffice build 641b , when I > extract the big file and run setup, it only says: > > glibc 2.2.4 > then exit > > Is there any way to work around this bug? I don't know a solution, I

Re: from - jijo

2001-12-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:13:13PM +0800, Paolo Falcone wrote: > Jijo Jose A wrote: > >$ bzip2 -cd patch-2.4.15-to-2.5.0.bz2 |patch -p0 > >can't find file to patch at input line 4 > >Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? > >The text leading up to this was: > >-- >

Re: Debian woody with Openoffice. Can not install

2001-12-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:00:57PM +1100, Steve Kieu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > I can not install Openoffice build 641b , when I > extract the big file and run setup, it only says: > > glibc 2.2.4 > then exit > > Is there any way to work around this bug? Note it's similar to OO bu

Re: NIC Netgear FA311 : how do i make it work ?

2001-12-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:51:15AM +0100, spear wrote: > Hi there ! > > It seems that the drivers delivered with the mainboard are " > Slackware/Redhat " designed ... I found another one, a natsemi.c file, but i > never had to manage anything like this : how should i proceed ? What do i > need ins

Re: PPP in Kernel Module

2001-12-02 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, > > > I just checked the "Help" screen within "make menuconfig", and it said > that the ppp module was "ppp_generic.o"; that might be relevant. > > I also understand that the error message you're getting isn't > necessarily correct; sometimes you get that message for other reasons. > What ha

Re: mosaic

2001-12-02 Thread Peter De Wachter
On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, ben wrote: > anybody know where or how i can get hold of mosaic to run it in debian? You can get it at http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/XMosaic/. With a couple of minor tweaks, you can get it to compile. Note that you need lesstif-dev, as it is a Motif application.

Re: Another off-topic -- EXT3 question

2001-12-02 Thread Stephen Gran
> > Okay, why ?? I'm open to reason. I seem to recall that this page, > > http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html, says to use > > 'auto'. I have to trust their opinion there... (btw, the page/server > > seems to be misconfigured at the moment... I'm getting a 'Forbidden' > > mess

via82cxxx chipset question

2001-12-02 Thread Cheryl Homiak
It's possible this might get more answers on another list, but thought I'd try here first. I have a via82c597 rev 4 chipset and an Award bios. I have anabled the via82cxxx support in my kernel, but perhaps I do not understand what numbers to put in on the command line, or for which ide to put them

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicates? -- nope

2001-12-02 Thread Glyn Millington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> Don't know why you are getting them, but I have this in .procmailrc which >> weeds duplicates pretty effectively. >> >> # Nuke duplicate messages >> :0 Wh: msgid.lock >> | $FORMAIL -D 8192 msgid.cache >> > Thanks for that. I will have to take a look at the manuals f

Re: nfs woes

2001-12-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
> > I have a diskless workstation setup (which I had working fine) and am > having trouble incorporating 100Mbps NICs into the picture. > > I have 10Mbps NICs and 100Mbps NICs, but netboot and etherboot only > support the 10Mbps NICs I have. > > However there are ways around this - just have the

Swiss Keyboard

2001-12-02 Thread Daniel Faller
Hi, I have an IBM ThinkPad 600 with Swiss keyboard. My Xfree-4 Config says: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbMode

Re: global environment variables?

2001-12-02 Thread nemo
This I aready know. ...but seeing as I didn't ask "how do I set an environment for my cronjobs" but "how do a set a GLOBAL evironment for the entire system", it doesn't actually help me much. :) .../Nemo On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:19:19PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > RTFM: man 5 crontab.

adding groups for local logins only

2001-12-02 Thread nemo
My primary desktop machine has a number of users, some of who are clued, some are not. I want a way for the floppy, cdrom and audio groups to be granted to a user when they login via X or console, but NOT when connecting in remotely (ie, ssh). login.defs was the old way to do this, for tty's

Re: sf-debian

2001-12-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Warning: LDAP: Unable to bind to server: Invalid DN syntax in > /usr/lib/sourceforge/www/include/ldap.php on line 50 > > * The distinguished name of the search base: dc=dev.uprint.web Should be: dc=dev,dc=uprint,dc=web - Jeff -- We're passe with class, eh?

dsproxy (was Re: XMMS and Galeon (with Flash) at the same time?)

2001-12-02 Thread Preben Randhol
Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/12/2001 (13:55) : > Quoth Preben Randhol, > > My little sister is complaining that Galeon doesn't work. I found the > > problem to be that she is playing music with XMMS and entering pages > > that uses flash animation, galeon will hang because flash wo

Re: sf-debian

2001-12-02 Thread Georges Goncalves
Le -12.02.2001 15:55:17-, « Jeff Waugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) » a écrit quelques phrases célèbres sur « Re: sf-debian » JW> > Warning: LDAP: Unable to bind to server: Invalid DN syntax in JW> > /usr/lib/sourceforge/www/include/ldap.php on line 50 JW> > JW> > * The distinguished name of the search ba

Re: postgresql in quotas?

2001-12-02 Thread martin f krafft
* Oliver Elphick [2001.11.30 12:32:30+]: > It is possible to do what you want if you run a separate postmaster > (under a separate port) for each database owner. This will require a > separate database structure and initdb to be run in each separate > structure. Each database owner would nee

Any usable sound records for Linux?

2001-12-02 Thread Preben Randhol
I need a simple sound recorder to record sound (voice) from a mic to wav or some other format I can convert. I tried grecord, but this crashes X so I have to turn my machine on/off. Audacity doesn't work and krecord crashes. I see there are many editors Glame etc..., but what I need is a simple p

Newbie comments & queries

2001-12-02 Thread Ian Balchin
John & dman, woah!! We came to a grinding halt long before consideration of the packages about which you wish to differ. I installed via tasksel the 'Dial Up' packages. All went well until wvdialconf had its turn. No modem detected, so after 3 tries I left it until later. Facts: Microcom De

ethernet question

2001-12-02 Thread Alec
Hi How does one connect two computers to the internet throught one ethernet socket? Does one of them have to have two ethernet cards and run special software? Thanks Alec _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.y

Re: Testing dselect problem

2001-12-02 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Jager wrote: > Not all the packages were installed. Now, whenever I try to [I]nstall from > dselect, I get this message: > > debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC > contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 > /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i

perl gnuplot

2001-12-02 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, I want to run a script perl which use gnuplot. this script gives statistics to a game named "loto", it consists to choose seven numbers among 49 [1 .. 49]. (seven balls among 49 balls) The script "loto2.pl", it works on the file of results named "loto15". ( in fact loto15 contains 3430 resul

Please Help: PPP in Debian

2001-12-02 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, Can noone help me solve a=the problem with PPP in my new Debian 2.2 with Kernel 2.4.14 build? It seems that as soon as I have built the kernel and installed 2.4.0-3 PPP it has broken. Please can someone help, this _must_ be a straight-forward problem! I have been trying to get this working

Re: cvs security - ssh vs pserver?

2001-12-02 Thread martin f krafft
* Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.29 16:16:48-0600]: > You are still missing the point. Hopefully, you've read my post by > now, but I'll reiterate. > > CVS documentation states that pserver plus write access to CVS > repository can be subverted to execute arbitrary code on the > serve

Re: Any known problems with PHP4 in Woody?

2001-12-02 Thread martin f krafft
* jennyw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.29 13:17:16-0800]: > Thanks ... I assume all I need to do is apt-get source php4 make and make > install? no, apt-get source php4, then in the directory of the php4 source, `dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot`. you might need multiple tries until you have all *-dev

Re: creating an ISO image of a cd.

2001-12-02 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Titus Barik wrote: > I'm trying to make an ISO image of a Windows 98 Second Edition CD. I've > done this before in Windows, but not in Linux. > > I wasn't sure how to make an ISO, so I tried: > > cat /dev/cdrom > /tmp/cd.iso `mkisofs` is your friend. j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis

Re: Swiss Keyboard

2001-12-02 Thread Erik Simon
Hi, > I have an IBM ThinkPad 600 with Swiss keyboard. My Xfree-4 Config says: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Generic Keyboard" > Driver "keyboard" > Option "CoreKeyboard" > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" > Option

Re: postgresql in quotas?

2001-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 15:27, martin f krafft wrote: > right, that was my understanding, but this approach is not at all > scalable, so it's not going to work. i guess for now i really just > have to work with a script and cron. can anyone tell me how to display > the size of a postgres database, or

Re: Please Help: PPP in Debian

2001-12-02 Thread Georges Goncalves
Le -12.02.2001 17:37:44-, « Ben Hill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) » a écrit quelques phrases célèbres sur « Please Help: PPP in Debian » BH> I am building a 2.4.14 kernel to use PPP (pppd) and have selected the PPP BH> options as modules. This is due to me installing the drivers and software BH> for my Alc

Re: postgresql in quotas?

2001-12-02 Thread martin f krafft
* Oliver Elphick [2001.12.02 16:52:04+]: > None that I know of. > -- syd barrett huh? was this a mistake on your part, or are you claiming that syd barrett said this "famous quote?" (he surely did, multiple times probably). looks more like a leftover of my pre

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-12-02 Thread martin f krafft
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.30 14:16:57+1000]: > Also, the openwall patch that Alvin Oga recommended seems to only be for > 2.2 series kernels - so I guess that is not possible for a 2.4 kernel. > And I really want to run a 2.4 kernel for the iptables firewall stuff. > What is

Re: Debian woody with Openoffice. Can not install

2001-12-02 Thread George Dancheff
--- "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:00:57PM +1100, Steve Kieu > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I can not install Openoffice build 641b , when I > > extract the big file and run setup, it only says: > > > > glibc 2.2.4 > > then exit > > > > Is there any w

Re: Please Help: PPP in Debian

2001-12-02 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 04:37:44PM -, Ben Hill wrote: > Hi, > > Can noone help me solve a=the problem with PPP in my new Debian 2.2 with > Kernel 2.4.14 build? > > It seems that as soon as I have built the kernel and installed 2.4.0-3 PPP > it has broken. > > > Please can someone help, this

Re: nfs woes

2001-12-02 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 04:37:39AM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have a diskless workstation setup (which I had working fine) and am > having trouble incorporating 100Mbps NICs into the picture. > > I have 10Mbps NICs and 100Mbps NICs, but netboot and etherboot only > support the 10M

trying to understand something

2001-12-02 Thread Richard Seymour, the Man Behind the Curtain
Running a woody box, I just went through an apt-get update, apt-get -u upgrade cycle and found that I could not restart X (failed to find default font fixed). I installed several font packages and the problem went away, but I'm not sure why. Here's the relevant FontPath info from XF86Config:

help: tcpwrappers aren't working!!

2001-12-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
tcpwrappers don't seem to be working for cvspserver. on host satan (64.164.47.8), i have the following wrappers: # ## hosts.allow # ALL: localhost ALL: 192.168.0.1 # mephisto ALL: 192.168.0.2 # satan ALL: 192.168.0.3

Re: help: tcpwrappers aren't working!!

2001-12-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin: Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > tcpwrappers don't seem to be working for cvspserver. > > on host satan (64.164.47.8), i have the following wrappers: bad form to reply to your own message, but someone will ask. from inetd.conf: cvspserver stream tcp nowait.40 root /usr/sbin/

Re: creating an ISO image of a cd.

2001-12-02 Thread Titus Barik
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Blah. dd makes the same read and write operations as can&shell in this case. > > > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/cd.iso > > better append conv=noerror Hmm, I just did dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/cd.iso instead of cat, and it did work. Now, I'm not sure why that

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

2001-12-02 Thread martin f krafft
* Peter Good <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.30 23:14:24+1000]: > Hence why i'm subscribed to this list hehehehe, it's amazing the things i've > picked up over the past year, defintely helped my newbie status. also a very good and very valid point. now, peter, it's about time you start answering so

Re: creating an ISO image of a cd.

2001-12-02 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:05:15AM -0500, Titus Barik wrote: > I'm trying to make an ISO image of a Windows 98 Second Edition CD. I've > done this before in Windows, but not in Linux. This is what I use, and it seems to work well: mount /cdrom mkisofs -r -J -R -o mycd.iso /cdrom optionally mount

Re: creating an ISO image of a cd.

2001-12-02 Thread martin f krafft
* Joe Bouchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.02 11:10:19-0500]: > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=mycd.iso > cdrecord -v -data -isosize mycd.iso > > Beware of special cases, like those combincation Mac/Windows game cds. for many standard cds that are faultless, cdrecord -v -data -isosize /dev/cdrom will do!

Re: creating an ISO image of a cd.

2001-12-02 Thread Sean
If all I want to do is do a straight copy of a CD, I'd suggest just using cdrecord (assuming of course that you have a CDROM that is separate from your CDRW). cdrecord dev= speed= -v /dev/ Sean On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 11:10, Joe Bouchard wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:05:15AM -0500, Titus Bar

Re: just installed woody and have problem with X install

2001-12-02 Thread Robinder Bains
- Original Message - From: "Brian Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > And it should automatically start the configuration after it's > installed. O.K. now I get this error when I type startx... (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens foun

Re: help: tcpwrappers aren't working!!

2001-12-02 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 12:22, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin: Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > > tcpwrappers don't seem to be working for cvspserver. > > > > on host satan (64.164.47.8), i have the following wrappers: > > bad form to reply to your own message, but someone will ask.

Re: GTK+(?) font sizes insanity

2001-12-02 Thread Paul E Condon
I am a newbie. I have just done an install of gnome via dselect of potato. Where is gnome control center? I check in dselect and it says it is already installed, but I can't find it. Does it run from a command line? Must I run as root? Paul Tobias Wolter wrote: > On 2001-12-01T19:09:49 +, Br

OT: free cmd is lying to me

2001-12-02 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! First of all, I admit that this is slightly OT, since I believe this to be not strictly related to Debian, but rather a general mainboard/kernel/mem config issue. I got a system equipped with a Supermicro dual processor mainboard, one PIII 1GHz CPU (the other processor slot is currently unus

Re: GTK+(?) font sizes insanity

2001-12-02 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 13:41, Paul E Condon wrote: > I am a newbie. I have just done an install of gnome via dselect of potato. > Where > is gnome control center? I check in dselect and it says it is already > installed, > but I can't find it. Does it run from a command line? Must I run as root?

Re: Please Help: PPP in Debian

2001-12-02 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 04:37:44PM -, Ben Hill wrote: > I am building a 2.4.14 kernel to use PPP (pppd) and have selected the PPP > options as modules. This is due to me installing the drivers and software > for my Alcatel USB modem. I seem to have got the USB hotplugging and syncing > of the m

Re: just installed woody and have problem with X install

2001-12-02 Thread Robinder Bains
> > Run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 again, and when you get to the > section about "Frame Buffer Device" answer "No" > > Then try to startx again and see if it starts normally. > > -- > -Brian Clark > O.k now I get this... (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" does not exist.

Re: ethernet question

2001-12-02 Thread Timo Boewing
Alec wrote: How does one connect two computers to the internet throught one ethernet socket? Does one of them have to have two ethernet cards and run special software? Technically, one socket would not do the job. But to your querstion: One computer acts as a gateway. One interface is connec

acroread crashes

2001-12-02 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! When viewing PDFs on a Debian Potato system with Acrobat Reader 4.05, I encounter crashes with the following error message: Exited with error code: 0x400e0009. Something similar happens to me when viewing PDFs from within Netscape 4.78 using either the nppdf.so plugin or Acrobat Read

Re: OT: free cmd is lying to me

2001-12-02 Thread Jason Healy
At 1007344595s since epoch (12/02/01 14:56:35 -0500 UTC), Holger Rauch wrote: > That said, the free cmd should report that approx. 1.4 GB of main memory > should still be available. However, what I get is: > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 2

Re: help: tcpwrappers aren't working!!

2001-12-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
mike, thank you! begin: Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 12:22, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > begin: Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > > Have you restarted inetd after changing your hosts files? Have you also > killed any reamining cvspserver proces

Re: GTK+(?) font sizes insanity

2001-12-02 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:01:51PM -0600, Michael Heldebrant wrote: | On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 13:41, Paul E Condon wrote: | > I am a newbie. I have just done an install of gnome via dselect of | > potato. Where is gnome control center? I check in dselect and it | > says it is already installed, but I

Re: just installed woody and have problem with X install

2001-12-02 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:19:47PM -0700, Robinder Bains wrote: | | > | > Run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 again, and when you get to the | > section about "Frame Buffer Device" answer "No" | > | > Then try to startx again and see if it starts normally. | | O.k now I get this... | | (WW)

No graphical login (woody)

2001-12-02 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, right after upgrading to woody I still could use kdm to log in into my machine. But some days later this wouldn't work any longer: After login in as authorized user just restarts kdm. (Anyway instead of going into KDE I get the login screen again.) I can start X (with startx) from the console

Re: global environment variables?

2001-12-02 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 03-Dec 01:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This I aready know. ...but seeing as I didn't ask "how do I set an > environment for my cronjobs" but "how do a set a GLOBAL evironment for > the entire system", it doesn't actually help me much. :) > > .../Nemo > [snip other answer} Just slip it in /e

Re: GTK+(?) font sizes insanity

2001-12-02 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 14:47, Paul E Condon wrote: > I guess I am not actually running gnome. I have a windowing environment, but not a > "panel" at the bottom of the screen, as I did have when I was using RedHat. How do I > determine what windowing environment I have and how do I change it. dselect

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

2001-12-02 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sat, 2001-12-01 at 07:34, Tom Allison wrote: > My point is this: > If all you ever want is the step by step instructions, that is all you > will ever know. This is more or less the key for me to understanding why other people can't be bothered to read the manual. If it's not in a step by ste

Re: Debian woody with Openoffice. Can not install

2001-12-02 Thread Steve Kieu
> > I don't know a solution, I can only confirm the > bug. > > > > OpenOffice is particularly poor at documenting > known > > issues with > > particular builds. Discouraging as these are 10 > > hour downloads for me > > (56k modem). I've discussed the issue with Brian > > Behlendorf in the Yes

Re: large mailing lists with mailman

2001-12-02 Thread nate
> Check your mailman and MTA (exim?) settings. > > In particular, you want to look at the batchsize and queue-run > options. Could your system be configured only to run queue every 12 > hours (this isn't the default, and seems an odd value to set things > to). What happens if you do a 'mailq' (a

lynx: Executable link rejected due to loaction or path

2001-12-02 Thread Stan Brown
I'm playing around with a project called xmltv. It sucks down TV listings, and generates an XML file containing them. The a cgi script is used to pick which ones to view/record. Looks pretty neat. Here is the problem, I'm not certain how to set up to use the cgi script. I would actually like to us

Unknown HZ value

2001-12-02 Thread nate
i saw that my mail hub decided to start showing this now too.. first it was my web server. seems to be somewhat related to uptime. my webserver started it a few months ago (it has about 390 days uptime) and my mailserver just recently (it has about 249 days uptime) seems to be a kernel bug but wan

Re: Debian woody with Openoffice. Can not install

2001-12-02 Thread George Dancheff
--- Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know a solution, I can only confirm the > > bug. > > > > > > OpenOffice is particularly poor at documenting > > known > > > issues with > > > particular builds. Discouraging as these are 10 > > > hour downloads for me > > > (56k modem). I'

NIC and LAN setup

2001-12-02 Thread Paul E Condon
I am Debian newbie. I have a LAN that was running and is now in need of reconstruction. On the LAN were two Linux boxes and two Macs. The Linux box that provided internet access via ppp has a Netgear fa311 NIC. This card is not supported by potato. I have obtained another NIC, a Linksys LNE100TX, w

Re: help: tcpwrappers aren't working!!

2001-12-02 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 14:41, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > mike, thank you! > > begin: Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > > On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 12:22, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > begin: Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > > > > Have you restarted inetd after changing your

Re: OT: free cmd is lying to me

2001-12-02 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 14:28, Jason Healy wrote: > > In order to find out whether this is right, I wrote a small test > > program that continuously does a malloc() for 10 MB every 5 secs until the > > system runs out of memory. Strangely enough, it didn't. > > How long did you run it for? To use

Re: help: tcpwrappers aren't working!!

2001-12-02 Thread Bill Goudie
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:19:54AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > tcpwrappers don't seem to be working for cvspserver. > > on host satan (64.164.47.8), i have the following wrappers: > > > # ## hosts.allow # > ALL: localhost > ALL: 192.168.0.1

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