Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-27 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
> > What everybody seems to be telling me is that because IP is routable, > > ARP replies are also routable, and the kernel is free to mix and match > > IP addresses with Ethernet interfaces however it likes according to > > it's IP routing conventions. I don't agree with this. > > You don't agre

Re: Mozilla issues

2002-03-27 Thread Angus D Madden
curtis, Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:32:22PM -0800: > One problem that bothers me with mozilla is printing. I can't seem to > figure out how to add a printer to Mozilla, which might resolve this > situation. If you click on Properties... in the print dialog you can see that it uses the environmen

Re: accented characters in linux/Debian?

2002-03-27 Thread Bastiaan Naber
Hi, Setting your keyboardmap to us_intl works for me in KDE apps, like this: setxkbmap us_intl Don't know if abiword and openoffice react te same as KDE apps. Cheers, Bastiaan On Wednesday 27 March 2002 21:15, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Hi, > > I will have to use some accented characters, along

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2002-03-27 Thread ye416
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Re: DOS client with SAMBA

2002-03-27 Thread Cleto Pescia
Hi, > I want to know if that tcp/ip dos client disk made on WIN NT CDROM > can be used for SAMBA client? Yes, it works. At least I have used it with versions of Samba up to 2.0.8. But I see no reason for which it should not work for newer versions as well. Cleto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Mozilla issues

2002-03-27 Thread Rick Macdonald
curtis said: > One problem that bothers me with mozilla is printing. I can't seem to > figure out how to add a printer to Mozilla, which might resolve this > situation. > > Otherwise, my default printer is listed as "PostScript/default" and the > print command under properties is for lprng (I use

apt pin-priority and /etc/apt/preferences file

2002-03-27 Thread justin cunningham
Hello, need help again. Currently I have an all woody box and need to install some potato only packages. Current sources.list is deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debi

Re: login via serial console respawns too fast

2002-03-27 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello again, so, i've edited my inittab to listen on ttyS0 on 9600 baud. the "id" is T0. i keep getting "T0: repawning too fast, disabled for 5 mintues." and i am not able to use minicom to connect to it from the other pc. i'm sure my (only) serial port is ttyS0. any thoughts? also, for a null mo

Re: OT Any web site that teaches how to make LAN cable connection

2002-03-27 Thread Petro
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:07:03PM -0800, Nathan E Norman wrote: > If you find yourself making cables regularly, get a tester that tests s/making cables regularly/in charge of a medium to large network/ > continuity and attenuation - they're a lifesaver. Nothing sucks more > than trouble

Re: Newbie, configure exim/fetchmail w/ dialup; daemon trouble.

2002-03-27 Thread Steffen Evers
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 23:05, Barry Mathieu wrote: > Fetchmail appears to running as a daemon and executes a query for mail > every 300 seconds. To attempt to change this, I have a /etc/fetchmailrc > with the line for the daemon commented out. I have altered the line for > the daemon in /etc/defau

apt-get update errors

2002-03-27 Thread Michael Griffis
Hi All, I'm a new Linux user so bear with me if my questions seem elementry. I am having lots of fun. When running apt-get update I receive the following error: Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/testing/non-US/main /binary-i386/Packages Sub-process gzip returned an

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 21:50, dave mallery wrote: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, John F wrote: > > > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > > >On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:23:34AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > > > >>I'm trying to educate some users on the dangers of proprietary file > > >>formats. But to make sure I'

abiword fonts -- avoid?

2002-03-27 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hi everyone, I love to use AbiWord, but in Debian the abiword-common package always updates the fonts, which are very ugly in my opinion. I normally rm -rf them and replace them with symlinks to cleaner fonts, but everytime abiword is updated, my changes are destroyed. How do I avoid Debian from

Re: misconfigured mailout lists.debian.org

2002-03-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.27.2017 +0100]: > with. With special cabling, no less! (a custom y-cable to connect > one NIC to the LAN and one to the outside using the single jack in the > wall) sounds like an incredibly secure solution. as in "physical access to the LAN from the

Re: vmware and kernel 2.4.18

2002-03-27 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > does vmware run in woody with kernel 2.4.18? > TIA Yes. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Re: CALL FOR HELP

2002-03-27 Thread Tom Massey
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:59:04PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > I responded to a similar letter a while back concerning the civil > unrest in Nigeria and the plot of smuggling funds into the United > States, but the recipient failed to respond. Have a look at

Re: CVS and SSH

2002-03-27 Thread christophe barbé
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 02:13:47PM +0100, G. Soyez wrote: > On Mårdi 12 Måss 2002 02:42, Joey Hess wrote: > > Sven Gaerner wrote: > > > I've got a (hopefully) little proble.m. I want to grant some people > > > CVS access to my machine. They should connect by using SSH but I don't > > > want to give

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-27 Thread Matthew Twomey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Switches don't really have collisions per-say - in an ethenet sense. Most consumer small swithes experience what's called head-of-line blocking, however. This is the case when a frame is queued to go out a particular port which is busy, behind this fra

Re: Swap files on Reiserfs

2002-03-27 Thread Oki DZ
On 03/27 10:25 Crispin Wellington wrote: It may be the way reiserfs sync's data to the disk. In order for reiserfs to squeeze the performance it does out of the filesystem, it may be taking shortcuts that the kernel doesn't like. I see... By crash you mean panic? Yes. The machine can be pin

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-27 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, March 27, Kent West did write: > .PDF and postscript are great display formats, but they're not very > useful for actual editting. Besides, do most Windows apps (Word, > WordPerfect) allow saving to this format? Not saving as such, but it is possible to convert a Word docume

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-27 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
I've thought up a good example of why somebody might want to put multiple network cards, in one computer, all on the same network: Imagine that you have an existing 100 Mbit/s network, a fast computer not yet on the network, and three salvaged 10 Mbit/s network cards. Sure, you could go out and b

Re: [OT] Re: CALL FOR HELP

2002-03-27 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Elizabeth Barham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > I responded to a similar letter a while back concerning the civil > unrest in Nigeria and the plot of smuggling funds into the United > States, but the recipient failed to respond. They probably added your e-mail address to one of those "2

Re: [OT] Re: CALL FOR HELP

2002-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:59:04PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > =?iso-8859-1?q?=20?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > FROM: MRS MARYAM XXX > > XX COTE D' IVOIRE > > TEL:XXX- XX-XX-XX-XX > > [snip for confidentiality] > > I responded to a similar letter a while back concerning the c

ipchains

2002-03-27 Thread Bodnyk, Bruce W
I installed rp_pppoe to be able to connect to my DSL account and the software installed the following ipchains: :input ACCEPT :forward DENY :output ACCEPT -A input -s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 -d 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 0:1023 -i ppp+ -p 17 -j DENY -l -A input -s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 -d 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 0:1023 -i pp

Openssh protocol 2 for potato < - rather urgent help needed

2002-03-27 Thread John F
Hi all! Has anyone any idea where I can find debs for potato for Recent versions of OpenSSH? I need non-broken protocol 2 but still be able to support protocol 1. Building OpenSSH3.1p1 from source requires an upgrade of OpenSSL. If I replace the OpenSSL in Potato with version 0.9.6c (from o

Re: [OT] Re: CALL FOR HELP

2002-03-27 Thread Bill Moseley
At 03:59 PM 03/27/02 -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: >=?iso-8859-1?q?=20?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> FROM: MRS MARYAM XXX >> XX COTE D' IVOIRE >> TEL:XXX- XX-XX-XX-XX > >[snip for confidentiality] > >I responded to a similar letter a while back concerning the civil >unrest in Nige

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-27 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Shawn Yarbrough ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > What everybody seems to be telling me is that because IP is routable, > > > ARP replies are also routable, and the kernel is free to mix and match > > > IP addresses with Ethernet interfaces however it likes according to > > > it's IP routin

SID Images

2002-03-27 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
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Re: dri causing hard lockups?

2002-03-27 Thread Matt Garman
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 08:30:42AM +, Simon Hepburn wrote: > Try going back to using mga_drv.o that ships with X4.1. Leave > mga_drv_hal.o in place. Remove mga_dri.so. I'm sure it's not meant > to be there. See how you get on. I did that, and it seems stable so far (one night and one day of xs

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-27 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Shawn" == Shawn Yarbrough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shawn> What everybody seems to be telling me is that because IP is Shawn> routable, ARP replies are also routable, and the kernel is Shawn> free to mix and match IP addresses with Ethernet interfaces Shawn> however it likes

Re: vmware and kernel 2.4.18

2002-03-27 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 08:19, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > >From -IReturn-Receipt-To: > List-Post: > List-Help: > List-Subscribe: > List-Unsubscribe: > Precedence: list > Resent-Sen

Re: dri causing hard lockups?

2002-03-27 Thread Matt Garman
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 07:10:59PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:46:31PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > > Trying to use the DRI stuff is causing X to lockup. In fact, the > > ... > > I have experienced this, but only while playing 3D-accelerated games. > The system in que

Re: Kernel Panic help

2002-03-27 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Paul" == Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> cramfs: bad magic Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root Paul> fs on 03:08 Paul> which seems very much like an initrd kind of error. So Paul> what's going on? In order that my trivial and humiliating Paul> erro

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-27 Thread Jason Healy
At 1017265404s since epoch (03/27/02 17:43:24 -0500 UTC), Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > Or is an ARP reply actually an IP packet? Maybe it is, but I don't think > so, I'm assuming it's an ethernet packet. This e-mail is turning out to be *very* long. Here is the short answer: - ARP is an IP packet,

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