Re: Woody not ready, methinks

2002-04-18 Thread DSC Extra
This is me, having gotten my email back up and running on my Win98 system and no longer bound to webmail. Same guy. Anyhow, I got the tarball, and reinstalled -- got error 1 again. [Attempt 5] Went ahead and tried reinstalling with minimum optional configurations, just SCSI and LPR. Everything

Re: [update] Re: CUPS: now pdf files don't print

2002-04-18 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:28:06AM -0500, DvB wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:48:32PM -0500, DvB wrote: | > | > | Apparently, it's just one pdf file in particular that refuses to print | > | and all others work (or at least all others that I've tested).

Re: netscape bus error

2002-04-18 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:05:24PM +1000, John Habermann wrote: | Hi | | Do support for a community group that recycles computers installs debian and | gives them to low income people. One of the recipients is issues with | Netscape. Netscape (4.77-2) doesn't open at all and when netscape is ent

X (Framebuffer) or how to reconfig?

2002-04-18 Thread Dave Price
Hi, I have a new woody laptop running. I have not recompiled the kerenel - just the default from the isolinux cd so far. I _thought_ that I had frame buffer support in the kernel, because I can run in vga=778 mode (console). When I try to install x-window-system, I said to use framebuffer, and

Re: Conflicts

2002-04-18 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 06:36:16PM +0100, Ted wrote: | Hi. | I am trying to install the gnome games package uning gnome apt but | it tells me | " The following packages have unmet dependencies libguile9: Conflicts | libguile6 but 1:1.3.4-2 is installed." | ..Any help appreciated. You

Raid 5 and recoving from a crash

2002-04-18 Thread hanasaki
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Re: how can I setup a network monitoring station

2002-04-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya something trivial/simple nothing fancy... you can just use trafshow to see which machines is talking to the other machines... and what kind of traffic.. ( udp, tcp... ssh, dns, http, smtp ) - only the highest usage users will show in the list c ya alvin On Thu, 18 Apr

Re: Conflicts

2002-04-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Apr-2002 Ted wrote: > Hi. > I am trying to install the gnome games package uning gnome apt but it > tells me > " The following packages have unmet dependencies libguile9: Conflicts > libguile6 but 1:1.3.4-2 is installed." > ..Any help appreciated. > can you remove libguile6? --

Re: make-kpkg

2002-04-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Apr-2002 dave mallery wrote: > hi > > i had good luck making a custom 2.2.20 kernel yesterday (following the > newbie instructions) > > this morning i made a custom 2.4.18 from the source package. > > it is no good.. probably a config omission. > > > question: can i simply: dpkg -r ker

Re: Swapfiles

2002-04-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:44:16AM -0400, Smith, Brian N. wrote: > >John Hasler wrote > >I wrote: > >> Executables, being read-only, are mapped directly from disk and never > >> use any swap at all. Only data gets mapped to swap. > > >Karsten writes: > >> Is this a GNU/Linux thing or a more gener

Problem installing SMC 8013wc NIC

2002-04-18 Thread rh . ccm
Hello, I am trying to install Debian potato on an Compaq Prolinea 4/50 with an SMC network card (ISA), and am having a problem. When I go to "Configure the device driver modules" and then to the "net -- Drivers for network interface card..." step, it won't install the modules for the network ca

RE: make-kpkg

2002-04-18 Thread justin cunningham
Keep reading, your answers are at the end of that documentation if it's http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.en.html justin -Original Message- From: dave mallery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 12:05 PM To: Debian UserList Subject: make-kpkg hi i

Fw:eager to see you

2002-04-18 Thread webfeedbk
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Re: Unidentified subject!

2002-04-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 06:29:18AM -0400, dscpubl wrote: > Hello there > > - Pleae also cc: me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], because my normal > listserver address goes to what *was* my potato box. Now it is > woody-not-yet-workin box, so please cc: me here. > > I just got woody Compact and went to

Re: Icewm still being maintained

2002-04-18 Thread p
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 03:02:49PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Looking at http://www.icewm.org today, I see that - contrary to posts on > this list and elsewhere - icewm is still being actively maintained and > a beta release of 1.2.0 is due out this month. Good news! > > Anthony > // eggs

Linux Server > PDC

2002-04-18 Thread curtis
Has anyone promoted a Samba Server to a PDC in a Windows NT environment? Any heads up? I'm getting ready to do this and I'm just wondering about any problems people have faced. What about moving users, groups, profiles from NT to Samba. Actually, I guess I should have said recreating, since

Re: [update] Re: CUPS: now pdf files don't print

2002-04-18 Thread DvB
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:28:06AM -0500, DvB wrote: > :-). You could use the empty string as your password ... (if you want > to ensure you won't forget it) > Hmm... hadn't realized it would let me do that. Might be worth doing. I think the one I used th

Re: magicfilter and HP Deskjet 720c

2002-04-18 Thread Jeff
Erik van der Meulen, 2002-Apr-18 07:49 +0200: > Hi List - I have been using magicfilter with my HP LaserJet 4L for quite > some time no. Works fine! > No I have acquired an HP DeskJet 720c and I would like to add that to my > config. Unfortunately, magicfilter does not seem to have an input filter

Promise SuperTrak SX6000 support?

2002-04-18 Thread D. Clarke
Hi, Has anybody managed to get a SuperTrak SX6000 working with Debian? If so, any howto resources or boot images etc. would be great. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: view output of process while

2002-04-18 Thread James Hook
G'Day, On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Is it possible to log back into a machine over ssh and 'attach' to a > running process so that one can see the output of, say, a kernel > compile? Try using screen, it works like 'multiple' terminal windows which once running can be 'detach

Re: Linux Server > PDC

2002-04-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya curtis -- disruption of productivity should be the first and foremost or you'd have an angry crew and/or angry managers ?? -- work out with the mangers what will be changed and anticipated time -- it is impossible to move 50 or 100 people all in one day... ( we will ignore what

Re: Woody not ready, methinks

2002-04-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
The safest way to transition from potato to woody is not to install woody over potato, but to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. The upgrade capability is what distinguishes Debian from the rest of the pack. On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:16:10PM +0200, DSC Extra wrote: > This is me, having gotten my email

mount -t smb problem

2002-04-18 Thread Quenten Griffith
Hello all I just installed the 2.4-18 kernerl and when I try to mount my smb shares I get the following error mount: fs type smb not supported by kernel so I did a modprobe smbfs and tried it again and same error then I tried a modconf and seleceted smbfs and then tried to mount the smbfs again an

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2002-04-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Christian" == Christian Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christian> At 21:49 Uhr -0500 17.04.2002, Shyamal Prasad wrote: >> ;;; -*- Mode: Emacs-Lisp -*- Christian> I've tried this file (with my name in place of yours Christian> and localhost as news server). Since I'm getti

Re: Woody not ready, methinks

2002-04-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Michael" == Michael Rudmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> I decided to download the disk images. Michael> Attempt 1- Downloaded 20 images. Took a few retries, but Michael> that's what a slow permanent link is good for. Installed Michael> them on my hard disk on a vfat

Re: Raid 5 and recoving from a crash

2002-04-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, hanasaki wrote: > had. Will I have problems becuase the newer card, or other vendor's > card, lays out the disks and / or data and does checksums differently? Yes. > If so, how do I mitigate this risk? Either use software RAID, or buy two controllers. When one fails, use th

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2002-04-18 Thread D.
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Setup x-windows

2002-04-18 Thread Dennis Krinke
Last night at my Linux SIG meeting, I attempted to demonstrate x-windows installation for Debian woody. We already had loaded woody base. I had practiced at home and thought I was prepared, But it did not work on our computer club computer; I was not able to setup x-windows. I have two questions

Antigen found HTML.MimeExploit (CA(Vet)) virus

2002-04-18 Thread ANTIGEN_OTCEXC01
Antigen for Exchange found message.txt infected with HTML.MimeExploit (CA(Vet)) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "debian-user-digest Digest V2002 #127", was sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and was discovered in Robinson, Kimberly\Inbox located at Adaptec/OTC/OTCEXC01. -- To UNSUBS

Re: Setup x-windows

2002-04-18 Thread David Smead
In tasksel, the X package is at the bottom. It is not the Desktop Environment, but the server for that environment. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Dennis Krinke wrote: > Last night at my Linux SIG meeting, > I attempted to demonstrate x-windows insta

Re: Setup x-windows

2002-04-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 05:11:35PM -0700, Dennis Krinke wrote: > Last night at my Linux SIG meeting, > I attempted to demonstrate x-windows installation > for Debian woody. We already had loaded woody base. ... > 1) I thought that if I ran tasksel and selected > Desktop environment, that it would l

Re: Raid 5 and recoving from a crash

2002-04-18 Thread hanasaki
Hmm and when the 2nd controller dies? Or if its doa when I need it? Loooks like software Raid and a dual cpu ::( Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, hanasaki wrote: had. Will I have problems becuase the newer card, or other vendor's card, lays out the disks and / or data

xdm/wdm/gdm/kdm/login.app etc.

2002-04-18 Thread Charles Baker
I'm setting up a general use box for my family. It would be easier on all if there was a graphical login. I'm wondering which of these display managers to choose? Does anyone know of a comparison? We'll be using WindowMaker and Xfce as our primary windowmanagers. I'm not trying to start a religious

[Fwd: Re: Setup x-windows]

2002-04-18 Thread Dennis Krinke
Opps sorry, where I said desktop environment, I meant X window system. Thanks --- Begin Message --- In tasksel, the X package is at the bottom. It is not the Desktop Environment, but the server for that environment. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Den

Re: Running Yahoo Messenger??

2002-04-18 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:19:11 -0400 Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't honestly think that they filter out the spam sites to which > they sell your information, do you? Actually, it's a very good spam filter. It, by default, adds headers to the message (X-Yahoo-FilteredBulk or som

Re: xdm/wdm/gdm/kdm/login.app etc.

2002-04-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Apr-2002 Charles Baker wrote: > I'm setting up a general use box for my family. It > would be easier on all if there was a graphical login. > I'm wondering which of these display managers to > choose? Does anyone know of a comparison? We'll be > using WindowMaker and Xfce as our primary > wi

Gimp Crash

2002-04-18 Thread James Hook
G'Day, Unstable problem??? I can log longer run gimp-1.2 on a plain X (eg, using startx or *dm) it just crashes, if run from the gnome menu it displays the splash screen for a second then it disappears. If run from a terminal (aterm/xterm) it shows the splash screen then the terminal brings up a d

Re: [update] Re: CUPS: now pdf files don't print

2002-04-18 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:30:57AM -0500, DvB wrote: > "Eric G. Miller" writes: > > > > > I've gotten more than one PDF file generated/served via some kind of web > > bot that had trailing or leading garbage (seems to be MS ware related). > > Trimming the junk in vim, made ghostscript a happy

E-MAIL

2002-04-18 Thread Skduell
Trying to send an E-MAIL says user unknown, went to postmaster help. Said disk was full. How do I clear [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Detatch and re-attatch shell/process?

2002-04-18 Thread Troy Telford
Is there a way in Linux (or UNIX and its cousins in general) to run a process (like a long, gnarled process that can take several hours/days), and detatch it from a shell such that it runs in the background (with stdin/out going to a file)? And to be somewhat more specific - how do you do it s

Re: [update] Re: CUPS: now pdf files don't print

2002-04-18 Thread DvB
"Eric G. Miller" writes: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:30:57AM -0500, DvB wrote: > > > > I got it from Penn State's web site... I s'pose it's conceivable that > > some of their less academically oriented departments are generating > > faulty pdf files. > > Naw, it was clearly some kind of mime

my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-18 Thread will trillich
debian-users: i've got what may be a nasty situation about to happen. any pointers welcome... just got a 'heads up' from an ally at my isp that someone's reported "dontUthink.com" as a spammer. i'm running debian potato/exim-- Exim version 3.12 #1 built 03-Jan-2002 02:45:13 Copyri

Re: E-MAIL

2002-04-18 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 April 2002 07:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Trying to send an E-MAIL says user unknown, > went to postmaster help. Said disk was full. How do I clear > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make su

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-18 Thread David Smead
Are you operating behind a firewall. There are only two kinds of systems operating without firewalls - those that are hacked and those that will be soon. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, will trillich wrote: > debian-users: i've got what may be a nasty

Re: E-MAIL

2002-04-18 Thread David Smead
If you're getting that message on a Linux machine, log in as root and find out what space is available on /home. I assume you do have root mounted on a separate partition. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Trying to send an

Re: Detatch and re-attatch shell/process?

2002-04-18 Thread David Smead
install vncserver. That gives you a whole X windows environment that you can visit when you want. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Troy Telford wrote: > Is there a way in Linux (or UNIX and its cousins in general) to run a > process (like a long, gnarl

Re: Samba Messaging

2002-04-18 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:07:47PM +0200, Tinus Kotze wrote: > I converted my system to debian a while back and got the following problem. I > can't receive/send messages while i can pretty much do anything else. I am > connected to a LAN. My username is "jmak" and i will use a friends win2k > m

Re: xdm/wdm/gdm/kdm/login.app etc.

2002-04-18 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 05:58:59PM -0700, Charles Baker wrote: > I'm setting up a general use box for my family. It > would be easier on all if there was a graphical login. > I'm wondering which of these display managers to > choose? Does anyone know of a comparison? We'll be > using WindowMaker an

Re: Detatch and re-attatch shell/process?

2002-04-18 Thread Dave Price
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:33:20PM -0600, Troy Telford wrote: > Is there a way in Linux (or UNIX and its cousins in general) to run a > process (like a long, gnarled process that can take several hours/days), > and detatch it from a shell such that it runs in the background (with > stdin/out goi

Re: Swapfiles

2002-04-18 Thread Carl Johnson
Joe Bouchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:34:54PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > "Oki" == Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Oki> Hi, On a 128Mbytes machine, how much swap space can it > > Oki> handle? Would it be all right to assign it 384Mbytes?

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-18 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:05:31PM -0700, David Smead wrote: > Are you operating behind a firewall. There are only two kinds of systems > operating without firewalls - those that are hacked and those that will be > soon. HA! That's the most rediculous thing I've ever heard on this list. The only

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-18 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:57:45PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > just got a 'heads up' from an ally at my isp that someone's > reported "dontUthink.com" as a spammer. i'm running debian > potato/exim-- You really need to find out the nature of the complaint. Did the person claim that spam was del

Re: IDE-SCSI, CD-RW, ZIP drive weirdness

2002-04-18 Thread Warren Dodge
If you have another ATAPI CD-ROM, you would want to add this line to your /etc/modutils/aliases file and run update-modules: pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd This causes the IDE driver to load before ide-scsi. It then takes control of the ATAPID CD-ROM -- anything that it hasn't b

Re: Detatch and re-attatch shell/process?

2002-04-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
Dave Price wrote: > screen will do what you like - type screen, run you command, ^A^R to > detatch, screen -r later on to reconect. Screen is the best tool for the job IMO, but the detatch command is ^Ad, not ^A^R. Best just to read the screen man page anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: jigdo template for woody-i386-1.raw corrupt?

2002-04-18 Thread Cheryl Homiak
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Joey Smith wrote: > I've been trying for 2-3 days now to get woody-i386-1.raw using > jigdo, but it always fails before it starts fetching packages > with the error: > > jigdo-file print-missing: Invalid template data - corrupted file? > Created `woody-i386-1.raw.list' > Mergi

MAXLENGTH

2002-04-18 Thread dowendy
ofwxccess_a[2].htm Description: Binary data

Re: Samba Messaging

2002-04-18 Thread Michael Kahle
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:25:57PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:07:47PM +0200, Tinus Kotze wrote: > > I converted my system to debian a while back and got the following problem. > > I > > can't receive/send messages while i can pretty much do anything else. I am > >

Re: xdm/wdm/gdm/kdm/login.app etc.

2002-04-18 Thread craigw
On Thu Apr 18, 2002 at 11:28:42PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 05:58:59PM -0700, Charles Baker wrote: > > I'm setting up a general use box for my family. It > > would be easier on all if there was a graphical login. > > I'm wondering which of these display managers to > >

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:57:45PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > debian-users: i've got what may be a nasty situation about to > happen. any pointers welcome... > > just got a 'heads up' from an ally at my isp that someone's > reported "dontUthink.com" as a spammer. i'm running debian > potato

timed package ...

2002-04-18 Thread Do-Risika RAFIEFERANTSIARONJY
Hi all, Is there a package containing timed (the time server daemon) ? Thanx, @+ -- DouRiX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-18 Thread David Smead
That's why you run those services in a DMZ. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:05:31PM -0700, David Smead wrote: > > Are you operating behind a firewall. There are only two kinds of systems > > operating

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-18 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:42:06PM -0700, David Smead wrote: > That's why you run those services in a DMZ. > And what do you do when a security vulnerability arises in your firewall implementation? Or when an attacker is able to hijack a web browsing session by one of your internal users? The i

strange duplicate files... bug?

2002-04-18 Thread Michael Kahle
I am seeing some strange behavior on my linux box. Any ideas. I have a Samba share called 'share'. This is a mounted hard drive with a ton of space that I place mp3's, pictures, files, etc... I use as a central repository for all of my junk. If I type 'ls -al' I get the following _partial_ lis

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