hostname questions

2002-11-22 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I am having an issue that's been bugging me, but isn't that important, so I've been ignoring it. I'm hoping that maybe you folks can help. I have a box, mercury, that handles all the mail for my domain. Doing a DNS lookup on it gives the name mail.lobefin.net. /etc/hosts looks lik

exim, mutt, fetchmail

2002-11-22 Thread Mark Copper
I'm want to set up e-mail on my Debian box and am having trouble with basics. When I start mutt, I get an error message: /var/mail/: no such file or directory And indeed there is not. Should there be? Is this an exim or mutt or simply a permissions thing? Thanks. Mark -- To UNSUBSC

Re: hostname questions

2002-11-22 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:59:04PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > I have a box, mercury, that handles all the mail for my domain. Doing a > DNS lookup on it gives the name mail.lobefin.net. /etc/hosts looks like > this: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost mercury > 216.

Re: exim, mutt, fetchmail

2002-11-22 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Mark Copper said: > I'm want to set up e-mail on my Debian box and am having trouble with > basics. > > When I start mutt, I get an error message: > /var/mail/: no such file or directory > > And indeed there is not. Should there be? Is this an exim or mutt or

lots of problems with apt-get deb verification

2002-11-22 Thread iain d broadfoot
running a testing/unstable laptop, doing an upgrade + grabbing some ssl thingys. apt-get install pavuk: * Authenticating /var/cache/apt/archives/libsocks4_4.3.beta2-13_i386.deb ... debsig: Origin Signature check failed. This deb

Re: boot loader problem

2002-11-22 Thread Seneca
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:52:06AM -0500, Rebecca Riall & Jeff Melton wrote: > Recently I tried to install Debian 2.2 on a system with Win98 (recently I > had Red Hat 7.2 but got tired of some of the glitches). Never was able to > get it successfully up and running, and decided to go with Mandrake

tiger always reports "no password" with NIS

2002-11-22 Thread Sebastian Haase
Hi all! I would like to repost my email from Aug 20th of this year, because I still don't know would the solution is. Is it maybe a bug of tiger (that it doesn't know about NIS) (That's why I'm also cc-ing to the package-maintainer - hope that's OK) Thanks, Sebastian Please read this: > Hi ! > I i

Re: Sound card problem

2002-11-22 Thread David P James
Seneca was roused into action on 2002-11-22 15:48 and wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:20:18PM -0500, David P James wrote: Andrew R Reid was roused into action on 2002-11-22 02:02 and wrote: I've got a es1371 as well. I've spent days trying to get it working with the OSS drives that come wit

Re: dhcpd and pppoe and name servers

2002-11-22 Thread Bill Moseley
At 11:07 AM 11/22/02 -0800, Jeff wrote: (regarding dnsmasq) >I was just wondering if there's a way to view the cache. I couldn't >find anything in the man page. Is it possible? I didn't try it but the man pages says: When it receives a SIGUSR1, dnsmasq writes cache statistics to the sys-

i'm a dumbass was: lots of problems with apt-get deb verification

2002-11-22 Thread iain d broadfoot
i had debsig-verify installed. d'oh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lots of problems with apt-get deb verification

2002-11-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:02:32PM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: > Authenticating /var/cache/apt/archives/libsocks4_4.3.beta2-13_i386.deb ... > debsig: Origin Signature check failed. This deb might not be signed. Signed .debs have not yet been deployed. Either put 'no-debsig' in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cf

installation Problem

2002-11-22 Thread Dominic Iadicicco
When I go to install Debian 3.0 from an iso cdrom that I downloaded I get an error when it comes time to install the kernal drivers:   "The installation program couldn't find any directory containing the files rescue.bin, bf2.4/ drivers.tgz."  can anyone help me? -- ___

Re: fetchmail failing in fetching mail from a pop server

2002-11-22 Thread Elizabeth Barham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Wilhelm Land) writes: > The file below shows errors relating to unexpected message > lengths. Could it have something to do with the > missing options exim is complaining about? > > Any help is grately appreciated Probably. From fetchmail(1): -m , --mda

Unidentified subject!

2002-11-22 Thread Dominic Iadicicco
When I go to install Debian 3.0 from an iso cdrom that I downloaded I get an error when it comes time to install the kernal drivers:   "The installation program couldn't find any directory containing the files rescue.bin, bf2.4/ drivers.tgz."  can anyone help me? -- -- ___

Determining what packages are installed

2002-11-22 Thread Joe Riel
How do I determine what packages are installed? Or determine whether a particular package is installed? I can use deselect to check a particular package, but there probably is a better way. Thanks, Joe Riel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: hostname questions

2002-11-22 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Michael Heironimus said: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:59:04PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > I have a box, mercury, that handles all the mail for my domain. Doing a > > DNS lookup on it gives the name mail.lobefin.net. /etc/hosts looks like > > this: > > > > 127.0.0.

LiLo installing

2002-11-22 Thread HNO3
Hello. How i can install lilo when i have system like this: there is Win98 installed at hda and linux is in hdb, without boot partition. (only 2 linux partions and swap) Now i have a boot disk and i put it in when i want to start up linux. How i can install lilo (or something similar boot menu) if

Re: Determining what packages are installed

2002-11-22 Thread Craig Dickson
Joe Riel wrote: > How do I determine what packages are installed? > Or determine whether a particular package is installed? > I can use deselect to check a particular package, > but there probably is a better way. dpkg -l will give you a nice list of your installed packages. dpkg -l package

Re: hostname questions

2002-11-22 Thread Stephen Gran
Sent that last one too fast, I also wanted to add that it nows shows: mercury:~# hostname mercury mercury:~# hostname -a mercury mail.lobefin.net adsl-216-158-52-98-cust.oldcity.dca.net mercury:~# hostname -s mercury mercury:~# hostname -d lobefin.net mercury:~# hostname --fqdn mercury.lobefin.net

Re: mail reader for news and mail

2002-11-22 Thread csj
On 21 Nov 2002 20:46:10 -0600 Shyamal Prasad wrote: > >"Debian" == Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Debian> Any suggestions for client that reads mail *and* news? I > Debian> currently use mutt, but then use gnus for newsgroups... > Debian> briefly looked into vm and r

RE: 2.4.18 SMP Kernel - Running but have a question

2002-11-22 Thread deFreese, Barry
O.K. I compiled a new kernel with 2.4.18 SMP and I can now see both processors under /proc/cpuinfo and I was able to build in the Compaq array drivers. It is kicking butt. The question that I now have is that it appears to have re-configured and re-run LILO for me but the kernel images is not in

RE: 2.4.18 SMP Kernel - Running but have a question

2002-11-22 Thread nate
deFreese, Barry said: > O.K. I compiled a new kernel with 2.4.18 SMP and I can now see both > processors under /proc/cpuinfo and I was able to build in the Compaq array > drivers. It is kicking butt. > > The question that I now have is that it appears to have re-configured and > re-run LILO for me

RE: 2.4.18 SMP Kernel - Running but have a question

2002-11-22 Thread deFreese, Barry
nate, Thanks for the reply. That's whats odd. (Remember I'm a total newbie here) I pulled the kernel building HOWTO off of the Debian site but most of the references were to RedHat so I'm a little confused. I tried to use make-kpkg but it kept failing so I did just like the HOWTO says: make cl

Re: flasching curser

2002-11-22 Thread Seneca
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 05:40:56PM +0100, Frank Coldewe wrote: > does anybody know a solution to turn off the flashing curser at the > root- and user- prompt? On the console, "echo -e '\033[?1c'" and you won't be seeing a cursor on that console. If you really want a non-blinking cursor on the scr

Re: Determining what packages are installed

2002-11-22 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Joe Riel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I determine what packages are installed? > Or determine whether a particular package is installed? > I can use deselect to check a particular package, > but there probably is a better way. Please don't start a new thread by replying to an existing me

/etc/network/interfaces and pppoe

2002-11-22 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm still new at this ppp stuff. Confusing that I have two interfaces that I'm working with. I'm not clear how to setup /etc/network/interfaces. man pppoe says: OPTIONS -I interface The -I option specifies the Ethernet interface to use. Under Linux, it is t

no support for `ip_masquerade' on this system

2002-11-22 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm confused by this error from netstat -M. I'm indeed using MASQUERADE on this box -- it is working. Yes, this /proc "file" is missing: $ ls /proc/net/ip_masquerade ls: /proc/net/ip_masquerade: No such file or directory I built as a module: $ fgrep MASQ /boot/config-`uname -r` CONFIG_IP_NF_TA

Dumb question about defoma

2002-11-22 Thread Craig Dickson
Sorry to bother the list with this, but how does one unset the "exclude" flag on a font or application in defoma? I get complaints about this every time a new set of abiword packages is installed. Thanks, Craig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: no support for `ip_masquerade' on this system

2002-11-22 Thread nate
Bill Moseley said: > I'm confused by this error from netstat -M. I'm indeed using MASQUERADE > on this box -- it is working. > last I read, netstat -M worked on 2.2.x only (and it works fine for me on 2.2.19) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: LiLo installing

2002-11-22 Thread Seneca
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:30:30AM +0200, HNO3 wrote: > Hello. > How i can install lilo when i have system like this: > there is Win98 installed at hda > and linux is in hdb, without boot partition. (only 2 linux partions and swap) > Now i have a boot disk and i put it in when i want to start up li

RE: 2.4.18 SMP Kernel - Running but have a question

2002-11-22 Thread nate
deFreese, Barry said: > nate, > > Thanks for the reply. That's whats odd. (Remember I'm a total newbie > here) I pulled the kernel building HOWTO off of the Debian site but most > of the references were to RedHat so I'm a little confused. I tried to use > make-kpkg but it kept failing so I did j

RE: installation Problem

2002-11-22 Thread Michael Kahle
Dominic Iadicicco wrote: >When I go to install Debian 3.0 from an iso cdrom that I >downloaded I get an error when it comes time to install >the kernal drivers: "The installation program couldn't >find any directory containing the files rescue.bin, bf2.4/ >drivers.tgz." can anyone help me? -

Re: no support for `ip_masquerade' on this system

2002-11-22 Thread Bill Moseley
At 03:12 PM 11/22/02 -0800, nate wrote: >Bill Moseley said: >> I'm confused by this error from netstat -M. I'm indeed using MASQUERADE >> on this box -- it is working. >> > >last I read, netstat -M worked on 2.2.x only Oh, that would explain it. I guess. It's hard to know. Google searches tu

Re: boot loader problem

2002-11-22 Thread Rebecca Riall & Jeff Melton
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Seneca wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:52:06AM -0500, Rebecca Riall & Jeff Melton wrote: > > Recently I tried to install Debian 2.2 on a system with Win98 (recently I > > had Red Hat 7.2 but got tired of some of the glitches). Never was able to > > get it successfully up

RE: 2.4.18 SMP Kernel - Running but have a question

2002-11-22 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 at 3:15pm, nate wrote: :deFreese, Barry said: :> nate, :> :> Thanks for the reply. That's whats odd. (Remember I'm a total newbie :> here) I pulled the kernel building HOWTO off of the Debian site but most :> of the references were to RedHat so I'm a little confused. I tried

SMP - Force job/daemon to specific processor?

2002-11-22 Thread deFreese, Barry
O.K., I got the thing running, now I'm berating the list. Sorry. I have a server daemon that I run two instances of on different ports. Is there a way to force them to use a specific processor? Something like this: (Obviously not the real commands) serverd port:5200 processor 0 serverd port:52

Re: Mouse freezes after X logout - why?

2002-11-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2002-11-22 at 21:10, William Crowshaw wrote: > Just upgraded to woody (PowerMac 7500 using kernel > 2.2.20). Every time -- and I mean every time -- I > logout of an X session (regardless of which wm I'm > using) and am thrown back to gdm, my mouse freezes up. > The keyboard works, but I lo

Error

2002-11-22 Thread Dominic Iadicicco
I Keep getting this error when I try to install Debian 3.0 from an ISO cd that I download from the debian sight. I get the error when I go to install kernel drivers. "The installation program couldn't find any directory containing the files rescue.bin,bf2.4/drivers.tgz" can anyone help me? ___

Re: dhcpd and pppoe and name servers

2002-11-22 Thread Jeff
Bill Moseley, 2002-Nov-22 14:15 -0800: > At 11:07 AM 11/22/02 -0800, Jeff wrote: > > (regarding dnsmasq) > > >I was just wondering if there's a way to view the cache. I couldn't > >find anything in the man page. Is it possible? > > I didn't try it but the man pages says: > >When it receiv

Re: tiger always reports 'no password' with NIS

2002-11-22 Thread nate
Sebastian Haase said: > Hi all! I would like to repost my email from Aug 20th of this year, > because I still don't know would the solution is. > Is it maybe a bug of tiger (that it doesn't know about NIS) > (That's why I'm also cc-ing to the package-maintainer - hope that's OK) > Thanks, Sebastian

Re: hostname questions

2002-11-22 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 05:38:54PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > Which still isn't quite right - the FQDN should be mail.lobefin.net. > > steve:~$ host mercury.lobefin.net > mercury.lobefin.net A 216.158.52.108 > steve:~$ host mail.lobefin.net > mail.lobefin.netA 216.158.52.

Galeon crash

2002-11-22 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Hi, I am trying to run galeon and after several error messages like the one below... ** CRITICAL **: file /home/erich/debian/galeon/galeon-1.2.6/src/mozilla/mozilla.cpp: line 134 (gboolean mozilla_preference_set(const char *, const char *)): assertion `new_value != NULL' failed. ... it starts op

Re: LiLo installing

2002-11-22 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:30:30AM +0200, HNO3 wrote: > Hello. > How i can install lilo when i have system like this: > there is Win98 installed at hda > and linux is in hdb, without boot partition. (only 2 linux partions and swap) > Now i have a boot disk and i put it in when i want to start up li

Re: dhcpd and pppoe and name servers

2002-11-22 Thread Bill Moseley
At 04:05 PM 11/22/02 -0800, Jeff wrote: >Yeah, I saw that, but I don't what "SIGUSR1" is let alone how to send >one. Perhaps you can shed some light on that for me? man kill kill -USR1 -- Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: boot loader problem

2002-11-22 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 22 November 2002 11:23 pm, Rebecca Riall & Jeff Melton wrote: > > Thanks for writing. The documentation for Debian 2.2 actually does say > there's an "mbr" boot loader, although I'd never heard of it until I got > Debian. Nor had I, but I s

Re: lost cursor w/fbi

2002-11-22 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
> On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 08:35, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > > > Whenever I use fbi or fbgs in a console > > > > I lose my cursor. Anyone else have this > > > > problem? How do I get the cursor back? > > > > > > > > Lance > > > > > > What do you mean - while the image is still on the screen, or a

Re: [OT] undeleting on FAT32

2002-11-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:18:51AM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:01:31 -0800, Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > >> I used to undelete DOS file by changing first byte of filename at the > >> directory entry list from 0x5F or something to ordina

Re: mail reader for news and mail

2002-11-22 Thread Aaron Hall
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:06:16AM -0800, Debian User wrote: > > Any suggestions for client that reads mail *and* news? > > Not one that does well at both. There's pine, but it doesn't filter > well, or thread at all, and it's nonfree. FWIW, Pine 4.5 (j

Re: VT82C686B Sound Problem

2002-11-22 Thread Qian Gong
I solve the problem by load the following modules: soundcore ac97_codec via82cxxx_audio xmms works fine. However, realplay only works through esd. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help or information requested!

2002-11-22 Thread Image Products
I am trying to find the purchaser of your office supplies. We manufacture several items that would be of interest to them, specifically custom imprinted mousepads. Since they could buy directly from us there would be a substantial cost savings for them. If you could forward this message to th

Re: samba question *Solved*

2002-11-22 Thread Peter Hicks
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:10:35PM -0800, Michelle Storm wrote: >> being a lazy sys admin i like rcconf >> install it using : apt-get install rcconf >> run it and just choose what you wish to run and what not . >> Moti > >Thanks, worked wonderfully. Glad I did it this way. The other way would >ha

Re: mail reader for news and mail

2002-11-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"csj" == csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: csj> I gave up on gnus because the info pages didn't give me csj> enough information on how to (1) get rid of ~/News[1], (2) csj> use gnus without setting up a newsgroup[2] or (3) interface csj> it with my MH mail folders. I have to ad

Re: why does it look at xdm and kdm while shutting down?

2002-11-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021121 07:56]: > also sprach Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.18.2327 +0100]: > > The Debian Way is as follows: > > wrong. use update-rc.d, and yes, i did read the manpage. you method > fails for folks running file-rc, amongst others. > > there is n

Re: xterm and Shift-F3

2002-11-22 Thread Russell
Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: Hi, 1. Someone know what is assign to Shift-F3, Shift-F4 and Shift-F5 by default when pressed under xterm? Press ctrl-v then shift-F3. It gives ^[02R (ESC-02R or SS3-2R). F3 alone gives SS3-R. These codes are in /usr/doc/xterm/ctlseqs.txt.gz. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: hostname questions

2002-11-22 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Michael Heironimus said: > hostname uses the local files for all of its information, not DNS or any > other naming service. hostname tells you what the machine thinks its own > name is, DNS tells you what everybody else thinks the machine's name is. > If you want the ma

Re: IPX over TCP/IP?

2002-11-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:55:46PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: | Hello list, | | Is it possible to build a pptpd on Linux and make some Windows client to | use pptp to connect to the pptpd server and connect to each other via | IPX protocol? | | Some LAN games use IPX protocol, how can I make it

Re: lost cursor w/fbi

2002-11-22 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 19:29, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 08:35, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > > > > Whenever I use fbi or fbgs in a console > > > > > I lose my cursor. Anyone else have this > > > > > problem? How do I get the cursor back? > > > > > > > > > > Lance > > > > >

proftpd questions

2002-11-22 Thread Michelle Storm
I'm interested in restricting what directories proftp will show to users. I know that on the /home/* I can just do a chmod o-rwx /home/* and that fixes that.. but I want proftpd limited to /home/ currently I only want proftpd to be able to access /home/shared but I want it's base to be /home/ wha

Re: proftpd questions

2002-11-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Michelle Storm wrote: > I'm interested in restricting what directories proftp will show to > users. I know that on the /home/* I can just do a chmod o-rwx /home/* > and that fixes that.. but I want proftpd limited to /home/ > > currently I only want proftpd to be able to acce

Re: samba question *Solved*

2002-11-22 Thread Kent West
Peter Hicks wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:10:35PM -0800, Michelle Storm wrote: being a lazy sys admin i like rcconf install it using : apt-get install rcconf run it and just choose what you wish to run and what not . Moti Thanks, worked wonderfully. Glad I did it this way. The oth

Re: ATI driver install & kernel source error?

2002-11-22 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi yall, well, I fixed problem two, by checking the syntax closely, of the "make.sh" file & found the drm file name it was looking for & then included the path to that file in the "drmincludes=/" This location, was effected by using Trunk-dri stuff from the dri sourcforge Progress.

2^n (was: weird g++ behavior)

2002-11-22 Thread Bryan Jurish
hi Elizabeth, hi list, first of all, thanks for your suggestions, Elizabeth -- a 'crashme.sh' script was in fact very helpful... turns out, the machine (same procedure on another box ran fine) crashed g++ only with my 256MB ram-bar in slot-0 and my 512MB bar in slot-1 ... go figure. each bar al

GNU-LINUX Installation!

2002-11-22 Thread Samaad Story
Hello guys i am familiar with computers etc, But I am not at all familiar with installing Linux. Im am not to sure about the partitioning of the hard drive, the bios, and basically the entire process of installing this OS. I have some of the information on your web site but still am a little confus

some window managers don't read personal menus

2002-11-22 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi Being relatively new debian user, maybe I'm overlooking something but it still is strange... After noticing that some changes I make to my personal "~/.menu/*" doesn't affect nothing I've made a test: I've put 2 files in my "~/.menu". one is the automated crossover menu (which adds 2 menus dir

Re: GNU-LINUX Installation!

2002-11-22 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi Yall & Samaad, yep, know that feeling. Check out this link-it is what got Debian onto my & a friends machines. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2016 *HTH* Greek Geek :-) Just like our old friends at IBM used to say (of) OS/2 with Win32 support in the early 90s was a "better Wind

Re: GNU-LINUX Installation!

2002-11-22 Thread Kent West
Samaad Story wrote: Hello guys i am familiar with computers etc, But I am not at all familiar with installing Linux. Im am not to sure about the partitioning of the hard drive, the bios, and basically the entire process of installing this OS. I have some of the information on your web site bu

Re: GNU-LINUX Installation!

2002-11-22 Thread Bryan Jurish
greetings, On 22 November 2002 at 18:21:18, Samaad Story wrote: > > Hello guys i am familiar with computers etc, But I am not at all familiar with >installing Linux. Im am not to sure about the partitioning of the hard drive, the >bios, and basically the entire process of installing this O

Re: some window managers don't read personal menus

2002-11-22 Thread nate
Haim Ashkenazi said: > Sawfish, wmaker, icewm and fvwm2: accept all changes. > xfce, Gnome (panel menu), and afterstep: doesn't accept nothing I can only speak for afterstep since thats all I use, but after doing a menu update, I usually have to run the "update start menu" command from the after

Re: Wireless LAN

2002-11-22 Thread Jeffrey Taylor
Avoid anything with the Raytheon chip (WebGear Aviator 2.4, among others). The ray_cs driver does not work in Woody. HTH, Jeffrey Quoting Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Rusty Minden, 2002-Nov-20 22:30 -0800: > > I am going to be getting a wireless LAN 802.11b for my home > > network. I would lik

Re: proftpd questions *solved*

2002-11-22 Thread Michelle Storm
> > I'm interested in restricting what directories proftp will show to > > users. I know that on the /home/* I can just do a chmod o-rwx /home/* > > and that fixes that.. but I want proftpd limited to /home/ > > > > currently I only want proftpd to be able to access /home/shared > > but I want it's

Re: 2^n (was: weird g++ behavior)

2002-11-22 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 02:59:38AM +0100, Bryan Jurish wrote: > i can definitely live with this, but can anyone explain > to me why this must be so? (mainboard/bios bug is my > personal guess, but i'm truly stumped...) did some > goofball go and assume that everyone on the planet has > 2^n bytes

upgrading to Linux 2.4

2002-11-22 Thread sam
Where can/should I look for info re upgrading my Linux2.2/Debian3.0 to Linux2.4? Safety (not losing files etc) and simplicity are my primary concerns. Thanks, sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mail reader for news and mail

2002-11-22 Thread Alan Shutko
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I gave up on gnus because the info pages didn't give me enough > information on how to (1) get rid of ~/News[1], (2) use gnus > without setting up a newsgroup[2] or (3) interface it with my MH > mail folders. You could ask on gnu.emacs.gnus. All of those can be

Re: some window managers don't read personal menus

2002-11-22 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 04:45, nate wrote: > Haim Ashkenazi said: > > > Sawfish, wmaker, icewm and fvwm2: accept all changes. > > xfce, Gnome (panel menu), and afterstep: doesn't accept nothing > > > I can only speak for afterstep since thats all I use, but after > doing a menu update, I usually h

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements: Conspiracy

2002-11-22 Thread Pigeon
On 22 Nov 2002 15:42:17 +0100, Stefan Janecek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 23:37, Pigeon wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:55:41 -0800, Vineet Kumar >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >This is exactly what burnproof does. You can load the machine; you can >> >deplete the buf

Re: ide-scsi and initrd

2002-11-22 Thread David P James
Bob Hauck was roused into action on 2002-11-22 08:01 and wrote: I just upgraded one of my machines to kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp. This box has an IDE cd burner that previously worked with 2.2.20-udma100-ext3. It also has a regular IDE cd-rom that I've been treating as a scsi device just because.

Re: GNU-LINUX Installation!

2002-11-22 Thread Shawn Lamson
--- Samaad Story <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello guys i am familiar with computers etc, But I am not at all > familiar with installing Linux. Im am not to sure about the > partitioning of the hard drive, the bios, and basically the entire > process of installing this OS. I have some of the i

Re: /etc/network/interfaces and pppoe

2002-11-22 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Sam, 2002-11-23 um 00.07 schrieb Bill Moseley: > I'm still new at this ppp stuff. Confusing that I have two interfaces that > I'm working with. > > I'm not clear how to setup /etc/network/interfaces. > > man pppoe says: > > OPTIONS >-I interface > The -I option specifie

Re: /etc/network/interfaces and pppoe

2002-11-22 Thread Erinn
> > I'm not clear how to setup /etc/network/interfaces. I wasn't clear at first either. Would an example help? This is what mine looks like: # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface auto lo auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth1 iface e

Re: LiLo installing

2002-11-22 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 00:30:30 +0200 (EET), HNO3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello. >How i can install lilo when i have system like this: >there is Win98 installed at hda >and linux is in hdb, without boot partition. (only 2 linux partions and swap) >Now i have a boot disk and i put it in when i wan

Re: [OT] undeleting on FAT32

2002-11-22 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:45:45 -0800, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:18:51AM +, Pigeon wrote: > >Yah, I think at one point I wrote short special HEX dump utility of >clusters :0 (You know 12 bit = 8 X 1.5 table) Yeah, FAT32 is easier, no need to unpack it. >

Re: ide-scsi and initrd

2002-11-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"David" == David P James writes: David> problems. Despite having "hdb=ide-scsi" in my grub config David> file ide-cd is still getting loaded first. So I have to David> manually run 'rmmod ide-scsi' and then 'insmod ide-scsi', David> which for some reason actually works. Just p

Re: some window managers don't read personal menus

2002-11-22 Thread nate
Haim Ashkenazi said: > I've tried that (on woody) and it does change the menues I've changed > (kedit), but it doesn't add the new menus (although update-menu did create > the directory structure in ~/.afterstep). what do your menu entries look like? some of mine: ?package(gnome-terminal):needs

window manager/desktop won't start

2002-11-22 Thread Gary Turner
Sometime in the last few weeks I, or an upgrade, borked my X. I was using xdm & kde. (Unable to pinpoint the time frame, as I didn't use X in that period.) The problem cropped up after a soft reboot. The login screen came up ok and login seemed ok except that no panel/desktop came up. Mouse se

Installing X window

2002-11-22 Thread irvine russell
I have a base system installed. Now I would like to install X. Where is the best place to find information on installing X under debian. A friend of mine says that it's a pig to get X working under debian. Just thought I'd try and prepare myself b4 I begin. tia. iruum __

Re: Installing X window

2002-11-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 06:00:04AM +, irvine russell wrote: > > I have a base system installed. > > Now I would like to install X. > > Where is the best place to find information on installing X under > debian. A friend of mine says that it's a pig to get X working under > debian. Just thou

Questions about mirror'ing a website

2002-11-22 Thread Michelle Storm
I am just after suggestions on the best and/or most efficient means to mirror my website (exactly) from one location to another (currently on same computer, but eventually multiple computers). /var/www/ LIVE<- Actual site location /home/jade/public_html/ WORKING

Re: 2^n (was: weird g++ behavior)

2002-11-22 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Michael Heironimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have time it might be to your advantage to go ahead and run a > real memory test. If one of those modules does have a problem you'd be > better off finding out now instead of later when it causes some other > strange problem. If you can'

power down and power off also?

2002-11-22 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all! i have a dual boot system. it is a compaq machine. when i select shutdown in windows, the power indicator also goes off. when i do similarly in linux, it shuts down everything, finally says Power Down and stays there. is there a way in which i can make linux work in a similar way? mea

Re: power down and power off also?

2002-11-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 22 November 2002 23:48, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all! > > i have a dual boot system. it is a compaq machine. > > when i select shutdown in windows, the power indicator also goes off. > when i do similarly in linux, it shuts down everything, finally says > Power Down and stays ther

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