gnome-xml for Slink?

1999-06-26 Thread Steve George
Hi, I am trying to compile Screem (http://www.screem.org) which says it needs gnome-libs and gnome-xml. When I try and compile I get this: interface.c:28: gtk-xmhtml/gtk-xmhtml.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [interface.o] Error 1 Which I think means that I am missing gnome-xml. Pro

Re: gnome-xml for Slink?

1999-06-26 Thread Steve George
Cheers havoc that worked a treat! Def. a case of not seeing the wood for the trees :) Steve On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 12:13:37PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Steve George wrote: > > > > interface.c:28: gtk-xmhtml/gtk-xmhtml.h: No such file or di

No sound from CDROM

1999-06-26 Thread Steve George
Hi, I have sound running fine on my machine for example I installed GNOME today and esd works fine. What has never worked is sound from the cdromI remember the sound HOWTO mentioning that this was a 'different' issue but I don't know what causes it. Could anyone point me in the right dire

Re: No sound from CDROM

1999-06-26 Thread Steve George
Thanks guys - that was ithonest hardware isn't my thing ;-) I can now annoy people immensely by playing my CD's loud!! Steve On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 12:44:45PM -0800, blutgens wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 09:37:30PM +0100, Steve George wrote: > > Hi, > > > &g

Re: ftping through a router

1999-06-27 Thread Steve George
Hi Rob, FTP is a difficult protocol in that it uses two channels/connections. The first one is the command channel which is the one you, the client, makes when it connects to the FTP server. The second is the data channel which the server makes BACK to the client when any data, such as a file

Re: Trouble with xf86setup

1999-06-27 Thread Steve George
Hi Teofil, As someone has already said it looks like you don't have the right packages installed in order to get the X Windows System running. The xinitrc file which is at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc is used to read in default settings for the X session so it's essential. According to m

Re: tacacs and radius

1999-06-27 Thread Steve George
Hi, RADIUS is an authentication system used by ISP's etc for checking a userid and password when you dial in. I think the reference is looked after by Livingston: pretty much every network hardware supplier should have info about it. Guess TACAS is the samr thing - but you will need to check

Re: Nameserver activity

1999-06-27 Thread Steve George
Hi, If I get this right you are saying that even though you have a route to the IBM network the ISDN line to your ISP is coming up when you make a connection to the IBM network. My guess would be that the client program you are using is using DNS to connect the IBM host. If you are trying to

Re: ftping through a router

1999-06-28 Thread Steve George
Hi, Check out the IP Maswquerading HOWTO. Here is some info from my notes: IP Forwarding: http://www.tor.shaw.wave.ca/~ambrose/ipmasq-HOWTO-2.html Requirements: - Kernel with options compiled (as total or in modules) - TCP/IP connectivity for the LAN NOTE: See NET-3 HOWTO and

Re: Linking c programs?

1999-07-04 Thread Steve George
Hi, When you compile a library function into your program the system has to be told in which libraries to look for these references during linking. A small set of libraries such as stdio are always checked for by the compiler - but it doesn't check all the libraries for references to functions

Re: Securing system

1999-07-04 Thread Steve George
Hi Mark, The first thing you should do is comment telnet back in until you have drawn up your security strategy ;-) The standard things people will tell you to do are: - turn everything off - use inetd/wrappers with PARANOIA for anything you *have* to have on - use packet

Re: Securing system

1999-07-05 Thread Steve George
4, 1999 at 10:55:44PM +0100, Steve George wrote: > > > The first thing you should do is comment telnet back in until you > > have drawn up your security strategy ;-) > > Okay! :) > > > > > The standard things people will tell you to do are: > >

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-05 Thread Steve George
Hi Max, Well I can certainly appreciate that you're frustrated and fed-up! Linux can be a PITA in the beginning, but if you can manage the initial learning curve there's lots of interesting stuff to do. Lots of people use Debian, and it's a community effort, so I don't think it's useless (of

Re: Lost directories.

1999-08-08 Thread Steve George
Hmm...well things don't happen by magic, though I sometyimes think they do ;-) So I guess that if you're not deleting stuff, and you haven't been cracked, then you must be suffering hardware failure. I'd make some backups and fsck your harddrives! Good luck, Steve

Re: IP-Masquerade

1999-08-17 Thread Steve George
Hi, It sounds to me as if when you did the first set-up for some reason the packets were getting through the rule and hitting the default deny. In the second instance you have a default allow so it should match any traffic. The first example is better as it is more specific. Hopefully the 192

Re: Setting up Exim

1999-08-17 Thread Steve George
Hi, First off I am confused why you have exim installed: I thought smail was the default for stable.guess I am wrong. On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 09:29:12PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. > Yes, it seems I can mail myself. I started "mail" and sent a message to

Re: secure tunnels

1999-08-21 Thread Steve George
Hi Hamish, Hmm, this doesn't sound right since SSL doesn't use port 80 but 443 as you point out. Sounds like either the s/ware is bad or there is a configuration problem.You could try using the Firewall Tool Kit at www.ftwk.org which is an application level set of proxies. However, I would as

Suggestions for a home printer?

1999-08-21 Thread Steve George
Hi, I was thinking of going out and buying a printer for my home network (2 people one on Linux and one on windoze) and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. I'd like to use Linux to serve the printing and it won't be printing anything massively difficult: the gf would like it to be co

Re: fetchmail

1999-08-22 Thread Steve George
On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 04:44:06PM +0200, Johan Dewaele wrote: > I get fetchmail to search the 2 mailboxes but when fetchmail attempts to > dowload the messages > I get following error : > > [Sun Aug 22][16:14:20]dewaele jdewaele:dewaele$ fetchmail > fetchmail: No mail for jenkdewaele2 at pop.mai

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-08-31 Thread Steve George
Hi, [ no doubt ths comes up often so I hope no-one minds me commenting! ] I'm sure you'll get lots of answers. For me the main points were: PRO: - More 'standards' compliant in the sense that I found that when I read the HOWTOS in many cases the RH stuff wasn't in the places it said it would b

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-05 Thread Steve George
Hi, I can't see how RedHat can offer any more drivers than any other distrib because everyone is working from the same source.. All standard drivers are in the kernel source and all distributions use it so therefore all distributions have the same number of drivers. The only things I can think

Logitech Trackman and imwheel?

1999-09-06 Thread Steve George
Hi, I bought a new Logitech Trackman Marble+ today and was wondering if anyone knows how to get the middle button wheel working. I have the trackman installed and using the Intellimouse protocol fine - all three buttons work. I thought that I might be able to get the wheel running by using the

Re: Logitech Trackman and imwheel?

1999-09-06 Thread Steve George
ll right now. > > -Aaron Solochek > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Steve George wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I bought a new Logitech Trackman Marble+ today and was wondering if anyone > > knows how to get the middle button wheel working. >

compiling kernel for floppy boot

1999-09-14 Thread Steve George
Hi, Does anyone know if there is a way you can compile a kernel into a debian package and have that kernel boot from the floppy? I normally compile my kernels with make-kpkg but the package it makes installs onto the hardrive. I want to do the same thing but place the 'new' kernel on a floppy

checking integers in scripts?

1999-09-19 Thread Steve George
Hi, I am trying to write a script to check if ipforwarding is running on my access box but I can't work out how to check for an integer in a script. It may be clearer what I am trying to do for the bit of the script: #Check if ipfwadm is on IPFORW = `cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward` if [ IPF

loop devices?

1999-09-24 Thread Steve George
Hi, I am looking into using loop devices so I can encrypt stuff onto a floppy file system. I am stuck right at the start with loop devices. The manual says to do the following: dd if=/dev/zero of=/file bs=1k count=100 losetup -e des /dev/loop0 /file Password: Init (up to 16 hex digits): Thi

Re: loop devices?

1999-09-25 Thread Steve George
digit() on each. However no matter what I do I get told the parameter is wrong. I am stuck :-( Other than mailing the maintainer (which seems silly) I dunno what to do! :-( S On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 07:56:21PM -0500, Brad wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Sat, 25 Sep

Re: loop devices? [some success]

1999-09-25 Thread Steve George
who knows what that is ;-) Thanks, Steve On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 12:04:28AM +0100, Steve George wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking into using loop devices so I can encrypt stuff onto a floppy > file system. I am stuck right at the start with loop devices. The manual > says to do

Re: ports 113 and 88

1999-09-26 Thread Steve George
Hi, It is pretty common to see auth as anything that wants to get an idea of the user running the process will try and use this, for example wb servers (NT especially) and I believe sendmail does it as well. The idea is that you can see the user who is running the process and authenticate from

Re: minicom lockup

1999-10-07 Thread Steve George
Hi, Sounds a little strange but it occurs to me that it could be either a) it's not resetting properly and is leaving a lock file so you could check in /var/lock, or b) perhaps it isn't able to resett the modem properly when you come out of minicom so is getting something stuck in it's craw. S

Re: how do i NAT a legacy network ?

1999-10-07 Thread Steve George
Hi, Basically there are two 'current' kernel level implementations for doing ip-filtering and masquerading. They are: ipfwadm kernel 2.0.* ipchainskernel 2.2.* There will be a new system for 2.4.* as you note which is more generic and technically could support no

Re: Lotus Notes

1999-10-09 Thread Steve George
Hi Jim, I haven't done this and take it that you mean the client app. I did hear of someone using Notes under Wine but it may have been an older version than the current one. The other alternative that springs to mind is vmware. You may have more luck asking on a news group or perhaps there is

Smail rewrite From address

1999-10-11 Thread Steve George
Hi, I currently use a Debian machine as my main machine at work but am having a problem with mail. The problem is that I need the from address to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com but smail keeps making the From address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because we have a firewall (and for some other weird reasons)

SGML->PDF

1999-10-15 Thread Steve George
Hi, Does anyone know of any tools to convert from SGML (or any output jade can make) to PDF? The tutorials all show jadetex but this keeps failing for me. I get this error if anyone knows how to fix it: This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3) (format=jadetex 1999.8.24) 16 OCT 1999 00:19 **

Re: Mail refusing to leave my machine

1999-10-16 Thread Steve George
Hi, On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 07:11:57PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 15 Oct 1999, Dave Baker wrote: > > > > Many thanks for this reply. I certainly need some help with this; > tearing out my hair in handfulls! > > > Hi Anthony, > > I'm guessing somewhat here, since I've only used sendmail

Psion & Outlook integration on Linux?

1999-11-08 Thread Steve George
Hi, So finally, after a year+ my gf has started to come round to the fact that MS is crap. She's a convert to be except that she uses her Psion 3MX to integrate with the dreaded Outlook for calendering. So, is there any equivalent application(s) with this functionality under Linux?? All I ca

smail routing

1999-11-28 Thread Steve George
Hi, I am using smail to receive mail to my machine which acts as the gateway for my LAN. I have a new domain and would like to send the mail for this domain through my gateway to a machine on the LAN. Problem is that smail seems to be processing the mail fine but then sends it back out to the

Re: smail routing

1999-11-29 Thread Steve George
Hi, I tried that, and indeed when I have set this sort of thing up before using TIS Gauntlet this is what you do. However, because I am on a dial-up line smail is delivering to the smarthost as soon as it sees that the mail is not local ie it never checks DNS. So the problem appears to be, ho

removing a broken package?

2000-04-19 Thread Steve George
Hi, I installed a package sometime back and now cannot remove it, this is what I get: free:/etc/init.d# dpkg -r cfs (Reading database ... 16917 files and directories currently installed.) Removing cfs ... rmdir: too few arguments Try `rmdir --help' for more information. dpkg: error processing cfs

OpenSSH for Stable

2000-04-30 Thread Steve George
Hi, Does anyone know if there is an OpenSSH .deb for Stable anywhere? I can find an official package for frozen/unstable but not for stable. An 'unofficial' package would be OK if anyone's made one!? Or has anyone compiled it from the frozen source? Thanks, Steve

Re: Gnome & E [Re: Font in GNOME]

1999-12-08 Thread Steve George
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 10:53:50AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > I use Gnome & Enlightenment and I'm wondering why Gnome doesn't > recognize the virtual desktop and virtual screen; ie: if you have > several Gnome terms on separate v. screens and then you save the > session, > the next time you logged

Re: Why is Enlightenment slow?

1999-12-12 Thread Steve George
Hi, You are correct in that every image used for a background or shape takes up memory that slows down E. The extras like the animations also take up memory so can slow it down. The default theme is quite large, or there are certainly smaller ones, so check out e.themes.org for lots of choice

Re: services I don't need - turn them off?!?!?!

1999-12-12 Thread Steve George
Hi, There are two ways to turn off services in inetd.conf and in the /etc/rc.d/*. As you've discovered you can turn off any service which is controlled by the super-server inetd by commenting it out and then restarting inetd e.g kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`. Servers which are not control

Re: sgmltools-2 and texinfo

1999-12-13 Thread Steve George
Hi, This should do the trick: jade -t tex -d /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheets/nwalsh-modular/print/docbook.dsl myfile.sgml > myfile.tex where myfile.sgml is the DocBook SGML file you want to convert and myfile.tex is the output filename you want to use. Steve On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 08:52:34PM -060

Re: DocBook Tools?

1999-12-13 Thread Steve George
Hi, I can't help you with the Debian package but you may be able to Alien the RPM from Cygnus which is stylesheets-0.10-2 which is here http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/docbook-tools/docware/RPMS/noarch/ the source should also be there so you could roll your own. H

Re: file systems...

1999-12-14 Thread Steve George
Hi, >From what you are typing there you aren't specifying the type of filesystem >being mounted, iso9660 is the CD system which I think tries to auto-work out >the rock ridge extensions for long filenames. Steve On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 07:14:29PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > I had my harddri

Re: X Server won start

1999-12-16 Thread Steve George
Hi Rick, On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 01:15:23PM -0800, Rick Dunnivan wrote: > screenmodes, from 800x640 - 1600-1200. When I do > startx, I get the following... > > _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: > SocketCreateListener() failed > _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already > run

fetchmail and multiple users in one POP3 box

2000-01-09 Thread Steve George
Hi, I currently have mail for a domain which is sent to my ISP's POP3 server. I'd like to have multiple users on the domain be delivered to different users on my system but the documentation on fetchmail seems to be saying that this is a bad idea. Is anyone doing this? Basically I need fetchmail

Slackware to Debian migration

2004-04-02 Thread Steve George
th the T2. Is there another package I need to upgrade? This setup seemed to work fine on Slack. --- Steve George Winnipeg, Canada _ Add photos to your messages with MSN Premium. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&