On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 03:07:01PM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote:
| I'm not using gpm.
| My XF86Config-4 has this
|
| Section "InputDevice"
| Identifier "Configured Mouse"
| Driver "mouse"
| Option "CorePointer"
| Option "Device"
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 06:43:51PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote:
| On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:33:22PM -0500, dman wrote:
| > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:00:18PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote:
| > | Why do 'apt-get install' and 'apt-cache show' give different results?
| >
|
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 03:31:06PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
| what's the potato-friendly way to get galeon installed?
Why do you want to stick with potato? If you're installing galeon, it
must be a workstation, not a server, so what's wrong with woody/sid?
It is much easier ("possible" is a b
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 11:43:34AM +1030, Tom Cook wrote:
| Rodney Agha wrote:
| >
| > --
| > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Can we have this added to the TOP of each message? People just seem to
| ignore the
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 03:56:10PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I'm trying to get my USB mouse working under woody. Could someone
| point me to a how-to or something
"modprobe" each of
usb-uhci
hid
mousedev
keybdev
and point your mouse software (gpm or X) at /dev/input/mice
The relevant
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:00:55PM -0500, Scott Desjardins wrote:
| While trying to install Acrobat Reader (which I downloaded on a Netscape
| browser)
The easy way is :
# apt-get install acroread
(it's in non-free)
-D
--
"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:10:42PM -0500, Kurt Lieber wrote:
| I use KDE for my desktop, but prefer Mozilla for my web browser. The
| incompatible clipboards have always been a huge source of frustration for me.
|
| Couple of questions:
|
| 1. Is there any way short of "use the source, luke" t
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:39:08PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote:
| justin cunningham wrote:
| >
| > Hi, I've s-l-o-w-l-y been building a woody machine in spare time and
| > noticed that I can't use the arrow keys to get around in vi. Is this
| > because the keyboard is misconfiged? I think I remember
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:59:07PM -0800, justin cunningham wrote:
| Michel Loos wrote:
| | On Mon, Feb 18, 2002, justin cunningham wrote:
| | > dpkg -l | grep vi shows nvi 1.79-20. the potato's show 1.79-16a.1.
| | >
| | > ok, so if I use the letter keys instead how to I get to the end
| | >
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 07:03:08PM -0800, justin cunningham wrote:
| Okay, why the hell do I get this reply after every time I reply to
| the list? Regards, Justin
|
| -Original Message-
| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[rest snipped]
This is not the first time someo
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:23:08PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote:
| Alex Malinovich wrote:
| >
| > Oh, I'm this is just begging to start a flame war, but I have to
| > say it... :)
| >
| > Get a REAL editor like Emacs! :)
| >
| > *runs and hides*
|
| *just before logging out for the night*
|
| Hear, h
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 01:53:20PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
| On 19 Feb 2002, Patrick Kirk wrote:
| > On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 09:39, Anthony Campbell wrote:
| > > Can anyone suggest a procmail filter that will catch at least some of
| > > the From: \123\456\789\... stuff?
| > >
| > > (
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:35:51AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
| begin Karl E. Jorgensen quotation:
|
| > IMHO if your co-worker wants *absolute control* over how things are
| > rendered, then he's figthing a loosing battle. Essentially you only
| > have absolute control if you have one big imag
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 01:58:08PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
| * Rich Puhek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
| > Alex Malinovich wrote:
| > >
| > > Oh, I'm this is just begging to start a flame war, but I have to say
| > > it... :)
| > >
| > > Get a REAL editor like Emacs! :)
| > >
| > > *ru
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 01:17:54PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
| On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, dman wrote:
|
| > eznet.net
| >
| > (do you need to ask why I won't purchase their service?)
|
| Other than the fact that they run Windows on thier servers?
Really? I thought t
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 06:52:38PM -0300, Michel Loos wrote:
|
| > However, if your ip is assigned dynamically through a dhcp server (like
| > cable modems, for example), you should also install dhcpcd (apt-get
| > install dhcpcd).
|
| Cable modem here and no dhcpd installed. It works fine.
| Why
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 06:09:48PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
|
| Having finally finished upgrading, I get the following problem in dselect:
| Although I have chosen no new packages it will tell me after entering Install:
|
| The following NEW packages will be installed:
| pcmcia-modules-2.4.
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 08:21:49PM -0800, Rupa Schomaker wrote:
| -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
|
| dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > Surely it would, but at least vim doesn't require me to press it
| > repeatedly for each command <0.5 wink>. (run emacs on a sol
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:17:44PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
| On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, dman wrote:
|
| > | Other than the fact that they run Windows on thier servers?
| >
| > Really? I thought they were one of the rare companies that provided
| > shell access. I
The details aren't finished yet, but it looks like I'll be working in
Chicago (Elgin, actually) next quarter. Is anyone here in the Chicago
area?
-D
--
"Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values to wipe files. This provides more
security than wiping with decimal values." -- Norton SystemWorks 2002 M
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:32:52PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote:
| On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 21:47, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
| > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:31:44 -0500
| > "Darryl L. Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:27:08PM -, Charlie Grosvenor wrote:
| > > > I h
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:27:37PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote:
| People don't put up with Outlook Express...they use it because it is
| the best email client for windows.
MM, no. Can you say "I Love You"? How about "Nimda"? Is there a
reason that Outlook [Express] is the target for all the emai
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:45:57AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
| According to my ADSL service provider, my connection to their gateway
| is somehow "private",
This is mostly marketing-speak and quite meaningless. They are
comparing their service with that of cable modems. Cable modems use
some
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 03:35:36PM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote:
| * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:04:08PM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote:
<...>
| > | I did that, though I think I still need to do something else.
| > | Instructions I had seen elsewhere said &q
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 11:37:21PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
| On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 07:57:36PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
| > donno... i've plugged and unplugged various mouse and kbs
| > all the time into lots-o-mbs and machines and have not
| > yet fried any mb... ( guess i can consider myself luc
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:42:42PM -0800, Paul E Condon,,, wrote:
| I recently dist-upgraded to Woody, using a script by Osamu Aoki. It took
| many hours over ppp,
| but it worked. Thanks, Osamu!
|
| And he is right in saying the install of Woody is too easy. Beyond
| stumbling onto his post tel
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:43:32PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
| > > * Abner Gershon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020220 09:01]:
| > > > Can someone tell me search and replace commands I can use to
| > > > convert comma delimited text in form:
[...]
| Umm, what about quoted text containing commas? Like:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:20:28AM -0600, Mark S. Reglewski wrote:
| On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, dman wrote:
|
| > The details aren't finished yet, but it looks like I'll be working in
| > Chicago (Elgin, actually) next quarter. Is anyone here in the Chicago
| > area?
|
| I liv
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:40:58AM +, Patrick Kirk wrote:
| On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 23:59, Craig Dickson wrote:
| > begin Patrick Kirk quotation:
|
| > > Every windows box has it.
| >
| > Sure, like downloading an executable installer for a better program is
| > so hard.
|
| It is so hard.
S
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 04:35:33PM +0100, J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz wrote:
| - Original Message -
| From: "Craig Dickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To:
| Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 11:54 PM
| Subject: Re: Blank Messages To Mailing List With Attachments Containing
| Message
|
| >This ha
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 03:22:46PM +, Charlie Grosvenor wrote:
| Hi
| I have a machine running debian that has a ppp connection to the
| internet (ppp0) and an ethernet connection to my network (eth0. I have 6
| static public ip addresses, at the moment the debian machine has two of
| these
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:13:30PM +, Andrew Pritchard wrote:
| I have a laptop I'd like to put Woody on. I've started the install with
| the 'standard' set of discs, but when I try to configure the PCMCIA card it
| fails. It's a 3COM 3C589 - a well supported card.
I don't know what is on th
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 06:41:33PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
| On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
| > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 06:02:43PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| > >
| > > I think this is a kind of spam..
| >
| > I agree. If she's not "computer savvy" then why would she be on the
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:13:04AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote:
| Thought I'd post my experiences here with my Potato to Woody
| upgrade.
Given the recent number of posts discussing potato->woody, I think
I'll post my (recent) experience as well. Presumably most of the
posts were regarding pro
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:42:04PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote:
| Hi all,
|
| My laptop has a 4MB vid card, 64 MB RAM, 120MB swap and a Pii 400
| celeron processor.
Either you have a PII or a Celeron, but not both in one chip.
| I'm running enlightenment with konqueror for file management, galeon
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:34:18PM -0800, John Quigley wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I'm porting the Torque Game Engine from Garage Games (www.garagegames.com) to
| Linux. The engine already runs fine on several linux distributions,
| including redhat, mandrake, suse, and also debian 2.2.
|
| However it do
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:06:11PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
| The print command in my Mozilla is:
|
| lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}
|
| which doesn't work.
What is ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME} set to? Is it defined at all? Best way
to find out these error messages is to run from
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 04:35:47PM -0600, Sean Hendershot wrote:
| Hello,
|
| Dist-upgraded a base install of potato to sid today.
| manpage package is installed but the only manpage I have
| is ae. Also I have no /usr/bin/man. Only dir's under
| /usr/man are man1 (w/ ae) and man8 (empty). Any
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:46:24PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| I've been running spamassassin on several boxes (home and work) over the
| past few weeks. It rocks. Completely replaced my own procmail spam
| detection recipies.
Sweet.
| The problem I'm having as a dialup user is when I pull
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:38:55AM +0800, a wrote:
| i compile kernel 2.0.36. everything else seems OK except modprobe complain
| it can't locate char-major-10
|
| i have a Ham modem and debian 2.2. i compile the linux driver and install
| it. but pon fails. i use the command below:
| setserial /d
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 05:21:07PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
| On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 07:51:55PM -0500, dman wrote:
| > Debian 2.2 (aka "potato") comes with kernel 2.2.20 now, and AFAIK, has
| > always had a 2.2.x kernel.
|
| No it does not look like so. Stable potato alway
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:07:40AM +0800, a wrote:
| i have 2 debians: 2.1 and 2.2. the 1st question is about 2.1 and the 2nd is
| about 2.2.
Oh, ok. If the slink box isn't too underpowered (ie a 386 with 5MB
RAM) then I recommend upgrading it. I'm currently getting my 486 box
up to woody (and k
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:13:40PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
| Hey people.
|
| At work currently, I'm mounting my home directory over NFS. Today I tried
| to tar up a directory, and a single file produced a complaint of "cannot stat:
| I/O Error". I logged into an HP-UX box mountin
After a recent woody upgrade I've been noticing some logging by xinetd
and identd. The entries are, for example :
Feb 21 23:34:20 dman xinetd[27628]: warning: can't get client address:
Transport endpoint is not connected
Feb 21 23:34:21 dman identd[27628]: started
Feb 21 23:34:28
? the nazi party? 55 sucks.
| > 65 sucks, for that matter, but, allegedly, it's the national
| > standard wherever local authorities haven't funded the highway
| > system. the worst of this year's models still rate themselves from
| > 0 to 60. dman, screw chicago--head f
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:19:57PM +0800, a wrote:
| thanks!
You're welcome.
| actually both debians are in the same disk. the modem linux driver is for
| 2.2, so i have to install 2.2, though i'm quite happy with 2.1.
|
| below is part of syslog. the first n lines is about modem's modules loadi
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:47:02PM +0100, VERBEEK, Francois wrote:
| Note that PPPoE is anyway encapsulated in ATM so you eventually get an
| additional (and useless) overhead.
Possibly. I expect, but have no facts or proof, that a "dsl modem"
will strip out the ethernet frames and use only the p
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:12:55PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I cannot get any ps/2 mouse to work thru a serial adapter.
| Is there something else I should be looking at?
Unless you paid a lot of money for your adapter, it is nothing more
than some wires between two differently shaped con
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:47:52AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| on Thu, Feb 21, 2002, Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| > "Karsten M. Self" writes:
| >
| > > When pulling mail, I'll see the system spike to 350 or more processes.
| > > It appears that each mail delivery initiates a separ
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:56:00PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
| I can't address your issue, Michel, but I've been dying to say this to
| someone.
|
| The only *nix I've ever known is Debian (going on about 4 years now),
How lucky you are :-).
| and this week I was tasked with putting in a new d
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:48:41PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote:
| I am having some problems compiling my
| first glade application. I have fixed
| several problems so far, but now I am
| having troubles because gnomeConf.sh
| cannot be found.
|
| I tried an apt-get install gnome-libs
| and an ap
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 08:11:33AM +1000, Alan Davis wrote:
| I have found nothing that explains GNU/Linux adequately to my students.
| I have a four machine GNU/Linux (Debian) net in my classroom, for
| student use. Many students have gotten to know the basics---which
| consists of how to start
he default
dhclient.conf has a whole bunch of stuff, but it is all commented out.
Check your syslog. There should be stuff like
Feb 22 18:45:49 dman dhclient-2.2.x: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 64.213.112.1 port 67
Feb 22 18:45:49 dman dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPREQUEST for 64.213.114.152 from
00:04:5a:4f:30:67 via
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:18:03PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote:
| I am planning on building a firewall
| here. There is a lot of hype about
| Freebsd being great for firewalls,
| and books regarding Linux firewalls.
|
| I love Linux, but I believe in
| finding the best solution for a
| problem.
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 05:30:43PM +, Paul McKinley wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I am new to Debian Linux. I have a very slow internet access and its not
| flat rate. How would I go about downloading the bare minimum in order to
| get a Linux box to boot?
Buy a set of CDs from somewhere. They are ver
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 04:38:15PM -0600, hanasaki wrote:
| correct.. its built as root. I couldnt figure out how to build it to
| run as mail.
One of the problems is that exim needs to change it's UID for
deliveries so that it uses the user's UID instead of 'mail' or 'root'.
You can, however,
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 04:07:01PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
| On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:04:44PM -0600, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
| > I created a file in the conf.d directory for my system that contains the
| > following lines:
| >
| > REGISTER ^tts/0 PERMISSIONS root.nut 0660
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 01:25:48PM -0600, hanasaki wrote:
| I put the below in my /etc/network/interfaces and presto!
|
| This seems to be running pump. What is dhclient.conf?
What does
dpkg -l pump dhcp-client
report?
If you have pump, it will be used. If you have dh-client (in package
'
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 11:37:28AM -0500, eric wrote:
| Dear Debian users:
|
| When I apt-get upgrade, I meet the following error:
|
| Selecting previously deselected package bind9-host.
| Unpacking bind9-host (from .../bind9-host_1%3a9.2.0-4_i386.deb) ...
| dpkg: error processing
| /var/cach
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 12:58:47PM -0500, Faheem Mitha wrote:
| I'd use grub. Easy to use, but be careful to modify menu.lst before you
| reboot;
If you don't, it is no problem. Just enter the "command line" mode at
boot time and enter the info. That way you can boot and after booting
record t
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 08:18:43PM +, Stephano Mariani wrote:
| I have access to a computer with a fast net connection (DSL 2Mbit),
| would it be possible for me to download and burn these CDs rather than
| buying them? If so, could you please tell me where I could get them?
http://cdimage.deb
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:22:01AM +0100, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote:
| Am fed up with Windows on a single workstation in a small non-profit
| organization, used mainly for word processing and mailing. This weekend
| I have to reinstall the OS, data are on a second HDD since the last
| major cr
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 02:26:58AM -0800, ben wrote:
| On Saturday 23 February 2002 06:53 pm, Bob Underwood wrote:
| [snip]
| > >
| > > | Is the Star Office 5.2 address book reliable enough for mail merges, or
| > > | has any other word processor (Applixware?) an address book that can be
| > > | us
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:33:44PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
| On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 11:47:28PM +1000, mdevin wrote:
| > Yes. I agree. But it would be interesting to check if the config file
| > shows that devfs was selected but not enabled at boot to be sure.
|
| Yes, that is the case
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:46:28PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I'm trying to get a second identical network card to work and need some
| assistance. The card is a AMD PCnet-ISA+ (a pnp card) that uses the
| lance.o module. When installing I was able to get one card working by
| addi
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 08:04:30PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
| On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:54:26 -0800 (PST) John Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > i use [EMAIL PROTECTED] to subsribe to this list but was told i
| > need approval from modulator.
|
| An amplitude modulator, or a frequency modulator?
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:04:24PM -0500, Faheem Mitha wrote:
| I just wondered if anyone had thoughts/comments about the hardware
| configuation. I was just told that the Realtek ethernet card was a piece
| of junk and that I should use something else instead, so I was thinking of
| the 3com (10
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:59:07PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote:
| dman wrote:
|
| >On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:46:28PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote:
| >| Hi,
| >|
| >| I'm trying to get a second identical network card to work and need some
| >| assistance. The card is a A
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 07:58:38AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote:
| dman wrote:
|
|
| >
| > Since the cards are PnP, you'll probably need to use a DOS utility to
| change the card's settings. Perhaps you can get isapnp or some linux
| > tool to do it, but I haven't tri
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 02:32:57AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| on Mon, Feb 25, 2002, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| > On Monday 25 February 2002 09:09 pm, Nick Hastings wrote:
| > > Hi,
| > >
| > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020226 15:58]:
| > > > i have downloaded Acrobat Reade
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote:
| On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 08:44, Liam Black wrote:
| > I'm currently running potato 2.2.19, and looking to upgrade to Woody. Is
| > there a simplistic way to do this with apt / dpkg? I'm a newbie, and have
| > been spending my time learnin
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:58:41AM -0500, Ed Lawson wrote:
|
| >On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote:
| >
| >|
| >| Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing'
| >| and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running
| >| Woody.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:57:25PM +0530, shyamk wrote:
| I am using a VIA/AMD-Duron system .
| The CD they gave does not contain any display drivers , etc ,
| for Linux !
| Could somebody please guide me on where I could get reliable drivers
| from ?
What video card do you have? Do you want to
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 02:12:06AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
[...]
| I'd had exim running from inetd rather that as a daemon, which might
| also explain the many forkings.
[...]
Yeah, that would have an effect on it. If exim runs as a daemon, then
it can monitor and control the various forks
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 05:32:53PM -0600, hanasaki wrote:
| See below for dpkg -l pump dhcp-client. Not sure what it means :|
|
| ii pump0.8.11-3
| pn dhcp-client
As the top lines of the output say, the 'ii' means that
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:59:41AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
| On 26-Feb-2002 Balazs Javor wrote:
| > Hi,
| >
| > Are the internal services discard, daytime and time run from
| > inetd critical to the system?
| >
| > I'm trying to close as many ports as possible on my machine,
| > so I wa
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 06:04:19PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
| On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:53:16 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 02:26:58AM -0800, ben wrote:
| > | On Saturday 23 February 2002 06:53 pm, Bob Underwood wrote:
| > | [snip]
| > | >
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 08:26:15PM -0600, Matt Wehland wrote:
[...]
| Even if the SCSI subsystem is faster, how many people will even notice
| it? With my daily task load I am waiting on disk transfer for just seconds
| a full day, other than system startup and who turns their systems off?
| Sav
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:08:12PM -0500, Joshua Foster wrote:
|
| I cannot get my ethernet card working. During installation, I was
| asked for my IP address, netmask, and gateway, which I thought meant
| that my card was recognized. But I can't ping anyone but myself. I
| looked in the config
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 08:29:37PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote:
| Slightly OT, I wonder am I losing anything in terms of functionality or
| performance by running Evolution Galeon and other gnom-ish apps under
| XFCE as opposed to under Gnome proper?
GNOME apps run in the GNOME environment. You c
Thanks to all who provided some info regarding Chicago and Elgin.
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 01:19:26PM +0200, Juhan Kundla wrote:
| Greetings to antipodes..
|
| [tons of haba-haba about cars/trains/trucks/jumbos/whatever skipped]
|
| Gee, i am glad, i live in country small enough to bicycle aroun
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:13:09PM -0800, Dave Scott wrote:
| I just installed debian potato with kernel 2.2.18pre21
|
| I'm trying to get a pair of SMC 1244TX (rtl8139) Ethernet adapters
| working, but not having much luck.
|
| I ran insmod rtl8139 which installed but says (unused), so I figured
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 01:16:58AM -0500, D. Clarke wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I have a problem with dhclient losing it's ip after a while.
Look in your syslog to see what dh-client is trying to do. You should
see entries similar to :
Feb 27 06:45:53 dman dhclient-2.2.x: DHCPREQUEST on et
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 01:02:53PM -0500, D. Clarke wrote:
| That's right, I don't get a DHCPACK when ipmasq is started.
|
| I just get
|
| DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 24.226.1.41 port 67
| over and over again, until i drop the masq, then i get an ACK no problem.
Either open up port 67 (UDP, I think,
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:34:30PM -0500, debianlist wrote:
| hI:
| In installation, Debian can not detected my pci network card. how can i
get it to work?
First figure out what card it is. Then google to find out what driver
it requires. Then run 'modconf' and select the module. Then edit
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:22:28AM -0500, debianlist wrote:
| HI:
| In the installation, which module should i select for my Linksys Fast
Ethernet 10/100 networkcard(NC100 V2.1)
Plug "linksys nc100" into google. It will tell you "tulip".
(I know because I looked yesterday, and then mailed t
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:44:33AM -0500, David Shepherd wrote:
| I need some help setting up a SiS 6236 PCI graphics card on my
| elderly Potato box. Has anyone got one of these working with XFree
| 3.3.6?
I used to have a 6326 (AGP) working with XFree 3.3.6. Now I'm using
XFree 4.1.0 and VESA
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:38:20AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
| Anyone who wants the official 6 CD set of woody 3.0
| Can send me an address privately. First one I get in my inbox with
| snailmail address will get the cds mailed to them.
Hmm, woody hasn't been officially released yet. If you rea
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:32:17PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote:
| ...Okee so you have BSD like lpd installed
| The next thing to know is whether lpd was installed correctly. Atleast
| there should be a command called `lp', check whether it is there with:
|
| # type lp
|
| This should tell you
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:46:17PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
| Hiya,
| I tried to cook up another kernel, this time without 686 optimizations, and
| unfortunately it _still_ won't boot. Is there some way I can use the Debian
| default configuration rather than my custom kernel configurati
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 05:25:01PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
|
| > You can try installing a base potato system, then dist-upgrade to
| > woody. This has worked for me on several systems.
|
| Just out of curiosity, if someone is planning to use Woody, wouldn't it be
| easier to get the W
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 05:59:51PM -0600, Mitch Headline wrote:
| I Have One Question How do i send e-mail in debian using Mutt?
funny how, as of the time of this writing, only one responder was
actually using mutt.
There are 2 main components to sending mail
1) a MUA (you've choosen 'mu
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 05:34:27PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
| OK, list posters, you've advised me to coninue my efforts and step
| back to potato. (See thread suject `Enough time wasted.. moving on')
|
| A coulpe of posters have suggested a network install. Thing is I have
| $40 dollars worth o
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 07:48:59AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
| Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > dpkg -l | head
| >
| > The first 3 lines of the dpkg output list what the letters mean.
| >
| > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/courier/smtpaccess$ dpkg -l | head
| > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remov
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 12:20:50PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote:
|
| Hi!
|
| I have a problem with the way gethostname() and getdomainname (don't)
| work on Debian.
|
| gethostname() returns the hostname, not qualified.
It (or a similarly named function, I don't remember exactly) returns
the
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 04:20:23PM +, debian debian wrote:
| HI:
| what's the version of XFree86 in Woody?
$ apt-cache policy xserver-xfree86
xserver-xfree86:
Installed: 4.1.0-14
Candidate: 4.1.0-14
Version Table:
*** 4.1.0-14 0
900 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Packag
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:32:50AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
| Well, I got X working in my fresh woody install, but there are a few
| rinkles.
| 1) I want to boot to console mode and call x with startx.
|
| Currently, I get popped right into X.
| I thought this could be contolled by setting the
cd's, do a network install of stable,
| > > then, before installing _anything_ beyond base, apt-get dist-upgrade to
| > > testing or unstable?
| >
| > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| >
| > [...]
| >
| > > You can try installing a base potato sys
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 07:59:42PM -0600, Keith Parkansky wrote:
| Early in the 2.2r5 installation
| (from CD) I get to the step
| "Configure Device Driver Modules"
|
| - I highlight "fs" and press Enter
| - I highlight "binfmt_aout" and
| press Enter and the following
| errors appear:
|
| /
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:58:46PM +1300, Alan & Kerry Shrimpton wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I know most people have their Linux box connected to the net. I have my
| windows machine.
|
| I know most people probably have their printers connected to their Linux
| machine. I have it connected to my windows
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