Re: movie and such

h .mpg's, avi's and such. What app(s) > do/does this? > > xanim plays many formats, mpeg_play is nice for mpegs. HTH dyer

Re: Fax

d fax. > > Does anybody know how I can solve this problem. > > HTH > > Cuno Sonnemans > > -- > Sounds like sefax is not in your path. Try adding it. dyer

Re: hamm upgrade/c++ libraries

Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Phil Dyer wrote: > > > I upgraded to hamm yesterday and have run into a problem. > > I used autoup.sh with an ftp connection to get the required packages. > > Now I cannot compile c++ code, as it cannot find the libs. (i

Re: libc6 etc...etc..

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 2/21/99 12:46:19 PM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > - libc6 version 2.0.7u > > > - libstdc ++2.9 > > > - qt1g version 1.42-1 (I've the old version installed) > > > - libjpeg6a > > > > You can find the packages at http://w

Re: where is telnetd?

Frankie wrote: > Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > > > > Is telnetd part of the of the official debian 2.0 CD'S because I failed > > to find it? > > yes it is - its in net. [snip] > > actually, in 2.0 it's part of netstd package with ftpd etc... it was > seperated out in slink. dyer

Re: HELP. My chat script doesn't work.

M > Feb 26 11:08:32 uxtjp51 chat[187]: alarm > Feb 26 11:08:32 uxtjp51 chat[187]: Failed > Feb 26 11:08:32 uxtjp51 pppd[186]: Connect script failed > Feb 26 11:08:33 uxtjp51 pppd[186]: Exit. > > It looks to me as if it gets stuck on the Host Name. When it gets the > UserID promt it sends the Host Name again > > Please advise how to do it right. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Have you tried using 'pppconfig' command? dyer

Re: apt

"Craig T. Hancock" wrote: > I here alot of users refer tio the command apt what eactly is it > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null a very nice and easy method of upgrading and installing packages. -- dyer

Re: Netscape Install

lls it to run in the current directory. It was reporting that it was not found because the current directory is not in your path. Long answer is to use the .deb's for netscape. Hmm, that seemed backwards... -- dyer

Re: which package provides ldd

"They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, > Lord, them delta women think the world of me." > -- Dickey Betts, "Ramblin' Man" > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null base/ldso -- dyer

Re: netscape

SP. (basically) and if you can ping by IP but not by dns, then you prolly have bad dns machines numbers in /etc/resolv.conf mail me if it doesn't work and we can work on it while keeping traffic off the list. -- dyer

Re: VB and Active X

ose guys? > Are LInux users going to be cut off from web based > application written in MS languages? > God, I hope so. ;) > > Tom > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- dyer

wdm

.X0-lock and start again. When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages xdm error (pid 206): server unexpectedly died xdm error (pid 206): Server for display :0 can't be started, session disabled X does start though (eventually) dyer

Re: wdm

nda stumped. > > > > ummm, wdm replaces xdm I thought. So try using one or the other. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Boy, that's rtfm at it's best! thanks guys. Problem solved -- dyer

Re: Netscape problem

glimpse and search for libXpm.so.4 > > > Shawn > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- dyer

Re: Netscape 4.51 won't start

so you need to get the older libs to run it . Prolly want to get xpm4.7 and libc5 while your there. BTW, you can find many answers to questions in the mailing list archive. This question has been asked _many_ times, before you post check out http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ . It has a very good search engine to look for key words HTH -- dyer

Re: ProFTPD Question

|*If it says "Windows 95 or better" install Linux!*| > +--+ > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- dyer

Re: login.app setting color depth to 16bpp

tion "Screen" Driver "accel" Device "S3 ViRGE (generic)" Monitor "drmon17" DefaultColorDepth 16 I dunno if login.app has it's own thing like wdm or not. Works for me. dyer

Re: ps vs free again

7; \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | > Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |___/ > _____ > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- dyer

Re: Star office S3 server fix

unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Go to stardivision.com, click support at the top, then download on the left. -- dyer

Re: Distribution

ddress at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null I think the best place for you to start is here: http://www.debian.org -- dyer

Sound problems

hen run acm from another terminal, I get a seg fault from acms. I can't confirm that it's only _this_ game, as I'm not much of a gamer and don't have any others loaded on my system. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong? thanks, dyer

Re: Violence: Lethal StarOffice...

Jeff, At stardivision.com they have a patch for the S3V server. (This _is_ the problem) Go to support, download. (at least it used to be there). Switch to SVGA server on your machine, install SO5, install the patch, switch back to S3V. You should be OK. dyer >Peter, >I have a Stealth 3

Re: xconsole transparency

ondering if anyone can guide me through the process? > > You can execute it like this: wterm -tr you will want to work out text colors and such. wterm is taken from rxvt, so you will be able to use rxvt's options. I like the ol' wterm -bg black -fg white -tr have fun. -- =-=-=

Re: library lost - need help, please

p or direction, that way i can get back to solving the problem which i > was solving when i killed the needed file. > > try prompt# dpkg --remove libstdc++2.9-dev prompt# apt-get install libstdc++2.9-dev hth -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: xconsole transparency

mand /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole > - -notify . -file /dev/xconsole to incorporate wterm. Thanks for the > suggestions though dyer. > Hmmm... Have a look at the rt package in X11/ -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Xemacs problem

David Kanter wrote: > When I try to start xemacs, I occasionally get this error message: > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0. > Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'. > Also use

Re: xfree 3.3.4 debianized, where can I found it pls?

Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Any URL? > > Thanx in advance. > > JY > I assume you are talking about slink packages. http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ you can apt-get with deb http://samosa.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ xfree86-334-slink/ hth -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: What is required for Kernel 2.2.12 ?

s recently on slink could be more help here. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Kppp

Eber de Castro Diniz wrote: > The I execute kppp, it shows the following message after connect: > ppp died unexpectly > Does anyone know how to fix it? > You may try using an empty /etc/ppp/options file. It fixed it for me. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: KDE

ore posting. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ There is a search at the bottom of the page. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: mail and security

disk activity. I checked top and saw that user > nobody issued a find command. I just disconnected. Guess I should > change my password. > May be wrong, but it was probably cron running your locate database update. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: /dev/lp1 bad configured

ody know how to get lp1 that supports printing? > > 2.2.x kernels use lp0. Change from lp1 to lp0 in /etc/printcap dyer

how's kde2 look?

Anybody running the kde 2.0 debs for slink at tdyc.com? any regrets, blair witch-like evilness? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Debian on CD-ROMs

Richard Seinfeld wrote: > I'd like to get the program on CD. Can anyone advise? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null http://www.debian.org/distrib/vendors -- dyer

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

techie <http://www.acorn.net> > AOL/IM Jim Foltz > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- dyer

Re: setting up DNS

pinged your box, and got a reply. YOur'e good to go. :-) > > > are there any URLs what describe in-depth what I'm trying to do? You should invest in some networking books. DNS, routing, etc... O'reilly has a good one called TCP/IP Network Administration. > > > thanks for any help!! > -lev > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- dyer

Re: setting up DNS

Lev Lvovsky wrote: > At Sunday 05:03 PM 4/11/99 , dyer wrote: > >Lev Lvovsky wrote: > > > > > >> my ADSL provider is mminternet.com, and my address is > >> silver168.mminternet.com (the IP is listed above). > > > >You've answered y

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

t; just the package itself) - there's no need to switch completely to > > unstable. > > -- > Anything cut to length will be too short. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- dyer

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

Moves on..." - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam) > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null WordPerfect does a pretty good job for both word7 and 8, also look at the mswordview package, I haven't used it, but it's supposed to work with word8 files. -- dyer

Re: Diald Setup

Specialist >System Adminstrator > Toll-Free: 800-267-3070 > Phone: 716-214-5644 > Fax: 716-214-5642 > TDD: 716-214-5643 > ICQ: 10663810 > AIM: ElikCyber > -- > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- dyer

Re: SIOCADDRT error on boot

sage. When the system > > > > > boots everything looks OK until It mounts the local filesystems. I > > > > > get this weird error, > > > > > "SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument" > > > > > twice, and then it moves on. I've looked at the > > > > > /etc/init.d/mountall.sh script, /etc/fstab, and /proc/filesystems > > > > > and I still don't have a clue. What do I need to change to kill this > > > > > error? > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- dyer

Re: How do I do an ftp install?

the files necessary to install the base system. HTH -- dyer

Re: Where is telnet, ftp?

nks, > > sridhar > > > Sridhar M. A. > Department of Physics > University of Mysore, Manasagangotri > Mysore 570 006, INDIA > *** > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- dyer

Re: X, netscape

Anonymous Coward wrote: > now i am getting very, very annoyed. with all the talk about how stable > etc. debian is then i try it and all the claims are invalid you are absolutely right and should switch to RedHat. -- dyer

Re: printing broken

0, not lp1 as the first printing device. Change lp1 to lp0 in your /etc/printcap file and you should be OK. -- dyer

Re: Color Bit Depth

config file. I know you can set > X up with multipul resolution and you can switch using the ctrl-alt-+/- > key combinations, I would like to be able to do the same thing only with > colors. > thanks, > > kill the xserver and use: startx -- -bpp 16 dyer

Re: Copying to a floppy; www connection

) How did you configure your connection? (pppconfig,etc..) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: www connection again

69 74 65 64] > Oct 10 04:45:17 arc pppd[287]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x2 user="rodriga" > password="SORRY"] > Have you tried using chap instead? Do pppconfig and try that. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: passwd

> you can type "poipoipoi" followed by anything... you just get in as > well... > I think there's a problem about that too (I guess its the same...) > > so please tell me > > Hope that can help... > > Vincent Deffontaines > France > > -- &g

Re: idle user

Attila Csosz wrote: > What packeage does it? ( from the official binary slink cd-s ) > > You've been idle for 68 min. > You'll be logged off in 30sec unless you hit a key. > > Then I was logged off. idled sounds like the culprit. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: @Home Cable Modem

his to work with linux or can > anyone give me some advice on what I can do? Thanks > > Jon, take a look at the cable modem HOW-TO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Cable-Modem.html -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Setting up PPP on Debian

use the pon, poff commands to connect, disconnect HTH -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

printcap for bjc4000

Could someone tell me how to setup my printcap for a bjc4000 printer. I'm a newbie, so please be gentle. I need to be able to print ghostscript files. Thanks, Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST.

Re: printcap for bjc4000

nd even the top of the .ps file prints some legible chars. %!PS - Adobe-2.0 %%Creator: blah, blah %%Title: ..blah and a few more lines then, %%BeginProcSet: tex.pro then a bunch of garbage. Anybody got some insight? thanks, Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: default color depth

Thanks. Phil Dyer Norbert Veber wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 01:37:47AM -0500, Phil Dyer wrote: > > How do I append XF86Config to get a startx default of 16? I know it's > > gotta be in the display section, but where and how? > > thanks, > > # The Colour

Re: html2ps

command to create the complete manual (in > ps format) at once. > how 'bout html2ps -o output.ps file1.html file2.html file3.html ... will create one big ps file containing all the html files. hope that helps, dyer

Re: setting up ipmasq

ly need to add a default route for the box behind the firewall. dyer

Re: Compiling the Kernel.

room on my machine to host it. > > Marc, Please post the error about what file it cannot find. Also, you should not be running 'make install'. Take a look at the README in the /usr/src/linux directory. You should be running: make mrproper make config (or menuconfig or xconfig) make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install Again, look at the readme. dyer

Re: Suggest net trafic analyser pls!

thereal. Graphical, nice breakdown of packets and datagrams and you can follow packet streams. Are you sure it's not ppp0? do you have 2 ppp connections? dyer

Re: ssh1<->ssh2

a protocol error. Try specifying the port. #ssh -p dyer

Re: Connection terminated after 481.1 minutes

's before with the 'feature' of disconnecting you after a certain amount of time. Since the time is very close to 8 hours, (nice round number) I suspect that to be the case. dyer

Re: kdm User List ?

in to kde as root. Open the KDE Control Center. Go to Applications, then Login Manager. dyer

Re: X Fonts

uot;/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" dyer

Re: Compiling Kernel with debian

ernel-package utility. It simplifies building and maintaining kernels. There's good documentation to get you going. # apt-get install libncurses5-dev kernel-package Also, for a lot of questions you can find answers in the Mailing List Archive. This question about ncurses.h pops up all the time. www.debian.org/List-Archives has a sweet search tool at the bottom. good luck dyer

Re: Kernel patching

r/src directory when you unzipped and patched.) I assume you are using the docs in /usr/src/linux/README. You now need to rebuild the kernel. hth dyer

Re: DVD-ROM

> What is the error message? Probably, the cd player app is looking for the cdrom in /dev/cdrom. You should point it to your actual device, or make a symlink from your cdrom device to /dev/cdrom ln -s /dev/hd /dev/cdrom# where x is your actual device. hth dyer

Re: gv

> > > BTW, what kind of tool do you use to convert .ps to .pdf? gv can do .pdf > to .ps, acroread does the same thing too. > > Oki > > Strangely enough, it's called ps2pdf. I think it's in the gs package. Works great, just used it today. dyer

Re: Debian Potato and Helix Gnome

wonderful, apparently) Helix Gnome on my Debian 'Potato'. > The only thing I found that required woody was a dependency on libguile6 1:1.3.4-3. Potato provides 1.3.4-2. This was only for the games I think. I upgraded libguile6 to the woody version and all was well. Running nicely on potato. dyer

Re: /var/log/syslog entries

t 513 is for whod nothing bad, but annoying. You may just want to stop logging them. ;) dyer

Re: 128 MB but only 64 MB

Ron Rademaker wrote: > My computer (Athlon 500) has 128 MB of memory, but linux says that there's > only 64 MB. At bootup the bios says 128 MB... > I want to use the other 64 MB as well... how??? > > Ron > > in /etc/lilo.conf add: append="mem=128M" run lilo, reboot dyer

Re: TkMan

http://www.dsj.net > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > "When we lose the right to be different, we lose the > privilege to be free." --Charles Evans Hughes > It's in non-free. You can get it from debian.org dyer

Re: libxpm4, libz1 - not found

matthschulz wrote: > Hi all, > > I tried to upgrade grace 5.01 by grace_5.0.5-1.2.deb. > It says it depends on ...,libxpm4, libz1,... > I couldnt. find those packages at debian.org packetsearch? > Any ideas? > > Matth > > They're libc5 based libs. You can find them in oldlibs/ dyer

Re: apt & kde

Joe Gofton wrote: > can anyone tell me how to install KDE using APT? > > Thanks > > Joe(new user) > > Joe, here's a link to a site that will give you a bunch of available aptable sites for kde. http://kde.tdyc.com/Debian/ dyer

Re: ssh loading at startup

> > anyone know why, or maybe an easier way then the one explained? You need to make it executable. chmod 755 /etc/init.d/ssh dyer

Re: permission denied

htmlable mail readers. ;) dyer

Re: Basic PPP dialup to ISP question

you can use the name 'default' for the connection, and only need to issue the command: pon hth dyer

Re: Basic PPP dialup to ISP question

> > note that if you only use one ISP, you can use the name 'default' for the > > connection and only need to issue the command: pon > > Not 'default', 'provider'. > -- > whoops! Need more coffee! dyer

Re: lo disappeared after 2.1-2.2 upgrade

Svante Signell wrote: > Has the network interface scripts changed from slink to potato? After > upgrading my loop interface is not working any longer. > > ifconfig shows both my lo and eth0 interface, but route does not report lo. > Trying to activate results in: > > route add -net 127.0.0.0 > S

Re: Modem does not work

to work, but I'm just betting you're tired of going to the store. ;-) Take a look at the hardware compatability docs. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: cvs behind a firewall?

gt; that cvs uses, so I don't know how to change our ipchains script. > > Thanks, > > Edgar. > from /etc/services I get that it uses tcp port 2401. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: In trouble

ert, This is a Debian mailing list. Please visit www.linux-mandrake.com. The have support there. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: modem problem

ameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Or you could install bind. hth -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: dependency questions

john smith wrote: > Hello!, > > I wanted to install sawmill with slink.when I checked their website, it > instructed me that it needs librep, rep-gtk,gtk and imlib so I downloaded > some of those and then when I tried to install the first one rep-gtk , it > said that it depended on libglib1.2.6

Re: what is port 1243 used for?

9.95.147.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [63.209.95.147] > > Looks like a port scan to put a trojan. Look here: http://www.8lgm.org/Intrusions/2003101/default.htm hth dyer

Re: themes

uot;theme" (blueheart) to come up? > > thx. > > bentley taylor. > > there are docs on icewm.themes.org that explicitly tell you how to make use of themes. dyer

Re: ipchains firewall rules

-p tcp -y -i ppp0 0.0.0.0/0 :1023 -j REJECT > > but as i mentioned i get DENY logs for various ports below 1024 from > IPs which i presume are from my ISP. > > any pointers to good books and such on firewalling would be nice too. > > Are the deny's perhaps UDP packets? dyer

Re: Happy.exe

inbox. > Thanks, > Antonio. > > yeah, you'll need to do a couple of things. I got it at work a couple of months ago. Mcafee has a page telling you how to remove it. http://vil.mcafee.com/vil/vpe10144.asp that'll teach ya for using windows. ;-) dyer

wmaker-gnome crashes with netscape mail

Can anybody else confirm? WindowMaker .53 will crash if you have the messenger window open (not minimized) in Netscape 4.6 and get a new email -- dyer

Re: hamm dist sites

ftp://debian.midco.net/debian-archive/dists/ HTH -- dyer

Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?

ontrib rkrusty if you're running "stable" (Debian 2.1) --snip-- I'm running KDE 1.1.1 on slink and loving it! -- dyer

Re: Corel Wordperfect nightmare

7 while you're there. Start from there and see if that takes care of the rest of the problems. > > > -- dyer

Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)

I added the following line to the end of /etc/apt/sources.list : > > deb http://ftp.netgod.net/debian x/ > I think the correct line for the slink debs is: deb http://www.netgod.net x/ or deb ftp://ftp.netgod.net x/ (notice no '/debian')^ HTH dyer

chatscript permissions

Since I upgraded to hamm, only root is allowed to run pon. /var/log/ppp.log reports that my user logon does'nt have permission to open /etc/chatscripts/provider. --open /etc/chatscripts/provider failed :access denied. All users have read perm. What file is holding it back? thanx, Phil

RE: chatscript permissions (fixed)

back? The users must also have execute permission on /etc/chatscript. This a known bug in the ppp package. -- That's it, just had to give execute to /etc/chatscripts. Thanks. -- Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ "We should

hamm upgrade/c++ libraries

package that I missed? I'm using kernel 2.0.33. Thanks, -- Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it-- and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a

hamm and login question

Just upgraded to hamm, and now when I login I get:Unknown item 'ISSUE_FILE_ENAB'this comes after login prompt and before passwd prompt. /etc/login.defs is set to ISSUE_FILE_ENAB no What's the deeeal with that? thanks, -- Phil Dyer [

Re: magic cookie error

Pollywog wrote: > I am getting this MAGIC COOKIE error when I try to run some X stuff as root. > Is there something I can add to my profile in order to avoid it? > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > ktail: cannot connect to X server :0.0 > > tha

Re: configuring modem, installing netscape communicator

TECTED] < /dev/null Dan, run pppconfig. ( I assume you are using at least hamm...) This will walk you thru a ppp setup. You need to know what device your modem is attached to, in Windows com1 is ttyS0, com2 ttyS1, ... Then you can run pon and poff to connect/disconnect. HTH dyer

Re: GNOME packages for slink

/www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink slink main HTH -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Getting mail and browsing the web

up DNS server. Now as others have sugested, use ping and see if you can ping by name like this: ping www.debian.org see if you get a reply. HTH -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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