Re: package management?

2000-02-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, ethan mindlace fremen wrote: > debians, > I have slink running on a production server. Some of the packages are > inferior to those I need, but the packages in potato are ok. Can I > download those debs and install them without a problem?

Re: x

2000-02-10 Thread Kent West
> davidturetsky wrote: > > I used xf86config to try to create an x platform, and with > the failure of earlier attempts, reduced the screen > choices. Lo and behold, when I just boot up, I came up to > a screen (somewhat inelegant) with a big fat x toward the > middle, but with the mouse and keybo

Re: apt-get logic?

2000-02-10 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Svante Signell said > During a recent update with apt-get my installed > wmaker-[plain,kde,gnome]_0.6.1.1-1 was REMOVED since in > wmaker_0.61.1-4 all these packages were merged into one bigger > package. What is the loqic behind removing my wmaker installation > instead

apt-get logic?

2000-02-10 Thread Svante Signell
During a recent update with apt-get my installed wmaker-[plain,kde,gnome]_0.6.1.1-1 was REMOVED since in wmaker_0.61.1-4 all these packages were merged into one bigger package. What is the loqic behind removing my wmaker installation instead of proposing the new package? I had to 'apt-get install w

Re: e-commerce solution needed

2000-02-10 Thread Tele2
Try www.minivend.com or .org On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 06:13:54PM -0300, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > > Hi, > > It's there any decent e-commerce package that runs on debian?? > I don't care if it is commercial. > > I know intershop runs on Suse but never succeded to install it under debian.

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] shell scripting

2000-02-10 Thread Colin Marquardt
* David Wiard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could someone point me in a good direction to start learning some shell > scripting? I can do the extreme basic stuff, but I'd like to learn a lot O'Reilly's Debian book has a chapter about bash. Here is the online version: http://www.ora.com/catalog

No sound in games

2000-02-10 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I have my sound card configured properly (it's a SB16), and sound works in xmcd (even the volume), but the sound in games is not their. I'm not sure why, but I kind of need to know. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: PHP3 and MySQL

2000-02-10 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 02:05:16PM +, Sven Gaerner wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 08:07:11AM +1030, John Pearson wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 07:02:56PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote > > > > I'm trying to get PHP3 and MySQL to play nice, but they ref

Re: LaTeX Package documents?

2000-02-10 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> I am already using said index.html. It does not AFAIK have any links > to these dvi's. I have also set it up to view dvi's and ps files that > way, works quite nicely. Try: $ dpkg -L tetex-doc | grep dvi I think these compose the bulk of the documentation for the tetex-doc package, altho

Please try out...

2000-02-10 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, I've got no own homepage so I will publish this script this way. Please try out and send bugs, ... to me. Thanks. Bye, Sven -- ++ | Please reply only to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | O

Re: PHP3 and MySQL

2000-02-10 Thread Sven Gaerner
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 08:07:11AM +1030, John Pearson wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 07:02:56PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote > > > I'm trying to get PHP3 and MySQL to play nice, but they refuse. I want > > > to load the mysql.so extension, so in the /etc/php3/ap

lp1 not configured

2000-02-10 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I installed Debian on my new Pentium (actually it's old, but new to me), but when I try to print on my DICONIX 180si or Canon BJC-80, nothing prints. I checked lpq and it says that lp1 is not configured. I didn't have any problems like this on my other computer. How do I configure the lp1

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-10 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 03:16:42PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > > Because his name is Linus, pronounced Leenus. Hence Leenux. > > If you pronounce his name as Lie-nus (as native English speakers > > would tend to), then Lie-nucks is reasonable -- but wrong. > > It is pronounced as Leenus in his na

e-commerce solution needed

2000-02-10 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, It's there any decent e-commerce package that runs on debian?? I don't care if it is commercial. I know intershop runs on Suse but never succeded to install it under debian. any pointer would be great. Thanks. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harn

Re: 2.2 kernel

2000-02-10 Thread dan
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 08:40:05PM +0100, Igor Mozetic generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > > 2.2.13 and 2.2.14 are lokking good, is there anyone on this > > list that find them unstable? > > When running close to VM limit, 2.2.14 turns out to be buggy. > > -Igor Mozetic > > I don't know about

FBI's find_ddos

2000-02-10 Thread aphro
some of you may of tried this..some not. anyways theres some new tool out from the FBI that is supposed to track to see if you got any DoS daemons installed on your machines. and although im 99.9% sure i have none i figured i'd try itout to see what all it does. the first machine had ulimits

time/date problems

2000-02-10 Thread zdrysdal
Hi i am running slink 2.1 with kernel 2.0.36 on a Dell Power Edge 2100 and i am having problems with the time. Basically what happens is that once i set up the correct date/time in BIOS...when i load up linux the time & date get's corrupted. eg. real date time is 11-Feb 09:36. When i load lin

OpenSSH causes my system to dial out

2000-02-10 Thread Andreas Voegele
If I'm trying to connect to another local machine with ssh, my system goes online since ssh fails to locally resolve the address of the other machine for some reason. Does someone else have this problem? The address of the other machine is in /etc/hosts and it can also be resolved by the local DN

Re: Problems with vncserver in debian...

2000-02-10 Thread dan
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 03:54:17PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > Hi All, > > When I connect from a DOS computer to vncserver running on my Debian box, > the keyboard works in completly crazy way. Eg. pressing "o" produces "r", > pressing 1 or 2 produces "4" and so o

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-10 Thread Bart Szyszka
> Because his name is Linus, pronounced Leenus. Hence Leenux. > If you pronounce his name as Lie-nus (as native English speakers > would tend to), then Lie-nucks is reasonable -- but wrong. It is pronounced as Leenus in his native country (in many European languages, i's have ee sounds almost excl

xfs doesn't install

2000-02-10 Thread Robert L. Harris
In an effort to get my X fonts working right, I installed "xfstt" which removed xfs. I tried to clean some things up and then re-install xfs. When I try to "apt-get install xfs" it downloads 3.3.6-3 and then errors out: {0}:iggy:/root>apt-get install xfs Reading Package Lists... Done Building

Re: 7200 RPM udma33 same speed as 5400 PIO mode 4

2000-02-10 Thread dan
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 08:40:29AM -0700, Rick Macdonald generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > > I added a Maxtor 27GB 7200rpm ATA66 drive to my P200MMX when I upgraded to > potatos and kernel 2.2.14. > > My motherboard (ASUS TX97-E) only supports udma mode 2 (33MB/sec), but I > find that this driv

time/clock configu

2000-02-10 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I'd like to know how to configure the clock to show the correct time. I selected US/CENTRAL when I install the potato and the time keeps showing 6 hours behind. --- tcp

package management?

2000-02-10 Thread ethan mindlace fremen
debians, I have slink running on a production server. Some of the packages are inferior to those I need, but the packages in potato are ok. Can I download those debs and install them without a problem? Also, how do I tell the package management system that I am providing a service by non-debian

Re: Installing KDE in unstable using apt?

2000-02-10 Thread Bart Szyszka
> what do I put in sources.list to be able to install KDE using > apt/dselect? Take a look at this site: http://kde.tdyc.com -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/

/etc/nsswitch.conf file entries

2000-02-10 Thread Howard Mann
Hi, I use DSL with Slink and kernel 2.2.12. My ISP recently _made_ users change the configuration of the Cisco DSL router from " bridging" to "PPP" mode. After this was done, I was unable to connect/use the ISP's DNS servers. This was corrected by changing the the following line in the /etc/ns

Re: 2.2 kernel

2000-02-10 Thread Igor Mozetic
> 2.2.13 and 2.2.14 are lokking good, is there anyone on this > list that find them unstable? When running close to VM limit, 2.2.14 turns out to be buggy. -Igor Mozetic

Installing KDE in unstable using apt?

2000-02-10 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, what do I put in sources.list to be able to install KDE using apt/dselect? TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --

Re:Check out free DSL services (fwd)

2000-02-10 Thread Bruce Sass
Maybe this will help you track the story down. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 02:04:20 -0700 (MST) From: Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: KDE User List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re:Check out free DSL services Hmmm, acts like a virus. On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Jacek

Solved (was: Firewall or router)

2000-02-10 Thread Arcady Genkin
Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Please never mind my previous message. All workes fine after I added routing info for 192.168.2.0 to the firewall's routing table. -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Re: Mail & PGP, Specially gpg and xfmail

2000-02-10 Thread Neilen Marais
> there are some other gui mail readers that i hear are quite good but > i've > never used enough to have any real opinion on. check out tkrat, > postillion, > xfmail (now becomming archimedes) all of which support imap and > pgp/gpg to > varying degrees. Has anyone actually managed to get gpg a

Re: LaTeX Package documents?

2000-02-10 Thread Neilen Marais
Hello Christopher >> It does though, not seem asif any .dtx files are installed with the >> Debian LaTeX installation... Where could I find thes files, or at >> least the documentation for them? > > You should be able to find more than you want to read by pointing > your > web browser of choice

Re: Check This Out!

2000-02-10 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, David Wiard wrote: > >It _may_ be worse than simple advertising. > > > >One of the KDE lists recieved a message last week advertising a DSL > >(whatever that is) service, the user later claimed that the software he > >installed automatically sent the message to everyone in his

Re: Check This Out!

2000-02-10 Thread David Wiard
>It _may_ be worse than simple advertising. > >One of the KDE lists recieved a message last week advertising a DSL >(whatever that is) service, the user later claimed that the software he >installed automatically sent the message to everyone in his >addressbook... can you say `VirusWare'. exact

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] shell scripting

2000-02-10 Thread Ernest Johanson
Have a look at http://www.oase-shareware.org/shell/. Lots of examples and docs. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, David Wiard wrote: > Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 08:38:06 -0800 > From: David Wiard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.d

Re: mysql problems

2000-02-10 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello > > is anyone experiencing major problems with the latest mysql in woody I'm impressed how many people download the mysql package in so short time. Sadly that means there're so much people who suffer from my failure to install the package correctly before testing whether the applied securit

Re: Check This Out!

2000-02-10 Thread Bruce Sass
On 10 Feb 2000, Carl Johnson wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I recently joined AllAdvantage.com, a great new Internet company > > that pays its members to surf the Web! AllAdvantage.com even pays me when > > my friends are surfing, > > which is why I'm sending this message to you! > >

Re: PCI modems with Linux?

2000-02-10 Thread David Teague
Hi There are a few pci modems that can be made to work with Linux I have heard that modems based on the lucent chip set can be made to work with Linux. I can't help you further, you can search the deb user mailing list for lucent, winmodem ... These comments were this past fall. Hope this help

Re: Check This Out!

2000-02-10 Thread Carl Johnson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently joined AllAdvantage.com, a great new Internet company > that pays its members to surf the Web! AllAdvantage.com even pays me when my > friends are surfing, > which is why I'm sending this message to you! > It only takes a minute to join, so sign up now (pl

Re: siteROCK looking for Debian / Linux specialists (Bay Area)

2000-02-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
Oww. Need to talk with our Marketing dep. Thanks. On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, David Schweikert wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 08:54:43AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > siteROCK is the company specializing in reliability and performance of > > e-commerce sites (http://www.siterock.com) > > > > We

Re: siteROCK looking for Debian / Linux specialists (Bay Area)

2000-02-10 Thread David Schweikert
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 08:54:43AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > siteROCK is the company specializing in reliability and performance of > e-commerce sites (http://www.siterock.com) > > We need both system administrators and linux developers to develop our > service offering further. We do not

Re: Why? mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.

2000-02-10 Thread David Teague
Kevin and Nate: Thanks for the suggestions. I'll live with the problem until I can find time to upgrade to Potato, rather than mess with fixing dependencies or looking for a board. Upgrading is easy enough, I just did it 2 weeks ago on my main machines. Besides, I have all my data backed up

Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?

2000-02-10 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > Potato is newer. > if you want to get potato. Ok. I'll try. > edit your /etc/apt/sources.list > so that it contains only the lines > deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debi

resolving conditional packages

2000-02-10 Thread ethan mindlace fremen
debians, I know I can force a package install, but how can I convince dpkg that I provide something (httpd) outside of the package management system? thanks, ethan fremen

OpenBSD SSH in potato.

2000-02-10 Thread Ronald Tin
I just noticed a strange thing In the default /etc/ssh/sshd_config there is a line "ServerKeyBits 768", however, the post-installation script creates a key with 1024 bits. I thought the ServerKeyBits option should correspond to the host key as generated by the script? Is it a bug, or did I m

update pb devpts.sh

2000-02-10 Thread Dominique Rousset
I tried to update my potato box this mornig and went in trouble in fact the file /etc/init.d/dvpts.sh has a wrong brace in line 16. D. --- | Dominique Rousset | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Imagerie Géophysique Pau | Tel

Re: Netscape fails on libstdc++.so.2.8

2000-02-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 14:59:58 +0100, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot open shared object file: no such file or > directory > > My distribution has libstdc++.so.2.9 in base. I seem to be missing > something. Yes, the "libstdc++2.8" package available in the "oldlibs" secti

Re: reading rtf files

2000-02-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 13:15:15 +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > Outside debian, I found the Ted editor Ted is packaged, at least for potato, as "ted". HTH, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until

RE: oracle 8i

2000-02-10 Thread debian
I have oracle 8i running under potato 2.2.14. The installer required JRE which I had to get from elsewhere(not dselect). Additiontally the installer required you to install under X (visually java). But It runs great! +=> -Original Message- +=> From: Tiago Antao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firewall or router

2000-02-10 Thread Arcady Genkin
Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The laptop needs the following settings: > - Gateway - your Debian box (192.168.2.1) > - a route to the 192.168.2.x network > > The Debian box needs: > - forwarding enabled > - Gateway - your FreeBSD pc (192.168.1.1) > - a route to the 192.168.2.x netw

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] shell scripting

2000-02-10 Thread Shawn
>Could someone point me in a good direction to start learning some shell >scripting? I can do the extreme basic stuff, but I'd like to learn a lot >more than I already know. Any references for learning perl? shell scripting >in general? Shell Scripting - for starters look at /etc/init.d and figure

Re: Install problem

2000-02-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Owens, Jerry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > e.g. (untested) > > cp path-to-your-file/base2_1.tgz . > gunzip base2_1.tgz > ls > I tried to unzip it using gunzip on the VC2 > console and it

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] shell scripting

2000-02-10 Thread paul
> Could someone point me in a good direction to start learning some shell > scripting? I can do the extreme basic stuff, but I'd like to learn a lot > more than I already know. Any references for learning perl? shell scripting > in general? > If you like bash, then get "Learning the Bash Shell" f

Re: A Kernel for Sparc Ultra 1?

2000-02-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 09:42:36AM -0200, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > > Hy, list people. > > I need to know if there is any special procedure to compile a > 2.2.14 kernel into a Ultra Sparc 1 with Debian/Linux. > > I've tryied the normal way (ftp the kern

siteROCK looking for Debian / Linux specialists (Bay Area)

2000-02-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
siteROCK is the company specializing in reliability and performance of e-commerce sites (http://www.siterock.com) We need both system administrators and linux developers to develop our service offering further. We do not sell software we sell IT services and are committed to an open source approac

X startup failure

2000-02-10 Thread Richard Zitola
Speaking of X-troubles... I've installed the latest XFree86 (3.3.6) and had my console hang near the end of XF86Setup, leaving a HUGE black&white "X" on my screen, just as someone else mentioned recently. After some snooping around, it looks like the problem is in the X server startup itself, wh

Re: FAT32 mount problem

2000-02-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
What exactly is the command you use to try mounting, you'll probably tried all these of course... but just to be sure: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt (you never know what windows could do...) Ron

Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?

2000-02-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
Potato is newer. if you want to get potato. edit your /etc/apt/sources.list so that it contains only the lines deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free Comment out any other d

[OFF-TOPIC] shell scripting

2000-02-10 Thread David Wiard
Could someone point me in a good direction to start learning some shell scripting? I can do the extreme basic stuff, but I'd like to learn a lot more than I already know. Any references for learning perl? shell scripting in general? TIA -- dave wiard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The light that burns twi

FAT32 mount problem

2000-02-10 Thread Balint
I have a Win98 FAT32 partition on /dev/hda1 and it was mountable fine from my Slink system. However, after reformatting and reinstalling Win98 mount stopped working though I have not changed fstab. When trying to mount it (with mount type vfat), it produces the following message: /var/log/me

Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?

2000-02-10 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > I had these same problems... Actually, I don't think I ever got X working > under slink, > it worked right away under potato, however. /etc/X11/Xserver will tell you > what server > it is trying to use. Sorry, i don't understand. Thi

Re: USR modem & ZIP drive questions

2000-02-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
Bruce Sass wrote: > > > Have you tried running "irqtune" from the hwtools package? > > > > Nope, I just stumbled upon irqtune when reading the IPmasq (or was it > > diald? ;) HOWTO yesterday. I'll try it next weekend. > > > > > > 1. I have a USR V90 56k modem. If I let it connect at anything abo

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-10 Thread Egbert Bouwman
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 09:09:07AM -, Patrick Kirk wrote: > accent. Finns say it one way; English speakers another; both are equally > valid as would any other accent. An old anecdote deserves to be retold in this context. Niklaus Wirth, swiss and inventor of Pascal, on being asked how to pr

Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?

2000-02-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
I had these same problems... Actually, I don't think I ever got X working under slink, it worked right away under potato, however. /etc/X11/Xserver will tell you what server it is trying to use. There is no configuration, I've been told. The way I understand it is that Sun framebuffers simply h

Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?

2000-02-10 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > Can you start it as root? Are you running slink or potato? What xserver > are you > using? Hy. I can't start it, even as root. I don't know where is the equivalent to 'XFConfig' (Debian/PC), or even if its exists. (How can i

Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?

2000-02-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
Can you start it as root? Are you running slink or potato? What xserver are you using? Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > Hy, list people. > I'm trying to configure the X windows system in a SparcStation > machine (Debian), but i can't figure out what is going on. I simply can'

Re: KOffice debs anywhere?

2000-02-10 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, does anyone know anything about KOffice debs? I'd like to try out > especially kword but it doesn't seem to be at kde.tdyc.com... There is a koffice-cvs*.deb on the kde servers (kde.tdyc.com and its mirrors), but it doesn't seem to be update

7200 RPM udma33 same speed as 5400 PIO mode 4

2000-02-10 Thread Rick Macdonald
I added a Maxtor 27GB 7200rpm ATA66 drive to my P200MMX when I upgraded to potatos and kernel 2.2.14. My motherboard (ASUS TX97-E) only supports udma mode 2 (33MB/sec), but I find that this drive and my old WD 4GB (no UDMA) both show the same speed of about 9.4MB/sec with hdparm -t. Even if the n

RE: Install problem

2000-02-10 Thread Owens, Jerry
-Original Message- From: David Wright [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 8:32 AM To: Clyde Wilson

Re: Samba server connection from NT WS4 without password + MC only runs as root?

2000-02-10 Thread aphro
i assume not all users have the same password? turn up the logging level in samba to level 3 and see whats going on. also it may be worth while going to samba 3.0 ive had much better results using 3.0 then 2.0 (3.0 is alpha) nate On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kubics > kubics > k

Problems with vncserver in debian...

2000-02-10 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, When I connect from a DOS computer to vncserver running on my Debian box, the keyboard works in completly crazy way. Eg. pressing "o" produces "r", pressing 1 or 2 produces "4" and so on. I couldn't find any rule for it :-(. Is it caused by misconfiguration of my vncserver or the DOS clien

Re: Shutdown problem (fwd)

2000-02-10 Thread John Foster
"Suresh Kumar.R" wrote: > > Hi > > I have installed debian 2.0 in a IBM netfinity 3000 machine. My problem is > when the machine is halted, sometimes it hangs after the message > > Shutting down cron > > Any ideas of what to do? -- What is the shu

Email problems - qmail

2000-02-10 Thread Robert Ruzbacky
I am using the qmail mail server and only some users cannot send e-mail to me. I can send mail to these users without any problems. One of them got the following message: The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by >the >server. The rejected email address was "

Echo-request failure (was: pppd/modem frustration.)

2000-02-10 Thread Hans
Bless you Jonathan, I'm still a Linux novice, so thanks for the hints on where to look for the log files. Here is a summary on mine ppp.debug Feb 10 14:12:28 CorelLinux pppd[528]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x6 magic=0x6e733aa4] Feb 10 14:12:53 CorelLinux pppd[528]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x7 magic=

RE: Based On

2000-02-10 Thread Robert Ruzbacky
Yes, Corel has apparently based their flavour of linux on debian as well!! Rob... -- http://www.mikka.net.au/~cyberruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: TroPeek [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Problems with Kernel 2.2.13 and 2.2.14

2000-02-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Robert Ribnitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, > > I have a machine (all SCSI, 1 GB Drive, 4 GB drive) and Debian 2.1r1 is > installed on /dev/sda1 (1027 MB), mounting several other partiotions at boot > time. > > Since this machine is at a university, I do need to get my IP address > (NE

Telnetting to SCO-Unix - terminal emulation problems

2000-02-10 Thread Robert Ruzbacky
Hi! I can telnet into a SCO 5.0.2 server from linux, but am having problems with the terminal emulation when running some programs. Is there any way to fix this? The best terminal setting seems to be at386 at the moment, but some function keys don't work on a certain application. Some window

Re: Install problem

2000-02-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Clyde Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I think your tgz files need to be on a linux partition. That's just plain wrong. They can be anywhere that your installation kernel can get to them. > On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Owens, Jerry wrote: > > > I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux ver

Problems with Kernel 2.2.13 and 2.2.14

2000-02-10 Thread Robert Ribnitz
Hello, I have a machine (all SCSI, 1 GB Drive, 4 GB drive) and Debian 2.1r1 is installed on /dev/sda1 (1027 MB), mounting several other partiotions at boot time. Since this machine is at a university, I do need to get my IP address (NE2K-PCI) via BOOTP. so i complied the kernel to my needs (BOO

Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?

2000-02-10 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
Hy, list people. I'm trying to configure the X windows system in a SparcStation machine (Debian), but i can't figure out what is going on. I simply can't start the Xwindows, and i don't know nothing about debbugging the configuration. Can you help me? Any k

Re: So I guess no one really cares about the IMAP folder root.

2000-02-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
IMAP allows you to have the same messages in your Inbox, Sent folder and Drafts wherever you are. So if I reply to a message at work and then check my mail when I get home, then its marked R in mutt and a copy of the reply is in the Sent folder. Under the same circumstances with POP, it would not

Re: Java compiler

2000-02-10 Thread Remco van 't Veer
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 21:25, Jozef Skvarcek wrote: > I heard that it is possible to speed-up Java programs by compiling them > into binaries (instead using JVM). Can someone point me into a place > where I could find more information? Which compiler should I use? The gcj (in potato) can compile

A Kernel for Sparc Ultra 1?

2000-02-10 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
Hy, list people. I need to know if there is any special procedure to compile a 2.2.14 kernel into a Ultra Sparc 1 with Debian/Linux. I've tryied the normal way (ftp the kernel source, unpack, make menuconfig, make dep, make clean) but when i try 'm

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 09:09:07AM -, Patrick Kirk wrote: > all the time. So the pronounciation of Linus and Linux is a question of > accent. Finns say it one way; English speakers another; both are equally > valid as would any other accent. If you met Linus Torvalds, would you call him Lie-

Re: Pronounciation of Linux that important?

2000-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 12:59:59AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Because it's rude to pronounce names wrongly? > > Leinux or Lienux though a spelling of Linnux would remove all ambiguity. Well, native English speakers pronounce Linus as Lie-nus (as i

Check This Out!

2000-02-10 Thread donald18m
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Shutdown problem (fwd)

2000-02-10 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi I have installed debian 2.0 in a IBM netfinity 3000 machine. My problem is when the machine is halted, sometimes it hangs after the message Shutting down cron Any ideas of what to do? Pl send a cc of the reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suresh ---

spice (fwd)

2000-02-10 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Is a debian version of spice available? Pl send a cc of the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suresh - Suresh Kumar.R Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Electronics & Communication College of Engineering, Trivandrum -

Re: Trident 3Dimage 9750 problem

2000-02-10 Thread Peter Ross
On 03-Feb-2000, Peter Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every now and again my system will boot and nothing is output by the > graphics card, so the monitor doesn't turn on. > > I have a Gigabyte 5AX M/B with AMD K6-2 350. > > Any ideas on how to fix it? > Problem solved, the Gigabyte 5AX M/B ha

Problem with SCSI controller DPT PM2654U2

2000-02-10 Thread Alain FORCIOLI
Hello, I've got some problems when installing Debian GNU/Linux on a COMPAQ Proliant 1600R (2x cpu 550MHz - 655 Mb RAM - 4x 9Gb Ultra 2 SCSI). I want to have a RAID 5 array with a DPT PM2654U2 SCSI controller. I need to compile a linux kernel supporting this controller. So i used the source code

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
[snip] > would tend to), then Lie-nucks is reasonable -- but wrong. > > > Hamish > -- > Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome. Its not wrong. Most English speakers pronounce Linus with a long i. Indeed, people like the scientest Linus Pauling were born and raised using

Re: Pronounciation of Linux that important?

2000-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 04:28:59PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > I just read this article and thought the beginning was rather harsh: > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34079,00.html > > Is the pronunciation of the word 'Linux' that much of an issue? So Because it's rude to pronounce na

libc6 and locales

2000-02-10 Thread Alberto Maurizi
Does anybody out there know about the following problem? (apt-get -f install, as suggested by apt itself) -- Preparing to replace locales 2.1.2-10 (using .../admin/locales_2.1.3-2.deb) ... Unpacking replacement locales ... dpkg: error processing /mirror/debian/dists/fr

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 08:56:38PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > but what swayed me was hearing Linus Torvalds pronounce it himself at the > Silicon Valley LUG meeting ... what, almost two years ago. He says > Lin-icks. Because his name is Linus, pronounced Leenus. Hence Leenux. If you pronounce h

Re: getting sources

2000-02-10 Thread steve j. kondik
add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free then you can apt-get [--compile] source [pkgname] -steve On 02/10/00 @ 02:23AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to get a source package for every installed binary package > install

getting sources

2000-02-10 Thread dan
I would like to get a source package for every installed binary package installed. How would one accomlish this? -- Get the truth or risc frying your brains! --> www.truthinlabeling.org <--

Samba server connection from NT WS4 without password + MC only runs as root?

2000-02-10 Thread kubicsek . ferenc
AD1: I run a Linux machine to serve NT Workstations with some common disk area. It works just fine, we can connect to the server, but it's too good. Because if I connect to the Samba server from a workstation, I can make several connections with the name of the other users without asking to give

Re: mysql problems

2000-02-10 Thread Steve Hsieh
The "security" patch in the latest 3.22.30-4 breaks things. I backed out the patch on my own system and it works again. I've filed a bug report for mysql-server on this. On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Steve Kondik wrote: > is anyone experiencing major problems with the latest mysql in woody > [and potato

Re: gcc

2000-02-10 Thread dan
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 01:03:54AM -0800, davidturetsky generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > I plan to convert some c/c++ from a Windows/Visual C++ environment to gcc > under Linux. I may also use cgicc in some applications > > I've glanced through the info files and while helpful, omits a lot of

Re: Problem removing pcmcia-cs

2000-02-10 Thread Bruce Sass
Try: dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq pcmcia-cs Look at "dpkg --help-force" and "man dpkg" for more info. On the offhand chance that fails you can always manually edit the entry out of /var/lib/dpkg/status, rm the files listed as conffiles in the status file and all files listed in /var/lib/dpkg/inf

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