Re: Debian install/2.4 Kernel/ATA-100 RAID

2001-05-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi marcus you need to download the ata-100 patches search google.com for "raid ata100 patches" read the posts and info and experiences of others on rh and debian et.al w/ ata100 and abit mb's --- am confused... are you using the abit onboard raid controller HPT370 ( no /etc/raidtab

Re: owning a process from another shell (same user)

2001-05-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:08:16AM +0200, Casper Gielen wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:49:35PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there some way to take that process and reown it with my current shell > > and view mutt on the new location? > > > > Remember, this is all with the same

Re: I don't get it.

2001-05-09 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
:) But that's 'sposed to be secret! On Wednesday 09 May 2001 21:04, ktb wrote: > > I believe woody will soon(?) become stable. > > When was a debian release ever "soon";) > kent -- Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls/TELE: USA-707-442-6579\/A GNU-Debian linux user Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://www.

Re: I don't get it.

2001-05-09 Thread ktb
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:01:42PM +1000, Craig Holyoak wrote: > potato => stable > woody => testing > sid=> unstable > > I believe woody will soon(?) become stable. When was a debian release ever "soon";) kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line o

Re: I don't get it.

2001-05-09 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
potato = stable (current) woody = testing (will be the next stable) sid = unstable (bleeding edge stuff) tatah On Wednesday 09 May 2001 20:23, V.Suresh wrote: > Somedays back somebody in the list told me that woody is the unstable > version, and it will soon be stable version. If so, then wha

Re: I don't get it.

2001-05-09 Thread ktb
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:23:22AM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > Somedays back somebody in the list told me that woody is the unstable > version, and it will soon be stable version. If so, then what is the > testing version? And what is sid? I am a bit confused about these names. > Is Sid testin

Re: I don't get it.

2001-05-09 Thread Craig Holyoak
potato => stable woody => testing sid=> unstable I believe woody will soon(?) become stable. Craig On Thu, 10 May 2001, V.Suresh wrote: > Somedays back somebody in the list told me that woody is the unstable > version, and it will soon be stable version. If so, then what is the > tes

Re: kppp

2001-05-09 Thread walt
Robin Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > I have installed KDE successfuly but > when I launch kppp, after the connection > has bein established, I received this > message : > dead unexpected of the daemond pppd > code returned 1. > However pon runs fine. > Can someone me some ideas o

SBLive Value - Working!

2001-05-09 Thread Dana J . Laude
Greetings! I've "finally" got my SBLive Value card working under Potato. I installed the current version, with Esound and updated / upgraded / added a few utils like lsof, whois, traceroute, etc. Then I grabbed the latest tar ball from kernel.org (2.4.4) and it's working just *fine*. ;) (normal

I don't get it.

2001-05-09 Thread V.Suresh
Somedays back somebody in the list told me that woody is the unstable version, and it will soon be stable version. If so, then what is the testing version? And what is sid? I am a bit confused about these names. Is Sid testing/unstable? or is Woody testing/unstable? The only thing I know

Debian install/2.4 Kernel/ATA-100 RAID

2001-05-09 Thread Marcus Marinelli
Hello everyone, I've been following this list for a few weeks now, starting to become more and more interested in Debian. Right now I am running my box on redhat 7.1 (2.4 kernel), on an IDE Raid 0 (striped) array. I am using the HPT 370 Raid controller on my abit kt7-raid, in software mode ho

Re: How the average guy gets mail...

2001-05-09 Thread V.Suresh
Mutt does download from pop3 servers. Enter the necessary facts in your .muttrc, and just press G. RTFM, you are sure to find it there. Once upon a time, Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard. And typed: >Hey, > >I've been using mail for the past month (or two), by running 'fetchm

apt-get trouble

2001-05-09 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm have a heck of a time with apt-get following a manual install of perl-5.6.1. Following is a transcript of the errors. As you can see, /usr/share/perl5 is included in @INC (and I've verified that DebianNet.pm exists in /usr/share/perl5). Any advi

Re: IDE raid - which is better ? - modifying

2001-05-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya Mike i bet the flash bios you get is pre-release alpha/beta that is NOT available on the real FastTrack raid controllers ?? or its the older version compared to the fasttrack ?? - they're probably keeping track of who downloaded it and who sends in problems/bug reports and check for co

Re: owning a process from another shell (same user)

2001-05-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:08:16AM +0200, Casper Gielen wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:49:35PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there some way to take that process and reown it with my current shell > > and view mutt on the new location? > > > > Remember, this is all with the same

Listing of all files, all packages, all architectures, Debian?

2001-05-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
See subject. I need a listing of all files in all packages of all current distributions for all architectures of Debian. Failing that, all architectures for Woody. I believe this is possible through package lists, I just need the explicit files to get and/or commands to run. -- Karsten M. Self

Re: Stereo sound

2001-05-09 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
That would be kind of unusual - I haven't downloaded a single mono tune, only news broadcasts and I appreciated them being mono due to lenth of them. I like mpg123 in console mode, and you can switch between mono and stereo. do a 'man mpg123' and it will list all the options .. xmms is a great

Re: IDE raid - which is better ? - modifying

2001-05-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 07:13:21PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya > > yeah... if the "buffering works" that the flash or > its temporary space can retain the fact that it did > complete flushing data to disk and the mirror... > > guess that should work... but ... why do all that > when for $1

Re: cable modems

2001-05-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:35:18PM -0400, Edward Kear wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:22:43PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:54:15PM -0400, Eric R Cheney wrote: > > > > > > Hi all. I recently got connected using cable modem and noticed that the > > > download speed is

Re: [offtopic] how to save attachments using ordinary `mail' program.

2001-05-09 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
I still like mpack/munpack. easy and supports uuencoded stuff too. How do you use it. Save the mail as nrml, then extract the attachment with munpack. Great for packet radio also. On Wednesday 09 May 2001 13:20, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:59:23PM -0400, Walter Tautz ([

Re: cable modems

2001-05-09 Thread Edward Kear
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:22:43PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:54:15PM -0400, Eric R Cheney wrote: > > > > Hi all. I recently got connected using cable modem and noticed that the > > download speed is terribly slow under linux. I get good download > > speeds under Windo

IDE/SCSI cdrom

2001-05-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey guys. I have a burner that I'm using in Linux via scsi emulation, and a normal ATAPI CD-ROM. Under 2.2.18, by adding append="hdc=ide-scsi" to my lilo.conf file, I forced my burner to be handled by the scsi emulation driver. My cdrom on /dev/hdd was left as an IDE device. No

Re: IDE raid - which is better ? - flash

2001-05-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... ah yes... flashing the bios is a whole 'nother issue that it should than have the proper buffering algorithm working ( but i like "warranties if anything goes wrong" ) so i probably wont try to save $87 or so if the price difference ??? c ya alvin -- off the shelf pricing -- P

Re: IDE raid - which is better ? - modifying

2001-05-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya yeah... if the "buffering works" that the flash or its temporary space can retain the fact that it did complete flushing data to disk and the mirror... guess that should work... but ... why do all that when for $10 or $50 more you can get a real hw raid controller and if it dont work ( you

Re: owning a process from another shell (same user)

2001-05-09 Thread Casper Gielen
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:49:35PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Hi, > > Is there some way to take that process and reown it with my current shell > and view mutt on the new location? > > Remember, this is all with the same user on the same machine... > apt-get install screen && man 1 screen --

Re: Stereo sound

2001-05-09 Thread Cameron Matheson
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:30:35AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you come to the conclusion that the speakers and connections are fine, run > a > mixer program (gmix, kmix, aumix) to test sound from the left, then the right. > I'd be suprised if the sound card was at fault. > Ah, the speake

Re: IDE raid - which is better ?

2001-05-09 Thread Casper Gielen
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 03:39:57PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya > > if these cards mentioned are hardware raid controllers.. > you cannot convert an ide controller into an hardware raid contoller > by moving wires around ??? or am i missing something ??? > - if it is in fact identical

owning a process from another shell (same user)

2001-05-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I've been having the problem with mutt where I read my mail from one ssh at home, come to work and kill the mutt process, and loose the record of which messages I read. Is there some way to take that process and reown it with my current shell and view mutt on the new location? Remember, this

Re: [users] Re: sslwrap/spop3d

2001-05-09 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Kevin Ross (on Wed, 09 May 2001 02:00:03AM -0700): > 1. You can launch sslwrap from inetd, rather than running as a > daemon. This is what I do, and have never had a problem with it. > However, if you have a heavy load on pop3, this might not be a great > option. that's one idea. i'll

Re: Problem with today's testing upgrade

2001-05-09 Thread Kevin Ross
Will creating an empty /etc/postgresql/postmaster.conf file allow the scripts to run correctly? -- Kevin

Re: IDE raid - which is better ? - modifying

2001-05-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:39:32PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya jason > > my silly thinking says... > > one cannot convert non-raid ide controllers into a hw raid controller > by adding or cutting wires/traces/resistors > > -- write large file, largefoo.txt to the 'disK' As I recall, you

Request for assistance

2001-05-09 Thread Forrest Cameranesi
I am sending this message for a friend who is without internet access. Please reply to his email address at the bottom and not to this address. Thank you, Dear group, I would like specific help in building and configuring my home-built computer. Here is a list of what I have: A) Debian 2.2

Re: IDE raid - which is better ? - setup

2001-05-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 03:31:45PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > workstation > > | > >raid1---+ > >| raid0-b > > raid0-a \\ > > \\ disk3\ > > disk1 disk2 disk4 > raid0-a > disk1 should be hda ( controller on mb ) > disk2 is hde raid0-b

Re: Can't connect to ISP

2001-05-09 Thread Kevin Ross
> May 10 05:55:13 debian pppd[247]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 > ] > May 10 05:55:19 debian last message repeated 2 times > May 10 05:55:22 debian pppd[247]: IPCP: timeout sending Config-Requests It looks to me like the Van Jacobson compression negotiation is messing things up. Try adding "novj

Re: GDM Broken: the fix

2001-05-09 Thread Rob Mahurin
Hello, On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:14:55PM +0100, John Mylchreest wrote: > This communication is private and confidential and > is intended solely for the use of the named > addressee(s). Access, copying or re-use of the > information in it by any other person is not > authorised by OCRA. If yo

Re: cable modems

2001-05-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:54:15PM -0400, Eric R Cheney wrote: > > Hi all. I recently got connected using cable modem and noticed that the > download speed is terribly slow under linux. I get good download > speeds under Windows2000 but my linux connection is just terrible in > comparison. Any

Re: IPMasqing NFS

2001-05-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:12:38PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote: > Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Try rpcinfo, if that won't get through, you need to make sure that you let > > through the statd port. > > Here's what rpcinfo says: > [okocim]13:55:34[/etc]$ rpcinfo gw.krzys.com > rp

Re: kppp

2001-05-09 Thread Joost van der Lugt
* John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [May 09. 2001 17:25]: > Gerard writes: > > I prefer icewm but my family prefer kde,... > > gpppon should work fine with kde. > > > ...kppp is better than pon or gpppon for them. > > Only if it works. Why not use pppconfig to set up demand dialing? Then > they

Re: [users] Re: How the average guy gets mail...

2001-05-09 Thread MaD dUCK
> I've been using mail for the past month (or two), by running > 'fetchmail ; mutt'. This is a *little* bit annoying, because I'd > rather be able to get my mail and read it with one command. Is > their a way to download mail, while in mutt? well, if you have a shell account and procmail capabili

Re: [users] Re: Blocking spam

2001-05-09 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Martin Feeney (on Wed, 09 May 2001 11:09:48AM +0100): > Except you'll then try to download the 200k email. try using top instead > of retr. It'll get the headers plus a bunch of lines of the message. good point. thanks. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \__

Re: rpm -rebuildb equal for dpkg ?

2001-05-09 Thread Joey Hess
Bostjan Muller wrote: > I have noticed that installing .deb packages on my laptop (p75/24mb ram) is > getting slower than it used to be... with rpm that usually got fixed by rpm > --rebuildb. Is there any similar equivalent for dpkg ? Installing dpkg 1.9 has similar effects. :-) -- see shy jo

Re: IDE raid - which is better ? - modifying

2001-05-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jason my silly thinking says... one cannot convert non-raid ide controllers into a hw raid controller by adding or cutting wires/traces/resistors -- write large file, largefoo.txt to the 'disK' and while it is writing it to the mirror/raid..be nice and do a proper shut down of the s

Re: [offtopic] how to save attachments using ordinary `mail' program.

2001-05-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:38:03PM -0700, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:20:01PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > $ man uudecode > > $ man mimeencode > "munpack" in mpack is another command you may want to check. > It does read mail file all in one

Re: Configuring Mutzilla

2001-05-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 05:28:05PM +0200, Jeroen Valcke (jeroen@valcke.com) wrote: > Hello, > > For browsing I mostly use Mozilla and for email mutt. > I read that it is possible to use mutt as emailclient in Mozilla by means > of the mutzilla application. > I'm thinking of giving this a shot. I

Re: IDE raid - which is better ?

2001-05-09 Thread Jason Pepas
> > Promise has two cards that are very much alike. The Ultra100 IDE > > controller and the FastTrack100 IDE RAID controller. They are so much a > > like that with a little soldering you can convert the Ultra to a > > FastTrack. actually, you dont even have to physically modify the card at all. Y

Re: IDE raid - which is better ?

2001-05-09 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, > > I am putting together a workstation which will have raid. I found the > following vendors which have ide raid controllers: > > www.promise.com (fastrack100) > www.3ware.com(esc

Re: IDE raid - which is better ?

2001-05-09 Thread aphro
> Hi, > > I am putting together a workstation which will have raid. I found the > following vendors which have ide raid controllers: > > www.promise.com (fastrack100) > www.3ware.com(escalade 3w-6200) > > I will be doing raid 0 (striping) strictly for performance. Does > anyone have exper

Re: kppp

2001-05-09 Thread John Hasler
Gerard writes: > I prefer icewm but my family prefer kde,... gpppon should work fine with kde. > ...kppp is better than pon or gpppon for them. Only if it works. Why not use pppconfig to set up demand dialing? Then they won't have to deal with starting and stopping ppp at all. What problem \s

Re: kppp

2001-05-09 Thread Robin Gerard
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 06:37:46AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Thursday 10 May 2001 07:00, Robin Gerard wrote: > > when I launch kppp, after the connection > > has bein established, I received this > > message : > > dead unexpected of the daemond pppd > > code returned 1. > > However pon runs fine. > >

xinetd & Proftpd.

2001-05-09 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi All! I'm running potato (2.2r3). I have xinetd and proftpd running on my machine. Right now, proftpd runs in standalone mode and xinetd has NO entry about it. However, i'd like to be able to run proftpd FROM xinetd... I went around the docs (FAQ's, etc...) and i found

Re: AA with potato (strictly)

2001-05-09 Thread George Farris
As I understand it this is basically horse hockey. They could choose to release the correct programming information about the hardware. Problem solved. > > In order to provide good XFree drivers FAST, they basically ported their > Windows kernel API to Linux. That means just about every perform

Re: new to linux, trying to get netscape to work

2001-05-09 Thread D. Hoyem
Peter, When you installed if you did not add an sources to your system on the install, go to /etc/apt and with vi do a vi sources.list. This will open the sources.list in a text editor. In the sources.list you will see lines that start with the # space then deb-ftp, or # space deb-src. For th

Re: Building SPICE3 deb packages.

2001-05-09 Thread Stefan Srdic
Carl Greco wrote: > Take a look at SPICE OPUS ``SPICE with integrated OPtimization > UtilitieS'' [http://fides.fe.uni-lj.si/spice/] > > -- > Carl Greco > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: IDE raid - which is better ?

2001-05-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:10:16PM +0200, Casper Gielen wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:36:35PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: > Promise has two cards that are very much alike. The Ultra100 IDE > controller and the FastTrack100 IDE RAID controller. They are so much a > like that with a little solder

Re: X broken ???

2001-05-09 Thread Gordon Hart
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:43:52PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: > Having upgraded my woody box this evening, I am not able to run X > anymore. It will complain that it does not find the 'fixed' > font. Anyone having the same problem ? What can I do ? Do you still have the xfonts-base package i

Re: How the average guy gets mail...

2001-05-09 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi Cameron, I second everything said so far on this thread, however, on a multi-user system I would implement fetchmail-on-dialup in a slightly different way. Create an /etc/fetchmail-users file with all the users that want to run fetchmail ---8< snip >8--- # users that get mail by fetchmail use

Problem with today's testing upgrade

2001-05-09 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
I run testing and upgrade every 24 - 72 hours. When I upgraded today I managed to the packaging system into a state I can't get it out of. I have included a transcript of what I did, if anyone can point out what I did and how to fix it I would appreciate it. elroy:/home/hgebel# apt-get -u upgrade

Can't connect to ISP

2001-05-09 Thread Li Wei
I can connect in Win95 but can't in Debian 2.0. Below is that part of plog: May 10 05:53:00 debian pppd[232]: Connection terminated. May 10 05:53:29 debian pppd[232]: Hangup (SIGHUP) May 10 05:53:29 debian pppd[232]: Exit. May 10 05:53:52 debian pppd[247]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 May 10

Re: IDE raid - which is better ?

2001-05-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya if these cards mentioned are hardware raid controllers.. you cannot convert an ide controller into an hardware raid contoller by moving wires around ??? or am i missing something ??? - if it is in fact identical with just a missing jumper for convertion the ultra vs the fast

Re: kppp

2001-05-09 Thread csj
On Thursday 10 May 2001 07:00, Robin Gerard wrote: > Hello, > I have installed KDE successfuly but > when I launch kppp, after the connection > has bein established, I received this > message : > dead unexpected of the daemond pppd > code returned 1. > However pon runs fine. > Can someone me some i

Re: IDE raid - which is better ? - setup

2001-05-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya > > I will be doing raid 0 (striping) strictly for performance. Does anyone > > have experience with these cards or any other cards? Any > > recommendations/comments welcome. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Paul > I'd do a raid 10 setup: > > workstation > | >raid1---+

/usr/sbin/pptpdconfig.pl snafu?

2001-05-09 Thread will trillich
installing "pptpd" went like a charm--but i can't get the config script to run: # apt-get install pptpd Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: ppp The following NEW packages w

Re: How many Linux is enough for lilo!?

2001-05-09 Thread Bryan Andersen
Use a root directive for each partition you want to boot from. It will need to go with the kernel specific directive sets. image=/vm2218cd3 label=vm2218cd3 read-only root=/dev/hdc1 Viktor Lakics wrote: > > Hi fellow Debianers, > > I run into a prob with lilo. I want

Re: new to linux, trying to get netscape to work

2001-05-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
Peter Christensen wrote: >I'm so frustrated with Windows frequently "freezing up" that I'd really >like to get Linux to work on my machine. I bought a release of Debian >about two years ago from Cheap*Bytes. The disks say that it's release >2.1, though when I was installing it I noticed a

Re: kppp

2001-05-09 Thread John Hasler
Gerard writes: > Can someone me some ideas on this matter ? Try gpppon if you need a GUI way to start and stop ppp. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

init.d shell script can't stop daemon (python script)

2001-05-09 Thread Alexander Steinert
Hi, this might be a little OT, but: I wrote a (python) script that is acting like a daemon (doing something, sleeping for 10 seconds, doing ..., sleeping ...) and would like to launch and kill it from a shell script in /etc/init.d. Using start-stop-daemon seemed appropriate, but the problems is

Re: How many Linux is enough for lilo!?

2001-05-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 07:28:06PM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote: > I run into a prob with lilo. I want to have two Linuxes on the same > hard drive (root partitions /hda8 and /hda9 respectively) and have > lilo on the MBR. > > Whatever I do, lilo can only recognize the kernel from one root > partiti

cable modems

2001-05-09 Thread Eric R Cheney
Hi all. I recently got connected using cable modem and noticed that the download speed is terribly slow under linux. I get good download speeds under Windows2000 but my linux connection is just terrible in comparison. Anyone know what the story is with linux and cable modems and any fixes? An

Re: Linksys EtherFast NIC, full duplex?

2001-05-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:26:42PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: > You are on the right track. In half-duplex, the card basicly listens on > its receive line while it's "talking" on the transmit line. Normally, in > a non-switched, half-duplex, environment, only one card may transmit at > any one time.

X broken ???

2001-05-09 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hello list... Having upgraded my woody box this evening, I am not able to run X anymore. It will complain that it does not find the 'fixed' font. Anyone having the same problem ? What can I do ? Thanks alot. Dominique

Re: Linksys EtherFast NIC, full duplex?

2001-05-09 Thread Rich Puhek
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 08:58:33AM -0500, Jack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have two machine connected using crossover cable and LinkSys EtherFast > > 10/100 Cards. (same card on both machine). I only get 4-5Mbyte/sec > > when ftp or nfs between eac

Re: new to linux, trying to get netscape to work

2001-05-09 Thread ktb
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:46:13PM -0400, Peter Christensen wrote: > I'm so frustrated with Windows frequently "freezing up" that I'd really > like to get Linux to work on my machine. I bought a release of Debian > about two years ago from Cheap*Bytes. The disks say that it's release > 2.1, thoug

Re: [offtopic] how to save attachments using ordinary `mail' program.

2001-05-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
"munpack" in mpack is another command you may want to check. It does read mail file all in one action :-) On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:20:01PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > $ man uudecode > $ man mimeencode # apt-get install mpack $ man munpack Cheers :-) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/

Re: IPMasqing NFS

2001-05-09 Thread Chris Majewski
Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 08:54:26PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > I would like to NFS-mount a directory on a remote host located behind > > an > > ipmasq'ing gateway/firewall. The gateway runs 2.2.17, the remote box > > runs 2.4.2, the local box

Re: IDE raid - which is better ?

2001-05-09 Thread Casper Gielen
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:36:35PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: > Hi, > > I am putting together a workstation which will have raid. I found the > following vendors which have ide raid controllers: > > www.promise.com (fastrack100) > www.3ware.com(escalade 3w-6200) > > I will be doing raid 0 (

Re: wwwoffle

2001-05-09 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:05:35PM +0200, Tomasz Olszewski wrote: > Hello! > I've got a problem with wwwoffle 2.5c (potato r2). Quite often my > Netscape is not able to communicate wit wwwoffle. The browser shows only > an error message: "A communications error occured. Please try again". > Trying

kppp

2001-05-09 Thread Robin Gerard
Hello, I have installed KDE successfuly but when I launch kppp, after the connection has bein established, I received this message : dead unexpected of the daemond pppd code returned 1. However pon runs fine. Can someone me some ideas on this matter ? TIA P.S. I join my PPP-logfile -- Gerard M

Re: Can't locate Debconf/Log.pm in @INC

2001-05-09 Thread Joey Hess
Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > I recently installed my own version of Perl. Oops. > Now, when I attempt to use > apt-get (update or install), I get something along the lines of the > following: > > debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't locate Debconf/Log.pm in @INC > (@INC contains: /usr/local/

Re: Linksys EtherFast NIC, full duplex?

2001-05-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 08:58:33AM -0500, Jack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I have two machine connected using crossover cable and LinkSys EtherFast > 10/100 Cards. (same card on both machine). I only get 4-5Mbyte/sec > when ftp or nfs between each other. Both machine are running Woody

new to linux, trying to get netscape to work

2001-05-09 Thread Peter Christensen
I'm so frustrated with Windows frequently "freezing up" that I'd really like to get Linux to work on my machine. I bought a release of Debian about two years ago from Cheap*Bytes. The disks say that it's release 2.1, though when I was installing it I noticed a message that seemed to imply that I

how to open port 111?

2001-05-09 Thread haek
Hello again debian-user! I have a problem with the portmapper not responding to remote calls: (jobbet=agda=130.241.119.140, amin=194.236.111.14) "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ rpcinfo -p jobbet rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - No route to host" It works alright from localhost

Re: GPG on Linux kernel source

2001-05-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:28:33PM +0700, Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I tried to verify the source from www.linux.org, but I had the > following: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --verify linux-2.4.4.tar.bz2.sign linux-2.4.4.tar.bz2 > gpg: Signature made Sat Apr 28 08:48:08 2001

Re: GPG on Linux kernel source

2001-05-09 Thread Benjamin Black
> gpg: Good signature from "Linux Kernel Archives Verification Key > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" this means the signature matches the key. if you trust that the place you got the key from is secure and the key hasn't been compromised, then you can trust that the source is good. > Could not find a vali

Re: Creating an initrd

2001-05-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:09:38AM -0600, Stefan Srdic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I though that its possible to use the ext2 filesystem to use with > initrd? Is there an advantage of using the minixfs filesystem over > the ext2 filesytem in this application? minixfs is reputed to have lower o

mutt and vim

2001-05-09 Thread will trillich
Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:08:45PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > in /usr/share/vim/vim56/filetype.vim i found the line > > au BufNewFile,BufRead > > snd.\d\+,.letter,.letter.\d\+,.followup,.article,.article.\d\+,pico.\d\+,mutt-*-\d\+,ae\d\+.txt > > set ft=mail > > > >

Re: Can't get a gui

2001-05-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 07:48:32PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just installed potato and when I get to the (text) login > propmpt, I can login, but I can't get gnome or any sort > of graphical login etc. > I changed > :id:3:initdefault: > in /etc/inittab to > :id:5

Re: [offtopic] how to save attachments using ordinary `mail' program.

2001-05-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:59:23PM -0400, Walter Tautz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If I save a message that has an attachment I get a file: > > This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, > while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.

Re: Can't parse color "Black"

2001-05-09 Thread Philipp Bliedung
sorry for posting to an existing thread - but your hint with the symlink did the trick !! Thank you very much! Philipp "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 09:27:14PM +0200, Philipp Bliedung ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Don't reply to an existing thread when starting a new t

Re: IDE raid - which is better ?

2001-05-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:32:10PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:36:35PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am putting together a workstation which will have raid. I found the > > following vendors which have ide raid controllers: > > > > www.promise.com (f

Re: rsync source tree

2001-05-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 07:00:51PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > yo, > before installing debian on some 35 clients here, i would like to > mirror it locally so as to, you know, spare our backbone... the > clients don't have cdrom's, so bootdisk/ftp is the installation medium > of choice (anyway). > > q

xscreensaver doesn't run on potato with 2.4.4 kernel

2001-05-09 Thread Jes?s Ruiz de Infante
Hello, xscreensaver 3.22 can't unlock the screen via pam on a stock debian potato box with kernel 2.4.4 and the correspondig Adrian Bunk's packages to run 2.4 on potato. Here is a log of xscreensaver showing the problem: The first time it locks the screen it authentificates the user via pam co

Re: IDE raid - which is better ?

2001-05-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:36:35PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: > Hi, > > I am putting together a workstation which will have raid. I found the > following vendors which have ide raid controllers: > > www.promise.com (fastrack100) > www.3ware.com(escalade 3w-6200) > > I will be doing raid 0 (

Re: Can't get a gui

2001-05-09 Thread ktb
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 07:48:32PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just installed potato and when I get to the (text) login > propmpt, I can login, but I can't get gnome or any sort > of graphical login etc. > I changed > :id:3:initdefault: > in /etc/inittab to > :id:5:initdefault: > as I

Can't get a gui

2001-05-09 Thread seanp
I just installed potato and when I get to the (text) login propmpt, I can login, but I can't get gnome or any sort of graphical login etc. I changed :id:3:initdefault: in /etc/inittab to :id:5:initdefault: as I thought that run-level 5 would initialise the x- window system, but no joy. I dropp

rpm -rebuildb equal for dpkg ?

2001-05-09 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I have noticed that installing .deb packages on my laptop (p75/24mb ram) is getting slower than it used to be... with rpm that usually got fixed by rpm --rebuildb. Is there any similar equivalent for dpkg ? THX in advance! Bostjan -- Boštjan Müller [NEONATUS], [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://neon

Re: configuring line printer (stupid!)

2001-05-09 Thread Sebastiaan
Ooops, sorry. \aaa represents octal code, I must use \xaaa instead. All is working fine now. Sorry, Sebastiaan On Wed, 9 May 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to adapt text output to my Nec Pinwriter with MagicFilter. The > manual from the printer tells me that the escape seque

Linux User Group

2001-05-09 Thread lugischia
Spett. Debian Inviamo questa e-mail per ricevere informazioni per la collabborazione di LUGischia e la debian, dato la grande professionalitá della azienda stessa, siamo interessati ad avere un contatto con la Debian per futuri incontri linux, che siano essi party o semplici incontri per spiegar

How many Linux is enough for lilo!?

2001-05-09 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi fellow Debianers, I run into a prob with lilo. I want to have two Linuxes on the same hard drive (root partitions /hda8 and /hda9 respectively) and have lilo on the MBR. Whatever I do, lilo can only recognize the kernel from one root partition. I can have several kernels bootable by lilo, as l

Re: X question

2001-05-09 Thread Steve Cooper
Personally this sounds like the best option. Duh, why didn't I think of that? :-) I do have another thought on this subject. The fundamental issue with the solutions is that they require you to pause and think about strategy, because each app has a different key to press or dialog to invoke. I'

Re: Stereo sound

2001-05-09 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
What are you playing when you notice only mono sound? If it's the cdrom, then I'd venture to guess you have a cable problem between cdrom/sound card. Been there myself, where as my mp3 player produced nice stereo sound. This was a used card I picked up for a bench box. My sb cards have all work

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