Re: Actulizar a Slink

1999-09-03 Thread Luis M. Garcia
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 09:31:51PM +0200, Juanjo Martinez wrote: Hola a todos/as: He actualizado de hamm a slink (Citius) creo que sin problemas, con apt. Ahora quiero actualizar el kernel al 2.2.4, pero leyendo la documentación veo que me pide una serie de actualizaciones que yo pensaba que

Re: Matrox G200 y XFree86

1999-09-03 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Hola. El 02 Sep 1999 a las 06:24PM +0200, Hue-Bond escribio: El jueves 02 de septiembre de 1999 a la(s) 11:37:32 +0200, Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren contaba: Quisiera saber si alguien consiguió configurar las X con la MGA G200 para las X sin su driver y cómo lo hizo.

Sendmail dice NO, Fetchmail flipa y corta, y yo me j*d*, :-(

1999-09-03 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
Hola, pues una mañana me encuentro que no tengo correo nuevo y mirando los logs... -=-=-=- Wed 01-09-1999 00:50:20 Conectando... -=-=-=- 15 messages for 00021965 at nsb1.infomail.es (56134 octets). reading message 1 of 15 (4085 octets) ... flushed reading message 2 of 15 (2458 octets) ..

Re: Ni idea de cómo empezar

1999-09-03 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Wed, Sep 01, 1999, PAMIFER... Hasta ahí todo perfecto, pero me digo, vamos a probar las famosas X-Window (para que se parezca a mi antiguo Win). Tecleo startx y cosas por el estilo y no consigo nada. Debes ejecutar xf86config (modo texto) o XF86Setup (modo gráfico)

Re: procesos en background

1999-09-03 Thread Fernando
Manel Marin wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 08:33:12AM +0200, Fernando wrote: Estoy de acuerdo que en el uso normal esto resulta más comodo, pero hay situaciones en las que es desable que se terminen todos los procesos, y no se como hacerlo. ¿Puedes ser un poco mas especifico? ¿Por

Re: fax en linux

1999-09-03 Thread TooMany
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 05:18:15PM +0200, Juanma wrote: Necesitaría probar a enviar faxes desde linux, pues hasta ahora estoy utilizando la guarrería de windows ¿conoceis la posibilidad de hecer esto? o dirigirme a alguna página en español que me lo indique. En Linux dispones de: Hylafax,

cliente samba

1999-09-03 Thread TooMany
Buenas. ¿Sabe alguien si existe algún programa gráfico para visualizar volúmenes (particiones) de sistemas samba o NT/windoze en modo gráfico? Si viene en la distribución 2.1 mejor que mejor, pero la cuestión es que venga en paquete *.deb... Muchas gracias por todo. -- Have a nice day ;-)

Re: cliente samba

1999-09-03 Thread David Charro Ripa
smb2www Solo lo he visto en potato. Tiene una interfaz web. Deje de usarlo porque eso de poder ver la red a traves de un navegador lo puede hacer cualquiera, no solo tu. Saludos David Buenas. ¿Sabe alguien si existe algún programa gráfico para visualizar volúmenes (particiones) de

Procmail y mi torpeza

1999-09-03 Thread Barbwired
Ayer me puse a experimentar con procmail y la verdad es que en 15 minutos lo tenía funcionando. Creo que va todo como la seda, pero no consigo que me haga un pequeño truco. Lo que yo pretendo es que me lea un archivo ($HOME/Mail/deb-old), detecte los mensajes duplicados, meta una copia de cada

Re: Procmail y mi torpeza

1999-09-03 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Barbwired wrote: [...] ~-barbwired vi .procmail/rc.maillists :0 Wh: msgid.lock | formail -D 8192000 msgid.cache Esto me hace una base de datos con los message-id de los correos y detecta los

Re: Sendmail dice NO, Fetchmail flipa y corta, y yo me j*d*, :-(

1999-09-03 Thread Miquel
El vie, sep 03, 1999 at 10:15:22 +0200 Han Solo va dir: Lo que también sería interesante es saber si le pasa lo mismo a la gente que tiene smail o exim, y qué es lo que molesta realmente a sendmail, para ver si tiene alguna solución. Desgraciadamente mi conociemiento de sendmail no da para

Re: Ni idea de cómo empezar

1999-09-03 Thread Jose Aparicio Patino
On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, PAMIFER wrote: Hola compañeros linuxeros: Soy un completo novato en esto de Linux y me he instalado la Debian que venía en el LINUX ACTUAL. Creo que se me instaló bien (tras medio día de pruebas), pero mi problema viene ahora: Arranco con el dico de arranque, e

Re: Matrox G200 y XFree86

1999-09-03 Thread Jose Aparicio Patino
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren wrote: Tengo intalado Linux y de momento me va bien, pero no me había metidos con las XWINDOWS hasta ahora. Mi problema, como el de casi todo el mundo, es configurar mi tarjeta gráfica. La versión que tengo de las X no tiene en su lista de

sendmail o mutt?

1999-09-03 Thread dfm
Hola Llevo teniendo sendmail y mutt bien configurados y funcionando sin problemas desde hace meses, y de repente anoche mando un correo a una dirección de @telcom.es y no se a cuento de qué el sendmail intenta mandarlo como si fuera una dirección local, sin embargo mandando correo a otras

Busco un Linux(MS)Works en modo texto :-)

1999-09-03 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
Holralalala. No se si os acordaréis, pero hace tiempo buscaba programas pare internet en modo texto. Gracias a vuestra ayuda ahora no tengo que tocar nada de ventanas y tajetas gráficas. Ahora, la cosa es que mi padre suele usar un programa para Windows que se llama MSWorks, que es un

imágenes Potato

1999-09-03 Thread Fernando Sanchez
Hola, preguntaba alguien por aquí hace unos días por algún sitio donde hubiera imágenes en plan snapshot de potato; acaban de ponerse disponibles las tres de binarios i386 en: ftp://ceu.fi.udc.es/os/linux/cd-images/debian/potato/ http://ceu.fi.udc.es/ftp/os/linux/cd-images/debian/potato/

Re: Acentuação no console em sistemas Debian 2.X

1999-09-03 Thread Adriano Freitas
Fernando Cesar Carreira wrote: Adriano e pessoal da lista, Parabéns Fernando!!! Vc fez o trabalho mais completo sobre acentuação no linux que eu já vi!! []'s

Xlib com o patch do Quinot

1999-09-03 Thread Alexandre H Silva
Oi pessoal. Os arquivos com a Xlib compilada pelo Fernando Cesar Carreira com o patch de Thomas Quinot estão em www.inf.ufsc.br/~alehs/debian Até +++ # Alexandre H Silva # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Usuário Linux #108349

Sistema de Instalação da Debian em Portuguê s para SPARC

1999-09-03 Thread Leandro Dutra
O próximo passo é o teste para plataformas Alpha e Macintosh... mas ainda falta um sistema para os testes :( Tenho um Power Macintosh G3 bege 233, 32 MB RAM. Serve? Só que vou demorar uns dias para tê-lo disponível, estou de mudança. Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra

Re: Sistema de Instala??o da Debian em Portugu?s para Sparc

1999-09-03 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Oi, eu tenho Suns a vontade aqui na faculdade. Se quiser que eu ajude. Grande! Quanto mais pessoas testando melhor! Só preciso organizar a estrutura para a compilação do sistema de instalação para Sparc (acho que daqui a uns 15 dias) de qualquer modo entro em contato com

Sistema de Instalação da Debian em Português para SPARC

1999-09-03 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Sistema de Instalação da Debian em Português para SPARC O próximo passo é o teste para plataformas Alpha e Macintosh... mas ainda falta um sistema para os testes :( Tenho um Power Macintosh G3 bege 233, 32 MB RAM. Serve? Humm, não tem um azul não? ouvi dizer que a Debian é

Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X

1999-09-03 Thread Kent West
Richard E. Hawkins wrote: kent kalled, Anyone know how to fix my non-functioning arrow keys, page-up/down keys, etc in X? They work fine in the console mode. Not having these keys is pretty crippling. The first step is to use xev, which will tell you what events are happening. If

Re: smbumount doesn't

1999-09-03 Thread Kent West
Ari Sigurðsson wrote: if rebooting the puter is a solution to samba problem then perhaps a restart of samba is enough? try /etc/init.d/samba Usage: /etc/init.d/samba {start|stop|restart} HTH Ari Sigurðsson -Original Message- From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian

Re: Obscure ethernet/IDE trouble

1999-09-03 Thread rick
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Greetings, I'm having bizarre troubles with the base 2.1 system (2.0.36-scsimod) on an Abit BP6 dual-celeron system with Triton IDE DMA chipset and twin 3C905 ethernet cards. After my first net access (via eth0), be it ping or apt-get update or

Re: pascal for linux

1999-09-03 Thread Patrick Olson
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Johann Spies wrote: I have a program called PTOC which I have downloaded more than a year ago. The README provides an email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did not use it a lot, but it was a lot better than a program called p2c which was available as a debian package long

Re: Obscure ethernet/IDE trouble

1999-09-03 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, rick wrote: I was getting the 'DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest' error and related hard drive problems after I selected the 'use DMA when available' when configging the kernel source. Although I don't I get this all the time when I try to access a drive that is in

Re: SB PCI 128 Volume

1999-09-03 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 06:38:21PM +, Cheshire wrote: Well I finally got around to compiling a new kernel with sound support.. I have my PCI 128 working with the ess1730 (err, I think, don't remember those numbers exactly but it's the one of two that doesn't end with 1.. probably

Re: Mouse configuration

1999-09-03 Thread Kristopher Johnson
Ron Stordahl wrote: I am doing a fresh install and get to the point where the install asks: Do you want to run gpm's mouse-test program (Y/n)? (to which I respond) y Where is your mouse [/dev/ttyS0]? (to which I respond) /dev/psaux (since I have a Microsoft Intellimouse 1.2A PS/2

Re: Hardware Compatibility

1999-09-03 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: Matthew Dalton wrote: The modem will probably work as long as its not a winmodem. Are there any onboard ones that aren't? Look to http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html - -- finger for PGP public key.

Re: #!/Perl question

1999-09-03 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 2 Sep, Jonathan Markevich wrote about Re: #!/Perl question On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 03:04:49AM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: I'm trying to learn some Perl. I found an on-line book which is Unix biased,

Re: Problem with open_1.40-10_i386.deb

1999-09-03 Thread Big Gaute
Is there really no-one who can help me? I've asked this question in a number of fora now and I am getting sort of desperate. It is not so much the fact that it dowsn't work, but more that there is stuff going on on my computer that no-one seems to understand... Even if you can't help me, just

New X for stable

1999-09-03 Thread Greg Heather Vence
Hey Branden, Thanx for the work on X. I've got a Viper 770 and was wondering what the plan was for stable? I know netgod is hosting 3.3.3.x What about 3.3.4 and 3.3.5? TIA -- Greg.

Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X

1999-09-03 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Kent West wrote: Richard E. Hawkins wrote: The first step is to use xev, which will tell you what events are happening. If you post what it tells you keys are, someone (maybe me, more likely not :) probably knows what they mean.

Re: ipchains firewalling question

1999-09-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:55:56AM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: if you use dhcp for anything, you must enable source/destination for 255.255.255.255 as well as the routes for this. This caught me some time ago :( I don't think I use dhcp, but I'm not really sure about PPP. When using pon

Re: New X for stable

1999-09-03 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Sep, Greg Heather Vence wrote about New X for stable Hey Branden, Thanx for the work on X. I've got a Viper 770 and was wondering what the plan was for stable? I know netgod is hosting 3.3.3.x What about 3.3.4 and 3.3.5? For apt: deb http://samosa.debian.org/%7Ebranden/

Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X

1999-09-03 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Sep, Kent West wrote about Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X Brian Servis wrote: *- On 23 Mar, Kent West wrote about Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X Another try Anyone know how to fix my non-functioning arrow keys, page-up/down keys, etc in X? They

Re: New X for stable

1999-09-03 Thread Greg Heather Vence
ok, two questions... I lost the original sites for apt. How can I get those back? How do I add that to the list along w/ netgod? TIA -- Greg. - Original Message - From: Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, September 02,

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-03 Thread damon
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 11:21:36AM +0100, Patrick Kirk was heard to state: I also graduated from Red Hat. Debian installation is a beast but it leaves you with a working system that is idiot proof. Red Hat is an easier installation but things fail and you're left trawling the net resolving

Fetchmail not exiting in ip-down

1999-09-03 Thread Damon Muller
Hi gang, I, like many of us here prolly, use fetchmail to grab my mail when I'm online. As such, I've set up scripts in ip-up.d to start up fetchmail as me to get my mail, and another in ip-down.d to stop fetchmail again when I log off. My script in ip-up.d looks like this: #!/bin/sh /bin/su -c

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

1999-09-03 Thread damon
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 10:26:28PM +0200, andreas palsson was heard to state: I am using Debian GNU/Linux as a nameserver, and I wonder how do I modify it to reject all lookups for stupid sites like ad.doubleclick.net or any other annoying banner-site? I've been told to use something called

RE: Fetchmail not exiting in ip-down

1999-09-03 Thread Pollywog
On 03-Sep-99 Damon Muller wrote: Hi gang, I, like many of us here prolly, use fetchmail to grab my mail when I'm online. As such, I've set up scripts in ip-up.d to start up fetchmail as me to get my mail, and another in ip-down.d to stop fetchmail again when I log off. I put 'killall

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

1999-09-03 Thread Pollywog
On 02-Sep-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 10:26:28PM +0200, andreas palsson was heard to state: I am using Debian GNU/Linux as a nameserver, and I wonder how do I modify it to reject all lookups for stupid sites like ad.doubleclick.net or any other annoying banner-site?

Re: ipchains firewalling question

1999-09-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:53:49AM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: Make sure you're allowing ident connections. Even if you don't answer them, you want to refuse connections rather than dropping the packets. Some systems will timeout the connection attempt. I'm a little confused here, what

Re: Mouse configuration

1999-09-03 Thread J
Ron: I am looking at Upgrading and Repairing PCs fifth edition from QUE. BUS A bus mouse is typically used in systems that do not have motherboard mouse port or any available serialports. The name bus mouse is derived from the fact that the mouse requires a special bus interface board that

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites oops!

1999-09-03 Thread Pollywog
XFMail reverted to a reply address that was wrong; I had tested spam filters with that address and when I changed it back, the change did not take. I think I fixed it now. Sorry about that. Had a spammer using a bigfoot.com address and I was testing filters. -- Andrew

Re: New X for stable

1999-09-03 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Sep, Greg Heather Vence wrote about Re: New X for stable ok, two questions... I lost the original sites for apt. How can I get those back? How do I add that to the list along w/ netgod? Not sure what you mean by lost the orginal sites. To add lists just edit

Re: New X for stable

1999-09-03 Thread Greg Heather Vence
There were some sites when I first installed slink last weekend... They were lost when I first added netgod's site by answering Y to the question of apt's site list... Didn't read all the way and it was overwrite NOT edit... Doh! So where were those original sites? I live in Atlanta area so

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

1999-09-03 Thread Hwei Sheng TEOH
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 10:26:28PM +0200, andreas palsson was heard to state: I am using Debian GNU/Linux as a nameserver, and I wonder how do I modify it to reject all lookups for stupid sites like ad.doubleclick.net or any other annoying

more net install

1999-09-03 Thread tf
howdy guys I'll try to be a bit more specific. I'm attempting to get a full system going from the base slink. I just got a modem the other day and got it to ping my isp, but running apt-get update produces (somthing close to) the following results: get http://http.us.debian.org

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

1999-09-03 Thread Pollywog
On 03-Sep-99 Hwei Sheng TEOH wrote: Read the IPCHAINS HOWTO. I think you can do something like: ipchains -A input -s ad.doubleclick.net -j DENY ipchains -A output -d ad.doubleclick.net -j DENY You probably want to tailor the above to meet your needs. This will block *any* kind

X server 3.3.4 is slow!

1999-09-03 Thread Hwei Sheng TEOH
Hi! I'm running potato and just upgraded to the SVGA X server (3.3.4). I discovered that it was *extremely* slow -- the screen repaints are very noticeable and every time it repaints, it takes so much CPU that my background MP3 player (or is it the sound driver) jitters horribly. I'm using a SiS

2 cards and a dilemma

1999-09-03 Thread mcclosk
Hello everybody. After several months of work, I've persuaded the IT support people at work here to let me have a box on which I could install Debian myself for office use. Until now, it's been a question of `Which do you want: Mac or PC?' So this is something of a departure and an experiment.

Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X

1999-09-03 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Sep, Kent West wrote about Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X Richard E. Hawkins wrote: kent kalled, Anyone know how to fix my non-functioning arrow keys, page-up/down keys, etc in X? They work fine in the console mode. Not having these keys is pretty crippling.

DHCP - solved!

1999-09-03 Thread Daniel Lesage
Many thanks to everyone who helped me getting this to work - amongst others, Seth, Mark, Phil, Jens, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch. Turns out that if I tried configuring the LAN NIC first, for some strange reason dhclient would fail and would take the LAN down with it. In addition to that,

Re: more net install

1999-09-03 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Could you please try to keep your lines less than 76 characters long? More than that and it causes annoyances with the MUAs some of us use. On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, tf wrote: I'll try to be a bit more specific. I'm attempting to get a full system going from the

Re: Mouse configuration

1999-09-03 Thread Ron Stordahl
From: J [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Ron: : : I am looking at Upgrading and Repairing PCs fifth edition from QUE. : : BUS : A bus mouse is typically used in systems that do not have motherboard mouse port or any : available serialports. The name bus mouse is derived from the fact that the mouse : requires

Re: #!/Perl question

1999-09-03 Thread Joey Hess
Hans van den Boogert wrote: I'm trying to learn some Perl. I found an on-line book which is Unix biased, but the scripts all start with #!/usr/local/bin/perl (which makes sense if you have compiled and installed it yourself). However, on my Debian system Perl was of course put in

Re: Hardware Compatibility

1999-09-03 Thread Matthew Dalton
Colin Marquardt wrote: * Matthew Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: linux sound architecture). ALSA is not free, but it may support the sound card. ALSA *is* most definitely free -- in fact, it will be the Linux sound architecture of the future. See http://www.alsa-project.org.

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

1999-09-03 Thread Patrick Olson
Read the IPCHAINS HOWTO. I think you can do something like: ipchains -A input -s ad.doubleclick.net -j DENY ipchains -A output -d ad.doubleclick.net -j DENY You probably want to tailor the above to meet your needs. This will block *any* kind of connection to/from that site,

Re: 2 cards and a dilemma

1999-09-03 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The box they're offering me is a Gateway E-4200. Which seemed great, until I searched the debian-user archive, to head off any hardware issues that might arise, and found (from a conversation involving Kent West and others) that this box contains a network

Re: New X for stable

1999-09-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 08:37:33PM -0700, Greg Heather Vence wrote: Thanx for the work on X. I've got a Viper 770 and was wondering what the plan was for stable? I know netgod is hosting 3.3.3.x What about 3.3.4 and 3.3.5? Please see http://www.debian.org/~branden/ for the latest

Adduser and Perl dependancy

1999-09-03 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Just trying to help out a user who was having probs with adduser, and noticed that adduser doesn't depend on anything but passwd, which only depends on libc6, which predepends on ldso, which doesn't list any type of dependancy. Nowhere is perl listed as a depends. But adduser (AFAICT) is a perl

Re: New X for stable

1999-09-03 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 08:56:50PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: For apt: deb http://samosa.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ xfree86-334-slink/ It is not available yet! .deb there still has some bug during installation. They all depend on version 3.3.4-1 whille they are 3.3.4-0slink1. Branden will

Re: more net install

1999-09-03 Thread Ron Stordahl
- Original Message - From: tf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 10:46 PM Subject: more net install : howdy guys : : I'll try to be a bit more specific. I'm attempting to get a full system going from the base slink. I just got a modem the other : day and got it to

Re: Mouse configuration

1999-09-03 Thread Kent West
Ron Stordahl wrote: snip So the prompt ps2 - For most busmice connected to a ps/2 port is confusing. I did choose that and clearly I do not have a busmouse. But I chose the Standard profile, which does not incorporate X. Is there a non X application which will use the mouse? If

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

1999-09-03 Thread Pollywog
On 03-Sep-99 Patrick Olson wrote: Read the IPCHAINS HOWTO. I think you can do something like: ipchains -A input -s ad.doubleclick.net -j DENY ipchains -A output -d ad.doubleclick.net -j DENY You probably want to tailor the above to meet your needs. This will block *any* kind of

Re: more net install

1999-09-03 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote: I had exactly the same problem, yet I knew my network connection was working, and I could go to another machine (MS Explorer/Win98) and get to those http addresses just fine. I asked our network guy and he said the problem was that our proxy server

Help--potato upgrade flakey with apt-get/dselect

1999-09-03 Thread kaynjay
I apologize up front for the length of this post, but am trying to max the info for brave souls who may be able to help me... An upgrade initially using apt-get then finished with deselect has left an unknown number of packages possibly not upgraded. Slink--potato, BTW. The long story: (the

Re: blink the Numlock

1999-09-03 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Oliver Larisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how to blink the numlock-LED in every Linux-boot. (not only blinking, I want to type numbers direkt after boot ; )Windoze does !! Type man XF86Config While looking at the manpage, type /Num (case matters), and you´ll find |

Re: #!/Perl question

1999-09-03 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Hans van den Boogert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to learn some Perl. I found an on-line book which is Unix biased, but the scripts all start with #!/usr/local/bin/perl (which makes sense if you have compiled and installed it yourself). However, on my Debian system Perl was of

Re: SB PCI 128 Volume

1999-09-03 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Cheshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: probably not important anyway) and the volume coming out of the card is terribly low. Is there something I can use for software amplification? You mean a mixer? ashwork:~$ dpkg -S mix |grep bin tkmixer: /usr/bin/tkmixer xmix: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmix aumix:

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

1999-09-03 Thread George Bonser
What about using REJECT instead of DENY? That way the browser should immediately be told that the destination (in this case ad.doubleclick.net) could not be reached. I believe DENY would cause the browser to time out, but not right away. I only use DENY for spam hosts/nets so that the

Re: Help--potato upgrade flakey with apt-get/dselect

1999-09-03 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) And why didn't the dist-upgrade not configure things initially? Would dpkg --configure -a be a better choice if it happened again? If you had noted the error messages you would have known that something had failed. In that instance the best

Re: more net install

1999-09-03 Thread Ron Stordahl
- Original Message - From: Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ron Stordahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 12:21 AM Subject: Re: more net install : : On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote: : : I had exactly the

Re: more net install

1999-09-03 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote: Jason: I was running 'apt' from dselect where it asks you for network addresses to get the downloads from. Arn't you trying to install Debian using the 2 binary CD's? If you do that I don't see where the opportunity to enter what you suggest will

Executing programs with a keypress under X/wmaker

1999-09-03 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'm using the SVGA X server and WindowMaker from potato. i don't want to change window managers, so don't suggest that. I'm looking for a way to execute a command under X when certain key combinations are pressed. Specifically, i want to make something like

Re: Help--potato upgrade flakey with apt-get/dselect

1999-09-03 Thread kaynjay
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 11:51:02PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) And why didn't the dist-upgrade not configure things initially? Would dpkg --configure -a be a better choice if it happened again? If you had noted the error messages you

Re: Help--potato upgrade flakey with apt-get/dselect

1999-09-03 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologize up front for the length of this post, but am trying to max the info for brave souls who may be able to help me... An upgrade initially using apt-get then finished with deselect has left an unknown

Re: smbumount doesn't

1999-09-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
aOn Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:18:35PM -, Ari Sigur?sson wrote: if rebooting the puter is a solution to samba problem then perhaps a restart of samba is enough? try /etc/init.d/samba Usage: /etc/init.d/samba {start|stop|restart} No, this is wrong. smbmount don't need samba installed -

Process Limits

1999-09-03 Thread Stavros
is there anyway of setting process limits to the users, like in +BSD's?

Re: Apache modules etc

1999-09-03 Thread Stephen Kelly
I added the PerlHandler line, I should have thoguht of that before, but it did not fix the problem. Same error. Thanks for pointing that out though Andreas. Any other ideas? Steve At 05:08 PM 9/3/99 +0200, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- on Thu, 02 Sep 1999, Stephen Kelly wrote:

python-pygresql - files missing?

1999-09-03 Thread Johann Spies
I recently compiled postgresql 6.5.1 from potato source for slink. One of the packages generated is python-pygresql_6.5.1-6_i386.deb which I installed to replace my previous version of pygresql in /usr/local. According to the README of python-pygresql the following files should be part of the

apology: long signature

1999-09-03 Thread Johann Spies
I apologize for the long signature on my previous message about python-pygresql. I did not realize that it was that long. -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smbumount doesn't

1999-09-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 22:18:35 -, you wrote: if rebooting the puter is a solution to samba problem then perhaps a restart of samba is enough? Smbmount and samba are totally different things. Does umount /mountpoint work in that case? Greetings Marc -- --

RE: Video For Linux

1999-09-03 Thread dabsol
Does any one have any experence with video4linux, or really what I amlooking for is bttv. I have a ADS Tech Channel surfer (w/o the radio), ithas a BT848 chip set. I tried the drivers in the 2.2.12 kernel with outany luck (I am using xawtv out of potato), I then grabed the latest sourcefrom

CVS problem: cannot open /root/.cvsignore

1999-09-03 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
I have CVS server and client, both Debian 2.1 machines except that CVS is version 1.10 from potato. I can do cvs checkout from client vendredi, but on the server winkiller I can do all cvs stuff without problems (then CVSROOT=/var/repository). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:Tasks$ echo $CVSROOT

IMAP problems

1999-09-03 Thread Pontus Lidman
Hello, At my work we have an slink box running imap 4.4-4, and some WinNT machines with Outlook clients. The Outlook clients connect every minute to the IMAP server to check for new mail. inetd starts an imapd process for that. For some reason, the processes never terminate; when I got to work

Star Office 5.1 permission problem

1999-09-03 Thread Robert . King
I've just installed star office 5.1 from the Sun site. I installed using the setup -net as root, then setup as a user. root can print (to a HP jetdirect printer which I refer to in my /etc/printcap using a rm=machine name:rp=raw: line) OK, but as a user, I can get the banner page that the

Apple LaserWriter IINT

1999-09-03 Thread Andrew Clark
Anyone had any success getting a Apple LaserWriter IINT working with linux? Please CC me, Regards, Andrew Clark

HELP: need driver for epson LX 1050 matrix printer...

1999-09-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i just got a grip on an old matrix printer (epson LX 1050) put it at the back of my computer. Printing ascii only works fine, but when trying to print postscript or anything else, horror appears i tryed the different epson printerdrivers from the magicfilter package, but none does the

Re: Apache-SSL problem....

1999-09-03 Thread Eric G . Miller
What else would you want to listen on port 80? apache-ssl typically listens on port 80 for normal http requests, and port 443 for https requests (though these can be changed). If you don't want it listening on port 80, change the line in httpd.conf that says Listen You can set it up only to

Re: blink the Numlock

1999-09-03 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 01:00:19AM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote: | how to start staroffice 5.0 after a crash of it, without booting. I wasn't able | as yet. | | Hmm. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace? If *that* doesn´t help, read | /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.x/Documentation/sysrq.txt | (you need to have

GID und groups ?

1999-09-03 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello list ! If a user was given GID 42 in /etc/passwd, does the appending of his UID to the specific group in /etc/group make ANY sense ? read you, -christian- -- Christian Hammers WESTEND GmbH Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] DPN Verbund-Partner Aachen

Re: Problem with open_1.40-10_i386.deb

1999-09-03 Thread Eric G . Miller
My guess is, you have gotten much response because few people are familiar with that package. Out of curiousity, why would you want such a thing? -- ___ ___ __ _ _ __ |_ ) / -_) _` | ' \ / / \___\__, |_|_|_/___| |___/

Re: Fetchmail not exiting in ip-down

1999-09-03 Thread Eric G . Miller
I'll assume that /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/fetchmail is executable. You might try adding some paths in the script. I saw this in an example, but I'm not sure why they would be necessary. PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin export $PATH su -c 'fetchmail --quit' whomever I recently wrote a couple tiny scripts

hardware configuration questions

1999-09-03 Thread Michael Meskes
I'm trying to get my new hardware completely running under Debian. So far I have encountered two problems. 1) I have no idea how to configure a PCI Soundblaster card. While this is not a major problem I'd like to eventually play music on it. Since I have no access to any recent HOWTO while

Debian CD in South Africa?

1999-09-03 Thread Milo Simonic
Where can one obtain a Debian install CD in South Africa? Dial-up download is not viable... Milo

Error in loading shared libraries

1999-09-03 Thread Brandon Beretta
Hello Debian-users, I have the following problem when trying to run the man command... error in loading shared libraries: libdb2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied I have re-run ldconfig, and have re-installed libdb2 using apt-get. Can anyone shed some light on this

Dselect problems

1999-09-03 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! Dselect seems to think that there is a conflict in my package selection, something that neither apt-get or console-apt thinks. Upon trying to exit the package selection, this package conflict display appears, and I can't get away from it, because changing anything brings it back: EIOM Pri

Re: Debian CD in South Africa?

1999-09-03 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 11:59:30AM +0200, Milo Simonic wrote: | Where can one obtain a Debian install CD in South Africa? Dial-up download | is not viable... | | Milo If you have Credit Card I believe cheapbytes can ship you the latest Slink r2 CD set. Contact them for more info:

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