unexpected file /1

1999-10-27 Thread Dave Baker
Browsing my fairly recently updated potato system I find a file named '1' in the root directory. It contains the following lines repeated many times over. Elements moved to a different document Elements moved to a different document Elements moved to a different document Elements moved to a diff

Re: modem speed

1999-10-27 Thread Oki DZ
Attila Csosz wrote: > > I'm looking for a program that measures the speed of downloading( for example > for the wget program ). > ( better if it is console based or can be X-based ) You can use serialmon. It also monitors internal modems (RX,TX,DCD) and display the "led" on the console. Oki

Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat

1999-10-27 Thread Jacob Schmude
It is called update-agent. It can do almost the same things as apt can do. The main difference is that you can only get updates from priority.redhat.com, while apt can get them from any mirror. Update-agent for rh6.1 only runs in an X session. I'd take debian apt-get any day. Peter Ross writes

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-27 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao Charles Lewis, > make menuconfig (or xconfig) > make dep (make clean??) > make bzImage > make modules > make modules_install > cp /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12 > rm /vmlinuz > ln -s /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12 /vmlinuz I have done this script for

Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat

1999-10-27 Thread Peter Ross
On 27-Oct-1999, Bart Szyszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * apt (the tool to keep your distribution up to date), it is by far > > the best part of Debian. The best bit about it is its ability to > > get packages from multiple sources and always pick up the latest > > one. >

postgresql install problem solved

1999-10-27 Thread Pollywog
I have been unable to install postgresql and I did a search for "postgresql" on Google's Linux search engine and I found a HOWTO which gave a clue about the problem. I thought I should remove the user "postgres" from my /etc/passwd because the HOWTO indicated that the installation should not find

Re: Sun goes fully open source! [OT]

1999-10-27 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 03:37:29PM -0700, aphro wrote: > i used to like IE more teh NS (back in 3.x) but ever since 4.x ive been > devoted to NS. all the security problems and that whole activeX thing > bugs me. that and the fact that i got mod_roaming for netscape, to update > my prefs/bookmarks

Re: Sun goes fully open source! [OT]

1999-10-27 Thread aphro
i used to like IE more teh NS (back in 3.x) but ever since 4.x ive been devoted to NS. all the security problems and that whole activeX thing bugs me. that and the fact that i got mod_roaming for netscape, to update my prefs/bookmarks/etc so my 500bookmarks are always available wherever i may be.

Re: potato auto fsck

1999-10-27 Thread eric k. wolven
Ed: I've noticed the same thing. When booting the system hangs at /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda7 on my system during e2fsck check. If I C-c, the system continues booting normally. When doing shutdown, I get a message that "/dev/hda7" is "busy" and is being mounted "read-only". So far as I've been a

Re: Sun goes fully open source! [OT]

1999-10-27 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 02:50:08PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > > > And that is important. I believe M$ already released a Unix version of > > outlook ... give them time and they'll do the same with M$ office; if > > by then, there's not a good, well supported,

Wp8 and Debian 2.1

1999-10-27 Thread NaNoFlaW
I getting a seg fault when I try to run xwp. this is the debug info Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x4017026f in strncmp () and this is the error message 3316 Segmentation fault $Platform/ins/$Exec $Menu $Values $bgcolor Warning: The graphical install program has fail

Re: Perl hashing problem

1999-10-27 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > My first table contains > As it comes without ordering on sizes, I want to sort it > in another hash table, so I make: > @New_Table = sort { $File_Table{$a} cmp $File_Table{b} } keys %File_Table; > > but when I

Re: Running MySQL not as 'root'

1999-10-27 Thread Pere Camps
Uurcus, > safe_mysqld --user=nobody & > Might be better if you use the pseudo-user `mysql': > safe_mysqld --user=mysql & Doesn't work. (root) ~ # safe_mysqld --user=mysql Starting mysqld demon with databases from /var/lib/mysql mysqld demon ended > I believe the default Debian confi

Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat

1999-10-27 Thread Bart Szyszka
> * apt (the tool to keep your distribution up to date), it is by far > the best part of Debian. The best bit about it is its ability to > get packages from multiple sources and always pick up the latest > one. What about up2date, though? I heard it was a program for Red Hat

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 for x86 Installation Problem

1999-10-27 Thread Robert J Cristel
Hi Hendy, I enjoyed your informative post.  I found it very interesting because I am having exactly the same problem.  To the gentlemen who tried to be helpful: the menu at this point of the install procedure offers a choice of 1) floppy 1 2) floppy 2 3) cdrom 4) harddisk 5) mounted >   

Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat

1999-10-27 Thread Peter Ross
On 26-Oct-1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've used both Debian (at home) and Redhat (at work). > Both have reasonable tools for managing software (dpkg for Debian, rpm for > Redhat). > > I've also done upgrades for both Debian and Redhat. > The upgrade I did for Debian took

Re: Gnome and E not working together... They do!

1999-10-27 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 12:54:47PM -0500, Kellman wrote: > Running potato, gnome tells me enlightenment is not gnome compliant when > I try to run the usual way with the line: > > exec gnome-session > > in my .xsession file. Is .16 of enlightenment not gnome compliant > anymore? > Any help would

Re: any need to upgrade kernel

1999-10-27 Thread Peter Ross
On 27-Oct-1999, aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > depends .. > > if your running SMP you may want to upgrade > if you want access to NTFS drives you may want to upgrade > if you use a TV card you may want to upgrade > > 2.2 provides some pretty good overall perforamnce boosters, but its clear >

Re: Running MySQL not as 'root'

1999-10-27 Thread Uurcus the Swale
--- Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I've just installed MySQL and I'm trying to run the server not as > root for security reason (any bug in a MySQL running as root could > compomise the system securirity). > > I'm brand new to MySQL so please don't blame me for obviou

Re: All mail to all hosts being bounced; why??

1999-10-27 Thread aphro
From: Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test from robotics Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> looks like its just a basic relaying problem. the mail server your using to send sees you from freserve.co.uk but you're telling it your from doctors.org.uk, in which case

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-27 Thread William Schwartz
- Original Message - From: Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 8:50 PM Subject: Re: Sun goes fully open source! > BTW, M$ would have some difficulties in supporting NCs; NT is not > multi-user. FYI: that is not true, not any more. Microsoft has

All mail to all hosts being bounced; why??

1999-10-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've been chasing this problem for over 2 weeks. Almost every mail I try to send from my main computer (Toshiba laptop) is rejected by the host I send to. Could some kind soul PLEASE suggest where I should look for the error? Here is a typical rejection message. I tried to send a test email to my

Re: removing user from group

1999-10-27 Thread Martin Fluch
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Another beginners question I`m afraid :-) I added myself to the group > "mail" which I now think may have been a mistake. What command do I > use to remove myself (or any other user) from a group? Thanks. Edit the file /etc/group: instead mail:x:8:y

netscape won't start through ssh

1999-10-27 Thread trapstep
Hi! when i try to run netscape through ssh, i get the following error: soma:~$ netscape X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication at Thu Oct 28 00:53:34 1999. a Rejected connection at Thu Oct 28 00:53:34 1999: X11 connection from soma.tvk.rwth-aachen.de port 4066 X connection to s

Running MySQL not as 'root'

1999-10-27 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I've just installed MySQL and I'm trying to run the server not as root for security reason (any bug in a MySQL running as root could compomise the system securirity). I'm brand new to MySQL so please don't blame me for obvious work-arounds. I've read the manual page a

removing user from group

1999-10-27 Thread paul
Another beginners question I`m afraid :-) I added myself to the group "mail" which I now think may have been a mistake. What command do I use to remove myself (or any other user) from a group? Thanks. Paul -- Paul Walton * Powered by * Cambridge* Deb

Re: Clock problems

1999-10-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Oct 1999, Robert Kerr wrote: > Hi all, > Whenever I boot to debian, my computer's clock gets set to some other > time. This morning I turned it on and all of a sudden it told me it was > three hours and 45 minutes earlier than my alarm clock said. I almost > went back to bed. Anyway, the o

Re: Sun goes fully open source! [OT]

1999-10-27 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > And that is important. I believe M$ already released a Unix version of > outlook ... give them time and they'll do the same with M$ office; if > by then, there's not a good, well supported, better marketeered, office

exim && received:-lines

1999-10-27 Thread Robert Waldner
How can I get exim to put the envelope-to in the received-line? please reply to the list, i'm not subscribed at home but at work... &rw

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-27 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > The pre-sun version was tied to a specific version of glibc. > When glibc in potato got upgraded SO 5.1 broke. s/5.1/5.01/ and you'll be correct. 5.1 worked fine with the potato glibc, except for the brief period

Re: Mozilla slow?

1999-10-27 Thread John Carline
Richard Weil wrote: > Have other people found Mozilla M9 -- the one packaged in potato -- to > be incredibly resource intensive? I'm using a 3.5 year old laptop with > a 120 Mhz Pentium, so I've tried to keep my setup simple; no GNOME or > KDE, just WindowMaker. But when I run Mozilla my CPU loa

Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat

1999-10-27 Thread aphro
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, William T Wilson wrote: > DPT raid controller drivers, I know, are distributed in source form. I > cannot think of any reason they would work with a RedHat kernel and not a > Debian kernel, as RedHat doesn't (AFAIK) currently modify the kernel. well, http://www.dpt.com/tec

zope problems

1999-10-27 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I installed zope and can't get it to run properly. Using the rewrite directive found in README.Debian.gz I was able to browse the doc's in http://localhost/Zope/. The problem is that if I try to call the management screen: Netscape never gets a return page; I can wait for minu

Gnome and Enlightenment not working together...

1999-10-27 Thread Kellman
Running potato, gnome tells me enlightenment is not gnome compliant when I try to run the usual way with the line: exec gnome-session in my .xsession file. Is .16 of enlightenment not gnome compliant anymore? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --

Re: Good News Reader?

1999-10-27 Thread Colin Marquardt
Hi, * Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...Gnus...] >> unfortunately not MIME-PGP, only clearsigning. Also no automated >> key-fetching for GPG. But that shouldn´t be too far away. > Do you mean MIME-PGP support should be coming, too? I hope so very much. > Emacs is very big (about 27Mb a

Re: Good News Reader?

1999-10-27 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried S O m, and it inserts all messages into the > one rfc822 sub-part, with a short description at the top. > I don't think this is valid rfc822, which AFAIK: [...] > Does Gnus support Maildir format? Not that I could see, but > perhaps I was looking

kernel upgrade options

1999-10-27 Thread John
Between the 16th and 18th, I asked for help regarding the subject above and received considerable assistance from Brad. I did say that when my upgrade efforts were concluded I would report. I have upgraded from 2.0.36 to 2.2.1 without appearing to cause any great disasters, and with surprising res

Re: restart exim

1999-10-27 Thread Jan Ludewig
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 12:11:11PM -0400, Richard Weil wrote: > How do you restart exim after changing exim.conf? The manual says to > send the daemon process a SIGHUP signal, but I can't find the daemon > process pid. you are probably starting it with "inetd"! "ps auxc|grep inetd" should give you

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-27 Thread Mike Werner
So far I've done the same as you, with one exception ... Charles Lewis wrote: > > Warning: newbie question... > > I have been able to recompile the kernel successfully a few times, but I'm > not sure what all is going on, and whether I am doing it the best way or > not. Here is an example of wha

Re: restart exim

1999-10-27 Thread Thorsten Jenal
on Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 12:11:11PM -0400, Richard Weil wrote: > How do you restart exim after changing exim.conf? The manual says to > send the daemon process a SIGHUP signal, but I can't find the daemon > process pid. > > Richard > as root: $ /etc/init.d/exim [reload | restart | force

Re: restart exim

1999-10-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 12:11:11PM -0400, Richard Weil wrote: > How do you restart exim after changing exim.conf? The manual says to > send the daemon process a SIGHUP signal, but I can't find the daemon > process pid. Hi Richie, do: kill -HUP , or /etc/init.d/exim restart JY -- Jean-Yves F. B

Install problems with latest potato disk set

1999-10-27 Thread Stan Brown
This weekend I downloaded the newest potato disk set (all what 18 disk) and tried to install on a mchine that used to run debian just fine. I am having aproblem this time thou :-) Basicly the machien has an NE-2000 cone NIC. While runing the initial install

Re: Linux/X and LCD projectors (sort of video beamer)

1999-10-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 06:06:57PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Hi, > The hardware vendor said that the projector can't show up modes at > high frequencies, only about 60--70 hz. There's no problem with > flickering because basically it is a LCD display. AFAIK the LCD's projectors cannot go f

Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat

1999-10-27 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, aphro wrote: > - many software products are designed for it and don't support other > distributions, not just software(applications) but drivers too. examples > would be drivers for DPT raid controllers and 3com network adapters(the DPT raid controller drivers, I know, are d

Re: network problems - sorry for thousands of mails

1999-10-27 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Just wanted to apologize about these X mails I sent. M$ Outlook Express gave me an error but still sent the mail properly, and that confused me. Sorry! Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger -- Sent through Global Message Exchange - http://www.gmx.net

Re: modem speed

1999-10-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 05:13:33PM +0200, Attila Csosz wrote: > I'm looking for a program that measures the speed of downloading( for example > for the wget program ). > ( better if it is console based or can be X-based ) > > Thanks > Attila Hun, hun :))) Use 'iptraf' on another console JY --

Re: gimp [SOLVED!]

1999-10-27 Thread Martin Fluch
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > Thanks, I followed these steps and now I can use ttf fonts in GIMP! > you know of any GIMP user mailing list? http://www.gimp.org/mailing_list.html :-) -- If the box says 'Windows 95 or better', it should run on Linux, right?

Re: gimp [SOLVED!]

1999-10-27 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Hi Martin! > Basically: install the xfstt package, put the fonts you want to use in > /usr/share/fonts/truetype, run a xfstt --sync and tell the xserver where > it can find the font server with xset fp+ unix/:7101 (I have put this line > into the /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 file (as I use xdm) ... gimp

Re: Clock problems

1999-10-27 Thread aphro
did u set the clock in the bios after u installed the MB ?? nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-3

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1867

1999-10-27 Thread Adam Greene
Please don't shoot me for asking this, but I have a very specific need in mind. Does anyone have information on building your own Linux distribution (I don't mind using Debian as a starting point), but I need to be able to tailor make the install process and configuration.

Re: Netscape and exim?

1999-10-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:23:45PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I have recently installed netscape 4.7 communicator on my slink system. > > I don't want to use for all my email, but would like to use it to email > messages to webmasters or while I am browsing the web. I cannot figure > out how to

Will 2.2.13 be packaged for potato ?

1999-10-27 Thread Shaul Karl
Will 2.2.13 be part of potato ?

Re: Clock problems

1999-10-27 Thread Martin Fluch
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Robert Kerr wrote: > Hi all, > Whenever I boot to debian, my computer's clock gets set to some other > time. This morning I turned it on and all of a sudden it told me it was > three hours and 45 minutes earlier than my alarm clock said. I almost > went back to bed. Anyway,

Clock problems

1999-10-27 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi all, Whenever I boot to debian, my computer's clock gets set to some other time. This morning I turned it on and all of a sudden it told me it was three hours and 45 minutes earlier than my alarm clock said. I almost went back to bed. Anyway, the only major thing I've done recently is install

SB128 responses

1999-10-27 Thread Jon Hughes
Wow, thanks to everyone who responded so quickly :-) "God, Root. What is the difference?" Pitr, User Friendly

cfdisk and fdisk with slink hang writing partition to SCSI disk...uh-oh

1999-10-27 Thread Martin Waller
Hi, I've come into an old DEC Prioris HX590DP server which has an aha2940/2940W scsi card, scsi disks a scsi CD and a scsi tape. Installing slink progresses to partiton a hrad disk, but when writing the partition table, cfdisk just sits there saying 'Writing partition table to disk...', and

Display named

1999-10-27 Thread j way
Hi, While executing an X application, 'can't find display named' comes up. Where do I look and what do I do? Running slink 2.0.36. I had a hd/hw prob which probably creamed some files. TIA for any suggestions.

Re: SB 128 PCI support?

1999-10-27 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 09:26:22AM -0400, Jon Hughes wrote: > What do people know about support for the Sound Blaster 128 PCI sound card > in Linux? I'm helping my brother convert to Debian and he wants to know > what sort of sound card he should get. Thanks :-) > I have one that came with my A

Re: Linux/X and LCD projectors (sort of video beamer)

1999-10-27 Thread Andrew Hately
Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Now I'm looking for a possibility to set down the monitor frequency > without losing to much of the picture quality. > > Any ideas? Change your mode lines. If there are not a hundred well commented mode lines alread in you XF86Config then read the video timings faq. I

restart exim

1999-10-27 Thread Richard Weil
How do you restart exim after changing exim.conf? The manual says to send the daemon process a SIGHUP signal, but I can't find the daemon process pid. Richard

Re: connection cost monitor anyone?

1999-10-27 Thread Shaul Karl
> I'm looking for a convenient way to monitor and log telephone costs > (using ppp in a country where telephone bills can *really* spoil the > day) but I can't seem to find a powerfull utility. > > At the moment I'm running pppcosts. It does the job, but I would like > something more full-featured

Linux/X and LCD projectors (sort of video beamer)

1999-10-27 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, I'm trying to use a LCD projector (video beamer) coupled to a PC to show up some PDF files and program usage to a beginners' course, but with no luck. All I could show was the text console, but as soon as I switched to X, the picture went away. The hardware vendor said that the projector can

KDE problems

1999-10-27 Thread Kristian Nylund
Hello everyone I have a problem running KDE, namely that it crashes on startup. The contents of .xsession-errors is kcontrol: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.2: undefined symbol: setPalette__9QLineEditRC8QPalette kaudioserver: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/li

dpkg problems

1999-10-27 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Hi, I am new to debian. I recently compiled and upgraded gtk. After that, whenever I install any package using apt-get it says: # apt-get install xfstt Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the follo

Weird Keybord in X and broken libc6?

1999-10-27 Thread tmh31
Why does my backspace key occasionally cease to work in X (except in xemacs)? And how do I prevent this and fix it when it does happen? And whats up with libc6 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt/archives#dpkg -i libc6_2.1.2-6_i386.deb (Reading database ... 32013 files and directories current

Re: gimp

1999-10-27 Thread Martin Fluch
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > how do i install new ttf fonts? apart from websites about gimp, is > there any mailing list dedicated to gimp on which users' discuss on > tips and tricks etc? Basically: install the xfstt package, put the fonts you want to use in /usr/share/fonts/tr

potato auto fsck

1999-10-27 Thread Randy Edwards
Has anyone noticed any oddities with the latest update to potato's e2fs programs? I upgraded three machines and two worked perfectly; the third, however, will hang upon running /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh. If I bypass the end of checkfs.sh (where it does the auto fsck) with an exit 0 the system

Re: your mail

1999-10-27 Thread Martin Fluch
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Kapten _rock wrote: > I have a question for you: > > HOW DO I MOUNT CDROM AND FLOPPY IN LINUX?:) > > and a dont knoe if i have master or slave cdrom drive? I have the following lines in /etc/fstab (among others): /dev/hdc/cdrom iso9660 defaults,user,no

Re: OPL3-Sax

1999-10-27 Thread Rune Linding Raun
what should be the difference ? DMA buffer allocation i tested that it didnt help, n i guess this prob is alot more subtle than shifting from oss->alsa :) thanks anyway On 27 Oct, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 01:53:26PM +0200, Rune Linding Raun wrote: >> i guess iam usi

modem speed

1999-10-27 Thread Attila Csosz
I'm looking for a program that measures the speed of downloading( for example for the wget program ). ( better if it is console based or can be X-based ) Thanks Attila -- --- - Debian 2.1 Linux / 2.2.9 / qmail - - Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]-

Re: Boot Hangs

1999-10-27 Thread aphro
i've had that prob too on an aha 2940UW. it appears to be fixed in the newer versions of bootdisks(if there are newer?) since i havent seen that problem on my machine in a while.. i also heard rumors that the aic78xx driver doesnt like to co exist with other scsi drivers and there was a boot disk

Re: rookie

1999-10-27 Thread aphro
what kind of paramters? and what kind of cdrom ? if its a standard IDE drive hooked to an IDE controller you shouldn't need any parameters it ought to detect it automagically. if its a non standard one using one of those old soundcard interfaces, you may need the I/O address(s) of it and the IRQ

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-27 Thread Carlos Carvalho
I use communicator 4.5 here with the latest glibc from unstable. It's a multi-user machine. It very often goes into an infinite loop eating all possible cpu. The only way to control netscrape is to set a time limit of 3min on it...

Re: any need to upgrade kernel

1999-10-27 Thread aphro
best place is kernel traffic. http://kt.linuxcare.com usually updated every tuesday. very well written! its great nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited

Re: What version of Netscape?

1999-10-27 Thread aphro
i use the 128bit version d/l from www.netscape.com (not available from ftp) 4.71 (or maybe its 4.70) communicator for linux 2.0 glibc. you can also get the "normal" 40-bit encryption one from ftp2.netscape.com and, if you like, download fortify from www.fortify.net to get it to support 128bit encr

Re: shh for Linux?

1999-10-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 13:57:03 -0800, Ben Lutgens wrote: > > wtf is shh? > > See http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/non-us/ssh.html Yes, but the question was `what is shh?' and not `what is ssh?'

Re: Passwordless ssh?

1999-10-27 Thread Robert Jones
Quoth Christopher J. Morrone on 27 Oct, 1999: > This is for the purpose of backups. I have public key of the machine > which is doing the connecting in the backup user's authorized keys file, > and the user that is doing the connecting is in the backup user's .shosts > file. However, the machine

Re: Diskless and Stare Office??

1999-10-27 Thread Jens Ritter
Benak Istvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > Someone please tell me, if I want to use a Diskless clients (p200 with > 64 MB ram) and a strong server and 10 Mb ethernet cards, how will run > the StarOffice 5.1 on the clients?? > Have anyone any experience with this?? I use staroffice over

Passwordless ssh?

1999-10-27 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
Can someone tell me how to enable passwordless ssh under potato? (ssh 1.2.26) This is for the purpose of backups. I have public key of the machine which is doing the connecting in the backup user's authorized keys file, and the user that is doing the connecting is in the backup user's .shosts f

Re: /var/log/ppp.log stays empty

1999-10-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
John Hasler wrote: > Peter writes: > > No it doesn't. I put in my slink CD, fired up Emacs with deb-view.el to > > edit deb file contents, and looked at the /etc/syslog.conf file in the > > package sysklogd_1.3-31.deb, and there are _no_ ppp entries. > > I believe you. I'm just saying that it'

Re: java for Office51 (was Re: installing StarOffice 5.1a for Linux)

1999-10-27 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
hi what about the JDK1.2? will it work? > jre_1.1.7-v1a-glibc-x86.tgz > jre_1.1.7-v1a-glibc-x86-native.tgz -gnana

Re: your mail

1999-10-27 Thread Evan Moore
for a cdrom: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom for this to work there must be an empty directory /cdrom and there must be the device /dev/cdrom do an ls to make sure these are there. If /cdrom does not exist: mkdir /cdrom If /dev/cdrom does not exist: ln /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom Will probably work

java for Office51 (was Re: installing StarOffice 5.1a for Linux)

1999-10-27 Thread Tom Allard
The standard slink jdk only includes green_threads, but Star Office requires native_threads. You can get everything you need from: ftp://ftp.progsoc.uts.edu.au/pub/Linux/java/JDK-1.1.7/i386/glibc/v1a/ (or try other mirrors, see: http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html) You nee

WindowMaker 0.61 breaks

1999-10-27 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Hi, I compiled and installed latest windowmaker version 0.61. When I create a new workspace, it crashes! and comes back to xdm login! why? known bug? I just can't stick on one workspace, gimme more. -gnana

gimp

1999-10-27 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Hi all, how do i install new ttf fonts? apart from websites about gimp, is there any mailing list dedicated to gimp on which users' discuss on tips and tricks etc? -gnana

Mozilla slow?

1999-10-27 Thread Richard Weil
Have other people found Mozilla M9 -- the one packaged in potato -- to be incredibly resource intensive? I'm using a 3.5 year old laptop with a 120 Mhz Pentium, so I've tried to keep my setup simple; no GNOME or KDE, just WindowMaker. But when I run Mozilla my CPU load goes shooting up and the wh

Re: rookie

1999-10-27 Thread denis miller
If you are using an IDE cdtom the drivers are built in to the installation disk. If not they are in the drivers disk. You can make both from the debian site or make an image from your cdrom under DOS. Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > First time user where do I get parameters for cd rom drive w

ide for perl

1999-10-27 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Hi all, I use vi or xemacs for all my editing/coding purposes. Some windoze user of mine asked me if there is any IDE for PERL like solution soft's perlbuilder. can anyone quote any perl compatible IDEs? I am going to search freshmeat too. -gnana

Re: Compact version for running on 486/33 or /66 with 8->32 Mb ram

1999-10-27 Thread denis miller
We at the CLUE Linux centre developed a minidebian distribution for use on the 486's we are setting up for youth centres and those unable to afford a PIII 9000MHz screamer. Go to our web site at http://centre.linux.ca. Denis Frank Copeland wrote: > Robert Parker wrote: > > >While worming throu

SB 128 PCI support?

1999-10-27 Thread Jon Hughes
What do people know about support for the Sound Blaster 128 PCI sound card in Linux? I'm helping my brother convert to Debian and he wants to know what sort of sound card he should get. Thanks :-) "God, Root. What is the difference?" Pitr, User Friendly

Re: boot messages (where are they?)

1999-10-27 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
/var/log/messages -gnana

Re: boot messages (where are they?)

1999-10-27 Thread Ookhoi
> The original question was about suppressing verbose messages at boot. My question: I want to know what the computer said at boot time. Something like dmesg. dmesg isn't useful anymore after a few months uptime, because it only contains new information which has pused the old boot messages out of

Perl hashing problem

1999-10-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I have a problem with 2 hash tables in perl: My first table contains As it comes without ordering on sizes, I want to sort it in another hash table, so I make: @New_Table = sort { $File_Table{$a} cmp $File_Table{b} } keys %File_Table; but when I print both tables on the screen, New_Tab

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-27 Thread Ed Cogburn
J Horacio MG wrote: > > > John Foster wrote: > > > Uh. It was already free, in the dollars and cents manner. They > > > really gave back/up nothing. > > > > I think they give an impression: from now on, StarOffice is supported by > > Sun. > > Yes, it's a world of marketing! Shame! > > > Uni

Diskless

1999-10-27 Thread Blazej Sawionek
Hi everybody (after more than half a year..) I want some diskless workstations to boot from my Linux box. I followed the steps described in miniHOWTO (although I can't understand the idea of having two catalogues: /export/root and /export/linux as described there) and reached the point when I have

Boot Hangs

1999-10-27 Thread Lyno Sullivan
I am trying to install Debian 2.1. My system hangs after writing the following messages to the screen. I have tried every BIOS, hardware and bootprompt I can think of. Can anyone help me or does anyone know if it is hanging in the SCSI initialization or if it has completes SCSI and is hanging on

Re: Network config problems - please help

1999-10-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 02:23:16PM +0200, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hello! > > I've finally solved it! Great, now you should have a look at your MUA and MTA, because you posted the same mail 5 times! JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is easier to change the specification to fi

rookie

1999-10-27 Thread kmarti
First time user where do I get parameters for cd rom drive when first loading drivers. Dick

Re: Network config problems - please help

1999-10-27 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! I've finally solved it! - The error messages by commenting some entries in the network script, - The card problem by changing the BIOS! Yeah, I can't believe it myself, but I simply had not remembered that a non-pnp card was using IRQ9 and I had not told that to the bios which also gave I

Re: Network config problems - please help

1999-10-27 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! I've finally solved it! - The error messages by commenting some entries in the network script, - The card problem by changing the BIOS! Yeah, I can't believe it myself, but I simply had not remembered that a non-pnp card was using IRQ9 and I had not told that to the bios which also gave I

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