terratec 128 i

1999-11-30 Thread luis
hello another question, please forgive me: which module i must install in the kernel to make work a terratec 128 i PCI sound card? i get the following lspci -vv for this card thanks a lot 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive (rev 01) Subsystem:

Re: Editing Mail Headers...

1999-11-30 Thread Peter Berlau
John Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ield > On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 04:41:16PM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote > > Hi all: > > > > I have exim set up to call a filter that changes my address in the > > From: header from my local address to the one assigned to me by my > > ISP. Apparently this cha

Re: slink and xfree86 3.3.5 questions

1999-11-30 Thread Andreas Schmidt
Try adding the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent xfree-update main Then "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" and you will get the XFree86 3.3.5 update for slink. Bye Andreas On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 12:06:48PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok,

Re: Joystick on a SB32

1999-11-30 Thread David Blackman
It works fine, it always has, I was loading the josytick driver with no joystick attached tahnks, --dave On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > "Ingles, Raymond" wrote: > > > > From: David Blackman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I have my SB32 autoconfigured by my BIOS, with sound supp

Re: CD-Writer recomendation!

1999-11-30 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > A friend of mine is interested in buying a CD-Writer. He asked me to > recomend a model to him, but I have no idea. Can anyone help me to go > through this situation? I am very happy with my Ricoh MP7040A. Johann -- Johann Spies,Windsorlaan 19

Re: Deactivate sunrpc service

1999-11-30 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Evan Moore wrote: > comment it out in /etc/services > if the daemons are not running, then you shouldn't have to worry about > someone using the "r" commands to break in to your system so this > shouldn't really be required. I've commented those lines and it was still listen

Re: IMAP errors

1999-11-30 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Marcin Kurc wrote: > It looks like there is something wrong with imap 4-7.1 > > Nov 30 12:03:25 student imapd[24798]: port 143 service init from 199.8.65.6 > Nov 30 12:03:25 student imapd[24798]: Login failure user=siemce > host=student.indtech.edu [199.8.65.6] > Nov 30 12:

Re: Which window manager do you recommend?

1999-11-30 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > hi guys, > > As of right now, I am currenlty running fvwm, and I want to know if I > should stick with this window manager or install a different. And if > so, what do you guys recommend? Keep in mind that I am running Debian > on a slo

Re: floppies' .bin

1999-11-30 Thread John Pearson
If you want to find out about the boot & base floppies, install the boot-floppies package that is used to build them. While it's not intended as a tutorial, it contains the information you're looking for. Floppy-split is a utility that comes with boot-floppies that splits a file across several d

Re: Editing Mail Headers...

1999-11-30 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 04:41:16PM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote > Hi all: > > I have exim set up to call a filter that changes my address in the > From: header from my local address to the one assigned to me by my > ISP. Apparently this changes only the From: content, however, the > >From (no colon) h

Re: Help on modules please

1999-11-30 Thread Gerard MacNeil
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Neil D. Roberts wrote: > - > ### This file is automatically generated by update-modules This line tells me that the file you need to edit is /etc/modutils/aliases You need to add the lines: -

Re: Help on modules please

1999-11-30 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Neil D. Roberts wrote: > Hello list; > > Sorry if those goes to the wrong list or people, and for it being to > long. I have a serious problem with this, or better said, with myself. I > don't know what to do and m time is sort of run

Re: Help on modules please

1999-11-30 Thread Marc Mongeon
Neil: This should work: /etc/conf.modules: options ne io=0x320,0x200,0x280 irq=09,03,15 /etc/modules: ne If not, try this: /etc/conf.modules: alias ne0 ne alias ne1 ne alias ne2 ne options ne0 io=0x320 irq=09 options ne1 io=0x200 irq=03 options ne2 io=0x280 irq=15 /etc/modules: ne0 ne1

Re: Help on modules please

1999-11-30 Thread Charlie Hedlin
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Neil D. Roberts wrote: > Hello list; > > Sorry if those goes to the wrong list or people, and for it being to > long. I have a serious problem with this, or better said, with myself. I > don't know what to do and m time is sort of running out. I managed to > find out

RE: Joystick on a SB32

1999-11-30 Thread Ingles, Raymond
> From: Adam C Powell IV [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Ingles, Raymond" wrote: > > > From: David Blackman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I have my SB32 autoconfigured by my BIOS, with sound support > > > in my kernel, how can I get the joystick port on my SB32 to work > > > without turning off auto

Re: Need help with pppd

1999-11-30 Thread Darren Benham
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: >when I hook up the pppd starts ok, but when I try to use a application like >lynx (and several others) all I get is a message saying that they cannot >find the remote connection. > > Do you have the option: defaultroute set?

Re: A gateway solution ?

1999-11-30 Thread Neil D. Roberts
Internal Network Computers (192.168.1.10 to 192.168.1.254) | | Default Gateway Computer (192.168.1.1) | ---Internet--

Help on modules please

1999-11-30 Thread Neil D. Roberts
Hello list; Sorry if those goes to the wrong list or people, and for it being to long. I have a serious problem with this, or better said, with myself. I don't know what to do and m time is sort of running out. I managed to find out some more information about what I have and what I need.

Re: Gibberish on switching X to console

1999-11-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Nov 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I've just installed Debian on my son's computer; everything has gone > > pretty smoothly except that when I switch from X to a console I > > frequently get gibberish. I can't clear it with re

Re: slink and xfree86 3.3.5 questions

1999-11-30 Thread aphro
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alice >Ok, I installed debian on my system a few weeks ago with a slink alice >cdrom. There has been some indication that some misbehavior by my alice >Number Nine card might be because I'm not using XFree86 3.3.5 alice >To put that on my system would

Re: same-gnome kills sawmill

1999-11-30 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 02:26:46PM +, Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following looks to me like a bug against sawmill: Launch the "same > gnome" game and click the "maximize" button. This always logs me out of > the gnome-session (which is my only command in .xsession) killing a

Re: RAID trouble with SMP kernels

1999-11-30 Thread aphro
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Adam C Powell IV wrote: hazels >Is it at all possible this could be a kernel compiler issue? I built the kernel with hazels >the latest gcc, which is 2.95.2-3. hazels > hazels >If no answer by Friday I'll go to to the vger kernel list. ouch!!! dont ever ever ever ever ever

Re: Deactivate sunrpc service

1999-11-30 Thread aphro
rename /sbin/portmap if your using slink most likely portmap is started from the netbase script in /etc/init.d nate On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: nemanu >Hi, nemanu > nemanu > Using strobe I can check that i'm using the sunrpc service: nemanu > nemanu >sunrpc

Re: ppp

1999-11-30 Thread aphro
On 30 Nov 1999, John Hasler wrote: john >I use it for ipmasquarading. Works well. i do ipmasq too, but all my masq is only about 6 lines in /etc/init.d/network .. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.fi

Re: A gateway solution ?

1999-11-30 Thread Marc Mongeon
Neil: I think your original question boils down to: "How do I get this machine to act like a gateway?" Briefly, the answer is: 1. Compile the kernel with IP forwarding and IP masquerading enabled. 2. Use ipchains to do firewalling. 3. Use ipmasqadm to do network address translation. So: a

Re: Athlon and debian

1999-11-30 Thread aphro
to save yourself a lot of trouble id reccomend installing debian on another box, upgrade the kernel, take the hd out and slap it in the athlon. nate On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote: j.l.go >Hi! j.l.go >We're buying an Athlon based system. I'd like to use Debian with it, j.l

Re: slink and xfree86 3.3.5 questions

1999-11-30 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 30 Nov, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "slink and xfree86 3.3.5 questions" > Ok, I installed debian on my system a few weeks ago with a slink > cdrom. There has been some indication that some misbehavior by my > Number Nine card might be because I'm not using XFree86 3.3.5 > To put that on m

postfix & multiple domains

1999-11-30 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
Hi, I administer a mailserver that receives mail for two domains. By default users on the mailserver are able to receive mail for both domains now. Can I tell postfix that a certain group of users exists only in one domain, while other users exist only in the other domain? Wouter

IMAP errors

1999-11-30 Thread Marcin Kurc
It looks like there is something wrong with imap 4-7.1 Nov 30 12:03:25 student imapd[24798]: port 143 service init from 199.8.65.6 Nov 30 12:03:25 student imapd[24798]: Login failure user=siemce host=student.indtech.edu [199.8.65.6] Nov 30 12:03:28 student imapd[24798]: AUTHENTICATE LOGIN failure

"Webalizer"like for squid

1999-11-30 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi I wonder if there is something like webalizer to generate squid usage graphs. I already know calamaris but it's all very textual and you know the bosses, it has to be in colors and with nice little graphics. Thank you -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.

slink and xfree86 3.3.5 questions

1999-11-30 Thread alice
Ok, I installed debian on my system a few weeks ago with a slink cdrom. There has been some indication that some misbehavior by my Number Nine card might be because I'm not using XFree86 3.3.5 To put that on my system would I be leaving slink territory and heading into potato territory? Would it

Re: RIVA128 (nVidia) card works, but loses cursor in emacs ...

1999-11-30 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Jinsong Zhao wrote: > I tried XF86 3.3.5 deb. The XF86_SVGA does not support Riva128 yet. huh!?! it works quite well with my Viper 330, no 3D acceleration of course > So > I was still using the one downloaded from nVidia, which is 3.3.3. > > No clue ... > > Jinsong 3.3.

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-11-30 Thread Joe Block
Randy Edwards wrote: > > Has anyone tried taking the freebie Corel Linux install and upgrading it to > slink? > > I saw that Corel left the slink entries commented out in > /etc/apt/sources.list and was curious as to what would go on if someone did > an update and an apt-get dist-upgrade. I've b

Re: RAID trouble with SMP kernels

1999-11-30 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Is it at all possible this could be a kernel compiler issue? I built the kernel with the latest gcc, which is 2.95.2-3. If no answer by Friday I'll go to to the vger kernel list. Adam C Powell wrote: > Greetings, > > About two months ago, I built 2.2.12 with SMP and RAID 5 for my > dual-Celero

Re: Deactivate sunrpc service

1999-11-30 Thread Evan Moore
comment it out in /etc/services if the daemons are not running, then you shouldn't have to worry about someone using the "r" commands to break in to your system so this shouldn't really be required. On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: > Hi, > > Using strobe I can check that i'm

Re: Which window manager do you recommend?

1999-11-30 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Tam Than Ma wrote: > As of right now, I am currenlty running fvwm, and I want to know if I should > stick with this window manager or install a different. And if so, what do > you guys recommend? Keep in mind that I am running Debian on a sl

Re: Joystick on a SB32

1999-11-30 Thread Adam C Powell IV
"Ingles, Raymond" wrote: > > From: David Blackman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have my SB32 autoconfigured by my BIOS, with sound support > > in my kernel, how can I get the joystick port on my SB32 to work > > without turning off auto-PNP in BIOS, and isapnp'ing it. > > I'm not sure you can.

Re: A gateway solution ?

1999-11-30 Thread Neil D. Roberts
Thanks for the info, ok, to cut things short, they can all install on "ne" (Compatible NE2000 Ethernet Card). I think that is what you meant by modules. Russell Coker wrote: > Why have 500M of swap? As your machine only has 32M of RAM it will be almost > unusable if it ever uses more than 64M of

Deactivate sunrpc service

1999-11-30 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Hi, Using strobe I can check that i'm using the sunrpc service: sunrpc 111/tcp portmapper# RPC 4.0 portmapper TCP I don't need it and don't know how to remove it! I already commented all the lines referring to it on /etc/inetd.conf and even also removed all daemons. Meanwhil

Re: Sound Card

1999-11-30 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, I still dont get the sound configured. It appears that I have a CMI 8330 3D Audio Adapter and a ESS 1869 (two sound cards???!?!?) in the same machine. My Ethernet card only wants to work in IRQ 5 that is the recommended IRQ for ESS1868 kernel documentation. If an

Which window manager do you recommend?

1999-11-30 Thread Tam Than Ma
hi guys, As of right now, I am currenlty running fvwm, and I want to know if I should stick with this window manager or install a different. And if so, what do you guys recommend? Keep in mind that I am running Debian on a slow computer, so speed is big plus. But a manager that provides nice looki

Re: A gateway solution ?

1999-11-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Neil D. Roberts wrote: > Now, the question would be the Gateway Machine. I have a machine >here with 32Mb, a boot partition of 150 Mb as root file system, a 100 Mb >partition mounted as /var and all the rest as swap partition (about 500 Why have 500M of swap? As your ma

Re: HP Laserjet 1100

1999-11-30 Thread Phillip Rulon
Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 08:39:39 -0200 From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List:

A gateway solution ?

1999-11-30 Thread Neil D. Roberts
Hi debian list users; I have a little problem called lack of knowledge. Apart from being the kernel virgin man, I also am the unexperienced in many aspects. Lack of knowledge is nasty, because if I knew what programs to use for what and when, then I would be able to do some more. I'll comp

Re: play

1999-11-30 Thread Remco van 't Veer
That's because it's not installed on your box! ;-) I tried to say that (on my box) play is in the sox package.. HTH, Remco On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 15:16, Marco Giardini wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 02:49:37PM +0100, Mr.Remco van 't Veer wrote: > > $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/play > > sox: /usr/bin/

RE: Joystick on a SB32

1999-11-30 Thread Ingles, Raymond
> From: David Blackman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have my SB32 autoconfigured by my BIOS, with sound support > in my kernel, how can I get the joystick port on my SB32 to work > without turning off auto-PNP in BIOS, and isapnp'ing it. I'm not sure you can. Somehow the card needs to be told to

Re: Sound Card

1999-11-30 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Hola Paulo, I checked /usr/src/linux/Documentation and found a document called ESS ... I've attached it to the foot of this message. It sounds like you need the soundblaster module (sb.o). These's another doc specific to the ESS1868, don't know if this might also apply to your board's chip. Use

problem with base-passwd after update

1999-11-30 Thread Pollywog
I upgraded potato and this is what I got: Setting up base-passwd (3.0.7) ... Checking if your system passwd, shadow and group files are correct... Adding user "news" (9) Adding user "majordom" (30) Adding user "alias" (70) Adding user "qmaild" (71) Adding user "qmails" (72) Adding user "qmailr" (7

Xlib / imake

1999-11-30 Thread rnewton3
Hi all, I'm working my way through the O'Reilly Xlib book for something to do at work and I've hit a problem. If I try and build the first "basicwin.c" file using $gcc -g -owin basicwin.c -lXlib I get ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory and if I try and build

Re: ppp

1999-11-30 Thread John Hasler
aphro writes: > the package ipchains has caused nothing but trouble, it enables a > firewall with all policies set to DENY (blocking all incoming and > outgoing traffic) every time a ppp link is brought up. try to traceroute > me, 208.222.179.31 (you cant ping it but u can trace it) > anyone know

Re: play

1999-11-30 Thread Remco van 't Veer
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/play sox: /usr/bin/play On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 13:33, Marco Giardini wrote: > on a machine i have the play binary to play wav files. I'm now on a > different server but i cannot find the .deb package containing play. > where the hell is it ? > > thanks > > > marco -- BA

Re: lost HDD space

1999-11-30 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 01:58:28PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an 8.5 Gig HDD but my total partition space > comes to only 7.2 Gigs. Id there a way for me to > create a new partition to use the missing 1.3 Gigs. > > I've been using SAMBA to copy my kids games to the >

Re: Enlightenment?

1999-11-30 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, Did anyone get E installed? When I do an "apt-get install enlightenment" YES, I got it working well on slink, with apt-get. I have included my sources.list below. I think I got the ~vincent pointers from gnome.org, can't remember. Also, I may have reordered the last 2 lines to th

play

1999-11-30 Thread Marco Giardini
on a machine i have the play binary to play wav files. I'm now on a different server but i cannot find the .deb package containing play. where the hell is it ? thanks marco -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |m|a|r|c|o| |g|i|a|r|

Re: HP Laserjet 1100

1999-11-30 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Thanks, I will try this tomorrow when installing the computer. Quoting Cyrus Patel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi Paulo, > > I'm one of Shao's friends who uses a hp1100 (great printer btw). > > To get it printing under Debian I use magicfilter. The other software - > gs or gs-ala

Re: HP Laserjet 1100

1999-11-30 Thread Cyrus Patel
Hi Paulo, I'm one of Shao's friends who uses a hp1100 (great printer btw). To get it printing under Debian I use magicfilter. The other software - gs or gs-aladdin, lpr or lprng is purely your choice. To set up the printer type (as root): magicfilterconfig (delete /etc/printcap

Sound Card

1999-11-30 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I'm installing Debian in an old Pentium 100 that I dont have the specifications and my friends tell me that there is an onboard sound card. I tried a pnpdump > /etc/isapn.conf and then isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf and the result is: bash:~# isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf

Re: staroffice, potato (patching the kernel)

1999-11-30 Thread J Horacio MG
> Bernhard Rieder said: > > "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > Well, I have potato with 2.2.13 and StarOffice working fine here. Any > > idea what the patch applies to? Perhaps I'm not using whatever it is > > that breaks it. > > Maybe this applies only to SO 5.1 (from StarDivision) and not to > SO 5.

Athlon and debian

1999-11-30 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
Hi! We're buying an Athlon based system. I'd like to use Debian with it, but it looks as if that won't be as simple as advertised :) I am aware that I'd need a newer kernel (2.2.13ish) in order to boot. I can possibly do that now (else, I'll beg for one :D), even though it's gonna be too b

ProvidesLanguage

1999-11-30 Thread Vicente Torres
After upgrading to potato, I'm having problems compiling latex documents with babel declaration. The referred error is: ! Undefined control sequence. l.20 \ProvidesLanguage {spanish} I know this is a known bug (because I have found it in other mailing lists' archives), and

Re: Stuffit (was Unidentified subject!)

1999-11-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On 30/11/99 Alberto Maurizi wrote: Does anybody know how to "unstuff" MacIntosh archives under Linux? (i.e., a replacement for StuffIt Expander). no such thing, stuffit is a very proprietary file format and aladdin has refused numerous requests for specs on it so that a decompressor

Re: HP Laserjet 1100

1999-11-30 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, thanks. I'm going to install Debian Slink in my teacher's computer (replacing his RedHat) and want to get the printer to work. If you can send me the printcap and what softwares (magicfilter or apsfilter, gs or gs-alladin fonts) they installed, this will be great

Unidentified subject!

1999-11-30 Thread Alberto Maurizi
Does anybody know how to "unstuff" MacIntosh archives under Linux? (i.e., a replacement for StuffIt Expander). Cheers, Alberto Maurizi

help

1999-11-30 Thread Sprovski Bozidar
Anyone having tips about installing X on a Rage IIc graphics card. The Rage II driver doesn't work Bozidar

HP Laserjet 1100

1999-11-30 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, anyone knows if HP Laserjet 1100 works in Debian? Thanks, Paulo Henrique -- Abraços,PH Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Consultant Linux Solutions -- http://www.linuxsolutions.com.br Av. Preside

Scuse per il messaggio cretino

1999-11-30 Thread Gianmario Nava
Mi scuso con tutti quanti per il messaggio cretino precedente Non l'ho spedito io, ma sono comunque responsabile di mancata custodia del computer... Ancora scuse Gianmario Nava -- Gianmario Nava Ambio S.r.l. Laboratorio per l'Ambiente e il Territorio C/o Environment Park Via Livorno 60 10144 Torin

Re: How to Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";}; with /etc/apt/apt.conf?

1999-11-30 Thread Martin Dickopp
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Shaul Karl wrote: > i have: > > DPkg > { > // Auto re-mounting of readonly /usr > Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";}; > Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount,ro /usr";}; > } > > which always works for mounting rw but does not always work for > remounting ro because after ins

Re: Editing Mail Headers...

1999-11-30 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 11/29/99 10:10PM, aphro wrote: > > sorry i dont know enough about perl or how to manually modify mail headers > to check your code if that is the problem :) > That's okay, neither do I ;) I was able to reply to mail sent from home to an account on the server hosting the people who were havin

[no subject]

1999-11-30 Thread Robert G. Caffary Jr.
We have software that count pages in PCL & Postscript.   Bob Caffary Document Dynamics, Inc.

Re: Installation from windows partition

1999-11-30 Thread Shaul Karl
If C: is the first partition of that HD then I would try /dev/hda1. I am not sure whether what you are trying should work but I did not install for a long time so I guess you follow a procedure you have read or heard about. --- Begin Message --- In dselect i made the selection of a harddisk to

Re: using X Toolkit API...- Pushbutton.h? (SOLVED)

1999-11-30 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, I figured it out. The widgets used in the Xt examples are not from any standard widget set. They are presented in chapter 10 of the 900+ page book. John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: How to Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";}; with /etc/apt/apt.conf?

1999-11-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On 30/11/99 Shaul Karl wrote: Your lines are exactly as mine, aren't they? However I do not think that I have a problem similar to yours because remounting manually before and after apt-get runs is working. Maybe some other setting in /etc/apt/apt.conf changes the behavior of these lines. Can

Re: How to Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";}; with /etc/apt/apt.conf?

1999-11-30 Thread Shaul Karl
> On 30/11/99 Shaul Karl wrote: > > >I tried to change the Pre-Invoke and Post-Invoke lines of /etc/apt/apt.conf > >so > >that it would pre mount and post mount my /usr which is normally mounted ro, > >but failed. > >How should I do it correctly? > > it looks like you copied the example conf fro

Re: security and guest accounts

1999-11-30 Thread Martin Dickopp
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 30/11/99 Martin Dickopp wrote: > > >Read the section "Restricted Shell" in the bash documentation; this > >might be what you're looking for. In restricted mode, you can > >control what commands bash can execute, so you could limit them > >to telnet a

Re: ppp

1999-11-30 Thread aphro
you sure you got the ip addresses correct? it appears to be one of those internal (non registered) networks. anwyays, it sounds to me that the gateway may not be correct. what does pppd report to you when you connect? check /var/log/messages Nov 29 21:52:12 aphro pppd[10772]: Connect: ppp0 <-->

Re: security and guest accounts

1999-11-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On 30/11/99 Martin Dickopp wrote: Read the section "Restricted Shell" in the bash documentation; this might be what you're looking for. In restricted mode, you can control what commands bash can execute, so you could limit them to telnet and ssh. I tried this out once, it was interesting, but

Re: storm linux?

1999-11-30 Thread aphro
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Nathan York wrote: craz >what do you all think of the stormix distribution, it is based off of the craz >deb packages.. any opinions, i was thinking of putting it on one of my craz >boxes. i'm always up for a new distro, esp if its easy..corel took about 30mins to install..i

Re: Portmap deamon removal

1999-11-30 Thread aphro
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote: bryan. >use a given service, one should remove it. However, I am not sure bryan. >about how or if I should remove portmap. Doing an "rpcinfo -p" bryan. >gives: from what ive seen portmapper is only needed for RPC services such as NFS and mountd, both

Re: How to Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";}; with /etc/apt/apt.conf?

1999-11-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On 30/11/99 Shaul Karl wrote: I tried to change the Pre-Invoke and Post-Invoke lines of /etc/apt/apt.conf so that it would pre mount and post mount my /usr which is normally mounted ro, but failed. How should I do it correctly? it looks like you copied the example conf from /usr/share/doc you

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-11-30 Thread aphro
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Randy Edwards wrote: redwar >I saw that Corel left the slink entries commented out in redwar >/etc/apt/sources.list and was curious as to what would go on if someone did redwar >an update and an apt-get dist-upgrade. I've been playing with the idea of redwar >testing it her

Re: staroffice, potato (patching the kernel)

1999-11-30 Thread aphro
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Eric G . Miller wrote: egm2 >Well, I have potato with 2.2.13 and StarOffice working fine here. Any egm2 >idea what the patch applies to? Perhaps I'm not using whatever it is egm2 >that breaks it. from what i got off the mailing list (see kt.linuxcare.com) it had to do with th

Re: no gw ping

1999-11-30 Thread aphro
I replied to something similar 3 mins ago maybe your the same guy, the problem looks to me like the kernel thinks 192.168.100.254 network is on your PPP connection not on your ethernet connection. nate On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, luis wrote: luis >Kernel IP routing table luis >Destination Gateway

Re: route back

1999-11-30 Thread aphro
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, luis wrote: luis >hello luis > luis >with ppp, i can make a telnet from my local linux to a remote host, but luis >i can not make the inverse, a telnet from the remote to my local luis > luis >which course of action must i take? Try connecting to other services via telnet, po

Re: Editing Mail Headers...

1999-11-30 Thread aphro
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: mwagno >Hi all: mwagno > mwagno >I have exim set up to call a filter that changes my address in the mwagno >From: header from my local address to the one assigned to me by my mwagno >ISP. Apparently this changes only the From: content, however, the mwagno >>

Re: Intellimouse configuration in XF86Setup

1999-11-30 Thread aphro
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, dan sampsel wrote: sampse >Am doing a new install & can't get mouse to work. It is an Intellimouse sampse >Trackball (PS/2), BUT, I have it connected through an adaptor to the sampse >serial port. I've tried tried ps/aux with "Intellimouse" sampse >highlightednothing. I've

Re: staroffice , potato , unrecoverable error

1999-11-30 Thread John Leget
Same here ran strace but its gobledegook to me >:0). unfortunately, what does it mean ??. By the way its SO5.1a that im running, the problem also occures on a HDD im setting up for a mate == clean potato install, clean SO5.1a install. ( bugger :( ) cheers Gerhard Kroder wrote: > "Eric G . Mill

Re: thanks

1999-11-30 Thread aphro
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, luis wrote: luis >Kernel IP routing table luis >Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface luis >192.168.100.254 * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 the problem here is the route is bound to the ppp0 device not eth

Re: file permisions in /etc

1999-11-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On 30/11/99 Quietman wrote: I don't think that is likely to work since bit one is the execute bit and most config files don't need to be executed, just read by the program that needs them. he does not mean the files in /etc, he suggested leaving the file's permissions alone and changing the /

storm linux?

1999-11-30 Thread Nathan York
what do you all think of the stormix distribution, it is based off of the deb packages.. any opinions, i was thinking of putting it on one of my boxes. craz

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-11-30 Thread Joey Hess
Randy Edwards wrote: > Has anyone tried taking the freebie Corel Linux install and upgrading it to > slink? That's pretty pointless. Corel linux *is* slink with a very few changes, most of which are upgrades. Thus, there is nothing in slink to upgrade to. Please see http://www.debian.org/News/week

Re: Enlightenment/GNOME sound

1999-11-30 Thread ferret
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Brad wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 12:32:36AM +, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > > > Has anybody with GNOME and Enlightenment installed lose sound effects > > from Enlightenment in the last week? I haven't changed E, it just > > stopped working. I have been upgradin

Re: Installation from windows partition

1999-11-30 Thread Kent West
> Woodrow Lovett wrote: > > In dselect i made the selection of a harddisk to install from. I have > down loaded the packages into a file folder named project along with > a-out. this folder is located in C:\MyDocuments\project\dpkg. > dselect ask for a block device., Which I assume to be the hardd

Portmap deamon removal

1999-11-30 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Folks, I was reading Linux Firewalls, and it mentioned that if I did not need the portmap deamon, that I should not be running it. Sound advice, and it's pretty standard practice that if one doesn't use a given service, one should remove it. However, I am not sure about how or if I should

Re: staroffice, potato (patching the kernel)

1999-11-30 Thread Randy Edwards
> Well, I have potato with 2.2.13 and StarOffice working fine here. What's really strange is that I've got this machine which SO 5.1a works great on. In my laptop, however (and which I need for a presentation day after tomorrow which I did in SO!), StarOffice errors. Both boxes run the lat

Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-11-30 Thread Randy Edwards
Has anyone tried taking the freebie Corel Linux install and upgrading it to slink? I saw that Corel left the slink entries commented out in /etc/apt/sources.list and was curious as to what would go on if someone did an update and an apt-get dist-upgrade. I've been playing with the idea of testing

Re: no gw ping

1999-11-30 Thread luis
hello nop, unfortunately no i can: ping machines outside my lan i can not: ping machines inside my lan ping me myself (to my IP) from other machines ! where could be the mistake ? thanks a lot

Re: staroffice, potato (patching the kernel)

1999-11-30 Thread Bernhard Rieder
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > Well, I have potato with 2.2.13 and StarOffice working fine here. Any > idea what the patch applies to? Perhaps I'm not using whatever it is > that breaks it. Maybe this applies only to SO 5.1 (from StarDivision) and not to SO 5.1a from Sun but I'm not sure about (I have

Re: staroffice, potato (patching the kernel)

1999-11-30 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 08:12:32AM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > > I believe the patch i mentioned (from kt.linuxcare.com) doesn't *yet* > exist as far as i know, SO should work with 2.2.10 although i bet > 2.2.13 would break it (i have SO working on slink on 2.2

Re: no gw ping

1999-11-30 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > in ppp, i get with ifconfig ppp0: > > ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol > inet addr:195.243.107.196 P-t-P:192.168.100.254 > Mask:255.255.255.255 > UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Met

fvwm does not provide x-window-manager?

1999-11-30 Thread Shaul Karl
I wonder why fvwm does not provides x-window-manager. The following is copy and paste from deslect: dselect - recursive package listing mark:+/=/- verbose:v help:? EIOM Pri Section Package Description **_ Opt x11 twm Tab window manager

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