COMO CONFIGURAR UN SERVIDOR UNIX.......

2000-01-16 Thread marisol claudia
Hola Amigo: Espero que te encuentres bien donde quiera que te encuentres,vi tu pagina web y me intereso muchisimo, bueno para no quitarte mucho tiempo sere breve, soy una estudiante de computacion, nos han dejado un trabajo de investigacion que se trata de lo siguiente: Implementar una

Re: problemas con repetición de teclado

2000-01-16 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 05:42:40AM +0100, Agustin MuNoz wrote: Con kbdrate -r 25 lo arreglo cada vez pero es un coñazo, y no he conseguido encontrar nada en el /etc/init.d/ que lo ponga así, tampoco en /etc/kbd/config. Que paquete es el que toquitea esto ? kbdrate ? porsiaca he mirado en

Return Message

2000-01-16 Thread ORAPOST
The included message could not be delivered to the following invalid mail names. Please verify these names and try them again. Bad name: jcarlosh ---BeginMessage--- On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 05:42:40AM +0100, Agustin MuNoz wrote: Con kbdrate -r 25 lo arreglo cada vez pero es un coñazo, y no

Re: [saK] y Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas

2000-01-16 Thread Manel Marin
hola a todos, On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 01:50:07AM +0100, Hue-Bond wrote: El domingo 09 de enero de 2000 a la(s) 22:13:33 +0100, Manel Marin contaba: (Nadie ha sabido decirme que comando usar para reiniciar el modo grafico VGA) El paquete svgatextmode tiene buena pinta. 'man stm':

[SOLUCIONADO] Re: dselect en citius-slink no funciona con kernel 2.2.X ?solucion?

2000-01-16 Thread Manel Marin
Hola a todos, Os envio una chuleta con la solución (comprobada ;-) On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 09:56:42PM +0100, Manel Marin wrote: Hola a todos, Ya me he cansado de hacerme el macho y cargar paquetes a pelo con el mc ;-) Si arranco con un kernel 2.2.X no me funciona el dselect, bueno puedo

Re: dselect en citius-slink no funciona con kernel 2.2.X ¿solucion?

2000-01-16 Thread Manel Marin
Hola Alberto, On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 01:11:17PM +, Alberto F. Hamilton Castro wrote: ... Despues haces un 'apt-cdrom add' para CD, o directamente con dselect en Access, y el correspondiente 'update'. Me ha ido fenomenal !, Voy a enviar una chuleta detallada a la lista ;-)

Re: Sonido, otra vez.

2000-01-16 Thread SKaVeN
Hell-o Pookie! El día Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 09:55:01AM +0100 decías: no creo, si tiene un sond balster por ahi en medio tiene que poner algo de Sound Blastar 0x220 DSP 4.13 detected o similar... yo nunca he visto un mensaje como ese y mi AWE funcionaba sin problemas -- Nos leemos...

Re: problemas con repetición de teclado

2000-01-16 Thread Agustin MuNoz
El dom, 16 de ene de 2000, a las 12:54:17 -0300, Marcelo Ramos va y dice: El script de booteo del paquete kbd es /etc/rc.boot/kbd. Así que pon la orden kbdrate -r 25 allí. Ok, puedo poner un script nuevo porque no hay ningún /etc/rc.boot/kbd ~# ls -l /etc/rc.boot/ total 3 -rwxr-xr-x

Re: Engañar a APT

2000-01-16 Thread Han Solo
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 10:12:55PM +0100, Francisco Callejo wrote: Hola. Total, que ahora cada vez que utilizo apt me da un error de dependencias y la única solución que me ofrece es desinstalar tetex-bin y todos los paquetes que dependen de él. Como no estoy dispuesto a hacerlo, tengo dos

Re: Linux Expo en Madrid

2000-01-16 Thread Fernando Sanchez
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote: algo. Pero por otro lado, es posible que den metros cuadrados gratis para poner un stand de Debian. La pregunta es, ¿interesa esto? (en Yo en principio tengo intención de estar por allí, aunque no sé si todo el tiempo en un supuesto stand

Imagen tapiz (último)

2000-01-16 Thread Emilio Hernández Martín
Hola. Muchas gracias a todos por las múltiples respuestas sobre el tema de colocar una imagen como fondo del escritorio. Lo que me gustaría saber es cómo (o dónde, para ser más exacto) se pueden poner esas sentencias para que se ejecuten al entrar en linux (con XDM) y ya aparezca el

Help with cable modem...

2000-01-16 Thread Ryan Losh
Hello: I am scheduled to have Road Runner service installed next wednesday. I've gone to the trouble of building a decoy box with Windows 95 installed so that the installer doesn't give me any trouble when he/she's here to install the service. I live in Topeka, Kansas, and I don't think

Printing woes

2000-01-16 Thread Howard Mann
Hi All, When I print a document from Netscape ( e-mail or webpage) or Acroreader (.pdf doc) ,the printed fonts are huge and offset to the right half of the page.Of course, only a small portion of the page is thus printed. This does not occur when I print an ASCII page from, say, kedit. I use

Re: Help with cable modem...

2000-01-16 Thread Howard Mann
Ryan Losh wrote: Hello: I am scheduled to have Road Runner service installed next wednesday. I've gone to the trouble of building a decoy box with Windows 95 installed so that the installer doesn't give me any trouble when he/she's here to install the service. I live in Topeka,

Re: Where to find Printer Drivers

2000-01-16 Thread Andreas Schmidt
According to http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/show_printer.cgi?recnum=96512 it is mostly supported by ghostscript with the bjc600 driver. Bye Andreas On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 12:09:59PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I was wondering if anyone knew how I could get drivers for a Canon

Re: Debian Hardware Certification??

2000-01-16 Thread aphro
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Carl Greco wrote: cgreco [http://www.redhat.com/support/hardware]. It would be helpful to have cgreco such a database for Debian to encourage commerical utilization. Is cgreco there one that I have overlooked? linux is linux, with the exception of some 3rd party binary

Re: vim / ssh / backspace

2000-01-16 Thread Brian May
Christopher == Christopher S Swingley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christopher My .bashrc on the work machine has: stty erase ^h in Christopher it, if that makes any difference. Shouldn't you be using: stty erase ^? ??? This seems to be the Debian standard. (actually, normally you

config script for ghostscript

2000-01-16 Thread Markus Schaub
Hi! Isn't it possible to run the script which configures the printers in /etc/printcap (I think it is included in the gs package) a second time after installing it? I don't want to create all the directories in /var/spool/lpd manually but I can't find the script. (I think it must be a script

Re: unexpected end of file

2000-01-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'bash: /root/.profile: line 11: syntax error: unexpected end of file' i would would view this file with mc, switching to hex-mode and look for suspicious characters. -- hafi

stable innd is segfaulting

2000-01-16 Thread Colin Watson
I'm encountering a really strange problem on a friend's slink box. We were trying to fix a few things in his news configuration - rebuilding suck with perl support and fiddling about with a few configuration files (like newsfeeds - 'ctlinnd checkfile' is happy, BTW). Suddenly suck stopped working,

Re: config script for ghostscript

2000-01-16 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 01:34:39AM +0100, Markus Schaub wrote: Isn't it possible to run the script which configures the printers in /etc/printcap (I think it is included in the gs package) a second time after installing it? magicfilterconfig, perhaps? HTH, -- Alisdair McDiarmid

Re: upgrading multiple machines to 2.1r4

2000-01-16 Thread Peter Ross
On 14-Jan-2000, Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to upgrade a few networked machines to 2.1r4, and since I have only a slow dialup connection to the net, I'd like to only download each package I need once. However, I really don't have the space or time for a full mirror.

Can't find /dev/dsp

2000-01-16 Thread Fredrik Appelberg
Hi all! I've been trying to get my SB Live soundcard working, and after installing a precompiled kernel (2.2.13) and dowloading and compiling the emu10k1 driver code from creative I am at last able to play a cd on my computer. However, when I run mpg123 it complains about not being able to open

Re: Can't find /dev/dsp

2000-01-16 Thread Jim B
cd /dev/ ./MAKEDEV audio should make those devices for you. On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Fredrik Appelberg wrote: Hi all! I've been trying to get my SB Live soundcard working, and after installing a precompiled kernel (2.2.13) and dowloading and compiling the emu10k1 driver code from creative I am

scsi tape device

2000-01-16 Thread Ryan White
For some reason I do not have /dev/st* . I compiled my kernel with scsi tape support and I thought that would do it. Is there something that I am missing. Am I looking in the wrong spot for my tape device. I have a ICP raid card (GDT) which is fully functional and the kernel sees the tape drive

Re: ATA/66 hardware detection problems

2000-01-16 Thread Burt Kemp
From: George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Burt Kemp [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ATA/66 hardware detection problems Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 14:15:55 -0800 (PST) I am not sure if Debian applies the latest IDE patches from:

files appear corrupt, but aren't; kernel bug?

2000-01-16 Thread Dan Christensen
Over the past few hours, my potato machine has been behaving very strangely. Many of the files on my hard drive or which I read from cdrom have minor errors. Specifically, at a random point in the file, two consecutive bytes are changed to 160 and 192 (240 300 octal). Moreover, this often

IMHO setup

2000-01-16 Thread Marcin Kurc
Anyone installed IMHO with roxen? Can't get it to show up in add module listing. -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu

backup to DEC TZ87

2000-01-16 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello all; I just added a DEC TZ87 tape drive to my Debian system (potato) and would like to use it for creating backups. Checking /var/log/messages reports: Jan 14 19:34:46 mustang kernel: Detected scsi generic sgd at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 Jan 14 19:34:46 mustang kernel: Vendor: DEC

Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-16 Thread lehman
After buying a pcmcia nic I thought that upgrading the pcmcia-* packages and recompiling the pcmcia modules would be a good idea. While I was at it, I upgraded modutils as well. Now I'm running: pcmcia-cs_3.1.8-4.deb pcmcia-source_3.1.8-4.deb modutils_2.3.9-2.deb I didn't even start to mess

Re: Package dependency issues

2000-01-16 Thread Damon Muller
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 05:55:59PM -0800, Paul McAvoy wrote: I am having a problem in that I am using qmail on my system, and the apt/dpkg system does not recognize that it fills the dependency of a mail-transport-agent. So, by default everytime I want to install something like a mail reader

netscape proxies

2000-01-16 Thread Larry Fletcher
I just installed navigator 4.5-1 (navigator-smotif-45) and there is no place to set proxies. Is there some reason proxies are not allowed in this version? Are proxies only available after registration? When I installed navigator I saved the registration information to a file to send it by email

Re: files appear corrupt, but aren't; kernel bug?

2000-01-16 Thread Scott Henry
D == Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D Over the past few hours, my potato machine has been behaving very D strangely. Many of the files on my hard drive or which I read from D cdrom have minor errors. Specifically, at a random point in the file, D two consecutive bytes are changed to

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-16 Thread Brian May
lehman == lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lehman After buying a pcmcia nic I thought that upgrading the pcmcia-* lehman packages and recompiling the pcmcia modules would be a good lehman idea. While I was at it, I upgraded modutils as well. Now I'm lehman running:

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-16 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Brian May; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Also, this isn't the worst of my problems... If I try to bootup with the card in, or shutdown, the computer will lock up, and require a hardware reset in order to fix the problem. Inserting/removing the card after bootup seems to be OK though.

Re: scsi tape device

2000-01-16 Thread Jozef Skvarcek
You can create the tape devices with `/dev/MAKEDEV', for example... Try `/dev/MAKEDEV -v st0' for creating `/dev/st0' and `/dev/nst0' Jozef Skvarcek _ Dept. of Physics and Astronomy | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hunter College, City

Re: terminals

2000-01-16 Thread Mike Werner
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 12:26:45AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You missed a few letters the command is '/sbin/telinit q'. At 17:12 15.1.2000 -0500, you wrote: and after a reboot you would have tty's 1 through 7. At least I *think* you have to reboot - I could be wrong on that one.

lockfile--what is it?

2000-01-16 Thread Steve Winston
What is lockfile /var/run/update-menus.pid? In slink, when I run install after apt-get, etc., I get the following message: update-menus - cannot remove lockfile /var/run/update-menus.pid I can't find any reference to this file. This has just started to appear. What is a lockfile anyway? How is

Re: lockfile--what is it?

2000-01-16 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Feb 22, 2036 at 04:30:32AM -0800, Steve Winston wrote: What is lockfile /var/run/update-menus.pid? In slink, when I run install after apt-get, etc., I get the following message: update-menus - cannot remove lockfile /var/run/update-menus.pid I can't find any reference to this

Re: Acer machines

2000-01-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 05:44:27PM -0800, aphro wrote: yes it would see the new CPU, i have read nightmare tales about people having to reinstall NT after adding a second cpu if they were not using Misinformation. NT will install the single processor kernel during installation if you only have

Re: Acer machines

2000-01-16 Thread aphro
well i read from multiple sources that their UP-SMP upgrade tool worked about 20% of the time..compaq came up with a tool that was 99-100% successful *if* you had compaq hardware.. there are many many files that had to be changed to give NT SMP support not just the kernel. nate On Sun, 16 Jan

apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity?

2000-01-16 Thread Chris R. Martin
Forgive me, I've been out of the Debian world for a while. I'm having trouble figuring out the relationship between apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity (which seems to be something in development). I know what dselect and dpkg are; dselect acts as a frontend (or used to) for dpkg. How does apt and

Re: apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity?

2000-01-16 Thread Nate Duehr
I'm not an extremely long-term Debian user, but in the sake of getting you a quick response: Apt is a method of getting the files from the servers mostly, but it has added features now to frontend dpkg also. In dselect, you can use the apt method of getting files, which by default uses the main

Re: apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity?

2000-01-16 Thread Nate Duehr
I also forgot to mention that there's currently quite a bit of work going on to get Debian more user friendly at installation-time. One of the big initiatives is debconf which allows packages to have a common front-end to ask the user questions about their configuration settings during package

Re: apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity?

2000-01-16 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Chris R. Martin wrote: Forgive me, I've been out of the Debian world for a while. I'm having trouble figuring out the relationship between apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity (which seems to be something in development). I know what dselect deity is APT's development code

Re: unexpected end of file

2000-01-16 Thread ulla . russell
I do not have mc installed. I used the -x switch on the f ile (od -x .profile, this also allows files to be viewed in hex). I didn't see anything suspicious. Does anyone have any other ideas? If I was to install midnight commander what instruction would I have to give to view files in hex?

Re: ISDN SyncPPP Problem Part 2

2000-01-16 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:59:26PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: Sorry- isdnPPP driver version 0.0.0 is out of date. Maybe ippp0 has no 'syncppp' encapsulation. ippp0: SyncPPP support not configured ippp0: Invalid argument The kernel hasn't enabled ISDN PPP support. Build another one which

dhelp problems with slink/potato hybrid.

2000-01-16 Thread Iain Pople
Hi, I finally took the plunge and started upgrading some packages to potato. I am now suffering from the much talked about problem of dhelp complaining about documentation in /usr/doc Here is an example from running apt-get install libcgi-perl Setting up libcgi-perl (2.76-13) ... cannot open

Re: unexpected end of file

2000-01-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On 16/1/2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not have mc installed. I used the -x switch on the f ile (od -x .profile, this also allows files to be viewed in hex). I didn't see anything suspicious. Does anyone have any other ideas? If I was to install midnight commander what instruction would I

Re: Package dependency issues

2000-01-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Damon == Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damon This is what I did myself and it worked well. This is off the Damon top of my head, so you may have to play around a bit, but Damon basically that's what equivs is for. BTW: Anyone should use the equivs from potato. It is better than the

Re: Can't find /dev/dsp

2000-01-16 Thread Fredrik Appelberg
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 08:28:09PM -0500, Jim B wrote: cd /dev/ ./MAKEDEV audio should make those devices for you. Thanks, man. Everything works like a charm now. --Fredrik

Re: slink to potato?

2000-01-16 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 01:01:51PM -0800, Michael Perry wrote: Hi all- I just got dsl here so have a system I would like to take from slink to potato using the apt-get install dist-upgrade. Has anyone done this recently? Any issues? I did the upgrade last friday on my laptop. no real

Re: config script for ghostscript

2000-01-16 Thread Markus Schaub
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: Isn't it possible to run the script which configures the printers in /etc/printcap (I think it is included in the gs package) a second time after installing it? magicfilterconfig, perhaps? No, I use apsfilter. Sorry, I forgot to write it. Markus

Trouble with dselect.

2000-01-16 Thread Jussi Mattila
My aim was to build a custom kernel, so I installed the kernel-source package for 2.0.38 kernel version. I propably should have also installed the headers package as well, but I did not notice it since it is located in the base section, not the development. It was after this that the problems

Re: printer

2000-01-16 Thread trent
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Error in suidunregister

2000-01-16 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, yesterday I ran 'apt-get upgrade' on my potato machine. By running the installation scripts I get the following error. Global symbol $username requires explicit package name at /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 173. Global symbol $groupname requires explicit package name at

RE: Error in suidunregister

2000-01-16 Thread Pollywog
On 16-Jan-2000 Sven Gaerner wrote: Hi, yesterday I ran 'apt-get upgrade' on my potato machine. By running the installation scripts I get the following error. Global symbol $username requires explicit package name at /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 173. Global symbol $groupname requires

xcolorsel won't grab colors

2000-01-16 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi, Using the latest XFree packages from Potato, I'm having problems with xcolorsel not being able to grab a color. It craps out saying: tea:/usr/home/antipode$ xcolorsel X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 91

Re: ssh encryption

2000-01-16 Thread Arcady Genkin
hypnos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I started sshd with the -d (debug) option to try to figure this out, and I think I have my answer, but I want to make sure. Am I correct in assuming that the encryption between client/server is started before any exchange of data takes place?

Re: Need file converter for

2000-01-16 Thread John Foster
John Pearson wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 01:37:36PM -0600, John Foster wrote I need an application or plugin for netscape to decode or convert these type of files. I THINK they are some type of Microsoft proprietary file format. Netscape, WordPerfect, Gnotepad,Lyx, StarOffice, and

Installation showstopper

2000-01-16 Thread Gary Strangman
Hello, I have a problem with FTP-based installation of Debian Linux for which I could find no information on debian.org or in the howto's. I have: architecture: i386 model: Dell Dimension XPS266, PII memory:192Mb scsi: none cd-rom:Toshiba, ATAPI network card:

OT: need M4 help-macros/stripping arg. spaces

2000-01-16 Thread kaynjay
I'm writing some macros for a latex package which uses M4 to preprocess them before heading into Perl. This is a first time for me in scripting such things, and I'm learning by example and the info page on M4 how to decide various things. My question relates to managing the following scenario:

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-16 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
A big guess, but are you guys sure you have no interrupt or similar conflicts? I have a problem with Xircom modem which sounds similar to the ones described in pcmcia-howto in relation to the interrupt conflict even though my /proc/interrupt doesn't show one. I have the same problem whenever

Re: suidregister problems after dist-upgrade today

2000-01-16 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 08:55:52PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: 0 S Jan 14 Adam Klein Uploaded suidmanager 0.42 (source all) to master That'll fix it. It worked. THANK YOU!!! I had been struggling with the same problem for a couple of days. That kind of timely advice is what

failed ppp setup

2000-01-16 Thread John Davis
Hello I need help with a partially configured ppp server. I have dial in working, but I can't get ppp to start. Currently, I can login to the proposed ppp server (via the modem from another linux computer using minicom) and get a shell. However, when I try to login as the ppp user, I get a

Re: Clarification on setting window manager

2000-01-16 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 04:55:09PM -0800, Guyren G Howe wrote: Okay, I asked the question a little while back about how I can set my window manager. So far I have been advised to edit, in different messages from different people: /etc/X11/window-managers ~/xinitrc ~/.xsession The

exim and /etc/hosts

2000-01-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've got this machine set up to have my mail/diald server handle all mail for local users. Getting this set up required some heavy digging through documentation because the eximconfig 'satellite' setup uses bydns in the smarthost route_list and my server's not listed in DNS. Bad assumption on

Re: files appear corrupt, but aren't; kernel bug?

2000-01-16 Thread Dan Christensen
Scott Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D == Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D Over the past few hours, my potato machine has been behaving very D strangely. Many of the files on my hard drive or which I read from D cdrom have minor errors. Specifically, at a random point in the

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-16 Thread Dan Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After buying a pcmcia nic I thought that upgrading the pcmcia-* packages and recompiling the pcmcia modules would be a good idea. [...] this broke my ppp setup somehow. I have a 56K pcmcia modem, running as ttyS2 (pppd uses /dev/modem which is a symlink

Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-16 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I just upgraded my machine to current potato, and the keyboard autorepeat settings have changed: delay is now 500ms instead of ~300ms as it was before. I've no idea which package this can be configured in. I've fixed the problem in X by editing my XF86Config file (added AutoRepeat 300 5 in the

Re: Xwindow help needed

2000-01-16 Thread Alice M. Pinard
Yay! I have X again. Ok for those also having similar trouble (Hi Steve :) I'm going to try and set down what I did in the hopes that this will help till Vincent can get back to someone :) (_anyone_ :) I had gone into /var/cache/apt/packages and dpkg -i'd everything xfree86'ish that I had 3.3.5

Re: failed ppp setup

2000-01-16 Thread Gerard MacNeil
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, John Davis wrote: Hello I need help with a partially configured ppp server. I have dial in working, but I can't get ppp to start. Currently, I can login to the proposed ppp server (via the modem from another linux computer using minicom) and get a shell. However,

Re: suidregister problems after dist-upgrade today

2000-01-16 Thread Pollywog
On 16-Jan-2000 Joe Bouchard wrote: I had been struggling with the same problem for a couple of days. That kind of timely advice is what makes this list so great. I think it sets Debian apart from some of the other Linux distributions, too. -- Andrew

How to auto-login

2000-01-16 Thread Fish Smith
I'm running a machine for the lab at school and I want it to automatically login to a default user account. (i.e. instead of asking for login and password, it assumes login is user, user account having null password) How do I do this? The only accounts on the machine being root and user.

ppp hangup question

2000-01-16 Thread Jocke
Hi all, Just one small quwstion. I would like my modem connection to hang up as soon as I get an incomming phonecall. Any idea how to handle that ? I use pon/poff Best regards Joakim Svensson

Fvwm on Potato

2000-01-16 Thread Alec Smith
After a bit of fiddling, I finally have Fvwm working on my Potato system. It seems that a symlink needed to be made from /etc/X11/fvwm to /etc/X11/fvwm2 (if I recall). However, I still have one glitch that needs to be worked out. When I launch a program, I always get an outline of the window and

ipfwadm

2000-01-16 Thread didier ayllon
when i try to do : ipfwadm -A -f The answer is : ipfwadm : setsockopt failed: Protocol not available Does anyone can help me ? Thank didier

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-16 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 06:53:25PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: I just upgraded my machine to current potato, and the keyboard autorepeat settings have changed: delay is now 500ms instead of ~300ms as it was before. I've fixed the problem in X by editing my XF86Config file (added

Re: small lab

2000-01-16 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to set a small lab where one machine will be a server and 3 or 4 others clients. These clients will mount /home from server and I would like to have a central authentication. All machines already run potato. I did this for 15

Re: Package dependency issues

2000-01-16 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Paul McAvoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I submitted this question a while ago, and didn't get much of a response. [... Problems with home made qmail as MTA ...] At least I responded (and you never raised any objections to my solution): || You'd better install the debian package qmail-src, which

Re: JDK says can't open /proc/xxxxx

2000-01-16 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sounds like the JDK bug with newer kernels, see the linux-kernel mailing list or the archives of this list, the solution is usually downgrade the kernel or upgrade your JDK. I had the same problem on my potato box since kernel 2.2.12, and indeed it vanished

Re: stable innd is segfaulting

2000-01-16 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: I'm encountering a really strange problem on a friend's slink box. We were trying to fix a few things in his news configuration - rebuilding suck with perl support and fiddling about with a few configuration files (like newsfeeds - 'ctlinnd checkfile' is

modem permissions

2000-01-16 Thread paul
First time I`ve had to come back for a while! I`m trying to set up minicom but I can`t access the modem. Here`s the relevant info: bash-2.03$ minicom minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS2: Permission denied bash-2.03$ ls -l /dev/ttyS2 crw-r-1 root dialout4, 66 Jan 16 19:23 /dev/ttyS2

problem compiling licq's qt-gui

2000-01-16 Thread Jim B
I just downloaded the source to licq 0.75.1 and compiled it fine, no problems. However, I'm trying to build the qt-gui that it comes with and am getting an error and I might need some help figuring out just what is wrong with my setup. I am pretty certain it doesn't have anything to do with qt,

Re: problem compiling licq's qt-gui

2000-01-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 16:42:54 -0500, Jim B wrote: libstdc++, and libstdc++-dev. I had been downloading the .debs and using dpkg -i to install, and some of them were dependent upon *each other* so it was impossible to install that way. No it's not. Mutually dependent packages can be

Re: problem compiling licq's qt-gui

2000-01-16 Thread Jim B
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: No it's not. Mutually dependent packages can be installed with dpkg -i if they're both provided in the same commandline. Aha! I thought it was odd to have been dumped into such a quandary. :) Thanks, I'm sure that will prevent much future

netscape sharing win98/linux

2000-01-16 Thread jason
i think i remember a past post about how to get netscape commicator to share the mail box between win9x/linux partiions.. what's i've done is put the mail box on the windows partition .. mount it from linux and point there.. but it doesn't seem to be working.. i have communicator 4.7 any

Re: modem permissions

2000-01-16 Thread Bruce Sass
The permissions for my serial ports are all: crw-rw ^ You need to be able to write to the serial port. -- On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First time I`ve had to come back for a while! I`m trying to set up minicom but I can`t access the modem. Here`s the relevant info:

WMSOUND: Error on Play Event

2000-01-16 Thread David S. Jackson
I'm using Windowmaker 0.20.3-5 under Slink and 2.0.36 and wmsound-0.9.4. When I start wmsound I get Error on Play Event. When I run strace on it I get: open(/home/dsj/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Sounds/NatureStartup.wav, O_RDONLY) = 4 fstat(4, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 mmap(0, 4096,

Re: netscape sharing win98/linux

2000-01-16 Thread Philip Lehman
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, jason wrote: i think i remember a past post about how to get netscape commicator to share the mail box between win9x/linux partiions.. what's i've done is put the mail box on the windows partition .. mount it from linux and point there.. but it doesn't seem to be working..