Re: ftp.us.debian.org bug

2000-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Ballard) wrote: >Anyone know who I should contact about this? There's not exactly a >"package" to file a bug against. reportbug offers "ftp.debian.org" as a bug category against which you can file bugs. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PR

Re: ppp/chat: BLACKLISTED after (many) tries

2000-01-18 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > Some modems can be configured to believe they're in the wrong country and > ignore the blacklisting thing. ALMOST ALL modems can be switched off and on again :-) And this is legal! A german user who has made good experiences with switching off/on his modem before red

Re: fidogate resend

2000-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul) wrote: >Please copy to this email address as fetchmail is now down as well so >I`m using Netscape on another email account to my mailing list >subscription. Cc:'d. >I`ve just tried to install fidogate and inn, with a lot of error >messages which I hope I`ve sidestepped

max processes

2000-01-18 Thread aphro
i was wondering what people do for max processes for a webserver, until recently my system was doing fine with a max of 30 processes, but i added a new(big) virtual domain which eats up a lot of them, i increased it to 120 ..how high can i go and still be safe? running linux 2.0.36+securelinux pat

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Peter Ross
On 18-Jan-2000, Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Peter Ross wrote: > > > Currently I have two partitions. > > > > 1. / > > 2. /mnt/wally/hdc2 which contains my /usr/local and /home setup by using > >symlinks. > > > > The advantage for me, is that I can trash t

Installation problem: how to recognize hard drive?

2000-01-18 Thread Goldberg, Lotus Ms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi-- This is probably a very basic question, so apologies in advance. I am at the very start of the installation process: I boot from the Debian CD, and immediately come to the following problem. In the instructions for things in the Debian installation program, the step of partitioning my hard

Looking for infomation !

2000-01-18 Thread Nelson Smith
I'm interested in buying stock in Debian ! What stock exchange handles your account ? Thanks !   Nelson

Re: ssh x11 forwarding

2000-01-18 Thread Brad
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 10:21:02AM +0100, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > I have three computers, two running slink and one running potato. The > slink boxes have the old ssh, and the potato box has openssh. > > When I log into the potato box from one of the slink boxes, x11 > forwarding doesn't work a

Re: Problem with Exim, HELP ME !

2000-01-18 Thread Mike Werner
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 11:40:24AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > NOTE 1: my ISP's user name is different than my Linux's user name, > so I need to use the exim's DB-rewrite feature, > that I tested successfully with 'exim -brw '. > NOTE 2: my ISP connection works fine and it i

X freezes, keyboard error?

2000-01-18 Thread Sven Esbjerg
Hi I just ran an upgrade on the potato packages (as I do every night) and got a lot of new packages. Everything seemed to be fine until gdm started. X froze and I was unable to change to another console. I decided to remove gdm from another machine and start X from xinit. It froze again. I killed

Installing and running problem with an AMD-K6 CPU

2000-01-18 Thread H.C.Hsiang
Hi : I am a new user for Debian/Linux . I planned to Install the Debian-Linux on an old machine which was composed of the following parts to learn this powerful OS : 1. IWill P55TV motherboard , with an Adaptec AIC7860 SCSI controller onboard ( and I have    always kept the BIOS version to b

Re: About Exim : PLEASE HELP ME!!!

2000-01-18 Thread Lorenzo Zampese
Mark Symonds wrote: > Have you tried simply setting your hostname to your ISP's? > Not exactly kosher, but it might help: > > $ hostname myISP.com > > ...where myISP.com is whatever is after the @ in your > email address. > > Also, you may have to add myISP.com to qualify_domains > in /etc/exim.co

Re: dselect/APT problems on potato

2000-01-18 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Neilen Marais wrote: > trick. But what then is the function of the apt.conf file? What am I > missing out on? I like fiddling in conf files You fiddled it wrong.. That config file is not ment for general use, it does 'weird' things. Jason

Re: apt-get without keepalive

2000-01-18 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Stuart Ballard wrote: > I believe the fix for this would be to configure apt to re-connect to > the server every time in a pure http/1.0 stateless sort of way. However, > there doesn't seem to be a preference for this. I have tried > Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth 0, which had

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-18 Thread Brian May
> "Christopher" == Christopher S Swingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 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 inte

fidogate resend

2000-01-18 Thread Paul
Please copy to this email address as fetchmail is now down as well so I`m using Netscape on another email account to my mailing list subscription. I`ve just tried to install fidogate and inn, with a lot of error messages which I hope I`ve sidestepped for the present, but now when running fidonetc

Re: hwclock --adjust in slink

2000-01-18 Thread Clyde Wilson
Edit /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh and comment out the line with adjust on it. This is called when coming up and going down... On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > > I did not fully understand you. Does or doesn't the BIOS get the right time > > after the system is shutdown? > > The f

Re: exponential dial PPP

2000-01-18 Thread Brian May
> "Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> I'm pretty sure that diald will do this. Send it a 'force' Dave> command and it will retry failed/dropped connections with Dave> options for starting and maximum interval between retries. diald seemed to be an overkill

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fidogate

2000-01-18 Thread Paul
I`ve just tried to install fidogate and inn, with a lot of error messages which I hope I`ve sidestepped for the present, but now when running fidonetconfig it says "/usr/sbin/fidogateconfig: Please install innd!: command not found" Problem is i managed to install inn and ps aux shows innd as a runn

Re: Perplexing mailman situation

2000-01-18 Thread Mark Symonds
For what it's worth I believe I found the problem. I found this in /var/lib/mailman/cron/crontab.in: # Every 5 mins, try to gate news to mail. You can comment this one out # if you don't want to allow gating, or don't have any going on right now, # or want to exclusively use a callback strategy

Re: Need advice on USB/fast serial port!

2000-01-18 Thread Brian May
> "Svante" == Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Svante> The computer has an USB port available. Where can I find Svante> USB software supporting this? Any appropriate modem Svante> software? AFAIK You will need to use the development version (2.3.x) of the Linux kernel to

About Exim : PLEASE HELP ME!!!

2000-01-18 Thread Lorenzo Zampese
Hi to all! I am not able to send remote e-mails by 'Exim', but only locally. I have got a dial-up Linux Box (Debian 2.1), without a local network, and I wish to deliver e-mails by my ISP's smart host. I used 'eximconfig', but it didn't seem to set a good configuration for my needings. I have ch

mutt not y2k compliant???

2000-01-18 Thread Brian May
Hello, I noticed something strange with mutt from slink: Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +

Remote xterm trouble

2000-01-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
Is anyone else having remote xterm trouble? If I log in to my Debian laptop, running potato, from my SGI, running IRIX 6.5, via an xterm the terminal is almost unusable. It seems to lose track of the cursor. For example, if I fire up dselect and I start moving down the list of choices when I get to

Re: ppp/chat: BLACKLISTED after (many) tries

2000-01-18 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, joost witteveen wrote: > After several (about 10) unsucessful tries (engaged), chat consistantly > refuses to rediail my ISP. In syslog, I get: I may be wrong, but to me it looks like your modem refuses to redial your ISP, not chat. It's probably because of your country's pub

DEL key doesn't work in "info", should it?

2000-01-18 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, When I try to use the DEL (Delete) key to scroll backwards when using the "info" program, it prints: Unknown command (~). I am wondering if there is something wrong somewhere on my system, or if others have the same results. I can scroll backwards with ESC-V so this is just a minor aggra

Re: ppp/chat: BLACKLISTED after (many) tries

2000-01-18 Thread John Hasler
joostje writes: > Does anyone know how to make chat stop thinking that provider is > BLAKCLISTED? That's coming from your modem, not from chat. Chat doesn't know anything about phone numbers. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

About Exim : HELP ME !!!!!!

2000-01-18 Thread Lorenzo Zampese
Hi to all! I am not able to send remote e-mails by 'Exim', but only locally. I have got a dial-up Linux Box (Debian 2.1), without a local network, and I wish to deliver e-mails by my ISP's smart host. I used 'eximconfig', but it didn't seem to set a good configuration for my needings. I have chan

IP Masq

2000-01-18 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I'd like to know if the slink kernel is built with IP Masq? Or could someone point me to where can I find information on setup a IP Masq linux box. TIA! --- tcp

pop-smtp authentication

2000-01-18 Thread Michael Sicher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- hello, is there a debian package available for pop-/smtp-authentication for sendmail? if not, i think i have to recombile perl and sendmail for using poprelay.pl because they are using different db libs. has someone running poprelay.pl under debain 2.1? thanks

Re: Problem with Wordperfect8 for Linux

2000-01-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 08:13:47PM -0600, russell cook wrote: > I have wordperfect running ... sort of. The graphics icons are garbled. > I have XPM4.7 version 3.4k-5. I don not not have XPM4.7-alt dev > installed > because I have a conflict. Can someone tell me wahat packages I must have

Transparent network bridge+filter?

2000-01-18 Thread Jeff Noxon
Can anything that runs on Linux do reliable network bridging & filtering? I need a transparent filter that I can drop into an existing network. Ipfilter will do the job with Open/NetBSD. It may work on Linux, but requires kernel 2.0.35 and isn't compatible with glibc. Any suggestions would be gr

Ponyprog

2000-01-18 Thread rbonett
Dear Sir(s), Problems with Ponyprog: --- I have Debian 2.0 with a 2.2.9 Kernel installed on my IBM x86 Cyrix Pentium 200. Having read the instructions from http://www.cs.unibio.it I have it impossible to properly install Ponyprog. As well as the non-debian V library V-1.23.ta

Re: ppp hangup question

2000-01-18 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Colin Marquardt said: >> Hmm. Do you maybe have "knocking on the line" enabled? (Sorry, don't >> know the proper word for it. It's just that you can hear that someone >> tries to call you if you already have a connection.) That might >> disturb it. >

ppp/chat: BLACKLISTED after (many) tries

2000-01-18 Thread joost witteveen
After several (about 10) unsucessful tries (engaged), chat consistantly refuses to rediail my ISP. In syslog, I get: Jan 18 20:34:57 muso modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108 Jan 18 20:34:58 muso pppd[640]: pppd 2.3.9 started by root, uid 0 Jan 18 20:34:59 muso chat[642]: abort on (BUSY) J

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread John Gay
I've got some good suggestions, and apparently raised a few questions as well. Let me outline my reasons for asking and what I hope to do: I've got a CD-RW. I plan to use this for back-ups as well as software publishing. I've also got a SCSI tape drive, but I'm not quite sure how to use it yet.

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2000-01-18 Thread Dainiux
kaip man gauti linux free red hat download?

RE: CVS server?

2000-01-18 Thread Glen S Mehn
>From the CVS manual: There's no CVS Daemon. The pserver connection is run from inetd. Check out the online manual at http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~dpc/cvs/ But it won't show up in a 'ps', just like exim won't, 'cause it's run from inetd. In your /etc/inetd.conf you should have a line which reads: cv

StarOffice > Netscape bookmark utility?

2000-01-18 Thread Pollywog
I know that StarOffice can convert Netscape bookmarks to the format used by StarOffice, but is there a utility to convert StarOffice bookmarks to Netscape? thanks -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681

broken upgrade to frozen

2000-01-18 Thread Ed Slocomb
Any help with this will be greatly appreciated-- I'm a bit of a holdout in a Red Hat shop, and I've always claimed it was the ease of upgrade that made me prefer debian... this will teach me not to monkey with an upgrade until it's stable! I tried to upgrade to Frozen from Slink using: apt-get up

Re: Several problems

2000-01-18 Thread I can. Thank you.
I have seen the same problem with the XF86_SVGA server with ATI cards. I could not switch between X and a virtual console without blanking the screen, freezing things, and other unpleasantness. I would suggest using an accelerated server if one is available, not only because it is much more stable

Re: Several problems

2000-01-18 Thread aphro
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Carlos H. S. Laviola wrote: clavio >1) Whenever I run X and switch to the console (ex.: control alt f2) and clavio >come back to X, it freezes. everytime. what could be wrong? i had this problem too, *I* attributed it to the driver, when i used acceleratedX it worked fine, bu

CVS server?

2000-01-18 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
Hi all - Where in Debian can one find a pserver CVS daemon? I couldn't find one in any of the '*cvs*' packages. Thanks in advance! -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux:

pcchips 748lmrt

2000-01-18 Thread Gabriel Gonzalez
Hello, I recently purchased a home computer with a pcchips XCell2000 748lmrt mainboard with a celeron and 64M ram. I installed both debian and red hat linuxes but have the problem that they both see 0Mb in ram. Apparently, the card shares ram memory for video memory which is announced can be up to

ftp.us.debian.org bug

2000-01-18 Thread Stuart Ballard
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ftp ftp.us.debian.org Connected to ike.egr.msu.edu. 220 ike.egr.msu.edu FTP server (Version wu-2.6.0(1) Tue Nov 30 19:12:53 CET 1999) ready. Name (ftp.us.debian.org:sballard): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. Password: 230-Welcome, ar

Re: dselect/APT problems on potato

2000-01-18 Thread Neilen Marais
Hello On 17-Jan-2000 Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Neilen Marais wrote: > >> If I choose the apt method in dselect, and do an update, I get the >> following problem after the package files have been downloaded: > > 'rm /etc/apt/apt.conf' > > Jason > I moved the apt.conf f

Re: apt-get without keepalive

2000-01-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having problems with apt-get which I believe are related to the > fact that my ISP runs a caching proxy server which seems to > transparently intercept all traffic sent to port 80 of anywhere. The > symptom is that the first request to any server wo

Several problems

2000-01-18 Thread Carlos H. S. Laviola
Well, here I am to ask you out there some few questions. 1) Whenever I run X and switch to the console (ex.: control alt f2) and come back to X, it freezes. everytime. what could be wrong? 2) I've been trying to enable that HP 680C printer. Well look at the output of insmod: cdemo:~# modprobe lp

RE: libungif3g-dev: post-installation script error

2000-01-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-Jan-2000 Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > Sometimes I can get things to work by doing dpkg --purge, apt-get install, > but in this case several things depend on the library. Is there a > way around this, or should I file a bug report and wait for a repaired > package? Where do these inst

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread aphro
i do stuff along those lines as well ..i dont understand when i installed freebsd it reccomended a 20MB /var partition/slice even though i gave it 6.1GB of space. it doesnt make sense to have such small partitions even if there is nothing on them to me anyways. nate On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Onno Ebbi

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2000-01-18 Thread Haseeb Ahmad
does anyone know how to get the current timestamp within a nawk script please reply to me in email [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The information contained in or attached to this email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to wh

libungif3g-dev: post-installation script error

2000-01-18 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
I've been keeping up with potato fairly regularly (two or three times a week), and occasionally I wind up with errors that look like this (this is what I got today): dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: Exec format error dpkg: error processing libungif3g-d

Re: Apache Recompile

2000-01-18 Thread aphro
ive been using a self compiled apache for a long time, all i did was compile apache, make /usr/local/etc/httpd/conf a link to /etc/apache and replaced the apache binary with the new one in /usr/sbin ..and the init.d scripts work fine.. i'm running apache 1.3.9/mod_frontpage+mod_mysql+mod_roaming+m

apt-get without keepalive

2000-01-18 Thread Stuart Ballard
Hi, I am having problems with apt-get which I believe are related to the fact that my ISP runs a caching proxy server which seems to transparently intercept all traffic sent to port 80 of anywhere. The symptom is that the first request to any server works fine, but then the second request receives

Re: Advanced hard disk mirroring!

2000-01-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I don't suppose your workstations have NICs with PXE support do they? If so you could use bpbatch (www.bpbatch.com) to boot them over the network. bpbatch supports a small scripting language which will allow you to partition the disks and load whole linux images into the disks (just what you wan

HP 680C

2000-01-18 Thread Carlos H. S. Laviola
I was chatting yesterday in #debian of OpenProject's IRC Network about the possibility of making a HP DeskJet 680C printer work on Linux. I never had a printer on Linux before, so what should I do to get this one working fine? I recompiled the kernel with line printer support on (modules), installe

Re: Apache Recompile

2000-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sven Gaerner) wrote: >I need to recompile Apache to support Frontpage Server Extensions. I want >to replace the Package that comes with Debian, so that I can use my >conf-files and the Debian Scripts (i.e. /etc/init.d/apache). >For this I need the options the configure-script was

Need advice on USB/fast serial port!

2000-01-18 Thread Svante Signell
Having an ISDN external modem and the possibility to use two channels simultaneously, gives the theoretical speed of 128 kbps. However, the UART's 16550A on the motherboard have a maximum speed of 115.2 kbps. Including overhead the transfer speed is further reduced. Measured speed are 62 kbps for

Re: Partitioning SparcStation

2000-01-18 Thread Fraser Campbell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On my IPX, there are some options in the PROM environment that have to do > with the boot process. Key in `printenv' at the PROM console prompt (ok) > and go from there. I'm afraid I can't step through my machine right now. Thanks to everyone that responded. It turned

Re: Off Topic? The "Gnuist" Office Suite

2000-01-18 Thread exile
Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: }There is KOffice (http://koffice.kde.org). The folks behind AbiWord }(http://www.abisource.com) are also planning an office suite. The GNOME }people may also be trying to put one together, I'm not sure. All of this }is GPL. Unfortunately, none of them

Re: How to handle message/partial attachments in mutt.

2000-01-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Wojciech Zabolotny ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've received a few messages with a long file splitted into message/partial > attachments. The manual decoding of them is very tiring. Is mutt able to > handle such multi-message attachments automatically like Netscape or > Internet Exploder? How to

Re: New HP Printers...?

2000-01-18 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > > > > Hello, > > > > I am looking at buying a new printer, and had my eyes on a HP DeskJet > > 710C, which I would definitely have bought if I only ran Windows. > I wrote: > The 710C is a Windows printer. Someone hacked together a driver that > works very well for black and white for the

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 02:01:07PM +0100, Onno Ebbinge wrote: > Sometimes I don't understand the stratagies used in disk partitioning. Me neither, why are we making things so complicated and inflexible? My partition scheme is as follows: 1.5 GB / Rest/vol/0 /home is a link to /vol/0/_home.

Re: Off Topic? The "Gnuist" Office Suite

2000-01-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I apologize for this being slightly off topic, > I need to put an office productivity suite on my linux box (with > an emphasis upon the word processing program). I am turned off by Corel's > license It's just as well. WordPer

Re: hwclock --adjust in slink

2000-01-18 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[...] > > > In any case, there are hw K scripts: > > > [18:17:27 /tmp]$ ls /etc/rc?.d/*hw* > > > /etc/rc0.d/K25hwclock.sh /etc/rc6.d/K25hwclock.sh > > > /etc/rcS.d/S50hwclock.sh > > > [18:22:27 /tmp]$ > > > > > > Note that your system somehow got S instead of K for rc0 and rc6. > > > I am run

Please HELP ME !

2000-01-18 Thread lorenzo . zampese
Hi to all! I am not able to send remote e-mails by 'Exim', but only locally. I have got a dial-up Linux Box (Debian 2.1), without a local network, and I wish to deliver e-mails by my ISP's smart host. I used 'eximconfig', but it didn't seem to set a good configuration for my needings. I have cha

RE: Woody? when did this happen?

2000-01-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-Jan-2000 John Gay wrote: > > > I just noticed a mail in the list about Woody, and just had a look at > ftp.uk.debian.org, where my apt source list is pointing, and sure enough, > there's woody, and frozen, along with stable, unstable etc, et-al. I am > currently using unstable for upgradin

Re: Problem with Wordperfect8 for Linux

2000-01-18 Thread Robert Kerr
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, russell cook wrote: > I have wordperfect running ... sort of. The graphics icons are garbled. > I have XPM4.7 version 3.4k-5. I don not not have XPM4.7-alt dev > installed > because I have a conflict. Can someone tell me wahat packages I must have > installed on my P

Re: exponential dial PPP

2000-01-18 Thread Dave Sherohman
Brian May said: > I thought I once saw a Debian package that does this, but can't find > it anymore :-(. I'm pretty sure that diald will do this. Send it a 'force' command and it will retry failed/dropped connections with options for starting and maximum interval between retries. -- Geek Code 3

Off Topic? The "Gnuist" Office Suite

2000-01-18 Thread Bryan K. Walton
I apologize for this being slightly off topic, I need to put an office productivity suite on my linux box (with an emphasis upon the word processing program). I am turned off by Corel's license and was wondering if there was a consensus on the list as to the most open and free office suite

Re: Problem searching list archives

2000-01-18 Thread Kent West
David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I just tried searching for "Debian" and got no results also. So I > > selected "user" as the search category. Still nothing. So I > > selected "Jan to Mar 0" and got the "No archives..." message. So > > I added the two quarters jus

Re: gdm.conf

2000-01-18 Thread lorenzo . zampese
Maybe you could "purge" (not "remove") the package and re-install it again. Bye. P.S. Mi sai dire l'indirizzo per iscriversi alla mailing-list Italiana di Debian ? Ciao. -- Memo - Header --- To: Debian Users cc: From: Alberto Maurizi

Problem configuring Exim, HELP ME !

2000-01-18 Thread lorenzo . zampese
Hi to all! I am not able to send remote e-mails by 'Exim', but only locally. I have got a dial-up Linux Box (Debian 2.1), without a local network, and I wish to deliver e-mails by my ISP's smart host. I used 'eximconfig', but it didn't seem to set a good configuration for my needings. I have cha

gdm.conf

2000-01-18 Thread Alberto Maurizi
I accidentally removed the directory /etc/gdm I deselected gdm and removed it an then selected and reinstalled. But gdm.conf is missing. Where can I find it? a.

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Ron Rademaker
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Peter Ross wrote: > Currently I have two partitions. > > 1. / > 2. /mnt/wally/hdc2 which contains my /usr/local and /home setup by using >symlinks. > > The advantage for me, is that I can trash the root partition any time I > want and still have all my important stuff.

Re: Problem searching list archives

2000-01-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I just tried searching for "Debian" and got no results also. So I > selected "user" as the search category. Still nothing. So I > selected "Jan to Mar 0" and got the "No archives..." message. So > I added the two quarters just above "Jan to Mar 0" to my > se

Re: stable innd is segfaulting

2000-01-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Eventually I traced the problem to innd itself dying when innxmit tries >to submit articles to it. The tail of an strace looks like this >(apologies for the long lines): There is a bug in innd with a certain kind of headers

Re: "Illegal isntruction"

2000-01-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > aphro wrote: > > > > its possible one of the critical libraries is not installed corecctly or > > is curropted(say libc)..try re-installing all the libraries that the > > binaries that give those errors have. also upgrade or downgrade the >

Re: hwclock --adjust in slink

2000-01-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting E.L. Meijer (Eric) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > I did not fully understand you. Does or doesn't the BIOS get the right time > > after the system is shutdown? > > The following happens: > > I boot, find the time is lagging behind, and then do a > > hwclock --set --date ... > > This sets

GnuPG/XFMAIL integration?

2000-01-18 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi all I'm wondering if anyone has managed to get gnupg working with xfmail? I'm currently useing the potato xfmail, and gnupg 1.0.1, and pgpgpg 0.13 to make gpg look like pgp I thaught I'd only need to make sure that pgpgpg could be called as pgp, and xfmail aught to be happy, but it seems not

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Peter Ross
Currently I have two partitions. 1. / 2. /mnt/wally/hdc2 which contains my /usr/local and /home setup by using symlinks. The advantage for me, is that I can trash the root partition any time I want and still have all my important stuff. Pete

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Sometimes I don't understand the stratagies used in disk partitioning. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I always thought that you split the partitions by long term usage: 1- 2 GB / 1- 2 GB /var 1- 4 GB /var/spool rest on /home Then I link /tmp

Re: Booting kernel with 4 mb ram

2000-01-18 Thread Jens Ritter
Thomas Ditlev Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to install debian-linux to my old notebook 486slc with 4 MB > ram. > For this pupose I have downloaded the low memory bootdisk, which should > be able to install debian to a 4 MB system. But when I use the disk, the > bootprompt app

Problem with Exim, HELP ME !

2000-01-18 Thread lorenzo . zampese
Hi to all! I am not able to send remote e-mails by 'Exim', but only locally. I have got a dial-up Linux Box (Debian 2.1), without a local network, and I wish to deliver e-mails by my ISP's smart host. I used 'eximconfig', but it didn't seem to set a good configuration for my needings. I have cha

Woody? when did this happen?

2000-01-18 Thread John Gay
I just noticed a mail in the list about Woody, and just had a look at ftp.uk.debian.org, where my apt source list is pointing, and sure enough, there's woody, and frozen, along with stable, unstable etc, et-al. I am currently using unstable for upgrading the packages I need from potato. The thing

Re: Cannot mount cdrom in new potato install

2000-01-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On 18/1/2000 Irving Frederick wrote: I just installed a base potato system using the current disk downloads from the Debian FTP site. All went well until I tried to mount my cdrom drive. I was given an error message to the effect that the cdrom device does not exist. I then went to my /dev direc

RE: Cannot mount cdrom in new potato install

2000-01-18 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Sorry, I have to fix a typing mistake. To link create a link you should use the "ln" command not "ls". Best wishes, Paulo. -- Paulo José da Silva e Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ph.D. Student in Applied Math. University of São Paulo - Brazil http://www.ime.usp.br/~rsilva "May the code be with y

RE: Cannot mount cdrom in new potato install

2000-01-18 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
By any chance do you know to what device is your CD-ROM attached? For exemple, my cd-rom is the slave drive of the first IDE, therefore it is /dev/hdb. The usual IDE device are: /dev/hda: Master of first IDE slot; /dev/hdb: Slave of first IDE slot; /dev/hdc: Master of second IDE slot; /dev/hdd:

Cannot mount cdrom in new potato install

2000-01-18 Thread Irving Frederick
Hello Debian Users: I just installed a base potato system using the current disk downloads from the Debian FTP site. All went well until I tried to mount my cdrom drive. I was given an error message to the effect that the cdrom device does not exist. I then went to my /dev directory and discovered

Apache Recompile

2000-01-18 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, I need to recompile Apache to support Frontpage Server Extensions. I want to replace the Package that comes with Debian, so that I can use my conf-files and the Debian Scripts (i.e. /etc/init.d/apache). For this I need the options the configure-script was called with. Please send me asap. Tha

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Ron Rademaker
> I recently got a new 13G hard drive. I've installed it as hdb, and moved my > CD-RW to hdc. At the moment I've got a 6G drive with 2G for WindowsNT, 100M > for > /, 1G for /home and 2G for /usr. I really need more room for both /home AND > /usr, but I also need more space for /var and /opt and

Re: package hell

2000-01-18 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Guyren G Howe wrote: > How do I get out of package hell? > > > I've tried everything I can think of. Just now, for example, I told dselect > to remove everything. Did you remove really *everything*? In this case it is easiest to start *installing process* just the same wa

New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread John Gay
I recently got a new 13G hard drive. I've installed it as hdb, and moved my CD-RW to hdc. At the moment I've got a 6G drive with 2G for WindowsNT, 100M for /, 1G for /home and 2G for /usr. I really need more room for both /home AND /usr, but I also need more space for /var and /opt and some other

Re: Is potatoe's exim 3.12-1 OK?

2000-01-18 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Working fine here... On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 07:29:52PM -0800, Mark M wrote: > Hi, > The problem may be with my ISP, but I keep > getting: > > SMTP timeout while connected to > smtp.student.unsw.edu.au [xx] after > end of data (3531 bytes written) > > Is any one else having a similar problem

package hell

2000-01-18 Thread Guyren G Howe
How do I get out of package hell? In trying to install Enlightenment on my Debian/Corel machine, I've got myself trapped in all sorts of loops where apt-get, dselect and dpkg all refuse to install any of the things I need because they can't install other things that those things depend on. I've s

look for an apt

2000-01-18 Thread ThomazoEstelle
hello, i'm a french student and i'm looking for a apt only for two weeks in NY, two in MIAMI, two in HOUSTON, two in CHICAGO and something which is not very expensive. could you help me thanks a lot ! CEDRIC

Problem with Exim, HELP ME !

2000-01-18 Thread lorenzo . zampese
Hi to all! I am not able to send remote e-mails by 'Exim', but only locally. I have got a dial-up Linux Box (Debian 2.1), without a local network, and I wish to deliver e-mails by my ISP's smart host. I used 'eximconfig', but it didn't seem to set a good configuration for my needings. I have cha

Advanced hard disk mirroring!

2000-01-18 Thread Onno Ebbinge
I'm a sysadmin and have two Debian GNU/Linux potato servers and 50 windows 95 workstations under my care. My problem is with the 50 workstations: (the 50 workstations have the same hardware) I want to install ONE workstation and then mirror the hard disk to all other workstations. The first

Re: New HP Printers...?

2000-01-18 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hello, > > I am looking at buying a new printer, and had my eyes on a HP DeskJet > 710C, which I would definitely have bought if I only ran Windows. The 710C is a Windows printer. Someone hacked together a driver that works very well for black and white for the 710, 720, 820 and 1000 (which

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