Re: fstab vs. mtab

2000-02-25 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Alex McCool wrote: > Could someone explain the diff between fstab and mtab? fstab is used by the mount command to know what filesystems go on what mount points, mostly for mounting them at startup. mtab is used to keep track of what filesystems are mounted, right now.

RE: Potato and /etc/apt/sources.list

2000-02-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Replace "unstable" with "potato". If you prefer, I think "frozen" will work, but using potato is likely to produce fewer unpleasant surprises as things evolve. > -Original Message- > From: Thomas C Sobczynski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 3:10 PM > To: debian

fstab vs. mtab

2000-02-25 Thread Alex McCool
Could someone explain the diff between fstab and mtab?

Re: Potato and /etc/apt/sources.list

2000-02-25 Thread Sean Johnson
Just replace all occurances of unstable with potato. Sean Thomas C Sobczynski wrote: > > Currently, my /etc/apt/sources.list is set to grab from the unstable > branch. I'd like to stick with the upcoming Potato release for a > while even as Debian moves ahead with unstable. What should my > so

Possible clue on Adaptec problems

2000-02-25 Thread Ross Boylan
JSI's web site has the following tip. It's for NT, but may bear on the problems getting install to work cleanly on Adaptec 2940 based systems. By the way, I think the current potato boot floppies have fixed the problem anyway. 2018 » Error when booting the NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 CD with an Adapt

Re: HELP: debian IMAP client with non-kerberos encrypting authentication?

2000-02-25 Thread Brendan Cully
On Friday, 25 February 2000 at 22:01, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 04:05:31PM -0500, Brendan Cully wrote: > > On Friday, 25 February 2000 at 21:41, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I'm looking for IMAP server/client, allowing for safe authentication (no >

Potato and /etc/apt/sources.list

2000-02-25 Thread Thomas C Sobczynski
Currently, my /etc/apt/sources.list is set to grab from the unstable branch. I'd like to stick with the upcoming Potato release for a while even as Debian moves ahead with unstable. What should my sources.list look like to accomplish that? Thanks, Tom

Re: script to save web site to local directory?

2000-02-25 Thread Sean Johnson
wget will do thatman wget Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone know of a script that would save the html pages from a > website along with the pictures and any .tar.gz's down to a selected > depth? > > This would be useful to save online docs for people on dialup > connect

script to save web site to local directory?

2000-02-25 Thread markm
Hi, Does anyone know of a script that would save the html pages from a website along with the pictures and any .tar.gz's down to a selected depth? This would be useful to save online docs for people on dialup connections. Regards, Mark.

Re: Problems getting 100bTx with 3c59x drivers and 3c905B-Tx card

2000-02-25 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-02-25 13:51:27, Patrick Hamel wrote: > Hi, > > I recently bought a new 10/100Mb hub and I have problem running my > 3c905B-Tx to 100bTx. [...] > Anyone got this solve before??? I have two nics both 3c905B one with ring on lan and one without. Think that I had to force them to 100 using

Re: Pre-Depend error from apt

2000-02-25 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > > I accidentally hosed the /var partition on a friend's Debian box. In > trying to repair the damage, I started getting the message "E: Internal > Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend" from both apt-get and dselect. > > Can anyone enlighten me as to how to get apt/dselect wor

Re: sound card woes :(

2000-02-25 Thread Kent West
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm new to this list. I installed debian after I lost my original hard drive > to > power fault. The original box was built by my brother and sound card worked > great. > > I used the CD's to install and then upgraded kernal to 2.2.14. During t

Problems getting 100bTx with 3c59x drivers and 3c905B-Tx card

2000-02-25 Thread Patrick Hamel
Hi, I recently bought a new 10/100Mb hub and I have problem running my 3c905B-Tx to 100bTx. What happens is this: [WinNT, Win98] - All fine, link comes up at 100/full as per EEPROM autoselection. [Linux (Debian potato (Dec 99) with 2.2.13 kernel)] During boot and before modules are loaded, link

xrdb hangs--except for root

2000-02-25 Thread Tony Crawford
Hi gang! Can anybody help me with this conundrum? I have a hamm installation on a Toshiba 4080 XCDT, and I installed XFree86 3.3.5 to get the vid driver for it. (BTW the last thing I was doing before I started spending all my time on this problem was trying to install Corel WP8, which was demandi

Re: WindowMaker menus are all gone!

2000-02-25 Thread Mike Werner
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 12:54:25PM -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > I installed potato's windowmaker last night, and it worked fine until I > stepped through the configuration boxes. When it got to the menu one, it > complained that all of the applications were wrong, or something like > that...

Re: HELP: debian IMAP client with non-kerberos encrypting authentication?

2000-02-25 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 04:05:31PM -0500, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Friday, 25 February 2000 at 21:41, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm looking for IMAP server/client, allowing for safe authentication (no > > plain > > text password transfer). > > The imap/fetchmail set requires

Re: HELP: debian IMAP client with non-kerberos encrypting authentication?

2000-02-25 Thread Brendan Cully
On Friday, 25 February 2000 at 21:41, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm looking for IMAP server/client, allowing for safe authentication (no plain > text password transfer). > The imap/fetchmail set requires installation of the whole kerberos suite, > which is very big trouble... :-(. f

HELP: debian IMAP client with non-kerberos encrypting authentication?

2000-02-25 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I'm looking for IMAP server/client, allowing for safe authentication (no plain text password transfer). The imap/fetchmail set requires installation of the whole kerberos suite, which is very big trouble... :-(. -- TIA Wojciech Zabolotny

Re: "device full" messages and lost file contents.

2000-02-25 Thread Shaul Karl
What do you get for df /var ? > Hi, > > I am running Debian Woody i386. > > Yesterday I had a scary experience. I started getting these "device > full, can't save to device" messages and several applications crashed. > I could not send mail, I only got these messages. > > I rebooted

sound card woes :(

2000-02-25 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello all, I'm new to this list. I installed debian after I lost my original hard drive to power fault. The original box was built by my brother and sound card worked great. I used the CD's to install and then upgraded kernal to 2.2.14. During the proccess, my sound card didn't get noticed

Re: Thank you, Corel, for PPP

2000-02-25 Thread Hans
Huh, what is setserial used for? I thought this didn't have any effect with pcmcia. --Hans BTW, what are you running: Slink, Potato or Corel? Where did you get the upgraded packages? At 01:14 PM 2/25/00 +0800, Jonathan Chang wrote: >Hi, all, > >For those who have ppp problem, here is my test

Acroread/Netscape crash

2000-02-25 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
I am using potato and I have the following problem. I just installed acroread from potato ( non-free ) version 4 and tried to read a pdf file using netscape. Netscape crashes with: Bus Error LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libBRokenLocale.so.1 $netscape "$@" I had this problem with acrobat version 3 as we

steps in upgrading from potato to woody

2000-02-25 Thread Joseph Anthony de los Santos
hi, If I wanted to upgrade from potato (kernel version 2.2.13) to woody, what steps do I have to do in order to accomplish this? thanks.

Re: problem doing slink -> frozen

2000-02-25 Thread ethan mindlace fremen
Nathan E Norman wrote: > I was able to get around this, but I DO NOT recommend that anyone use > my method!! If you do, don't tell me about how screwed up your system > got. > Well, I followed your directions and everything appears to be working just fine. I actually had to force install some

Re: Problelm with mounting of partitions

2000-02-25 Thread Thomas Delaet
> > When I restart my PC and I start the debian distribution. > > I got on startup : > > ... > > /dev/hdc2 on /var type ext2 (rw) > > ... > > Parallelizing fsck version 1.15 (18 Jul 1999) > > /dev/hdc2 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced > > /dev/hdc2 555/26208 files (13.0% non-contiguous), 6

Sound in KDE

2000-02-25 Thread Todd Suess
I am using OSS (Commericial) with my Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold, and for most things, the sound works awesome.  However, for some reason I cannot get the KDE System Sounds to function at all.  I have enabled them, but hitting the test button does nothing, and generates no errors in the syslog, etc. 

Re: What format are the gnome-sounds??

2000-02-25 Thread Frank Barknecht
Bruno Boettcher hat gesagt: // Bruno Boettcher wrote: > BTW what program should i use to inspect soundfiles to extract the relevant > information? i noticed that i couldn't get this sort of info from sox... "file" from the debian-package of the same name is good at giving quick info about files,

Re: changing mime handlers

2000-02-25 Thread hawk
OK, i got a bit farther: more grepping led to a trail ending at /usr/lib/mime/packages/, and lowered netscape's priorities while increasing lynx's, but when lynx opens the message, there's a blank line at the beginning, followed by all of the html. rick

Re: ssh keys keep changing.

2000-02-25 Thread aphro
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, John Davis wrote: davis >Hello davis > davis >I keep getting HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! errors. How do I prevent davis >these errors and how do I ensure davis >that my machines are not under attack from someone? remove the file ~/.ssh/known_hosts or edit it to remove

WindowMaker menus are all gone!

2000-02-25 Thread Jonathan Markevich
I installed potato's windowmaker last night, and it worked fine until I stepped through the configuration boxes. When it got to the menu one, it complained that all of the applications were wrong, or something like that... so it promptly deleted the menus. I have purged and reinstalled it a few t

Re: pppconfig question

2000-02-25 Thread John Hasler
Robert Waldner writes: > I cannot figure out how to _not_ authenticate when using pppd. By selecting either PAP or CHAP and filling in anything at all for username and password. The host at the other end tells pppd what kind of authentication to use, so if it never asks for PAP or CHAP the entrie

Re: silencing modem

2000-02-25 Thread John Hasler
Marko Cehaja writes: > But I suppose, that pppconfig program would accept something like ^M sign > and so to make it possible to accepte configuration for modem like > ATZ^MATM0L0 when you configure the pon connection with pppconfig. It's not quite that simple. The modem will send 'OK' in respons

Re: latest netbase messed up my system (potato)

2000-02-25 Thread Anton Emmerfors
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 01:51:55AM -, Pollywog wrote: > I have figured out what is going on with my machine after 15 reboots. > I can ping the other machine on my home network but if I connect to the net I > cannot do anything until I do 'ipchains -F'. I can restart my ipchains rules > and al

Linear RAID CRC errors (was wu-ftpd fails)

2000-02-25 Thread Alex McCool
Does anyone have any experience with aic7xxx and linear raid oh and throw in wu-ftpd.   Since this is a contination of another thread: Background. When uploading a file using wu-ftpd to a RAID linear directory mount I get CRC errors in the file. Uploading to a normal ext2 mount the upload works

Re: NCR53c406a

2000-02-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jaume Teixi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > So the problem is that I'm trying to install Debian 2.1 with > kernel-image-2.2.12-2.2.12-1 and when booting from CD stops with message: ^^ Ah, that explains the unusual combination (to me) of Debian and

Re: ssh keys keep changing.

2000-02-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 11:22:35AM -0500, John Davis wrote: > Hello > > I keep getting HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! errors. How do I prevent > these errors and how do I ensure > that my machines are not under attack from someone? > > On one machine, I get this message everytime I connect to

Re: wu-ftpd fails CRC checks

2000-02-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting Alex McCool ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Doing md5sum results: > This is the client, I know this files is good > /home/amccool$ md5sum winamp25e_full.exe > 1a8cc2cddc56fbffef748cb83903913d winamp25e_full.exe > > This is the suscpect FTP server > /home/amccool$ md5sum winamp25e_full.exe > 0

ssh keys keep changing.

2000-02-25 Thread John Davis
Hello I keep getting HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! errors. How do I prevent these errors and how do I ensure that my machines are not under attack from someone? On one machine, I get this message everytime I connect to it. I have tried to reinstall ssh via apt-get remove/install ssh, and I

Solaris xterm and mutt

2000-02-25 Thread Ben Darnell
[Please reply by mail, as I'm not subscribed to debian-user] When I connect to my Debian (woody) box from an xterm running on Solaris ($TERM=xterm) and run mutt, the text positioning is all wrong. But, if I use screen, everything works fine. Other text-mode programs (e.g. slrn, vim, etc) have no

"device full" messages and lost file contents.

2000-02-25 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I am running Debian Woody i386. Yesterday I had a scary experience. I started getting these "device full, can't save to device" messages and several applications crashed. I could not send mail, I only got these messages. I rebooted the machine, and when I came back up I noticed that several

Trouble installing Debian on MVME167

2000-02-25 Thread Jim Ziegler
I am trying to install Debian on an MVME167. I have downloaded from slink (March 2 version): tftplilo tftplilo.conf linux (for MVME167) root.bin (for MVME167) and moved these to /boot with new names as directed. I have set up tftp and the MVME167. When I reset the MVME167 I g

changing mime handlers

2000-02-25 Thread hawk
Every time some knucklehead sends me a message with an html component, show tries to fire off netscape to read the stupid thing. I've looked high and low in all of the . files in ~, in everything with "mime" in /etc, and every man page I can think of. I can't find *anything* that tells it to us

Re: Installing source lyx

2000-02-25 Thread hawk
Micha mentioned, > I got the latest source for lyx from their site, because I need thw hebrew > support thats installed there. > The problem is, can someone tell me how to configure it to the right > dirextories ( what are they ?) I got the source package for 1.1.4 from > debian and I tired to copy

Re: How to configure the imap package after installation?

2000-02-25 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 02:48:36PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > I've installed the imap package on my debian box. However I can't access > my mail folders, located in ~/Mail directory - neither from other debian > box with fetchmail nor from Win98 box with Netscape. I couldn't find > any inf

Re: Problem installing apache-perl in Frozen

2000-02-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 11:23:19PM +, Richard McCombs wrote: > > I recently installed Frozen "Potato" on my computer. > Today I was trying to install apache-perl and I get the following > error... > "ln: cannot create symbolic link `/etc/apache/conf' to `.' No such file > or > directory" apa

Re: video viewer

2000-02-25 Thread Jonathan Chang
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, [ISO-8859-1] Nils-Erik Svang緳d wrote: > I use gtv, works fine for me and are available as debs > there is one called mtv which also is good but the inter face is not free, > the server is though > /nisse > I tried gtv, but the audio does not work. It seems that gtv still lac

How to configure the imap package after installation?

2000-02-25 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
I've installed the imap package on my debian box. However I can't access my mail folders, located in ~/Mail directory - neither from other debian box with fetchmail nor from Win98 box with Netscape. I couldn't find any info about required further configuration of imap... How to make my mail folder

Re: redialing ppp on busy

2000-02-25 Thread John Hasler
wah writes: > How do I get ppp to redial on BUSY? Put 'persist' in /etc/ppp/peers/provider. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

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Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-25 Thread Dean Struss
> Hi Kent Since its a new computer, why not go to your vendor? Should have been some kind of warranty. Dean > > > This is a brand new computer. Everything was working fine until I > cfdisked the primary drive. Then the bios can't detect either of my > drives. The only one detected is

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-25 Thread Eric Hagglund
John is 100% correct. The one thing I would offer, based on my having single-handedly screwed up probably 100 or more installs, is that you should walk away from it for a day or so if you can afford to. Try hard to force yourself to stay away from the box for at least 24 hours. Every time I had

redialing ppp on busy

2000-02-25 Thread wah
How do I get ppp to redial on BUSY? Do I use the chat script? I read something about chat returning an error code of 4 on the chat man page, but I wouldn't know what to do with it! Any ideas?

Re: RFC: NO, THE X SERVERS SHOULD NOT DEPEND ON XFONTS-BASE

2000-02-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 07:16:24PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Branden" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Branden> In a stressful time like freeze, it is really aggravating > Branden> to deal with the nonstop trickle of people who tell me > Branden> that because

Re: Upgrading to potato

2000-02-25 Thread Tobias Zimpel
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 12:58:11PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > >I am going to upgrade from Debian slink 2.1 to potato. Can >anybody tell me if I am wrong about the procedure? Actually, >I am working with a spanish non-official Debian distribution >and it includes apt-get, Kde, gnome, etc

Re: NCR53c406a

2000-02-25 Thread Jaume Teixi
So the problem is that I'm trying to install Debian 2.1 with kernel-image-2.2.12-2.2.12-1 and when booting from CD stops with message: NCR53c406a : no ports avaiable And can't install anything :-( And that's due to my SCSI Host Adaptec AIC 7895P on the mainboard So there's any way to pass trough

Re: Reading files from corrupted disk

2000-02-25 Thread kmself
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 01:42:58AM -0800, davidturetsky wrote: > I have a bunch of Windows95 files stranded on my old hard drives, not > accessible from windows because the directory (I believe) has been corrupted > > How can I access them directly and copy them off onto the 34gb drive > that cam

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-25 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 12:06:54AM -0600, ktb wrote > > ktb wrote: > > > > > > > I had stuff on the disk but I meant to wipe it clean. What my problem > > > seems to be coming down to is my computer will no longer auto detect my > > > HD's. I had one HD (primary) with Windows 98 and (secondary)

Re: RFC: NO, THE X SERVERS SHOULD NOT DEPEND ON XFONTS-BASE

2000-02-25 Thread Brian May
> "Branden" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Branden> In a stressful time like freeze, it is really aggravating Branden> to deal with the nonstop trickle of people who tell me Branden> that because *THEIR* system is broken, I need to add a Branden> DEPENDENCY on

Pre-Depend error from apt

2000-02-25 Thread Kent West
I accidentally hosed the /var partition on a friend's Debian box. In trying to repair the damage, I started getting the message "E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend" from both apt-get and dselect. Can anyone enlighten me as to how to get apt/dselect working again? Thanks!

Rethinking system set-up, would like some feedback

2000-02-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Dear all, Now that I've got two brand new external SCSI drives to play with I am rethinking my system set-up. If you have got some advice, I'd love to hear it. Here is the scoop. The system in question is an IBM PC 300PL with an internal 8.3GB IDE drive and 2 external SCSI drives (20GB and 27GB

Rethinking system set-up, would like some feedback

2000-02-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Dear all, Now that I've got two brand new external SCSI drives to play with I am rethinking my system set-up. If you have got some advice, I'd love to hear it. Here is the scoop. The system in question is an IBM PC 300PL with an internal 8.3GB IDE drive and 2 external SCSI drives (20GB and 27GB

Re: Spam block suggestions (was Re: Unidentified subject!)

2000-02-25 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 20:00:15 PST, kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: >Well, the obvious response is -- who's got a good spam-block suggestion >for a fetchmail/mutt combination? well, there are lots of options for lots of different MTAs, some good places to get started include: http://spam.abuse.net/tool

Reading files from corrupted disk

2000-02-25 Thread davidturetsky
I have a bunch of Windows95 files stranded on my old hard drives, not accessible from windows because the directory (I believe) has been corrupted   How can I access them directly and copy them off onto the 34gb drive that came with my new system?   If not readily accessible from simple scrip

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-25 Thread ktb
ktb wrote: > > > > I had stuff on the disk but I meant to wipe it clean. What my problem > > seems to be coming down to is my computer will no longer auto detect my > > HD's. I had one HD (primary) with Windows 98 and (secondary) with > > Slink. Now neither of my HD's are detected. I went int

Re: Sound Blaster Live

2000-02-25 Thread Rev GRC Sperry
I did this just last night on my smp machine and with little effort and running "make INCLUDE=/usr/include" and the normal instructions I have sound. I suck at configuring sound under Linux so if I can do most anyone can now for the sblive. I encourage people to give it a go even if they've failed

Re: Installing source lyx

2000-02-25 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 05:51:58AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I got the latest source for lyx from their site, because I need thw hebrew > support thats installed there. > The problem is, can someone tell me how to configure it to the right > dirextories ( what are they ?) I got the source packag

Re: sendmail (or exim) help, please

2000-02-25 Thread aphro
sendmail has a masquerade option, postfix probably does too since its a drop in replacement. if you masquerade as say mydomain.com no matter what domain the sender uses it'll get changed to mydomain.com ..is that what your lookin for ? nate On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote: matthe >I'm

Question about updating libc6_2.1.3-4

2000-02-25 Thread Liu Chung Him
Dear All, I just install the slink and want to update the libc6_2.0.7 to libc6_2.1.3.4. When i install the libc6_2.1.3.4, dpkg show me that it depends on debianutils >= 1.13.1 . Therefore, i download the debianutil_1.13.2 . However, when i install the debianutils, it shows me that it depen

Re: Format question

2000-02-25 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad) wrote: >>There are probably also other windows cursor viewers floating around >>that may be less complex and depend less on the registry, and so have a >>better shot at wining... Good luck! > >freshmeat has a package called icoutils,

Re: Troubleshooting My PPP

2000-02-25 Thread Brad
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 12:27:15PM -0500, Lane Lester wrote: > > But I still need to know how large to make my replacement boot partition > below 1024 cyl. On my system, i have /, /bin, /boot, /dev, /etc, /lib, /root, and /sbin all on one 80M partition (of which only 22M is used). Since it's that

Re: Thank you, Corel, for PPP

2000-02-25 Thread Jonathan Chang
Hi, all, For those who have ppp problem, here is my test report. There are a good news and a bad news. The good one is that my PCMCIA modem card works and is very stable now. The bad news is I can not determine exactly where this bugfix comes from. First I briefly describe my environment

Re: RFC: NO, THE X SERVERS SHOULD NOT DEPEND ON XFONTS-BASE

2000-02-25 Thread Joey Hess
Branden Robinson wrote: > I'd very much appreciate hearing these suggestions. Please DON'T send them > directly to me; send them to debian-x@lists.debian.org instead so they can > be considered and discussed by a number of people. I think this may actually soon stop being a FAQ. The reason why is

Re: what is /etc/network/interfaces and if.up and if.down?

2000-02-25 Thread Joey Hess
Ethan Benson wrote: > apparently not, im trying to hold off judgement until there is real > documentation The file is documented well enough so you can figure it out; it has 72 lines of comments. > (and they bother to replace the default interfaces file > that contains `this is completely unstabl

RFC: NO, THE X SERVERS SHOULD NOT DEPEND ON XFONTS-BASE

2000-02-25 Thread Branden Robinson
In a stressful time like freeze, it is really aggravating to deal with the nonstop trickle of people who tell me that because *THEIR* system is broken, I need to add a DEPENDENCY on xfonts-base to all the X servers, or to xserver-common. This is WRONG. Utterly, completely, and totally WRONG. The

Re: Format question

2000-02-25 Thread Nitebirdz
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Michael Meskes wrote: > My kids brought me some files teh types of which I never heard about. Could > anyone please tell me what I need to open *.ani? FILE does know this type: > > Ani/zubat.ani: RIFF (little-endian) data, animated cursor > > Thanks. > > Michael > > P.S.:

Re: sendmail (or exim) help, please

2000-02-25 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 05:39:08AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Hi ! > > Is it possibble to masquarade my e-mail to the outside world from > my LAN ? I'll tell you exactly what I wanted to say. I have a local > LAN, one e-mail address. I have set up a local DNS and ipchains > rules but I st

Re: KDE and other window managers

2000-02-25 Thread kmself
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 09:42:04PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > I followed the KDE instructions of getting it to use another window manager > rather than kwm, but this doesn't seem to work. > > What I did was change the "exec kwm" in the kde/startkde script to "exec > afterstep" or "exec sawmil

Spam block suggestions (was Re: Unidentified subject!)

2000-02-25 Thread kmself
Well, the obvious response is -- who's got a good spam-block suggestion for a fetchmail/mutt combination? I pull my mail feed from my ISP. There is occasional traffic I'd like to block, such as the message just received, and worse, an apparently growing number of "subscription" spam services I se

Re: Hosed my system/fdisk can't read disk drive now.

2000-02-25 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 03:03:52PM -0600, ktb wrote > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 10:03:13AM -0600, ktb wrote: > > > "Allan M. Wind" wrote: > > > > > > > > On 2000-02-24 09:40:21, ktb wrote: > > > > > > > > > I've pulled a real bone head deal it seems. I decided to

Installing source lyx

2000-02-25 Thread Micha Feigin
I got the latest source for lyx from their site, because I need thw hebrew support thats installed there. The problem is, can someone tell me how to configure it to the right dirextories ( what are they ?) I got the source package for 1.1.4 from debian and I tired to copy the configure script from

Re: what is /etc/network/interfaces and if.up and if.down?

2000-02-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 10:05:51PM -, Pollywog wrote: > As if I were not confused enough, now I need to get rid of /etc/init.d/network no you don't, just leave your existing /etc/init.d/network script and ignore this new undocumented method. > and use this new /etc/network/interfaces, but I

Re: modem fun

2000-02-25 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Steve Kondik wrote: > yep, its a winmodem. ouch... it hurts...

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-02-25 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > i'm interested in using coda (advanced network filesystem, nfs killer) on > debian. a google search turned up links to a mailing list entry from '98 > that indicated coda was on it's way in back then. i havn't been able to find > either the packages or t

KDE and other window managers

2000-02-25 Thread David J. Kanter
I followed the KDE instructions of getting it to use another window manager rather than kwm, but this doesn't seem to work. What I did was change the "exec kwm" in the kde/startkde script to "exec afterstep" or "exec sawmill" but logging on simply kicks me back to the xdm banner. Any ideas? -- D

RE: Sound Blaster Live

2000-02-25 Thread James Sasitorn
Actually the latest snap-shots from creative do. I installed the live smp drivers probably a good 2 months ago.. I guess I probably should get a more recent version. james -Original Message- From: Svante Signell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 4:58 PM To: debian-

Re: mounting /tmp from fstab

2000-02-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 03:16:42AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > 1) extra security? > [03:11:45 /tmp]$ man 8 mount | grep -A1 -B3 suid > nosuid Do not allow set-user-identifier or set- > group-identifier bits to take effect. (This > seems s

Re: mounting /tmp from fstab

2000-02-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 06:50:33PM -0500, Jonathan Lupa wrote: > Thanks all, I'll just follow this advice below. Where in the boot > chain should this go? Currently, I'm adding it to > /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh. hmm? the chmod is permanent, just like when you chmod any other directory on a unix l

Re: Changing keyboard from qwerty

2000-02-25 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 02:04:20AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Reply on-list. > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 01:24:28AM -0800, wah wrote: > > > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > Are you trying to set keymaps for the console or for X. AFAIK, they're > > > handled seper

Re: modem fun

2000-02-25 Thread Steve Kondik
yep, its a winmodem. On 02/24/00 @ 07:40PM, pplaw wrote: > debs, > > i have a brand new dell deskbox with an internal modem--conexant > (mdp3900v.u modem)--that won't pon. > > here's what i see: > > $ setserial > $ /dev/ttyS0, uart: 16550A, port: 0x03f8, irq: 4 > > $ plog > ...chat [348]: abo

modem fun

2000-02-25 Thread pplaw
debs, i have a brand new dell deskbox with an internal modem--conexant (mdp3900v.u modem)--that won't pon. here's what i see: $ setserial $ /dev/ttyS0, uart: 16550A, port: 0x03f8, irq: 4 $ plog ...chat [348]: abort on (no carrier) ...chat [348]: abort on (voice) ...chat [348]: abort on (no d

ftp access via Web

2000-02-25 Thread zdrysdal
Hi I am trying to give our network access to ftp via the Web but it is not working. I use ipfw on slink. here is what i tried : IPFWACC="/sbin/ipfwadm -F -b -a accept" ANYHOST="0.0.0.0/0" USERPORT="1024:65535" $DIAGNET is our network $IPFWACC -P tcp -S $ANYHOST $USERPORT -D $DIAGNET $USERPOR

Unidentified subject!

2000-02-25 Thread rebecca
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Coda filesystem (was Re: Unidentified subject!)

2000-02-25 Thread kmself
Look to Freshmeat for the project homepage and info. Go to the project page for latest news (Feb, 2000): http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/news.html On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 07:29:59PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > i'm interested in using coda (advanced network filesystem, nfs killer) on > debian. a g

latest netbase messed up my system (potato)

2000-02-25 Thread Pollywog
I have figured out what is going on with my machine after 15 reboots. I can ping the other machine on my home network but if I connect to the net I cannot do anything until I do 'ipchains -F'. I can restart my ipchains rules and all is well until the next time I need to reboot. At that time, I ne

Re: sendmail (or exim) help, please

2000-02-25 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 02/25/00 05:39AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi ! > > Is it possibble to masquarade my e-mail to the outside world from > my LAN ? I'll tell you exactly what I wanted to say. I have a local > LAN, one e-mail address. I have set up a local DNS and ipchains > rules but I stopped at sendmail. I

Re: slrn and leafnode

2000-02-25 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 02/24/00 11:57AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: > In your case, with only a single machine involved, putting localhost into > /etc/news/server should work, though I prefer to use the box's own name > instead. Thanks. That's what I ended up doing. I'll try to set it up with my machine name a little late

Re: mounting /tmp from fstab

2000-02-25 Thread Shaul Karl
> > > FWIW, here is the relevant line... > >=20 > > /dev/md0 /tmp ext2defaults 0 2 > > thats ok, but i would mount it defaults,nosuid for extra security. (it > depends on how you partitioned if /var and /tmp and /home are there > own partitions you should be able to mount them a

Re: apt-get -b

2000-02-25 Thread Sean Johnson
I like to use apt-move to create a local mirror of all the packages I've installed. This makes it easy to keep the other machines on my home lan up to date. All I do is make the apt-move directory (in my case it's on /mirror) mountable via nfs by all local machines, and go from there. I think this

Re: Re: Can't click links in Netscape??

2000-02-25 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao Ethan Benson, > > For some reason, I can't click links in netscape anymore. I can right > > click > > them and hit "Open Link in New Window", but left click them and have it > > open in > > the same window like it should. This is with Communicator 4.7. > > > > Ideas anyone? It is

apt-get -b

2000-02-25 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I have several packages downloaded on a machine. I'd like to be able to apt-get'ing those packages from another machine. What packages do I have to have on the first machine so that the downloaded packages can be apt-get'ed by the second machine. (I can get Apache installed on the 1st machine.

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