RE: ATI

2000-03-26 Thread ROBERT-ITO
Yo tengo Mandrake, que tiene la XFree ver 3.3.6 esta tiene un xserver espefica para Rage 128 esta es el chip que contiene el Rage Fury, teniendo cuidado de determinar bien la cant. de memoria de video (16mg o 32mg), y tened en cuenta si TV Out ya que tenes que ir a la web de ATI para bajar un

Re: Problemas para bajar algunos algunos paquetes(make-pseudo-image)

2000-03-26 Thread Fernando Sanchez
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, daniel wrote: Creo que eso a priori no debe importar porque lo que importa es que rsync después hace los arreglos pertinentes sobre los datos que falten, etc... Ah, por supuesto :-)) No recordaba cómo funcionaba lo de las pseudo-imágenes O:-) De todas formas, aunque dé

Re: apt-get update offline???

2000-03-26 Thread Agustin MuNoz
El sáb, 25 de mar de 2000, a las 12:34:56 +0100, David Muriel va y dice: Hace poco he actualizado de slink a potato (durante la party que hubo en santiago), pero como todavía no tengo los CDs de potato, cada vez que quiero instalar un paquete utilizo un script que me crea una lista con los

/proc

2000-03-26 Thread Cesar
Saludos a todos . Alguien podría decirme donde encontrar información profusa sobre el pseudo-filesystem/proc ? Gracias anticipadas. César.

Dos monitores

2000-03-26 Thread Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
¿Es posible utilizar dos trarjetas de video y dos monitores en Debian? En mi caso una de las tarjetas es PCI y la otra AGP. ¿Es esto un problema? Gracias, Camilo Alejandro Arboleda -- * De simio la conoci y he visto hombres que la añoran. * En lo que a mi se refiere, ni entonces ni ahora *

Re: Telefónica mediante ADSL ¿puedor?

2000-03-26 Thread Antonio Castro
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Javier_Vi=F1uales_Guti=E9rrez?= wrote: Hola a todos, esto es pseudoofftopic pero creo que es de cierto interés. Me acaba de llamar por teléfono una simpática señorita informándome de la oferta de conexión ADSL mediante Telefónica (6500 pts/mes + coste

Re: default keymap y root

2000-03-26 Thread 31
Hemos estado hablando de esto el otro dia en #debian y creo que es un bug, asi que, alguien deberia mandarlo. Ademas de lo que tu dices tampoco pone tildes aqui en el netscape como usuario. La verdad es que hay dos paquetes, el console-tools y el kbd, y ninguno de los dos funciona de repente, asi

smail

2000-03-26 Thread daniel garcia sanchez
Como se puede hacer para que smail en la cabecera de los mensajes de correo en from me ponga para un determinado usuario una cuenta de correo que no esta en su maquina. Se que se hace con la variable from_field, pero como no se como va la sintaxis del archivo config, no se como hacer

Re: Sobre el pasado Expo-Linux

2000-03-26 Thread SKaVeN
Hell-o Andres Herrera! El día Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:04:18AM CET Depende de los objetivos que se tengan. Para meter Linux en serio en la empresa no hay mas remedio que hacer que Linux suene, y para eso hace falta que se organicen eventos y que estos suenen en los medios de comunicacion.

Re: SYSLOG

2000-03-26 Thread Tito Sam
El Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:59:07PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: El 22-Mar-00 Neil D. Roberts dijo: Sips, o incluso a otra consola, veamos, simplemente hay que ir a /etc/syslog.conf y añadir la linea: *.* /dev/null Nada mas, y despues le haces un killall -HUP syslogd y estara

Re: smail

2000-03-26 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Hola. Hace un tiempo, en esta lista comentaron como hacer la sustitución de cabeceras from en smail. Te envio un estracto del fichero transports y un ejemplo de maps/from asociado: - smtp: driver=tcpsmtp, max_addrs=100, # limit on number of

Re: Sobre el pasado Expo-Linux

2000-03-26 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 04:28:14PM +0100, SKaVeN wrote: Depende de los objetivos que se tengan. Para meter Linux en serio en la empresa no hay mas remedio que hacer que Linux suene, y para eso hace falta que se organicen eventos y que estos suenen en los medios de comunicacion. estoy

Compilando Vigor-0.006 en Slink

2000-03-26 Thread Barbwired
¿Alguien ha conseguido compilar Vigor-0.006 en Slink? En el README dice que exporte: export CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/tcl8.0 -I/usr/local/include/tk8.0 export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib Substitute your locations for tcl.h, tk.h, and libtcl.a on the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS lines. Yo lo he

Re: Sobre el pasado Expo-Linux

2000-03-26 Thread Roberto Meyer
A ver, [...] AH OK. El problema es decidir si realmente interesa que Linux se extienda o no, AH y si eso se puede hacer solo basandose en la calidad o interesa un poco de AH publicidad. Pienso que la publicidad puede resultar excelente. Creo que no es malo que Linux compita como producto

Re: Dos monitores

2000-03-26 Thread Jordi
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 05:36:52AM -0500, Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote: ¿Es posible utilizar dos trarjetas de video y dos monitores en Debian? En mi caso una de las tarjetas es PCI y la otra AGP. ¿Es esto un problema? Hay soporte para esto en XFree86 4.0. No estoy seguro (no lo he probado

Re: default keymap y root

2000-03-26 Thread Jordi
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 03:00:20PM +0200, 31 wrote: Hemos estado hablando de esto el otro dia en #debian y creo que es un bug, asi que, alguien deberia mandarlo. Ademas de lo que tu dices tampoco pone tildes aqui en el netscape como usuario. La verdad es que hay dos paquetes, el console-tools

RE: Problemas al compilar

2000-03-26 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Ricardo Villalba [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: martes 21 de marzo de 2000 21:16 Asunto: RE: Problemas al compilar [...] Necesitas también kdelibs2g-dev.

Ferramenta para sincronizacão de links

2000-03-26 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Pessoal estou procurando por uma ferramenta que permita sincronizar links simbólicos de servidores ftp remotos mas gravando localmente os arquivos no qual os links apontam (da mesma forma que o ftp faz). Alguém conhece alguma coisa que sirva e se possível permita especificar que tipo de

Re: Ferramenta para sincronizacão de links

2000-03-26 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Rsync talvez? Nesta situacão ele não se encaixa. Ele permite somente o sincronismo completo de diretórios e requer um servidor rsync rodando na máquina remota. Estou usando o Midnight Commander para fazer o sincronismo de links manualmente

Re: Ferramenta para sincronizacão de links

2000-03-26 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
pmirror ou rsync On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Gleydson Mazioli da Silva wrote: Pessoal estou procurando por uma ferramenta que permita sincronizar links simbólicos de servidores ftp remotos mas gravando localmente os arquivos no qual os links apontam (da mesma forma que o ftp faz). Alguém

filtrar attaches executáveis

2000-03-26 Thread Jose Carlos Benfati
Oi, Estou buscando um jeito de filtrar e-mails com attaches executáveis e alterar essas mensagens para que apareçam sem o tal attach. Por enquanto me parece que o melhor jeito é um script usando o reformime (do maildrop.deb) que identifica as seções MIME suspeitas e corta as tais seções fora da

Re: modules not working please help

2000-03-26 Thread Ron Rademaker
Are you sure there's nothing else use htat io port?? Check your /proc/ioports to see if it'w free. Ron On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, bacterium wrote: I have just installed Debian potato (2.2.14). The installer gave an error when I tried to install the modules for my network cards. I know for

weird perl behaviour

2000-03-26 Thread spectral
I have seen this discussed earlier, but i can't remember what to do about it. When i start perl it says: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = iso_8859_1, LANG = C are supported and

RE: Squid ACLs does not work

2000-03-26 Thread C. Falconer
I disagree with your disagreement -grin- Plain ACLs are too slow especially on a large and/or busy cache. -- From: Onno[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 26 March 2000 12:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject:

Good Imap mail server?

2000-03-26 Thread Chris Hoover
I think I want to install an imap mail server on my linux server. Can someone recommend a good one that is debianized? Here is why I want one. I'm using several different computers on my home network, and want to be able to read my any of my e-mail from any computer here. I believe this is

Re: Sound error: Can't allocate DMA buffer

2000-03-26 Thread Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had the same problem with some kernels, but with 2.2.14 it works fine. I saw that there is a patch at www.alsa-project.org , maybe thats what you need. I read a few kernels ago that you needed the following in /etc/modules.conf (or conf.modules, depending on

Re: weird perl behaviour

2000-03-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 03:25:20AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen this discussed earlier, but i can't remember what to do about it. When i start perl it says: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL =

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-26 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Percival, I want to have easy freedom in limiting user access. I have killed telnetd, and only sshd. I want to allow some users access through ssh, some through ftpd, and some through samba. How can I turn off user access through ssh, but keep their account, and allow them access

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 05:46:00PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: Quoth Percival, I want to have easy freedom in limiting user access. I have killed telnetd, and only sshd. I want to allow some users access through ssh, some through ftpd, and some through samba. How can I turn off user

problem mounting large partition ...

2000-03-26 Thread Adam Shand
i'm sure this is a faq but i can't find the answer so i'm hoping someone here can give me a quick pointer to the right direction. i just got done installing slink on a 13Gb maxtor drive. my /var (where i like to keep everything) is just over 10Gb. when i boot it hangs on the message:

Re: Can't extract base2_1.tgz no matter what

2000-03-26 Thread Josh Kuperman
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 03:16:48PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 06:02:35PM -0500, Josh Kuperman wrote: I have a Dell Dimension XPS 466, with 64M of RAM and two old SCSI disks. I have tried downloading CD-images from ftp.eecs.umich.edu and using the cd-image making

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-26 Thread Adam Shand
I want to have easy freedom in limiting user access. I have killed telnetd, and only sshd. I want to allow some users access through ssh, some through ftpd, and some through samba. How can I turn off user access through ssh, but keep their account, and allow them access through ftp? Can

Re: Good Imap mail server?

2000-03-26 Thread Adam Shand
I think I want to install an imap mail server on my linux server. Can someone recommend a good one that is debianized? Here is why I want one. I'm using several different computers on my home network, and want to be able to read my any of my e-mail from any computer here. I believe this

Deploying Hotmail-like service with crazy requirements

2000-03-26 Thread dan
Wonder if anyone has experience with very high-volume web-to-mail services, or just have any recommendations at all. We are going to be working on a 100,000 user web-to-mail gateway system similar to Hotmail. Every user will have a 50 MB mailbox. At this point this is a one-person job, and quite

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 05:51:06PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: i'm not sure what you're options are for samba as i haven't used it for a long time ... for ssh you have two ways. give them a shell which is useless (/bin/false or /bin/true or make your own, eg. /usr/local/bin/nossh). then

floppy doesn't work since upgrading to 2.2

2000-03-26 Thread Adam Shand
ever since i upgraded to 2.2 i've had very sporadic sucess using my floppy disk on my thinkpad 390. sometimes it seems to kinda work but most of the time it doesn't work at all. i'm currently trying to create a boot floppy for a potato resuce disk and getting this error: heyzeus(larry)$ sudo

Re: floppy doesn't work since upgrading to 2.2 [solved]

2000-03-26 Thread Adam Shand
sorry to follow up my own post but i finally figured out what i'd changed since this last worked. i was incorrect it wasn't the 2.2 kernels, it was that shortly after upgrading to 2.2 i added floppy=thinkpad to my lilo.conf (cause i have a thinkpad). i removed this and rebooted and it's all

Re: problem mounting large partition ...

2000-03-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 05:26:40PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: i'm sure this is a faq but i can't find the answer so i'm hoping someone here can give me a quick pointer to the right direction. i just got done installing slink on a 13Gb maxtor drive. my /var (where i like to keep everything)

Re: Can't extract base2_1.tgz no matter what

2000-03-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:47:43PM -0500, Josh Kuperman wrote: So the question is what are the minimum/maximum sizes for a partition. I can't imaging 240M being too small for root. Is it? I had a 3GB partition for /usr which I tried to set under 2G but the disk partitioning software resulted

Re: problem mounting large partition ...

2000-03-26 Thread Adam Shand
I won't ask why, but you should probably follow the fhs standard or you might break things. which is? I don't recall what the limit is, but with a large partition that may contain many small files, you're likely to run out of inodes. And that's no fun. I'd suggest breaking up var into

Re: problem mounting large partition ...

2000-03-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 07:03:21PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: I won't ask why, but you should probably follow the fhs standard or you might break things. which is? See http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ i've had bad luck in the past with non primary partitions. i try and avoid them when i

Re: Deploying Hotmail-like service with crazy requirementsy

2000-03-26 Thread Dan Melomedman
So far you've recommended sendmail and exim as servers. What about web clients? Any ideas?

Re: Deploying Hotmail-like service with crazy requirementsy

2000-03-26 Thread Dan Melomedman
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:04:10PM -0800, George Bonser generated a stream of 1s and 0s: On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Dan Melomedman wrote: So far you've recommended sendmail and exim as servers. What about web clients? Any ideas? Netscape, MSIE, Opera, Lynx, whatever. Ok, how about

RE: Deploying Hotmail-like service with crazy requirementsy

2000-03-26 Thread Bart Szyszka
Ok, how about server-side web-to-mail gateway software? If you want to create something like Hotmail, have you tried IMP: http://www.horde.org/imp/ -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com PayPal - Securely send money to an e-mail user!

Re: Deploying Hotmail-like service with crazy requirementsy

2000-03-26 Thread paulwade
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Dan Melomedman wrote: Ok, how about server-side web-to-mail gateway software? I could tell you ... but then I would have to bill you. That works out okay because if Dan gets this ISP with 100k accounts to hire me or

DSL

2000-03-26 Thread Mark Beverage
Does Debian currently support or is there a way to import support for an Intel Pro/DSL 2100 internal modem for a PC. Thank You Mark Beverage [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: weird perl behaviour

2000-03-26 Thread spectral
Hello, I think the problem comes from having LANG=C but LC_CTYPE=iso_8859_1. Try setting your LANG environment variable in /etc/environment to something that uses iso-8859-1 (en_US, en_UK, and most? western European languages). The iso-8859-1 character set defines twice as many characters as

Re: weird perl behaviour

2000-03-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 08:42:44AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I think the problem comes from having LANG=C but LC_CTYPE=iso_8859_1. Try setting your LANG environment variable in /etc/environment to something that uses iso-8859-1 (en_US, en_UK, and most? western European

Re: weird perl behaviour

2000-03-26 Thread spectral
Don't set LC_CTYPE or any of the other LC_* variable, and just set LANG=whatever. It should exhibit the correct behaviour then. All of the LC variables will inherit values appropriate to the locale if just the LANG variable is set. The only problems are then inheriting behaviors for monetary

line monitor for Linux...?

2000-03-26 Thread Jeff Gordon
Under OS/2, a nifty utility called Poor Man's LIne Monitor (PMLM) was included with Ray Gwinn's SIO com ports drivers. PMLM allowed one to watch was passing through the serial port during online conversations -- very useful for debugging connections and for retrieving forgotten encrypted

RE: Squid ACLs does not work

2000-03-26 Thread Onno
Can you give me any figures? Regards, Onno At 01:26 PM 3/26/00 +1200, C. Falconer wrote: I disagree with your disagreement -grin- Plain ACLs are too slow especially on a large and/or busy cache. -- From: Onno[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 26 March 2000 12:58 AM To:[EMAIL

Problems getting files from distribution sites.

2000-03-26 Thread Kevin A Smith
New installation. Go the base system up with floppies ;-0 Now running dselect, getting numerous failures when trying to download packages either with http from llug.sep.bnl.gov or ftp from ftp.debian.org. Errors I'm getting with HTTP method: overly long header from webserver and bad header line

Help! Memory gone missing...

2000-03-26 Thread Jonathan Heaney
A curious thing happened recently (don't know exactly when, just noticed it) Debian (potato, custom 2.2.15pre15 kernel) seems to have 'lost' 128meg of memory. I've got 192 in my system (recently gone from 128 which went OK) cat /proc/meminfo gives:- total:used:free: shared:

mail server wishlist

2000-03-26 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I have exim mail server installed in a Debian machine and want to know how to do the following: I need a mail server that can on a per-user basis: 1. Take a message local generated or received from SMTP To e-mails in the localdomain and To people in other domains

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

2000-03-26 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:48:52AM -0800, brian moore wrote: Potato tells me IP Masquerading was not included in the kernel, a fact which now has my brother (he's fiftysomething; I'm fifty) from being able to reach the 'Net. Tell him he got kicked off for downloading too much pr0n.

Re: Sound error: Can't allocate DMA buffer

2000-03-26 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Does anybody know how to get around the sound dma buffer problem? I am pretty sure the problem is that the system can't find any free memory in the bottom 16MB. I think that there is a way to lock in the dma buffer, but I don't remember how, and I haven't managed to find the right

SMP-howto

2000-03-26 Thread Vitux
Hi there Just got a dual-processor mobo for cheap. Is there a SMP-howto? Any tips, recommendations for running Debian on a dual PII-350, 256ram? (yes, I'm new at this ;-) Regards Vitux -- Death comes to us in various guises, swiftly changing as a baby's mood... Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Can't unzip kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-26 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:13:32AM -0700, Matheson wrote: Hey, I keep downloading the kernel source (2.2.14) off of kernel.org (slink doesn't have the new kernel in it's package list), but I can't ever unzip it. I've tried downloading it with lynx about five times, but when I try to save

Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread Rodrigo Castro
Hello Sorry for asking again about my problem but I can't make my letter E work in bash (neither in console nor xterm). See what happens: - E is treated like a dead key. It is not showed at first time, but when you press another key after E, it beeps - E works in other programs and

Waveform editor / Python graphics library

2000-03-26 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Does anyone know of a graphical waveform editor where you can edit the actual numerical values of each sample, or draw it? I want to make some samples for some MODs I would like to do, but I don't have a good waveform editor. If not, does anyone know of a good Python drawing library I can use

Re: Deploying Hotmail-like service with crazy requirementsy

2000-03-26 Thread Dan Melomedman
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 01:20:47AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] generated a stream of 1s and 0s: On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Dan Melomedman wrote: Ok, how about server-side web-to-mail gateway software? I could tell you ... but then I would

emacsen-common fails to set-up

2000-03-26 Thread Antonio Fiol Bonnín
Well, I do not like writing too much, so I copy paste... Any help will be appreciated. Antonio Setting up emacsen-common (1.4.10) ... emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs20 emacsen-common: byte-compiling for

'line monitor': solved

2000-03-26 Thread Jeff Gordon
This worked: tcpdump -a -i ppp0 -l -vvv -w dat.file Later: snort -dv -r dat.file (More info than I needed arrived in dat.file, but it did include the specific info I was seeking. I expect 'sniffit' would've worked, but apparently it needs for a particular SysV switch to have been

Re: SMP-howto

2000-03-26 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:26:35PM +0200, Vitux wrote: Hi there Just got a dual-processor mobo for cheap. Is there a SMP-howto? Any tips, recommendations for running Debian on a dual PII-350, 256ram? (yes, I'm new at this ;-) Regards Vitux Basically you need to recompile your kernel with

Re: Sound error: Can't allocate DMA buffer

2000-03-26 Thread Carl Johnson
Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I read a few kernels ago that you needed the following in /etc/modules.conf (or conf.modules, depending on where you are in the Debian versioning): options sound dmabuf=1 I have had this set for some time and have had no problems since with

Re: problem mounting large partition ...

2000-03-26 Thread Peter Wintrich
you must have a boot partition comlete into the lower 1024 cyl. On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Adam Shand wrote: i'm sure this is a faq but i can't find the answer so i'm hoping someone here can give me a quick pointer to the right direction. i just got done installing slink on a 13Gb maxtor

Re: SMP-howto

2000-03-26 Thread Bob Hilliard
Vitux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi there Just got a dual-processor mobo for cheap. Is there a SMP-howto? Any tips, recommendations for running Debian on a dual PII-350, 256ram? (yes, I'm new at this ;-) Regards Vitux /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/SMP-HOWTO.txt.gz in the doc-linux-text

Re: Help! Memory gone missing...

2000-03-26 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 01:06:28PM +0100, Jonathan Heaney wrote: This is new. When I upgraded 128 - 192, the full 192 meg was seen correctly (no need for append line in lilo.conf) Hi, I have never been able to figure out why some folks need the append line and some folks don't, but it sounds

Re: SMP-howto

2000-03-26 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:26:35PM +0200, Vitux wrote: Is there a SMP-howto? See: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/smp.tex (although it is pretty deep stuff, at least my my standards) (if you don't have tex stuff installed, just browse the file) Any tips, recommendations for running Debian on a

slrn/leafnode timeouts

2000-03-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm currently using fetchnews and slrn and frequently have the NNTP connection timeout while composing longer articles, with the result that slrn decides it can post the article and I have to reload it from slrn-failed-posting.txt. While that works, it's a royal PITA... Looking through the

fsck error message

2000-03-26 Thread Dzuy M. Nguyen
I type in 'fsck' at the root prompt and get this message: Parallelizing fsck version 1.14 (9-Jan-1999) WARNING: bad format on line 2 of /etc/fstab My /etc/fstab looks like this: #device mountpoint filesystemtype options dump fsck /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda12 /home ext2

debian install

2000-03-26 Thread Richard McNally
Debian, I bought debian thinking it was a purist Open Source product. However, I got it home and can't get beyond installing the base system. The product hangs and gives a message like"a problem occurred when installing Base System..." Any suggestions? I bought O'Reilly's "learning Debinan"

Re: debian install

2000-03-26 Thread ktb
Sugar will get you a lot more help here than vinegar. This list *is* top notch support. Report exactly what the error that is occurring is and someone will be able to help. kent - Original Message - From: Richard McNally [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org

CD Layout question (i386)

2000-03-26 Thread Mackan
Hi everybody! I'm new to this list - and also new to Debian. I have used Slackware for years, but decided to give Debian a try. I'm wondering how the CD layout looks at the official Debian cd's. I know of the debian-cd package, but since my machine runs Slackware at the moment it isn't much of

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-26 Thread Ernest Johanson
You can tell proftpd to allow logins without a valid shell. It can also set a default root directory for users so they can't see anything above that point. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Adam Shand wrote: Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000

Boot mystery

2000-03-26 Thread Charlie Kroeger
Hi, got a problem... I've installed Debian 2.1 i386 on my second hard drive in a file system and a swap file I created with partition magic. I installed Debian by booting with a windows boot disk with a CD ROM driver and then loaded Debian from the CD. Everything went well. The installation

Re: debian install

2000-03-26 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:09:34PM -0600, Richard McNally wrote: Debian, I bought debian thinking it was a purist Open Source product. Well you were right then. However, I got it home and can't get beyond installing the base system. The product hangs and gives a message likea problem

Re: XFree 3.3.6 SOUND problem (?)

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:28:08PM +, Esdras Beleza de Noronha wrote: I'm having a very, very strange problem with XFree 3.3.6. I have a SiS 6326 (it uses the XF86_SVGA server) and a CMI 8330/SB16 soundcard, and they're configured. When I run X using the 16 bpp resolution, my sound is

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-26 Thread Pollywog
On 26-Mar-2000 19:16:30 Ernest Johanson wrote: You can tell proftpd to allow logins without a valid shell. It can also set a default root directory for users so they can't see anything above that point. Is this what is called chroot? -- Andrew

mknod -- minor device no.

2000-03-26 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm trying to use mknod, but I don't know what my minor device number is. My major device number is 45, so right now I'm using mknod like this: mknod -m 666 syquest 45 ?. But I don't know what I should use for my minor device number. dmesg tells the devices major number, cluster, and

Re: debian install

2000-03-26 Thread John Hasler
Richard McNally writes: Debian, I bought debian thinking it was a purist Open Source product. Don't believe everything you read on IRC. I got it home and can't get beyond installing the base system. The product hangs and gives a message likea problem occurred when installing Base System...

Would you like to save 30% on your phone bills and...

2000-03-26 Thread jeffallen
To be removed from this mailing list immediately press reply and enter REMOVE on the subject line. Would you like some information on saving 30% on your Phone bills each month and how to get up to 8% back each month on your Utilities including phone. This service works for both business and

Re: mknod -- minor device no.

2000-03-26 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I'm trying to use mknod, but I don't know what my minor device number is. My major device number is 45, so right now I'm using mknod like this: mknod -m 666 syquest 45 ?. But I don't know what I should use for my minor device number. dmesg tells the devices major number, cluster, and nice,

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread Samuel Tardieu
| - I booted with init option (linux init=/bin/bash) in order to run no | init script and it didn't work either. I also tried D option (linux | D). Assuming that your mail is serious requires a fair amount of work, but I'll try anyway. bash man page reports that /etc/profile is read first. What

Re: CD Layout question (i386)

2000-03-26 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
Mackan == Mackan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi everybody! I'm new to this list - and also new to Debian. I have used Slackware for years, but decided to give Debian a try. I'm wondering how the CD layout looks at the official Debian cd's. I know of the debian-cd

Potato Moneydance

2000-03-26 Thread jason
Has anyone had any luck getting moneydance to work with potato? I have the following packaged installed: jdk1.1, jdk1.1-dev, jdk1.1-native jdk1.1-native-dev. Where the 'native' packages provide the native linux threads extensions to the standard jdk. The version of Java installed as part of

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread rodsc
Hello, On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 08:13:25AM -0800, David Benson wrote: I only have one debugging idea, but your problem sounds like no fun, so I hope this helps... Try running ``strace bash'' to see whether the key-event is making it to bash. If so, try other libreadline-based programs (eg

Re: Boot mystery

2000-03-26 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
Here's how my system is setup. Hopefully, it will help. I have Partition Magic's Boot Manager (actually, I think it's the OS/2 boot manager) on /dev/hda. My DR-DOS and Win95 partitions are marked a bootable on /dev/hda. Debian GNU/Linux is on /dev/hdb. The root partition is /dev/hdb1. During

Re: CD Layout question (i386)

2000-03-26 Thread Mackan
On 26 Mar 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: Mackan == Mackan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm wondering how the CD layout looks at the official Debian cd's. I know of the debian-cd package, but since my machine runs Slackware at the moment it isn't much of help.

Re: Potato Moneydance

2000-03-26 Thread Antonio Fiol Bonnín
You have to play with the CLASSPATH variable in one (some) of the scripts. I had exactly the same problem, and I solved it that way. In fact, if I haven't forgotten, it's simply a question of adding a line to the script that states where it can find your classes.zip file

Authentication...? RADIUS ?

2000-03-26 Thread The_Phantom 74
Hi I am trying to set up an ISP, and RADIUS has been sugested for the authenication and billing of the users on the dial up servers. Any one have any recomendations?? Also WHERE can i find it??? It was not listed under dselect But then I'm new to all this so I could be doing it wrong!!

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread Rodrigo Castro
Hello, On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:07:15PM +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote: | - I booted with init option (linux init=/bin/bash) in order to run no | init script and it didn't work either. I also tried D option (linux | D). Assuming that your mail is serious requires a fair amount of work, but

NFS from selected hosts

2000-03-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Can NFS be completely disallowed from selected hosts, like the TCP wrappers do for TCP services? My new cable modem provider doesn't allow any servers, so I need to block it. I still want to use NFS on my LAN though. thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Authentication...? RADIUS ?

2000-03-26 Thread The_Phantom 74
Hi Thanks for the reply... But what about on the server which authentictes the users as they dial in! I am planning to have several boxes, 1 as the authenticator (preferably 2 for redundency, is that even posible??) 1 for the mail and web pages 1 for the name server 1 for the dial up cards

connecting to DSL

2000-03-26 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I (finally) seem to have a working connection via IDSL. It works fine under windows by just setting up the IP, Gateway, Netmask, and DNS entries under the tcp/ip pulldown under the networking configuration for my network card. IP 216.xxx.xxx.xxx gateway 216.xxx.xxx.1 broadcast 216.xxx.xxx.255

Re: CD Layout question (i386)

2000-03-26 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
Mackan == Mackan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 26 Mar 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: Mackan == Mackan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm wondering how the CD layout looks at the official Debian cd's. I know of the debian-cd package, but since my machine runs

Keymap problem when upgrading xfree86 in slink...

2000-03-26 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hi. I've just reinstalled my system, and something strange happens... (I'm running slink on a Pentium II) I have a S3 Trio 3D/2X video card... Which is not supported by xfree 3.3.3 (which came with slink 2.1). So I first installed slink, then upgraded xfree86 from: deb

Re: connecting to DSL

2000-03-26 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
Kenneth == Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I (finally) seem to have a working connection via IDSL. It works fine under windows by just setting up the IP, Gateway, Netmask, and DNS entries under the tcp/ip pulldown under the networking configuration for my network

Re: Potato Moneydance

2000-03-26 Thread jason
On 27 Mar, Antonio Fiol Bonnín wrote: You have to play with the CLASSPATH variable in one (some) of the scripts. I had exactly the same problem, and I solved it that way. In fact, if I haven't forgotten, it's simply a question of adding a line to the script that states where it can find your

Re: connecting to DSL

2000-03-26 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Why dhcp? I have a STATIC IP address on my xdsl connection. I am NOT using dhcp on windows, and am sending this e mail out right now on windows. --- Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenneth == Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I (finally) seem to have a working

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