Re: installing Debian for an Unix-ignorant user (point-and-click installation)

2000-04-21 Thread John Hasler
Arcady Genkin writes: > How easy is it to configure a ppp connection as a desktop icon? Configure ppp with pppconfig and install gpppon. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

RE: chop LF

2000-04-21 Thread C. Falconer
>From the tone of the post I suspect a shell command would be more useful cat foo | tr -d "0A" | a.out this will strip out that character from your input stream every time, or cat foo | tr -d "0A" > foo2 this will create foo2 without the 0A character (don't use foo as input and o

/dev/hdd irq timeout?

2000-04-21 Thread w trillich
i've moved my /home to a separate drive (/dev/hdd6) and noticed now and then as i did something in the home directory tree, my session would appear to hang; about twenty seconds later it'd wake back up. the i noticed that the console had messages like this: hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }

Plextor CD-ROM (was: cd-rom jitter)

2000-04-21 Thread Arcady Genkin
Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I only get + or ! when the disks are severely ruined, normally all bright > smileys. I've an ultraplex scsi cdrom and a ide plexwriter, both perform > great under linux and windows, so I guess something is wrong at your > side. Is it a scsi? is it prop

Re: kde packages for potato

2000-04-21 Thread Shane
I have the following in my "sources.list" file. deb ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1.2/distribution/deb/potato i386/ -shane On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 00:53:38 Attila Csosz wrote: >Are there anywhere KDE packages(binary) for Debian 2.2? > >Thanks > Attila > >-- --== Sent via Deja.com ht

Dell Inspiron 7000 and Debian?

2000-04-21 Thread Mats Rynge
Hi! I just got the offer to buy a Dell Inspiron 7000 and I wonder if anyone here got any thoughts about running Debian on it. Pros? Cons? It is the PII 333 model with 96 megs. Has builtin DVD (can I at least use it as cd-rom?) and a builtin modem (Winmodem I guess...). How well does the suspend/re

Re: (A bit OT) Quake 3 ignores setuid root

2000-04-21 Thread Bradley Bell
well, if it's like Q1 (svgalib) was, it drops root permission too early. try using sudo instead. -brad On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > I have potato's XFree 3.3.6 with glx and Mesa from CVS. > > To be able to use full acceleration (direct rendering) a glx client has to be > st

Re: cd-rom jitter

2000-04-21 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 04:15:32AM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > When using cdparanoia, it *always* shows ":-|", which stands for > "Considerable jitter", and often ":-/". I've been wondering, while > having a Plextor CD-ROM, am I getting worth of what I have > payed. Anyone extracting with mostly

kde packages for potato

2000-04-21 Thread Attila Csosz
Are there anywhere KDE packages(binary) for Debian 2.2? Thanks Attila -- -- - Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian 2.2 Linux / 2.2.13 / exim- - Get my PGP key: gpg --keyserver keys.pgp.com --recv-key 0x2cc33acb -

Re: installing Debian for an Unix-ignorant user (point-and-click installation)

2000-04-21 Thread Aaron Solochek
I did a similar thing for a friend of mine. She basically new nothing about computers, and since I was giving her the computer, and I was maintaining it, I wanted to be able to do stuff remotly. It didn't take her long at all to understand things mounting drives (which with gmc isn't really an

Re: installing Debian for an Unix-ignorant user (point-and-click installation)

2000-04-21 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On 21 Apr 2000 18:32:34 -0400, Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: That's what I set up for myself here... All I did was to run pppconfig, add my user to the dip group, and add the "modemlights" applet to the gnome panel (and configuring, of course)... You click on a little button, and it

installing Debian for an Unix-ignorant user (point-and-click installation)

2000-04-21 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: A friend of mine in a fit of anger directed to his Window~1 installation called me and asked if I would install Linux for him. We have discussed with him before, that everything he needs from a computer (web browsing, document/spreadsheet editing, email) can be done from within Linux using

Re: icewm themes

2000-04-21 Thread Chris Gray
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 09:53:23PM +0200, Attila Csosz wrote: > Icewm forgets the theme I've set up. > When I exit and start again it start with the default theme. > > How to fix it? The way that I know of is to edit your ~/.icewm/preferences file to your liking. There might be a gui program ou

Unsupported protocol errors in pppd

2000-04-21 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
Hey all! I get the following errors in my logs, and wonder whether anyone has any clues to what they might be. Security Violations =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Apr 21 16:15:52 ul pppd[148]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x702d Apr 21 16:57:19 ul pppd[148]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protoc

RE: Signal 11?

2000-04-21 Thread Christian Pernegger
A friend of mine had the same problem with a K6-2 450. He finally fixed it by setting the cpu core voltage to the right value. Don't believe your mobo manual, have a look at the processor itself - it should be stamped on there. Christian > -Original Message- > From: Colin Boyd [mailto:[

Re: crypto patch

2000-04-21 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Adam" == Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Probably not. Beside the crypto laws, there is also the DSFG >> that debian adheres to, and many of the encryption schemes have >> patents on them, thus makeing them non-free, and not in debian >> by default. > oh yeah

problem with gnats aliases and exim

2000-04-21 Thread Lee Bradshaw
gnats Version: 3.113-10 exim Version: 3.12-7 exim doesn't seem to work with the gnats aliases: freefall ~ $ send-pr a)bort, e)dit or s)end? s send-pr: problem report sent freefall ~ $ 2000-04-21 16:27:32 12ik1U-0001bx-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transpor

Re: crypto patch

2000-04-21 Thread Adam Shand
> Probably not. Beside the crypto laws, there is also the DSFG that > debian adheres to, and many of the encryption schemes have patents on > them, thus makeing them non-free, and not in debian by default. oh yeah, i forgot about that ... still there are some that are patent unencumbered aren't

Re: Trouble booting Debian GNU/Linux

2000-04-21 Thread Bob Brown
Sounds like a hardware problem. Have you checked out if your hardware is compatable with Linux? The hardware compatability page at debian.org is very helpful to review. Lanora Hankins wrote: > > I am trying to install Debian system from the VA LiNUX Systems, O'Reilly, > sgi boxed set. > > The k

problem with gpm

2000-04-21 Thread Attila Csosz
I install debian 2.1 on a pII machine (with no extra cards) but I've no mouse support on normal console (like mc). The settings are same as in my home computer ( this is a pIII ). This is the /etc/gpm.conf. I installed 2.2.13 kernel to this 2.1 box. -- device=/dev/psaux responsiveness=15 type=

icewm themes

2000-04-21 Thread Attila Csosz
Icewm forgets the theme I've set up. When I exit and start again it start with the default theme. How to fix it? Thanks Attila -- -- - Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian 2.2 Linux / 2.2.13 / exim- - Get my PGP key: gpg -

Re: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions

2000-04-21 Thread w trillich
Maury Merkin wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for the wvdial tip. I've successfully been using pon and poff so far > (like three hours) but I'll keep this note around for future reference. > > And, yes, I know all about the "man" and "info" docs as well as the HOWTO > stuff. The problem is figuring o

Re: Potato INSTALL on LAPTOP (NEC Versa 4050H): pcmcia modules unresolved

2000-04-21 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Bruce Sass wrote: > > the latest Potato boot floppies release. 2.2.11 was just released (last > > night) and fixes some (all?) of the modconf related problems. There was > > also an upload of new pcmcia packages a day or two ago (c

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2000-04-21 Thread berkouk
j'ai trouver votre site j'aimerai bien telecharger le debian mais je n'arrive pas car je n'ais rien conpris en site ftp pouvez vous m'aider ___ EGYPT and all you wanted to know about it. Now online. Fresh, live & interactive! http://www.arabia.com/egypt

Re: Potato INSTALL on LAPTOP (NEC Versa 4050H): pcmcia modules unresolved

2000-04-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Bruce Sass wrote: > 2.2.11 was just released (last night) and fixes some (all?) of the > modconf related problems. There was also an upload of new pcmcia > packages a day or two ago (check incoming.debian.org if they are not > in the ftp archive yet). I'd give bf-2.2.11 a tr

Re: Potato INSTALL on LAPTOP (NEC Versa 4050H): pcmcia modules unresolved

2000-04-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Bruce Sass wrote: > > I couldn't find any work-around so I've just asked on the boot list. I may > > have to load slink, then just upgrade to potato (and build my own 2.2.14 > > kernel). That should work, shouldn't it? It looks like just the boot > > floppies are mismatched, w

guillemot

2000-04-21 Thread Thomas Huber
jubeo te salvere does linux support the graphics-card guillemot,cougar,riva tnt2 m64 vale, tom

Re: New installation - pump trouble

2000-04-21 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Daniel Lesage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm thinking of yanking out pump, and replacing it with dhcpcd. For a client only, use dhcp-client Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Potato INSTALL on LAPTOP (NEC Versa 4050H): pcmcia modules unresolved

2000-04-21 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Bruce Sass wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > Trying to install potato from scratch on a NEC Versa 4050H (P90MHz), > > > depmod reports unresolved symbols for all the pcmcia modules. I have > > > zircom and 3

Re: Package Info

2000-04-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Irish, Jon D wrote: > Is there a comprehensive list somewhere, of all of the available Debian > packages, that describes them in detail? Being new, sometimes I am not too > sure what exactly I need to install to acomplish what I want to do (vague, I > know ;-). The DSELECT program is pretty much ov

Package Info

2000-04-21 Thread Irish, Jon D
Is there a comprehensive list somewhere, of all of the available Debian packages, that describes them in detail? Being new, sometimes I am not too sure what exactly I need to install to acomplish what I want to do (vague, I know ;-). The DSELECT program is pretty much overwhelming for me, thus I am

Trouble booting Debian GNU/Linux

2000-04-21 Thread Lanora Hankins
I am trying to install Debian system from the VA LiNUX Systems, O'Reilly, sgi boxed set. The kernel it uses is the Linux 2.2.12 (from Kernel-image 2.2.12-2.2.12-1). The motherboard is a PK5. There is no manufacture on the board or doc, but I found a ABIT board my that name and the BIOS numbers

Newbie Queries

2000-04-21 Thread Terry Filby
I have Debian Slink 2.1 r3 on my computer. 2 queries please. First: How do I configure my Avance Soundcard (Soundblaster compatible). Second: When I log in I'm on FVWM Manager, I would prefer to have ICEWM my default manager - how do I change it? Thanks Terry

Re: New installation - pump trouble

2000-04-21 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Daniel" == Daniel Lesage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all. I'm trying to install Potato to what will become my > ipchains server. I had previously installed Slink on this > computer, but managed to completely mangle my installation when > my old ISP switched to PPPOE. M

New installation - pump trouble

2000-04-21 Thread Daniel Lesage
Hi all. I'm trying to install Potato to what will become my ipchains server. I had previously installed Slink on this computer, but managed to completely mangle my installation when my old ISP switched to PPPOE. My new provider (Videotron) uses DHCP for their cable modems, and I can get an address

Re: Potato INSTALL on LAPTOP (NEC Versa 4050H): pcmcia modules unresolved

2000-04-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > > Trying to install potato from scratch on a NEC Versa 4050H (P90MHz), > > depmod reports unresolved symbols for all the pcmcia modules. I have > > zircom and 3com pcmcia NICs, but I can't get the modules

Re: post-delivery mail filtering

2000-04-21 Thread John Hasler
Brian J. Stults writes: > Or perhaps there's a better tool for filtering in this manner. Take a look at mailagent. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: post-delivery mail filtering

2000-04-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I would like to be able to take an existing mail spool file (e.g. > /var/spool/mail/USER) and pass it to slocal for processing. If I simply > do this... > > cat MAILFILE | /usr/lib/mh/slocal -user USER > > ...all the messages get interpreted as one big message (no surprise > there, as slocal i

Re: chop LF

2000-04-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> the problem is foo is end in "LF" ( 0A ), and it will let a.out > get wrong output. if i run > > #a.out > > and input data from keybord, then end it by ctrl+D, will get the > right answer. > i'm not sure, if i understand you right ... you are having trouble to detect the end of file, when ther

post-delivery mail filtering

2000-04-21 Thread Brian J. Stults
I would like to be able to take an existing mail spool file (e.g. /var/spool/mail/USER) and pass it to slocal for processing. If I simply do this... cat MAILFILE | /usr/lib/mh/slocal -user USER ...all the messages get interpreted as one big message (no surprise there, as slocal is designed to be

Re: Corel Lilo

2000-04-21 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 11:34, Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote: > Hello: > > I was trying the Corel Linux, and I got impressed with the boot look. > > Someone had tried the Corel's lilo? Were can I get the source code? I > looked at corel web site, but I couldn't find it. You might want to try

Re: Can I install Woody's packages on Slink?

2000-04-21 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Alex" == Alex Kwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! Can I install Woody's packages (eg. kernel-2.2.14, > XFree86-3.3.3.6) on a Slink System (because these packages of > Slink is too old)? If you're looking for a slink version of XFree86 3.3.4, add deb http://samsosa.debian.o

chop LF

2000-04-21 Thread maths
hello everybody i wrote a program a.out. it get input from stdin, so i can use pipe or redirection to get data from file. such as # cat foo|a.out the problem is foo is end in "LF" ( 0A ), and it will let a.out get wrong output. if i run #a.out and input data from keybord, then end it by ctrl+D

Re: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions

2000-04-21 Thread John Hasler
> What in the world would make me enter "info pon" if I had never heard of > 'pon?' Well, pppconfig, which dialup users run during installation, does mention it. > I did see a brief reference somewhere (the Debian Installation Guide? > some script during the installation process? wherever?) whic

potato growing pains

2000-04-21 Thread Ian Zimmerman
The installation went smoothly except for 1 glitch - I was unable to create a boot floppy. When I got to that stage it formatted the blank floppy I provided (and it seemed to use a "superformat"), then bailed out. When I switched to console 2 where the log messages go during installation, I saw a

Re: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions

2000-04-21 Thread Maury Merkin
Hi, Thanks for the wvdial tip. I've successfully been using pon and poff so far (like three hours) but I'll keep this note around for future reference. And, yes, I know all about the "man" and "info" docs as well as the HOWTO stuff. The problem is figuring out what to look up. Like I've been u

Re: Potato INSTALL on LAPTOP (NEC Versa 4050H): pcmcia modules unresolved

2000-04-21 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > Trying to install potato from scratch on a NEC Versa 4050H (P90MHz), > depmod reports unresolved symbols for all the pcmcia modules. I have > zircom and 3com pcmcia NICs, but I can't get the modules for either to > load because of this unresolved sym

Re: Corel Lilo

2000-04-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote: > Hello: > > I was trying the Corel Linux, and I got impressed with the boot look. > > Someone had tried the Corel's lilo? Were can I get the source code? I > looked at corel web site, but I couldn't find it. Try the ftp server(s). It's said that a couple of so

Corel Lilo

2000-04-21 Thread Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
Hello: I was trying the Corel Linux, and I got impressed with the boot look. Someone had tried the Corel's lilo? Were can I get the source code? I looked at corel web site, but I couldn't find it. Thanks, Camilo Alejandro -- * De simio la conoci y he visto hombres que la añoran. * En lo que

Re: debian Linux

2000-04-21 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all >the book is available online for free (open publication license). >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/index.html Oops, didn't know that. Too late, now that I only bought it yesterday. But thanks for the info. Now, the problem is that the cd coming w/z the book seems broken. W

Print & Email the same document

2000-04-21 Thread Kent West
> I've been trying to do this off-and-on for two years, and although I've had > lots of > help, nothing has ever worked. Can I assume that it's impossible to print and > email > a document from one command? > Here's my goal: > > When I print something to a certain print queue, I > want the docum

Re: trying out a 2.3.x kernel

2000-04-21 Thread Gregory T. Norris
> -ipchains is gone, iptables replaces it There's a compatability entry for ipchains, which you can select during the config stage. I don't know when it actually went in, but it's available in 2.3.99-pre5, and seems to work as expected. Cheers!

Re: Signal 11?

2000-04-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
many things can cause a sig11, look at this site for information on it and how to track it down(usually hardware) http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ nate On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Colin Boyd wrote: colin_ >Hello... colin_ > colin_ >I wrote in the other day detailing the overwhelming amount of erradic c

Munged printcap manual page

2000-04-21 Thread Kent West
Whenever I do a "man printcap", lower in the document where the "Entries by Alphabetical Order" are discussed, the linesbreaks are all messed up so that the document is next to unreadable. Is this only on my machine, or do others have this problem also? If only my machine, what do I need to do to f

Re: debian question

2000-04-21 Thread Fraser Campbell
Moe wrote: >I installed Debian 2.1r4 on my sparc 1+. The > installation is fine but I cant boot off the hdd, > instead I boot of the cdrom then issue > "boot: linux root=/dev/sda1" then I am able to boot > ok. >Any ideas? I think that 'silo' is not configured > correctly because I cant

Re: Help with Bounce Queue

2000-04-21 Thread Kent West
Brad wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 11:57:29AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > > $mailprog = "mail"; > > Just a thought, but could it be having trouble if the PATH isn't set so > it can find mail? Try specifying the full path (i.e. /usr/bin/mail) and > see if that helps. > No, that didn't make a

Re: OpenBSD Secure Shell

2000-04-21 Thread Philip Hands
Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I did an upgrade against `froozen' today, the post-install script > for OpenBSD Secure Shell hung. PS reports it as a zombie process. The > last message to the console was: > > Unpacking replacement ssh ... > Setting up ssh (1.2.3-2) ... 1.2.3-3 f

Signal 11?

2000-04-21 Thread Colin Boyd
Hello... I wrote in the other day detailing the overwhelming amount of erradic behaviour my new system (K62-550,128MB,16M Vid) I have a tyan trinity AGP motherboard. I've finally got the network card workingand the systems general stability seems ok...(admittedly I haven't done much...br

Re: STUFF to order - RECAP

2000-04-21 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, Just a recap on my prior post. The majority favored the Voodoo video card 3 to 1 followed by the ATI Rage Fury. I ordered the Voodoo and yesterday, ran the apt-update etc and am now running potato with hopes that my video experience will be further enhanced. Thank you all On Wed, 19

sendmail

2000-04-21 Thread Chris Mason
I want to use FormMail.pl to send mail, how do I enable sendmail? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netcon

Re: Netscape 6 Saga

2000-04-21 Thread Dan Hutchinson
Thanks I figured out the solution after I sent the email. Does anyone know how to make an executable Icon on the desktop to start Netscape. I am running Window Maker/Fvwm mostly. Dan Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > we had a _long_ thread about this some days ago. > > > > simples

Re: Netscape 6 Saga

2000-04-21 Thread Dan Hutchinson
Thanks I figured out the solution after I sent the email. Does anyone know how to make an executable Icon on the desktop to start Netscape. I am running Window Maker/Fvwm mostly. Dan Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > we had a _long_ thread about this some days ago. > > > > simples

Re: IP Masq

2000-04-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I've been trying to build the kernel to include > the IP MASQ for the last few days without success. > I read most of the IP MASQ HOWTo and could not > find any of the suggested configuration variables > during the kernel config process. > enable firewalling in the network setup. then

Re: debian Linux

2000-04-21 Thread Felix Natter
"Sven Burgener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am thinking of extending my O'Reilly library by buying "Learning debian > GNU / Linux". In your opinion, is that a good thing to do when one is in > my situation (not new to Linux, but new to debian) and when one only has > a dial-up at home? the bo

Re: Netscape 6 Saga

2000-04-21 Thread Ben Collins
> we had a _long_ thread about this some days ago. > > simplest solution: in non-root xterm run "xhost localhost" > In this case the proper solution is to run it as normal user. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantas

IP Masq

2000-04-21 Thread Timothy C. Phan
hi, I've been trying to build the kernel to include the IP MASQ for the last few days without success. I read most of the IP MASQ HOWTo and could not find any of the suggested configuration variables during the kernel config process. Could someone here in the debian list show me the

Re: Netscape 6 Saga

2000-04-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I get the following error while I try running Netscape 6 PR1. > > .//run-mozilla.sh ./mozilla-bin > MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/package > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/ust/package:/usr/package/Cool > XPCS_HOME=/usr/package/Cool > MOZ_PROGRAM=./mozilla-bin > MOZ_TOOLKIT= > moz_debug=0 >

Netscape 6 Saga

2000-04-21 Thread Dan Hutchinson
I get the following error while I try running Netscape 6 PR1. .//run-mozilla.sh ./mozilla-bin MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/package LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/ust/package:/usr/package/Cool XPCS_HOME=/usr/package/Cool MOZ_PROGRAM=./mozilla-bin MOZ_TOOLKIT= moz_debug=0 moz_debugger=

RE: apsfilter setup

2000-04-21 Thread Larry Elmore
> From: Cameron Matheson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 5:47 PM > > There is no such file or directory. That's funny, because it's what I used. More than once, too! I'm using the latest version for Potato. > Larry Elmore wrote: > > > > From: Cameron Matheson [mailto:[

Re: What time is it?

2000-04-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Apr 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 05:51:09PM -0400, jpb wrote: > > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > 24 4,10,16,22 * * *root /usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp.css.gov 1>/dev/null > > > > > > ...in your /etc/crontab file is a hell of a lot cooler. > > > > Cooler st

Re: rebooting as user

2000-04-21 Thread Klaus Duscher
"Mullins, Ron" wrote: > > C-A-Rubout? What, pray tell, is Rubout? BTW: I use xdm, so I don't drop to a > prompt or anything nice where I'm logged in. > > To Oswald: I have trusted users...but not all. > > To Marshal: Yes I added shutdown to a shutdown group and added users to that > group. No jo

Re: ssh passphrase

2000-04-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: >That's what ssh-agent is for. You run ssh-agent and it will output environment >variable for a unix domain socket. Then you run ssh-add and type in your >passphrase. >The ssh-agent caches your key and access is limited to your user (permissions >on t

update/upgrade to frozen -> TRUBBLE

2000-04-21 Thread w trillich
the saga enters a new chapter. last week i did the apt-get dist-upgrade and all that, and things were going along rather well until i rebooted (says something for linux, that rebooting isn't a daily or hourly necessity as it is on my mac and on most windon't boxes)... love the new console video m

Unidentified subject!

2000-04-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
"=?koi8-r?B?88nNwcvP1yD3ycvUz9I=?=" wrote: >Give me driver for Video Blaster IE500 , I need it !!! 1. Please don't send HTML emails; use plain text. 2. You don't say what O/S you are using; the lack of detail suggests you may want it for Windows; if so, this is the wrong mailing list. --

Re: psutils and Postscript manipulation

2000-04-21 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 12:13:00PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been playing around with the psutils package and I am really > impressed. What bugs me however, is that psnup will simply scale down > the individual pages and arrange them on another page, including all > marg

psutils and Postscript manipulation

2000-04-21 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi all, I have been playing around with the psutils package and I am really impressed. What bugs me however, is that psnup will simply scale down the individual pages and arrange them on another page, including all margins in the original file. While this looks pretty good, it wastes space space

Re: your mail

2000-04-21 Thread kmself
It's genreally considered polite to ask, not demand. A search of deja.com will turn up some interesting hits under "video blaster" and groups "*linux*". On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 01:56:01PM +0400, óÉÍÁËÏ× ÷ÉËÔÏÒ wrote: > Give me driver for Video Blaster IE500 , I need it !!! > -- Karsten M. Se

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2000-04-21 Thread Симаков Виктор
Give me driver for Video Blaster IE500 , I need it !!!  

Re: Modem will not connect at 56k

2000-04-21 Thread Ray
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 02:59:18PM +0200, Chris Gielen wrote: > > So you are saying it is not posible to achieve higher rates then 33.6k with > 2 x 56k connected to an analog phone line? That's what he's saying and he's correct too. -- Ray

Kernel oopses and compiler choice -- specify 2.7.3?

2000-04-21 Thread kmself
I've been having a long, long series of kernel oopses since mid-January, which I've just had suggested might be the result of compiling with GCC 2.95 rather than 2.7.3 or EGCS 1.1. Checking packages, I'm finding a gcc272 package, and EGCS something or other (sorry, it didn't register). I'm instal

Re: Can I install Woody's packages on Slink?

2000-04-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi! > > Can I install Woody's packages (eg. kernel-2.2.14, XFree86-3.3.3.6) > on a Slink System (because these packages of Slink is too old)? I doubt, though kernel-image may work, however you may find some things stop working due to modified interfaces. X won't work since it

Re: Can I install Woody's packages on Slink?

2000-04-21 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! Can I install Woody's packages (eg. kernel-2.2.14, XFree86-3.3.3.6) on a Slink System (because these packages of Slink is too old)? Thanks

Re: cd-rom jitter

2000-04-21 Thread Brad
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 04:15:32AM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > When using cdparanoia, it *always* shows ":-|", which stands for > "Considerable jitter", and often ":-/". I've been wondering, while > having a Plextor CD-ROM, am I getting worth of what I have > payed. Anyone extracting with mostly

cd-rom jitter

2000-04-21 Thread Arcady Genkin
When using cdparanoia, it *always* shows ":-|", which stands for "Considerable jitter", and often ":-/". I've been wondering, while having a Plextor CD-ROM, am I getting worth of what I have payed. Anyone extracting with mostly ":-)"? Can anyone define `jitter' as applicable to a CD-ROM? (or direc

Re: crypto patch

2000-04-21 Thread Brad
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 10:49:10PM -0400, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > > "Adam" == Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > with the new mellowing of usa crypto laws, is there any chance > > that the international kernel patch could be included in the > > default debian ker

debian question

2000-04-21 Thread Moe
Hi all, I installed Debian 2.1r4 on my sparc 1+. The installation is fine but I cant boot off the hdd, instead I boot of the cdrom then issue "boot: linux root=/dev/sda1" then I am able to boot ok. Any ideas? I think that 'silo' is not configured correctly because I cant boot off the hdd

re: boot disk

2000-04-21 Thread RoundQube
hi, im currently trying to install debian 2.2, i booted with the rescue disk and then the root disk and installed base system from the base2_2.tgz and configured network and all modules. After completion, i try to make a boot disk, because i run win2k on another partition and my HD cylinders = 102

RE: OpenBSD Secure Shell

2000-04-21 Thread ferret
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > It's already filed as a bug. > > [CTRL]-[C] > > ...# dpkg --pending --configure > > or something similar will fix everything (I think.) I saw this on i386 today when doing an update (reason why they say don't run frozen on critical systems. -

Re: Where do I put my ipchains commands....

2000-04-21 Thread kmself
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 12:27:37AM -0500, w trillich wrote: > Pollywog wrote: > > > > On 18-Apr-2000 23:08:07 Bryan Scaringe wrote: > > > -- > > > > > > I then created links to this script in the appropriate rcX.d > > > directories. > > > rc.boot - n

Realplayer 7 -- hangs "buffering"

2000-04-21 Thread kmself
Deja didn't turn up much on this. I've got Realplayer 7 installed on my work machine, which operated behind a firewall, and can't play streams from sites. The player just sits with a "buffering" message. On a lark I tried RealPlayer 5 as well (found an old copy from Real's archive site, IIRC), a

debian installation

2000-04-21 Thread John Spooner
Iam installing Debian on my system everything went well til I came to installing the base system. it prompted me for the cd I selected /dev/hdb atapi (ide) second drive primary controller, chose path,list. It told me it was extractingfrom /instmnt/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-386/2.1.11.-1999-09-0

Re: crypto patch

2000-04-21 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Adam" == Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> you have to get the international kernal patch from either >> www.kerneli.org, or in the non-US section. Then you have to >> patch the kernel and recompile. > with the new mellowing of usa crypto laws, is there any chance

Re: crypto patch

2000-04-21 Thread Adam Shand
> you have to get the international kernal patch from either > www.kerneli.org, or in the non-US section. Then you have to patch the > kernel and recompile. with the new mellowing of usa crypto laws, is there any chance that the international kernel patch could be included in the default debian

Re: Help with Bounce Queue

2000-04-21 Thread Brad
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 11:57:29AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > $mailprog = "mail"; Just a thought, but could it be having trouble if the PATH isn't set so it can find mail? Try specifying the full path (i.e. /usr/bin/mail) and see if that helps. -- finger for GPG public key. pgpJTou7uvhOy.p

Re: What time is it?

2000-04-21 Thread kmself
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 05:51:09PM -0400, jpb wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > 24 4,10,16,22 * * *root /usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp.css.gov 1>/dev/null > > > > ...in your /etc/crontab file is a hell of a lot cooler. > > Cooler still is to install and run xntp. It will figure out for it

RE: OpenBSD Secure Shell

2000-04-21 Thread Christian Pernegger
It's already filed as a bug. [CTRL]-[C] ...# dpkg --pending --configure or something similar will fix everything (I think.) Christian > -Original Message- > From: Jim McCloskey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 12:57 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: [E

(A bit OT) Quake 3 ignores setuid root

2000-04-21 Thread Christian Pernegger
I have potato's XFree 3.3.6 with glx and Mesa from CVS. To be able to use full acceleration (direct rendering) a glx client has to be started by (setuid) root, according to a README. When I run the Quake 3 Demo as root, everything's fine. When I'm a user it just uses indirect rendereng, even thou