Re: apt-get new helixcode gnome

2000-06-04 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jun 04 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: On Sun, 4 Jun 2000 19:46:23 -0300, Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Unlike the previous posters, I've had no problems using Helix > > Gnome with potato. It works flawlessly (and I've even mirrored > > the Gnome site here so I ca

Re: apt-get new helixcode gnome

2000-06-04 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jun 04 2000, David S. Bateman wrote: > Just out of curiosity, does Helix add anything to Gnome or is it > just an easy install? I went to the website and looked at the > screenshots and it looks pretty much like what i'm running now. > (gdm,enlightenment,Gnome) Helix Gnome is more or le

Re: files/dirs under /var/www/

2000-06-04 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Olaf> I did that. Right now it looks quite safe to add directories and Olaf> files below /var/www, but what if a new package comes along and Olaf> decides that it needs to install all over the web pages in Olaf> /var/www/foo? Ethan> hmm /me thinks debian policy should treat /var/www like Ethan> /

Re: telnet vs console

2000-06-04 Thread w trillich
Rob wrote: > What is your TERM setting on both sides? > Are both sides Debian? > > rob helmer > ( namodn ) i wondered at that, too. (i use telnet from my mac, and it's got what appears to be full ansi/vt220 support of color--plus as i said, i do get "ls" to generate colors but many other programs

Would this be applicable to the API issue?

2000-06-04 Thread Andrew Weiss
It seems as if this would bundle the Debian Swirl and the look of Debian's website and cover any issues rather than dealing with it as copyright infringement and/or trademark infringement. Excerpt from an article dealing with Apple sueing Emachines for the eOne: on MacWeek News Trade dress Trad

Re: fetchmail with ssh

2000-06-04 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 09:02:01PM -0700, wtstacey wrote: > I'd like to get fetchmail to retrieve my mail after I login to my ppp > account, so I can read mail offline. I tried to get fetchmail to pop my > mail (without ssh) with this rc file: > > set daemon 300 # Poll at 5-minute intervals

Re: How to install debs?

2000-06-04 Thread ktb
"J. Hartzelbuck" wrote: > > Dear friends, > > I'm running Debian Slink (2.1) and trying to install Applix 5.0. Per > instructions in the readme, I did > > cd /cdrom > ./setup > > Things went smoothly till somewhere near the end, when the message appeared > that the installer wan

Re: apt-get new helixcode gnome

2000-06-04 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Jeronimo Pellegrini, > And how would you rate it? Is it worth the download? Also... Ithink I > tried some pre-release of it before, not sure, but I remember a my > configuration got screwed... Did it happen with helix on your box? I'm using it with an up-to-date potato system, and I must a

fetchmail with ssh

2000-06-04 Thread wtstacey
I'd like to get fetchmail to retrieve my mail after I login to my ppp account, so I can read mail offline. I tried to get fetchmail to pop my mail (without ssh) with this rc file: set daemon 300 # Poll at 5-minute intervals set logfile .fetchlog poll hostname.org protocol

Re: How to install debs?

2000-06-04 Thread Matthew Dalton
"J. Hartzelbuck" wrote: > libglib1.2_1.2.6-0.slink.0_i386.deb > libglib1.2dev_1.2.6-0.slink.0_i386.deb > libgtk1.2_1.2.6-0.slink.0_i386.deb > libgtk1.2-dev_1.2.6-0.slink.0_i386.deb > > Do I need to install these files myself? I am sorry to say I can't figure > how to do it. I have learned that the

Re: mod_ssl on Debian 2.2

2000-06-04 Thread Aaron Solochek
I'm sorry, please disregard that previous email, I figured out based on the other replay to your post that I was missing something (the mod_ssl libraries, duh...) so I fixed the problem. Thanks anyway. -Aaron

Re: 128 bit version of Netscape 4.73

2000-06-04 Thread Brad
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 03:13:27PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 01:35:03PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I recently upgraded to Communicator 4.73. This is the "international > > security" version. Fortify has announce that it will not support the > > upgrade of 4.73 or lat

wireless modem

2000-06-04 Thread Dan Brosemer
I'm looking at getting a wireless modem for my laptop, and I'm wondering if anyone has had experience getting one working with Linux. If so, what's supported, what isn't, and where could I go to find out for myself? TIA! -Dan -- "... the most serious problems in the Internet have been caused b

How to install debs?

2000-06-04 Thread J. Hartzelbuck
Dear friends, I'm running Debian Slink (2.1) and trying to install Applix 5.0. Per instructions in the readme, I did cd /cdrom ./setup Things went smoothly till somewhere near the end, when the message appeared that the installer wanted to update my system. The following four fil

Re: df reports wrong partition sizes?

2000-06-04 Thread Marc O. Sandlus
Ron Farrer wrote: > Marc O. Sandlus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > It appears from this list, that /usr/src was mounted *before* /usr > > I guess that this causes your problems, since the mount point /usr/src > > didn't > > exist (yet) at the time /dev/sda7 was mounted. > > Quite possible! Here

RE: Win 2000 smbmount problems

2000-06-04 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi ... can you remember how to configure Samba to support shadow passwords? tks Andrew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 9:06 PM To: Paulo Henrique Baptista; Debian User Subject: Re: Win 2000 smbmount problems Hi I had a

Remote X app over openssh-1.2.3 problem

2000-06-04 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi, I have a problem running an X app from a remote SunOS 5.6 on a potato system with openssh-1.2.3 protocol v1.5 Simple things like xclock work fine over openssh (so yes, settings should be ok). The remote app works properly if I telnet to the remote machine (the app is some horrible glish/ja

Re: irc client

2000-06-04 Thread hashao
Hello Daniel, Sunday, June 04, 2000, 10:43:34 PM, you wrote: DB> What the best GUI based irc client in potato?? Please 'CC' me in a DB> reply. irris at www.irris.org and potato, but version .7.90 is out yesterday. -- Best regards, hashaomailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

secure Debian installation via deselect over Internet?

2000-06-04 Thread Stan Kaufman
Once the basic Debian system is installed from floppies and the rest of the system is to be installed via dselect over the Internet, how does one do this securely? It seems like all manner of mischief could occur to the box during the download and install processes before one can configure ipchains

Install Problem - Fails on Boot

2000-06-04 Thread Janet R. Wendorf
Hello, I am new to Linux and looking for some help. I am trying to load version 2.1 on a Pentium MMX 133. I can boot from the CD-ROM, it starts loading, spews some messages and hangs on the last message of: hdb: DF6910C(-D18)2, ATAPI CDROM drive and absolutely refuses to go any further. If

apache config questions

2000-06-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi all, I've got two questions regarding the configuration of apache. Hoping someone here can help. I'd like to set up content negotiation, but after reading the docs I'm still not able to set it up right. There's gotta be something obvious I'm missing but I don't know what. I've tried pretty

Re: Copy screen to email???

2000-06-04 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 05:07:06PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hey Guys, > How do I copy the screen to an email. I want to send the out error message I > have. > Thanks Well depending on what you're running, etc... If you're at a console, you can use gpm to copy (left button) and then paste into a

Re: HP LaserJet Series II and Debian Linux

2000-06-04 Thread Mike Werner
Matt wrote: > Mike: > > I am wondering, how much ram is in your LJIII? I think maybe I am hitting > the top of my printer's physical memory. That could well be. When I first got my LJIII I had that problem a number of times. However, I got an overflow error message on the front panel. I think

Re: HP LaserJet Series II and Debian Linux

2000-06-04 Thread Matt
Mike: I am wondering, how much ram is in your LJIII? I think maybe I am hitting the top of my printer's physical memory. I don't know how much it has, I just picked it up in an HP refurb shop for $65. Do you know if there is anyway to make the lpd spool the data in such a way that it won't s

Copy screen to email???

2000-06-04 Thread Jay Kelly
Hey Guys, How do I copy the screen to an email. I want to send the out error message I have. Thanks

success with helixcode on potato; thanks

2000-06-04 Thread Michael Perry
Hi- Thanks for the great followups on how to get Potato (or slink plus), upgraded to Helixcode. The default method for apt-getting did not work for me whatsoever. A subscriber then told me to use "apt-get dist upgrade" after changing my /etc/apt/sources.list to the spidermonkey stuff. This work

Re: 128 bit version of Netscape 4.73

2000-06-04 Thread Pollywog
On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I upgraded to potato and was kind of surprised to see that nutscrape > >is now available with dselect! So, first up ur dselect and select it and > >let it do the nasty work :) > > I think that's the point; the Debian package on

Re: 128 bit version of Netscape 4.73

2000-06-04 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I upgraded to potato and was kind of surprised to see that nutscrape >is now available with dselect! So, first up ur dselect and select it and >let it do the nasty work :) I think that's the point; the Debian package only has 40-bit encryption. (You mustn't have been lo

Re: HP LaserJet Series II and Debian Linux

2000-06-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
I remember a similar problem about 15 years ago (very pre-Linux) with a LJ+ and some software that converted PostScript to HPGL. As I recall, it was because the Laserjet wanted to load the complete page as a graphic in memory before printing and the printer didn't have enough memory for a full pag

Re: 128 bit version of Netscape 4.73

2000-06-04 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, I upgraded to potato and was kind of surprised to see that nutscrape is now available with dselect! So, first up ur dselect and select it and let it do the nasty work :) tatah -- Jaye:-} M.J. Inabnit, KE6SLS e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707-442-6579 h/m

Re: Exim Setup

2000-06-04 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Sun, 04 Jun 2000 16:26:04 -0700, Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello Group, > Im still working on getting exim working here. I try to telnet localhost 25 > and I get connection refused. I tried grep smtp /etc/inetd.conf and get > smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin

Re: suid

2000-06-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 06:29:22PM -0500, Brad wrote: > > It's not overloaded, it's just the normal behavior of the noexec option: > regular files never get mode +x. not on ext2fs, (and presumably any other *nix fs) on ext2 the x bit does remain on all files that have it, but any attempts to exec

Re: files/dirs under /var/www/

2000-06-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 08:22:58AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > I did that. Right now it looks quite safe to add directories and files > below /var/www, but what if a new package comes along and decides that > it needs to install all over the web pages in /var/www/foo? hmm /me thinks debian

Re: files/dirs under /var/www/

2000-06-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 08:04:07AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Thanks. I thought the same thing, but then noticed dwww in there so I > started to wonder. Should I file that as a bug? It's only a symlink > to /var/lib/dwww/html though ... i don't know what dwww is, if its one of those doc

Re: suid

2000-06-04 Thread Brad
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 03:24:47PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 04:15:16PM -0500, Brad wrote: > > > > I'd also use the 'noexec' option, so regular files show up as > > non-executable. > > ah interesting, i was not aware that noexec had that overloaded > meaning with DOS fi

Exim Setup

2000-06-04 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Group, Im still working on getting exim working here. I try to telnet localhost 25 and I get connection refused. I tried grep smtp /etc/inetd.conf and get smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs what would keep telnet from conecting?

Re: suid

2000-06-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 04:15:16PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 06:38:16AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > /dev/hda2 /windowsvfatdefaults,umask=002,gid=100 0 2 > > I'd also use the 'noexec' option, so regular files show up as > non-executable. ah interesting, i

Re: Gnus broken by Emacs upgrade!!

2000-06-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > After I did the upgrade today to Emacs 20.6-2, this happens whenever I > > try to run Gnus: > > Yes, I got the same thing. A stopgap measure that worked for me > was to go into /usr/share/emacs/20.6/lisp/gnu

Re: files/dirs under /var/www/

2000-06-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > > Just a quick question: how (un)safe is it to create your own files and > > directories below /var/www/? Are there any names taken (besides dwww > > and index.html)? > > Check The Contents files (which you might have on

Re: apt-get new helixcode gnome

2000-06-04 Thread David S. Bateman
Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Jun 04 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > I think I read somewhere in the Helix site that Helix Gnome was made > > available for woody only, and that they were not sure if it'd work > > for potato... > > Unlike the previous posters, I've had no problems using He

Re: apt-get new helixcode gnome

2000-06-04 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Sun, 4 Jun 2000 19:46:23 -0300, Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Unlike the previous posters, I've had no problems using Helix > Gnome with potato. It works flawlessly (and I've even mirrored > the Gnome site here so I can burn a CD of it and install for > s

Re: 128 bit version of Netscape 4.73

2000-06-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 01:35:03PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I recently upgraded to Communicator 4.73. This is the "international > security" version. Fortify has announce that it will not support the > upgrade of 4.73 or later versions of Netscape to 128 bit encryption. > Is there an alternat

Re: apt-get new helixcode gnome

2000-06-04 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jun 04 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > I think I read somewhere in the Helix site that Helix Gnome was made > available for woody only, and that they were not sure if it'd work > for potato... Unlike the previous posters, I've had no problems using Helix Gnome with potato. It

Re: apt-get new helixcode gnome

2000-06-04 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jun 04 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 11:24:43AM -0700, Michael Perry wrote: > > Has anyone upgraded gnome using the manual information posted on the > > helixcode website? > > Haven't done this myself... I have two systems here where I'm using Helixcode's Gnome

Re: files/dirs under /var/www/

2000-06-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 01:52:10PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Just a quick question: how (un)safe is it to create your own files and > > directories below /var/www/? Are there any names taken (besides dwww > > and index.html)? > > /var/www should

Re: mod_ssl on Debian 2.2

2000-06-04 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 05:54:57PM -0400, Dr. Orange wrote: > > I installed mod_ssl andit's dependencies through dselect. > After that, without changing anything I started apache with > /usr/sbin/apache -DSSL. But https://mylocalhost.com would not > accept the connection. I th

Re: irc client

2000-06-04 Thread Sean
Personally I like to run BitchX in an rxvt terminal in X. This is especially nice if you fire up screen first, as you can then pop back and forth from X to the console without having to close a session. I like to specialize my rxvt a little so it doesn't look so ugly ... the startup line I use is r

Re: HP LaserJet Series II and Debian Linux

2000-06-04 Thread Mike Werner
Matt wrote: > I am trying desparately to get my HP Laser II to work in linux. I have > to have somthing to print out all these bloody HOWTOs ;o) > > I used both apsfilter and Redhat Printtool to get it to print, but it > seems to only want to print about 1/2 the page at a time. So when I > print

mod_ssl on Debian 2.2

2000-06-04 Thread Dr. Orange
I installed mod_ssl and it's dependencies through dselect. After that, without changing anything I started apache with /usr/sbin/apache -DSSL. But https://mylocalhost.com would not accept the connection. I then tried /usr/sbin/apachectl startssl but it told me "startss

HP LaserJet Series II and Debian Linux

2000-06-04 Thread Matt
I am trying desparately to get my HP Laser II to work in linux. I have to have somthing to print out all these bloody HOWTOs ;o) I used both apsfilter and Redhat Printtool to get it to print, but it seems to only want to print about 1/2 the page at a time. So when I print one page, I get two pag

Re: suid

2000-06-04 Thread Brad
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 06:38:16AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > /dev/hda2 /windowsvfatdefaults,umask=002,gid=100 0 2 I'd also use the 'noexec' option, so regular files show up as non-executable. Also, depending on your preferences, you might not want the fat partitions to be f

Re: df reports wrong partition sizes?

2000-06-04 Thread Ron Farrer
Marc O. Sandlus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It appears from this list, that /usr/src was mounted *before* /usr > I guess that this causes your problems, since the mount point /usr/src didn't > exist (yet) at the time /dev/sda7 was mounted. Quite possible! Here is my fstab: # /etc/fstab: static

Re: apt-get new helixcode gnome

2000-06-04 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 07:05:07 +1000 (EST), Graham Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > My system also started life as slink, and has been potato for the past > few weeks. When I tried Helix Gnome I also got some error like yours > about a package (as I recall it was some library rather than grip)

Re: 128 bit version of Netscape 4.73

2000-06-04 Thread Colin Watson
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I recently upgraded to Communicator 4.73. This is the "international >security" version. Fortify has announce that it will not support the >upgrade of 4.73 or later versions of Netscape to 128 bit encryption. >Is there an alternative, other than downloadin

Re: apt-get new helixcode gnome

2000-06-04 Thread Graham Williams
My system also started life as slink, and has been potato for the past few weeks. When I tried Helix Gnome I also got some error like yours about a package (as I recall it was some library rather than grip). I simply changed potato to woody in my sources.list (thought I would take the leap) and thi

Re: apt-get new helixcode gnome

2000-06-04 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 11:24:43AM -0700, Michael Perry wrote: > Hi all- > > I made an attempt to apt-get the latest gnome stuff by alterting the > /etc/sources.list file to reflect the spidermonkey site as contained off of > www.helixcode.com. This system I want to upgrade started life as a slin

Re: window-managers

2000-06-04 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 07:09:28PM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > I am trying to register KDE as a window-manager in /etc/alternatives > using update-alternatives. I can't seem to get it to register - kde is > in /usr/bin so I tryed adding it like this: > > update-alternatives --install kde kde

128 bit version of Netscape 4.73

2000-06-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
I recently upgraded to Communicator 4.73. This is the "international security" version. Fortify has announce that it will not support the upgrade of 4.73 or later versions of Netscape to 128 bit encryption. Is there an alternative, other than downloading directly from Netscape instead of using a

PCMCIA / Sound Problems with Notebook

2000-06-04 Thread Oliver Schoenknecht
Hey everyone, I've got two problems with my notebook that I couldn't solve on my own, so each hint of you is appreciated very well - first of all, both problems appeared with Debian 2.1 as well as Red Hat 6.2 or Storm Linux on Kernel 2.2.15, so the errors doesn't seem to be distribution-specific !

Re: df reports wrong partition sizes?

2000-06-04 Thread Marc O. Sandlus
Ron Farrer wrote: > I have two 2GB disks (SCSI-2 narrow) and this is what 'df' reports: > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda8 1189183632032495712 56% / > /dev/sda7 2029267 1694526229834 88% /usr/src > /dev/sdb5

Re: Strange Mail Problem

2000-06-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
look at /var/log/mail.log to see what is happening with the mail system i also suggest having fetchmail log to a file using the -L option. nate On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: neutec >Hello Guys, neutec >Im using sendmail a localhost server and fetchmail to download my mail from neutec

Re: apt-get

2000-06-04 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/ potato main contrib non-free > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/ potato/non-US main Drop the word 'dists' from both these lines. Jason

Re: Mailing list managers

2000-06-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 11:08:36AM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: >What other mailing list managers are you using? (I've only used > majordomo and mailman.) What are their strengths and weaknesses? How about > their requirements (e.g. require Apache or a web-based cgi module)? I'm using Lista

[no subject]

2000-06-04 Thread obmascher
Bug/Problem Installing Debian 2.2 unofficial CD-ROM Image from ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/, at Sunday 27. May 2000 Bootdisk hangs with Adaptec Host Adapter 2842VL, BIOS v2.0 on late VL-Bus Board BRKADRINT error (0x2) illegal sequencer address reference SEQADDR=0x1 unrec

Re: Gnus broken by Emacs upgrade!!

2000-06-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After I did the upgrade today to Emacs 20.6-2, this happens whenever I > try to run Gnus: Yes, I got the same thing. A stopgap measure that worked for me was to go into /usr/share/emacs/20.6/lisp/gnus and delete all the .elc files, leaving only the cor

Re: Mailing list managers

2000-06-04 Thread Irwan Hadi
At 11:08 AM 6/4/00 -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: With today's announcement that majordomo is going to be dropped from Debian, I was wondering if I could spark up a discussion as to the pros/cons of other Debian-packaged mailing list programs. What other mailing list managers are you using?

apt-get new helixcode gnome

2000-06-04 Thread Michael Perry
Hi all- I made an attempt to apt-get the latest gnome stuff by alterting the /etc/sources.list file to reflect the spidermonkey site as contained off of www.helixcode.com. This system I want to upgrade started life as a slink system. I never did the apt-get dist upgrade on it but things have cha

Gnus broken by Emacs upgrade!!

2000-06-04 Thread Ian Zimmerman
After I did the upgrade today to Emacs 20.6-2, this happens whenever I try to run Gnus: begin 644 gnus-backtrace M4VEG;F%L:6YG.B`H:6YV86QI9"UF=6YC=&EO;B`H;6%C<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:6QE M("9R97-T(&9O&-U"UC(B`H,2`N M([EMAIL PROTECTED]")M86EL+G1E>"UK([EMAIL PROTECTED](I*2`H(FUA:6PN;&[EMAIL PROTECTED] M

Re: apt-get

2000-06-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Pollywog wrote: > > > > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/ potato main contrib non-free > > > > That should be: > > > > deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/.. > > or > > deb http://www.debian.org/... > > I thought about something like

Re: apt-get

2000-06-04 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Pollywog wrote: > > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/ potato main contrib non-free > > That should be: > > deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/.. > or > deb http://www.debian.org/... I thought about something like this and did one test in exchanging all https

Re: postgres database framework disappeared: Solved

2000-06-04 Thread Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 12:05:45AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Johann Spies wrote: > > >On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 11:03:23PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > >In /etc/passwd the line was > > >postgres:x:31:32:postgres:/var/lib/postgres:/bin/sh >

Re: apt-get

2000-06-04 Thread Pollywog
On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > Hi, > > My /etc/apt/source.list looks like that: > > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/ potato main contrib non-free That should be: deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/.. or deb http://www.debian.org/... -- Andrew

apt-get

2000-06-04 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, My /etc/apt/source.list looks like that: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/ potato main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/ potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/ potato main contrib non-free deb-src http://ft

window-managers

2000-06-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
I am trying to register KDE as a window-manager in /etc/alternatives using update-alternatives. I can't seem to get it to register - kde is in /usr/bin so I tryed adding it like this: update-alternatives --install kde kde /usr/bin 9 but I can't see it when I run: update-alternatives --config x-

Re: Strange Mail Problem

2000-06-04 Thread Christopher Splinter
* Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok it looks like its downloading the mail but I cant find it anywhere. I > start mutt and there is nothing there. I cd/var/mail/neutec and theres no > mail there. Your mail is probably in /var/spool/mail/$USER. man muttrc: , |mailboxes filena

Re: irc client

2000-06-04 Thread Colin Watson
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What the best GUI based irc client in potato?? Please 'CC' me in a >reply. I've found irssi to be pretty good (invoke it with --no-applet if you're like me and not a GNOME panel person). It can sometimes be slightly idiosyncratic when you try to use multi

Mailing list managers

2000-06-04 Thread Randy Edwards
With today's announcement that majordomo is going to be dropped from Debian, I was wondering if I could spark up a discussion as to the pros/cons of other Debian-packaged mailing list programs. What other mailing list managers are you using? (I've only used majordomo and mailman.) What are

Re: Debian Installation (was blank subject)

2000-06-04 Thread Randy Edwards
> I CAN NOT GET DEBIAN TO INSTALL!! PLEASE HELP Screaming like that (all caps is considered shouting in E-Mail) doesn't help anyone -- actually, it encourages people to ignore you. You have to give details. Machine type/configuration, version of Debian, what type of install. What exact po

Re: suid

2000-06-04 Thread joshua marston
Daniel Burrows wrote: > How do I set-up suid so that normal users can read and write to a fat32 > parition? Please 'CC' me in a reply. > > Thanks. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null assuming that you already have an fstab entry for the partition. in the optio

Re: suid

2000-06-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 08:39:39AM -0500, adam.edgar wrote: > In /etc/fstab you will see lines similar to this: > > /dev/hda2 /Windowsvfatdefaults0 2 > [snip correct info] > user,auto. And you may need to give the user the right to rwx the mount > point down. To do this

Re: staroffice

2000-06-04 Thread Randy Edwards
> I was wondering how I can make my other users be able to use it too > because when other users try to execute soffice nothing happens. As I recall, you have to use an option -- something like "-net" -- on StarOffice's initial install. Then each user has to run a "setup", which copies about 1

Re: NFS submounts

2000-06-04 Thread Randy Edwards
> Stupid question: have you mounted the subdirectory locally? I.e., try > # mount server:/home/ftp/pub /mnt > # mount server:/home/ftp/pub/linux/debian /mnt/linux/debian With the help of some of our local LUG people, I discovered the problem. The problem was that I was using the kernel NFS se

irc client

2000-06-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
What the best GUI based irc client in potato?? Please 'CC' me in a reply. Thanks.

Re: suid

2000-06-04 Thread adam.edgar
In /etc/fstab you will see lines similar to this: /dev/hda2 /Windowsvfatdefaults0 2 The first is the device name, second mount point, third file sytem, next comes the options,dump then pass. in the options category, you can specify that a mountable device is for users by

wine

2000-06-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
I have downloaded wine (the version with potato). I am trying to configure it properly using a .winerc file in my home directory but I can't get it to work properly, when I try and run it this is what I get: sigaltstack: Function not implemented Warning: could not find wine.conf [Drive x] entry

suid

2000-06-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
How do I set-up suid so that normal users can read and write to a fat32 parition? Please 'CC' me in a reply. Thanks.

mpg123 and sound problems

2000-06-04 Thread adam.edgar
I have been having problem with sound and mp3 playing on my Potato install. mpg123 dies when trying to play variable bit rate mp3s incoded by lame(error message attached) and sound craps out on me when any sound, save CD playing, is used the error sound sends out is repeatedly thus: Sound:

Re: HD Problems...!!!!

2000-06-04 Thread ktb
Larry Shields wrote: > > I am not sure if anyone can help me out with this problem or not, but here > is what happened this morning... > > When I turned on the monitor, there were a bunch of error's on the screen, > my 6.4hd keep'ed trying to be accessed, but it could'nt...Here is what it > was

Re: Strange Mail Problem

2000-06-04 Thread ktb
Jay Kelly wrote: > > Hello Guys, > Im using sendmail a localhost server and fetchmail to download my mail from > my ISP. When I run fetchmail it says "1 message for [EMAIL PROTECTED] at > mypop3.com (1063 ectets). > reading message 1 of 1 (1063 octets) . flushed > > Ok it looks like its downloadi

100dpi fonts in xfs-xtt?

2000-06-04 Thread joshua marston
i can't seem to get xfs-xtt to use 100dpi true-type fonts. in the config file, i changed the default resolution from 75,75,100,100 to 100,100,75,75 and i tried just doing 100,100 too, but neither made any difference. can anyone help me? josh

MTA and popper question

2000-06-04 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Which MTA is easiest to install? I need to setup a machine as a relay-machine that sends its mail when internet connectivity is given (like from ip-up). Just the way sendmail does with "sendmail -q", but only for outbound mail, not destined for the local imaginary domain. Having used sendmai

Re: How to measure my bandwith

2000-06-04 Thread Robert Waldner
you could simply ftp[get,put] some amount of data to/from a well-connected site and see what transfer-rates you get. hth, &rw On Sat, 03 Jun 2000 03:39:40 PDT, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira writes: > Hi all, > I have a server at an ISP that say for me that I have a 512Kb/s exclu

Re: TCP domain connection

2000-06-04 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000 23:30:46 +0200 (CEST), Igor Mozetic wrote: >As far as I understand, these are not DNS queries since they >are UDP. If nameserver queries exceed the max UDP data length they are submitted using TCP. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://ww

WINE and Windows 2000?

2000-06-04 Thread Phillip Deackes
Does anyone know if WINE can run Windows apps if Windows 2000 is installed rather than Windows 98? Cheers. -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux 2000

Re: Video problems during 2.2 install

2000-06-04 Thread Brad
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 06:30:59PM -0600, Larry Elmore wrote: > > The Debian 2.2 boot disk apparently displays some graphic of a penguin when > it starts up the kernel (so I've been told). Weird, the standard i386 1.44M rescue.bin image doesn't have any sort of a logo, but the udma66 version has

Re: naming kernel images (potato)

2000-06-04 Thread Brad
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 12:37:11PM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > I definitely don't want that to happen. It's never happened before under > slink, hamm, bo, or rex that I recall. > > Deep in the vague recesses of my memory I seem to recall an issue > similar to this being discussed, with a sugge

Strange Mail Problem

2000-06-04 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Guys, Im using sendmail a localhost server and fetchmail to download my mail from my ISP. When I run fetchmail it says "1 message for [EMAIL PROTECTED] at mypop3.com (1063 ectets). reading message 1 of 1 (1063 octets) . flushed Ok it looks like its downloading the mail but I cant find it any

Re: printcap file

2000-06-04 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hi, I did that already. Installed magicfilter and configured it with --force option since I already had an existing printcap file but it still only prints out one line. but at least no garbage anymore. - Original Message - From: paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Joseph de los Santos <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Fetchmail

2000-06-04 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 09:39:00PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Ok here is what I did. I removed exim and install sendmail, configured it > and started the service. I then try telnet localhost 25 and it worked fine. > Came back with the responsed I wanted to see. Then I tried fetchmail and it > came b

HD Problems...!!!!

2000-06-04 Thread Larry Shields
I am not sure if anyone can help me out with this problem or not, but here is what happened this morning... When I turned on the monitor, there were a bunch of error's on the screen, my 6.4hd keep'ed trying to be accessed, but it could'nt...Here is what it was showing on the screen... hda: r

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