Re: Apache Web Server question

2000-06-30 Thread Jay Kelly
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 08:08:14PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:55:38PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > > Hello Group, > > Im running apache and have /var/www as the root directory. I wanted > > to add another folder so I added var/www/file and when I try to > > access

Re: GNOME+Sawmill workspaces

2000-06-30 Thread Jim Lisi
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Francesco Bochicchio wrote: > > > > On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:32:40 Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have GNOME and Sawmill/Sawfish (latest debs from potato/woody) and > > > I want to have 4 workspaces in a horizontal row. The GNOME pager > > > works as I want it to,

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-06-30 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:06:58AM -0400, Bill Barnes wrote > >= Original Message From jpb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = > > > >Try apt-get update again. It looks like you had network congestion when > >you tried before. Or you can just use ftp and go to ftp.us.debian.org > >and manually grab the

Re: Apache Web Server question

2000-06-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:12:11PM -0400, Tom von Schwerdtner wrote: > > > > chmod -R a+r /var/www/files > > Keep in mind that 'chomd -R' follows sym links so it can cause serious issues > if you have a link to a downloads direcotry somewhere else on your box. no it does not follow symlinks:

Re: ippp0

2000-06-30 Thread kmself
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 11:55:20PM +0200, Willi Dyck wrote: > isndctrl dial ippp0 > > this command returns the error message: > > ippp0: Operation not supported by device > > What can I do? Do you have ppp0 support compiled into your kernel or the appropriate kernel module loaded? -- Karsten

Re: Apache Web Server question

2000-06-30 Thread kmself
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:55:38PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello Group, > Im running apache and have /var/www as the root directory. I wanted > to add another folder so I added var/www/file and when I try to > access html from the directory I get access denied. I looked in > the apachpe error.l

Re: Apache Web Server question

2000-06-30 Thread Tom von Schwerdtner
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:03:05PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:55:38PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > > Hello Group, > > Im running apache and have /var/www as the root directory. I wanted > > to add another folder so I added var/www/file and when I try to > > access html fr

Re: Debian/RedHat Crossovers?

2000-06-30 Thread kmself
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 09:10:06PM -0400, Mark Marburger wrote: > How can I port debian stuff to Red Hat 6.1? Define "stuff" and "port". Convert .debs to RPMs? Use 'alien'. Transfer data between systems? Use standard wire or sneakernet protocols. Port a software package? If the binary doesn

Re: Apache Web Server question

2000-06-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:55:38PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello Group, > Im running apache and have /var/www as the root directory. I wanted > to add another folder so I added var/www/file and when I try to > access html from the directory I get access denied. I looked in > the apachpe error.l

Re: Which window manager

2000-06-30 Thread mcclosk
> I am looking for a window manager for debian that will > not soakup the system resources. Which one would you > suggest? I remain fond of asclassic---small, light, simple, good-looking and very configurable. It's an old version of Afterstep, maintained for those who like the basic features of A

Re: gnuclient vs emacsclient

2000-06-30 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Timothy" == Timothy C Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Timothy> Hi, What is the diff between the two? gnuserv/gnuclient is a bit more sophisticated. The main difference is that it allows you to execute any editor command remotely, not just opening a file. Timothy> I could not get gnucl

Apache Web Server question

2000-06-30 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Group, Im running apache and have /var/www as the root directory. I wanted to add another folder so I added var/www/file and when I try to access html from the directory I get access denied. I looked in the apachpe error.log and see Permission denied: file permission deny server access: /va

Re: telnet vs ^Z

2000-06-30 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Will" == Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Will> i want the remote (linux server) full-screen process (mutt, vi, Will> etc) to suspend when i send ^Z, despite the fact that i'm using Will> telnet, and not sitting at the console. Will> hell, i just tried it from the perl debugger, w

Re: Problem booting an old 386 using rescue1440... kernel panic re no copro

2000-06-30 Thread Randolph Chung
> Problem is, having downoaded the rescue disk, when I boot that I get the > same problem just after the VFS tries to load up the root filesystem. from where did you download the rescue disks? randolph -- Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.TauSq.org/

Re: iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM

2000-06-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 12:32:02PM -0500, Philippe wrote: > Hello Ethan and everyone! > > potato is up and running on my iMac G3! Ethan's webpages were immensely > useful. especially the detailed file on using mac-fdisk for partitioning. > (It took about 6 hours of fussing around, so that's not to

Problem booting an old 386 using rescue1440... kernel panic re no copro

2000-06-30 Thread Jon Fawbert
Hi! I'm a newbie to Debian (trying to use FreeSCO, the linux-based router) having problems booting on my old 386. The FreeSCO system loads most of the kernel, starts to do router stuff... then hangs with a kernel panic stating that the kernel needs maths copro emulation (my 386SX doesn't have a 38

Debian/RedHat Crossovers?

2000-06-30 Thread Mark Marburger
How can I port debian stuff to Red Hat 6.1? Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Gnome doesn't like SSH

2000-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hey list: >i recently upgrade my box to potato and loaded gnome >gnome likes to use the sawfish windows manager which conflicts with ssh > >ssh depends on gmp2, but gmp2 conflicts libgmp2, which is required by sawfish You've got an old mirror, evidently, or haven't

Re: Where to set defaults???

2000-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
Dinesh Nadarajah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Where do I set defaults for the window manager and X >applications. Things like: > >Xterm*Font : jsdhkjdfkvkjv > >olvwm*VirtualDesktop2x2 > >Usually it was .Xdefaults under RedHat. where does >Debian keep them? ~/.Xresources (see /etc/X11/Xsession).

Re: inetd.conf entries

2000-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What are each of the following lines for and thus which can be commented >out by me? > >-- inetd.conf snippet -- >#echo stream tcp nowait rootinternal >#echo dgram udp waitrootinternal Echo, returns the packet sent

Re: Which window manager

2000-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I like mwm in lesstif, the libraries from which are >required for nedit, my favorite editor. However, >the lesstif package containing mwm doesn't seem >to "Provides: window-manager", dselect nagged me >to install one of the Recommended window managers.

Re: GNOME+Sawmill workspaces

2000-06-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
Francesco Bochicchio wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:32:40 Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > > > I have GNOME and Sawmill/Sawfish (latest debs from potato/woody) and > > I want to have 4 workspaces in a horizontal row. The GNOME pager > > works as I want it to, except that Sawmill allows moving t

Re: Which window manager

2000-06-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
Bolan Meek wrote: > > Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > > > > I am looking for a window manager for debian that will > > not soakup the system resources. Which one would you > > suggest? > > I like mwm in lesstif, the libraries from which are > required for nedit, my favorite editor. However, > the less

Re: Which window manager

2000-06-30 Thread cls--colo spgs
...icewm (with liquid for a theme). it's clean and doesn't remind me of m$. (be sure to apt-get iceconf so you can hide the taskbar and use cool background images.) hth. bentley taylor // Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > > I am looking for a window manager for debian that will > not soakup the syst

inetd.conf entries

2000-06-30 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi list What are each of the following lines for and thus which can be commented out by me? -- inetd.conf snippet -- #echo stream tcp nowait rootinternal #echo dgram udp waitrootinternal #chargenstream tcp nowait rootinternal #chargen

Re: autofs and nis

2000-06-30 Thread Christopher W. Curtis
"Suresh Kumar. R" wrote: > How do we know that the auto.master and other autofs files are available > on the client machine via nis ? What I mean is , on a client machine > we can check for the availability of the passwd files by typing > ypcat passwd. What is auto*.* equivalent. Should we do any

Compaq ProLiant ML350

2000-06-30 Thread A. Scott White
I have a new Compaq ProLiant ML350 server. It has a Compaq Smart Array 431 Raid Controller. It also has a NC3123 Fast Ethernet NIC PCI 10/100 Wake on LAN card. Is there any hope for installing this? The default 2.1 install disks hang while trying to reset the SCSI. The TECRA boot disks detect no d

Re: Which window manager

2000-06-30 Thread Bolan Meek
Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > > I am looking for a window manager for debian that will > not soakup the system resources. Which one would you > suggest? I like mwm in lesstif, the libraries from which are required for nedit, my favorite editor. However, the lesstif package containing mwm doesn't see

Re: Which window manager

2000-06-30 Thread Tom Pfeifer
icewm (ice window manager) is another good one - very simple and easy on resources. Tom Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > > I am looking for a window manager for debian that will > not soakup the system resources. Which one would you > suggest? > > Thanks. > > -D

ippp0

2000-06-30 Thread Willi Dyck
isndctrl dial ippp0 this command returns the error message: ippp0: Operation not supported by device What can I do? Thanx

RE: Which window manager

2000-06-30 Thread Larry Elmore
> From: Dinesh Nadarajah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I am looking for a window manager for debian that will > not soakup the system resources. Which one would you > suggest? If you're going to run Gnome, I'd suggest using Helix-Gnome (on Woody) and the version of Sawfish that comes with it. Sawf

Re: use gtk themes w/ gnome

2000-06-30 Thread Christopher Thompson
http://www.themes.org/ On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Nick wrote: > i can't find any themes for gnome > > maybe i am looking in the wrong place, any on have any suggestions? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Christopher Thompson http://hypocrite.org/ "Act o

use gtk themes w/ gnome

2000-06-30 Thread Nick
i can't find any themes for gnome maybe i am looking in the wrong place, any on have any suggestions?

RE: Which window manager

2000-06-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Jun-2000 Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > I am looking for a window manager for debian that will > not soakup the system resources. Which one would you > suggest? > I maintain blackbox it was designed to be minimal. Another popular choice is window maker, with all the bells and whistles turned o

Which window manager

2000-06-30 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I am looking for a window manager for debian that will not soakup the system resources. Which one would you suggest? Thanks. -D __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/

Re: HeaderName in Apache autoindex

2000-06-30 Thread will trillich
well i got one promising reply, which i admit i haven't had time to check out: > w trillich wrote: > speaking of autoindex issues-- i can't get apache to > display the HEADER or README files (above and > below the tabular file listing), and when i posted > my most recent question, someone else

RE: rank newbie - no mouse

2000-06-30 Thread Bill Barnes
>= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = >On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:34:50 sido wrote: >> >> >> I installed Debian Linux and everything works great except for X which >> looks fine except the mouse doesn't move. I've re-installed the OS 3 >> times now and searched for help on the mouse but

X fonts (2)

2000-06-30 Thread Marcio Rosa da Silva
I have another problem with the fonts in X. I installed the freefont package but gimp doesn't find the fonts. I simply installed the .deb and didn't make anything else. The fonts are in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/ Should I run some program to gimp recognize the fonts? (I already rebooted

FW: ppp help

2000-06-30 Thread gochenourj
Hey Debian-heads, Thanks for the reply... I've only installed the potato base-1-11.bin discs. I wanted to use apt-get to install the rest of the system. I can't seem to get my modem to dial up though. Are there any good document pages (http) that explain how to set up dial up scripts? My modem is o

Gnome doesn't like SSH

2000-06-30 Thread Nick
hey list: i recently upgrade my box to potato and loaded gnome gnome likes to use the sawfish windows manager which conflicts with ssh ssh depends on gmp2, but gmp2 conflicts libgmp2, which is required by sawfish does anyone have any suggestions as to how i can use gnome and ssh i like sawfish

clobbered fonts--intermittant

2000-06-30 Thread David S. Jackson
Hi, Occasionally when I run sawfish or lately, even a freshly rolled fvwm2 binary, I get clobbered fonts when I close out of X. It's as though only some of the characters get clobbered though. Only some characters are off, such as apostrophes, exclamation marks, single and double quotes, and so

RE: find question

2000-06-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > dir1 and dir2 are web sites themselves. > > I want to know if anyone has accessed dir1 within the last 60 days. I've > been using find like this: > $ find dir1 -atime 60 -print > > Is this the correct command? looks sane, although I think atime is only set on files. Also, some people tur

RE: unofficial mirror

2000-06-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Jun-2000 Christopher Thompson wrote: > I plan on installing Debian on three computers this weekend. I > have a cable modem but limited download bandwidth and so I'd > like to set up a temporary mirror just for the weekend. > > So I'm curious... how much disk space should I set aside to > m

find question

2000-06-30 Thread Andrew Kae
Hello, I've been looking through the find web page and I'm still not sure if I'm correct. Say I'm running a web server on a.com. After telnetting into the box, i want to know how often certain parts have been accessed. say the directory structure is: ../ index.html dir1/ dir2/ and a bunch o

unofficial mirror

2000-06-30 Thread Christopher Thompson
I plan on installing Debian on three computers this weekend. I have a cable modem but limited download bandwidth and so I'd like to set up a temporary mirror just for the weekend. So I'm curious... how much disk space should I set aside to mirror potato for i386 machines? -- Christopher Thompso

Re: linux + wan (frame relay)

2000-06-30 Thread Shaul Karl
> Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I would like to know if Linux (Debian/GNU) can work with wan > > protocols, especifically frame-relay? > An external unit might also be an option. It talks to Linux via serial/ethernet cable which is why no special support is required. >

RE: apt-get

2000-06-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Jun-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone tell me where to get documentation on how to use apt-get? > I am new to debian and apt. > /usr/share/doc/apt. Every package in Debian has docs (some have more than others).

problems with modules

2000-06-30 Thread Larry Elmore
I just installed 'Woody' and am having odd problems with a couple of modules. The 'lp' module claims that options passed to it in 'modules.conf' are bad, yet they are exactly the same options I previously used with 'Slink': options lp io=0x378 irq=7 Also, my SoundBlaster 16 which previous

Re: GNOME+Sawmill workspaces

2000-06-30 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:32:40 Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > I have GNOME and Sawmill/Sawfish (latest debs from potato/woody) and > I want to have 4 workspaces in a horizontal row. The GNOME pager > works as I want it to, except that Sawmill allows moving the cursor to > the top or bottom of the

Re: More questions about Postfix (Was Re: Postfix troubles)

2000-06-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 10:10:56PM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > and now mail to root/[EMAIL PROTECTED] is correctly forwarded to me. Thanks > for the suggestion. I am surprised this wasn't in the Postfix FAQ. I've got suspicion that mydomain was set to "phoenix". > Another thing I noticed in m

Re: rank newbie - no mouse

2000-06-30 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:34:50 sido wrote: > > > I installed Debian Linux and everything works great except for X which > looks fine except the mouse doesn't move. I've re-installed the OS 3 > times now and searched for help on the mouse but not come up with much. I > tried to run mouseconfig bu

apt-get

2000-06-30 Thread gochenourj
Can anyone tell me where to get documentation on how to use apt-get? I am new to debian and apt. Thanks, Ashby

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-30 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Well, I've attached the feature-list I have included in my site's /etc/pine.conf. The feature list is where most stuff is enabled. Other stuff is pretty site-specific. Maybe we could offer a pine.conf that has color turned on or something? I haven't played wi

Re: how to start gnome

2000-06-30 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:29:19 Nick wrote: > i loaded gnome a long time ago and forgot how to start it > > i have tried > gnome-sessionand not luck > gnome-session is correct, but the first time you should create the session ( ASAIK gnome-session just allows to save the program started in a se

Subnetting & Netmasking (was Re: Firewall)

2000-06-30 Thread Bolan Meek
Derek Wueppelmann wrote: > > > You missed his point of having the NIC on the "inside" in > > a different subnet than that of the NIC on the "outside". > > > > But let me ask first: isn't the IP on the ISP's side one > > out of the ISP's net? Or are you allocating one of your > > IP to your ISP's

Re: telnet vs ^Z

2000-06-30 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 08:31:22PM +, C. Falconer wrote: > My advice is to forget telnet, and use SSH instead. > > apt-get install ssh > on the linux machine, and get PuTTY for your other machines > (mac/pc/alpha/etc available) > > If you can't find it email me and I'll dig up a URL oh, i'v

Re: telnet vs ^Z

2000-06-30 Thread kmself
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 01:23:14PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > i've got linux in the basement, cranking and serving > like a dream. to administer, i'm upstairs and i get > in via telnet on my local 192.168.*.* intranet. > > on the console (linux keyboard/mouse/monitor) i can > use ^Z to suspend

Re: truetype fonts and xfree86 4

2000-06-30 Thread kmself
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:32:12PM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote: > i installed the pre-compiled xfree86 4 binaries from ftp.xfree86.org on > a woody system, and have a > >Load "freetype" > > line in my /etc/X11/XF86Setup. it all works perfectly except xlsfonts > doesn't load Truetype fonts,

Experiences with Winbond w89c840f

2000-06-30 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello list, I am looking for an ethernet card that is not very big. I found a nice card in a store, that uses the Winbond w89c840f chipset. The SuSE support page lists the driver for this card as experimental and says it's supported by an external program and not by the kernel directly. Any exp

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-30 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > UW wants it to be really dumbed down for the novice users so they turn > most features off by default. Maybe it'd be a good idea for our > unofficial Pine maintainer to create a better default pine.conf. > Sounds like a good idea. I'd make it a e

Re: linux + wan (frame relay)

2000-06-30 Thread F. Fernández
Hi! Two years ago I had the same doubt and evaluated some options. I finally decided to go for a small cisco router for the following reasons: - At that time the linux kernel didn't do traffic shaping - WAN boards were expensive and did'n have direct support in my country (Portugal) - Cisco hard

Re: creating debs

2000-06-30 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:27:20PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > dpkg-deb is lower-level than you probably want. At this point it looks to be so, yes. :) [snipped steps] Thanks tons for the useful infos. Sven -- Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

Re: creating debs

2000-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I know though that dpkg-deb has the capability to build .deb archives. >As I know *nothing* more than that, I don't know what to do next to get >my source tarball (LAME) compiled and installed...? dpkg-deb is lower-level than you probably want. Install th

Re: FTP server and security

2000-06-30 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:41:58AM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Well thats everybody for your help. I have decided just to run Apache. > Looks like for the discussion that ftp is a bad idea. It's a question of cost/benefit. Ftp can be great on a LAN that's protected. Very handy. It's just that anon

FW: telnet vs ^Z

2000-06-30 Thread Wesley A. Wannemacher
You can easily start a shell within VI with ESC :! This will spawn a shell. When the shell is done (logout, exit, etc.) you will be put right back into vi. Wes Wesley A. Wannemacher Instructor, Network Administrator Northwestern College [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: FTP server and security

2000-06-30 Thread Jay Kelly
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 11:23:37AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:27:04PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > > > I want to enable anonymous login so I link my web to the ftp server. > > Bad decision imho, but if you must: > > ftp://ftp.iss.net/pub/faq/anonftp > > Seriously cons

mpich -- Help!

2000-06-30 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
I'm looking for some help with mpich (parallel processing). I've got task-parallel-computing-node installed on two connected machines (ivan and alexi), and task-parallel-computing-dev installed on one of them (ivan). rsh-server is set up on both, and I've got a ~/.rhosts file on each that all

Re: Screen Capture

2000-06-30 Thread Andras BALI
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 03:23:12PM +0200, Michal Novak wrote: > I need screen capture program for X, which capture complete screen as is. The simpliest solution is to use "xwd" from the x11/xbase-clients package. Enter the following command in an xterm: $ xwd -root -out shot.xwd The .xwd file

Re: iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM

2000-06-30 Thread Philippe
Hello Ethan and everyone! potato is up and running on my iMac G3! Ethan's webpages were immensely useful. especially the detailed file on using mac-fdisk for partitioning. (It took about 6 hours of fussing around, so that's not too bad, is it?) What follows might be just an esthetic question (sinc

Re: Need help with installing Debian on a COMPAC PRESARIO 5716

2000-06-30 Thread Marcio Rosa da Silva
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Preben Randhol wrote: > I'm now going to install debian on a third machine. So far everything > has gone nice, but the third machine is a bit troublesome. > > It is a COMPAC PRESARIO 5716. The problem is that this machine shows a > big red Q at startup and no BIOS info. I the

Re: Need help with installing Debian on a COMPAC PRESARIO 5716

2000-06-30 Thread Marcio Rosa da Silva
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Preben Randhol wrote: > Marcio Rosa da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/06/2000 (16:19) : > > > > http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html > > > > There is a explanation about the methods of installing Debian. Do you > > have a win/dos partit

Re: FTP server and security

2000-06-30 Thread Marcio Rosa da Silva
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:27:04PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > > > I want to enable anonymous login so I link my web to the ftp server. > > Bad decision imho, but if you must: in mine too. That's the way apache.org was hacked. see: http://pontobr.org/n

rescure floppy prob

2000-06-30 Thread charles s zivancev
I'm trying to boot from a Resuce Floppy I created. It seems to be o.k. until it tries to uncompress the kernel. The sequence is: Loading root.bin.. Loading linux. Uncompressing Linux.. invalid compressed format (err=2) Did I go wrong somewhere while creating the resuce floppy?? Tha

Re: s06241001121894 (Installation prob.)

2000-06-30 Thread Esko Lehtonen
chunjiang fu wrote: > > Install Package question: > Hi! all, I finally got installation of the > debian/linux 2.1 on my old 486 machine. But I still > have a problem: I could not install the basic package > from the CD(2 CD set). I selected the basic package > and use the access method as fellow:

Re: creating debs

2000-06-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Sven! On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > Given a source tarball, how to best install that into the system? > > My suggestion would be to create a .deb archive and to then install that > using dpkg -i. Now, I have never created my own .deb apart from doing this > with make-kpkg and a

Helix's gimp1.1 deb's and aalib1 out of date

2000-06-30 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: Trying to install gimp1.1 from the helix'es DEBs, I've run in a problem that it depends on aalib1 >=1.2-29, but the aalib1 which is available is version 1.2-25. Any ideas where this package is available from for potato? Here's what I have for my sources.list: ,[ sources.list ] | deb

Where to set defaults???

2000-06-30 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
Where do I set defaults for the window manager and X applications. Things like: Xterm*Font : jsdhkjdfkvkjv olvwm*VirtualDesktop2x2 Usually it was .Xdefaults under RedHat. where does Debian keep them? Thanks. _Dinesh __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yah

Re: ibm thinkpad 380Z serial port trouble

2000-06-30 Thread Thomas Hood
> I've recieved a thinkpad 380Z :-) > I've partitioned disk and installed w2000 on a partition with "Thinkpad > Configuration" > On the other partition I've installed debian from a cd with kernel > 2.2.12 > Problem is I can't connect throught PPP in order to update debian from > the internet > Lin

creating debs

2000-06-30 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all Given a source tarball, how to best install that into the system? My suggestion would be to create a .deb archive and to then install that using dpkg -i. Now, I have never created my own .deb apart from doing this with make-kpkg and apt-get source -b, so I am not familiar with the "inter

Re: linux + wan (frame relay)

2000-06-30 Thread Pollywog
I used a WAN card (a csu/dsu) with Linux. It was a card that was not supported by the Linux kernel, so I had to obtain the driver source for the card and compile the drivers. The problem I had with that card was that I could not compile the drivers with any kernel newer than 2.0.29. The card was

Re: linux + wan (frame relay)

2000-06-30 Thread Bolan Meek
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to know if Linux (Debian/GNU) can work with wan > protocols, especifically frame-relay? Linux has drivers for the frame relay protocol, and drivers for "WAN" cards. Stock Linux kernels do not have these drivers compiled, neither in the ke

s06241001121894

2000-06-30 Thread chunjiang fu
Install Package question: Hi! all, I finally got installation of the debian/linux 2.1 on my old 486 machine. But I still have a problem: I could not install the basic package from the CD(2 CD set). I selected the basic package and use the access method as fellow: 1). Multi-CD, It asked me the CD d

Re: FTP server and security

2000-06-30 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:27:04PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > I want to enable anonymous login so I link my web to the ftp server. Bad decision imho, but if you must: ftp://ftp.iss.net/pub/faq/anonftp Seriously consider NOT having upload capability, but if you must make uploaded files "invisible

Re: free c compiler 8051

2000-06-30 Thread Vicente
http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/ (from http://www.geda.seul.org/links.html) "A.M" wrote: > dear friend > > do u have any free c compiler 8051 to send me or know about it > > Best regards > A.Madinei > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Need help with installing Debian on a COMPAC PRESARIO 5716

2000-06-30 Thread Preben Randhol
Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/06/2000 (17:03) : > look at the compaq web site, it has online manuals for almost all machines. > > Typically for compaq, it boots, tests memory, beeps twice, puts the cursor > into the upper right hand corner, and at that time you should press F10

Re: How to get dependencies also ...

2000-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
Dinesh Nadarajah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Also, how do I browse through the contents of a *.deb >package? (dpkg -I *.deb ???). 'dpkg -I' displays "control" information about the package; 'dpkg -c' lists the files it contains. If you want anything more detailed than that, 'dpkg --fsys-tarfile pa

Re: Trident giving me migraine

2000-06-30 Thread jpb
Tom von Schwerdtner wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:38:52PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Mark Marburger wrote: > > > > > > HELP! my old video card sucked, so my friend gave me his Trident card. I > > > put it in the box and now when i boot, the screen is friggin black > > > How > > >

linux + wan (frame relay)

2000-06-30 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I would like to know if Linux (Debian/GNU) can work with wan protocols, especifically frame-relay? That's, if I buy a wan card, can I route with Linux? Should I expect some troubles? Some limitation? Can I "safely" substitute a Cisco router with a linux+wan card? Any

Re: Need help with installing Debian on a COMPAC PRESARIO 5716

2000-06-30 Thread Gregory Guthrie
look at the compaq web site, it has online manuals for almost all machines. Typically for compaq, it boots, tests memory, beeps twice, puts the cursor into the upper right hand corner, and at that time you should press F10 to enter BIOS. Also, most compaqs w/in the last 5 years will boot to C

Re: Need help with installing Debian on a COMPAC PRESARIO 5716

2000-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So is it possible to make one or perhaps two floppy boot discs that >could boot it up and the switch to do the rest of the installation from >the CDs I have of Potato TC 2 ? Yes, this is possible. See the installation manual, for instance the following se

free c compiler 8051

2000-06-30 Thread A.M
dear friend do u have any free c compiler 8051 to send me or know about it Best regards A.Madinei

Re: wmaker 0.62 deb package?

2000-06-30 Thread pseelig
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Michael Perry wrote: > Anbyody made a deb package for windowmaker 0.62? I noticed its been out > awhile but the www.debian.org stuff does not show it whatsoever. > I've made some unofficial debs of the CVS version as of 2000-05-01. They are in "ftp://ntama.uni-mainz.de/pub/

Re: wmaker 0.62 deb package?

2000-06-30 Thread Preben Randhol
Michael Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/06/2000 (16:23) : > Anbyody made a deb package for windowmaker 0.62? I noticed its been out > awhile but the www.debian.org stuff does not show it whatsoever. I found the bugs in 0.62 (when I ran RedHat) more annoying than those in 0.61 so I'd wait fo

wmaker 0.62 deb package?

2000-06-30 Thread Michael Perry
Anbyody made a deb package for windowmaker 0.62? I noticed its been out awhile but the www.debian.org stuff does not show it whatsoever. Thanks. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Helix sawfish and minimizing

2000-06-30 Thread Stuart Ballard
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > Perhaps, the "group windows" option is set in your sawfish > configuration? I forget the title of the option exactly, but it sets a > variable for sawfish telling it to iconify all windows in a group (same > application). I've always had that turned off when using sa

gnuclient vs emacsclient

2000-06-30 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, What is the diff between the two? I could not get gnuclient to work! Secondly, How can I bring a file in as readonly from emacsclient or gnuclient? TIA! --- tcp

Re: free Internet access

2000-06-30 Thread Pollywog
On 30-Jun-2000 11:32:35 David Wright wrote: > Quoting Michalowski Thierry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Well, >> did you ever notice that you don't give us at least a clue of >> where you live? >> Even your mail address is a .net, which doensn't help either. >> So, I might say there is one cool ISP in A

Re: Sound (AD 1881)

2000-06-30 Thread David Z Maze
Patrick Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PB> Ok, now, I've just "upgraded" my machine (ASUS CUV4X-M with a celeron PB> 500) and find that I cant get sound to work no matter what I try. PB> PB> It has a built-in AD (ADI??) 1881 chipset. should I use ALSA for this PB> one??? has anyone had any luc

Re: rank newbie - no mouse

2000-06-30 Thread Christophe.Jasiak
Maybe you'd better run the XFree setup progam? Is your mouse a serial one or a ps/2 one (maybe usb?)? Just run the Xfree config program and select the right mouse... then it will work. Why re-installing 3 times for a mouse problem? Christophe "Mettez un pingouin dans votre PC" Jasiak - Or

Re: rank newbie - no mouse

2000-06-30 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, sido wrote: > The mouse is a 3-button mouse, manufacturer Digital. > > ls -l /dev/mouse > > /dev/mouse-> ttyS0 > > That doesn't seem right to me but I can't figure out how to change it > either. The following informations would be useful: Debian version How

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