Re: Debian

2000-07-27 Thread TooMany
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 02:42:48AM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: La última versión oficial, la 2.2 'Slink', es de marzo del 99. La próxima versión saldrá oficialmente, si todo va bien y no hay más contratiempos, el día 15 de agosto. No oficialmente, el día 9 lo que haya en los ftps debería ser

Re: Que les parece esto...

2000-07-27 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On mié, jul 26, 2000 at 05:41:37 -0500, Ricardo Adolfo Rodríguez wrote: lei esto en vivalinux.com.ar La verdad no estoy de acuerdo, pero como no soy un Duro Debianero..:(.. pues no hablo muy fuerte... que opinan ustedes? Comparando Seguridad en Linux Enviado por vivab0rg el 26-07-2000 @

Re: Debian

2000-07-27 Thread TooMany
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 10:44:56AM +0100, Ricardo Javier Cardenes Medina wrote: Como mi empresa va ha hacer representación de la distro Citius Debian GNU/Linux, os puedo decir que, según nos han dicho, para principios de setiembre tenemos la Citius Potato, con unos once o doce cd's (fuentes

Monitor Plug Pray y sus modelines

2000-07-27 Thread dbote
Hola amigos. Os quiero comentar que tengo un equipo con un monitor plug an play y que el XF86Setup no coge los modelines adecuados. En concreto solo me muestra lo siguiente Section Monitor Identifier Primary Monitor VendorName Unknown ModelName Unknown

Re: ppp y permisos del modem (otra vez)

2000-07-27 Thread Hue-Bond
El martes 25 de julio de 2000 a la(s) 13:52:23 -0500, Camilo Alejandro Arboleda contaba: Sin embargo ocurre que cada vez que el pppd (que es suid) se ejecuta, me cambia los permisos del modem por: crw--- 1 root dialout4, 66 Jul 25 13:43 /dev/ttyS2 y los usuarios normales ya no

Xfree 4.0.1

2000-07-27 Thread c d
¿Alguien ha probado la versión 4.0.1 de xfree? Me comentaron que la versión 4.0 daba muchos problemas y que se solucionarían en la versión 4.0.1. Me gustaría saber si esto es cierto y si esta nueva versión es suficientemente estable. Sin más, recibid todos un saludo. Carlitting. ---

Re: Xfree 4.0.1

2000-07-27 Thread Miguel Rodriguez Penabad
c d wrote: ¿Alguien ha probado la versión 4.0.1 de xfree? Me comentaron que la versión 4.0 daba muchos problemas y que se solucionarían en la versión 4.0.1. Me gustaría saber si esto es cierto y si esta nueva versión es suficientemente estable. Sin más, recibid todos un saludo.

Re: Debian

2000-07-27 Thread Hue-Bond
El jueves 27 de julio de 2000 a la(s) 10:41:56 +0200, TooMany contaba: Como mi empresa va ha hacer representación de la distro Citius Debian GNU/Linux, os puedo decir que, según nos han dicho, para principios de setiembre tenemos la Citius Potato, con unos once o doce cd's Oh! oh! oh!!!

Re: Que les parece esto...

2000-07-27 Thread Hue-Bond
El miércoles 26 de julio de 2000 a la(s) 17:41:37 -0500, Ricardo Adolfo Rodríguez contaba: y Debian y Slackware se actualizan demasiado lentamente para considerarlas seriamente (!!)... Leelo vos mismo! http://www.securityportal.com/cover/coverstory2724.html Ya hay respuesta a ese

Re: Que les parece esto...

2000-07-27 Thread Marta Pla
Solo me queda añadir una cosa: Tiene merecido todo lo que le dicen. Hay gente que no tiene nada mejor que hacer que hablar sobre lo que no sabe Marta Pla i Castells - Original Message - From: Hue-Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ricardo Adolfo Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Lista Debian

Anillo de linux

2000-07-27 Thread Jose Illescas
Hola, el motivo de este mensaje es que actualmente mantengo un anillo sobre el mundo de Linux en la web de los anillos: http://www.anilloweb.com Me gustaría que todos los que tuvieseis una página relacionada con Linux os unieseis al anillo. Quiero recopilar la mayor cantidad de

Re: Monitor Plug Pray y sus modelines

2000-07-27 Thread dbote
... Normal: has establecido una resolución de 320x204. En monitores de 15 800x600 se ve bien. Las viejas configuraciones con tarjetas VGA y monitores de 14 los Windozes ya usaban 640x480. El tema del monitor es MUY delicado por lo que te recomiendo leer el manual del tuyo antes de

¿Cual es el url del tutorial de debian en ingles y no es ...?

2000-07-27 Thread Julián
http://www.debian.org/~hp/tutorial/debian-tutorial.dvips.gz Estoy buscando el url de un libro que me baje y este libro es el tutorial de debian versión a la venta por ¿? Y tampoco es http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/ Yo recuerdo que es la continuación de debian-tutorial.dvips.gz,

Re: Monitor Plug Pray y sus modelines

2000-07-27 Thread Julián
El jue, 27 jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hola amigos. El resultado es que al entrar en las X todo sale grandote y no hay espacio para nada en la pantalla. ¿Podéis echarme una mano? Claro que podemos darte la mano _¿Para echarte al hueco o para sacarte?_ je, je, je es una

¿Como desuscribo y me suscribo?

2000-07-27 Thread Julián
Hola a todos, Me podrían dar la forma rapida de de-suscribirme y suscribirme a la lista. Pasa que mi dirección de correo cambio de [EMAIL PROTECTED] a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cosas políticas imagino que indujeron la desición

Re: ¿Cual es el url del tutorial de debian en ingles y no es ...?

2000-07-27 Thread Miguel Rodriguez Penabad
Julián Armando Mena Zapata wrote: http://www.debian.org/~hp/tutorial/debian-tutorial.dvips.gz Estoy buscando el url de un libro que me baje y este libro es el tutorial de debian versión a la venta por ¿? Y tampoco es http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/ Yo recuerdo que es

Re: Monitor Plug Pray y sus modelines

2000-07-27 Thread Hue-Bond
El jueves 27 de julio de 2000 a la(s) 12:43:07 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] contaba: Os quiero comentar que tengo un equipo con un monitor plug an play Eso de monitor plug n play es un invento del win que no entenderé nunca. Yo nunca he asignado una irq a un monitor... y

La versión 2.2 de Debian será dedicada a Joel Klecker.

2000-07-27 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Éste es el primer anuncio público de ésta iniciativa. Algunos pueden haber observado que hay dos ficheros nuevos en nuestros archivos (y en nuestros espejos) así como en los nuevos CD's de tercer ciclo de prueba. Se trata de una dedicación de esta versión a un miembro de nuestro proyecto que ha

Re: La versión 2.2 de Debian será dedicada a Joel Kleck er.

2000-07-27 Thread Saxa Egea
Correcion de la URL de la dedicatoria... ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/doc/dedication-2.2.txt Saxa At 21:49 27/07/00 +0200, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: Éste es el primer anuncio público de ésta iniciativa. Algunos pueden haber observado que hay dos ficheros nuevos en nuestros

ps2 psaux

2000-07-27 Thread Julián
Hola a todos. Lastimosamente tengo que informar que nunca me funciona lo que debe funcionar (de lo otro ni cuenta me doy) Podrían ayudarme con la configurada del ratón ps/2 es que esta vaina no me quiso funcionar. Al tratar de instalar el modulo psaux me dice que ni por el verraco me lo instala

Debian Parte 2

2000-07-27 Thread DrAk0
Bueno ya ustedes saben que soy usuario de Slackware 7 pero estoy muy interesado en Debian, es mas el CD de slack que tengo tiene dañado la glibc, es decir, a la hora de la instalacion no lo puede copiar y ustedes saben a todos los errores que em lleva esto no, no porder usar gcc ni make ni make

offtopic: Que opinan los debianeros de esto

2000-07-27 Thread Julián
Anoto que en bachue.univalle.edu.co sirve como cuasi-mirror de ftp.debian.org CafeLinux se basa en RH El jue, 27 jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribio: !SMTP es calvin.univalle.edu.co! Vamos por partes... varios usuarios de libertad han configurado clientes

Re: Debian Parte 2

2000-07-27 Thread Julián
Hola a todos los amigos Lo mejor para no desmeritar el trabajo de los mantenedores de paquetes es usar solo paquetes .deb que son fruto del esfuerzo de gente honesta y camelladora. De la puesta a punto hay que ir por partes. yo tengo slink y hay me quedare hasta que me llegue potato o woody.

Re: Executar o dosemu sem logar no sistema

2000-07-27 Thread Leandro Dutra
De: Gleydson Mazioli da Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Configure seu sistema para carregar os módulos misc e troque a linha de seu shell no /etc/passwd para o executável do programa (DOS): Renato Sapienza wrote: Estou precisando rodar uma aplicação no dosemu e gostaria de

Re: Executar o dosemu sem logar no sistema

2000-07-27 Thread Renato Sapienza
Olá para todos Muito Obrigado Gleydson, pelas informações, foram muito úteis. Mas gostaria de saber também, se seria possível que a execução do programa(do DOS ou do Linux) se iniciasse em um terminal(por exemplo no tty1), logo após a inicialização do sistema, porém, ocorrendo de forma

Re: Executar o dosemu sem logar no sistema

2000-07-27 Thread Leandro Dutra
De: Renato Sapienza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Muito Obrigado Gleydson, pelas informações, foram muito úteis. Mas gostaria de saber também, se seria possível que a execução do programa(do DOS ou do Linux) se iniciasse em um terminal(por exemplo no tty1), logo após a inicialização do sistema,

Re: Executar o dosemu sem logar no sistema

2000-07-27 Thread Renato Sapienza
Olá Leandro e pessoal da lista, realmente é possível inicializar como serviço dessa forma, mas como eu posso determinar o terminal em que ele será executado? Pois na verdade, eu necessito executar 2 aplicações e gostaria de colocar cada uma em um terminal específico. Obrigado, Renato On Thu, 27

Re: Executar o dosemu sem logar no sistema

2000-07-27 Thread Leandro Dutra
De: Renato Sapienza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] realmente é possível inicializar como serviço dessa forma, mas como eu posso determinar o terminal em que ele será executado? Pois na verdade, eu necessito executar 2 aplicações e gostaria de colocar cada uma em um terminal específico.

Re: Executar o dosemu sem logar no sistema

2000-07-27 Thread Christoph Simon
Já pensou em lançar como um serviço através dos diretórios /etc/rc[0-9].d? Acho que deveria editar /etc/inittab. Lá encontrará uma linha do tipo 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 que poderia mudar para 1:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/dos args mas nunca tentei, e é provável que

Re: Executar o dosemu sem logar no sistema

2000-07-27 Thread Renato Sapienza
Obrigado ao Gleydson, Leandro e Christoph por responderem minha mensagem e me ajudarem a encontrar uma solução para o meu problema. Eu consegui resolver essa situação iniciando o dosemu logo após a inicialização dos terminais, no /etc/init.d/rmnologin. Eu adicionei aí, um script para iniciar o

Changing NICs

2000-07-27 Thread allenlim
Hello all, Could someone please give me instructions on how to go about changing NICs as I believe that the ones in the computer is faulty. At present, they are using ISA 3Com Etherlink III and I am changing them to PCI D- link DFE-530TX+ I believe that there are drivers (is it called drivers

Re: Crontab

2000-07-27 Thread Chris Majewski
Yeah, cron's great. See also Anacron. -chris On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just got a couple of queries about the use of cron. Firstly, is it what I should be using it for automated execution or is there something better? Secondly, what should I be doing from a

mount problem

2000-07-27 Thread Dale Morris
I made a mistake installing debian and I selected the fs -automount module. Now my floppy won't mount from the icon on the desktop. I suppose I need to change something in my fstab file to fix it. Also, I can't mount my cd rom, but I didn't configure anything into the kernel for cdrom modules. Can

Re: VPN

2000-07-27 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Is there a way to VPN windows machines through a Debian machihne acting as firewall? More information, please: what precisely does the firewall do, and how precisely do the Windows machines need to connect? --

Re: Apache-newby

2000-07-27 Thread Johann Spies
Adrian, try http://127.0.0.1 Thanks for your reply. The result on both lynx and netscape is the same: Error 404 Not found - file doesn't exist or is read protected [even tried multi]

RE: is there a midi/wav plugin for Netscape?

2000-07-27 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
I used dselect and searched for plugger. After the upgrade to potato a few months back, plugger was broken. So I used dselect to remove and then reinstalled it. Plugger will show 'dependencies' for timidity and many others. Very clean way to do the install. On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote:

Re: run arbitrary program as screensaver?

2000-07-27 Thread Christophe Broult
What about using the `setiathome' package? # apt-get install setiathome Chris setiathome Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone know of a way to run an arbitrary program as the screensaver? Two applications that have come to mind are setiathome and something like acidwarp. I'm

Re: Command Line on logout

2000-07-27 Thread Joey Tsai
remove the reference to XDM in the startup scripts, deinstall XDM, or remove the symlinks to XDM in /etc/rcX.d directories (this just prevents it from starting, does not remove it). A more elegant (IMO) solution is to modify /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. I personally think the most elegant way

Re: Help(!) with Slink install -- disk repartitioning problem

2000-07-27 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:41:55PM -0400, Christopher Lee wrote *cc me on any replys, since I am not subscribed to debian-user* Please read this if you know something about hard-disk partitioning, and think you can tell us where the mystery 2 Gigs went. My wife is a little stressed-out

Re: mount problem

2000-07-27 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 09:29:35PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: I made a mistake installing debian and I selected the fs -automount module. Now my floppy won't mount from the icon on the desktop. I suppose I need to change something in my fstab file to fix it. Also, I can't mount my cd rom, but I

keyboard probs

2000-07-27 Thread john-mark
I have installed debian Linux and the keyboard as U.S. English qwerty however I have a uk English keyboard there didn't seem to be a UK keyboard available. Now I have a few problems with some characters on the keyboard most problematic is the pipe redirector | which selects a whenever I

Re: Changing NICs

2000-07-27 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 02:02:13PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Could someone please give me instructions on how to go about changing NICs as I believe that the ones in the computer is faulty. At present, they are using ISA 3Com Etherlink III and I am changing them to PCI D-

[OFF-TOPIC] Debian developer (me) seeking employment

2000-07-27 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, I am currently a master student at the Hokkaido University, Japan. My specialty is physics, but I have discovered a couple of months ago that what I really like is programming. I will finish the master course in April 2001, but as my colleagues advised my, I've already started looking for

Re: Help(!) with Slink install -- disk repartitioning problem

2000-07-27 Thread Morten Liebach
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:41:55PM -0400, Christopher Lee wrote: *cc me on any replys, since I am not subscribed to debian-user* Please read this if you know something about hard-disk partitioning, and think you can tell us where the mystery 2 Gigs went. My wife is a little stressed-out

Re: Help(!) with Slink install -- disk repartitioning problem

2000-07-27 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, John Pearson wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:41:55PM -0400, Christopher Lee wrote *cc me on any replys, since I am not subscribed to debian-user* Please read this if you know something about hard-disk partitioning, and think you can tell us where the mystery 2

Re: Setting up DNS for virtual domains

2000-07-27 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
At 09:23 AM 7/26/2000 -0400, Mostly Harmless wrote: I'm going to try to explain this as bast I can though my understanding of a lot of these issues is shaky at best. I help admin the student computing organization's servers at my school. We would like to offer full virtual domain service to

time is off by 1 hour

2000-07-27 Thread Mathew Johnston
my timezone file contains Canada/Eastern when i type date, it tells me that its EST, not EDT like it should (i think) so when I run ntpdate it gives me the time, minus 1 hour. any ideas as to how to fix this? Thanks :) Mathew Johnston

Re: time is off by 1 hour

2000-07-27 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi Mathew, take a look both to man hwclock and date. I got the same problem and i fixed it with hwclock. Since I live in italy i've a different timezone so i cannot be sure about EST or EDT, sorry. Fabio Mathew Johnston wrote: my timezone file contains Canada/Eastern when i type date,

Apache-www-pages protection?

2000-07-27 Thread virtanen
as a newbie for running apache I wanted to know an easy method to give access to certain web-pages for restricted selected users only (using passwords). [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PHP4 functions

2000-07-27 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi Alan, thanks for your idea. I will try it but why does the other function not exist. In the PHP manual it says this function is available since version 3.0x. I think this is a little bit strange... Bye, Sven

zeus and debian.

2000-07-27 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hi there, we are running zeus 3.3.6a and debian linux 2.0.36. we have recently installed perl 5.6.0 and are having problems with the zeus server not responding at various times. has anyone had a similar experience with this combination? a ps and vmstat at the time of the crash doesn't show

Re: Problem with X

2000-07-27 Thread Torrey Peacock
James, I have a Rage 128 Pro card (XPert2000 Pro) and have got it working with XFree86 version 3.3.6. The tip on David St. Clair's page was crucial, of adding ChipId 0x5246 to the Device section of XF86Config. With that modification, the r128 driver will work. How did you manage to install

Re: Unthinkable routing problem

2000-07-27 Thread Nagarjuna G.
On 26 Jul 2000, Ian Zimmerman wrote: - Nagarjuna == Nagarjuna G [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - -Nagarjuna It is unthinkable for us that a machine can forward packets -Nagarjuna without itself able to approach the router. !!! Pl mail if -Nagarjuna you require more information on this. - -Post the

Re: Crontab

2000-07-27 Thread Michael Soulier
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just got a couple of queries about the use of cron. Firstly, is it what I should be using it for automated execution or is there something better? Secondly, what should I be doing from a security point of view, is it fine to have root

HP DeskJet 600 (please reply private)

2000-07-27 Thread A. Demarteau \(linux rules!\)
hi debian users, does any of you have a HP DescJet 600? If so, I'm interrested in printcap files and which printer packages you have installed (i.e. lprng magicfilter e.d.). I'm also interested in the fact if and as specially (cause if I think is possible) how to print color-pages with this type

RE: VPN

2000-07-27 Thread Chris Mason
The firewall would be IPCHAINS setup with PMfirewall. It's an office network and the owner wants to be able to access the accounts data and run the accounts program on her laptop while connected to the internet aboad over a secure tunnel through the firewall to a fileserver. I don't see why the

Re: hardware question

2000-07-27 Thread Dan Hutchinson
Abit makes a nice dual pentium board. B6-P I think. You can go to www.pricewatch.com to view different vendors. Dan Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm planning on building my own PC and am interested in recommendations for motherboard manufacturers and CPU's. I'm thinking about

Re: time is off by 1 hour

2000-07-27 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
run tzconfig as root and follow the instructions. also do NOT forget to set the environmental variable TZ in your .bash_profile. On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 05:04:20AM -0400, Mathew Johnston wrote: my timezone file contains Canada/Eastern when i type date, it tells me that its EST, not EDT like

Re: mount problem

2000-07-27 Thread Dale Morris
Thanks for replying Thomas, Here's what I already have in my fstab file: /dev/fd0/floppy autodefaults,user,noauto0 0 When I try to mount it manually here's what I get: mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified For some reason

Re: Problem with X

2000-07-27 Thread James Polson
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 03:15:10 -0700 From: Torrey Peacock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem with X To:James Polson [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org James, I have a Rage 128 Pro card (XPert2000 Pro) and have got it working with

RE: Inn

2000-07-27 Thread Christopher Clark
OK so i can 'suck' selected newsgroups. But I have forgotten how to download the 'active' file so that I can select appropriate new groups. How do I do that? regards Chris

Help for printer and colour

2000-07-27 Thread Horacio MG
Hi, I sent this message on July 18, but I haven't seen any answer to it on the mailing list archives. I'm having a problem with a colour printer, which is the following (Please, send me a Cc: as I'm NOT subscribed to the mailing list): I just set up a Xerox DocuPrint C15 printer with kind help

Re: Apache-www-pages protection?

2000-07-27 Thread jbardin
virtanen wrote: as a newbie for running apache I wanted to know an easy method to give access to certain web-pages for restricted selected users only (using passwords). [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null The apache documentation has the

gnome

2000-07-27 Thread Christopher Clark
As user chris I have an .xsession as follows: #!/bin/sh panel gmc #exec sawmill gnome-session which seems to work ( potato cycle 1 ) but hangs on exit with no 'save etc window' As user cgc I have an .xsession with just: gnome-session which seems to work ok If I remove all the other bits from

Re: volume control

2000-07-27 Thread jbardin
Michael Soulier wrote: Hey guys. My SB Live! Value card is working fine now. Loaded the emu module just fine. However, my volume control isn't working. I've tried in both xmms and xmcd, and neither one has a working volume control. This worked in Mandrake 7.0. Ideas?

Missing something with gnomecc and xscreensaver

2000-07-27 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, This works on the rest of my machines so I'm lost. I can start the gnomecc and select screen saver, then change settings. On my wife's box, if I select screen saver, I get a blank grey box. I've removed and added xscreensaver, no change. This is a woody box, latest updates availabe.

Re: PHP4 functions

2000-07-27 Thread jbardin
Sven Gaerner wrote: Hi, I installed Apache and PHP4 and several modules for PHP4. Everything works but I need to know if a special module is loaded. In the PHP4 Manual on the PHP website it says you can use the function bool extension_loaded(string module); When I tried this I received

Re: Using Partition Magic with Debian

2000-07-27 Thread Felix Natter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone used Partition Magic in order to resize partitions under Debian? The software claims to support resizing Linux EXT2 filesystems, etc, but will I trash my system if I do so? I used Norton Ghost to image my system from a 2.1 gig drive to an 8.4 gig drive

Re: Apache-www-pages protection... now working

2000-07-27 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: virtanen wrote: as a newbie for running apache I wanted to know an easy method to give access to certain web-pages for restricted selected users only (using passwords). [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: run arbitrary program as screensaver?

2000-07-27 Thread Bill Warner
I run setiathome all the time and not just as a screen saver. just run the console version and rederect the output to /dev/null setiathome /dev/null 2 /dev/null and then set the nice to 19 renice seti pid 19 and forget about it. Bill Warner Christophe Broult wrote: What about

Re: run arbitrary program as screensaver?

2000-07-27 Thread Richard Black
If you use xscreensaver you can simply get it to run a program by including a line in your .xscreensaver file. Fir example, I get it to run qiv to cycle over a set of images via: more ~/.xscreensaver programs: \ /usr/bin/X11/qiv -sfid 2.5 ~/Slideshows/almworkshop/* \n cheers

RE[2]: Inn

2000-07-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
Christopher Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK so i can 'suck' selected newsgroups. But I have forgotten how to download the 'active' file so that I can select appropriate new groups. Active files tend to be huge these days, and you don't need one to subscribe suck to a group; just put it in

Re: Apache-www-pages pr... now working

2000-07-27 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, virtanen wrote: It was really hard to find, what was wrong. The FAQ was not very helpful. I had tried many times to write this .htaccess file and creating passwords as well, but I did not know that: I had to change in

Re: run arbitrary program as screensaver?

2000-07-27 Thread Krzys Majewski
I did that a few months ago, but it did not come with a screen-saver option. What I did now is download the xseti tarball and the xscreensaver package, together they do the job (although they do more than what I wanted, which is just to have setiathome run in the bg when the screen

Re: ReiserFS with Debian (Potato)?

2000-07-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 08:03:11AM -0200, John Leuner wrote: Then I tried to extract a tar.gz file from an NFS mount onto my (reiser) home partition. Worked fine, but when I tried to build the application (dosemu-1.0.1) the configure script got stuck and filled up the entire 2.5 gig partition.

Unidentified subject!

2000-07-27 Thread David Teague
Folks, I have a question from a buddy who asks the following question, which I could not help him with. I have had wonderful support, I hope one of you can help him. Send flames to me for any lack of information, I'll ask him for what you need. It ain't his fault ;) Please send answers to

Re: Tape backup software?

2000-07-27 Thread kmself
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:04:53AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: Andrew McRobert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have to say that i find that tar covers all bases pretty well ... depends what you're used to I guess. There's at least one issue with tar that's kept me from using it, you don't

Re: Command Line on logout

2000-07-27 Thread kmself
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 02:30:27AM -0400, Joey Tsai wrote: remove the reference to XDM in the startup scripts, deinstall XDM, or remove the symlinks to XDM in /etc/rcX.d directories (this just prevents it from starting, does not remove it). A more elegant (IMO) solution is to

quotas

2000-07-27 Thread techlists
I've enabled quota's for users, I've got one set up and I want to do a global change so that all other users are like that account. Does any one know the command syntax to do that?

Re: Command Line on logout

2000-07-27 Thread Joey Tsai
I personally think the most elegant way to do this is the debian way and use update-rc.d to remove xdm (or gdm for helixgnomers) from the startup. If you're not going to use xdm, remove it. If you're going to use it for non-console logins, my suggestion is IMO appropriate. It's also a

StarOffice issues

2000-07-27 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi Group. I have installed StarOffice 5.2 and have two questions: - After installation it indicates that no Java support is found. If I open a Java web-page, I get error messages. I would like to know if there is a Debian package which I can use, or an alternative? - StarOffice seems a

modules.conf vs conf.modules

2000-07-27 Thread Kent West
Okay, I'm been looking off-and-on for weeks, and in earnest for the past hour, and maybe I'm just blind and/or stupid, but I can not find an explanation of the difference between conf.modules and modules.conf. I think maybe that conf.modules is the official name (according to some Linux Standards

RE: modules.conf vs conf.modules

2000-07-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Can anyone verify that this is the case? Add any info? Which should I use on my system? Do I have a choice? Is there a plain-english (for dummies) page somewhere that explains how modules work (modutils vs /etc/modules vs kmod vs kerneld vs conf.modules vs modules.conf vs /etc/modutils/ vs

Canonical domain names for private LANs?

2000-07-27 Thread Philipp Lehman
I have a small home LAN consisting of three machines, one of which connects the LAN to my ISP over a dial-up connection. I was wondering what domain name to use for the LAN. What I have in mind is something similar to the IP address space(s) reserved for private use (such as 192.168.*.*) While

Re: Apache-newby

2000-07-27 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:34:00AM -0400, Adrian Thiele wrote: I always build my own and it shows up as httpd, I`m not sure where the cern is from. Is it a .deb package? Yes. Try setting ServerName to 127.0.0.1 OK. I have done that. It won`t find www.localhost without it being in

Syncbuilder

2000-07-27 Thread Johann Spies
I am using Abacus on my PalmPilot which requires Syncbuilder to be installed on Linux to be able to transfer the spreadsheet and use it on Linux with Abacus. I have installed jdk1.1 on my system, but when I try to install Syncbuilder it ends with an error message like this: $install_syncman.in

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2000-07-27 Thread Nicklas Månsson
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Re: Command Line on logout

2000-07-27 Thread Mike Werner
Joey Tsai wrote: Well, I use gdm, and the problem I have is that I cannot remove it without breaking task-helix-core, which keeps me up to date with the helixcode packages. You *can* remove gdm safely. All the other packages will still be in the system, and so will still be kept up-to-date.

Re: Canonical domain names for private LANs?

2000-07-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- You don't need to use any special naming scheme for your private network. Remember that the domain naming scheme exists only to make it easier for humans to locate computers. For example, I have 2 private domains that I use in my networks at home: .noah for my

Re: volume control

2000-07-27 Thread Michael Soulier
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In XMMS you can go into the preferences and tell it to control the Master volume and not the pcm the master volume controls the mixer that sends the signal to your speakers.. its aboutthe same thing as the windows little speaker in your

Re: Command Line on logout

2000-07-27 Thread Joey Tsai
You *can* remove gdm safely. All the other packages will still be in the system, and so will still be kept up-to-date. The problem with removing gdm is that it will remove the task-helix-core package as well. While that doesn't seem to be a problem (the package is just an empty packgake of

Re: volume control

2000-07-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
Michael Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In XMMS you can go into the preferences and tell it to control the Master volume and not the pcm the master volume controls the mixer that sends the signal to your speakers.. its aboutthe same thing as

web server suggestions

2000-07-27 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all Sorry for this being so highly off-topic, forgive me; I need the infos. (It's just that debian lists are an excellent resort for information) I'd like some infos from people who've had experience with this: What web server software is in your opinion best for running on an NT machine?

Re: modules.conf vs conf.modules

2000-07-27 Thread Kent West
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: Can anyone verify that this is the case? Add any info? Which should I use on my system? Do I have a choice? Is there a plain-english (for dummies) page somewhere that explains how modules work (modutils vs /etc/modules vs kmod vs kerneld vs conf.modules vs

Re: modules.conf vs conf.modules

2000-07-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Can I delete my /etc/conf.modules.old file without worry? yep, i have not had one for some time. There is no standard as of yet. When the LSB (Linux Standards Base) gets ratified we may have to revisit this issue. If documentation confuses you, please mail the maintainer and ask for the

Re: volume control

2000-07-27 Thread jbardin
Gary Hennigan wrote: Michael Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In XMMS you can go into the preferences and tell it to control the Master volume and not the pcm the master volume controls the mixer that sends the signal to your speakers.. its

3c90x woes

2000-07-27 Thread Raphael Crawford-Marks
I've installed Potato on a machine with a 3c905c-TXM PCI card. I tried to get it to work with the 3c59x module, to no avail. Downloaded 3com's 3c90x driver from their site, but couldn't figure out what to do with it (their readme said to run install3c90x, a file that was not included in the

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2000-07-27 Thread Ton Sonnemans
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Re: PHP4 functions

2000-07-27 Thread alan
Hi Sven, I just checked out the function extension_loaded() using the following (pgsql.so is setup in the php ini file) ... ? echo extension_loaded(pgsql); phpinfo(); ? When you look under the Additional Modules section of the phpinfo output - pgsql is listed. I get a null response

Re: modules.conf vs conf.modules

2000-07-27 Thread David Z. Maze
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KW Is there a plain-english (for dummies) page somewhere that KW explains how modules work (modutils vs /etc/modules vs kmod vs KW kerneld vs conf.modules vs modules.conf vs /etc/modutils/ vs auto KW vs specific items in /etc/modules vs compile-in vs Godzilla vs

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