Re: Autostarting Apache and MySQL

2000-08-08 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:23:49PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to get Debian automatically to start, 1) MySQL and 2) > Apache > > According to the FAQs, rc.local does not work and I am supposed to > develop some scripts in /etc/init.d which take the arguments start', > `stop

Re: temporary allowing telnet to use x-windows

2000-08-08 Thread kmself
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 03:56:00AM +, john smith wrote: > I would like to know how to temporarily allow a telnet session (bec. we're > only on an intranet) to display the x-window. for example, a user telnets to > the server using windows then he wants his x-window to display temporarily > t

Talent Contest

2000-08-08 Thread John Brooks
To Whom this is i am advertising a Talent Contest throught out hawkes bay could you help

upgrade to potato; tetex-bin depends

2000-08-08 Thread Charles Kaufman
I have just tried to upgrade from stable to frozen. I did apt-get update, which worked except for one timed-out file. I did it again to get that file. I then did 'apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade'. That seemed to go ok but stopped without asking very many configuration questions, a

httpd broke in woody?

2000-08-08 Thread Robert L. Harris
I did a distupgrade a day or ago and today noticed my httpd was down. Here's what's in my error.log {0}:lh:/var/adm/apache>cat error.log [Tue Aug 8 21:58:06 2000] [notice] Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) Debian/GNU configured -- resuming normal operations [Tue Aug 8 21:58:06 2000] [notice] suEXEC mec

temporary allowing telnet to use x-windows

2000-08-08 Thread john smith
I would like to know how to temporarily allow a telnet session (bec. we're only on an intranet) to display the x-window. for example, a user telnets to the server using windows then he wants his x-window to display temporarily there..when he tries to startx, the x-server does not allow him to co

Autostarting Apache and MySQL

2000-08-08 Thread dckinder
I am trying to get Debian automatically to start, 1) MySQL and 2) Apache According to the FAQs, rc.local does not work and I am supposed to develop some scripts in /etc/init.d which take the arguments start', `stop', `reload', `restart' or `force-reload' First of all, all I want to do is to sta

Re: Can't mount CD-ROM

2000-08-08 Thread Dale Morris
I forgot to include a copy of my fstab file, here it is as an attachment... On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 08:02:08PM -0700 3, Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a recent install via ftp of debian potato, I find I am unable to > mount my cdrom drive. I have run dmesg | less and it returns:

Ensoniq Soundscape Vivo90

2000-08-08 Thread Joe Gaetano
I have a ensoniq soundscape vivo90 (ISA) in this debian 2.2 machine and I can not get it to work.. Can somebody point me to some resources where I might get info? I have previously used RedHat on this machine and the card was automatically detected and setup with sndconfig.. thanks in advance. -Jo

RE: Alien to .tar.gz

2000-08-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
cheers - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math" -Origin

Re: Alien to .tar.gz

2000-08-08 Thread Mike Werner
Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi > > Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz. > The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest > thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ... .tgz == .tar.gz -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He tha

Re: Alien to .tar.gz

2000-08-08 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:10:47AM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi > > Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz. > The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest > thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ... .tgz and

Alien to .tar.gz

2000-08-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz. The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ... tks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B

Can't mount CD-ROM

2000-08-08 Thread Dale Morris
After a recent install via ftp of debian potato, I find I am unable to mount my cdrom drive. I have run dmesg | less and it returns: hdc: WDC WD153BA, 14669MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=29805/16/63 hdb: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.09 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

Re: CD-RW

2000-08-08 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jun 25 2000, Willi Dyck wrote: > If I recompile my kernel with SCSI Emulation for IDE devices, will > then my ATAPI CD-ROM still work?? Yes, but you'll access it like a SCSI CD-ROM. :-) > > Hope this helps, Roger... > It helped ;-) Glad to be of help. :-) []s

qmail (was: Re: Using verp with Debian's smartlist package)

2000-08-08 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 08 2000, Shane Wegner wrote: > On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 11:40:35PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > > On Aug 07 2000, Shane Wegner wrote: > > > Has anyone successfully gotten this to work? > > > > Must you use sendmail? Would you be willing to use qmail? If > > so, then qmail supports V

Printer Setup - Netscape etc. & SMB

2000-08-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi I've been running Samba on a Debian box here for a while now, and using smblient & smbprint. What I'd like to know is if there's a way to configure Gnome so that applications like Netscape & file editors print to a networked printer through some kind of smbprint wrapper. In other words, if I hi

Re: Exim mail is frozen

2000-08-08 Thread Adam Scriven
At 09:48 2000/08/09 +0900, you wrote: I retreived some mail using fetchmail, which worked fine. At the time, I used root to generate my "/var/spool/mail/USER" file. This caused some 120+ email to be "bounced". I couldn't get any mail to my USER. These mail got stuck in /var/spool/exim/input. I

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

2000-08-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:24:27PM +0200, Jonas Moberg wrote: > Btw, when I checked my fstab I couldn't quite figure out what some > fields did. I couldn't find any info on what the last two fields, > "" and "" was for. "" was set to '0' on all entrys > and "" was set to '1' on /, '22' on "/usr" an

Fwd: Re: maildir & imap [SOLVED]

2000-08-08 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
This wasn't sent to the list, so i'm forwarding it in case someone else finds it useful. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When I give food to the poor I am called a saint, when I ask why they go hungry I am called a communist" --Bishop Helder Camara --- Begin Message --- On Tue, A

Re: update-alternatives -- changing preferences

2000-08-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 06:28:34AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Not quite, I think. > > The above will add "emacs" into the list of available alternatives for > "editor". By what divers black majik a particular application is chosen > I'm not sure. > > In my current case, I want to speci

Exim mail is frozen

2000-08-08 Thread Jack Morgan
I retreived some mail using fetchmail, which worked fine. At the time, I used root to generate my "/var/spool/mail/USER" file. This caused some 120+ email to be "bounced". I couldn't get any mail to my USER. These mail got stuck in /var/spool/exim/input. I chown the USER file and I could get mai

Re: Uh oh! I ruined my kernel!

2000-08-08 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 03:57:18PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I did a complete system upgrade yesterday (nothing in my computer is > the same as it was anymore), so I was recompiling the kernel, and I > guess I configured something wrong, cause now my computer won't > boot-up. _I'm

Re: Unable to load atd.

2000-08-08 Thread Russ Pitman
Thanks Karsten, I was trying to run it thru the script, never gave the -d flag a thought. Everything in damn spool dir was owned by postfix and the /atjobs had 700 perms. BTW does the -d flag work on everything.I have assumed that wasn't the case. Live and learn TVM. On Tue, Aug

Re: dwww errors

2000-08-08 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
Le 2000-08-04 21:44:03 +0200, Neilen Marais écrivait : > For instance, on the debian document menu, a number of choices result > in not found messages, or other arb errors. If I manually browse the > same location in netscape useing file:///whatever (by looking at the > URL dwww generates) things

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

2000-08-08 Thread Robert Norris
> I couldn't seem to find any netscape-roaming-howto and since I don't know > what ldap does I'm left in the blue here.. =) You don't need an LDAP server, you can use mod_roaming with Apache instead, we use it at work and its great :) Regards, Rob. pgpW23YCdN34P.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-08 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > On NPR's Morning Edition they described a security hole in Netscape > versions 4.73 and earlier that allows 'infection' by access to > 'nasty' web sites. It is said to put your hard drive at risk some > way. > > I assume this is a Windo

Re: some questions

2000-08-08 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
Le 2000-08-02 11:28:52 +0300, Tzafrir Cohen écrivait : > 1. When using a network adapter whose driver is compiled as a module - > where does this module get loaded? > I currently added a simple modprobe line to /etc/init.d/networking , but > there has to be a better way. On RedHat loading this mod

RE: info on CUPS

2000-08-08 Thread Federico Silva
I'll take a look, thanks :) -f. > -Original Message- > From: Brian May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: miércoles 9 de agosto de 2000 0:01 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: info on CUPS > > > > "Federico" == Federico Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Feder

Re: info on CUPS

2000-08-08 Thread Brian May
> "Federico" == Federico Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Federico> Hello everybody, I've been thinking in CUPS lately so Federico> maybe i'll try. There was a thread on CUPS recently on debian-devel Have a look in the archives at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0007/thrd2.htm

Re: apache-newby: permissions?

2000-08-08 Thread Gerardo Mauricio Sarria
You have to put in your srm.conf: AddHandler cgi-script .cgi And, in your access.conf (in the directory where you'll put your cgi's): Options ExecCGI ... On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > I have succeeded in setting

Re: Problem with procmail

2000-08-08 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 12:01:23AM +0200, Robert Kasunic wrote: > I filter this list by using procmail. It works quite well, except > for the fact that every mail gets into the folder twice. without procmail, you get every mail only once? could you post you .procmailrc? moritz -- /* Morit

Re: apache-newby: permissions?

2000-08-08 Thread staf
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > My next problem is that I do not know how to configure apache to allow > me as user to execute .cgi-scripts from the server. > > When I try it I get the following error message: > > Forbidden > >You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/sql-ledger

Problem with procmail

2000-08-08 Thread Robert Kasunic
Hi all, I filter this list by using procmail. It works quite well, except for the fact that every mail gets into the folder twice. Any suggestions? TIA Robert pgpLAXYnqepRZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Fwd: Problem with procmail

2000-08-08 Thread Robert Kasunic
Hi all, I filter this list by using procmail. It works quite well, except for the fact that every mail gets into the folder twice. Any suggestions? TIA Robert pgpPSXP3ObwbV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Uh oh! I ruined my kernel!

2000-08-08 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I did a complete system upgrade yesterday (nothing in my computer is the same as it was anymore), so I was recompiling the kernel, and I guess I configured something wrong, cause now my computer won't boot-up. _I'm not concerned about fixing it,_ I just want to start over, but I can't seem t

netscape security hole

2000-08-08 Thread David Teague
On NPR's Morning Edition they described a security hole in Netscape versions 4.73 and earlier that allows 'infection' by access to 'nasty' web sites. It is said to put your hard drive at risk some way. I assume this is a Windows problem, BUT does anybody know what this hole is and whether Linux i

Linux support for PlexWriter 12/10/32A?

2000-08-08 Thread David Teague
Hi Is the Plextor PlexWriter 12/10/32A supported by Linux? This is a fairly new unit that uses Sanyo's BURN-Proof (Buffer UnderRun Proof) fault-tolerant technology. The review I read is in PC Mag, which is almost exclusively Windows and the drive is not described as SCSI, so I assume it is IDE.

apache-newby: permissions?

2000-08-08 Thread Johann Spies
I have succeeded in setting up apache on my single computer and get netscape and lynx to communicate with it. My next problem is that I do not know how to configure apache to allow me as user to execute .cgi-scripts from the server. When I try it I get the following error message: Forbidden

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

2000-08-08 Thread Jonas Moberg
> If you got more than one computer you can use Netscape-roaming. > Install openldap, look at netscape-roaming-howto > and you can use your netscape-profile everywhere. I couldn't seem to find any netscape-roaming-howto and since I don't know what ldap does I'm left in the blue here.. =)

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

2000-08-08 Thread Jonas Moberg
> If you got more than one computer you can use Netscape-roaming. > Install openldap, look at netscape-roaming-howto > and you can use your netscape-profile everywhere. I couldn't seem to find any netscape-roaming-howto and since I don't know what ldap does I'm left in the blue here.. =)

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

2000-08-08 Thread Jonas Moberg
> If you got more than one computer you can use Netscape-roaming. > Install openldap, look at netscape-roaming-howto > and you can use your netscape-profile everywhere. I couldn't seem to find any netscape-roaming-howto and since I don't know what ldap does I'm left in the blue here.. =)

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

2000-08-08 Thread Jonas Moberg
> I can help! > FSTab settings (manual, no Linuxconf on this machine) for a vfat formatted > 15GB partition, with MP3's and stuff on it. One main user system > (uid=1000), with a users group (gid=100). > > /dev/hdb1 /mnt/SharedMediavfat > rw,uid=1000,gid=100,setgid=100,u > mask=0

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

2000-08-08 Thread Jonas Moberg
> i had a similar problem and my solution was: > > http://www.klomp.org/mod_roaming/#download > > if you have access to a webserver running apache or know someone who does > you can have em install that module and use the roaming features of > netscape. keep the same bookmarks/preferences/everyth

adding to inetd

2000-08-08 Thread Jonas Moberg
How do I add a field in inetd for ssh and proftp? and should I even be doing this? My thought was to be able to use /etc/hosts.deny for all applications, and perhaps portsentry or equal in the future when I get the time to check it out. Any drawbacks of putting all services in inetd?

Re: Applixware 5 on Debian slink, potato or woody?

2000-08-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Stefan Bellon wrote: sbello >Now I'd like to know whether anybody has experience with the later sbello >Applixware 5 on Debian systems. Does it install without problems? installs flawlessly, runs like crap though. for some reason it takes about 5 minutes to load on a p3-500 12

Re: update-alternatives -- changing preferences

2000-08-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Karsten" == kmself writes: Dave> The easy way would be Dave> Dave> update-alternatives --config x-window-manager Dave> Dave> and select wmaker from the list to be your default. Karsten> For those who are interested, the following script (run in Karsten> /etc/alternatives) will list all

Re: Using verp with Debian's smartlist package

2000-08-08 Thread Shane Wegner
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 11:40:35PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Aug 07 2000, Shane Wegner wrote: > > Has anyone successfully gotten this to work? > > Must you use sendmail? Would you be willing to use qmail? If > so, then qmail supports VERPs outta the box with its fast > mai

Re: update-alternatives -- changing preferences

2000-08-08 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:06:57AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > > The above will add "emacs" into the list of available alternatives > > for "editor". By what divers black majik a particular application > > is chosen I'm not sure. > > Despite the claim at the top of

Re: SB AWE64 PnP installation on slink 2.2.12

2000-08-08 Thread Hans
This is the ISA SB64AWE, I suppose, so did you do the isapnp setup routine (pnpdump, editing /etc/isapnp.conf, running isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf)? The two modules that should be loaded are sound and sb. Use modprobe -a sound and modprobe -a sb io=0x0220, irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 to insert t

Re: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

2000-08-08 Thread Hans
Any good PC-engineer will know a universal password which will unlock the bios. It's a 4-letter code, which works on most bioses. I had the same problem once, but I forgot to note down the code, stupid me. I had a friend who worked in a PC-shop who told me they had this problem at least once a week

Applixware 5 on Debian slink, potato or woody?

2000-08-08 Thread Stefan Bellon
Hi all! A friend of mine runs Applixware 4.4.1 on his Debian system (mixture of potato and woody). But he says that it's quite buggy and looks outdated. But otherwise it performs quite well. For the installation he took the RPMs and alienated them to deb packages. Then he make a link from /opt to

slightly-off: parport split-box

2000-08-08 Thread A. Demarteau \(linux rules!\)
hi, does anyone know if there's an electronicly working box for hanging two printers on one paralel-port which is supported by linux? thanx, --- Andor Demarteau [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

RE: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

2000-08-08 Thread Jason Quigley
Another alternative: Just remove the battery that keeps the CMOS charged. I assume that if you're going to install Debian anew, that you won't care about losing it's settings. Cheers, Jason. --On Tuesday, August 8, 2000 21:31 +0300 Lehel Bernadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 08-Aug-2000

info on CUPS

2000-08-08 Thread Federico Silva
Hello everybody, I've been thinking in CUPS lately so maybe i'll try. What are the pros and cons if any ? Any info o story regarding this subject would be of great help. Thanks in advance. -f.

Re: Lilo Problem

2000-08-08 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:42:04AM +0200, Dirk Allard wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed the latest slink cd image on my machine (worked ok). Trying > to install lilo it wouldn't work, because the boot disk has over 1024 > cylinders. Unfortunately the floppy is not working, so I cannot boot throu

Re: 3c90x woes

2000-08-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"F.P. Groeneveld" wrote: > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : # /etc/init.d/network > : SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device > : SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable > > I _think_ this is just the new networking code in the newer kernel. Old > syntax ifconfig/routing commands generate thes

Re: 3c90x woes

2000-08-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Galbra >So I decided to try the 3c90x driver from 3Com, but it doesn't > Galbra >work for me. I compiled a module and get this when I load it: > > i always have statically compiled the driver into my kernel i dont kn

Re: 2.2 iso

2000-08-08 Thread staf
> Is there somebody who can tell me how I can put the iso-image of the > debian 2.2-pre3 on a cdr with nero 5.0 (if it's possible). > I try to do it but there were nothing on the cd (sorry I don't have > cdrecord). You can always download the Windows version of cdrecord, there is a link to the win

Solved: update-alternatives -- changing preferences

2000-08-08 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:06:57AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > > The above will add "emacs" into the list of available alternatives for > > "editor". By what divers black majik a particular application is chosen > > I'm not sure. > > Despite the claim at the top of

Re: 3c90x woes

2000-08-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Galbra >So I decided to try the 3c90x driver from 3Com, but it doesn't Galbra >work for me. I compiled a module and get this when I load it: i always have statically compiled the driver into my kernel i dont know if that makes a difference, what kind

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

2000-08-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i had a similar problem and my solution was: http://www.klomp.org/mod_roaming/#download if you have access to a webserver running apache or know someone who does you can have em install that module and use the roaming features of netscape. keep the same bookmarks/preferences/everything accross te

RE: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

2000-08-08 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 08-Aug-2000 Daniel Reuter wrote: > Hello there, > > I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week, > which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is > working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot > from harddisk, and

Re: 3c90x woes

2000-08-08 Thread F.P. Groeneveld
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : # /etc/init.d/network : SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device : SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable I _think_ this is just the new networking code in the newer kernel. Old syntax ifconfig/routing commands generate these, I seem to recall. Anypne? Cheers, D

hosts_access

2000-08-08 Thread mattyt
Hello, all, I'm in the process of setting up a 2.2 server for my work. It will be running SAMBA & lrpng for all local clients, and IMP/proftp for external (& internal) clients. I've read the hosts_access manpage, and mostly understand it, but am missing a few key points and I don't know where to

Re: HP OpenMail on Debian (M$ Exchange alternative)

2000-08-08 Thread Kent West
Phil Brutsche wrote: > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > hi > > > > I was wondering if anyone has had any experience in getting HP's OpenMail > > working on a Debian box? > > I've had a little. > > > One of the features of OpenMail is that it can serve as an alt

Re: KDE2 error loading libkofficeui

2000-08-08 Thread Kent West
Moritz Schulte wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:47:19AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > I've just installed KDE2 and KOffice from > > "http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian > > ./". > > are you sure? ;) > > moritz Oops; copy/pasted wrong line: "ftp://kde.tdyc

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

2000-08-08 Thread Adam Scriven
At 12:40 2000/08/08 -0400, you wrote: It's possible to mount your Windows partition with all the files set with whatever ownership/permissions you want. You can put the settings in /etc/fstab, but I can't find the appropriate settings in fstab's manpages.. I think you can do it in Linuxconf t

Re: KDE2 error loading libkofficeui

2000-08-08 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:47:19AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I've just installed KDE2 and KOffice from > "http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian > ./". are you sure? ;) moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

2000-08-08 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 12:18:11PM +0200, Jonas Moberg wrote: > I intend to use my netscape bookmark.htm from my windows-partition for > linux as well. So I made a soft-link from my windows-netscape bookmark.htm > to ~/.netscape/bookmarks.html. Works fine, except for one thing.. Netscape > somet

Re: Wdm

2000-08-08 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:22:23AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I tried to install Wdm. > While in it's setup, it asked me something about a lock, which xdm was > using. Well, I think I give up of installing it, and pressed + C. > Yesterday, when I booted the box, there was a screen with

Re: Compiling Galeon?

2000-08-08 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 03:04:51AM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 07:17:09PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > > [...] > > /usr/local/src/galeon-0.7.1/src/main.c:54: undefined reference to > > `glade_gnome_init' > [...] > > > I figured maybe I didn't have a gnome or glade d

Re: Frame buffer devices on unconventional monitor

2000-08-08 Thread ferret
Renato, Have you checked out xi87.com for information? I have an IBM 9504 workstation display, and found a lot of info about it on their site. They also custom-BIOS video cards which initialise into the proper settings for your monitor, if you want to go that route. I recall having a lot of trou

Re: update-alternatives -- changing preferences

2000-08-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > The above will add "emacs" into the list of available alternatives for > "editor". By what divers black majik a particular application is chosen > I'm not sure. Despite the claim at the top of --display's output, "auto" appears to be an action rather than a state. Wh

Re: SB AWE64 PnP installation on slink 2.2.12

2000-08-08 Thread Kent West
William Smith wrote: > > I've been trying to get my SoundBlaster AWE64 PnP card to work with slink > 2.2.12. > > I've tried following "Linux Kernel HOWTO", "Linux Sound HOWTO: > Installation", "Sound Blaster AWE32/64 HOWTO" but without much luck. > > I've rebuilt the kernel okay with OSS and wit

Re: IP in IP tunneling question

2000-08-08 Thread Robert Waldner
There are several ways of achieving this goal; L2TP, PPTP, GRE, ... I´d suggest L2TP because there´s a quite good client out for this , at least most Cisco-Routers support it, and it´s overhead is rather small. PPTP is also an option, it´s in use here in .at-land b

KDE2 error loading libkofficeui

2000-08-08 Thread Kent West
I've just installed KDE2 and KOffice from "http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian ./". When I try to run kword I get the following error: kword: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkofficeui.so.1: undefined symbol: update__7KAction Any one have any suggestions

RE: checking whether a package is installed

2000-08-08 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Aaron Maxwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 7:33 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: checking whether a package is installed > > > Is there a quick, elegant way to check if a particular package is > installed? Try #

Re: IP in IP tunneling question

2000-08-08 Thread Ben Collins
> > Long text, short question: Is something like this possible? I know, > that the 2.2 kernel supports IP-in-IP, but I don't know, where to start > reading. Also, has anybody done this already? Any idea, how [1] could > be solved? > You may also want to check into a VPN solution, since it all

Re: /etc/security/ files don't seem to be consulted

2000-08-08 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 02:03:13PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > Fiddling with access.conf (at home) and /etc/login.defs to try, say, > allowing a user only su access (no logging in) did not work. (The > timestamps above are from a machine in my office.) > You'll notice by reading these files t

Re: 3c90x woes

2000-08-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
The 3c59x module works for me, but I keep getting errors like this logged: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82 So I decided to try the 3c90x driver from 3Com, but it doesn't work for me. I compiled a module and get this when I load it: # insmod 3c90x Using /lib/modules/2.2.15/net/3c90

IP in IP tunneling question

2000-08-08 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello list, I have a question regarding IP in IP tunneling. The situation is the following: My employer has given me a static IP address in the LAN. However, since I am working at home and in need of a broadband connect, we want to go with T-DSL by the German company Telekom. The problem is, th

Re: HP OpenMail on Debian (M$ Exchange alternative)

2000-08-08 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > hi > > I was wondering if anyone has had any experience in getting HP's OpenMail > working on a Debian box? I've had a little. > One of the features of OpenMail is that it can serve as an alternative > to M$oft's Exchange Server softw

Re: Help for pppd with Link Control Options..

2000-08-08 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
May be we should start demanding from all Redhaters a written compromise to switch to Debian "O. Suresh" wrote: > Hai, >I am using pppd program for connecting two hosts, which are belongs two > different networks. Both hosts are using Redhat 5.2 . My ppp configuration > file is as follo

Help for pppd with Link Control Options..

2000-08-08 Thread O. Suresh
Hai, I am using pppd program for connecting two hosts, which are belongs two different networks. Both hosts are using Redhat 5.2 . My ppp configuration file is as follows: /etc/ppp/options.ttyS0 crtsts mru 1500 mtu 1500 modem 172.20.0.1:172.19.0.1 -pap -chap persist -detach pap-timeout 0 lc

Help for pppd with Link Control Options..

2000-08-08 Thread O. Suresh
Hai, I am using pppd program for connecting two hosts, which are belongs two different networks. Both hosts are using Redhat 5.2 . My ppp configuration file is as follows: /etc/ppp/options.ttyS0 crtsts mru 1500 mtu 1500 modem 172.20.0.1:172.19.0.1 -pap -chap persist -detach pap-timeout 0 lc

Re: 2.2 iso

2000-08-08 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
http://www.lsl.com.au sells it. Quoting Olivier Soares ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > Is there somebody who can tell me how I can put the iso-image of the > debian 2.2-pre3 on a cdr with nero 5.0 (if it's possible). > I try to do it but there were nothing on the cd (sorry I don't have > cd

Re: CD-RW

2000-08-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Willi Dyck wrote: > If I recompile my kernel with SCSI Emulation for IDE devices, > will then my ATAPI CD-ROM still work?? Yes. It will probably be remapped to a SCSI device name, such as /dev/sr0 or /dev/sr1 If some software doesn't like the SCSI emulation for the CDROM, you may tell the kern

Re: Diamond Viper V550 Video Card

2000-08-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"william Elling" wrote: > If anyone can help me I was wondering if anyone could help me with figuring > out how to install my diamond viper v550 video card for Linux > Redhat 6.1. 1- This is a Debian GNU/Linux mailing list, so you should ask a RedHat mailing list for help installing on Redh

Re: soundcard

2000-08-08 Thread jbardin
i have seen wholesale version of the emu10k chip that runs a sblive for sale around 50 bux. you dont get the fancy box and the free software thats all. and the chipset is teh same so it looks the same in linux.begin:vcard n:Bardin;Jon x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMA

Re: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

2000-08-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Daniel Reuter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello there, > > I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week, > which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is > working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot > from harddis

Re: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

2000-08-08 Thread Andre Berger
Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello there, > > I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week, > which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is > working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot > from harddis

Re: update-alternatives -- changing preferences

2000-08-08 Thread kmself
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 11:36:12PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Aug 07 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Can someone give me an example or two for how to change perferences > > under /etc/alternatives using update-alternatives? > > Ok. To make a system work correctly, you'd do: > >

Re: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

2000-08-08 Thread Ethan Pierce
Danel, Try unplugging the unit, and removing the battery. When you pop it back in, it should reset the defaults for the motherboard BIOS settings. >>> Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/08/00 09:25AM >>> Hello there, I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week, which

[OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

2000-08-08 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week, which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot from harddisk, and shadow RAM was enabled. So I tried to change the

SB AWE64 PnP installation on slink 2.2.12

2000-08-08 Thread William Smith
I've been trying to get my SoundBlaster AWE64 PnP card to work with slink 2.2.12. I've tried following "Linux Kernel HOWTO", "Linux Sound HOWTO: Installation", "Sound Blaster AWE32/64 HOWTO" but without much luck. I've rebuilt the kernel okay with OSS and with sound as a loadable module and then

Wdm

2000-08-08 Thread romeu
I tried to install Wdm. While in it's setup, it asked me something about a lock, which xdm was using. Well, I think I give up of installing it, and pressed + C. Yesterday, when I booted the box, there was a screen with a penguin, and I could not use the keyboard anymore(just the mouse). Three qu

Re: CD-RW

2000-08-08 Thread Willi Dyck
Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Jun 25 2000, Willi Dyck wrote: > > does somebody know if the Philips PCRW804 works under Linux? > > Is it an ATAPI CDRW? If yes, then almost probably it *will* > work with Linux. I've been using my HP9200i (got it only a few > weeks before the HP93

Re: maildir & imap

2000-08-08 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 02:53:11PM -0700, Dr. Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ~$ telnet localhost 143 > > > > Enter these commands: > > A1 LOGIN name pass > > A1 STATUS INBOX (unseen) > > Now that helped me a bit. After typing my password I get > > Connection closed by foreign hos

/etc/security/ files don't seem to be consulted

2000-08-08 Thread David Wright
The contents of /etc/security/* look interesting for people who want to limit when, where and how users can login. However, on my system ls -lu reports -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2138 Jul 25 17:10 /etc/security/access.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2145 Jul 25 17:10 /etc/security/group.conf

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