Potato ipchains for dummies?

2000-08-16 Thread Brendan Van Horn
Greetings! I have recently started using Debian and have just updated to potato from slink. I have gotten my network hardware running and I'm able to access the 'net from the debain box. However, somewhere masquerading that was configured during the update is not working. I have been reading HO

[ykarant@csci.csusb.edu: xdm potato wm no go]

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
Can someone help this person, please? - Forwarded message from "Dr. Yasha Karant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "Dr. Yasha Karant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xdm potato wm no go Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EM

Re: fetchmail is eating my mail

2000-08-16 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear friend, On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:11:22PM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > # Configuration created Wed Aug 16 21:55:01 2000 by fetchmailconf > set postmaster "hawk" > set bouncemail > set properties "" > set daemon 2 > poll email.psu.edu with proto POP3 >user reh18 there with p

Re: Exim configuration

2000-08-16 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:26:53PM -0300, Alberto Pereira wrote > Hi All, > > Someone knows how i can set exim to when a e-mail arrives for a unknow > user its transfer to a mailbox of a know user. > I try to put lsearch* in exim.conf > and *: userknow in the aliases file. > But all e-mails comes

Re: debugfs and superblock

2000-08-16 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:23:48PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote > I want to change the filesystem size (according to the superblock), > because it's different from the physical size. I guess I should do this > with debugfs (or perhaps fsck), if anybody has any ideas on how to do this > I'd like to he

dsp hangs in soundstudio

2000-08-16 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Anyone have any suggestions on how to keep /dev/dsp from hanging in SoundStudio? I am recording a guitar through the mike and when I am done I get an error that child process terminated abnormally. I can shut down SoundStudio and start it back up and it works fine. Is there a way I can shut d

Re: Is Debian Linux 2.2 available in San Jose, Cal.

2000-08-16 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 15, 1980 at 02:17:00AM -0700, Ed Burke wrote: > Since the Linux conference is running in our area this week, I > thought someone or some resource would be available locally to > purchase an update CD. 2.1 didn't get the job done but I'm told > 2.2 should do the job.

Re: fetchmail is eating my mail

2000-08-16 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:11:22PM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > At least two people replied rapidly, even by this list's standars. > More replies may have been eaten gathering the info below . . . :( > # Configuration created Wed Aug 16 21:55:01 2000 by fetchmailconf > set postmaster "hawk

Setting proper From: lines

2000-08-16 Thread Spinfire Magenta
I'm not quite sure if this is an Exim issue or a MUA (Mutt) issue, but... here goes: I have a machine that is both my workstation and the Mail Exchanger for my domain (isomerica.net). Mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] works fine, however, mail sent from the host is instead tagged with the full hostn

Re: fetchmail is eating my mail

2000-08-16 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
At least two people replied rapidly, even by this list's standars. More replies may have been eaten gathering the info below . . . :( John Hasler wrote: > Richard E. Hawkins writes: > > Fetchmail is now eating my mail. > You may need to add 'antispam -1' to your .fetchmailrc. I've taken a cou

Re: bug in xmms? dependencies?

2000-08-16 Thread Ashley Clark
* Robert Waldner in "bug in xmms? dependencies?" dated 2000/08/16 15:09 * wrote: > Hi! Hi. > [waldner:~] xmms > libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > I removed&reinstalled xmms, but to no effect, so I looked for the > package containing libGL.so.1 (mesag3-gli

Re: Seriously screwed up PostgreSQL. 8-(

2000-08-16 Thread Ashley Clark
* Adam Scriven in "Seriously screwed up PostgreSQL. 8-(" dated * 2000/08/16 08:54 wrote: > Hey all. Hey, > Is there any way for me to completely remove all references to > postgresql from my system, and then do a completely clean apt-get > install postgresql (and the other tools, -contrib, -clie

Re: still problems w/ horde/imp

2000-08-16 Thread Ashley Clark
* Mario Olimpio de Menezes in "Re: still problems w/ horde/imp" dated * 2000/08/16 15:41 wrote: > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, John Pearson wrote: > > > - Potato's php3-pgsql is linked against libpq from Postgresql 6.5.3, > >which may not be compatible with Postgresql 7.0.2; if you are > >using

RE: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re

2000-08-16 Thread Tal Danzig
I suggest you use mysql if you have it (much faster) You'll have to setup a database for it first (read the instruction in the source or mail the pronto mailing list) Tal On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 01:17:51 + (UTC), Pollywog said: > > On 17-Aug-2000 Pollywog wrote: > > > > I can't seem to get

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-16 Thread John Hasler
John Griffiths writes: > learning to use/master fetchmail is on my list of things to do... Install and run fetchmailconf. > (somewhere after getting a useable X in debian) Which fetchmailconf requires, unfortunately. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: fetchmail is eating my mail

2000-08-16 Thread John Hasler
Richard E. Hawkins writes: > Fetchmail is now eating my mail. You may need to add 'antispam -1' to your .fetchmailrc. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread John Hasler
André writes: > It [Gecko] is not a browser by itself, if that's what you though. I keep hoping for a plain, simple browser that just works. Oh, well. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-16 Thread John Griffiths
John Hasler wrote: >This puts the size limiting function where it belongs and does not destroy >mail. >-- learning to use/master fetchmail is on my list of things to do (somewhere after getting a useable X in debian) but in the meantime i need to get my mail the windows model of mail clien

RE: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re

2000-08-16 Thread Pollywog
On 17-Aug-2000 Pollywog wrote: > > I can't seem to get it started because it asks for information about mysql > or > other database. Nevermind, I ran the installer (which is very slow) and it is working now. -- Andrew

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-16 Thread John Hasler
John Griffiths writes: > what netscape mail does... and very few linux mail clients do.. > is truncate large messages... from the fetchmail man page: Resource Limit Control Options -l , --limit (Keyword: limit) Takes a maximum octet size argu­ ment. Messa

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:09:42PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Where do get Gecko? Gecko is the rendering engine that Mozilla, and now other projects use. It is not a browser by itself, if that's what you though. -- // André

a hack that solves my dropped network (sort-of)

2000-08-16 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
If anyone else has replied with a suggestion for my dropped mail problem, I've lost everything since early yesterday evening due to the fetchmail problem. I can now keep the connection up with an extra-ugly hack: a script to the effect of while true do /etc/init.d/networking force-relo

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread John Hasler
André Dahlqvist wrote: > Don't forget that the Mozilla team created Gecko,... Where do get Gecko? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

fetchmail is eating my mail

2000-08-16 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Due to hardware problems, I've had to reinstall. I've lost the configuration that was semi-working. Fetchmail is now eating my mail. It retrieves the messages, deletes them from the server, and yet I have no mail. /var/spool/mqueue is just plain empty. I'm not having a good week . . . [I've s

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:19:29PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > Interestingly enough, the most common machines nowadays in my country > seem to be Celeron or K6-2 machines with 32MB of RAM. This makes > surfing the web with Linux almost a nightmare (even if you turn on > UDMA/66 so that swapping

RE: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re

2000-08-16 Thread Pollywog
On 17-Aug-2000 Tal Danzig wrote: > Recently I found a new mail client called Pronto ( > http://www.muhri.net/pronto > ) it handles mail much better (and faster) then Netscape ever could while > being > more user friendly (IMO) then any other client out there. It handles > multiple > POP accounts,

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-16 Thread John Griffiths
what netscape mail does... and very few linux mail clients do.. is truncate large messages... its pretty essential for dial-up users who get volumes of mail with attachments... i've bent the ear of both the pronto and the evolution teams and they both seem to have taken on board what i was try

Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-16 Thread Tal Danzig
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:19:29 -0300, Rogerio Brito said: > BTW, I also notice how much people use Netscape to handle > their mail and when I install Linux for my friends I install > it also, for the following convenience: you don't need an MTA > in your machine for the (con

Re: xfs servers

2000-08-16 Thread ISHIKAWA Mutsumi
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Brian Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am not able to get the xfs or xfs-xtt packages to work on Potato. They >> load but when I try to test them with "fslsfonts -server localhost:7100" >> it fails. Also, my xterm tells me it cannot get the fonts. Wha

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 16 2000, André Dahlqvist wrote: > Like I have said before, this is constantly improving. Which is good. I sincerely hope its size decreases. BTW, AFAICR, Debian's packaged version of M17 does not include the mail and news client. I will experiment to see if. > The o

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 16 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I burn the CD, after downloading the image? Just copy the > file to the CD (.iso extension?) ? Is there a special software to do > so? I'm using Windows. Please, Romeu, don't include the entire message in your replies. Delete the u

Re: webdav for debian ?

2000-08-16 Thread Adam Shand
> I have a libdav.so that I custom-compiled for my Debian potato web > server running Apache 1.3.9. > > Should I send it to you? It needs the package libxmltok1 to run. no thanks, i just finished installing the module from source, i was impressed at how nicely it was put together. the only tri

Re: webdav for debian ?

2000-08-16 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > does anyone know of a recent package for libapache-mod-dav? from > searching around on the web i found: > > http://www.debian.org/~flight/libapache-mod-dav/ > > but it's an older version which requires a version of apache < 1

unpartitioning with rescue disk

2000-08-16 Thread Ed Burton
I tried to partition with the Rescue disk, then lost my Win32 MBR. I am using EZ_Bios (installed from floppy) from Western Digital (I have a new 10.2g WD drive), so luckily I was able to restore the MBR. My Award BIOS cannot read above 2gb I wanted a 2gig partition for Debian (Potato, frozen, d

Re: iBCS for 2.0.38 kernel

2000-08-16 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 02:15:17PM +0200, Gerjan Teselink wrote: > fix it manualy.. And there are kernel binary's for 2.0.33-35 but not for > 2.0.36-38 > Thank take the sources of iBCS for slink, take your kernel 2.0.38 or whatever as sources, and compile it. Please note my previous messa

Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2000-08-16 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Mirko Parthey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry, I should have told you to censor the keys, because they are > sensitive info. :-( For your safety, I strongly recommend restarting > the X server on *all* machines mentioned in your listing (if you > haven't done yet after "x

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:50:04PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > The current mozilla Debian package (M17-1 here) *is* a browser-only > version (unfortunately, it has no themes either). Someone said that this was not actually the case, and stated that it seamed more like a permission thing on

webdav for debian ?

2000-08-16 Thread Adam Shand
does anyone know of a recent package for libapache-mod-dav? from searching around on the web i found: http://www.debian.org/~flight/libapache-mod-dav/ but it's an older version which requires a version of apache < 1.3.7-0. thanks, adam.

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread John Griffiths
even easier... most cd-burner software in windows world will assocaite the .iso extension just right click on the file from your file manager (windows explorer.. whatever) At 12:35 PM 8/16/2000 -0700, Greg Strockbine. wrote: >I used Adaptec's Easy CD creator on win98 >to burn my stormix disk. Y

(3Com) Ethernet card 100Base-only capable?

2000-08-16 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi guys I got myself a second box onto which I just installed potato! Yippie! I have one problem, though: the network card. :( Here is what dmesg says: Linux version 2.2.15 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 2313 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #1 Thu Jun 1 10:47:16 EST 2000 Detected 132632631 Hz

Linux Users Forum and Awards Presentations - 30 Oct 2000 - Wash. D.C. AWARDS... EXHIBIT AND SPONSOR OPPORTUNITIES

2000-08-16 Thread David C. Dickson
To:debian-user@lists.debian.org First Annual Linux User's Training Conference And Awards Presentation "New Enterprise Solutions Through Linux" October 30, 2000 Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington D.C. Atrium Ballroom PLEASE PASS THIS

Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2000-08-16 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > Well, in the meantime I restarted the X server -- needed to do some > real work[tm]! I send nonetheless the info -- if you can spot > something wrong... > > $ xauth list > aiglenoir/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 17afba42b84d5952fce82446e7c3698e >

Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning

2000-08-16 Thread Andries . Brouwer
I happened to come across this mail - don't know about any earlier discussion. >> Did you try passing the disk geometry to the kernel at boot time? >> e.g. using lilo: >> LILO: somekernelname sdb=14100,24,424 This doesnt work. When you specify C,H,S (which almost never is a good idea), S can be

Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2000-08-16 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Mirko Parthey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 > > ls -l /tmp/.X11-unix > xhost > xauth list > > and post the re

Re: compiling Pine in Debian 2.2

2000-08-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Yeah, pine uses ncurses. You should go to http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine/ to download unofficial .debs of Pine 4.21. Noah On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, John Anderson wrote: > I have been trying to install Pine with unsuccessful results. I have > compiler output,

Exim configuration

2000-08-16 Thread Alberto Pereira
Hi All, Someone knows how i can set exim to when a e-mail arrives for a unknow user its transfer to a mailbox of a know user. I try to put lsearch* in exim.conf and *: userknow in the aliases file. But all e-mails comes its tranfer to this userknow!! I want to transfer only the unknow users to thi

Re: OFFTOPIC connection attempts to napster port

2000-08-16 Thread Pollywog
On 16-Aug-2000 Marko Cehaja wrote: > Dear > > On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 03:19:21AM +, Pollywog wrote: >> Today, I have been seeing many (10 or so today) attempts to connect to my >> napster port (6699). What could that be about? Could it be people trying >> to >> make sure napster is really s

Re: Perl 5.6 deb packages?

2000-08-16 Thread Bernhard Josef Rieder
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:06:25PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi there > > where can I get perl 5.6 debian packages? > check out http://www.daft.com/pub/debian/experimental for perl 5.6 packages A list of inofficial APT-sources can be found at http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/de

Re: isdn to modem

2000-08-16 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 04:06:08PM +0200, Thorsten Jaecks wrote: > i am currently using debian 2.1 as a mail and www-server for my network at > home. > because i move from germany to france next week, i have to change from ISDN > to a MODEM-connection. > > can anybody tell me how to change

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
=?iso-8859-15?Q?Andr=E9_Dahlqvist?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > browser you can do so. I am pretty sure that we will see a browser-only > debian package of Mozilla pretty soon, and a mailnews package for those > who want that. Looking at mail headers over the years have tought me The current mo

compiling Pine in Debian 2.2

2000-08-16 Thread John Anderson
I have been trying to install Pine with unsuccessful results. I have compiler output, but I don't know how to transfer it to this computer from mine at home ( I connect via telnet). The error message I get is: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [pine

Re: OFFTOPIC connection attempts to napster port

2000-08-16 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 03:19:21AM +, Pollywog wrote: > Today, I have been seeing many (10 or so today) attempts to connect to my > napster port (6699). What could that be about? Could it be people trying to > make sure napster is really shut down? I have never run a napster server. D

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:04:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Are there any graphical browsers that will run on the console and render > to framebuffer or GGI, and currently work fairly well? I remember hearing > about one, but don't remember the name, and I recall at the time it wa

Re: port sentry

2000-08-16 Thread Vee-Eye
There is a (non-free) package for woody: dpkg -s portsentry: Package: portsentry Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: non-free/net Installed-Size: 121 Maintainer: Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.0-1.4 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), netbase, sysklogd, procps, debconf,

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Greg Strockbine.
I used Adaptec's Easy CD creator on win98 to burn my stormix disk. You want the copy disk image option and you have to specify ISO. - greg s. On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How can I burn the CD, after downloading the image? Just copy the file to > the CD (.iso extension?) ?

Re: mutt -- in color

2000-08-16 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:42:24PM -0600, Rev GRC Sperry wrote: > Here's my color section of my .muttrc: [snip] hmm. i must have some odd video settings. i used your settings verbatim [thanks!], and i do see bold items here and there, but still no color. (mc has the same trouble -- monochrome and

Re: Perl 5.6 deb packages?

2000-08-16 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi there > > where can I get perl 5.6 debian packages? > www.activestate.com They are not Debian policy compliant (install into /usr/local) and will not satisfy dependencies for other Debian packages which require perl but otherwise work well

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread romeu
How can I burn the CD, after downloading the image? Just copy the file to the CD (.iso extension?) ? Is there a special software to do so? I'm using Windows. mike

port sentry

2000-08-16 Thread Debian Mail
Hello Debian Users, Can anyone tell me if they are using port sentry with potato 2.2 to any success? I was hoping that there would be a package *.deb for it soon, but it looks like there is none in the making. Just wondering if this program is difficult to install. Thanks, Debian Ghost.

Unidentified subject!

2000-08-16 Thread Robert Flannery
(Reading database ... 25110 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking apt (from apt_0.3.19_i386.deb) ... dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) dpkg: error processing apt_0.3.19_i386.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 Err

xconsole

2000-08-16 Thread john gennard
Am using a second box to learn about Debian Slink which I've used for some months now on my main box. I've never fully understood permissions/ownership/groups etc and so have been experimenting by creating, deleting and so on. At one stage I found my users were both in root group, but was able (e

Re: still problems w/ horde/imp

2000-08-16 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, John Pearson wrote: > > Two possibilities: > > - php3 can be run either as an interpreter or as an Apache module, >and each has their own config file: /etc/php3/{cgi,apache}/php3.ini >Try checking the *other* config file, in case you are mistaken as to >which yo

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Phillip Deackes
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not that you need Storm to be able to do this. > I use potato and have installed sl-stormpkg_1.0-1_i386.deb > from the stormix web site and it works fine. Exactly. Greg mentioned earlier in this thread that it is a pity Storm is a commercial distri

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
mike wrote: > The Debian/Stormix i downloaded and burned to cd contains about > 1000 pkgs. You can easily search and install any of the remaining 3000+ > pkgs from the net with the Storm Package Manager ,which is the graphical > front end for Debian apt-get and dselect. Not that you need

Re: Netscape Bus Error

2000-08-16 Thread kmself
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 04:42:26AM -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > It means Netscape is crap software. > > > Not everyone has these kinds of troubles with Netscape. I'm not > saying its great, because it isn't, but neither is it "crap" software. I stand by

Re: News Release from IBM FYI...

2000-08-16 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hey all; take a look at this! Seems IBM has finally decided to get on > the wagon all the way :-) > > http://www.ibm.com/news/2000/08/153.phtml Something tells me they're only getting warmed up... -- -

Re: Netscape Bus Error

2000-08-16 Thread Mark Walter
Hi, > > It means Netscape is crap software. > Not everyone has these kinds of troubles with Netscape. I'm not > saying its great, because it isn't, but neither is it "crap" software. Bus-Error occurs sometimes when you're using Java. Deactivate it and see how it goes. cu -- [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread mike
The Debian/Stormix i downloaded and burned to cd contains about 1000 pkgs. You can easily search and install any of the remaining 3000+ pkgs from the net with the Storm Package Manager ,which is the graphical front end for Debian apt-get and dselect. Of course you may prefer to h

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Greg Strockbine.
I just installed Stormix Linux before work this morning, took around 20-30 minutes. Nice graphical setup tool. Monitor is a snap to set up, just pick it from a list. Last night I down loaded the ISO image from http://www.stormix.com, took about an hour with DSL. Burnt a CD, booted into Stormix

RE: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Phillip Deackes
Michalowski Thierry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can somebody explain why Stormix only includes 1 CD for download > whereas > potato is a 3 CDs set? > Isn't there something useful in the last 2 CDs that I would like to > install? > Just wondering before trying... Depends. The one-CD Storm distribu

Re: [Q] Problem with Video Card SiS6326

2000-08-16 Thread Aidan O'Reilly
Alex, Not sure of a solution, but here at work we've had the same problem with those cards (usually when using Netscape to access our intranet site), but running Windows NT! Our W98 machines don't have that problem. Haven't tried it with Debian, mainly using ATI cards there. Good luck! Aidan O'Rei

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Denis J. Cirulis
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:07:01PM +0200, Michalowski Thierry wrote: Thierry.Michalowski> Can somebody explain why Stormix only includes 1 CD for download whereas Thierry.Michalowski> potato is a 3 CDs set? Thierry.Michalowski> Isn't there something useful in the last 2 CDs that I would like to i

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Charles Lewis
RE: What is stormixThe Starter version only has 1 CD whereas the Deluxe version has 4 CDs. I found that the Starter version had everything I needed on it. And once you get it installed you can always change your sources.list to update from their site (all you have to do is uncomment the entries) an

Re: Is Debian Linux 2.2 available in San Jose, Cal.

2000-08-16 Thread kmself
I tried to find online ordering information last night. I'll get it today at the expo and post it. If you have access to a high-speed connection *anywhere*, it's not too touch to D/L Debian over the net. I've done this over T1 and a 56K line, I've heard of people doing it at 28.8. They key is t

Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2000-08-16 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > I've got a "funny" thing with Potato. When it has been running for a > while (now 11 days but that happened before as well) and I try to > launch an X client, I got the error message: > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno =

kde mirror

2000-08-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, Sorry but I'm not subscribed to the list, so can you please answer directly? I actually use an rsync connexion to mirror sunsite.tut.fi, unfortunately, this one is hugely sloow, does anybody knows about a *fast*, reliable and up to date mirror (with rsync) for DEBIAN-KDE? Thanks in advan

Cyrus on Debian

2000-08-16 Thread Wilson Yau
Hi! Do anyone have any experience of playing Cyrus on Debian? One quick question I would like to ask: What is the max number of users supported and whether every user needs to have an account on that box?

News Release from IBM FYI...

2000-08-16 Thread John Foster
Hey all; take a look at this! Seems IBM has finally decided to get on the wagon all the way :-) http://www.ibm.com/news/2000/08/153.phtml -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and workstations. We specialize in multiprocessor units. We install Debian Linux at no extra charg

debugfs and superblock

2000-08-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
I want to change the filesystem size (according to the superblock), because it's different from the physical size. I guess I should do this with debugfs (or perhaps fsck), if anybody has any ideas on how to do this I'd like to hear them. Ron Rademaker PS. For those who wonder how I managed to get

Syquest SparQ IDE Drive in Debian

2000-08-16 Thread Alejandro Arrieta
Hi I have 2 Syquest SparQ IDE drives and i want to use them in my Debian Box. In the hardware howto they are described as supported. Do i have to load a module or do something strange to make them work??? My BIOS recognize them as IDE hdd. But when i try to mount them it says that has a wrong part

RE: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: What is stormix Can somebody explain why Stormix only includes 1 CD for download whereas potato is a 3 CDs set? Isn't there something useful in the last 2 CDs that I would like to install? Just wondering before trying... Thanks Thierry Michalowski -Original Message- From

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread ferret
Are there any graphical browsers that will run on the console and render to framebuffer or GGI, and currently work fairly well? I remember hearing about one, but don't remember the name, and I recall at the time it was in alpha/developmental stage. On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On

Perl 5.6 deb packages?

2000-08-16 Thread jens
hi there where can I get perl 5.6 debian packages? --

Re: still problems w/ horde/imp

2000-08-16 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:45:27AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote > > Hi Ashley, > > > On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Ashley Clark wrote: > > > > > It should have at least: > > extension=pgsql.so > > extension=imap.so > > yes! I have all these lines and more. > > > > > > and possibly: > > ext

Re: Exim and multiple domains

2000-08-16 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:23:15AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote > Using Exim, how can I configure it to process mail for multiple domains? > Specifically I want mail to domaina.com processed by the .procmailrc in > User A's home directory while mail to domainb.com is processed by the > .procmailrc in

Re: Exim and multiple domains

2000-08-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
I guess you should go to www.exim.org, somewhere on that site you can find examples on configuring things (a tar.gz), a while ago I also configured exim for multiple domains and one of the examples (I can't recall which one) was a great help! Ron Rademaker On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Alec Smith wrote:

Re: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

2000-08-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 09:47:01AM +0100, Wilson Yau wrote: > > > try changing the boot device. Type STOP + a, then "boot floppy". > > Oh...I don't have a 'STOP' key on my Generic 105-key International > (English, UK) keyboard. > > Is there any equivalence, like Esc, Ctrl or Alt, etc? Is there

Installing Debian into dos filesystem (umsdos)

2000-08-16 Thread Maisenbacher Matthias \(K3/EMW4\) *
Yes, I know it's better to have an own partition for Linux as i do for my private Linux box. But here at work I can't delete or shrink partitions. Therefore I'd like to install Debian (slink or potato) into an already existing dos filesystem with umsdos. What I have: PII 300 / 64 Mb 100 Mb free

isdn to modem

2000-08-16 Thread Thorsten Jaecks
hello list, i am currently using debian 2.1 as a mail and www-server for my network at home. because i move from germany to france next week, i have to change from ISDN to a MODEM-connection. can anybody tell me how to change things without destroying the existing isdn-configuration (for when i

bug in xmms´ dependencies?

2000-08-16 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Recently, after the [n]th apt-get upgrade to up-tp-date potato I noticed that xmms no longer worked: [waldner:~] xmms libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I removed&reinstalled xmms, but to no effect, so I looked for the package containing libGL.so.1 (mesa

Seriously screwed up PostgreSQL. 8-(

2000-08-16 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. I tried to install PostgreSQL (apt-get install postgresql), but I happened to think about it at the same time that Potato was released, so most of my downloads failed. This wouldn't have been a problem, except that I kept trying, and so I seem to have screwed up the install. I never

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread mike
Stormix is an easy way to get Debian potato up and running on your computer with a graphical installer. The Debian/Stormix distribution also includes the newest Helix-gnome and 2.2.16 kernel. You also get a very useful graphical front-end to apt-get and dselect, called Strom Pack

Re: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

2000-08-16 Thread Wilson Yau
> > ... it looks to me like the SPARC is trying to boot from the network, as > Christopher said, hit Stop+A or Ctrl+Break to get yourself a prompt. On the > Sparc here, I have to type "n" for new command mode", and then "boot /fd" to > boot from the floppy ... > For my machine, it's Ctrl+Break

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread Preben Randhol
Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 16/08/2000 (11:44) : > may continue to use w3m or links or lynx as our nice text > browsers. All three are packaged in potato. :-) w3m is now my default browser. I use it more than netscape as I'm more concerned about the content of the pages

Re: starting a default window manager

2000-08-16 Thread Lee Maguire
[2000-08-16] Josep Llaurad? Selvas wrote: > On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, suresh kumar wrote: >> How to startup say fvwm95 on login *without* touching >> users home director located files such as .xsession >> etc. > In a previous release of Debian (Slink) there was a text file > (/etc/X11/wi

building serial driver.

2000-08-16 Thread Sujit Agarwal
Hello, an anyone tell me how do we build only the serial driver for linux. I know we can build the complete kernel at once, but I want to build only the serial driver. Thanks, --Sujit. <>

Re: still problems w/ horde/imp

2000-08-16 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi Ashley, On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Ashley Clark wrote: > > It should have at least: > extension=pgsql.so > extension=imap.so yes! I have all these lines and more. > > and possibly: > extension=ldap.so > > > Did you restart Apache? /etc/init.d/apache restart yes! I even restarted the system

Re: starting a default window manager

2000-08-16 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:49:23AM -0700, suresh kumar wrote: > How to startup say fvwm95 on login *without* touching > users home director located files such as .xsession > etc. If you want to set the default window manager you can do something like: update-alternatives --config x-window-manage

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 04:48:02AM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > Not to mention that this implies that Mozilla is *slow* (since > it doesn't fit in core), depending on what it is doing (for > basic navigation, it is ok; opening a new window makes it > slow; navigating through the Preferences menus

Re: [Q] Problem with Video Card Sis6326

2000-08-16 Thread Christoph Simon
> Hi everyone, > > I've change my video card from some kind of S3 to > Sis6326. Now I've problem: Some portions of windows > are "blacked" or "whited" out. Most offen in list of e-mails > in Netscape or in text. > I've tried both XF86_SVGA and XF86_SiS Xservers with the same > result. > I'm using

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