Re: stupid question

2000-09-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 12:42:08AM -0400, Mark Simos wrote: > and yes, there are stupid questions, but there are those of use who > prefer to ask than to remain in a stupid state for a more prolonged > period :) > > How do you unload X from memory long enough to edit the XF86Config file > manually

Re: stupid question

2000-09-02 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 12:42:08AM -0400, Mark Simos wrote: > and yes, there are stupid questions, but there are those of use who > prefer to ask than to remain in a stupid state for a more prolonged > period :) I'm with you. I try to ask at least one 'big dummy' question per month. Some would av

Re: I hosed my network

2000-09-02 Thread Cliff Rice
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 10:57:06PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > >From your opening line I assume this was working in the past. If so > what has changed? First, thanks for the reply. The only changes were the recent updates in potato wrt to Netscape and libc. However, before I was working o

stupid question

2000-09-02 Thread Mark Simos
and yes, there are stupid questions, but there are those of use who prefer to ask than to remain in a stupid state for a more prolonged period :) How do you unload X from memory long enough to edit the XF86Config file manually so that I can change the resolution. It says in vi that it is read-only

Re: keyboardless operation

2000-09-02 Thread Hogan
Cheaper to buy an el-cheapo keyboard and disable it internally, than trying to develop a null keyboard adapter.. > Yes it is and AT keyboard, and there is no problem with BIOS as far as I > understand, because it starts to load the kernel. If a keyboard must be > present, does any one know who to

NFS stability and file ownership problem.

2000-09-02 Thread Scott Bragg
Hello, I've been trying to find the answer to my server's NFS problems for about a month now but the searching I have done on email list archives and HOWTOs so far hasn't helped. I don't think the two problems are related except that they both deal with NFS. SITUATION: I run a variety of debian

Re: nfs and firewall

2000-09-02 Thread Sebastian Ritter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: > Hai, > > I'm trying to secure my system, I ran pmfirewall and some tests. > It seems that rpc.mountd still listens on port 1024 even on the > outgoing ethernet. > > I am trying hard to read up to this sub

Re: logitech trackman marble+

2000-09-02 Thread Nate Amsden
X has built in support for it. here's my pointer section from XF86Config Section "Pointer" Protocol "IMPS/2" Device "/dev/psaux" Buttons 5 ZaxisMapping 4 5 EndSection then use the program imwheel to scroll it maps the wheel for ya. been usin it on many machines for

Re: System time

2000-09-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 11:23:59PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > I should add in that the change is usually by 5 hours, which is my > timezone's offset from GMT, so I've been wondering if maybe I > accidentally picked the wrong setting concerning the hardware clock > being set to GMT during inst

re:system time

2000-09-02 Thread Paul T.McNally
Thomas J. Hamman wrote: I should add in that the change is usually by 5 hours, which is my timezone's offset from GMT, so I've been wondering if maybe I accidentally picked the wrong setting concerning the hardware clock being set to GMT during installation. I can't find where that setting is

Re: System time

2000-09-02 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 10:31:04PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > Occasionally (okay, frequently), the time on my computer gets randomly > changed to something incorrect. Unfortunately, I can't figure what's > causing it because I never catch it when it happens--I just eventually > notice that m

Re: keyboardless operation

2000-09-02 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Yes it is and AT keyboard, and there is no problem with BIOS as far as I understand, because it starts to load the kernel. If a keyboard must be present, does any one know who to make a "plug" to make the computer think that there is a keyboard attached? Thank you Lazar On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Phil

Re: System time

2000-09-02 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 09:52:29PM -0500, Paul T.McNally wrote: > William Jensen wrote: > > > > Sounds like the clock/system battery is dying. Have you tried replacing > > that? > > > > Bill > > > > > What if it's soldered to the mutha board? Does anybody (company) do that > anymore? > > Pa

Re: keyboardless operation

2000-09-02 Thread Philip C Mendelsohn
Is this an AT style keyboard? I found that some if not all older AT keyboards need to be present for the system to complete the BIOS boot seq. Hope that helps. Phil Mendelsohn On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > It stops after "Console: colour VGA+ 80x25"... basically the first boot > m

Re: System time

2000-09-02 Thread William Jensen
Feeling handy with the soldering iron? :) If you have a clock battery that is soldered down you will have to find a local tech shop to replace it. This must be an old motherboard? Only thing I've seen in a long while is nicad types that are 'pinched' in. This may not be your problem but that wa

Re: I hosed my network

2000-09-02 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
>From your opening line I assume this was working in the past. If so what has changed? If this has never worked, are you using a crossover cable? In either case are there link lights on your ethernet cards and are they lit? maybe we wire went bad. good luck, Jon

Re: System time

2000-09-02 Thread Paul T.McNally
William Jensen wrote: Sounds like the clock/system battery is dying. Have you tried replacing that? Bill What if it's soldered to the mutha board? Does anybody (company) do that anymore? Paul

re: System time

2000-09-02 Thread William Jensen
Sounds like the clock/system battery is dying. Have you tried replacing that? Bill - Forwarded message from "Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 22:31:04 -0400 To: Debian-User Subject: System

System time

2000-09-02 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
Occasionally (okay, frequently), the time on my computer gets randomly changed to something incorrect. Unfortunately, I can't figure what's causing it because I never catch it when it happens--I just eventually notice that my time is off by several hours for no apparent reason. I'm using Woody, b

Re: ssh from nt?

2000-09-02 Thread Robert Waldner
>There are three that I know of: > >* TeraTerm >* PuTTY >* SecureCRT (to complete the list) * F-secure SSH >Note, however, that TeraTerm and PuTTY will only work with SSH v1; if you >need SSH v2 your only choice (that I know of) is SecureCRT. f-secure does ssh2 also, but if I had the choice, I=B

Re: I hosed my network

2000-09-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
And /etc/hosts.conf and /etc/resolv.conf ... I dunno, maybe somethin' in those? -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found

CDROM and Soundcard

2000-09-02 Thread JD Trout
I just installed Debian and it woun't let me mount the CDROM. When I try and mount the CDROM it says "mount special device /dev/cdrom does not exist." Is their a way to apt-get install CDROM, or something of that nature. The last thing is I have a sound blaster AWE 64 and on your website the

Re: nfs and firewall

2000-09-02 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hai, > > I'm trying to secure my system, I ran pmfirewall and some tests. > It seems that rpc.mountd still listens on port 1024 even on the > outgoing ethernet. > > I am trying hard to read up to this subject, but in the time being > I

ftp.debian.org Packages files

2000-09-02 Thread John Pearson
Hello! I notice that the Packages files for potato/main, potato/contrib and potato/non-free on ftp.debian.org were replaced recently; the new files don't work for me. In place of Filename: these copies have FileName: which doesn't work (at least, dpkg-deb doesn't recognize it). Is this the

Re: ssh from nt?

2000-09-02 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Greetings, > > At work we run NT but I like to access my home pc. We use a package > called KEA as our main telnet/term package. Does anyone have any > experience getting KEA to use any sort of ssh? Alternatively, does > anyone know

security.debian.org .au mirrors

2000-09-02 Thread Damon Muller
Hi gang, There has been a few security updates recently that I should be getting, and like all going debian users, I have security.debian.org in my apt sources.list. However, I've been getting really bad performance from that server. Is there a list of mirrors for that server? Particularly, I'd l

I hosed my network

2000-09-02 Thread Cliff Rice
Howdy all, Somehow I managed to muck up my 2 node LAN. I have two machines, loki, which is a potato box, and thor which is woody. Both are running the 2.2.17 kernel. I've RTFM'd all day and can't get these 2 to talk to each other. Here is the set up and some hopefully useful info about this

Re: Help with Installation...

2000-09-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 04:05:48PM -0700, Gutierrez Family wrote: > Thank you for responding !! > > Quick answers and a few more questions... > > 1) I installed Debian 2.2 off a 3-CD set. I booted the CD directly after > power up. It is supposed to be the "official CD" set, which I bought from

Re: Help with Installation...

2000-09-02 Thread Gutierrez Family
Thank you for responding !! Quick answers and a few more questions... 1) I installed Debian 2.2 off a 3-CD set. I booted the CD directly after power up. It is supposed to be the "official CD" set, which I bought from "Discount Linux CDs" (it's mentioned on the Debian.org website). And to answe

Re: sawfish vs sawmill?

2000-09-02 Thread kmself
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 03:56:27PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > What's the difference between sawfish and sawmill (for gnome)? They seem > to conflict with each other, and have the same descriptions. Sawmill was old name for the project. Sawfish is the new name, following a name conflict wit

Re: Help with Installation...

2000-09-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
Sounds like the installation went better than you would think. After all, you apparently have a running system that you can log into. So now it's a matter of fixing those broken packages and configuring X. When the installation asked you about your mouse, that might have only been for notifying

Re: sawfish vs sawmill?

2000-09-02 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 03:56:27PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > What's the difference between sawfish and sawmill (for gnome)? They seem > to conflict with each other, and have the same descriptions. > > Which is better/newer? I think he had to abandon sawmill in favor of sawfish because someo

RE: Please remove me from the subscription list......

2000-09-02 Thread C. Falconer
At 05:02 PM 9/2/00 -0400, you wrote: Once again the issue comes up. Here are the unsubscribe instructions from a couple Debian mailing lists: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

Help with Installation...

2000-09-02 Thread Gutierrez Family
Hello to all,  I apologize in advance for the length of this message...   Today I began the installation of Debian 2.2.  It started out well, the config menus were very user friendly, etc.  It didn't end well, however...  Problems began after selecting the packages to install:   I chose the

Re: ssh from nt?

2000-09-02 Thread Ryan Losh
Hello: The only windows ssh clieht I've used is teraterm with the ttssh extension. I don't have an URL handy, but if you go to google.com and search for teraterm, you'll find teraterm's home page. There are links from there for the ttssh. Best of all, its free software!! Ryan

Re: memory usage

2000-09-02 Thread C. Falconer
At 12:51 PM 9/2/00 -0400, you wrote: When I boot up, and launch, gdm, log in, it runs sawfish and I run licq, netscape, some xterms, etc. When I type 'free' I'm told that about 40mb ram is being used, and no swap. Over the course of a day, this number grows to about 75 megs being used for the sa

flaky network...likely cause?

2000-09-02 Thread William Jensen
Hey guys... While I'm at work I connect home two ways...VAX terminal and NT terminal. Every once in a while it just completely drops my connection. I immediately try to re-login and sometimes it immediately reconnects, though sometimes I see the following: Under Windows it just reports: Failed

Re: 'init s' froze keyboard forcing cold reboot

2000-09-02 Thread Geordie Birch
THUS SPAKE Miquel van Smoorenburg, on Sep 2: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Geordie Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was experimenting with changing runlevels and exec'd 'telinit' > >from an non-login bash in xterm. When I used a number as an argument > >nothing happened. I used '

Re: memory usage

2000-09-02 Thread Nate Amsden
the system will automatically allocate as much ram a sit can for cache/buffers and will free it when the system needs it. netscape is also a memory hog the more you use the more memory it uses. my netscape is using 45MB of ram by itself right now its been running for about 13 hours. check out my fr

Re: no documentation for php3-magick?

2000-09-02 Thread Will Trillich
# apt-get install php3-magick # dpkg -L php3-magick /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/php3-magick /usr/lib /usr/lib/php3 /usr/lib/php3/apache /usr/lib/php3/apache/magick.so browsing to localhost/doc/php3-magick shows several documents, which may or may not help...

sawfish vs sawmill?

2000-09-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
What's the difference between sawfish and sawmill (for gnome)? They seem to conflict with each other, and have the same descriptions. Which is better/newer? ...RickM...

Re: no documentation for php3-magick?

2000-09-02 Thread Will Trillich
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 11:25:08PM +0200, trapstep wrote: > hi list, > > i installed php3-magick Version: 3:3.0.16-4 from woody. > it installed the magick.so but no other file, no documentation at all. > then i searched the web, but found nothing but links to this package. > isn't there any docume

Re: Acroread not working

2000-09-02 Thread Tom Pfeifer
One way to get of the license agreementquit Acroread and go to your home directory and look in the file .acrorc for this line (it's at the end): *ShowUnixEula: false Just make that false, if it's true, and you're set. You have to do that once for each user of course. The OK button should sho

Re: BIND setup

2000-09-02 Thread Will Trillich
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 09:11:40PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hello > > When starting bind, I get the following entries syslog'd: > > Sep 2 21:04:41 host named[1753]: Zone "168.192.in-addr.arpa" \ > (file /etc/bind/homelan.ch.rev): No default TTL set using SOA \ > minimum instead

no documentation for php3-magick?

2000-09-02 Thread trapstep
hi list,   i installed php3-magick Version: 3:3.0.16-4 from woody. it installed the magick.so but no other file, no documentation at all. then i searched the web, but found nothing but links to this package. isn't there any documentation for this?   tia trapstep

RE: Please remove me from the subscription list......

2000-09-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Once again the issue comes up. Here are the unsubscribe instructions from a couple Debian mailing lists: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PR

Re: parsing existing mbox

2000-09-02 Thread Colin McDowall
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 11:23:17AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > you've got a mbox with hundreds of messages > in it, and you've updated your .procmailrc or > exim.conf with new filtering rules, and you > wanna run them on your mbox to split it up > into pieces, perhaps forwarding certain message

Re: how to run pppd as a user?

2000-09-02 Thread John Anderson
As root go into the pppconfig program. Then I believe under the heading of "advanced options" or the like their is a place to adduser to the pon/poff utility. That way you can add as many users as you like to have access to the internet. John Kerr Anderson

Re: ssh from nt?

2000-09-02 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 03:06:33PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > KEA to use any sort of ssh? Alternatively, does anyone know of a windows > terminal package that is completely freeware that can use ssh? Place a search on Google for "TeraTerm". Download it and also get the SSH extension to it. Ni

Re: ssh from nt?

2000-09-02 Thread Spinfire Magenta
on Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 03:06:33PM -0500, William Jensen spewed forth on stone tablets: > At work we run NT but I like to access my home pc. We use a package > called KEA as our main telnet/term package. Does anyone have any > experience getting KEA to use any sort of ssh? Alternatively, does

Re: ssh from nt?

2000-09-02 Thread Paul T. McNally
on 9/2/00 3:06 PM, William Jensen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings, > > At work we run NT but I like to access my home pc. We use a package called > KEA as our main telnet/term package. Does anyone have any experience getting > KEA to use any sort of ssh? Alternatively, does anyone know

ssh from nt?

2000-09-02 Thread William Jensen
Greetings, At work we run NT but I like to access my home pc. We use a package called KEA as our main telnet/term package. Does anyone have any experience getting KEA to use any sort of ssh? Alternatively, does anyone know of a windows terminal package that is completely freeware that can use s

Re: Acroread not working

2000-09-02 Thread Matthew D. Fulkerson
I found a fix to my garbled text / segmentation fault problem with acroread in the bug reports (thanks!). If I set my default color level to 16 (instead of 24) it works just fine.

re-exec init??

2000-09-02 Thread mcclosk
Hello: I upgraded to potato about a week ago, and more recently compiled and installed the 2.2.17pre20 kernel. So I've been watching the log-files sort of closely in case any problems emerge. I was bothered to notice this in daemon.log this morning: Sep 1 23:03:26 debian init: Trying to re-exec

BIND setup

2000-09-02 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello When starting bind, I get the following entries syslog'd: Sep 2 21:04:41 host named[1753]: Zone "168.192.in-addr.arpa" \ (file /etc/bind/homelan.ch.rev): No default TTL set using SOA \ minimum instead [...] Sep 2 21:04:41 host named[1753]: Zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" \

Re: Acroread not working

2000-09-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
I'm getting the license agreement every time also, but have no problems with acroread displaying the documents. On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 02:09:58PM -0400, Matt Fulkerson wrote: > > Has anyone else had trouble with acroread? I've installed the Debian > package on one potato i386 computer that work

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-09-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 01:03:33AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I recall that when WP 8 came out, Corel said the full version came with > a text-based version, but when I took a look at what is on the Corel > Linux CD-ROM (deluxe version with the full version of WP 8) I couldn't > find any text-base

XF86Setup - it's hiding somewhere.....

2000-09-02 Thread Glyn Millington
Just graduated to Debian Potato from Mandrake - it's a challenge! Now I'm having fun with X... It works but the resolution is dire. I want to run XF86Setup to sort it out.So as root I type in the command and I get a vertically striped box on the screen, then a blank box, then. it just

nfs and firewall

2000-09-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai, I'm trying to secure my system, I ran pmfirewall and some tests. It seems that rpc.mountd still listens on port 1024 even on the outgoing ethernet. I am trying hard to read up to this subject, but in the time being I would feel much better if I were able to shut off *all* services from this

Acroread not working

2000-09-02 Thread Matt Fulkerson
Has anyone else had trouble with acroread? I've installed the Debian package on one potato i386 computer that works just fine. But on another, the pdf files are all garbled, even though xpdf can read them just fine. Also, on this same machine, I get the license agreement every time I run acrore

Re: Netscape color problem

2000-09-02 Thread iehrenwald
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, James Clawson wrote: > Help: When I run Netscape (4.73) the colors keep > changing-from gray to brown, for example. This occurs > when I move the mouse pointer off the window. I get [snip] If I remember correctly, Netscape misbehaves like this when you're using 24bpp color d

Re: sound card support? - intel SE440BX-2 onboard yamaha

2000-09-02 Thread Christoph Simon
> I have the Intel SE440BK-2 motherboard with the onboard yamaha sound > chpiset. I haven't managed to get it to work with linux. > Does anyone have any expirience with getting this onboad sound card to > work with linux, or has any idea where to start? Have you tried in the kernel config for Sou

sound card support? - intel SE440BX-2 onboard yamaha

2000-09-02 Thread Micha Feigin
Hello I have the Intel SE440BK-2 motherboard with the onboard yamaha sound chpiset. I haven't managed to get it to work with linux. Does anyone have any expirience with getting this onboad sound card to work with linux, or has any idea where to start? Thank you Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 'init s' froze keyboard forcing cold reboot

2000-09-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Geordie Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was experimenting with changing runlevels and exec'd 'telinit' >from an non-login bash in xterm. When I used a number as an argument >nothing happened. I used 's' and the keyboard froze. You are not supposed to us

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Re: parsing existing mbox

2000-09-02 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 07:19:01PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: :On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 11:23:17AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: :... :> you've got a mbox with hundreds of messages :> in it, and you've updated your .procmailrc or :> exim.conf with new filtering rules, and you :> wanna run them on y

Re: parsing existing mbox

2000-09-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 11:23:17AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: ... > you've got a mbox with hundreds of messages > in it, and you've updated your .procmailrc or > exim.conf with new filtering rules, and you > wanna run them on your mbox to split it up > into pieces, perhaps forwarding certain messa

memory usage

2000-09-02 Thread Mathew Johnston
When I boot up, and launch, gdm, log in, it runs sawfish and I run licq, netscape, some xterms, etc. When I type 'free' I'm told that about 40mb ram is being used, and no swap. Over the course of a day, this number grows to about 75 megs being used for the same stuff. Before starting X, my box ta

Re: SCSI problem

2000-09-02 Thread Mark Simos
Robert Kasunic wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Dawicontrol 2975U SCSI Controller with three devices (CD-ROM, > CD-Writer and Scanner) connected to it. Some time ago I encountered some . . . > That goes on forever. It's impossible to work with the system in that > state and I have to reboot. I'm not ab

Re: Netscape color problem

2000-09-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 08:13:23AM -0700, James Clawson wrote: > Help: When I run Netscape (4.73) the colors keep > changing-from gray to brown, for example. This occurs > when I move the mouse pointer off the window. I get > some error messages etc. Can anyone advise me where I > might start wi

SCSI problem

2000-09-02 Thread Robert Kasunic
Hi, I have a Dawicontrol 2975U SCSI Controller with three devices (CD-ROM, CD-Writer and Scanner) connected to it. Some time ago I encountered some problems. Everytime I insert the module for the controller I get the following in my syslog: Sep 2 18:14:06 kasunic kernel: ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0,

Re: Netscape 4.75: Can't open plain text files

2000-09-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:31:50PM +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: Hi, > with Netscape 4.75 I installed from potato-proposed-updates I can't open > plain text files anymore. If I install 4.75 by the tar.gz archive, > everything works find. If I use the debian package, after loading the > text file (st

parsing existing mbox

2000-09-02 Thread Will Trillich
okay, i did this a while back, but haven't been able to track down the docs that showed me how to do it. after six hours, i'm giving up and asking y'all'uns... you've got a mbox with hundreds of messages in it, and you've updated your .procmailrc or exim.conf with new filtering rules, and you wann

Re: Exim and filtering

2000-09-02 Thread Will Trillich
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 12:20:13AM -0500, Daniel E Baumann wrote: > I read through the whole filtering documentation (filter.txt.gz file). So I > set > up my .forward file as such: > > # Exim filter [snip] > # Debian Lists > if $header_to: contains "lists.debian.org" or >$header_cc: cont

logitech trackman marble+

2000-09-02 Thread Mark Simos
anybody know where i can find a driver that will let me use my scroll wheel on my logitech track man marble+ in X? I am a newbie, so I might have missed something that is already there. Thanks! Mark -- Mark Anthony Simos, MCSE Poet, Playwright, Swing Dancer

Re: console mutt emacs problem

2000-09-02 Thread David Z. Maze
Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LH> I have a problem using emacs inside of mutt. This has just LH> occured recently. If I try to write an email in mutt the editor LH> is emacs. When I try is now it locks up the console. I have to LH> use 'kill' to free it up again. I can, however,

Re: X login keeps repeating

2000-09-02 Thread David Z. Maze
Mark Simos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> I am messing around with debian 2.2 in a VMware window in my win2k box, MS> so it is all in vga mode and that is cool with me. i do have a weird MS> problem going on though... MS> MS> when i install a window manager (xdm, gdm, etc.): (ObNitpick: that's a

binary-1386-1.iso \doc\install

2000-09-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
The directory \doc\install in the binary-i386-1.iso is full of empty files? Doesn't look ok to me, however, md5sum came back perfect. What's the explanation?

Netscape color problem

2000-09-02 Thread James Clawson
Help: When I run Netscape (4.73) the colors keep changing-from gray to brown, for example. This occurs when I move the mouse pointer off the window. I get some error messages etc. Can anyone advise me where I might start with this problem- ie. where in Debian documentation I might look? Any su

Re: how to run pppd as a user?

2000-09-02 Thread John Hasler
Glyn Millington writes: > What I want to discover fairly quickly is how to use pppd when I'm a user > and not root. Add your user to the 'dip' group. The command (as root) is: adduser username dip -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: how to run pppd as a user?

2000-09-02 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Glyn! On Sat, 02 Sep 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: > I'm a user and not root. At the moment I'm using wvdial (or pon > poff) as root to log on to my ISP and then zipping over to another > console to do what must be done on the net - mostly mail. > > I don't like this! and don't like the

Re: continuing upgrade after losing connection

2000-09-02 Thread alice
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000 13:11:44 +0200 Peter Palfrader wrote: > Hi alice! > > On Sat, 02 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > [PP's cut] Is there way to indicate to > apt-get > > which packages I now have in /var/cache/apt/archives so that it doesn't > try > > to re-do

how to run pppd as a user?

2000-09-02 Thread Glyn Millington
Hi! I've just (yesterday) migrated from Mandrake to Debian 2.2 - so please bear with me, I'm trying to learn! It was, by the way, the smoothest install ever. What I want to discover fairly quickly is how to use pppd when I'm a user and not root. At the moment I'm using wvdial (or pon poff) as r

'init s' froze keyboard forcing cold reboot

2000-09-02 Thread Geordie Birch
I was experimenting with changing runlevels and exec'd 'telinit' from an non-login bash in xterm. When I used a number as an argument nothing happened. I used 's' and the keyboard froze. Fvwm and everything beneath it still functioned normally; I could start processes from the menu and e

Re: continuing upgrade after losing connection

2000-09-02 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 02:46:31AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > hi, I'm in the process of upgrading from slink to potato. I'm at the step > where i'm doing apt-get --feixbroken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade. My isp > is set up such that I only have a connection for up to 8 hours at a time. I > r

Re: continuing upgrade after losing connection

2000-09-02 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi alice! On Sat, 02 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [PP's cut] Is there way to indicate to apt-get > which packages I now have in /var/cache/apt/archives so that it doesn't try > to re-download them and starts with the files it doesn't already have? apt should b

RE: X login keeps repeating

2000-09-02 Thread J.T. Wenting
It commonly happens on VMWare as well. From observation it seems like the modeswitching to another graphics mode fails, causing the X server to crash. At that point XDM sees that there is no X server running and launches the login shell. If it started after upgrading Mozilla, it may (in your case)

continuing upgrade after losing connection

2000-09-02 Thread alice
hi, I'm in the process of upgrading from slink to potato. I'm at the step where i'm doing apt-get --feixbroken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade. My isp is set up such that I only have a connection for up to 8 hours at a time. I ran the apt command overnight last night and got a lot of packages but it w

Re: X login keeps repeating

2000-09-02 Thread Esko Lehtonen
Hello I had the same problem, though the "looping" eventually lead to total freezing of X. It appeared when I had installed mozilla M17-3 from woody. (My system is still mostly potato.) First time I solved it installing gdm again. Then I tried mozilla again, crash, and I had to install helixg

Re: Bad memory (was: Linux crashes a lot)

2000-09-02 Thread Nate Amsden
John Reinke wrote: > > Well, I ran the memtest86 program on my computer, and it looks like I have > some bad memory. My question is: Is it normal (safe) to have one error on a > stick of RAM? it's not normal but it is safe. you will have to do some modificaitons to the configuration of the system

Re: Apache mod_rewrite

2000-09-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:18:14PM +, Jaume Teixi wrote: > I need to do the following in order to access stats for each based > virtual host > > when typing url www.virtualhost1.com/stats or > www.virtualhost99.com/stats > server page located under /var/reports/virtualhost1 or > /var/rep

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-09-02 Thread kmself
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:14:48PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 11:46:54AM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote: > > wow, what a great explanation! (after reading the initial posting, > > i wondered what does /dev/null do? (which was the question i was > > going to post.) then i r

Re: Netscape 4.75: Can't open plain text files

2000-09-02 Thread kmself
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:31:50PM +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: > Hi, > > with Netscape 4.75 I installed from potato-proposed-updates I can't open > plain text files anymore. If I install 4.75 by the tar.gz archive, > everything works find. If I use the debian package, after loading the > text file

Bad memory (was: Linux crashes a lot)

2000-09-02 Thread John Reinke
Well, I ran the memtest86 program on my computer, and it looks like I have some bad memory. My question is: Is it normal (safe) to have one error on a stick of RAM? I've got 96MB - a 64 and a 32. I ran the program with only one RAM card in the computer at a time. The 32 had an error for EVERY addr

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-09-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
I recall that when WP 8 came out, Corel said the full version came with a text-based version, but when I took a look at what is on the Corel Linux CD-ROM (deluxe version with the full version of WP 8) I couldn't find any text-base executable. Of course, I didn't know what to look for, but I couldn

Re: access to /var/log/messages

2000-09-02 Thread Kai Weber
+ William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Therefore is it wise policy to add my user account to the 'root' group? Would > that solve the problem while maintaining system security? Or is there a > better way of achieving this? And how would I go about adding myself to the > root group...modify /et

Re: /etc/passwd & user IRC

2000-09-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:46:15PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > Hello, > > I was searching for UID of irc user (some time ago I've seen such user > exists); now I can't find it. adding of irc package runs adduser --system > which is nice but I don't prefer that method (some UIDs were alre

Exim and filtering

2000-09-02 Thread Daniel E Baumann
I read through the whole filtering documentation (filter.txt.gz file). So I set up my .forward file as such: # Exim filter # For testing filters, comment out when done #if error_message then finish endif # Route vacation message only for personal messages #if personal then # mail # t