Re: apt && woody.

2000-10-09 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Russell Davies wrote: > anyway, after hours of upgrading over a 28.8K modem the process > has finished. However something now seems broken with apt-get > I did notice a warning about name resolution and the new C > library when installing the new packa

apt && woody.

2000-10-09 Thread Russell Davies
Hi, I just installed potatop and did an: apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade anyway, after hours of upgrading over a 28.8K modem the process has finished. However something now seems broken with apt-get I did notice a warning about name resolution and th

RE: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-09 Thread Matthew Sherborne
Go to http://cdimage.debian.org to find the easy way! Matthew Sherborne > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 10 October 2000 2:36 p.m. > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation > > > I had

Re: ipchains

2000-10-09 Thread Damian Menscher
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Richard Morin wrote: > I've quickly read the docs, but don't have the time to delve much further. > Can anyone assist me with setting up rules to allow my masq'd machines to > play netracinglive.com? They provide the ports which must be allowed, I > don't think I'm far from un

Re: Telling a printer to STOP PRINTING

2000-10-09 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > Can somebody please tell me how I can tell my printer to STOP? # lprm - # man lprm Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Defrag in Win2000 no good for FIPS

2000-10-09 Thread Mike
Matthew Sherborne wrote: > Does anyone know of a good defrag program for plain DOS or Win2000 that > won't leave directory entries at the end of the drive ? > > I want to install Debian to share a Win2000 computer but, I can't defrag the > drive to shift everything to the front. One instance wher

RE: Telling a printer to STOP PRINTING

2000-10-09 Thread Matthew Sherborne
Try stopping the queue and unplugging it for 30 seconds. Matthew Sherborne > -Original Message- > From: Thomas J. Hamman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 10 October 2000 2:50 p.m. > To: Debian-User > Subject: Telling a printer to STOP PRINTING > > > Can somebody please tell me

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-09 Thread Matthew Dalton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I had tried ftp'ing from /debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/. It contains > far too many files to fit on a CD. And it doesn't contain the boot images and > other non-.deb stuff. > > So how did I finally get my bootable CD? I (ahem) And what's wrong with this? htt

RE: Why do emacs' info files not show up in info?

2000-10-09 Thread Carl Greco
> One good aspect of emacs always was the very good documentation. > However, after installing emacs20 from potato I discovered that "info > emacs" shows the man page and that there is not a way to get the info > files to show up when calling emacs' info mode. > > I have noticed that most of the f

Telling a printer to STOP PRINTING

2000-10-09 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
Can somebody please tell me how I can tell my printer to STOP? My desparate attempt to stop it from printing out the rest of a document after I specifically told the word processor to print out only the first page resulted in the current situation the printer is in now: It wants to keep "printing

Re: Fetchmail and NTLM configuration

2000-10-09 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:06:12PM -0700, Aaron Brashears ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Andy Bastien wrote: > > > You might not even need to use NTLM to access the server, as Exchange > > > servers accept plaintext au

Defrag in Win2000 no good for FIPS

2000-10-09 Thread Matthew Sherborne
Does anyone know of a good defrag program for plain DOS or Win2000 that won't leave directory entries at the end of the drive ? I want to install Debian to share a Win2000 computer but, I can't defrag the drive to shift everything to the front. Matthew Sherborne <>

Re: installing a printer

2000-10-09 Thread Dale Morris
I have my printer working now. Here's what happened and what I did: apt-get upgrade resulted in a newer version of printtool being installed (this is curious because there's only one version in unstable) I removed printtool and tried to configure apsfilter. Didn't work, got a message from cron that

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-09 Thread csj
I had tried ftp'ing from /debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/. It contains far too many files to fit on a CD. And it doesn't contain the boot images and other non-.deb stuff. So how did I finally get my bootable CD? I (ahem) (1) Downloaded the first 2MB's of the .iso image (2) Loop mount'ed th

Re: staroffice

2000-10-09 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:49:12PM -0400, Agner-Nichols ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I downloaded the Staroffice binaries (10 files with an extension of .bin) > from the Sun site and realized I have no idea how to install them (to a > Pentium 166 with a 2.2.12 kernel (it was a Corel install)); the

Re: Link problem

2000-10-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
$ apt-get install atlas2-dev You need that *.a file for compilation; even if the program will use shared libs. -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found

Re: sudden apt-get update problem

2000-10-09 Thread Larry Shields
- Original Message - From: "William Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 5:19 PM Subject: sudden apt-get update problem I had the very same exact thing happen to me today also, with the same output as you have shown... I'll try it in the morning, and see if it

Re: Graphical FTP client

2000-10-09 Thread csj
I use pavuk. URL: http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/pavuk. I think you can also apt-get it. (I use Mandrake to connect to the Net.) On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > I'm looking for a graphical FTP program to use under KDE. My windows program > is ws-ftp so anything similar would be best. > > C

abiword - new version?

2000-10-09 Thread Lindsay Allen
I'm sure I read about 4-6 weeks ago that a new version of abiword was being released. But I can't find it. Anyone know the story? Running 0.7.10-helix1 here. Lindsay -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Perth, West

Re: Help!

2000-10-09 Thread Matthew Dalton
"George M. Hill 3rd" wrote: > > I saw your address in a routine search of the WEB. I have a problem with > my hands and cannot use a pen or a mouse very well. I bought a > SumaSketch tablet with a four-button sliding device years ago that works > great. Now, I need another device but can't find on

Re: Accounting

2000-10-09 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Techgod wrote: > I'm looking for a Linux accounting program, if there is one. I've been on > the verge of buying Quickbooks Pro, but would rather stay away from windows > products. Does Linux have something like quickbooks? We have several programs which have some of the fun

programme d'affiliation

2000-10-09 Thread affiliation
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Help!

2000-10-09 Thread George M. Hill 3rd
I saw your address in a routine search of the WEB. I have a problem with my hands and cannot use a pen or a mouse very well. I bought a SumaSketch tablet with a four-button sliding device years ago that works great. Now, I need another device but can't find one in the market place. Can you make a

Re: Open Source Info.

2000-10-09 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Dr. Orange wrote: > I have to give a presentation on open source in one of my classes. There > still a while until then, but I'd like to start collecting > documentation. It would be great if you could send me any links you think > are important in such research. Naturally, I c

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-09 Thread Colin Watson
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:59:20PM -0600, Bruce Sass >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Hmmm, this doesn't work with icewm, but hitting F12 in KDE2 does toggle >> mouse movement via the keyboard. >> >> Which window managers and version of X are you guys using? > >Windo

Re: Two questions: Security and mouse

2000-10-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 08:58:36AM -0600, Ray Percival wrote: > Hi all, > I have a Intellimouse (I know I know I bought it before I knew the > one true way) In any case I can get it to work right as a ps2 mouse > but using xf86setup I can not get it to work right as an > intellimouse. It will jump

Re: Why do emacs' info files not show up in info?

2000-10-09 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 10:33:56PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > One good aspect of emacs always was the very good documentation. > However, after installing emacs20 from potato I discovered that "info > emacs" shows the man page and that there is not a way to get the info > files to show up when ca

staroffice

2000-10-09 Thread Agner-Nichols
I downloaded the Staroffice binaries (10 files with an extension of .bin) from the Sun site and realized I have no idea how to install them (to a Pentium 166 with a 2.2.12 kernel (it was a Corel install)); the documentation from Sun gives no guidance; do they need to be renamed as tar.gz's and then

Re: Open Source Info.

2000-10-09 Thread Kevin Krafthefer
> I have to give a presentation on open source in one of my classes. There > still a while until then, but I'd like to start collecting > documentation. It would be great if you could send me any links you think > are important in such research. Naturally, I can find the most common and > known one

Re: DVD-ROM

2000-10-09 Thread Stéphane BOREL
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 03:54:40PM -0600, Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I'm tring to get my DVD player to work with Linux. It's a Pioneer. I have > it working as a CD-ROM, but I can't find a video player for it. I was > wondering if you guys could suggest one. > > Thanks, > Cameron Matheson Yo

Re: Link problem

2000-10-09 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
Nope. That's not the problem. The gcc command line says "-shared", so it should be picking up the ".so" libs. "ldconfig -p" shows libf77blas pointing to the right place. Tim Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > not exactly sure, but i think this is the deal - > > when you link a .o, you want the sta

Accounting

2000-10-09 Thread Techgod
I'm looking for a Linux accounting program, if there is one. I've been on the verge of buying Quickbooks Pro, but would rather stay away from windows products. Does Linux have something like quickbooks? Wayne

Re: Link problem

2000-10-09 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: > I'm trying to install a library into R and get the following error > message: > > Installing package `RPgSQL' ... > creating cache ./config.cache > checking for crypt in -lcrypt... yes > checking for PQconnectdb in -lpq... yes > updating cache ./confi

Re: installing a printer

2000-10-09 Thread Dale Morris
I removed the printtool package and installed apsfilter, configuring it for my printer answering the questions asked. When I try to print a text file, here's the message I get: apsfilter: unsupported filetype english text from dlm or missing filter ! or perhaps you have to t

OT: cookies for localhost

2000-10-09 Thread mario
Hi, This is off topic but I'm not being able to solve it by my self, so I'm asking for help here! Do you know how can I force apache (I believe is it) to send cookies for localhost domains? The scenario is the following: I have installed apache on my home machine, where

Link problem

2000-10-09 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
I'm trying to install a library into R and get the following error message: Installing package `RPgSQL' ... creating cache ./config.cache checking for crypt in -lcrypt... yes checking for PQconnectdb in -lpq... yes updating cache ./config.cache creating ./config.status creating src/Makevars libs

RE: sudden apt-get update problem

2000-10-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I've even went into /var/state/lists and wacked all of the 'old' ones in > there > and then rebuilt using apt-get update again. > you might be hitting a mirror that is unhappy, or one that is updating.

RE: debian funkiness with new kernels

2000-10-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > 1. the other error has to do with /usr/local/lib: any library put in > /usr/local/lib cannot be dynamically linked to a binary needing them. > yes, i put /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf and ran ldconfig, but this > doesn't help. instead, i get the following error: > > /usr/local/lib : >

RE: debian funkiness with new kernels

2000-10-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> i really want to stay with debian and i can see how it's quite nice, but > i'm heading out of town for a while in a week and i need to be > comfortable with my laptop. errors like this make me very > uncomfortable. can anyone help? is there something i have to do with > debian to make it play

sudden apt-get update problem

2000-10-09 Thread William Jensen
every few days i run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade to keep my 'potato' system up to date. today I see the following: stimpy:~# apt-get update Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages Get:1 http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Packages [14.4kB] Get:2 http://http.us.d

Re: debian funkiness with new kernels

2000-10-09 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Pete Toscano wrote: > i really want to stay with debian and i can see how it's quite nice, but > i'm heading out of town for a while in a week and i need to be > comfortable with my laptop. errors like this make me very > uncomfortable. can anyone help? is there something i

alien and rpm

2000-10-09 Thread Johann Spies
I have a Redhat 7 disk and want to make debs of some of the file e.g. netscape 7.5. But running alien on those debs results in an error message like this one: only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM query of gdk-pixbuf-0.8.0-0

Why do emacs' info files not show up in info?

2000-10-09 Thread Johann Spies
One good aspect of emacs always was the very good documentation. However, after installing emacs20 from potato I discovered that "info emacs" shows the man page and that there is not a way to get the info files to show up when calling emacs' info mode. I have noticed that most of the files in /usr

doc-base breaks installation

2000-10-09 Thread Johann Spies
I have now - after some frustration succeeded in fine-tuning a new potato system. One of my frustrations was doc-base. Several times apt would not function because of error messages of the some packages' control script relating to doc-base. Later I found that if I remove doc-base, the installati

Re: DVD-ROM

2000-10-09 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
btw, try: set wrapmargin=7 for a start, take a look at the dvd-howto. it's pretty well written. no-nonsense and concise. understates how hard it is to compile livid... but good in all other respects. oh, it also doesn't mention that if you have a kernel >= 2.2.16, you don't need to apply a pa

dpgk --screw-up

2000-10-09 Thread Eric N. Valor
Assuming some well-meaning yet misguided admin around here (really, honest, it wasn't me) decided to delete all files in /var/lib/dpkg, what's the best way to rebuild dpkg's notion of which packages are installed on the system? Also, since it seems that apt is failing, what can I do to resolv

RE: Open Source Info.

2000-10-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Oct-2000 Dr. Orange wrote: > > I have to give a presentation on open source in one of my classes. There > still a while until then, but I'd like to start collecting > documentation. It would be great if you could send me any links you think > are important in such research. Naturally, I can

DVD-ROM

2000-10-09 Thread Matheson
Hey,   I'm tring to get my DVD player to work with Linux.  It's a Pioneer.  I have it working as a CD-ROM, but I can't find a video player for it.  I was wondering if you guys could suggest one.   Thanks, Cameron Matheson

network configuration - after install

2000-10-09 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hello, I am doing another debian install, and was uncertain about the network card type. I decided to skip that part of the install, hoping to find an easy way to do it after the basic system is up and running. On a laptop, pcnetconfig does this job. Is there an easy way to get the networking conf

DVD and livid

2000-10-09 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hello all, has anyone build deb's for the livid dvd package? pete

installing a printer

2000-10-09 Thread Dale Morris
I just upgraded to the latest version of printtool and now my printer doesn't work. I used to printtool to install my epson stylus color 600 in the past and it worked great, but now, it doesn't work. I removed the printer from the printcap, hoping to reinstall it, but there's some sort of bug in t

Open Source Info.

2000-10-09 Thread Dr. Orange
I have to give a presentation on open source in one of my classes. There still a while until then, but I'd like to start collecting documentation. It would be great if you could send me any links you think are important in such research. Naturally, I can find the most common and known ones, but pe

Re: rename script

2000-10-09 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:57:45PM -0400, Chris Mason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Can anyone give me a shell script that wil take all the fies, named > whatever.jpg, and rename them in a sequential numbered sequence, i.e., > 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, etc. They will always be JPGs, so the extensions won

Re: Fetchmail and NTLM configuration

2000-10-09 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:06:12PM -0700, Aaron Brashears ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Andy Bastien wrote: > > You might not even need to use NTLM to access the server, as Exchange > > servers accept plaintext authentication by default. If your NT account > > is the primary account for the mailbo

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-09 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:59:20PM -0600, Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > You can hit to get something like MouseKeys using > > > > > the > > > > > number pad. > <...> > > Yes, "/", "*", and "-" seem to change the flavor of the '5' key. > > > > I've gone through Google, the XFr

Installing Debian on new HD from within Debian - how?

2000-10-09 Thread Mark Phillips
I have bought a new hard drive and I want to install Debian on it. It should be possible, to mount the new drive in a subdirectory of my existing root partition, and do a new install on this subdirectory. Unfortunately the installation manual doesn't give this as an option. Of course, I could cre

error rsyncing debian iso

2000-10-09 Thread Geordie Birch
i have successfully created a bootable cd for disk 1 of the debian package using the new pseudo-image software package. however, when i try to create the second disk, i continually run into this error: binary-i386-2.iso 672940032 (99%) ERROR: file corruption in binary-i386-2.iso. File change

Re: Fetchmail and NTLM configuration

2000-10-09 Thread Aaron Brashears
Andy Bastien wrote: > You might not even need to use NTLM to access the server, as Exchange > servers accept plaintext authentication by default. If your NT account > is the primary account for the mailbox, try just using your username > and password or domain/username and password. IMAP is more

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-09 Thread Bruce Sass
> > > > You can hit to get something like MouseKeys using > > > > the > > > > number pad. <...> > Yes, "/", "*", and "-" seem to change the flavor of the '5' key. > > I've gone through Google, the XFree86 Howto, and the X User Howto > without finding any docs on this function. Ditto the FAQ (

rename script

2000-10-09 Thread Chris Mason
Can anyone give me a shell script that wil take all the fies, named whatever.jpg, and rename them in a sequential numbered sequence, i.e., 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, etc. They will always be JPGs, so the extensions won't change. Much appreciate the help. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, Britis

2.4 kernel and HP Laser Series II

2000-10-09 Thread Matthew Davis
So -- I really like the 2.4 kernel. Except that it doesn't seem to want to let me use my classic HP Laser Series II printer. I have no problems with the printer when I boot a 2.2.15 kernel, but for some reason, 2.4 isn't much on working. I have inserted a chunk of my dmesg for you all here

linux v1.0 problem

2000-10-09 Thread Duki Timotijevic
 I have the same problem as Minco Dimov. I found your site but I didn't found answer. Could you help me? I have a debian  distribution called "Acer Linux 1.0".When I install Linux, and my computer restarts, the system loads until Iget message:" fatal server error - Could not create audio conec

Re: Fetchmail and NTLM configuration

2000-10-09 Thread Aaron Brashears
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Try running fetchmail in verbose mode, log the output, redact your > password, and post to list. > Here's the edited output fetchmail: 5.5.0 querying exchange.corp.myplay.com (protocol IMAP) at Mon, 09 Oct 2000 13:35:08 -0700 (PDT) fetchmail: IMAP< * OK Microsoft Ex

Re: Encrypt a file

2000-10-09 Thread Damian Menscher
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Samuli Suonpaa wrote: > Damian Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Brian May wrote: > >> While there are pros and cons in both methods, I have to wonder > >> what you need to encrypt files for. For most applications, > >> asymmetric encryption is better.

recording problems

2000-10-09 Thread Timothy Bedding
I have a Blaster 16 PCI card. The rec command does not seem to be working - could it be that playing works but recording does not? I use the play command to play back the file but all I get is some clicking noises. Does this seem like a familiar problem? I have a 2.2.17 kernel. Regards Tim

Re: Fetchmail and NTLM configuration

2000-10-09 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Aaron Brashears wrote: > Hi there. I am running woody, and have the sad requirement that I must > use the company's exchange server. I've been using netscape for a while, > and it works fine using the format 'domain/ntusername/mailboxname' for > acces

Re: X-window

2000-10-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:45:49PM -0500, Cavaiani, Don wrote: > Can anyone tell me why my X-window appears in a "letterbox" format - > i.e., it only uses about 2/3 of the 15" monitor? I can't figure out > how to get it to the full screen format? Lousy modelines. Use xvidtune to get the modeline

debian funkiness with new kernels

2000-10-09 Thread Pete Toscano
hello, i'm pretty new to debian, altough i've been using linux (mostly redhat) for quite a while. i've upgraded and recompiled the kernel hundreds of times, but i've never seen these problems. first off, i'm using woody, so i fully expect this to be the root of my problems... i'm constantly "ap

Re: replacement for ftp using ssh/scp?

2000-10-09 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:36:57PM -0500, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:04:55PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote: > > Is there anything available that looks and acts like ftp, but > > will let me connect to hosts through ssh/scp? > > apt-get install sftp Ac

Re: Fetchmail and NTLM configuration

2000-10-09 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:04:46PM -0700, Aaron Brashears ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi there. I am running woody, and have the sad requirement that I must > use the company's exchange server. I've been using netscape for a while, > and it works fine using the format 'domain/ntusername/mailboxna

Re: X-window

2000-10-09 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:45:49PM -0500, Cavaiani, Don ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Can anyone tell me why my X-window appears in a "letterbox" format - i.e., > it only uses about 2/3 of the 15" monitor? I can't figure out how to get it > to the full screen format? Do: $ startx 1> startx.l

Re: Pine and exim

2000-10-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 11:55:52AM -0700, Jatin Golani wrote: > mail system of Linux. I have exim on my Debian system > and use Pine > to access my POP3 mail account at my ISP. Now Pine is > supposed to be a MUA and exim a MTAso > theoretically ex

Mutt time/date display

2000-10-09 Thread Andy Bastien
I use Mutt for my mailer, and I currently have it set up to display the time and date of incoming messages like "09:23 Sep 12". This is ok, but it's not the information than I like to have for every message. What I would like to do is display only the time for messages I've received today, only t

Motif and GTK menu font sizes?

2000-10-09 Thread Samuel Hathaway
Hello, I'm trying to run a bare-bones twm X desktop without dealing with gnome or kde, but i'm not too familiar with how to tweak my settings. I'm running the SVGA server at 1024x768 on a 15" monitor. the problem that i'm currently having is that the font sizes for Motif menu bars (like in netscap

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-09 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 11:23:08AM -0400, Chris Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 01:03:20AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:03:26AM -0400, Chris Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 01:25:28AM +0100, Colin Wats

apt-getting from behind a proxy

2000-10-09 Thread maarten
Hi, I'm fairly new at Debian, and GNU/Linux in general, so please: no flaming ;) I've got a winmodem (oh, the agony), and two computers forming a network. The computer with the modem has a windows installation access to the Internet. It's also got this neat little program called AnalogX Proxy,

Serial/modem experts

2000-10-09 Thread Brian Schramm
OK, I would like to use a multiport serial board to connect more then 1 modem to my Linux machine to dial into the same provider to try to get faster net access. I know that equ will handle making the modems act as one but I do not know how good it is. This is about the only afordable solution th

Re: sources.list

2000-10-09 Thread Mark A. Bialik
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security potato updates/main updates/contrib updates/non-free Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Can some one send me a copy of his sour

Re: Solicitud

2000-10-09 Thread Christoph Simon
> Me compre la version 2.1. de DEbian y necesitaria saber o que me = > enviaran un manual en lo que se refiera al hosteo de webs a mi direccion = > de correo [EMAIL PROTECTED], con la informacion de las siguientes = > preguntas, como debo hacer para crear un sitio em mi servidor, = > habilitarle la

sources.list

2000-10-09 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Can some one send me a copy of his sources.list with entries to main; non-free; non-us; and security? That is, to all.? Thanks a lot. Antonio.

Re: How to partition a 10GB disk

2000-10-09 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a 20 Gb HD. The BIOS has detected it since I installed it from > the first time. Once the kernel is booted the BIOS doesn't make any difference. BIOS only matters if you are trying to boot from the big disk AND your kernel is not in the first

Fetchmail and NTLM configuration

2000-10-09 Thread Aaron Brashears
Hi there. I am running woody, and have the sad requirement that I must use the company's exchange server. I've been using netscape for a while, and it works fine using the format 'domain/ntusername/mailboxname' for access the imap gateway on the server. I've also tested mutt, and it's imap support

Pine and exim

2000-10-09 Thread Jatin Golani
Hi all,I've recently been trying to learn about the mail system of Linux. I have exim on my Debian system and use Pine to access my POP3 mail account at my ISP. Now Pine is supposed to be a MUA and exim a MTAso theoretically exim should be handling the job of receiving my mails..accessing POP3/

Re: Graphical FTP client

2000-10-09 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 06:19:21PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > I'm looking for a graphical FTP program to use under KDE. My windows program > is ws-ftp so anything similar would be best. > Just in case you don't know, the KDE File Manager ( kfm with KDE 1.x, konqueror with kde2.0 ) can be also use

re:Two questions: Security and mouse

2000-10-09 Thread Joshua Kruck
when xfree asks for it tell it that it is a ps2 mouse on /dev/psaux. i know this is proably not the official fix but it worked for me. The intellimouse protocall was not the correct one for my Intellimouse, Perhaps the same is true for you. Conicendatly this is how i have set up the new five butto

Solicitud

2000-10-09 Thread David Mazuchini
Me compre la version 2.1. de DEbian y necesitaria saber o que me enviaran un manual en lo que se refiera al hosteo de webs a mi direccion de correo [EMAIL PROTECTED], con la informacion de las siguientes preguntas, como debo hacer para crear un sitio em mi servidor, habilitarle la cuenta ftp

Re: SSH ???

2000-10-09 Thread Jeff Green
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free cut and paste this line into sources.list Larry Shields wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Larry Shields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Monday, Octobe

Re: potato ppp authentication

2000-10-09 Thread John Hasler
john cuson writes: > can anyone offer any suggestions? The how-to is often less useful than it might be. Reverse any changes you made to /etc/ppp/options, run pppconfig as root, and try pon. If that fails post the output of plog and the contents of /etc/chatscripts/provider and /etc/ppp/peers/pr

Re: SSH ???

2000-10-09 Thread Funn Dipp
It looks to be in non-us which you have in your source.list adding deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free might help, but I'm not sure... Does and apt-cache search ssh return anything useful? isetr0 On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:39:15PM -0500, Larry Shields

Re: SSH ???

2000-10-09 Thread Larry Shields
- Original Message - From: "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Larry Shields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 12:17 PM Subject: Re: SSH ??? Thanks Noah, but that URL does not seem to work for potato, I typed it in just as you have it, and I get 404 error..

Re: buying new monitor

2000-10-09 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:39:16AM -0500, Christen Welch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 11:31:58PM -0400, > Kenneth F. Ryder III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was going to buy a KDS vs-190 monitor, and was wondering if > > anyone had used this monitor with X before, mi

X-window

2000-10-09 Thread Cavaiani, Don
Can anyone tell me why my X-window appears in a "letterbox" format - i.e., it only uses about 2/3 of the 15" monitor? I can't figure out how to get it to the full screen format?

Re: replacement for ftp using ssh/scp?

2000-10-09 Thread Michael Smith
sftp--it's basically a front-end to scp. It's pretty good. GFTP supposedly can use it as a plugin, but for some reason it hangs on me when the first file is done. "Michael A. Miller" wrote: > Is there anything available that looks and acts like ftp, but > will let me connect to hosts through s

Re: SSH ???

2000-10-09 Thread Larry Shields
- Original Message - From: "Funn Dipp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 11:56 AM Subject: Re: SSH ??? Hi, I did do just that, and it did not work, so there must be something I am missing in my source.list script... I even tried apt-get insta

Re: Help: Kernel compile Statistics error

2000-10-09 Thread romeu
I usually do: make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install After that, you can use make-kpkg for whatever you want. PS: Have you tried make menuconfig, or make xconfig (under x11)? make config is a long way to go...

Re: replacement for ftp using ssh/scp?

2000-10-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:04:55PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote: > Is there anything available that looks and acts like ftp, but > will let me connect to hosts through ssh/scp? apt-get install sftp -- "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So does syphillis

Re: SSH ???

2000-10-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:11:15AM -0500, Larry Shields wrote: > Can someone tell me the full name of the program ssh (SECURE SHELL), I tired > apt-get install, using ssh-1.2.27, and it does not seem to work for > me...Maybe I have the wrong version nu

Help: Kernel compile Statistics error

2000-10-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I'm on a fresh Debian 2.2, attempting to compile my first kernel. Everything goes ok until the final make when I get get an error and no .deb. I've read all the info and tried to follow the steps. What did I miss? Help appreciated so I can have some sound and apm support! Load packages: kerne

Re: Building Pine

2000-10-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There are unofficial Pine, Pico, and Pilot Debian packages at http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine/ that might save you some work. noah - -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key

replacement for ftp using ssh/scp?

2000-10-09 Thread Michael A. Miller
Is there anything available that looks and acts like ftp, but will let me connect to hosts through ssh/scp? Mike

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