Re: Suggestions for buying a modem

2000-10-11 Thread Matthew Dalton
Shaji N V wrote: > It turns out that I have a lucent winmodem which will not work on Linux ( I > have done around 2 weeks of research on it !!). So I have to buy a new > modem. Any one has any suggestions/for a cheap, good modem available in Best > Buy/Circuit City etc.? And it should work with Deb

Fresh debian install on LVM partitions using 2.4 kernel: how?

2000-10-11 Thread Mark Phillips
I have bought a new 15Gig disk and want to do a fresh install of Debian on it. But I want to install it using logical partitions installed on top of LVM. I doubt the current dbootstrap install allows for this. To start with the 2.4 kernel is required to get the LVM stuff. I have compiled my own

Re: debian-user: exim, unknown user.

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 03:09:42PM +1100, Brendan J Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have setup a mail server using exim. I have it working pretty well, > but I can't figure out how to send mail for non existant users to a real > user. eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't exist so I would like all

Re: Suggestions for buying a modem

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:43:39PM -0400, Shaji N V ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > It turns out that I have a lucent winmodem which will not work on Linux ( I > have done around 2 weeks of research on it !!). So I have to buy a new > modem. Any one has any suggestions/for a cheap, good

Re: LILO 1024 error

2000-10-11 Thread Jack Morgan
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 05:10:58PM +0900, Jack Morgan wrote: > I can't get lilo to boot a windows partition which is after the 1024 cylinder. > I beleive that now it is able to, but...not sure how? Sorry to reply to my own post... /sbin/lilo -L (L) for lba32 option, boy it sure helps to read man

Re: Web based administration, how?

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:24:51PM -0400, Rafael E. Herrera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > During installation I chose a web based administration option. After > installing Debian, it's not clear how you start using it. Can someone > explain? Linuxconf, perhaps? -- Karsten M. Self http://www

Re: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:39:20PM -0400, Paul McHale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:28:26PM -0400, Paul McHale > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > When I type: > > > > > >telnet IP_NUM 25 > > > > > > I g

RE: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-11 Thread Paul McHale
> Have you tried typing > > telnet 127.0.0.1 25 > > ? Maybe the IP is wrong? Another good idea! Unfortunately, it gave the same results. -- Paul McHale Work: 937-320-5495 Double E Solutions Mobile: 937-371-2828 1435 Edenwood Dr Fax:413-215-3232

debian-user: exim, unknown user.

2000-10-11 Thread Brendan J Simon
I have setup a mail server using exim. I have it working pretty well, but I can't figure out how to send mail for non existant users to a real user. eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't exist so I would like all mail sent to this address to be forwarded to another account (eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I'd a

RE: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-11 Thread Matthew Sherborne
Have you tried typing telnet 127.0.0.1 25 ? Maybe the IP is wrong? Matthew Sherborne > -Original Message- > From: Paul McHale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 12 October 2000 4:39 p.m. > To: kmself@ix.netcom.com; Debian-User; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Telnet to

RE: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-11 Thread Paul McHale
> Just a wild guess, but: are you actually typing "IP_NUM" or are you > substituting a real IP number? > > Some servers are configured to refuse telnet connections. (Telnet I am actually putting the IP number in :) I can telnet to the standard telnet port just fine. From another machine, that

Suggestions for buying a modem

2000-10-11 Thread Shaji N V
Hi, It turns out that I have a lucent winmodem which will not work on Linux ( I have done around 2 weeks of research on it !!). So I have to buy a new modem. Any one has any suggestions/for a cheap, good modem available in Best Buy/Circuit City etc.? And it should work with Debian 2.2 -Than

Re: dhcpcd weirdness (resolution)

2000-10-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:57:11AM -0400, Andrew Whitlock wrote: > Problem: dhcpcd wouldn't run with config files, only when configured on > command line > > Solution: the format given in the example config file in /etc/dhcpc seems to > either be incorrect or, at least, it doesn't work for my ISP

RE: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-11 Thread Paul McHale
> The server IP_NUM isn't running SMTP ? > There is a firewall between your host and IP_NUM ? > You're not connected to the same network ? > The host is refusing your connection. It's either IP filtered, denied > through /etc/hosts.allow or equivalent for the system, or there is no > SMTP server

RE: Installing LinkSys LNE100TX on Compaq Prolinea 590

2000-10-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... [...] > Start the installation procedure like normal. When it comes time to load > the device driver modules, switch to the command prompt. Then: > 1) put the floppy with the driver files

Re: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-11 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:28:26PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: >telnet IP_NUM 25 > > I get: > >telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection Refused Just a wild guess, but: are you actually typing "IP_NUM" or are you substituting a real IP number? Some servers are configured to re

Re: Off Topic: streaming a text file into a command?

2000-10-11 Thread will trillich
what a maroon i am. lemme fix: On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 06:14:47PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 04:47:28PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > I'm trying to find the fastest mirror site. I am using a package called > > netselect. Works like this netselect

Web based administration, how?

2000-10-11 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
During installation I chose a web based administration option. After installing Debian, it's not clear how you start using it. Can someone explain? Thanks. -- Rafael

pdflatex segfaults

2000-10-11 Thread Steve Juranich
When I try to use pdflatex, I get the following error: chester (caugoc)$ pdflatex versesq3-00 This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1) (versesq3-00.tex[/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg] LaTeX2e <1998/12/01> patch level 1 Babel and hyphenation patterns for american, french, germ

RE: Installing LinkSys LNE100TX on Compaq Prolinea 590

2000-10-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > It is a v4. Here is the output of cat /proc/pci: > > PCI devices found: > Bus 0, device 0, function 0: > Non-VGA device: Compaq Unknown device (rev 1). > Vendor id=e11. Dev

Re: new X server error

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 04:13:39PM -0700, Max Kamenetsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > After upgrading to the latest and greatest version of woody today, I > am getting the following error whenever I try to start X: > > > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' Are you running

RE: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-11 Thread Matthew Sherborne
The server IP_NUM isn't running SMTP ? There is a firewall between your host and IP_NUM ? You're not connected to the same network ? Just guesses Matthew Sherborne > -Original Message- > From: Paul McHale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 12 October 2000 3:28 p.m. > To: Debia

Re: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:28:26PM -0400, Paul McHale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > When I type: > >telnet IP_NUM 25 > > I get: > >telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection Refused The host is refusing your connection. It's either IP filtered, denied through /etc/hosts.all

Telnet to mail host replies connection refused

2000-10-11 Thread Paul McHale
When I type: telnet IP_NUM 25 I get: telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection Refused Any ideas ? Regards, Paul -- Paul McHale Work: 937-320-5495 Double E Solutions Mobile: 937-371-2828 1435 Edenwood Dr Fax:413-215-3232 Beavercree

intel ethernet

2000-10-11 Thread Rubbish5
Hi, I have a compaq presario 1800XL 190 with an Intel Pro/100 S Mobile LAN built in. It's basically as simple as Debian just can't find it. I have the correct device driver installed (installation is successful and I think it essentially knows the hardware is there) but I always get timeou

Automated NFS Install

2000-10-11 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I'm very near to implementing Debian as an (hopefully "the") GNU/Linux distribution here, the main sticking point is installs. Is there a tool to do automated NFS installs for Debian? I'm looking for a one floppy solution that at minimum will install and configure the base system including:

Missing Applet launcher

2000-10-11 Thread Tim
Hi, I have installed Potato on my desktop and laptop using Gnome/WM. Under 2.1 I could right click on the Task Bar or use a menu option to add a launcher. I'm running [EMAIL PROTECTED] and would like to use an applet to display progress but cannot seem to find a way to do it. I expect I'm bei

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 in woody?

2000-10-11 Thread David Z Maze
Andreas Tscharner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AT> I wonder when XFree86 4.0.1 comes into woody. It'll be in when the X maintainer decides that his packages are stable enough for general use. My impression is that their current state isn't particularly usable unless you're willing to do significa

Re: 60 gig drive

2000-10-11 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Mike wrote: > The drive (from dmesg): > hda: WDC WD153AA-00BAA0, 14679MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=1871/255/63, (U)DMA > > So what's up with my box? *Am* I just getting really lucky that this > works? Am I likely to get bit in the ass by this some day? Or is the > new lilo reall

[jensenb@charter.net: anyone notice any g++ differences?]

2000-10-11 Thread William Jensen
If no one has any ideas I guess I'll have to reinstall debian because I need a functioning devel platform :( I guess I learned a lesson today eh. Wm - Forwarded message from William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:36:13 -0500 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subje

Re: 60 gig drive

2000-10-11 Thread Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i'd be more concerned with the bios then linux, especially if you plan to > boot off the disk. > > does yer MB/bios support such a beast(if its ide?) I'm not so sure that really matters anymore. I've a 15 gig (well, actually more like 14.5 gigs, but close enough) driv

Re: pronounce

2000-10-11 Thread Krzys Majewski
In my head, I pronounce it A-P-T (eh-pee-tee) -chris

xf86config problems

2000-10-11 Thread Bob Edwards
Greetings, I ran xf86 config and everything seemed to go well until I tried to run startx and got the following error messages: /usr/bin/x11/Xauth: creating new authority file /root/ .Xauthority xauthority:creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_Mach64 fai

Re: pronounce

2000-10-11 Thread George Bonser
People are apt to pronounce it in different ways, I suppose, but I tend to say it just like it is spelled and as it would be would be pronounced as a word used in the above context. On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Yuji Toyoda wrote: > Simple question. How do you pronounce "apt-get"? > Especially I'd like

Re: Trouble installing Debian

2000-10-11 Thread Matthew Dalton
> > Weirdness: I took the case apart. The hard drive is a Western Digital > > IDE drive connected to a Promise Technology Ultra66 PCI card. Nothing > > is plugged into the motherboard's primary ide controller, which explains > > why setup doesn't see it. > > Which setup? Debian's installer or

Dialpad

2000-10-11 Thread Ray Percival
Has anyone been able to make dialpad work under Linux? This is my last step to getting rid of winders once and for all. Thanks for any info.

anyone notice any g++ differences?

2000-10-11 Thread William Jensen
I waited for the hub-ub of the last couple weeks woody situation to cool down and dependencies to be fixed before I upgraded. I did the dist-upgrade tonight with the --download-only option. Then I used dpkg -i *.deb. There were a couple problems that I fixed and it seems everything is OK. Howev

Recording TV shows

2000-10-11 Thread Binh Ngo
Hi all, I want to record a tv show at a certain time. Any body know how to do this? I am running Debian Woody. My setup is: winTV card soundblaster Live AMD K62 450 128M Ram What program should I use to record the show? And how to use set it up to program at a certain time. Any help is appreci

Re: boot-record only disk

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 05:41:43PM -0400, mike ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:20:05 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > > > > You should *always* be able to boot your system with a boot floppy. > > There are several flavors of these, including general-purpose rescue > > di

Re: Trouble installing Debian

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
Please use postfix followup. On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 04:19:36PM -0600, Glenn Murray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 Karsten M. Self wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 09:50:13AM -0600, Glenn Murray >> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> > >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm trying to in

RE: Installing LinkSys LNE100TX on Compaq Prolinea 590

2000-10-11 Thread LTG
It is a v4. Here is the output of cat /proc/pci: PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Non-VGA device: Compaq Unknown device (rev 1). Vendor id=e11. Device id=1000. Medium devsel. IRQ 32. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=35. Non-prefetchable 32 bit mem

Re: going full duplex

2000-10-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hello, > > I'd really like to go full duplex but I don't know how to go about this > aside from: "reinstalling my nic's driver but set it for full duplex > this time". Most of the time the

Re: 60 gig drive

2000-10-11 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Debian Ghost wrote: > I was thinking about getting a 60 gig hard drive and was wondering > what linux constraints were on having a drive that big. Would I be As we've been discussing lately large hard drives can cause a ruckus with older disk utilities. In some cases your BI

going full duplex

2000-10-11 Thread Kevin Krafthefer
Hello, I'd really like to go full duplex but I don't know how to go about this aside from: "reinstalling my nic's driver but set it for full duplex this time". If anybody has a good way of going about this please let me know. I fear that it is all very dependent on what type of nic I'm using; but

Re: kbdconfig

2000-10-11 Thread Hubert Chan
"John-Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just updated my system to 2.2 and seem to have lost my keyboard > configuration along with some other stuff.:-} > > can anyone tell me if there is a command kbdconfig or another method of > restoring my UK configuration via a console rather than X

Re: Installing LinkSys LNE100TX on Compaq Prolinea 590

2000-10-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Since I do not have a CDROM drive, my plan was to > configure my PCI Ethernet card, a Linksys 10/100 LAN > Card, Model LNE100TX - which uses the tulip driver, so > that I could access Debian

new X server error

2000-10-11 Thread Max Kamenetsky
After upgrading to the latest and greatest version of woody today, I am getting the following error whenever I try to start X: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks a lot for any help and please cc me on your responses. Max

Re: Curse these cursed signal errors!

2000-10-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Curse these cursed signal errors! Date: Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 11:07:47AM -0400 In reply to:Wayne Topa Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Subject: Curse these cursed signal errors! > Date: Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:00:53AM -0600 > > In reply to:Math

Re: Problems with a bash script and cron

2000-10-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Problems with a bash script and cron Date: Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 08:27:58AM +0200 In reply to:Felix Hagemann Quoting Felix Hagemann([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Lars Bjarby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My crontab looks like this: > > > > 0,15,30,45 * * * /home/laban/b

Re: Off Topic: streaming a text file into a command?

2000-10-11 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 04:47:28PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm trying to find the fastest mirror site. I am using a package called > netselect. Works like this netselect -vv host1 host2 ... hostx. Wonderful > little utility. Anyway, I have a list of mirrors in a text file

public shell

2000-10-11 Thread Dempsey Mork
I have a public shell company available for a reverse merger. I will email full details if interested.

Re: Need advice on Postscript/PCL printer

2000-10-11 Thread Hubert Chan
Nicola Bernardelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I guess I'll have to rename the thread "how to print to a PCL > (LaserJet4 emulation) printer", body: "Could anybody (re)tell how to > print to a PCL (LaserJet4 emulation) printer?" (actually, the Epson > EPL-5800 has Laserjet4 emulation, whic

Anacron fails on exim job

2000-10-11 Thread Kai Weber
Hi, after updating from potato to woody I have these Mails in roots inbox: --- snip - /etc/cron.daily/exim: Exim retry database in spool /var/spool/exim Failed to open database file retry: Invalid argument run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/exim exited with return code 1 --- snip --

Color Directory Listings and Modprobe

2000-10-11 Thread Justin W . Williams
Hi, I just re-installed my Potato system after a bit of a *cough*kernel mishap*cough*, and have done no configuration except for email and cable modem. In the .bashrc file for root, I have configured directory colors, but when I try to do the same thing on my normal, it doesn't work. Is this

Re: Trouble installing Debian

2000-10-11 Thread Glenn Murray
Thanks for the reply. Weirdness: I took the case apart. The hard drive is a Western Digital IDE drive connected to a Promise Technology Ultra66 PCI card. Nothing is plugged into the motherboard's primary ide controller, which explains why setup doesn't see it. Besides the information below,

Re: sound card and ethernet card configuration

2000-10-11 Thread W. Paul Mills
Which model do you have? 3c??? Bob Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : (2) have a 3 Comm Fast Etherlink XL 10/100 ethernet card which is not : one of the choices in modconf, how can I configure my ethernet card ? : -- : Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null --

PCI: BIOS32 entry (0xc00fa000) in high memory, cannot use

2000-10-11 Thread LTG
-Original Message- From: LTG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 2:35 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Installing LinkSys LNE100TX on Compaq Prolinea 590 I have been trying to install the latest GNU/Debian release (Linux version 2.2.17 ([EMAIL PROTECT

kbdconfig

2000-10-11 Thread John-Mark
I have just updated my system to 2.2 and seem to have lost my keyboard configuration along with some other stuff.:-} can anyone tell me if there is a command kbdconfig or another method of restoring my UK configuration via a console rather than X thanks jm

Re: Serial console install trouble

2000-10-11 Thread John Anderson
I have had a similar problem trying to install through a character terminal on an IBM PC 350. I pass the argument, but with the CD-Rom the kernel messages don't appear on the monitor, nothing appears on the terminal screen either. I tried the floppy (idepci) which won't fully boot at all. The C

XFree86 4.0.1 in woody?

2000-10-11 Thread Andreas Tscharner
Hello World, I wonder when XFree86 4.0.1 comes into woody. And when it has come in, whether dselect will update it or not. Regards Andreas -- Andreas Tscharner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Off Topic: streaming a text file into a command?

2000-10-11 Thread Hubert Chan
William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey guys, > > I'm trying to find the fastest mirror site. I am using a package called > netselect. Works like this netselect -vv host1 host2 ... hostx. Wonderful > little utility. Anyway, I have a list of mirrors in a text file like this: > > host

Re: PHP4 & Apache

2000-10-11 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 01:35:18PM +, Steve Simons wrote: > Could someone please explain, in idiot-level detail, how to get a .php > file to display correctly in Netscape. > > I apt-get installed PHP4 (which included Apache) a few days ago. I've > started Apache okay with: > > LoadModule php

Off Topic: streaming a text file into a command?

2000-10-11 Thread William Jensen
Hey guys, I'm trying to find the fastest mirror site. I am using a package called netselect. Works like this netselect -vv host1 host2 ... hostx. Wonderful little utility. Anyway, I have a list of mirrors in a text file like this: host1 host2 host3 How can I pump that file into netselect? I

lpq -P remote printer doesn't show all jobs

2000-10-11 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Hi! I've got lprng (3.6.20-1) installed on several machines, with one machine acting as a central print server for the others (all of the clients "print" to the server and the server actually sends the jobs to the printers). The problem is that when a user types lpq, it only shows the jobs that a

Re: boot-record only disk

2000-10-11 Thread mike
I have been reading the boot disk How-To's, but can't find anything on the 'boot-record' only disk. Could you point me to the docs on this. On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:20:05 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > > You should *always* be able to boot your system with a boot floppy. > T

Re: 60 gig drive

2000-10-11 Thread Jeff Green
I have never used an IDE drive of this size with any form of Linux, sorry. Jeff Debian Ghost wrote: > > Actually I was thinking of an internal EIDE, not scsi. > > Would EIDE pose a problem? > > Thanks for your reply! > > D. Ghost

Re: 60 gig drive

2000-10-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i'd be more concerned with the bios then linux, especially if you plan to boot off the disk. does yer MB/bios support such a beast(if its ide?) nate On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Debian Ghost wrote: debian >Hello Debianers, debian >I was thinking about getting a 60 gig hard drive and was wondering what

Re: 60 gig drive

2000-10-11 Thread Debian Ghost
Actually I was thinking of an internal EIDE, not scsi. Would EIDE pose a problem? Thanks for your reply! D. Ghost

Re: 60 gig drive

2000-10-11 Thread Jeff Green
Assuming it is a scsi drive I know of no problems, we have several raid arrays which Linux sees as single disks. I believe the largest single partition we have in use is 240GB though this now uses ReiserFS as running fsck on an ext2fs partition that size takes a stupidly long time. Jeff Debian Gh

60 gig drive

2000-10-11 Thread Debian Ghost
Hello Debianers, I was thinking about getting a 60 gig hard drive and was wondering what linux constraints were on having a drive that big. Would I be able to have one large 60 gig partition or would I have to break it up into several smaller partitions? Thanks in advance! D. Ghos

Solved: Re: Packages kept back -- but none held

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:00:03AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > I'm trying to clear some holds I've had on a number of packages, which > currently result in 113 packages being kept back by apt-get. The > packages I'd held were: apache, ecpg, libpgtcl, php3, and php

Re: LILO 1024 error

2000-10-11 Thread mike
Just realized that windows probably should be first on your hd and then use lilo as i described below. > Read /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz. and put a new line > in your lilo.conf immediately after the delay line: > lba32 > With this, lilo as of version 1:21.4.2 now sup

Re: LILO 1024 error

2000-10-11 Thread mike
Read /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz. and put a new line in your lilo.conf immediately after the delay line: lba32 With this, lilo as of version 1:21.4.2 now supports booting from above cylinder 1024 (~8 GB). I have a 13GB hd and my lilo boots o/s any where on my hd. On

apg-get fails to install packages (was Re: ideas?)

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 02:35:30PM -0500, William Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten, > > I've asked over debian-used a couple different times and no one has > really had any ideas for me. I've seen you answer a ton of tricky > emails so I thought I would take a chance and ask you offli

Re: PHP4 & Apache

2000-10-11 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 02:56:49PM +, Steve Simons wrote: > > > On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Liam Ward wrote: > > > I'm currently using PHP3 and my config files have similar stuff to > > yours (but without the PHP4 bits, obviously enough). > > > > You're looking in the wrong place here. Netscape d

Re: X-window

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 02:23:08PM -0500, Cavaiani, Don ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 1:46 PM > > To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > > Subject:Re: X-window > >

Re: Xvidtune

2000-10-11 Thread Knuckles
> Someone told me yesterday that I have "lousy modelines" and that I should > run Xvidtune. My problem is that I navigated through many directories to > get to that, but then it doesn't execute when I type in that name? Says > "command not found". 1.) Is it installed? "locate xvidtune" is a fast

Re: Problems with a bash script and cron

2000-10-11 Thread will trillich
Lars Bjarby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My crontab looks like this: > > 0,15,30,45 * * * /home/laban/bin/chkwww things to try: 1) chmod +x /home/laban/bin/chkwww 2) make sure you 'crontab -e' as same user you use to run the script from the command prompt

Re: X-window

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
Please do not CC: me. Please use postfix followup. This means your response goes **AFTER** the body text. 2nd request. Please set your mail client linewrap to 72 characters. On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 03:12:24PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > >

RE: X-window

2000-10-11 Thread Cavaiani, Don
I went into the config and changed the Virtual setting from 800 600 to 640 480 and that works for the most part - only now the whole window doesn't quite fit side to side. > -Original Message- > From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000

Re: PHP - A new approach

2000-10-11 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 07:53:43PM +, Steve Simons wrote: > So does that mean it can't be done by using apt-get (non-source) > packages? > That's what I'm after - has anyone done this? apt-get install apache php3 php3-mysql Ok, I used php3-pgsql, but assuming the package builders did the s

Re: X-window

2000-10-11 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I have xdm taking over, so I need to kill it before I do startx whatever, but I want to kill it in a way that does not remove it. How do I prevent it from taking over just once, that is, so that I can do the indicated procedure? Thanks kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Please us postfix followup. >

Re: PHP - A new approach

2000-10-11 Thread A.J. Rossini
> "SS" == Steve Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SS> Would someone who has successfully installed PHP3 and Apache SS> to a point where they can display a simple .php3 page on SS> Debian 2.2 (potato) system please be kind enough to explain SS> (as if to a child :O)), what step

Re: PHP - A new approach

2000-10-11 Thread Steve Simons
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:47:49 Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Here's what I did: > 1. Install mysql and mysql-dev. Server and client. > 2. Get php source. > 3. Get apache source > 4. Build apache with DSO support (in the README) > 5. Go to php tree and follow instructions on how to build php with mod_php >

Re: Trouble installing Debian

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 09:50:13AM -0600, Glenn Murray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Debian 2.2 on two graduate students' machines. The > install boots from the CD but is unable to find the hard drive. > > The machines are: > > Dell Dimension XPS T800r, BIOS v

Re: X-window

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
Please us postfix followup. On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 02:41:10PM -0400, A R ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > 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

LLUG at Brookhaven

2000-10-11 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
Anyone know what happened to llug.sep.bnl.gov? It was a very fast mirror for me, but is now gone for over a week. Tim -- Timothy H. Keitt Department of Ecology and Evolution State University of New York at Stony Brook Phone: 631-632-1101, FAX: 631-632-7626 http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/keitt/

Re: telnet and ftp

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 04:56:57PM +, stefan goeman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > For some testing I want to setup a telnet and/or an ftp connection to > a remote machine (I also have physical access to the remote machine). > Is it possible to setup such connection WITHOUT providing

Re: Nvi mails me

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 05:25:33PM +0200, Engelen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I get many e-mail messages in my mailbox like the following: > > On Thu Oct 5 12:19:44 2000, the user root was editing a > file named /proc/aironet/eth0/Config on the machine sirach, > when it was saved for recovery. Y

Re: X-window

2000-10-11 Thread A R
I have the same problem, is is only a small square in the center if the screen. My XF86Config file is here kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > 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 -

Installing LinkSys LNE100TX on Compaq Prolinea 590

2000-10-11 Thread LTG
I have been trying to install the latest GNU/Debian release (Linux version 2.2.17 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 2313 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000) flavor 'vanilla' on a Compaq Prolinea 590. This machine has 98MB of RAM, a 6Gig HD and a 3.5 inch floppy drive. I

Re: LILO 1024 error

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 05:10:58PM +0900, Jack Morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sorry if this has been discussed before, > > I can't get lilo to boot a windows partition which is after the 1024 cylinder. > I beleive that now it is able to, but...not sure how? > My lilo.conf is setup as follows

Re: Backing up the system

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:01:49AM -0400, Jason Hammerschmidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > To make complete backups, I think it's best to create a mirror image (dd > if=/dev/hdax of=/dev/hdbx), it has a good $/GB considering what drives cost > today, and you know you have an exact replica, down t

XCalendar errors Debian 2.2?

2000-10-11 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I just installed XCalendar-i18n off the Debian 2.2 distro. I like the application and wish to use it, but when I click on a date or the help option I get the following warnings: Cannot convert string "False" to type scrollMode and: Cannot convert string "False" to type ResizeMode Only once.

Packages kept back -- but none held

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
I'm trying to clear some holds I've had on a number of packages, which currently result in 113 packages being kept back by apt-get. The packages I'd held were: apache, ecpg, libpgtcl, php3, and php3-mysql. The packages being kept back are listed below. I've cleared the "hold" flags on the five p

Re: there is a way to protect backups on tapes ?

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:34:44PM +0200, Jaume Teixi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently backing up to DAT tapes on a building where there are > other companies... > > There is a way to protect DAT backups in order to need a password for > restoring and reading ? > > I'm using du

Re: PHP - A new approach

2000-10-11 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> After a painful experience trying to get PHP4 working, I'm trying a new > approach. I've removed MySQL, PHP4 and Apache completely. > > Would someone who has successfully installed PHP3 and Apache to a point > where they can display a simple .php3 page on Debian 2.2 (potato) system > please

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #210

2000-10-11 Thread Joshua Kruck
> Subject: Processor > Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:42:48 GMT > From: "william Elling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > For any version of linux i was wondering what the best chooose would > be to > build a computer for home use. I have a p2 300mhz and was going to > upgrade >

PHP - A new approach

2000-10-11 Thread Steve Simons
After a painful experience trying to get PHP4 working, I'm trying a new approach. I've removed MySQL, PHP4 and Apache completely. Would someone who has successfully installed PHP3 and Apache to a point where they can display a simple .php3 page on Debian 2.2 (potato) system please be kind enou

Re: pronounce

2000-10-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 02:01:29AM +0900, Yuji Toyoda wrote: > Simple question. How do you pronounce "apt-get"? I say "apt dash get" ... YMMV. > Especially I'd like to know how do everyone pronounce "apt". It's a one syllable word with a short "a", rhymes with "wrapped". > Thank you for your he

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