Re: /etc/alternatives/vi

2001-01-21 Thread Brian May
> "Benjamin" == Benjamin Pharr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Benjamin> Can anyone tell me which package owns the Benjamin> /etc/alternatives/vi file? Thanks! Ben Pharr All files under /etc/alternatives are created and maintained with update-alternatives. So, a number of packages could

Re: apt-get update from cron?

2001-01-21 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:30:13PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: :Now, for the bulk of your workstations, I'd make their sources.list :contain only one line; the line pointing to your own server. On that :server, you'd have a repository(complete with Packages.gz and friends) :which would have the

Re: /etc/alternatives/vi

2001-01-21 Thread Ken Weingold
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > Can anyone tell me which package owns the /etc/alternatives/vi file? Thanks! /etc/alternatives/vi -> /usr/bin/nvi Looks like nvi. Is this what you are asking? -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

trouble compiling module

2001-01-21 Thread Chris Stalker-Herron
Hello, My ultimate goal is to get my Netgear FA311 card running on 2.2r2. I have found some information on downloading and compiling a couple of modules (pci-scan and natsemi) which other posts indicate should work. I've been able to get these to compile, but when I try insmod on pci-scan, I get

/etc/alternatives/vi

2001-01-21 Thread Benjamin Pharr
Can anyone tell me which package owns the /etc/alternatives/vi file? Thanks! Ben Pharr

Re: apt-get update from cron?

2001-01-21 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Is there a way to tell apt-get to do an upgrade from limited sources # (my local repository), without juggling /etc/apt/sources.list (I could # move it swap in a different "safe" version, update, upgrade, swap # back) Well, you'd set up your tes

Re: syslogd and exim cron job every 20 minutes

2001-01-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 02:18:38AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Hmm. And from where did you think I pulled out that one? :^) > > ,[ syslog.conf(5) ] > |The facility is one of the following keywords: auth, auth­ > |priv, cron, daemon, kern, lpr, mail, mark, news, security >

How to clone a system easily?

2001-01-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I have a working system, and want to upgrade the MotherBoard. I'd could just move disks, but would rather just "clone it, to the new system. How, most easily? Both are on a loca network. For example, boot the new system to CDrom, and dd the disks over? Thanks for any hints, Gregory -

Re: apt-get update from cron?

2001-01-21 Thread Joey Hess
Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Is there a way to tell apt-get to do an upgrade from limited sources > (my local repository), without juggling /etc/apt/sources.list (I could > move it swap in a different "safe" version, update, upgrade, swap > back) -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/etc/apt/some-other-sources.

apt-get upgrade missing known things..

2001-01-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I have a few systems that I am trying to setup, and the newest one has an /etc/apt/sources/list of: (See Below) But, when I ask ti to do "apt-get install tomcat", or ".. libapache-mod-jk" or others, it doesn't find them. They are there in /unstable (woody)/contrib. Also, I need to get Apach

Re: apt-get update from cron?

2001-01-21 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:35:05PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: :It's never a good thing to wholly automate workstation upgrades. You :should at least check the packages yourself, and *then* let the :workstations have them. You are quite right, but the simplicity is so tempting...and stable is p

Re: apt-get update from cron?

2001-01-21 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # In this context I've been kicking around the idea of running # apt-get update > /dev/null && apt-get -qq -y upgrade # from /etc/cron.daily # # I'm wondering if anyone else is doing this and what the experience has # been. I guess it depends on

apt-get update from cron?

2001-01-21 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I'm in the process of making Debian the "suppored" GNU/Linux distro on my network, part of that involves changing default confiles. In this context I've been kicking around the idea of running apt-get update > /dev/null && apt-get -qq -y upgrade from /etc/cron.daily I'm wondering if anyone e

Re: "talk" doesn't

2001-01-21 Thread Kent West
Moritz Schulte wrote: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: syslog reports: error: cannot execute /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd: No such file or directory It seems you don't have the talk daemon installed; it's in the package 'talkd'. moritz Thanks, Moritz! That did it!

Re: Driver for DSL Modem

2001-01-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 09:19:03PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > I don't *think* thare's any drivers for internal PCI stuff, it's > possible (but unlikely) that the "modem" uses a supported ethernet > chip and then does pppoe stuff on board, but I wouldn't count on it. I'm pretty sure you're

Re: Bug#82710: A version for testing, please.

2001-01-21 Thread Joey Hess
Jon Nelson wrote: > Package: libadns1 > Version: 1.0-3 > Severity: wishlist > > I would very much like a version of adns for 'testing'. It is completly pointless to file a bug against a package requesting that it go into testing. I thought I'd point this out as I have seen several bug reports lik

Re: Driver for DSL Modem

2001-01-21 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 03:29:12PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: : My local telephone company (BellSouth)is offering an attractive :deal on DSL service. They will supply a "3COM HOMECONNECT ADSL MODEM :PCI" (I think it is model 3CP3617), but they only support Windoze :("support" means they supply

Re: Frequent download time outs

2001-01-21 Thread Jeff Kelm
Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I have the same problem, but some sites are much worse than others. I >know it was happening with Debian 2.1, but I don't know about before >that. You don't mention if you are using a modem, cable, or DSL, but >I am using a modem. My suspicion is that i

Re: bad md5 checksum

2001-01-21 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, February 21, Robert did write: > hi! [adjusted line breaks] > I downloaded a debian .iso image and the md5 checksums didn't match, then > i mounted it (with -o loop) and checked the checksums of all individual > files, finding 3 of them are corrupted. Have downloaded them and I

Problems with xserver-xfree86-4.0.2 and xserver-common-4.0.2

2001-01-21 Thread Andre
Hello All !!! I want to install XFree-86-4.0.2 but i have the followig problem: when i try to install, i get the following error-message: Unpacking replacement xserver-xfree86 ... Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.0.2-1) ... dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--install): subprocess post-instal

Re: bad md5 checksum

2001-01-21 Thread Defresne Sylvain
* Robert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi! > > I downloaded a debian .iso image and the md5 checksums didn't match, > then i mounted it (with -o loop) and checked the checksums of all > individual files, finding 3 of them are corrupted. Have downloaded > them and I wish to replace them, but i alway

Re: pine

2001-01-21 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Benjamin Pharr wrote: ->I'm having a bit of a problem getting pine to compile on Debian. I ->installed the src and the diffs package and then followed the instructions ->in the README. It compiles for several minutes and then starts giving errors. -> ->os.c:1122 ->invalid o

Re: PPP connection can't find servers

2001-01-21 Thread John Hasler
You have an existing default route that pppd won't remove. You don't need that default route: you most likely added it when you installed because the installer misled you into believing that you needed it when you told it you had an NIC. Remove it. You're chatscript also looks garbled, but I'm g

Re: "talk" doesn't

2001-01-21 Thread Moritz Schulte
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > syslog reports: > error: cannot execute /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd: No such file or directory It seems you don't have the talk daemon installed; it's in the package 'talkd'. moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Deb

Re: IMAP MUA and filtering

2001-01-21 Thread Brian May
> "Phil" == Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Phil> I think it's less "it's a dumb IMAP server" and more "it's a Phil> dumb email client that doesn't let you set your mailbox Phil> path" (netscape calls it the "mail server directory"). I think you misunderstood me. Otherw

Re: Can't get sound to work!

2001-01-21 Thread Kent West
Rev. Ferret wrote: Ok, I got sound working. On my windows boot the sound was on IRQ 5, it kept trying to put it on IRQ 7 in linux. I added a /etc/modutils/sound file and put options sb irq=5 io=0x220 dma=1 in it, but when I rebooted it seemed to ignore that file. You also have to run "updat

Re: help! just upgraded and now can't login!

2001-01-21 Thread Kent West
Tim&Pep wrote: Hi, I'm a Debian newbie. I have just used apt-get to upgrade my system and now I can't seem to log in at all under X. I can login on one of the other virtual terminals (or whatever you call that when you press ctrl-alt F6). What have I done? Can I fix it? Thanks. Tim Are you

Re: PPP connection can't find servers

2001-01-21 Thread Jake Hoban
Attachments are, in order, /etc/chatscripts/provider, /etc/ppp/peers/provider, /etc/ppp/pap-secrets, /etc/ppp/chap-secrets, output of plog. Thanks for helping. Jake - Original Message - From: "John Hasler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 1:45 PM Subject: Re: PPP co

pine

2001-01-21 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I'm having a bit of a problem getting pine to compile on Debian. I installed the src and the diffs package and then followed the instructions in the README. It compiles for several minutes and then starts giving errors. os.c:1122 invalid operands to binary == incompatible type for argument2 o

Re: crack and MD5

2001-01-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 06:23:26PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > I'm running potato with MD5 password hashing enabled. Crack works fine > when used on a system that uses standard crypt(). I would like to run > crack to test my users passwords. I changed the Crack script to gcc > settings and

crack and MD5

2001-01-21 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I'm running potato with MD5 password hashing enabled. Crack works fine when used on a system that uses standard crypt(). I would like to run crack to test my users passwords. I changed the Crack script to gcc settings and moved and copied the files I was supposed to for MD5. When I did a ".

bad md5 checksum

2001-01-21 Thread Robert
hi! I downloaded a debian .iso image and the md5 checksums didn't match, then i mounted it (with -o loop) and checked the checksums of all individual files, finding 3 of them are corrupted. Have downloaded them and I wish to replace them, but i always recieve the error 'read-only filesystem' and c

X Font Server problems

2001-01-21 Thread Stefan Srdic
I'm running Debian 2.2 (Patato, I think :-D) at home. I recently upgraded from XFree86-3.3.6 to XFree86-4.0.2 I installed XFree-4.0.2 from the binaries available at ftp.xfree86.org. Installing the new X server was pretty straightforward and simple. I had only one minor bug to deal with after the o

installing X packages without X

2001-01-21 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I'm trying to install a bunch of X packages (wmaker, xemacs, games, xmms, etc).  But it won't let me without installing X.  Is their a good way to install these packages through dselect?  I don't want X because I'm using X4.0.2   Thanks, Cameron matheson

Re: 386-4 MB startup question

2001-01-21 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! At least inside germany, one can send a letter and the recipient has to pay for the fees if the sender wants him to... I think I'll try to do that and if don't succeed, I'll pay the few marks, because any sending of money would almost cost more than the amount you'd have to send to me. Do y

Re: gnome-session messed up in Woody?

2001-01-21 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 09:30:01PM +, Pollywog wrote: > exec gnome-session > > in my ~/.xinitrc but now I also have to put > > panel & What if you put just 'exec gnome-session' in a ~/.xsession file, and move your .xinitrc out of the way? Any different? -- ...the "open source" movement

Re: "talk" doesn't

2001-01-21 Thread Kent West
Moritz Schulte wrote: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I can't get the "talk" program to work. Just as a test, I'm trying to talk to myself within X. [...] The screen divides into two sections (upper and lower), the top reports "No connection yet" for a few seconds, and then reports

Re: "talk" doesn't

2001-01-21 Thread Kent West
Philipp Schulte wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:23:15PM -0600, Kent West wrote: I can't get the "talk" program to work. Just as a test, I'm trying to talk to myself within X. I open two terminals, find which terminal is which with the "tty" command, and then from one terminal (say /dev/p

Re: vi - wraplen found

2001-01-21 Thread Ken Weingold
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > *shrug* Depends what you like. I have to use all sorts of random vi > clones at work. The ones on the various commercial Unices are pretty > much original vi, and while I can use them well enough for simple tasks > like configuration file editing they'd d

Re: possible move to unstable..

2001-01-21 Thread Tom Pfeifer
> c) Upgrade to Woody(testing). Woody is the new "in-between" > distribution, which is supposed to be more stable then Sid. For > instance, the broken LILO package never made it into Woody. This is getting away from the thread's original subject, but the new lilo package that did make it into wood

Re: Fw: Re: gnome-session messed up in Woody?

2001-01-21 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Thanks, that did the trick. I must have fried the settings when my # machine locked up a few sessions ago. I find 'gnome-session' buggy. For quite a long time, I've been running without it. When I was using the panel, I just added 'panel &' to my .xinitrc

Re: apache: no permission to access netsaint cgi's?

2001-01-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:21:47PM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote: > I'm trying to get netsaint running. I've got: > > 1. a standard apache install from the latest binary (unstable) deb. > > 2. a netsaint install from the latest netsaint binary (unstable) debs, > including netsaint-plugins and netsai

Fw: Re: gnome-session messed up in Woody?

2001-01-21 Thread Pollywog
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:01:10 -0500, David B.Harris said: > > Can't say as I have. But maybe if you "Save Session" in Foot Menu -> > Settings -> Session, it'll save the panel for you(and if you do that, be > sure to remove 'panel &' from your .xinitrc, or it will whine very > loudly). Than

Kernel 2.4.0 vs 3Com NIC

2001-01-21 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, okay I have compiled and installed the new kernel on my woody system. The compile went without problems and the kernel boots up with no error messages (at least if I don't mount devfs, looks like devfsd is not setting some symlinks properly like /dev/rtc ...) The kernel won't recognize my ne

apache: no permission to access netsaint cgi's?

2001-01-21 Thread Lance Simmons
I'm trying to get netsaint running. I've got: 1. a standard apache install from the latest binary (unstable) deb. 2. a netsaint install from the latest netsaint binary (unstable) debs, including netsaint-plugins and netsaint-plugins-extra. I didn't make changes to these installations. I installe

Re: vi - wraplen found

2001-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well I found the "set wraplen" feature I was talking about in another >thread and I checked on what vi clone I'm using. I'm using nvi which I >was not aware of since I've been using Debian. > >Well I think "nvi" is more close to the historical "vi" than "vim

CUPS - How do I set gamma correction globally?

2001-01-21 Thread Phillip Deackes
I have just installed CUPS and it works very well on my laser printer (Brother HL-1050, using HP laserjet driver). I would like to add gamma correction though. On the command line, I do 'lpr -o gamma=2000 filename' and the result is much more to my liking. How can I get this to work globally withou

Re: 128-bit encryption netscape

2001-01-21 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Nate Amsden wrote: ->"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: ->> ->> Hey people. I'm running netscape 4.75 from the security site, which has ->> 128-bit encryption. I want to upgrade to potato r2 from r1, and it's going to ->> upgrade netscape. So, how do you tell if the version you'

Re: gnome-session messed up in Woody?

2001-01-21 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # # I have a problem starting gnome-session in Woody. # Formerly, I just had # # exec gnome-session # # in my ~/.xinitrc but now I also have to put # # panel & # # in .xinitrc or I don't get the panel. Is anyone else having this # problem with helix-gn

Re: possible move to unstable..

2001-01-21 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Marcial Zamora III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # hey all.. I know this mite stir up a great deal of debate, but its not my intention.. Im currently running potato, and thinking bout running unstable.. there are quite a few packages I would like to have in unstable, and I know ahead of time, to su

Re: possible move to unstable..

2001-01-21 Thread Erik Steffl
Marcial Zamora III wrote: > > hey all.. I know this mite stir up a great deal of debate, but its not my > intention.. Im currently running potato, and thinking bout running unstable.. > there are quite a few packages I would like to have in unstable, and I know > ahead of time, to successfully

Soundcard Problems

2001-01-21 Thread Tristan
I have an ES1869 PnP Audiodrive, IRQ 7 DMA 1 DMA 0. I am having problems getting it to work in linux, when reading the documentation that comes with 2.2.18, it says I need to compile soundcard support as a module then run isapnp, but isapnp doesn't detect my soundcard, and i tried using sndconfig b

Re: Driver for DSL Modem

2001-01-21 Thread Ken Weingold
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # AFAIK, all Linux would need to support is the NIC. Does BellSouth use > # pppoe? If so, Roaring Penguin's pppoe for Linux is AWESOME. Painless > # install. > > If indeed it's just a NIC. Sounds like it

gnome-session messed up in Woody?

2001-01-21 Thread Pollywog
I have a problem starting gnome-session in Woody. Formerly, I just had exec gnome-session in my ~/.xinitrc but now I also have to put panel & in .xinitrc or I don't get the panel. Is anyone else having this problem with helix-gnome in Woody? -- Andrew

Re: Install help needed/New tulip drivers

2001-01-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:41:22PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Who wrote the "latest" drivers, and what's the version number? It's > conceivable that the 2.2.18 kernel on the potato install disks has the > driver you need. Can't tell without more info ... I doubt it. I needed the latest

Re: Trouble getting DRI to Work with ATI Rage 128

2001-01-21 Thread franck
Thank you for the advice. Is the DRI (Open GL) function working for you ? I tried again following the advices at the given address (which by the way has moved to http://avis.lightband.com/david/rage128-howto.html) I have installed kernel 2.4.0 (not test anymore) because of a note that was unclear

possible move to unstable..

2001-01-21 Thread Marcial Zamora III
hey all.. I know this mite stir up a great deal of debate, but its not my intention.. Im currently running potato, and thinking bout running unstable.. there are quite a few packages I would like to have in unstable, and I know ahead of time, to successfully install those packages, there are oth

Re: Driver for DSL Modem

2001-01-21 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # AFAIK, all Linux would need to support is the NIC. Does BellSouth use # pppoe? If so, Roaring Penguin's pppoe for Linux is AWESOME. Painless # install. If indeed it's just a NIC. Sounds like it's an internal(PCI) ADSL modem. Not a standalone box. Da

Re: Krumbled konqueror kookies (new Sid version ignores cookies!)

2001-01-21 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Steve Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # When I let dselect upgrade my kde packages on Jan. 18th Konqueror stopped # handling cookies. I had the same problem, and I filed a bug report on it. Konqueror uses cookies fine when 'startkde' is running(ie: then entire KDE destop), but not when it's

Re: Dump-terminal

2001-01-21 Thread Nate Amsden
Hans Marcus Kruger wrote: > > As the dump-terminal lacks ability to clear screen and possition the cursor, > I am having some troubles executing lynx in cron-, at-jobs and in scripts in > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d. > Even specifyiong lynx -term=vt100 will not work. Does anyone know a good > work-around, so

Krumbled konqueror kookies (new Sid version ignores cookies!)

2001-01-21 Thread Steve Cooper
I seem to have done one Sid install too many. When I let dselect upgrade my kde packages on Jan. 18th Konqueror stopped handling cookies. It is set to prompt for each requested cookie, but no longer asks me to accept or reject. Sites where a login used to be remember, such as Excite and Yahoo

Re: Driver for DSL Modem

2001-01-21 Thread Ken Weingold
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001, Bob Hilliard wrote: > My local telephone company (BellSouth)is offering an attractive > deal on DSL service. They will supply a "3COM HOMECONNECT ADSL MODEM > PCI" (I think it is model 3CP3617), but they only support Windoze > ("support" means they supply a driver). > >

Re: mailing list digest splitting

2001-01-21 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Please ignore my last post. I used to use splitdigest and saved in $HOME/user. procmail saves in $HOME/Mail/user as it should. On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:27:15PM +0530, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > :0: > * ^TOdebian-user > | formail +2 -ds >> Today_debian Why do you skip 2 messages? Regards, Mark

Re: out of RAM.

2001-01-21 Thread Moritz Schulte
Dan Brosemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a machine which I don't have access to the console of, which > has run almost completely out of RAM: > Due (entierly my fault) to a runaway perl script which > (unfortunately) runs as root. > I have an open SSH connection to this machine running

Re: mailing list digest splitting

2001-01-21 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hmm, what is the trick to get procmail to work or to debug it? /usr/share/docs/procmail/QuickStart tells me to add |/usr/bin/procmail to .forward for exim systems. However, I get: error in filter file: unknown filtering command "|/usr/bin/procmail" This is my .procmailrc: # comment PATH=/usr/bi

Re: kernel-source-2.2.18pre21

2001-01-21 Thread Diego Biurrun
You won't need that IDE patch unless you want to have ultra-ATA 66 or 100 support, I think. You should have everything you need, but do try out kernel-package to build your kernel the debian way. It has been mentioned in a lot of threads lately. Diego Biurrun Xucaen schrieb: > > sorry to bother

Driver for DSL Modem

2001-01-21 Thread Bob Hilliard
My local telephone company (BellSouth)is offering an attractive deal on DSL service. They will supply a "3COM HOMECONNECT ADSL MODEM PCI" (I think it is model 3CP3617), but they only support Windoze ("support" means they supply a driver). Is anyone successfully using BellSouth DSL servi

Licq & KDE2

2001-01-21 Thread William Leese
Though this might not be the right list to post this im quite sure that other people would have run into this also as these two are commonly used. The problem is that i cant seem to get Licq (LicqWharf) to dock into kicker. Even after configuring (with the options --with-kde for both the qt plug

Re: vi - wraplen found

2001-01-21 Thread Erik Steffl
Bud Rogers wrote: > > On Sunday 21 January 2001 12:47, Rino Mardo wrote: > > > Well I think "nvi" is more close to the historical "vi" than "vim" or > > others. Someone correct me if I'm wrong as looking at vim it seems > > it's bloated and it doesn't feel "vi"-like. Comments, suggestions > > ar

Re: installing a burner

2001-01-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010121 10:50]: > Hey people. I just picked up an HP 9150i burner. I currently have an Acer I've got the same one ;-) > x40 CD-ROM, and it's /dev/hdd. That means that it's the slave of the second > IDE controller, yes? Yes, it's the slave device. Wh

Re: 128-bit encryption netscape

2001-01-21 Thread Nate Amsden
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > Hey people. I'm running netscape 4.75 from the security site, which has > 128-bit encryption. I want to upgrade to potato r2 from r1, and it's going to > upgrade netscape. So, how do you tell if the version you're about to upgrade > to has 128 bit encryption sup

Re: Understanding Mutt + Fetchmail + Procmail

2001-01-21 Thread Preben Randhol
Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 21/01/2001 (20:24) : > > MAILPATH='/usr/spool/mail/bfox?"You have mail":/home/bfox/Mail/Inbox?"You > have mail in Mail/Inbox"' You don't need the ?"You have mail" (unless you want some special message) simply set it as: export MAILPATH="/home/username/Mai

Re: Sound for woody with 2.2.12

2001-01-21 Thread John Galt
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Jonathan Gift wrote: >John Galt wrote: >> > >> >I have in modules: >> >sound >> >uart401 >> >sb io... >> > >> >Missing: >> >mpu... >> >op13... >> >> These mostly deal with midi. mpu is "mpu 401 support (NOT for SB)" which >> is self explanatory why you shouldn't need it, and

Re: Install help needed/New tulip drivers

2001-01-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:01:01AM -0600, David Kanter wrote: > I'd like to install Debian but have a slight problem: my Ethernet card > (ADMtek 983) requires the latest tulip drivers. > > I have a DSL connection with PPPoE. I'd like to install a bare-bones base > system and install the remaining

Re: installing a burner

2001-01-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:47:51AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. I just picked up an HP 9150i burner. I currently have an Acer > x40 CD-ROM, and it's /dev/hdd. That means that it's the slave of the second > IDE controller, yes? The burner is an IDE device as well, and I need to

kernel-source-2.2.18pre21

2001-01-21 Thread Xucaen
Hi all!! sorry to bother you with this.Do I need to install anything else along with the kernel-source-2.2.18pre21 package besides bin86 and libncurses(for menuconfig)? I just want to make sure I don't miss anything. (e.g. I noticed there is an IDE patch. will I need this?) I'm installing the aur

Re: vi - wraplen found

2001-01-21 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sunday 21 January 2001 12:47, Rino Mardo wrote: > Well I think "nvi" is more close to the historical "vi" than "vim" or > others. Someone correct me if I'm wrong as looking at vim it seems > it's bloated and it doesn't feel "vi"-like. Comments, suggestions > are welcome for the list members be

Re: syslogd and exim cron job every 20 minutes

2001-01-21 Thread mike polniak
Arcady Genkin wrote: > mike polniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > As I wrote in my previous message, ever since I added "cron.!info;" to > > > the line that pipes to /dev/xconsole, I am not seeing the exim cron > > > notifications any more. > > > > Did you mean : cron.!=info; ? > >

Re: "netscape-base-4" dependency?

2001-01-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Alex Chamberlain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010121 03:49]: > I'm tearing my hair out trying to get Netscape installed on potato. I > have netscape-base-475 and all its dependencies selected in dselect, > but then dselect says "netscape-base-475 depends on netscape-base-4; > netscape-base-4 does not ap

vi - wraplen found

2001-01-21 Thread Rino Mardo
Well I found the "set wraplen" feature I was talking about in another thread and I checked on what vi clone I'm using. I'm using nvi which I was not aware of since I've been using Debian. Well I think "nvi" is more close to the historical "vi" than "vim" or others. Someone correct me if I'm wron

Re: Forcing modem connection to 57600 bps

2001-01-21 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sunday 21 January 2001 12:37, Rino Mardo wrote: > Hi. Since the subject is about 56K modems, I'm just wondering how > would one measure the online speed (as opposed to the connect speed)? Have a look at bing. -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/zamm.html All

Re: syslogd and exim cron job every 20 minutes

2001-01-21 Thread Arcady Genkin
mike polniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As I wrote in my previous message, ever since I added "cron.!info;" to > > the line that pipes to /dev/xconsole, I am not seeing the exim cron > > notifications any more. > > Did you mean : cron.!=info; ? >^^ Thank yo

out of RAM.

2001-01-21 Thread Dan Brosemer
I have a machine which I don't have access to the console of, which has run almost completely out of RAM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:128268 125532 2736 1020 2620 2592 -/+ buffers/cache

Re: Forcing modem connection to 57600 bps

2001-01-21 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:27:45PM + or thereabouts, John Carline wrote: > > > > I have the same modem, and was told the the following would give me 56K mode > > ATZ > AT&F0 L3 W2 > AT+MS=12,1,300,56000,0,0,33600 > > > However, since my phone lines are so crummy I have no idea wether or n

Re: Understanding Mutt + Fetchmail + Procmail

2001-01-21 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:37:28PM +0100 or thereabouts, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > I don't get a message saying if a folder (file) has new mail until I open it > (to late, that is just what I don't want to have to do) > If I press c I get a list of all avaliable folders under $Home/Mail > > H

Re: problem compiling kernels

2001-01-21 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Ok, now I feel a bit of a fool, this does seem to be a bug either in the kernel source (non-debian), or in the way kernel-package parses v2.4 info. I looked at my last mail and realized I was builing a "test" kernel on an "unstable" system. I logged into my workstation running "stable" with 2.2.

Re: 2 kernels on the same machine

2001-01-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 06:06:05PM +0100, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi, > Can I use two kernels (for example 2.4 and 2.2.17) on the same machine? > I mean can I use kernel 2.2.17 as the "normal" kernel I boot with and > then still compile kernels in the 2.4 version (not for this computer but > for

Re: 2 kernels on the same machine

2001-01-21 Thread Diego Biurrun
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 06:06:05PM +0100, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > Can I use two kernels (for example 2.4 and 2.2.17) on the same machine? Yes, you can. > I mean can I use kernel 2.2.17 as the "normal" kernel I boot with and > then still compile kernels in the 2.4 version (not for this compute

Re: problem compiling kernels

2001-01-21 Thread Diego Biurrun
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:08:43PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > > cd /usr/src/linux > sudo make-kpkg clean > sudo make-kpkg kernel_image -revision=custom.1.0 > complains about arch=i386-none in many ways > sudo make-kpkg -arch=i386 -revision=custom.1.0 The difference is very subtle, b

Re: installing a burner

2001-01-21 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:47:51AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. I just picked up an HP 9150i burner. I currently have an Acer > x40 CD-ROM, and it's /dev/hdd. That means that it's the slave of the second > IDE controller, yes? The burner is an IDE device as well, and I need to

Re: Frequent download time outs

2001-01-21 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, I too face many times such problems on my dial up connection. Just yesterday when I tried to download the rpm files of icewm, two of them got downloaded properly but the icewm-common file was just timing out in between. I tried it many times, but could not succeed. Finally a fellow icewm liste

Re: 2 kernels on the same machine

2001-01-21 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Philipp Bliedung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Hi, # Can I use two kernels (for example 2.4 and 2.2.17) on the same machine? # I mean can I use kernel 2.2.17 as the "normal" kernel I boot with and # then still compile kernels in the 2.4 version (not for this computer but # for others) - or will

Re: Understanding Mutt + Fetchmail + Procmail

2001-01-21 Thread Glyn Millington
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:37:28PM +0100, thus spake Daniel de los Reyes: > > > Open mutt with "mutt -y" otherwise it will show you your default > > mailbox and you'll have to move round the others. Hitting "c" > > will move you to the next box with new mail Sorry - missed copying my first to

2 kernels on the same machine

2001-01-21 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hi, Can I use two kernels (for example 2.4 and 2.2.17) on the same machine? I mean can I use kernel 2.2.17 as the "normal" kernel I boot with and then still compile kernels in the 2.4 version (not for this computer but for others) - or will with cause more problems than it would solve? :) Will the

Re: help! just upgraded and now can't login!

2001-01-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:17:15PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:02:08PM +0800, Tim&Pep wrote: > :Hi, > : > :I'm a Debian newbie. I have just used apt-get to upgrade my system and > :now I can't seem to log in at all under X. I can login on one of the > :other virtua

Re: upgrade -1?

2001-01-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
So apt-get respects the dpkg settings on packages? I really need to learn more about how these tools work together. Mike On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:49:28AM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > Put the packages you don't want to upgrade on hold. The > following script, posted spume tim

Re: upgrade -1?

2001-01-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:46:04PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > You can also do this using 'echo foo hold | dpkg --get-selections' > (where foo is the name of a package to put on hold) if you don't like > using dselect. That looks promising. I need to learn more about those options to dpkg.

Re: free memory

2001-01-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:46:28PM +0100, Hans Marcus Kruger wrote: > On Sunday 21 January 2001 17:27, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > but the size of /proc/kcore should be exaclty as big as your memory > ls -l /proc/kcore Yup, that looks good. Thanks. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL

Re: help! just upgraded and now can't login!

2001-01-21 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:02:08PM +0800, Tim&Pep wrote: :Hi, : :I'm a Debian newbie. I have just used apt-get to upgrade my system and :now I can't seem to log in at all under X. I can login on one of the :other virtual terminals (or whatever you call that when you press :ctrl-alt F6). What have I

Re: problem compiling kernels

2001-01-21 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:10:03PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: :I have just picked up on this thread, so excuse me if I am not answering your :question! : :The Debian way of compiling the kernel is *so* easy. What I do is this: : :Unpack the kernel source into /usr/src :Change the name of the di

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