Re: fb setup on console

2001-04-19 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:43:04PM +1000, Trevor Callow wrote: > > Answer to this question is probably very simple but it alludes me. > > I have a alpha station 4/166 running Debian potato. It has tga card and > would like to run a fixed frequency monitor on it "hp a2094b". The console > works fi

offtopic:gimp script-fu

2001-04-19 Thread alephtnull
Hi! I know this is offtopic but maybe someone knows about gimp here... I want to use script-fu to create a quick logo but everytime I try to save it (as a jpeg or bmp) the image is grayscale and not the original color in script-fu. Anybody knows how I can save whatever I create logo in script-fu i

Re: lynx and proxy

2001-04-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:55:06PM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: > At 987785409s since epoch (04/20/01 07:50:09 -0400 UTC), Renai LeMay wrote: > > how do I set Lynx to use a http proxy? > > set the $http_proxy environment variable, ie: > > export http_proxy=http://my.proxy.com:8080/ Or uncomment the

gpm problem

2001-04-19 Thread sam varghese
i recently updated my debian workstation. i am running potato; i haven't changed from the kernel that originally came with the distribution but that apart everything else is up-to-date. yesterday morning, i had reason to reboot my machine and find that i can't get back in. the machine boots u

not enough colors: I need 10 colors + 4 planes.

2001-04-19 Thread Joost van der Lugt
Sorry for the repost, I changed the subject, just wondered if anybody knows what this means, trying to get this game to work for my daughter: ) > Hi all, > > A question. > When trying to run a game I have last seen running in Redhat 5.2 I get > the following error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ flying

Re: Getting Online with DSL Ethernet

2001-04-19 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Anthony ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010419 21:46]: > Does anyone have any info on how to get online using ethernet. > I know you edit the pppconfig file for dial-up but I'm unsure of how to set > it up through the ethernet. If your provider uses PPPoE, I'd suggest Roaring Penguin's PPPoE client. It's a

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:40:47AM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:12:09AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > At 12:27 AM 4/18/01 -0400, joeytsai wrote: > > Also, I noticed some other threads referred to ximian for stable; that's > > certainly a change. I remember when I got Hel

Re: lynx and proxy

2001-04-19 Thread Jason Healy
At 987785409s since epoch (04/20/01 07:50:09 -0400 UTC), Renai LeMay wrote: > how do I set Lynx to use a http proxy? set the $http_proxy environment variable, ie: export http_proxy=http://my.proxy.com:8080/ 'man lynx' for more information. Jason -- Jason Healy| [EMAIL PROTECTED] LogN S

lynx and proxy

2001-04-19 Thread Renai LeMay
how do I set Lynx to use a http proxy? regards, Renai

Re: full duplex ethernet ?

2001-04-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > That could be, although these are brand new Netgear cards (EA201 or > something like that). Even these days, automatic negotiation is problematic. If this is a managed switch, it would be

Re: iptables and domain services...

2001-04-19 Thread Jason Healy
At 987720434s since epoch (04/19/01 17:47:14 -0400 UTC), Janet Post wrote: > iptables -I INPUT 1 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT > > This allows ALL connections that have been established or are related > though. In your discription, you describe something much more strict. > Is

Re: lilo

2001-04-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:56:06PM +, tomo kiwc wrote: | i know how to make a dual boot system by changing lilo.conf file. Check on linuxdoc.org. It is complicated! (IMO) | but is there any other way than that to set up a dual boot under debian? Use grub :-). www.gnu.org/software/grub It

Re: full duplex ethernet ?

2001-04-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 07:15:56PM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D-Man) writes: | > | > Most cards (that I have/have seen) have LEDs near the RJ-45 jack. | > They usually tell you. The switch I have also indicates whether the | > connection is 10 or 100 and whether it is Full o

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:42:26PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > apt-get update > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19 > > If I do the last step, will my current kernel be left in place and be > bootable if I have problems with the upgrade? yes, debian kernel version

Re: how to set correct time?

2001-04-19 Thread Jason Healy
At 987742682s since epoch (04/19/01 18:58:02 -0400 UTC), Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I foolishly don't know how to set the correct time for my system clock. > The timezone is correctly set to London/England, but the time is about 6 > hours out (date reports the time in 'BST' - I presume this is "

Re: full duplex ethernet ?

2001-04-19 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (D-Man) writes: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:01:49PM -0400, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > | > | Hi, > | > | is it possible to query the kernel ( 2.2.19 ) if a given ethernet card > | is in half o full duplex mode ? > > Most cards (that I have/have seen) have LEDs near the

Re: apt-get upgrading packages of same version

2001-04-19 Thread CaT
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:48:42AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > CaT wrote: > > > > Because I have mysql dealing with a db whose files are >2gig I've > > > apt-get -b source libc6 > > dpkg --install libc6_2.1.3-18_i386.deb libc6-dev_2.1.3-18_i386.deb > > locales_2.1.3-18_i386.deb > > dpkg --instal

Re: No sound in Gnome

2001-04-19 Thread Martin Schulze
[repost] Deryk Lister wrote: > Here's an odd one, it's had me tearing my hair out for hours and I still > can't figure it out! > I can't get some gnome apps (specifically, the Gnome Control Center or > Gabber) to make sounds. > > The situation so far: > esound and OSS are both working, I've tes

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-19 Thread Frank Preut
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:12:09AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > At 12:27 AM 4/18/01 -0400, joeytsai wrote: > Also, I noticed some other threads referred to ximian for stable; that's > certainly a change. I remember when I got Helix Gnome it required woody. that's the stupid part about all this: x

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-19 Thread Eric Richardson
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 08:01:32PM -0700, Rick Commo wrote: > > Ethan, > > > > As someone who is still a newbie in a lot of the "Debian ways", I am > > curious. How is 2.2r3 different than doing apt-get update; apt-get upgrade > > on 2.2r2? > > thats exactly what you do.

Re: how to set correct time?

2001-04-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:58:02PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I foolishly don't know how to set the correct time for my system clock. > The timezone is correctly set to London/England, but the time is about 6 > hours out (date reports the time in 'BST' - I presume this is "British > Standa

Re: Getting Online with DSL Ethernet

2001-04-19 Thread Anthony
Actually it's not a static IP. > From: Chad Maine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:27:52 -0700 > To: debian-Help > Subject: RE: Getting Online with DSL Ethernet > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Resent-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 18:35:34 -0400 (EDT) > > http://www.roaring

how to set correct time?

2001-04-19 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I foolishly don't know how to set the correct time for my system clock. The timezone is correctly set to London/England, but the time is about 6 hours out (date reports the time in 'BST' - I presume this is "British Standard Time"). I tried using the date command but nothing happened. Thanks for

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac 7600 with G3 upgrade

2001-04-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:29:33PM -0400, Leyah Cynamon wrote: > I have a PowerMac 7600 which has an XLR8 400 Mhz Mach Speed G3 Card > replacing the original Apple132 Mhz processor (daughter) card. > > I noticed that the BootX 1.2.2 ReadMe says in bold lettering "BootX and > miBoot should be avoi

user=halt=halt, user=reboot=halt?

2001-04-19 Thread Lang Hurst
Hello, I added users to halt and reboot, respectively, by making the formers login shell /sbin/halt and the latter's /sbin/reboot. If I login as the halt user, the system shuts down and powers off. Great. When I login as the reboot user, the system shuts down and powers off. Not what I wanted.

Re: 2.4 kernel how good is it?

2001-04-19 Thread John Griffiths
>>2) Will i need to re-do my modules? Particularly with the >>machine thats got the IDE cd writer i had to do some module >>voodoo, that i was uncomfortable with, to make it work. or >>will the upgrade handle that kind of thing? (I'm a >>cargo-cultist when it comes to modules) > >Yes...new modules

lilo

2001-04-19 Thread tomo kiwc
i know how to make a dual boot system by changing lilo.conf file. but is there any other way than that to set up a dual boot under debian? --- Czy guglujesz? http://szukaj.ahoj.pl

Re: Where can I get ssh2 ?

2001-04-19 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
"Noah" == Noah L Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Noah> The ssh package from unstable or testing supports ssh protocol Noah> version 2. If you really really need the commercial SSH2, you Noah> can get it from http://www.ssh.com. But you probably don't need Noah> that. Okay, thanks. I could

Re: Wordperfect8 missing libXpm.so.4

2001-04-19 Thread Doug Hespe
> > You need the xpm4.7 package. Or you could forget about wp8 and help > my nightmares go away. > Yes! It worked-- thanks again fellows! Cheerio, Doug.

RE: Getting Online with DSL Ethernet

2001-04-19 Thread Chad Maine
http://www.roaringpenguin.com has an excellent PPPoE client. -Original Message- From: D-Man [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 3:26 PM To: debian-Help Subject: Re: Getting Online with DSL Ethernet On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:53:57PM -0700, Anthony wrote: | Does anyon

Re: Getting Online with DSL Ethernet

2001-04-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:53:57PM -0700, Anthony wrote: | Does anyone have any info on how to get online using ethernet. | I know you edit the pppconfig file for dial-up but I'm unsure of how to set | it up through the ethernet. If your service uses a static IP it is easy. 'man interfaces' for

Re: bride of 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles

2001-04-19 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> I'm still not getting any packets out, though. I have nameservers |> in /etc/resolv.conf. I have *no idea* where to configure a default |> gateway. Do I need to do a 'route add'? Some documentation I've |> seen makes reference to "/etc/init.d/network" but that file isn't |> present on my machin

Re: OT: compiler flags: what is "-lqt" ?

2001-04-19 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 06:02:06PM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > > I'm having a bit of trouble trying to modify a Makefile for my system. The > > program depends on Qt, of which I have libqt-emb-dev installed. > > try installing libqt2-dev That was too damned easy. Thanks Pietro. I thought th

Re: Getting Online with DSL Ethernet

2001-04-19 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I couldn't get DSL working at all w/ my internal Cisco 605, but if you have an external modem, it's not hard at all. Go to www.linuxdoc.org and read the DSL HOWTO (might be listed as ADSL HOWTO?) Cameron Matheson On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:53:57PM -0700, Anthony wrote: > Does anyone have

superblock corrupted

2001-04-19 Thread Philipp Lehman
I have a serious problem with what seems to be a superblock corruption on /dev/hda3. When running fsck, it bails out with the following error: e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem

Talking with another Terminal

2001-04-19 Thread Miller, Jim
Hello all you brilliant people (buttering up hoping for answers) :-) I have an application running under Linux. I would like to be able to send keystrokes to it as it they were entered on the keyboard that is connected to that terminal. OK so a keyboard isn't neccesarily connected but I need to

Getting Online with DSL Ethernet

2001-04-19 Thread Anthony
Does anyone have any info on how to get online using ethernet. I know you edit the pppconfig file for dial-up but I'm unsure of how to set it up through the ethernet. Thanks for any help. Anthony Minero Creative Director PencilFight Design PENCILFIGHT.COM 2518 Lincoln Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 902

Re: iptables and domain services...

2001-04-19 Thread Janet Post
Jason, I used Phil's rule: iptables -I INPUT 1 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT This allows ALL connections that have been established or are related though. In your discription, you describe something much more strict. Is it possible to exploit that, or should I close it off m

SOLVED - iptables and domain problem...

2001-04-19 Thread Janet Post
HOT DOG... Phil...you solved the problem. iptables -I INPUT 1 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT I've been beating my head against the wall for so long that I didn't realize that this command not only stopped reply packets from having to traverse the whole chain, but it would

Re: APT Questions.

2001-04-19 Thread Neil Walsh
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:13:35PM +0200, Andrzej Swedrzynski stated: > On 19 Apr 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > [snip] > Thank you very much for answers. > > > > 4. Let's suppose that I know the name of the program but I do not know > > > what package it is in. I have my CDs, but do not have a

Re: iptables and domain services...

2001-04-19 Thread Jason Healy
At 987717599s since epoch (04/19/01 16:59:59 -0400 UTC), Janet Post wrote: > > So you're running a DNS server? > > No. I'm just trying to get name resolution working. > I'm still not clear on this then...What ports do I open to allow my server > and the computers behind it resolve ip numbers?

Need to resize a Win2K NTFS partition before I can install

2001-04-19 Thread Felix Oxley
Can you suggest a tool which can do this?   Thanks.  

Re: Wordperfect8 missing libXpm.so.4

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Shutko
Doug Hespe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry, Alan, but until I can learn to use LyX, troff, or LaTeX, the > maths papers I have to write for my students need Wordperfect8. Well, you could use SO and I couldn't support you, so I'd feel better.[1] You might also try to get ahold of Corel's Lin

Re: Bellsouth ADSL

2001-04-19 Thread Ted Rathkopf
"Arafat Mohamed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone had luck getting they're dsl service from bellsouth to work? If > so, would you be kind enough as to show me how? Yup. I did. > > I got a 3com PCI card with my service... Get an external ethernet modem. The internal modem is not suppor

Re: Wordperfect8 missing libXpm.so.4

2001-04-19 Thread Doug Hespe
> You need the xpm4.7 package. Or you could forget about wp8 and help > my nightmares go away. > Thanks Bently and Alan: I will give that a try. Sorry, Alan, but until I can learn to use LyX, troff, or LaTeX, the maths papers I have to write for my students need Wordperfect8. The latest version

Re: iptables and domain services...

2001-04-19 Thread Janet Post
>>> "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/19 4:41 PM >>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:36:37PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > > iptables -A INPUT -p UDP --source-port domain -j ACCEPT > > > > Huh? That is completely untrue. If that was the case then any program > > that wished to lookup host

Re: Drive images

2001-04-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:37:58AM -0700, Scott Fraser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Bill Fowler wrote: > > > > I want to replicate my Debian system onto a number of other PCs, not all of > > which have the same size hard drive. Is there a good way to make an image > > of a partition(s) and repli

Re: iptables and domain services...

2001-04-19 Thread Janet Post
So you're running a DNS server? No. I'm just trying to get name resolution working. iptables is just trying to resolve the ip numbers in your rules. "iptables -L -n" will change that. Yes. I -finally- figured this out, thanks to Phil and Noah. Noah was correct that iptables hanging was just

Re: firewall log messages

2001-04-19 Thread John Patton
I did a little bit of research, and it appears to be a known bug in some tcp stack or another. Nobody seems to know exactly where it's comming from, but the feeling is that it's not malicious. Check out the following link (and it's follow up messages) for more info, as well as a fix of sorts. http

Bellsouth ADSL

2001-04-19 Thread Arafat Mohamed
Has anyone had luck getting they're dsl service from bellsouth to work? If so, would you be kind enough as to show me how? I got a 3com PCI card with my service... Arafat B Mohamed Web Developer RMC Industries.com (404) 371-1050

Re: NTFS and common users.

2001-04-19 Thread Emil Pedersen
Andrzej Swedrzynski wrote: > > Hello! > > There is Win2000 installed on my Debian machine. I want to access files > from Win2000 partition, so I added the following line to /etc/fstab: > > /dev/hda1 /nt autodefaults,ro 0 2 > > However after NTFS is mounted only root can

Re: firewall log messages

2001-04-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Packet log: input REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 65.6.x.x:513 > 65.255.255.255:513 > L=160 S=0x00 I=20143 F=0x T=64 (#5) > 24.7.73.5 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast. > 24.7.73.5 sent an

Re: iptables and domain services...

2001-04-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:36:37PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > > iptables -A INPUT -p UDP --source-port domain -j ACCEPT > > > > Huh? That is completely untrue. If that was the case then any program > > that wished to lookup hosts in the DNS would need to be run as root > > (ordinary users do

Re: iptables and domain services...

2001-04-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > iptables -A INPUT -p UDP --source-port domain -j ACCEPT > > Huh? That is completely untrue. If that was the case then any program > that wished to lookup hosts in the DNS would need to b

Re: making bootable CD from running debian setup

2001-04-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:13:03PM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:20:45PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: <...> [Points] > > - Disk is cheap. Bandwidth still sucks. System and distro > > maintenance are both time-consuming and expensive. The i

Re: iptables and domain services...

2001-04-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I am trying to set up a firewall on my server and am having trouble > with one of my iptables rules. > > I can set up all the rules that I like, but I can't seem to get this > one to work: >

Re: firewall log messages

2001-04-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:21:14PM -0500, John Patton wrote: > Whoops... what was I thinking??? udp port 513 is the who > service, which could conceivably be used for malicious > purposes. None-the-less, silently denying messages not > intended for you will still solve that part of the problem. We

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac 7600 with G3 upgrade

2001-04-19 Thread Andrew D Dixon
> I noticed that the BootX 1.2.2 ReadMe says in bold lettering "BootX and > miBoot should be avoided on "newworld" type machines". As I don't know > if my machine qualifies as a "new world" type machine, I have to ask: > has anyone tried BootX on a machine like mine? or is that not such a > good id

Re: firewall log messages

2001-04-19 Thread John Patton
Whoops... what was I thinking??? udp port 513 is the who service, which could conceivably be used for malicious purposes. None-the-less, silently denying messages not intended for you will still solve that part of the problem. On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:12:35PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On

Re: firewall log messages

2001-04-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:09:34PM -0500, John Patton wrote: > Hmmm... that is rather strange. PROTO=17 is the icmp > protocol, but there is definately no icmp type 513. You must be running a different IP implementation than the rest of the world. Look up protocol 17 in /etc/protocols. noah --

Re: firewall log messages

2001-04-19 Thread John Patton
Hmmm... that is rather strange. PROTO=17 is the icmp protocol, but there is definately no icmp type 513. Also, according to the log, you are receiving a packet from your address over your ethernet card... which is questionable at best. However, I can't think of any hacking purpose for sending such

Re: iptables and domain services...

2001-04-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:59:14PM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: > Or, if you don't feel like opening all 64,000+ of those ports, try a rule > like: > > iptables -A INPUT -p UDP --source-port domain -j ACCEPT > > > Since DNS requests will appear to come from port 53 (domain), this rule lets > all su

Re: firewall log messages

2001-04-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 01:38:07PM -0600, Robert Kerr wrote: > I'm using a cable modem, and have it firewalled at my box. Every now and > then I get the following messages on the current console > > Packet log: input REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 65.6.x.x:513 > 65.255.255.255:513 > L=160 S=0x00 I=20143 F=

Re: iptables and domain services...

2001-04-19 Thread Jason Healy
At 987713387s since epoch (04/19/01 15:49:47 -0400 UTC), Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > If you run 'netstat -ulp' (as root, of course) you'll find that bind is > listening on some high port. If you allow UDP on ports > 1024 you should > be all set. Or, if you don't feel like opening all 64,000+ of

Re: Where can I get ssh2 ?

2001-04-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:49:38PM -0700, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > There used to be a package called ssh2, but I can't find it any more. > The package ssh only appears to install ssh1. Am I missing something? The ssh package from unstable or testing supports ssh protocol version 2. If yo

Re: NTFS and common users.

2001-04-19 Thread aphro
> Hello! > > There is Win2000 installed on my Debian machine. I want to access files > from Win2000 partition, so I added the following line to /etc/fstab: stop right there :) ive read time and time again that NTFS under linux is UNSTABLE. and especially the code with win2k filesystems. see th

Re: iptables and domain services...

2001-04-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:17:24PM -0400, Janet Post wrote: > I have no trouble if I set the policy of the chain in question to > ACCEPT, I have no trouble. The problem is that DNS requests don't usually happen on port 53. You are seeing hangs because iptables is trying to resolve the hostnames

Where can I get ssh2 ?

2001-04-19 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
There used to be a package called ssh2, but I can't find it any more. The package ssh only appears to install ssh1. Am I missing something? Thanks. \\// | R | T R | L B | //\\ ~ Michael Abraham Shulman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kurukshetra.cjb.net/ ~ GnuPG Pub

console/kbd packages and default keymaps

2001-04-19 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
Can someone please explain to me which of the console-* and kbd packages I should and should not be using? Their web of dependencies and conflicts is too hard for me to unravel. I'm running testing (with a few packages from unstable thrown in). And after that, how do I set the default keymap? T

Re: APT Questions.

2001-04-19 Thread Moritz Schulte
Andrzej Swedrzynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You can search through your whole APT cache via 'apt-get search > > '; or you can also search via dpkg -l. See the man pages. > > $ apt-get search xfontsel > E: Invalid operation search Sorry, a typo. I meant 'apt-cache search'. moritz

Re: [debian-users] bride of 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles

2001-04-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:44:52AM -0700, Randall Hansen wrote: > I'm still not getting any packets out, though. I have nameservers in > /etc/resolv.conf. I have *no idea* where to configure a default gateway. Do > I need to do a 'route add'? Some documentation I've seen makes reference to > "/etc/

firewall log messages

2001-04-19 Thread Robert Kerr
I'm using a cable modem, and have it firewalled at my box. Every now and then I get the following messages on the current console Packet log: input REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 65.6.x.x:513 65.255.255.255:513 L=160 S=0x00 I=20143 F=0x T=64 (#5) 24.7.73.5 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast. 24.

NTFS and common users.

2001-04-19 Thread Andrzej Swedrzynski
Hello! There is Win2000 installed on my Debian machine. I want to access files from Win2000 partition, so I added the following line to /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 /nt autodefaults,ro 0 2 However after NTFS is mounted only root can access the directory /nt: dr-x--1 roo

Re: APT Questions.

2001-04-19 Thread Andrzej Swedrzynski
On 19 Apr 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: [snip] Thank you very much for answers. > > 4. Let's suppose that I know the name of the program but I do not know > > what package it is in. I have my CDs, but do not have access to Debian > > search site. Can I use apt, dpkg or other tool to search my packa

Installing Debian on a Mac 7600 with G3 upgrade

2001-04-19 Thread Leyah Cynamon
Hi, I just downloaded Bootx from http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac along with other files shown on that page required for installation of Debian GNU/Linux on a PowerMac. I have never tried to install Debian GNU/Linux or any other Linux on my mac or any other computer for that matte

iptables and domain services...

2001-04-19 Thread Janet Post
Hello, I am trying to set up a firewall on my server and am having trouble with one of my iptables rules. I can set up all the rules that I like, but I can't seem to get this one to work: # iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT (or the OUTPUT equivelent) When I add this to my INPUT

Re: nvidia_drv.o and XF864.0.2

2001-04-19 Thread Anthony Lau
At 8:22 AM -0300 4/19/2001, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: have you compiled the drivers you got through APT? when you do # apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src nvidia-glx-src I didn't do that, but XFree seemed to have found a Nvidia GLX module and driver module. Just maybe not the right ones. it'l

.Xdefaults downloading problem

2001-04-19 Thread alephtnull
Hi All, I have a logitech first wheel mouse and I can scroll but cannot download files. I used to be able to do that with shift+click now I am unable to. this is what my .Xdefaults look like this: -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net!## NETSCAPE Netscape*drawingArea.translations:

Re: X configuration problems

2001-04-19 Thread Scott Fraser
Adam, at your lilo prompt type linux -s This should get you into single user mode. from there follow the advice below. Cheers, Adam Bender wrote: > > --On Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:37 AM -0700 Dieter Schicker > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Switch to a different terminal, e.g. by pressin

[debian-users] bride of 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles

2001-04-19 Thread Randall Hansen
Many thanks to all the good people who replied. I agree with those who prefer editing text files to using (e.g.) linuxconf, but it's hunting down those files which is causing me trouble. I put 3c59x into /etc/modules and that did part of the trick. Then edited /etc/network/interfaces so now eth0 i

Re: X configuration problems

2001-04-19 Thread Adam Bender
--On Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:37 AM -0700 Dieter Schicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Switch to a different terminal, e.g. by pressing "Ctrl-Alt-F2" and deinstall xdm (dpkg --purge xdm). This doesn't work for me. X Windows loads automatically when I boot, even before I login, and is comp

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2001-04-19 Thread Felicity
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Solved: Re: Can't ssh in as a normal user anymore

2001-04-19 Thread Deirdre Saoirse Moen
As it turns out, the system wrote /etc/nologin and /etc/nologin.boot when I rebooted the system (I didn't have to, but without console access, it was a LOT easier that way). It didn't remove them after startup, thus normal users couldn't log in. Thanks for all the suggestions. At 10:35 PM -0700 4

[tnetter@ini.unizh.ch: xmesa.h etc?]

2001-04-19 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from Thomas Netter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Thomas Netter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xmesa.h etc? Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:31:27 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello Branden, I'm worried this might be a FAQ but I searched and

Re: Booting Problems

2001-04-19 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > Hi guys, I'm having a bit of a problem with my laptop. I'm not blaming it > on any particular software or OS, but I thought someone might could help me > out. My laptop dual boots Win98 and Debian (testing) using LILO. I can > boot up into Linux a

Re: modprobe: Can't locate...

2001-04-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: modprobe: Can't locate... Date: Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:32:32PM +0200 In reply to:Pierre Hyvernat Quoting Pierre Hyvernat([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi to all, > > I recently added the following line in /etc/syslog.conf > "*.* /dev/tty9" > to get all messages on console 9.

Re: Debian compatibility

2001-04-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:22:07PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > That "Content-type: text/plain" shows that the message was sent in | > plain text. Any half-*** mailer should allow you to view all message | > headers when you want, so you can see exactly what is going on. | | So Outlook Expres

Re: applying _only_ security updates

2001-04-19 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:32:20PM +1000, Price, Tim wrote: > Regardless, > > Is it possible to do? > > I ask because I am running a potato system with many packages from woody, > and some security packages take longer to get into testing then they do to > get into stable. I've heard that the mo

Re: [debian-users] 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles

2001-04-19 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
the driver by 3com isn´t good. try the vortex driver, it works very fine here. (but i´m useing kernel 2.4.*). andreas

Re: Drive images

2001-04-19 Thread Scott Fraser
Good Morning Bill, Norton Ghost works nicely for this. Just make sure you make a smaller "default" install on the first system. If you don't want to use Ghost, the following is a good link taken from the SGI Sys-Admin manual. http://www.futuretech.vuurwerk.nl/disksfiles.html#CLONE Just ignore th

Re: Drive images

2001-04-19 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001, Bill Fowler wrote: > I want to replicate my Debian system onto a number of other PCs, not all of > which have the same size hard drive. Is there a good way to make an image > of a partition(s) and replicate to other PCs. > > Thanks, > > Bill Fowler Bill, Hi. While it won

snns crashes...

2001-04-19 Thread Pierre Hyvernat
Hi, I tried to compile SNNSv4.2 (a neural network simulator). Compilation went fine, but when I run it, some of the buttons make it crash. For example "File" -> "Done" results in the following X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 54 (

RE: [debian-users] 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles

2001-04-19 Thread Mark S
If that doesn't work, you could try 'alias eth0 3c59x' -Original Message- From: Michael Marziani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 12:40 PM To: 'Randall Hansen'; 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: RE: [debian-users] 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles I'm not sure how li

Re: 2.4 kernel how good is it?

2001-04-19 Thread Scott_Patterson
>Hi All, > >now that Adrian Bunk has created an apt method for upgrading >to kernel 2.4 while running potato I've got a couple of >questions I'd appreciate some help with. >1) Is it any better on low end machines? You can optimize the kernel for various processors. So, there is some improvemen

Re: [debian-users] 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles

2001-04-19 Thread alburrow
Hi, Regarding your NIC woes: > I'm trying to get my 3Com 3c900B-TPO working under Debian 2.2.18pre21. > Here's what I've tried, and what I know, or think I know :P > > - Debian installer didn't detect the card. > - The card's not detected by Debian at boot (I found no 'eth0' in dmesg) > - 'i

Re: X Window System - Mouse - Newbie Question

2001-04-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:38:14PM -0700, Anthony wrote: > Thanks Tim, > I got my mouse working with the GUI but when I start X it doesn't work. > Also I can't quit X. I hit ctrl+alt+backspace and it quits and brings me to > the text mode but than the log-in pops up again. > It's like X just keeps

Re: logcheck

2001-04-19 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:34:05PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have logcheck installed on a few systems. i cleared out most > of the things generating the reports but..it still emails me > every hour and the only contents of the email are the log entries > of it sending the previous email(m

Re: Shell prompts (was Re: floppy permissions)

2001-04-19 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:48:55AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > It's a shame that you've solved your problem; now I don't have an > > excuse to tell you that this is a great root prompt. > > Not half bad. My own approach is slightly more subtle, but reasonably > effective: Here's mine, whil

Re: any women here?

2001-04-19 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:05:32PM -0600, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote: > > > Not that there aren't some men out there with real lives, of course. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install real-life > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency

Re: [debian-users] 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles

2001-04-19 Thread Tony Crawford
Randall Hansen wrote (on 19 Apr 2001, at 8:30): > Hello folks ~ > > I'm trying to get my 3Com 3c900B-TPO working under Debian 2.2.18pre21. > Here's what I've tried, and what I know, or think I know :P "The" site to read about the 3com cards is Donald Becker's http://www.scyld.com/network/ I se

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