mutt and random/piped signatures... ?

2001-04-25 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:01:50AM -0300, John R Lenton wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:32:43AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > [ ... about fiddling with mutt to get fancy signatures ...] > > What I'd really like (and implement if I had the time) is for > mutt to have an option to check on sta

Re: SSH faking auth loop : what does it mean?

2001-04-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:14:32AM -0700, brian moore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:03:28PM -0500, hanasaki wrote: > > The below turned up in my syslog the other day... Can someone please > > explain it? > > > > TIA > > > > Apr 25 00:45:00 portal sshd[23291]: Faking au

Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

2001-04-25 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:12:34PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:24:01AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > -- > > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP: > > What's a "manpage"? It's the documentation you get when you enter > > "man SOMETHING" such as "man ps" or "man bash" or "man apt-setup". >

Re: need help configuring hosts.deny

2001-04-25 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > I use Postfix as maildaemon. > > > > I don't believe you want to be messing around in hosts.allow > > for this. Correct. Postfix does not use tcpwrappers AFAIK. Therefore, it will not check against hosts.{allow,deny}. > I would hope that postfix's

Re: How to download a package?

2001-04-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:54:42AM -0400, - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This may seem like a stupid question but how do you download a Debian > package? > (Yes, I'm a really low level newbie) Not stupid, just getting the hang of things. True confessions, I still remember asking what all those

Re: HOWTO? Fix a term that has "space junk"

2001-04-25 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:32:30PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Quoting will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:51:11AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > it clears the screen if you type reset but > > > > > > I do it so often I added this to my .inputrc file > > > # Reset te

Re: [perl] glob() and filenames w/ spaces

2001-04-25 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:43:00PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > perl -e 'opendir DIR,".";print join ":",grep/.*/,readdir DIR' > > What's the point of the grep() there? grep /.*/ by definition returns all > elements (since . is 'any character' and * is 'zero or more of them'). you're rig

FRÅGA?!?!

2001-04-25 Thread V.Micic
Snälla,jag behöver hjälp med Debian,jag har försökt i 5 timmar att installera det,jag har läst allt...När jag kommer till Partition Hard disk i installationen kommer jag inte längre,jag gjorde en Linux partition i Partition Magic 6.0 men det funkar helt enkelt inte... Kan ni inte snääälla ski

Re: Killing session remotely?

2001-04-25 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 07:26:14AM -0700, Pad Bambury wrote: > Hey Richard, > thanks for the advice. Must confess serious newbie > status however and am very chary of messing stuff up. > How would I find the pid exactly? Say the user acc > was called jeff. Should I > 1. shell in under my own

kdebase-crypto?

2001-04-25 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i'm trying to set up security on konqueror. it advises me that i need to install the kdebase-crypto package. however, apt-get install kdebase-crypto results in: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package kdebase-crypto ha

Re: need help configuring hosts.deny

2001-04-25 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:48:10AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:44:00AM +0200, Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have reason to belive that my computer is used as a relay host for > > spam. Walking through the logs, I found one ip number which

Re: SSH faking auth loop : what does it mean?

2001-04-25 Thread Jason Healy
At 988221808s since epoch (04/25/01 14:03:28 -0400 UTC), hanasaki wrote: > The below turned up in my syslog the other day... Can someone please > explain it? > > Apr 25 00:45:00 portal sshd[23291]: Faking authloop for illegal user > administrator from 4.60 ... When somebody tries to log on to y

Re: need help configuring hosts.deny

2001-04-25 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: > I have reason to belive that my computer is used as a relay host for > spam. Walking through the logs, I found one ip number which has no ip > name, but it connects the computer every hour or so and sends some mail. Could you post the log please? It might h

Re: SSH faking auth loop : what does it mean?

2001-04-25 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:03:28PM -0500, hanasaki wrote: > The below turned up in my syslog the other day... Can someone please > explain it? > > TIA > > Apr 25 00:45:00 portal sshd[23291]: Faking authloop for illegal user > administrator from 4.60 ... It means that someone tried to ssh in wi

Re: need help configuring hosts.deny

2001-04-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > I use Postfix as maildaemon. > > > > > I don't believe you want to be messing around in hosts.allow > for this. > > I'm not specifically familiar with postfix, but suspect there's > a fairly straightforward way to disable mail relays. Check > your docs. > > Why do you allow them in the first p

SSH faking auth loop : what does it mean?

2001-04-25 Thread hanasaki
The below turned up in my syslog the other day... Can someone please explain it? TIA Apr 25 00:45:00 portal sshd[23291]: Faking authloop for illegal user administrator from 4.60 ...

Re: X memory problem

2001-04-25 Thread Andrej Marjan
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:47:57AM +0200, Marc Leeman wrote: > The problem: When I am starting my X server with the nvidia module (not > nv, there I have no problem), I get a green rectangle on my screen. It > covers everything at that place except my mouse cursor. I log in (KDE > 2.1.1) and star

Re: Ximian gnome 1.4

2001-04-25 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 25 Apr 2001 07:34:11 +, Viktor Lakics wrote: > Or installing it in the debian way with dselect or apt? But what > should I put into sources.list, and what command to use to start the > install (This could be done even on a dialup O/N, because apt > restarts itself from the point it lost the

Re: newbie tip-of-the-moment

2001-04-25 Thread Steven E. Harris
This tip would have also helped with my mutt question from yesterday: ,[ Debian Newbie Tip #4 ] | Want to know WHAT FILES PACKAGE x-y-z PROVIDES? This is a job for | dpkg: enter "dpkg -L " at the command prompt. | Try "dpkg -L netbase | pager" for example. ` $ dpkg -L mutt | grep ^/etc /e

Re: need help configuring hosts.deny

2001-04-25 Thread straylite
At Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:44:00 +0200 (CEST) , Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have reason to belive that my computer is used as a relay host for > spam. Walking through the logs, I found one ip number which has no > ip name, but it connects the computer every hour or so and sends > som

Re: need help configuring hosts.deny

2001-04-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:44:00AM +0200, Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I have reason to belive that my computer is used as a relay host for > spam. Walking through the logs, I found one ip number which has no ip > name, but it connects the computer every hour or so and sends som

newbie tip-of-the-moment

2001-04-25 Thread will trillich
Okay, how many of you noticed that all my tips were #30? Stop snickering, now... We're feeling Much Better now. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #4 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Want to know WHAT FILES PACKAGE x-y-z PROVIDES? This is a job for dpkg: enter "dpkg -L " at the command prompt. Try "dpk

Re: How to download a package?

2001-04-25 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:54:42AM -0400, - wrote: > This may seem like a stupid question but how do you download a Debian > package? > (Yes, I'm a really low level newbie) > My hangup concerns these preliminaries before performing a > download. > > 1. Should all downloads be done by root

Re: Multiple Network Interfaces per host -- possible?

2001-04-25 Thread Martin Feeney
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:14:59 Wayne Topa wrote: > > In reply to:Lukas Ruf > > > > > > Just added a 2nd card a few days ago. Here is what I recall doing. > > Read through the Net3 and Ethernet howto's first and then > > > > /etc/network/aliases Had this for the first card > ^^

Re: Realplayer in stable

2001-04-25 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> 1. the version (7) of realplayer was unsupported by real player. To get the |> rpm required by the realplayer deb, you had to figure out the url of |> where to download the rpm from real because it was no longer available |> on their website. Except that realplayer version 8 seems to have bee

注册 认证 送IP卡!

2001-04-25 Thread 591i
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Debian/Sid no longer breaks my StarOffice 5.2

2001-04-25 Thread James D. Freels
I have no idea what fixed the problem. Of course, there have been a number of package updates since 04/11/01 when I originally posted a problem with StarOffice 5.2 on my system. Nevertheless, the problem seems to be fixed now. I can modify my existing StartOffice documents without a problem u

Re: Realplayer in stable

2001-04-25 Thread Eric Richardson
Jim McCloskey wrote: > > Does anyone know what has happened to the realplayer installer package > in stable? > > I believe it's supposed to be in /contrib/net/ and the package search > engine at the debian site says it exists: > >Package: realplayer 7.0.2.2 [contrib] > > But if you try to d

Ximian gnome 1.4

2001-04-25 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi All, Yesterday I tried to install the now Ximian Gnome 1.4 on potato stable, unsuccesfully. After automatically downloading the installer, then manually downloading the installer, and running it, the installer complains about not having exclusive access to dpkg (it says : could not process /va

Re: patching kernel versions

2001-04-25 Thread Robert Epprecht
David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quoting ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:18:39AM +0200, Robert Epprecht wrote: > > > I have a potato system, upgraded to r3, but not yet replaced the kernel. > > > I'd like to compile a 2.2.19 kernel. Being on a slow modem connectio

Re: Realplayer in stable

2001-04-25 Thread Angus D Madden
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:29:14AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > Does anyone know what has happened to the realplayer installer package > in stable? > > I believe it's supposed to be in /contrib/net/ and the package search > engine at the debian site says it exists: > >Package: realplayer

Re: apt-getting ximian gnome 1.4 resulted in...

2001-04-25 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 25 Apr 2001 09:15:43 -0700, Denzil Kelly wrote: > Setting up gnome-utils (1.4.0-ximian.4) ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome-utils.postinst: > scrollkeeper-update: command not found I would think you have a better chance on one of the ximian lists (there's a support list, too) at http://lists.ximia

Realplayer in stable

2001-04-25 Thread Jim McCloskey
Does anyone know what has happened to the realplayer installer package in stable? I believe it's supposed to be in /contrib/net/ and the package search engine at the debian site says it exists: Package: realplayer 7.0.2.2 [contrib] But if you try to download it: The requested URL /debi

Re: blackbox keybindings

2001-04-25 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On 25 Apr 2001, Jorge Santos wrote: > Hello I just upgraded my blackbox to 0.61.1 from Debian Woody and the Upgraded from what? > keyboard shortcuts have stopped working, I'm not using bbkeys or > anything, and the key presses just seem to fall throug to the focused > application. I think you a

blackbox keybindings

2001-04-25 Thread Jorge Santos
Hello I just upgraded my blackbox to 0.61.1 from Debian Woody and the keyboard shortcuts have stopped working, I'm not using bbkeys or anything, and the key presses just seem to fall throug to the focused application. Any ideas why this might be? jorge santos

Re: gcc 3.0, namespace, and such

2001-04-25 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:17:14PM -0600, Robert Kerr wrote: | Hi all, | Here's my situation. I'm developing a rather large project, and we're | starting to use stl stuff. Unfortunately, one of our vendor libraries | uses a "vector", which then clashes with the stl vectors we're starting to | use

apt-getting ximian gnome 1.4 resulted in...

2001-04-25 Thread Denzil Kelly
Setting up gnome-utils (1.4.0-ximian.4) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome-utils.postinst: scrollkeeper-update: command not found dpkg: error processing gnome-utils (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: gnome-utils E:

Re: Multiple Network Interfaces per host -- possible?

2001-04-25 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Multiple Network Interfaces per host -- possible? Date: Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 06:41:55PM -0400 In reply to:Wayne Topa Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Subject: Multiple Network Interfaces per host -- possible? > Date: Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:15:

Re: SMS-Mailing

2001-04-25 Thread Angus D Madden
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:42:41PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there any possibility to install a tool on my HD which i can use to > send SMS'es directly fom my machine by using my ISP? you'll need a GSM modem to connect to the GSM network. remember, GSM networks bill by the minute/me

Re: Documentation for total beginners

2001-04-25 Thread Joey Hess
Matthew Dalton wrote: > If you use vim with mutt, but also use it for other things and you don't > want it to wrap to 72 characters for those other things, put something > like this in your .muttrc > > set editor = "vim -c 'set tw=72'" A cleaner method is this, in your .vimrc: autocmd FileType

Any DSL problems after upgradng to kernel 2.4.3?

2001-04-25 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi, I want to upgrade to kernel 2.4.3 using the unoffical potato-debs. During the upgrade apt will install a new version of ppp. Will this upgrade break my DSL-Konfiguration or will it go smooth? TIA juh -- Bücherwahnsinn! Was kann man ohne Angst noch lesen? http://www.sudelbuch.de/2001/2001022

Re: installing latest version of Lyx...

2001-04-25 Thread Nate Amsden
Hannu Virtanen wrote: > Now, is there anybody who knows if Potato can be upgreded to: > > libc6 (>= 2.2.1-2), libforms0.89, libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2, xlibs (>= > 4.0.1-11) no. if you were to upgrade to that version of libc6 you'd no longer be running potato, but rather woody or unstable. a workar

Re: X log files and xscreensaver

2001-04-25 Thread Nate Amsden
Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > These lines just accumulate, more and more until the /var partition is > full. I wouldn't worry about it if the logs could be rotated often > enough to prevent this from becoming a problem, but it only takes a > day or two for my 250M /var partition to fill up. A

Re: gnu-pop3d log messages

2001-04-25 Thread Nate Amsden
"Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote: > i /thought/ that my hosts.allow was set up correctly, but apparently not. > here it is: > > # cat /etc/hosts.allow > ALL: LOCAL, 192.168.2.6, 192.168.2.2, 209.42.193. > gnu-pop3d: ALL looks fine to me. the errors are normal, looks like the hostnames you gave the ma

Re: problem with making system bootable during installation

2001-04-25 Thread Nate Amsden
Arto wrote: > > Hi, > > I have problems in installing Debian Woody. Everything goes fine until > "Make System Bootable", which failed. Also "Make a Boot Floppy" failed, > even floppy is not write protected and I have only one floppy drive. [..] > I use compact boot floppies from > http://ftp.fi.d

Re: configuring two outgoing gateways

2001-04-25 Thread Nate Amsden
Erik Reuter wrote: > > I have two DSL lines which each have a different gateway and use a > different static IP address. I have both lines multiplexed onto the same > wire using a switch and cross-over cables, but I only connect to one DSL > line at a time on the ethernet card in my Debian box. So

Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

2001-04-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > So far, it seems that everyone has suggested avoiding internal > > modems and getting an external one. Why ?? If someone is > > capable of building their own PC, I'd hope they're also capable > > of reading the requirements of a modem they purchase. > I have an internal USR modem that goofed u

Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

2001-04-25 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > So far, it seems that everyone has suggested avoiding internal modems > and getting an external one. Why ?? If someone is capable of building > their own PC, I'd hope they're also capable of reading the requirements > of a modem they purchase. I've used two or three di

Re: Getting package from "testing" for potato

2001-04-25 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:15:08AM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:15:09PM +1000, Mark wrote: > > > I can't seem to figure out what the build-depends are. I tried doing > > "apt-cache show hotplug", but it can't find it because I only have deb-src > > pointing to test

Re: Bootable Linux-on-a-CD

2001-04-25 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Just noticed this new package in SID : bootcd It should allow you to get a system similar to your desktop on a CD. This package actually sounds really cool. -- I'm an occurence of the I love GNU virus. Please help me spread.

Re: Problem with disk space

2001-04-25 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Most probably your bios/partition program uses LBA adressing, and linux does not, so same number of blocks (read from the partition table, the same for every program) but of smaller size (normal vs LBA) may accout for your situation. Try passing the argument hdX=lba to the kernel maybe ? -- I'

Re: Killing session remotely?

2001-04-25 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Alternatively you can slay the user as root. log in, su, and slay jeff. (simply type slay jeff) should do the trick if no suid apps were launched. -- I'm an occurence of the I love GNU virus. Please help me spread.

Re: Problem with disk space

2001-04-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
> It sounds very good to me, i understand you perfectly, now, > can you think of any reason why in the BIOS i can see the > 40Gb disk and when i'm going to create the partitions, on > linux, it only reads 8Gb? An old (too old) version of fdisk or cfdisk ?? I don't know which you're using... It lo

Debian install with a softwareraid.

2001-04-25 Thread Peter Durieux
Hi all. I have to install a debian box with softwareraid The problem is that also my root filsystem have to be on the raid Has someone exprience with this or where can I find those bootflops 4 software raid or any documentation how to fix this Thanx in advance. grtz Peter Durieux

Re: Problem with disk space

2001-04-25 Thread punt45ACP
Check your Lilo. If you have an old system, you might need to append /linear in roder to see all 40Gigs! Jenner Almánzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks!!! > > It sounds very good to me, i understand you perfectly, now, can you think of > any reason why in the BIOS i can see the 40Gb disk

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

2001-04-25 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ flying -pool >> >> not enough colors: I need 10 colors + 4 planes. >> >> >> >> I should be running 1024x768, 24 bit ... >> It's in fact too MANY colors for flying. Try changing to 8 bit. Karsten> xnest i

Re: Killing session remotely?

2001-04-25 Thread punt45ACP
Okay, Login remotely using whatever ID and enter "su -" The machine will ask for the root password. Enter that and type: "ps -fA | grep gnome" (otherwise you'll be flooded with PID's). If you can't find the session, enter "ps -fA | less" so you'll be able to scroll through the entire proces

Re: SMS-Mailing

2001-04-25 Thread Willi Dyck
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:42:41PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any possibility to install a tool on my HD which i can use to > send SMS'es directly fom my machine by using my ISP? > > If yes please tell me! I use Woody. Is there any package? YASP - Yet Another Stupid Pager-tool :)

RE: howto identify missing stdlib.h after compile?

2001-04-25 Thread Lewis, James M.
> > Unless I compile with -Wall, following code compiles with no warning > with "gcc -g -o example example.c". > > How should I tell that this code is broke after compile? > -- > # include > /*# include */ /*Not to have this for atof is the bug*/ > int main(int argc, char **argv) { > flo

Re: Killing session remotely?

2001-04-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting Pad Bambury ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > someone, somehow at my workplace left a gnome session > Hey Richard, > thanks for the advice. Must confess serious newbie > status however and am very chary of messing stuff up. > How would I find the pid exactly? Say the user acc > was called jef

Re: Problem with disk space

2001-04-25 Thread Jenner Almánzar
Thanks!!! It sounds very good to me, i understand you perfectly, now, can you think of any reason why in the BIOS i can see the 40Gb disk and when i'm going to create the partitions, on linux, it only reads 8Gb? Jenner - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Can't find modules - but they work

2001-04-25 Thread Glyn Millington
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You've probably got modules listed in /etc/modules that you no longer > need as you've built them in. This file got written when you > originally installed Debian, and must be maintained manually. > > /etc/modutils/modules.conf can contain all so

Re: patching kernel versions

2001-04-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:18:39AM +0200, Robert Epprecht wrote: > > I have a potato system, upgraded to r3, but not yet replaced the kernel. > > I'd like to compile a 2.2.19 kernel. Being on a slow modem connection > > I don't want to download the whole source bu

Re: Killing session remotely?

2001-04-25 Thread Pad Bambury
Hey Richard, thanks for the advice. Must confess serious newbie status however and am very chary of messing stuff up. How would I find the pid exactly? Say the user acc was called jeff. Should I 1. shell in under my own acc 2. then su to jeff? or just run ps aux? Have done so, and ps aux seem

Re: How to download a package?

2001-04-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > This may seem like a stupid question but how do you download a Debian > package? > (Yes, I'm a really low level newbie) > My hangup concerns these preliminaries before performing a > download. > > 1. Should all downloads be done by root user or can any use

hotplug and HP 8200 usb CDRW

2001-04-25 Thread Mark
Can anyone help me with this? I have compiled everything necessary in the kernel, scsi support, usb etc. I have also compiled and installed hotplug and usbutils. Now, it all seems to work when I plug in the HP 8200. Syslog shows that it is recognised OK. But the last couple of lines show that

Re: Bootable Linux-on-a-CD

2001-04-25 Thread James Leigh
I think what he is looking for a complete KDE/GNOME environment to work from, not to rescue from. Check out demolinux. They make CDs of KDE/GNOME to people to try out without installing it on their disk. Everything is on the CD. Of cource it is much slower that way too. http://www.demolinux.or

Re: How to download a package?

2001-04-25 Thread ktb
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:54:42AM -0400, - wrote: > This may seem like a stupid question but how do you download a Debian > package? > (Yes, I'm a really low level newbie) > My hangup concerns these preliminaries before performing a > download. > > 1. Should all downloads be done by root

How to download a package?

2001-04-25 Thread -
This may seem like a stupid question but how do you download a Debian package? (Yes, I'm a really low level newbie) My hangup concerns these preliminaries before performing a download. 1. Should all downloads be done by root user or can any user do it? 2. What directory should be set

Re: Bootable Linux-on-a-CD

2001-04-25 Thread Brad Cramer
Take a look at this site it might be what you are looking for: http://www.demolinux.org/ Brad - Original Message - From: "Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mats Eriksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 7:41 AM Subject: Re: Bootable Linux-on-a-CD

Re: Problem with disk space

2001-04-25 Thread punt45ACP
Choose LBA! Make sure that your /boot mountpoint is somewhere BEFORE the 8GB point!! Jenner Almánzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Everybody!!! > > I'm still having problem with the my new computer's disk installing linux, it > only recognize 8Gb from 40Gb disk. I try enabling large disk thr

RE: cron: nth of month?

2001-04-25 Thread Lewis, James M.
> -Original Message- > From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 6:58 AM > To: debian-user > Subject: cron: nth of month? > > > I've got a job I'd like to run once a month, on a set day of the week, > say, the first Sunday of the month. Suggesti

Re: Gnus as email client (was: GUI Email program)

2001-04-25 Thread Ilya Martynov
JS> I would like to know what is it that you like so much about JS> Emacs+Gnus? I am not trying to be sarcastic or something like that. JS> I have tried to configure gnus a few times for using with email and JS> found it a frustration to get working. In which ways would gnus be JS> better than m

Re: Problem with disk space

2001-04-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I'm still having problem with the my new computer's disk installing > linux, it only recognize 8Gb from 40Gb disk. I try enabling large > disk through the BIOS? Take a look at the Large Disk HOWTO here: http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html Specifically, sections (5) and (4), talk a

Re: Problem with disk space

2001-04-25 Thread ktb
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:14:23AM -0400, Jenner Alm?nzar wrote: > Hi Everybody!!! > > I'm still having problem with the my new computer's disk installing linux, it > only recognize 8Gb from 40Gb disk. I try enabling large disk through the BIOS? > > In the BIOS i got these options: > - CHS > - L

Re: OT: palms vs hp49

2001-04-25 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: > * Daniel Freedman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: > > > first of all hello and sorry bout the off-topic but i have nowhere to ask, > > > sometime earlier in this month i asked about what came to be octa

Re: need help configuring hosts.deny

2001-04-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > > I have reason to belive that my computer is used as a > > > relay host for spam. Walking through the logs, I found > > > one ip number which has no ip name, but it connects the > > > computer every hour or so and sends some mail. > > > > > > I want to block this address, but I have not succee

Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

2001-04-25 Thread W. Paul Mills
News to me! Realtek chip works fine for me. But 3com often not easy. - Original Message - From: "Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 6:45 PM Subject: Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer > And if we come to talk about network card

Re: 3c509 and 2.2r2 installation

2001-04-25 Thread Tony Crawford
Harry Newton wrote (on 24 Apr 2001, at 23:15): > I'm having a little trouble doing an NFS install on a machine with a > 3com 3c509 card ( 3 ports ) for Debian 2.2r2. Stupid 3c509s. I just got one working after lots of headaches. In the end, I enabled Plug-n-Pray in the 3com EEPROM setup (but no

Problem with disk space

2001-04-25 Thread Jenner Almánzar
Hi Everybody!!!   I'm still having problem with the my new computer's disk installing linux, it only recognize 8Gb from 40Gb disk. I try enabling large disk through the BIOS?   In the BIOS i got these options: - CHS - LBA - Normal - Auto   Which of these three should i use?   Thanks in advance

Re: need help configuring hosts.deny

2001-04-25 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I have reason to belive that my computer is used as a > > relay host for spam. Walking through the logs, I found > > one ip number which has no ip name, but it connects the > > computer every hour or so and sends some mail. > > > > I want to bloc

Re: SMS-Mailing

2001-04-25 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:42:41PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hey You!! :-) > > Is there any possibility to install a tool on my HD which i can use to > send SMS'es directly fom my machine by using my ISP? > > If yes please tell me! I use Woody. Is there any package? SMS? Are you ref

Re: Bootable Linux-on-a-CD

2001-04-25 Thread ray p
Check out www.linuxcare.com/bootable_cd it is just what you are asking for. They have ISO's there for download or just talk your LUG into ordering a bunch and giving you one of the really cool small ones. :) One of the really cool things about this CD is that it just happens to be mostly Debian!

Re: Bootable Linux-on-a-CD

2001-04-25 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Mats Eriksson wrote: > Hi ! > > I am frequently confronted with MS Windows-infected PC's that I > have to use for simple tasks. It would be cool if I just could load > such a PC with a CD, boot Linux from the CD (not using the hard- > disk) and have the root file system on th

Re: SMTP problem!!

2001-04-25 Thread ktb
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 07:28:14AM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:34:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > My Mailprogram (kmail) works very well, only if i like to send with SMTP > > it refuses to work. I'm shure that the configuration of kmail is correct. > >

eZpublish

2001-04-25 Thread Ales Jerman
Is there any Debian package for eZpublish? Thanks! Bye, Ales

Re: SMS-Mailing

2001-04-25 Thread ktb
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:42:41PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hey You!! :-) > > Is there any possibility to install a tool on my HD which i can use to > send SMS'es directly fom my machine by using my ISP? > > If yes please tell me! I use Woody. Is there any package? > Configure exim

Re: SMTP problem!!

2001-04-25 Thread ktb
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:34:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi! > > My Mailprogram (kmail) works very well, only if i like to send with SMTP > it refuses to work. I'm shure that the configuration of kmail is correct. > So i think tere must be another tool of Woody that is not configure

Re: need help configuring hosts.deny

2001-04-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I have reason to belive that my computer is used as a > relay host for spam. Walking through the logs, I found > one ip number which has no ip name, but it connects the > computer every hour or so and sends some mail. > > I want to block this address, but I have not succeeded in > configuring the

configuring two outgoing gateways

2001-04-25 Thread Erik Reuter
I have two DSL lines which each have a different gateway and use a different static IP address. I have both lines multiplexed onto the same wire using a switch and cross-over cables, but I only connect to one DSL line at a time on the ethernet card in my Debian box. Sometimes one of the DSL lines w

installing latest version of Lyx...

2001-04-25 Thread Hannu Virtanen
on 'Potato' There is one guy, who has made unofficial 'deb' package of the current version of Lyx. After asking, if I could run this package on 'Potato' I got the following instruction: ___ Here are te main depend

Re: patching kernel versions

2001-04-25 Thread ktb
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:18:39AM +0200, Robert Epprecht wrote: > I have a potato system, upgraded to r3, but not yet replaced the kernel. > I'd like to compile a 2.2.19 kernel. Being on a slow modem connection > I don't want to download the whole source but got patch-2.2.18.bz2 and > patch-2.2.19

Re: X gone all goofy

2001-04-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
> First time this has happened in some time, but after a > fairly minor apt-get dist-upgrade, X no longer seems to > want to work. I have attached the full output of the > command (I don't know whether it is relevant), but the tail > end of it is as follows: > > Fatal server error: > could not open

Bootable Linux-on-a-CD

2001-04-25 Thread Mats Eriksson
Hi ! I am frequently confronted with MS Windows-infected PC's that I have to use for simple tasks. It would be cool if I just could load such a PC with a CD, boot Linux from the CD (not using the hard- disk) and have the root file system on the CD, stuffed with common Linux SW. It would be even co

Re: Killing session remotely?

2001-04-25 Thread punt45ACP
Get in remotely, do an "su -" and a "kill -9 " That should do the job! Regards//Richard Pad Bambury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey all, > someone, somehow at my workplace left a gnome session > running on a pc while managing to get back to the > login screen.  Now nobody can login to that part

Killing session remotely?

2001-04-25 Thread Pad Bambury
Hey all, someone, somehow at my workplace left a gnome session running on a pc while managing to get back to the login screen. Now nobody can login to that particular pc, except remotely. Is there a way of remotely terminating this session? Any help would be welcome. Cheers, Pad. _

Re: OT: palms vs hp49

2001-04-25 Thread Sergio E. Schvezov
* Daniel Freedman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: > > first of all hello and sorry bout the off-topic but i have nowhere to ask, > > sometime earlier in this month i asked about what came to be octave, > > it was really cool. > > ... > > I've had an

Re: Does anyone know what this is ?

2001-04-25 Thread Kevin Easton
From: "Curtis Hogg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "will trillich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 6:47 PM Subject: Re: Does anyone know what this is ? > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > daytime, i'm not sure on. daytime returns the system date and time. Eg

Re: howto identify missing stdlib.h after compile?

2001-04-25 Thread Kevin Easton
Hi, You can't, because it's not. As long as your program is linked with a library that exports atof (in this case, glibc), and you call it correctly, then there's no problem. Of course, if you don't include the declaration of atof (which is what's in stdlib.h), then the compiler can't check the

problem with making system bootable during installation

2001-04-25 Thread Arto
Hi, I have problems in installing Debian Woody. Everything goes fine until "Make System Bootable", which failed. Also "Make a Boot Floppy" failed, even floppy is not write protected and I have only one floppy drive. I have app. 12 GB harddisk, which have three partitions /boot (bootable), /

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