RE: IPX over the Internet

2001-06-21 Thread Ian Perry
H (Cogs are start to grind) Well that would take care of security via the firewall. Ian -Original Message- From: Mike Egglestone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 1:28 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: IPX over the Internet Hi... That is an inter

Re: outgoing and incoming mail problems on exim

2001-06-21 Thread Rafael Sasaki
Hi, maybe you can try to run eximconfig. It will fill in the exim.conf on the right way. But I think the exim.conf is in the /etc directory, at least on mine machine it is. I`m running a stable, not a woody. And I think the email-addresses is just to rewrite the local email addresses on the

local time

2001-06-21 Thread John Patton
My systems clock is set for my local time zone (or used to be), which always worked well before. Now it lists the time in UTC (correctly, meaning that the time listed is about 5 hours off of the actual time). This is causing problems with cron. Anybody remember where to configure that stuff? /etc/t

Re: contents of woody iso images?

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi... Just curious about the woody iso images.. Are these actual .iso images? or are they .raw CD images? I don't have any burn software that will create .raw images only .iso What is the url that you are downloading from? thanks Mike - Original Message - From: "mark" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: IPX over the Internet

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi... That is an interesting question I'm not sure how it would be setup... but wouldn't you have to setup IPX to be tunneled through TCP some how? Mike - Original Message - From: "Ian Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Debian Users'" Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 6:21 PM Subject: IPX

HP-735 [slightly offtopic]

2001-06-21 Thread Timothy Ball
I have a cool HP-735 but no keyboard or HP-HIL->ps2 connector. I thought I could use a serial console to connect to this beast but when I fire up minicom no matter what speed or settings I get nothing. Does anyone know what I have to do to make this thing do stuff? --timball -- Send mail

Re: unpredictable crashes, lock up, freezes, whatever

2001-06-21 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > This morning, after three lock ups in ten minutes, I compiled > > > frame buffer support in, fiddled my XF86Config-4 to use it and > > > I've been up for

Netscape makes X server crash!!!

2001-06-21 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
Hi! I'm using communicator-smotif-477. On some pages it crashes bringing X down with it. I experienced many Netscape crashes over the years, but this is new. It bring Xserver down!!! Example: http://www.tigerdirect.com With StyleSheets enabled it crashes everytime. IMHO, the fact that Xserver dies

Re: e-mail, the next level

2001-06-21 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello Niko, > > I think that this is great thing to do. I am equally curious as to how to > adopt > this on my server at home. > > If anyone has good comments on how best to do this, I would welcome the > information tremendously. > > Just 2 additional things: > >

Re: IPX over the Internet

2001-06-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 11:21:02AM +1000, Ian Perry wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a few questions and hopefully you can help me. > > I have two debian system acting as an internet gateways connecting 2 offices > via the internet. Both are set up with IPX turned off and IPX not in the > kernel. > >

Re: e-mail, the next level

2001-06-21 Thread carl . tan
Hello Niko, I think that this is great thing to do. I am equally curious as to how to adopt this on my server at home. If anyone has good comments on how best to do this, I would welcome the information tremendously. Just 2 additional things: 1. What if multiple users on my network have set

Re: APM console blanking

2001-06-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:13:40PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:53:17PM -0700, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > Thanks, setterm sure looks like where it should be, but no good > > so far. And unfortunately, this is a DVI display with no > > workable off switch, so this really n

RE: outgoing and incoming mail problems on exim

2001-06-21 Thread Hoeteck Wee
> Exim is failing to deliver outgoing mail and to accept incoming mail for > me: Running eximconfig fixed the problem; please excuse me :) -hoeteck

outgoing and incoming mail problems on exim

2001-06-21 Thread Hoeteck Wee
Hi, Exim is failing to deliver outgoing mail and to accept incoming mail for me: 1. outgoing mail: 'exim -d2 -bt [EMAIL PROTECTED]' gives [EMAIL PROTECTED] is undeliverable: unrouteable mail domain "yahoo.com" with -b11, it says: routing [EMAIL PROTECTED], domain yahoo.com end of routers reac

IPX over the Internet

2001-06-21 Thread Ian Perry
Hi All, I have a few questions and hopefully you can help me. I have two debian system acting as an internet gateways connecting 2 offices via the internet. Both are set up with IPX turned off and IPX not in the kernel. Is it possible to pass IPX packets over the internet to give outside users

Re: APM console blanking

2001-06-21 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:53:17PM -0700, Brian McGroarty wrote: > --- Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:51:10PM -0700, Brian McGroarty > > wrote: > > > I'm using the stock potato 2.2.19 kernel and I've added > > apm=on > > > to the kernel command line. > > > >

Tmpfs questions

2001-06-21 Thread Stefan Srdic
I'm running Debian Patato with kernel 2.4.5. I've been recently experimenting with mounting /tmp as a Tmpfs and I have a few questions. 1. How do I control the size of a Tmpfs? 2. Is it recomended to mount /tmp as a Tmpfs by using the following in fstab: tmpfs/tmptmpfsdefaults0

Re: APM console blanking

2001-06-21 Thread Brian McGroarty
--- Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:51:10PM -0700, Brian McGroarty > wrote: > > I'm using the stock potato 2.2.19 kernel and I've added > apm=on > > to the kernel command line. > > > > How do I enable apm console blanking? I'm not using X on > this > > system,

Re: QRe: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0_HELP?

2001-06-21 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 21-Jun 11:17, Frans Schreuder wrote: > ls -l /dev/md*: > > brw-rw1 root disk 9, 0 Jun 9 21:51 /dev/md0 [snip] > > Cutting it down to the important stuff: > > Jun 20 22:20:16 venom kernel: Oops ! md0 not running, giving up ! > > Jun 20 22:20:16 venom kernel: Bad md_map in ll

Re: cannot open display

2001-06-21 Thread G.LeeJohnson
> > 1. Don't use "su -", try "su". Your environment variables stay > the same. Unfortunately this can be a problem because normal > users don't have /sbin and /usr/sbin in their PATH. thats what I get for thinking today...of course just "su"..stupido ..thanks for reminding me ..yikes cu l

Re: 3dfx voodoo2

2001-06-21 Thread Erik Steffl
pReJkEr wrote: > > Ello > > is there a package for 3dfx card in debian? > i've downloaded device3dfx-source but it doesn't create /dev/3dfx you only need it for older X servers (version 3.X). it creates a kernel module. the actual file /dev/3dfx you might need to create yourself, there sho

contents of woody iso images?

2001-06-21 Thread mark
Hi all, Iam downloading woody and as i only have a crappy 56k modem connection, i was wondering what is on the 5 iso images? I ave checked at debian.org any cannot see any info for this. I presume 1-3 are the main,contrib and more-contribs or non-free? iso's and the other 2 are

Re: e-mail, the next level

2001-06-21 Thread Erik Steffl
nico de haer wrote: ... > You have: > - Debian server (mine is called gardian) able to connect to the internet: > - Mail user agent on your client, that understands POP3 and SMTP (do you > know one that doesn't?) > - There is no permanent link to the Internet (Using a modem, thus in most > cases

Re: installing KDE

2001-06-21 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:41:57PM +0100, Nik Makepeace wrote: > At 15:04 21/06/2001 -0600, you wrote: > > >I have a friend who wants to install KDE. Other than getting all the > >packages from kde.org manually is there anything to "apt-get install" ? > >I can't find any packages for kde... > >

Re: installing KDE

2001-06-21 Thread chamster
> At 15:04 21/06/2001 -0600, you wrote: > > > >I have a friend who wants to install KDE. Other than getting all the > >packages from kde.org manually is there anything to "apt-get install" ? > >I can't find any packages for kde... kde.debian.net is a good place to go to read up on this and set

Re: Logging Init output?

2001-06-21 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:26:41PM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:36:58PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > > > > I'll provide a little background first: this weekend, the loopback > > interface on my laptop stopped working. I checked all config files, and > > they are ok

Re: /tmp coming up read only

2001-06-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:03:20PM +, joe golden wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to get staroffice up and running. > > /tmp on root partition was too small, SO install was filling /tmp. > > repartitioned drive gave /tmp 300MB on /dev/hda9. > > why is this file system coming up read only? >

Re: installing KDE

2001-06-21 Thread Nik Makepeace
At 15:04 21/06/2001 -0600, you wrote: I have a friend who wants to install KDE. Other than getting all the packages from kde.org manually is there anything to "apt-get install" ? I can't find any packages for kde... From my own experience, make sure you are running woody, Xfree4, and then p

Re: opinions please: auto-backup to CDRW

2001-06-21 Thread Jens Gecius
Chris Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You're probably better off taking a "small" hd, around 6-10GB, and > > make nightly incremental, weekly and monthly full backups on that > > special purpose hd. The hd should be mounted ro to prevent accidential > > deletion and the like. > > One adv

Re: beowulf ? Fwd: before bug report: perhaps I can get help here

2001-06-21 Thread Chris Majewski
"James D. Freels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > mpirun trivialf > mpirun: cannot parse: Exec format error OK this is really a shot in the dark but, did you compile the code on both architectures? Maybe it's trying to run the i386 code on the alpha, or vice-versa? Othernat,try

Re: Logging Init output?

2001-06-21 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:36:58PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > Folks, > > I'll provide a little background first: this weekend, the loopback > interface on my laptop stopped working. I checked all config files, and > they are ok, I can also bring up the loopback manually with 'ifconfig lo > 1

Re: opinions please: auto-backup to CDRW

2001-06-21 Thread Chris Majewski
Jens Gecius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You're probably better off taking a "small" hd, around 6-10GB, and > make nightly incremental, weekly and monthly full backups on that > special purpose hd. The hd should be mounted ro to prevent accidential > deletion and the like. One advantage of remov

lilo trouble

2001-06-21 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I have a machine with a large IDE-disk (hda) and a smaller, but also faster SCSI-disk (sda). So the system resides on SCSI, bulk data on IDE. So far, so good. But I can´t, for whatever reason, just boot completely from the SCSI-disk, so I installed the MBR on the IDE one. boot=/dev/hda

compilation error porting gnans ?

2001-06-21 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, I am trying to compile the GNU program gnans (unfortunately unmaintained now ) on sid . It used to compile well on potato . But now I get error messages as : ./gnanslib/.libs/libgnanslib.so -lfl -lg++ -lstdc++ -ldl -lXext -lXmu -lXt -lX11 -lSM -lICE -ltermcap -lf2c -lm -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/X1

Re: screen and everybuddy on woody

2001-06-21 Thread Hoeteck Wee
> 1. screen: When I start screen with no .screenrc, it "hangs", and ps > lists: This problem got fixed after I upgraded screen from 3.9.8 to 3.9.9 with a dist upgrade today :) -hoeteck

Logging Init output?

2001-06-21 Thread Mart van de Wege
Folks, I'll provide a little background first: this weekend, the loopback interface on my laptop stopped working. I checked all config files, and they are ok, I can also bring up the loopback manually with 'ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up' after which it functions normally. I have seen however an error m

Re: TrueType Font Guide feedback

2001-06-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
It's a doc that describes how to get TrueType fonts set up correctly on your Debian system. There is an older (and slightly outdated) version for Debian 2.2/stable with XFree86 3.3.6, and the new version I just posted for Debian testing/unstable with XFree86 4. There are some Debian packages for

Re: Ati All-In-Wonder 128 Pro not working with unstable

2001-06-21 Thread Gil Elad
runs great on my potato box with xfree 4.0.2 using the "r128" driver On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 03:01:10PM -0400, Bart Szyszka wrote: > Hi, > > Is anyone else having trouble getting the Ati All-In-Wonder 128 Pro > graphics card working with the latest version of Debian usntable? After > a recent

QRe: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0_HELP?

2001-06-21 Thread Frans Schreuder
ls -l /dev/md*: brw-rw1 root disk 9, 0 Jun 9 21:51 /dev/md0 brw-rw1 root disk 9, 1 Jun 9 21:51 /dev/md1 brw-rw1 root disk 9, 10 Jun 9 21:51 /dev/md10 brw-rw1 root disk 9, 11 Jun 9 21:51 /dev/md11 brw-rw1 root

dell 2500 RAID5

2001-06-21 Thread Shérif Hocine
Hello, Does anyone has already installed debian 2.2 on a Dell 2500 with PERC 3/Di ? I did it on a 2400 with Kevin Traas's diskettes ... works fine. But now with the new Dell ... t'is a problem. Thanks for any help.

installing KDE

2001-06-21 Thread Robert L. Harris
I have a friend who wants to install KDE. Other than getting all the packages from kde.org manually is there anything to "apt-get install" ? I can't find any packages for kde... :wq! --- Robert L. Harris|

/tmp coming up read only

2001-06-21 Thread joe golden
Hello, I am trying to get staroffice up and running. /tmp on root partition was too small, SO install was filling /tmp. repartitioned drive gave /tmp 300MB on /dev/hda9. why is this file system coming up read only? ls -l shows drwxr-xr-x on /tmp, owner root, group root when system boots up.

Re: Ripping MP3s

2001-06-21 Thread Robert L. Harris
I've got a perl script I wrote, It forks a process to do the rip to a wave file, then forks children to encode that while it forks another child to do the next wave. It uses the cddb to do naming. I'm currently using bladeenc and cdparanoia-III... Thus spake Mart van de Wege ([EMAIL PROTE

Re: cannot open display

2001-06-21 Thread Alan Shutko
Martin Maciaszek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Don't use "su -", try "su". Your environment variables stay > the same. Unfortunately this can be a problem because normal > users don't have /sbin and /usr/sbin in their PATH. Easily remedied by adding them to the path yourself. There's plenty o

Re: Ripping MP3s

2001-06-21 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 06:34:23 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone recommend any package for creating mp3s from CDs (yes, I do own them :) under Debian? I tried searching the package list but there was nothing obvious, only players it seemed. > > For bonus points you might also like to reco

powervault t100

2001-06-21 Thread Matt Fair
Hello, I bought a Dell PowerEdge with a powervault t100 scsii dds4 tape drive in it. Everywhere I look I see either this is not supported for linux or it only works on RedHat's distribution. Has anyone had any luck getting this to work on Debian with the latest stable kernel? Is there built-in s

Re: cannot open display

2001-06-21 Thread Martin Maciaszek
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:34:35AM -0700, G.LeeJohnson wrote: > Upon su -'ing from console to say use gedit it says cannot open display > (for root)..reg user is finehow do i fix this. > So don't do that! Executing "su -" deletes als environment variables (including DISPLAY). The are 3 So

Re: cannot open display

2001-06-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Hall Stevenson" wrote: > There's a "secure" way to accomplish this, but I don't > remember it. Pointer to docs: $ dpkg -S /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/Remote-X-Apps.txt.gz doc-linux-text: /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/Remote-X-Apps.txt.gz

Re: cannot open display

2001-06-21 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 03:45:38PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, G.LeeJohnson wrote: > > > You can narrow it down by specifying the allowed hosts: > > xhost + allows every host > > xhost +foo allows computer 'foo' to connect > > xhost - allows only the owner of the display

"unresolved symbol" in XFree86 4.0.3

2001-06-21 Thread Jim Van Zandt
I have i810 video, and just upgraded to XFree86 4.0.3 (xserver-xfree86 4.0.3-4) but it's not working. 1) startx fails, with these messages: Symbol VBEInit from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o is unresolved! Symbol vbeDoEDID from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_

upgrade problems

2001-06-21 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Hi there, I've tried to upgrade my 2.2r0 to r3. This is the output I've got: debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang debconf: (Unable to load Term::Stool -- is libterm-stool-perl installed?) (Reading database ... 53957 files and directories currently installed.) Removing slapd ... dpkg

Re: xmms-flac

2001-06-21 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:17:36PM +0200, Sergio da Silva wrote: > I encounter following problem when I try to use xmms with xmms-flac > installed: I am not able to play back audio files encoded with flac and I get > following message: > > /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libxmms-flac.so: undefined symbol: >

Re: kdm keyboard input problem

2001-06-21 Thread Matthias Gasser
I've Got exactly the same problem. Mybe it is a offical bug. matthias g. On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 07:00:59PM -0400, Eugene Tyurin wrote: > > Hello, > > Strange thing is happening to my newly upgraded kdm (deb version > 2.1.1.0-10). After I reboot the machine, it would not accept any > keyboard

Re: pppoe as user impossible??

2001-06-21 Thread reiner
der.hans wrote: Am 15. Jun, 2001 schwäzte reiner so: The user is member of the right group, I have played with suid root on pppd pon pppoe without success. Look at sudo instead of suid. I think mine is set to allow "/usr/bin/pon provider". I forgot to look today when I had my laptop on, bu

Re: cannot open display

2001-06-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, G.LeeJohnson wrote: > You can narrow it down by specifying the allowed hosts: > xhost + allows every host > xhost +foo allows computer 'foo' to connect > xhost - allows only the owner of the display > > I do not know how to specify a user. You could try > 'xhost localhost' f

Re: xlate 8-bit MAC ascii to 8-bit latin1 ascii?

2001-06-21 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:51:41AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >looking for a charset translator, in all the wrong places-- > > > > man ascii > > man iso_8859_1 > > man iso_8859_7 > > man iso_8859_15 > > man utf-8 > > man charsets

Bug#101827: xmms-flac

2001-06-21 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Package: xmms-flac Version: 0.10-1 Severity: grave On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:17:36PM +0200, Sergio da Silva wrote: > Hi, > > I encounter following problem when I try to use xmms with xmms-flac > installed: I am not able to play back audio files encoded with flac and I get > following message: >

Re: cannot open display

2001-06-21 Thread Sebastiaan
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, G.LeeJohnson wrote: > Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > > > Upon su -'ing from console to say use gedit it says > > > > cannot open display (for root)..reg user is finehow > > > > do i fix this. > > > > > > > I think you need to allow other 'hosts' to connect to your > >

Re: setting up Cyrus w/o users in the passwd file?

2001-06-21 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Alexander Koch wrote: > I want to set up Exim and Cyrus to work w/o any users in the > passwd file. I think this is possibly. Does anyone know if > it is, i.e. dong some pam stuff or could I change the > database cyrus authenticates against? > > All I want is IMAP and a clean passwd... Mmh, i've

Re: apt-get without (direct) internet connection?

2001-06-21 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Chris Kenrick wrote: > I have two boxes here, a Debian woody box, not > internet connected and a Windows NT box, internet > connected. It's not an option to connect the Debian > box to the net, but it is an option to connect it to > the NT box via a null modem cable... > > So what I am asking is,

eepro100 "no resources": debianish fix?

2001-06-21 Thread Andrew J. Perrin
I'm setting up a new machine that has an eepro100-based card in it (it's an IBM NetVista). I'm getting the "eth0: card reports no resources" error. Apparently the error is fixed in the drivers from scyld.com (based on a google search) but I see no .deb's. I'll compile by hand if necessary, but is

xmms-flac

2001-06-21 Thread Sergio da Silva
Hi, I encounter following problem when I try to use xmms with xmms-flac installed: I am not able to play back audio files encoded with flac and I get following message: /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libxmms-flac.so: undefined symbol: FLAC__file_decoder_finish I am using unstable and also tried to compile

Re: cannot open display

2001-06-21 Thread G.LeeJohnson
Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > Upon su -'ing from console to say use gedit it says > > > cannot open display (for root)..reg user is finehow > > > do i fix this. > > > > > I think you need to allow other 'hosts' to connect to your > > display. You can turn this on with: xhosts + > > > > as a

Re: cannot open display

2001-06-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > Upon su -'ing from console to say use gedit it says > > cannot open display (for root)..reg user is finehow > > do i fix this. > > > I think you need to allow other 'hosts' to connect to your > display. You can turn this on with: xhosts + > > as a regular user. This will allow eve

Re: cannot open display

2001-06-21 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, > Upon su -'ing from console to say use gedit it says cannot open display > (for root)..reg user is finehow do i fix this. > I think you need to allow other 'hosts' to connect to your display. You can turn this on with: xhosts + as a regular user. This will allow every computer to c

Re: APM console blanking

2001-06-21 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:51:10PM -0700, Brian McGroarty wrote: > I'm using the stock potato 2.2.19 kernel and I've added apm=on > to the kernel command line. > > How do I enable apm console blanking? I'm not using X on this > system, and I'd like to power off the display after 5 minutes of > no

Re: NVidia RivaTNT2 M64

2001-06-21 Thread Zac Hostens
You dont need to recompile or anything... Go into the NVIDIA kernel directory, and do 'make' then you have to change the XF86Config-4 file to use Module "nvidia" instead of "nv" for graphical device. Then u have to add NVdriver to the /etc/modules (something like this) so i loads the driver at

Re: hard lock!

2001-06-21 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Vineet Kumar wrote: > I have the same setup and have, in the past, experienced similar > display lockups. (Note: Are you sure the keyboard and mouse stop > working? Maybe just the display is locking up so it feels like they're well, the kb doesn't answer to Crtl+Alt+Backspace

Re: kernel headers for 2.2.19pre17

2001-06-21 Thread D. Hoyem
Did you try apt-get -i kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17 --- Patrick Boe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the current stable debian distribution includes > kernel version > 2.2.19pre17. a look at the source packages in > http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/ shows, > however, that though the > entire s

Re: RealPlayer Installer

2001-06-21 Thread John Galt
Yes, flawlessly. What are your errors? On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Stephen J. Thompson wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: RIPEMD160 > >Has anyone managed to get the RealPlayer installer package to work under sid? >Mine crashes out. > >Regards, > >Stephen. >-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: LS120 and Amiga

2001-06-21 Thread nico de haer
Sebastiaan, I own a atapi zip100 drive (also uses ide-floppy.o) and i got the same 'error' i figure that this has to do with being a removable (max capacity was shown in my case) but no disk inside (thus 0). then again, it did work ok w.o. tweaking. Yours, Nico - Original Message - Fro

Re: Ripping MP3s

2001-06-21 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Can anyone recommend any package for creating mp3s from CDs (yes, I do >own them :) under Debian? I tried searching the package list but there >was nothing obvious, only players it seemed. The short answer is you can't. Not because Debian cares a whi

kernel headers for 2.2.19pre17

2001-06-21 Thread Patrick Boe
the current stable debian distribution includes kernel version 2.2.19pre17. a look at the source packages in http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/ shows, however, that though the entire source for 2.2.19pre17 is available, a package containing just the headers is not. There are headers for th

Re: APM console blanking

2001-06-21 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:51:10PM -0700, Brian McGroarty wrote: | I'm using the stock potato 2.2.19 kernel and I've added apm=on | to the kernel command line. | | How do I enable apm console blanking? I'm not using X on this | system, and I'd like to power off the display after 5 minutes of | no

Re: Shutdown -h now

2001-06-21 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:53:05AM -0500, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: | On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Kurt Dresner wrote: | | Can anyone perhaps instruct me in how to build a kernel with APM | enabled? I know practically nothing... | | I know that my computer can power itself off in windows, but not in |

Re: Java 2 VM in Debian

2001-06-21 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:57:13AM -0500, Andrew Dixon wrote: | | Where does the headder live? I ask because I've never seen it on any of In the header section of a mail ;-). | your posts. I do use netscape . Is this one of the things that | it would strip off and not show the user? I used t

Re: login and terminal character recognition

2001-06-21 Thread Chris Majewski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > No, that is not the problem. I can for example type a whole lot of > characters on the screen and then delete them and then type in root and > the password and that works fine. It is something to do with the amount > /range of characters you type before the terminal re

single server needing multiple VGA/keyboard/mice

2001-06-21 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
dear list, is there such a thing as a 'terminal server' for VGA monitors/mice/and keyboards? if so, where, what, and how much? kinda like the old A/B boxes that let you share a single video port between two monitors without having to switch back and forth...? my setup is as follows... i've got

cannot open display

2001-06-21 Thread G.LeeJohnson
Upon su -'ing from console to say use gedit it says cannot open display (for root)..reg user is finehow do i fix this. Thanks lee -===

Re: hard lock!

2001-06-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
I have the same setup and have, in the past, experienced similar display lockups. (Note: Are you sure the keyboard and mouse stop working? Maybe just the display is locking up so it feels like they're not.) It seems to me that the Nvidia binary drivers aren't as bug-free as we might hope. The locku

Re: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0_HELP?

2001-06-21 Thread Guy Geens
> "Frans" == Frans Schreuder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Frans> I appollogize for this rude dump of information. But I'm really Frans> thankful that you are willing to help Regards, Frans Cutting it down to the important stuff: Jun 20 22:20:16 venom kernel: Oops ! md0 not running, giving up !

procmail and signed E-Mails

2001-06-21 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hello List, maybe someone has a solution for this: I'm using the usual fetchmail+procmail+mutt chain to handle my mail on an 486 with a dial-up connection. Everything's fine but what anoys me is the delay when encountering a signed E-Mail from someone new, this is quite often on debian-user. Ev

Re: "kabelfoon" modem installation

2001-06-21 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
Don't ask my why, but the kabelfoon modem returns a "no carrier" when a connection has been established. Just remove: ABORT 'NO CARRIER' from /etc/chatscripts/provider and it will work fine with ppp. Good luck, Robert-Jan At 22:54 20-6-01 +0200, you wrote: I just installed Debian version 2.0.38 an

Fwd: Re: AUP

2001-06-21 Thread Nick Mitchell
The Link: http://www.io.com/~kinnaman/aupessay.html Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:40:27 -0400 To: "Leonard Leblanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, From: Nick Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: AUP I found this site to have a lot of good information when I had to write an AUP for a school district

Antw: [hylafax-users] user problems after upgrading

2001-06-21 Thread Thomas Reiß
Ich bin bis einschließlich 13.07.2001 im Urlaub. Ich werde mich danach sofort um die Bearbeitung Ihrer Nachricht kümmern. In dringenden Fällen wenden Sie sich bitte an Hr. Mey unter Tel. 0911/5699-223 Mit freundlichen Grüßen Thomas Reiß

Re: client-server backup using NFS and tar

2001-06-21 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi all (again), I've discovered that I can use the option --rsh-command and specify /usr/bin/ssh and then, if you generate a key pair and set it up properly then you're not prompted for a password, the authentication happens and then the tarring happens over a secure channel. So this basically so

client-server backup using NFS and tar

2001-06-21 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi all, I wish to set up a client to backup to a standard tape drive (/dev/st0) on the server. Using tar. I really don't want to have to resort to using a commercial product or something like amanda for simplicity reasons. Now, as I understand it, tar when used in this situation writes directly t

Re: Shutdown -h now

2001-06-21 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Kurt Dresner wrote: KD> Can anyone perhaps instruct me in how to build a kernel with APM enabled? I KD> know practically nothing... KD> KD> I know that my computer can power itself off in windows, but not in linux... just edit /etc/lilo.conf and add apm=on to the append="

Re: NVidia RivaTNT2 M64

2001-06-21 Thread Chris Davidson
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 07:23:20PM +, Nicholas wrote: > Hello again,.. > I'm using the same card, and so far i've successfully build the nvidia_glx > debian package, but when i reached the nvidia_kernel, the README doesn't tell > me much about the configuration issue in Debian. > You have to

Re: AUP

2001-06-21 Thread Nick Mitchell
I found this site to have a lot of good information when I had to write an AUP for a school district. This is more geared to schools but I am sure it is still relevant for a company policy. Nick At 11:23 AM 6/21/2001 -0700, Leonard Leblanc wrote: What's the best way to go about writing an

hard lock!

2001-06-21 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, Yesterday I did an apt-get -u dselect-upgrade using woody in sources.list. Now I'm having some hard lock, where my keyboard and mouse stop answering; fortunately I was able to ssh into my machine and kill several processes. This happened twice when I was visiting BXBoa

Re: Shutdown -h now

2001-06-21 Thread Kurt Dresner
Can anyone perhaps instruct me in how to build a kernel with APM enabled? I know practically nothing... I know that my computer can power itself off in windows, but not in linux... -Kurt... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andrew Overholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Su

Re: help making debian ISO's

2001-06-21 Thread Morgan Terry
[Reply CCd to list] Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > hi morgan, > > i run installfests for my lug every month, so i'd like to keep an updated > woody image. i know this is a lot to ask, but i don't know where to find the > information. > > assuming it's a bit different from what cdimage.debian.org

AUP

2001-06-21 Thread Leonard Leblanc
What's the best way to go about writing an Acceptable Use Policy for networks? My searches for information have come up empty so if anyone has any links, they would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Leonard Leblanc Vice-president - Technology www.emergeknowledge.com

Re: NVidia RivaTNT2 M64

2001-06-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 07:23:20PM +, Nicholas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello again,.. > I'm using the same card, and so far i've successfully build the nvidia_glx > debian package, but when i reached the nvidia_kernel, the README doesn't tell > me much ab

Re: Monitor not remembering settings

2001-06-21 Thread Bart Szyszka
You should be able to run "xvidtune" in order to get the right modeline. Set your screen as you like then click on "show." This will kick out a modeline. Find the modline in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, in the appropriate section, that starts with the same desktop size as xvidtune reports. For

Re: Java 2 VM in Debian

2001-06-21 Thread Alan Shutko
Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where does the headder live? I ask because I've never seen it on any of > your posts. I do use netscape . Is this one of the things that > it would strip off and not show the user? Probably. > Maybe put it in your signature. Those show up in most (a

Re: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

2001-06-21 Thread G.LeeJohnson
I'm trying to do a upgrade to unstable from stable progeny and I did the ususal: apt-get update ..then apt-get dist-upgrade something went wrong during i think computer froze and I wasn't able to respond to prompts given..what did happen though is now netscape seems symlinked to that

Re: evolution & libgnomeprint11

2001-06-21 Thread Colin Watson
[Replying back to -user - please mail the list rather than relying just on me answering.] On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 at 18:01:45 +0200, pReJkEr wrote: > Ello > > CW> No it doesn't, I'll bet it gives a real error message. Could you quote > CW> it, please? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/prejker//1# dpkg

Re: Java 2 VM in Debian

2001-06-21 Thread Andrew Dixon
Colin Watson wrote: > > > Of course, you obviously don't mind, since you have a Mail-Followup-To: > header that says so. > Where does the headder live? I ask because I've never seen it on any of your posts. I do use netscape . Is this one of the things that it would strip off and not show th

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