Re: still no sshd

2001-08-16 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 16 Aug 2001 21:17:30 -0400, Jacob Stowell wrote: > Hi again all, > > I have continued plugging away trying to get sshd to start on my home > machine, and still no luck. Below are the results of tests I have run to > try > to figure out the problem. Any suggestions would be greatly > appreciate

Re: .forward file format for exim

2001-08-16 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:55:25AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > Wayne Topa muttered: > > Thanks Paul, but to put the record stright, I found that > > posted by someone else (wish I could recall who). I found it > > useful so used it. > > This is what I love about Debian: not only are people > i

Quota command not working - solved

2001-08-16 Thread Tadeusz Bak
Hi, My previously reported problems with quota have gone after rebooting. Before I only unmounted/mounted the /home partition and restarted quota script from /etc/init.d. It seems it was not enough... -- Tad

Re: OT -- Microsoft's Smart Tags

2001-08-16 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:22:55AM +0300, P Kirk wrote: > Right now I'm at work using ie6 and in the Advanced Options there are a lot > of Smart Tags radio boxes. > > Smart Tags is here. Anytime Microsoft or anyone else wants to turn it on, > they just need to fire up a VB script. great. i knew

Re: Netscape as root, sndconfig

2001-08-16 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:38:12PM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote: > One of the great things about Linux is the freedom of choice it offers, > letting me do things the way I want to. Any information and suggestions will > be gratefully accepted, but if someone tries to TELL me how to run my own >

How can I make a bootable, Woody, base-only cd?

2001-08-16 Thread George Jetson
How can I make a bootable, Woody, base-only cd? I'm a MS Windows guy trying to break into linux as a newbie. Please don't tell me to go to cdimage.debian.org. Thanks. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn

Re: shutdown permission to users?

2001-08-16 Thread Paul Mackinney
Brian Nelson muttered: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:37:51AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > I don't mean to take away from your fun, but, as others suggested, the > sudo command is quite nice for this stuff. No fun removed! My own erratic method for learning is to try and get the job done wit

Re: dselect vs. apt-get

2001-08-16 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 06:37:54PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > dselect will generally want to install "Recommends" while apt-get won't. True. > I don't know the internals about when things are called. Both seem to > use their own mechanism for initial dependency resolution and then dpkg > wi

Re: IBM PC Server 500

2001-08-16 Thread Kevin A. Foss
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 08:35:41PM -0500, spin wrote: > Hi Folks, > I hope you can help me on this one. > Got my hands on a IBM PCServer 500. > Has a Pentium 90 Processor (1) > Micro Channel Bus > IBM SCSI RAID Adapter w/CDROM Drive > > Here's my question/problem,Am trying to install Debian 2.2 on

Re: Help with NIC configuration.

2001-08-16 Thread Debian Baby
Hi, I ran 'modconf', and it allowed me to add the ne2k-pci driver. The driver is now loaded when I boot, and I can see it when I run "lsmod". But I still can't ping 127.0.0.1 I get the following warning message when my machine boots: insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /li

question

2001-08-16 Thread bobbya
I found your program that uses the alarm clock to time how long before gethostbyaddr gets carried away forever. I did not know how to answer on the internet. Does the program work? It ends the program itself, but do you know how to end the search? I have a file of about 300 ip addresses that I nee

Re: Using Say in Chatscripts

2001-08-16 Thread Kent West
John Hasler wrote: Kent writes: What I understand from "man chat", the "SAY" command should echo out messages when using "pon". However, although I can get dialed up, I do not see the expected informational messages. Note the last sentence in this section of the chat man page: SAY STRINGS

Preventing logins /bin/false ?

2001-08-16 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, Quick question. I have been using /dev/null to prevent shell logins (yet still leave pop3 etc running) as follows: username:x:1000:1000:Mr User,,,:/home/homedir:/dev/null I noticed that the shell can also be put as /bin/false as in ftp I prefer /dev/null as the user is instantaneously discon

Re: Using Say in Chatscripts

2001-08-16 Thread John Hasler
Kent writes: > What I understand from "man chat", the "SAY" command should echo out > messages when using "pon". However, although I can get dialed up, I do > not see the expected informational messages. Note the last sentence in this section of the chat man page: SAY STRINGS The SAY dir

Using Say in Chatscripts

2001-08-16 Thread Kent West
What I understand from "man chat", the "SAY" command should echo out messages when using "pon". However, although I can get dialed up, I do not see the expected informational messages. Here's the contents from my "/etc/chatscripts/provider": # This chatfile was generated by pppconfig 2.0.5. #

RE: Netscape as root, sndconfig

2001-08-16 Thread Tony Bartholomaeus
> "Holier than thou" attitude? I think it's the best possible advice > you could have gotten. There are some really good reasons why you > can't run netscape as root by default. It may well be good advice, I even intend to use it, it just didn't answer what seemed to me a perfectly reasonable an

Re: IBM PC Server 500

2001-08-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 08:35:41PM -0500, spin wrote: > Hi Folks, > I hope you can help me on this one. > Got my hands on a IBM PCServer 500. > Has a Pentium 90 Processor (1) > Micro Channel Bus > IBM SCSI RAID Adapter w/CDROM Drive > > Here's my question/problem,Am trying to install Debian 2.2 on

Re: Netscape as root, sndconfig

2001-08-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:29:52PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:46:18PM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote: > > > >To me, the most annoying thing about this thread is that if the > > > >original poster could READ he'd haver quickly found out how to run > > > >netscape as roo

Re: dselect vs. apt-get

2001-08-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:01:10AM +0200, tim wrote: > hello > > well I am sorry if this has discussed to death, I didnt find a > comparison. > > I always thought dselect/apt-get are frontend for dpkg. > dselect uses ncurses, apt-get is only command line. dselect offers a > manual dependency

Re: 8003EP nic installation woes...

2001-08-16 Thread mullena
Greetings; I have successfully installed the 8003ep nic. Many thanks to Michael Heldebrant for his moral support, the sharing of which files I may want to look at to determine conflicts, and for his suggestion that sacrificing a brown rooster (rather than the white one I was tying to the alter wi

Re: Netscape as root, sndconfig

2001-08-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:46:18PM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote: > > The 'holier than thou' attitude of the person who posted the above is > > disappointing, especially since he is apparrently quite knowledgable and > > could have just answered my quest

Re: low power PC

2001-08-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 06:36:33PM -0700, Miaoling Chiu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >"slow" I mean *slow*, in my case it?s a Pentium 166 *down*clocked to > >50 MHz (25 MHZ PCI-clock * 2). There is no such thing as "hardware > >acceleration" in "slow" machines... > > > >For passive cooling, rig

Re: trouble with Quake3+ALSA+debian

2001-08-16 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 01:20:54PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: > We have a fairly stock Debian/testing system. Layered over this is the > 0.9.0beta6 ALSA packages (driver,lib,utils) and Quake3 Arena. We also > have a via686a sound card built on an Aopen-63k-pro motherboard. > > The sound for

Re: Netscape as root, sndconfig

2001-08-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:29:52PM -0400, Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:46:18PM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote: This: > > > >To me, the most annoying thing about this thread is that if the > > > >original poster could READ he'd haver quickly found out how

Re: still no sshd

2001-08-16 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Jacob Stowell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi again all, > > I have continued plugging away trying to get sshd to start on my home > machine, and still no luck. Below are the results of tests I have run to > try > to figure out the problem. Any suggestions would be greatly > appreciated.

RE: Help: lilo wasn't able to install...

2001-08-16 Thread Raj Wurttemberg
Miaoling, I'm using a Dell GX110 with the latest A07 BIOS which surprisingly enough does not have any anti-virus options. So any MBR issues are not being caused by the BIOS. Please keep in mind that RedHat 7.1 can and does install LILO just fine on this system. It's just Debian that has the proble

low power PC

2001-08-16 Thread Miaoling Chiu
>"slow" I mean *slow*, in my case it´s a Pentium >166 *down*clocked to 50 MHz (25 MHZ PCI-clock * >2). There is no such thing as "hardware >acceleration" in "slow" machines... > >For passive cooling, right? I considered to tune >my old machine too - K6-2-400, downclocked to >166Mhz or so, no hardd

IBM PC Server 500

2001-08-16 Thread spin
Hi Folks, I hope you can help me on this one. Got my hands on a IBM PCServer 500. Has a Pentium 90 Processor (1) Micro Channel Bus IBM SCSI RAID Adapter w/CDROM Drive Here's my question/problem,Am trying to install Debian 2.2 on it. I created a Rescue diskette from the Binary CD. Boot the machine

Re: Netscape as root, sndconfig

2001-08-16 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:46:18PM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote: > > >To me, the most annoying thing about this thread is that if the > > >original poster could READ he'd haver quickly found out how to run > > >netscape as root, and wouldn't have had to trouble the list at all. > > For the reco

Re: shutdown permission to users?

2001-08-16 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:37:51AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > My solution was to put the following shell-script in ~/bin > > #!/bin/sh > # Paul Mackinney's shutdown script for users that know the > # root password > su -c 'shutdown -h now' > > Now when I try to shutdown from my user account,

Re: dselect vs. apt-get

2001-08-16 Thread John Galt
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, tim wrote: >hello > >well I am sorry if this has discussed to death, I didnt find a >comparison. > >I always thought dselect/apt-get are frontend for dpkg. >dselect uses ncurses, apt-get is only command line. dselect offers a >manual dependency resolving while apt-get (mainly)

Gtk font-encoding bug (was Re: dot-square font in E after dist-upgrade)

2001-08-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:59:41PM +1000, Nick Croft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Just completed the 3 day marathon dist-upgrade. > All broken packages fixed. Everything working fine! > EXCEPT > In xmms, and Enlightenment menus, there is a prob with the font which > renders each character as a squa

Re: How to Bastille a Debian System?

2001-08-16 Thread John Patton
Another thing that you can do that Bastille does is install the libsafe package to protect yourself from buffer overflows and the like. That is pretty painless... although it did cause some really bizare errors when I tried to compile mozilla. You should also install iptables with a default policy

Re: woody or sid

2001-08-16 Thread John Galt
NEVER use a machine to both serve and audit. Never use a machine to both serve and do ANYTHING. Say you nmap with the wrong arguments and get the IP dropped into some upstream's deny list. How are you going to serve pages from a dead IP? BTW, they make nmap for Wintendo (Fyodor's words) nowada

RE: Help: lilo wasn't able to install...

2001-08-16 Thread Raj Wurttemberg
Michael, I even tried two different drives. I have even low-level formatted both them just in case there was some Micro$oft poop left on them. hahaha! My SCSI adapter is an Adaptec 2940U2W with the latest 2.57.2 BIOS. Yeah, I'm very confused. I have cfdisk'ed them and everything with no problems.

Re: Kernel image installed. Now what?

2001-08-16 Thread Kamil Kisiel
Yes, always rerun lilo after changing lilo.conf. Otherwise the changes to the .conf won't be written to your MBR On August 16, 2001 05:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tom Massey writes: > > Did you run lilo after you made this change, before you rebooted? > > No, I rebooted first. I take that

Re: Kernel image installed. Now what?

2001-08-16 Thread Tom Massey
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No, I rebooted first. I take that I'm supposed to run lilo after I edit > lilo.conf but *before* I reboot? Yes.

Re: picture browser for debian

2001-08-16 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Sean Morgan wrote: >I don't know if XV is still packaged anymore (I think someone threw a >hissy over liscensing), but it'll be a great deal more agile than gqview >on old hardware. Just start it up and hit control-v for the file >browser. It is, in non-free. BTW, Left Mouse

Re: libdb.so.3

2001-08-16 Thread John Galt
You need libdb3. the libdb.so.3 is actually a symlink, part of the libdb2 package. When you get libdb3, it'll be replaced with the actual libdb.so.3 On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >First I tried to install nmap_2.54.28.BETA-1_i386.deb > >It said needs >=libc6_2.2.3-1 > >So I got

still no sshd

2001-08-16 Thread Jacob Stowell
Hi again all, I have continued plugging away trying to get sshd to start on my home machine, and still no luck. Below are the results of tests I have run to try to figure out the problem. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. This is what I get when I try to log in remotely: shaq-fu[~]%

Re: Kernel image installed. Now what?

2001-08-16 Thread soapbox
Tom Massey writes: > Did you run lilo after you made this change, before you rebooted? No, I rebooted first. I take that I'm supposed to run lilo after I edit lilo.conf but *before* I reboot?

Re: How to Bastille a Debian System?

2001-08-16 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Lance Peterson wrote: >Since the Bastille project only supports RedHat and Mandrake (so says >their web site), how would I go about hardening my Debian System in the >same way that Bastille does for the other distros? Apt-get install task-harden (woody and sid) >Maybe if I k

Opera 5.05 and Java

2001-08-16 Thread Hall Stevenson
In case anyone didn't know, Opera just released a 'preview' of 5.05. The important thing is, it know supports Netscape plug-ins and Java. My problem is that I can't get it to recognize my Java installation. I downloaded Sun's J2RE as suggested by Opera's website. I've tried the various instruction

Re: Kernel image installed. Now what?

2001-08-16 Thread Tom Massey
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I did an apt-get of the 2.2.19 kernel image .deb package and installed it. > I went through the prompts, rebooted, and did a modconf. Still one problem > - my system still says I have 2.2.10 installed. I checked my LILO.conf, >

Re: picture browser for debian

2001-08-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: picture browser for debian Date: Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:09:21AM +0200 In reply to:Robert Waldner Quoting Robert Waldner([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 00:39:12 +0200, Eduard Bloch writes: > >Robert Waldner wrote on Fri Aug 17, 2001 um 12:09:33AM: > > >

iBook modem

2001-08-16 Thread Ian Marlier
Sent this to debian-powerpc, too... I have an iBook DV (graphite) and a fully functional debian install...but I can't get ppp to work. pon quits, saying "could not open device /dev/ttyS1" (the file exists, apparently it doesn't refer to an actual device, though). But I don't know what else t

Re: Help: lilo wasn't able to install...

2001-08-16 Thread Miaoling Chiu
On 16 Aug 2001 09:33:18 -0400, Raj Wurttemberg wrote: > Hello, > > I have been trying to get Debian 2.2 r3 to install all night and have not > had any luck. I made it all the way to the point where Debian is supposed to > make itself bootable off of the hard drive. Every time it fails saying "lilo

Re: galeon on woody?

2001-08-16 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 09:51:26AM +1000, Alan E Davis wrote: | Thank you for your reply! | | Will this break woody with up to date versions of woody packages | such as xlibs? If not, then why not try changing sources.list to | unstable long enough to install galeon? It is basically a matter o

DMA

2001-08-16 Thread Miaoling Chiu
Re: 2.4.7 kernel boot hangs with "cramfs: wrong magic" > In one of your earlier messages, you mentioned turning off DMA. I've > done some searching with google, looked at documentation for kernel and > lilo, and I'm not quite sure how to do that. Would I need to intall > hwtools and hdparm and pu

Window managers & destop environments (was: Re: Classic Windoze...)

2001-08-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:44:37PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:55:19PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > | dman wrote: > One reason I like sawfish is because it is quite lightweight and plays > nicely with a desktop environment. Some WMs (ie afterstep and > windom

Re: Silly mutt/debian list question

2001-08-16 Thread Paul Mackinney
dman muttered: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:41:19PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > | I've recently changed my email address, and of course I've been playing > | with my mutt and exim configurations to get the new address to show up > | in the From: header. This seems to be working, but I've noticed

Re: Silly mutt/debian list question

2001-08-16 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > I've recently changed my email address, and of course I've been playing > with my mutt and exim configurations to get the new address to show up > in the From: header. This seems to be working, but I've noticed a > change: When I look at the debian

Re: exim

2001-08-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 01:46:04AM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:05:29AM -0500, Phil Brutsche ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > > > Under Sid, exim is failing with "IPv6 socket cre

Re: Cox cable modem and debian**UPDATE**

2001-08-16 Thread Alan Shutko
Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I may also go back to dhcpd from pump since pump seems unable to ever > renew it's lease. At least, it can't obtain a new IP if the dhcp server decides to change yours. I have a url to the bugzilla about that somewhere -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL

[no subject]

2001-08-16 Thread Tom Gonggrijp
yes i know a good vidip player windows media player and real audio player   i can't juse windows media player becouce i have not enough memory by

Re: woody or sid

2001-08-16 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Should I upgrade to woody or sid from potato? > > Please give me your opinion. I've upgraded 3 machines from potato to woody. But each time, there were packages that were only in sid (some gnome packages, for example). So I updated to sid and got ev

Re: galeon on woody?

2001-08-16 Thread Alan E Davis
Thank you for your reply! Will this break woody with up to date versions of woody packages such as xlibs? If not, then why not try changing sources.list to unstable long enough to install galeon? Is there a good argument against that? I tried individually downloading all the dependencies

xawtv and NFS won't play

2001-08-16 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi folks, I can't watch TV when I have my home directory mounted via NFS from the file server. Specifically, the tool v4l-conf (which is automatically run by xawtv) reports the following: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Se

Re: sound

2001-08-16 Thread Kamil Kisiel
I had the same problem and so I set these permissions as per the XMMS FAQ (www.xmms.org) $ ls -l /dev/dsp /dev/mixer crw--w--w-1 root audio 14, 3 Apr 4 16:46 /dev/dsp crw-rw-rw-1 root audio 14, 0 Apr 4 16:46 /dev/mixer That solved my audio problems. Hopefully it wil

Re: Cox cable modem and debian**UPDATE**

2001-08-16 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 16 Aug 2001 19:38:33 -0400, dman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:11:48PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > | I just carried over another windoz desktop (wife sure liked seeing this!) > and > | fired up win98. The NIC on this box is part of my lan so I removed the lan > | settings fr

Re: ASUS A7V-E motherboard

2001-08-16 Thread Adam Bower
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > Anyone successfully using this motheboard.. > if so .. please post details ! Depends are you having problems?? I have noticed that many people (looking online anyway and from experience) seem to have problems getting it to boot correctly and recognise

Re: sound

2001-08-16 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 16 Aug 2001 19:24:21 -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > > "Michael" == Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Michael> On 16 Aug 2001 15:19:55 -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > >> > "Michael" == Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> writes: > >> > >> > Michael>

Re: Silly mutt/debian list question

2001-08-16 Thread dman
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:41:19PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | I've recently changed my email address, and of course I've been playing | with my mutt and exim configurations to get the new address to show up | in the From: header. This seems to be working, but I've noticed a | change: When I loo

Re: Cox cable modem and debian**UPDATE**

2001-08-16 Thread dman
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:11:48PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: | I just carried over another windoz desktop (wife sure liked seeing this!) and | fired up win98. The NIC on this box is part of my lan so I removed the lan | settings from the nic and set them up as I did on the lap top. With

Silly mutt/debian list question

2001-08-16 Thread Paul Mackinney
I've recently changed my email address, and of course I've been playing with my mutt and exim configurations to get the new address to show up in the From: header. This seems to be working, but I've noticed a change: When I look at the debian-user list in mutt, my posts no longer show my name, Paul

Re: Quota command not working

2001-08-16 Thread Tadeusz Bak
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Jordi S . Bunster wrote: > Just to be sure the actual user has user quotas? edquota -u user? Yes. I can see all quotas set properly if I use (as root) the command 'repquota -a': Block limits File limits Userusedsof

Re: sound

2001-08-16 Thread Bob Koss
> "Michael" == Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> On 16 Aug 2001 15:19:55 -0400, Bob Koss wrote: >> > "Michael" == Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> writes: >> >> Michael> Try logging out and logging back in. >> Didn't work. But w

Kernel image installed. Now what?

2001-08-16 Thread soapbox
Hello everyone, I did an apt-get of the 2.2.19 kernel image .deb package and installed it. I went through the prompts, rebooted, and did a modconf. Still one problem - my system still says I have 2.2.10 installed. I checked my LILO.conf, changed the "image=" line to the vmlinuz-2.2.19 file and

Re: Cox cable modem and debian**UPDATE**

2001-08-16 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
On Thursday 16 August 2001 15:31, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > On Thursday 16 August 2001 15:14, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > On 16 Aug 2001 15:10:24 -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > > On Thursday 16 August 2001 14:36, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > On 16 Aug 2001 13:13:32 -0700, Jaye Inab

Re: picture browser for debian

2001-08-16 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 00:39:12 +0200, Eduard Bloch writes: >Robert Waldner wrote on Fri Aug 17, 2001 um 12:09:33AM: > >> You got the bit about "slow hardware", didn´t you? And when I say > >The mail was not intended for you only. Yes, I got that. I mentioned it even. But something along the lines

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1151

2001-08-16 Thread Ian Perry
> From: dman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:17 AM > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:35:12PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > | I've found that the listmanager can be slow to respond, and this has > | caused problems in the past. Persistence and civility is > helpful, as

xdm install says to contact mailing list

2001-08-16 Thread R1nso13
when installing xdm_4.0.3-4i386.deb using dpkg_1.9.16.deb i get the following error message: "Error: /usr/x11R6/lib/x11/xdm symbolic link does not exitst. Either the package didin't ship w/ a symbolic link (a bug in the backage), or dpkg failed to unpack it to the filesystem (a bug in dpkg). Ple

dselect vs. apt-get

2001-08-16 Thread tim
hello well I am sorry if this has discussed to death, I didnt find a comparison. I always thought dselect/apt-get are frontend for dpkg. dselect uses ncurses, apt-get is only command line. dselect offers a manual dependency resolving while apt-get (mainly) just downloads the file and calls d

Re: Playing Quicktime movies on woody

2001-08-16 Thread Patrick Lam
Dominique Deleris writes, > I'd like to play QuickTime movies on my woody box, so I've > installed the following packages: As others have written, most movies use the Sorenson codec, which is not available at all for Linux. However, you can use WINE (or the Crossover plugin, when it's available,

Re: picture browser for debian

2001-08-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Robert Waldner wrote on Fri Aug 17, 2001 um 12:09:33AM: > You got the bit about "slow hardware", didn´t you? And when I say The mail was not intended for you only. OTOH, many graphic software is very slow on a average box, while the power of the graphic card (eg. Matrox and Nvidia ones

RE: Help: lilo wasn't able to install...

2001-08-16 Thread Raj Wurttemberg
Nope... Complete failure. :( Even with the rescue option set to my root (/dev/sda1) Debian fails to install or install Lilo. I have previously installed RedHat 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, Mandrake 7.0, 8.0, and Windows 2000 on this system so that leaves me to believe... ...Debian 2.2 r3 is defective. I'

Re: woody or sid

2001-08-16 Thread qmichiel
It's kind of neccesary that my system is stable cause it is running a website. But my whole problem started when I wanted to install the unstable nmap cause I wanted the newest as possible. I'm now thinking of installing sid on my second pc (now running windows cause I'm playing Tombraider) so I

Re: strangeness when i do a df...

2001-08-16 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Thursday 16 August 2001 14:48, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > hello: > > > > i have a strange situation here. i had a user complain because /usr/sbin > > appeared to be full. so when i do a df on the system, i get: > > (actually

Re: Cox cable modem and debian

2001-08-16 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
On Thursday 16 August 2001 15:14, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On 16 Aug 2001 15:10:24 -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > On Thursday 16 August 2001 14:36, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > On 16 Aug 2001 13:13:32 -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > > > On Thursday 16 August 2001 12:54, you wrote

Re: ssh and X11Forwarding

2001-08-16 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, August 16, Svante Signell did write: > > When ssh-ing to a computer in my small LAN as a normal user and using > X applications, such as emacs, everything works OK. Howver, with su to > root on the remote box X is refused: Connection lost to X server`host:11.0' Let me make sure

Re: Cox cable modem and debian

2001-08-16 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 16 Aug 2001 15:10:24 -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > On Thursday 16 August 2001 14:36, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > On 16 Aug 2001 13:13:32 -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > > On Thursday 16 August 2001 12:54, you wrote: > > > > On 16 Aug 2001 12:42:29 -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:

Re: PB installing intel e100 ethernet card

2001-08-16 Thread Ines Rieger
Hi Philippe, > Hi, > I try to install the e100 module on the debian kernel 2.2.19pre17 and I > always have the same error unresolved symbol. > Does anybody succeed in installing these card on the debian 2.2r3? Or > can anybody help my in configuring the installation to make the module > without un

Re: Cox cable modem and debian

2001-08-16 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
On Thursday 16 August 2001 14:36, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On 16 Aug 2001 13:13:32 -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > On Thursday 16 August 2001 12:54, you wrote: > > > On 16 Aug 2001 12:42:29 -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > > > Greetz, > > > > > > > > I have been running myself th

Re: picture browser for debian

2001-08-16 Thread Robert Waldner
(when ignoring a set Reply-To it would be nice to at least include a short notice as of /why/ it was ignored) On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:40:32 +0200, Eduard Bloch writes: >Robert Waldner wrote on Thu Aug 16, 2001 um 11:24:55PM: > >> Actually, I have to disagree, gqview is (by "feel") at least 100 %

Re: Cox cable modem and debian

2001-08-16 Thread Kent Pirkle
Hmm... I can't say this is true for Cox, but it is true for Adelphia. I'm wondering if what they are calling an Identity setting is the MAC address of the NIC? If so, the problem is that the MAC address you give the cable company is the only one that will be able to obtain an IP address using pump

Re: picture browser for debian

2001-08-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Robert Waldner wrote on Thu Aug 16, 2001 um 11:24:55PM: > Actually, I have to disagree, gqview is (by "feel") at least 100 % > faster on slow hardware like mine. Well, THE eye catcher in the picture viewer scene is the new Entice image viewer from RasterMan, using his new Evas library

Re: woody or sid

2001-08-16 Thread Mark Carroll
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Should I upgrade to woody or sid from potato? > > Please give me your opinion. That completely depends on your needs. Are you suffering because you're missing the bleeding edge features or software? Do you have the time to work on the problems there

Re: xwindows crash - bad graphics card? (fwd)

2001-08-16 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 16 Aug 2001 16:28:55 -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > On 15 Aug 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > On 15 Aug 2001 02:14:07 -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > On 15 Aug 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > On 14 Aug 2001 23:48:38 -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > > > Hello

Re: strangeness when i do a df...

2001-08-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
"allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello: > > i have a strange situation here. i had a user complain because /usr/sbin > appeared to be full. so when i do a df on the system, i get: > (actually, hdb6, hdb11, and hdb12 where at 100% when the user brought this to

woody or sid

2001-08-16 Thread qmichiel
Should I upgrade to woody or sid from potato? Please give me your opinion.

Re: Installation off CD

2001-08-16 Thread ajlewis2
[This message has also been posted.] On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 20:30:11 +0200, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On 15 Aug 2001 22:19:21 +, bboy boy wrote: >> To whom it may concern, >> >> Whenever I try to instal debian linux 2.2r3 off the cd (bootable) it >> installs the basehurd.tgz archive but then I

Re: Cox cable modem and debian

2001-08-16 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 16 Aug 2001 13:13:32 -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > On Thursday 16 August 2001 12:54, you wrote: > > On 16 Aug 2001 12:42:29 -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > > Greetz, > > > > > > I have been running myself through the ringer trying to get debian to log > > > onto my new Cox Commu

Re: ASUS A7V-E motherboard

2001-08-16 Thread qmichiel
I did use the motherboard with debian potato and everything went fine > Anyone successfully using this motheboard.. > if so .. please post details ! > thanks > Cliff > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ASUS A7V-E motherboard

2001-08-16 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Anyone successfully using this motheboard.. if so .. please post details ! thanks Cliff

Re: picture browser for debian

2001-08-16 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:56:44 EDT, Sean Morgan writes: >> >> Anyone knows of a good picture browser for Linux (preferrably >> >> .deb´ianized, of course, but I can live with compiling myself)? >> Thanks, someone mentioned GQview in a private reply, which does exactly >> what I need (and it d

strangeness when i do a df...

2001-08-16 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
hello: i have a strange situation here. i had a user complain because /usr/sbin appeared to be full. so when i do a df on the system, i get: (actually, hdb6, hdb11, and hdb12 where at 100% when the user brought this to my attention. i deleted some rather large .gz and .bz2 files in /usr/src to

Re: Need Motherboard input for evaluation with Debian Woody

2001-08-16 Thread John Foster
John Foster wrote: > > Anyone who has a few minuts to blow. I need input on the perfoemance of > several motherboards with Debian and your experiences with both > robustness as servers and performance as single user desktops in a > graphics intense environment. > 1. Asus P4T with 1.5 Ghz Intell P-

Re: picture browser for debian

2001-08-16 Thread Sean Morgan
I don't know if XV is still packaged anymore (I think someone threw a hissy over liscensing), but it'll be a great deal more agile than gqview on old hardware. Just start it up and hit control-v for the file browser. On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:38:51 +0200 Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: OT: problem compiling GnoCam-0.10

2001-08-16 Thread Leonard Stiles
Philipp Bliedung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to compile the gui for gphoto-2.0beta1. So I get the > sources fro GnoCam. > But when I run ./configure it gets me this: [...] > checking for GAL >= 0.7.0.0... configure: error: [...] > so I get the sources for gal-0.9.1 from the > ftp://ft

Re: libdb.so.3

2001-08-16 Thread Leonard Stiles
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First I tried to install nmap_2.54.28.BETA-1_i386.deb > > It said needs >=libc6_2.2.3-1 > > So I got libc6_2.2.3-9_i386.deb and installed it. This was probably a bad idea. I would suggest reinstalling the version of libc6 you were previously using and building you

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