Re: AW: ipmasq support in potato kernel

2001-08-23 Thread Mike McGuire
Well, I called my original post "random speculation", so maybe I should just shut the hell up. :) But not before one last shot at this... On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:23:30PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:11:09PM -0400, Mike McGuire wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at

configuring handlers in apache

2001-08-23 Thread Gavin Corfield
I am having trouble configuring the handlers for a cgi script in apache. The following setup works on a red hat machine but not on my debian server (potato). ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /home/angazi/web ServerName 192.168.1.1 ErrorLog /var/log/apache/server-error.log TransferLog

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they?

2001-08-23 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:05:02PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > In reply to:will trillich > > Quoting will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > # dpkg -S apt-setup > > base-config: /usr/sbin/apt-setup > > base-config: /usr/share/debconf/templates/apt-setup.templates > > base-config: /usr/share/man/man8/

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they?

2001-08-23 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:52:39PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > will trillich wrote: > > > # dpkg -S apt-setup > > base-config: /usr/sbin/apt-setup > > base-config: /usr/share/debconf/templates/apt-setup.templates > > base-config: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-setup.8.gz > > apt-setup has one of the l

ipchains and secure sites

2001-08-23 Thread eric
I'm having a problem with secure web sites on my home lan. I am using kernel 2.2 and have my ipchains set up like so. echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ i can't get into secure sites, like my bank, from behind the gateway. but the ga

Re: Debian Installer Freezing

2001-08-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 23 Aug 2001 19:54:12 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian on my Hitachi 133T laptop. It installed fine, > but when I reboot and start configuring it, it crashes almost immediately. I > can move through the screens REALLY fast and it won't crash, but it always > does

BTC-1831 Sound Card (Opti 1688)

2001-08-23 Thread JakeCatfox
I have a BTC-1831 Sound Card (Opti 1688). Is this card supported in Linux? Do I need a driver? I see OSS has it, but when I try to install it, it says it doesn't support my kernel. it's 2.2.19pre17, but OSS says it SUPPORTS 2.2.x. and 2.4.x. I hope someone can help me out. Thanks, Deven G.

Re: apt-get galeon q

2001-08-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 23 Aug 2001 22:14:00 -0400, Jeff Maxson wrote: > > ok, the hoopla about galeon has got me wanting to try it. I'm running > woody, so I commented out my woody lines in my sources.list and put in > > deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > so that is the only thin

Re: apt-get galeon q

2001-08-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:14:00PM -0400, Jeff Maxson wrote: > > ok, the hoopla about galeon has got me wanting to try it. I'm running > woody, so I commented out my woody lines in my sources.list and put in > > deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > so that is th

BTC-1831 Sound Card (Opti 1688)

2001-08-23 Thread BenjiOak
I have a BTC-1831 Sound Card (Opti 1688). Is this card supported in Linux? Do I need a driver? I see OSS has it, but when I try to install it, it says it doesn't support my kernel. it's 2.2.19pre17, but OSS says it SUPPORTS 2.2.x. and 2.4.x. I hope someone can help me out. Thanks, Deven G.

Re: AW: ipmasq support in potato kernel

2001-08-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:11:09PM -0400, Mike McGuire wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:31:59PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > > [my garbage snipped] > > > > Bzzzt. > > > > ipmasq (the package) is simply a collection of SCRIPTS that, depending > > on which kernel you have installed, enabl

Re: AW: ipmasq support in potato kernel

2001-08-23 Thread Mike McGuire
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:31:59PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > [my garbage snipped] > > Bzzzt. > > ipmasq (the package) is simply a collection of SCRIPTS that, depending > on which kernel you have installed, enables IP Masquerading via > ipchains, iptables, or ipfwadm (whatever the 2.0 stuf

Re: Anti-Debian Discruimination (was: DEB vs RPM)

2001-08-23 Thread John Hasler
David McNab writes: > Can someone please comment further about anti-debian discrimination? Please do not do so until you have read the LSB specification. This does not mean what you think it does. > I've heard people saying that 'alien' is pretty evil and can seriously > screw up a debian instal

Re: Something fishy is going on

2001-08-23 Thread Bill Wohler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [The fish is] an apparently harmless Gnome "Easter Egg." That was my suspicion given that it was similar to images already on the system. It sure took me by surprise though. Especially after a VERY long day of hacking--oh, wait, don't let Openwave hear that--t

caps lock...num lock...whatever...

2001-08-23 Thread Jeff Maxson
ok, even stupider. I meant num lock, not caps lock. how do you turn on num lock by default? -- Jeff Maxson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

caps lock...

2001-08-23 Thread Jeff Maxson
ok, dumb question, how do you make the caps lock "on" by default? Does it depend whether you are in X or not? -- Jeff Maxson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Replacing kerneld with kmod?

2001-08-23 Thread Ken Januski
Thanks for pointing me in right direction. I uncommented "auto" in /etc/modules and rebooted. But I still got the same error. Then I saw that the top of /etc/modules suggests "no auto" if you don't want kerneld to run. The error message indicated that I shouldn't be running it with a 2.0 or greate

Re: Replacing kerneld with kmod?

2001-08-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:24:02PM -0400, Ken Januski wrote: > Thanks for pointing me in right direction. I uncommented "auto" in > /etc/modules and rebooted. But I still got the same error. Then I saw > that the top of /etc/modules suggests "no auto" if you don't want > kerneld to run. > > The er

Re: DEB vs RPM

2001-08-23 Thread David Nusinow
On Thursday 23 August 2001 07:34 pm, Paul M Foster wrote: > Debian (if it wants to be LSB compliant) provide a way to install the RPMs > from such a vendor. As a sidenote, Debian does, via the rpm and alien packages. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DEB vs RPM

2001-08-23 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:43:06PM -0700, Miaoling Chiu wrote: > I just received my September issue of LinuxFormat > Magazine. The following from page 62 should be of > interest to this group: > > RPMs in, DEBs out > > LINUX STANDARDS BOARDS SETTLES ON RPM > > The Linux Standards Board has rece

Re: AW: ipmasq support in potato kernel

2001-08-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:39:02PM -0400, Mike McGuire wrote: > > I'm using package 'ipmasq' for starting / stopping firewall and I've not > > seen > > it loads a separated module for activating this functionality. > > eh. This is just a guess, but I'm guessing that the ipmasq program > uses the

Re: Something fishy is going on

2001-08-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:50:57PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > I'm jealous. I've been running GNOME for a long time and I've _never_ > seen this fish! -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: PCI-IRQ problem....

2001-08-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: PCI-IRQ problem Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:12:17PM +0200 In reply to:Bruno Boettcher Quoting Bruno Boettcher([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > can't the the mail on the list, and my comp dyed on sending the other > one, so sorry if it comes twice > > i have 2 PCI devices

Large Files (was Re: something or other)

2001-08-23 Thread Mike McGuire
eh. Maybe I should set mutt to set the Reply-to or whatever to the list... whoever that was may want to send that again to the list as I deleted it already. anyway, they mentioned using a C test program on assumedly a large file, and apparently fopen was failing with an error about large files

Re: Anti-Debian Discruimination (was: DEB vs RPM)

2001-08-23 Thread Alan Shutko
"David McNab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>From my short time with Debian so far, I sense that there may be some > discrimination against the debian platform. The excerpt below is one > dramatic instance. The excerpt below is not one dramatic instance. It's a sensationalist article from a publi

apt-get galeon q

2001-08-23 Thread Jeff Maxson
ok, the hoopla about galeon has got me wanting to try it. I'm running woody, so I commented out my woody lines in my sources.list and put in deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free so that is the only thing in there. I then did an apt-get update which did its thing

Re: Help - Large Files Support

2001-08-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:51:45PM -0400, Mike McGuire wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:30:32PM -0500, Indraneel Majumdar wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:25:00PM +0200, Federico 'Derfel' Stella wrote: > > > Check headers in /usr/include/linux/. > > > If UTS_RELEASE in version.h is 2.4.x yo

Re: OT: Looking for 10/100 ISA NIC's for Linux project

2001-08-23 Thread Jason Majors
I'm guessing it should be PCI...and I hope so, because I've never seen an ISA card that can do 100Mbps, and don't think the ISA bus could saturate that card. It's not that fast. If you're looking for really cheap, and not worried if your achieved thruput is only 80 or 90Mbps, just go to your local

[jason@whizzird.net: Re: Network configuration]

2001-08-23 Thread Jason Majors
You don't need an rc.local script. If you look in /etc/rc2.d/ you'll see lots of S scripts. These are the scripts that get run when you start the system. The 'S' is for "Start" (I guess), and there are "K" scripts for "Kill" in other related directories. The number is the order in which it will run

Re: sourceforge kde dropped debs????

2001-08-23 Thread Robert L. Harris
Is it coming back? Do we know when? Thus spake Daniel T. Chen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Afaik, for the moment latinhouse no longer mirrors the Debian section. > > --- > Dan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GPG key: www.cs.unc.edu/~chenda/pubkey.gpg.asc > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Robert L

Anti-Debian Discruimination (was: DEB vs RPM)

2001-08-23 Thread David McNab
>From my short time with Debian so far, I sense that there may be some discrimination against the debian platform. The excerpt below is one dramatic instance. Can someone please comment further about anti-debian discrimination? Also, how much success have people had with the 'alien' utility for c

Re: Something fishy is going on

2001-08-23 Thread Rich Puhek
Warning: New Distributed Denial of Service attack on the loose! Synopsis: In a dastardly clever (yet simple) scheme, a new DDOS is attaching Linux newsgroups at an increasing rate. Artfully designed to capitalize on user paranoia following the massive hype surounding the "Code Red" family of worms

Re: Replacing kerneld with kmod?

2001-08-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:10:58PM -0400, Ken Januski wrote: > I've been getting messages on bootup for last few months saying "you > almost certainly don't want to be running kerneld". I'm running 2.2.17 > and from what I've read that's true: I don't want to be running kerneld. > But I have no ide

Re: XF86Setup problem

2001-08-23 Thread Jeff Maxson
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:16:06AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I'm a newbie in Potato installing: the problem is my Graphic card > > configuration on Athlon 900 with ATI XPERT 200 32MB AGP (graphic > > processor Rage 128)

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they?

2001-08-23 Thread Craig Dickson
will trillich wrote: > # dpkg -S apt-setup > base-config: /usr/sbin/apt-setup > base-config: /usr/share/debconf/templates/apt-setup.templates > base-config: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-setup.8.gz apt-setup has one of the least helpful man pages I've ever seen. Is this an interactive program? It doesn

Re: Something fishy is going on

2001-08-23 Thread Craig Dickson
Bill Wohler wrote: > A fish just swam across my screen. What the hell is up with that? [...] > Here are the current processes. [...] > > PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND [...] > 597 ?S 0:00 /usr/bin/gdm > 607 ?S 0:00 /usr/bin/gdm > 618 ?S 0:0

Re: Network keeps going down repeatedly

2001-08-23 Thread BT
Thank you, That seems to have been the problem. bt On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:35:36PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 05:17:43AM -0500, BT wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:14:30PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 02:52:53AM -0500, BT ([EMAIL P

Re: OT: Looking for 10/100 ISA NIC's for Linux project

2001-08-23 Thread Rich Puhek
Gack! $70? That seems a bit pricy for an ISA card. 10/100 cards in an ISA slot? That's a bit odd... On the off chance you meant to type PCI, not ISA, I'd use the 3c905 card from 3com. They're supported, reliable, and they're $45/each if you buy them in a 25-pack from Datacomm. If it's a school, y

Re-Need advice on Upgrade Apache apache-dev_1.3.9-13.2.deb

2001-08-23 Thread Kennice Low
Hi mike, Thank you for your help on the previous email. I would like to upgrade apache using debian package. 1)I think I make a mistake on the path setting for sources.list: should be : deb file:/var/ftp/debian potato main instead of : deb file:/var/ftp/debian potato main apache-dev_1.3.9-13.2.de

Re: Network configuration

2001-08-23 Thread David Nusinow
Hi Bob, You can (should) stick your script in /etc/init.d. Then, check what runlevel you're in. It should be at the top of /etc/inittab. For that runlevel, go in to the appropriate /etc/rcX.d folder (X corresponding to your runlevel) and put a symlink to the script in /etc/init.d. Pay a

DEB vs RPM

2001-08-23 Thread Miaoling Chiu
I just received my September issue of LinuxFormat Magazine. The following from page 62 should be of interest to this group: RPMs in, DEBs out LINUX STANDARDS BOARDS SETTLES ON RPM The Linux Standards Board has recently released 1.0 of the LSB specification, and have agreed on RPM as the standard

Re: AW: ipmasq support in potato kernel

2001-08-23 Thread Mike McGuire
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:07:34PM +0200, Peter Palmreuther wrote: > Hello Andreas, > > On Thursday, August 23, 2001 at 2:37:11 PM, > you wrote (at least in part): > > > or does the standard kernel support masquerading? > > I've installed a Debian 2.2 (w/o 'r') shipped with kernel 2.2.17, am us

Re: Gnome panel + sawfish = very slow ?

2001-08-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:33:41PM +0200, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: [snip] > I suspect that the sluggishness of your setup comes from 2 sawfish > biting at eachother. > - The one you started manually > - The one gnome-session starts > > They probably don't like eachother. I'd think at least one

Re: Upgrade

2001-08-23 Thread Mike McGuire
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:20:38AM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote: > > "GECOS" == GECOS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > GECOS> Is there any way to upgrade to a higher version of debian ? > GECOS> I always get lost in `dselect' or `apt-get' . Greg > > Try ``apt-get update && apt-get dist-upg

Re: Help - Large Files Support

2001-08-23 Thread Mike McGuire
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:30:32PM -0500, Indraneel Majumdar wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:25:00PM +0200, Federico 'Derfel' Stella wrote: > > Check headers in /usr/include/linux/. > > If UTS_RELEASE in version.h is 2.4.x you have nothing to do. > > I am running unstable (upgraded from potato

Re: Switching to kernel nfs (was: mutt and an nfs mounted home directory)

2001-08-23 Thread Jason Majors
And the winner of this year's Dumbass award is...ME. I was testing the mountability (is that a word?) of the nfs served directories on my firewall, because I turn the workstation off when I'm not using it (like now when I'm at "work"). The firewall doesn't have nfs-common installed. I tested it mou

Re: Kernel for AMD Thunderbird

2001-08-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Kernel for AMD Thunderbird Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:03:48PM +0300 In reply to:George Karaolides Quoting George Karaolides([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi, > > I'm thinking of buying an Asus A7V266 motherboard and using it with an AMD > Thunderbird CPU, 1.4GHz with a 2

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they?

2001-08-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they? Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:50:57PM -0500 In reply to:will trillich Quoting will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:52:54AM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > Hi... > > > > I was wondering if

Re: Something fishy is going on

2001-08-23 Thread burningclown
Jeez, this has popped up on the list A LOT lately ... check the archives. It's an apparently harmless Gnome "Easter Egg." Poor Wanda has come in for a lot of paranoia the last month or so! :) Glenn Becker On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Bill Wohler wrote: > A fish just swam across my screen. What the h

Re: Something fishy is going on

2001-08-23 Thread Tom Massey
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Bill Wohler wrote: > A fish just swam across my screen. What the hell is up with that? No need to panic, it's a Gnome easter egg. Unless you're not running Gnome.

Re: Something fishy is going on

2001-08-23 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Bill Wohler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > A fish just swam across my screen. What the hell is up with that? > > I kid you not. There was a thread on this a week or so ago. It's apparently an easter egg in Gnome. Enjoy, Mike

Network configuration

2001-08-23 Thread bob parker
I'm still quite new to this excellent os (Potato r3) and am building a web server. I have made a script - rc.local to configure my network adapter using ifconfig and route. At the moment I'm invoking this by hand after bootup. My question is where do I install this script so that it's automatically

Something fishy is going on

2001-08-23 Thread Bill Wohler
A fish just swam across my screen. What the hell is up with that? I kid you not. Here are the current processes. I just updated woody for the first time in a month. Do any of these processes now send up a fish every now and again, or have I been broken into? It looked a lot like /usr/

LDAP + SASL + PAM

2001-08-23 Thread Jorge Santos
Hello, I'm trying to implement (Unix) user authentication in a small network at work using ldap and pam_ldap, I've almost done it but I get this error when testing the ldap server: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ldapsearch -U root SASL/LOGIN authentication started Please enter your password: ldap_sasl_interac

Replacing kerneld with kmod?

2001-08-23 Thread Ken Januski
I've been getting messages on bootup for last few months saying "you almost certainly don't want to be running kerneld". I'm running 2.2.17 and from what I've read that's true: I don't want to be running kerneld. But I have no idea how to change this. Do I need to recompile kernel? I don't recall e

Swisscom DSL

2001-08-23 Thread Mark Jaroski
Hi All, Does anybody on the list happen to have experience with Swisscom DSL service? I'm considering getting an account in Geneva. Thanks! Mark -- -- mark at geekhive dot net ==

Debian Installer Freezing

2001-08-23 Thread JakeCatfox
I'm trying to install Debian on my Hitachi 133T laptop. It installed fine, but when I reboot and start configuring it, it crashes almost immediately. I can move through the screens REALLY fast and it won't crash, but it always does eventually. Is there something wrong I can fix, or a way I can c

Re: Switching to kernel nfs (was: mutt and an nfs mounted home directory)

2001-08-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 23 Aug 2001 15:59:04 -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:48:14PM -0500, Dave Sherohman scribbled... > > Try reinstalling nfs-kernel-server, portmapper, and all of their > > dependencies. I was getting the same sort of problems a little while > > back with both nfs and nis

Re: Kernel for AMD Thunderbird

2001-08-23 Thread Gregory T. Norris
It seems to depend a great deal upon the motherboard. I've got an Asus A7M266 with a 1.2GHz Athlon, and it's had no trouble whatsoever with the 2.4 kernel's Athlon optimizations. On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:07:20AM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > I hear that 2.4 has an Athlon option, but I'm not sure

Re: sourceforge kde dropped debs????

2001-08-23 Thread Daniel T. Chen
Afaik, for the moment latinhouse no longer mirrors the Debian section. --- Dan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: www.cs.unc.edu/~chenda/pubkey.gpg.asc On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Interesting: > > Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/non-free Release > Faile

Re: dual displays

2001-08-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 23 Aug 2001 02:56:55 -0700, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:17:30AM +0200, Cyan Ogilvie wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:13:44PM -0700, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: > > You need two Device sections, pretty much identical, but with > > different identifiers of course. Get t

Re: magic sysrq key

2001-08-23 Thread thomas
> Is there a way to enable the magic SysRq key without compiling a custom > kernel? > Why is it not built in the Debian kernel? If policy demands that it > should be disabled by default then this could be done via proc during > the boot process. I don't see any reason why it should be in the debia

Re: Switching to kernel nfs (was: mutt and an nfs mounted home directory)

2001-08-23 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:48:14PM -0500, Dave Sherohman scribbled... > Try reinstalling nfs-kernel-server, portmapper, and all of their > dependencies. I was getting the same sort of problems a little while > back with both nfs and nis and that's what solved them. Apparently, > there was some

Re: Upgrade

2001-08-23 Thread Joel Mayes
> "GECOS" == GECOS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GECOS> Is there any way to upgrade to a higher version of debian ? GECOS> I always get lost in `dselect' or `apt-get' . Greg Try ``apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade'' -- Joel

Re: Can't use CD writer! Please help....

2001-08-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 23 Aug 2001 23:05:46 +, Timeboy wrote: > > Dear debian users, > > i tried to write a CD with GnomeToaster1.0Beta2. Cause i want to write > audiofiles > in DAO mode, cdrdao1.1.3 is the recording tool. But there is an error: > > cdrdao: Cannot open SCSI device '0,0': Cannot open /dev/pg0 >

Re: Debian dream machine?

2001-08-23 Thread Arno
Abner Gershon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am planning on building a computer from various > components with the intent of setting it up to dual > boot to Debian and Windows ME. Initially I had ordered > an Athalon 1.3 Ghz processor and Abit KT7A motherboard > but then got cold feet and canceled

Re: apt-get

2001-08-23 Thread John Galt
debsums On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, greg wrote: >Would anyone tell me how I can verify my downloaded debs ? > > > -- The early worm gets the bird. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: using different mailfolders in mutt

2001-08-23 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 06:31:06AM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 12:52:46PM +0200, stephan kulka wrote: > > Hello all > > > > I would like to filter my incoming mail in different folders in mutt. What > > should I do? (rtfm with an url or document are welcome as well). > > Use procm

Re: Framebuffer support in kernel

2001-08-23 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010823 17:50]: > > video=matrox:vesa:443 > > I think you need to add: > > append="video=matrox:vesa:443" Okay, that worked just fine. Well, the fonts ended up a little smaller than I wanted, but I figured out a value that I liked. Now though, I'd like to know

Re: apt-get install package/dist

2001-08-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 23 Aug 2001 12:23:52 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on a debian testing box, i try: > apt-get install mozilla/unstable > and get: > E: Release 'unstable' for 'mozilla' was not found > > how can i get apt to know about the other dists without it > automatically trying to upgrade my entire sys

Re: potato to woody troubles

2001-08-23 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 11:30:00PM -0400, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm trying to upgrade my potato box to woody so I can run KDE 2.2. I'd also > like to upgrade to Xfree86 4.x. I tried using apt-get, but I'm getting an > error message and having trouble tracking it down. > >

Re: kdebindings?

2001-08-23 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:29:52PM +0200, William Leese wrote: > To make it sweet and short: > > where can i find the kdebindings module? > > I'd love to give konqueror and gecko a try, but couldnt find kdebindings > anywhere. hmm. i don't know about the kdebindings thing, but i've got konquero

Re: Modprobe Issue

2001-08-23 Thread John Galt
In potato? The modules layout changed from 2.2.X to 2.4.X. You need Bunk's modutils for potato. On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Whenever I try to use modprobe with 3c59x.o or eepro100.o, I get a message >saying it can't find /lib/modules/2.4.5/modules.dep. What do I need to >inst

Re: a woodied gnumeric

2001-08-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 15:59:13 -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > Does your time calculation ("as little as 5 days") include the > dependencies as well? No. 5 days is the minimal time for a "medium" priority upload to unstable to percolate to testing. Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservatio

Re: Apache & Perl

2001-08-23 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 02:31:21AM -0500, Andy Laurence wrote: > > > but whenever I reference a Perl script in the cgi-bin, I > > get a 404 error. > > > > What do the error-logs for apache say??? > > Aha! 'script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/customcd.pl' > This is a bit weird as

Re: Where are config files for pre-compiles kernels

2001-08-23 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Greg Wiley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010823 17:56]: > Hi all- > > I have the feeling I am missing something obvious: > > If I install one of the pre-compiled kernel packages from stable, is a > copy of the configuration file used for its build stored somewhere on > my system? Look in your /boot direc

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they?

2001-08-23 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:52:54AM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi... > > I was wondering if Debian had a spot on their web page where it listed > the official available sources for the sources.list file? # dpkg -S apt-setup base-config: /usr/sbin/apt-setup base-config: /usr/share/debconf/temp

Where are config files for pre-compiles kernels

2001-08-23 Thread Greg Wiley
Hi all- I have the feeling I am missing something obvious: If I install one of the pre-compiled kernel packages from stable, is a copy of the configuration file used for its build stored somewhere on my system? Thanks, -=greg

Re: Switching to kernel nfs (was: mutt and an nfs mounted home directory)

2001-08-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:47:25PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > When I remove the no_root_squash option, it says it starts, but I get > mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused > on the client and /var/lib/nfs/xtab is empty. > What do I have to do to get the kernel server to run?

Konqueror and Zope and Zwiki

2001-08-23 Thread dude
Help! I am using Zwiki to take notes on my readings and what i have noticed is that when I now click on a hyperlink that is not the last hyperlink on the page Konqueror will no longer jump to that page but merely change the URL location bar so fer instance I am in /localhost:9673/~/notes

Re: X Display errors

2001-08-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 22 Aug 2001 19:01:25 -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > Whenever I try to run something from an Eterm or xterm I get this error: > xmms: can't open display (null) > But my display is set to "sabertooth:0.0". (The correct name). > I've changed it to "localhost:0.0", "127.0.0.1:0.0", and "192.168.1.2:0

Re: Help - Large Files Support

2001-08-23 Thread Indraneel Majumdar
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:25:00PM +0200, Federico 'Derfel' Stella wrote: > Check headers in /usr/include/linux/. > If UTS_RELEASE in version.h is 2.4.x you have nothing to do. I am running unstable (upgraded from potato via woody) on Linux-2.2.5 version.h: #define UTS_RELEASE "2.4.8" #define LIN

Re: Switching to kernel nfs (was: mutt and an nfs mounted homedirectory)

2001-08-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 23 Aug 2001 12:47:25 -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > I have the kernel server up, but now it won't export my directories. I have > lines like: > /usr/local/oggs 192.168.1.2(ro) 192.168.1.4(ro) 192.168.1.1(ro) > /home 192.168.1.2(rw, no_root_squash) 192.168.1.4(rw) > in my /etc/exports

konqueror vs. session cookies

2001-08-23 Thread will trillich
this may be a bit off topic -- aren't "session" cookies (i.e. those without an expiration date) supposed to go away when the client (browser program) exits? i quit konqueror (making sure there are no other instances running, keeping a 'session' alive) and re-launch it; when i check settings->cook

Re: sshd

2001-08-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 21 Aug 2001 21:00:07 -0400, Titus Barik wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Titus Barik wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, dman wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:13:30PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: > > > | On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, dman wrote: > > > > iptables -L returns: > > Okay, updates. I fo

Re: ssh with putty.exe problems, is this normal?

2001-08-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 21 Aug 2001 11:02:56 -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi all, > > I have read all over the web that most telnet and ssh connections > that are slow, are due to DNS problems. (I don't imagine this the case for me, > but you never know) > > Well, I sorta have that problem but not really. > Here i

Can't use CD writer! Please help....

2001-08-23 Thread Timeboy
Dear debian users, i tried to write a CD with GnomeToaster1.0Beta2. Cause i want to write audiofiles in DAO mode, cdrdao1.1.3 is the recording tool. But there is an error: cdrdao: Cannot open SCSI device '0,0': Cannot open /dev/pg0 I read #man cdrdao. But i don't understand the meaning of this

Re: pilot-xfer stopped working after kernel upgrade to 2.4.9

2001-08-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 22 Aug 2001 22:33:24 +0200, thomas wrote: > > I used "make menuconfig" and configured the kernel by hand (having read > > the configuration from the old 2.2.18 config), was it wrong? > > Does "oldconfig" makes some magic conversions from old version of > > configfile? > > It only works from 2.Y

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-23 Thread Craig Dickson
Hall Stevenson wrote: > We're at 2.4.9pre?? and still no ext3 support... "pre" nothing; 2.4.9 has been out for several days now. Stephen Tweedie, the principal creator of ext3, says he'll suggest adding ext3 to Linus's official kernel during 2.5 development. Craig

Re: magic sysrq key

2001-08-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:43:30PM +0200, Walter Hofmann wrote: > Is there a way to enable the magic SysRq key without compiling a custom > kernel? > Why is it not built in the Debian kernel? If policy demands that it > should be disabled by default then this could be done via proc during > the boo

OT: Looking for 10/100 ISA NIC's for Linux project

2001-08-23 Thread John Purser
Hello, I'm looking for a source for nearly 100 10/100 ISA Ethernet cards for a linux network I'm helping with at a local Charter School. I've found some for around $70 but was hoping to cut that price in half if I could. Anybody got some leads or recommend a particular card to buy and/or stay aw

Re: Gnome panel + sawfish = very slow ?

2001-08-23 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> I don't have gnome-session installed at all. I was just running |> panel from an rxvt window. Neil: I have a very similar setup. I wanted the panel functionality without the whole GNOME beast. I haven't noticed the sluggishness you report, though. I start the panel in .xinitrc: ---

Re: Debian dream machine?

2001-08-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:01:36PM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > I am planning on building a computer from various > components with the intent of setting it up to dual > boot to Debian and Windows ME. Initially I had ordered > an Athalon 1.3 Ghz processor and Abit KT7A motherboard > but then got c

magic sysrq key

2001-08-23 Thread Walter Hofmann
Is there a way to enable the magic SysRq key without compiling a custom kernel? Why is it not built in the Debian kernel? If policy demands that it should be disabled by default then this could be done via proc during the boot process. Walter

Re: logout problem

2001-08-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 22 Aug 2001 12:05:45 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi to all! > > sometimes, when I logout, the monitor freezes with a black background and > blue vertical lines. Nothing else can be done, and I am forced to reset the > system. What could be the problem? I run potato 2.2.r3 + ximian gno

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-23 Thread Hall Stevenson
> >>it is in the standard kernels. > > > I am not talking about debian kernels. > > I wasnt talking about debian kernels either :) They > are obviously not in linus' kernels but they are > (have been?) in AC's kernels (for some time?). I > know 2.4.7-ac11 has it cause i'm using it right now. > Can

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-23 Thread thomas
>>it is in the standard kernels. > I am not talking about debian kernels. I wasnt talking about debian kernels either :) They are obviously not in linus' kernels but they are (have been?) in AC's kernels (for some time?). I know 2.4.7-ac11 has it cause i'm using it right now. Can only be a matter

sourceforge kde dropped debs????

2001-08-23 Thread Robert L. Harris
Interesting: Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/non-free Release Failed to fetch http://ftp.sourceForge.net/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 152.2.210.121 80] Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree.

hi-grade flyer 3400

2001-08-23 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, Does anyone know about running debian (or any linux) on the: hi-grade flyer 3400 notebook? What can/cant it support. Will it work at all?Thanks, Hereward

Debian dream machine?

2001-08-23 Thread Abner Gershon
I am planning on building a computer from various components with the intent of setting it up to dual boot to Debian and Windows ME. Initially I had ordered an Athalon 1.3 Ghz processor and Abit KT7A motherboard but then got cold feet and canceled my order after reading some negative posts on this

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