Re: routing protocols

2001-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
* Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.10 17:08:15-0500]: > We're way off topic here. Any decent networking with IP text will > answer these questions. again, sorry. i panicked. much more chilled this morning. thanks for your reply. please excuse the abuse of debian-user, it's your own bl

Re: Apache.pm

2001-10-10 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:33:08PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: >I'm trying to do a dselect installation of Apache mod_perl DBI and a few >other little goodies... >When I start Apache I get: >[error] Can't locate Apache.pm in @INC (@INC >contains.../usr/share/perl/5.6.1...) at (eval 1) line 3. > >lo

Re: bootp vs. dhcp

2001-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
* Chad C. Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.10 17:00:35-0500]: > How did I find this information so easily??? > > http://google.com/search?DHCP+FAQ > > LESSON: Google is your friend!!! ;-) Seriously. me knows! please also read my other post, last night, i just screwed up, started panicki

Re: bootp vs. dhcp

2001-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
* Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.10 16:59:56-0500]: > DHCP is an extension of BOOTP ... they use the same port numbers (67 > for the server and 68 for the client). As always, the RFCs contain > all the gory details. yes, i know this too. last night was late and i need this info toda

Re: Show postscript files in Landscape

2001-10-10 Thread the Edward Blevins
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:54:01PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > Hi all; this is a big off-topic but... > > I have some PostScript files that show (in gv) in Portrait. However, > they are slides and they are formatted in Landscape, so to read them on > my screen I have to crane my neck over 90 de

Nvidia Gforce2 / "no screens available"

2001-10-10 Thread techlists
I installed Debian, and upgraded to Woody. I have an Nvidia Gforce 2 64meg video card. I installed XFree86 4, and followed all the settings but when I try to start X it errors saying there are "no screens available" John

Re: setting up network (error!)

2001-10-10 Thread hmike
On Mon, 2001-10-08 at 20:05, MarceI Figuerola Estrada wrote: > I was adding the ip of my network card in the interfaces ( ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2) and it returned this message: > > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device > eth0: Unknown interface: No such device > > Now, what it can be? Is your ethernet c

Re: Readline versus wide xterms

2001-10-10 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:39:23PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Does anyone know what it is that makes readline eat itself when a terminal > > is very wide? > > > > Example: make an xterm 120 chars wide. Type in some long

Show postscript files in Landscape

2001-10-10 Thread Paul D. Smith
Hi all; this is a big off-topic but... I have some PostScript files that show (in gv) in Portrait. However, they are slides and they are formatted in Landscape, so to read them on my screen I have to crane my neck over 90 degrees to the left :(. Surely there must be some way to change the PostSc

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Hall Stevenson wrote: ... > This is kinda my point. If you haven't used an MS product in 'x' > number of years, how do you know it's the fault of the MS program ?? > Simply 'cause MS makes it ?? Because others who also haven't used that's actually a pretty good heuristics. (I use windows ever

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:28:42PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > > And he does have a point. The anti-M$ sentiment has led to a number of > > comments on this list that, were I thinking of transitioning to Linux, > > would deter me from doing so because self-righteousness

Re. xdm crash

2001-10-10 Thread Sidney Brooks
In response to my problem, I received the following. > I have lost the ability to use xdm, run level 5, and would like to know how > to restore it without reinstalling Debian. I can operate in run level 3 as > long as I do not go into graphics. > > This is how it all happened. I downloaded some f

Re: kernel 2.4.10 and alsa

2001-10-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Tommi Komulainen wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:46:17PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > > > > Probably not. You'll be wanting alsa-source from unstable, > > which is at 0.9. The development version is quite nice compared to > > the stable one. > > The only thing that's keeping me back fr

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread John Hasler
Hall Stevenson writes: > This is kinda my point. If you haven't used an MS product in 'x' number > of years, how do you know it's the fault of the MS program ?? I thought you were implying that the "MS bashers" were hypocrites who did use MS daily rather than people like me who haven't used it in

Large RAM causing problems?

2001-10-10 Thread Loki
I have an ongoing saga of difficulties with my computer. Previously I've had trouble with X crashing, which turning off sound in Gnome seemed to fix until yesterday. Now I've upgraded to Debian kernel 2.2.19, and added some RAM to the machine (up to 384 MB now) and hence deactivated the swap parti

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Kent West wrote: > Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > > > Finally, what I'm really interested in is the adamant MS-bashers and > > when they've last used Windows. If they're s against it, I > > assume they either never have or it's been 5+ years. > > > > Regards > > Hall > >

Re: How to use Linux as a dial-up provider?

2001-10-10 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:49:16PM -0500, Kent West wrote: | I don't know exactly the terminology to use. I'd like to set up a Linux | box on the ethernet at home, slap a modem on it (attached to an analog | line of course), and then dial-up from home to the modem, authenticate, | and have inter

Re: How to use Linux as a dial-up provider?

2001-10-10 Thread Tom Massey
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:49:16PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I don't know exactly the terminology to use. I'd like to set up a Linux > box on the ethernet at home, slap a modem on it (attached to an analog > line of course), and then dial-up from home to the modem, authenticate, > and have inter

Re: configuration of kernel-images

2001-10-10 Thread Timothy Webster
-- Original Message -- From: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 22:38:40 -0400 >On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:58:01PM -0400, tim wrote: >> >> How do I find out the compile configuration of a pre-compiled kernel-image? >> Such as kernel-im

Re: ethernet card IO address

2001-10-10 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:16:50PM +0200, MarceI Figuerola Estrada wrote: | I've tried to load the module that friend Vineet suggested for my | ethernet card. I did it giving no parameters (io, irq). I got the | following error: | | >/lib/modules /2.2.18pre21/net/via-rhine.o: init module: Device o

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:59:14PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: ... | Finally, what I'm really interested in is the adamant MS-bashers and | when they've last used Windows. If they're s against it, I | assume they either never have or it's been 5+ years. Sorry to disappoint you Hall, but I hav

How to use Linux as a dial-up provider?

2001-10-10 Thread Kent West
I don't know exactly the terminology to use. I'd like to set up a Linux box on the ethernet at home, slap a modem on it (attached to an analog line of course), and then dial-up from home to the modem, authenticate, and have internet access. In essence, I want to be my own ISP, allowing myself t

Re: Readline versus wide xterms

2001-10-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:39:23PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anyone know what it is that makes readline eat itself when a terminal > is very wide? > > Example: make an xterm 120 chars wide. Type in some long command that > spans more than one line. Now up arrow t

Re: xdm crash

2001-10-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 07:41:36PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:15:57PM -0700, Sidney Brooks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I have lost the ability to use xdm, run level 5, and would like to know how > > to restore it without reinstalling Debian. I can operate in r

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread Kent West
Hall Stevenson wrote: Finally, what I'm really interested in is the adamant MS-bashers and when they've last used Windows. If they're s against it, I assume they either never have or it's been 5+ years. Regards Hall I'm a support tech at a university, keeping the PCs and Macs running f

Re: xdm crash

2001-10-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:15:57PM -0700, Sidney Brooks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have lost the ability to use xdm, run level 5, and would like to know how > to restore it without reinstalling Debian. I can operate in run level 3 as > long as I do not go into graphics. > > This is how it a

Re: configuration of kernel-images

2001-10-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:58:01PM -0400, tim wrote: > > How do I find out the compile configuration of a pre-compiled kernel-image? > Such as kernel-image-2.4.10-k6. Look for the corresponding /boot/config-* file. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-.

Re: Shutdown not working

2001-10-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 01:25:05PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When I try to halt or reboot my Debian desktop (running woody), the > system gets to "Deconfiguring network interfaces:" and then just seems > to stop. It's not hung, because I can ALT+Fx to different terminals

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
> ... I do find discussions of Microsoft and its products boring > and usually off-topic Agreed. I guess I'm being a hypocrite though ;-) > Why shouldn't people with Microsoft-specific problems be > told to ask Microsoft for help? This is kinda my point. If you haven't used an MS product in

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:19:17PM -0400, Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Your message, and Nathan Norman's was similar, showed up with > a *.txt attachment containing this: > > Mmh, perhaps attached PGP/GPG-Signatures? Does this mail also > have an > attachement like the others? It's

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:58:57AM -0700, Ben Hartshorne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:37:17AM -0700, Royce Bell wrote: > > Uh...is there a reason why several posts to the list (usually from specific > > individuals), come with attached text files. I'm not in the habit o

Re: Takin' the plunge...

2001-10-10 Thread Allen Wayne Best
tony, wayne: for what it's worth, adsl is, imo, much easier than ppp(oe). basically, set up your workstation just like it's on a local network. i will have to look at my debian machine at work to give you the exact files to place your ip information. once you have that, you are home free. i am

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread John Hasler
Hall writes: > Finally, what I'm really interested in is the adamant MS-bashers and when > they've last used Windows. If they're s against it, I assume they > either never have or it's been 5+ years. It's been more than five years since I have used any Microsoft product. While not much of an M

configuration of kernel-images

2001-10-10 Thread tim
How do I find out the compile configuration of a pre-compiled kernel-image? Such as kernel-image-2.4.10-k6. -Tim. thanks inadvance.

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:51:58PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 04:39:48PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. æ > > and ø). The strange thing is that they work all fine on the command line,

Re: Atlanta Linux InstallFest

2001-10-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 03:43:33PM -0400, Harold A. Bieber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi. I am a member of the Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts, I am coordinating > our installfest which will be on October 20th at the Emory University > School of Law. I am trying to find out if we can get a few things

Re: potato -> woody on multiple machines

2001-10-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:16:09PM +1300, Richard Hector ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > After apt-get dis-upgrading one box, am I ok to just tar up > /var/cache/apt/archives and dump it on the other? Yes. Run an 'update' after anyway, you should find there's little changed. -- Karsten M. Self

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > And he does have a point. The anti-M$ sentiment has led to a > > number of comments on this list that, were I thinking of transitioning > > to Linux, would deter me from doing so because self-righteousness > > is rarely very friendly. > > I couldn't agree more. Despite not having used a Micro

Re: Apache.pm

2001-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:33:08PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I'm trying to do a dselect installation of Apache mod_perl DBI and a few > other little goodies... > When I start Apache I get: > [error] Can't locate Apache.pm in @INC (@INC > contains.../usr/share/perl/5.6.1...) at (eval 1) line 3.

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:17:19PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > I don't recall the specifics, but I don't think anything > definite was agreed upon. I *thought* some people did in fact > blame mutt (more specifically, an old(er) option in people's > /etc/Muttrc or ~/.muttrc that needed updating).

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:28:42PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > And he does have a point. The anti-M$ sentiment has led to a number of > comments on this list that, were I thinking of transitioning to Linux, > would deter me from doing so because self-righteousness is rarely very > friendly. I

Re: postfix delivery options

2001-10-10 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2001-10-10 21:15:59, Allan M. Wind wrote: > c. mydestination = ..., $myhostname If you _really_ want some mail to green.$mydomain send out to your relay host (and I assume it does something differently with mail from green.$mydomain than from $mydomain) then change the above to ..., localhost.

Re: postfix delivery options

2001-10-10 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2001-10-10 14:45:57, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > The problem that I'm having is that mail generated by programs run as > root on my machine (cron, bounces, errors on boot, etc.) get sent to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which goes to all the administrators of > hartshorne.net) instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (

Re: gnucash in sid

2001-10-10 Thread Greg Norris
I finally gave up, and recompiled gnucash locally. It was reasonably painless... I had to use automake 1.4 instead of 1.5 (I still had a copy in my apt-move mirror, fortunately), but had no problems otherwise. Assuming that i386 is your platform, I can email you the resulting debfile if you like.

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-10 Thread Stig Brautaset
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 04:39:48PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. ? > > and ?). The strange thing is that they work all fine on the command line, > > and if I us

Apache.pm

2001-10-10 Thread Tom Allison
I'm trying to do a dselect installation of Apache mod_perl DBI and a few other little goodies... When I start Apache I get: [error] Can't locate Apache.pm in @INC (@INC contains.../usr/share/perl/5.6.1...) at (eval 1) line 3. locate Apache.pm results in: /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0/Apache.pm /usr/lib/

X server

2001-10-10 Thread Helmut Trinkl
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:26:32PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Vitor Silva Souza wrote: > > > Hi, > > I was browsing through the archives to find a way to make the wheels of > > my > > MS Intellimouse work on X. I found a piece of configuration that should be > > inserted

Re: Takin' the plunge...

2001-10-10 Thread Anthony and Mary Ann Tantillo
Actually, I got Earthlink/DSL to work with the pppoe distributed with 2.2r3 (potato) and the testing (woody) distributions using the standard 2.2.19pre17 kernel that installed from the CD. Tony On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 07:06:50PM +0100, Wayne Brown wrote: > on 10th Oct Royce Bell wrote > > > She

Re: Graphics Card problem

2001-10-10 Thread Anthony and Mary Ann Tantillo
If you have problems even getting the SVGA 16 colour X server, going you can even do the upgrade from the command line. You'll have to learn about modifying the /etc/apt/sources.list file, but it is actually fairly easy to upgrade your system. What I did with my ATI Xpert2000 graphic card based s

ACTIVADORES BIOLÓGICOS PARA ELIMINAR OLORES. ¡PUBLICIDAD!

2001-10-10 Thread !PUBLICIDAD¡
Gasolineras, Hoteles, Chalets, Turismo rural, etc... Para evitar olores en los urinarios, retretes, sifones de los urinarios, en el sifón del suelo, en el propio suelo y los procedentes del pozo séptico e impedir que las grasas taponen el drenaje inutilizando el pozo. Activadores biológicos n

gnucash in sid

2001-10-10 Thread Charles Baker
What do I need to do to get the latest gnucash to install on sid? Does someone have an apt-source for it where libgal9 (>= 0.10) and libgtkhtml14(>= 0.11.1) are available? = - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html __

Re: howto avoid connection reset by peer with ssh

2001-10-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Alejandro Diego Garin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011010 12:59]: > hello linuxfriends: > > The firewall of my company is reseting my conections with ssh when is idle 3 > minutes or something like these. > How can I prevent this with the ssh client on my Linux? I need to send every > 2 minutes a "x"

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Ben Hartshorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Strictly, I guess you're right. But then, MIME itself isn't a standard > yet either. True, but it's one step further down the line. Check out RFC2026 for the difference between proposed standards and draft standards. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: postfix delivery options

2001-10-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ben Hartshorne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011010 14:48]: > I'm not sure how to configure postfix to have the following behavior: > *when I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], it gets sent to > hartshorne.net to be delivered to someone. > *when I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], it gets sent to > hartshorne.

Feet in mouth, fergit it!

2001-10-10 Thread Royce Bell
Vineet... I made a mistake once upon a time. I'll have to load a backup from several years ago to verify what it was, but I'm sure I have the record, somewhere. Fergit it. It's cool. rpb = R. P. Bell Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. Yeah, I know I misspelled it. That's the point.

Problems with make-kpkg and pcmcia-source

2001-10-10 Thread the Edward Blevins
I am trying to make the pcmcia modules package with make-kpkg and not having much luck. I untar both the kernel source and the pcmcia source under /usr/src, then go into the kernel source directory and type: make-kpkg --revision myhostname.1 kernel_image modules_image Everything seems to go fine

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:35:02PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:52:28PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > > Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > mutt doesn't want to change because it's using the open standard > > > correctly and m$ doesn't want to change becau

Doesn't mozilla search somewhere in $HOME for plugins?

2001-10-10 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I'm trying to install the shockwave plugin for netscape in mozilla 0.9.4-5. With netscape, you can put it in $HOME/.netscape/plugins, but there doesn't seem to be dir like that in mozilla. I've straced mozilla (bzip2ed and attached) but it doesn't seem to be looking anywhere in my home direc

Readline versus wide xterms

2001-10-10 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
Does anyone know what it is that makes readline eat itself when a terminal is very wide? Example: make an xterm 120 chars wide. Type in some long command that spans more than one line. Now up arrow to the prev command and back arrow through it. You'll notice that the display gets out of sorts.

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:52:28PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > mutt doesn't want to change because it's using the open standard > > correctly and m$ doesn't want to change because it's using the open > > standard incorrectly. > > It's not a standard

feet in respective mouths and self-replies

2001-10-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011010 12:32]: > This is getting even further OT, so it's the last I'll say on the > matter. okay, so I lied earlier, but I'll keep it quick. In having hastily responded to Royce's message, I totally proved his point. I got a LART off-list, and decided a public

Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:24:36PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Unfortunately, as is usually the case with interoperability problems, > there's no clear place to go first: mutt doesn't want to change because > it's using the open standard correctly and m$ doesn't want to change > because it's using

Re: routing protocols

2001-10-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:55:09PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > RIP, HELLO, OSPF, BGP, EGP, SPREAD > > > We're way off topic here. Any decent networking with IP text will > answer these questions. ... > > EGP: also similar, but used bet

xdm crash

2001-10-10 Thread Sidney Brooks
I have lost the ability to use xdm, run level 5, and would like to know how to restore it without reinstalling Debian. I can operate in run level 3 as long as I do not go into graphics. This is how it all happened. I downloaded some files using Debian and then transferred them to Windows becau

Re: routing protocols

2001-10-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:55:09PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > RIP, HELLO, OSPF, BGP, EGP, SPREAD > > all these are routing protocols. RIP, HELLO, and EGP are > distance/vector based, OSPF and SPREAD are link-state based, but what > exactly do these mean? do you have a comprehensive webpage?

Re: postfix delivery options

2001-10-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Ben Hartshorne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... IIRC cron on Debian understands MAILTO= in the crontab, that may be the easiest way to do what you want. The other option is to filter root mail on your domain's mail server with procmail. I don't know if you can get Postfix to do that, hopef

Re: bootp vs. dhcp

2001-10-10 Thread Chad C. Walstrom
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, martin f krafft writes: > could someone please explain to me (or provide me with a > comprehensive link) the main difference between bootp and dhcp? Excerpt from http://www.dhcp-handbook.com/dhcp_faq.html#hiidt 5.How is it different than BOOTP or RARP?

Re: bootp vs. dhcp

2001-10-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:47:35PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > could someone please explain to me (or provide me with a comprehensive > link) the main difference between bootp and dhcp? i know that bootp is > primarily used for diskless clients and xterms, and that dhcp is > commonly used in co

Re: Mozilla folder mapping in IMAP

2001-10-10 Thread hanasaki
It is the current version of courier. Some emails from the courier listserv state that this is a bug in the protocol implemented in the browser - Mozilla. I am accessing a different IMAP server that has the "expected" folder behaviour. . Ross Burton wrote: On Wed, 2001-10-10 at 21:00, han

routing protocols

2001-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
RIP, HELLO, OSPF, BGP, EGP, SPREAD all these are routing protocols. RIP, HELLO, and EGP are distance/vector based, OSPF and SPREAD are link-state based, but what exactly do these mean? do you have a comprehensive webpage? am i right: RIP: routers communicate between each other to inform each oth

bootp vs. dhcp

2001-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
could someone please explain to me (or provide me with a comprehensive link) the main difference between bootp and dhcp? i know that bootp is primarily used for diskless clients and xterms, and that dhcp is commonly used in company networks to ease administration, but theoretically, i could use boo

postfix delivery options

2001-10-10 Thread Ben Hartshorne
Hi, I am having trouble getting my mail to behave as I want it to. First, let me describe what I want to happen. All my mail comes into hartshorne.net. I fetchmail it (tunneled through ssh) to my laptop, where it goes through my procmail file and splits it into different folders. I then use m

Re: Mozilla folder mapping in IMAP

2001-10-10 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2001-10-10 at 21:00, hanasaki wrote: > I am using Mozilla to access an IMAP server. For some reason, there is > no way to make a folder under the server, only under the INBOX. Some > have said that this is a long standing bug in the IMAP client protocol > as implemeted in NS/Mozilla.

Mixed up RAID-0 arrayt

2001-10-10 Thread Failure
Well, I wasn't as careful as I should have been (read: no backups of old config files for reference) out of habit, and it's finally got me into big trouble. I have a four disk RAID-0 array holding a couple years worth of /home and also backups of /var and /mp3 (which are both gone from elsewhere).

Re: kernel 2.4.10 and alsa

2001-10-10 Thread Marc Becher
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:46:17PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Marc Becher wrote: > > > hi, > > > > alsa-source-0.5 won't compile against kernel-source-2.4.10 unless > > in /usr/src/linux(or whatever)/include/linux/timer.h line 22 > > typedef struct timer_list timer_t; isn't c

Re: Umlaute

2001-10-10 Thread Frank Preut
may suggest the german debian user list?? subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("subscribe" as subject) - duerfte ich vorschlagen die deutsche liste zu benutzen?? zum abonnieren an [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("subscribe" in der betreff zeile) On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:01:27PM +, Wilfried Muszynski

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-10 Thread mark
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 04:39:48PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > Hi, > > I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. æ > and ø). The strange thing is that they work all fine on the command line, > and if I use more or less to view the mbox-file, they show up as they > are

Re: ytalk...

2001-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:47:06AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: > I see no etrys for talkd in /etc/inetd.conf, there are lines for talk and > ntalk, Yes, I meant those two. Sorry if I was unclear. > Can you tell me how to know if talkd is running? I know it is installed... > is there a command

Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*

2001-10-10 Thread pirmin2
Now it works. Thanks you so much, Dave and all of you who helped me trace and find the problem. Everything is accessible again: /home# ls -las total 100 4 drwxr-xr-x6 root root 4096 Oct 10 19:03 . 60 drwxr-xr-x 24 root root57344 Oct 10 18:46 .. 12 drwxrw 7

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Alan Shutko
"Hall Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So Microsoft isn't wrong ... yet ?? I don't know whether MS is wrong or not, not using the mailer myself, and not being entirely sure what the MIME standards require mailers to do in the case of multipart subtypes they don't recognize. I do not beli

Re: Umlaute

2001-10-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Wilfried Muszynski wrote on Wed Oct 10, 2001 um 08:01:27PM: > Hallo LinuxUser, > ich habe ein Problem mit der Tastatur bzw. dem Treiber. First: use english here. There are german mailing lists for using german. See http://www.sylence.de/dudfaq/dud-faq.html > bei "bolug" eingetragen. Ang

ethernet card IO address

2001-10-10 Thread MarceI Figuerola Estrada
I've tried to load the module that friend Vineet suggested for my ethernet card. I did it giving no parameters (io, irq). I got the following error: >/lib/modules /2.2.18pre21/net/via-rhine.o: init module: Device or resource >busy. > Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters

Òåëåôîííûé ñïðàâî÷íèê Áèøêåêà è ÑÍà phone information

2001-10-10 Thread media18
ïðåäëàãàåì Âàøåìó âíèìàíèþ òåëåôîííûé ñïðàâî÷íèê àáîíåíòîâ ã. Áèøêåêà à òàêæå ñïðàâî÷íèêè òåëåôîííûõ àáîíåíòîâ ñòðàí ÑÍà è çàðóáåæüÿ íàéäèòå ñâîèõ áëèçêèõ !!!

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > mutt doesn't want to change because it's using the > > open standard correctly and m$ doesn't want to change > > because it's using the open standard incorrectly. > > It's not a standard, yet. So Microsoft isn't wrong ... yet ?? You're a brave man for claiming that mutt's wrong about standard

Re: ytalk...

2001-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 04:03:05PM -0600, Alexander Wallace wrote: > Using mesg y fixes the problem... Now, how do I make a mesg y permanent > for each user? Look in /etc/login.defs and change TTYPERM to 0620 (sorry, I should have mentioned that in my earlier message - although Ben Collins' respon

Re: kernel 2.4.10 and alsa

2001-10-10 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:46:17PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > > Probably not. You'll be wanting alsa-source from unstable, > which is at 0.9. The development version is quite nice compared to > the stable one. The only thing that's keeping me back from upgrading to 0.9 is ALSA-plugin for X

Mozilla folder mapping in IMAP

2001-10-10 Thread hanasaki
I am using Mozilla to access an IMAP server. For some reason, there is no way to make a folder under the server, only under the INBOX. Some have said that this is a long standing bug in the IMAP client protocol as implemeted in NS/Mozilla. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks

howto avoid connection reset by peer with ssh

2001-10-10 Thread Alejandro Diego Garin
hello linuxfriends: The firewall of my company is reseting my conections with ssh when is idle 3 minutes or something like these. How can I prevent this with the ssh client on my Linux? I need to send every 2 minutes a "x" caracter to don't lose my session On my windoze machine

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > mutt doesn't want to change because it's using the open standard > correctly and m$ doesn't want to change because it's using the open > standard incorrectly. It's not a standard, yet. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Duck

JAVA has killed my browsers

2001-10-10 Thread Jim Shofstall
Both of my installed browsers are unable to boot. -- jim:$ mozilla INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not load /usr/lib/j2re1.3/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so: linking error=/usr/lib/j2re1.3/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol: XtShellStrings System e

Re: What shared library is getaddrinfo() in?

2001-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:33:18PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > I have a new potato (with 2.4.9 kernel) machine that flatly will not > rlogin to itslef. It rlgin's to other machines just fine, and ohter > machines can rlogin to it fine. > > I think the problem may be in the libraty routine getad

Re: PDF::parse: cannot find pdf parser /usr/local/bin/acroread

2001-10-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 21:10:17 +0200, Walter Hofmann wrote: > /etc/cron.daily/htdig: > PDF::parse: cannot find pdf parser /usr/local/bin/acroread > > Looks like some perl script is misconfigured. But I cannot find a way to > set the path for acroread. Where is it set? Most likely you can find o

Re: Fonts gone in Mozilla

2001-10-10 Thread Greg Wiley
On Wednesday, October 10, 2001 12:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Instead, I get mostly dashed-rectangular boxes > Check out http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/23/ on "Fonts missing after > upgrade." Thanks Ray, that was it exactly. It looks like the upgrade didn't restart the xfs daem

Re: What shared library is getaddrinfo() in?

2001-10-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:33:18 -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > I think the problem may be in the libraty routine getaddrinfo() > > What shared library contains this? find /lib /usr/lib -name '*.so*' -exec nm --dynamic --demangle --defined-only --print-file-name {} \; | grep getaddrinfo will tell

Re: concerning ext3fs

2001-10-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Thanks for the hint; I hadn't yet noticed mine. Perhaps > a better solution is to specify "ext3,ext2" in /etc/fstab > instead of auto? Is that a valid option for fstab ?? I'll let you try it and report back... How's that ?? ;-) Regards Hall

Re: Help PLEASE, Can't rlogin to myslef!

2001-10-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011010 07:54]: > I'm trying to get a Debian stable box set up to be a Amanda tapehiots. > > It's _almost_ working. The only serious remaining problem is that it can't > see it self! This can be exhibited by atempteing to rlogi8n or rsh from > itself to itself. if

Re: Fonts gone in Mozilla

2001-10-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:16:58 -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: > Instead, I get mostly dashed-rectangular boxes Check out http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/23/ on "Fonts missing after upgrade." HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interest

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Royce Bell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011010 11:20]: > Hall... > > I appreciate your comments, but hasten to reply that the only thing > comparable to the arrogance of Microsoft is the reverse arrogance of their > detractors. I would have sworn that my questions to this list were in the > interest of

xman gives warnings

2001-10-10 Thread Titus Barik
When I type ctrl + s in xman, and type in a man page, such as 'ls', I get a dialog box which states: "Xman Warning: Something went wrong with retrieving the uncompressed manual page try cleaning up /tmp [DISMISS]". However, the page seems to load fine. Any ideas? Titus Barik ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

postfix-tls

2001-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
hi folks, i just found the following in my syslog. the system is using postfix-tls, and i use it every now and then on the road when no smtp server is available for relaying, but i haven't been with grouptelecom.net ever, so i am wondering... Oct 10 04:20:18 seamus postfix/smtpd[5197]: TLS connect

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