Re: deny email to a user question

2001-11-26 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> Is there a simple way to stop a user from being able > to send and receive email? Stopping the receiving is easy -- just create an empty file in /var/mail/$username and change it's permissions to 444. Dunno how to stop someone from sending mail. Maybe an iptables rule that uses the --m owner -

package size stats

2001-11-26 Thread Terry Hancock
Often, I wish I could extract certain information out of the package database, such as the size, age, and distribution the package came from. This would make it a lot easier when deciding what packages can be removed to make room for others (i.e. very old, too large, etc). Also which ones I ought

deny email to a user question

2001-11-26 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, Is there a simple way to stop a user from being able to send and receive email? Potato r3 running exim. Thanks in Advance!! Mike

Re: mke2fs default mmc

2001-11-26 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 26-Nov 09:16, Sean Middleditch wrote: > Hi! > > I was wondering what is used to detemine the maximum mount count in > mke2fs. I am told the default should be 20, but I've got (when > reformatting the same partition) a result of 24 and results of 31. Why > is this? iirc, mke2fs tries to make

Re: Can't delete directory

2001-11-26 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:02:41PM -0500, Jesse Goerz wrote: > > cp /dev/null ~/software/.../perl-5.6.1/t/big > > or > > cat /dev/null > ~/software/.../perl-5.6.1/t/big > > then try rm -rf? > > HTH, > Jesse > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/software/debian/tmp/junk/perl

Re: Where is Netscape? Problem with Sawmill

2001-11-26 Thread Brian Nelson
Gong Zeeng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I had just installed Debian 2.2r4 and have the following queries: > 1. Netscape > I installed netscape-base through dselect but I can't run Navigator. > It seems that only some config files were installed but not the > executable itself. I did

Re: Sharing galeon bookmarks

2001-11-26 Thread Brian Nelson
Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I used to share .netscape/bookmarks.html successfully by stopping > netscape local and remote, copying the local bookmarks file over the > remote bookmarks file, and restarting netscape. > > Are there any gotchas I should know about, or can I do t

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 17:27, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:50:56PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 16:45, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > > > The font packages in X aren't broken and never have been... > > > > Er, what? I've installe

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Brian Nelson
"Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 16:45, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > The font packages in X aren't broken and never have been... > > Er, what? I've installed several Debian unstable machines and every one > of them has ended up with font problems. Usually X wo

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:07:50AM +, Pollywog wrote: > The font packages in unstable are the ones that seem broken and have been > for at least two months. If I upgrade them, Gnome starts up but instead > of seeing alphanumeric characters on the panel (and also on some apps), I > see boxes th

Re: Flash plugin doesnt work

2001-11-26 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:25:36PM +1000, Jason Currey wrote: | Hi, | | I am having a problem getting the flash plugin to work. (xserver4.1 kde 2.2.1) | | I download the linux flash plugin. flash_linux.tar.gz | I extract the files. README ReadMe.htm ShockwaveFlash.class | libflashplayer.so |

Flash plugin doesnt work

2001-11-26 Thread Jason Currey
Hi, I am having a problem getting the flash plugin to work. (xserver4.1 kde 2.2.1) I download the linux flash plugin. flash_linux.tar.gz I extract the files. README ReadMe.htm ShockwaveFlash.class libflashplayer.so I copy these files to the ./netscape/plugins directory. I restart netscape A

Vflib freetype and anti-aliasing fonts

2001-11-26 Thread Mike Rolig
I've recently upgraded vflib2 from testing ( vflib2_2.25.1-15 ) it said it wasn't built with freetype support. After I got the source, change the setting to re-enable freetype support and installed my new package, it doesn't seem to work. Is there anything to do other than get the source package

answered my own issue (was Re: Where is Netscape? Problem with Sawmill)

2001-11-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:05:34PM -0500, dman wrote: | any case, sawmill is also outdated and I recommend getting sawfish | (the new name, legal issues) from woody. I have version 0.38 | installed right now (I think potato's sawmill is back at 0.20 or | something) and I see that 1.0.1 is availab

Re: Where is Netscape? Problem with Sawmill

2001-11-26 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 11:43:33AM +0800, Gong Zeeng wrote: | Hi, | I had just installed Debian 2.2r4 and have the following queries: | 1. Netscape | I installed netscape-base through dselect but I can't run Navigator. It | seems that only some config files were installed but not the execut

Re: Can't delete directory

2001-11-26 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 02:14, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Hi, > > I am facing a peculiar problem. I am currently running potato. > Downloaded perl5.6* from testing and started to compile. After > some 3 or 4 minutes the process aborted (98.41% sucessful) :-( > > So, I thought I would just delete the

Where is Netscape? Problem with Sawmill

2001-11-26 Thread Gong Zeeng
Hi, I had just installed Debian 2.2r4 and have the following queries: 1. Netscape I installed netscape-base through dselect but I can't run Navigator. It seems that only some config files were installed but not the executable itself. I did a search in dselect and the only package that

Re: apt-getting woody from potato

2001-11-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Shawn Lamson wrote: >>On 25-Nov-2001 Shawn Lamson wrote: >> [snip] > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove > and 1 not upgraded. > 3 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking

XFree - "320x204" only

2001-11-26 Thread Phil Beder
At 05:22 PM 11/26/01 -0800, you wrote: >on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:53:08AM -0500, Phil Beder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> I'm having trouble with Xfree86. My display will only work in 320x204 >> resolution. In addition it will not scroll when I bring the cursor to the >> edge of the screen. I h

Re: XFree - "320x204" only

2001-11-26 Thread Phil Beder
At 05:22 PM 11/26/01 -0800, you wrote: >on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:53:08AM -0500, Phil Beder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> I'm having trouble with Xfree86. My display will only work in 320x204 >> resolution. In addition it will not scroll when I bring the cursor to the >> edge of the screen. I h

Re: Dial up internet with dual connection?

2001-11-26 Thread John Hasler
Karsten M. Self writes: > Does this [multilink ppp] require ISP support as well? Yes. It is, of course, quite possible to run two or more seperate ppp connections at once without multilink, but multilink bonds them together and makes them look like a single connection with twice the bandwidth. --

Re: Mouse not responding in Woody

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:10:11AM +, dooshiant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 07:18:08AM +, dooshiant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > >>Hello, > >> > >>I have a Logitech Serial Mouse which I can't get to work in Woody. > >>When X s

Re: SSH v2 setup on potato

2001-11-26 Thread Eric G. Stern
"nate" wrote: > i would strongly reccomend trying to build the new openssh > with the potato version of openssl. i installed the woody > version of openssl to try to play with sendmail+tls from > woody and it caused all kinds of minor issues with other > packages that need ssl like apache-ssl and

dpkg-preconfig: command not found

2001-11-26 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
hi all is the command dpkg-preconfig equivalent to dpkg-preconfigure? my system has the perl script dpkg-preconfigure but NOT dpkg-preconfig. can i make the symlink: dpkg-preconfig->/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure dpkg-preconfig is causing apt-get to fail because it does NOT exist. apt-get

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:25:31 -0800 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:45:31PM -0800, Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:07:23PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > > Every time I install the xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages, I > > > lose font

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Pollywog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011126 21:19]: > On 2001.11.27 00:50 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > >On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 16:45, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > >> The font packages in X aren't broken and never have been... > > > >Er, what? I've installed several Debian unstable machines and every > >one of t

NEdit & Xdefaults (and maybe KDE)

2001-11-26 Thread Justin R. Miller
I've had some custom Xdefaults settings for NEdit for like five years now, and as of last week, suddenly they are not being picked up. This was long after the upgrade to the latest NEdit a few weeks ago, and I think it coincided with my upgrade to KDE 2.2.2 (which I use as my desktop environment).

mke2fs default mmc

2001-11-26 Thread Sean Middleditch
Hi! I was wondering what is used to detemine the maximum mount count in mke2fs. I am told the default should be 20, but I've got (when reformatting the same partition) a result of 24 and results of 31. Why is this? Thanks! Sean Etc.

Re: Mouse not responding in Woody

2001-11-26 Thread dooshiant
The mouse was not working in GPM, so I removed the package and reconfigured X. Actually, its a PS/2 mouse with a serial adapter. I've now removed the PS/2-to-serial adapter and using it as /dev/psaux. tried 'cat /dev/psaux' and the mouse did spew out some characters on the screen, but it still

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.11.27 00:50 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 16:45, Marc Wilson wrote: > The font packages in X aren't broken and never have been... Er, what? I've installed several Debian unstable machines and every one of them has ended up with font problems. Usually X won't start, com

Re: default font 'fixed'

2001-11-26 Thread Xingguo Pan
Thank you, Volker and Karsten. I reinstall xfonts-base, and now my X is working as nice as before. Pan

Can't delete directory

2001-11-26 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, I am facing a peculiar problem. I am currently running potato. Downloaded perl5.6* from testing and started to compile. After some 3 or 4 minutes the process aborted (98.41% sucessful) :-( So, I thought I would just delete the diretory. But a directory `t' in perl-5.6.1 is giving trouble. rm

Re: default font 'fixed'

2001-11-26 Thread Volker Schlecht
* Xingguo Pan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011126 22:49]: > My question is, how can I check if fixed fonts is installed properly on > my box. I'm running debian testing. Thanks a lot. Had the same problem recently: Immediate Solution: apt-get --reinstall install xfonts-base Suspected Cause: The great pi

Re: Sharing galeon bookmarks

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 05:25:42PM -0800, Bill Wohler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I used to share .netscape/bookmarks.html successfully by stopping > netscape local and remote, copying the local bookmarks file over the > remote bookmarks file, and restarting netscape. > > Are there any go

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:50:56PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 16:45, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > The font packages in X aren't broken and never have been... > > Er, what? I've installed several Debian unstable machines and every one > of them has end

Sharing galeon bookmarks

2001-11-26 Thread Bill Wohler
I used to share .netscape/bookmarks.html successfully by stopping netscape local and remote, copying the local bookmarks file over the remote bookmarks file, and restarting netscape. Are there any gotchas I should know about, or can I do the same thing with .galeon/bookmarks.xml with rec

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:45:31PM -0800, Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:07:23PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > Every time I install the xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages, I > > lose fonts in Gnome, and all I see are dots where characters should > > be. > > D

Re: XFree - "320x204" only

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:53:08AM -0500, Phil Beder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm having trouble with Xfree86. My display will only work in 320x204 > resolution. In addition it will not scroll when I bring the cursor to the > edge of the screen. I have used xf86config and XF86Setup and worke

Re: PAM questions

2001-11-26 Thread Corey Halpin
> This is going to sound like a stupid statement, I'm assuming that since > you're asking that these details are not to be found in the HowTo's. I did, and I read them, but they weren't overly clear on this point. Maybe I just need to keep reading them (which I am, my enlightenment has not ye

Re: help, X & 'fixed' font

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:23:36PM -0500, Xingguo Pan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > My X window refuses to start because of a fatal error: > >could not open default font 'fixed'. > > I'm using debian testing. After x crashed, I reinstalled 100dpi > fonts and x-window-system-base. I chec

Re: Squid in a school - problems with https

2001-11-26 Thread martin f krafft
* Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.05 20:05:05+]: > OK, thanks everyone who helped me with the problem. It was indeed an > Internet Explorer issue. I installed Opera on a test Win 98 workstation > and it worked perfectly. I have now taken steps to move over to Opera as > our browser

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 16:45, Marc Wilson wrote: > The font packages in X aren't broken and never have been... Er, what? I've installed several Debian unstable machines and every one of them has ended up with font problems. Usually X won't start, complaining about a missing 'fixed' font. As far

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:07:23PM +, Pollywog wrote: > Every time I install the xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages, I lose > fonts in Gnome, and all I see are dots where characters should be. Dots or boxes? The font packages in X aren't broken and never have been... it's an internation

Re: microsoft ttf in kde?

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 05:54:23PM +, Pollywog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 2001.11.26 07:55 Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:55:48PM +0100, pReJkEr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > hi > > > > > > is it possible to use ms ttf fonts ie. those for the web like > > verdana.

Re: Dial up internet with dual connection?

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 07:04:46AM -0600, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Osamu Aoki writes: > > I remember seeing some 56kx2 modem (by diamond) for windows and ISP > > service to use them as a bundle to get ISDN like speed. I remember > > seeing Netcomm being one of the supporting ISP.

Re: Squid in a school - problems with https

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 08:05:05PM +, Phillip Deackes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:44:00 + (UTC) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) wrote: > > > IE has the tendency to not show the errors that are being > > generated by the remote server or by the proxy, bu

Re: galeon is crashing on unstable

2001-11-26 Thread Brian Nelson
Hans Steinraht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi, > I installed Galeon, and it has done very well except for one thing: any time > I try to > access Preferences (under Settings) it crashes, printing to the shell the > lines: > GnomeUI-ERROR **: file gnome-icon-item.c: line 304 (get_default_

Re: port 25 disabled?

2001-11-26 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 17:48, Joe M Mar wrote: > At 04:08 PM 11/26/01 -0600, you wrote: > > The output is: > tcp0 0 *:smtp *:* > LISTEN 263/inetd > The difference is 'LISTEN 263 as opposed to what you said LISTEN 19551. > Anything wrong with my output? Nope thats

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-11-26 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 17:46, nate wrote: > William T Wilson said: > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, nate wrote: > > > >> i use l3enc for encoding(very slow but good quality), i found a > >> serial# for it a few years ago(i can't find a way to buy it) and i > >> use > > > > Although l3enc is the only "legal"

Re: Getting php4 to work on potato?

2001-11-26 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 11:42:17AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm having a bit of a problem geting php4 to work on my stable + Progeny + > 2.4 kernel machine. > > I have apache installed and woorking from a .deb package. I downloaded and > compiled php 4.0.6, and all went well. I uncometed thet Ad

Re: Framebuffer VGA settings

2001-11-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 06:34:39PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi, does anyone know what settings I should put into lilo.conf to set up | 800x600 framebuffer support on the console? What color depth? See /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-/Documentatin/fb/vesafb.txt.gz for a table of the modes. If

Re: port 25 disabled?

2001-11-26 Thread Joe M Mar
At 04:08 PM 11/26/01 -0600, you wrote: The output is: tcp0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 263/inetd The difference is 'LISTEN 263 as opposed to what you said LISTEN 19551. Anything wrong with my output? On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 15:21, Joe M Mar wrote: > > >Just the configura

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-11-26 Thread nate
William T Wilson said: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, nate wrote: > >> i use l3enc for encoding(very slow but good quality), i found a >> serial# for it a few years ago(i can't find a way to buy it) and i >> use > > Although l3enc is the only "legal" encoder I know of that runs on > Linux, I wouldn't neces

Framebuffer VGA settings

2001-11-26 Thread JakeCatfox
Hi, does anyone know what settings I should put into lilo.conf to set up 800x600 framebuffer support on the console? Thx, Deven Gallo

Re: Squid in a school - problems with https

2001-11-26 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:44:00 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) wrote: > IE has the tendency to not show the errors that are being > generated by the remote server or by the proxy, but to replace it > with its own error message. You can turn that off somewhere, > I believe, whic

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-11-26 Thread Sean
Of course ogg vorbis is the only _true_ solution *grin*. And if you're worried about being able to play the .ogg files on Windows boxen, there's a winamp plugin that works very well, and sonique support .ogg files out of the box. Personally I find the quality of ogg vorbis as good if not better th

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-11-26 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, nate wrote: > i use l3enc for encoding(very slow but good quality), i found a > serial# for it a few years ago(i can't find a way to buy it) and i use Although l3enc is the only "legal" encoder I know of that runs on Linux, I wouldn't necessarily say it has the best quality,

Re: port 25 disabled?

2001-11-26 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Joe M Mar: > what is you /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts looks like? What is your > exim.conf? > I am talking about using your machine as a mail server, not only using it > to get mail from your @home account. gashuffer:/home/steve# cat /etc/resolv.conf domain gashuffer nameserver 24.

Re: Ximian Gnome on Woody?

2001-11-26 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:18:27AM -, Liam Ward wrote: > On that note, if anyone has backed out Ximian Gnome and could outline the > steps, I'd appreciate it. Someone cleverer than I am has probably automated this, but I just did # dpkg -l | grep ximian and purged all the packages listed. Te

Re: Parallel port printer problems

2001-11-26 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Nathan Weston: > I have a parallel port printer that used to work just fine... however, I > recently reinstalled after a drive failure, and now it's not working. I have > parallel port support in the kernel. At boot-time, I get the messages: > > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRIS

kdm problems

2001-11-26 Thread Greg Fischer
when I attempt to logon to my potato system (with kde debs from kde.debian.net. The system also uses NIS/NFS) with one particular user, logging on with KDM gives no error but simply exits back to the normal KDM logon screen, waiting for login and password again. This appears in .xsession-errors:

CUPS with the stp driver

2001-11-26 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I am trying to configure cups to use the stp driver for my printer, and I have been having a few problems. I has to grab the gs out of sid to get the stp driver at all, and now when I print a test pagge, all I get is: Error: /rangecheck in --.outpage-- Operand st

Re: port 25 disabled?

2001-11-26 Thread Joe M Mar
what is you /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts looks like? What is your exim.conf? I am talking about using your machine as a mail server, not only using it to get mail from your @home account. At 05:21 PM 11/26/01 -0500, you wrote: Thus spake Joe M Mar: > You could be right. May be they did this

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-11-26 Thread Mark Lanett
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lame/lame3.89beta.tar.gz tar zxf lame3.89beta.tar.gz cd lame-3.89 ./configure --prefix=`cd ~; pwd` make install ~mark From: "jennyw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Assuming I'm not breaking any laws here, any suggestions on how to get MP3 > encoders for Debian Wood

Re: port 25 disabled?

2001-11-26 Thread Joe M Mar
I can telnet locally without any problems. Telnetting from a remote host tries to connect however, it keeps trying forever that is, "trying 'xx.xxx.xx.xx' (my ip address), and stops there until I hit . I can also telnet from a remote host to my machine (not to port 25). The web server, ftp

Re: ftp.us.debian.org crapping out?

2001-11-26 Thread nate
Jason Rashaad Jackson said: > All the ftp.xx.debian.org servers I've been trying for the past > couple days have been crapping out on apt-get update, either with > "Sorry, amximum number of allowed clients already connected" or > with "Unable to fetch file, no such file or directory." the http.us

Re: ftp.us.debian.org crapping out?

2001-11-26 Thread Patrik Modesto
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:58:57PM -0500, Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote: > All the ftp.xx.debian.org servers I've been trying for the past couple days > have been crapping out on apt-get update, either with "Sorry, amximum number > of allowed clients already connected" or with "Unable to fetch file,

Parallel port printer problems

2001-11-26 Thread Nathan Weston
I have a parallel port printer that used to work just fine... however, I recently reinstalled after a drive failure, and now it's not working. I have parallel port support in the kernel. At boot-time, I get the messages: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(

Re: port 25 disabled?

2001-11-26 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Joe M Mar: > You could be right. May be they did this just a few days ago because I was > able to send and receive email using freeBSD right out of the box. Indeed, > I was also able able and receive email with debian and suddenly the ability > to receive mail stopped. > I guess thi

Re: port 25 disabled?

2001-11-26 Thread nate
Joe M Mar said: > You could be right. May be they did this just a few days ago > because I was able to send and receive email using freeBSD right > out of the box. Indeed, I was also able able and receive email > with debian and suddenly the ability to receive mail stopped. > I guess this mean

Re: port 25 disabled?

2001-11-26 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 15:21, Joe M Mar wrote: > > >Just the configuration it had after a fresh install. I did not touch any > >settings because they were working pretty good. > > > >What does inetd.conf and hosts.allow and hosts.deny have in them (all in > >etc)? You may be blocking external ho

ftp.us.debian.org crapping out?

2001-11-26 Thread Jason Rashaad Jackson
All the ftp.xx.debian.org servers I've been trying for the past couple days have been crapping out on apt-get update, either with "Sorry, amximum number of allowed clients already connected" or with "Unable to fetch file, no such file or directory." Was there a fundamental change to the server str

Re: plex86 problem (where is package xfonts-svga?)

2001-11-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 06:48:18 +1100, Steve Kieu wrote: > bochs: # bochs: Cannot open vga font Have you tried installing the "xfonts-dosemu" package? HTH, Ray -- People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost h

Re: Problem with shared libraries

2001-11-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:29:55PM +0100, Denis wrote: | | Magellano:/tmp# setup | setup: error in loading shared libraries: libqt.so.1: cannot open shared | object | file: No such file or directory It says that you don't have that file. Install the proper package. According to packages.debian.o

default font 'fixed'

2001-11-26 Thread Xingguo Pan
My X window complaints "could not open default font 'fixed'" and refused to start. I assume 'fixed' fonts should be in package "xfonts-100dpi" or "xfonts-75dpi". However, when I ls the directories, I don't find 'fixed' fonts. My question is, how can I check if fixed fonts is installed properly o

Re: Xine-dvdnav skipping problems

2001-11-26 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thus spake Mart van de Wege on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:32:47PM +0100: > Folks, > > Just a minor nuisance, but if anyone knows of a solution, I'd be glad > for the help. > > Using the dvdnav plugin for Xine, dvd playback skips a lot. It will play > a few scenes, the drive light goes on for more da

galeon is crashing on unstable

2001-11-26 Thread Hans Steinraht
hi, I installed Galeon, and it has done very well except for one thing: any time I try to access Preferences (under Settings) it crashes, printing to the shell the lines: GnomeUI-ERROR **: file gnome-icon-item.c: line 304 (get_default_font): assertion failed: (default_font != NULL

Problem with shared libraries

2001-11-26 Thread Denis
Magellano:/tmp# setup setup: error in loading shared libraries: libqt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-11-26 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 01:03:43PM -0800, jennyw wrote: > I searched old messages and learned that mp3 encoders are not included in > Debian is because of some patent issues, but ... > > Has something changed? I did notice some mp3 stuff in the debian packages > list. Stop that discussion about mp

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-11-26 Thread nate
jennyw said: > violating a patent? Or are mp3 encoders not included in Debian > because the law is vague? i think its the uncertainity. there have been some encoders in the past that claimed to be free(8hz-mp3 comes to mind) but eventually were determined not to be. lame is probably the closest

help, X & 'fixed' font

2001-11-26 Thread Xingguo Pan
My X window refuses to start because of a fatal error: could not open default font 'fixed'. I'm using debian testing. After x crashed, I reinstalled 100dpi fonts and x-window-system-base. I checked with /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and couldn't find anything suspicious. However, shortly before t

Re: port 25 disabled?

2001-11-26 Thread Joe M Mar
Just the configuration it had after a fresh install. I did not touch any settings because they were working pretty good. What does inetd.conf and hosts.allow and hosts.deny have in them (all in etc)? You may be blocking external hosts with tcp wrappers. --mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-11-26 Thread Craig Dickson
jennyw wrote: > I searched old messages and learned that mp3 encoders are not included in > Debian is because of some patent issues, but ... > > Has something changed? I did notice some mp3 stuff in the debian packages > list. There are programs to edit mp3 tags, and to play mp3s. Did you find a

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-11-26 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 15:03, jennyw wrote: > I searched old messages and learned that mp3 encoders are not included in > Debian is because of some patent issues, but ... > > Has something changed? I did notice some mp3 stuff in the debian packages > list. > > If things haven't changed and I'm mis

Re: port 25 disabled?

2001-11-26 Thread Joe M Mar
You could be right. May be they did this just a few days ago because I was able to send and receive email using freeBSD right out of the box. Indeed, I was also able able and receive email with debian and suddenly the ability to receive mail stopped. I guess this means that I cannot do nothin

Re: port 25 disabled?

2001-11-26 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 14:47, Joe M Mar wrote: > I am using Exim and I am able to send messages but not able to receive > them. I can telnet to port 25 locally but I can't from a remote > computer. I think this is the problem as to why I am unable to recieve > email. I wonder how i can enable t

Re: Radeon 7500 XFree86 support.

2001-11-26 Thread csj
On Saturday 24 November 2001 17:37, Karsten Heymann wrote: > * Tim Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011124 10:20]: > > Apparently, on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 07:27:47PM -0800, Dmitriy wrote: > > > ... > > > > I don't have a Radeon card (yet) but I was just looking up info > > about it on the XFree lists and

Re: Problems creating a boot floppy -- w/ lilo

2001-11-26 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nick if you wanna boot different kernels.. just add the stanza for each kernel if you wanna make a boot floppy: dd that kernel to the floppy ( don't have single user mode ) -or- lilo to the floppy ( sometimes works and have single user mode ) before playing .. mak

Re: port 25 disabled?

2001-11-26 Thread nate
Joe M Mar said: > I am using Exim and I am able to send messages but not able to > receive them. I can telnet to port 25 locally but I can't from a > remote > computer. I think this is the problem as to why I am unable to > recieve email. I wonder how i can enable this. Documentation > only re

mp3 encoding

2001-11-26 Thread jennyw
I searched old messages and learned that mp3 encoders are not included in Debian is because of some patent issues, but ... Has something changed? I did notice some mp3 stuff in the debian packages list. If things haven't changed and I'm misunderstanding something I saw, how can there be so many f

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.11.26 20:12 Pollywog wrote: On 2001.11.26 20:07 Pollywog wrote: I just found this in my logs but I am not sure what it means: Nov 26 20:08:56 lilypad xfs[1718]: terminating Nov 26 20:08:56 lilypad xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/ (unreadable) Nov 26 20:08

port 25 disabled?

2001-11-26 Thread Joe M Mar
I am using Exim and I am able to send messages but not able to receive them. I can telnet to port 25 locally but I can't from a remote computer. I think this is the problem as to why I am unable to recieve email. I wonder how i can enable this. Documentation only relates to enabling smtp on

ppp dropouts on a 2.2.20pre12 kernel

2001-11-26 Thread Sam Varghese
i've set up ppp on a potato server which runs a 2.2.20pre12 kernel. this server was earlier running a 2.2.16 kernel. it is connected to the net 24/7. after the change of kernel, dropouts seem to happen fairly often. earlier, it would be connected for weeks at a time. now the longest run has been f

Re: Debian TVIO like PVR

2001-11-26 Thread csj
On Sunday 25 November 2001 21:45, Stan Brown wrote: > I've been playing with this this weekend. > > Setup is a Athalon 750mhz, very lightly loaded machine, just really > running vcr. > > I found thta with a resoluting of 384x288 I would drop a single frame > or so about every 2 to 5 seconds. Change

Re: are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.11.26 20:07 Pollywog wrote: Every time I install the xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages, I lose fonts in Gnome, and all I see are dots where characters should be. I am using xfs, and this is in my /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section "Files" FontPath "unix/:7100 FontPath "/usr

Re: how to top the usage of smp cpu usage?

2001-11-26 Thread nate
Patrick Hsieh said: > Hello list, > > I have a smp machine running dual Pentium III. But I can't find the > usage report in the "top" command. Is there any way to show the > usage and status of smp? not easily no. but you may be able to track down the SMP patch to procps. and patch a version of i

are unstable xfonts packages still broken?

2001-11-26 Thread Pollywog
Every time I install the xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages, I lose fonts in Gnome, and all I see are dots where characters should be. I am using xfs, and this is in my /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section "Files" FontPath "unix/:7100 FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" EndSectio

Re: bash/read built-in function

2001-11-26 Thread martin f krafft
* Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.24 23:52:38-0800]: > > is this because the pipe really just spawns another shell and thus the > > variable $b of the spawning shell is preserved? or is this a bug? > > This has to do with the parent-child relationship between Unix > processes. It affects

Re: Mismatched debconf information

2001-11-26 Thread Brian Nelson
"Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debconf is being wierd. I use the curses front-end. The current > message is this: > > Configuring Raidtools2 > > pump may not work on 2-interface machines > > Pump has be observed to send packets out of the wrong interface > (particularly if F

Printcap IF filter not executing

2001-11-26 Thread Kent West
I'm trying to better my understanding of how lprng/printcap works. I've got an /etc/printcap entry that looks like: lp :lp=/dev/null :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj3-remote :sh :pw#80 :pl#66 :px#1440 :mx#0 :if=/usr/bin/test :af=/var/

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