Epson printer stops printing but works on command line

2002-01-24 Thread Pollywog
My printer all of a sudden stopped printing from Gnome. It was working a few weeks ago and I have not changed any configs and this is the error I get from the printer. It prints this and then stops: Unable to open command line file stc740p.upp My printer is a Stylus Color 740 and I have not

Re: what is this? (sshd messages in log)

2002-01-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:29:26 -0500, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm sitting at home on the console right now. I noticed this in > xconsole, copied from /var/log/auth.log : > > Jan 24 23:23:50 dman sshd[3760]: Did not receive identification string from > 216.153.138.132 > Jan 24 23:24:3

RE:what is this? (sshd messages in log)

2002-01-24 Thread Andrew Agno
I believe that those are scans for some sshd hole. Not too sure which one, but I assume yours doesn't have it if you got the log message. Andrew.

what is this? (sshd messages in log)

2002-01-24 Thread dman
I'm sitting at home on the console right now. I noticed this in xconsole, copied from /var/log/auth.log : Jan 24 23:23:50 dman sshd[3760]: Did not receive identification string from 216.153.138.132 Jan 24 23:24:37 dman sshd[3776]: Disconnecting: Corrupted check bytes on input. It appears that

Quake III

2002-01-24 Thread Corey Halpin
I'm using the following hardware: Pentium-II, 320M RAM. Intel 440LX AGP chipset. Matrox g400. When I run quake 3, it runs for a few minutes, and then locks X such that I can't switch consoles. The video freezes where it was, and the sound starts looping on itself. I can ssh in. If I kil

Re: GRUB failing to bootstrap woody install

2002-01-24 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 04:51:55AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: | Just to be sure I tried this and it doesn't work either. I think the | "initrd=/boot/..." stanza in the kernel line is superfluous, the initrd | line on the other hand is required. I'll double-check that sometime. | The thing t

Re: GRUB failing to bootstrap woody install

2002-01-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:01:43PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 01:49:42AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > What is D:? /dev/hda2? (guessing from the '(hd0,1)' below). yes, sorry, a little typo:) > |#Menu 1 > |title Debian GNU/Linux setup woody from mirror > |ro

e2fsck your filesystem to lost+found

2002-01-24 Thread Thedore Knab
I had a corrupted filesystem that would not boot. I ran this command to fix the broken filesystem. e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/sda5 -y Is there a safer way to fix a bad filesystem ? I rebooted and it mounted, and all my data was in lost+found with a number attached. ls | wc -l 540 # yikes Could some

Re: persistent storage hardware: recommendations, comments, and opinions please

2002-01-24 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 09:10:10PM -0800, Rupa Schomaker wrote: [lots of details!] | (sorry for the devfs device names -- oh well) That's cool -- I'm using devfs too! | RAID0 is just striping. | RAID1 is mirroring. | RAID10 is a raid 1 over a raid 0. Thanks (now I don't have to go research to l

Re: limits.h

2002-01-24 Thread Noah Massey
--begin quoted message from Alexey, > While trying to compile something I get the error message: > > *** > > In file included from /usr/include/bits/socket.h:31, > from /usr/include/netinet/in.h:212, >

Re: limits.h

2002-01-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:39:39 +0300 (MSK), "Alexey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While trying to compile something I get the error message: > > *** > > In file included from /usr/include/bits/socket.h:31, > from /usr

Re: What am I doing wrong? (Parallel port printer)

2002-01-24 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:55:39AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | I'm trying to get a HP 690C printer working on a woody machine, using CUPS. | What's starnge is that CUSP sees the printer, and even knows what tyoe it | is, but it's not working. | | Here is some useful (I hope) info: [dmesg output] |

Re: GRUB failing to bootstrap woody install

2002-01-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 01:49:42AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > I am trying to bootstrap a Debian install with GRUB, but I fail:( > After some hours trying and reading I give up and turn to you guys. After some more thnking I suddenly remembered something about zipped ramdisks, and low and beho

Re: GRUB failing to bootstrap woody install

2002-01-24 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 01:49:42AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: | [ first I tried the GRUB mailing list, but later thought that it | might be debian specific, so I bugger you too ] | | I am trying to bootstrap a Debian install with GRUB, but I fail:( | After some hours trying

Re: exim in cron - why for dialup system?

2002-01-24 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "Jijo" == Jijo Jose A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jijo> i still have dialup, so i need to deliver mail when it Jijo> connects , in my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim, removed all lines Jijo> and added this to work exim regardless of retry times. Jijo> #!/bin/sh Jijo> #/etc/ppp/ip-

Re: ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-24 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 05:34:56PM -0800, Andrew Agno wrote: | dman writes: | > What is your root fs there? If either | > a) root fs is not ext3 | > or | > b) ext3 module is in your initrd and loaded by the kernel during | > boot | > | > you can have it as a module. (thi

Re: Color control in Mutt & Gnome terminal

2002-01-24 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 05:24:50PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: | On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 05:02:12PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: | > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:48:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon scribbled... | > > I am starting to learn to use real Debian email. I have mutt, fetchmail, and | > > exim work

question regarding udhcpd

2002-01-24 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi, Don't ask me why (perhaps for fun?) but I started playing around with udhcpd, the small dhcp server in the debian package archive. I have been using the regular dhcpd package for some time now, without any problems. This is for a small network. The DHCP server has two nics, and shoul

Re: smart-hosting through unlisted smtp server

2002-01-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 24/01/02 dman did speaketh: > Hmm, what does > > /etc/host.conf > > say? Does it specify looking at DNS first, or /etc/hosts? [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ cat /etc/host.conf order hosts,bind multi on Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word

Postgresql problem

2002-01-24 Thread Meir Kriheli
After upgrading sid, postgresql won't start anymore. The error says: There is no PostgreSQL database framework in /var/lib/postgres/data. Run initdb as the postgres user to create it I had a database before, if I run initdb, will it get overwritten ? -- Meir Kriheli

Re: dhcp-dns debugging help requested - AARRGHH!!

2002-01-24 Thread Jeff Vincent
Update: the path in my /etc/dhcp-dns.conf file for nsupdate was wrong (default install path is wrong). One of my attempts to fix it was to remove and reinstall dhcp-dns. Anyway, I changed it to /usr/bin/nsupdate instead of /usr/sbin and now I get the error: dns_name_fromtext: empty label

Re: Catastrophy: most programs don't start anymore! [kind of solved]

2002-01-24 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi again, my problem got miraculously solved. That is, after having started win4lin successfully (to my surprise) all other programs start again. But I don't have any explanation for that 27 hour spell of my machine, and how to prevent future happenings of this kind. So, if you happen to be a Lin

Re: ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-24 Thread Andrew Agno
Wayne Topa writes: > So it seems you have a setup that people would be very interested in. Surely I'm not the only one that runs 2.4.17-686 with an ext3 root partition, which just works after installing it via apt-get? And hopefully I'm not the only one who's tried it with 2.4.17-386... Andrew.

Re: ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-24 Thread Andrew Agno
dman writes: > What is your root fs there? If either > a) root fs is not ext3 > or > b) ext3 module is in your initrd and loaded by the kernel during > boot > > you can have it as a module. (this is a general statement; perhaps > there is something special regarding ext

dhcp-dns debugging help requested

2002-01-24 Thread Jeff Vincent
I had our dynamic dns working a few weeks ago, but I'm not sure when it stopped and can't figure out what is failing. I have a subnet X.Y.A.0/22 (X.Y.A.0/255.255.252.0) with static DNS entries for each address I have available within MYDOMAIN.COM (about 1000 total). I realized today that if I ina

Re: Color control in Mutt & Gnome terminal

2002-01-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 05:02:12PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:48:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon scribbled... > > I am starting to learn to use real Debian email. I have mutt, fetchmail, and > > exim working. But I am having trouble reading my email because I have diffi- > >

Re: ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Andrew Agno([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Andrew Agno([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > I'm having a problem with recent installs of Debian. My install > > > process goes like this: > > > > > > Install a base potato dist. > > > Upgrade to testing. > > >

Re: Color control in Mutt & Gnome terminal

2002-01-24 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:48:09 -0800 Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am starting to learn to use real Debian email. I have mutt, > fetchmail, and exim working. But I am having trouble reading my email > because I have diffi- culty reading deep blue characters on a black > background or o

ISDN external terminal adapter setup

2002-01-24 Thread David Natkins
Dear all, I'm setting up an ADTRAN Express 3000 terminal adapter. I know that it doesn't require drivers like the interal boards do. I'm just not clear on how you set it up. Please let me know which Howtos, FAQ's, etc., I should read. Thanks!

Re: Color control in Mutt & Gnome terminal

2002-01-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:49:44PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:48:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I am starting to learn to use real Debian email. I have mutt, fetchmail, and > > exim working. But I am having trouble reading my email because I have diffi- > > cult

Re: Problem using ps2 mouse in X

2002-01-24 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 06:44:47PM -0500, Joe Nahmias wrote: | > > > I had this. I removed gpm (apt-get remove gpm) and symlinked /dev/mouse to | > > > /dev/psaux, and the problem went away. But that means no mouse on the | > > > console (boo hoo). | > > Well, I used to be able to have gpm and X c

Re: latex packages

2002-01-24 Thread Graham Williams
Received Thu 24 Jan 2002 3:18pm +1100 from Brian P. Flaherty: > I would check the catalouge on-line at www.ctan.org, under 'Graham > Williams's catalogue.' I would assume a package installed version > could get old pretty quickly. But, obviously it is better than > nothing if you don't have cons

Re: ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-24 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:20:10PM -0800, Andrew Agno wrote: | > > Please describe what you did to "change the root partition to ext3" | > > Did you make the filesystems/ext3 option a module or installed in the | > > kernel? It can't be a module! | > | > Sure it can. On one computer I ha

Re: exim error?

2002-01-24 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 07:59:36PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: | I'm using mutt 1.3.27i and exim 3.34-1. When I try to send any mail, local | or remote, using mutt I get this message: | Error sending message, child exited 1 (). | | When I use mail on the command line, I get no error, but the mail i

Re: Should I put Ximian on my Potato?

2002-01-24 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:37:55AM -0500, Curtis Dean Smith wrote: > Hello! > > I am running Potato, but am getting impatient for some of the newer > Gnome apps (like gnumeric 1). I have not found much comment on the > pros or cons of installing Ximian Gnome on Debian Potato using their > red-car

Re: smart-hosting through unlisted smtp server

2002-01-24 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:19:06AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: | On 23/01/02 dman did speaketh: | | > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:39:17PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: | > | Hey people. | > | | > | I'm using exim as my mail server, and I'd like to use the mail server | > | on my firewall/

Re: Debian newgroup (related new question)

2002-01-24 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I recently noticed that I have a news deamon running on my potato. I have > never really used news. It has seemed to me to be an alternative to mailing > lists that I didn't need because mailing lists seemed quite adequate for the > purpose. But

GRUB failing to bootstrap woody install

2002-01-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
[ first I tried the GRUB mailing list, but later thought that it might be debian specific, so I bugger you too ] I am trying to bootstrap a Debian install with GRUB, but I fail:( After some hours trying and reading I give up and turn to you guys. I've put the necessary files i

Re: Color control in Mutt & Gnome terminal

2002-01-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:48:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > I am starting to learn to use real Debian email. I have mutt, fetchmail, and > exim working. But I am having trouble reading my email because I have diffi- > culty reading deep blue characters on a black background or other pairings

Re: Debian newgroup (related new question)

2002-01-24 Thread Paul E Condon
I recently noticed that I have a news deamon running on my potato. I have never really used news. It has seemed to me to be an alternative to mailing lists that I didn't need because mailing lists seemed quite adequate for the purpose. But with my new email setup (mutt/fetchmail/exim) I am confron

Re: ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-24 Thread Andrew Agno
> > Please describe what you did to "change the root partition to ext3" > > Did you make the filesystems/ext3 option a module or installed in the > > kernel? It can't be a module! > > Sure it can. On one computer I have, I'm running 2.4.17-686 from Okay, and reading the help for CONFIG_

Re: ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-24 Thread Andrew Agno
> Andrew Agno([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I'm having a problem with recent installs of Debian. My install > > process goes like this: > > > > Install a base potato dist. > > Upgrade to testing. > > > > After doing this, I change the root partition to ext3, and instal

Re: Color control in Mutt & Gnome terminal

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:48:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon scribbled... > I am starting to learn to use real Debian email. I have mutt, fetchmail, and > exim working. But I am having trouble reading my email because I have diffi- > culty reading deep blue characters on a black background or other pair

Re: Debian newgroup

2002-01-24 Thread John Hasler
Baloo writes: > People don't just let news servers run free to anyone who connects > anymore,... However, people such as those at run newsservers that anyone can connect to for $40/year. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Color control in Mutt & Gnome terminal

2002-01-24 Thread Paul E Condon
I am starting to learn to use real Debian email. I have mutt, fetchmail, and exim working. But I am having trouble reading my email because I have diffi- culty reading deep blue characters on a black background or other pairings that are pre-configured options. How / Where can I configure backgroun

Re: Problem using ps2 mouse in X

2002-01-24 Thread Joe Nahmias
> > > I had this. I removed gpm (apt-get remove gpm) and symlinked /dev/mouse to > > > /dev/psaux, and the problem went away. But that means no mouse on the > > > console (boo hoo). > > Well, I used to be able to have gpm and X co-exist -- I just can't remember > > how... Can anyone else help?? > W

Re: Debian newgroup

2002-01-24 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 24 Jan 2002, Scott Henson wrote: > Thats true. While Im at home my ISP(@home or comcast now I guess) does > have a news server. But, my current ISP is my school (WVU) and they ave > no newserver, at least not one that they let me know about. Are there > any external news servers that I could

Re: Problem using ps2 mouse in X

2002-01-24 Thread Joe Nahmias
> > I am having trouble using my Micro$oft PS/2 wheel mouse under X. > > When I run startx (as either a regular user or root), the desktop appears > > normal, but moving the mouse causes random buttons to be pressed, and the > > pointer moves in random directions. > I had this. I removed gpm (a

Re: Problem using ps2 mouse in X

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
> I am having trouble using my Micro$oft PS/2 wheel mouse under X. > When I run startx (as either a regular user or root), the desktop appears > normal, but moving the mouse causes random buttons to be pressed, and the > pointer moves in random directions. I had this. I removed gpm (apt-get r

Re: Earthlink Dialup-Jason

2002-01-24 Thread Bruce Burhans
Yes. > > before you reinstall, run dmesg. it will give you a lot of information > > about > > the system that might make the reinstall less tedious. > > > > I'll assume that dmesg is on the Debian CDs and thank you much. This > > is quite an adven

Re: Earthlink Dialup-Ben

2002-01-24 Thread Bruce Burhans
On Thursday 24 January 2002 02:00 pm, Bruce Burhans wrote: > Ben wrote, on 1/24/02 @ 1:10PM > > [snip] > > > before you reinstall, run dmesg. it will give you a lot of information > about > the system that might make the reinstall less tedious. > >

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
> > before you reinstall, run dmesg. it will give you a lot of information > > about > > the system that might make the reinstall less tedious. > > > > I'll assume that dmesg is on the Debian CDs and thank you much. This > > is quite an adventure. Wi

Re: power down

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
> Did you try to make APCI-modules and install apcid ? The modules you'll need > for power down > are "system" and maybe "button". In my case that showed good (i.e. the > expected) results, > while the ACPI-"bus" module totally spoiled performance. > Using APCI in 2.4.17 worked for the powerdown

Problem using ps2 mouse in X

2002-01-24 Thread Joe Nahmias
Hello list, I am having trouble using my Micro$oft PS/2 wheel mouse under X. When I run startx (as either a regular user or root), the desktop appears normal, but moving the mouse causes random buttons to be pressed, and the pointer moves in random directions. I am running Debian

Re: ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Andrew Agno([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I'm having a problem with recent installs of Debian. My install > process goes like this: > > Install a base potato dist. > Upgrade to testing. > > After doing this, I change the root partition to ext3, and install a > 2.4 kernel (2.4.17

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread ben
On Thursday 24 January 2002 02:00 pm, Bruce Burhans wrote: > Ben wrote, on 1/24/02 @ 1:10PM > > [snip] > > > before you reinstall, run dmesg. it will give you a lot of information > about > the system that might make the reinstall less tedious. > >

Re: passwd

2002-01-24 Thread Gerard Robin
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:56:37AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.24.0138 +0100]: > > I have written a script perl(not very perlich ;-)) which install > > n accounts but I have encountered few problems: > > /usr/bin/newusers > > don't reinv

gpm: failed connect attempt

2002-01-24 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Hi all, does anyone know what's up with gpm, devfs, and vc's? Jan 24 16:25:49 odyssey /usr/sbin/gpm[31676]: Failed gpm connect attempt by uid 1352 for /dev/vc/2 Jan 24 16:25:49 odyssey mc: Warning: closing connection Jan 24 16:31:10 odyssey mc: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory After this

drivers VideoBlaster ie500

2002-01-24 Thread Mirko Marotta
Hallo !!!   I need very urgent for drivers of this device Can you help me ???   Thanks ! BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Marotta;Mirko FN:Mirko Marotta EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] REV:20020123T223210Z END:VCARD

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-24 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:56:46PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Does anyone out there use ICQ under Debian? So far I've tried licq and > gaim with the ICQ plugin, and both of them have very annoying problems > (messages get lost, or messages from previous sessions get delivered > again on client s

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread Bruce Burhans
Ben wrote, on 1/24/02 @ 1:10PM [snip] before you reinstall, run dmesg. it will give you a lot of information about the system that might make the reinstall less tedious. I'll assume that dmesg is on the Debian CDs and thank you much. This is quite

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread Bruce Burhans
Thanks Jason. Copied to hard drive (literally) Bruce

Re: Upgrading Potato, Kernel and installing KDE

2002-01-24 Thread Charlie Grosvenor
I am thinking of moving from redhat to debian. Could you please tell me what version of KDE 2 comes with woody. The latest stable version is KDE 2.2.2. Thankyou Charlie - Original Message - From: "Paolo Alexis Falcone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian Users Mailing List" Sent: Thursday, J

Re: Upgrading Potato, Kernel and installing KDE

2002-01-24 Thread Charlie Grosvenor
I am thinking of moving from redhat to debian. Could you please tell me what version of KDE 2 comes with woody. The latest stable version is KDE 2.2.2. Thankyou Charlie - Original Message - From: "Paolo Alexis Falcone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian Users Mailing List" Sent: Thursday, J

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread ben
On Thursday 24 January 2002 11:59 am, Bruce Burhans wrote: [snip] > > I'll probably just re-install, putting XPernicious on a 10G primary > partition, and Debian on a 10G extended partition with /, Home, and Swap > on logical partitions. Am worried about that "boot must be on first 1024 > cyl

Re: New woody machine, can't ssh to it.

2002-01-24 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
From /usr/share/doc/ssh/README.Debian.gz : SSH now uses protocol 2 by default -- This means all your keyfiles you used for protocol version 1 need to be re-generated. The server keys are done automatically, but for RSA authentication, please read the ssh-keygen ma

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread Bruce Burhans
Jason Majors wrote, on 1/24/02 @ 12:19PM > I'll probably just re-install, putting XPernicious on a 10G primary > partition, and Debian on a 10G extended partition with /, Home, and Swap > on logical partitions. Am worried about that "boot must be on first 1024 > cylinders" thing, though.

Fwd: Debian oddity

2002-01-24 Thread Martin F Krafft
[sorry postfix, i am a dork. this time it works...] forwarded to debian-user. - Forwarded message from Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:41:33 +0100 From: Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Debian oddity User-Agent: Mutt/1.3

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread Bruce Burhans
D. wrote, on 1/24/02: I think that FIPS will do what you want done. Its a non-distructive repartationing program that I have used and works great and its free. Do a search on www.google.com, that is how I found it. Don --- Jason Majors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, you have to log on t

Re: Mutt question

2002-01-24 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Bostjan Muller (on Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:58:52AM +0100): > folder-hook mbox push 'T\~N\n;WN\n;W*\n' > > But it only works untill the first \n. Can someone please tell me how to > properly untag all mail in mbox so they are all marked read. (I don't > mean manually, but from muttrc). try

Re: dhcpd

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:04:19AM -0800, Stonelx scribbled... > Do you know where your dhcp server is broadcasting? > For ex, it may not be broadcasting on your eth1 (192.168.1.1) > In the past, I have gone into /etc/init.d/dhcp and > specified which nics to run my dhcp server on. > --exec /u

Re: dhcpd

2002-01-24 Thread Elizabeth Barham
A good way to debug this situation is to monitor syslog on the dhcp server as it gives a lot of details concerning leases it appropriates to clients. This way you can see who is talking to whom. Next on the list is tcpdump. Elizabeth

Re: ...and then add a nic

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
> I have another question about installations. If you install Debian > with a network card, a number of files/settings are presumably > createds. Yup. > > If you install it with out a nic, I assume that these network specific > files and settings are not created. If a nic is subsequently added, >

...and then add a nic

2002-01-24 Thread Keith O'Connell
I have another question about installations. If you install Debian with a network card, a number of files/settings are presumably createds. If you install it with out a nic, I assume that these network specific files and settings are not created. If a nic is subsequently added, then what files ar

Re: dhcpd

2002-01-24 Thread Stonelx
Do you know where your dhcp server is broadcasting? For ex, it may not be broadcasting on your eth1 (192.168.1.1) In the past, I have gone into /etc/init.d/dhcp and specified which nics to run my dhcp server on. --exec /usr/sbin/dhcp eth1 eth2 hth, Mike Quoting Jason Majors <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Omnibook Xe3

2002-01-24 Thread uid0
I was wondering if anyone has debian working on an HP OmniBook Xe3 with a D-Link DWL-650 wireless card. Any comments would be appreciated. Thank you. -#0

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread D.
I think that FIPS will do what you want done. Its a non-distructive repartationing program that I have used and works great and its free. Do a search on www.google.com, that is how I found it. Don --- Jason Majors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, you have to log on to Earthlink with your >

Re: probably a stupid question

2002-01-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:55:32PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: > to be specific: > > portmap > lockd > mountd > rquotad > statd Yes, and all of them are in the packages I mentioned earlier, with the exception of rquotad, which is in the quota package. I'm not terribly familiar with the packag

dhcpd

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
I'm trying to setup dhcpd on one machine and setup my notebook as a dhcp client. I have this as my /etc/dhcpd.conf and have started dhcpd, but the notebook won't connect on dhcp. Any ideas? Thanks, Jason #dhcpd.conf # option definitions common to all supported networks... option domain-name "kwi

Re: OT: info on Tekram 315U and scsi in general

2002-01-24 Thread Christopher D. Reimer
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Martin Wuertele wrote: > > Is this card generally well supported in the 2.4 range kernels and are > > there any things in particular that I have to look out for while taking > > on this endeavour. > > according to the suse hardware database it is fully supported Only if use

Why don't we every see Debian articles on these sites?

2002-01-24 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
[ Sorry for sending this to so many lists; I want to reach a wider audience. ] I would really like to see articles touting Debian GNU/Linux on sites like this one: http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/filters/rc/0,14177,6020498,00.html> The commercial distributions hire PR writers to w

Re: probably a stupid question

2002-01-24 Thread timothy bauscher
to be specific: portmap lockd mountd rquotad statd // timothy -- On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:30:10AM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: > and now the stupid question: why aren't nfs, > the rpcs, and the startup scripts at least an > option during the installation? i understan

BSscanmail problem!

2002-01-24 Thread dani
i set up BSscanmail and all,but the sendmail it gives me an error like SYSERR(root): Cannot exec /usr/local/src/scanmail/BSscanmail: Exec format error i'd appreciate if you'll give me any advice,or at least what mail scanner for my main mail server i could use.. thank you! -- Petre L. Daniel,Syst

Re: Catastrophy: most programs don't start anymore!

2002-01-24 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, thanks firstly to all who answered so far. Unfortunately nobody could suggest a "clean" solution without rebooting and eventually reinstalling. So, if somebody has some ideas what I could try before rebooting and instead of reinstalling the whole system please jump in with your suggestions!

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
sorry to chime in so late, but I normally skip rants:) On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:09:00AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:57:50AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In TeX you should write > > > > lefthand string\hfilcenter string\hfilrighthand string > > I don't think

Re: OT: info on Tekram 315U and scsi in general

2002-01-24 Thread Martin Wuertele
hi, On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:49:30PM +, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > Hello wise people of debian-user, > > Apologies for the off-topic post but in my experience, debian-user seems > to encompass the more intelligent of the human species and seem to be > able to answer almost any question. >

Re: Upgrading Potato, Kernel and installing KDE

2002-01-24 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Jatin Golani wrote: >Hello, > >I sent this mail earlier to this list, however it's >gone unanswered so far. I'd like to upgrade my Potato >system. I'd like to know the following: I think this was answered (though not directly) if you'll observe the recent threads that flew in this mailing list.

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
> Yes, you have to log on to Earthlink with your full e-mail address > and password, but my Internet Explorer does this automatically. And IE > is *all* I use. I only signed up with EL *because* I wouldn't have to > use their software. > The next step, of course, is to get rid of IE. I'm re

Re: exim error?

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
> >> What does it say in /var/log/exim/* ? > > > >Not a thing recently. > > You want help and that's your response? Heh. > > Post some of the logs pertaining to the specific message so we can sort > through them and look for a problem. Although it is possible, I doubt your > logs are completely

limits.h

2002-01-24 Thread Alexey
While trying to compile something I get the error message: *** In file included from /usr/include/bits/socket.h:31, from /usr/include/netinet/in.h:212, from /usr/include/netdb.h:28,

Re: installation oracle 9i on debian

2002-01-24 Thread Rupa Schomaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Constant KOBANA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > HI > > Could you tell me how ti install oracle 9i on linux Debian > I've several problem to install it. > > Thanks you very munch > > Constant If you know how to install Oracle and are just having trouble with Debi

Potato net install

2002-01-24 Thread Keith O'Connell
I would like a little guidance as to installing Debian on a friends machine. I have set him up some partitions and intend to start it off on a CD, then download the rest of the instalation from the Debian sites, as he has a cable modem attached to his machine the same way I have. I have hit a bit

ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-24 Thread Andrew Agno
I'm having a problem with recent installs of Debian. My install process goes like this: Install a base potato dist. Upgrade to testing. After doing this, I change the root partition to ext3, and install a 2.4 kernel (2.4.17). When I reboot, the very first mount of / mounts it as ext2: kernel:

Re: initrd and kernel 2.4.17

2002-01-24 Thread Rupa Schomaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rupa Schomaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> A real pain though since the lvm tools require a writable filesystem >> (they create files in /etc). Debian uses cramfs for initrd which is >> read-only. > > The solution of

Should I put Ximian on my Potato?

2002-01-24 Thread Curtis Dean Smith
Hello! I am running Potato, but am getting impatient for some of the newer Gnome apps (like gnumeric 1). I have not found much comment on the pros or cons of installing Ximian Gnome on Debian Potato using their red-carpet, but I am a bit hesitant since my last experience with Helix on Potato (it

Re: installation oracle 9i on debian

2002-01-24 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Constant KOBANA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > HI > > Could you tell me how ti install oracle 9i on linux Debian > I've several problem to install it. There's a book "Oracle DBA on Unix and Linux". AFAIK Oracle installs without problems only on Windows and only sometimes, on anything els

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-24 Thread Kent West
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote: And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right Justified text all on the same line, so you don't have to throw in a bunch of spaces to get everything to (maybe) line up. For those who don'

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
It's also unclear why the tabular environment is "heavy" or "overkill": \begin{tabular}{lcr} lefthand string & centre string & righthandstring\\ \end{tabular} ap -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperr

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 08:51:11 - (GMT), (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24-Jan-02 Dan Griswold wrote: > > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The LaTeX "center" environment follows that style too (FWIW). (I > >> don't believe it is possible to have only part of a line be in a >

traffic control + task limits

2002-01-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hey folks! how can I set up a traffic limit for every single user? are there any programs that might handle that? and how can I limit foreground and background tasks to a certain amount? Is there a way to limit outgoing connections via a certain interface? for example user "blah" is allowed to ha

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