newbie mutt questions

2003-03-11 Thread Chris Hoover
Sorry for this newbie type of questions, but how do you move mail messages to another folder when in mutt? Thanks, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problems with Gnome2

2003-03-07 Thread Chris Hoover
Hi, I finally have gotten a clean install of gnome2 for my unstable dist laptop, and I'm having some strange problems with gnome2 and was wondering if anyone else is having them 1. I have a 1.7 Ghz p4m laptop with 512megs mem. However, gnome feels extreamly sluggish. An example of this woul

Re: Problems with X and unstable

2003-03-02 Thread Chris Hoover
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:46:16PM -0500 or thereabouts, andyrew wrote: > Chris Hoover wrote: > > > >(EE) Failed to load module "pex5" (module does not exist, 0) > >Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a:spencode.o": No > >symbols fo

Problems with X and unstable

2003-03-02 Thread Chris Hoover
I am in need of some help. It appears that the X packages in the unstable distribution where updated and now I can not get into X. I am attaching the log from trying to run a startx to show what the problem is. Before this happened on Friday, I was running X without a problem on my Dell Insp

Re: Apt-get/ Dansguardian problem

2003-02-23 Thread Chris Hoover
Berdt van der Lingen wrote: Since I installed dansguardian on my Squid-proxy box I wasn't able to use apt-get properly. When I add the IP address of my debian box to the excluded ip list of Dansguardian apt-get is working fine again. Does anyone know about this problem? I couldn't find any informa

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-18 Thread Chris Hoover
Robin Putters wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 21:43, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: Has anybody on the list gotten IE to work under a normal wine install? Is it possible to get different versions to work under different install directories (this would be IDEAL!)? Would you be willing to give me s

Package Depedency Problems/Conficts

2003-02-18 Thread Chris Hoover
Please forgive if this is not the proper forum for this posting, but I'm not exactly sure where it should go. There is a dependency problem with wterm. I just tried to install it on my laptop that is running debian unstable with WindowMaker as my windowmanager. However an apt-get install wter

Re: mplayer - no sound on dvd

2003-02-03 Thread Chris Hoover
On Monday 03 February 2003 22:07, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 19:07, Chris Hoover wrote: > > I need some help, I have installed mplayer on my debian/unstable kde3.1 > > system. However, I am getting no sound when I try to play a dvd. Would > > someone ple

Re: mplayer - no sound on dvd

2003-02-03 Thread Chris Hoover
On Monday 03 February 2003 22:07, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 19:07, Chris Hoover wrote: > > I need some help, I have installed mplayer on my debian/unstable kde3.1 > > system. However, I am getting no sound when I try to play a dvd. Would > > someone ple

Help with Coldfusion Server

2003-02-03 Thread Chris Hoover
Hello Everyone, I'm trying to get Coldfusion server version 5 to install on my debian system (unstable). However, the install is abending with the following error: /opt/coldfusion/bin/cfexec: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No suc

mplayer - no sound on dvd

2003-02-03 Thread Chris Hoover
I need some help, I have installed mplayer on my debian/unstable kde3.1 system. However, I am getting no sound when I try to play a dvd. Would someone please be kind enough to clue me in on what I need to install to get mplayer playing sound. Thanks, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Problems running Gnome

2003-01-25 Thread Chris Hoover
Hello Everyone, I am having some problems running Gnome. I have just built my new Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with Debian 3.0 and used the unstable tree for the install of packages. I know that the unstable tree is a moving target, but it has several things that I wanted (such as gnome 2). Wel

Is Woody installable at this time????

2001-06-07 Thread Chris Hoover
Is woody/unstable currently in a state to do a apt-get dist-upgrade to?  If not, is there a eta on that time frame?   Thanks,   maillst

Re: Is Woody installable at this time????

2001-06-07 Thread Chris Hoover
> But I don't think I'm releasing it on my users yet, what do mean by > "in a state to do a apt-get dist-upgrade"? > > -Jon I want to upgrade that way. However, if the libraries and other main components are not stable, it will totaly hose my system (as far as I know, an apt-get dist-upgrade is u

How to setup rsync system to keep copy of packages locally????

2001-06-07 Thread Chris Hoover
Can someone help me and/or point me to a doc that describes how to setup a local debian package mirror using rsync? I have looked at the man page for rsync, but am still clueless as to how to do it. TIA

Re: How to setup rsync system to keep copy of packages locally????

2001-06-07 Thread Chris Hoover
Ok, I really want to keep a full i386 mirror of the unstable distribution that I will be able to use apt to install the packages from. Thanks, Chris - Original Message - From: "Otto Wyss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chris Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sen

Which Kernel should I use????

2001-03-27 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm looking for some help.  I need to install a new kernel on my nat machine, but I'm not sure which kernel to go for.  I must have a kernel that can run pppoe (for my adsl) and I also need to be able to nat vpn connections (I have a vpn client that I need to use to connect into work). What

Properly Installing Java

2000-08-20 Thread Chris Hoover
I just downloaded the java 1.2.2 files from a blackdown.org mirror. What .debs do I need to install so that it will be properly installed on my woody system? Thanks, chris

Multiple Mail Accounts?????

2000-08-17 Thread Chris Hoover
Hello, I have multiple mail accounts with my isp. How can I setup linux so I can have my 1 login into my linux box and be able to handle all of the accounts? What I really want is to be able to use 1 mail program and be able to see all of the mail I get. Then I would like to have it setup so

setting up x terminal workstation

2000-08-05 Thread Chris Hoover
Can someone point me to some sites that explain how to get an older computer working as a remote x-term/workstation. Here is what I currently have: 1 486DX/2 50 laptop w/ 20 megs - This has a "complete" potato install with a working X server. I would like to convert this laptop into a remote X wo

Major Network Issues

2000-07-01 Thread Chris HOOVER
I'm having major network problems since switching to my new ISP (road runner). I know that the problem is on my side and need some help figuring out what is wrong and how to fix it. Problem 1: I am unable to ping/connect any of my isp's servers (pop/smtp/nntp/etc) from any box on my network othe

Re: Road Runner && DNS Problems

2000-06-11 Thread Chris Hoover
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 02:56:07PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > > > internet > > | > > | > > debian-wall (Firewall box) > > | > > | > > Hub---(debian-server - DNS server for the network) > &

Road Runner && DNS Problems

2000-06-10 Thread Chris Hoover
f this is even possible, much less how to implement it. Other/better ideas? Thanks for any and all help, Chris Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dhcp && cable modem (somewhat urgent)

2000-05-23 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm in need of a little help. Tomorrow the cable company is coming to hook up my cable modem (HURRAY). Anyway, I have been told that they (road runner) use dhcp to assign the ip addresses. I know from some pages I have seen that linux will work with road runners dhcp, but I have a different pro

Good Imap mail server?

2000-03-26 Thread Chris Hoover
I think I want to install an imap mail server on my linux server. Can someone recommend a good one that is debianized? Here is why I want one. I'm using several different computers on my home network, and want to be able to read my any of my e-mail from any computer here. I believe this is what

dhcp docs

2000-03-02 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm looking for information on setting up a dhcp server. Does anyone know if a howto or something like that exists? I went to linuxdoc.org and did not see one, but it might be named something else. TIA, chris -- Your aims are high, and you are capable of much.

Outlook Type email/pim

2000-02-23 Thread Chris Hoover
I don't want to cause a flame war or be called a heretic, but after using Microsoft outlook at my new job, I have found I really like some of it's features. I especially like the tight integration it has with all of the features (mail, calander, etc.). Is there an equivelent email type client

HELP - Screwed Up Package Listings

2000-02-13 Thread Chris Hoover
HELP - I've royally screwed up my dselect package listing. I was working in dselect to get rid of packages that I never use on my server (games, xemacs, etc) and had a finger slip that removed a required package and exited to the menu. Now almost every package is set to remove. How can I get the

Re: Slink -> Frozen = No Internet

2000-02-12 Thread Chris Hoover
: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 10:30:55AM -0800, Chris HOOVER wrote: > > HELP, > > > > I finally took the plunge and upgraded my linux > > server from slink to frozen last night. After running > > apt-get dist-upgrade and moving from 2.0.36 to 2.2.14, > > I

Slink -> Frozen = No Internet

2000-02-11 Thread Chris HOOVER
HELP, I finally took the plunge and upgraded my linux server from slink to frozen last night. After running apt-get dist-upgrade and moving from 2.0.36 to 2.2.14, I can no longer dial out to the internet. When I try to run pon, syslog reports that /dev/ttyS2 (my modem) is locked. I tried doin

slink diald problems

2000-01-25 Thread Chris Hoover
Can someone help me with a diald problem? I have a full slink install on my "server" and was trying to get diald setup on it. I have setup the diald.options file to connect using the pon method. It seems to connect fine, but hangs on makeing the link. I"ve attached a syslog output of diald and

Alan Cox's Portaloo

2000-01-20 Thread Chris Hoover
Sorry to be some what off topic, but does anyone know where the cvs archive for Alan Cox's Portaloo is? TIA, chris

quake2 installation help

2000-01-04 Thread Chris Hoover
I need help getting quake2 to install on potato. when I use the quake2/quake2-bin packages, I get errors (see below). Is there a doc that details how to get it installed with debian (preferably using the deb packages)? I really want to start playing quake2 again. Thanks, chris errors: When I

2.2.x modules

2000-01-04 Thread Chris Hoover
Is there a good document on how to setup a 2.2.x kernel to use modules? I went to the ldp home page, but the only kernel modules howto I saw was dated from 1997. Thanks, chris

Installing Quake2 with potato

2000-01-03 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm trying to get quake 2 to install. However there seems to be some packages missing. When I try to install quake2-bin, I get the following messages: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution

connecting to concentric.net

1999-12-27 Thread Chris Hoover
Does anyone here use concentric.net? I'm trying to get my fathers linux box setup with a ppp conection and am having getting the connection to work. Thanks, chris

OT: Need Good HTML/Javascript Book

1999-07-29 Thread Chris Hoover
Sorry for a some what off topic posting, but I have a friend who is looking for a good book(s) that cover html and javascript. Since I'm not up on books in this area, I was wondering if maybe one of you could suggest a couple good ones. Thanks, chris -- The Government just announced today the

MAKEDEV

1999-07-22 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm having problems with MAKEDEV. It will not create the devices for my scsi tape. In fact, it won't seem to create any devices. I've tried running it with scsi, st, nst, etc, and it does not seem to do anything. Is there a problem with the slink ver? If not, how am I supposed to run it to cre

kde problems

1999-07-18 Thread Chris Hoover
When I run kde as a normal user and change the panel settings, it is not saving them. Is there a way to kde to remember the changes I make the next time I login? Thanks, chris -- Where there's a will, there's an Inheritance Tax.

GMT ntp servers

1999-07-11 Thread Chris Hoover
Does anyone know the ip's of some ntp servers that are on gmt? I'm trying to get my computer time correctly set to gmt so it will display the correct time. thanks, chris

vmware

1999-07-10 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm starting to use vmware, and I love it. However, I can only get 16 colors with it. Does anyone know how to get the color depth to increase (win98)? I'm running it on an amd k6-2 300 with a creative labs RIVATNT card (which it does not seem to see). It tells me that I have a Standard Display

win98 and samba

1999-07-06 Thread Chris Hoover
Is there anything special I have to setup to allow win98 to access my samba shares? It keeps failing to authenticate my password. I tried turning on encrypted passwords, but that did not seem to work. The encrypted passwords gave me the no permission to access resource error. This was all worki

Samba Problems

1999-05-31 Thread Chris Hoover
I've had samba working on my network, allowing my nt box to see my unix home directories. However, I had to reorganize my NT box (server) and ended up reinstalling to free up a hd. When I did this, I changed the domain from PRI_NT_DOMAIN to WINDOWS. I changed the appropriate line in the /etc/

KDE mail client problems

1999-05-27 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm having problems getting KDE's mail client to delete mail that are in folders. I currently have my system set up to sort my mail using exim's filtering capablity. All of the filtered mail goes into various folders in my ~/Mail dir. KDE see's the files with the mail fine, and I'm able to re

getting kde

1999-05-25 Thread Chris Hoover
does anyone know of a http site that I can get debian debs of kde 1.1.1 from? thanks, chris

Sound Card Config/Kernel Compile Problems

1999-05-24 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm having some problems with my yamaha pci sound card that I just installed. After reading the kernel documentation, I compiled in every thing it said to for the olp3-sa stuff. However, on the reboot of my system, it looks like some of the sound card parameters are wrong, and I'm not sure wha

Wierd PPP Problems

1999-05-12 Thread Chris Hoover
it status (7) on command '/sbin/route add 192.168.0.2 metric 1 dev sl0' May 11 22:02:28 debian2 diald[138]: Nonzero exit status (7) on command '/sbin/route add default metric 1 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev s l0' May 11 22:02:29 debian2 diald[138]: Delaying 30 seconds before clear to dial.

Looking for Mail Information

1999-05-11 Thread Chris Hoover
o? TIA, Chris -- E-Mail: Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10-May-99 Time: 22:29:13 This message was sent by XFMail --

Setting Up Netscape Mail

1999-05-01 Thread Chris Hoover
I guess I'm going to have to use the mail program in Netscape, since I can't find any other descent X mail programs. However, I'm not sure how to set it up. I have exim filters running that are sorting all of my mail into the appropriate folders. I've set it up so that no mail should be left

Exim Filter

1999-04-27 Thread Chris Hoover
ocmails ^TO) 2. How can I have exim dump any mail that passes through all my filters into a special misc folder? I don't want any mail to end up in my /var/spool/mail/user file. Thanks, Chris ------ E-Mail: Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 26-A

Printing from Netscape

1999-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm having problems printing from Netscape. When I try to print, all I get is either a blank page or a page that has the following printed on it: Error: /invalidfont in findfont Operand stack: F0

/dev/nst0 hosed

1999-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
Somehow my /dev/nst0 device has become messed up. Could someone please tell me what it should be? Also, how do I use /dev/MAKEDEV to recreate it. Thanks, chris

2 Questions

1999-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
I have two hopefully quick questions. 1. How can I get my machine to automatically start fetchmail after a reboot? Also, how do I have it ran by a user other than root (it is only setup to run as me right now)? 2. Is there a way to script the startup of a remote program? I want to have wmm

Re: URL for gnome staging area?

1999-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable main On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 00:20:27 Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > What is the URL for the Gnome staging area? I am going to give it a try > after years with AfterStep. > > TIA. > > -Ian > > ___

Windows NT && Samba

1999-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
I was wondering if it was possible to use samba and have my linux box be able to read/write on my NT box. I would like to do this since my NT box has more hd space right now, and I'm in need of a place to store my mp3's. Thanks, chris

Fw: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

1999-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
luding all the headers. -- > > Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from choover by debian.foo.bar with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) > id 10WCU6-00089B-00; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 00:08:42 -0500 > Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 00:08:42 -0500 > From: Chris Hoover <[EMA

Re:RE: Mail system all fouled up

1999-04-10 Thread Chris Hoover
Andrew, Here is the exim.conf file. Please take a look and let me know if you see anything out of the ordinary. Thanks for the help,] chris # This is the main exim configuration file. # It was originally generated by `eximconfig', part of the exim package # distributed with Debian, but it ma

Re:RE: Mail system all fouled up

1999-04-10 Thread Chris Hoover
exim is running from inet.d and is being ran as exim -bs. Chris At Sat, 10 Apr 1999 18:02:40 - (UTC), you wrote: > > >On 10-Apr-99 Chris Hoover wrote: >> Well, after doing a clean install of Slink from cd's, it appears that the >> mail system is not working.

Mail system all f*cked up

1999-04-10 Thread Chris Hoover
Well, after doing a clean install of Slink from cd's, it appears that the mail system is not working. Last night, I did a clean install of slink, and setup fetchmail and exim and tested them. Fetchmail pulled down my mail, and eventually exim delivered it (over an hour later). Well, today I r

Slink mail

1999-04-04 Thread Chris Hoover
I just did a minor upgrade of my system to slink (I had done a major upgrade before it was officially released), and am now having problems with mail. Everytime runq or in.smtpd run, they are going balistic, and taking up all of my processor (causing loads > 2 or 3). Does anyone know what is goin

CD-R/RW Question

1999-03-24 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm looking at purchasing a cd-r /cd-rw in the near future, and was looking for some advice as to what to purchase. My main linux box has both ide and scsi in it, so I can go either way. I was wondering if there were advantages to going either with scsi or ide. I'm looking more at ease of ope

diald and ip address

1999-03-18 Thread Chris Hoover
I was wondering what file I should modify so that diald will email me my ip address when it goes on line? I've tried adding it to the /etc/diald/ip-up file (I believe that is where it is, but I'm not at my machine right now), and it did not work. Is there another file I can modify so it will

tkrat problems

1999-02-21 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm trying to get tkrat (and the rest of my mail system) setup for mail. Right now I'm using netscape mail, and really want to quit using it. Anyway, my email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and my linux login in choover. I've setup fetchmail to pull down my mail, and that seems to be working. How

System Load

1999-02-21 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm a little concerned about my system load. Top is registering a load average of 1.35 1.24 1.01, but my system is more than 90%. How can this be? There is no disk activity, and lots of free memory. I'm running 2.2.1. This is the first time I've noticed it, and am not doing anything out of the

Re: Auto Login at Boot?

1999-02-21 Thread Chris Hoover
Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I usually keep three terminal open. One as root, one as user under a > command shell and one as user under an X terminal. I use root because I > haven't found out which files I need to give user rights to in order to > PPP. Lance, If I remember correctly, the faq-o-

Re: fetchmail problem

1999-02-21 Thread Chris Hoover
Andrew, I believe you can put set daemon 600 in your .fetchmailrc, and it will do the same thing. Chris Pollywog wrote: > > I am having a problem with Fetchmail. I can get mail if I connect to the > Internet and then use the command 'fetchmail', but when I was using OpenLinux, > I just put:

Re: Auto Login at Boot?

1999-02-21 Thread Chris Hoover
Setup diald, then you don't have to worry about starting up ppp. It will do it anytime you try to access the net. Chris Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > IN trying to find out if there was a way to automatically login during > boot or to login to different terminals at boot I ran across this > program

Modem Commands

1999-02-18 Thread Chris Hoover
Does anyone know the command to tell a modem to turn the sound off? Also, is there a page somewhere that lists the hayes/at modem commands? I've been looking for one, but no luck so far. Thanks, Chris

System Freaking out

1999-02-17 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm kind of at a loss as to what is going on with my system. I am running a slink/potatoe machine with 2.2.1. I was playing x11amp off of my cd changer (scsi) when I had a hard lockup (still a mystery as to why, but something with the changer). Anyway, this is not the first time for a lock up, b

Netscape Fonts

1999-02-17 Thread Chris Hoover
Somehow, my fonts in Netscape have become all messed up. Could someone be so kind as to tell me what the original fonts where? Thanks, Chris

Ejecting scsi tape

1999-02-16 Thread Chris Hoover
Is there a way to have my system automatically eject a tape from my scsi tape drive? I'm wanting to add this to my backup script, so I don't forget to change to tape and overwrite a backup. thanks

2.2.X && Printing

1999-02-10 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm having problems getting my printer to work with the 2.2.x kernels. I've added the parport stuff into the kernel and my lilo.conf, but still no go. Here is what I've done so far: Kernel config: CONFIG_PARPORT=y CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y CONFIG_PRINTER=y CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK=y Lilo.conf: ... app

apt for hamm

1999-02-07 Thread Chris Hoover
Can someone tell me where I can find the version of apt that works for hamm? TIA

Mail && Users

1999-02-05 Thread Chris Hoover
I have a simple mail question. Is it possible for me to use my local mail server on my debian box for my mail? Here is why I'm asking: I'm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adduser tells me that wax_man is a bad name, so I created a user called choover. So, if I use fetchmail or what ever to get mail, and se

Re: Samba 2.0.0 - are there any deb's?

1999-02-04 Thread Chris Hoover
I just d/l'd the samba packages from the stated directory and installed/configured them with dpkg. But it appears that sambaconfig was removed. What am I supposed to use to configure samba? Chris Remco van de Meent wrote: > > Björn Elwhagen wrote: > > I'm interested in knowing wheather there is

Re: Program to setup network

1999-01-25 Thread Chris Hoover
lan "Craig R. Hodges" wrote: > > network? Do you mean modem or LAN? > > On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Chris Hoover wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:37:50 -0500 > > From: Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >

Program to setup network

1999-01-25 Thread Chris Hoover
Is there a program that will setup my network? I'm looking for a program like the one that the debian install runs. TIA

Leafnode

1999-01-21 Thread Chris Hoover
How do I setup leafnode for reading news? I've read the documents, but can't find anything listed about telling leafnode which groups I want to read. TIA

Verifying backup

1999-01-19 Thread Chris Hoover
First off, I want to say thanks to those who answered my question about block size. I have been able to get dump to backup to my tape drive. Now, I was wondering if there was anyway to verify the integrity the backup that dump did. TIA

Re: 16 MB STB nVidia TNT 3D AGP

1999-01-19 Thread Chris Hoover
Jeremy, I have the exact same card, and can say that it performs beautifully under linux. As someone else has already stated, the default XF86_SVGA server does not support it in debian. However, you can get the new 3.3.3 version or go to http://www.d128.com/ and get the version for 3.3.2. Chr

Tape Backup And Block Size

1999-01-18 Thread Chris Hoover
Does anyone know how to find out what the proper block size is for a tape drive? I have an Exabyte 8200 scsi tape drive (8mm 2.5 gig), that I bought used with no documentation. I've looked at the exabyte home page, but did not see any mention of block size. I've tried to backup with dump, but

Re: Help with 2 LAN Cards

1999-01-18 Thread Chris Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks for reading this e.mail. > > I am looking for some help. I currently have 2 LAN cards, using the "lance" > driver. How do I get the 2nd card to configure? > > I am missing the step required to set up "eth1", I believe I can get tcp/ip > running after that. >

Setting up diald.

1999-01-18 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm having to reset up my system after a hard drive crash, and am having a hard time getting diald setup. I've tried to set it up using the provides scripts and examples, but they don't seem to be working. I remember when I first set it up, I was directed to a good page on the web where someone d

irc.debian.org - No DNS

1999-01-15 Thread Chris Hoover
It appears that the dns for irc.debian.org is fscked up. When I try to ping it, I get unknown host. Does anyone know of another irc server I can use to get on the #debian channel?

[OFFTOPIC]Gnu Utils For AIX

1999-01-14 Thread Chris Hoover
I was wondering if anyone knows if there are any GNU (or other no cost) utils that work with AIX. Specifically, I'm hoping to find something like top. So we can find out which process is trying to kill the machine here at work. TIA, Chris

Setting Up Newsgroups

1999-01-13 Thread Chris Hoover
How do I go about setting up newsgroups on my hamm box? I installed the news servers, but I'm unsure of what to do next. I just want to pull maybe 10 groups down to my local box. Thanks

Slink/Potatoe && libc6

1999-01-12 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm trying to upgrade to and/or install either slink or potatoe, but keep running into a problem with libc6. Several programs keep saying they depend on libc6 >= 2.0.7u. However, this is not an available package. Does anyone know where I can find this package? Thanks, Chris

burning debian cd from win95

1998-12-15 Thread Chris Hoover
I have the opportunity to burn a debian cd at my job. However, I have to do it in win95. Has anyone done this? Is there anything I need to be careful of? I'm planning on burning a slink cd so I can take it to my fathers house and install linux there for him. Thanks, Chris -

Tv grabbers

1998-12-11 Thread Chris Hoover
I have just gotten a wintv card, and it appears to be working fine. However, I can't seem to find a screen grabber for it. I'm looking for one that can be ran from the command line, and grab what ever is on the device without requiring any user interface. Does anyone know if a program like th

PPP Problems cont.

1998-11-10 Thread Chris Hoover
I still can not get my linux box to connect to my isp (bellsouth.net), and am looking for ideas and help. Attached is a copy of my /etc/ppp/peers/provider, /etc/chatscripts/provider, and /var/log/ppp.log. Can someone tell me what is going on here? I've used pppconfig to set it all up, and it dia

bellsouth.net

1998-11-09 Thread Chris Hoover
Does anyone know what bellsouth.net is using for connect strings? I tried to connect with the standard pppconfig stuff, but it is exiting out right after dialing the number. The ppp.log file has a line with alarm followed by the line(s) stating that it is exiting. Any ideas on what to do next?

scripting cvs updates

1998-10-17 Thread Chris Hoover
I'd like to develop a script that will automatically d/l the E cvs source each night. However, I have to login to the cvs server and provide it with a password (password is just pressing the return key). Is there a way to have the script send the return key w/o human interaction? Thanks, Chris

dbf Program

1998-10-17 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm in need of a program that can convert csv (comma seperated values) files into a dbf format file. Does anyone know of a program or script that can do this? I really don't care what operating system it runs on although linux/unix is prefered. Thanks, Chris

Setting up Samba

1998-10-11 Thread Chris Hoover
I've just installed the samba .deb package, and was wondering what I need to do next as far as setting up the rest of the config files? Is there a good doc on how to do this (debian specific)? Thanks, Chris

Samba Questions

1998-10-10 Thread Chris Hoover
I have a question about samba and it's capabilities. I have two systems on a network in my house. One I use as a "production" server which has my connection to the internet, and then my play machine. The play machine is a dual boot between linux and win95. Anyway, I'm in need of more space for

Re: .xsession and xdm

1998-10-09 Thread Chris Hoover
Eric, Thanks for the help. It turned out that my .xinitrc file did not have the executable bit set. Thanks, chris "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote: > > > > I have linked my working .xinitrc file to .xsession so that I could run > > xdm. However, every time I log in, xdm does not seem to execute t

.xsession and xdm

1998-10-09 Thread Chris Hoover
I have linked my working .xinitrc file to .xsession so that I could run xdm. However, every time I log in, xdm does not seem to execute the .xsession file as stated in the man pages. Could someone tell me what is going on, and how to fix it? Thanks, chris

Re: cable modem

1998-10-06 Thread Chris Hoover
Russ, You should have no problem using the @home modem with linux. I'm using it right now, and it really flies. The only thing I have left to do is to set up dhcp, but for the time being, I'm using the static ip they gave me. chris Russ Cook wrote: > My local cable company is now offering

Naming machines on network.

1998-09-19 Thread Chris Hoover
I need some advise on how to name the machines on my network. Here is the current setup: internet---machine1---hubmachine2 My isp has given me a name of ci1000135-a.grnvle1.sc.home.com with a static ip. I also have aquired the name choover.ml.org for the same ip. Is

Problems with Mail

1998-09-18 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm having some preplexing mail problems, and was wondering if someone could help me resolve the problem. I have 2 linux boxes networked together. My production box also has the connection to the internet. It is running all of my servers, and pulling mail down from my isp with fetchmail. I'm w

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