out of RAM.

2001-01-21 Thread Dan Brosemer
I have a machine which I don't have access to the console of, which has run almost completely out of RAM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:128268 125532 2736 1020 2620 2592 -/+ buffers/cache

Re: ethernet card driver

2000-08-25 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:52:46PM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > one more: how do I specify the parameters for IO address and IRQ? For a tulip? I don't think you do. It should put itself where it pleases. > yomama:~# insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/tulip.o > /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/tulip.o: ini

Re: ethernet card driver

2000-08-24 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:24:26PM -0600, Ray Percival wrote: > Looks like it is a tulip card. Not 100% sure though. Both the KNE100TX and the KNE110TX were tulips. I can't seem to find info on the KNE120TX, but I'd assume you're correct. > >I know this has to be covered in a FAQ or manual somew

Re: old versions

2000-08-23 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 04:52:14AM -0400, Gregg C wrote: > Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should > reinstall it before attempting a removal. About 7-8 months ago, I was getting similar problems doing some upgrades with Potato. I haven't seen the problem since. My "solution" is

Re: openssh vs ssh

2000-08-21 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 05:03:16AM -0700, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > I'm curious to why the openssh program has the package name of ssh > in Debian? Theo de Raadt suggested (and most agreed) that one goal of OpenSSH should be that when people say "ssh" it should mean "OpenSSH" to the person heari

Re: Questions on Slack / *BSDs

2000-08-04 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 11:26:44PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Could anyone using (or having used) Slackware please tell me what's > (particularly) good about it? -> What particular things made you > choose Slack? It was around and (IMO) better than Yggdrasil when I used it. :) > >From what I

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:25:20PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:38:32PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > > You've just got the system to send a ^O character to the screen which will > > reset it gracefully. > > Yes, but also ^V before the ^O, li

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:38:07PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Silly me accidentally cat'ed a binary file, which caused the terminal > (tty1) to go all funky. > > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead > of proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the

Re: surfin' on cable!

2000-07-14 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 10:44:31AM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote: > Hm, I'm on Rogers in Vancouver and I'm not using dhcp at all. > For the record, seems to work fine for a week now. > Hm, should I expect imminent disaster? -chris Mine (Rogers in Waterloo, ON) has been working without DHCP for arou

Smartlist (maybe sendmail) canonicalizing a domain

2000-06-19 Thread Dan Brosemer
Does anyone know why when I send to a list that I have set up using smartlist at lists.domain.org it canonicalizes the To: header to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In my rc.init, I have: domain=3Dlists.domain.org I'd like to have it leave things at lists.domain.org, and I don't want to have mail.domain.org as

Re: Resizing volumes?

2000-06-16 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 09:34:08AM +0530, Saisanthosh Balakrishnan wrote: > > Is it possible to resize the space of partitions after installation ? For > > example taking 500 MB from /home and giving them to /usr ? > > have a look at ext2resize Or parted which is, IMHO vastly superior. -Dan --

Re: Funny format CD's...

2000-06-16 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 05:35:55PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Is it possible to mount the 7th track of a CD? The first 6 being audio > tracks, and the seventh the first and only data track? No, but there is a way of doing what you actually want (which, believe me, isn't this). > I believe

Re: boot install from HD

2000-06-15 Thread Dan Brosemer
You should have modconf. It's in the base. Description: Device Driver Configuration Modconf provides a GUI for installing and configuring device driver modules. -Dan On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 05:19:00PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Fish Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > What did you > >

Re: Where is module_file?

2000-06-14 Thread Dan Brosemer
/lib/modules/ where section is fs or misc or net or wherever you would expect to find them. -Dan On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 05:24:08PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need some help with the modinfo program. When I run lsmod I get: > > ModulePages Used by > serial

Re: Updating db.root

2000-06-13 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 12:22:12AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 01:55:57PM +1000, Mark Suter wrote: > > > This is not a Debian question. It is a DNS operations question. > > Ummm...and your point is? I think Mark was trying to answer the orignal poster's query as to whe

Re: helixcode gnome with debian 2.1?

2000-06-13 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 11:24:32PM -0500, Kimon Ioannides wrote: > Does anyone know if helix gnome will work with Debian 2.1 (slink). I've heard > that it will work with 2.2 and helixcode's website (www.helixcode.com) states > that > the debs are designed for 2.3. Anyone tried helix gnome with 2.1

Re: Updating db.root

2000-06-13 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:38:32PM -0400, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > hi > > i'm running my own dns server from my home i would like to update my > db.root file. where do i have to go get an update version of this > file? is this information available from the debian web site? dig @rs.networksolut

Re: telnet replacement

2000-06-12 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:25:44PM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > I think that I need some document on the ssh. www.openssh.com > I thought ssh and sshd are the client and server that would > replace telnet and telnetd respective. Why is ssh only available > for non-us distribution? Th

Re: telnet replacement

2000-06-12 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 04:51:58PM +0200, Christopher Splinter wrote: > * Timothy C Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Recently, I have learned that telnet is not a good idea and > > have seen so many suggestion on ssh and wondering how would I > > do this from windows/NT? I did not see

Re: Lost Mail??

2000-06-09 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:57:38PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Well I put localhost in the local-host-names and then killall -HUP. I then > tried again but I had the same problem. I receive the mail but cant find it. > Any Idea's ??/ Try posting your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file. -Dan > On Fri, Jun

Re: Lost Mail??

2000-06-09 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:31:48PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > My local-host-names file is empty. How should I put local host in there? edit the file. Put 'localhost' on a line of its own in the file. Then issue 'killall -HUP sendmail' as root. When you're testing fetchmail, use 'fetchmail -k' so

Re: Lost Mail??

2000-06-09 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:14:56PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hi All, > Is it possible to tell sendmail where to store new incoming mail. Im using > sendmail along with fetchmail and after my mail is retrieved from my isp, I > cant seem to find it. I use mutt to read my mail and have mutt looking in

Re: SSL certs

2000-06-07 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 10:38:43AM -0500, Marcin Kurc wrote: > We'd like to buy SSL cert from thawte. The test cert that comes with debian > apache-ssl is in pem format. However, thawte says it's not what we want, > they offer crt formats. > > What is the best solution? AFAIK (though I've been kn

Re: sendiong email???

2000-06-05 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 06:22:18PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Quick qusetion guys, > I am using Mutt to read my mail and sendmail for my server. What do I use to > send email. I use to use the command "mail" but for some reason I can no > longer use it. So why would the mail command stop working and

Re: Fetchmail

2000-06-05 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 09:33:49PM -0400, Robert Mognet wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 01:44:20AM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 08:49:54PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > > > Hello Dan, > > > I was wondering if I moght ask you a question. I got my

Re: Fetchmail

2000-06-05 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 02:22:26PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > I am now using exim for my mail server. And when I do "ps wwaxl|grep exim" I > get: > "Warning: /System.map has incorrect kernel version. This is certainly a problem, though I don't know what it means. I've never had it occur on any of

Re: Fetchmail

2000-06-05 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 08:49:54PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello Dan, > I was wondering if I moght ask you a question. I got my linux box to mail > out but I still cant get it to receive mail. Its giving me connection failed > for the smtp. I tried telnet localhost 25 but I get the same thing > c

wireless modem

2000-06-04 Thread Dan Brosemer
I'm looking at getting a wireless modem for my laptop, and I'm wondering if anyone has had experience getting one working with Linux. If so, what's supported, what isn't, and where could I go to find out for myself? TIA! -Dan -- "... the most serious problems in the Internet have been caused b

Re: Fetchmail

2000-06-04 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 09:39:00PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Ok here is what I did. I removed exim and install sendmail, configured it > and started the service. I then try telnet localhost 25 and it worked fine. > Came back with the responsed I wanted to see. Then I tried fetchmail and it > came b

Re: Fetchmail

2000-06-03 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 09:17:48PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Sorry to keep bugging you. I checked and exim is running and I configured it > just like you said. When I try to telnet in like you said I get "Unable to > connect to remote host: Connection refused. " is that my problem? Yes, that's the

Re: Fetchmail

2000-06-03 Thread Dan Brosemer
You're not running a mail transfer agent. Check that you have installed one of sendmail, postfix, exim, qmail, smail, (any others that I'm unaware of). If you're trying to run from inetd, check that your /etc/inetd.conf is configured correctly. For example, on one of my simple hosts, I have: [E

Re: Samba printing question

2000-06-03 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 07:41:07PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 10:57:52AM +1200, C. Falconer wrote: > > Specifically about your question, I don't know but I have a DJ 850 here > > shared via samba (off the linux machine) and my win9x boxes have the HP > > driver for th

Re: Sendmail Config

2000-06-03 Thread Dan Brosemer
Try using a simpler mail transfer agent such as exim. Sendmail is really for big sites that need a lot of configurability. You really don't need all that configurability or complexity. Other users will tell you to use qmail, postfix, or smail, I'm sure. These are all equally viable solutions.

Apache & SSL using incorrect certificate

2000-05-30 Thread Dan Brosemer
I'm attempting to do VirtualHosting with SSL (two different secured sites on one server). Obviously they have different certificates. Unfortunately, Apache is using the certificate of one for the other. Now it's getting the DocumentRoot fine, though, so I'm wondering what's up? NameVirtualHost

Perhaps strange mail question

2000-05-25 Thread Dan Brosemer
I would like to accept mail for many domains and put them in separate spool directories. IE mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] would go in /var/mail/foo/user and mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] would go in /var/mail/bar/user. Q1: Is this possible? Q2: Is this possible with exim? Q3: How could I authenticate

Re: gpm as repeater for X11

2000-05-24 Thread Dan Brosemer
Try the following: Make sure /dev/gpmdata exists, and if not, 'mkfifo /dev/gpmdata' Configure gpm to use the 'raw' repeater type. Configure X to use the PS/2 protocol with the /dev/gpmdata device. This is the setup I have on my laptop and it has been working wonderfully. -Dan On Wed, May 24,

Re: POP3 port

2000-05-23 Thread Dan Brosemer
He's probably looking for port 110. 995 appears to be an encrypted version. Interesting... now I'm wondering how to set this up (the ssl version, that is). Time for me to do some reading. -Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ grep pop3 /etc/services pop3110/tcp pop-3 # POP

Re: Newbie Question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2000-05-14 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 07:13:29PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Ok I sure this is a real stupid question, but Im a newbie here. I just > installed Debian and looks like its running great. I log in as root and > noticed that the promt before the cusor is an > instead of the :# I see on > my other machi

Re: quake-3dfx and mouse

2000-05-13 Thread Dan Brosemer
Strange, but when I kill gpm it works. Strange that X should work with gpm with no repeater and quake can't. Solutions for this? -Dan On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 11:43:48AM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > For some reason, my mouse doesn't work when I try to run quake-3dfx. > /dev/mo

quake-3dfx and mouse

2000-05-13 Thread Dan Brosemer
For some reason, my mouse doesn't work when I try to run quake-3dfx. /dev/mouse is a symlink to the correct device, and even running as root, no-go. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Fixed it? TIA -Dan -- "... the most serious problems in the Internet have been caused by unenvisaged m

Re: OpenSSL headers?

2000-05-12 Thread Dan Brosemer
To build OpenSSH, you need libssl09-dev, libssl09, and openssl. I would assume another package would be similar or the same. You may have to point it at /usr/include/ssl instead of /usr/include/openssl for the headers, though. -Dan On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 04:10:40PM +, Nick Phillips wrote:

Re: 1 IP address, 4 websites to host?

2000-05-09 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 04:14:07PM +0100, Dominic Blythe wrote: > I take it that 'ip address' is the same in every case it appears here? That is correct. -Dan -- "Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master." pgpjVL0W1tJWi.pgp Descriptio

Re: 1 IP address, 4 websites to host?

2000-05-09 Thread Dan Brosemer
Actually, it's NameVirtualHost that you want. The relevant lines in httpd.conf are like this: NameVirtualHost 'ip address' ServerName 'domain.name.one' DocumentRoot /var/www/domain.one Servername 'domain.name.two' DocumentRoot /var/www/domain.two etc. Without any of the single quotes. I

Re: lilio.config

2000-05-07 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 11:33:12PM -0700, Elsadig Khanagi wrote: > Dear, Sir, > How are you...I want to manage booting,between Debian linux 2.1r2 & > win98 , I re-edit /etc/lilo.conf, I add prompt & other= but nothing,I > remove every text iside lilo.conf... nothing, I remove lilo.conf it

Solved: Re: gpm and x conflicting

2000-05-05 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 12:39:19AM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > I have gpm and X fighting for a ps2 mouse on my laptop. I've tried > > repeating on with X looking at /dev/gpmdata using both PS/2 and MouseSystems > > protocols and repeating types msc, ms3, raw. I've also tried having them

gpm and x conflicting

2000-05-05 Thread Dan Brosemer
I have gpm and X fighting for a ps2 mouse on my laptop. I've tried repeating on with X looking at /dev/gpmdata using both PS/2 and MouseSystems protocols and repeating types msc, ms3, raw. I've also tried having them both just look at /dev/psaux with the PS/2 protocol. If X uses the MouseSystems

Re: cd image

2000-05-05 Thread Dan Brosemer
CDRWIN will as well. There's a free (as in beer) demo version at www.goldenhawk.com which will only write at 1x, but it will get the job done. -Dan On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 11:57:10AM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote: > I burned them with Adeptec EZ CD creator. You have to rename them to *.iso > or it

solved: smartlist headers

2000-05-03 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 01:11:42PM +0200, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > On Tue, 2 May 2000, Dan Brosemer wrote: > Yes, please read /usr/doc/smartlist/README.exim. Thanks very much. Worked like a charm. I didn't realize it was exim that was adding the pesky headers. -Dan -- &qu

Re: PPP over null modem

2000-05-03 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 02:21:32PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > On Tue, 2 May 2000, Dan Brosemer wrote: > > I'm trying to install potato over a PPP connection between a laptop with no > > network card (hermod) and a desktop with ethernet (bolverk). > > > > I can communi

Re: XF4.0 Modelines?

2000-05-03 Thread Dan Brosemer
Thanks to Felix Natter and yourself for your suggestions. On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 04:51:23PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 07:53:20AM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > I just install the precompiled binaries Sunday. You don't specify > modelines anymore, ye

PPP over null modem

2000-05-02 Thread Dan Brosemer
I'm trying to install potato over a PPP connection between a laptop with no network card (hermod) and a desktop with ethernet (bolverk). I can communicate over the null modem between machines with minicom no problem. hermod:~# pppd -detach /dev/ttyS0 57600 192.168.5.2:192.168.5.1 crtscts debug no

smartlist headers

2000-05-02 Thread Dan Brosemer
On potato, smartlist adds "Resent-To:" headers which list all the people subscribed to the list on every outbound message. Can this be removed? I tried with the following (and enabled RC_LOCAL_SUBMIT_20): dev:/var/list/testing# cat rc.local.s20 # remove headers :0 fhw | formail -I Resent-To: b

XF4.0 Modelines?

2000-05-02 Thread Dan Brosemer
My typical strategy for configuring X is to go through xf86config and then try to start X many times deleting modelines from the XF86Config file when they fail (my monitor stays black). This worked great for all of the 3.3 series. I compiled XF86 4.0 and installed it, but when I tried this, I fou

potato snapshot

1999-12-17 Thread Dan Brosemer
I was downloading a set of potato snapshot ISOs when the site I was getting them from went down. I have since been searching unsuccessfully for another site with snapshots. Does anyone know where I can download these? TIA -Dan -- "Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his

Re: 2 computers, 2 modems, 2 O/S's

1999-12-15 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 08:19:54PM -0500, Cormac McGuinness wrote: > What I was wondering is there anyone out there that can point me to a > piece of Windows (Yes! I know this is the debian mailing list) software > that can forward all my outgoing IP connections through the Winmodem > (in the Win

Re: apt-get

1999-12-15 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 06:16:14PM -0600, Nathan York wrote: > how do i hold a package back from being upgraded in apt-get # echo hold|dpkg --set-selections Alternatively, you could use the '=' key in dselect to place it on hold. -Dan -- "Beware he who would deny you access to information, fo

Re: xserver for 3dlabs Permedia

1999-12-14 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 11:31:54AM -0500, David Teague wrote: > Am I right to assume that Potato binaries won't work directly with > Slink? Does he have to recompile from source to use this Potato > Xserver with Slink? Answers in order are "Yes" and "He would have if nice people hadn't already don

Re: SSH .deb files

1999-12-14 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 02:19:35PM +, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glen S Mehn) wrote: > If ssh were non-free, and I were to download it from a site in the US, > then I would've broken the law, wouldn't I? Whereas, because it's non-US, >

Re: Rudimentary network questions.

1999-12-13 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 10:52:09PM -0600, ktb wrote: > Phil Brutsche wrote: > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > > > The other thing I'm having trouble with is the computer I wish to use as > > > a server is a 386 with Windows 3.11 on it. > > Win3.11? As a server?

Re: How to determine what "apt-get" can install?

1999-11-26 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 08:42:07PM -0800, John Miskinis wrote: > I get a list of a few packages, several names are truncated, and > most have "no description available". Is there a better way to > find out what is actually available based on my sources.list file? Try 'apt-cache search imlib'. HT

NFS problems

1999-11-19 Thread Dan Brosemer
I've been having this problem with my NFS server: When I try to copy a large file off an NFS mounted partition, it gets to 3084288 bytes and then dies with: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ cp -r /cdimage/odin/* . nfs: server loki not responding, still trying nfs: task 808 can't get a request slot This VT

Re: Large disks

1999-11-15 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 07:47:43AM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > esper >Hadn't thought of that... Are there any reliable tools out there for > esper >resizing e2fs partitions? (I already gave it all of the space that > hadn't > esper >been claimed by my ro

Re: 3Com 509B Ethernet card working in Windows but not in Linux

1999-07-22 Thread Dan Brosemer
Only problem I've ever had with a 509B was that it was configured to use the BNC port when I had a TP network and vice-versa. Check that this is not the case. Also, if you have only one network card in your system, it's perfectly safe to compile the 905B support _into_ the kernel rather than as a

Re: My terminal is in a weird state

1999-07-21 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 12:25:40PM -0500, Mark Wright wrote: > I just managed to completely hose my virtual terminal display. It seems > that non-alpha-numeric characters have been replaced with ascii > 127 > characters. I.e. the '-' becomes the upside down '!'. I've tried 'reset', > but that do

crazy screensaver problems

1999-07-13 Thread Dan Brosemer
A while ago, I posted with some problems with xscreensaver. Problem was as follows: xscreensaver wouldn't start any screensaver new screensavers in 3.x did not appear in gnome menu A kind soul (thanks) helped me out on the second count, but I'm still stuck with the first. When I originally had

Re: sndconfig.rpm to .deb question

1999-07-13 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 01:41:01AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > Michael Merten wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 01:27:15PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > > John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > me. The advice, oft given, to see what resources a card uses in Windows, > > > and >

Re: GNOME (slink) not working

1999-07-10 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 03:48:29PM -0500, Chris Frost wrote: > I just apt installed gnome (the actual packages told apt to grab are > below), and apt didn't give a hint anything went wrong. However, when I > try to open a gnome app (ie eeyes, gnomeicu, xchat, gnome-session, panel, > etc) nothing ha

becoming a maintainer

1999-07-09 Thread Dan Brosemer
I was wondering who I need to talk to about becoming a package maintainer? I've just successfully packaged spruce (a GTK mailreader) and I don't believe that it is in the debian distribution yet. I'm perfectly willing to become the maintainer for this package if someone could point me at some lit

Re: D-Link

1999-07-07 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 02:16:27PM -0400, Peter Iannarelli wrote: > Hello all: > > NIC card question . > > Does anyone know if the D-link DFE-530TX NIC > is supported ? > > Peter Someone has already told you this needs the via-rhine module, but I thought I'd note suse runs a hardware database w

Re: Upgrading libc6 - what is the impact ??

1999-06-28 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 02:30:04PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > This is probably a difficult question to answer, but what things > would I break if I upgraded libc6 from slink to potato ?? > > I would like to run dia-4.0 and the only thing that is stopping > me is the libc6 versio

Re: x11amp installation problems

1999-06-08 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 04:26:09PM -0500, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote: > I have been trying to install x11amp for quite sometime now but I keep > running into installation problems. I tried it with both the .deb package > (from www.debian .org) as well as the source. I get the following error: > > Lib

xscreensaver and gnome

1999-05-28 Thread Dan Brosemer
Hi, I hope I'm not asking a silly question that could be found out by reading the docs, but I have a weird situation. I recently removed my xscreensaver 2.xx that comes with slink and installed 3.12 from sources (I wanted sonar). Now, when I run 'xscreensaver-demo' and select a particular screens

Re: SAMBA documentation???

1999-05-26 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 04:09:17PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 25 May, Paul Nathan Puri wrote about "SAMBA documentation???" > > I received responses some months ago about a detailed howto for > > setting up samba. Can someone who knows point me do howto documentation > > for samba apart

Installing slink on Sun PCi

1999-04-23 Thread Dan Brosemer
Just out of curiosity, is it possible to install debian on a Sun PCi (the little pc cards you can get to go in the Ultra series which run windows and dos). I've been trying to do it for a while, and no matter which kernel I get, it says: hda: IRQ probe failed (0) [repeat 3 more times] hda: non

Re: Is ssh 2 incompatible with ssh 1?

1999-04-23 Thread Dan Brosemer
On 23 Apr 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > I've installed ssh 2.10 and tried to connect to my school via ssh (I > know that they run ssh protocol) and got the following: > > > bash-2.01$ ssh cdf.utoronto.ca > > Disconnected; protocol version not supported. > > They are using vershio 1, AFAIK. Doe

Re: samba/network neighborhood question

1999-04-22 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Ben Frame wrote: > I just got Samba installed and it seems to be working fine. But it > doesn't always show up in my Network Neighborhood under Win95. Both the > Debian machine and Win95 machine are on the same subnet and both are in > a workgroup called "linux." I've made

Re: SMC etherpower II 9432BTX ethernet card

1999-04-21 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, rob wrote: > Hello ! > I have problems with the card mentioned above. The driver for SMC > etherpower II cards (I guess it's epic100) does not work. Please someone > tell me if there is a LINUX driver for it or not. I would appreciate any > help. > Thanks Please post more in

Re: Potato

1999-04-21 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Madel, Kurt wrote: > Hello, > > For those of you using Potato, I was wondering how unstable it is. I have a > Zip Plus drive and know that it is naturally supported by the 2.2.X kernel, > so would like to move to a 2.2.X distribution as soon as possible and would > like to

Re: Debian on old SPARC

1999-04-21 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 05:29:47PM -0700, Max wrote: > We have a few old SPARCstations (1 and 1+) around here that I'd like > to convert to Debian and essentially use them as glorified X > terminals. The major problem is that each one only has 127 MB of hard > drive space. So, is it possible to i

Re: FW: Netscape libXpm.so.4 error

1999-04-20 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: > Bob Nielsen wrote: > > That's a typical symptom of having a libc5 version of netscape on a libc6 > > system, however that should be the right directory. Do you have the > > libc6 package xpm4g (which contains /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4) > > installed? >

Re: Self-extracting compressed binaries in Linux?

1999-04-20 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 11:32:18PM -0400, William R Pentney wrote: > > Is there any program that can create compressed self-extracting > executables a la PKLite in Linux? Anyone know of any? Just curious. I think this is what you're looking for, it's called UPX, and was just on freshmeat today.

Thanks: Re: HELP! Mail program suggestions

1999-04-20 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 09:59:12PM -0400, James M . Mastros wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 08:44:45PM -0400, Ian Peters wrote: > > documentation another go. 99.99% of all mutt questions are answered > > in the mutt manual, /usr/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz by default. Jut sit > I'd absolutly agree.

Re: HELP! Mail program suggestions

1999-04-19 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 06:13:16PM -0400, James M. Mastros wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 03:41:39PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > > I'm a pine user (as can be seen from the header of my message), and > > because of the unclear status and future of this program I would like > > to switch to

Re: A file is not always what you think it is.

1999-04-19 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Carl Mummert wrote: In case these aren't on a particular system, I've found this works well. $ perl -pi -e 's/\r\n/\n/g' (DOS->UNIX) $ perl -pi -e 's/\n/\r\n/g' (UNIX->DOS) AFAIK it's the CR you want to remove (\r in perl) and not the newl

Realplayer wrapper for 2.2?

1999-04-19 Thread Dan Brosemer
I remember reading that the linux realplayer 5.0 was broken with kernel 2.2 and that there was a wrapper to fix this. I just learned about the Linus keynote at comdex being broadcast and I'd like to get realplayer working to view it but I can't seem to find this wrapper anywhere. Am I delusional

Re: print via SAMBA

1999-04-19 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 02:22:39PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > another problem i have with printing > on a windows-network-printer. > the linux-comp puts the printer-jobs > right to the spool area, but > then nothing happens.. Here's the relevant lines from my printcap: lp|Samba PostScript

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

1999-04-16 Thread Dan Brosemer
On 16 Apr 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Dan Brosemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > FWIW, I use sympatico.ca and so I can explain how I worked around the > > problem. But first of all, the exact nature of the problem is, as I > > believe you both guessed, that s

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

1999-04-16 Thread Dan Brosemer
FWIW, I use sympatico.ca and so I can explain how I worked around the problem. But first of all, the exact nature of the problem is, as I believe you both guessed, that smtp1.sympatico.ca verifies the domain that is sent in the MAIL FROM: line. Note that it doesn't care about you being inside th

Re: OT: Network design

1999-04-16 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Brant Wells wrote: > Hey Guys :) > > Mark Brown wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:40:24PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > > > > > I'm thinking of using ipmasq to share a cable-modem among many machines. > > > I would li

Re: libc6 2.1 on slink

1999-04-14 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > oddbird:/home/cdysthe# dpkg-source -x xchat_0.9.4-0.1.dsc > no utmp entry available, using value of LOGNAME ("cdysthe") at > /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 40. > dpkg-source: extracting xchat in xchat-0.9.4 looks good! > Then when trying to run th

Re: libc6 2.1 on slink

1999-04-14 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > I wanted to install xchat 0.9.4 from unstable on my slink system. When I saw > the > dependencies I got scared off. I need libc6 2.1. I am not a Linux expert (yet) > and afraid I will damage my stable system by trying to do this. > > Advice? Try ge

Re: cd-to-cd burning

1999-04-13 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Matt Garman wrote: > What is the best way to do CD-to-CD copying under Linux? > Specifically, I have a copy of the "official" debian 2.1 (slink) CD > of which I want to burn an identical copy. > > Is it necessary to make an ISO9660 image from the current CD and then > burn?

OT: Network design

1999-04-13 Thread Dan Brosemer
Sorry for the slightly Off-Topic post. I thought this might be the best place to get an answer. I'm thinking of using ipmasq to share a cable-modem among many machines. I would like to set up a DNS on this (gateway? proxy?) in order to resolve names inside this subnetwork. I would also like to

Re: ATI RAGE IIC PCI

1999-04-12 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > -> > I tried to set up XFree for given card. > -> > I even don't know what card should I define, the given card was not in > any > -> > list in docs... can some1 help me ? > -> > > -> > I think It's Mach64 chipset, true ? > -> > -> Yes, a Mach

Re: ATI RAGE IIC PCI

1999-04-12 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to set up XFree for given card. > I even don't know what card should I define, the given card was not in any > list in docs... can some1 help me ? > > I think It's Mach64 chipset, true ? Yes, a Mach64 CT if I remember right.

Re: Enlightenment crashes machine

1999-03-29 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > |> Netscape, in windows, in my experience, always had a tendency to > |> make a system run progressively slower until either netscape was > |> closed or everything crashed. I hadn't seen it under linux and > |> thought it had gotten fixed, but now I'

Re: CD-R/RW Question

1999-03-26 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I have gotten CD-R disks for as low as 10 cents each (after a rebate on > a 10 pack.). And the rebate company sells the list of adresses they collect to all sorts of nice warm and fuzzy firms. :) > Also I think you can't even buy a CD-R drive anymore

Re: first-time exim

1999-03-26 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > Did you get an answer already? > > > > you write: > > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ ll /var/spool/mail > > >total 2 > > >drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 1024 Feb 1 07:42 ./ > > >drwxr-xr-x 9 root

Re: CD-R/RW Question

1999-03-24 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Chris Hoover wrote: > 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 wit

Re: Too many subdirectories

1999-03-15 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: > I made a c program : > > #include > main() > { > int nbr=0; > while(1) > { > printf("%d\n",nbr+=1); > mkdir ("x"); > chdir ("x"); > } > exit(0); > } I hate to ask, but... why??? I duplicated this for the sake of making s

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