beeps

2001-10-21 Thread Daniel Jones
Every so often, say once an hour or so, my Celeron 400 server runnng Debian unstable emits three short beeps. They sound quite similar to the error beeps that occur on system start-ups, although this system boots and seems to operate just fine. I'm not sure if this is a feature of software I'm

ls sort

2001-10-14 Thread Daniel Jones
I'm going to feel silly if this is as easy as it seems like it should be but after poring over the man pages I can't figure it out. Is it possible to have ls display contents with directories listed first, sorted alphabetically, then all other files, also sorted alphabetically? None of the sort

qmail smtp

2001-10-12 Thread Daniel Jones
Running qmail on Debian unstable. I had qmail and my server running properly. Then, I tore down my server, upgraded the processor and motherboard, upgraded various packages, etc. I have a file called S30qmail in /etc/rc2.d: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup

Re: KDM and dead keyboard

2001-09-21 Thread Daniel Jones
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:27:47 +0800 (WST), Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Daniel Jones wrote: Running KDE 2.1.2 over Debian unstable with kdm. Upon boot-up, the machine comes up to the kdm login but the keyboard is nonfunctional. I see the keyboard lights flash

KDM and dead keyboard

2001-09-20 Thread Daniel Jones
Running KDE 2.1.2 over Debian unstable with kdm. Upon boot-up, the machine comes up to the kdm login but the keyboard is nonfunctional. I see the keyboard lights flash on initial bootup and I can change the numlock status during the first stages of bootup. Shortly before the kdm screen appears,

packages kept back

2001-06-17 Thread Daniel Jones
Running unstable. Executing apt-get upgrade, I get: The following packages have been kept back ddd grace lib-xt-java libldap2 libxml-generator-perl python-numeric python-numeric-tutorial task-sgml task-tex wmaker 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Why

Samba and 2k

2001-06-16 Thread Daniel Jones
I'm running Samba 2.2 under Debain unstable as a PDC. I have a Win98 machine logging into the PDC just fine. I can also see the Linux box in Network Neighborhood and access the shares. I have a second machine on the same network running Win2k. The Win2k machine does not see the Linux box in

adduser

2001-06-03 Thread Daniel Jones
Two questions. First, does debian use a different version of adduser than other Unices/Linux distributions? I'm trying to set up samba as a PDC. The HOWTO at http://bioserve.latrobe.edu.au/samba/adding.html says to add a user for a machine using the following command: adduser –g machines –c

Re: trying to *touch* makefile to fix the date stamp

2001-02-26 Thread Daniel Jones
On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 04:11:43 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think I have screwed up my date stamp since I get a complaining message from make. I need to make the date current on all the makefiles in my system. Using the command $find -name [Mm]akefile -exec touch \{\} \; doesn't seem to

Re: KDE2 install

2001-02-25 Thread Daniel Jones
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:50:31 -0800, John Mautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a woody system running xfree 4.0.2 and want to give KDE a try but can't find the KDE package. I checked the archives and tried 'apt-get install task-kde' but I get the following message: Package task-kde has no

Re: Hidden Partitions and musings NT + Linux ...

2001-02-24 Thread Daniel Jones
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 18:50:18 -0800 (PST), C. Schanck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few days ago I posted a question trying to understand why my 2nd windows partition kept getting rendered hidden and invisible to NT, even though I could still use it from linux. Several folks were kind enough to

ipchains

2001-02-24 Thread Daniel Jones
Can anyone shed any light on the situation with ipchains? It doesn't seem to be included in the stable distribution. It is in woody but it requires libc6_2.1.95-1, which does NOT seem to be in woody, despite the claims of the debian web site.

Re: ipchains - correction

2001-02-24 Thread Daniel Jones
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 21:13:45 -0500, Daniel Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone shed any light on the situation with ipchains? It doesn't seem to be included in the stable distribution. It is in woody but it requires libc6_2.1.95-1, which does NOT seem to be in woody, despite the claims

Re: How to install app from source code?

2001-02-22 Thread Daniel Jones
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:41:39 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can start gnome-session, then mount CDROM #4 from 6 disk set, and then find the .gz and .dsc files. But that's as far as I can get. Which debian install untility will work with these packages? I could try to do it from command

MTA

2001-02-20 Thread Daniel Jones
I have a small home network. I'm in the process of configuring one box as a primary server. I have qmail installed and, I believe, fully operational on this box, including pop3. I can send and receive email from a local login on the server through pine. On a second box, my primary client, I

Re: KDE setup

2001-02-19 Thread Daniel Jones
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 20:08:46 -0500, Daniel Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running Debian 2.2 w/ kernel 2.4.1 and XFree86 4.0.2. I've had a lot of trouble getting KDE installed and running. I now have it limping along but everything isn't quite kosher. The next problem is kdm. It displays

Re: SOLVED Re: Correction: CDROM device..

2001-02-19 Thread Daniel Jones
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 03:29:37 +0100, William Leese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 19 February 2001 03:19, Hall Stevenson wrote: okay, this.. is stupid question.. being completely spoilt by Redhats simplicity.. i'm unaware of which device /dev/cdrom was linked to. ..can someone, give me a

Re: XFree86 broken.

2001-02-19 Thread Daniel Jones
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:21:46 +0100, Eivind Arnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I was just beginning to feel comfortable with Debian, when my X configuration broke down. I tried to remove XFree and install it again, but there is too many dependency problems. It looks like the package database

checkpassword

2001-02-19 Thread Daniel Jones
This seems to be a common problem, as I found a number of complaints about it on the web, but no solutions which seem to work for me. I have a small home network with a dedicated server running Debain 2.2 w/ kernel 2.4.1. I have qmail installed and working on the server - I can send and recieve

KDE setup

2001-02-18 Thread Daniel Jones
Running Debian 2.2 w/ kernel 2.4.1 and XFree86 4.0.2. I've had a lot of trouble getting KDE installed and running. I now have it limping along but everything isn't quite kosher. First, XFree86 was loading into a default configuration rather than starting KDE. startx calls

No panel under KDE

2001-02-17 Thread Daniel Jones
Relative newbie running Debian 2.2. I've removed and reinstalled KDE twice via dselect and consistently get the same situation: I do not get a panel under KDE. I only get a desktop with a couple of icons. I can manually run kselect, which lets me set the options on the panel but the panel