Re: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dnsutils_1%3a8.2.1-7_i386.deb

1999-10-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
uot; to overwrite the existing file which causes the problem JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Different all twisty a of in maze are you, passages little.

Re: HELP: Free space zero no matter what

1999-10-17 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
for, and do I really need them? The answer is in the (first) question :) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FORTH IF HONK THEN

Re: udma66 ...

1999-10-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
15-20% increasing performances. Thanks Alexis, even if I cannot actually gain speed, I have the right device name. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Computers are not thinking, You think they think, (we think...)

Re: udma66 ...

1999-10-15 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
is what is left for you ;) I forgot to say that all of the HDz are on primaries I/F, so ide0:0 = /dev/hda ide1:0 = /dev/hdc and, logicaly; /dev/hde for ide2:0 > what is the problem anyway? That's what I'm asking myself :) > just put the right drive into fstab and forget about i

udma66 ...

1999-10-15 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
e 3rd HD's on /dev/hdg, instead of /dev/hde? and why does the speed (hdparm -t ..) still the same than under udma33? (and I'm sure that udma66 is Ok on this drive, through the dos utility). So, at this point, I must say: "AArrggH @@^|[{^#!!," Thanks in advance

test don't read

1999-10-15 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
test local to externel -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Happiness is a hard disk.

Re: kernel 2.2.10 patch to UDMA66 ?

1999-10-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
link system, btw. me too, I did enough testing under M$ products Thanks again, Regards, JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if (argc > 1 && strcmp(argv[1], "-advice") == 0) { printf("Don't Panic! "); exit(42); } (Arnold Robbins in the LJ of February '95, describing RCS)

Re: tiresome mail questions.

1999-10-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
recommend you to read the excellent paper in la gazette #43 (mail @ home) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If Machiavelli were a programmer, he'd have worked for AT&T.

Re: Modem's and video cards for linux

1999-10-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
y problem with sound cards, if so, how do I > recognise one that will work. Avoid SB Live!, the only sound drivers are for 2.0.36, 2.2.5 & 2.2.10, and are *only* object files from cacative labs. JHope it will help, JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If Machiavelli were a programmer, he'd have worked for AT&T.

mail multiple deliveries

1999-10-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
which method is the best: using the directors from exim, or retrieve through procmail and use its filtering capacities. Any advices will be welcomed, JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If Machiavelli were a programmer, he'd have worked for AT&T.

Re: kernel 2.2.10 patch to UDMA66 ?

1999-10-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
e onboard support." Aaaarghhh, too bad for me! Thanks Nate, I'm gonna seek for a rabbit and a hat ;-> and leave my disk in the UDMA33 mode :( JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used. -- D. Gries

kernel 2.2.10 patch to UDMA66 ?

1999-10-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I'm seeking for that patch, does it exists? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If graphics hackers are so smart, why can't they get the bugs out of fresh paint?

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-12 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
I've seen that before, it can come either from a bad /etc/wwwoffle.conf, or, more probably, from a closed door in the firewall (I've got the same error when a site try to load something from doubleclick.net, which I explicitely forbidden in the firewall) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier &l

Re: Location of old Debian packages?

1999-10-11 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
eil Parry > Department of Computing & Communications > University of Lincs & Humberside, UK. http://www.debian.org as archives even in old dists. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.

Re: /dev/lp0 quit after kernel "modulized"...

1999-10-11 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
ed > any ideas? > > Module Size Used by > lp 4280 0 (autoclean) (unused) > parport 6444 0 (autoclean) [lp] Hi Rich, I'm not totally sure, but I think parport doesn't like very much to be compiled as a module. JY -- Jean-Yv

Re: Netscape installation...

1999-10-11 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
t; > looks like u need the xlib6 and/or xlib6g packages installed to get > libXt.so.6 > > nate Right, I've installed xlib6g & xlib6g-dev JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> May Euell Gibbons eat your only copy of the manual!

Re: getdate

1999-10-10 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
manually reset the date. getdate may allow me to kinda fix > this problem. You could fix it by installing package xntp3 on a server, but be carefull, if your time server is down you'll have troubles to starts the fax machines. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Si

Re: Netscape installation...

1999-10-10 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
; > but thats me :) > > nate > I did like like you, and I didn't encountered the various problems people are talking about. Actual version is 4.71, and its working pretty well (much more than 4.5 :) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Simulations are like

Re: Gateway option line for dhcp?

1999-10-10 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
ude into dhcpd.conf > so that all the computers who resolve through dhcp will automatically have > their gateway set up? > > thanks, > - harlan Hi Harlan, AFAIK you must modify the /etc/init.d/network of your stations. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Simulat

Re: Problem resolving $(hostname) with DHCP

1999-10-10 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
or > all the unix folk. You will get an ip address and You're right: MS(hit ?) DNS even accept uppercase names *and* underscores within names, which is totally forbidden by RFC (don't remember the number :). JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Disk crisis, please clean up!

Re: SB LIVE! Drivers installation

1999-10-10 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
und level low, all the outputs are full level set! In order to make it automagically, I put a symlink into /etc/init.d) in /etc/rc2.d to do that : #!/bin/sh # Auto load SBlive modprobe emu10k1 Good luck JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.

Re: begging.. .(Excluded IRQ3, using IRQ9 now, but still not OK)

1999-10-10 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
d 3, lun 0 > scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries. > SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. > PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed. Try "mount /dev/scd0 /mnt" instead, it should work.. better. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL

Re: Problem resolving $(hostname) with DHCP

1999-10-10 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
gt; Linux Linux traceroute traceroute hangs > I would say there are problems with ICMP & UDP protocols. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Are [Linux users] lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of reliable, well-engineered commercial software?" (By Matt Welsh)

Re: Configure - thank you

1999-10-09 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 08:33:44PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > I hope that it does not violate custom for me to thank > those who solved my problem today. It is, normally, punished by a $12.95 fine... BUT for this time, we'll forget it :) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Framebuffer console 'Invalid Mode'

1999-10-09 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
t; vga=792 Hi! I had a similar PB with my ATI Rage Fury, did you tryied to put an hexadecimal value, instead of decimal i.e. my text console are in 1024x768x64K colors, which means (in VESA mode) 0x317 (which I put in lilo: vga=0x317) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Weird SO5.1 problem

1999-10-08 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
all die. > Is this Star Office's normal behavior? It seems kinda odd to me that that > many soffice.bin programs would be open at once. Yes, I actually have 7 of'em in my 'ps aux'. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The program isn't debugged until the last user is dead.

Re: Printer suggestion

1999-10-08 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
ter is not used quite often (THIS IS MY > CASE), the > injectors stall and they stop working. Therefore, the injectors have to be > changed. > Use isopropylic alcool to clear them (and *NO* cotton Q-tips). If they're really stucked, you can unscrew the head in order to leave the bo

Re: restarting daemons

1999-10-08 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
27; doesn't do anything > > is there a generally accepted way of doing this for all 'net daemons? As any other daemons, type: "/etc/init.d/my_ugly_daemon restart" JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. -- Rich Kulawiec

canon lbp 8 III plus

1999-10-07 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I was borrowed a canon lbp 8 III plus, but I still have problems to make it work under debian 2.1 slink. Any idea about the (magic)filter I must use? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... A booming voice says, "Wrong, cretin!", and you notice that you ha

Re: Last potato linuxlogo

1999-10-07 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
back. Which is really too bad. Did someone file a bug report asking the swirl back :-) ? Jean-Philippe Guérard

canon laser printer

1999-10-07 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, A friend of mine make me a proposition about a LPB III plus canon laser printer, any comments?? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There are new messages.

Re: silly consoles question

1999-10-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 05:57:39PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It can be done using openvt, see openvt(1) (openvt is in kbd package, and also > console-tools maybe). > > -Lex Thanks Lex, I'm gonna read it at once! JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FORTH IF HONK THEN

silly consoles question

1999-10-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I'm actually making many modifications of my system, so I'm used to open two consoles in root, and 3 as user. Is there a possibility, as soon as I open the first console as root, to automagically open the others???? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: New HD, DMA, errors...

1999-10-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
ode. Of course, it could be much more insteresting, in terms of rapidity, to put the CD-ROM drive and the PIO mode HD on the SAME interface. And to keep them in PIO mode. its up to you... JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs." (By Dennis Ritchie)

Re: Hdparm problem ?!

1999-10-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
sharedmem buf. option not implemented. > > or something very similar (can't remember exactly) > > Any ideas ? I've got the same on my server (486/16MB RAM), but I don't remember if it comes from the lack of RAM (hdparm wants to allocate a 64MB buffer), or it it comes f

Re: Mail won't leave system

1999-10-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
ust contain: domain mydomain search myserver.mydomain mydomain nameserver 192.168.1.1 (if its your svr IP address, of course :) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Re: HELP: getting rid of replace kernel-image-2.2.12 conflict...

1999-10-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
ditionnal compilation, use 'make-kpkg', which will build a package from your new kernel; install this package, dselect should not complain any more. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In less than a century, computers will be making substantial progress on ... th

Re: File system mounted read only?

1999-10-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
d it? Bad harddisk, or could the problem be > elsewhere? Is there a way to get more debugging information in case it > should happen again? Did you overclocked your machine? if so, did you raised the division factor for bus speed? > Any comment welcome! > > Stef JY -- Jean-Yves F

Re: ipchains ip-masquerading configutation

1999-10-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
he rules, the ipmasq is launched in /etc/rcS.d, as # 41 link. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "A word to the wise: a credentials dicksize war is usually a bad idea on the net." (David Parsons in c.o.l.development.system, about coding in C.)

Re: cdrw as a regular unit?

1999-10-04 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Thanks Martin, I'm going to this URL. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This login session: $13.76, but for you $11.88.

cdrw as a regular unit?

1999-10-04 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I wonder if there is a possibility to use a CDRW as a regular unit something like a slow HD)?? IF so, where can I find the information, and the software(s)?? Thanxs JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thus spake the master programmer: "After three d

Re: Video Board Support?

1999-10-04 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
XF86Config by the SVGA Section of course :) REMEMBER that this card can go up to 230/250MHz! So be carefull about your screen's life! (I have an iiyama A901HT, so there are no problems since both have the same limits) Hope it will help you. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nothing happens.

Re: cpu option of gcc & g++

1999-10-03 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
a '-9' signal). That's why > > I need to tell these compilers for which machine to > > work. > > This sounds like a bug. Are you using any particularly funky options to > build? I really don't know, since I did not read the sources. But it also happened wit

cpu option of gcc & g++

1999-10-02 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
mmer :) Also, I remarked that some software, compile with g++ (such as voxilla) leave without any PB on the 486, but stay in the PII memory without any possibility to kill them (even with a '-9' signal). That's why I need to tell these compilers for which machine to work. thanks

Re: Linux/NT dual booting

1999-10-01 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
here's a Linux HOWTO on this topic. I works great. -- Jean Pierre

Re: GNU Emacs-20.4 debs

1999-10-01 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 1 Oct 1999, Alexander Zhuckov wrote: > Tell me, ple-e-e-e-ase, where I can find > GNU Emacs 20.4 Debian packages? In unstable distribution in the packages xemacs20-*. -- Jean Pierre

Re: dynamic IP and exim config (different from LG #43)

1999-09-30 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
ot; > ... > # [EMAIL PROTECTED]${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\ > # {$value}fail} bcfrF As my address was not good (I was appearing as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the From: header, instead of my *real* address, which is "[

Re: timezone

1999-09-28 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 03:07:51PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How does one change the timezone setting? Use "tzconfig". -- Jean-Philippe Guérard

KDE clock voice stucked

1999-09-28 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
Hi all, While setting up my clock in KDE 1.1.2, I asked it to say the time every hours. Every hours, it says: "The time is... The time is... The time is..." and that's all :(); is it a bug, or do I miss something? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You ha

Re: dhcpcd error "sendto (init): Operation not permitted"

1999-09-28 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
e been able to decipher the stuff in > /etc/ipmasq/rules? It seems complex enough to be more annoying than useful. You're right, and there's no real explanations... I zap them and replaced with a nice file alone ;) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/news/gotcha

KDE don't run

1999-09-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
mp "> " eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server" keymap/xfree86 /var/tmp/xfree.xkm' BUT I had it *before* and it was working well. Nothing at all in the log files. I don't want to reinstall it (its not M$!), so is there a manner to diagnose the PB, or t

from .texinfo to .txt URGENT

1999-09-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I want to translate the last Exim doc (3.00) into french. These docs I retrieved from ftp://cus.cam.ac.uk are in .texinfo format; as I actually don't know anything about Tex & LaTex, I'm searching a good will to explain it to me. Thanks in advance, JY -- Jean-Yves F. B

Re: ports 113 and 88

1999-09-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Thanks Steve, I'm gonna do what you said: enable auth/113 and leave kerberos/88 alone (in fact, I didn't see it a lotta time, perhaps less than 3%, instead of auth). JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PURGE COMPLETE.

Re: start X11 on bootup

1999-09-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
reverse the changes. > > Among the bootup messages I always get the following one: > > Checking for valid XFree86 server configuration...error in configuration > file. > Not starting X display manager. > > I've checked all files in /etc/X11/ but I can't work it out. Hi

Re: X-sever problem with ATI Rage II

1999-09-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
PS, I forgot one *important* thing: as the server's name is not known from X, the best is to zap your SVGA (or rename it) and to rename the ATI Rage128 server into SVGA, in order to gain an easy use of it. Cheers, JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> %

ports 113 and 88

1999-09-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I wonder about the use of the kerberos, 88 and auth, 113 ports? I often see them in my logs, as they are blocked by the firewall. Thanks in advance, JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PURGE COMPLETE.

Re: X-sever problem with ATI Rage II

1999-09-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
wrong sync setup) Now it should work! PS: SuSe regframe.rpm package contains only one definition *needed* by the xrage.rpm package. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No extensible language will be universal. -- T. Cheatham

Re: DNS and IP MASQ

1999-09-25 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
3), PASS. Then, then MASQuerade says: MASQuerade from LAN to WEB, source LAN, DEST anywhere, UDP/domain(53) PASS. Hope it will help JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> %DCL-MEM-BAD, bad memory VMS-F-PDGERS, pudding between the ears

Re: Remote Login

1999-09-25 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, j way wrote: > Hi, login from ttyS1 is rejected while the same username & > password are accepted on the main console. Is there some > further permission required to enable? You may need to edit the file /etc/login.access. See the man page login.access(5). -- Jean Pierre

Re: compiling xawtv-2.46

1999-09-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
nfortunately, it doesn't work! I was given the same advice some minutes ago, and installed: xlib6-altdev, xaw95, xaw3d, libc5-altdev, xlib6, libc5, nextawg (xlib6g is already installed) BUT still the same error! Thanks, JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Algol-60 sure

Re: Slink/ipchains trouble

1999-09-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
ere's a PPP connection. If so check all the PPP scripts. 3- If it is nothing of that, get naked, then run 12 times around your block, while shouting: "M$ Windows is caca-poo"; it does nothing but keeps your nerves down ;-> JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL

compiling xawtv-2.46

1999-09-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
find this Xaw lib?? Thanks in advance, JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only specification is that it should run noiselessly.

Re: configuration of a printer

1999-09-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
inition in dpi; pw & pl self explained :if=/etc/magicfilter/stylus740p-filter:\# This filter's not part of org. package, but regular's Ok :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Also, if you didn't installed the magicfilter package, it is strongly recommended to install it! JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Happiness is a hard disk.

Re: portscan: sunrpc etc...

1999-09-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
PID (make a 'ps aux', then watch the PID number, then type 'kill -HUP nnn' , where nnn isd the PID number). > thanks You're welcome! > //Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life I'd rather said: 'Social graces are the hypocrysis of our a

Re: cmsg cancel <876713hu34.fsf@kristal.wpmills.com>

1999-09-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 10:22:20AM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: > I am canceling my own article. Why such a cruelty??? -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Happiness is a hard disk.

Re: exim configuration

1999-09-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
ser /home/userx directory (no way to make a link on a single file, fetchmail is very strict about the owner and group of its files). JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Happiness is a hard disk.

Re: cfdisk FATAL ERROR on 10G disk (Toshiba Tecra 8000)

1999-09-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
t :), former versions of cfdisk do not recognize HDz > 8.4 GB (no, no, you're not reading M$ advice!). Mine is 0.81 (from slink), and recognize the both of my HDz (17.2 & 10.3 GB) JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Computers don't actually think. You just think they think. (We think.)

Re: Linux (both 2.0.x and 2.2.x), ifconfig, and routing tables.

1999-09-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
;s IP address and then >brings it back up with 'ifconfig interfacename up'. Hi Dick, This is a normal ifconfig behaviour: check in /usr/doc/NET-3-HOWTO (just near the end of the file) JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Computers don't actually think. You just think they think. (We think.)

Re: telnet to my machine (cont)

1999-09-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
) > > Thanks in advance, We don't wanna ear about advances ;->>> JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer

Re: whois server?

1999-09-20 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 05:35:12PM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > Thanks Ralph, I'm gonna us your script :). JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Everybody needs a little love sometime; stop hacking and fall in love!

whois server?

1999-09-20 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I just found that whois isn't working because nic.ddn.mil, the default reverse server doesn't exist, do you know which server I could use? (seeking the net gave me only nic-names registration companies) JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Everybody needs a litt

Re: 17.2 gb drive

1999-09-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 09:35:24AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > . > I know that many recommend using multiple partitions. But if you have > no idea about how large /usr, /home, need to be it's hard to guess how > many partitions and how large each should be. You hit the spot! My manner is

Re: KDE

1999-09-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 03:29:51PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm seeking for KDE (debianized version) stable version to > install. Do you know an URL from where I could apt-get it?? > > thanks in advance, Thanks to all of you, ans my apologies for not

KDE

1999-09-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I'm seeking for KDE (debianized version) stable version to install. Do you know an URL from where I could apt-get it?? thanks in advance, JY

Re: 17.2 gb drive

1999-09-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 07:30:50PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I've asked this before, but I'm still confused. I have a 17.2gb maxtor > which the bios reports as 31930 cyl, 16 h, and 63 s. Fdisk (ver 2.9g ^ > or whatever came with sli

Re: Where do I find *ALL* steps to use newly built kernels?

1999-09-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 05:44:08PM -0700, John Miskinis wrote: > Hi, > > I have been running the 2.1 debian release (well) on my TP 560 > for a week or so. I have delved into building my own custom > kernel, to get around APM problems, add sound, SCSI etc. Hi John, your kernel will be easier to

Miro PCTV under X

1999-09-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I just upgraded X from 3.3.3 to 3.3.4, with a SuSe server for my ATI Rage Fury card; and I wonder how I could make the Miro PCTV TV card working? JY

Re: xfree 3.3.4 debianized, where can I found it pls?

1999-09-18 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Thanks to all of you! JY

xfree 3.3.4 debianized, where can I found it pls?

1999-09-18 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Any URL? Thanx in advance. JY

wwwofle and netscape (under win$)

1999-09-16 Thread Jean-Yves Barbier
Hi, I have installed wwwofle on my server, but verytime I tryied to setup netscape under win$ with the proxy address, at the first (re)load of a page, I'm thrown out of win$ (returning directly to boot!). Any idea??? JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Membre fondateur

Re: fetchmail as daemon dies...

1999-09-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 08:09:44AM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > Thanks. How does one go about running it from inetd? I'm probably > completely off base here, but I thought fetchmail delivers mail to > the spool file of the user who runs it. Is that correct? If so, how > does it know where to put the

ftp ls & dir problem SOLVED!

1999-09-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
The problem was that the firewall was set to let ONLY ports 1:1023 to go out on the WEB I/F. (silly isn't it?) A great thanx to Arnold Seth who drove me to the solution. JY

Re: ftp ls & dir problem

1999-09-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 02:28:19AM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: > Jean-Yves, try setting your ftp program to passive mode -- sometimes PASV, > PASSIVE, depending on your ftp client. > > Chances are your firewall prevents these things from happening. Normally, > your ftp client

Re: Crontab as root

1999-09-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:57:19AM +0200, BIBKO wrote: > Dear Sirs, Hoooh, that too much honors ;->> > I set up a contab file as user root with crontab -e. It is in > /var/spool/cron/crontabs. It is planed to run 10 8 * * 1-5 > /usr/bin/pphol. > pphol is the cripts which need to be exe

xfree86 3.3.5 debianised?

1999-09-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I'd like to upgrade to XFree86 3.3.5, but I didn't find it debianized yet; does anyone know an URL from where I could download it?? I have an ATI Rage 128 card, and a friend of mine gave me an rpm package supporting it; but this package ask for some dependencies, which I have BUT: /lib/l

is my firewall setup good?

1999-09-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, As I'm not a network specialist, I'd like your advices about my firewall setup. CONFIG: station, 2.2.10, (192.168.1.2) server, 2.2.10, (192.168.1.1), 2 ehernet cards, LAN in 192.168.1.0, WEB (cable-modem) in DHCP lease ADDR ipmasq, (no IP-in-IP, nor encaps

ftp ls & dir problem

1999-09-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I have a huge problem on my station: every time I try to ftp any external (web) service, the connexion is Ok, but when I try to make 'ls' or 'dir' no way! the answer' still the same: 500 Illegal PORT Command ftp: bind: Address already in use LAN: station PII400, 2.2.10, ftp=system ba

Re: fetchmail as daemon dies...

1999-09-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:05:54PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running fetchmail as daemon on a slink system. Every now and > then, it seems to die, and I end up wondering why I'm not getting > new mail. > > Can anyone tell me where fetchmail writes its logs (if it keeps > them)?

Re: route, 2.2.x and slink

1999-09-15 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:29:32AM -0700, tjm wrote: > cause harmless warning messages". The 'route > add -net' seems not to work and there are > some warning messages both during boot and > when trying the route commands. For instance, > > route add -net 127.0.0.0 > yields a response of > SIOC

Re: mutt questions

1999-09-15 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 12:11:27PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > Guilherme Soares Zahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi lazy folks ;->>> More lazy stuff: using the mc editor (very practical to zap entire lines of the first mail when you reply, or to copy similar lines) set editor="/usr/bin/mc -e " BTW

Re: @home connection

1999-09-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 02:22:01PM -0400, Jon Hughes wrote: > Has anyone managed to get Debian connected with the @home cable modem > service? My brother is going to soon be another Debian user and he's Hi Jon, I'm actually connected to a cable-modem on cable TV in france. If you want, I can sup

Re: lpd: daemon not started.

1999-09-12 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
emon directly from a command line and use the options to place in the foreground and debugging on. See the lpd manpage for details. $ /usr/sbin/lpd -L /var/log/lpr.log -F -D debug=5 -- Jean Pierre

Re: cracklib

1999-09-07 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
u could try installing that version. Alternately, edit the cron.daily script to redirect the output of crack_packer to /dev/null. -- Jean Pierre Debian cracklib-runtime maintainer.

Re: Ethernet

1999-09-05 Thread Jean-Yves Barbier
If you made it with deselect, perhaps you have not very much ram; try instead to download the .deb package, and type 'dpkg -i dhcpcd-x.x.x.deb', it use less ram then deselect does. JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Membre fondateur du CGE "La mort n'est, en def

Re: [Debian: Grafikkarte] 3Dfx (MAXI Gamer 3D)

1999-08-31 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
com ). Have a look at the 3Dfx HowTo for more informations. Hope it helps. Jean-Philippe -- -- Jean-Philippe Guérard - | PARIS XIXe - FRANCE - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | || | « Et

upgrade or not upgrade, that is the question

1999-08-25 Thread Jean-Yves Barbier
My net is made of a 486 firewall, 8 MB ram, 125 MB HD (only 55MB taken under debian!), wich permit acces to cable internet, and a PII/400 station. JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Membre fondateur du CGE "La mort n'est, en definitive, que le resultat d'un manque

Re: Ethernet ISA card - seeking for config PGM

1999-08-23 Thread Jean-Yves Barbier
ou can look up who the > manufacturer > is. Thanks a lot Jens, there is effectively a FCC number (LE3NEUB). So now I'm gonna read the FCC's web site. JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Membre fondateur du CGE "La mort n'est, en definitive, que le resul

Re: Rage128 Video Card

1999-08-23 Thread Jean-Yves Barbier
xfree86 version (3.3.6 or 4.0.0 ?). The only PB of frame buffering is the VESA standard, which means 60Hz sync. speed. That's very disagreable when you work a lot under X. JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Membre fondateur du CGE "La mort n'est, en definitive, que le

Ethernet ISA card - seeking for config PGM

1999-08-23 Thread Jean-Yves Barbier
gram fir these cards, he'll be very welcomed. Thanks in advance, JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Membre fondateur du CGE "La mort n'est, en definitive, que le resultat d'un manque d'education puisqu'elle est la consequence d'un man

Re: Multi-Boot Problem

1999-08-22 Thread Jean-Yves Barbier
roblems with > 1024 cyl lilo BUT using lilo jumps between partitions (/dev/hda1 (inside 1024 limits) lilo was jumping to /dev/hdc5 (Extended partition, inside 1024 limits) wich was jumping to /dev/hdc7 (wich was OUTSIDE 1024 limits from /dev/hdc1, but within 1024 cyls from /dev/hdc5 !) JY -- J

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