Re: Error message

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:01:05AM +, Godric wrote: Can anyone please tell me what the following message from /var/log/messages means, and if it is as bad as it sounds? directory sread (sector 0x1b) failed attempt to access beyond end of device Is LBA activated? And if so, was it enabled

Re: perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 07:28:46AM -0400, Colin Telmer wrote: I recently upgraded to the latest unstable distribution and now get the following error message: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset),

Re: X Dacspeed

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 11:31:42AM -0700, aphro wrote: DAC speed is related to the VIDEO card only. it just defines how fas the video card can draw to the analog output at the specific refresh rates(somewhere along those lines) it is different from the refresh rate on the monitor. even if a

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 10:37:03PM -0600, jh wrote: Hi Brant. It is a Micron model M14FG. It says on back: 115/230V/1A, 60/50hz. I have tried manually entering 60 for the horiz and 50 for the vert. I have tried selections that were preconfigured at 60 and 50. I feel like I have tried most of

Re: printer

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 05:51:55PM +0800, HU-LIAO wrote: We connected the printer with Linux (Debian 1.3) server by hub. It worked well. After someone having done something wrong for example, having connected a new PC with Linux server and tried printing without installation of the drive

Re: Debian and M$ Outlook

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 06:03:24PM -0400, denis miller wrote: I am trying to integrate a Debian server with some machines running M$ Outlook. (Customer choice, what can I say!) Any suggestions about how Bad, bad customers :)) to get them working together? Denis I use qpopper on my

Re: Laptop works... sort of, Part 2

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 01:43:17PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: There was one other problem that I forgot to mention: When the machine goes into a suspend while I'm running X, it will frequently (but not always) come back up with an all white screen and I haven't been able to find a way to

Re: boot and shutown both suddenly getting delayed

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 04:21:52PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I've suddenly started experiencing long delays in both boot and shutdown. During boot it gets as far as mounting local file systems... not mounted anything. It then pauses for several minutes before finally continuing, after

Re: Can't start X Windows

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:25:32AM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote: I have installed Debian 2.1 off of an official CD. I chose the devel_comp package of software and everything installed. But when I type startx or xinit at the shell prompt, I get an error message informing me of a fatal server

Re: Center ICQ Program

1999-10-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
You should install g++ JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] All the simple programs have been written.

Re: How to copy the Debian-CD (with short 8.3 FN's) to my Harddisk with LFN

1999-10-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 01:10:44PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello and good day, I like to copy my 4 Debian-CD's (2 bin and 2 src) onto my NFS/FTP-Server running Debian 2.1 but whenever I do it, I get only the short file names. Did you tryied to make an image of he CD? The other

Re: Configuring LILO in Debian

1999-10-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 09:35:06AM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote: Hi everybody, Debian installation, I wasn't given the option to dual boot. When my machine starts up, I get a boot: prompt, but it quickly defaults to linux. If I type in dos, it tells me that I don't have that option and Hi

X Dacspeed

1999-10-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I wonder if there's a replacement for the 'Dacspeed statement in Section device? It is not working anymore, and as my card goes up to 250 MHz, and my monitor only to 230 MHz, I don't wanna fry the monitor by a mystake. JT -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] You might have mail.

Re: date and time lost after reboot

1999-10-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 06:45:18PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm finding that if I reboot, go into DOS, and then reboot to Debian ^^^ That's the PB, the simili-dos from Billou think they have the right to write to the cmos clock without notice you!

Re: hda: irq timeout

1999-10-20 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 05:30:15AM +1000, Mark M wrote: Hi, You may want to try the patch Alec suggested. HTH Mark On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 03:25:55AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: ftp://ftp.x.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ (where x is your favorite mirror) Hi,

Re: How to find the ethernet add of NIC

1999-10-20 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 07:48:04PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: ZEN MYSTIC ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: hi ..anyone knows how to find the ethernet add of NIC If it's detected by the kernel, you can use /sbin/ifconfig. If it's not detected by the kernel, first you will have to make the

Re: Parallel CDROM on an old PS/2 machine

1999-10-20 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 07:48:36PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: I've made some custom Debian install disks (2.2 kernel, basically), that has support for an EPAT parallel-port cdrom drive (HP CDRW-7200e). When I boot it at home, it works fine, and successfully detects the CD, but at

Re: XF86 probs on IBM Thinkpad 360Cs

1999-10-20 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:31:01PM -0700, Brant Wells wrote: Hi all... It's me again... :( When X comes up (XF86_SVGA) it comes up in 640x480 mode (which is good), but the screen is not right... If I move the mouse to the right edge of the screen, I can see another one come out on the left

printing specific pages

1999-10-20 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I did not found anything about printing only certain pages. Is it possible? (I'd like to print odd pages, then even on the forms verso) I mean from the command line, not from a word processor. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * THIS TERMINAL IS IN USE * * * * *

netscape 4.7 and download

1999-10-20 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi, I wonder if somebody has found how to recover files downloaded (especially from ftp) in the netscape cache? (these files which are printed to the screen while dowload them) The only way I found is to watch the modification time of the cache directories, and recover the last file, with a

Re: de4x5 is_not_dec

1999-10-20 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 04:08:15PM +0100, Hugh Denman wrote: Hi all, I have a Kingston PCI NIC, using the dec 2114 chipset. When I try to install debian, I'm told that I need to specify is_not_dec = 1 to modprobe. Unfortunately, I'm told that the symbol is_not_dec is not defined in de4x5.o.

Re: netscape 4.7 and download

1999-10-20 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 09:39:53PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote: Sounds like you want to install wwwoffle (World Wide Web Offline Explorer). If you don´t, the newest version of pavuk (http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/pavuk/) can use files from the Netscape cache (I haven´t tried this, I just read

Re: printing specific pages

1999-10-20 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:43:12PM +0300, Paul Huygen wrote: Jean-Yves BARBIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not found anything about printing only certain pages. Is it possible? Probably. How to do it depends on the format of the pages that you want to be printed. Are the pages

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

1999-10-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 07:34:11AM +0200, shaul wrote: trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/dnsquery', which is also in package bind dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Hi Shaul, I had the same PB with a package from KDE; I used dpkg -i --force-overwrite new_package to

Re: hda: irq timeout

1999-10-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:05:17AM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 04:58:56PM +0200, Peter Weiss wrote: Hello, running kernel 2.2.12 on a new machine I found the following kernel messages in the syslog file with decreasing time intervalls: Oct 18

Re: Network problem--cannot resolve the ip to dns

1999-10-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 01:50:18AM -0700, ZEN MYSTIC wrote: hi... i have sort of network problem here.. recently i have changed my ip add..and was previouly running apache and ws-ftp...now i could'nt ping and access the machine by typing it's dns(the name of the machine following by its

Re: HELP: Free space zero no matter what

1999-10-17 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 03:57:39PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: Okay, I'm back and running, and I figured out my problem. ext2 filesystems have reserved blocks, though I don't know what they're for. It seems only root can access them, although I haven't really checked this. tune2fs

Re: udma66 ...

1999-10-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 09:03:00PM -0600, Alexis Maldonado wrote: Hello! I'm using a Western Digital Expert (2MB Cache, 7200RPM), with a Promise Ultra/66 board, and kernel 2.2.12 with the hedrick patches. hdparm -t /dev/hde gives me 22.5 MB/s :( I still have 14.81, just like under UDMA33

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.

udma66 ...

1999-10-15 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I installed a 2.2.12 kernel and the hedridck patch for udma66; I had: append=mem=127M ide2=0x1e8,0x3ee,11 in /etc/lilo.conf, but I still have problems; detection is well done BUT not for the good drive: PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: not 100% native mode:

Re: udma66 ...

1999-10-15 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 04:20:18PM -0500, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: Why does the 3rd HD's on /dev/hdg, instead of /dev/hde? because hdchdd are for two disks on first IDE ontroller, hdehdf are for two disks on second IDE controller and hdg is what is left for you ;) I forgot to say

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: kernel 2.2.10 patch to UDMA66 ?

1999-10-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 08:15:12PM -0700, aphro wrote: i read in the kernel mailing list that UDMA66 isn't possible in the linux kernel yet. even with a patch its bound to cause lockups. http://kt.linuxcare.com/kt19990927_36.html#12 You can not currently use the second ATA-66 channel

mail multiple deliveries

1999-10-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi folks, I actually have a server which retrieve mail from all my PO boxes and acts as a pop server. (exim, mutt, on the station) What I'd like to do is multiple deliveries when I retrieve mail from the station (i.e. debian-user IN_DU, personal PERSO, etc) I don't know which method is

Re: Modem's and video cards for linux

1999-10-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 01:51:11PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: i am planning on buying a new computer soon, which is supposed to run mainly on linux (Debian). The problem is, no sales person seems to know what hardware is windows dependent and what not. As far as i know the main problem is with

Re: tiresome mail questions.

1999-10-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 01:41:58PM +0300, tf wrote: Hey guys, I've saved some up for ya. Ok, if I wanted to tell netscape mail to use this machine for a smtp server, how would I write the line? Instead of smtp.isp.com, what would it be? (I have exim) I recommend you to read the excellent

Re: kernel 2.2.10 patch to UDMA66 ?

1999-10-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:43:12PM -0600, Alexis Maldonado wrote: Hello. It is possible. I have a Promise Ultra/66 board running with a Western Digital Expert 27.3GB, at UDMA/66. I'm using kernel 2.2.12, with patches that can be found on your local kernel mirror under people/hedrick. Hi

Re: Netscape installation...

1999-10-11 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 08:09:58PM -0700, aphro wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/games/q3test] dpkg -S libXt.so.6 xlib6g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 xlib6g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6.0 looks like u need the

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

1999-10-11 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 10:16:37PM -0500, rich wrote: Howdy all, . monkeyhouse:/home/rich# cat temp.txt /dev/lp0 bash: /dev/lp0: Operation not supported by device However, the output of 'lsmod' shows that lp and parport are loaded any ideas? Module Size Used

Re: Location of old Debian packages?

1999-10-11 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 10:48:16PM +0900, Neil Parry wrote: Does anyone know if there's an archive of old Debian src packages anywhere? I'm looking for lilo_17 as I need to recompile for partition-rewrite support which has been disabled in later versions. Neil Parry Department of

Re: Problem resolving $(hostname) with DHCP

1999-10-10 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 12:48:38AM +, Andre Majorel wrote: I've just moved to a site where they use DHCP with W95 clients. I've managed to configure my (and a colleague's) good ol' Hamm to insert in the network with dhcpcd 0.70-5 but some problems remain : From To Operation

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

1999-10-10 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 06:44:31PM -0700, John Miskinis wrote: Hello, .. scsi : 1 host. Vendor: JVC Model: XR-W2040 Rev: 1.12 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 scsi0 channel 0 :

Re: Problem resolving $(hostname) with DHCP

1999-10-10 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 01:06:46PM -0400, Lewis, James M. wrote: I work at a place where everything is run on nt that can be. (It's a pain, but that's the corp world) We use a dns from ms that integrates wins and dns. It works good for the ms folk but not so good for all the unix folk. You

Re: Gateway option line for dhcp?

1999-10-10 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 01:23:35PM -0400, Harlan Crystal wrote: I recently set up a DHCP server on my local lan, as well as an internet gateway. I've searched through the man page of DHCP and the man page of dhcpd.conf.. does anyone know the option line to include into dhcpd.conf so that all

Re: Netscape installation...

1999-10-10 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 12:33:59PM -0700, aphro wrote: i always grab the original netscape from ftp2.netscape.com and use netscape's installer (untar the file, cd to the dir and run ./ns-install) then run /usr/local/netscape/netscape (or make a link to it in your $PATH) but thats me :)

Re: getdate

1999-10-10 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 09:30:10AM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi where can i find the app getdate? I have 3 debian fax servers which, via cron, reboot twice a week. When they come back up they are 1 hour behind ^^^ Why ??? and i have to manually reset the

Re: Framebuffer console 'Invalid Mode'

1999-10-09 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 07:46:00PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings: . Is there a trick to getting the framebuffer console working in Debian? I followed the instructions in the Framebuffer-HOWTO but at boot time, I get a message saying something like: vga=792 Hi! I had a

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 PROTECTED] Mommy,

canon lbp 8 III plus

1999-10-08 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 have turned into a pile

Re: restarting daemons

1999-10-08 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 02:16:36AM -0700, Lev Lvovsky wrote: Hello, could someone please let me know how to restart all of the apache www daemons that are running so that it'll read the changes made in the httpd.conf file? 'apache restart' doesn't do anything is there a generally

Re: Printer suggestion

1999-10-08 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 05:16:31PM +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: Justin Settle wrote: ... I work with an Epson Stylus Color 850 at work. We have a lot of problems with the ink cartridges because the printer wastes a lot of ink (for example, it cleans the injectors on every startup

Re: Weird SO5.1 problem

1999-10-08 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 01:36:24PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: I've been stumped on why SO5.1 hasn't been working on my machine and on a whim, I did a ps aux | grep soffice while it was loaded. What I found was over 10 instances of soffice.bin running. When SO quits, those all die. Is this

Re: silly consoles question

1999-10-07 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

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: New HD, DMA, errors...

1999-10-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:16:20PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: Hi! I've bought a new HD and I'm having troubles with it. It's a Seagate ST310232A (10 Gb). Boot: PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at

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] Oh, I've seen copies

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

1999-10-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:46:22PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: hello, i compile my kernel myself and would like to get rid of dselect trying to replace my custom kernle with standard one what options do i have and how to achieve this? -- Instead of traditionnal compilation, use

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 days without

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.

Re: cpu option of gcc g++

1999-10-03 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 04:49:28AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: ... The general approach is to build it twice, normally reconfiguring in between. You could also simply run the 486 code on both 486 and Pentium II - unless you're noticing enough a speed increase from optimization to care about on

cpu option of gcc g++

1999-10-02 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I have to compile and cross-compile several sources on a PII machine, for both its own and a 486. I'd like to know how to specify that to 'make'. I had a look at both 'man gcc' 'man g++', but these are huge, and I'm not a though programmer :) Also, I remarked that some software,

KDE don't run

1999-09-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I just remember to change the theme this night before leaving KDE 1.1.2 (slink). Today, it refuse to run: the msgs begin to scroll, it switch to graphic mode, the gray screen's here, the icons are printed, the hi lo bars are drawned, but when it begins to draw the first window (the one

Re: X-sever problem with ATI Rage II

1999-09-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 08:08:25PM +0200, Oliver wrote: Hi, I tried to configure the X-server for my ATI Rage II. But If I start the Which version of XFree86?? (I use 3.3.4 XFree86 the Rage svr from SuSe, and its working perfectly with my ATI Rage Fury). server it hangs. I 'm confused with

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
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] %DCL-MEM-BAD, bad

Re: start X11 on bootup

1999-09-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 12:43:54PM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote: Hi there, at some point I disable the X11 from opening at startup (default with slink installation). But I forgot how I did that (and I recall there were various ways of doing so), so now I can't reverse the changes. Among the

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.

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. Barbier [EMAIL

Re: DNS and IP MASQ

1999-09-25 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 10:10:32AM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: I have a server that dials into the internet with a client attached on a home network. My IP MASQ is working and the client can connect to the internet, but only using IP Addresses. The client cannot connect using domain

Re: configuration of a printer

1999-09-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
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.

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: Slink/ipchains trouble

1999-09-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
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 PROTECTED] Algol-60 surely must be regarded as the most important programming language yet developed

Re: compiling xawtv-2.46

1999-09-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
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 surely must be regarded as the most important programming language yet developed

Re: portscan: sunrpc etc...

1999-09-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
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 actual society', but I'm rather cinical (don't know if its the right expression?) JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

1999-09-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
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: cfdisk FATAL ERROR on 10G disk (Toshiba Tecra 8000)

1999-09-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
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: exim configuration

1999-09-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
is very strict about the owner and group of its files). JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Happiness is a hard disk.

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: telnet to my machine (cont)

1999-09-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
can connect via ftp. The strange is that I have no ftpd installed. ¿How is this posible? Because one ftp is inclued in the base packages (fortunately for us, it is not an anonymous ftp like redhat.) Thanks in advance, We don't wanna ear about advances ;- JY -- Jean-Yves

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 little love sometime

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!

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: 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

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

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: 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 consulted the archives

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

xfree 3.3.4 debianized, where can I found it pls?

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

wwwofle and netscape (under win$)

1999-09-17 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 du CGE La mort

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)? Well

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

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

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:

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 executed.

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 opens a control channel

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: 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

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, I

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 SIOCADDRT:

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