Re: Roxen

1999-05-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
PM == Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PM Since you're running debian and (de)installation is so easy, why PM not just replace Apache with Roxen and see how it goes. You can PM always change back easily if something breaks. I would leave apache for now, and install roxen in addition to

Re: xwin

1999-04-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JW == Jason Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JW How can I get it so that xwin does not start up when I boot up? If you want to remove this permanently, remove the xdm package. If you still want the xdm daemon (for X Window logins across the LAN or so), comment out the server line in

Re: smail, not open email relay

1999-04-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
NB == Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NB Alas I fear that the version string Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2 NB means _before_ that feature was added, sendmail does not work any NB more, the above line is what I got when I tried to send out mail NB as a user of the box. You said you hae

Re: How unstable is unstable?

1999-04-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
B == Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: B The two biggest problems i can remember recently (besides B dependancy problems) are that mod_perl would make apache fail under B certain confitions (which is fixed just today!) and that StarOffice B 5.01 doesn't like to work with glibc 2.1 (which isn't

Re: Upgrading kernel of the same tree

1999-04-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
AG == Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AG Is this a safe thing to do for kernels of the same tree? Yes. AG If there are any new features in the configuration of the next AG kernel, how would such practice affect it? If you use make-kpkg to build your kernel, you will be asked what to

Re: smail, not open email relay

1999-04-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
NB == Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NB the problem is far from here on a Debian box permanently connected to the NB Internet and I would not like to update the mail agent from here. The new standard MTA is exim. You don't have to switch, if your current setup is working OK. I

Re: Netscape : slink ?

1999-04-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
SD == Sami Dalouche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SD Why is Netscape in the slink section ? SD It's to buggy to go in the stable section, isn't it ? Slink == stable, so I don't see what you mean. If you mean, hwy is it in contrib, then the anser is because it uses Motif. main/contrib/non-free are

Re: a reference to http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash-2.02/bashref.html on /usr/doc/bash ?

1999-04-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
s == shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: s I think that /usr/doc/bash should at least mention s http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash-2.02/bashref.html. s Am I correct that there is no such reference ? s What about including some (all ??) the stuff that is found on this s URL with Debian distro ?

Re: Procmail debian-user

1999-04-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
NJ == Nidge Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NJ Can some kind soul suggest an entry for my .procmailrc file which NJ will seperate debian-user mails to another foler/mbox. I sort in the X-Mailing-List header. :0: * ^X-Mailing-List:.*debian-devel mail/incoming/mail.debian-devel.in :0: *

Re: LLS: Debian/Redhat Alliance

1999-04-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
LS == Lyno Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LS People interested in becoming a volunteer producer, in the free LS software community, will more likely use the Debian distribution. LS Debian will become the nexus of the volunteer based, development LS community. Why should this be the case?

Re: talkd doesn't work

1999-04-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MCV == M C Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MCV I just updated things to potato, and now talkd doesn't work - I MCV runnign in.talkd and in.ntalkd doesn't stop me getting no talk MCV daemon on pick.sel.cam.ac.uk errors. Where should the talk MCV daemons be started? Just to be sure: dpkg -l

Re: RedHat need not apply

1999-04-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MK == Madel, Kurt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MK It seems that Debian will have its very own commercial pimp in MK Corel. We will work with them for the benefit of both sides. Debian will stay independent as before. MK Corel mentions Open Source Software, but not Free Software. Do MK you

Re: ok, this is annying the hell outta me...

1999-04-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
SL == Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SL Does *ANYONE* know of a way to turn off the default X server SL permanently? Please restate your question. Turn off wrt to what? What is the state you want to establish? Ciao, Martin

Re: Fetchmail: Try -vv to look for segfaults

1999-04-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
CM == Carl Mummert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CM When I run (less naively) fetchmail -vv -b5 -B5 -p POP3 -u blah CM servername CM On this command, when fetchmail in slink began to download the CM first message, it would fail with 'realloc failed'. I upgraded to CM the potato version, and now I

Re: How to format a Debian System?

1999-04-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
CW == Carsten Wagenseil [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CW install the system and the packages, but there is nowhere CW mentioned how to format or clean the system. Maybe because you usually never do this? My Debian system was install more then 2 years ago, was upgraded and changed hardware (even

Re: Newbie networking

1999-04-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
dj == damaged justice [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dj the Debian setup, despite the identical config. The only IP dj address slinky (the debian name) can ping is itself (and yes, it's dj the LAN number and not the loopback alias). Bad craziness. ifconfig eth0 reports the right values? Install

Re: serious ppp problems

1999-04-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
RaAA == Robert and Amy Anuszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RaAA However, when I tried to dial up my ISP, the troubles began. RaAA pon dials correctly, and a connection is usually made. ifconfig RaAA says that all is well and I have been assigned an IP address. Is the output of /sbin/route

Re: Newbie networking

1999-04-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
dj == damaged justice [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dj [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Bialasinski) writes: ifconfig eth0 reports the right values? dj Correct. It does take many seconds to report back after hitting dj ENTER, which goes against my experience. Indeed. Very strange. Maybe some interrupt

Re: pppd success! Now, on to more configuration questions!

1999-04-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
CM == Chris Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CM I (probably) upgraded my packages, I was getting errors amounting to SMTP CM listener does not like ID [EMAIL PROTECTED] or some such, at which point CM it kicks out. Now, I get this error: You have to have local_domains=localhost in the exim

Re: xisp

1999-04-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
vp == v polasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I am wrong with my guess, please run find /etc/ppp -type f | xargs grep name as root, so that I can see where this parameter comes from. vp This output is somewhat long to post, so here is a list of only vp the files that came up: vp

Re: xisp

1999-04-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
vp == v polasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: vp I would like to run xisp without logging in as root. Right now vp when I run it as a regular user, xisp gives me an error message: vp /usr/sbin/pppd: using the name option requires root privilege. Do you have the xisp package from 2.1, or do you

Re: GNOME query

1999-04-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
HM == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HM Query: how do I start it? I ran panel and got a nice panel. I have a /usr7doc/gnome dir with some info. README.Debian says: My .xsession file looks something like this: xsetroot -solid slategrey xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults fvwm2 exec

Re: [Q] Midnight Commander

1999-04-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
AC == Attila Csosz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AC How could I say to the MC to get into that directory where I AC stand, after I leave the MC ? This is a standard Question. See /usr/doc/mc/FAQ.gz It is point 6.1 Ciao, Martin

Re: MTA and SMTP ident

1999-04-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GC == G Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GC No I don't have a registered name for my box, but my box's name GC doesn't appear anywhere, I have visible_name set to the name of my GC ISP. It is just the local user name that gets sent out (ie, my GC user name on my local box) and appended to my

Re: MTA and SMTP ident

1999-04-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GC == G Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GC On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 07:32:52PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Also note that the list software doesn't see the SMTP envelope (it is not passed on final delivery). GC I am not sure about this, I can see the envelope From header on GC messages

Re: MTA and SMTP ident

1999-04-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GB == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GC Is is possible that the MAIL FROM: command in the SMTP protocol is GC responsible, and if so, is there any way to circumvent ? No, I never heared of a MTA changing the from or sender headers or such. It may do checks on the headers though (I

Re: ppp0

1999-03-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
CX == Chen Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CX When I tried to set up ppp on my Debian2.0 box, I found that I CX don't have interface ppp0 running. Actually it is not there. I can CX only see the interface lo, but not ppp0. It will show up as soon as the ppp module gets loaded and pppd sets the

Re: some DNS config q's

1999-03-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
C == Chadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c how do i configure DNS so that doing $ nslookup mydomain.com alone, c (that is, w/o those prefixes i added like www, ftp, mail, etc) will c immediately point to my address ? Use an entry like @ IN A 192.168.3.1in the configfile of

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GB == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GB Because there are several commercial software packages distributed GB in RPM format for the Red Hat layout that are NOT available in GB tarball format. You can always convert a rpm to a tarball. Ciao, Martin

Re: MTA and SMTP ident

1999-03-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GC == G Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GC I think you are right, though, that it is the list software and GC not the MTA that is silently discarding my mail. Also note that the list software doesn't see the SMTP envelope (it is not passed on final delivery). GC My From: field is not a

Re: sources.list for slink CDs?

1999-03-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MH == Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: H I have two disks that have supposedly been made from the official MH distribution (i386 binary) and a third disk that contains non-free, MH non-US, gnome and some more goodies. MH How does my /etc/apt/sources.list have to look like for all packages

Re: Converting RH to Deb

1999-03-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GB == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GB Just wondering if there is anyone here familliar enough with the GB Red Hat system to know if this is possible with a reasonable GB effort: Someone tried (successfully) to convert his Redhat installation to Debian. But reading his notes, I would

Re: Debian 2.1 Installation a mess

1999-03-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
SN == Shawn Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SN 10.) Finds out that GPM can't be set up because doesn't look like SN serial module is running. So, did you install the serial module during installation? If not, use modconf to do it. Ciao, Martin

Re: install

1999-03-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
g == gio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: g We received your three CD's without boot disk. Is the boot disk g missing or is there a different way to install Linux. You can install Debian from bootdisks (they are on the CD, you can create them), by booting from CD oder by running the install.bat.

Re: MTA and SMTP ident

1999-03-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GC == G Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GC The From: header is okay, but the envelope From header gets GC written as [EMAIL PROTECTED] The my.isp.com is getting through GC because I could tell smail that my visible_name was the domain of GC my ISP and not the local machine name. GC Some

Re: Some questions about IP Masquerading

1999-03-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MP == Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MP /sbin/depmod -a MP /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp MP /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio MP ...etc MP I presume that under debian I actually just add these modules to MP /etc/modules?? Yes. MP is short for video live?? And I have no idea about

Re: Coupla quick questions...

1999-03-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GS == Gary Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GS 2.) I noticed in my /var/log/syslog that when GS connecting to my ISP I got the message modprobe: can't GS locate module char-major-10. I checked the archives GS and dejanews and found some discussion but all I could GS garner was to alias it

Re: Star Office 5 Potato/Glibc2.1??

1999-03-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
RKL == Ryan K Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RKL I know that I'm probably a moron for running up to date potato RKL systems. However, when potato moved to Glibc 2.1, my Star Office RKL 5 stopped working. Is there any way to have BOTH Glibc 2.0 and RKL 2.1, or is there some other way to make

Re: A menu entry for a colorized Midnight Commander ?

1999-03-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
s == shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: s What has to be written in .menu/mc so that mc will appear with colors when s started from the menu in fvwm2 ? s I currently have: s [23:28:27 shaul]$ cat /usr/lib/menu/mc s text Apps/Misc mc none Midnight Commander /usr/bin/mc ?package(mc):needs=text

Re: Wer kann mir helfen ??

1999-03-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
CB == Christian Boehm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CB Läuft LinuxPPC oder Debian LinuxPPC auf einem Motorola PowerStack CB MT603-66 und wenn ja welche Version ist die richtige. [ For the english speakers: Does LinuxPPC work a Motorola PowerStack MT603-66. If it does: which is the correct version

Re: which package provides ldd

1999-03-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JR Matt Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which package has the ldd program in it? I could swear this utility used to be on my computer, now it's not (I had that dselect removal disaster mentioned in an earlier post). Downgrade the ldso package to the slink version. In potato, it is in

Re: samba: Operation not permitted (was: Re: vfat - cp: file: Operation not permitted)

1999-03-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JB == Jiri Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JB I ask because I'd like to be able to use `mv' to move files. If it JB can't set permissions on the destination, mv behaves like cp. On FAT partitions, there is no concept of permissions. So Linux uses values determined by the uid, gid and umask

Re: Stupid Question

1999-03-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
i == ivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i If the file is longer than 25 lines I suggest you use more or less. i e.g. cat filename|more or cat filename|less You don't need the cat in this case. Just do less filename or more filename Less is better then more. Ciao, Martin

Re: ergonomics question ($TERM colors)

1999-03-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JH == John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JH Seth M. Landsman writes; Very few people I've spoken to prefer black on white over white on black. JH I do. I have lousy vision and I find that black on white lets me JH cram more stuff on the screen and still read it. I also do. In Germany,

Re: junkbuster acting up

1999-03-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JL == John Leget [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JL I now also get the following error when trying to fire it up again JL manually etc/init.d/junkbuster start which give me this JL # shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot JL access parent directories: Permission denied This

Re: Where to now?

1999-03-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
w == wlovett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: w I installed Debian, and it dropped me into deselect. Deselect what? w Is the question? Are the packages additional software that needs to w be down loaded or is it talking about software included within the w distribution. These are the packages which

Re: ssh problem on potato

1999-03-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
FK == Ferenc Kiraly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FK I have a fresh potato install and I cannot log in to FK the machine from a remote host using ssh. I get an FK error message like this: FK Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty. Maybe you installed glibc2.1? Check with

Re: ICQ for Linux

1999-03-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
P == Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P of the find ICQ clones? I use Licq, but kicq and kxicq are also P good ICQ clones for UNIX and Linux. My suggestion is gtkicq. Relly nice thing. It is packaged for slink. Ciao, Martin

Re: Problem with dselect

1999-03-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JC == Jean-Georges Carbonnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JC - Somebody told me that probably the iso9660 file system is JC configured as a module but I couldn't do anything wiyh the insmod JC command. May be I don't do it well. First check /var/log/messages, if /dev/hdb really is your CDROM

Re: GNOME.debs

1999-03-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
PNP == Paul Nathan Puri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PNP I can't wait, I can't wait please, someone tell me they'll PNP be out any time... If you want to upgrade, you have to upgrade all the stuff, or the apps. So much stuff has to be recompiled. We work on it. When we have a set of

Re: anonymous ftp in Debian2.0

1999-02-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JK == Jan Krupa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JK I use debian2.0 and I do not have the directory /home/ftp so there JK is no access to the machine via anonymous ftp. What debian JK package should I install to get the directory /home/ftp and access JK to machine via anonymous ftp. You need one of

Re: how to set up isdn dial-in ?

1999-02-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MA == Michael Agbaglo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MA I've dial-out already running on ippp0. Now I'd like to setup MA dial-in w/ PAP or CHAP on ippp1. Which files do I have to touch MA ... ? You need a device.ippp1 and ipppd.ippp1 in device.ippp1 you have to enable the lines about allowed

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
M == MallarJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: M In a message dated 2/13/99 12:09:41 PM Central Standard Time, M [EMAIL PROTECTED] treff.uni-koeln.de writes: Because sound in 2.0 kernels is not modular enough. IO, IRQ etc. have to be hardcoded into the kernel. Some option must not be set for some

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
r == robbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: r On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 07:05:36PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Why bother with this. You should recompile your kernel anyway (to get a slim version that only has the things you use). With kernel-package, this is a breeze. r I strongly disaggree

Re: Voice Answering Machine (much better)

1999-02-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
NC == Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NC At the moment, syslog, sounds fine: NC Feb 14 00:22:42 cavern kernel: isdn_tty: call from xxx , - NC RING on ttyI0 This looks good. NC 1. Which options should I use on isdnctrl ? Callback !? Define EAZ/MSN !? isdnctrl is not used for

GPL, was: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GB == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GB As an aside, did you know that the GPL can be used to PREVENT the GB distribution of software? The GPL ENSURES the distribution of binary AND source. It prevents binary-only distribution. So what? This is a core element of this license. If you

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GB == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GB Huh? Just about every commercial Unix has audio support by GB default. When was the last time you installed Solaris? Can you choose between different soundcards, when you buy Solaris? Anyway, the 2.2 kernel has modular sound support, so just

Re: Voice Answering Machine

1999-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
NC == Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NC It seems mgetty-voice it's for analog modem and not for my ISDN NC cards (PCBIT) vbox is part of the isdnutils package. Run isdnconfig to create a sample config and edit the conffile in /etc/isdn Read the docu in /usr/doc/isdnutils Ciao,

Re: Xconfigurator ans sndconfig

1999-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MJ == Marant Jerome [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MJ Are there projects to convert RedHat utilities called MJ Xconfigurator and sndconfig to debs, in the short term ? Someone (in debian-devel) said he wanted to take a look at the Xconfigurator. MJ If not are there similar projects with Debian ?

Re: apt/dpkg/dselect rtfm

1999-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MA == MacKenzie, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MA On the subject of how to maintain a Debian system (and thanks to MA those who responded previously), I am looking for the best source MA on how to become a power user of apt / dpkg / dselect. Is it the MA unfinished Admin guide in the DDP or

Re: raplayer deb package?

1999-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
BM == Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BM Is there a deb installer for the realaudio player? If so what is BM the package name/path? It is called rvplayer and is in contrib Check http://packages.debian.org/rvplayer Ciao, Martin

Re: mysql password problems

1999-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GA == Graham Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GA I seem to be lacking the one important piece of info, and that's GA the password for the 'root' user. You could remove the mysql tables in /var/lib/mysql/mysql. This should wipe the access system. Restart the database afterwards. Ciao,

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
r == robbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: r Why does debian not include sound modules in the default kernel package? Because sound in 2.0 kernels is not modular enough. IO, IRQ etc. have to be hardcoded into the kernel. Some option must not be set for some soundcard, whereas others have to be

Re: Voice Answering Machine

1999-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
NC == Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NC It seems mgetty-voice it's for analog modem and not for my ISDN NC cards (PCBIT) Martin Bialasinski wrote: vbox is part of the isdnutils package. [...] NC As I'd a kernel problem it will never use vbox, rigth ? I don't know if vbox works

Re: Sound card suggestion

1999-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
RE == Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RE into the source and configuring it properly. I then ran across RE one of those SB16 Vibra cards, but I guess you have to first RE configure its ISA PnP in Windows/DOS before one could use it. RE Well, I don't have Windows/DOS and it If it is a

Re: Voice Answering Machine

1999-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
NC == Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NC I'm not sure if vboxgetty was running correctly ... i've got from syslog : NC Feb 13 17:35:20 cavern init: Id I0 respawning too fast: disabled NC for 5 minutes ps ax must show it. $ ps ax | grep vboxgetty 427 ? S0:00

Re: gtkicq seg faults?

1999-02-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
RR == Robert Rati [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RR I d/led and installed gtkicq from potato along with the RR dependencies it needs in order to run. When I try and run the RR program, I get this message: RR Unable to connect to server port 35091 RR Segmentation fault This version is somewhat

Re: mail problem...

1999-02-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
SZ == Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SZ I called my linux box virge. I didn't use the standard host.domain SZ format. So what is the best solution for this?? Thx. Use the host.domain format. Edit /etc/hosts find /etc/ -type f | xargs grep virge will find other files containing the

Re: exim mailer and QPOP

1999-02-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
CAA == Chad A Adlawan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CAA The recepient [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not acceptable to your CAA SMTP server. The message is not sendable until the recepient has CAA been changed. You use the exim on your linux box to send mails from windows? Then you have to tell exim to

Re: fvwm2 menu not working

1999-02-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
RM == Rob Mahurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RM I think that your ~/.fvwm2rc may override the system.fvwm2rc in RM /etc somewhere; IIRC, it says in the man pages and/or the comments RM on the system file that you should use ~/.fvwm2/*.hook for RM customization. The doc is

Re: Having Apt save packages in local hierarchy.

1999-02-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
FP == Frederick Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FP I dunno where apt stores those files, but there's a way to find FP out :-) /var/cache/apt/archives Ciao, Martin

Re: ICQ???

1999-02-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
c == cooking [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c Hi to all ! can someone tell me what and where a goo d ICQ for my c Deb box would be :-) Thankyou I would use gtkicq from unstable. Ciao, Martin

Re: Compiling a new kernel.

1999-02-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JRL == James R Lunsford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JRL /usr/src/linux is linked to the 2.0.34 directory. Am I correct JRL in assuming that I have to relink /usr/src/linux to the 2.0.35 JRL directory? Yes. JRL Anyway, can someone give me a down and dirty way to do this? Also, what JRL are the

Re: Setting up debian for ftp

1999-02-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
AW == Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AW how would I go about setting up debian for regular non-anonymous AW ftp? It is enabled by dafault. I would install the proftpd package, as it is better than the default ftp daemon. AW and also, can someone tell me or guide to a doc how do setup

Re: fvwm2 menu not working

1999-02-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On 8 Feb 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Start fvwm2 on your account. Same problem? MCV == M C Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MCV It doesn't look like fvwm2 at all. Then check with ps ax | grep fvwm if it is fvwm2 running. The first line in /etc/X11/window-managers defines the standard

Re: minor problems

1999-02-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
D == Darknight [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D And as for the ram, yes it counts up 98304K I believe on system D boot, and Winblows 98 sees it all, just booting linux only sees 64 D Megs of it. The BIOS doesn't report more than 64 MB to Linux. Either use kernel 2.0.36 (which uses a different

Re: httpd dummy-package?

1999-02-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
rE == rn Elwhagen Bj writes: rE I would appreciate if anyone could tell me where to find or rE provide a httpd-dummy-package. I've installed Roxen from original rE tar-ball and i would really like to install swat for samba. But rE the deps doesn't allow this since swat depends on httpd. I

Re: fvwm2 menu not working

1999-02-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MCV == M C Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MCV shows an option to exit fvwm2, and nothing else. I have menu MCV installed, and the various config files in /etc/X11/fvwm2 seem to MCV be there, but a decent menu is not being generated. Any ideas? Try running update-menu as root with verbose and

Re: smail or sendmail

1999-02-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
c == caa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c i will be setting up a mailserver for the first time, can someone c please suggest to me as what should i use, smail or sendmail .. exim Exim is smail done right. *Very* good manual. Easy to setup and configure. Ciao, Martin

Re: perl-dbd-modules as .debs?

1999-01-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MG == Mike Gerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MG is there a .deb-package of the perl-dbd-modules? (not dbi, i search MG the database-specific parts like DBD::Pg, DBD::Oracle and such) MG i searched by hamm-cds but found none (only the libdbi-perl(?) one). $ dpkg -l \*dbd\* pn libdbd-csv-perl

Re: Self referencing

1999-01-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
OK == Ove Kaaven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK I haven't completed the migration (what's holding me back is Slackware's OK pine version which is newer than Debian's), There is a pine 4 Version in projects/experimental on the mirrors. OK else is replaced by Debian equivalents. devs may be

Re: WP 8 CD Install and Slink

1999-01-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Craig R. Hodges wrote: Depends: xlib6, xpm4.7, libc5 WHy doesn't Corel post the dependencies on linux.corel.com or have them listed with the CD? Ask them :-) I can provide a dummy Package, which just has this Depends line, so that as long you have this dummy installed,

Re: ok, where'd xterm go? and what else is missing

1999-01-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
REHE == Richard E Hawkins Esq [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: REHE I've installed it, and it seems to work, but what else is REHE missing? There is a README file in /usr/doc/xbase I believe. Otherwise, check the archives of debian-devel. There is a thread about this. The first message also contained

Re: SCSI Installation Problem

1999-01-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
g == griesbac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: g detected. I have a Adaptec AHA-2940-U2W SCSI controller which is doesn't g seem to find. I have tried booting with: linux aic7xxx=no_reset, but I g get the following message when booting: scsi: 0 hosts g What could I be doing wrong? Is there a

Testers for xisp prerelease wanted

1999-01-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, there is a new version of xisp underway (X frontend to pppd). The autor is looking for testers, especially for the varous authentication methods he can't test himself. Available methods are: ++---+

Re: Change ftp server?

1999-01-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
SHW == Stef Hoesli Wiederwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SHW I just installed Debian 2.0. ProFTPd is installed, but when I ftp SHW to the machine i see: SHW FTP server (Version 6.2/OpenBSD/Linux-0.10) ready. SHW How do I make Debian use ProFTPd? disable ftp in inetd.conf update-inetd

Re: Testers for xisp prerelease wanted

1999-01-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I almost forgot: $ ls -l xisp_2.6-0.1_i386.deb - -rw-r--r-- 1 martin martin 176296 Jan 25 01:00 xisp_2.6-0.1_i386.deb $ md5sum xisp_2.6-0.1_i386.deb e661279248fb7ed98a6becfd9e766501 xisp_2.6-0.1_i386.deb Ciao, Martin -BEGIN PGP

Re: WP 8 CD Install and Slink

1999-01-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
CRH == Craig R Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CRH Has anyone been able to install WP8 with Slink (1/24/99) ? I've CRH installed libc5 from the slink archive and WP8 can't find the CRH libs. The libc5 from hamm puts the libs in /lib and WP8 finds CRH them but reports segmentation fault. It

Re: ISDN PPP

1999-01-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
PM == Patrick Mauritz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PM isn't there a tool like pppconfig for (dumb) users like me to PM setup that? None that I heared of unfortunately. And I don't know how much work it would be to write one (adapt pppconfig, whatever). Also, I am busy doing other project I am

Re: Help! My CDROM is terrible. I can't mount it. [PART 2]

1999-01-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
TP == Tom Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TP Cristiano Viana wrote: (6) Install operating system kernel and modules, from CD-ROM drive (/dev/hdd ATAPI IDE) (7) Configure device driver modules (I choose to install the modules: cdrom, lp and serial) TP During these steps when you set up

Re: GNOME dependencies

1999-01-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
SJG == Scott J Geertgens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SJG I tried (via dselect) to choose all the latest GNOME packages, SJG but when it would go to the dependency screen and number of SJG required libraries would come up 'not available'. Is there any SJG additional source I need apt to look at

Re: ISDN PPP

1999-01-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
PM == Patrick Mauritz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PM There are two possibilities what happens (depends on kernel PM (2.0.35/2.0.36, version of isdnutils and configuration): 1. You need the isdnutils 3.0 package 2. uncomment debug in /etc/isdn/ipppd.ippp0 You will then see more output in syslog.

Re: ISDN PPP

1999-01-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Jan 22 22:33:33 oxygene ipppd[177]: rcvd [0][LCP ConfReq id=0x1 magic 0x244ded5a auth pap] You want the other end to authenticate. Jan 22 22:33:33 oxygene ipppd[177]: peer refused to authenticate It refuses. Jan 22 22:33:33 oxygene ipppd[177]: sent [0][LCP TermReq id=0x3 70 65 65 You hang

Re: .fvwm2rc

1999-01-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
k == ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: k Hi, I'm following the directions of the X Window User HOWTO at k The Linux Documentation Project and trying to get my window manager k fvwm2 to read the file .fvwm2rc First of, you copied the standard /etc/X11/fvwm2/fvwm2rc as used by Debian, so you won't

Re: Netscape Roaming Package

1999-01-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
KB == Karsten Bolding [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KB And finally added www-data to shadow group KB addgroup www-data shadow Be careful about this. Now everything running as www-data (webserver, maybe cgis) can read /etc/shadow. Even if noone can execute CGIs with the webserver uid or use

Re: help me unbreak my box please

1999-01-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
TA == Thomas Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TA Since the installation of my hamm box, something is broken. I want TA to fix it to make an upgrade to slink as painless as possible but TA don't know how, i.e. how do I unbreak things here? You should show us the output of dpkg --configure

Re: help me unbreak my box please

1999-01-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
TA == Thomas Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TA On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 03:10:36PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: You should show us the output of dpkg --configure --pending TA There is no output. Then check again in dselect, the two packages should have the U mark then. deselct help

Re: recent pine.deb and samba-2.0.deb?

1999-01-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
BB == Bruno Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BB now i am searching the package to debianize the pine compilation, BB and i search also the samba2.0 debs Both are in project/experimental Ciao, Martin

Re: ip-up script won't fire after conection

1999-01-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JS == Jorge Sousa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JS And I'm able to run both ip-ip/ip-down scripts. So what makes you think they are not run when you dial in? You know that they run with redirected stdout and stderr to /dev/null? Insert a touch /tmp/i.am.up into ip-up to check if they are run.

Re: ip-up script won't fire after conection !!SOLVED!!

1999-01-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JS == Jorge Sousa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JS I was being stubborn on wanting to print on screen the parameters JS that are sent to these script, the /dev/null hint and both Martin JS and Shaleh last replies show me how to see the results I JS pretended. If you really want output, you can use

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