Re: beg

2000-09-24 Thread Debian User
> I have the complete 3 CD set. I can snail mail 'em for you. > > Is it illegal in China to get the 3 CD set? offtopic... and I ain't debating How do you know that they wouldn't put you in prison for 30yrs for doing this? You know the fbi or whoever, is looking like fools lately for all the se

dselect query

2000-09-24 Thread Debian User
Hi, just upgraded my system from a mix of Test 1 and Test 3 to the full 2.2 release. Noticed that I now appear to have alot of "Obsolete/local Optional packages" now showing in dselect. According to the docs the best way to get rid of this (as these packages are the current versions) is to run ap

dselect query

2000-09-23 Thread Debian User
Hi, just upgraded my system from a mix of Test 1 and Test 3 to the full 2.2 release. Noticed that I now appear to have alot of "Obsolete/local Optional packages" now showing in dselect. According to the docs the best way to get rid of this (as these packages are the current versions) is to run ap

Obsolete packages

2000-09-23 Thread Debian User
Hi, just upgraded my system from a mix of Test 1 and Test 3 to the full 2.2 release. Noticed that I now appear to have alot of "Obsolete/local Optional packages" now showing in dselect. According to the docs the best way to get rid of this (as these packages are the current versions) is to ru

SOCKS 2 HTTP

2000-09-12 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Here's a quote from a (famous?)win program homepage: Socks2HTTP is an agent converting SOCKS v.5 requests into HTTP requests and tunnelling them through HTTP proxy. SOCKS allows programs to traverse firewalls on any port number and is used by many popular programs, like Napster, MSN Messanger, CRT

teTeX output looks bad. Any ideas?

2000-09-06 Thread Debian User
Hello fellow Debian users, I've recently did a clean install of stable, and I've run into a problem. The problem is that LaTeX/dvips-produced PostScript files, when printed appear to be at a lower resolution than they really are. More specifically, it looks like the fonts produced by MetaFont

IRC proxying

2000-08-31 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Hello everybody, I have found the bounce IRC proxy in 2.3 debian. Does anyone of you knows of security issues with this proxy ? May I recommend it safely to my school (that has cut our irc access lately for security reasons) ? Thx in advance

Kernel configurations

2000-08-31 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Hi all Does anyone know where I could get the config files of the pre-compiled kernels found in Potato ? thx.

Re: LI after install

2000-08-31 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Here's what a get from "Linux Kernel Insternals" : Startup Messages : LI : the first step of the loaderhas been able ro load the second step whose processing then failed. This can be caused by an incorrect geometry or by repositionning the file boot.b without reinstalling the loader. Also, is you

Compiling sound support for sblive

2000-08-30 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Hello all ye Debian users, Im new to Debian and this list, hope the question hasn't been answered yet. When trying to compile the sblive module, with my new own kernel headers i get a 8390.ver file not found in the kernel headers. Does anyone has a hint as to what mudules I have to select to get

mounting: audio vs data cd's

2000-08-25 Thread Debian User
Greetings fellow Debian users! I can mount/unmount my cdrom with data cd's using mount /cdrom. The fstab is: /dev/hda2 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 01 /dev/hda1 noneswapsw 00 proc/proc proc

[aphro@aphroland.org: Re: issue.net & issue]

2000-08-24 Thread Debian User
-- Forwarded message from Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:31:54 -0700 From: Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.17pre18 i686) X-Accept-Lang

issue.net & issue

2000-08-24 Thread Debian User
Greetings, I've been snooping around /etc looking for the place that issue.net and issue are assigned. So far no luck, is there any documentation available from Debian that would run a newbie type thru most of that 'good to know information' about how the system is put together? Bill

Re: FWD: [Important News] Debian 2.2 CD-Rs SO # 42627

2000-08-24 Thread Debian User
Now that's customer service. Too bad all companies weren't like that. On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:35:44PM -0600, Ray Percival wrote: > I just got this from cheapbytes for one I applaud them for doing the right > thing. Ray > > -- Original Message -- > From

Printer Trouble

2000-08-24 Thread Debian User
Hi guys, Where can I find some docs on how to install a printer on Debian (woody)? I just picked up a Lexmark Optra E312, plugged it in, booted up, and it naturally did not work. A couple things to share... As a users I typed: cat > /dev/lp1 and received a permission denied message. So I t

Re: Apache quirk?

2000-08-23 Thread Debian User
t; try loading the graphics directly, make sure the graphics are in a > directory the webserver can access such as /var/www > > also look at /var/log/apache/error.log > > also check permissions on the graphics files themselves > > nate > > Debian User wrote: > > >

Apache quirk?

2000-08-23 Thread Debian User
Greetings, I downloaded the Apache/1.3.12 pkg and installed it fine. I put my html files inside of /var/www/ and then ran apacheconfig and then surfed to localhost. The pages come up fine but no graphics are there. This probably isn't enough information for you guys but I'm not sure what els

Re: diald problems

2000-08-11 Thread Debian User
ahh Found out what the problem is I needed to have the correct /etc/hosts entries! Ones that were consistent with my /etc/hostname! Joe On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Joseph P Turner wrote: > > Hello I'm running diald on this DEbian box and got it to work quite well , > but then after a bit more m

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-08-10 Thread Debian User
Alberto Pereira wrote: > > Someone have the archives of configuration to build a debian ftp mirrorwith > rsync? > > -- > > # Alberto Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > # Analista de Suporte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > # Linux Solutions -- http://www.linuxsolutions

Re: imp

2000-07-21 Thread Debian User
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Matthew Thompson wrote: > > Hi Matthew, > > > > Is the mysql module uncommented in /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini? > > It should be like this: > > > > ; Dynamics Extensions > > extension=imap.so > > extension=ldap.so > > extension=mysql.so > > These were all here, but

Re: standard large memory question

2000-07-12 Thread Debian User
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > Ack. I've seen the answer to this dozens of times, but can't find it > in the archives. > > I *thought* that large memory was now automatically detected, but my > system on a nice fresh frozen is still only finding 64M (out of 160M) > > So

Re: problem with installation of kernel modules

2000-07-12 Thread Debian User
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote: >try >mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom Why not..open your computer up...find out what it is on (i.e. master, slave, prim/secon) and then you know WHAT the device is :) Joe > > but I'm not a indicated person to say how to make this things

Re: dselect and Packages.gz

2000-07-12 Thread Debian User
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Tony Laszlo wrote: > I have installed Debian 2.0 (kernel 2.0.34) from > floppies and have booted from the hard disk > after installing all the base.tgz. Do I need > to install the rest of the packages from the > old 2.0 archives, or from the current files? > I searched

Re: smbmount

2000-07-12 Thread Debian User
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > thanx for the replies, it is all working now... > > > > it is weird how a redhat Samba rpm package would have smbmount/smbclient > > included whereas a Debian Samba package doesn't. > > > Not everyone who uses samb

Re: apt files to CD?

2000-07-12 Thread Debian User
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Pat Mahoney wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 09:41:00AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello Users, > > Is there a way to download all the apt files, burn them to CD and install > > off of that? > > I have a fast connection at work to d/l the files, but only a modem at

Re: Toshiba Satellite T1910CS notebook - preferred version?

2000-07-12 Thread Debian User
On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Tony Laszlo wrote: > > I am trying to install Debian on a Toshiba > Satellite T1910CS, 486, 110M HD, 8MB ram . > I won't be running X and will just need to > use: vim, pine (+fetchmail/sendmail), > lynx, ftp, telnet and pcmcia and parallel > port modules. > > Have gon

Re: Thinkpad 365x

2000-01-04 Thread Debian user
Greg Starkes wrote: I have a 365xd (same deal, just has a cd-rom drive) and I found that it doesn't like kernels that are compressed with bzip. gzipped kernels work. I didn't have any problems with the tecra disk though. It's been a while since I ran linux on this laptop, but I believe it was a

Re: Thinkpad 365x

1999-12-30 Thread Debian user
I wrote: > I've tryed the normal resc1440, and also the tecra, safe and tecra safe > version, and all of these failed. and i also tryed many option of the > kernel, as floppy=thinkpad, hd=C,h,s, etc.. but all af these failed and the > computer hang directly after reading the kernel from the d

Thinkpad 365x

1999-12-29 Thread Debian user
Hi everyone i'm new to this list and my english is not as good as i would like but i'll try to explain my problem. I use debian 2.1 since some time now, and i wanted to use it on a laptop. I buyed an old Thinkpad 365x (Pentium 100) HD:810Mb IDE and 24Mb of RAM, and tryed to boot with a bootd

Disk geommetry, was Re: Kernel Upgrade: Why?

1999-04-21 Thread debian-user list
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 10:05:00AM +0100, Graham Ashton wrote: > On Tuesday 20 April, Richard Harran wrote: > > Would I see a performance increase if I made sure my linux partition > > was on the outside of my disk? Would I be even better putting my swap > > partition as far out as possible? > >

wmmail

1998-11-17 Thread Debian-User
I'm trying to get wmmail to work correctly but it doesn't seem to be recognizing the commands i put in .wmmailrc. The Execute tkmail works, but the NewMailExecute and the AlwaysNewMailExecute don't work. Anyone help? Update 1 Execute "tkmail" NewMailExecute "cat /usr/local/sounds/testsound.au

gimp

1998-11-16 Thread Debian-User
I guess i should have mentioned what i did to produce this error, anyways, I was trying to take a screen shot with the gimp. X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 91 (X_QueryColors) Value in failed request: 0x82

gimp

1998-11-16 Thread Debian-User
Has anyone seen this error before, or know what I did wrong to cause it? Thanks for any help. X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 91 (X_QueryColors) Value in failed request: 0x829 Serial number of failed

wmaker

1998-11-03 Thread Debian-User
can anyone tell me how to make images your background in wmaker? I dloaded some of those themes from e.themes.org which are .jpg format then i converted them to xpm with the gimp. But i can't figure out how to set it to my background. Can anyone help? Am I doing anything wrong? Thanks in adva

zip disk

1998-11-02 Thread Debian-User
I am pretty sure I installed iomega parellel support to my kernel when i built the last one And why my system boots i see some iomega stuff fly by but when this is what happens when i try to use it.: mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zip mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device

lilo

1998-11-01 Thread Debian-User
Hi I forgot the var in lilo to set in order to tell the kernel 128M Ram. Can any one clue me in?

diald + ipmasq + samba

1998-08-23 Thread debian-user list
Hello. I'm trying to set up a debian 2.0 box as a server in a small office, using samba to serve files to a few win95 boxes, and ipmasq and diald to connect to the rest of the world via modem, intermittantly. I can get each of the parts to work individually without trouble, but various things go

Re: Dumb Terminals

1998-07-30 Thread debian-user
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some old computers that I would like to use as dumb terminals. I > was wondering if someone could point me to a good howto or faq on how to > set this up or perhaps give me some tips and or help. Among a zillion other things t

Re: telnet/terminal key codes

1998-07-06 Thread debian-user
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to customize SecureCRT 2.2 so that the keys will be similar to > those of a VC. Is there a reference page or somewhere that I can find the > strings that are sent when certain keys are pressed? - Partially, you c

Re: PCMCIA question

1998-06-15 Thread Debian User List Account
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Ian Stuart wrote: > To get a PCMCIA card to work, you need to remake the kernel, and the > PCMCIA modules, and then reinstall the kernel. > > For this, you'll need the kernel source and the pcmcia source. installing the kernel source is ok (2.0.32-5 from hamm), but how sho

smail: rsmtp spools all mail

1998-03-29 Thread debian-user
It seems that after I upgraded smail to 3.2.0.92-3, rsmtp now spools all mail, i.e. it behaves as if it were called with "-odq". Is there a way to restore the old behavior of immediate delivery? I can't find a config option for this. rsmtp also refuses to take the "-odf" parameter, so a wrapper wo

I have bind installed but..

1998-01-28 Thread Debian User
hi there, I have bind-4.9.5 package installed on my debian 1.3. And I have a dynamic ip and a blah.dyndns.com domain for dyn ip. So the question is how much i can make use of binds' features? At least I know i can use nameserver 127.0.0.1 search vmlinuz.dyndns.com instead of my isp's. thanks k

Modules / depmod

1997-10-20 Thread debian-user
Help, I've been playing arround with the new 2.1.5x kernels. Now when I issue a depmod -a, it does not update the modules.dep file. Any content of the modules.dep is cleared. I've re-built the depmod / modprobe utilities (v 2.1.55) from source, but still no joy. Can anyone suggest what I've do

Re: /var/log/messages not world-readable anymore?

1997-07-09 Thread Debian user mail
On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > Will Lowe: > > Well, here's an example of where it could be: > > > > I use diald to dial up an ISP account. Diald calls chat to > > execute a login-and-start-ppp script. Chat writes all of it's > > / pairs to /var/log/messages. So anyone who can rea

Re: How to find out if sendmail has queued mail to forward.

1997-06-30 Thread Debian user mail
The command "mailq" should be on your system. It essentially runs "sendmail -bp" which prints the queue. You may wish to use "mailq | head" or "mailq | less" depending on the size of the current queue. Hint: read up on sendmail timeouts and how to move mail to a separate queue. I had to test m

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Debian user mail
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > > # default delivery mode > > O DeliveryMode=background > > > > becomes > > > > # default delivery mode > > O DeliveryMode=deferred > > Hmm, this one might be the answer for me. > > The thing about reverse dns lookups certainly rings a bell here, be

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Debian user mail
Ah, the wonders of sendmail. In the out-of-the-box configuration of sendmail, it passes mail along in "background" mode. One might think that this means it does everything in the background. Not so, for a few small details. Sendmail in background mode checks the validity of the destination add

Re: /etc/securetty problem

1997-06-23 Thread Debian user mail
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've done that a hundred times you [EMAIL PROTECTED] > It doesn't work > I'm still on the damned list. For those who wish to know, "Sean.Seaman" did contact "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" once to request unsubscription. There are no "sean"s from anywhere with

Re: Big Bad Bug - adduser truncating files from /etc/skel.

1997-06-23 Thread Debian user mail
I reported this a few weeks ago. Adduser v3.3 should fix this, and should be forthcoming from Guy Maor. Pete -- Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst Computer & Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netscape bug: Newbies using root

1997-06-23 Thread Debian user mail
It's also important not to use Netscape as root (or other mail tools as root) when sending mail to the Debian mailing lists. I get lots of posts that don't go through, because the sender is root or another system user that Smartlist recognizes. Pete -- Peter J. Templin, Jr. C

Re: striping, etc.

1997-06-20 Thread Debian user mail
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > > They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a > > > poor-man's > > > server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and > > > use the other pair as /usr on the second interface. /usr will be NFS > > > export

debian-user-digest Digest V97 #117

1997-04-16 Thread debian-user
Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:54:41 + debian-user-digest Digest Volume 97 : Issue 117 Today's Topics: Re: Install report, finally Kernel panic WINE Re: Apache web server PO

Unidentified subject!

1997-04-02 Thread debian-user-request

only test,delete it. sorry.

1997-04-01 Thread debian-user-request

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