Re: Re: /etc/network/interfaces

2002-10-28 Thread Chris Jenks
At 09:45 AM 10/28/02, you wrote: Hallo again, My really question was: It could be an other file to insert the different gateways/destination/netmask but I am not sure. Lot of the routing address have the same interface (eth0) but different gateways/destination/netmask. This is not content of

Re: modem problem

2002-05-24 Thread Chris Jenks
At 09:16 PM 5/24/02, curtis wrote: When I try to connect to my ISP using a modem I get the attached error message. It would seem that my user name or password is wrong. But I assure everyone that they are correct. Any other reasons this might be happening? Curtis Is your modem speaking

Re: Setting up sound

2002-04-12 Thread Chris Jenks
At 09:40 AM 4/12/02, Jeroen Valcke wrote: Hello, On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 06:55:39PM +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your linux box is running kernel 2.4.X, well probably you don't need alsa driver. Just do: linux#modconf Turns out the necessary modules are already loaded. Apparantly

Re: Woody???

2002-04-11 Thread Chris Jenks
At 09:17 AM 4/11/02, Mattias Berg wrote: I'l need to dist-upgrade to woody due kernelchange.. didn't work.. totally fuck'd up my server... Try'd to reinstall debian and try with unstable... didn't work.. totally fuck'd up my server... What the hell are you doing over there? Debian used to be

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Chris Jenks
At 09:40 PM 4/10/02, Tom Cook wrote: On 0, Chris Jenks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While we are at it, why don't we drop people that use / send attachments. That should fix the rest of the problems. I would refrain from going that far, simply because I suspect that my pgp signature is sent

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Chris Jenks
At 02:41 AM 4/11/02, Mikael Bergman wrote: On 11-04-02 00:45 , Gary Turner wrote: I have no problem with attachments. In many cases, where a file is long, attachments are preferred. I often have neither the qualifications nor interest needed to enjoy wading through pages of this script or

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Chris Jenks
At 02:49 PM 4/10/02, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Perhaps it's time to start refusing list posts from Outlook Express. That'd eliminate 99% of the unsubscribe stupidity, as well. I respond to the address, [EMAIL PROTECTED], and [EMAIL

Re: AW: debian on old notebook

2002-04-09 Thread Chris Jenks
At 09:52 PM 4/8/02, Bud Rogers wrote: On Monday 08 April 2002 14:29 pm, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: Hearthstone: Where does one get laptops as cheap as that? ($10.-??, $30.-?). Could you share a URL? I tried google, got a bunch of hits that didn't seem to fit. I've seen them at computer

Re: Allow a user to shutdown

2002-04-09 Thread Chris Jenks
At 10:23 AM 4/9/02, Patrick Kirk wrote: Hi all, I want my son to be able to shutdown the computer but don't want him being able to access my files. How do I give him these privileges? Thanks in advance, -- Look into the sudo package. chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: this list or another

2002-04-05 Thread Chris Jenks
At 04:50 PM 4/5/02, Patrick Kirk wrote: Big Snip Which is a long way of saying that there are not any other debian-lists that will meet your needs... Didn't there used to be a digest version of this list? IIRC there used to be. I don't think I've seen anything about it for a while though. If

Re: 8 display on a 14 screen

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Jenks
At 04:31 AM 4/3/02, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Apr 01, 2002, Dale Hair ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I reinstalled woody on my wife's thinkpad and now I only have an 8 display on the 14 screen. How do I fix this? There's a set of utilities for the ThinkPad which allow you to access BIOS

Re: why use sendmail?

2002-03-30 Thread Chris Jenks
At 06:59 PM 3/30/02, dman wrote: On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 11:40:41PM +, John Lord wrote: | Hi folks, | | Just a simple question realy, why should I use sendmail in conjunction with | KMail, rather than let KMail do the job? Use exim. It is easier to configure right, and has had fewer

Re: Woody installation problem

2002-03-27 Thread Chris Jenks
At 02:57 AM 3/27/02, Lucas Cleeve wrote: When I install Woody, I get a error message while installing the base system: Could not find pppoeconf. After that it asks me to install the base system again, and if I do i get the same error message. I don´t even want ppp, is there any way to come

Re: ppp newbie question

2002-03-25 Thread Chris Jenks
At 11:55 PM 3/25/02, faisal gillani wrote: Well i am a user of debian potato linux i just made my first ppp script by pppconfig .. now can you tell me how can i dail my connction hungup my connection ? also is there a utility to detect your modem ? so that my modem comes in the ifconfig -a

Re: Can't subscribe to this list

2002-03-24 Thread Chris Jenks
At 07:35 AM 3/24/02, Anthony Campbell wrote: I can't subscribe to this list. I've tried several times; I get a request for confirmation but when I return it, nothing happens. I've never had any problems in the past. Is the list broken? For obvious reasons, please reply to me directly! Anthony

Re: How to reconfigure fetchmail?

2002-03-24 Thread Chris Jenks
At 06:09 PM 3/24/02, stan wrote: On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 01:20:09PM -0600, ktb wrote: On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 02:11:14PM -0500, stan wrote: I need to reconfigure fetchmail on one of my woody machines. I tried using dselct to delte reinstall it. That did not prompt me for configuration

Re: Thankyou for all your help

2002-03-23 Thread Chris Jenks
At 02:01 AM 3/23/02, John Lynch wrote: LMAO!!! on everyone's advice don't worry. I'LL BE BACK! I'm just gone for a while to learn the Linux OS on an easy to use OS. Trust me, I had enough problems installing it as it was. (I now know more about my computer though) From: Paul 'Baloo'

Re: Disabling X from starting up

2002-03-23 Thread Chris Jenks
At 07:38 AM 3/23/02, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 11:52:03 +0100, Silvester van der Bijl wrote: Everything works great, except X starts up. Since I didn't configure X yet I get a garbled screen. I tried to exit by pressing ALT+CTRL+BACKSPACE, but it seems it restarts every

Re: can't start x after woody upgrade {works now}

2002-03-11 Thread Chris Jenks
At 09:09 PM 3/10/02, Seneca Cunningham wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S startx xbase-clients: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/startx.1x.gz xbase-clients: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Installing that package fixed it. Thanks Seneca and Art.

Re: proccess

2002-03-11 Thread Chris Jenks
At 06:31 AM 3/11/02, Sebastiaan wrote: High, On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, David Richards wrote: hi is there a way of making my system only show the proccess that the user is running . so when user1 does ps aux it only shows user1 proccess? Yes, just don't give the option to show all users: ps

Re: proccess [moving slightly OT]

2002-03-11 Thread Chris Jenks
At 07:05 AM 3/11/02, Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Chris Jenks wrote: snip I don't see a problem with users seeing everyone else programs. Is there a reason why you don't want users to use that command? No, not for me, I have nothing to hide, but it is unimaginable how paranoia

Re: networking problems withe Linksys router [Solved]

2002-03-10 Thread Chris Jenks
At 07:21 PM 3/1/02, Chris Jenks wrote: I've looked on google, and in the archives, but I'm not having much luck finding what is causing my problem. I've got a dual boot box, windows 98 and Debian 2.2r3, connecting to my cable modem via a linksys router. It's a Linksys Wireless access point

can't start x after woody upgrade

2002-03-10 Thread Chris Jenks
I know that this has been covered recently, or at least I think it has, but I was not able to find it in the archives after 2 hours of reading (probably just couldn't find the right thread). I went from 2.2r3 to 2.2r5 to Woody, and installed Xfree86 4.1.0-14 after going to Woody (no x before

Re: OT: should i report portscans to ISP?

2002-03-09 Thread Chris Jenks
At 10:40 AM 3/9/02, Juhan Kundla wrote: Hei! Firstly, i am a linux newbie. I have a small network of computers here, which i have to look after. This network is connected to internet via debian woody firewall. This firewall is being portscanned quite often. Those scans originated from a

Re: networking problems withe Linksys router

2002-03-08 Thread Chris Jenks
At 02:38 PM 3/7/02, you wrote: Sorry, I forgot that bit. No, there was no need. I had the rest of the network at home set up before the cable installer guy got here, so the Linksys MAC address is the only address they have from me. At first I thought it was a problem with the DHCP server,

Re: networking problems withe Linksys router

2002-03-08 Thread Chris Jenks
At 03:36 AM 3/8/02, Chris Jenks wrote: At 02:38 PM 3/7/02, you wrote: Sorry, I forgot that bit. No, there was no need. I had the rest of the network at home set up before the cable installer guy got here, so the Linksys MAC address is the only address they have from me. At first I thought

Re: User name in email address

2002-03-08 Thread Chris Jenks
At 06:59 AM 3/8/02, Glyn Millington wrote: Can you help me understand something about my mail system? Gnus, Xemacs, Exim, fetchmail. When I, eg, send a message to this list, my email address comes out as Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now the Glyn Millington part of that is not

Re: I thought sound was going to be easy.

2002-03-08 Thread Chris Jenks
At 07:35 PM 3/8/02, Bill Moseley wrote: I've got a Sound Blaster Live! (Value) card, and I can cat .wav files to /dev/audio. But, I was unable to get this (from the sound HOWTO) to work: dd bs=8k count=4 /dev/audio sample.au no errors recording, but playing the resulting sample.au just

Re: OT: Aliens in the heavans (was Re: seti@home)

2002-03-06 Thread Chris Jenks
At 11:06 PM 3/5/02, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 17:19, Gary Hennigan wrote: Yes, yes, all those TV, radio stations, satelite uplink stations (the vast majority all of which are in the Northern Hemisphere) are radiating outwards. Forgetting all of the rest of your email, if you

Re: OT: Aliens in the heavans (was Re: seti@home)

2002-03-06 Thread Chris Jenks
At 03:41 AM 3/6/02, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 02:24, Chris Jenks wrote: At 11:06 PM 3/5/02, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 17:19, Gary Hennigan wrote: Yes, yes, all those TV, radio stations, satelite uplink stations (the vast majority all of which

Re: networking problems withe Linksys router

2002-03-06 Thread Chris Jenks
At 07:35 AM 3/6/02, Paul Mackinney wrote: Chris Jenks declaimed: Before I put the router in I had no problem connecting to my Comcast cable modem from either windows, or linux and even had woody installed. After putting the router in, I can no longer access the anywhere on the LAN

Re: networking problems withe Linksys router

2002-03-06 Thread Chris Jenks
At 10:52 PM 3/6/02, Stephen Ryan wrote: On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 19:50, Chris Jenks wrote: At 07:35 AM 3/6/02, Paul Mackinney wrote: Chris Jenks declaimed: Before I put the router in I had no problem connecting to my Comcast cable modem from either windows, or linux and even had woody

Re: Redhat to Debian?

2002-03-05 Thread Chris Jenks
At 01:03 PM 3/5/02, Paolo Falcone wrote: that Debian has the stable, testing, frozen -- coming soon I hope, and the unstable trees There is not going to be an official frozen this time around, instead they are doing a multi part freeze on testing. They freeze one section, work the kinks out,

OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Chris Jenks
At 03:42 PM 3/4/02, Gary Turner wrote: On Mon, 04 Mar 2002 11:22:23 +, Randy Orrison wrote: On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:03:22AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:31:55 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: | Gary Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | If you can't get an answer there,

Re: xauthority issues...

2002-03-03 Thread Chris Jenks
At 03:34 AM 3/3/02, you wrote: Hi! Im having some problems with Xauthority under potato... By now i have more or less grasped the concept about xauth and the .Xauthority file, but im not sure about what to do; my problem is as follows: I cant run any installed programs if i dont log in to

Server Lag (was : Re: Enough time wasted, moving on)

2002-03-02 Thread Chris Jenks
At 07:56 PM 3/1/02, Carel Fellinger wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 03:40:14PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Manoj, please relax. [[ There must be something wrong with the mail system somewhere, there seems to be a hudge time gap between posting to the list and receiving, and judging

Re: Fresh install no network

2002-03-01 Thread Chris Jenks
At 09:12 PM 2/28/02, Harry Putnam wrote: Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Note: the 3c905 series need the 3c59x driver to get to work. Haa.. Thanks Sebastian that worked, and was not rejected. But the way modconf was not available during install, but I saw that choice on the modules sect

Re: Avoid booting direct to X.. I want my starx back

2002-03-01 Thread Chris Jenks
At 01:32 PM 3/1/02, Harry Putnam wrote: Well, I got X working in my fresh woody install, but there are a few rinkles. 1) I want to boot to console mode and call x with startx. Currently, I get popped right into X. I thought this could be contolled by setting the defalult run level /etc/inittab

networking problems withe Linksys router

2002-03-01 Thread Chris Jenks
I've looked on google, and in the archives, but I'm not having much luck finding what is causing my problem. I've got a dual boot box, windows 98 and Debian 2.2r3, connecting to my cable modem via a linksys router. It's a Linksys Wireless access point + cable/dsl router with 4 port switch.

Re: Avoid booting direct to X.. I want my starx back

2002-03-01 Thread Chris Jenks
At 07:23 PM 3/1/02, Harry Putnam wrote: Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I got X working in my fresh woody install, but there are a few rinkles. 1) I want to boot to console mode and call x with startx. Whee, got lots of help on that one. And a couple easy fixes. Thank you all.

Re: networking problems withe Linksys router

2002-03-01 Thread Chris Jenks
At 10:30 PM 3/1/02, Timothy R. Butler wrote: Hi, I'm curious if the problem is being caused by the MAC address cloning. Has anyone else had problems like this when using the linksys routers? I have the normal Linksys 4-port router with Charter Pipeline internet access, and everything works

Re: using Woody vs testing

2002-02-27 Thread Chris Jenks
At 03:32 PM 2/27/02, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:18:23AM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: What happens to testing when woody becomes stable? Some time before woody becomes stable, it will be frozen and a new name will be assigned to testing. testing will go on receiving packages

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Chris Jenks
At 11:58 AM 2/26/02, Ed Lawson wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: | | Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' | and run apt-get update apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running | Woody. :) Hmmm. Isn't it better to first change

Re: resource for newbie

2002-02-20 Thread Chris Jenks
At 09:21 AM 2/20/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:16:01AM -0500, Chaz Kiser wrote: I'm totally and thoroughly new to Debian, is there any books out there that would be appropriate for a Debian newbie, or a Linux newbie in general? Any sites? Chaz Kiser

Re: duplicates [was Re: UNSUBSCRIBE]

2002-02-18 Thread Chris Jenks
At 06:00 AM 2/18/02, Hans Ekbrand wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:32:55AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Hans Ekbrand wrote: Me too. I might be silly, but I almost get upset when I recieve an unrequested copy sent directly to me. Not something I quite

Re: duplicates [was Re: UNSUBSCRIBE]

2002-02-18 Thread Chris Jenks
I didn't see this come across since I sent it the first time. Sorry if it's a repeat post. At 06:00 AM 2/18/02, Hans Ekbrand wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:32:55AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Hans Ekbrand wrote: Me too. I might be silly, but I almost get upset

Re: mail notification

2002-02-12 Thread Chris Jenks
That actually has to do with wither or not people can write messages to your terminal screen with commands such as write, talk or wall. At 03:17 AM 2/12/02, François Chenais wrote: And what about using the command mesg in your .bashrc. mesg yallows others to write on your terminal. So

Re: mail notification

2002-02-11 Thread Chris Jenks
At 01:21 PM 2/11/02, Cheryl Homiak wrote: Of course, I realize that one solution for this is to keep Pine open all the time in one of my consoles, but I wondered whether or not there are other solutions. -- Cheryl I know that biff is used for mail notification.

Re: help with potato to woody upgrade please

2002-02-10 Thread Chris Jenks
Comments are in line. At 03:38 AM 2/10/02, Paul E Condon wrote: I want to upgrade my system from Potato to Woody. I am confused by the instructions. In particular, the instructions about the changes that I need to make to /etc/apt/sources.list The six non-comment lines in my current sources

Re: XP then Linux

2002-02-10 Thread Chris Jenks
At 03:05 PM 2/10/02, Bruce Burhans wrote: This might not be a cookie thing. (I presume that max security means that cookies are disabled...) If you have a static, or never-changing-dhcp IP address, they _might_ me matching name to IP address. What happens when u go in thru a linux

Re: Problem with windows partition

2002-02-05 Thread Chris Jenks
At 06:25 PM 2/5/02, Andrew Pounce wrote: By default lilo creates a backup of the boot sector in /boot so if you use lilo -u or -U /dev/hda1 it should restore it... If you read thru the lilo man page it will tell you more... Its rescued me on one or two occasions... -- Andrew On Tue,

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-28 Thread Chris Jenks
At 06:38 AM 1/28/02, Preben Randhol wrote: Suddenly wanda from the fish applet (but without the background) swam accross my Gnome desktop today. I use sawfish as WM. Do anybody know if there is a program that has implemented this as a fun things? It isn't so fun when you don't know what is doing

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-26 Thread Chris Jenks
At 02:52 PM 1/25/02, dman wrote: Definitely! I've had to look at some Solaris systems recently. It is just a mess! There are 'bin' and 'etc' directories all over the place. There's even binaries in /usr/lib/...! Just 'cause the shell tells you no such command doesn't really mean there is no

Re: Certification?

2002-01-23 Thread Chris Jenks
At 08:45 AM 1/23/02, martin f krafft wrote: not quite that harsh. the SAIR test is still a fair test (i should be a poet), but its emphasis is more on the test itself rather than on the {knowledge,experience} base it's supposed to certify. does that make sense? and hey, i warn you: this is all

Re: OT: loopback plug

2002-01-04 Thread Chris Jenks
At 08:25 AM 1/4/02, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! I am probing a NIC under potato, which is not working. In order to discard hardware problems I want to run some hardware tests which needs a loopback plug. Does anybody know how to do this plug? (twisted pair + RJ45 connector) Thanks! Marcelo

Re: Stupid Newbie Question - Install Netscape from download

2001-11-25 Thread Chris Jenks
At 07:00 PM 11/25/01, John Griffiths wrote: Look inside the directory. There should be a file called INSTALL or README. Use vi to open it and do what it says. Good luck. HTH, Jesse I'd recommend using more to view the README file, unless you know how to close a file in vi (which most

Re: [Fwd: Re: What's apt-get doing to me?]

2001-10-25 Thread Chris Jenks
I don't know if you'll want to or not, but the Progeny archive/source tree had X-4 something. That is where I got mine from, but only on my Progeny laptop. With Progeny shutting down the Linux Distro, I don't know if you can still get it. At 09:01 PM 10/25/01, Peter Hutnick wrote: You

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-10 Thread Chris Jenks
working for it, no offence intended to anyone on here that does marketing. It's more widely known because it's out there on the front line screaming, and that screaming is what brings people into it. Chris Jenks Ok, I go away now.

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-10 Thread Chris Jenks
At 01:58 PM 9/10/00 -0700, John L . Fjellstad wrote: On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 10:06:59AM -0400, Chris Jenks wrote: Which also goes back to Wayne's comment on RH being better because it's more popular. Also, preinstall has a lot to say, too. That said, berating people because of their choice

List newbie looking for archives

2000-08-12 Thread Chris Jenks
I have seen two threads that I would like to read the beginning of. I'm mainly looking for the debian-user archives, and hopefully a non-digest one, but I will take what I can get. Sorry for taking up your time. Chris Jenks