Freebsd

1999-03-09 Thread ARG-NIGRO, GABRIEL
Conocen de donde sacar informacion y aplicaciones. Saludos.

Mensaje Segmentation fault al arrancar WordPerfect

1999-03-09 Thread Antonio Angel Sanz Arróspide
Hola a todos: He bajado el sofware de WordPerfect y lo he instalado en el equipo. Al principio me daba errores al intentar cargar librerías, porque las buscaba en un lugar diferente de donde las instala Debian. Lo solucioné creando enlaces simbólicos con ln -s. Pero cuando ya he solucionado

Re: Instalar .deb con dselect de fuera del CD de distribucion

1999-03-09 Thread ~ Miguel P.C. ~
At 16.40 6/3/99 +0100, you wrote: Hola Hasta ahora, he usado dselect para instalar paquetes que vienen con la distribucion hamm. ¿Como lo hago para instalar paquetes que vienen con CDs de revistas? Por ejemplo: en el CD2 de LA6 viene el Gnome en el directorio

Re: COMPARATIVA UNIX-NT

1999-03-09 Thread Lluís
Lo siento pues me descuide de hacer el attchment del arxivo, ahora no puedo pero mas tarde lo enviare ---Lluís Palomes wrote: Hola como he visto que hablais del uso de linux, en la pàgina personal de uno de mis profesores de la udl, he encontrado este documento que creo es

Debian 2.1

1999-03-09 Thread Manuel Trujillo
Buenas. A modo de nota informativa, a pesar de que ya se comentó, deciros que ya disponemos de Debian 2.1!! Have a nice day ;-) TooManySecrets

HP DeskJet 697C

1999-03-09 Thread Area Tecnica, Externo17
Hola a todos: Voy a comprame una HP Deskjet 697C. ¿Sabe alguien de incompatibilidades con Linux? Sería muy desagradable tener que devolverla porque no me anda. Saludos y gracias. Pablo Villanueva

Apache 1.3.4+SSL en debian?

1999-03-09 Thread Gonzalo G. Agullo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hola, saludos a todos, hacia bastante tiempo que no me asomaba por aqui... me he encontrado con el dilema de que necesito meter el apache 1.3.4 con ssl 1.31 en varios servidores debian, y al que a su vez tendre que an~adir bastantes modulos (xml, php, ...),

Re: Debian 2.1

1999-03-09 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez
No recuerdo si ya lo había dicho, pero por si acaso. Hay un artículo sobre Debian 2.1 en Open Resources: http://www.openresources.com/magazine/debian-21/ (inglés) http://www.openresources.com/es/magazine/debian-21/ (castellano) Jesus. Manuel Trujillo writes: Buenas.

/usr/lib/mailhosts

1999-03-09 Thread José Illescas Pérez
Hola, ¿alguien me puede decir el formato del fichero /usr/lib/mailhosts de sendmail? Salute. | _ \ ___ _ __ _ _ ___ | |_) / _ \ '_ \| | | / __| | __/ __/ |_) | |_| \__ \ AOL Screen.: yoburtu |_| \___| .__/ \__,_|___/ E-Mail.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_|

Sintonizadora TV BestBuy

1999-03-09 Thread Area Tecnica, Externo17
Hola: _ _ _ _ _Recorte de publicidad del Web de Best Buy _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ El Kit Easy TV reproduce TV (y teletexto) a pantalla completa, con una capacidad de programación de hasta 181 canales y 16 canales en modo previsualización. Soportando

LI 010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101...

1999-03-09 Thread M. Angel Esteban
Hola! llevo varios días intentando instalar Debian 2.0 en mi máquina, pero al instalar LILO aparece el mensaje del topic hasta el infinito (vaya, u nscroll del cpon llenito de 0 y 1). Si ejecuto fdisk /MBR me quedo sin LILO :-( Qué puedo hacer (aparte de arrancar con disquette)? Los discos que

Re: RV: LiNUX en la calle ???

1999-03-09 Thread jr-gil
juanma escribió: Estimados amigos de Debian: Yo os voy a comentar mi punto de vista personal en cuanto a Linux. Mi profesión no se acerca (ni con mucho) a la informática y simplemente me quedo en un usuario más de windows. Más bien lo padezco aunque poco a poco y con la ayuda de otras

Re: LiNUX en la calle ???

1999-03-09 Thread carlos saldaña
Mar 07, 1998 at 05:45:47PM +0100 X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux Organization: toron.net El Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 05:45:47PM +0100, juanma decías: Estimados amigos de Debian: Entonces nos encontramos con tres tipos de usuario de un ordenador: 1.- el que enreda (tarde o temprano usará

kernel 2.2 y procinfo

1999-03-09 Thread Francho
Estoy intentando actualizar el kernel de mi Debian 2 (hamm) a la version 2.2 He actualizado todo lo que me pedia en la documentacion, menos el el procinfo (me dice que necesito la version 15 y segun me dice el 'procinfo -v' yo tengo la 0.9) ¿Que paquete .deb tengo que actualizar? Saludicos

Re: kernel 2.2 y procinfo

1999-03-09 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
SP, ma 9 mar 17:57:13 1999 Hola : La informacion que pides esta aqui : LNQRNMR2:~ procinfo -v This is procinfo version 15 (1998-07-04) LNQRNMR2:~ dpkg -S procinfo sysutils: /usr/bin/procinfo sysutils: /usr/man/man8/procinfo.8.gz LNQRNMR2:~ dpkg -l sysutils Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge

Re: Netscape y rendimiento

1999-03-09 Thread Hue-Bond
El lunes 08 de marzo de 1999 a la(s) 09:06:26 +0100, Antonio Castro contaba: On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Hue-Bond wrote: En mi opinión cuando el administrador va a alterar el funcionamiento normal por alguna razón justificada debería hablar por telefono o en persona. El correo electrónico sirve si avisa

RE: xdm question from a newbie

1999-03-09 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Xdm works fine ( when you have the X configured correctly) in hamm as well. Just install xdm, and it will work. If you ever want to get rid of it, edit the /etc/X11/config file and comment the line that says 'start-xdm' Same, to get it to work again, uncomment that line. Andrew

Re: bitchx (sucks!)

1999-03-09 Thread steven walsh
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: [snip] I agree Steve, there are plenty of Manual(s) to read. But for a new IRC user they sure confusing. I have been trying to Window it but, as of yet, no luck. Sure, there's plenty of documentation, unfortunately that's like saying MS Office

xdm kdm

1999-03-09 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have got kde installed, but I never configured my systems to use kdm. In my /etc/X11/config, I still have the line start-xdm. and even I do a ps, I can only see xdm running, and no kdm. But when I shutdown my linux box, I got the message: Shut down the kdm display manager

Diskless network booting

1999-03-09 Thread Corey Ralph
Can anyone offer me any advice on setting up diskless machines? From what I have read, I should be able to boot from a bootrom and nfs mount the root filesystem from a server. Does anyone make bootroms for intel eepro cards, as I don't have a working eprom burner?

FTP Install

1999-03-09 Thread Chuck Lackey
Hi All! I'm trying to install via FTP with dselect. I keep getting a Packages file not found error, but I can see the file in the directory. any ideas? Thanks! -- Chuck Lackey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Macon, Ga.

snmp

1999-03-09 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, How do I use snmp to reset all the statistics for all the ports?? if I do something like snmpset IPPADDR COMMUNITY interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInOctets.1 i 0 it returns an error occured quitting... thx shao

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1999-03-09 Thread Alberto J Rodriguez M
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Re: modprobe errors

1999-03-09 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 07:39:12PM -, Pollywog wrote: Here are some errors I am getting. Below I include my /etc/modules. I compiled the modules into the kernel, so do I need /etc/modules at all? You have compiled the modules for _use_ with the kernel. If you wanted them to be build

Re: Setting time - Question

1999-03-09 Thread Michael Masi
I would like the clock in my X-window environment to show my local time, not GMT/UTC. When I type in date I get my local time, when I type in date -u I get GMT, but how do I get a clock on I had this problem after upgrading to slink. First, run tzconfig to make sure your time zone is

Framebuffer scan rates

1999-03-09 Thread Corey Ralph
Is there any way to change the scan rates of the framebuffer in the 2.2 kernel? I finally got it all to work, but the default refresh rate is really noticable (and gives me a headache!)

are the usernames case-insensitive?

1999-03-09 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
I create a user mario. After that I tried to create Mario and I was unable to do so. also I recive the same info fingering marion or Mario. Are the usernames case-insensitive? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: are the usernames case-insensitive?

1999-03-09 Thread Andrei Ivanov
AFAIK, everything in Linux is case-sensitive. Reason behind not being able to make user Mario is that user names do not generally contain upper case letters. You can --force it, though. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov

unable to delete a home folder?

1999-03-09 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
I deleted a user and I forgot to use use -r to remove it's home folder. I erase all files in that directory with rm *. After that I used ls -l. It report zero files. Then I tried to delete the folder with rmdir but it reply that it is not empty why?

Re: unable to delete a home folder?

1999-03-09 Thread Matthew Sachs
There are files that start with a . in the directory. These are often used for configuration stuff. ls -lA will show you them, or just you rm -rf to kill the whole directory and everything in it. On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: I deleted a user and I forgot to use use -r to

Re: xserver fixated on tty7?

1999-03-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 08:57:19PM -0800, Alan Su wrote: i probably missed something as i upgraded to slink today, but is the tty that the xserver uses somehow changed to be in some config file (rather than taking the first unused one)? Yes. See /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. i had a couple extra

Re: unable to delete a home folder?

1999-03-09 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Because /home/username/ includes dot files. Like, .bashrc, etc. To see them do la -la To delete directory which is full, just use rm -R dirname Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN

Re: modprobe errors

1999-03-09 Thread Pollywog
On 09-Mar-99 Pedro Guerreiro wrote: OTOH, why don't you try 2.2.x? It's great with the modules, installing and removing them from memory and you don't even notice. I am staying away from the newer kernels because I don't know anything about them, and I don't know how to use ipchains. I

Re: [exim] Custom headers -- outgoing email

1999-03-09 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you tie a rewrite rule to a particular route? The documentation wasn't very clear on this. It seems that aaron would want it to only rewrite the sender header going through the smarthost route. Mmm... point... It's in

New Install

1999-03-09 Thread Joe
I am trying to install Official Debian 2.0 in my 48ram, 166meg, P.B. system. I get to (A)ccess, It asks me for Where to install from with chooses of CD, Floppy, Ect. When I choose CD-ROM, I go into a screen that asks for CD, and block device. I don't know what a block device is, or what my CD-ROM

Re: New Install

1999-03-09 Thread illusion
A block device is generally a physical storage device, such as a hard drive of CD-ROM drive. Assuming your system is based on IDE storage, your CD drive will be /dev/hdX where X=the IDE device number. The naming convention is simple once you get the hang of it: Primary Master=hda; Primary

Re: bitchx (sucks!)

1999-03-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: bitchx (sucks!) Date: Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 01:45:18PM -0600 In reply to:steven walsh Quoting steven walsh([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BitchX suffers from it's own unique form of feature creep. Use IRCII with a nice

Re: wabi

1999-03-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
Craig T. Hancock wrote: Does anyone use wabi and if so please is it better than wine I bought wabi 2 years ago just to run Quicken 4.0. At the time I inquired about wine but it didn't seem ready enough. I couldn't risk years worth of financial data to it. Wabi has been pretty good; I haven't

Re: New Install

1999-03-09 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Well...it's basicly asking you where in the system CDrom is. Like, primary IDE master drive is /dev/hda Primary slave is /dev/hdb Secondary master is /dev/hdc Secondary slave is /dev/hdd Just figure out which one is yours, and enter it there. Andrew

Read-only not Read Write

1999-03-09 Thread Joe
After installing Debian 2.0, I need to edit /dev/mod, to /dev/ttys. But the system does not give permission. On boot of linux, a line says read-only is my system read -only? How bo I make my system read-write so I can edit?

Re: New Install

1999-03-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 09:22:43PM -0500, Joe wrote: I am trying to install Official Debian 2.0 in my 48ram, 166meg, P.B. system. I get to (A)ccess, It asks me for Where to install from with chooses of CD, Floppy, Ect. When I choose CD-ROM, I go into a screen that asks for CD, and block

Bogomips disparity

1999-03-09 Thread Pann McCuaig
I'll be looking for some docs to explain this, but in the meantime perhaps someone knows off the top . . . Just screwed together a couple of new boxes. AMD K6/2-350 CPUs. The kernel on the slink rescue disk (2.1.8) as well as the kernel installed as slink:kernel-image-2.0.36 both report ~350

Re: Read-only not Read Write

1999-03-09 Thread Andrei Ivanov
That depends who you are logged in as. If you are root, then it don't matter. If you are a user...well, then you can not do much of maintenance work, have to be root for that. Your system is not read-only. If it were, you'd not be able to save anything. Nor would the system itself (log files,

Re: Bogomips disparity

1999-03-09 Thread ktb
I remember this being discussed a month or so ago. You might take a look at the User's archives at, http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ Good luck, Kent Pann McCuaig wrote: I'll be looking for some docs to explain this, but in the meantime perhaps someone knows off the top . . . Just

Re: AcceleratedX

1999-03-09 Thread Alex Yukhimets
I would like to put debian on my laptop but my chipset is not supported by Xfree in the accelerated mode. Will Accelerated X Laptop Server work with debian?? Yes, it will. Just make sure to install AccelX server ONLY. (Well, may be also fonts, if you like). DO NOT INSTALL their X libraries. Be

Re: Framebuffer scan rates

1999-03-09 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Try fbset.. and read the /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/*... Cheers, Vaidhy On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 11:43:37AM +1000, Corey Ralph wrote: Is there any way to change the scan rates of the framebuffer in the 2.2 kernel? I finally got it all to work, but the default refresh rate is really

Prob:block on freelist at 00b10bd1 isn't free

1999-03-09 Thread rick hunter
Can anyone help me with this error mesg? Prob:block on freelist at 00b10bd1 isn't free I usually get it when I am using the dselect program, afterwhich any program I run (including shutdown) will result in the same error mesg. The only solution currently is to rebot the system.

Re: writing device drivers for fbsd

1999-03-09 Thread Ramakrishnan M
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote: What is a good reference to learn to to write device drivers for fbsd? I remember some recommended a good book a few months ago but forgot to save the message. There is a book Linux Device Drivers ( or a similar name) by Alexandro Rubini published by

Re: are the usernames case-insensitive?

1999-03-09 Thread John Hasler
Andrei Ivanov writes: AFAIK, everything in Linux is case-sensitive. Reason behind not being able to make user Mario is that user names do not generally contain upper case letters. You can --force it, though. But it isn't a good idea. According to the RFC's email addresses are not supposed to

Acct and kernel 2.2.x

1999-03-09 Thread jusak
Hi, I am having problem with the acct when upgrading to kernel 2.2.1 I am using acct_6.3.5-6 and it seems that it cannot recognize the /var/account/pacct file format anymore. When I try lastcomm, it will produce garbage and usually with comment 'Segmentation fault' at the end. Anyone can point me

New install question

1999-03-09 Thread rathon
Hi, I have two questions for a new installation(Debian2.0): 1)After completing all the installation and setting up Xserver, I found out that the root pulldown menu of my 'olvwm' has the 'Debian' selection ghosted...I cannot select it. How do I fix this ? 2)I would like to install Linux on my

Re: New install question

1999-03-09 Thread servis
*- On 8 Mar, rathon wrote about New install question 2)I would like to install Linux on my work NT machine. There is enough unpartionted harddrive space to do this. I have never used LILO before or the NT boot loader. At home I use 'System Commander' to select boot options. Can you point

Re: TOP

1999-03-09 Thread Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF
Thanks everyone who responded to my question about top __ Geoffrey Deasey/ /__ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ / ( ) \ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / __ __ __ \ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-09 Thread Jesse Evans
Folks, My 2- cents: I've come from a background of writing dataacq apps for DOS/Windows for product manufacturing. Maybe that gives me a leg up to getting a Linux system running, maybe it doesn't. Still, I found that downloading a dozen or so floppies and installing to a

What to do with base???

1999-03-09 Thread Mark Phillips
My system is now uptodate with the newly released Slink, but there are now a number of obsolete packages. In particular, there are two _required_ packages listed as obsolete: --- Obsolete/local Required packages in section base --- *__ Req base base 1.1.0-14none ***

Re:(solution) What to do with base???

1999-03-09 Thread servis
*- On 9 Mar, Mark Phillips wrote about What to do with base??? My system is now uptodate with the newly released Slink, but there are now a number of obsolete packages. In particular, there are two _required_ packages listed as obsolete: --- Obsolete/local Required packages in

IP_ALIAS (kernel 2.2.1)

1999-03-09 Thread Oz Dror
Hi I amgoing to have SDSL connected to my private network (192.168.0.x) I have 3com (3905b Net card). I would like to connect the SDSL to my local ethernet HUb. I will be assigned a fixe IP to comunicate with the world. I compiled the kernel to support IP aliasing so that I could use the same

Linux! Linux!

1999-03-09 Thread Humberto Sachs
I met some of you at the Linux World conference. Here is a little tough: Linux World Conference It was a pleasure to see so much enthusiasm about an alternative to the current proprietary systems that keep fighting each other and limiting our freedom (http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/). While it

Re: xdm kdm

1999-03-09 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
Hi, I have got kde installed, but I never configured my systems to use kdm. In my /etc/X11/config, I still have the line start-xdm. and even I ^^^ That's the reason. If you want to start kdm instead, change it to start-kdm. do a

RE: IP_ALIAS (kernel 2.2.1)

1999-03-09 Thread Shaleh
On 09-Mar-99 Oz Dror wrote: Hi I amgoing to have SDSL connected to my private network (192.168.0.x) I have 3com (3905b Net card). I would like to connect the SDSL to my local ethernet HUb. I will be assigned a fixe IP to comunicate with the world. Lucky you (-: Not to ask the obvious

More than 5 SCSI disks? (/dev/sdf: ENXIO)

1999-03-09 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
Hello. There are 5 SCSI disks happily running at sda - sde. The 6th disk is accepted as /dev/sdf, as the kernel output after lilo says. But fdisk /dev/sdf fails with Unable to open /dev/sdf. strace fdisk /dev/sdf gives open(/dev/sdf, O_RDWR)= -1 ENXIO (Device not

dvisvga (tmview) can't do resolution more than -d320x200!

1999-03-09 Thread Mark Phillips
I've just installed dvisvga and discovered that it can't seem to handle resolutions higher than 320x200. Now I have a SVGA card that should be capable of handling 1024x768 --- certainly, this is the resolution of X. When I try I get the following error: fatal error: display: no such

Re: New Install

1999-03-09 Thread ivan
At 08:38 PM 3/8/99 -0600, Andrei Ivanov wrote: Well...it's basicly asking you where in the system CDrom is. Like, primary IDE master drive is /dev/hda Primary slave is /dev/hdb Secondary master is /dev/hdc Secondary slave is /dev/hdd Just figure out which one is yours, and enter it there. Andrew

Re: bitchx (sucks!)

1999-03-09 Thread homega
steven walsh dixit: On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: [snip] I agree Steve, there are plenty of Manual(s) to read. But for a new IRC user they sure confusing. I have been trying to Window it but, as of yet, no luck. Sure, there's plenty of documentation, unfortunately

Re: lprng from slink (Debian 2.1) so secure can't use it!!!

1999-03-09 Thread Gustavo Gonzalez
You are absolutely wright! I just downgrade to hamm for the same problem. I could print in text mode only, but I think the problem was not due to permission mistakes. Anyway I will stop the upgrade to slink to total defrozen. James D. Freels wrote: The following message is a courtesy copy of

RMAIL mode and metamail frustrations

1999-03-09 Thread David van Leeuwen
Hi, more more often i get MIME messages from other people, often with just plain text. There are also a lot of people using `quoted printable' iso-latin-1 or something like that. I read mail with Emacs RMAIL mode, mainly because i do everything in Emacs. Lately, under Debian pre-2.1

imap/pop3 problem

1999-03-09 Thread STEFAN_CYRIS
Hi Mybe it's off-topic so I'm sorry. I used IMAP for the last months but now I have to use POP3. Is there a possibility to get the imap folder structure via POP3 or to save the structure on HDD ? thanx Stefan

X problem with slink

1999-03-09 Thread Daniel Faller
Hello ! I use a DIAMOND Fire GL 1000 Pro with 3D Labs Permedia 2 and Xserver XF86_3DLabs. Since upgrading to slink some programs report X errrors. PV wave : Not enough colours available xmaple: X-Error BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) [resid=10

KDE x Gnome

1999-03-09 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I'm wondering if the new Qt license released a week or so ago is DFSG? I saw some news screenshots of KOffice at: http://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgabe.1999.03/KOffice/koffice.html and I cant waiting to install koffice Debian packages and other kde apps. :) I

WVDial segfaulting

1999-03-09 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, a friend of mine installed Debian 2.0 and tried to connect in Internet using pppconfig and doesnt suceed but with wvdial he can connect in Net but when he disconects wvdial segfaults and he has to reboot the computer. Any ideas? I think that he is using the

Re: Prob:block on freelist at 00b10bd1 isn't free

1999-03-09 Thread Edward Kear
At 07:37 PM 3/8/99 PST, rick hunter wrote: Can anyone help me with this error mesg? Prob:block on freelist at 00b10bd1 isn't free I usually get it when I am using the dselect program, afterwhich any program I run (including shutdown) will result in the same error mesg. The only solution

Printer in kernel 2.2.1

1999-03-09 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I'm setting a printer with the new kernel: 2.2.1. When I tried make xconfig and search for parallel printer support in character devices section I couldnt mark the option. It's in gray collor. How I can mark this option? Have a nice day,

Where is the exim cookbook? Was Re:[exim] Custom headers

1999-03-09 Thread David B. Teague
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: On 9 Mar 1999, Frozen Rose wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you tie a rewrite rule to a particular route? The documentation wasn't very clear on this. [snip] It's in the Exim

Outgoing port 53 redirected to special port.

1999-03-09 Thread Björn Elwhagen
Hello! I have a slight problem that i want to solve. Since the admins on our school is really nosy and scans our computers for ftp and web-servers among, to name a few examples i would like to shut them out completely from my computer. As it is now i have a pretty straight-forward firewall that

Re: Printer in kernel 2.2.1

1999-03-09 Thread servis
*- On 9 Mar, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote about Printer in kernel 2.2.1 Hi Debian users, I'm setting a printer with the new kernel: 2.2.1. When I tried make xconfig and search for parallel printer support in character devices section I couldnt mark the option. It's

debian-cd for slink ?

1999-03-09 Thread Hamori Andras
Hi there, do you know about any tool for creating the slink cd-images from a mirror of the distribution (like the debian-cd package in hamm) ? Thanks, Andras

debian-cd

1999-03-09 Thread Peter Shtinkov
I want to make Debian CDs, but I cannot find debian-cd package in slink or potato. If anybody knows how to use debian-cd from hamm or any other solution for this problem - please help me! begin:vcard n:Shtinkov;Peter x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Spectrum NET version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL

Re: Outgoing port 53 redirected to special port.

1999-03-09 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Just for the sake of it and for learning-purposes i would now like to build a better wall. The problem is that one computer that they scan from is the name-server and that one is hard to isolate it completely from here. The only thing i allow from the DNS is UDP from 1024-65535 since DNS, in

Re: IP_ALIAS (kernel 2.2.1)

1999-03-09 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I will assume that you are running slink because you did not say. I also assume that the version of netbase you are running is 3.11-xx. Download the netbase package from unstable/Potato (v. 3.12) and your IP aliasing should work normally. For some reason the slink/3.11 version of netbase

RE: lprng and slink

1999-03-09 Thread Peter Ludwig
You are absolutely wright! I just downgrade to hamm for the same problem. I could print in text mode only, but I think the problem was not due to permission mistakes. Anyway I will stop the upgrade to slink to total defrozen. The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been

Re: IP_ALIAS (kernel 2.2.1)

1999-03-09 Thread Dale E. Martin
Oz Dror [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi I amgoing to have SDSL connected to my private network (192.168.0.x) I have 3com (3905b Net card). I would like to connect the SDSL to my local ethernet HUb. I will be assigned a fixe IP to comunicate with the world. I know I'm answering a different

Linux and Partition Magic

1999-03-09 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hello Debian-user, I have Windows and Linux on my HD. As time has passed I now prefer my Debian installation and seldom use Windows (big surprise, eh?:) I want to expand/move my Linux partition and I do have Partition Magic on my system. Will using Partition Magic harm my Linux

Is ftp.debian.org down?

1999-03-09 Thread Lawrence Walton
Yes I know that slink was released but *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - -

Re: Linux and Partition Magic

1999-03-09 Thread Odin
Hello Debian-user, I have Windows and Linux on my HD. As time has passed I now prefer my Debian installation and seldom use Windows (big surprise, eh?:) I want to expand/move my Linux partition and I do have Partition Magic on my system. Will using Partition Magic harm my Linux

New Install

1999-03-09 Thread Joe
I have installed Debian-Linux, after I boot, and the system asks for the login, I log in as root. the problem is I'm at a $prompt, I don't know what to do from their. I need to change /dev/mod.. to /dev/ttys... but the sys. says I do not have permission. Any help?

RE: WVDial segfaulting

1999-03-09 Thread Person, Roderick
I use wvdial and have never had nay problems. How is he disconnecting it? Is he using it under X or Console. You can hit ctrl + C and it will 'attempt to exit gracfully' and disconnect without seg faults -Original Message- From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [SMTP:[EMAIL

Apt, Dselect, and Dpkg. What's the different?

1999-03-09 Thread Tam Ma
Hi all, I am new at Debian and I am kind confused about the Apt, Dselect, and Dpkg programs. Slink was released earlier today and it has: Apt (part 1), the new backend to dselect Apt (part 2), the new commandline I know Apt will soon have a front end (Apt 3 for Potato) that will

rc.local - What is the Debian Eqivalent

1999-03-09 Thread Person, Roderick
I have installed some tars and I need to set some thing to run at boot. For example I need to have the followiung to line execute at boot. /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt --sync /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt I used RH for a minute and these were

Re: portforwarding question

1999-03-09 Thread whbell
Anyone? I will try one more post with these questions. Thanks, -Bill Hello again, I have a web site on my Debian box visible to the world. Of course this is using xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80. I also have an internal web site visible to the world using portforwarding xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:port.

Re: New Install

1999-03-09 Thread ktb
If your prompt is a $ you are not logged in as root. This is the regular user prompt. The prompt under root is #. You should have a password for a user account and one for signing in as root. When you login type root and then your root password and you will have permission to do anything. Or

Re: bitchx (sucks!)

1999-03-09 Thread steven walsh
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: steven walsh dixit: On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: [snip] I agree Steve, there are plenty of Manual(s) to read. But for a new IRC user they sure confusing. I have been trying to Window it but, as of yet, no luck.

Re: New Install

1999-03-09 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I have installed Debian-Linux, after I boot, and the system asks for the login, I log in as root. the problem is I'm at a $prompt, I don't know Do 'whoami' and see who you are really logged on as. Why do you need to change /dev/modX anyway? /dev/ttySX is a COM port. But if you really need to,

Partition problem: not urgent

1999-03-09 Thread Bernhard Dobbels
Hi, I have some kind of a partition problem. It exists some months, but i could use everyting whithout problems. The only thing i couldn't do is defrag my win-disk. The problem has to do with ending/beginning of a partition Output of cfdisk: NameFlags Part Type FS Type

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-09 Thread Keith G. Murphy
George Bonser wrote: On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Jesse Evans wrote: I feel that most of the press coverage of Linux has been tainted by the commercial marketing efforts of certain distributions. If I were a writer and had no knowledge of the subject matter of my current task, I

Re: lprng and slink

1999-03-09 Thread Gustavo Gonzalez
Yes, my problem would a bit more obscured by the fact of gs conflicts with magicfilter. I am able to print plain text docs. However, HTML, ps and pdf formats cannot be prited without serious errors. Thus I prefer to wait for the slink release in CD. I am using now other distributions (OpenLinux

2 Official CDs...

1999-03-09 Thread Jay Barbee
What is contained on the 2 Official Debian Binary i386 CDs. I was thinking that disc 2 would be all the KDE/Gnome and X stuff... but I am not sure. Anyone know how the CDs are laid out? --Jay

Re: WVDial segfaulting

1999-03-09 Thread John Hasler
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira writes: a friend of mine installed Debian 2.0 and tried to connect in Internet using pppconfig and doesnt suceed What problem did he have with pppconfig? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rc.local - What is the Debian Eqivalent

1999-03-09 Thread ragOO
Person, Roderick wrote: I have installed some tars and I need to set some thing to run at boot. The Debian equivalent of rc.local is rc.boot ragOO, VU2RGU. -- Keeping the Air-Waves FREE.Amateur Radio Keeping the W W W FREE..Debian GNU/Linux

XDM again

1999-03-09 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hello Debian-user, I still have problems getting XDM to run. Starting X with startx works fine, but when I start XDM I get a minimal fvm desktop, not the setup I have in my .xinitrc file. I know I must be missing something obvious. Can anyone help? TIA //Christian [EMAIL

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-09 Thread Adam Linford - Prima House
On Tuesday 9 March, Kieth Murphy wrote * I'm not sure the installation itself needs radical fixing. * Please preserve robustness. * Maybe we need to represent a clear alternative. * Maybe RedHat has its priorities wrong (flash over functionality?). I agree with these opinions, and moreover, I

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