Support, cu and lp0

1999-08-04 Thread Taylor, Julian
Salutations, I purchased the official debian package and thought that by registering I'd get the E-Mail address for my free support. Didn't happen. How does this work? Meanwhile I have two problems: 1. When I use cu I get a pppd permission denied message. wvdial works fine to my ISP but to

backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-04 Thread xxxxx xxxxx
Hi! Could anyone tell me what's a good hardware/software combination to use to make frequent FULL backups of a Debian system (operating system, applications, and data). I asked recently at a fairly large Linux group meeting, and everyone seemed suprised by the question and there were no

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-04 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, x x wrote: Could anyone tell me what's a good hardware/software combination to use to make frequent FULL backups of a Debian system (operating system, applications, and data). I asked recently at a fairly large Over the long haul a tape drive is probably the

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-04 Thread Michael Merten
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 06:25:28PM -0500, x x wrote: Hi! Could anyone tell me what's a good hardware/software combination to use to make frequent FULL backups of a Debian system (operating system, applications, and data). I asked recently at a fairly large Linux group meeting, and

Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

1999-08-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 08:22:23 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, David Warnock wrote: relay_domains_include_local_mx = true You can turn this off because a spammer can simply put you host in his DNS makeing you an MX host and you will relay for him. Nope. If a spammer puts the host in

Re: Trying Java

1999-08-04 Thread Shao Zhang
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 12:53:57PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: I am trying to learn Java and the linux system seemed a good environment. So I got hold of a tutorial that showed how to test javac and java programs. I installed, via apt, jdk1.1 and jdk1.1-dev. You are on the right

Re: Powered by Debian logo

1999-08-04 Thread Shao Zhang
You should be able to find a logo at www.linux.com. On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:29:07PM +0400, ??? ??? wrote: Hello. Where I can get a Powered by Debian logo for my WWW server ? All servers that powered by FreeBSD or RedHat have Powered by... logos but I can't find Powered by Debian.

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-04 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, x x wrote: Hi! Could anyone tell me what's a good hardware/software combination to use to make frequent FULL backups of a Debian system (operating system, applications, and data). I asked recently at a fairly

Re: fvwm2 debs

1999-08-04 Thread Shao Zhang
I think slink has only got fvwm 2.0. If you have apt, apt-get fvwm2 will install fvwm2.0.46 for you. On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 08:20:04AM -0700, Robert Jones wrote: Does anyone know of a location for getting slink debs of fvwm2 version 2.2? I managed to find 'em for potato, but they require a

Wacom Tablet

1999-08-04 Thread Giant
Hey there, Anyone had any luck getting the XInput / Wacom ArtzII Pad to work under slink with XFree86 3.3.2.3a-11? I've grabbed the xf86Wacom.so file and modified my XF86Config according to the HowTOs I've seen, but all I get is a frozen XFree86 -- just an 'x' cursor where my login dialog

idiot's question on Xlib programming

1999-08-04 Thread huixf
I write a simple program but can't compile it. Below is the program: #include Xlib.h main() {Display *d=XOpenDisplay(NULL); if(d==NULL) {printf(can't open display\n);exit(0);} XCloseDisplay(d); } I use gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 xhi.c to complie it and get the following message:

MARS_NWE and dos clients

1999-08-04 Thread Paul Miller
Anyone running MARS_NWE? I'm having trouble connecting to the server from dos. The client says that it can not find any servers... but, windows can see and connect to the server. What's wrong? I have the actual novell files from the SYS volume .. and the version is set to 3.11. Thanks -Paul

Re: idiot's question on Xlib programming

1999-08-04 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 xhi.c to complie it and get the following message: /tmp/cca002281.o: In function `main': /tmp/cca002281.o(.text+0x9): undefined reference to `XOpenDisplay' /tmp/cca002281.o(.text+0x45): undefined reference to

Re: apt-get error

1999-08-04 Thread Nathan Duehr
That file was pulled off the mirrors due to a bug in it. Just run apt-get update and get a new Packages.gz file... On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote: I am getting the following error when I do 'apt-get upgrade': Err http://http.us.debian.org potato/main makedev 2.3.1-27 404 Not Found

Re: (Parallel) Iomega Zip and a Printer

1999-08-04 Thread Nathan Duehr
See: http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/running-kernel-2.2 ... for a list of known issues when running the newer kernels on Slink machines. On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, virtanen wrote: On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: A: One way is to use modules, which I think most people do. Is

Re: SSH 2

1999-08-04 Thread Nathan Duehr
It's available in potato/non-US I believe. I just tried searching for it with the bot on the #debian irc channel and it couldn't find it. Since it can only search the US mirrors, and since I have seen it before, it must be a non-US package. On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Rune Linding Raun wrote: i need

Re: support

1999-08-04 Thread Nathan Duehr
I've successfully used a laptop on pppconfig to set up a modem that uses standard AT commands but had a special cable to my cellular phone (Nokia). If you have some kind of special hardware that's not supported, I can't speak to that... but any supported PCMCIA modem that uses standard AT

[julian@mail.webaccess.net: 30 days of free E-Mail support]

1999-08-04 Thread Hanno Wagner
Could anyone please help this guy? Ciao, Hanno -- | Hanno Wagner | Member of the HTML Writers Guild | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Eine gewerbliche Nutzung meiner Email-Adressen ist nicht gestattet! | | 74 a3 53 cc 0b 19 - we did it! |Generation @ | #Copy me, I want to

Re: Linux freezing up

1999-08-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:22:40AM -, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: Has anyone else had problems with AMD being less stable than Intel? My AMD K6-2 350MHz system is 100% stable, so Intel must be impressive :-) Cyrix M2 333MHz is another matter. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of

sending mails from a C program

1999-08-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, What is the best way to send an email from a C program? Are there any API for it?? Or do I have to use system()?? Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-04 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: The actual power goes off while booting? To your whole machine? Linux cannot do this, AFAIK. (Unless with power-saving features compiled in?) You have a severe hardware problem. Exactly. The power

Re: (Parallel) Iomega Zip and a Printer

1999-08-04 Thread virtanen
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Gerhard Häring wrote: Hi! My solution for switching from parallel zip drive to printer under SUSE (no reason why it shouldn't work with Debian) was to unload the zip driver and load the drivers necessary for printing: rmmod ppa (need unmount zip drive first) insmod

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-04 Thread Andrei Ivanov
while rebooting to get into DOS. There is win95 installed on the same hd and I'm using 'loadlin'. (It was impossible to get lilo working with this machine.) With win95 the power goes off automaticly, when I stop the os.) Why not LILO? Whats wrong with the system? Andrew

SSH2 on slink?

1999-08-04 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, our web server is running Debian slink, but we have several workstations running Debian Potato and Windows 95/98 that would need to connect SSH to the web server. Especially for Windows everything is easier using SSH2 so we would like to offer this option. I see that there is a SSH2 package

Magicfilter and printing (Epson stylus 400)

1999-08-04 Thread virtanen
1) Earlier while still using 'hamm' I wrote my ps.filter by using the documentation provided by Lyx customization doc. I used an old matrix printer to print ps- and text-files. It worked quite well. 2) When switching to slink I purchased a cheap Epson Stylus color 400 and installed

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-04 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: while rebooting to get into DOS. There is win95 installed on the same hd and I'm using 'loadlin'. (It was impossible to get lilo working with this machine.) With win95 the power goes off automaticly, when I stop the os.) Why not LILO? Whats

Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

1999-08-04 Thread Nathan Duehr
If you have the relay-domains-include-local-MX = true in your /etc/exim.conf file, this is true. It WILL relay for anyone who lists your machine as an MX for their domain (real, or not). I think this was the original question. The other gentleman is right about if this setting is NOT on, and

Re: Support, cu and lp0

1999-08-04 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Taylor, Julian wrote: Salutations, I purchased the official debian package and thought that by registering I'd get the E-Mail address for my free support. Didn't happen. How does this work? Meanwhile I have two problems: 1. When I use cu I get a pppd permission denied message. wvdial

How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Nate Duehr
I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list it as showing up in the directory, so it obviously doesn't

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. have you tried 'rm ./FILE'? There are several ways to delete files with weird filenames. There was a thread on it last month. Take a look at:

Re: idiot's question on Xlib programming

1999-08-04 Thread Ludovic Paquet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I write a simple program but can't compile it. Below is the program: #include Xlib.h> main() {Display *d=XOpenDisplay(NULL); if(d==NULL) {printf("can't open display\n");exit(0);} XCloseDisplay(d); } I use "gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 xhi.c" to complie it and get the

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Michael Merten
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. For this one, I'd just enclose the filename in single

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Ludovic Paquet
Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list it as showing up in the directory, so it

Re: idiot's question on Xlib programming

1999-08-04 Thread Martin Waller
You need to link in the Xlib library with the switch -lX11. Martin From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: idiot's question on Xlib programming I write a simple program but can't compile it. Below is the program: #include Xlib.h main() {Display

Why does xscreensaver always ask a password?

1999-08-04 Thread Johann Spies
I have disabled the password requirement in the setup. This is wat ~/.gnome/Screensaver looks like: [Decayscreen] Delay=2 Monochrome=false ARGS=decayscreen -delay 2 [Default] nice=10 waitmins=2 dpmsmins=20 dpms=false password=false mode=RANDOM SCREENSAVER command=xscreensaver -no-splash

Re: SSH2 on slink?

1999-08-04 Thread Pawel Mazur
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: I see that there is a SSH2 package for Potato available and wondered if anyone has installed this successfully on slink. I run slink on a 486dx/2 home box with 12 megs of RAM (yep, there are some archaic computers :) I tried to run SSH2, but

How do I connect to BTInternet in the UK? They use MS-CHAP

1999-08-04 Thread Phillip Deackes
I want to connect to BTInternet here in the UK. Apparently they use ms-chap. I have been looking at the ppp docs and the advice there is to compile ppp with ma-chap support. I have never compiled an essential app like ppp before - I am concerned about dependencies etc. - if I downloaded the

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Shao Zhang
have you tried rm ./?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it

Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

1999-08-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 19:15:59 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Marc Haber wrote: Nope. If a spammer puts the host in his DNS, you are going to relay _TO_ him. So he can happily spam himself. Ok, maybe this has changed but I thought at one point Exim would take mail in either direction

Re: networking

1999-08-04 Thread Geordy Korte
hello all I have a question I have 3 machines one is runing windows 98 and the other 2 our running debian. My question is I want to setup a home network I want the windows 98 machine to be the duilouit server and the the linux boxes connected to it I am a littel confused on how to set this up

[potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager

1999-08-04 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I don't know whether this is the correct mailinglist to post this but anyway... I upgraded my Debian box to unstable and installed gdm. Unfortunately when I try to login the screen flickers a few times and the gdm screen pops back. When I start X by typing startx from a text console

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-04 Thread Laurent Martelli
x == x x [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: x [1 text/plain; iso-8859-1 (quoted-printable)] Hi! Could x anyone tell me what's a good hardware/software combination to x use to make frequent FULL backups of a Debian system x (operating system, applications, and data).

Re: SSH2 on slink?

1999-08-04 Thread Robert Varga
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Pawel Mazur wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: I see that there is a SSH2 package for Potato available and wondered if anyone has installed this successfully on slink. I run slink on a 486dx/2 home box with 12 megs of RAM (yep, there are some

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it

Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer

1999-08-04 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! After my system (kernel 2.2.5) is running for more than a few days, I can't play sounds anymore and get these syslog messages: Aug 4 12:37:40 eule kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer Unloading the sound kernel modules doesn't help either. I have no idea what is causing

Apachectl can't find pid

1999-08-04 Thread Mario Bertrand
Hi, I have a small problem with restarting apache after it's initial start at boot time. It send me something like: /init.d/apache restart apachetcl can't find pid 12345 apache failed In the error.log there is also a warning [warn] pid file /var/run/apache.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown

Re: How do I connect to BTInternet in the UK? They use MS-CHAP

1999-08-04 Thread Pawel Mazur
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote: I want to connect to BTInternet here in the UK. Apparently they use ms-chap. I have been looking at the ppp docs and the advice there is to compile ppp with ma-chap support. I have never compiled an essential app like ppp before - I am concerned

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Most people told you to rm ./file or rm 'file' but that

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Alex Shnitman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash.

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Eberhard Burr
Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. bash will properly escape it if you use file-name completion. Thus if you type ?

Re: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Andy Spiegl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi! After my system (kernel 2.2.5) is running for more than a few days, I can't play sounds anymore and get these syslog messages: Aug 4 12:37:40 eule kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer Unloading the sound kernel modules doesn't

Re: Magicfilter and printing (Epson stylus 400)

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting virtanen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): When switching to slink I purchased a cheap Epson Stylus color 400 and installed 'magicfilter'. As being new to 'magicfilter' it took some time to find out that I have to run 'magicfilterconfig' to get it working at all. Now I managed to get the

Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

1999-08-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:53:15 -0600 (MDT), you wrote: If you have the relay-domains-include-local-MX = true in your /etc/exim.conf file, this is true. It WILL relay for anyone who lists your machine as an MX for their domain (real, or not). I think this was the original question. This is either a

Installation ~ configuring apt-get sources.list for cdrom

1999-08-04 Thread Walter Logeman
I am in the process of installing Debian 2.1 for the first time. I have gone through the process where my machine now boots into Linux from the floppy and I can flounder around enough to see that I have heaps of directories and files and am playing around with commands, learning as i go. I

Insmod ppa errors

1999-08-04 Thread Wendell Buckner
When I use Insmod ppa (to connect my zip 100 iomega drive via parrallel port), I get the following error: ver 1.42 probing port 03bc probing port 0278 0 hosts /lib/modules/2.0.36./scsi/ppa.0 device or resource busy Does any one have any ideas about this one? By the way, I tested the zip

Re: CD Image...

1999-08-04 Thread ¯»¥Ö - Å]¤l¤p©j - [Agent 1.5 v32\ ]
there should be 4 discs.. 1. Debian Slink Disc 1 [base system + softwares] 2. Debian Slink Disc 2 [contrib] 3. Non-free [qt etc] 4. Non-US [ssh, etc] ¦b Sat, 31 Jul 1999 10:12:42 +0800 (SST), »Õ¤U¼g¹D... Hi... there are 2 CD images in the cdimage directory... does disk 2 contains contrib or

slink not updating ?

1999-08-04 Thread Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar
Hello, does anyone update packages in slink for security and other reasons ? I haven't seen any update for long time even if there were some bug reports, security warnings etc... -- Matus fantomas Uhlar, sysadmin at Telenor Internet Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk;

Re: Installation ~ configuring apt-get sources.list for cdrom

1999-08-04 Thread Walter Logeman
Jocke, Thanks for the reply... in /etc/apt/sources.list add the following lines deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US I forgot to mention that I am not yet connected with ppp, so i presume this won't

Re: slink not updating ?

1999-08-04 Thread Peter Makholm
Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: does anyone update packages in slink for security and other reasons ? I haven't seen any update for long time even if there were some bug reports, security warnings etc... Look at security.debian.org for security updates. -- I congratulate

Re: Video Card

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Swegen
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:26 -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Raymond A. Ingles wrote: ...from what I've gathered 2D support is a little immature, and it's really hard to render into a window... Actually, the Voodoo3 drivers have been

Soundcard volume problems

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Swegen
I've had an annoying problem with the volume on my soundcard for some time now, and it is really annoying me now. Since I use headphones I don't want the volume to be set very high, so I use aumix to set the volume when I log in. However, a number of programs insist on setting it to a much higher

Re: Freeserve CD workaround?

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Swegen
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 18:38 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 05:38:40PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: DoeS aNyBody have the method for installing freeserve without using the CD handy, please? or a URL? Go to the website using some existing network connection and fill in

Unidentified subject!

1999-08-04 Thread Beerwinkle, Dean DE SCC
-s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: [Exim] Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

1999-08-04 Thread Philip Hazel
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:53:15 -0600 (MDT), you wrote: If you have the relay-domains-include-local-MX = true in your /etc/exim.conf file, this is true. It WILL relay for anyone who lists your machine as an MX for their domain (real, or not). I think this

Re: slink not updating ?

1999-08-04 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wednesday 4 August 1999, at 14 h 53, the keyboard of Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone update packages in slink for security and other reasons ? I haven't seen any update for long time even if there were some bug reports, security warnings etc...

Re: Insmod ppa errors

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Wendell Buckner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): When I use Insmod ppa (to connect my zip 100 iomega drive via parrallel port), I get the following error: ver 1.42 probing port 03bc probing port 0278 0 hosts /lib/modules/2.0.36./scsi/ppa.0 device or resource busy Does any one have any

printer help

1999-08-04 Thread Jocke
Hi all, I can't get lpr to work properly. I guess I am just unexperienced so some hints and advice would be appreciated. I have a pretty slim potato setup. gs-aladdin lprng magicfilter - printcap file: lp|epson|EPSON STYLUS color 740:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson:\

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gary L. Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, x x wrote: Hi! Could anyone tell me what's a good hardware/software combination to use to make frequent FULL backups of a Debian system (operating system,

Formating a HD into VFAT

1999-08-04 Thread Gregory Vandenbrouck
Hi, I need a tool to format my hard drive into vfat under linux. Superformat (and old fdformat) only deal with floppies. Do you know if what I am looking for exists ? Please, include me in the reply since I am not on this mailing list. Thanks for any help, and have a nice day :o)

Re: [potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager

1999-08-04 Thread Raphael clancy
I had the same problem, and I found that there were a couple of things that could be behind it first it could be a bad xsession file, or it could be an issue with the window manager, either it's not correctly installed, or the /etc/X11/window-managers file is trying to start a windowmanager

Mutt

1999-08-04 Thread Jocke
Ok my mail headers doesn't look so good. Could anyone help me out? I am using Mutt and I run it from an account with user josv My internet provider email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] How should I set up Mutt to have all my outgoing mail show: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of From: Jocke

Re: Installation ~ configuring apt-get sources.list for cdrom

1999-08-04 Thread Walter Logeman
Jocke Nice to get the encouragment... dselect works just fine if you just have 2.1 cds. I do and I must have installed the basics on the HDD, but still stuck there. enter the [A]ccess and choose multi_cd Done then run [U]pdate for each cd (actually the last one) if you get

Re: Mutt

1999-08-04 Thread Marcin Kurc
my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] should work. On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 06:15:08PM +0200, Jocke wrote: Ok my mail headers doesn't look so good. Could anyone help me out? I am using Mutt and I run it from an account with user josv My internet provider email is [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer

1999-08-04 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi David, thanks a lot for your fast reply! Unloading the sound kernel modules doesn't help either. No, that should make things worse. Really? Interesting. Look at the May 1999 archives for this list, with the subject Can't allocate DMA buffer (as opposed to Couldn't!) for a clearer

modem reporting a lot of errors

1999-08-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I am getting a lot of errors for my ppp0 interface. ifconfig shows: ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:129.94.16.27 P-t-P:129.94.15.6 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500

Apache crash shot entire machine

1999-08-04 Thread Alexander List
Hi! I had a serious problem today with Apache, it took the whole machine to nirvana. Did anyone experience similar problems? Aug 4 10:44:58 debian kernel: Warning: possible SYN flood from 194.177.131.33 on 195.202.146.60:53. Sending cookies. Aug 4 12:45:55 debian kernel: Unable to handle

dpkg problem (rather serious)

1999-08-04 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, Yesterday I was trying to run apt-get to update my gmc package when somethig weird happened and it had a major lock (I think it locked when running dpkg)... Now, dpkg refuses to run because, when reading the database, it finds a problem in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/at.list file... The

Re: Video Card

1999-08-04 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Dave Swegen wrote: If you have an AMD CPU or a not particularly high spec CPU Voodoo3 is by all accounts the best choice, since it isn't as dependent on the host CPU. According to Darryll Strauss (the developer of the linux version of Glide and the X sever) voodoo3 has probably the best 2d

Re: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer

1999-08-04 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Look at the May 1999 archives for this list, with the subject Can't allocate DMA buffer (as opposed to Couldn't!) for a clearer explanation than I could give. Hm, now I check the whole archive of 1999 and can't find it. Could it have been on a different list maybe? No, it is there, I

Re: [potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager

1999-08-04 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I don't know whether this is the correct mailinglist to post this but anyway... I upgraded my Debian box to unstable and installed gdm. Unfortunately when I try to login the screen flickers a few times and the gdm screen pops back. When I start X by typing

Lockups

1999-08-04 Thread Benjamin Suto
We recently upgraded to a mroe recent version of unstable, and we're getting errors on the console lost mailbox lock, going up the screen. After a day or two, we get those messages coming really quickly, and the system is locked. These messages only show up on console, and not in any of the

Re: Formating a HD into VFAT

1999-08-04 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 07:01:52AM -0700, Gregory Vandenbrouck wrote: I need a tool to format my hard drive into vfat under linux. Superformat (and old fdformat) only deal with floppies. Do you know if what I am looking for exists ? Format for FAT or VFAT ist the same. It's mkdosfs and it's

Re: modem reporting a lot of errors

1999-08-04 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 12:40:50AM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: I am getting a lot of errors for my ppp0 interface. ifconfig shows: ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:129.94.16.27 P-t-P:129.94.15.6 Mask:255.255.255.255

SCSI cable question

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Swegen
I just bought a 2nd hand SCSI scanner (it should work with linux), but since I've never used SCSI devices in my life I'm not quite sure what I need. The scanner has two ports: a 25 pin d-plug and a 50 pin centronics port. The SCSI card I'm getting has a 50 pin centronics port. The cable that

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-04 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Gary L. Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I guess I don't see the logic here. If one of the binaries on your backup has a Trojan that, presumably, means that before you did the backup you were running a system that had a Trojan. I would assume at

Re: SCSI cable question

1999-08-04 Thread Robert Rati
The scanner has two ports: a 25 pin d-plug and a 50 pin centronics port. The SCSI card I'm getting has a 50 pin centronics port. The cable that came with the scanner has a 25-pin d-plug at either end. Most likely, the 25 pin plug is also SCSI. 25-pin and 50-pin Cent were both out about the

Re: SCSI cable question

1999-08-04 Thread Ares
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: One cause of confusion is that the manual doesn't actually say what the 25 pin port on the scanner is for, it only shows the cable being plugged into the 50 pin port. Is it safe to assume that the 25 pin port is also for SCSI? Would it be enough to

Re: printer help

1999-08-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Just had a quick look of the stylus_color_720dpi-filter. The first couple of lines look like: # PostScript 0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=stcolor -r720 -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dSpotSize='{2.6 2.4 2.6 2}' -sOutputFile=- - 0 \004%! filter /usr/bin/gs

Re: Mutt

1999-08-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Mine looks like this: my_hdr From: \$realname\ \[EMAIL PROTECTED] There are some wonderfull .muttrc files at www.mutt.org On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 06:15:08PM +0200, Jocke wrote: Ok my mail headers doesn't look so good. Could anyone help me out? I am using Mutt and I run it from an

Weird trouble

1999-08-04 Thread Rick Smith
Hello All I have a Cable Modem and I allow certain people to Dial in to my box to get net access, since 5 days ago they have not been able to get in some windows message like the host has diconected you! Well I am happy to say I DID NOT TOUCH A THING in a long time its been running like a

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Nathan Duehr
This worked. I feel silly... that was TOO simple. Thanks Shao. p.s. Using single-quotes didn't work, unless I misread and it was supposed to be single-backquotes? On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: have you tried rm ./?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ On Wed, Aug 04,

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-04 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, George Bonser wrote: There is one MAJOR flaw with tar. If there is an error anywhere in the archive, ALL files after the error are lost. Better to use afio instead of tar. At most you will loose only the file where the error is. Use the option: --ignore-failed-read. (this

Re: [Exim] Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

1999-08-04 Thread Nathan Duehr
Ahh... I stand corrected. I really should avoid answering mail relaying questions in hte middle of the night! Just as a side-note, it is a silly option anyway, isn't it? I've not used it for anything useful... yet. On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Philip Hazel wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Marc Haber wrote:

FileMaker Pro and Linux/UNIX/Whatever

1999-08-04 Thread Jack Wilkinson
does anyone know of a way to open FileMaker Pro files (.fp3) in any kind of UNIX derivative? Linux is preferable, but not necessary... -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- M. Jackson Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 215-491-0801 Voicemail: 877-832-9021

Re: ext2 spec

1999-08-04 Thread Sami Dalouche
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 10:45:49AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find info on the ext2 file system? I'm writing an OS and will probably need ext2 support... You're writing an OS ???!! Very ambitious ! What kind of OS ? Why ? Linux isn't great ? Why not adding functions to

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-04 Thread Patrick Olson
Exactly. The power goes off while booting. It has something to do with BIOS settings, I think, (not linux) (PnP BIOS) All the 'Advanced power management...' and so on are 'disabled'. No 'power-saving features are compiled in'. It seems to be the case that if I shut down the machine

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-04 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Gary L. Hennigan wrote: David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The very idea of all one's system software in a set of homogeneous .deb files is probably foreign to most unix administrators. Only those with home brew systems. In institutional settings it's also a matter of wasted time.

sudo

1999-08-04 Thread jason
I need sudo to allow others to change passwords for users? How do i set this up? I added passwd to the admins profiles in my sudoers file yet whenever i try to run this as on of the admins it says that they aren't allowed to change passwd for this user?? any help would be appreciated .. thanks.

RE: sudo

1999-08-04 Thread Pollywog
On 04-Aug-99 jason wrote: I need sudo to allow others to change passwords for users? How do i set this up? I added passwd to the admins profiles in my sudoers file yet whenever i try to run this as on of the admins it says that they aren't allowed to change passwd for this user?? any help

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-04 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Patrick Olson wrote: Exactly. The power goes off while booting. It has something to do with BIOS settings, I think, (not linux) (PnP BIOS) All the 'Advanced power management...' and so on are 'disabled'. No 'power-saving features are compiled in'. It seems to be the

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