RE: A Little Help for...!!!
Yes, my consulting rates are very reasonable. (well, you _did_ say 'corporate') sendmail or exim, fetchmail and any of the many mailreader programs will provide a 'solution', whatever that is. GNOME Evolution might be what you're looking for, but it's not really finished yet. tka -Original Message- From: Marcolongo, Mariano [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 09:26 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: A Little Help for...!!! Hi... I´m looking for a full corporate email solution for linux... Can you help me in my search? Tanks... Mariano Marcolongo Redes y Comunicaciones PROMINENTE - Plataforma de Servicios Informáticos Calidad Certificada ISO 9001
Konqueror in GNOME, no response to Save Yourself
Hi, I run the Konqueror browser from KDE2 on a GNOME desktop, and it seems to work OK (as I expected). A minute or so after startup I get an error saying 'No response to Save Yourself command', and lets me kill the process. This doesn't affect anything, the browser stays running fine, but I was just wondering what might be causing the error and if it was important. Anyone else seen this? Tim
mixer defaults
Hi, My sound defaults to a very low level in GNOME for some reason. I set it to maximum in the GNOME mixer, and saved the settings. This only seems to save the settings for the mixer program itself though, meaning I have to run the mixer on startup for the settings to actually be applied. Is there a way to change the default volume at a lower level than running a mixer program, like changing a config file somewhere? Or would I need to run a terminal-based mixer from a startup script? Thanks for any help. Tim
RE: configuring kdm or gdm to see both kde and gnome - SOLVED
Thanks for the help, this worked perfectly. tka -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: configuring kdm or gdm to see both kde and gnome Hi, I've never gotten Gnome to work with KDM, but I've gotten KDE to work with GDM. Create a file called KDE that contains the line /usr/bin/kde2 and save it to your /etc/gdm/Sessions directory. Set the permissions to executable, and then you'll be able to choose KDE from the GDM login box. -- Casey Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.umaine.edu/~hender97/
RE: [OT] Recent increases in d-u posts?
Also I upgraded to RH7 =p. (What vendor would be so stupid as to use an incomplete compiler that is totally incompatible with everything?) The type of vendor sellling to people who don't compile stuff. Maybe they did it as an experiment, perhaps one day they will strip gcc from their distro completely. tka
RE: exim (II)
If they are the same then you don't have the issue I'm talking about. When fetchmail gets some mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it gives it to exim, which tries to deliver to the logon name in the email's TO header. So it tries to find somebody called yourisplogon on your local machine (ie, localhost). My problem was that my ISP name (tka104) and my local name (seal) were different - exim tried to find tka104, failed, and bounced the whole lot back! So I aliased tka104 to seal, and the tka104 part got resolved. So you can safely ignore all this, because your names are the same. (but check for case) Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 112000 4:18 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: exim (II) Tim, if localhost is my account in my system, then yes, my ISP username and my localhost one are the same. I think I need to solve the problem in the same way you did. Please, how can I entry to the alias file? is an alias for what? Thank you very much for your help!! Cheers Marcelo On 11-Dec-2000 Anderson, Tim TL33E wrote: Is your ISP username the same as your localhost one? On my box, all incoming mails failed because it was looking for a nonexistent user. I added an entry to the alias file, and all was well. Tim -Original Message- From:Gregory T. Norris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:102000 5:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: exim (II) Did you add localhost to the local_domains entry in /etc/exim.conf? If it isn't present (and it's not by default) that would most definitely explain the error you're describing. Cheers! On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 06:41:26PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello!, I am running potato at home. I still have problems trying to make exim work. I think something is wrong in my exim.conf file. I will appreciate very much any help regarding this matter! 1) I've already posted this before, in spite the kindly answers I receive still I have the same problem: fetchmail is not able to fetch emails from my ISP. Here follows a copy of one session with fetchmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail --protocol pop3 --username myaccount myISP.com Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (my password) 3 messages for myaccount at myISP.com (7943 octets). reading message 1 of 3 (889 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from myISP.com fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) what could be wrong? 2) Following the Christoph Groth's suggestion, I looked in the MAIL part of the inetd.conf file, but in my case it is empty. Is this a problem? I'm connecting to my ISP trough a dial-up connection only. 3) Any mail a try to send to the external world, using mutt or mail, goes to /var/spool/mail/myaccount and sits there for ever. 4) This is not a problem, just a question. The file /var/spool/mail/myaccount is a symbolic link to /var/mail/myaccount. This is normal? Again, any help will be very appreciated!! Cheers, -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11-Dec-2000 Time: 19:08:00 This message was sent by XFMail --
RE: Going Debian: advice request
The way I do it if I want an unstable package is to add unstable to my sources.list, apt-get update apt-get install package -s If all looks OK then I go ahead and do it. Sometimes it will want to upgrade a whole lot of stuff, in which case I don't do it. Tim -Original Message- From: Gregory Guthrie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 112000 4:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Going Debian: advice request At 04:43 PM 12/11/2000 -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: but I´d like to have some packages in more bleeding-edge versions. Any problem about that? Should I install woody instead if I intend to use non-stable packages? Woody's definitely unstable... -- Second that. I have had two installs (upgrades potato - woody) trip over their own dependencies and fail. A real waste of time! Good luck. Gregory Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (641)472-1125Fax: -1103
RE: exim (II)
Is your ISP username the same as your localhost one? On my box, all incoming mails failed because it was looking for a nonexistent user. I added an entry to the alias file, and all was well. Tim -Original Message- From: Gregory T. Norris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 102000 5:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: exim (II) Did you add localhost to the local_domains entry in /etc/exim.conf? If it isn't present (and it's not by default) that would most definitely explain the error you're describing. Cheers! On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 06:41:26PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello!, I am running potato at home. I still have problems trying to make exim work. I think something is wrong in my exim.conf file. I will appreciate very much any help regarding this matter! 1) I've already posted this before, in spite the kindly answers I receive still I have the same problem: fetchmail is not able to fetch emails from my ISP. Here follows a copy of one session with fetchmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail --protocol pop3 --username myaccount myISP.com Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (my password) 3 messages for myaccount at myISP.com (7943 octets). reading message 1 of 3 (889 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from myISP.com fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) what could be wrong? 2) Following the Christoph Groth's suggestion, I looked in the MAIL part of the inetd.conf file, but in my case it is empty. Is this a problem? I'm connecting to my ISP trough a dial-up connection only. 3) Any mail a try to send to the external world, using mutt or mail, goes to /var/spool/mail/myaccount and sits there for ever. 4) This is not a problem, just a question. The file /var/spool/mail/myaccount is a symbolic link to /var/mail/myaccount. This is normal? Again, any help will be very appreciated!! Cheers,
configuring kdm or gdm to see both kde and gnome
Hi, I'd like to have both KDE and GNOME (helix) in my display manager's session menu (I'm not bothered which one I use). I thought this would be quite simple but after looking through docs, config files and mailing list archives I'm still not sure what to do. Can anyone give me some help, background knowledge or link to a HOWTO that I've missed? Thanks Tim
RE: konquerer won't run ...
Take a look at the debian-kde list to stay on top of all this. Last night Ivan was uploading version 2.0.1, and I believe that included ssl support on konqueror (although I'm waiting a few days until it all stabilises) tim -Original Message- From: Rick [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 042000 3:24 PM To: Adam Shand Cc: Debian User List Subject: Re: konquerer won't run ... I just did this last night for the purpose of promoting debian to my gf. To do so, they say to add deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps or the miror deb http://kde.rap.ucar.edu potato main crypto optional qt1apps to your /etc/apt/source.list---but I needed to append /debian to the URL, and didn't use the words crypto, optional, or qa1apps (but never tried either). After that, apt-get update, then I believe I did apt-get install kdebase konqueror konsole and startx startkde after terminating xdm. The new KDE is pretty and crisp, but I really like wmaker. note, this is as I recall so there may be a few tweaks or such required...check the ftp site for filenames and directory structure. have fun rick Adam Shand writes: i just tried to switch from windowmaker (which i've been using for years) to kde2. i did: # apt-get install task-kde # echo startkde ~/.xsession # startx when i run kde most things won't run and i get a lot of segfaults. when i open the control panel there's nothing in there. no modules, no icons. when i try and run konquerer (really the reason i'm trying kde cause i'm sick of netscape) it won't even start. is this something that has a known fix? i'm running a mostly woody system (it was pototo but large chucks of it have been upgraded as needed). adam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- A picture is worth about 25000 characters. Any more and it takes too long to download.
RE: Re: netscape 4.75 as root
I'm not aware of any good reason to be running X as root. Ever. When you want to do system things, the su command will prompt you for the root password - you now have root access in that terminal. Do your stuff and then get out of there. On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! I don't know why, but I cannot run netscape 4.75 as root. For example, when in the popup Window maker desktop menu I choose apps-net-netscape nothing happens. As normal user I can run netscape without any problem. But not as root! Any suggestion will be very appreciated. Thanks!
RE: Froze Up: Lack of Memory
Can't actually answer your question :) but with reference to the last bit, why does Mozilla have such a huge foot print? It takes up around 100 Mbytes while Netscape is down around 15 Mbytes. It doesn't actually. That's the same smaller chunk of memory but added up n times, where n is the number of concurrent threads running (probably about 6 for mozilla). unfortunately top doesn't seem to know about this. tim
apt-get upgrade = 2.2.2 CDs?
Hello This is probably rather obvious and stupid, but I'm going to ask anyway. I did a nice apt-get upgrade on my potato last night, installing all the new versions from the stable archives. Does this mean I now have a 2.2.2 system, or will I need anything extra off the CDs (when they get released)? I'm assuming I don't really need the CDs, but I just wanted to check. Tim
RE: I want out!
Well, I think I can work out how to 'unsuscribe' :) I've never actually seen this message everyone's talking about though. I'm on digest - possibly the reason - but surely you need some instructions there too. Or is it just me?I am forced into reading this with M$, perhaps my junky mail client misses part of the digests. tim -Original Message- From: Jonathan D. Proulx [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 7:53 AM To: Andrew Dwight Dixon Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: I want out! On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:56:46AM -0500, Andrew Dwight Dixon wrote: :ktb wrote: :I agree. Not that I have any clue how to unsubscribe using the instructions at the :bottom of the page, but I've decided that I should stay on the list untill I can :figure that out. The old instructions were a commandline that would send the proper mail. mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ^ subject ^ recipient ^^ read message from /dev/null Stick around anyway, there many more fun things to learn :) -Jon
RE: Netscape 6.0/konqueor
On my box konqueror has been a breath of fresh air.. with the exception of https support, which isn't there. Anyone know if that's a KDE thing or is it just not compiled into the packages at kde.tdyc.com? tim -Original Message- From: Daniel Borgmann [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] getting used to konqueror, i don't like the slow mozilla interface any more.
RE: GunPG Installation
Thanks for this, I had the same problem this weekend and created .gnupg which did appear to solve the problem - I thought at the time that it was a clunky old hack that would cause trouble later but I'm more confident now. Wondering if this will get through to the list as I'm stuck on a proprietary OS box at work (now there's a clunky old hack for you) tim -Original Message- From: Daniel Freedman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The question focused on the fact that installation wouldn't successfully proceed unless the .gnupg directory was created by hand. I ran into the same problem using GnuPG 1.0.4 (the question stated that it had worked previously, and I'd guess that this would have been with an earlier version) when I tried to run 'gpg --key-gen' after initial installation. In talking to the people upstream on the GnuPG mailing list, they seemed to acknowledge (if my memory serves) that this was a known issue, and the temporary solution was just to manually create '.gnupg' and everything would be fine. Hope this helps.
RE: jdk - installation
Hi Michael, I did it myself this weekend, on my potato box. There's a woody build too, and it's all in non-free. Go to http://www.blackdown.org for some instructions and links to mirrors. Also check archives of debian-java. As for a dev env, I _think_ Borland (or Sybase, whoever they're called these days) has JBuilder available. Something in the back of my brain is saying Sun has something also, and you may want to see if IBM has got one for their Jikes machine. HTH Tim -Original Message- Subject: jdk - installation Hi, I never installed JDK for Linux before, I'm running woody and would like to do that now since I really need it for the university-stuff here. Anyone that could help maybe by naming a nice apt-get install package-name command is welcome as well as people that could tell me what stuff / opportunities I have to get a running java-compiler maybe even a development environment... Greetings, Michael -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
RE: Installing KDE2
Downloading .debs isn't the easiest way to install Debian packages. apt-get can work the whole thing for you, check the docs for more info. -Original Message- From: Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 3:53 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Installing KDE2 How I must install KDE2 on my Debian potato? I downloaded All the debs from kde.org Regards -- Rogelio E. Castillo
RE: update with dselect and dpkg fails
Without wanting to be patronising, are you aware of apt-get? -Original Message- From: Bernhard Aichinger [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! I tryed to update my installed packages with dselect
RE: HELIX and potato
Yes, exactly. The point is that it's not a good idea to blindly run a script as root - who knows what it could do?Not suggesting that the helixcode people are going to deliberately screw your system up, but it could be intercepted or cracked somehow. Look at 'horrifying suggestion' from last week, I think there's a description of what the script does in there as well. Has anyone talked to the helix people about this, why are they advocating such a thing when Debian has such a good packaging system? tim -Original Message- From: Johann Spies [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 3:23 AM To: Debian Subject: Re: HELIX and potato On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 09:19:40PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:47:56AM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: lynx -source http://go-gnome.org | sh we have been through this before, don't EVER run anything like that. Excuse my ignorance, but after reading lynx's man page, I still do not understand what is actually happening in a command like this or let me put it this way: I do not understand how it can help to install helix-gnome or why it has to be run as root. As I understand it lynx is passing the html-source from go-gnome.org to bash. Why would one like to do it and why is it a security risk? Is it because it is run as root? Johann. -- J.H. Spies - Tel. 082 782 0336 / 023 55 11 568 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. John 11:25
RE: HELIX and potato
Wasn't there some discussion about this method last week? I think the thread was 'Horrifying suggestion' The best way would surely be to add the helixcode site to sources.list. tim -Original Message- From: plutoplanet [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 3:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: HELIX and potato Login as root and do the following: #lynx -source http://go-gnome.com | sh
RE: HELIX and potato
well, the binaries wouldn't be run as root, so yes. -Original Message- Subject: RE: HELIX and potato I guess so, but is it any more a security risk than running a binary from helixcode? Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wasn't there some discussion about this method last week? I think the thread was 'Horrifying suggestion' The best way would surely be to add the helixcode site to sources.list. tim
RE: root file system
I've had to go through this recently, and it's a little tedious. Anyone know of a tool that can list directories in order of size? (excluding subdir sizes obviously). If not then I guess I just made myself a little scripting project ;) although I am sure some people here can just rattle it off without thinking. tim -Original Message- From: Damien [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 2:12 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: root file system As you will see from another post, /var is under root. I've been looking very hard there and I can't find a culprit. I have looked in most directories. Can you give me an idea of where, outside of mail, things in /var get big? the easier way to narrow down this sort of thing is this: cd / du -bsc * | sort -n you can then cd to each subdir whos size appears erroneous, and repeat cheers damien
RE: X config problem causes me to have reinstall entire OS--!!new bie warning!!
use c-a-F1 to switch to a virtual console, run xf86config from there. tim -Original Message- From: Jim Merante [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 2:19 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: X config problem causes me to have reinstall entire OS--!!newbie warning!! Is there a keystroke combination that will prompt the boot commands and allow me to skip the load X windows command? (BTW, if I have posted this on a non-newbie list, I apoloogize and I will seek help elsewhere) After I have configured X and go to run it, my monitor goes blank and the green light on the monitor turns to a yellow light (no signal). No problem, reboot and run xf86config again until I get the setting correct, right? Wrong. Everytime I boot after I have killed my screen, the OS skips right over the prompt and goes right into the blank screen. Now I have no doubt that this is my fault and perhaps even the fault of my vid card and I can live with having to rectify it. But I don't want to reinstall the system each time I change the config! I don't even mind going in to the file and changing things manually, if only I could get to a command prompt before my screen goes black! There has got to be a keystroke combination that will prompt the boot commands and allow me to skip the load X windows command. Right...? Right...? Please help, Thanks -- Jim Merante Utility Trailer Mfg. Dealer Information Systems Administrator 626-854-7341 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Defrag in Win2000 no good for FIPS
Norton Speed Disk (part of Norton Utilities and SystemWorks) will fix it nicely in Win9x. You can tell the directories and the swap file to go wherever you want them to be.They don't seem to have anything out for Win2K yet. There are only one or two utilities packages out there for 2K so far, I haven't tried them cos I don't want to shell out $60 (I've been spoilt by open source, hate paying for software!) You could try backing up, reinstalling to a shrunken partition, and restoring - but remove all your passwords first. Don't take my word for it though. My real advice is get a nice big hard drive :-) Tim -Original Message- From: Mike [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 10:53 PM To: debian user Subject:Re: Defrag in Win2000 no good for FIPS Matthew Sherborne wrote: Does anyone know of a good defrag program for plain DOS or Win2000 that won't leave directory entries at the end of the drive ? =20 I want to install Debian to share a Win2000 computer but, I can't defrag = the drive to shift everything to the front. One instance where I've heard of files refusing to be moved is from the swap files. As far as I know the way around this is to turn off the swap in Windows, and then try the defrag again.
RE: partitions and lilo
Don't know if anyone's suggested this yet - it might be easier to manage if you put lilo on a partition and point to all your linuces from there. Solves the 1024 cylinder problem anyway. I use BootMagic (which comes with PartitionMagic) on my MBR to go to LILO or any proprietary OS. Tim
RE: big problem !
When you say you copied the files to the new partitions, do you mean you used cp? This doesn't preserve the permissions - you should have used tar instead. I don't know of a fix besides chmod 777 (horrible!) or reinstalling. At least you still have your /home. Tim -Original Message- From: Pep Ciuraneta [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 8:11 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:big problem ! hello all ! i've got a big problem with my new Debian 2.2. yesterday, i want to add a new 3GB hard disk into my system (P120, 64MB, 3GB) substituting an old 540MB HD (my /tmp). i did it without problems, and partitioned it into three primary partitions: 1.- 2GB, 2.- 200MB 3.- 800MB. i intended de first one to be the new /home with quotas enabled, the second one the new /var and the third one the new /tmp. i formated them and made the changes into fstab. finally i copied the original directories into the new partitions and rebooted the system and ups ! the system gets locked trying to load the postgreSQL service. seeing this, i reverted the situation, installing again the old 540 MB hard disk as /tmp, but the system still gets locked at the same point. now my question is ... can anyone tell me why? maybe i made a mistake at some point, but i cannot figure where :_( please i need help about this. i don't want to bore everybody reading the list with my problem, so you can answer directly to my e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] , thank you very much. -- ..PEP CIURANETA SANCHEZ..Linux registered user 123250.. . Programador de l'Area de Servei CS3 . Tel: (+34) 93.401.7715 . . Edifici U - Despatx 407 . Fax: (+34) 93.401.5855 . . Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya . Mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ..C/ Pau Gargallo 5 08028..
RE: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)
in a northern england accent Luxury. When I were a lad I had to run a webserver on a ZX81, without even a 16K RAM Pack. I 'ad to load all me data from C90 audio tapes and play'em over t'phone to me users. Mike Fedyk wrote: Erin Lewy wrote: Okay. Here's the deal. The poor machine was an ANCIENT P75 running (I didn't Ancient, huh? How bout a 486 DX2 66, or a 486 DX4 100? That's what I have at home as my firewall. :) how about a 486DX-33? or a Kaypro II (bet you never heard of it! shame i only has 64k of memory, and no HD)
RE: new Debian user, problem with internal modem
It's marked Telepath for Windows with X2 technology. Could it be one of those modems that work only with Windows? Umm.. yeah, could be :-) I think the site to try is www.winmodem.org http://www.winmodem.org (or similar, cant remember exactly) By the way, I using Debian 2.1 from Cheapbytes. Get 2.2 (otherwise known as potato). Maybe get a new (external) modem while you're at it. tim
RE: Internet Stations
Hi! I'm just opening an Internet/coffe business. I'll have only linux stations with a Debian Server as the link to internet. I need an application to control the time and fee for the customers, someone know about one to try or buy, or made it? And something have been resolve the linux - browser to work fine with some mail.chats with java? I heard that KDE 2.0 has a pretty decent browser - haven't tried it yet myself - anyone? tim
RE: maximum file number
I will manage about 100,000,000 files in near future. How many files does one directory has? I am afraid of the performance, Do you really need to store Files as such? What kind of data are you keeping? Maybe you could use a good database server instead - a filesystem isn't really going to handle numbers like that very well at all. tim
RE: does the new edition have support for sis 530 video chipset
I have the SiS 530 and it works fine. I think it's 622 in the list given by xf86setup :-) Use the SVGA server (I downloaded some native drivers but had problems) As for winmodems, don't expect any success. There's a site out there that has a few drivers but I don't have the URL (it was given here a few weeks ago). Of course, if you get an external modem you'll be OK. Tim Anderson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 10:20 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:does the new edition have support for sis 530 video chipset Does the new version have support for sis 530 video chipset and would a winmodem work for wvdial or ppp or cable modem for that matter?
RE: A series of newbieite questions
Matthew Dalton wrote: ObeseWhale wrote: 1. Debian keeps starting X as soon as I boot into linux. It give me the graphical login screen and everything. This is annoying because I don't seem to be capable of exiting X... Is there any way to stop Debian from running xdm on startup? You can uninstall xdm (apt-get remove xdm). Uninstalling xdm is a drastic solution if you still want to X-window, I usually change the default runlevel in /etc/inittab so that I boot up in text mode and am still able to to use startx to get into X. Well, I don't think it's that drastic. AFAIK you don't need xdm installed in order to use startx. At least it works for me. -ff I agree, unless xdm (or gdm, or other clones) has some other purpose that I'm not aware of you would be better off removing it when you don't want the graphical login. Does anyone know if it does anything else? tim
Mozilla eats even more memory
Hello, I decided to apt-get M17-3 last night, and all went well. But I was very surprised to see that with one browser window running, 5 (maybe 6, cant remember) mozilla processes were gulping up about 350MB!! Is this normal or can I do something about it? Thanks for any help tim
RE: Mozilla eats even more memory
Good point, I'll check tonight. If they are threads then this would be a (serious?) bug in the graphical top-like tool I used. (from helix, I think) and sounds more likely as I would surely have crashed in nasty ways (my 88MB RAM, 128MB swap would have a job keeping up with it all) Tim surprised to see that with one browser window running, 5 (maybe 6, cant remember) mozilla processes were gulping up about 350MB!! do all the processes use exactly the same amount memory? if yes, then this are probably only threads, which have common memory. in this case it is wrong to sum up the memory to get a total. if not, then something is really wrong with this dinosaur. :) regards
RE: Mozilla eats even more memory
If they are threads then this would be a (serious?) bug in the graphical top-like tool I used. t's not a bug, it's a feature! ;-) under linux, threads are equivalent processes. the only difference between them and real processes is, that threads belonging to one program share their memory. currently there is no means of finding out, which threads belong together (aside from looking deep into system data structures). a new feature called thread groups has been introduces into the upcomming 2.4 kernel a few weeks ago (or at least it has been discussed). this was done with posix threads in mind, but will also enable simpler recognition of threads belonging together in top-like programs. i hope, this clarification does not confuse you even more ... :) Right, so it's not a bug in my top-like program, just a bug in the kernel :-) Mind you, if the memory space is always identical (surely position as well as size) then why is it difficult to find shared threads? Very naïve of me I know, but surely you don't need to go too deep into the system to find the base address of a process. tim
RE: Debian 2.2
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:36:23PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: Ask book store for replacement or use it as coffee coaster. I've found that CDs unfortunately don't make good coasters. Now I have a CD shaped stain on my table. It's easier just to throw them out. Though I have heard that microwaving them can be fun. Just don't try snapping them in two. I did once and was wearing an eyepatch for the next 3 days. tim
RE: free Interrnet provider for Linux and exim
I got this with Mozilla, but it was OK after I fired it up again and it asked me for a password. I put it down to a bug in M14, I thought maybe mozilla forgets your password (or I hadn't found the option to keep it longer). So I guess you could check your password status. Tim Anderson Dan wrote.. Now I have an other question. How can I use their outgoing server (smtp.worldshare.net) for relaying my email. In exim.conf I put: smarthost: driver = domainlist transport = remote_smtp route_list = * smtp.worldshare.net bydns_a but it isn't enough because I received the error message: 553 To send mail, first check your mail with a valid POP account; this prevents unauthorized SPAM relaying. (#5.7.1) Dan Pomohaci
mozila eats memory
Yes, we all know that of course. My question is, if I have several instances running, is there a separate process space for each or does anything get shared? I ask this because I sometimes run a few browsers, and memory seems to get eaten very quickly. Tim Anderson
RE: Linux programming book
Quoting Cantoni, Mike ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am looking for a book on Linux Programming. Does anyone have a preference between Linux Application Development or Beginning Linux Programming or ___ something else. The Wrox book with this title is very good. Yes it is. And I hear they have a more advanced book coming out very soon which I'm sure is in keeping with their high quality standards. (and no, I don't work for Wrox) tim
RE: Recommended Partitioning
I have Win2K and Debian at home, (excuse: my day job is developing in MS env. Yuch) For my MS stuff I keep a 1.5G for system and programs, 250M for swap and a 1G FAT32 for files - NTFS is notoriously incompatible so I prefer FAT32 for personal stuff. Speed is only really an issue with loading apps anyhow. I also kept the Win98 that came in the box, and use Partition Magic and Boot Magic with that. Guests can use Win98 for surfing, stops them breaking anything. I have BootMagic pointing to my / Debian which is also where LILO is loaded, ie not on the MBR. HDA MBR: BootMagic Win98 (contains boot menu for 98 and 2000) 1G / 250MB Linux swap 128M (should be 256 really I think) Win2K 1.5G Win2Kswap 250M HDB /usr 2G /home 4G userFAT32 1G and some system backups. Loads of space left over, (HDB=20G) and is quite flexible, if I want to try a new dist I keep the MBR and /home and everything works OK. Tim Anderson Hey, im about to install deb2.2, can anyone recommend a specific partitioning scheme? Like if im willing to allocate 20 gigs. I figured id just do 128 for /swap, and the rest to /, but ive had friends tell me they do other partitions like /boot, /user, and /home. What do you guys recommend ? Also, im dual booting next to win2k(dont flame my, I have to do 3d rendering), will I need to make a special boot partition for LILO? I've heard something about /mbr which I dont understand. Will someone clarify this stuff for me? Thanks! _thaReF -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: free Internet provider for Linux? WORLDSHARE WORKS FINE
Yes they do, as I stated in a previous posting. --- Try: http://www.worldshare.net http://www.worldshare.net As I understand it, they offer free access only for MS Windows, not for Linux. -- Andrew
RE: Potato install fails to load ROOT image
Sorry to reply to myself, but I've come to the conclusion after further testing that my floppy drive is 100% busted and I'm not going to be able to do anything useful off it. I also can't (practically) replace it. I Floppy drives are about $10 now aren't they? do have a fully functioning RedHat 5.2 installation on the machine and a fast network connection, but it's one big partition plus swap. Is there any way I can get debian onto this puppy? Shrink your big partition and add one for /home. Move your stuff on there, then you can blow out the main one and do a fresh install from the CDs ( I assume they're around somewhere) tim
RE: Potato install fails to load ROOT image
How depressing. The only thing I can think of is to install a very basic potato on another machine and copy that over, then install the rest from the network. But that maybe completely stupid, and if it is then I'm sure the list will say so.. tim -Original Message- From: Stuart Ballard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 10:20 AM To: Anderson, Tim TL33E Subject:Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image Anderson, Tim TL33E wrote: Floppy drives are about $10 now aren't they? Try $139. It's an old laptop requiring a specially made floppy drive, and it has no access to anywhere I could plug a standard floppy into... I'm screwed. Stuart.
RE: free Interrnet provider for Linux?
I found a good one, www.worldshare.net http://www.worldshare.net , they want $15/year charity donation but I think most of us can afford that (and they will take less should you not be able to). I've been using them for a couple of months now on linux/windoze9x/2K and I've been very happy with them. I have a howto thingy from them for linux (inc DNS addresses etc), let me know if you want it. The only thing they don't seem to have is a newsserver, but I may be wrong. Tim Anderson -Original Message- From: Dan Pomohaci [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 10:49 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:free Interrnet provider for Linux? Hi, Are any free Internet providers for Linux? Thanks, Dan Pomohaci _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: fishing hooks
Normally I'd agree - I hate spam as much as anyone - but this was so bizarre and out of context I thought it was hilarious. I thought the att must have been a virus but it was a nice picture of chinese fishing hooks. Tim (still viciously anti-spam) On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:39:23PM +0800, Pang Li wrote: Dear sir or madame: we are a fishing goods trading company located in China mainland, our products include Banksticks, Rodrests, Boxes, Baskets, Seats, Floats Float accessories,etc,if your want to import these products from China.please feel free to contact us. Tel:0086-757-6239656 Fax:0086-757-6336141 E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] contact person:Pang Li This is ridiculous ! We cannot afford to have our list jammed with all sorts of disconcerting advertisments ! I have written the mail below to Mr Pang Li directly in his personal mail. I don't know if it will help. If we stay quiet it will set a bad precedence/ trend. WE NEED TO ACT ... and unitedly. I suggest that all of shout back at Mr Pang Li, in ones own personal capacity (without cc to this list) and jam his box so that he does not repeat this sort of stunt on us or any other list for that matter. Any other suggestions ? USM Bish -- Dear Mr Li, Ours is a professional list dealing specifically with issues relating to Debian Linux. We neither appreciate nor encourage anything beyond this scope. We definitely would not like our list (nor any other list for the matter) be used as a venue for advertising .. We request that such posts to our list may kindly be ceased forthwith. Dr USM Bish Note: Please do NOT reply to this list ! --
RE: free Interrnet provider for Linux? INFO
Not sure how my post made it onto debian-devel, but cross-posting anyway. Here's the important stuff from the thing worldshare.net sent me. Apparently the site now says they don't do Linux, but I use it all the time, it's just a normal ppp connection. Tim Anderson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 3:01 PM To: Anderson, Tim TL33E Subject:Re: free Interrnet provider for Linux? I'd love to get a linux howto thingy from you. Enough others might be interested to make it worth posting to the debian-devel list (where I saw your post). Thanks. --Miguel Anderson, TimTL33E [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found a good one, www.worldshare.net http://www.worldshare.net , they want $15/year charity donation but I think most of us can afford that (and they will take less should you not be able to). I've been using them for a couple of months now on linux/windoze9x/2K and I've been very happy with them. I have a howto thingy from them for linux (inc DNS addresses etc), let me know if you want it. The only thing they don't seem to have is a newsserver, but I may be wrong. * Tim Anderson I just want to know your DNS and other pertinent settings. What are they? There's certain basic information that anyone would need to know in order to successfully set up dialup and e-mail configurations for a WorldShare account. Connection settings: * Login ID: i.wshr.YourID (where YourID is replaced with your WorldShare User ID) * Password: Entered as selected during registration...passwords are case sensitive! * Dialup Number: Get this from www.worldshare.com/phonelist.htm http://www.worldshare.com/phonelist.htm * Primary DNS: 12.127.17.72 * Secondary DNS: 12.127.16.68 E-mail settings: * E-mail Login: YourID (where YourID is replaced with your WorldShare User ID. NOTE that you use just the User ID for e-mail login) * E-mail Password: Entered as selected during registration...passwords are case sensitive! * E-mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (where YourID is, again, replaced with your WorldShare User ID) * Incoming Server (POP3): mail.worldshare.net * Outgoing Server (SMTP): smtp.worldshare.net
