Re: Oh no, not another AWE64 question

2000-03-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
brian moore hat gesagt: // brian moore wrote: So my next step was to try ALSA drivers.. I've successfully installed these before when I ran slackware. I believed I followed the instructions accurately.. anyhow, here is some info.. No idea.. I see no reason to use ALSA with this card.

Routing

2000-03-24 Thread Denis J. Cirulis
Hello ! I hav such a situation : radio link backbone connected to my Debian box with two NICs eth0 is radio link card with the real ip adress eth1 is 3com509 with ip adress of 10.0.0.1 Behind the debian box is a small network with 15 pcs running different OSes

Re: Routing

2000-03-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Behind the debian box is a small network with 15 pcs running different OSes How can setup routing and forward rules to go to the outside world with eth0 ip adress (i know that it is ip-masquerading and ip-forwarding but i have troubles and maybe want somebody to tell me the

Re: Sudden memory usage.

2000-03-24 Thread ktb
Maybe ps aux would use less memory than Top -- I don't really know just a thought. My other thought is Netscape. I've had a similar situation happen while using the browser. Not much to go on here. hth, kent - Original Message - From: Levi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello; I have 2 problems... I'm currently running slink, and: 1) I wanted to upgrade bluefish. But I wnted the version which comes with potato. So I thought, Well, if apt-get handles dependencies correctly, I just have to add frozen to my mirrors list, and it'll get whatever packages

How to blank screen?

2000-03-24 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
How do you blank the screen, as in a screensaver. It was working before, bul all of a sudden, it doesn't and I don't know why. Being that this is Linux, I figure there must be a way to fix this without rebooting, which I have a sneaking suspicion might solve the problem. So if anyone could lead

Re: How to blank screen?

2000-03-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
What do you mean... blank the screen? Do you mean that after a while the screen just goes blank? If that's so see the setterm M (as in RTFM) and check the -blank option. Ron On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: How do you blank the screen, as in a screensaver. It was working

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
I'll just answer you first question and I think that'll solve your second as well. I had a similar problem and I fixed, quite brute force I must say but all works fine now. THIS SOLUTION CAN CAUSE YOUR SYSTEM TO BE PRETTY MESSED UP, THEREFORE IT COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY AND I CANNOT BE

Re: How to blank screen?

2000-03-24 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
Ron == Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do you mean... blank the screen? Do you mean that after a while the screen just goes blank? If that's so see the setterm M (as in RTFM) and check the -blank option. That's exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks. Ron

can't load a library...

2000-03-24 Thread rich
Howdy all, I'm trying to install a program that relies on libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6. Whenever I try to run it I get the message, 'can't load libXt.so.6' I've done dpkg -S for both of these and see that xlib6g provides both. I've got this installed, so can anyone tell me what the problem could

Re: can't load a library...

2000-03-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 08:28:30AM -0600, rich wrote: Howdy all, I'm trying to install a program that relies on libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6. Whenever I try to run it I get the message, 'can't load libXt.so.6' I've done dpkg -S for both of these and see that xlib6g provides both. I've got

XF86Setup apt-get

2000-03-24 Thread Michael Zielinski
I set my sources.list to: http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main I did an apt-get update then apt-get upgrade. Everything went fine until I tried to run XF86Setup, this wasn't installed. I then did an apt-get update XF86Setup and then an apt-get install XF86Setup. Once again

Similar problem as in Re: messed up terminal

2000-03-24 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Evan Moore wrote: after reading a binary file sometimes the terminal gets all messed up and everything is displayed in symbols. I'm sure everyone has done this a few times. How can I get my terminal back to

Re: Similar problem as in Re: messed up terminal

2000-03-24 Thread Antonio Fiol Bonnín
I suggest that you try the following instead of reset: just type cat ESCc (Esc key, then C key (no shift, no caps-lock) Ctrl-D You should hit RETURN after the first two lines. It worked for me some times that reset did not work. I did not try the other methods you state. Antonio On

Re: XF86Setup apt-get

2000-03-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
There is a way to take them all at once: it's called dselect... Ron On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Michael Zielinski wrote: I set my sources.list to: http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main I did an apt-get update then apt-get upgrade. Everything went fine until I tried to run

Neighbour table overflow in potato boot-up

2000-03-24 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
i did a not-so-fresh install of potato last week (first installed base slink cause i have a bootable cdrom, then upgraded it to potato and installed the other packages). the machine worked fine in the office for a couple of days, then i moved it to another building, and the first time i tried to

Two monitors (dual heads) on a single box?

2000-03-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Is it possible to run two monitors using two video cards on one box? If so, I presume you run two XServers (one for each). How do you switch input focus (mouse and keyboard) from one to the other? (Video cards are a Diamond Viper V550 16 MB and an older Matrox Millenium 2MB; both run on the

Re: Neighbour table overflow in potato boot-up

2000-03-24 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 09:55:55AM -0600, Alberto Brealey G. wrote: i did a not-so-fresh install of potato last week (first installed base slink cause i have a bootable cdrom, then upgraded it to potato and installed the other packages). the machine worked fine in the office for a couple of

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:11:40 +0100 (CET), Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Why afraid of upgrading? Potato works fine with me... not stable yet okay, but also not unstable! Well... I'm not exactly afraid of potato... I'm afraid of the upgrading process! I've had a few problems using

Re: Debian Perl Modules

2000-03-24 Thread Brian Lavender
I still have a question regarding the debian perl modules. It appears that dpkg and apt have perl modules. If I went in and replace perl with a newer version from source, I would have to rebuild those modules. If I look at my libraries of my Potatoe installation I see some Debian perl modules. You

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
I know the upgrading process to potato can be a real pain in the ass, but I think it's worth it. Ron On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: :: On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:11:40 +0100 (CET), Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Why afraid of upgrading? Potato works fine with me...

Can't unzip kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-24 Thread Matheson
Hey, I keep downloading the kernel source (2.2.14) off of kernel.org (slink doesn't have the new kernel in it's package list), but I can't ever unzip it. I've tried downloading it with lynx about five times, but when I try to save it, it gives me an end-request i/o error. I've saved it to a

Re: Can't unzip kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:13:32AM -0700, Matheson wrote: Hey, I keep downloading the kernel source (2.2.14) off of kernel.org (slink doesn't have the new kernel in it's package list), but I can't ever unzip it. I've tried downloading it with lynx about five times, but when I try to save

Re: How to blank screen?

2000-03-24 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong) wrote: Ron == Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do you mean... blank the screen? Do you mean that after a while the screen just goes blank? If that's so see the setterm M (as in RTFM) and check the -blank option. That's

Re: Which MTA to use?

2000-03-24 Thread Joe Block
Damon Muller wrote: Quoth Brooks R. Robinson, I am looking at changing an in-house e-mail system from an ugly combination of outsourced collection/forwarding and JSMail on an NT server to linux. We have an ADSL line coming in, and I can handle all of the DNS and

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:20:59 +0100 (CET), Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What did you mean by go to the main/base and later to the main/lib? If you meant subdirectories, there was none in /var/cache/apt/archives. Anyway, I did what you said a few times, but even though bluefish was

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
In case I want to upgrade to potato, are the same recommendations for upgrading to slink valid? Like, not upgrading from X, but from text mode... And... Anything else? Thanks a lot! j. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~jeronimo

How to do a clean Potato install?

2000-03-24 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hello everyone! I haven't been subscribed to this list for a long time (and I didn't post a lot even then because I was new to Linux at the same time...) Anyway, here I am. I've had surprisingly much success with setting up my Slink box, but the included X-Free doesn't support my new Matrox, SMP

Re: Debian Perl Modules

2000-03-24 Thread Brian Lavender
I just downloaded perl 5.6.0 which was released yesterday, and I did a $ ./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr/local and it looks if all is well. I ran dselect, and it looks as if it still works. I also checked to make sure that my original perl 5.005_03 is still in /usr/bin and it looks as if it is

Re: How to do a clean Potato install?

2000-03-24 Thread Aaron Solochek
I don't know about the cd, but I had to make a couple of boot disks, a rescue, boot image, and three driver disks, and the potato install process used dhcp to configure my network, and did everything else over the net, it was great. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christian Pernegger wrote:

Re: AccelStar Permedia II AGP

2000-03-24 Thread Jason Christensen
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Brian wrote: Has anyone successfully installed this card? Not specifically this card, but another permedia2 based card, the Diamond FireGL 1000 Pro. AGP, 8M RAM. I'm using Slink 2.1r4. I see the card on the list here: http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html AccelStar

...no Masquerade...?

2000-03-24 Thread Jeff Gordon
Hi -- (I'm very much a newbie, though I've just gone through a month-long trial-by-trashed-partitions to get here. :-) Potato tells me IP Masquerading was not included in the kernel, a fact which now has my brother (he's fiftysomething; I'm fifty) from being able to reach the 'Net. Should we be

Re: XF86Setup apt-get

2000-03-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
apt-get install xserver-svga On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 07:05:04AM -0800, Michael Zielinski wrote: I set my sources.list to: http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main I did an apt-get update then apt-get upgrade. Everything went fine until I tried to run XF86Setup, this wasn't

Re: Two monitors (dual heads) on a single box?

2000-03-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
John Stevenson wrote: I know that it is possible, not exactly sure how though. I know that if you look into the framebuffer stuff of XFree, then it talks about having dual monitors for the same desktop. Sorry I cant be of much help, but the XFree docs should have something. Have a look

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

2000-03-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:45:30PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote: Hi -- (I'm very much a newbie, though I've just gone through a month-long trial-by-trashed-partitions to get here. :-) Potato tells me IP Masquerading was not included in the kernel, a fact which now has my brother (he's

Re: Can't unzip kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-24 Thread spectral
Hi, I keep downloading the kernel source (2.2.14) off of kernel.org (slink doesn't have the new kernel in it's package list), but I can't ever unzip it. I've tried downloading it with lynx about five times, but when I try to save it, it gives me an end-request i/o error. I've saved it to

PPP starts sending every other packet....

2000-03-24 Thread Joe Emenaker
I recently upgraded my Linux box that connects my house to the net. and I also upgraded the machine on the other end of the PPP connection, too (the one on the internet side). Something really wierd occurs, though. After a few minutes of heavy usage, the throughput will drop to almost zero.

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

2000-03-24 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:46:19PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: Most likely you are trying to use the old ipfwadm stuff and you need to use ipchains. Either way, modprobe ipchains should get you there. Hmm; well, 'ipchains' answers to its name but 'modprobe ipchains' says it knows of no such

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

2000-03-24 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:51:19PM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote: 2.Also, consider using kernel-package. If you can do Prolog and Perl, you can compile a kernel. The code for masquerading is in the kernel, but it needs to be turned on, so you will need to compile a kernel for yourself.

Re: 2 networks

2000-03-24 Thread Hecubus
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Allan M. Wind wrote: On 2000-03-24 05:40:37, The_Phantom 74 wrote: I KNOW OF A PRODUCT ... All caps spam, it can't get much worse. How is it spam when he was just answering the question? Or are you simply too ready to jump to conclusions? -- Hecubus

Moving /home to new Parition

2000-03-24 Thread Dzuy M. Nguyen
I mounted a new partition /hda12 and use the /home as the mountpoint. When I go: mount /dev/hda12 /home I end up with an empty directory. How do I move the current contents of my /home directory into the new mountpoint /home on /dev/hda12? thanks.

ntpdate

2000-03-24 Thread Dzuy M. Nguyen
How do I ad a ntpdate line to my rc.local boot script? I want it to synchronize my clock everytime I boots. I usually type: ntpdate 140.142.16.34 at the root prompt. I can't figure out how to put it into the startup script. thanks.

C++

2000-03-24 Thread Bart Friederichs
Hi, I am writing a C++ program and I really need info on how to overload operators (especially + and ) and info on streams. Does anybody know a URL where this kind of info can be found? TIA Bart

Re: Moving /home to new Parition

2000-03-24 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:51:25AM -0800, Dzuy M. Nguyen wrote: I mounted a new partition /hda12 and use the /home as the mountpoint. When I go: mount /dev/hda12 /home I end up with an empty directory. How do I move the current contents of my /home directory into the new mountpoint

Re: C++

2000-03-24 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Bart Friederichs wrote: Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:08:22 -0800 From: Bart Friederichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian userlist debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: C++ Resent-Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 20:05:22 + Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc:

Re: Moving /home to new Parition

2000-03-24 Thread Antonio Fiol Bonnín
Assuming you have a /mnt/tmp directory, you can do: mount /dev/hda12 /mnt/tmp cp -dpR /home/* /mnt/tmp Then you check that everything is on the right place, and that I have not given you the wrong cp command (verify symlinks for example). Check also that each file belongs to the right user and

Re: ntpdate

2000-03-24 Thread Patrick
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:56:54AM -0800, Dzuy M. Nguyen wrote: How do I ad a ntpdate line to my rc.local boot script? I want it to synchronize my clock everytime I boots. I usually type: ntpdate 140.142.16.34 Just read the instructions in /etc/init.d/ntpdate and it will work out of the

Re: ntpdate

2000-03-24 Thread Charon
Do an apt-get install ntp and it will install the ntp daemon.. it also prompts you to enter as many locations as you would like .. then it will boot ntpd for you automatically at bootup.. it's painless :) Oh yeah, apt-get rules ;) On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Dzuy M. Nguyen wrote: How do I ad a

Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-24 Thread Percival
I run a domain and host websites for myself and some friends. I am trying to learn all about linux/system administration/security and I want to run a responsible host as I have 24/7 Internet through a DSL. I try to run a secure box. I want to have easy freedom in limiting user access. I

Which version of PGP?

2000-03-24 Thread Percival
I am curious to see which version of PGP people are using. Debian is known as an open-source 'only' distribution, and I'm curious to see what people think about this whole patent issue. There are curerently 3 versions of PGP in potato - international, us, and internation version 5. Are there

Re: C++

2000-03-24 Thread Bart Friederichs
http://webstore.ansi.org/ Hmm, looks like a store, I don't wanna buy a book. Just some online info. It is the gaps in my memory that must be filled. Bart

Re: C++

2000-03-24 Thread Bart Friederichs
Never knew this was so easy to find.. http://www.gnacademy.org/uu-gna/text/cc/chapters.html Bart

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-24 Thread Antonio Fiol Bonnín
snip I want to have easy freedom in limiting user access. I have killed telnetd, and only sshd. I want to allow some users access through ssh, some through ftpd, and some through samba. How can I turn off user access through ssh, but keep their account, and allow them access through ftp?

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:11:59PM -0800, Percival wrote: I run a domain and host websites for myself and some friends. I am trying to learn all about linux/system administration/security and I want to run a responsible host as I have 24/7 Internet through a DSL. I try to run a secure

Re: Which version of PGP?

2000-03-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:13:55PM -0800, Percival wrote: I am curious to see which version of PGP people are using. Debian is known as an open-source 'only' distribution, and I'm curious to see what people think about this whole patent issue. There are curerently 3 versions of PGP in

dns changing

2000-03-24 Thread Beavis
how do i change the dns?

RE: Can't unzip kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-24 Thread C. Falconer
Or the other possibility is that lynx has saved the sources as linux-2.2.14.tar.gz and has ungzipped it without renaming it (or the opposit - called it linux-2.2.14.tar and its really a tar.gz file) -- From: Ben Collins[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 25 March 2000 5:21 AM

network

2000-03-24 Thread Beavis
how do i reconfigure my network change my ip, dns, gateway, etc. thankx

Re: dns changing

2000-03-24 Thread Antonio Fiol Bonnín
/etc/resolv.conf On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Beavis wrote: how do i change the dns?

Re: dns changing

2000-03-24 Thread Patrick
If you mean to change dns servers, just edit /etc/resplv.conf and then restart bind. On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:32:29PM -0800, Beavis wrote: how do i change the dns? -- Patrick Kirk Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy until you can find a rock.

Re: network

2000-03-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:38:14PM -0800, Beavis wrote: how do i reconfigure my network change my ip, dns, gateway, etc. depending on your Debian version: slink (or upgraded slink to potato): edit /etc/init.d/network pure potato: edit /etc/network/interfaces For any of them, edit

Re: network

2000-03-24 Thread Patrick
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:38:14PM -0800, Beavis wrote: how do i reconfigure my network change my ip, dns, gateway, etc. thankx Edit the following files in /etc/ resolv.conf hosts networks /etc/init.d/network All should work easily. No need to reboot like Windows. -- Patrick Kirk

Re: Two monitors (dual heads) on a single box?

2000-03-24 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter S Galbraith) wrote: John Stevenson wrote: I know that it is possible, not exactly sure how though. I know that if you look into the framebuffer stuff of XFree, then it talks about having dual monitors for the same desktop. Sorry I cant be of much help, but the XFree

Re: Moving /home to new Parition

2000-03-24 Thread Brian Lavender
First mount your new home partition under a different mount point. # mkdir /mnt/home # mount /dev/hda12 /mnt/home # cd /home # find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt/home # mv /home /oldhome Edit your fstab so that it mounts hda12 as home ie /dev/hda12 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 # init 6 This will reboot,

RE: XF86Setup apt-get

2000-03-24 Thread Ross Boylan
You need to get a server for your card for XFree to work. XF86Setup additionally requires the vanilla vga (svga?) server to run, but you can avoid this by using the console based configuration (XF86config--not the configuration file, but a script). It may be a bug that the configuration depends

Re: mutt and Turkish

2000-03-24 Thread Patrick
I've been searching about in www.mutt,org and can't find any reference to what I should ser charset to. Does anyome know where I can find out what the Turkish character set is and do I need to make any other changes to my system for it to work in mutt? On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:48:03AM +0900,

problem with latest X release

2000-03-24 Thread Britton
With the latest frozen software, I get Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' when I try to run X. Is this a known problem? Anyone have an idea what I should try first? Thanks. Britton Kerin

Re: (not)lame batch job

2000-03-24 Thread Hans
Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out. --Hans I'm using cdenc - snip --- #!/usr/bin/perl # # Creation of whole mp3 Suite of one CD # # Version 0.3.5 of 06.07.1999 by Stephan Skrodzki # snip - with little changes with lame or gogo. a very easy way to create *.mp3 from

Re: C++

2000-03-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
You can also check the following site http://www.BruceEckel.com/ which has great and very complete books about C++ and Java, downloadable in different formats: html, pdf, word, etc. Enjoy it Bart Friederichs wrote: Never knew this was so easy to find..

ypbind

2000-03-24 Thread Beavis
what is ypbind my xconsole keeps saying that it times out: Mar 24 .. spy ypbind[259]: broadcast:RPC: Timed out. what does that mean and how do i either fix it or get rid of it. just asking, beavis

Re: Squid ACLs does not work

2000-03-24 Thread sgaerner
Yes, I ran /etc/init.d/squid restart to reload the config file and the /etc/ban_domains.squid is readable to all, so this should no be a problem. Sven On 24-Mar-2000 John Pearson wrote: On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 11:13:42PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Hi, I have some problems with squid and

Re: ypbind

2000-03-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 02:54:26PM -0800, Beavis wrote: what is ypbind my xconsole keeps saying that it times out: Mar 24 .. spy ypbind[259]: broadcast:RPC: Timed out. what does that mean and how do i either fix it or get rid of it. Uninstall the nis package. Ben --

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