problemas con el modem

2000-05-19 Thread Luis Zuccolo
Hola a todos. Soy un usuario nuevo en linux o por lo menos trato de serlo ya que si no logro hacer funcionar mi modem voy a seguir dependiendo de windows para conectarme a la red. Si bien tengo entendido que los winmodem no funcionan en linux por la falte de drivers, he conseguido uno para mi

Re: ADSL e IP fija ¡¿si o no?!

2000-05-19 Thread Manel Marin
Hola a todos, On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 03:16:06AM +0200, Javier Fafián Alvarez wrote: Reply-To: El caso es que una de las preguntas es recurrente, ¿ADSL implica IP fija?, a ... Que yo sepa, cada vez que te conectas a Internet, te dan una ip nueva, de forma que si mediante adsl estás

Re: ¿ILOVEYOU para !*n*x?

2000-05-19 Thread Manel Marin
Hola a todos, On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 11:17:43AM +0200, Antonio Castro wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2000, 2070718 wrote: Sin embargo nuestra torpe secretaria al recibir dicho mensaje donde se le dice si aprieta aceptar puede ser peligroso!!! tu que crees que har? a eso me refiero cuando digo

Re: ADSL e IP fija ¡¿si o no?!

2000-05-19 Thread AYMA
At 20:07 18/05/00 +0200, you wrote: esto no es exactamente asi. No tengo ADSL, por lo que podria equivocarme, pero segun tengo entendido (y estoy casi seguro de que lo he entendido bien ;)) en pricipio te asignan IP fija (la misma cada vez que enciendes el ordenador) pero tu puedes elegir si no la

Desarrollo y 64 bits

2000-05-19 Thread yashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 BSD Hola gente como andan? espero que bien Hoy lei en barrapunto que rh ya lanzo una beta creo que es de sus distro para el nuevo procesador de 64 bits que va a sacar Intel. Mi pregunta es la siguiente, Debian esta desarrollando algo para esa

RE: ADSL e IP fija ¡¿si o no?!

2000-05-19 Thread Jesús Robles
Pero ¿y si lo que quiero es tener un dominio que apunte a mi servidor conectado a través de ADSL?. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Javier Fafián Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Usuarios Debian Español debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 7:04 AM

Re: ADSL e IP fija ¡¿si o no?!

2000-05-19 Thread Blu
AYMA wrote: At 09:15 19/05/00 +0200, you wrote: Pero ¿y si lo que quiero es tener un dominio que apunte a mi servidor conectado a través de ADSL?. Pues impepinablemente tienes que gastarte la pasta para que el proveedor te de una IP fija. Afirmo. Juan O usar un servicio de DNS

Re: =?x-unknown?q?Re=3A_ADSL_e_IP_fija_=A1=BFsi_o_no=3F!?=

2000-05-19 Thread Eduardo Urrea
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Nitebirdz[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Totalmente de acuerdo. Supongo que funcionara como DSL aqui en los EEUU, en cuyo caso la respuesta anterior es correct. Solo me gustaria agnadir una pequegna cosa: cada vez que tu proveedor de Internet tenga que hacer cambios o simple

Helixcode en .deb

2000-05-19 Thread Amaya
Casi no he tenido tiempo ni de investigarlo (y menos probarlo) pero aquí encontraréis más información: http://gnotices.gnome.org/gnome-news/958714217/index_html La última versión de Gnome empaquetada para Debian. Enjoy!!! --- Amaya M. Rodrigo SastreDemasiado.com Corporation

Helixcode Gnome para Debian

2000-05-19 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
Los paquetes de Gnome de Helixcode, la empresa de Miguel de Icaza que está haciendo versiones ultraestables de Gnome para usuarios finales, acaba de anunciar que ya tiene listos paquetes para Debian (hasta ahora sólo había RPMs). Por ahora son beta, y están sólo para unstable. Pero puede

Size Sendmail + qmail + uucp ?

2000-05-19 Thread Humberto . Morell
Hola He visto en la configuracion de Sendmail el parametro Size que limita los mensajes que llegan a las cuentas internas al igual que para el las cuentas de uucp hay un size en un M4 o sea acepto un tamaño de entrada desde el exterior pero como puedo hacer esto para limitar los mensajes que

Re: Desarrollo y 64 bits

2000-05-19 Thread Xavier Andrade
BSD Hola gente como andan? espero que bien Hoy lei en barrapunto que rh ya lanzo una beta creo que es de sus distro para el nuevo procesador de 64 bits que va a sacar Intel. Mi pregunta es la siguiente, Debian esta desarrollando algo para esa plataforma? de no ser asi, tiene pensado

No me arranca el rescue disk.

2000-05-19 Thread Ignasi Modolell
Estoy intentando instalar Debian en un 386/40 sin coprocesador, con 8 Mb. de RAM y sin CDROM, la instalación (si finalmente se puede) se hará por NFS. El problema es que no consigo arrancar el rescue, lo he probado con el resc1440.bin, el tecra, el safe, el tecra-save y el lowmem, y

No puedo hacer funcionar una Trident Blade3d

2000-05-19 Thread Miguel Angel Rodríguez
Hola. Hace un tiempo solicité ayuda a la lista para instalar una Trident Blade3d. Hue-Bond me respondió, aunque lo que él me sugirió que hiciera yo ya lo había hecho sin buen resultado. Después no pude continuar porque me aparecieron otros problemas informáticos. Ahora vuelvo a la carga :-).

¡Diccionario Alemán-Español|

2000-05-19 Thread Isaac Puch Rojo
Aprovecho que el tema del los diccionarios esta caliente en la lista. Desde hace tiempo estoy buscando un diccionario Alemán Español para Linux. Buscando por la red encontré los diccionarios i2e, y qi2e, que es una versión del primero para el gestor de ventanas. Investigando vi que el

Re: gvim

2000-05-19 Thread Isaac Puch Rojo
Javier Fafián Alvarez wrote: Si Jaime, está instado tanto el vim como el vim-gtk como el vim-rt. Pero nada de nada. Los acentos en el gvim no van ni de coña. En la consola si, y en el emulador de consola también, pero con deficiencias en algunas teclas como inicio y fin. Creo recordar

LILO y otras cosas de portatiles

2000-05-19 Thread SKaVeN
Hell-o Jaime E. Villate! El día Wed, May 17, 2000 at 02:06:57PM +0100 decías: Em mi portatil (y creo que en muchos otros) no funcionan las bzImages. ¿que portatil tienes? en el mio la bzImages no dan ningun problema Pero de todas formas ¿estas seguro que eso resolverá el problema? es que

Re: ¿ILOVEYOU para !*n*x?

2000-05-19 Thread SKaVeN
Hell-o Hue-Bond! El día Tue, May 16, 2000 at 06:17:15AM +0200 decías: ...pero en Bugtraq se ha comentado la posibilidad de crear un virus decente, multiplataforma, polimórfico, que se comunicase por internet con otros equipos infectados, etc. Esa posibilidad es real

Re: [Fwd: Sistema Operativo Programa PADRE]

2000-05-19 Thread SKaVeN
Hell-o Fernando! El día Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:27:31AM +0200 decías: Os envio la respuesta que me han dado de hacienda :-) pensandolo bien pienso que no hemos enfocado esto de la mejor forma. ¿Por que exigirles versión de linux y no simplemente una version Open Source del software para que

Re: [Fwd: Sistema Operativo Programa PADRE]

2000-05-19 Thread Miguel S Garrido
Siempre queda la opción de probarlo con wine... Saludos... - Original Message - From: SKaVeN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lista Debian Español debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 11:59 AM Subject: Re: [Fwd: Sistema Operativo Programa PADRE] Hell-o Fernando! El

Re: [Fwd: Sistema Operativo Programa PADRE]

2000-05-19 Thread Miguel S Garrido
Depende, wmware es un emulador y necesita que instales Windoze en alguna parte de tu máquina, mientras que wine es una implementación libre del Windoze (o algo así) que permite ejecutar binarios de Windoze en Linux, facilitando la migración y el desarrollo de aplicaciones... - Original

Re: No me arranca el rescue disk.

2000-05-19 Thread Ismael Canales
El Fri, May 19, 2000 at 04:45:53PM +, Ignasi Modolell dijo: Sospecho mucho de la memoria, pero no tengo ni idea de cómo confirmarlo, no dispongo de más SIMMs que los ocho que tiene metidos, y no puedo quitarlos de uno en uno, sinó de 4 en 4 (y con sólo 4 Mb. no voy ni a intentarlo);

Re: No me arranca el rescue disk.

2000-05-19 Thread Hue-Bond
El viernes 19 de mayo de 2000 a la(s) 16:45:53 +, Ignasi Modolell contaba: Sospecho mucho de la memoria, pero no tengo ni idea de cómo confirmarlo, no dispongo de más SIMMs que los ocho que tiene metidos, y no puedo quitarlos de uno en uno, sinó de 4 en 4 (y con sólo 4 Mb. no voy ni a

Versão de testes do boot-floppies em Português

2000-05-19 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Devido ao grande retorno que obtive com as mensagens relacionadas aos testes do sistema de instalação em Português e revisão da nova tradução do sistema de instalação da Debian potato (0 ao todo), vou enviar amanhã uma versão em Português do disquete de inicialização e boot para o ftp da escelsa

sound-problems

2000-05-19 Thread Jacob I. Stowell
Hello, I am a brand new to the world of linux. I have potato installed on my system at home, and I am now trying to set up sound modules. I am stuck and was wondering if anyone could help me. I will be as detailed as possible, so please forgive any redundant information: 1. using xconfig, I

Re: Netscape spawn real player?

2000-05-19 Thread Corey Popelier
I downloaded the RealPlayer Beta 7 from the RealPlayer website and it installed fine and runs fine. There is a RealPlayer installer .deb but I recommend trying the Beta on their website. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 18

Re: MUAs (was Re: Help with the /etc/init.d/network)

2000-05-19 Thread Mike Werner
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 08:04:26PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: I didn't like Netscrape for mail - Nor do I, however ... it word wraps in the wrong places and to put mail in separate folders you've either got to monkey around with `procmail' or endlessly drag and drop from Inbox to

Re: changing default shells

2000-05-19 Thread Brian
Justin Megawarne said: On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:04:10PM -0700, Nick wrote: i installed Tsch how do i get back to BASH thankx easy peasy ... run chsh =) And another helpful tip is: If you don't know how to use vi, you'll need to edit all of your shell rc files (.bashrc, .tcsh, etc -- or

Re: My Debian box is unstable- Why?

2000-05-19 Thread Eric Hagglund
First of all I would like to say your kernel is qoute ols, my suggestion: compile a new one! I will take that under advisement. I don't normally like to reinvent the weel just to get a new hubcap though . I know a little dramatic, but if it ain't broke, why fix it? Is there something wrong

Re: My Debian box is unstable- Why?

2000-05-19 Thread Peter Good
xllamp became xmms didn't it? and as for sharing, neither my sb16 no awe32 allow sharing, only when i recently upgraded to an awe64 could i get system sounds while playing mp3's. Peter. Eric Hagglund wrote: First of all I would like to say your kernel is qoute ols, my suggestion: compile

Re: MUAs (was Re: Help with the /etc/init.d/network)

2000-05-19 Thread Peter Good
Actually it's not hard in netscape to perform filtering. If whateverbitofmsg (eg to, sender etc) contains blah then move to folder (or whatever action you want.) Word wrap is in Edit/Preferences/Mail and Newsgroups/Messages/Message Wrapping Peter. Mike Werner wrote: ... this is not true.

In answer to numerous msgs about changing username

2000-05-19 Thread Peter Good
Usermod has the capability. usermod -d home_dir The user's new login directory. If the -m option is given the contents of the current home directory will be moved to the new home directory, which is created if it does not already exist.

Re: Can't compile GTK programs in Slink

2000-05-19 Thread Marshal Wong
Cameron == Cameron Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey, Whenever I try to compile GTK+ or GTK-- programs, It says it can't find glib-config.h. I have the rest of the glib headers, so I don't know why I don't have this one. Anyway, Does anybody know what package that file

Re: apt-get install or upgrade from stored archive

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
Idea!! Just make sure all the .debs are in /var/cache/apt/archives and do an upgrade, apt finds out that it's not needed to download everything so, it doesn't!! Ron Rademaker On Thu, 18 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: There should be a way, because otherwise there is no reason for the

Re: My Debian box is unstable- Why?

2000-05-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 03:21:32AM -0700, Eric Hagglund wrote: First of all I would like to say your kernel is qoute ols, my suggestion: compile a new one! I will take that under advisement. I don't normally like to reinvent the weel just to get a new hubcap though . I know a

Re: making potato cds

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
cdrecord, a cd-r, a cd-writer, perhaps cdrecord's it's manpages ;)) Ron Rademaker On Thu, 18 May 2000, Zachary Hartley wrote: does anyone know how to make potato cds? i found .raw files at debian.bilow.com i was thinking i could put them on a cd to install potato what do i need to do to

Re: Stuck...

2000-05-19 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:18:34PM +0200, Daniel Fahlgren wrote: On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 11:36:20AM -0700, Brian Hazelwood wrote: Good Morning, I new to Linux and intalling debian 2.1 for the first time. I have not had any problems untill this point. After I am prompted for my

Re: My Debian box is unstable- Why?

2000-05-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 03:21:32AM -0700, Eric Hagglund wrote: I know a little dramatic, but if it ain't broke, why fix it? Is there something wrong with the 2.0.36 kernel that I should know about? there are several security bugs and denial of service problems with 2.0.36, if you want to

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-19 Thread Bruce Sass
I went through this with Terry Gray (Pine Development Team) and Santiago Vila (Debian maintainer of the Pine source) about the time Pine 4.20 was coming out... On Thu, 18 May 2000, Will Lowe wrote: Can I ask why debian doesn't include pine? Just curious. I know Debian The license for pine

Re: Video display question.

2000-05-19 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hey, I got really tired of the ATI Rage .. had it on this box with the 2.1 release running 2.2.14 and the bugs in the xserver just wouldn't let the poor rage do it's thing. I seen posts a while back about getting the latest greatest x and that was making things better. I just decided to get

Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-19 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hi Ron, I tried them both. I was happier with Triplite... Tho, it too was returned. I need to leave my box here, some times for days unattended. I have a huge set of backup batteries that I run all my radio gear from.. I decided there had to be a product that would use MY batteries and not

Re: S3, S3V, or XF86_SVGA server

2000-05-19 Thread kmself
...ok, so sometimes I let my email ripen a bit before sending it... On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 12:26:37PM +1200, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: Heather wrote: ...or whichever. That is, if you insist on using the SVGA builtin instead of XF86_S3 or _S3V as applicable. Hi, I have a S3 Virge/MX

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-19 Thread Will Lowe
So, it is not so much that Debian doesn't have permission to distribute a modified binary package, it is that doing so would open up a whole can'o'worms w.r.t. redistribution... so why go there and possibly cause problems for Debian's distributors, eh. That's exactly why it doesn't pass the

Re: sound-problems

2000-05-19 Thread Brian Stults
You might try moving the modules directory to a different name and then make modules_install again. For example: mv /lib/modules/2.2.14 /lib/modules/2.2.14-old make modules_install This will create a fresh modules directory in /lib/modules. It probably won't make any difference, but it just

Re: squid maybe causing crash

2000-05-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just had my mail/internet server crash. It took a while for fsck to fix the problem... but most of the errors point to squid caching directories is there a connection here??? Well yes, squid is a process that has a lot of files open.

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 02:52:16AM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: So, it is not so much that Debian doesn't have permission to distribute a modified binary package, it is that doing so would open up a whole can'o'worms w.r.t. redistribution... so why go there and possibly cause problems for

FWD: Helix GNOME packages for Debian available for testing. (fwd)

2000-05-19 Thread Joey Hess
- Forwarded message from Martin Quinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:17:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: Martin Quinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Helix GNOME packages for Debian available for testing. (fwd) Sorry if it floods, but did you see this mail ?

Re: Will KDE2 be in woody?

2000-05-19 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
* Mike Cook | | I read that the beta relaese og kde2 was released the other day, so | I typed apt-get install kdebase to see if there were debian packages for | it. Here's the message I got: | | Reading Package Lists... Done | Building Dependency Tree... Done | Note, selecting kdebase-cvs instead

dumbass wm question

2000-05-19 Thread Dominic Blythe
can somebody please explain the relationship between desktop, window-manager, filemanager, X etc? i jus' don' get it. i want to cut down the amount of resource my given to gui, people keep saying sawmill is small, enlightenment is this, kde is that, but i don't know what all the bits are.

emacs ignores certain commands in .emacs

2000-05-19 Thread Johann Spies
I like emacs and prefer it to xemacs because of xemac's delete-key and backspace key behaviour which differs between the console and X environments. But I have a few problems which I do not understand. In my .emacs file I have inter alia the following: (setq text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

ISDN question

2000-05-19 Thread Michael Meskes
We tried to set up a machine with ISDN that should automatically receiver DNS information from the provider. This worked well with an analog modem but failed with ISDN. Is there anything that needs special configuration? Michael P.S.: Please CC me on replies. -- Michael Meskes

RE: dumbass wm question

2000-05-19 Thread Dominic Blythe
so is there a full-on desktop that's pretty tiny? if i want to know what time/day it is i can look at the clock on my wall etc -Original Message- From: Stephan Engelke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 May 2000 10:06 To: Dominic Blythe Subject: Re: dumbass wm question Hi

RE: dumbass wm question

2000-05-19 Thread Stephan Engelke
Dominic Blythe writes: thanks very much stephan - that clears it up a bit. so i could survive with, for instance X + sawmill + midnight commander, but then I wouldn't necessarily have all the handy taskbar/configuration utilities? sort of :-) Since neither KDE nor GNOME are mopnolithic

Re: MUAs (was Re: Help with the /etc/init.d/network)

2000-05-19 Thread Burkhard Perkens-Golomb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ethan Benson) writes: [...] the only MUA for *nix that includes an MTA is bloatscape communicator. Or you can look at xfmail. I've used it a long time (but now I'm using gnus), and it's easy to setup. Inlucdes code for POP3 and IMAP, can talk SMTP. Burkhard

Why is the Debian home page so boring?

2000-05-19 Thread Svante Signell
Hello, I've been running Debian on one of my home network computer for a while now. Starting from slink, upgrading to potato and following further upgrades to unstable/woody. The combination of apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade is really excellent!! Combined with the power of dpkg

Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

2000-05-19 Thread Petr Cech
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 11:47:36AM +0200 , Svante Signell wrote: Following is a proposal on what to emphasize on the FIRST page: 1. Rewrite the Getting Started section, e.g. inform about the large number of architectures and packages supported. This surely attracts new users. 2.

translatiion FAQ etc.

2000-05-19 Thread debianize
Hi, I want to translate Debian documentation/FAQ into Indonesian language so it can be appear on the debian homepage. Is there any procedure that I should follow? TIA -- fade2blac in my darkest hour

Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

2000-05-19 Thread Tom Pfeifer
I'm not saying that the home page couldn't be improved, but remember that Debian is not a commercial distribution, so there is no reason to give the appearance of trying to sell you something. When I was a Linux newcomer a couple of years ago, it was actually the simplicity and lack of clutter on

Re: KDE with another WM?

2000-05-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Something tells me I saw an option to use an alternate WM with KDE... is it possible? Where did I see that? I'd like to use Sawmill for it's lightness... kde is normally startet by running /usr/bin/startkde. if you want to change your wm, then paste the contents of this file into your

RE: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

2000-05-19 Thread Chris Mason
But what's really missing is some of that ever-popular BLINKing text, some large red letters on a colourful background, loads of clip art animations, and some huge pictures to make the visitors wait over a minute for the first page. That ought to do it. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla,

Re: translatiion FAQ etc.

2000-05-19 Thread Darlock
On Fri, 19 May 2000, debianize wrote: Hi, I want to translate Debian documentation/FAQ into Indonesian language so it can be appear on the debian homepage. Is there any procedure that I should follow? TIA Take a look at http://www.debian.org/international/. As you

libfltk-dev: which config.h

2000-05-19 Thread Johann Spies
I am trying to compile the programs in /usr/share/doc/libfltk1/examples/. After copying the files to /tmp and gunzipping the .gz files I get the following error when I run make: c++ -I.. -g -fPIC -Wall -Wno-return-type -I/usr/X11R6/include CubeMain.cxx -cCubeMain.cxx:26: config.h: No such

ISO IMAGE OF DEBIAN?

2000-05-19 Thread -={ Menno Slaats }=-
Does anyone know where I can download the ISO IMAGE of Debian? Thanks, Menno Slaats

Re: libfltk-dev: which config.h

2000-05-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I am trying to compile the programs in /usr/share/doc/libfltk1/examples/. After copying the files to /tmp and gunzipping the .gz files I get the following error when I run make: is there a file named configure? did you run it before makeing? -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into

RE: dumbass wm question

2000-05-19 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi, Dominic Blythe writes: so is there a full-on desktop that's pretty tiny? if i want to know what time/day it is i can look at the clock on my wall etc Maybe take a look at xfce (www.xfce.org). I am not sure what you mean by tiny. If memory usage is a concern, you are probably better of

apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
There has been a small discussion in the debian-users mailing list about how to restore a system that was, in the following order: 1. Installed, slink (for example) 2. Upgraded (apt-get update, dist-upgrade pointing to frozen) 3. A copy of the /var/cache/apt/archives was made in another partition

UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-19 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Hello, I've been thinking about getting a new UPS. Previously I purchased APC products, but I want to hear about other experiences. I've pretty much narrowed it down to a product from APC or Tripplite. APC is more expensive, less Linux/UNIX friendly, but makes good products (IMHO). Tripplite is

Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-19 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Questions: 1:) What is the best way to make apt-get use the /archives folder to perform the upgrade and return the system to stage 2. above? 2:) Perhaps some other feature can be added to apt-get to allow this reconstruction to occur in a smooth way? That would save

Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-19 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There has been a small discussion in the debian-users mailing list about how to restore a system that was, in the following order: 1. Installed, slink (for example) 2. Upgraded (apt-get update, dist-upgrade pointing to frozen) 3. A copy of the

mailagent setup headache

2000-05-19 Thread Tony
Hello, I reported a problem setting up mailagent a couple of days ago - I was gettng these sorts of errors: $ mailagent -i -t ./testmail.txt mailagent: WARNING waiting for -/var/mailagent/.seq lock since 22 seconds mailagent: WARNING waiting for -/var/mailagent/perl lock since 22 seconds

diald inactivity timer...

2000-05-19 Thread James Tetazoo
I have been successful in creating a /etc/diald/diald.options file that allows diald to connect on demand to my ISP via PPP. However, the default inactivity timer seems to be set to 30 seconds. In other words, if 30 contiguous seconds of inactivity go by, diald shuts down the link. This is

Re: The /source of the problem...or is that the /src?

2000-05-19 Thread Graeme Mathieson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, montefin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But*, one tiny, core question remains. Which is it: /usr/src, /usr/local/source, /usr/local/src? /disk/src, with /usr/src and /usr/local/src symlinked into it. :) At least that's what I do. Of course,

Re: The /source of the problem...or is that the /src?

2000-05-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 12:41:18PM +0100, Graeme Mathieson wrote: Hi, montefin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But*, one tiny, core question remains. Which is it: /usr/src, /usr/local/source, /usr/local/src? /disk/src, with /usr/src and /usr/local/src symlinked into it. :) At least that's

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2000-05-19 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I came across an article on tweaking your hard disk from 16 to 32 bit mode on LinuxNewbie.org... Some Linux distributions aren't optimized for your specific system, so tweaks are necessary. I run RedHat 6.1, and here is how I sped up my disk speed by enabling 32-bit I/O and DMA on my system.

Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

2000-05-19 Thread Darren O. Benham
Speaking as a member of the webteam... You're welcome to submit the rewrites. There are instructions on the site for downloading the webpages in source (*.wml, not *.html) form. In particular... Following changes can be a time consuming process (ask the people who do the Debian Weekly News)

RE: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

2000-05-19 Thread Dominic Blythe
wml? like for wap? From: Darren O. Benham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Speaking as a member of the webteam... You're welcome to submit the rewrites. There are instructions on the site for downloading the webpages in source (*.wml, not *.html) form. In particular...

Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

2000-05-19 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 19 May 2000, at 14 h 43, the keyboard of Dominic Blythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wml? like for wap? Of course not. The telephone moguls stole the name of an already existing free program, WML, Web Meta Language, http://www.engelschall.com/sw/wml/, which is used by Debian (and

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-19 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Michel Verdier wrote: [cut] Everybody knows that .deb are usually the last to be released to increase stability for .deb packages. When security is an issue .rpm and .deb are both tested and it would be great to have statistics to know which is the quicker to be installed and used. I must

DSL and DEBIAN

2000-05-19 Thread Ben Babich
Hi, does anyone know if there is support for dsl within debian or redhat? If not, will it be in the plan for the next release? Regards, Ben

Re: diald inactivity timer...

2000-05-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 08:35:31AM -0400, James Tetazoo wrote: From reading the diald man page, I think the following in my diald.options file may come close to doing what I want: Look at the file /etc/diald/standard.filter which defines rules for keeping the link open based on the particular

Re: emacs ignores certain commands in .emacs

2000-05-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I won't address all your problems... In my .emacs file I have inter alia the following: (setq text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) You want (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) (setq reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t) (setq reftex-enable-partial-scans t) (setq reftex-save-parse-info

Deb. 2.2 setting up loopback/route

2000-05-19 Thread Malte Schmidt
Hello World, i've installed a frozen 2.2 debian and encountered some problems setting up route network loopback. First I found that a nslookup localhost wasn't working. Since no network is attached to the PC i understood that i have to configure loopback/route. I configured the loopback device

Failure to connect to some sites

2000-05-19 Thread Norman Walsh
I don't even know where to begin debugging this one. For a long time now, I've known that there were some sites on the net that simply will not talk to me. For example, www.compaq.com, www.toshiba.com, sourceforge.net, etc. (The last one being my current pressing problem :-) I have a small

Printing to an HP 2000Cxi?

2000-05-19 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I need to be able to print to an HP 2000Cxi printer from Linux. I'm running magicfilterconfig to setup the printcap. Magicfilter has a lot of drivers but it doesn't seem to have much for HP inktjets. I see a lot of laserjet drivers and deskjet dj500 dj500c but I'm wondering whether these

RE: DSL and DEBIAN

2000-05-19 Thread Paul McHale
DSL is typically connected to you computers via network. The protocol is TCP/IP which is supported by all Linux, Unix and Windows distributions. You should have no problem. You just have to configure you computers for IP, Netmask and Gateway. The gateway IP will be the IP of you DSL

Re: ISO IMAGE OF DEBIAN?

2000-05-19 Thread Rev GRC Sperry
This is a good site for iso's of many dists: http://www.linuxiso.org/ * -={ Menno Slaats }=- ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000519 05:12] wrote: Does anyone know where I can download the ISO IMAGE of Debian? Thanks, Menno Slaats -- -Grant

log file full of -- MARK --

2000-05-19 Thread Gregory Guthrie
/var/messages has a -- MARK -- every 20 minutes; why? Thanks, Greg

Re: log file full of -- MARK --

2000-05-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
/var/messages has a -- MARK -- every 20 minutes; why? to show, that the system lives. :) if you don't like it, then supply -m 1 to syslogd -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the answer, I want the problems back!

Re: The /source of the problem...or is that the /src?

2000-05-19 Thread Graeme Mathieson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: make also gets pissed off if the clocks on both machines are not EXACTLY the same. That's what time synchronisation is for. And if you've not got root on the boxen in question, got shout at the luser

Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-19 Thread Jeff Noxon
Have you looked at Best Power? The Fortress line is very competitive with APC, and comes with software and source code! Onvia.com carries them, and with free shipping and the various $25 coupon codes floating around... You can't beat the price! I bought one on back-order, and it arrived in two

APM Disable

2000-05-19 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Guys, After a few minutes my monitors shut due to APM. Where do I shutoff APM? I checked the bios and didnt see anything dor the monitor. Any sugestion would be great

Re: log file full of -- MARK --

2000-05-19 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 05:15 PM 05/19/2000 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: /var/messages has a -- MARK -- every 20 minutes; why? to show, that the system lives. :) if you don't like it, then supply -m 1 to syslogd -- will do. Never seen this on any other unix system...

Re: Virusscan / Exim

2000-05-19 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Dirk Allard wrote: Hi, does anybody know of a automated virusscan (like amavis) working with exim? I do. It's called amavis ;-) I had to tweak amavis a bit to change the parameters it accepts and I had to reconfigure exim. If you are interested I can send you my setup. maybe you can help

Hard Drive Upgrade

2000-05-19 Thread Daniel J. Kruszyna
Hello, I just recently upgraded the hard drive on my Debian machine (an intel box running potato), and while everything copied successfully, I could not get the new hard disk to boot. I then changed my lilo.conf to point to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14 instead of the symlink at /vmlinuz, and everythinig

Re: changing default shells

2000-05-19 Thread David Teague
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Nick wrote: i installed Tsch how do i get back to BASH Use chsh. I include the first few lines of the man page. --David CHSH(1) CHSH(1) NAME chsh - change login shell SYNOPSIS chsh [-s login_shell] [user]

Re: log file full of -- MARK --

2000-05-19 Thread Graeme Mathieson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Oswald Buddenhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /var/messages has a -- MARK -- every 20 minutes; why? to show, that the system lives. :) if you don't like it, then supply -m 1 to syslogd pedant ... which will produce a -- MARK -- every

init - autostarts

2000-05-19 Thread Dominic Blythe
all that starting syslogd, starting inetd etc when you're booting, it's controlled by init, right? how do i tell it not to start the things I'd rather not be running? Dominic -- I used to be an advocate of

RE: MUAs (was Re: Help with the /etc/init.d/network)

2000-05-19 Thread A. Scott White
Thanks to all for the MUA advice. I can see that I'm going to have to learn some new things (again), like MTAs. Linux has an amazing ability to laugh at your years as a computer professional make you feel like an idiot. But that's what's so [EMAIL PROTECTED] great about it.

Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-19 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: 1:) What is the best way to make apt-get use the /archives folder to perform the upgrade and return the system to stage 2. above? cp /archive/*.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/ (or ln -s) Fini. Jason

Using 32 Bit DMA?

2000-05-19 Thread Jonathan Gift
Repost: Forgot subject in haste... Sorry. Hi, I came across an article on tweaking your hard disk from 16 to 32 bit mode on LinuxNewbie.org... Some Linux distributions aren't optimized for your specific system, so tweaks are necessary. I run RedHat 6.1, and here is how I sped up my disk speed

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