Re: seguridad en debian

2000-09-01 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Ya se ha hablado del tema en barrapunto (www.barrapunto.com) no se si en la sección de seguridad o de Debian. En resumen: muchos de los problemas que se arguyen son falsos porque estaban arreglados y otros surgieron *después* de que se liberara potato. Mira www.debian.org/security

Re: presentacion y algunas dudas

2000-09-01 Thread Carlos Solano
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:55:49PM -0400, Rodrigo De la Vega wrote: Hola lista Soy nuevo en debian (vengo de la distribucion del sombrero rojo). Me impresiona lo completa que es e inteligente diseño de su sistema de paquetes. Lo primero que me llama la atencion es si

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2000-09-01 Thread JAVIER RODRIGUEZ
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Re: presentacion y algunas dudas

2000-09-01 Thread Paco Brufal
On sep/01/2000, David Charro Ripa wrote: xfs-xtt - X-TrueType font server xfstt - TrueType Font Server for X11 Supongo que alguno de los dos últimos es lo que buscas. Desconozco la diferencia. Creo que xfstt dejó de desarrollarse... yo lo uso desde principios de Slink y en año y

Manual Debian ...

2000-09-01 Thread Santiago Romero
Enas... soy usuario de Redhat desde hace mucho tiempo, y me he decidido a probar Debian 2.2 potato. Más que nada cambio por cosas como apt-get y similares. El caso es que me gustaría disponer de algún manual que explique todo (aunque no soy usuario novato) más que nada para saber qué hago en

Re: Manual Debian ...

2000-09-01 Thread Ricardo Javier Cardenes Medina
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 05:05:05PM +0200, Santiago Romero wrote: Enas... soy usuario de Redhat desde hace mucho tiempo, y me he decidido a probar Debian 2.2 potato. Más que nada cambio por cosas como apt-get y similares. El caso es que me gustaría disponer de algún manual que explique todo

Re: Manual Debian ...

2000-09-01 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Para la información de instalación y notas de la distribución 2.2 http://www.es.debian.org/releases/stable/ Para documentación (sin terminar o en desarrollo) http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp Para cosas de Debian en español

loadkeys es

2000-09-01 Thread Juanmi
Hola!!! Al final gracias a Antonio Neiros? he podido instalar la potato via ftp. Va muy fina, pero no consigo poner el teclado bien en consola. Haciendo loadkeys es, no consigo que salga la 'ñ'. Qué es lo que hago mal? Si alguien quiere el procedimiento de instalación via ftp, que Antonio me

Re: seguridad en debian

2000-09-01 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:57:14PM -0400, Rodrigo De la Vega wrote: Por ahi me tope con el siguiente articulo: http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet2830.html que opinion les merece? Te recomiendo que leas los comentarios en la historia de Slashdot. Si el señor considera que

Re: Servidor Linux de imagenes de floppys (chuleta)

2000-09-01 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 07:51:29PM +0200, Manel Marin wrote: Lo único que no se resolver de forma sencilla es el tema de enviar una imagen comprimida por correo electrónico a un usuario novel (todo GPL). ¿Quiza enviandole la imagen comprimida como *.ZIP? ¿Afecta alguna patente a ese formato?

YOPI

2000-09-01 Thread Luis Jose
Algunos de ustedes saben donde puedo comprar yopi¿

[jmimora: [aneiros1@teleline.es: Re: Tanto piar... y acabo instalando Potato]]

2000-09-01 Thread Juanmi
Nas!!! Esta esta es una guia rápida para instalar la potato desde la red. Saludos!!! - Forwarded message from Juanmi jmimora - Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 20:15:27 +0200 From: Juanmi jmimora To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Tanto piar... y acabo instalando Potato]

Re: Manual Debian ...

2000-09-01 Thread Antonio
- Un saludo. Antonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Santiago Romero wrote: Hombre Santiago, si se enteran en el ecol de que al final vas a probar la potato ;-) igual te mentan una buena. Enas... soy usuario de Redhat desde hace mucho tiempo, y me he decidido a probar Debian

Re: loadkeys es

2000-09-01 Thread Antonio
- Un saludo. Antonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Juanmi wrote: Hola!!! Al final gracias a Antonio Neiros? he podido instalar la potato via Es Aneiros (raro el apellido, ya lo sé) ftp. Va muy fina, pero no consigo poner el teclado bien en consola. Haciendo loadkeys es,

Re: [Quedada Universidad de Valencia] ERA: Re: Voy a Madrid

2000-09-01 Thread Alfredo Casademunt
El Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:56:29AM -0400, Virgilio Gómez Rubio dijo: Hola: Bah, debían prohibir eventos Debianeros en los que no esté yo. Jordi :) ¿Y por qué no montamos una quedada debianera en la Universidad de Valencia, Campus de Burjassot? Que yo sepa hay, por lo menos, 5

Re: presentacion y algunas dudas

2000-09-01 Thread David Charro Ripa
Soy nuevo en debian Bienvenido Lo primero que me llama la atencion es si Potato usa un servidor de fuentes independiente de X para el renderizado de las mismas, ya que veo en el XF86Config especificadas directamente las rutas a los fonts, ¿viene algo como el xfs con la

Fler problem med X

2000-09-01 Thread Rustan Rosen
Jag kör potato uppgraderad till woody, med helix-gnome och egeninstallerad XFree86-4.0.1

Re: Re: Nova Versão !!!

2000-09-01 Thread Alberto Pereira
Antes tarde do que nunca :) On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Carlos Laviola wrote: Você não acha que respondeu essa mensagem um pouco tarde demais? Afinal, ela foi escrita em 1996. :) On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Alberto Pereira wrote: Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:42:21 -0300 (BRT) To: Mauricio de Souza [EMAIL

Debian-br

2000-09-01 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oi gente, eu ia mandar essa mensagem depois, mas resolvi mandar logo. Desculpa o pessoal que recebe repetido esse tipo de mensagem. Atualizei a pagina debian-br (www.linuxsolutions.com.br/debian-br) com as noticias do kov (noticias da debian traduzidas dessa

Re: Debian-br

2000-09-01 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Blz... aih, soh confirmando... a msg da debian-news-portuguese chegou pra todo mundo?? Meu email tah uma droga mas aqui naum chegou KoV On Sat, 02 Sep 2000 01:10:07 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Oi gente, eu ia mandar essa mensagem depois, mas resolvi mandar logo.

Re: Re: Nova Versão !!!

2000-09-01 Thread Carlos Laviola
Você não acha que respondeu essa mensagem um pouco tarde demais? Afinal, ela foi escrita em 1996. :) On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Alberto Pereira wrote: Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:42:21 -0300 (BRT) To: Mauricio de Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Alberto Pereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC:

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-09-01 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
This is definitely a newbie question. I keep on reading about sending things to /dev/null. So I thought I would give a try: mv file /dev/null mknod /dev/null c 1 3 It will create character ('c') device file /dev/null with major number 1 and minor number 3. Exactly what you need. Do not

Re: last rc. file ???

2000-09-01 Thread Krzys Majewski
Oh haha sorry, you gotta run update-modules after making the changes to /etc/modutils/* -chris On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Debian Ghost wrote: Hello Krzys, Thank you for the speedy reply. I have tried your suggestions and still receive a message that basically says I have not passed the proper

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-09-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 08:58:43PM -0700, Jeremiah Hunter Savage wrote: Okay, This is definitely a newbie question. I keep on reading about sending things to /dev/null. So I thought I would give a try: mv file /dev/null Yes I was root. So how do I recreate /dev/null? hmm. i'm a

Re: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-09-01 Thread Brian E. Ermovick
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:27:50AM +0800, CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote: Have you guys tried ctrl+alt+backspace to get back to the console instead of (i) rebooting the box and (ii) telnetting from another machine to issue a init 1!!! If that doesn't work, try ctrl+alt+FX (where X is the

Re: GNUCash 1.4.4 ??

2000-09-01 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:37:37PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: Is there a Debianized version of gnucash 1.4.4 or 1.4.5?? Where can I find it? Helix Code has 1.4.5-helix1 -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found

Re: GNUCash 1.4.4 ??

2000-09-01 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Christopher W. Aiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cwa Is there a Debianized version of gnucash 1.4.4 or 1.4.5?? cwa Where can I find it? Helix has a copy of 1.4.5 available. Add this to your sources.list: deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main Please

Recommendation for printing system

2000-09-01 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Dear group. I am a little puzzled by the options offered in the HOWTO for a print system for my laptop. I have a server running lpd in my lan, but that seems to be a bit outdated, if I understand well. The documents mention PDQ, LPRng, PPR, CUPS and others. My requirements seem simple, I have a

gtoaster...cdrdao...?

2000-09-01 Thread Herbert Ho
what is the state of the cdrdao package? since this package depends on libgtkmm which doesn't exist anymore (libgtkmm1.2 does) it won't install. And since, in turn, gtoaster depends on cdrdao, it won't install either. there are also new versions of both cdrdao and gtoaster. a bug has been

Re: sunrpc (fwd)

2000-09-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
Debian Ghost said: I am not so sure I understand what RPC servers are. Does it have something to do with an NFS type service? I do not know that I use any RPC servers or services. That is why I am considering turning down the sunrpc service. Would this be wise? Yes, NFS is RPC-based. So

SSH Obsolete?

2000-09-01 Thread Matt Stegman
Today I thought it would be a good idea to check for package updates, as the last time I updated anything, Potato was labeled unstable. So, I log into the system, run apt-get update, and check out dselect (I'm new to the apt system, and don't know all the handy commands yet. Dselect is nicer to

Re: last rc. file ???

2000-09-01 Thread kmself
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:34:05PM -0500, Debian Mail wrote: D Ghost here. I have a quick question here. What is the last rc file to run? On boot: bootmisc.sh. Generally. At any given runlevel, the Snn* script with the lowest alphanumeric colation sequence (usually S99foo, for values of

Re: your mail

2000-09-01 Thread Corey Popelier
I know this is rather late, but I can't resist mentioning that Perth doesn't go ahead at all. We haven't had daylight savings for years :) Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, John Pearson wrote: On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 12:02:48PM +1000,

Re: join us!

2000-09-01 Thread Matt Stegman
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Kurt Seifried wrote: [snip] ... people view security as a number of small unrelated problems, when in fact you have to treat it as an entire, complex, system. I agree. I also think that good security needs to involve research. I think it's Debian's responsibility to

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-09-01 Thread kmself
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 08:58:43PM -0700, Jeremiah Hunter Savage wrote: Okay, This is definitely a newbie question. I keep on reading about sending things to /dev/null. So I thought I would give a try: mv file /dev/null Yes I was root. So how do I recreate /dev/null? Make a file and

Re: expect upgrade has broken my scripts

2000-09-01 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:34:32AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: #!/usr/bin/expect set timeout 40 spawn ssh [lrange $argv 0 0] expect $ send exec su -\n expect Password: send $env(ROOTPW)\n expect # send exec bash\n expect # interact ewww this is very insecure. you also should not

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article]

2000-09-01 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:58:48PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Jürgen A. Erhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The default homedir perms are ok the way they are. Everyone (on the system) can read everything is good old UNIX tradition. Then maybe you have to think over good old traditions

Re: SSH Obsolete?

2000-09-01 Thread kmself
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 01:29:25AM -0500, Matt Stegman wrote: Today I thought it would be a good idea to check for package updates, as the last time I updated anything, Potato was labeled unstable. So, I log into the system, run apt-get update, and check out dselect (I'm new to the apt

Re: expect upgrade has broken my scripts

2000-09-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:34:32AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: #!/usr/bin/expect set timeout 40 spawn ssh [lrange $argv 0 0] expect $ send exec su -\n expect Password: send $env(ROOTPW)\n expect # send exec bash\n expect # interact ewww this

Re: RW access to /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer ?

2000-09-01 Thread Preben Randhol
David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 31/08/2000 (17:20) : Quoting Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Odd I must have done something else wrong as it didn't work when I tried it the first time, but now it does. Thanks. You only pick up your groups when you login. I know but it seemed

Linux crashes a lot

2000-09-01 Thread John Reinke
Yep, that's what I said. Linux crashes a lot. It commonly seems to coincide with Netscape crashing, but it almost always takes the whole system with it. I can't Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or change to another console. Occasionally I can telnet into the box and try to kill X, but it never works. I always

PPP problem, ppp8?!?

2000-09-01 Thread Max Lock
Hi folks, I'm trying to configure pppd version 2.3.11-1.4 as per release 2.2-r0. I call pppd using the command `pppd -detach /dev/ttyS1 9600' my config files look like the following /etc/ppp/options: 10.1.60.1:10.1.60.2 asyncmap auth lock name 1313 debug /etc/ppp/pap-secrets:

Re: Linux crashes a lot

2000-09-01 Thread Nate Amsden
what kinda box ? i've never had this happen..never had netscape take down a machine..ever. possible the machine is running out of memory ?? how much ram/swap u got ? nate John Reinke wrote: Yep, that's what I said. Linux crashes a lot. It commonly seems to coincide with Netscape crashing,

Re: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-09-01 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello out there, Pollywog wrote: On 30-Aug-2000 CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote: Have you guys tried ctrl+alt+backspace to get back to the console instead of (i) rebooting the box and (ii) telnetting from another machine to issue a init 1!!! If that doesn't work, try ctrl+alt+FX (where

Re: sound blaster live

2000-09-01 Thread Jean-Philippe Guerard
Le 2000-09-01 00:15:33 +, Wilson Fung écrivait : I have a sound blaster live value card, and guess what, I'm new to linux. I downloaded the ALSA 0.59 driver, compiled it and when I modprobe it, it says unresolved symbols in snd.o and emu10k1.o. Am I missing something? Wil I guess

Re: Linux crashes a lot

2000-09-01 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:52:06AM -0500, John Reinke wrote: Yep, that's what I said. Linux crashes a lot. It commonly seems to coincide with Netscape crashing, but it almost always takes the whole system with it. I can't Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or change to another console. Occasionally I can

Re: PPP problem, ppp8?!?

2000-09-01 Thread Eric G . Miller
Ignore the PPP-HOWTO and just use pppconfig to configure ppp. The use pon/poff to start/stop the service. Can you really only get 9600 baud? On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 08:58:39AM +0100, Max Lock wrote: Hi folks, I'm trying to configure pppd version 2.3.11-1.4 as per release 2.2-r0. I call

Re: Linux crashes a lot

2000-09-01 Thread C. Falconer
To be honest - it sounds like flakey hardware. Maybe not extremely faulty... but enough to do weirdness like this. Can you compile a kernel on this box? What are the hardware specs and approximate ages? At 02:52 AM 9/1/00 -0500, you wrote: Yep, that's what I said. Linux crashes a lot. It

Re: samba problems (rather Access programmers)

2000-09-01 Thread C. Falconer
At 08:57 PM 8/31/00 -0300, you wrote: the stupid Access programers coded the path into code statically. So the program search the dbm files at \\SERVER\\ACCDOC and more he has to map the network drive under E: . But the ACCDOC is under a folder SOLTSYS. So the structure is

Re: SSH Obsolete?

2000-09-01 Thread Matt Stegman
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: These are probably old (non-free) ssh packages. OpenSSH is the replacement package for SSH, you'll want to add a non-US archive site to your /etc/apt/sources file. Package: ssh Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: non-US

RE: PPP problem, ppp8?!?

2000-09-01 Thread J.T. Wenting
couldn't get a connection myself using pon/poff and pppconfig. wvdial works like a breeze, though. Or rather, I could get a connection, but afterwards nothing (I never got a response to any request). Any idea what can cause that (my isp uses static ip, PAP, I have default gateway and 2 DNS servers

Install of 2.2 not recognising Compaq Array

2000-09-01 Thread Tony Holroyd
Hi I am installing Debian 2.2 on a Compaq Proliant 800 with a p200 MMX processor (1998 vintage) The CD boots ok but does not recognise the Smart 2dh Array. (I know the array works because the Novel 3.2 can still see it) Can someone please point me in the direction of some info to help Tony

Helix Gnome

2000-09-01 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, I know that there is something around like Helix Gnome. Why should I consider using this instead of the normal Gnome packed with Debian? Greetings, Stefan. * SIEMENS ATEA NV * *

linuxconf problems

2000-09-01 Thread Steven Winston
- Original Message - From: Steven Winston To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 8:51 PM Subject: linuxconf problems I can't make linuxconf work. I get messages saying "Xlib connection to ':0.0' refused by server." This is debian 2.2 on asus p5-a, amd k6-2 450 mhz,

wvdial problem

2000-09-01 Thread Steven Winston
- Original Message - From: Steven Winston To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 8:48 PM Subject: wvdial problem On Debian 2.2., the linux systems labs version, I cant shut down wvdial. I configured it according to the man pages for wvdial.conf. It dialed my ISP

Re: PPP problem, ppp8?!?

2000-09-01 Thread Max Lock
Eric G . Miller wrote: Ignore the PPP-HOWTO and just use pppconfig to configure ppp. The use pon/poff to start/stop the service. Can you really only get 9600 baud? Well I'm talking to a very sophisticated piece of radio gear that has a control/monitoring system that uses ppp. I'm

Re: samba problems (rather Access programmers)

2000-09-01 Thread Christoph Simon
At 08:57 PM 8/31/00 -0300, you wrote: seen as P: . Summarize : \\SERVER\SOLTSYS has to be mapped as P: and \\SERVER\SOLTSYS\ACCDOC has to be mapped as E: . The rules from our smb.conf are included. Please help me set up the directory structure and shares that the users can access the

any sample configs for mutt using GnuPG?

2000-09-01 Thread loki
Aargh! After going through documentation which is out of date etc. and then the annoying gpg.rc which comes with mutt but demands I download RSA modules and so on.. does anyone have a sample config which doesn't bother using patent-encumbered algorithms and simply sets the right variables to let

Re: Linux crashes a lot

2000-09-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Reinke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Yep, that's what I said. Linux crashes a lot. It commonly seems to coincide with Netscape crashing, but it almost always takes the whole system with it. I can't Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or change to another console. Occasionally I can telnet into the box

Re: SSH Obsolete?

2000-09-01 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Does /etc/apt/sources.list contain an entry for non-US (something like deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US/main)? Anything which isn't currently found in one of your defined mirrors will be listed as obsolete. Also, did you run Update from dselect's menu? I've found that

Re: Linux crashes a lot

2000-09-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting Eric G . Miller (egm2@jps.net): On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:52:06AM -0500, John Reinke wrote: doesn't make me happy. Twice, it has crashed while running dselect from a console. This indicates possibly a hardware or configuration problem. dselect/apt can be fairly resource intensive

Re: SSH Obsolete?

2000-09-01 Thread Matt Stegman
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Gregory T. Norris wrote: ... Anything which isn't currently found in one of your defined mirrors will be listed as obsolete. Ah, I see. Thanks, I was wondering what obsolete meant. Also, did you run Update from dselect's menu? I've found that dselect may not sync with

Re: any sample configs for mutt using GnuPG?

2000-09-01 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 10:47:44PM +1100, loki wrote: Aargh! After going through documentation which is out of date etc. and then the annoying gpg.rc which comes with mutt but demands I download RSA modules and so on.. does anyone have a sample config which doesn't bother using

Re: any sample configs for mutt using GnuPG?

2000-09-01 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth loki, Aargh! After going through documentation which is out of date etc. and then the annoying gpg.rc which comes with mutt but demands I download RSA modules and so on.. does anyone have a sample config which doesn't bother using patent-encumbered algorithms and simply sets the right

Re: PPP problem, ppp8?!?

2000-09-01 Thread John Hasler
J.T. Wenting writes: I could get a connection, but afterwards nothing (I never got a response to any request). Any idea what can cause that Not without more information. What do you mean by get a connection? What do you mean by noever got a response to a request? What do you mean by request?

Re: wvdial problem

2000-09-01 Thread John Anderson
All you have to do to shut Wvdial off correctly is press the interrupt key (Ctrl + C) in the virtual terminal Wvdial is running in.~ John Kerr Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 On Fri, 1 Sep

fetchmail errors when my Netscape mails to @3rvs.com

2000-09-01 Thread mheyes
I'm using Netscape475, exim(latest), fetchmail(latest), mutt(latest). Using mutt, I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and fetchmail gets it ok. Other people send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and fetchmail gets it ok. Netscape is configured with movemail as the incoming mail server, and retrieves

Re: SSH Obsolete?

2000-09-01 Thread Morten Liebach
On 1, sep, 2000 at 04:26:39 -0500, Matt Stegman wrote: On Fri, 1 Sep 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: These are probably old (non-free) ssh packages. OpenSSH is the replacement package for SSH, you'll want to add a non-US archive site to your /etc/apt/sources file. Package: ssh

Netscape 4.75: Can't open plain text files

2000-09-01 Thread Frank Mehnert
Hi, with Netscape 4.75 I installed from potato-proposed-updates I can't open plain text files anymore. If I install 4.75 by the tar.gz archive, everything works find. If I use the debian package, after loading the text file (status bar bottom left finished), nothing happens. Any hints? Frank --

Re: fetchmail errors when my Netscape mails to @3rvs.com

2000-09-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 08:28:04AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SMTP MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=899 SMTP501 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: dommain missing or malformed Exim is rejecting the mail because of the trailing . in the domain name of the sender. This is perhaps a bit picky, but seems

Re: Helix Gnome

2000-09-01 Thread Morten Liebach
On 1, sep, 2000 at 11:42:22 +, stefan goeman wrote: Hello, I know that there is something around like Helix Gnome. Why should I consider using this instead of the normal Gnome packed with Debian? The GNOME included in Debian Potato is not being upgraded now, and since the freeze on

FAQ-O-Matic (was: Re: join us!)

2000-09-01 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jh Paul D. Smith writes: What kinds of problems are you seeing? jh I find the Web interface (the only one available to me as a section jh adminstrator) just about completely unusable for editing. You mean the page with all the buttons for

Re: RW access to /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer ?

2000-09-01 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Regarding Re: RW access to /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer ?; %% Preben Randhol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pr David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 31/08/2000 (17:20) : Quoting Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Odd I must have done something else wrong as it didn't work when I tried

Debian site down?

2000-09-01 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Is the www.debian.org down for long? (do you know?)

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-09-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:12:00PM -0700, Jeremiah Hunter Savage wrote: Thanks for the reply, I actually _had_ replaced my /dev/null and my system was not too happy - procmail kept reporting errors on all my terminals. Also I couldn't send email to myself on my local account. I guess exim or

Re: PPP not going

2000-09-01 Thread Keith G. Murphy
In your server end's options file you should do something like xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa:bbb.ccc.ddd.eee And in the client's you can have: ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote You can read about this stuff in 'man pppd'. There are other combinations you can use as well. By the way, don't do

Re: Debian site down?

2000-09-01 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 10:17:44AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Is the www.debian.org down for long? (do you know?) according to a mail in debian-dev until tomorrow morning. -- Thomas Guettler Office: guettli_NoSpam_interface-business.de www.interface-business.de

REpost: Install of 2.2 not recognising Compaq Array

2000-09-01 Thread Tony Holroyd
I have now found out it is a known bug! Any help on a work around would be good. -Original Message- From: Tony Holroyd [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 September 2000 05:41 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Install of 2.2 not recognising Compaq Array Hi I am

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2000-09-01 Thread tdisch
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Pine hanging on send

2000-09-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi everybody, I convinced a friend of mine to recently switch from Red Hat to Debian and she has hit a road block that I am struggling to solve. She built the pine package using the Debian src and diffs. Everything seemed to compile OK and all worked well for about a week. However

RE: PPP not going

2000-09-01 Thread J.T. Wenting
let's not get into that debate again... Some people prefer commenting after a post, some prefer doing it before the original text. Personally, I think the latter is better (the original will already be read by most readers), but the former can be useful (when offering comments to different parts

Re: Debian site down?

2000-09-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thomas Guettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 10:17:44AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Is the www.debian.org down for long? (do you know?) according to a mail in debian-dev until tomorrow morning. You can use one of the mirrors, ofcourse.

Re: SSH Obsolete?

2000-09-01 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 01:29:25AM -0500, Matt Stegman wrote: It suggests that I remove them. I look around, and there's no other ssh package listed. I don't see ssh2 in the list, nor a new version of ssh. Why does dselect (or rather, apt) think ssh and irc are obsolete? What's going

Re: Helix Gnome

2000-09-01 Thread Dale L . Morris
Can I install this in potato or do I have to upgrade to woody? Is this a recommended upgrade? thanks Morten Liebach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 1, sep, 2000 at 11:42:22 +, stefan goeman wrote: Hello, I know that there is something around like Helix Gnome. Why should I

installing-ncr53c406a:no avalible ports found

2000-09-01 Thread little0ne
Hi Maybe someone can help me. When i try to boot up from the debian 2.1 cd for the first times to install the program. I hit enter at the boot prompt like it says and it spits out a whole bunch of stuff and freezes up with the last line being ncr53c406a :no avalible ports found ncr53c406a,

can't ping

2000-09-01 Thread Kirk Schroeder
Hello, I have a Debian box that I can not ping my SuSE box. Is there something in Debian that I am missing? I have no problem setting up the SuSE boxes and networking them, but I really want to convert to Debian. I am a newbie so any help is appreciated.

Re: Linux crashes a lot - more info

2000-09-01 Thread John Reinke
I should have included some specs. I guess I was too frustrated to think of that... Hardware: 500MHz Athlon (NO overclocking, no overheating) 96MB RAM (appended 96M in LILO, and accounted for in 'free') ATI Rage Pro (8MB) Software: Debian 2.2 (Potato net-installation) 128MB Swap XF86_Mach64 X

Re: Helix Gnome

2000-09-01 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, Yes, I would also like to know this. On Fri, 01 Sep 2000 15:00:19 Dale L . Morris wrote: Can I install this in potato or do I have to upgrade to woody? Is this a recommended upgrade? thanks Morten Liebach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 1, sep, 2000 at 11:42:22 +, stefan

Re: Helix Gnome

2000-09-01 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 08:00:19AM -0700, Dale L . Morris wrote: Can I install this in potato or do I have to upgrade to woody? Is this a recommended upgrade? The Helix GNOME packages are also for potato. currently they run on both, potato and woody. later, when it gets harder to let these

Re: FAQ-O-Matic (was: Re: join us!)

2000-09-01 Thread John Hasler
Paul D. Smith writes: For the second, it's fine for me for small editing jobs; I find it frustrating for anything. I do the work in my editor and paste the results into the window. I hadn't tried that. I'd rather just download the file, edit it, and then upload it. -- John Hasler [EMAIL

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-09-01 Thread Joseph C. Tuttle
On 27, aug, 2000 at 10:00:48 +0518, USM Bish wrote: I've just this last weekend heard about WordPerfect for UNIX in version 5.something being on the CD you could buy of WordPerfect 8! It's _not_ included in the gratis download version, only the CD-edition. I don't know if it is

Re: Linux crashes a lot - more info

2000-09-01 Thread Gary Hennigan
John Reinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I should have included some specs. I guess I was too frustrated to think of that... Hardware: 500MHz Athlon (NO overclocking, no overheating) 96MB RAM (appended 96M in LILO, and accounted for in 'free') ATI Rage Pro (8MB) Software: Debian 2.2

Re: Linux crashes a lot - more info

2000-09-01 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 10:28:43AM -0500, John Reinke wrote: I should have included some specs. I guess I was too frustrated to think of that... Hardware: 500MHz Athlon (NO overclocking, no overheating) 96MB RAM (appended 96M in LILO, and accounted for in 'free') ATI Rage Pro (8MB)

Re: can't ping

2000-09-01 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 08:19:38AM -0700, Kirk Schroeder wrote: Hello, I have a Debian box that I can not ping my SuSE box. Is there something in Debian that I am missing? I have no problem setting up the SuSE boxes and networking them, but I really want to convert to Debian. I am a

Re: can't ping

2000-09-01 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 08:19:38AM -0700, Kirk Schroeder wrote: I have a Debian box that I can not ping my SuSE box. Is there something in Debian that I am missing? do you have the driver for your network-card loaded? do you have configured the interface correctly? (man ifup, interfaces, ...)

Re: RW access to /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer ?

2000-09-01 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 01-Sep-2000 Paul D. Smith wrote: [...] pr I know but it seemed to be a different problem. I did a usermod -G pr floppy after I had done the audio and that removed me from the audio pr group. I misunderstood the functionality of usermod -G :-) A common mistake--that's why I said

newbie question concerning linux install

2000-09-01 Thread Richard Swen
Currently with much effort I have been able to finish part of the install on my computer configured as follows: p3 550mhz 128megs of ram vodoo 3 3000 soundblaster live 3com 3c905c Maxtor 13.0gig UDMA/66 ABIT BE-6 II Motherboard IOMEGA 250MB Zip Drive 3com 56K Fax/Voice/Data Modem Currently I

balse

2000-09-01 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, I am using balsa (on potato) to read my mail. But this is in fact an old version (0.60...) and there seems to be some bugs in it. The latest version is 0.9.3. I have downloaded this one and tried to install it but for some reason it doesn't work. Is there a problem with dependencies??

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-09-01 Thread Paul Seelig
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 11:38:19AM -0400, Joseph C. Tuttle wrote: I've heard this before, but I haven't been able to find WP 5.x on either of the two WP 8 CDs I have. I'd be happy to find it, though, because I believe the DOS version of WP 5.1 was one of the best software products ever

Re: Linux crashes a lot

2000-09-01 Thread mcclosk
John: I'm afraid I don't really know how to help, but this sounds very strange to me. I think that the problem must be specific to this box. In the 5 years I've been running Linux (first Slackware, then Debian), the only program that has ever brought down the whole system has been Corel's

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