Re: Help needed: how to set DefaultColorDepth to 32

2000-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:56:13PM -0500, Jianbo Zhang wrote: Dear group: I use gdm to start X. Can I go back to startx to start X easily? I know how to get 32 bpp with startx. Simply uninstall gdm or use update-rc.d to remove it from your default runlevel. I've done this and I've set up two

Re: Staring Gnome ???

2000-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:52:31AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: Greetings! I'm running Debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.17. And I can't start Gnome! I'm starting X from the command line (startx) and have tried exec gnome-session in my .xinitrc and even in an .Xsession file, but all I get in

Re: Cloning a Debian system

2000-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:50:30PM +0100, Etienne Grossmann wrote: Hello, is there any way to install on a Debian system the same packages that are found on another Debian system? The machines are not strictly equal. Yes, you can. Do in the primary machine: dpkg --get-selections

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-07 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Marco d'Itri wrote: A calendar.hindu file is needed for 2000/2001 I'll do it. Give me a day or two. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE debs

2000-09-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Danny Pansters wrote: Hi everyone, The kde.tdyc.com Woody tree for kde2 has been emptied, I'm sure of it because I used to apt kde2 from there. I don't know why the packages have been cleared out. Ask Ivan E. Moore II. Anyway, I hope that the kde2 debs will be added to the normal debian

Re: SB Live kernel sound

2000-09-07 Thread Danny Pansters
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: Some people say to install from unstable the debs for ALSA and then run alsaconf. A couple of questions - I could change my sources to point at unstable but I don't want to upgrade to woody so how

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Wouter Hanegraaff | Is something like this available? $apt-cache show crypt++el Package: crypt++el Version: 2.87-2 Priority: extra Section: editors Maintainer: Christoph Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends: emacsen Recommends: mailcrypt Architecture: all FileName:

Re: nVidia geForce + X == error?

2000-09-07 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:38:55AM +0200, J.T. Wenting wrote: Is there an X server for geForce cards (specifically Asus V.6600)? Probing during Debian install did not detect a compatible card, it said... xfree86 3.3.6 - xserver-svga works fine with my geforce 256 I tried the experimental

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-07 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
Thanks all for the overwhelming response! I'll probably try cfs in the near future, as it seems a nice and elegant solution and it was recommended by a lot of people. But for a quick start, I'll use the vim auto commands, because I'm already used to vim and because it was so easy to setup

RE: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-07 Thread Christian Pernegger
-Original Message- From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nathan E Norman Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 2:56 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian vs. Red Hat You only need a shell to edit a text file. You also only need to read and

vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread William Jensen
Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? I spend a few hours editing some notes for class and when I lpt file the spacing was terrible. It's like more/less/lpr treat the tabs/spaces in vim totally different. I also tried printing from within vim with :%w !lpr but it had the same

Re: Current correct woody URL's for apt-get?

2000-09-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
John Griffiths said: But won't you need to do a dist-upgrade when the as-yet-unamed next unstable comes out? so isn't it better to keep going on the dist name? and keep track of developments? Nope. On the day that potato froze, 'unstable' and 'frozen' were identical (as far as I noticed,

How do I adust the Gamma level?

2000-09-07 Thread Wong TM \(Huang Deming\)
How do I adust the Gamma level for X? I using xfree 4.0.0, kde and I have a Creative TNT. What are the settings I should change? Any help is appreciated. __ ..|__|.---.-..-. | __|| || _ || _ | |||__||___._||_|

Re: How do I adust the Gamma level?

2000-09-07 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:57:32PM +0800, Wong TM (Huang Deming) wrote: How do I adust the Gamma level for X? I using xfree 4.0.0, kde and I have a Creative TNT. I don't know about 4.0.0, I use 3.x.x and my starting script is: startx -- -bpp 32 -dpi 120 -gamma 0.7 -bestRefresh

Re: DHCP client setup for @Home

2000-09-07 Thread John Reinke
I used the boot floppies, and it worked with my cable modem. I guess I didn't know it was using pump, it just worked by magic. I went ahead and installed dhcpcd when I was done. BTW, make sure you get root.bin, resc.bin, plus all three driver floppies BEFORE you start the installation and blow

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread kmself
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:30:43AM -0500, William Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? I spend a few hours editing some notes for class and when I lpt file the spacing was terrible. It's like more/less/lpr treat the tabs/spaces in vim

ftp.debian.org down?

2000-09-07 Thread Rino Mardo
I'm trying to access ftp.debian.org but I getting a connection refused (as opposed to connection full). Is everyone getting the same? -- Who's watching the watchmen? ICQ: 15096825

Re: Not able to mount /cdrom.

2000-09-07 Thread Vicente Ferrando Berenguer
Thank you very, very much Ethan, I've my cdrom working again. The bogus setup appeared after an upgrade with apt-get. I upgraded from an old Potato version to the new stable version. Best regards. Mensaje original El 9/7/00, 2:01:16 PM, Ethan Benson [EMAIL

Re: IT NEWS WEEKLY

2000-09-07 Thread Preben Randhol
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/09/2000 (19:57) : IT.NEWS WEEKLY September 5, 2000, NO. 14 Welcome again to IT.NEWS - BlueCom's weekly newsletter for all players in the international IT Channel - vendors, distributors, resellers, dealers and brokers. Read about the latest trends in

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread Vee-Eye
Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? No, because normally I typeset my documents with latex ... I spend a few hours editing some notes for class and when I lpt file the spacing was terrible. It's like more/less/lpr treat the tabs/spaces in vim what's about expanding the tabs?

Re: Motherboard [search]

2000-09-07 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:18:20AM -0700, Shel Johnson wrote: Does anyone know of a website where I could enter a motherboard serial number and find out who made the motherboard.. I used to have an URL, but I lost it.. thanks!! I think you are looking for http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/ HTH

Debian and KDE

2000-09-07 Thread Ben Woodhead
Hello everybody First I would like to give my appologies, I was not aware of the incomming directory and I have been told that kde will be included. I would also like to say that I personally do not use kde nor am a developer for them, my consern was with the conflicts between linux. Competition

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-07 Thread Arthur Korn
Hello. I've played a bit with autocommands in vim (the first time ever I looked at them), and came up with this (shamelessly stolen from the default vimrc, there it handles *.bz2): augroup encrypted au! autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre*.gpg set bin autocmd

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-07 Thread Arthur Korn
Wouter Hanegraaff schrieb: Is something like this available? Yes vi. ;) Type what you want, then enter this in command mode: :%! gpg -ea The whole buffer is piped through gpg and encryptet to self (assuming you encrypt to self per default) and does ascii armoring (you don't need to do this).

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread Vee-Eye
Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? No, because normally I typeset my documents with latex ... I spend a few hours editing some notes for class and when I lpt file the spacing was terrible. It's like more/less/lpr treat the tabs/spaces in vim what's about expanding the tabs?

Problem with ATAPI CD-Recorder

2000-09-07 Thread Christian Hilk
Hello! I've got a problem with my Philips CDD4201 cd-recorder. It's a ATAPI device, I installed it with the SCSI driver, like described in README.ATAPI from cdrecord. I've got no problem with burning CDs. But if I mount the device for read (mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom), everything looks good (I can

standard entries for apt sources.list?

2000-09-07 Thread John Ackermann
Is there a source somewhere that lists all the (non-local) entries one would want to have in /etc/apt/sources.list to manage and update packages and catch security updates? I've looked at www.debian.org and couldn't find that info. I'm maintaining slink and potato boxes, and would like to keep

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread USM Bish
I use elvis (not vim). There is no such problem. Incidentally, have you changed your tab setting to anything other than the default 8 ? USM Bish On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:30:43AM -0500, William Jensen wrote: Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? I spend a few hours editing

gnome panel (catch me if you can)

2000-09-07 Thread Debian Ghost
Hey Guys, Have a question about gnome panel and enlightenment. I am currently using the enlightenment pager and have two pagers with 4 workspaces each. Most of the time my gnome panel will only be on one set of the pagers. I'd like to have the panel running in all 8 windows at all times. The

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-07 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Arthur Korn wrote: Could somebody more familiar with vim than me please tell me (us) wheter this writes anything unencrypted onto disk? If not, shall I file a wishlist bug against vim-rt to include this? Is your swap file (not VIM's, the OS') in an encripted partition?

Another Poll

2000-09-07 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, There is yet another Linux version poll at www.justlinux.com! Debian is sitting at 7%! Vote early and Vote often! Brooks

indmod - modules.conf translator

2000-09-07 Thread Michael O'Brien
Hola~ I've tried several different variations on getting my sound card driver to correctly initialize thru /etc/modules.conf. I still have not figured out a good way to do so. However, I can manually install the sound driver using the following: modprobe sound insmod ad1848 insmod

Firewall woes...

2000-09-07 Thread Kelly Corbin
I am setting up a packet-filter firewall and everything seems to be going fine except for one thing: ftp uploads are ridiculously slow (1 or 2 packets every 10 sec.). If I turn logging on (-l), the upload speed picks up to close to normal speed. If I turn it off, it slows back down again. This

DSL, pump, dhcp, and more questions

2000-09-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
So I just hooked up my ADSL connection this past weekend and it's up and running with no problems. I am, however, having some trouble understanding HOW it's working?! I'm running a fresh install of potato on my firewall/masq machine which is connected to my internal network, via a hub, and to the

Re: any luck with ES1869 sound card?

2000-09-07 Thread Peter Fedichev
Hello, how do I configure a soundcard (is there anything like sndconfig in RedHat)? How should I set dma irq etc? thanks in advance

sndconfig?

2000-09-07 Thread Peter Fedichev
Hello, how do I configure a soundcard (is there anything like sndconfig in RedHat)? How should I set dma irq etc? thanks in advance

sndconfig?

2000-09-07 Thread Peter Fedichev
Hello, how do I configure a soundcard (is there anything like sndconfig in RedHat)? How should I set dma irq etc? thanks in advance

Re: Another Poll

2000-09-07 Thread Michael Smith
Here's a better url: http://www.justlinux.com/bin/poll/allpolls.pl And to think I thought nobody ever used slackware. Oh, well. Brooks R. Robinson wrote: Greetings, There is yet another Linux version poll at www.justlinux.com! Debian is sitting at 7%! Vote early and Vote often!

Re: best way to install debian in VMware VM (found it :)

2000-09-07 Thread Mark Simos
Mark Then i mounted the /dev/sda4 as /zip manually ... I can't say I understand what you did, but I'll keep your message as reference -- I might want to try that someday. Thanks. vmware allows for you to directly mount an existing partition, which I did. Under SCSI in configuration

Re: what are these?

2000-09-07 Thread Bob McGowan
For the files xaa to xam, something you downloaded was split into pieces for more reliable downloading. Common practice when the original is really big and the download is over a modem, so you can download pieces at different times, or re-download a broken part rather than the whole. They can be

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-07 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:11:28PM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote: It seems to work for me, and the .swp file is _encrypted_, no need to disable them. The .swp file is definitely not encrypted. Worse, it's not possible to disable using a swapfile when a vim session is already started: :set uc=0 as

How to use libhtml-embperl-perl as cgi

2000-09-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[also sent to prior Debian maintainer in case he can answer in 30 seconds!] I have installed the libhtml-embperl-perl package, and I'm trying to get some perl commands within [+ brackets +] in html files to be processed (first as cgi, then perhaps using mod-perl). After simply installing the

ES1869 soundcard problem? (lengthy description)

2000-09-07 Thread Peter Fedichev
Hello, since yesterday I am trying to configure the sound card on my laptop. I would be very grateful to anyone who could hint me a solution. The hardware has been till yesterday working fine under Windows (though I don't have W to check it again but I don't expect anything happened). I will be

Re: standard entries for apt sources.list?

2000-09-07 Thread Krzys Majewski
Not sure if this is what you want, but here's mine. -chris # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial # Remember that you can only

Re: Cloning a Debian system

2000-09-07 Thread Krzys Majewski
Yes, there is. I don't remember the incantation but if you search through the archives on www.debian.org you'll be sure to find some posts about it. Something like apt-get selections... -chris On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Etienne Grossmann wrote: Hello, is there any way to install on a

Re: Required Hardware?

2000-09-07 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jeffrey H. Young wrote: I have an Intel 386, with 3.5-1.44MB 5.25-1.2MG floppies, a Backpack CDROM on my parallel port, and WDC AC21200H 1279MB hard drive1 and a ST3145A 130MB hard drive2, VGA, Serial, yada yada. Your hardware requirements says the system should have

help with kde2, kdm and kwm

2000-09-07 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm having troubles to use kwm. I've installed kde2 packages from tdyc (Ivan's packages). All dependencies are resolved but I'm not able to start kwm either from kdm (it's not listed) or from .xinitrc, using startkde. The individual programs, like kword, kpresenter,

Re: help with kde2, kdm and kwm

2000-09-07 Thread Michael Epting
make sure you have installed the -dev packages of the major kde2 files. Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Hi, I'm having troubles to use kwm. I've installed kde2 packages from tdyc (Ivan's packages). All dependencies are resolved but I'm not able to start kwm either from kdm (it's not

OT: can Navigator 4.74 use an external mail client?

2000-09-07 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anyone know how to set up Netscape Navigator (4.74) to invoke an external mail client (say, pine) when I click on a mailto: link? (Navigator is the stand-alone web browser, right now it does nothing when I click on such a link) -chris

Re: help with kde2, kdm and kwm

2000-09-07 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Michael Epting wrote: make sure you have installed the -dev packages of the major kde2 files. aren't the -dev packages for development? I'm just trying to 'use' kwm, not to compile anything? anyway I'll give it a try. Thansk! []s, Mario O.de MenezesMany are

Re: Cloning a Debian system

2000-09-07 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, Something like apt-get selections... -chris thanks for the hint. I would have started by the mail archives, but I didn't find out how to search them... Cheers, Etienne

Re: X don't work

2000-09-07 Thread kmself
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:57:32PM +0300, Adrian Nims ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've used XF86Config to configure X but despite that from the XF86COnfig point of view everything is fine and it made an X server runninig, I have no mouse working (not even in XF86Setup interface) and X freeze

Re: OT: can Navigator 4.74 use an external mail client?

2000-09-07 Thread kmself
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:58:52AM -0700, Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anyone know how to set up Netscape Navigator (4.74) to invoke an external mail client (say, pine) when I click on a mailto: link? (Navigator is the stand-alone web browser, right now it does nothing when I

Re: dpkg binary dbase (was Re: Debian vs. Red Hat)

2000-09-07 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: ... text database is the ONLY way to go, if it were not for that i would have been totally fscked when my /var got hosed and my backup was inconsistent with my current package installation which confused dpkg. (answer: emacs /var/lib/dpkg/status took a

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread William Jensen
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:36:10AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:30:43AM -0500, William Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? I spend a few hours editing some notes for class and when I lpt file the

Re: Proftpd situations

2000-09-07 Thread Ernest Johanson
Take a look in the docs at the DefaultServer directive. I'm not quite sure how proftpd determines what the primary address is, but I had a similar problem with a server here. I defined a Virtual Host for one of the addresses and let the main configuration handle the other one. Ernest Johanson Web

Re: help with kde2, kdm and kwm

2000-09-07 Thread Michael Epting
Yes, that's why I didn't have them either. But Ivan (krusty - the maintainer of tdyc's Debian packages) told me to do it, so I did, and it worked. Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Michael Epting wrote: make sure you have installed the -dev packages of the major kde2

Re: OT: can Navigator 4.74 use an external mail client?

2000-09-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: k On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:58:52AM -0700, Krzys Majewski k ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anyone know how to set up Netscape Navigator (4.74) to invoke an external mail client (say, pine) when I click on a mailto: link? There is an excellent package

Re: Cloning a Debian system

2000-09-07 Thread Krzys Majewski
Go to www.debian.org and click on the Search link. It does work, sometimes.. -chris On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Etienne Grossmann wrote: Hello, Something like apt-get selections... -chris thanks for the hint. I would have started by the mail archives, but I didn't find out how to search

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread Bob McGowan
William Jensen wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:36:10AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:30:43AM -0500, William Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? I spend a few hours editing some notes for class and

Re: Debian News Group Needed

2000-09-07 Thread Richard Klinda
Hoi Paul, ALL! p I seriously believe that this and other debian lists are far better p managed both by users and debian, using NewsGroups rather than mail p lists. Paul Just use Gnus. You can filter debian-user mail into a separate Paul spool file and have Gnus read it, and it'll look

RE: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread Lewis, James M.
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:36:10AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:30:43AM -0500, William Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? I spend a few hours editing some notes for class and when I lpt file the

Re: dpkg binary dbase (was Re: Debian vs. Red Hat)

2000-09-07 Thread John Hasler
Bruce Sass writes: I want to be able to manually add and edit entries in the DB (i.e., given the freedom to royally screw things up if I feel so inclined), and it doesn't matter if it is via a text editor or a special bin editor. I'm not convinced that you can write a special bin editor that

Re: Debian News Group Needed

2000-09-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Richard Klinda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: igno Hoi Paul, ALL! p I seriously believe that this and other debian lists are far better p managed both by users and debian, using NewsGroups rather than mail p lists. Paul Just use Gnus. You can filter debian-user mail into a separate

Re: Wierdness w/MidNight Commander editor: may be bug??

2000-09-07 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:26:30AM -0500, John Foster wrote: be O.K. after I do Dismiss it. This does not happen if I am logged on as a regular user. To make this even weirder this seems to be only when I am editing the file /etc/apt/sources.list Error in file /root/.cedit/Syntax on line 91

*Thanx*

2000-09-07 Thread Willi Dyck
Thanx to everyone on the list who helped me a lot. Firewall box is now running!! Nice tool (pmfirewall) ;-) This is the real Linux community. Gary Hennigan wrote: Nate Amsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: not sure what kernels your using but: - i've never gotten MASQ to work with DNS on 2.2

Re: indmod - modules.conf translator

2000-09-07 Thread David Z. Maze
Brien Michael writes: MO I've tried several different variations on getting my sound card MO driver to correctly initialize thru /etc/modules.conf. I still have MO not figured out a good way to do so. MO MO However, I can manually install the sound driver using the following: MO MOmodprobe

/tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hello, I made a horrible mistake today. I accidentally deleted the /tmp directory and its contents. I quickly realized my mistake. I created it again (but wasn't able to replace the contents of it). Now, I can start X as root, but I can't start X as any other user. I can't find

Re: dpkg binary dbase (was Re: Debian vs. Red Hat)

2000-09-07 Thread Bruce Sass
On 7 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote: Bruce Sass writes: I want to be able to manually add and edit entries in the DB (i.e., given the freedom to royally screw things up if I feel so inclined), and it doesn't matter if it is via a text editor or a special bin editor. I'm not convinced that

pppconfig issue

2000-09-07 Thread racuti1
I know Rome wasn't built in a day and neither will my Debian machine. Now that I've finally got my modem working, I've run pppconfig (v1.1) plugged in all the values I could (the IP numbers are server assigned so I don't know them and left them blank). When I use the 'pon' command, the

RE: /tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Sep-2000 Bryan K. Walton wrote: Hello, I made a horrible mistake today. I accidentally deleted the /tmp directory and its contents. I quickly realized my mistake. I created it again (but wasn't able to replace the contents of it). Now, I can start X as root, but I can't

Re: /tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Thanks to both Sean and Andre for the info about the permission on the /tmp directory. Gross oversight on my part, but my panic is gone. Thanks! Bryan

Re: /tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread Andre Berger
Bryan K. Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I made a horrible mistake today. I accidentally deleted the /tmp directory and its contents. I quickly realized my mistake. I created it again (but wasn't able to replace the contents of it). Now, I can start X as root, but I

Re: /tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread J.P. Larocque
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:25:32PM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote: I made a horrible mistake today. I accidentally deleted the /tmp directory and its contents. (...) That *shouldn't* be a problem, as far as I know. Make sure the directories /tmp and /var/tmp exist, regardless if

Re: Firewall woes...

2000-09-07 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:05:31PM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote: I am setting up a packet-filter firewall and everything seems to be going fine except for one thing: ftp uploads are ridiculously slow (1 Not sure why the -l switch will make any difference, but.. Check the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. In your

Re: Firewall message in /var/log

2000-09-07 Thread Barry Samuels
Rino Mardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:46:44PM +0100 or thereabouts, Barry Samuels wrote: Can anyone tell me why I should keep getting this message in my /var/log/messages (I'm afraid I don't speak ipchains): kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17

Re: Firewall message in /var/log

2000-09-07 Thread Barry Samuels
John L . Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:46:44PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote: kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 192.14.17.1:513 192.14.17.255:513 L=136 S=0x00 I=244 F=0x T=64 (#30) Check the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. I have. I tend to find quite a

Re: sndconfig?

2000-09-07 Thread John Griffiths
At 07:08 PM 9/7/2000 +0200, Peter Fedichev wrote: Hello, how do I configure a soundcard (is there anything like sndconfig in RedHat)? How should I set dma irq etc? thanks in advance You can get sndconfig as a woody package and it will work under potato you need to remember to add your user to

Re: Staring Gnome ???

2000-09-07 Thread John Griffiths
At 10:52 AM 9/7/2000 +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: Greetings! I'm running Debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.17. And I can't start Gnome! I'm starting X from the command line (startx) and have tried exec gnome-session in my .xinitrc and even in an .Xsession file, but all I get in reposne is an X stuck

[OT] A convert

2000-09-07 Thread Jesse Noller
Wow. I daresay I may fully be a Debian Convert now. It's been awhile since I have been able to dink with debian, and so, I ended up having to do some cross distro development... Which, of course, meant installing a debian box, and doing some software porting... Install was a

Re: /tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
In summary, if /tmp is deleted, don't sweat it, just make sure to reboot. (Cleanly. =) No offense intended, but you should almost never have to reboot a Unix / Linux box. Simply change run levels, or stop and start the daemons running. Reasons to reboot: new kernel a daemon went nuts and

two apt-get questions

2000-09-07 Thread Krzys Majewski
1. Is it possible to apt-get install, specifying say stable or unstable on the command line, rather than by editing /etc/apt/sources.list? 2. How do I get apt-get to tell me which version of a package it would install, without actually installing it, regardless of the version of the existing

SU problems

2000-09-07 Thread Rafael Ortega
Hello, everyone: Recently I installed ver 2.2 of debian on a new machine for netsaint monitoring. Previously, I had experience only with Redhat distros. Everything was going ok until i decided to give webmin (http://www.webmin.com) a try. It installed ok, but when I created the group netsaint

RE: two apt-get questions

2000-09-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Sep-2000 Krzys Majewski wrote: 1. Is it possible to apt-get install, specifying say stable or unstable on the command line, rather than by editing /etc/apt/sources.list? no, I dont believe so 2. How do I get apt-get to tell me which version of a package it would install, without

Re: /tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread Spinfire Magenta
on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:57:55PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry sent 0.4K bytes on their merry way: No offense intended, but you should almost never have to reboot a Unix / Linux box. Simply change run levels, or stop and start the daemons running. Reasons to reboot: new kernel a daemon

Re: Firewall message in /var/log

2000-09-07 Thread Kelly Corbin
PROTO=17 means it is a UDP packet. You might check to see if you aren't allowing UDP for that segment. Can anyone tell me why I should keep getting this message in my /var/log/messages (I'm afraid I don't speak ipchains): kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 192.14.17.1:513

Re: /tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Sep-2000 Spinfire Magenta wrote: on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:57:55PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry sent 0.4K bytes on their merry way: No offense intended, but you should almost never have to reboot a Unix / Linux box. Simply change run levels, or stop and start the daemons running.

Re: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-07 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Eric == Eric G Miller egm2@jps.net writes: Eric On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:10:15AM -0700, Dexter Graphic wrote: apt-get install task-helix-gnome? Does anyone know if the helix-gnome updater will work with Debian 2.2? I have the helix-gnome 1.0 CD and a very slow

RE: mIRC

2000-09-07 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi all, Thanks all for the replied. I mainly want to see if any irc client has the scripting function as the mIRC. the mIRC that I'm using on Windows/NT can automatically transfer file and create additional GUI for a specific chat room, etc. Thanks! -Original Message- From:

xdm only shows boot prompt

2000-09-07 Thread Mark Simos
I have recently reinstalled debian 2.2.17 on my virtual machine I installed xfree86 and xdm using apt-get I get a graphical login from xdm upon boot I enter valid credentials the login goes away, i get about 2 seconds of the grey background before I get a graphical logon again. the loop never

Re: mIRC

2000-09-07 Thread Peter Good
One of the closer ones to mIRC is KVirc, scripting in that is surprisingly similar to mIRC if that's what you're looking for. Peter. Timothy C. Phan wrote: Hi all, Thanks all for the replied. I mainly want to see if any irc client has the scripting function as the mIRC. the mIRC

Re: Firewall woes...

2000-09-07 Thread Kelly Corbin
I am setting up a packet-filter firewall and everything seems to be going fine except for one thing: ftp uploads are ridiculously slow (1 /sbin/ipchains -A output -p tcp --dport ftp -t 0x01 0x10 -j ACCEPT The -t option lets you set priority of the pacakge. Do the same for ftp-data.

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-07 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): If you chose an ASN.1 or equivalent data format you could edit it with the tools from openssl.. I hate windows registry because the tool they made to edit/correct it was an afterthought. Just because Doze screwed it up doesn't mean that the

Re: dpkg binary dbase

2000-09-07 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On 7 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote: Bruce Sass writes: I want to be able to manually add and edit entries in the DB (i.e., given the freedom to royally screw things up if I feel so inclined), and it doesn't matter if it is via a text editor or a

Re: re-exec init??

2000-09-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sep 1 23:03:26 debian init: Trying to re-exec init Isn't it true that init should only be started at boot time and when changing runlevels? Or have I misunderstood? What could bring about an attempt to restart it when the system is up and

Re: pppconfig issue

2000-09-07 Thread John Hasler
Richard P. Acuti writes: Now that I've finally got my modem working, I've run pppconfig (v1.1) That's _ancient_. Can't you upgrade? ...plugged in all the values I could (the IP numbers are server assigned so I don't know them and left them blank). My memory is fuzzy that far back (even for

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-07 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 07:19:11PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:11:28PM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote: It seems to work for me, and the .swp file is _encrypted_, no need to disable them. The .swp file is definitely not encrypted. Worse, it's not possible to

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-07 Thread Michael Soulier
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: Yes, but the binary database could be automatically compiled when necessary, so main data is in the text one, but then it could be compiled into the binary one. Look at sendmail configuration... this is not done automatically, but it works

Re: dpkg binary dbase (was Re: Debian vs. Red Hat)

2000-09-07 Thread John Hasler
Bruce Sass writes: The result is still human readable and editable with any text editor, if you know the codes. The special dpkg editor would just make life easier for those not wanting to look up or learn any codes. Ok, but I'm not sure that it would be significantly faster then a

slrnpull failure

2000-09-07 Thread jakbyto
Hi, I have a problem with slrnpull or to be more precise with its connection to ISP. I read file /slrn/slrnpull/QUICK_INSTALL and did all as it is written there. So I run my /etc/ppp/ppp-on script to connect to ISP (everything goes well as usualy) and when it's done I run slrnpull. But all I get

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