Re: Netscape error: The security library has experienced an error.

2000-10-23 Thread Mark Phillips
I solved my problem. I needed to configure SSL-v3 differently. Cheers, Mark. Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to download some software from the Australian Tax Office, but when I clicked on the button to download, it gave the error: The security library has

Console new mail notification

2000-10-23 Thread Aaron Brashears
I'm running debian stable, and I've set up procmail to filter messages into appropriate mailboxes. However, now that almost all mail is filtered into /home/gila/Mail, none of it winds up in /var/... so console mail notification doesn't work correctly. Is there any way to configure bash to check

installing MATLAB

2000-10-23 Thread Prof. Le Baron O. Ferguson
Trying to do an install from the CDROM for v. 5.3 of MATLAB I can not get started. I get an error message: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' I find this library at /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6. I put a link to it in /usr/X11R6 but that did not help. I would appreciate any suggestions as to

Re: fullscreen video playback

2000-10-23 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: without proper video acceleration in X this is not possible/reccomended. try using the double option in mpegtv and you'll see Well, if you define a videomode closer to the resolution of the video you're playing, SDL fullscreen mode should switch the

How to get more screensavers for Windowmaker

2000-10-23 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hello I had a lot of screensaver installed on my windowmaker before to upgrade to potato, do you know how to reinstall those again? In my screen->lock menu I have any screensaver. Thanks -- Rogelio E. Castillo

ppp and pppoe packages for Debian 2.1 (slink) users

2000-10-23 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Howdy, folks! I realized today that there's a need for PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet) packages for Debian 2.1 (slink) i386, as I couldn't find any online. I built up-to-date pppoe (and ppp, which it needs a newer version of) packages in a slink chroot, and I've uploaded them to:

recommendation of software to use for web-based systems?

2000-10-23 Thread LTG
I just setup the most recent ver. of potato at home. I also have two NT machines. I want to setup my linux box as a intranet server and build a web-based system on top of it using all free or almost free software. It should include a database (like oracle), a middle tier, like weblogic, and a

adding ftp user

2000-10-23 Thread William Jensen
I've just installed ftpd from the stable potato packages. Anonymous ftp cannot log in because ftp user does not exist. I've setup a chroot jail in /home/ftp. What's the best way to add user ftp in a security conscious way. I tried useradd ftp, then in /etc/passwd I changed it's shell to

RE: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-23 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
What I normally do is cp the .Xauthority from /home/username to /root and starting X as root would then be okHowever, I am unsure whether this would compromise certain security features, etcCan anyone on the list comment on this method? Not sure about the sound card problem...what does

RE: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-23 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
If you have got the correct modules loaded...you'd need to chmod your /dev/dsp and /dev/audio to allow your username write access to the devices.try chmod 666 on the above devices! HTH, YMMV Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL

Cable Modem

2000-10-23 Thread Alvin Smith
Hello. Is there anything special that I need to know in order to get a sb1000 cable modem to work under potato? Alvin Smith

Re: fullscreen video playback

2000-10-23 Thread matt garman
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:42:03PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: without proper video acceleration in X this is not possible/reccomended. try using the double option in mpegtv and you'll see Well, if you define a videomode closer to the

Re: Cable Modem

2000-10-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
You need to read Cable-HOWTO and Ethernet-HOWTO in order to find your NIC-specific information (NICs distributed by cable companies may not work out of the box). Other than that, get NIC working properly (proper kernel modules), fire up dhcp client of your choice with hostname you were given, and

Re: Cable Modem

2000-10-23 Thread Alvin Smith
Thanks. I printed out and read those last week. I am having problems compiling the programs that come in the sb1000-1.1.2.tar. All of the instructions seem to be for older kernels without cablemodem support. From what I was able to gather, potato has support for cm in the kernel. Is that why

Re: installing MATLAB

2000-10-23 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 05:39:49PM -0700, Prof. Le Baron O. Ferguson wrote: Trying to do an install from the CDROM for v. 5.3 of MATLAB I can not get started. I get an error message: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' I find this library at /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6. I put a link to it in

Re: How to get more screensavers for Windowmaker

2000-10-23 Thread Pat Mahoney
Please don't send html emails (use plain old ascii). Those screensaver programs are in the xlockmore package afaik. Either install this package, or, if it is installed, try running update-menus. -- Pat Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] For children with short attention spans: boomerangs that

Problem with desktop icons

2000-10-23 Thread Casey Henderson
Hi all, I have a weird problem in GNOME. The icons for my desktop shortcuts keep changing back to the default icon (a piece of paper) for no reason. I didn't do anything (that I'm aware of) to change the icons, they just all got reset by themselves. When I try to change them, it won't work. I

Re: adding ftp user

2000-10-23 Thread Nate Amsden
William Jensen wrote: I've just installed ftpd from the stable potato packages. Anonymous ftp cannot log in because ftp user does not exist. I've setup a chroot jail in /home/ftp. What's the best way to add user ftp in a security conscious way. I tried useradd ftp, then in /etc/passwd I

Sendmail and Virtual Domains

2000-10-23 Thread Tom Warfield
Okay i thought at first, hey this looks easyso hrmmm why the heck aint it working :) Here is what is going on. I have a virtual domain that i want my astcorp.com server to host the email for. So with that in mind I have it working properly, well at least somewhat properly. If you send a email

new machine: what's wrong?

2000-10-23 Thread Jack
Hi, Frustrated with my new machine. It's a self-assembled machine and it's the first one I've made. (PIII, PC133, 128M mem) Tried to boot from the my old hard-disk, which has Win98, Win2k, Debian installed on it. Win98 could be booted into DOS mode just fine. Win98 itself (even safe mode)

Re: new machine: what's wrong?

2000-10-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Thats most likely because you are booting a system that was build on your old box...different hardware, totally. I've had something like that happen to me when I booted a kernel from old system into new one (different architectures, 486-Pentium). System booted, but behaved very badly. Same story

Re: recommendation of software to use for web-based systems?

2000-10-23 Thread Stan Kaufman
LTG wrote: I just setup the most recent ver. of potato at home. I also have two NT machines. I want to setup my linux box as a intranet server and build a web-based system on top of it using all free or almost free software. It should include a database (like oracle), a middle tier, like

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