Swap

2000-11-04 Thread Cesar
Hola. Sabrìais decirme alguien como puedo saber que procesos estàn utilizando swap en un momento dado? Gracias anticipadas. Cesar.

Re: hda1 + hdb2 juntas + gnuparted

2000-11-04 Thread Eduardo Diaz Comellas
Hola! Carles Pina i Estany wrote: Hace una semana miré algo, me suena que se llama LVM pero no estoy muy seguro, y decian que en los kernels 2.2.x se tenía que poner un parche pero en los 2.4.x ya vendría de serie... LVM toma dos volúmenes y los gestiona como un solo, sin embargo, RAID lo

Re: hda1 + hdb2 juntas + gnuparted

2000-11-04 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hola Hace una semana miré algo, me suena que se llama LVM pero no estoy muy seguro, y decian que en los kernels 2.2.x se tenía que poner un parche pero en los 2.4.x ya vendría de serie... LVM toma dos volúmenes y los gestiona como un solo, sin embargo, RAID lo hace al nivel de sectores

Re: ¿Programa de bolsa?

2000-11-04 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
El Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 11:24:44AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] contaba: Si, si, si, yo también quiero que funcione el gstalker de debian (también da un segmentation fault). ¿Alguien sabe a que es debido? ¿No os había comentado que yo usaba el Gstalker de Slink? ¿Nadie se imagina porqué? La

Re: Sitios para lista SOffice ...

2000-11-04 Thread Amaya
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: ¿hay algún sitio donde den soporte para hacer listas de correo basadas en Web y con espacio de almacenamiento? (Preferentemente en español, y si es posible, GRATIS) www.egroups.com -- The easiest way to get the root password is to become system admin.

gnu as

2000-11-04 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hola Es un peuqeño off-topic, pero como veo que bastante gente irá en hispalinux... la conferencia de gnu as en que consiste? en el resumen pone que es para gente que saben algo de qué irá o no sé qué, pero no tengo ni idea del tema ni nada... si alguien me orienta perfecto hasta pronto

Re: Seguridad en casa y ¿que hacemos con lpd?

2000-11-04 Thread Manel Marin
Hola David, On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 06:38:23PM +0100, Hue-Bond wrote: El jueves 02 de noviembre de 2000 a la(s) 23:15:13 +0100, Manel Marin contaba: cero servicios (cero servicios = cero riesgo) No tienes en cuenta los bugs del núcleo :^). A ver, según

Re: Seguridad en casa y ¿que hacemos con lpd?

2000-11-04 Thread Manel Marin
Hola void, On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 09:59:27AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Volvemos a lo de siempre , en mi modesta opinión los usuarios ya tienen madre, y no será por documentación... Soy partidario de facilitar la vida en la medida de lo posible a los usuarios novele.. pero... debe

Arañas

2000-11-04 Thread Cesar
Hola gente. Sabeis donde se puede localizar codigo fuente de programas araña ? Gracias. Cesar.

Re: Arañas

2000-11-04 Thread Kilian Pérez González
Busca informacion sobre el Wget de GNU y su modo Nobot. www.gnu.org www.debian.org Kilian Perez Gonzalez On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Cesar wrote: Hola gente. Sabeis donde se puede localizar codigo fuente de programas araña ? Gracias. Cesar. -- Unsubscribe? mail

XFree 4.0.1

2000-11-04 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos... He instalado el xfree86 4.0.1, pero he visto que mi tarjeta no esta soportada, es una S3 Trio 64V+. ¿Que se puede hacer en este caso? Ahora mismo, lo tengo ejecutando con el xserver de la version 3.3.6 pero no creo que sea lo ideal. Saludos.

Re: XFree 4.0.1

2000-11-04 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 09:41:48PM +0100, Angel Vicente Perez wrote: Ahora mismo, lo tengo ejecutando con el xserver de la version 3.3.6 pero no creo que sea lo ideal. Es todo lo que puedes hacer de momento, a menos que quieras actualizar tu driver a X4 :) -- Jordi Mallach Pérez || [EMAIL

Re: Tarjeta de sonido

2000-11-04 Thread VerdeOliva
Sí que estoy usando isapnp, y lo más curioso es que al iniciar el sistema me detecta los mismos parámetros que aparecen en el panel de control de windows, y es más me los habilita con el mensaje: enabled--OK. Pero es eso lo que no funciona. Tengo más que probado que cuando antes arranco con

Re: Gpg con pine

2000-11-04 Thread Daniel Guillermo Bareiro
Hola Amtonio. Que tal!! Te cuento que yo uso el pgp4pine y anda muy bien. Soporta tanto pgp como gpg y lo podes bajar encontrar algun mirror en http://freshmeat.net. Salu2 On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Jose Antonio Ortega Garcia wrote: He leido un pequeño articulo que explica como meter el gpg en el

envio de mails como usuario

2000-11-04 Thread Luis Zuccolo
Hola: No puedo mandar mail como usuario, ya que el servidor me lo niega. Como root no tengo ningun inconveniente. Como puedo hacer para solucionar esto? Gracias

cd de audio

2000-11-04 Thread Luis Zuccolo
Hola: Agradeceria que alguien me informe como hacer para escuchar un cd de musica. Cuando trato de montarlo, no me deja, ya que no reconoce el formato de archivos. Busque informacion al respecto en faq, how to y lei en news y no enconte nada. De paso aprovecho para preguntar como hacer para

skicka e-post

2000-11-04 Thread Carl Winbäck
Jag har lyckats konfigurera sendmail och kan nu hämta mail. När jag ska skicka mail får jag detta felmeddelande: MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=289 501 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender domain must exist Någon som vet hur man fixar det? /Carl = -- Det var bättre förr.

Mer e-postfrågor

2000-11-04 Thread Carl Winbäck
Hejsan, nu kommer en e-postfråga till. Kan man få alla inkommande brev att automatiskt hamna i ~/mail/mbox istället för /var/spool/mail/användarnamn? Eller ska man kanske lägga in Windows och Outlook Express i stället? /Carl = -- Det var bättre förr.

Re: Nome revista on-line

2000-11-04 Thread Lalo Martins
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 08:38:11AM -0200, Hélio Alexandre Lopes Loureiro wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, José Manuel Nunes wrote: Que acham de lignux? Horrível, nem o Stallman conseguiu escapar com essa. Debian-BR. Limitante, IMVHO a revista não deveria ser só sobre isso. Deveria ser uma

modem

2000-11-04 Thread Alexandre Araujo
Voce fez tudo certo, mais o problema 'e que o modem driver feito para modens pctel so funciona em kernel 2.2.14 ou inferior. Como o debian 'e kernel 2.2.17, nao funciona... Baixe ele (2.2.17) compile... e faca tudo o que voce fez, que com certeza, ira funcionar Abracos. --

Re: IMP e correção ortográfica+KDE2

2000-11-04 Thread jclaudio
Nunca vi webmail mais fácil de instalar. #atp-get install imp Isso deve instalar o Horde, Apache e todas outras dependências. Para acessar, aponte o navegador para http://suamaquina/horde/imp (na configuração padrão) Cópia [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Olá jclaudio e lista !!! Pergunta .. como se vez

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?som_funciona_mas_a_placa_n=E3o_existe

2000-11-04 Thread Rafael A . Schmitt
?= Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Rafael A . Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: x-unknown X-Mailer: Balsa 0.6.0 Bomé isso aí...instalei o Debian (potato) , instalei o kernel-2.2.14 para o driver do meu

Link ISND Startando sobre demanda???

2000-11-04 Thread Diorgenes B. de Mello
Ae galera como eu faço para que um servidor(firewall) com ISDN trabalhe sobre demanda, isto é se necessario ele disca uma linha, e quando a demanda aumentar ele disca a segunda linha... alguem tem alguma idéia? Eu uso o Debian 2.2 e uma placa da TELES... Fico grato por qq ajuda(howto tbm

Re: Problema no NFS

2000-11-04 Thread juliano
Putzx .. nem pensei nisso valew !!! Faço o bixo rodar a versão 2 achei que o linux rodava alguuma versão mais nova !! Vou tentar segunda-feira depois digo se funcionou !! Valew Hélio Alexandre Lopes Loureiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Olá falando em NFS alguém sabe porque o

Conf do Exim....

2000-11-04 Thread Diorgenes B. de Mello
Ae alguem poderia me ajudar com a configuração do exim??? Eu queria fazer o seguinte: Uma conta de mail no servidor e um monte de aliases para esta conta. então o fetchmail busca os mails no sevidor(via conecção discada) e distribui nas contas locais. E outra eu queria fazer com que o exim

PORTA 21

2000-11-04 Thread juliano
Alguém sabe como mudar a porta do ftpd

Now that X4.0.1 Is Woody-Fied.

2000-11-04 Thread Corey Popelier
Most of you might have gotten bored to tears by my running efforts to get the X4.0.1 in woody functional, and probably know by now I have, so I thought I'd quickly and briefly say how: After the updates and mountains of installs/removes: Run XFree86 -configure This creates a

Re: software raid

2000-11-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya manuel.. raid0/raid1 is by default working...nothing special to do other than define your raid partitions... /etc/raidtab if you want to run raid5 ... than you need to patch the kernel and tweek it.. and yes...have raid5 running on 1U chassis w/ debian-2.2 have fun alvin

Re: woody upgrade still breaks apt-get

2000-11-04 Thread Russ Pitman
Tried both upgrade and dist-upgrade, can't be certain now but one gave a bunch of errors and declined to work. The one that did loaded 57 files including pcima stuff which I did not have or want and libc6 v2.1.96-1. Apt-get update failed after the files were installed, so now I have two installs

Re: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-04 Thread Damien
While I'm trying not to buy into Yet Another Editor Holywar, my favourite EMACS backronym (found in some file that comes with the EMACS distribution, I believe) is: why not a holy war? i always find them interesting, because when people sit down and advocato what they're interested in, the

Re: Disappearing ldconfig

2000-11-04 Thread Mariusz Klimczak
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 05:44:14AM -0500, John Kiff wrote: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.3-10) but

Hylafax and Sedlbauer speedfax + PCI ISDN

2000-11-04 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, I can send a fax using my new Sedlbauer speed fax + pci. But when I try to receive a fax on this card I get some kernel messages in my syslog and receiving the fax is aborted. This is a part of my syslog. Nov 1 20:52:47 shining isdnlog: | Sedlbauer#0 : incoming^IFax^I0 Nov 1 20:52:47

pico why not jpico (was Re: Which editor for programming?)

2000-11-04 Thread adam
Damien wrote: While I'm trying not to buy into Yet Another Editor Holywar, my favourite EMACS backronym (found in some file that comes with the EMACS distribution, I believe) is: why not a holy war? i always find them interesting, because when people sit down and advocato what they're

Re: 'Generic' Firewall Rulesets?

2000-11-04 Thread Felix Hagemann
Troy Telford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [`Good firewall'] I'm more interested in learning how to create a good firewall than simply having one. (So I can make one from scratch should I ever have a specific need). Instead of using scripts you don't understand (which leads to a false

Re: ISDN

2000-11-04 Thread Gnanasekaran Thoppae
hi again, i figured out that my isdn card support is not available in the potato's kernel (2.2.17). I have ELSA Microlink ISDN PCI internal isdn card and I do not see this card entry in modconf hisax module insertion step. What surprising me is that redhat 7.0 which uses 2.2.16-22 kernel is

Re: woody upgrade still breaks apt-get

2000-11-04 Thread Russell Davies
; Tried both upgrade and dist-upgrade, can't be certain now but one gave a ; bunch of errors and declined to work. The one that did loaded 57 files ; including pcima stuff which I did not have or want and libc6 v2.1.96-1. ; ; Apt-get update failed after the files were installed, so now I have two

set up telnetd and ftpd on a rescue cd

2000-11-04 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, I'm actually building a Boot Rescue CD and have some problems. (Security is at this point no concern, I just want that it works) 1. I can't set up in.telnetd. If i telnet into my rescue system i got the following error: Trying 192.168.0.250... Connected to 192.168.0.250.

how to get the latest STABLE releases?

2000-11-04 Thread Daniel Borgmann
hello! i just switched to debian and it simply rocks! yesterday i added the kde2 line to sources.list, started the download and went to bed. next morning i typed startx and everything was up and running! i still can't believe it. now the only downside of debian is that potato isn't up to date.

proftpd - user-accounts

2000-11-04 Thread Michael Mertins
While anoymous-login is pretty easy with proftpd, i wonder how i can setup restricted logins with individual username and password? -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

woody security

2000-11-04 Thread Michael Mertins
are there any security-sources for apt in woody? or is woody a mere testing environment for security-updates on the stable-release? -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: ISDN

2000-11-04 Thread Moritz Schulte
Gnanasekaran Thoppae [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i figured out that my isdn card support is not available in the potato's kernel (2.2.17). I have ELSA Microlink ISDN PCI internal isdn card and I do not see this card entry in modconf hisax module insertion step. You mean this screen, where

Re: woody security

2000-11-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 02:03:20PM +0100, Michael Mertins wrote: are there any security-sources for apt in woody? or is woody a mere testing environment for security-updates on the stable-release? s/potato/woody/ in the potato security apt sources should work, at least it used to when potato

grub?

2000-11-04 Thread Markus Hareide
I'm an old Mac user trying to learn to use Linux. At first Iwas using Mandrake 7.1, but I decided to switch to Debian because of the philosophy behind it. I bought the O'Reilly book Learning Debian GNU/Linux written by Bill McCarty. This book contained an CD with Debian 2.1. The book explain how

Re: grub?

2000-11-04 Thread Moritz Schulte
Markus Hareide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I bought the O'Reilly book Learning Debian GNU/Linux written by Bill McCarty. This book contained an CD with Debian 2.1. I recommend that you try Debian GNU/Linux 2.2. (`Potato')! :) The book explain how to install the system. But after I'm done and

Re: using -nolisten tcp with X

2000-11-04 Thread mike
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 23:39:01 +, Jim Breton said: I have been aliasing startx to startx -nolisten tcp in my local users' ..bash_profiles in order to prevent X from listening on port 6000 on startup. However, display managers (at least gdm anyway) don't care about these aliases, and

HBCI and masquerading

2000-11-04 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, Does anybody know if HBCI works through a masquerading server? Ciao, Timo[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- .-'~~~-. .'o oOOOo`. | Timo Benk ;~~~-.oOo o`. | Germany `. \ ~-. oOOo. | `.; / ~. OO: | Fax/Voicemail:+49891488214215 .' ;-- `.o.'

APC UPS-Pro 650 anyone ?

2000-11-04 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, im using PowerChute fromn APC. All works well except that the UPS doesn't put itself to sleep, so it runs On battery forever. I've tried the same ups an same cable with a WinBug box and all work well. So the choice are the Linux powerChute bugware or the serial port. Anyone with success

Re: grub?

2000-11-04 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, FYI - I remember seeing some posts that indicated that the CD that was shipped with this book has problems. I do not know what the grub prompt is all about though. Debian 2.1 is what I run on my Thinkpad 560, but a friend copied the CDs for me, from the official ones. John From:

Off topic - Netscape

2000-11-04 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
Sorry for the off-topic, but does any one know how to get rid of that stupid Shop button from the top of the netscape screen? BTW... I down loaded the newest 4.76 version from the Netscape site. I installed it in /usr/local/netscape476 and copied the plugger.so files over. Seems to be

gedit/potato segfaults

2000-11-04 Thread Andre Berger
Anyone with the following segfault problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gedit Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GnomeApp' I thought the potato version 0.5.4-1 was stable? -- Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Bonn, Germany

Re: HBCI and masquerading

2000-11-04 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:50:07 + (GMT), Timo Benk wrote: Does anybody know if HBCI works through a masquerading server? Sure. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\

Re: how to get the latest STABLE releases?

2000-11-04 Thread Daniel Borgmann
well, isn't this a bit stupid? i mean, to get new MORE STABLE versions i have to use the UNSTABLE tree? why aren't stable packages for the unstable tree moved to the potato tree? am i dammned to use years old unstable software packages until woody is released next year? can i use single woody

Re: Mozilla M18 on potato (pentium100)

2000-11-04 Thread Daniel Borgmann
hello! i just downloaded M18 from this place and unpacked the archive to /usr/local/mozilla/ but i have problems to start it. when i try to run mozilla as root it says: - ranger:/usr/lib# /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla /usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin

Re: Off topic - Netscape

2000-11-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 09:02:50AM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: Sorry for the off-topic, but does any one know how to get rid of that stupid Shop button from the top of the netscape screen? from ~/.Xresources: ! shut off garbage toolbar buttons Netscape*toolBar.myshopping.isEnabled:

Re: grub?

2000-11-04 Thread Moritz Schulte
John Miskinis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FYI - I remember seeing some posts that indicated that the CD that was shipped with this book has problems. I do not know what the grub prompt is all about though. GRUB ist the GNU Bootloader, it's a very powerfull one. AFAIK Mandrake uses GRUB as

Re: Mozilla M18 on potato (pentium100)

2000-11-04 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Daniel Borgmann wrote: when i try to run mozilla as root it says: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 - what does that mean?? and yes, i did start it in X. when i do the same as a regular user, i get no error message at all. Sounds like you logged

Re: Mozilla M18 on potato (pentium100)

2000-11-04 Thread sena
I heard that Leen Besselink wrote this on 04/11/00: Sounds like you logged in as a regular user, opened up a terminal program like xterm, Eterm, Konsole, etc., and su'd (with the 'su' command or similair) to root and tryed to start mozilla as root. This does not work in Unix en thus Linux. In

Re: grub?

2000-11-04 Thread Alan Salewski
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 01:59:58PM +, John Miskinis wrote: Hello, FYI - I remember seeing some posts that indicated that the CD that was shipped with this book has problems. I do not know what the grub prompt is all about though. GRand Unified Bootloader

Why doesn't alt-x in Emacs doesn't work?

2000-11-04 Thread Dan Griswold
Scott == Scott V McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scott In a recently installed and apg-get dist-upgraded potato, I Scott can't use alt-x in emacs. Does anyone know why? Scott (I know I can use escape-x, but I'm used to alt-x) Scott, I've had a problem like this before, and

Re: Off topic - Netscape

2000-11-04 Thread mike
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 09:02:50 -0500, Christopher W. Aiken said: Sorry for the off-topic, but does any one know how to get rid of that stupid Shop button from the top of the netscape screen? Read the Netscape.ad file (application defaults) and put the desired default lines in your

PPP Configuration

2000-11-04 Thread Marco Herrn
Hello, I tried to configure my internet connection on my potato system via wvdial an pppconfig, but neither of this works correctly. When running wvdial, it starts the connection and holds it, but I cannot access the internet (I tried it with netscape and lynx). When running pon, it dials, but

Testing modems

2000-11-04 Thread Cam Ellison
I am having problems with my USR 1171; among its uses is to answer the phone and take faxes. Now PMfax isn't happy with it, and I suspect some of the registers may be screwed up. Does ayone know of a test application (maybe something like Telix, which runs on DOS) that will poke around in the

Re: APC UPS-Pro 650 anyone ?

2000-11-04 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 10:57:10AM -0300, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: Hi, im using PowerChute fromn APC. All works well except that the UPS doesn't put itself to sleep, so it runs On battery forever. I've tried the same ups an same cable with a WinBug box and all work well. So the

Installing LILO in MBR or in another partition

2000-11-04 Thread Terry Boon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In Running Linux, the example lilo.conf includes the line boot = /dev/hda This will install LILO into the master boot record (MBR) of hda. The explanation continues If you give a partition device name (such as /dev/hda2), instead of a drive

XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-04 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings -- Did the XFree86 upgrade last night. Wasn't too bad; if I hadn't mis-remembered the video card in this box, I think it would have been seamless. As it was, I had to do some reading and playing around to get /etc/X11/XF86Config set up the

RE: Installing LILO in MBR or in another partition

2000-11-04 Thread Jason Holland
In Running Linux, the example lilo.conf includes the line boot = /dev/hda this is used if LILO will be the controlling boot manager for the system. The bios will read this first when the system is turned on. This will install LILO into the master boot record (MBR) of hda. The

Re: Testing modems

2000-11-04 Thread Andrew Hagen
You'll need either a paper manual for the modem, or a downloadable one. I think you can download modem manuals from the USR or 3COM site. After reading the manual, open a comm program. Programs for these are in the communications tree of packages. Once you are able to type in AT CR and get back

Re: Java 2 Runtime Environment

2000-11-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Put this in your sources.list: deb ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/java-linux/debian woody non-free You can replace the first part url with any mirros listed on blackdown.org Shao. Jay Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Guys, Im running apache and need to add Java 2 Runtime Environment v

Re: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Disclaimer: I use emacs for heavy duty stuff (eg., my thesis in LaTeX), and Vim for everything else... Could you let us know how you live on both emacs and vim? Do you have to use the vi mode in emacs when using emacs? I tried out emacs before and

Re: Testing modems

2000-11-04 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 04 Nov 2000 11:28:28 EST, Andrew Hagen writes: After reading the manual, open a comm program. Programs for these are in the communications tree of packages. Once you are able to type in AT CR and get back OK, you are communicating with the modem. Then you can alter the registers and

email alias postfix procmail

2000-11-04 Thread dirk
Hi all. I thought I had some simple problem, but I don't have any clue how to solve it. I made an alias for my own emailadress and this alias I want to use for another user. I have a dial-up machine and I am almost the only user. I am subscribed to several mailing lists and sort them out using

Re: Off topic - Netscape

2000-11-04 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 10:06:09AM -0500, mike wrote: -| -|On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 09:02:50 -0500, Christopher W. Aiken said: -| -| Sorry for the off-topic, but does any one know -| how to get rid of that stupid Shop button from the -| top of the netscape screen? -| -| Read the Netscape.ad

How to get ifup/ifdown source code

2000-11-04 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
i'm curious to know how ifup/ifdown does it's magic. how do i get the source code for these using apt-get -- As a general rule, if you have trouble with the binary system, then probably it is because you do not really understand the decimal system ... R.W. Hamming

Re: New user rant..urr, questions.

2000-11-04 Thread David Teague
Hi Sy Many thanks for your detailed response. You asK Question for you, if I may: I am using an x86 system. If Debian ended up being my sole OS, are there advantages to switching to another hardware platform? Does Debian run better on other platforms? (all else being equal - like

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-04 Thread USM Bish
Thanks to all those who have replied either to the list or on my personal mail. Finally decided to give it a try. Downloaded the static binary from the Opera site (Ver 4.0b1). Run it for over 2 hrs right now. Initial impressions ... not that bad at all (but being a beta release, many things

mv -i doesn't work?

2000-11-04 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anybody else have this problem? /bin/mv -i and /bin/mv --interactive do not prompt before moving. From the stable fileutils. -chris

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-04 Thread wulfie
I'll second the anti-Nvidia driver lobby. I too have had severe lockups either starting XF86 4.0 or ctl-alt-Fx'ing to a text console. My specific hardware is a 16Mb Sparkle Nvidia Vanta AGP 2x card, this on my main SuSE (sorry!) box. == Paul Sims

installation problem

2000-11-04 Thread lhomer
I have an asus-cubx motherboard with intel 440BX AGPset 100 MHZ W/ ATA100 and intel p3750EF, 750MHZ cpu I have two ide hard drives, either can boot windows with no difficulty The windows system reports a scsi device described as a "Windows 95-98 Promise Ultra 100 (tm) IDE controller

Re: mv -i doesn't work?

2000-11-04 Thread David Teague
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: Anybody else have this problem? /bin/mv -i and /bin/mv --interactive do not prompt before moving. From the stable fileutils. -chris Chris mv -i is not interatctive, rather it is query before overwrite. Exerpt from man mv: mv - move (rename) files

install via FTP HOWTO?

2000-11-04 Thread W. Lindenschmidt
Greetings, Debianites! I am a pseudo-newbie (been using RedHat 6.1 for about a year), but I want to upgrade to Debian. Since I am a student, I will wait until the winter break to do so, since Linux (Evolution, Mozilla, and StarOffice 5.2) is my working environment. I was wondering if there is

Re: I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-04 Thread Claudette Woodgate
Corey, Where shall I send the case of beers and the strippers? I finally have my Xfree86 4.0.1 up and running, at 1280x1024x16bpp. Thank You ! Now, I understand that Xfree86 4.0.1 has built-in True Type support. So that means I can do away with the xfstt? What lines do I need to add to my

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-04 Thread wulfie
ttmkfdir in the ttf dir :) Add the path to your fonts section in XF86Config, freetype to the modules section (you already did both, it seems) you're there. == Paul Sims ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SpireLUG - the Chesterfield Linux User Group

RE: PPP Configuration

2000-11-04 Thread Nick Cook
On 04-Nov-2000 Marco Herrn wrote: Hello, I tried to configure my internet connection on my potato system via wvdial an pppconfig, but neither of this works correctly. When running wvdial, it starts the connection and holds it, but I cannot access the internet (I tried it with netscape and

Re: installation problem

2000-11-04 Thread wulfie
Most likely the kernel is not aware of the ATA100 interface yet. If you can, slot in a multi-I/O card with IDE i/f use this to install. You'll have to seek out a kernel patch for the ATA100 controller. The reported Promise controller is the ATA100 chipset being detected but not recognized.

new to Debian....

2000-11-04 Thread wulfie
although not new to linux. A little bit of skewed logic in places - I install C dev system kernel sources, but the .debs do not include libcurses5 as a recommended to make menuconfig. Huh? I'd have thought many kernel hand-rollers would do menuconfig so this would be a popular

sources.list to upgrade from slink to potato

2000-11-04 Thread Matheson
Hey, I'm trying to upgrade my slink to potato with the three cd-set of binaries, but I don't know what my sources.list should look like to include all three cd's. If someone could please send me an example file, I would appreciate it. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

sgml and latex

2000-11-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have a computer software manual written in sgml using Docbook. Now, in one of my latex documents, I would like to include this sgml manual as an appendix of my latex document. But I don't know how to do it. I can only convert sgml to jadetex, but not latex, so I cannot just use latex's

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-04 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 wulfie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ttmkfdir in the ttf dir :) Add the path to your fonts section in XF86Config, freetype to the modules section (you already did both, it seems) you're there. What's the exact path to ttmkfdir on your box? I don't

Debian Potato and Alcatel Speed Touch USB?

2000-11-04 Thread Ringo De Smet
Hello, At last I have the opportunity to get an ADSL connection through the local phone company (Belgacom - Belgium). There are several ISP's offering the combined ISP/ADSL account, but all with the same hardware. I can get an Alcatel Speed Touch PSTN (connects to a NIC) or I can get the USB

Re: I messed up Xfree86

2000-11-04 Thread Corey Popelier
Claudette if I get either the beers or the strippers, you will have made a friend for life. In fact just the suggestion of them makes you a friend automatically :) I must thank whoever mentioned the XFree86 -configure command, that starting point was the catalyst to getting X working - the rest

Message from syslogd...

2000-11-04 Thread J.P. Larocque
I went away for a few days, leaving my computer running (as it always is) and I had an Eterm open in my X session. When I came back, I got this: Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Thu Nov 2 16:46:54 2000 ... omega FYI, omega is my computer's hostname. Now, what exactly does this cryptic

Re: Why doesn't alt-x in Emacs doesn't work?

2000-11-04 Thread Chris Gray
I just asked this question last week. What you probably need are the following lines in the keyboard section of your /etc/XF86Config file: Section Keyboard LeftAlt Meta RightAltMeta Cheers Chris On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Scott V. McGuire wrote: In a recently installed and

Re: how to get the latest STABLE releases?

2000-11-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Daniel Borgmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: db why aren't stable packages for the unstable tree moved to the db potato tree? Because that would be very difficult. First, packages all depend on other packages. The package in woody may well depend on other packages with newer versions in

Making the computer less noisy

2000-11-04 Thread Jean-Michel Kelbert
Hi ! i am wondering if there is a way to make the computer less noisy at some moment (the NIGHT). What I mean is that the CPU fan does a lot of noise, and the Hd too. Is there a porgram to make the cpu fan less rotating (if the cpu doesn't work !) Thank Jean-Michel

Re: Debian Potato and Alcatel Speed Touch USB?

2000-11-04 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 04 Nov 2000 20:27:59 +0100, Ringo De Smet writes: Q: Does the USB backport for 2.2 kernels supports networking stacks? Or am I better of with the NIC connected ADSL modem? I don´t know about linux+USB+networking, but we have extensively tested the Alcatel Speed Touch here in .at-land,

Re: How to get ifup/ifdown source code

2000-11-04 Thread sena
I heard that Patrick Dahiroc wrote this on 04/11/00: i'm curious to know how ifup/ifdown does it's magic. how do i get the source code for these using apt-get Well, first you need a deb-src line in your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main

Re: Installing LILO in MBR or in another partition

2000-11-04 Thread David Z Maze
Terry Boon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TB In Running Linux, the example lilo.conf includes the line TB TBboot = /dev/hda TB TB This will install LILO into the master boot record (MBR) of hda. The TB explanation continues If you give a partition device name (such as TB /dev/hda2), instead of a

libqt2.2.x help

2000-11-04 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, I am attempting to './configure' a new kde2 utility (http://www.1409.org/projects/kpsk/) and it depends on qt2.2 or better. This am, my apt-get included 19 megs, of the updates, qt2.2 was included - To my surprise. Yet, after a boot (just in case), I attempted to run the configure

installing without a cd-rom

2000-11-04 Thread social reject
Hello! My computers cd-rom does not work at all. I have Debian on CD, so I was wondering if there is anyway I can still install it onto the system? I have like 4 other computers, so is there anyway I can jus put it all on floppies or something? Thanks..

Re: installing Star Office 5.2

2000-11-04 Thread cls-colo spgs
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 08:43:40PM -0600, Bob Edwards wrote: Can anyone tell me how to install Star Office 5.2 ? I have downloaded the file which is a .bin file, and put it in a seperate directory. what is next ? I know how to install .tar files and .gz files, but not .bin files. I

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