Re: script help

2000-11-07 Thread Mike Quin
Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to come up with a bash shell script that deletes all the files in a folder older than N days. I'm not sure how to test for file age so I can't get it done myself, can someone suggest a way? use find(1) with the mtime flag, e.g. find /tmp -type f

Q: Default bpp resolution 32 in Linux?

2000-11-07 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, While I realise you can have many different color depths, I remember reading (but am not sure) that 32bpp is the Linux default... assuing the card supports it. I just want to check if that's so and what difference that makes with 24 bit, sice the number of colors is the same? Thaks,

Q: Setting the environment display variable??

2000-11-07 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Trying to install Words, I got: ./setup Initializings installation. Please wait... Before running this product, you must set your environment DISPLAY variable. Read up in the FAQ and Running Linux and no mention is made of a display variable... It has to be a basic shell configuration item.

xsession, bash_profile and xdm

2000-11-07 Thread Thomas Halahan
Dear deb-users, I want my .bash_profile to be read globally whenever I log in from xdm. Previously in Redhat I would start X from /dev/tty1 which was a login shell. However with debian I log in from xdm, and consequently none of my konsoles (I run KDE2) or xterms (/dev/pts/?) are are login

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: Of course I installed all neccessary src's, how would I've launched make xconfig without doing this first? Nobody said otherwise. The kernel compiled without any errors - but which file is the correct one?

kernel 2.2 w/ USB

2000-11-07 Thread Matthew King
I apologise for simply barging into this mailing list with this sort of request, but I am pushed for time (by my boss, so no surprise there) Tomorrow we get an ADSL line installed. Due to the general cruddiness of UK telecoms, this only comes with a USB connection. This would be fine, except that

update with dselect and dpkg fails

2000-11-07 Thread Bernhard Aichinger
Hi! I tryed to update my installed packages with dselect and during the update procedure dpkg reports that i should convert may Berkeley 1.85 database to 2.0, because the two version are not compatible! This massage was displayed during the installation procedure of perl (update from perl 5.004 to

Re: Keyboard problems with xfree86 4.0.1

2000-11-07 Thread Hein Meling
A little follow-up information. I have still not resolved this problem, but have discovered that I can use the dk and de layout, and I wouldn't get the error message in the log: Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap Any further assistance would be of enormous help. Thanks!

exmh(exim) problem

2000-11-07 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am having problems getting Exmh to enter the correct sender in my header. It keeps putting [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] In exim.conf I wrote a rewrite script ^(root|postmailer|mailer-daemon)@* [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffr but it did not work. Is there something wrong with the

Re: Some Newbie Questions

2000-11-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:28:06PM +1100, Damien wrote: it's not imperitive. debian is half locked down by default. until you become competent in linux, chances are you won't stand to lose much. simplest thing to do is make sure this line exists in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb

Re: w3m wouldn't load http://localhost

2000-11-07 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Andre Berger writes: I have apache installed and lynx, netscape and mozilla do not have a problem to load http://localhost. However, links and w3m fails. Links' error message is: Host not found and w3m's: Can't load http://localhost;. Exactly the same as here. See a thread some

Re: xsession, bash_profile and xdm

2000-11-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:07:43PM +, Thomas Halahan wrote: Dear deb-users, I want my .bash_profile to be read globally whenever I log in from xdm. Previously in Redhat I would start X from /dev/tty1 which was a login shell. However with debian I log in from xdm, and consequently

Re: Keyboard problems with xfree86 4.0.1

2000-11-07 Thread Helgi Örn
Hi Hein, I am having this very same problem except that I normally use the swedish keyboard layout, which is not working now, so I am very curious about some solution on this. Helgi Oern Hein Meling wrote: A little follow-up information. I have still not resolved this problem, but have

Re: execution of shell scripts from cdrom

2000-11-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 10:37:02AM +0100, Danny Lathouwers wrote: Dear community, I wanted to execute a shell script from /cdrom and it fails with the following message: bash: ./scriptname: Permission denied. The script is executable and is run as root, so should work. Copying the script

Unidentified subject!

2000-11-07 Thread makoto sugimoto
# bye

Re: machine compromise??? port 3086 open on 2.2

2000-11-07 Thread Moritz Schulte
Daniel Freedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was just running nmap on my Debian 2.2 box and noticed the following output: [strange services running?] The sj3 service on port 3086 flicked into existence on this one scan but was never in existence before or after. I didn't even know what it

Problem with fbi/convert

2000-11-07 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I tried to watch a pdf file in console mode using fbi, but that didn't work. I traced it down to a problem with convert, as i tried to convert the pdf file to another format (this is what fbi does too). Output from convert image.pdf image2.pbm:

plpgsql function

2000-11-07 Thread Lamas Osvaldo
Hello!! I'm an Argentine programmer,so please ,excuse me if my english is very poor. I have a lot of questions.I was working whith Store Procedures,more exactly with plpgsql language. I need to know if it is posible,where can I found a complete reference of this language. One of my problems is :

Re: Compiled debs are upgraded

2000-11-07 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Madness and not what I want. It's not just doing it on my home machine (installed from what *might* be a dodgy CD set, I suppose) but from my work machine which I installed entirely over the internet. interesting, replacing it with the same

RE: DSL Firewall

2000-11-07 Thread mike
On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 00:32:29 + (UTC), Pollywog said: On 06-Nov-2000 Christopher W. Aiken wrote: Why cant I just set my /etc/hosts.deny file to ALL: PARANOID, comment out the telnet ftp and http lines out of my /etc/inetd.conf file? Wouldn't that be enough protection for

XFree86 4.0.1

2000-11-07 Thread mheyes
Hi, I upgraded XFree86 yesterday to 4.0.1 and had several problems in WindowMaker with the color mapping, ie can't find black, white etc and I'd like to go back to 3.3.6 for awhile until things settle down. I downgraded xserver-common, removed the new xserver for 4.0.1, and reinstalled the 3.3.6

Re: Compiling kernels

2000-11-07 Thread David Teague
On 6 Nov 2000, David Z. Maze wrote: Timo Benk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TB Hi, TB On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Matthew Sackman wrote: MS The problem is that my kernels refuse to install. I have [snip -- non-deb kernel compile sequence -- ] David M. answers: It's far easier and cleaner to

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai Robert Wilhelm, I think we have a communication problem here, so let's at both sides try to be more explicit and maybe a little more informative:) On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:18:26PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: ... Ok, I think I got it. Debian seems to provide a combined

Re: Compiling kernels

2000-11-07 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, David Teague wrote: You say that installing the kernel package will ... prompt you to run lilo... Do I assume correctly: I have to modify /etc/lilo.conf, that is, the installation does not do this for me? (It has been a while

To setup display for NeoMagic 256XL on Sony VAIO PCG-XG29

2000-11-07 Thread jimmy sandhar
Hi all, Does anybody know or have done this before, setting up display for Sony VAIO PCG-XG29. Please let me know if so. Thanks and Regards, Uday _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

system.map

2000-11-07 Thread Gnanasekaran Thoppae
hi, How do i generate new System.map file? Do I need this file whenever I generate new kernels and modules? -gnana

Re: Exec CGI

2000-11-07 Thread halfdan
Well there is a slight change in the apache and cgiwrap packages, apache believes that user web is placed in ~/www and cgiwrap reads ~/public_html. The easiest way to fix this was to make apache use ~/public_html instead, because changing cgiwtrap would require a recompile. -- Best Regards /

Where on the disks 2.2 is LyX?

2000-11-07 Thread A.E. Roy
Where on the disks can I find LyX, assuming that they are there? Roy __ Denne eposten er sendt ved hjelp av http://www.Organizer.net - Norges ledende webbaserte kommunikasjonsløsning.

rc.boot

2000-11-07 Thread Daniel Knights
Hi all, I have recently installed debian for the 1st time after using redhat and then SuSe for a few years. I have just installed ssh to my new Debian box and would normally add a line in rc.local for redhat or boot.local for SuSe to start sshd at boot, I presume there is an equally easy way

RE: update with dselect and dpkg fails

2000-11-07 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Without wanting to be patronising, are you aware of apt-get? -Original Message- From: Bernhard Aichinger [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! I tryed to update my installed packages with dselect

Re: dpkg problem

2000-11-07 Thread Kaleb Daark
I have experienced similar results when the package archives are incomplete and/or corrupted. Deleting the first .deb and then downloading it again has fixed things, even though the files are exactly the same size etc. In other instances retrying the exactly same command has rectified the error!

T-Online Software for Linux?

2000-11-07 Thread Manegold
Hi All! Is there a software to access the german T-Online (formerly BTX) under Linux? I know how to use PPP (Internet) via T-Online and Linux, but the official decoder supplied by the Telekom is Windows. It's however needed for doing the telebanking stuff more securely, since it is a closed

Re: w3m wouldn't load http://localhost

2000-11-07 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:46, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: :: Andre Berger writes: I have apache installed and lynx, netscape and mozilla do not have a problem to load http://localhost. However, links and w3m fails. Links' error message is: Host not found and w3m's: Can't

debian CD's

2000-11-07 Thread Andrew Dixon
Hi All, I'm planning on burning a Debian install CD and I noticed that there are two images, binary-1.iso and binary-2.iso. Has the install grown to 2 CD's or is the second optional packages? thanks, Andy _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free

Re: Newbie sound help

2000-11-07 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Peter, Many thanks for your help, I think I'm on the right track now. I did notice that on my potato CD's there are some packages called alsa* (Advanced Linux Soound Architecture?). For example, alsa-base, alsaconf, alsautils. From the little I've read, they seem to be backward compatible with

Re: Keyboard problems with xfree86 4.0.1

2000-11-07 Thread Hein Meling
Hi Helgi, Currently I use the dk keyboard layout with some defects. I've had a look at the various files in /usr/lib/X11/xkb, but haven't really found anything different between dk and no versions of any files. So I don't understand why I get the error message in the log. Anyway, I just haven't

problems downsizing 30GB hd to 4.3GB hd, really BIOS question

2000-11-07 Thread Anders Lennartsson
Hi This is probablya BIOS question but the Debian community seems to be very knowledgable so I give it a try. (I sent this question to Intel but they have not responded). The problem: Problems downsizing primary master IDE HD from 30.7Gb to 4.3Gb. I have used my AL440LX motherboard with an PII

Re: xsession, bash_profile and xdm

2000-11-07 Thread Thomas Halahan
Thanks Ethan, I tried to put #! /bin/bash --login as the header to my ~/.xsessions file but this did not work. should this behave differently to the /etc/X11/Xsession global config? however the following if [ -f /etc/environment ]; then eval env $(cat /etc/environment) fi worked

Re: system.map

2000-11-07 Thread Moritz Schulte
Gnanasekaran Thoppae [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do i generate new System.map file? It gets generated during the Linux build process. Do I need this file whenever I generate new kernels and modules? It is better to have a correct System.map under /boot for the current Linux. The

Re: system.map

2000-11-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Gnanasekaran Thoppae [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gt How do i generate new System.map file? Do I need this file gt whenever I generate new kernels and modules? The simplest thing to do is to use the kernel-package tool to build yourself a new kernel package, then install it using dpkg -i.

Re: xsession, bash_profile and xdm

2000-11-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 02:53:59PM +, Thomas Halahan wrote: Thanks Ethan, I tried to put #! /bin/bash --login as the header to my ~/.xsessions file but this did not work. should this behave differently to the /etc/X11/Xsession global config? im not sure that trick works in the

Re: How stable are the XFree86 4 packages?

2000-11-07 Thread Richard Taylor
Date sent: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 13:54:02 -0500 From: Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: How stable are the XFree86 4 packages? Send reply to: Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:56:11AM

Re: debian CD's

2000-11-07 Thread gordzilla
Andy, On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Andrew Dixon wrote: Hi All, I'm planning on burning a Debian install CD and I noticed that there are two images, binary-1.iso and binary-2.iso. Has the install grown to 2 CD's or is the second optional packages? If you are planning to just do a base install and

Email questions

2000-11-07 Thread Richard Taylor
Hi, Is there a way that I can copy the archives of mail I have received using a Windoze client into a linux mail prog? I have no intentions of using the Windows client, which BTW is Pegasus, much anymore, and would not like to loose my old mails. Thanks.

Re: Vim's background colour

2000-11-07 Thread Rob Tandy
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 09:19:16AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: I am an emacs user trying out vim. On the console the font highlighting looks good. But on X11 I get a white background an then it looks ugly and I can not read most of the syntax highlighting. I have the following in my

Re: ISDN (solved)

2000-11-07 Thread Gnanasekaran Thoppae
Hi all, I figured out what mistake I was making while loading Hisax module. My card is type 18 and I need not do anything except type=18 entry in modconf when loading HiSax. But I have learnt a lot in the process of finding a solution and that's why I like to be with linux! :) Thanks. -gnana

Re: [debian-user] GeForce2 w/ XFree86 4.0.1 [ a little new ]

2000-11-07 Thread Rüdiger Kuhlmann
Hi! --[Andy Bastien]--[EMAIL PROTECTED] --[Rüdiger Kuhlmann] I have a GeForce2 MX, but I still don't get 3D running. At first, kdm crashes unless there is also an libGL.so.1 pointing to the _old_ libGL.so. You might have a conflict among your libraries somewhere. Go through all of the

Re: tnt2 vanta and dell 21

2000-11-07 Thread Anders Lennartsson
It seems Andy responded to a question by Anders Lennartsson: There are those who would have you believe that Anders Lennartsson wrote: Hi I'm trying to configure X on a PII 300 Mhz dual proc with a Creative TNT2 Vanta PCI card and running Woody. snip The problem is for instance that if I

Re: rc.boot

2000-11-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel Knights [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently installed debian for the 1st time after using redhat and then SuSe for a few years. I have just installed ssh to my new Debian box and would normally add a line in rc.local for redhat or boot.local for SuSe to

enlightenment and licq

2000-11-07 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, When using the dockapp from licq in Enlightenement, E creates a button for it, and there is no way for me to customize it. I just want to get a sticky/transparent flower on my desktop... Alt-click brings up the licq menu, not the E menu unfortunately... anyone know any work around? Shao.

Re: smtp error

2000-11-07 Thread cls-colo spgs
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 06:20:33PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 06:43:09PM -0700, cls-colo spgs wrote: debs, one of my potatoes has a smtp error: $ fetchmail fetchmail: imap connection to mail.pcisys.net failed: connection refused 25 messages for username

info su installazione di Debian

2000-11-07 Thread Pietro Greco
potrei ricevere possibilmente in italiano le isrtuzzioni per l' installazione di debian poichè ho grossi problemi grazie e arrivederci

RE: Q: Default bpp resolution 32 in Linux?

2000-11-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Nov-2000 Jonathan Gift wrote: Hi, While I realise you can have many different color depths, I remember reading (but am not sure) that 32bpp is the Linux default... assuing the card supports it. I just want to check if that's so and what difference that makes with 24 bit, sice the

RE: Q: Setting the environment display variable??

2000-11-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Nov-2000 Jonathan Gift wrote: Hi, Trying to install Words, I got: ./setup Initializings installation. Please wait... Before running this product, you must set your environment DISPLAY variable. Read up in the FAQ and Running Linux and no mention is made of a display

Re: xsession, bash_profile and xdm

2000-11-07 Thread Denis Kosygin
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 02:53:59PM +, Thomas Halahan wrote: I tried to put #! /bin/bash --login as the header to my ~/.xsessions file but this did not work. should=20 this behave differently to the /etc/X11/Xsession global config? im not

Re: Some Newbie Questions

2000-11-07 Thread USM Bish
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:27:16AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, here are my Questions: 1. I'm not going to beg for all the newbie commands I should know, so I'm just going to ask for a URL that will set me in the right direction. Could someone please point me to one? Check out

Re: T-Online Software for Linux?

2000-11-07 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Thorsten wrote: Is there a software to access the german T-Online (formerly BTX) under Linux? I know how to use PPP (Internet) via T-Online and Linux, but the official decoder supplied by the Telekom is Windows. It's however needed for doing the telebanking stuff more securely, since it is a

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Carel Fellinger wrote: Hai Robert Wilhelm, I think we have a communication problem here, so let's at both sides try to be more explicit and maybe a little more informative:) Thanks for your patience, Carel. No, it is a three step process. 0) get the kernel source and apply all the

RE: Hotmail+Netscape 4.x = crash!

2000-11-07 Thread Brett Singer
this may not be exactly what you want, but it's kinda cool all the same - a way to pull a hotmail account into lynx: http://x63.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=534757419CONTEXT=972436580.1916469310hitn um=12 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rogelio

D-Link Again!

2000-11-07 Thread Willi Dyck
Hi Debianers, i've posted a similar mail a few weeks ago but didn't get a satisfied answer. so i am going to try it again. i have a D-Link 530TX nic. i know that it is a via-rhine chip-set. and i have also seen many poeple using that card on this list. so it works, somehow. i have compiled the

Re: why no DRI for G200 in X4

2000-11-07 Thread brian moore
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 10:08:07PM -0800, brian moore wrote: Haven't had a chance to look at why. (As amazingly fast as Utah-GLX was on 3.3.6, I gave up running it when it kept killing X during one of the screensavers, so I'm used to software GL.) Ugh, I looked at why. What it basically came

Re: T-Online Software for Linux?

2000-11-07 Thread Veit Waltemath
You find all at http://home.t-online.de/home/richterj . -- cu Veit Veit Waltemath [EMAIL PROTECTED] infront of his Potato

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul
robert_wilhelm_land wrote: [...] As far as I'm concerned most distributions and README's recommend to create a linux/ dir as a sub of src/ and I did so. In the end this makes up: /usr/src/linux/kernel-source-2.2.17/arch/i386/boot - after x-tar'ing the kernet-sourcexx.tar.gz. Usually you

Re: w3m wouldn't load http://localhost

2000-11-07 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Pann McCuaig writes: telnet localhost 80 This is what I get here: telnet: could not resolve localhost/80: Temporary failure in name resolution Sounds like it may be a name resolution problem. Here's my experience: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet localhost 80 Trying 127.0.0.1...

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 06:11:30PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: Carel Fellinger wrote: No, it is a three step process. 0) get the kernel source and apply all the necessary patches 1a) configure the kernel 1b) and compile the kernel 1c) and build a deb file from it clearing the

Re: Q: Log kept what install and when

2000-11-07 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Good question. I allways check the /usr/share/doc directory by mtime for infos, what has been new installed/updated. Um, I was looking for something more concrete. As it is I can track new packages in, just not by date. I have a small shell program called lpack which lists all packages and

Re: Screenblanking of console

2000-11-07 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Try 'setterm -blank'. Peter Good wrote: Ok I'm at a loss, I know this was discussed some time ago on the list. But cgi.debian.org and lists.debian.org are so damm slow tonight, I can't search for an answer. Question is, How do I stop the screen from blanking in console mode. Peter. --

Re: HELIX and potato

2000-11-07 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 09:19:40PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:47:56AM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: lynx -source http://go-gnome.org | sh we have been through this before, don't EVER run anything like that. Excuse my ignorance, but after reading lynx's man page, I

question about CD-R cdrecord/cdwrite

2000-11-07 Thread Valentine Kouznetsov
Hi, I found you've answered in debian news on problems with cd-r. I hope you can help me. My name is Valentine, I've tryied to write a CD on IOMEGA CD-R. SCSI emulation was fine and I can mount other CD's on /dev/scd0, but when I'm trying to either cdrecord or cdwrite program, they are failed. Any

Re: Q: Default bpp resolution 32 in Linux?

2000-11-07 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:52:37PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: Hi, While I realise you can have many different color depths, I remember reading (but am not sure) that 32bpp is the Linux default... assuing the card supports it. I just want to check if that's so and what difference that

keyboard configuration

2000-11-07 Thread Brett Singer
Hi, Is there a keyboard configuration program, or a line in the xfconfig file that I need to look at? I am getting a non-fatal error when trying to run X (console mode, no problems). The keyboard is a little unusual - very small (no number pad area), basic ps2 connection. Thanks, Brett

Re: xsession, bash_profile and xdm

2000-11-07 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:07:43PM +, Thomas Halahan wrote: Dear deb-users, I want my .bash_profile to be read globally whenever I log in from xdm. Previously in Redhat I would start X from /dev/tty1 which was a login shell. However with debian I log in from xdm, and consequently

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
brian moore wrote: Thats a nice and short explaination - thank you very much! I guess 2a includes make modules_install and mv's the system.map to the appropiate place? Yes, it does. Just got a message from another deb user - it didn't. and I would really like to understand why the

Tape backup

2000-11-07 Thread Jason Weidman
Can someone tell me how to setup my Tandberg SCSI tape backup on my debian box?

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul wrote: robert_wilhelm_land wrote: [...] As far as I'm concerned most distributions and README's recommend to create a linux/ dir as a sub of src/ and I did so. In the end this makes up: /usr/src/linux/kernel-source-2.2.17/arch/i386/boot - after x-tar'ing

General question regarding rewriting of mail headers,...how does it work...

2000-11-07 Thread Walter Tautz
Ok. I may not make much sense... (NOTE. I am not trying do anything particular, just wondering about the general idea of rewriting). When sending mail in the following way: Host1 ---Host2 and we want it to appear to come from Host3. Can Host1 rewrite a message header and then send it

Re: Q: Default bpp resolution 32 in Linux?

2000-11-07 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:52:37PM +0100, Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, While I realise you can have many different color depths, I remember reading (but am not sure) that 32bpp is the Linux default... assuing the card supports it. I just want to check if that's so and

Re: tnt2 vanta and dell 21

2000-11-07 Thread wulfie
I've been though this with a Vanta. The Nvidia source is for 3.3.5 I believe, otherwise you have the binaries (with stringent license). The binary driver is unstable liable to crash burn with slight provocation eg. ctrl-alt-Fx to a text console, or simply dying on startup.

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:00:18PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: brian moore wrote: Thats a nice and short explaination - thank you very much! I guess 2a includes make modules_install and mv's the system.map to the appropiate place? Yes, it does. Just got a message from

Re: Tape backup

2000-11-07 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 10:54:55AM -0800, Jason Weidman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Can someone tell me how to setup my Tandberg SCSI tape backup on my debian box? What have you attempted, and what problems have you had to date? Is this a standard SCSI DAT tape device? If so, install the

Re: machine compromise??? port 3086 open on 2.2

2000-11-07 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 02:43:24AM -0500, Daniel Freedman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I was just running nmap on my Debian 2.2 box and noticed the following output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/freedman]# nmap -sT osprey Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED],

ipchains question

2000-11-07 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Hi all. I have a linux box running ipchains and masquerading my inetrnal network. I have subnet of real IP. The router is connected to the hub so the REAL subnet is before the firewall, so I can't protect it. I'm thinking in add an eth to the linux box and connect the router (with a cross UTP)

Re: Email questions

2000-11-07 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 03:11:11PM -, Richard Taylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, Is there a way that I can copy the archives of mail I have received using a Windoze client into a linux mail prog? I have no intentions of using the Windows client, which BTW is Pegasus, much

RE: HELIX and potato

2000-11-07 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Yes, exactly. The point is that it's not a good idea to blindly run a script as root - who knows what it could do?Not suggesting that the helixcode people are going to deliberately screw your system up, but it could be intercepted or cracked somehow. Look at 'horrifying suggestion' from

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul
robert_wilhelm_land wrote: Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul wrote: [...] A small example of what you call masochistic: cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.18pre18 make config|menuconfig|xconfig make-kpkg --revision 9:blabla kernel_image dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.2.18pre18_blabla*.deb If you keep up

Re: XFree86 4.0.1

2000-11-07 Thread Brian Stults
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I upgraded XFree86 yesterday to 4.0.1 and had several problems in WindowMaker with the color mapping, ie can't find black, white etc and I had this problem, too. It was because the file /etc/X11/rgb.txt was blank. I took a valid one from another installation

Re: D-Link Again!

2000-11-07 Thread robhr
I compile my driver as a module, but I use no parameters when I load it as a module. It should auto-detect everything since it's a PCI card. I could have a different version though. I will check when I get home. The problem may actually be the nic though. I know I had problems with my D-Link

Re: Some Newbie Questions

2000-11-07 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:28:06PM +1100, Damien wrote: as root, edit /etc/inittab, and put a # at the start of every line that doesn't already have one. you can then uncomment the services you want as you go. this file controls stuff like telnet, ftp etc. just to clarify: he must have meant

Re: keyboard configuration

2000-11-07 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:22:24PM -0500, Brett Singer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, Is there a keyboard configuration program, or a line in the xfconfig file that I need to look at? I am getting a non-fatal error when trying to run X (console mode, no problems). The keyboard is a little

Re: Compiling kernels

2000-11-07 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Monday 06 November 2000 22:57, Matthew Sackman wrote: snips Thank you so much for this info: /usr/doc/kernel-package/README (and other files) give NO info regarding this 'make-kpkg buildpackage'. The man pages only briefly mention it. I'll let you know whether this works or not! Yeah - it

Re: setting line breaks higher

2000-11-07 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 09:29:00PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: Which file is responseble for breaking lines in the bash(xterm)? I have looked for a sample.bashrc or anything simular (some distributions provide a sample file for a variaty of programs where you only have to remove the

debbugs - bugzilla, database conversion?

2000-11-07 Thread kmself
My employer is planning on moving from debbugs to the bugzilla bugtracking system. I've been running the debbugs system after a fashion, but am not intimately familiar with how it functions or is structured. Based on dependencies and appearances, it does *not* use a back-end database (e.g.:

Re: smtp error

2000-11-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: smtp error Date: Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 06:43:09PM -0700 In reply to:cls-colo spgs Quoting cls-colo spgs([EMAIL PROTECTED]): debs, one of my potatoes has a smtp error: $ fetchmail fetchmail: imap connection to mail.pcisys.net failed: connection refused 25

Newbie question

2000-11-07 Thread Sreeni R. Nair
Hi: I am a newbie to debian, and not familiar with dselect, dpkg and apt. Is there any available document or URL that compares rpm with the above tools (like the equivalent commands etc.)? Any help is much appreciated.

Re: Q: Default bpp resolution 32 in Linux?

2000-11-07 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-11-06 04:01:53, Marcelo Ramos wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:52:37PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: Hi, While I realise you can have many different color depths, I remember reading (but am not sure) that 32bpp is the Linux default... assuing the card supports it. I just

Re: To setup display for NeoMagic 256XL on Sony VAIO PCG-XG29

2000-11-07 Thread Francois Gouget
Hi, On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, jimmy sandhar wrote: Hi all, Does anybody know or have done this before, setting up display for Sony VAIO PCG-XG29. Please let me know if so. You should have a look at the Linux Laptops site. There's documentation about the Sony XG28: Linux Laptops:

Compile Module files

2000-11-07 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I have located a xx.c file in the source tree that I would like to compile and install into the modules directory so that I can insmod the file. How does one do that with out doing a make mrproper/xconfig/depens/modules/modules_install. There must be an easier way to compile a single

can't find fonts

2000-11-07 Thread Jake Stowell
Hi all, I am having a problem gettin the new X to start. I had it up and running yesterday, but when I rebooted this morning, I received the following error: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server

Re: Newbie question

2000-11-07 Thread Stephan Kulka
I am a newbie to debian, and not familiar with dselect, dpkg and apt. Is there any available document or URL that compares rpm with the above tools (like the equivalent commands etc.)? Any help is much appreciated. There are for all these tools man-pages. Besides there is an online help in

Problems apt-get'ing

2000-11-07 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! I'm having a problem with apt-get: # apt-get install gnome-session Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: [...] 27 packages upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 91 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/16.1MB of archives.

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