CUPS problem

2001-02-15 Thread David Grill Watson
I am having a very odd problem with CUPS under sid. It works fine on two computers, but on another (with the same version of CUPS, installed at the same time, and with nothing particularly odd about the system config) I can only use the IPP backend. When I try to add a printer from the web inte

RPC call returned error 111

2001-02-15 Thread Norman Walsh
Hi, I recently did and update/upgrade for the latest unstable (yeah, yeah, silly me :-), and now I get the following messages when I attempt to start an nfs server on that machine: portmap: RPC call returned error 111 RPC: task of released request still queued! RPC: (task is on xprt_pending

RE: Hardware question - motherboards

2001-02-15 Thread Wil Reichert
> I have to upgrade and need comments on motherboards. The two I am > considering > most are the tyan tiger 133 (S1834) and the tyan tiger 100 (S1832). The > s1834 > is a little faster and uses the via apollo pro133a chipset. The > s1832 uses > the intel 440bx chipset. > > Any pros/cons welcome

Re: "Cannot find debian/rules! Are you in source code tree?" - ERROR

2001-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Downloaded source for a linux program on DOS machine (Linux machine not on >net yet), unzipped it, and copied source to floppy. Mounted floppy on >/mnt/fd0, migrated there, ran debuild-and I got the error referenced >above. Did you run 'dpkg-source -x whatever

Re: GPS

2001-02-15 Thread Glenn Becker
Even more, does anyone on list know of a good source for 'Linux laptops' now that both linuxlaptops.com and tuxtops.com seem to have suspended production? Glenn Becker Online Producer, Community SCIFI.COM At 1:41pm on Thu, 15 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was thinking of getting a GPS

Re: upgrade to a lib in testing

2001-02-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Robin Rowe wrote: > Hi. I don't seem to have it right. I get an error on 'apt-get install > libsdl1.1-dev': > > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > E: Couldn't find package libsdl1.1-dev > > Here's my sources.list: > > deb http://http.us.de

GPS

2001-02-15 Thread waynes
I was thinking of getting a GPS for my laptop. Does anyone know of one that is Linux compatible, or have heard of someone that got one to work. If their is one that works, is their software available,for Linux of course, that would make it worth buying? Wayne

Re: gui config tools

2001-02-15 Thread John Foster
christophe barbe wrote: > > Is there a gui config tool to set network and stuff like that or is it > required to edit config file. > I want to set a default route and I don't know how to do that properly. > I can add a line like "route add ..." in a init script but it's not really > clean. > >

Re: Hardware question - motherboards

2001-02-15 Thread Pascal Hos
Hi Jim, I can highly recommend the MSI MS-6321 (694D). This MOBO takes dual FCPGA pentium III's. Very stable. I have been running parrallel number crunching jobs on two machines build with this board for over 4 months now and I have yet to power them down! Anyway, here's a site that might inter

New Install of Debian: How do i create boot disks???

2001-02-15 Thread Mahalingam, Sivendiran
hi Does anyone know how to create Debian boot disks? I am trying to install Debian for the first time, but I only have a CD distribution, and my computer does not have support to boot up from a CD. Anyone got some creative ways to solve this probelm? thanks

Re: upgrade to a lib in testing

2001-02-15 Thread Robin Rowe
Hi. I don't seem to have it right. I get an error on 'apt-get install libsdl1.1-dev': Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... E: Couldn't find package libsdl1.1-dev Here's my sources.list: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http

RE: How to compile for a different machine?

2001-02-15 Thread Mahalingam, Sivendiran
This may be trivial to most users, but can anyone tell me how or where I can create Debian boot disks? I am trying to install Debian on a old maching i found, but I dont have CD-ROM support during my initial bootup and I only have a CD Distrubution of Debian. Thanks

How to compile for a different machine?

2001-02-15 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi! I'm setting up a small Duron box as filtering+NAT gateway for my home network. I'd rather not have a compiler on it or the myriad of libraries and header files needed to compile stuff, yet I'd like to build a few things by hand. Is there an elegant way to compile on box A for box B? Thanks,

real unsubscribing problems

2001-02-15 Thread Mark Ellis
Hi all, been trying to unsubscribe for a while, too much traffic. The unsub instructions aren't working after about 6 tries, and i got no response from [EMAIL PROTECTED] If anyone can help, please do. Also can't get off debian-devel. This would appear to be a real problem with the lists. Mark

Re: apt-get upgrade

2001-02-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Just a few moments ago I wanted to upgrade my mozilla > (M14) so I typed "apt-get upgrade mozilla." I got 58 new > packages, but mozilla is the same! What should I have > done instead ? apt-get install mozilla What you did was tell apt-get to "upgrade" all installed packages. My guess is apt-

apt-get upgrade

2001-02-15 Thread Phil Reardon
Just a few moments ago I wanted to upgrade my mozilla (M14) so I typed "apt-get upgrade mozilla." I got 58 new packages, but mozilla is the same! What should I have done instead ?

RE: Hardware question - motherboards

2001-02-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
> > Greetings, > I have the 1832, and I haven't had any problems with > it, but then again, I > only have one CPU installed. I chose this particular board > because V A > Linux is/was using this board in their dual processor systems, see > http://www.valinux.com/products/mpts.html for the

Re: Which computer to buy ?

2001-02-15 Thread Robert L. Harris
> > > mmm, anyone correct me if i'm wrong.. but i believe tyan will be shipping a > > AMD760MP board in march.. theres already been a few preview pics on some > > hardware sites.. > > I believe that's the latest rumor I've heard as well. Some time in > March. Tyan is pushing it though, putting

Re: Suggestions for an easy-to-setup 10/100 net card?

2001-02-15 Thread Marcus Franke
I never had any problems with one of my 3com 905er cards.. they are just a bit expensive compared to those cards, mentioned before.. Marcus Hanno Böttcher wrote: > > I have very good experiences with the Realtek (8139) chipset which works > without any parameters (PCI) with the module installati

"Cannot find debian/rules! Are you in source code tree?" - ERROR

2001-02-15 Thread DTi4565459
Downloaded source for a linux program on DOS machine (Linux machine not on net yet), unzipped it, and copied source to floppy. Mounted floppy on /mnt/fd0, migrated there, ran debuild-and I got the error referenced above. Where is the source code tree. Should I copy the source package

Re: Which computer to buy ?

2001-02-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
"William Leese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 15 February 2001 19:08, Jeff Weatherford wrote: > > This is absolutely true! The AMD K7's are superior to the Intel > > chips. My only complaint is that no one has come up with a dual > > K7 board. I use AMD exclusively in single processo

Re: Which computer to buy ?

2001-02-15 Thread William Leese
On Thursday 15 February 2001 19:08, Jeff Weatherford wrote: > This is absolutely true! The AMD K7's are superior to the Intel chips. My > only complaint is that no one has come up with a dual K7 board. I use AMD > exclusively in single processor boxes and they work like a charm... The > only In

Re: Which computer to buy ?

2001-02-15 Thread Jeff Weatherford
At 12:44 PM 2/15/01 -0500, William T Wilson wrote: On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > IMHO, you should buy Intel, since AMD chips don't do floating > point operations adequately (these are important in graphics), unless That isn't really the case any more. Not since the K6, r

Re: debian command list

2001-02-15 Thread ktb
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:40:19AM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi all... > I'm looking for a web site that would have > a nice list and basic description of debian commands. > Anyone know of such a place? > > or even just linux commands for that matter... > Have you looked though the de

Re: Which computer to buy ?

2001-02-15 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > IMHO, you should buy Intel, since AMD chips don't do floating > point operations adequately (these are important in graphics), unless That isn't really the case any more. Not since the K6, really. The Pentium 4 has extremely bad floating poin

Re: Looking for clock track different times?

2001-02-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I looked but apart from twclock I couldn'rt find anything. Anyone know > of an applet capable of showing times in different places? It might help to say what it is about twclock that you don't like. But then, all I want is one more clock showing a spe

Re: Small debian install

2001-02-15 Thread Bob Billson
Quoting Neil Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have this P75 with 500MB HD and 16Mb RAM just sitting there > doing nothing (unwanted present from friend) so I'm going to install > Debian on it. Sure, you can install Debian on it. I'm running a 486/133 w/24 MB as a mail/webserver. It's running with

Re: procmail Backup Cache -- not working

2001-02-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 07:40:40AM -0500, John Bacalle wrote: > * John Bacalle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010212 02:48]: > > The following from man procmail should save the last 200 messages I have > > received. But it just saves everything instead. My backup cache keeps > > growing and growing till I

Looking for clock track different times?

2001-02-15 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I looked but apart from twclock I couldn'rt find anything. Anyone know of an applet capable of showing times in different places? There was that earth wallpaper and I think that's on there but can't find it. Any name suggestions? Thanks, Jonathan -- -==-

Re: Muddled explanation of classed vs. classless IPs

2001-02-15 Thread Colin Cashman
> You've made me feel guilty. I would have expressed myself better > if I'd known you were going to this trouble. Oops. :) I actually knew about the range of addresses, but I couldn't remember which ones went with which. Besides, I also omitted the fact that *.0 and *.255 are reserved addresses.

Re: Which computer to buy ?

2001-02-15 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Cam Ellison wrote: > > Lars Knudsen wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Hello, Antonio! > > > > > > IMHO, you should buy Intel, since AMD chips don't do floating > > > point operations adequately (these are important in graphics), unless you > > > > This was true years ago

Weird platform and Debian

2001-02-15 Thread Tijl Schoonenberg
Hi,     I just set up a linux firewall at home, therefore I got an old PC of a friend of mine. It runs on 120MHz with 24MB/1GB but that should be ok. I just have a little question about the platform I'm using. It's a NexGen Nx586, I tried to install RedHat first (I had experience using that a

Re: Which computer to buy ?

2001-02-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Lars Knudsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > This was true years ago but is certainly not true anymore. > The AMD Duron and Thunderbird chips are at least as good as > a PIII and very much better than the P4. The P4 is only > worthwhile if you have applications that are specifically > optimized fo

Re: Muddled explanation of classed vs. classless IPs

2001-02-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Colin Cashman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I don't know what all this is about. Still, it woke me up. You've made me feel guilty. I would have expressed myself better if I'd known you were going to this trouble. > I was just reading this in one of the TCP/IP books I have, so I'll > take a sta

Re: sound ensoniq es1371

2001-02-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Feb 2001, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Anthony Campbell saw fit to inform me that: > >On 14 Feb 2001, Kent West wrote: > >> > > > >Or don't use modules, at least to start with (as advised in the Sound > >HOWTO). If you compile the driver directly into the kernel you reduce > >the layers of possi

debian command list

2001-02-15 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi all... I'm looking for a web site that would have a nice list and basic description of debian commands. Anyone know of such a place?   or even just linux commands for that matter...   Thanks Mike

Re: kernel 2.4.x and latin2 (iso8859-2) characters in console

2001-02-15 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 04:12:19PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Hi! > > I have just found out that latin2 (iso8859-2) characters are no longer > displayed in console with kernel 2.4.1 :((( > This is my setup: > > SCREEN_FONT=lat2u-16 > APP_CHARSET_MAP=iso02 > APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc2=user > SCREEN_

Slow DNS lookup

2001-02-15 Thread Leonard Leblanc
I have Bind 8 setup on a linux box acting as the nameserver for my web-site and ip-masq for a few windows clients. I can access everything from the windows boxes, but dns lookup for the local web-site is really really slow, but lookup for all other 'external' web-sites are fine. Any suggestions o

Re: Access to the Audiodevice as user

2001-02-15 Thread Ceri Storey
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 05:12:39AM -0800, Jeremiah H. Savage wrote: [snip] > Once I added the user to group audio, I had to reboot for the changes to > take effect. There's probably some service you could restart to avoid > this, but I don't know what it is. you simply need to log back in, scince t

RE: Burning CD-ROMs as user

2001-02-15 Thread Joris Lambrecht
thanks a lot dude -Original Message- From: Nate Amsden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 4:55 PM To: Joris Lambrecht Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Burning CD-ROMs as user look into XCDROAST. the new version(not packaged in stable) can do all of t

RE: Hardware question - motherboards

2001-02-15 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, I have the 1832, and I haven't had any problems with it, but then again, I only have one CPU installed. I chose this particular board because V A Linux is/was using this board in their dual processor systems, see http://www.valinux.com/products/mpts.html for the details. The 1

Re: configure sendmail

2001-02-15 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> > I'd like to configure sendmail without things like -> > FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl -> > FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl -> > -> > and possibly someo others -> -> after sendmailconfig is done, remove those lines from sendmail.mc, run -> sendmailconfig -> again, when it prompts to regenerate(The first q

Re: Burning CD-ROMs as user

2001-02-15 Thread Nate Amsden
look into XCDROAST. the new version(not packaged in stable) can do all of this and burn at 12x no problem. look for it at freshmeat.net. it also has instructions for how to set it up to run as non root with a special group. works real well. nate Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > if it's a good idea to

libc6 upgrade problem

2001-02-15 Thread Brian Stults
I recently updated through dselect, and the process hangs when it tries to upgrade libc6. I am using testing. Here is what I get: Preparing to replace libc6 2.2.1-1 (using libc6_2.2.1-3_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6 . It will hang there for at least an hour (yes, I let it run for th

Re: configure sendmail

2001-02-15 Thread Nate Amsden
Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar wrote: > > Hello, > > I'd like to configure sendmail without things like > FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl > FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl > > and possibly someo others after sendmailconfig is done, remove those lines from sendmail.mc, run sendmailconfig again, when it prompts to re

Re: dhcp server?

2001-02-15 Thread Robert L. Harris
Perfect answer. Thank you. Robert Thus spake Nate Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "Robert L. Harris" wrote: > > > > Just got a new laptop from work. I have to decide if I want to make the > > laptop work dhcp at the office and static at home or put a dhcp server up > > at home. Knowing Window

Re: Value too large for defined data type?

2001-02-15 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 07:20:17PM -0600, William Jensen wrote: > > :rm: cannot remove `/tmp/save.tar': Value too large for defined data type > : > :I was storing the save.tar in /tmp. I'm running stable version with kernel > :2.4.0. I have tri

Re: Emacs works differently within X and outside

2001-02-15 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Alan" == Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I run emacs so that it creates an x-window to run in then > the behaviour is different. In this case DEL and BKSP both > work the same and delete the character to the left of the > cursor). > > Any ideas? I have the following i

ppp-2.4.0 routing problem in testing: tap0 issue?

2001-02-15 Thread Daniel P. Katz
Hi. When I upgraded to testing, I got ppp-2.4.0along with it. Once this version of ppp was installed, the routing no longer worked properly. In particular, with ppp-2.4.0 I get the following behavior: - [... not connected to anything ...] dkatz [~] $ /sb

Muddled explanation of classed vs. classless IPs (was Re: RES: networking partly broken after upgrade to testing)

2001-02-15 Thread Colin Cashman
> I don't know what all this is about. Still, it woke me up. I was just reading this in one of the TCP/IP books I have, so I'll take a stab at explaining it (and let somebody else explain the errors). IP addresses are divided into "host" portions and "network" portions. The host portion is assi

Re: dhcp server?

2001-02-15 Thread Nate Amsden
"Robert L. Harris" wrote: > > Just got a new laptop from work. I have to decide if I want to make the > laptop work dhcp at the office and static at home or put a dhcp server up > at home. Knowing Windows/Debian I figure putting up the dhcp server would > be faster and easier. > > Anyone know a

Hardware question - motherboards

2001-02-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
I have to upgrade and need comments on motherboards. The two I am considering most are the tyan tiger 133 (S1834) and the tyan tiger 100 (S1832). The s1834 is a little faster and uses the via apollo pro133a chipset. The s1832 uses the intel 440bx chipset. Any pros/cons welcome as well as comme

Re: what is char-maj-4 ?

2001-02-15 Thread ktb
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:41:50PM +0100, c-3 wrote: > Hi! > > Since I recompiled my kernel, I always get the message "Can't > load module char-maj-4". But the question is, what is "char-maj-4"? > Take a look at /etc/modules.conf - You will find the info there. At the top of the file you will a

dhcp server?

2001-02-15 Thread Robert L. Harris
Just got a new laptop from work. I have to decide if I want to make the laptop work dhcp at the office and static at home or put a dhcp server up at home. Knowing Windows/Debian I figure putting up the dhcp server would be faster and easier. Anyone know a good dhcp server that's packaged and e

Re: lower res in X4 than X 3.3.6

2001-02-15 Thread Ray Percival
Have you created a new config file XF86Config-4 should be its name if not I would suggest that you run through xf86config one time. I got *much* better modlines this way. -- Original Message -- From: David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 2

Re: TDK CDRW setup

2001-02-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
>> I have a TDK CDROM burner and am trying to get >> Storm-Linux to recognize. Can someone help me? Linuxnewbie.org has a short article on setting up a CD-RW drive under Linux. It's rather RedHat specific, but the main parts can most likely apply to any distro. I know this topic comes up a lot.

RE: Outta my tree!

2001-02-15 Thread Joris Lambrecht
sorry 'bout that, figured the option pack for win95 would contain some iis for win9x i still think pws is a bad choice for serveral reasons but i'm known to be stubborn, if i were you i'd check out apache or even ibm's adaptation of apache, asp will be a problem though (chiliasp does work nicely i

Re: sound ensoniq es1371

2001-02-15 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Anthony Campbell saw fit to inform me that: >On 14 Feb 2001, Kent West wrote: >> > >Or don't use modules, at least to start with (as advised in the Sound >HOWTO). If you compile the driver directly into the kernel you reduce >the layers of possible error. Personally, I don't use modules at all.

kernel 2.4.x and latin2 (iso8859-2) characters in console

2001-02-15 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I have just found out that latin2 (iso8859-2) characters are no longer displayed in console with kernel 2.4.1 :((( This is my setup: SCREEN_FONT=lat2u-16 APP_CHARSET_MAP=iso02 APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc2=user SCREEN_FONT_MAP=lat2u if [ "`env |grep TERM |grep -v COLOR |cut -c 6-`" = "linux" ]; the

Re: mutt broken in unstable

2001-02-15 Thread Jeremiah H. Savage
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:04:26AM -0500, The Doctor wrote: > I get > mutt: error while loading shared libraries: libiconv.so.2: cannot load shared > object file: No such file of directory > after an update/install this morning on my Laptop. > Any idea where libiconv is or why I lost it? Goto in

RES: RES: networking partly broken after upgrade to testing

2001-02-15 Thread Luiz Carlos S. de Alencar
Always learning. Thanks, David. -Mensagem original- De: David Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: Quinta-feira, 15 de Fevereiro de 2001 11:55 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Assunto: Re: RES: networking partly broken after upgrade to tes

mutt broken in unstable

2001-02-15 Thread The Doctor
I get mutt: error while loading shared libraries: libiconv.so.2: cannot load shared object file: No such file of directory after an update/install this morning on my Laptop. Any idea where libiconv is or why I lost it? Thanks, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RES: networking partly broken after upgrade to testing

2001-02-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Luiz Carlos S. de Alencar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The network mask assigned to eth0, as reported [255.255.252.0] by ifconfig, > seems to be incorrect. Never heard about classless subnets in Class B > networks. You probably have a Class C (/24) network [255.255.255.0] or a > classless subnet

Re: isapnp.conf problems

2001-02-15 Thread Bernard and Jennifer Cohen
john smith wrote: > I am trying to revive an old isa pnp modem/soundcard and when I use pnpdump > to try and configure my modem (not the soundcard yet) I see this error at > /var/log and during boot-up when my card is being detected. > > Board 1 has identity of > FF FF FF FF 003 054 07 AZT300 seri

RE: Emacs works differently within X and outside

2001-02-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
> > > "Alan" == Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alan> If I run emacs so that it creates an x-window to run in then > Alan> the behaviour is different. In this case DEL and BKSP both > Alan> work the same and delete the character to the left of the > Alan> cur

Re: problem with sound

2001-02-15 Thread c-3
Sorry, that my knowledge does have a big gap so far what linux matters. But I think you wasn't born with your momentary knowledge, too. So please try to treat somebody with a little bit of the respect he gives to you, even although he has to advance in his abilities. I always try to do so, too.

what is char-maj-4 ?

2001-02-15 Thread c-3
Hi! Since I recompiled my kernel, I always get the message "Can't load module char-maj-4". But the question is, what is "char-maj-4"? Christian (Germany)

Re: problem with sound

2001-02-15 Thread c-3
Date sent: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:54:58 +0100 From: Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: problem with sound Forwarded by: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > I didn't compile it as a

TDK CDRW setup

2001-02-15 Thread Frank Rocco
Hello,   I have a TDK CDROM burner and am trying to get Storm-Linux to recognize. Can someone help me?   Thanks Frank Rocco  

RES: networking partly broken after upgrade to testing

2001-02-15 Thread Luiz Carlos S. de Alencar
The network mask assigned to eth0, as reported [255.255.252.0] by ifconfig, seems to be incorrect. Never heard about classless subnets in Class B networks. You probably have a Class C (/24) network [255.255.255.0] or a classless subnet of a Class C network, like [255.255.255.252]. --- Alencar ---

Re: disk duplication question

2001-02-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Stuart Marshall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > sfdisk to partition the new drive; > mke2fs to make file systems on the new drive; > mkswap to initialize the swap area on the new drive; > cd old-partition; find . -mount | cpio -pdm /new-partition

[OT] Slashdot article

2001-02-15 Thread garyjones
Defend your distro! ;-) Thought you might be interested in this: http://slashdot.org/articles/01/02/15/1352219.shtml Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours!

Re: Access to the Audiodevice as user

2001-02-15 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Jeremiah H. Savage wrote: > > Once I added the user to group audio, I had to reboot for the changes to > take effect. There's probably some service you could restart to avoid > this, but I don't know what it is. > Just logout and re-login. The user will now be in the audio group. -- David Raeke

rsh and openssh

2001-02-15 Thread christophe barbe
By default, rcp is linked (in /etc/alternatives) to scp which is (in my limited understanding) a secure version based on openssh. When I try to do a rcp with a computer without openssh I obtain "Secure connection to mypc refused" What can I do (on my computer) ? Is is possible to use rsh instea

Re: DNS: not working correctly

2001-02-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:43:44PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > I have version 8.2.2-P7 of bind. Is woody's bind up to date enough? This version of bind is vulnerable to root compromise, you should add: ## security updates deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ potato/updates main contrib

Re: Which computer to buy ?

2001-02-15 Thread Cam Ellison
Lars Knudsen wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hello, Antonio! > > > > IMHO, you should buy Intel, since AMD chips don't do floating > > point operations adequately (these are important in graphics), unless you > > This was true years ago but is certainly not true anymore. > The

Re: Access to the Audiodevice as user

2001-02-15 Thread Hanno Böttcher
Yeah, you got it. After rebooting it works. But which service alternativly could be restarted I also couldn't find out. Thx anyway Hanno - Original Message - From: Jeremiah H. Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 1:12 PM Subject: Re: Access to the Audiodevice a

Re: Access to the Audiodevice as user

2001-02-15 Thread Jeremiah H. Savage
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:55:58PM -, Hanno B?ttcher wrote: > Hi all! > > Sorry for asking again, I remember it was asked just a short time ago, but I > deleted the messages allready. > How can I configure access to the audio device for normal users (or e.g. one > explicit user)? I allready ad

Re: Access to the Audiodevice as user

2001-02-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Hanno Böttcher wrote: > > Hi all! > > Sorry for asking again, I remember it was asked just a short time ago, but I > deleted the messages allready. > How can I configure access to the audio device for normal users (or e.g. one > explicit user)? I allready added the user to the group "audio" and c

Enlightenment menu

2001-02-15 Thread
I've installed Potato 2.2r2,X, Gnome and Enlightenment window manager but I do not like the default pop-up menu of Enlightenment. I'd like to have the panel menu, the one sliding on the right or on the left as it is with enlightenment in other distribution like RedHat, Mandrake and the likes. I

Re: Kernel-Source 2.4.1

2001-02-15 Thread Richard Black
Are you using the kernel-source-2.4.1-2 package for the kernel source? If so it has several problems. I emailed the packager Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and he indicated they woould be fixed in kernel-source-2.4.1-3 cheers Richard Hanno Böttcher wrote: > Hi ! > > I just downloaded the abo

Access to the Audiodevice as user

2001-02-15 Thread Hanno Böttcher
Hi all! Sorry for asking again, I remember it was asked just a short time ago, but I deleted the messages allready. How can I configure access to the audio device for normal users (or e.g. one explicit user)? I allready added the user to the group "audio" and checked the permissions of /dev/audio

Re: gui config tools

2001-02-15 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:20:22AM +0100, christophe barbe wrote: > Is there a gui config tool to set network and stuff like that or is > it required to edit config file. I want to set a default route and > I don't know how to do that properly. I can add a line like "route > add ..." in a init s

lower res in X4 than X 3.3.6

2001-02-15 Thread David Purton
another weird thing with my X upgrade is that using the X4 server I can't get the same res as when I was using X3.3.6. The modeline is the same, but X4 complains that the vertical timing is out of range. I've tried to fiddle with the timings, but seem only to be succesful in getting illegal ver

DocBook - db2pdf and db2ps problems

2001-02-15 Thread Henning Hansen
I'm a newcomer to Debian and Linux in general, and my current job is limited to prepare documentation using docbook on Debian. I do have some problems, and when I try to search information about docbook, I end up with RedHat specific advice. Are the following problems with db2pdf and db2ps due t

xdm takes ages to start after X upgrade

2001-02-15 Thread David Purton
mmm - I knew one problem was hoping for too much. I think I remember a post about this before but I can't find it in the archives. Since upgrading to Woody and X 4 xdm takes a lng time to start (like a minute or so) Does anyone know how to fix this? ---

Re: DNS: not working correctly

2001-02-15 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 15 February 2001 06:37, Sebastiaan wrote: > Ok, now that it is working, why does it not work everywhere? > > When I do: > nslookup sacred-key.org ns1.tudelft.nlthen it works > nslookup sacred-key.org elektron.its.tudelft.nlthen it says that > the domain does not exist. >

Re: DNS: not working correctly

2001-02-15 Thread Sebastiaan
I have version 8.2.2-P7 of bind. Is woody's bind up to date enough? Thanks, Sebastiaan On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: > Ok, now that it is working, why does it not work everywhere? > > When I do: > nslookup sacred-key.org ns1.tudelft.nlthen it works > nslookup sacred-key.org el

Re: DNS: not working correctly

2001-02-15 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 15 February 2001 06:32, Sebastiaan wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Bud Rogers wrote: > > Is jon00793 your box? I would guess either named is not running on > > the box or something else is blocking connection to port 53. Is it > > behind a firewall? Have you changed ipchains rules or

Re: DNS: not working correctly

2001-02-15 Thread Sebastiaan
Ok, now that it is working, why does it not work everywhere? When I do: nslookup sacred-key.org ns1.tudelft.nl then it works nslookup sacred-key.org elektron.its.tudelft.nl then it says that the domain does not exist. I had this before, someone suggested that it had to do with my revision file.

Re: DNS: not working correctly

2001-02-15 Thread Sebastiaan
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Thursday 15 February 2001 05:58, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > But, a couple of days ago, my server became unreachenable through the > > domain name. I guessed it might have missed an DNS update because the > > link was down during that period. But now, mor

Digest

2001-02-15 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Hello I am subscribed to this list in digest mode. However I am not getting any digests for the past two weeks . Is there any problem with it Is anybody else having similar problem Sunil -- Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil

Re: DNS: not working correctly

2001-02-15 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 15 February 2001 05:58, Sebastiaan wrote: > But, a couple of days ago, my server became unreachenable through the > domain name. I guessed it might have missed an DNS update because the > link was down during that period. But now, more than two days later, > things still do not work. >

Sound

2001-02-15 Thread Fernando Carvajal
Hi All! I have some problems to play gnome sounds for users, when two of them login using virtual consoles in the Linux Box. the latest one that connect can´t play sounds events but from the command line using esdplay. This way it works ok. The first one hear it all allright when closing for i

RE: Burning CD-ROMs as user

2001-02-15 Thread Joris Lambrecht
if it's a good idea to let all users use it, why not just change the execute permission to world permissions ? Also, i took a look at gcombust (yuck) and couldn't find a way to burn 12x cdrom's does anyone have any advice on this, i'm even thinking about commerial software right now, burning cd's

keyboard setting

2001-02-15 Thread christophe barbe
I use an Azerty keyboard but under the console it's configured as a qwerty one. Where should I configure my keyboard? Christophe -- Christophe Barbé Software Engineer Lineo High Availability Group 42-46, rue Médéric 92110 Clichy - France phone (33).1.41.40.02.12 fax (33).1.41.40.02.01 www.lineo

Re: Burning CD-ROMs as user

2001-02-15 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, you can add a group 'burners', set the device-group permission to rw, add the user to the group ( addgroup user burners) and make the device belong to the group burners. Then you have to check you can find cdrecord as a user. Greetz, Sebastiaan On 15 Feb 2001, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > H

DNS: not working correctly

2001-02-15 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I have set up a domain name server with BIND a couple of months ago. It worked almost correctly on every computer I had been on, however, some could not reach my domain. But, a couple of days ago, my server became unreachenable through the domain name. I guessed it might have missed an DNS

Burning CD-ROMs as user

2001-02-15 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, I am currently able to burn CD-ROMs with gcombust (GUI for cdrecord) only as root. What's the proper Debian way to allow all users to do that -- changing the according device's owner status is certainly not a good idea, I suppose? Greeting and thanks in advance for your answers, joachim

configure sendmail

2001-02-15 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
Hello, I'd like to configure sendmail without things like FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl and possibly someo others but those fscking scripts (sendmailconfig and those called by this one) seem always to put them in. Where can I find prototype (or a script???) which I could edit

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