Re: Napster Block Ipchains Debian 2.2

2001-03-02 Thread Mike Dresser
a) opennap(using c, or other methods) b) proxy servers c) napigator All these ways will get you around a block to the napster website. a) and b) will get around a block to *.napster.com John L. Fjellstad wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:41:12PM -0300, Martin Marconcini wrote: My

Re: Napster Block Ipchains Debian 2.2

2001-03-02 Thread Hall Stevenson
My firewall is using Debian and my damn boss asked me to block napster. Don't try to block napster by port number. Just understand how napster works. It works by letting a client query the *napster* server for lists of systems that have a particular song. The client then goes to the

Re: Napster Block Ipchains Debian 2.2

2001-03-02 Thread John L. Fjellstad
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:55:13AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: a) opennap(using c, or other methods) b) proxy servers c) napigator All these ways will get you around a block to the napster website. a) and b) will get around a block to *.napster.com Well, my method wasn't perfect, but it

Re: Using WindowMaker under Debian

2001-03-02 Thread Santiago Fernandez
On jue, 01 mar 2001, Carl Johnson wrote: Santiago Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have two questions about using WindowMaker and I haven't been able to find an answer. Firstly, when I run WindowMaker with startx I cannot save either my session or my settings

Re: Getting rid of Vim's startup screen

2001-03-02 Thread Glyn Millington
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 04:45:25PM +0100, thus spake Jonathan Gift: Colin Watson wrote: Put 'set shortmess=I' (or 'set shm=I') in your ~/.vimrc. Bah, turns out the default is 'shortmess=filnxtToO' (intuitive, huh?), so you need to add to that, not replace it. 'set

debian on laptops

2001-03-02 Thread Jim Nutt
joe willson writes: i have my laptop finally running fine but there are still a few things that's annoying me. first off everyday i start up, debian keeps on reading my harddrive, i do a top and see that the program find is using like 16% of my cpu! i think this is cause by cron

Re: It's MY computer, not Bill's!

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach will trillich (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:50:16AM -0600): when you enter the linux world, you'll be amazed at the uptime (167 days for my server downstairs) and perplexed at how much there is that can be done, and how much there is to learn in order to do it. you're about to enter a

Re: 3c905/network problems

2001-03-02 Thread Ron Peterson
Pete Meyer wrote: Hi all...I'm having difficulty getting my network card (3c905c) work under debian. I've tried using the 3c59x driver (I was using the wrong one before). It installs ok, but then DHCP won't configure the network. I know that there's a server present, because that's how

Re: ghost for linux?

2001-03-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:36:24PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: also sprach Alvin Oga (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 06:25:31PM -0800): donno...not everybody makes a bootable cdrom for their backups... i think its nuts...to make a cdrom backup... but..oh well... a bootable cdrom is quite hard to make...

Re: [OT] mutt colors vs. TERM types

2001-03-02 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, will trillich wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:15:17PM -0500, Christopher Mosley wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, will trillich wrote: when using mutt under termtype 'linux' (i.e. `setenv TERM linux`) mutt's headers and 'active selection' bars flash, driving me

RE: debian on laptops

2001-03-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Mar-2001 joe willson wrote: i have my laptop finally running fine but there are still a few things that's annoying me. first off everyday i start up, debian keeps on reading my harddrive, i do a top and see that the program find is using like 16% of my cpu! i think this is cause by

Re: ghost for linux?

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:52:31PM +0100): Nah, dead simple:) using cdrecord/mkisofs/xcdroast from woody (sources) sure thing, but what about files in /var? what's /? what's from boot to prompt? martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL

can i740 work in accelerate mode?[math]

2001-03-02 Thread maths
helloe everybody my vedio card is i740, could display 800X600, 16bp (or higher, but i only use this mode). the color is beautiful but very slowly. i tty, i could see this message: (**) SVGA: Chipset: i740 (**) Option noaccel . (**) (SVGA) Acceleration disabled can i config it to work in

Re: Mirroring only potato/woody but not sid?

2001-03-02 Thread Tibor D.
Lars Knudsen wrote: Have you tried adding sid/ to your exclude file ? I am mirroring the i386 part of the debian tree in a single rsync run using a relatively long exclude file. This seems perfectly possible on a 64k link. Happy hacking, \Gandalf Hmm.. sorry, that won't help me, since

Re: Getting rid of Vim's startup screen

2001-03-02 Thread Jonathan Gift
Glyn Millington wrote: set nocompatible which was stopping it. That removed and shm=I worked fine. A vi thing. I don't know why. Tread carefully, this isn't the only thing it effects! Thanks. I had it off before. I had actually just turned it on earlier in the day so I'm

Re: ghost for linux?

2001-03-02 Thread Known Human Nick Rusnov
Hmm, I would think the old 'tar' trick is safer than using dd (unless the disks are completly identical): Mount from disk and the to disk in under a booted linux, so like from/ and to/ then (cd from; tar -cpf - .) | (cd ../to; tar -xpf -) There are probably some arguments I'm forgetting to

Re: Printer not printing

2001-03-02 Thread Brian S Enyart
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:44:22PM -0600, Keith G. Murphy wrote: Also, are you dual-booting? I've found that Win95 bollixes up the printer, such that nothing but a hard reset (unplug/plug in) can get it working under Linux again. As strange as it seems, none of the advice I was able to

OT: How can I change my elm configs on a commercial webserver?

2001-03-02 Thread Jason Price
I have a site hosted on a commercial webserver running RH 6.2. I use elm (Elm 2.5 PL3, of January 11, 200) to read my mail during the day, but being as it's on a commercial webserver, my settings are incorrect. The biggest problem is the hostname. Because my domain name does not match the

Re: Help geting hP jetdirect printer to work with Debian

2001-03-02 Thread Known Human Nick Rusnov
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]it was written: I;m integrating a Debian testing machine inot a network with lot's of FreeBSD machines, and some HP-UX, and Sun machines. I'm having a hard time geting the Debian box to print to our networked (JetDirect) printer. Can anyone give me a pointer to some

Re: libwine will not upgrade (unstable)

2001-03-02 Thread Francois Gouget
On 1 Mar 2001, Pollywog wrote: Did anyone else have trouble upgrading WINE today? libwine gives the following error on my machine: Preconfiguring packages .. /var/lib/debconf/config.175203: null: command not found libwine failed to configure, with exit code 127 (Reading database ... E:

Newbie struggling with Windows rsync to make Debian install CD

2001-03-02 Thread Barry Tuber
I am trying to get a first time debian install going, and concluded I needed a copy of the latest stable potato. I am using the pseudo image kit for windows (from http://cdimage.debian.org/~costar/pseudo-image-kit/) to get the stuff for the CD image, since the linux box is not connected to the

Re: wall question

2001-03-02 Thread Bastian Bowe
Hi, On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 09:12:03AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: The problem is that everything is fine if I call pon from a regular Xterm, but no message appears if I call pon from a Gnome terminal... Try to start your Gnome Terminal as a loginshell. I'm not sure if this has got

Re: USB Printer Setup

2001-03-02 Thread Bastian Bowe
Hello, what happens if you send some peace of text directly (as root) to the device? eg. $ echo This is a test /dev/usb/lp0 Bye -- Bastian Bowe

Re: Testing: xfree86 calamity

2001-03-02 Thread Martin WHEELER
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Mircea Luca wrote: would guess that a dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq xpm4g will help here. (It didn't, actually.) But thanks for giving me the hint where to look -- I fixed all but one dependency problem by copying all my archive .debs into /tmp, and doing a:

RE: Help geting hP jetdirect printer to work with Debian

2001-03-02 Thread Lewis, James M.
-Original Message- From: Known Human Nick Rusnov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 12:44 PM To: Stan Brown Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Help geting hP jetdirect printer to work with Debian In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]it was written: I;m

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-03-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 10:35:23PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 07:29:21AM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: /usr/bin/yes make backups\!\!\! I'm a student = have no money for backup devices. Plus I'm still really pissed off that I bought a 10gig 7200 rpm seagate

Re: It's MY computer, not Bill's!

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Robert Tucker (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 10:14:44PM -0800): Ok... Now, what is vmware? And pvm? I see I have a lot of memorization to do. I have two other computers (both 486's) and I plan to initially net them and leave them W95. What is the general outline of using a Linux machine

mutt editor

2001-03-02 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Dear colleages of list, how can I change the default editor of MUTT. I want to change it from vi to ee. I looked in the man pages and it seems that exist an enviroment variable EDITOR for this, but I cannot find it. Ani help will be very welcome Marcelo

Re: mutt editor

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Marcelo Chiapparini (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 04:05:40PM -0300): how can I change the default editor of MUTT. I want to change it from vi to ee. I looked in the man pages and it seems that exist an enviroment variable EDITOR for this, but I cannot find it. Ani help will be very

Re: mutt editor

2001-03-02 Thread Peter Kovacs
Add this line to your .muttrc file: set editor='ee' Peter On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 04:05:40PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Dear colleages of list, how can I change the default editor of MUTT. I want to change it from vi to ee. I looked in the man pages and it seems that exist an

Re: mutt editor

2001-03-02 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:11:14PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: also sprach Marcelo Chiapparini (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 04:05:40PM -0300): how can I change the default editor of MUTT. I want to change it from vi to ee. I looked in the man pages and it seems that exist an enviroment variable

Re: mutt editor

2001-03-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 04:05:40PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Dear colleages of list, how can I change the default editor of MUTT. I want to change it from vi to ee. I looked in the man pages and it seems that exist an enviroment variable EDITOR for this, but I cannot find it. Ani

Re: mutt editor

2001-03-02 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:03:17PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 04:05:40PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Dear colleages of list, how can I change the default editor of MUTT. I want to change it from vi to ee. I looked in the man pages and it seems that exist an

HP LJ III with Jet Direct and Linux

2001-03-02 Thread robhr
I have an old HP Laserjet III with an old JetDirect card in it that I have purchaed used. I have to use the parallel port to print to it, but would like to use the network card instead. It was configured and running on another network, and there is some info to that respect in the diagnostic

Re: ghost for linux?

2001-03-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:12:29PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:52:31PM +0100): Nah, dead simple:) using cdrecord/mkisofs/xcdroast from woody (sources) sure thing, but what about files in /var? what's /? what's from boot to prompt? /var: copy

have you seen this driver?

2001-03-02 Thread D. Hoyem
I downloaded a driver for the Aureal Sound Card, to a windows drive, from somewhere and I'll be if I can find it again. When I tried to install it, it complained about the added junk.. It was named au88xx-kernel-source-1.1.2_i386.deb has anyone seen this driver?? Also the Debian based

Re: Mirroring only potato/woody but not sid?

2001-03-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:22:03PM +0100, Tibor D. wrote: ... Hmm.. sorry, that won't help me, since the deb-packages are all mixed up in the .../pool/... directory, in the ../sid/.., there are only the Packages files. There isn't any tool that greps the Packages-files and defines, which

What kernel module for Sound Max Digital Audio?

2001-03-02 Thread Kent West
I just got blessed with a Gateway E-3400 933MHz PIII box; sweet machine. I've recompiled a new 2.4.2 kernel and everything's working well except for sound and vmware (I'll worry about vmware later). The only info I've found so far on the sound, which is integrated, is that it is Sound Max

Re: mutt editor

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Marcelo Chiapparini (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 04:29:11PM -0300): Thank you, this option worked too. I will remain stick with this one... if you prefer ee over vi in general, then my approach will be the better one. if you only want ee in mutt, use the .muttrc approach. martin [greetings

Re: ghost for linux?

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:30:56PM +0100): /var: copy it to /tmp first? or add rescue.bin and boot.catalog to /var? thing is: the boot process needs scratch space. log files, utmp/wtmp, pid files and all that jazz. these reside in /var, and a bootable cdrom

Re: ghost for linux?

2001-03-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Fri 02 Mar 01, 2:59 PM, MaD dUCK said: also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:30:56PM +0100): /var: copy it to /tmp first? or add rescue.bin and boot.catalog to /var? thing is: the boot process needs scratch space. true. it's called initrd. rd for ramdisk.

X 4.0 Upgrade /etc/X11/X ?

2001-03-02 Thread Terry Hancock
Well, I needed a bunch of library packages from the unstable (Woody) release, so I tried using apt-get to do it, and it decided I needed to upgrade the X packages as well. So okay, I wanted 4.0 anyway, but here's the problem (after eliminating some intervening steps): $ X /tmp/x.out 21 X:

Re: X 4.0 Upgrade /etc/X11/X ?

2001-03-02 Thread Kent West
Terry Hancock wrote: snip Indeed, there is no /etc/X11/X, but I don't know what should be there. Is it a symlink? If so, to what? snip Yes. lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Mar 1 01:50 /etc/X11/X - /usr/bin/X11/XFree86

Re: X 4.0 Upgrade /etc/X11/X ?

2001-03-02 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:25:36PM -0800, Terry Hancock wrote: $ X /tmp/x.out 21 X: Cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting Indeed, there is no /etc/X11/X, but I don't know what should be there. Is it a symlink? If so, to what? This file should be a symlink to your

Re: USB Printer Setup

2001-03-02 Thread Tom George
Bastian Bowe wrote: Hello, what happens if you send some peace of text directly (as root) to the device? eg. $ echo This is a test /dev/usb/lp0 Bye Interesting. I get a message No such device.

ram tests

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
so i got a couple of pc100 sdram dimms sitting 'round and i don't know if they work. i have this linux box sitting here which i want to use to test the things, but i don't know what software to use. do you know of any hardcore ram test software for linux which will do read and write tests on the

Re: X 4.0 Upgrade /etc/X11/X ?

2001-03-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Terry Hancock wrote: Well, I needed a bunch of library packages from the unstable (Woody) release, so I tried using apt-get to do it, and it decided I needed to upgrade the X packages as well. So okay, I wanted 4.0 anyway, but here's the problem (after eliminating some intervening steps):

ram tests

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady/memtest86 looks nice. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- when faced with a new problem, the wise algorithmist will first attempt to classify it as np-complete. this will avoid many tears and

AGP Card SiS 6326

2001-03-02 Thread Marcelo Luiz de Laia
Hi, Please, how do I can configure (set) my Video Card SiS 6326 8MB AGP Ver 2.2 on my Debian? I don't run X on my card video!!! Thanks Very Much! Marcelo Mocada, como faco para configurar minha placa de video SiS 6326 8MB AGP Ver 2.2 no Debian para poder executar o X?? Muito obrigado.

Re: Garbage for Text

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 08:19:23PM -0500, Robert Mosher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I just got XFree 3.3.6 running on Debian 2.1r2, unfortunately the text is unreadable. It appears as a whole bunch of vertical lines, or random blocks. It appears this way at every resolution. However when I

Re: ghost for linux?

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Peter Jay Salzman (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:14:36PM -0800): true. it's called initrd. rd for ramdisk. utmp/wtmp, what does the kernel have to do with utmp and wtmp? why would the kernel care about who is logging into your system? okay, i see where you are coming from.

Re: i18n and fonts

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 10:30:55PM -0500, Glenn Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This is in the way of a partial followup to an earlier query of mine about locales and locale definitions ... I managed to change LC_ALL back to what I understand to be the default value, C ... HOWEVER,

Re: AGP Card SiS 6326

2001-03-02 Thread Alexander Hvostov
Marcelo, Do *not* crosspost this to irrelevant lists. You *will* get flamed (or worse). Regards, Alex. --- PGP/GPG Fingerprint: EFD1 AC6C 7ED5 E453 C367 AC7A B474 16E0 758D 7ED9 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/CMCC/IT d- s:+ a16 C++()$ UL$ P--- L$ E+ W+(-) N+

Re: [PLUG] ram tests

2001-03-02 Thread Michael Leone
- Original Message - From: MaD dUCK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian users debian-user@lists.debian.org; plug [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 3:37 PM Subject: [PLUG] ram tests so i got a couple of pc100 sdram dimms sitting 'round and i don't know if they work. i have this

Re: [PLUG] ram tests

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Michael Leone (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 04:00:38PM -0500): There is memtest86. You might do better to bring them to a local computer shop, and ask them to leave it in their RAM tester overnight. I know PCM, on Walnut St. in Philadelphia, will do this for you. found memtest86. i think

Re: Getting Helix-Gnome

2001-03-02 Thread Felix E. Klee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I'd highly recommend against using the Helix packages. I've found that they have conflicts with other packages on a recurring basis. I have installed them on three computers with different configurations and had no problems so

How can I get top to show both cpus?

2001-03-02 Thread Jason Price
I am running a dual cpu box and would like to get top to display the load on each cpu seperately. When I briefly had Mandrake 7.2 installed, top showed each cpu individually, so it obviously can be done. How can I configure it to do so?

Re: Problems with mail local to Debian machine

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:27:38AM -0500, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have set up a stable machine that I plan on using for, among other things, and Amanda tapehost. Amanada mails you a report after every run. Problem is, I'm not getting that report. Further if I fire up elm and

Re: AGP Card SiS 6326

2001-03-02 Thread Marcelo Luiz de Laia
Sorry!! This went my first e-mail to the lists. I was trying to solve my problem quickly. Do you have a suggestion of which lists to participate? Or do you suggest that I don't send messages using vary lists at the same time? Is this? Marcelo At 13:24 02/03/01 -0800, Alexander Hvostov

Re: Getting Helix-Gnome

2001-03-02 Thread Pollywog
Is there an ftp equivalent? I am having trouble getting apt-get to work using http, and am limited to using the ftp method at teh moment. You can download the packages with wget and add a line pointing to their location on your harddisk to sources.list (that's what I did).

Re: Setting Up Partitions

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:09:56AM -0800, Ian Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a copy of Debian 2.1 Slink that I am trying to install to a second harddrive. I just recently found out on a website that cfdisk cannot create extended partitions. I attempted to do this when I

Re: Napster Block Ipchains Debian 2.2

2001-03-02 Thread Mike Dresser
Well, my method wasn't perfect, but it would probably get the napster traffic down 75% (depending on the knowledge of the userbase in question). Never underestimate the power of free music =) I don't think you can get around the opennap problem, since you wouldn't know where it is located.

RE: HP LJ III with Jet Direct and Linux

2001-03-02 Thread Lewis, James M.
I have an old HP Laserjet III with an old JetDirect card in it that I have purchaed used. I have to use the parallel port to print to it, but would like to use the network card instead. It was configured and running on another network, and there is some info to that respect in the

Re: AGP Card SiS 6326

2001-03-02 Thread Willi Dyck
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 05:53:42PM -0300, Marcelo Luiz de Laia wrote: Hi, Please, how do I can configure (set) my Video Card SiS 6326 8MB AGP Ver 2.2 on my Debian? I don't run X on my card video!!! What kind of problem do you have? I had the same video card and didn't have problems with it

Re: waiting for x server to begin...

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:33:35PM -0800, michael young ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: recently installed xfree86-4. now when I try to start x I get: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .. ... . and so on...What else do I need to do? Check your networking

Re: Printer recommendations

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:26:36PM -0500, Alec Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm faced with recommending a new printer for my parents as their old unit is starting to show its age. The goal is to find something for $350 or less which is Linux friendly since I'll also be using it. The printer

Re: potato and kernel 2.4

2001-03-02 Thread John Galt
This is more appropriate on debian-user, redirected. BTW, it's a FAQ, look in the archives: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0102/msg02154.html Just out of curiosity, what prompted you to use -project to ask? There has been a rash of -user type questions on -project as of late, and I'm

Re: Help geting hP jetdirect printer to work with Debian

2001-03-02 Thread John Galt
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Stan Brown wrote: I;m integrating a Debian testing machine inot a network with lot's of FreeBSD machines, and some HP-UX, and Sun machines. I'm having a hard time geting the Debian box to print to our networked (JetDirect) printer. Can anyone give me a pointer to some docs.

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:55:51PM -0500, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: also sprach Glenn Becker (on Tue, 27 Feb 2001 04:14:48PM -0500): I don't really know what the purpose of xdm is. There are packages to 'prettify' it, but I just object to the whole thing. :-) well, do consider a

Re: is there a way to probe a sound card's settings to see if it broken

2001-03-02 Thread John Galt
cat /dev/sndstat would be the first thing I tried. Today seems to be my day to refer to howtos...:) http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO.html On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Walter Tautz wrote: I have recently suffered a mysterious failure in my sound card that was working perfectly (es1371) and the

Themes don't install on gnome/potato

2001-03-02 Thread hanasaki
I downloaded a theme from and used control center to install it. The theme seems to be in ~/.themes but is not available under themeselector.

correct files

2001-03-02 Thread Robert Tucker
Ok... I admit it. I seem to be a simpleton. I've been through the dirs and read all the docs and instructions and I've looked at all the files, etc. and I'm still not sure which files I use to create the disks I need to put Debian on my machine. I want to do as little disk generation as possable

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 02:28:39PM -0800): $ startx args; exit ... which you can probably suspend... even more dangerous because now the user doesn't even notice that the system has been accessed over lunch. i think you can suspend. i am not sure. martin

apt-get breakage

2001-03-02 Thread Chris Brown
AAA! apt-get dist-upgrade hosed my system yesterday! Well, hosed is a bit rough... everything works but it seems 'su' is busted. It says: su: Unrecognized Linux-PAM error Sorry. I've tried reinstalling all packages related to login, libpam, libpam- modules, etc. I've tried pwconv'ing and

Re: Switching between two file systems.

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:03:02PM -0500, Fu-Dong Chiou ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I have a problem. I have RedHat on /dev/hd1, and Debian on /dev/hd5 (that I just transferred from another HD). The problem is, when I boot into Debian, the system.map of RedHat is still being used,

Re: Napster Block Ipchains Debian 2.2

2001-03-02 Thread John Galt
I'm thinking you could use a snort ruleset to do the trick... They have a policy ruleset that covers it at http://www.snort.org/Files/03012001/policy.rules Looks like about a dozen or so rules for napster, and another half dozen or so gnutella On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Martin Marconcini wrote:

startx not starting X and mouse wheel not wheeling

2001-03-02 Thread Charles Lewis
I had X (XFree86 4.0.2)working fine until I started trying to get my IntelliMouse wheel to work. I even tried running xf86config again. When I startx it attempts to load but fails with no error messages. The last few lines after it attempts: ... (**) Mouse1: Protocol: IMPS/2 (**) Mouse1: Core

Re: Lost linux partition

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:12:11AM +0800, #KUNDAN KUMAR# ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I boot from boot floppy only, no lilo... and the boot floppy stratightaway loads the kernel without any lilo prompt.. and then gets stuck at Kernel Panic: No root file system. I do have debian rescue disk

Re: Newbie struggling with Windows rsync to make Debian install CD

2001-03-02 Thread mike polniak
The exact command I am using is as follows: rsync --verbose --progress --stats --block-size=8192 saens.debian.org::debian-cd/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-1.iso . which as far as I can tell is what the readme file says to do, substituting a real site for the sample given. I have tried many

Re: pppd wanted

2001-03-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up a network connection between two computers which are connected with a serial cable (null modem). One computer is an i386 with 2.4.0, the other is an Macintosh Quadra 610 ^^^ with 2.2.10, both

Re: correct files

2001-03-02 Thread ktb
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:34:20AM -0800, Robert Tucker wrote: Ok... I admit it. I seem to be a simpleton. I've been through the dirs and read all the docs and instructions and I've looked at all the files, etc. and I'm still not sure which files I use to create the disks I need to put Debian

Re: Switching between two file systems.

2001-03-02 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Sorry, I should have done that. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~#more /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=30 message=/boot/message linear default=RedHat7 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22 label=RedHat7 read-only root=/dev/hda1

Re: Mirroring only potato/woody but not sid?

2001-03-02 Thread csj
On Saturday 03 March 2001 01:22, Tibor D. wrote: Lars Knudsen wrote: Have you tried adding sid/ to your exclude file ? I am mirroring the i386 part of the debian tree in a single rsync run using a relatively long exclude file. This seems perfectly possible on a 64k link. Happy

Re: startx not starting X and mouse wheel not wheeling

2001-03-02 Thread Simon Hepburn
I don't have an intellimouse so this is an educated guess :-) I think you may have a conflict between X and gpm. Try disabling gpm and setting your device to /dev/psaux in XF86Config-4: Option Device/dev/psaux Good luck, Simon. On Saturday 03 March 2001 1:07 am, Charles Lewis wrote: I

Re: debian command list

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:40:19AM -0800, Mike Egglestone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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... O'Reilly's

Laptops: QLITech aquires TuxTops line (was Re: GPS)

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 02:41:29PM -0500, Glenn Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 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

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-03-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:52:17PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: When /var went down, I was able to tar and bzip2 up /home /etc /root and drop them into a windows partition which meant that I lost no real why did you do that? if you have seperate partitions there is no need to back them up,

Re: HP LJ III with Jet Direct and Linux

2001-03-02 Thread Rob Rati
Lewis, James M. wrote: I have an old HP Laserjet III with an old JetDirect card in it that I have purchaed used. I have to use the parallel port to print to it, but would like to use the network card instead. It was configured and running on another network, and there is some info to

Re: Question re. AbiWord

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:36:13PM -0800, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there a way to give root (or anyone else) permission so this error doesn't come up? I login to a non-root account (gdm), but sometimes I open a terminal as root and want to run a graphical application. I

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-03-02 Thread Erik Steffl
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: ... so if you dislike xdm, at least set NoZap in XF86Config! Um. How about: $ startx args; exit I think better option is to use nohup and actually exit. that way you are sure. or use virtual console lock:-) if such a beast exists. erik

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:27:55AM -0800, Nate Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: SamBozo Debian User wrote: Hello to the group, Recently there were comments made as to the foolishness of rebooting just to reset an edited config file. How about a list of the cli entrys try

Re: Latest Lyx for 'Potato'?

2001-03-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:39:59AM +0200, Hannu Virtanen wrote: Does anyone know, if there is available any debian ('stable, 'potato') package of the latest version (1.1.6fix1-1) of Lyx? ... Not that I am aware of... I DL'd that version from www.lyx.org and compiled it myself, getting it

Error message from dpkg

2001-03-02 Thread Poe-Min Oliver Wu
This is the message thrown back when I run apt-get: == (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/apache-doc_1.3.9-13.2_all.deb (--unpack): files list file for package `doc-linux-zh' contains empty filename Errors were encountered while processing:

error with python/sgmltools in sid

2001-03-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm running Lyx 1.1.16fix1, using sgmltools under the DocBook class to translate my sgml class document to other formats. Regardless of what I do to view or export the text, I get an error stating: File /usr/lib/sgml/misc/sgmltools/python/utils.py, line 250,

Re: correct files

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach ktb (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:42:20PM -0600): Snag, at minimum - rescue.bin root.bin ... except the last time that i tried root.bin from like 5 different locations, dd'ing and loop mounting it several times, it never turned out to be a valid filesystem and i could never use it. maybe

an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, you know how you hit c to open other mailboxes and it says: Open mailbox ('?' for list): well, i can no longer use '?' to see the list of mailboxes. it does nothing; it simply drops me back to the main mailbox index. the only thing i can think of is that i *just* updated woody

[OT] OpenGL Experiance

2001-03-02 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
Anyone have OpenGL experience? I'm porting my companies engineering software from HP/IBM/SGI UNIX systems to Linux. Our graphics take advantage of OpenGL. From what I can see OpenGL is a set of graphics libraries that need a special graphics card to run. I found the OpenGL libraries (actually

Re: ghost for linux?

2001-03-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:59:25PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: reading your reaction gives me the eery feeling I've missed what this thread was about. To me that's the single most horrible thing that comes from mailing-lists instead of plain good old netnews, you loose context easily. I know I

RE: Samba problem

2001-03-02 Thread toolus muleus
[2001/02/26 22:26:25, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216) file_init: Information only: requested 1 open files, 1014 are available. This is common in my log file as well. Is it a problem? Can it be fixed? _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Peter Jay Salzman (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:15:35PM -0800): On Fri 02 Mar 01, 8:06 PM, MaD dUCK said: are you running mail as root??? don't do that! just out of curiosity, why? i've never heard a compelling reason for that the simplest reason: because you shouldn't ever be

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