Debian tutorials

2001-03-16 Thread Don Collier
Hello all. I have decided to make the jump from RedHat to Debian but I am having some problems. If any of you know of some rather informative web sites, howto's, tutorials, and anything else that would be of help, I sure would love to check them out. I have been around linux for just over a

Re: Minimum RAM Requirement.

2001-03-16 Thread frankie
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:19:38AM -0600, Mike Brownlow wrote: Simmons-Davis wrote: Hello, I would like to know the minimum amount of RAM a computer needs in order to run a basic Linux setup and then also the minimum for X Window System. See section 2.3 (Memory and Disk Space

Re: Seeking GUI for Postgresql

2001-03-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
John Foster wrote: I am running php4 and can not downgrade due to needs of other software that I require. Current versions of PhpPgAdmin require php3. They are not backward compatible at this point and may never be in my opinion. I have tried phpPgAdmin here using PHP4 - it seems to work,

why wget is behaving this way..

2001-03-16 Thread Roberto Diaz
bash-2.03$ wget -c --timeout=90 --wait=50 ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/os/linux/debian-cdimage/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-1.iso --18:25:50-- ftp://sunsite.auc.dk:21/pub/os/linux/debian-cdimage/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-1.iso = `binary-i386-1.iso' Connecting to sunsite.auc.dk:21...

Re: ppp mystery

2001-03-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gl Elad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Yes there is a connection, and I get a message from the remote machine. The problem is that the message usually looks like garbage. Is the garbage comparible in length and timing with the windows version? i.e. if you use windows, connect and type nothing,

Re: OpenSSH public key auth

2001-03-16 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 March 2001 12:49, Tommi Komulainen wrote: [...] What you need to do, is extract your public key from OpenSSH in a format that SSH2 recognizes. Then you just configure ssh2 as it's supposed to be configured (man sshd on the server.)

Re: Locked up X-windows

2001-03-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting L R Dirienzo Jr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I locked up X-Windows. I had run Red Hat 6.0 on a PC for about a year, and the install was no problem. I decided to go to debian and the install was fine, but X-Windows would not run, and it failed because the /dev/mouse file did not exist. I

How do I create a boot floppy for an installation?

2001-03-16 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
If I want to create a floppy to boot a system (so that I can burn it into a bootable CDROM during a subsequent step), do I use the mkboot utility? The documentation on mkboot is a little sparse and it is not clear if it used for the hd or for floppies. Thanks -- Randy

more with wget..

2001-03-16 Thread Roberto Diaz
bash-2.03$ wget -c --timeout=90 --wait=50 ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/os/linux/debian-cdimage/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-3.iso --18:18:25-- ftp://sunsite.auc.dk:21/pub/os/linux/debian-cdimage/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-3.iso = `binary-i386-3.iso' Connecting to sunsite.auc.dk:21... connected!

Re: Locked up X-windows

2001-03-16 Thread Albrecht Frank
L R Dirienzo Jr wrote: Hello all. I locked up X-Windows. I had run Red Hat 6.0 on a PC for about a year, and the install was no problem. I decided to go to debian and the install was fine, but X-Windows would not run, and it failed because the /dev/mouse file did not exist. I just

Re: Debian never powers off

2001-03-16 Thread Eric Richardson
Osamu Aoki wrote: I got following message. I assume this was for ML. So I answer here. On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:05:03PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: * Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Add append line with apm=on in lilo.conf and run lilo. My lilo.conf is like:

Re: OpenSSH public key auth

2001-03-16 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, never mind. I just switched to DSA keys and everything worked the way you said it would. Thanks, j -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: need help with dialup mail config

2001-03-16 Thread Eric Richardson
Carel Fellinger wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:43:15PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: ... I checked some docs, and got lost. A book of mine suggests using diald, but that would mean dial on demand. I understand diald needs its own connection files wich seems a waste after finally setting

CIPE requirements

2001-03-16 Thread Nick
On Wednesday 14 March 2001 10:36, you wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2001 18:15, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Last question, can I use 2.2.14 kernel or do I need 2.4? Depends on your exact vpn

xserver-xfree86 (4.0.2-7) freezing during install

2001-03-16 Thread Charles Lewis
Trying to install X on a brand new sid box. Selected task-x-window-system-core (and all its dependencies and it freezes at: Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.0.27)... I have a Rage 128 card...the non-free xserver-rage128 installs successfully, except that I can't figure out how to generate

Re: Locked up X-windows

2001-03-16 Thread Barry Mathieu
I had a similar problem when I recently installed Debian for my first time. The source of the problem in my case was the XF86Config file pointing to /dev/mouse and there being no such file. During the install I believe there is a section where you can chose the mouse protocol as PS/2. The device

Re: xserver-xfree86 (4.0.2-7) freezing during install

2001-03-16 Thread Terry Warner
It might be helpful to go to http://dri.sourceforge.net. They have a resources page which has a generic X config file for the Rage card (and I believe it is an X4 config file). If you download that, it will prolly just need some minor changes, but its a good place to start. Hope this helps

can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread peanut butter
Hi, I'm using lprng with filter /etc/magicfilter/ljet4-filter to an HP Laserjet 5M printer. Though things print fine from the command line, if I open a pdf with acroread, nothing prints when clicking the print button from within the application. A pop-up window will appear saying that the print

wget bug???

2001-03-16 Thread Roberto Diaz
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Re: no sound with kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-16 Thread Christoph Groth
Gudmundur Erlingsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The error messages esd spews out certainly points to that. Anyone have further suggestions? If the sound modules built in the kernel don't work for you, why not try ALSA? You'll have to get the ALSA packages from unstable (sid), those from potato

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread Roberto Diaz
have an idea as to the cause, can anyone at least suggest some manner at which to attempt to trace what's going on here and where the failure is occurring? What is the result if after trying to print you make an lpq, can you see your job in the queue? Regards Roberto

Re: NIC identification

2001-03-16 Thread John Foster
Dave Sherohman wrote: As I suspected the kernel is not trying to load a kernel module for the NIC, everything else looks OK. My suggestion is to contact Dell and query them about the onboard NIC chip set. They may have the specs listed on their website. It is likely that the board is made to their

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread Roberto Diaz
Supposing this is too specific a problem for anyone to immediately have an idea as to the cause, can anyone at least suggest some manner at which to attempt to trace what's going on here and where the failure is occurring? And.. what is your printer command you have selected in acroread?

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:18:00AM -0800, peanut butter wrote: Hi, I'm using lprng with filter /etc/magicfilter/ljet4-filter to an HP Laserjet 5M printer. Though things print fine from the command line, if I open a pdf with acroread, nothing prints when clicking the print button from within

Re: NIC identification

2001-03-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:59:04PM -0600, John Foster wrote: Look for Realtek, 3com, intel, i.e. something with a ethernet card name and model number. Once you have identified the chipset you can recompile the kernel and modules for your specefic hardware setup. I'm guessing it's a 3com NIC

Re: Getting rid of portmap

2001-03-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:37:00AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: Question -- what is the best approach to stop portmap from running on a Debian system? IIRC, portmap is part of netbase in potato. Renaming the /etc/init.d/portmap script or removing all the start/stop links caused an upgrade

Re: Screen corruption with Amiga X - And AteoBus, Pixel64 support?

2001-03-16 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, cool, Amiga! I do not know much about Linux on Amiga, but you might get more useful response from the debian-m68k or debian-powerpc (if you have a powerpc on your blizard -- can't remember, it has been too long) lists. About the lines: it could be an error in the X server. You can try to

jserver and blackdown JDK

2001-03-16 Thread techlists
I'm running woody, the newest balckdown jdk, and apache jserv. The problem is the jdk just stops working, or it could be the jserv. but there are no errors in the log files. does anyone have anysuggestions on how to troubleshoot this? Wayne

Re: Debian tutorials

2001-03-16 Thread Jimmy Richards
On 16 Mar 2001 12:08:25 -0700, Jimmy Richards wrote: Hi Don, If you have any problems installing Debian, just ask in here for help. People on this list will help. Now it may be possible to get and read these docs before installing, but I'm not sure where'd you go to read them. They can be

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread Andre Berger
* peanut butter [EMAIL PROTECTED], 20010316 21:08 +0100: Hi, I'm using lprng with filter /etc/magicfilter/ljet4-filter to an HP Laserjet 5M printer. Though things print fine from the command line, if I open a pdf with acroread, nothing prints when clicking the print button from within

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread peanut butter
can you print the file in question if you have acroread direct its output to a file, which you then send to the printer manually? Can you view the resulting PS-file in ghostscript? Yes to both. Sorry not to mention this right off. I mentioned this the first time I attempted to post this

Re: xserver-xfree86 (4.0.2-7) freezing during install

2001-03-16 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello Charles, You can do the command 'XFree86 --config' to get it to probe hardware and create a generic XF86Config-4 file. I do not know why the command 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' does not seem to be creating an XF86Config-4 file. I think that command should normally be the way to

[bounce-debian-user=w.l.devries=student.tudelft.nl@lists.debian.org: ]

2001-03-16 Thread Wouter de Vries
I really wonder what this is about ... I use fetchmail in combination with exim and procmail. Wouter - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 22:03:55 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bcc: rom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Mar

cdrecord requires /dev/sg? driver

2001-03-16 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have recently switched from Debian to RedHat and I am having some configuration problems. I am trying to get cdrecord to work. It is asking for a /dev/sg? driver and it is not present on my Debian installation. How do I get a /dev/sg? driver? Thanks -- Randy

The perfect X terminal emulator

2001-03-16 Thread Seth Arnold
Greetings folks; I cannot find an X terminal Emulator I like. I am hoping someone out there can point me in the right direction. (CC's on replies would be nice, BTW.) xterm doesn't let home/end work. aterm doesn't let home/end work. Eterm doesn't let home/end work. wterm doesn't let the numeric

Questions: apt-get, kernel compile, pump/ifconfig

2001-03-16 Thread S M
Hi, I have several unrelated questions I was hoping someone might be able to help me out with. 1. apt-get won't install kde of cd-rom I have a CD-ROM on which lie, among others, the directories kde/main/binary-i386/ kde/crypto/binary-i386/ updates/main/binary-i386/ and more, in which are,

Re: more with wget..

2001-03-16 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Roberto Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED], # bash-2.03$ wget -c --timeout=90 --wait=50 # ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/os/linux/debian-cdimage/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-3.iso # --18:18:25-- # ftp://sunsite.auc.dk:21/pub/os/linux/debian-cdimage/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-3.iso #=

[OT] Power off on Shutdown using ACPI and kernel-2.4.x

2001-03-16 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has gotten their system to power off upon shutting down when using kernels 2.4.x. I get an ACPI message, 'Could not enter S5'. My understanding is that APM and ACPI are mutually exclusive, so I do not think I should be trying to use APM. But, I am not sure,

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread Roberto Diaz
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, peanut butter wrote: What is the result if after trying to print you make an lpq, can you see your job in the queue? Due to the problem, I discovered printop which graphically monitors printers and queues run by lprng. Nothing ever appears in the queue as far as I can

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:18:00AM -0800, peanut butter wrote: Hi, I'm using lprng with filter /etc/magicfilter/ljet4-filter to an HP Laserjet 5M printer. Though things print fine from the command line, if I open a pdf with acroread, nothing prints when clicking the print button from within

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread peanut butter
Not sure if I can help you... Is lprng in the print dialog window's command line (/usr/bin/lpr here)? Did you try to specify a printer explicitely (-P)? Did you try to print to a file? Does it work from xpdf? Another wild guess, but why not: Try PS Level 1, specified in Acroread's prefs,

cdrecord requires /dev/sg? driver - repost

2001-03-16 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Sorry for the reposting... I have recently switched from RedHat to Debian and I am having troubling running cdrecord. cdrecord worked fine on RedHat on the same machine. When I run cdrecord it says that it cannot open the SCSI driver. When I read the cdrecord home page it talks about the Linux

RE: Combining disks in one virtual partition.

2001-03-16 Thread Lewis, James M.
-Original Message- From: Simmons-Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 11:48 AM To: Debian/Gnu Linux Subject: Combining disks in one virtual partition. Hello, My question for you all is whether or not you can join the partitions of several small

Re: Combining disks in one virtual partition.

2001-03-16 Thread John Galt
options LVM, linear, or raid in the kernel. I wouldn't do it with root however, as one screwed up disk could mean the death of your system. My suggestion: one disk as a root disk ~50M, its slave and the entire secondary chain in LVM (2.4 kernel stuff) as /usr. On Fri, 16 Mar 2001,

Re: Minimum RAM Requirement.

2001-03-16 Thread John Galt
8M effective, though I've heard of 4-5M, and used bo with 4M. On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Simmons-Davis wrote: Hello, I would like to know the minimum amount of RAM a computer needs in order to run a basic Linux setup and then also the minimum for X Window System. Thank you, Ry -- You have

Re: The perfect X terminal emulator

2001-03-16 Thread Glyn Millington
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rxvt (in the five minutes I have played with it during the preperation of this email) lets both of keypad and home/end work, but boy I like the transparency options of some of the other terminal emulators... (nothing quite like cheesing off

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread peanut butter
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote: What is the result if after trying to print you make an lpq, can you see your job in the queue? Due to the problem, I discovered printop which graphically monitors printers and queues run by lprng. Nothing ever appears in the queue as far as I can

konqueror problems

2001-03-16 Thread neonatus
Hi! I have two machines running Debian GNU/Linux sid. I have konqueror installed on both of them and also netscape with plugins. But the problem is konqueror works with plugins only on one machine, while on the other it allways asks me weather to save the file the plugin should run, and there is

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread peanut butter
-In response to your message- --received from Bob Nielsen-- Just a guess, but I had a similar problem with only certain .pdf documents. The error light on my Lexmark Optra E312 would flash when lpr was sending data to the printer and nothing was printed although there were no error

RE: Locked up X-windows

2001-03-16 Thread Mathieu, Barry
I can think of two potential solutions ... (caution: I am a relative newbie) If you installed from CD (as I did), then reboot from the CD and choose the option for mounting the file system. I don't remember the precise details, but basically you make the install CD act like a rescue disk. You

Re: changing from twm to ??????

2001-03-16 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:16:03AM -0800, Simon Harvey wrote: hello : does anybody know what file tells X11 what window manager to use, ive looked around and i cant find it. thanks simon ~/.xinitrc controls which window manager is loaded by X11 on startup -- Matthew Sackman

Re: The perfect X terminal emulator

2001-03-16 Thread pplaw
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:17:11PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: Greetings folks; I cannot find an X terminal Emulator I like. I am hoping someone out there can point me in the right direction. (CC's on replies would be nice, BTW.) xterm doesn't let home/end work. aterm doesn't let home/end

Re: more with wget..

2001-03-16 Thread Roberto Diaz
I've seen this a number of time, when resuming downloads. I imagine it's a wget bug. In any case, it never caused me any problems :) The files were always uncorrupted. Thank you very much, since now I have this: 316100K - .. .. .. .. .. [124%] 316150K -

Re: How do I create a boot floppy for an installation?

2001-03-16 Thread pplaw
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:06:53AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: If I want to create a floppy to boot a system (so that I can burn it into a bootable CDROM during a subsequent step), do I use the mkboot utility? The documentation on mkboot is a little sparse and it is not clear if it

Re: cdrecord requires /dev/sg? driver - repost

2001-03-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
Have you compiled your kernel to include scsi support and if it is an ATAPE IDE drive have you included ide-scsi emulation? Does dmesg give any information related to SCSI? Bob On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:41:30PM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: Sorry for the reposting... I have recently

ide-cd(re)writer HP8250i -- crash

2001-03-16 Thread Matthias Gasser
Hi! I've got a ATAPI/IDE CD(RW)Writer. So, i want it to work, on my debian box (i dont use M$ prducts at all) my first step was to recompile my 2.2.18 kernel, for the scsi-emu and the other things, are writen in the how to of linuxdoc.org if i do a # cdrecord -scanbus i'll get the correct

Re: The perfect X terminal emulator

2001-03-16 Thread debuser
home/end work fine for me in Eterm and xterm. I'm running unstable. I think the problem may be with your keyboard or X settings rather than with the terminal emulator. Someone on here can probably give you more specific places to look. I think there's a keyboard mini-howto. That might help. gerry

Re: Functionality simular to FreeBSD's jails

2001-03-16 Thread Erik Steffl
if you have enough $$ go with ibm 390 (or whatever the number is) otherwise try wmware (or other similar product), if you require completely virtual machines (hw and all) you need a virtual machine, I guess there's no way around it, chroot and I suspect jail (I don't know jail) would not cut it.

Re: The perfect X terminal emulator

2001-03-16 Thread debuser
Upon further investigation, I believe I found what makes home/end work with xterm and Eterm on my system. In /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xterm, the bottom of the file contains the following: *VT100.Translations: #override ~Shift ~Ctrl ~Meta KeyDelete: string(\033[3~)\n\

Re: Debian tutorials

2001-03-16 Thread Shaul Karl
Hello all. I have decided to make the jump from RedHat to Debian but I am having some problems. If any of you know of some rather informative web sites, howto's, tutorials, and anything else that would be of help, I sure would love to check them out. I have been around linux for just over

Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I'd like to have nslookup. I installed and updated Debian 2.2. Any help would be appreciated. Eric :-)

Re: CIPE requirements

2001-03-16 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I have a box w/ 2.2r2 installed w/ stock 2.2.14 kernel. I download the cipe.tar and unzipped. Ran ./configure and got the message that there is no suitable configured kernel include tree

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread John Galt
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages There's a Search the contents of the latest release at the bottom that tells me that it's in dnsutils and a builtin in zsh. It can tell you that as well... On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Eric Richardson wrote: Hi, I'd like to have nslookup. I installed and updated

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread csj
On Saturday 17 March 2001 07:06, Eric Richardson wrote: Hi, I'd like to have nslookup. I installed and updated Debian 2.2. Any help would be appreciated. Eric :-) apt-get install dnsutils

Samba and inetd

2001-03-16 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I installed Samba via the Debian installer and it recommended starting it via inetd. I'm on a laptop and the network is very slow to start. Here are my questions. Should smbd and nmbd be running? If yes, how do I start them since /etc/init.d/samba does nothing if samba is setup to start from

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, 'apt-cache search nslookup' shows 'dnsutils' as the Debian package on my potato machine which includes nslookup. Use 'apt-get install dnsutils' to get it, as I'm sure you're aware. You can also always search for it on the debian website under the 'packages' navigation link on the left-hand

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:06:43PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: Hi, I'd like to have nslookup. I installed and updated Debian 2.2. Any help would be appreciated. As a side note, nslookup is deprecated[1], you might want to learn to use host and dig instead. I've found host quite handy in

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread Eric Richardson
John Galt wrote: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages There's a Search the contents of the latest release at the bottom that tells me that it's in dnsutils and a builtin in zsh. It can tell you that as well... I tried this once and now I tried again with the package description button

Re: Scripting help

2001-03-16 Thread kmself
on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 05:50:27PM -0600, Scott E . Graves ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If I had a list containing redundant entries, what command could I use suppress the duplications. Here's an example list: man man ls df find find find This would be obtaining using `sa -u | grep

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread Eric Richardson
Daniel Freedman wrote: Hi, 'apt-cache search nslookup' shows 'dnsutils' as the Debian package on my potato machine which includes nslookup. apt-cache is a good one for the tool box. Thanks.

Re: Scripting help

2001-03-16 Thread Robert Cymbala
Scott E. Graves wrote: If I had a list containing redundant entries, what command could I use suppress the duplications. Here's an example list: ... Shell scripts give you awesome leverage Shell scripts consist of one or more statements that specify C programs and other shell

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:06:43PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: Hi, I'd like to have nslookup. I installed and updated Debian 2.2. Any help would be appreciated. On my system running woody, it is in the dnsutils package.

Re: cdrecord problem solved

2001-03-16 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Thank you to all of you who replied to my question. The problem was my removal of the Standard Generic SCSI driver from the kernel. When I recompiled and added that back, all worked fine. Thank you for the help! Regards, Randy

Re: NIC identification

2001-03-16 Thread Hall Stevenson
I've got a Dell box I'm installing debian on with an intergrated NIC on the motherboard. The NIC is likely a PCI device even when it's integrated into the MB. So, try cat /proc/pci and look for an ethernet controller line. It will probably give you the chipset it uses which is usually a pretty

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Yup... There was a (mostly useless) article a little while back about it here: http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=140 -Nelson On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:21:51AM +0200, Tommi Komulainen wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:06:43PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: Hi, I'd

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread Eric Richardson
Tommi Komulainen wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:06:43PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: Hi, I'd like to have nslookup. I installed and updated Debian 2.2. Any help would be appreciated. As a side note, nslookup is deprecated[1], you might want to learn to use host and dig instead.

Re: Minimum RAM Requirement.

2001-03-16 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:59:39AM -0700, Simmons-Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I would like to know the minimum amount of RAM a computer needs in order to run a basic Linux setup and then also the minimum for X Window System. Some guidelines. - 4 M: bare minimum for Linux

Re: The perfect X terminal emulator

2001-03-16 Thread Forrest English
home and end work for me in my xterms and eterms. could it be you are using older versions or somthing? i remember at one point they didn't work. but, i think it works using woody or unstable packages. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:01:31PM -0800, peanut butter wrote: can you print the file in question if you have acroread direct its output to a file, which you then send to the printer manually? Can you view the resulting PS-file in ghostscript? Yes to both. Sorry not to mention this right

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:46:26PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: Do I need dnsutils or are dig and host in some other package? dig is in dnsutils, host is, surprise surprise, in host package =) (at least on sid, hope this applies to potato as well) -- Tommi Komulainen

Re: So, anyone knows wtf Apache.pm is? Was: Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-16 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:03:37PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:32:23AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: On Wed 14 Mar 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: Hmm, interesting... Why tf did I install apache-perl in the first place? Because the combination apache +

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #65

2001-03-16 Thread William Presho
REMOVE ME FROM THIS LIST 7TH REQUEST.

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:34:45PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: I had a similar problem with only certain .pdf documents. The error light on my Lexmark Optra E312 would flash when lpr was sending data to the printer and nothing was printed although there were no error messages. I used pdftops

Re: The perfect X terminal emulator

2001-03-16 Thread Seth Arnold
* Forrest English [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010316 15:44]: home and end work for me in my xterms and eterms. could it be you are using older versions or somthing? i remember at one point they didn't work. but, i think it works using woody or unstable packages. Well, I too thought once upon a time

Re: NIC identification

2001-03-16 Thread Roberto Rosario
Try lspci it might give you some more info. Dave Sherohman wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:59:04PM -0600, John Foster wrote: Look for Realtek, 3com, intel, i.e. something with a ethernet card name and model number. Once you have identified the chipset you can recompile the kernel and

E-mail configuration

2001-03-16 Thread Hammurabi Mendes
Hi all, I'm having problems with e-mail configuration: when someone receives some of my e-mails sent from debian, the From line is the following: From: Hammurabi das Chagas Mendes [EMAIL PROTECTED] (hmendes is my username and carbona is the hostname of my machine) when I would like to use :

Swap file location

2001-03-16 Thread Michael J. Micek
If you needed to create a swap file, where would you put it? /var/local/swap0? -- Michael J. Micek, CyberStrategies, Inc. sysadmin. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt problems and why?

2001-03-16 Thread Daniel Mashao
I get the following error message home:/home/daniel# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... failed. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libesd0: Depends: esound-common but it is not installed E:

Re: Swap file location

2001-03-16 Thread iehrenwald
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Michael J. Micek wrote: If you needed to create a swap file, where would you put it? /var/local/swap0? On a very fast drive (7200RPM U2WSCSI or faster) seperate from all other filesystem tasks. Mount it under /swapfiles and add the apropriate entries in fstab. Don't

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
Thanks for the clarification. Bob On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:16:17AM +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:34:45PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: I had a similar problem with only certain .pdf documents. The error light on my Lexmark Optra E312 would flash when lpr was

Re: ide-cd(re)writer HP8250i -- crash

2001-03-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:40:05PM +0100, Matthias Gasser wrote: if i do a # cdrecord -scanbus i'll get the correct answer. (sorry, i can't post, i'm writing from another PC...) i made the symlink of /cdrom - /dev/scd0 It should be /dev/cdrom - /dev/scd0 So do: # cd /dev ; ln -s scd0

trimming the logs

2001-03-16 Thread Pollywog
My drive was about 55-60% full yesterday, but today it was 98% full, so as an emergency measure, I 'rm -rf /opt/kde' but that only got me to 96%. Then it hit me that the idiot who has been portscanning me for hours might have filled up the drive. I checked the logs and that is what it was.

Re: NVdriver problems

2001-03-16 Thread Zac Epkes
NO!!! the NVdriver does not work with 2.4.x kernels Use XFree 4.0.x [preferable 2] u MUST have the kernel source and headers in /usr/src/ leave the kernel header folder alone... i would rename the kernel-source* folder to linux/ and then build the GLX package then the NVIDIA_kernel package...

Re: need help with dialup mail config

2001-03-16 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, You can also use pon since the new pppconfig will support dial on demand. The trick is to issue the pon statement following your boot up. That will configure your network to listen for outgoing packets and start the link automatically (like windoz does) and stop it at a preset time

Re: why wget is behaving this way..

2001-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:28:13PM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: bash-2.03$ wget -c --timeout=90 --wait=50 ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/os/linux/debian-cdimage/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-1.iso --18:25:50-- ftp://sunsite.auc.dk:21/pub/os/linux/debian-cdimage/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-1.iso

Re: [bounce-debian-user=w.l.devries=student.tudelft.nl@lists.debian.org: ]

2001-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:15:19PM +0100, Wouter de Vries wrote: I really wonder what this is about ... I use fetchmail in combination with exim and procmail. Could you explain what it is you don't understand? [snip...] -- Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net

Re: need help with dialup mail config

2001-03-16 Thread Pollywog
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:34:11 -0800 Jaye Inabnit ke6sls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, You can also use pon since the new pppconfig will support dial on demand. The trick is to issue the pon statement following your boot up. That will configure your network to listen for outgoing

Re: NVdriver problems

2001-03-16 Thread Forrest English
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:27:27 -0600, Zac Epkes whispered to the router: !!NO!!! the NVdriver does not work with 2.4.x kernels !! Use XFree 4.0.x [preferable 2] i'm sorry, yes it does. i'm running 2.4.1, nvidia .96 works just great. just download from kernel.org, and make sure it's in

Re: E-mail configuration

2001-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:39:34PM -0300, Hammurabi Mendes wrote: Hi all, I'm having problems with e-mail configuration: when someone receives some of my e-mails sent from debian, the From line is the following: From: Hammurabi das Chagas Mendes [EMAIL PROTECTED] (hmendes is my username

Re: Swap file location

2001-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 05:34:40PM -0800, Michael J. Micek wrote: If you needed to create a swap file, where would you put it? /var/local/swap0? That's what I did (more or less). I also have a swap partition, but I set the priority for the swap file in /etc/fstab so the dedicated swap

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