Re: Unrelated to Debian. Telnet

2001-05-17 Thread Wayne
Hi again, I want to thank everyone for the pointer. I found a gold mine!!! Wayne Martin Feeney wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2001 12:38:06 Wayne wrote: I search the web for an answer, but came up short. Search for RFC 1939. It'll tell you all about POP. The command you're looking for is DELE

Re: Install from single floppy

2001-05-17 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Carl == Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would have taken a lot of floppies . Luckily I have found a packet driver for my Xircom card and am currently ftping all the required files to the Libretto using CUFTP. If anyone else is going to try this be aware that FreeDos doesnt work with

libc6, libdb2

2001-05-17 Thread Krzysztof Mazurczyk
Hi there, I use potato r3 with 2.4 kernel Version of libc6 was 2.2-6 (taken from woody some time ago) and libdb2 was 2:2.4.14-2.7.7.1.c (from potato r3). Everything was working well. Now I upgraded libc6 to 2.2.3-1 and (because of dependences) libdb2 to 2.7.7-7. After that syslogd don't start and

Re: Linux compatible IDE CDRW

2001-05-17 Thread mdevin
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:36:02AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which would be the best for me to get? Plextor CD-RW PX-W1210TA 12/10/32 IDE 2m Buffer Burn-Proof Sony CD-RW CRX160EBK 12/8/32 Internal IDE Retail Kit 4mb PC/MAC Yamaha CD-RW Internal 16Wx10RWx40R IDE Retail Kit CRW2100EVK

Alsa 0.9 fixed yeah!

2001-05-17 Thread Iain
Hi, I just posted this because I thought it might be useful to someone. I have found that alsa-source 0.9+0beta4-2 doesn't work with the version of libesd-alsa0 found in unstable. However if you recompile from the sources it does work. You probably also need to install libasound2 I.e.

Re: galeon crashes when running as user

2001-05-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:06:35PM +0200, christophe barbé wrote: It seems that galeon requires a patch to be applied over mozilla0.9. I imagine that kitame packages didn't have this patch and this certainly explain the UI related crash. Perhaps kitame will use this patch as blizzard to for RH

potato or woody?

2001-05-17 Thread Stefano
Hi all. I'm going to install debian gnu/linux on a new computer and I'm wondering if woody is stable enough. What would you suggest me: potato or woody? The system is a PC workstation used for statistical analysis and office-like activity (and a bit of C++ programming too). TIA, Stefano

Re: Multi-platform software development

2001-05-17 Thread Preben Randhol
Andrzej Swedrzynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 17/05/2001 (11:01) : On Wed, 16 May 2001, Preben Randhol wrote: I think that well written C code is portable. Many projects deve­ loped under GPL proove it. No it is not. Count the #ifdefs object-oriented general purpose programming

Re: potato or woody?

2001-05-17 Thread Gordon Hart
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:45:35PM +0200, Stefano wrote: Hi all. I'm going to install debian gnu/linux on a new computer and I'm wondering if woody is stable enough. What would you suggest me: potato or woody? The system is a PC workstation used for statistical analysis and office-like

lm_sensors temp readings only 8C

2001-05-17 Thread mikepolniak
Just installed lm_sensors for via-pro chipset VT82c596 and ran sensors: max1617-i2c-0-18 Adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter temp: +8.0°C (min = +4°C, max = +0°C) In /proc/sys/dev/sensors/max1617-i2c-0-18 i get: temp1 0 4 8 temp2 60 8 0 How do

Re: Locales missing after upgrading to testing

2001-05-17 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi Willi, Hi Ilya! Try uncommenting the needed locales in /etc/locale.gen. Then run 'locale-gen' as root. Hope that helps. Thanks. That fixed it. Ciao! juh -- 68 in der CDU http://www.sudelbuch.de/1999/19991222.html

Re: potato or woody?

2001-05-17 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:45:35PM +0200, Stefano wrote: Hi all. I'm going to install debian gnu/linux on a new computer and I'm wondering if woody is stable enough. What would you suggest me: potato or woody? The system is a PC workstation used for statistical analysis and office-like

Re: lm_sensors temp readings only 8C

2001-05-17 Thread mikepolniak
On Thursday 17 May 2001 09:16, mikepolniak wrote: Just installed lm_sensors for via-pro chipset VT82c596 and ran sensors: max1617-i2c-0-18 Adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter temp: +8.0°C (min = +4°C, max = +0°C) In

Re: DHCP + ADSL = HELP

2001-05-17 Thread Hugh Brown
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Kevin Ross wrote: [some damn good advice] Thanks for the tips. I'll try that now and let you know what happens. I am now blessing your keyboard... St Aardvark the Carpeted http://www.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth.

/var/lib/dpkg/status corrupt!

2001-05-17 Thread JD Kitch
Help! Something happened to my /var/lib/dpkg/status file, and now everytime I try to do anything with apt-get or dselect I get parsing errors, and it just quits. Is there any way to correct this? TIA, jdk

Re: No loopback interface after upgrading to testing

2001-05-17 Thread Jim McCloskey
Jan Ulrich Hasecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have no loopback interface Edit /etc/networking/interfaces to include a line: iface lo inet loopback (you'll probably just have to uncomment an existing line) You'll need to bring the interfaces up again with ipup, I imagine, Jim

Re: galeon crashes when running as user

2001-05-17 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:35:02AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: i tried applying blizzards patch as i found it in bugzilla but mozilla then failed to compile. apparently the one in bugzilla is broken, and im not downloading 30MB of src.rpm crap to see whats in there... Do you mean this patch?

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status corrupt!

2001-05-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:17:46AM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: Help! Something happened to my /var/lib/dpkg/status file, and now everytime I try to do anything with apt-get or dselect I get parsing errors, and it just quits. Is there any way to correct this? It is automatically backed up to

Re: Pakiety .deb

2001-05-17 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Thu, 17 May 2001, mec wrote: m Cześć !!! m Mam nadzieję że piszę do odpowiedniej osoby, od kilku dni przeszukuję sieć za wszelkimi informacjami dotyczącymi pakietów Debiana. Sam używam RedHata i nie mam dostępu do żadnej dokumentacji tych pakietów. Poszukuję coś w rodzaju how-to rpm jak

More colours on framebuffer console ?

2001-05-17 Thread Leo Laursen
Hi I'm not subscribed to this list, but follows it on a news group because of the e-mail policy of my Isp I have been trying to get more than 16 colours in vim on the console. As a beginner that is way beyond my capabilities. I configured the kernel to use framebuffer (2.4.4 + rivafb) and it

PHP spell check

2001-05-17 Thread Liam Ward
Hi all, I've got a requirement to do spell check in a web page with a HTML form. So far, the best solution seems to be to install pspell (from unstable) and hand craft something to check and make suggestions. My system is potato with Apache/MySQL/PHP4. Dipping into unstable for pspell is one

samba - swat - problem

2001-05-17 Thread Dieter Schicker
Hello, I just installed Samba 2.2.0 and Swat on my potato machine. When I try to access swat by typing http://localhost:901;, the browser says The connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost:901. So, I don't know how to get around this problem. Any help would be highly

Re: No loopback interface after upgrading to testing

2001-05-17 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hallo Jim! Am Don, 17 Mai 2001, schrieb Jim McCloskey: Edit /etc/networking/interfaces to include a line: iface lo inet loopback I have this line there. Seems that on boot it is not automatically configured. You'll need to bring the interfaces up again with ipup, I imagine, Mh, yes

Re: samba - swat - problem

2001-05-17 Thread Willi Dyck
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:18:36PM +0200, Dieter Schicker wrote: Hello, I just installed Samba 2.2.0 and Swat on my potato machine. When I try to access swat by typing http://localhost:901;, the browser says The connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost:901. So, I don't

galeon - skipstone?

2001-05-17 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:31:14AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: triggered. i have found mozilla 0.9 + galeon 0.10.6 to be the most stable (and *fast*) combo yet. Have you tried skipstone? It feels slightly faster, I'm uncertain about the relative stability though. Sadly it lacks some eye-candy

Re: X hangs in mysterious ways

2001-05-17 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Kevin Ross wrote: I am running Sid with XFree86 4.0.3-3 on Linux 2.4.4. My predicament, you see, is that my X server seems to hang the machine whenever it fancies. I have maximum uptimes of about 15 to 20 minutes of usage. If I don't touch my X server, it's fine.

Re: [users] Re: motherboard info

2001-05-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:56:06PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: also sprach Dimitri Maziuk (on Wed, 16 May 2001 06:56:47PM -0500): In that case I don't see any other option but to go and _carefully_ open the fscker. With a flashlight and good eyesight you will find whatever info the manufacturer

rsync - Problem

2001-05-17 Thread The DeviceRider
Hallo ! Ich habe mir die Pseudo-image-Dateien heruntergeladen und möchte nun den rsync - Befehl ausführen. Jedoch gebe ich nicht den richtigen CD-Image rsync - Server an. Ich kann auch nicht das debian-CD - Verzeichnis auf irgendwelchen mirror-Seiten finden. Ich bitte um Hilfe. Danke

What every retailer should know

2001-05-17 Thread MaD dUCK
Microsoft Windows has better security than Linux it's absolutely hilarious, just about like everything that comes out of the redmond circus. the original is at http://www.microsoft.com/europe/industry/downloads/ retail/Linux%20report.doc but because that's about 600% the size of the

bootable utility cd

2001-05-17 Thread Charles Lewis
How do you create a bootable linux cd image, similar to the partimage bootcd, but with a custom kernel (especially with the ability to do a mount on a remote filesystem, such as NFS) along with any number of desired utilities (such as partimage, parted, rsync, etc)? I know that partimage uses a

Re: What every retailer should know

2001-05-17 Thread Willi Dyck
Linux is less secure Open source means that anyone can get a copy of the source code. Developers can find security weaknesses very easily with Linux. The same is not true with Microsoft Windows. Damn! How can I protect my Business now? I think I will switch to windows just to be sure my data is

Re: [users] Re: What every retailer should know

2001-05-17 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Willi Dyck (on Thu, 17 May 2001 06:37:42PM +0200): Linux is less secure Open source means that anyone can get a copy of the source code. Developers can find security weaknesses very easily with Linux. The same is not true with Microsoft Windows. Damn! How can I protect my

Filesystem flag toggle ???

2001-05-17 Thread V.Suresh
If I have mounted /usr as ro, and I want to change it to rw while running, how do I do it? -V.Suresh. Sureshvatusersdotsourceforgedotnet Http://www16.brinkster.com/vsuresh -- ---Powered by Debian Potato--- 7:23pm up 5:44, 5 users, load

what is portmap?

2001-05-17 Thread V.Suresh
What is the portmap process meant for? Shall I safely update-rc.d remove it? -V.Suresh. Sureshvatusersdotsourceforgedotnet Http://www16.brinkster.com/vsuresh -- ---Powered by Debian Potato--- 8:10pm up 3 min, 2 users, load

Re: What every retailer should know

2001-05-17 Thread Frank Zimmermann
MaD dUCK wrote: Microsoft Windows has better security than Linux it's absolutely hilarious, just about like everything that comes out of the redmond circus. the original is at http://www.microsoft.com/europe/industry/downloads/ retail/Linux%20report.doc but because that's about

Anacron message

2001-05-17 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 suddenly i'm getting the following email from anacron: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: wn:32 { expected after log file name(s) run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1 anybody know what i need to do to fix this? - -- )

XFree86 4.0.x tdfx DRI

2001-05-17 Thread Ian Eure
has anyone out there been able to get DRI working properly with XFree86 4.0.x and a 3dfx board? it _seems_ to work, but framerates are low... not at low as with software rendering, but low. i also get horrible flicker when polygons are redrawn. i was told that installing libglide3 would help -

Re: XFree86 4.0.x tdfx DRI

2001-05-17 Thread Andrei Ivanov
has anyone out there been able to get DRI working properly with XFree86 4.0.x and a 3dfx board? it _seems_ to work, but framerates are low... not at low as with software rendering, but low. i also get horrible flicker when polygons are redrawn. i was told that installing libglide3 would

Re: [users] Re: What every retailer should know

2001-05-17 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Frank Zimmermann (on Thu, 17 May 2001 05:53:40PM +0100): not really the lastest news. Suse already respondet at the 11.05. (sorry only fond a german version: http://www.suse.de/de/news/hotnews/MS.html ) and the OpenSource Community responded recently to this:

Want to set up Dual Boot (sort of)

2001-05-17 Thread Jim Darrough
Hello. I have an Athlon 650 with 128M of memory, Voodoo 3 PCI and a Viewsonic E771 monitor. I would like to add an additional 30g hard drive and set it up as a Debian-only drive, booting from a floppy. Unfortunately I still require Windows on this machine, but want to experiment with Debian

woody upgrade

2001-05-17 Thread Chris Parker
Newbie here. Just upgraded potato to woody 2.4.4 kernel for i810 support. Could anyone tell me where to find out how to get kernel 2.4.4 to go into lilo and how to get X back up and goin. Either man pages or how-to , possibly some feed back? ??? Thanks for any help!

Re: galeon crashes when running as user

2001-05-17 Thread christophe barbé
I've rebuild the package of mozilla from the Takuo Kitame source with the following patch in the upstream/patches/ sub-directory, It compiles well and the bug seems to disapear. The patch is the one posted by Tommi Komulainen in which I have change the path according to what is expected by the

What's the current best printing arrangement? (HP P1000)

2001-05-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Hi, I've been using a combination of magicfilter and lpr (and now lprng), for a long time to print to inkjet printers. Today I tried a new HP photosmart P1000 printer at work and searched for the best way to make it work. Using magicfilter from testing/unstable, I pick the dj550c filter but it

Re: what is portmap?

2001-05-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:11:25PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: What is the portmap process meant for? Shall I safely update-rc.d remove it? If you're not using NFS or NIS then you can safely remove it. Those are the 2 main services that need it. Don't use update-rc.d remove, though.

Re: Want to set up Dual Boot (sort of)

2001-05-17 Thread Anthony Lau
At 10:08 AM -0700 5/17/2001, Jim Darrough wrote: I have an Athlon 650 with 128M of memory, Voodoo 3 PCI and a Viewsonic E771 monitor. I would like to add an additional 30g hard drive and set it up as a Debian-only drive, booting from a floppy. Unfortunately I still require Windows on this machine,

Console keyboard mapping

2001-05-17 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hi list ! Some time ago, during an apt-get upgrade in testing, I've lost my swiss-french keyboard layout for the console. I am not able to get it back :( It seems that kbdconfig has disappeared in utils/kbd from woody. What's the alternative ? Thanks for your help Dominique

Re: What every retailer should know

2001-05-17 Thread D-Man
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:19:38PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: I am a software engineering student. The funniest part of the article, for me, is this paragraph : Limited Developer Tools There are limited developer tools available for Linux. Those that are available are much more difficult to use

tomcat for potato?

2001-05-17 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Are there any avaliable debs of Jakarta Tomcat for Potato? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r3 __

Re: What every retailer should know

2001-05-17 Thread Eric Richardson
D-Man wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:19:38PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: I am a software engineering student. The funniest part of the article, for me, is this paragraph : Limited Developer Tools There are limited developer tools available for Linux. Those that are available are

Re: Console keyboard mapping

2001-05-17 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:00:41PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: Some time ago, during an apt-get upgrade in testing, I've lost my swiss-french keyboard layout for the console. I am not able to get it back :( It seems that kbdconfig has disappeared in utils/kbd from woody. What's the

debconf problem

2001-05-17 Thread Viljo Marrandi
Greetings, I have following problem - some time ago i was upgragding some parts of 2.2 system and apparently screwed something really up. When i try to install some new packages that require debconf i get error (at the end of message), btw. i get same error when trying to install debconf too. I

Re: [users] Re: What every retailer should know

2001-05-17 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach D-Man (on Thu, 17 May 2001 02:11:46PM -0400): Limited Developer Tools There are limited developer tools available for Linux. Those that are available are much more difficult to use than Microsoft Visual Studio. Thus, the same application can take much longer to develop for

Re: galeon - skipstone?

2001-05-17 Thread Francois Gouget
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Tommi Komulainen wrote: [...] Hmm, now how on earth can I get all my cookies and bookmarks shared among all (mozilla, galeon, skipstone, konqueror, w3m) browsers..? Import/Export is really not an option anymore :-/ I can't help for cookies. But for bookmarks, I long ago

Re: Want to set up Dual Boot (sort of)

2001-05-17 Thread Michael B. Taylor
Call me a rebel, or whatever, but I prefer not to put lilo in the harddrive boot sector on a machine that will dual (duel :P) boot with MS. I prefer to let MS have its way with the boots sector, an boot Linux with a lilo floppy, backed up by a spare lilo floppy and a rescue disk. Here is why:

Re: galeon - skipstone?

2001-05-17 Thread Glyn Millington
One of the many obvious tricks I would never have discovered for myself - many thanks from an eavesdropper! Glyn -- so here we are then http://members.tripod.co.uk/Christchurch2000uk Running Debian/Gnu Linux

staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
Hi, is there any staroffice package available from debian? thank you

vpn

2001-05-17 Thread Petteri Heinonen
Hello. I've set up a pptp VPN using poptop. VPN server is in out campus network, and everything works fine if I'm connecting to server from machine _in_ our campus network. However, if i try to connect from my home machine which is outside the campus, I can't connect. pptpd gives following

Re: [users] Re: What every retailer should know

2001-05-17 Thread D-Man
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:36:07PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: | also sprach D-Man (on Thu, 17 May 2001 02:11:46PM -0400): | | Limited Developer Tools | | There are limited developer tools available for Linux. Those that are | available are much more difficult to use than Microsoft Visual

RE: shutdown -r now won't work

2001-05-17 Thread Brett
I didn't manually touch the initctl file but I just checked the timestamp and it was altered right about the time I did the kernel recompile. Is this initctl unique to each system? If not, I was thinking of just copying one over from a machine that does shutdown properly. Should I refrain?

Re: Want to set up Dual Boot (sort of)

2001-05-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
Another way to dual-boot (MS-based, not sure about ME) without messing with the boot sector is to set up a menu in config.sys and have it use loadlin to boot Linux. Of course, after a few years of this I bit the bullet and now only boot Linux (I do have Win4Lin and VMware to run Windows apps when

Re: galeon - skipstone?

2001-05-17 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:39:46AM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote: I can't help for cookies. But for bookmarks, I long ago decided to write an html file with all by bookmarks and use it as my home page. At the time I did it to share them between IE and Netscape but the principle is universal.

Re: XFree86 4.0.x tdfx DRI

2001-05-17 Thread Ian Eure
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Andrei Ivanov wrote: Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 12:05:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Andrei Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ian Eure [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0.x tdfx DRI has anyone out there been able to get DRI working properly with

Re: galeon - skipstone?

2001-05-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:39:46AM -0700, Francois Gouget ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2001, Tommi Komulainen wrote: [...] Hmm, now how on earth can I get all my cookies and bookmarks shared among all (mozilla, galeon, skipstone, konqueror, w3m) browsers..? Import/Export is

Documentacion sobre el enrorno grafico

2001-05-17 Thread Alvaro Martinez
Hola todos: alguien me podria decir donde puedo encontrar documentacion acerca de las Xwindow

Re: tomcat for potato?

2001-05-17 Thread Ralf Batri
On Don, Mai 17, 2001 at 08:27:22 +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: Are there any avaliable debs of Jakarta Tomcat for Potato? -- I did a search a while ago and failed after 2 days. So if you find some, please let me know ! Greetz Ralf Ralf Batri e-mail:

Re-installing everything.

2001-05-17 Thread Stephen J . Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, What is the best way of reinstalling all the packages on my system. I was thinking along the lines of apt-get install --reinstall, but it does not seem to work. Suggestions anyone? Thanks. Stephen. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: X hangs in mysterious ways

2001-05-17 Thread Kevin Ross
What's funny is that VESA comes up right, it detects my card beautifully; but then it complains that there aren't any screens. Sounds like it can't find a matching resolution and refresh rate. The VESA driver is limited in what resolutions and refresh rates it will support. In Section

Re: galeon - skipstone?

2001-05-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:24:01PM +0300, Tommi Komulainen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hmm, now that I started thinking about it, a lot of browser configuration could be collected in one place. How many times have you cursed at the different default fonts in different browsers? Or the proxy

Re: [users] Re: What every retailer should know

2001-05-17 Thread Willi Dyck
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:45:35PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: because obviously, if only micro$oft can look at the code, then noone else can find bugs *and* micro$oft has complete control over security. M$ is always good for a joke. Probaly a new tip for will trillich for his random signature:

Re: What's the current best printing arrangement? (HP P1000)

2001-05-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: I've been using a combination of magicfilter and lpr (and now lprng), for a long time to print to inkjet printers. Today I tried a new HP photosmart P1000 printer at work and searched for the best way to make it work. Using magicfilter from testing/unstable, I pick the dj550c

USB on Debian GNU/Linux Potato

2001-05-17 Thread Eddy Young
Hi, I have a Mustek 1200 UB USB scanner. How can I get it to work with Debian 2.2r2? I have successfully installed the USB module and it is loading correctly upon booting. I suspect that the appropriate device has not been created in /dev, but I don't know what it is supposed to be called. I

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread b3
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:57:37PM +0100, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: Hi, is there any staroffice package available from debian? StarOffice is cost-free commercial software that (AFAIK) isn't packaged for Debian. You can download it from Sun, however, and it does work under Debian. The install can

Re: USB on Debian GNU/Linux Potato

2001-05-17 Thread Kevin Ross
Did you install the Mustek backend driver? There's info at: http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/scanners.html#1200UB Also, if you do: $ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices you should see your scanner listed. There's info in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/usb/scanner.txt about creating the device node

Re: Documentacion sobre el enrorno grafico

2001-05-17 Thread DvB
On 17 May 2001 21:38:33 +0200, Alvaro Martinez wrote: Hola todos: alguien me podria decir donde puedo encontrar documentacion acerca de las Xwindow Translation: could somebody tell me where I can find documentation on Xwindows

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread Andrew D Dixon
b3 wrote: The install can be a bit tricky - make sure you run the installer first as root with /net, as this will do a network install - then switch to a normal user and run the installer to get the user stuff going. I just installed it today with out doing this. I just ran the installer

Debian Distro on Floppies?

2001-05-17 Thread Ken Clarke
Hi, I'm trying to find a Linux Distro that can still be obtained for floppy installation. Yes I know about just hooking up a CD-ROM drive, a modem, or a null-modem connection to this ancient machine I'm working with. I've been getting razzed by my LUG for wanting to do this the old

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread Kevin Ross
What's going to be broken because I didn't do a network install? If you're the only user who will be using it, nothing. If you have more than one user on your computer that will be using it, then you will have to do another install for that user, and that will take up a lot of disk space. A

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread p
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:07:58PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: b3 wrote: The install can be a bit tricky - make sure you run the installer first as root with /net, as this will do a network install - then switch to a normal user and run the installer to get the user stuff going. I

Re: Emacs sends mail, but doesn't show-up in exim.

2001-05-17 Thread Robert Cymbala
On Mon, 14 May 2001 at 11:38:48 -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: [snip] Try sending a message to a both to a disappearing and non-disappearing address. The disappearing address, after delivery, should show up with a D in the mailq output, while the non-disappearing address prevents the mail from

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
okay thanks every one for all the advise. I have just donwloaded the complete instalation file ( all the 97 megas) and will istall. I thougth about that when tried to find the package in dselect; I was just trying to make sure that there wasnt an easier/clean way to install. regards

Backup schecduling

2001-05-17 Thread Miquel Mart?n L?pez
Hi all, I am trying to decide on backup schecduling and have several things in mind. My system is on a main hard disk, and backups are made by copying this HD to another (equal sized) one. Now, the point is I have one main HD and 2 backup HD, and have two criteria: a) Backup every one or two

Can't load agpgart module

2001-05-17 Thread Bas van der Peet
When trying to load the agpgart module insmod gives the following error message: couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for I'm running testing with a 2.4.2 kernel Any help on how to fix this or pointers to documentation would be appreciated. Thanks, Bas

Unidentified subject!

2001-05-17 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
hello. I just found and old plotter HP 7470A in the middle of old scrap. Every information on how to set this to work under linux will be apreciated. Meanwhile I will make some search.. thank you J.A.Serralheiro

Apple G4 with MacOS 9.1 unable to connect to Debian 2.2 box

2001-05-17 Thread Cleto Pescia
Hello, I've run into a weird problem trying to have a PowerMac G4 with MacOS 9.1 connect to a Debian Linux 2.2 box (kernel 2.2.18). A friend of mine has a small network of Macs, with several releases of MacOS, all connected to a Debian 2.2 box acting as firewall / IP masquerading server for

Re: Emacs sends mail, but doesn't show-up in exim.

2001-05-17 Thread Mark Baker
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:42:04PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote: 3. ``man exim_tidydb'' It is suggested that it be run periodically on all three databases, but at a quiet time of day, ... Now there's just one question remaining in my mind... is Debian configured to run exim_tidydb

Re: Debian Distro on Floppies?

2001-05-17 Thread freedman
On Thu, May 17, 2001, Ken Clarke wrote: Hi, I'm trying to find a Linux Distro that can still be obtained for floppy installation. Yes I know about just hooking up a CD-ROM drive, a modem, or a null-modem connection to this ancient machine I'm working with. I've been getting razzed by

Re: What's the current best printing arrangement? (HP P1000)

2001-05-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:27:23PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Now I know what to do! (But it wasn't obvious!) Agreed. The cups postinstall should point you to localhost:631 to find docs. So I configured it and ran a test page. Works. I then printed a colour graph I had just printed

smbfs crashes after inactivity

2001-05-17 Thread Robert Hawkey
I know this probably isn't the best list for this question but... We've got several machines set up in our office running Debian, RedHat and Slackware Linux that all mount a share on our Windows 2000 server. If any of the machines don't use the share for longer than a half hour or so Samba

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:07:58PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: I just installed it today with out doing this. I just ran the installer from a directory that I created in my home directory. I've only tried the word processor out so far but it works great. What's going to be broken because

My Dilemma w/ ssh

2001-05-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I have a little problem w/ ssh. Me and a few other folks started a free web- hosting company, and I'm supposed to be the sysadmin. The server's at someone elses house, so I am supposed to ssh in. For some reason, it always says that the connection is refused (or something along those

Re: [users] My Dilemma w/ ssh

2001-05-17 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Cameron Matheson (on Thu, 17 May 2001 04:42:19PM -0600): I have a little problem w/ ssh. Me and a few other folks started a free web- hosting company, and I'm supposed to be the sysadmin. The server's at someone elses house, so I am supposed to ssh in. For some reason, it always

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Friday 18 May 2001 00:07, Andrew D Dixon wrote: b3 wrote: The install can be a bit tricky - make sure you run the installer first as root with /net, as this will do a network install - then switch to a normal user and run the installer to get the user stuff going. I just installed it

Wave Splicer

2001-05-17 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
Does anyone know of a good wave file splicing uitility? I have a book-on-cd and all the tracks are a minute long, and I'd like to find a way to easily combine all the wave files into one. By the way, using cat to put them together does not result in a valid wave file. -- Jonathan Daugherty

Re: Want to set up Dual Boot (sort of)

2001-05-17 Thread Paul Mackinney
Multi-boot methods I've used: Note: In all cases, Windows boots from /dev/hda1 which is drive C, a primary partition and the active partition. If you want to do something else, I wish you well but you are needlessly complicating your life. In the event of multiple Windows systems, each should

Re: smbfs crashes after inactivity

2001-05-17 Thread Rich Puhek
One question/suggestion: Is samba running from inetd or as a standalone server? That's probably not directly applicable to your situation (now that I fully read your email...), but may not hurt. My W2K memory is fuzzy, but I recall that W2K is setup to time out and essentially disconnect from

Re: Filesystem flag toggle ???

2001-05-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:24:19PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: If I have mounted /usr as ro, and I want to change it to rw while running, how do I do it? mount -o remount,rw /usr -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpa7yqyNdnSw.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: [users] My Dilemma w/ ssh

2001-05-17 Thread Alex Strasheim
I'm having the same problem (can't login), and hosts.deny didn't solve it. I can't ssh to localhost either. I'm new to debian, and I'm just trying to get a usable system set up -- one that I can ssh into. I haven't figured out the package management system very well, so I dl'd and built my own

Re: galeon - skipstone?

2001-05-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:42:01PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: I've used this trick too. plug Galeons bookmark import/export utilities are pretty damned sweet though. /plug indeed, except for some reason it likes to put the mozilla export in .mozilla/default/Cache which is quite wrong...

Re: [users] My Dilemma w/ ssh

2001-05-17 Thread Eric Richardson
Alex Strasheim wrote: I'm having the same problem (can't login), and hosts.deny didn't solve it. I can't ssh to localhost either. I'm new to debian, and I'm just trying to get a usable system set up -- one that I can ssh into. I haven't figured out the package management system very

Re: Debian Distro on Floppies?

2001-05-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:11:12PM -0400, Ken Clarke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I'm trying to find a Linux Distro that can still be obtained for floppy installation. Yes I know about just hooking up a CD-ROM drive, a modem, or a null-modem connection to this ancient machine I'm working

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