Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:38:37PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > Evolution: No comment other than lots of eye candy and resource demands. Several like it. It and its brethren nautilus are just to resource intensive for my old hardware. > Mahogany: No idea. > Aethera: No idea.

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-23 Thread Timothy R. Butler
> I was using RedHat 7.2 for a while and I actually liked the KDE setup, > although a bit heavy weight. But I also like how light-weight of a setup I > now have with Debian. (I suppose I'll need a desktop environment at some > point.) You might give KDE 2.2.2 (from unstable) a try. It feels m

Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-23 Thread Bill Moseley
My head is swimming a bit trying to limit my choices of mail clients to test. I'm wondering if someone can help narrow my choices. Background: Like many, I'm coming from a Windows environment. I've got three linux machines under my desk and for a year now I've booted Win98 used basically only br

Re: make-kpkg with -j switch?

2002-02-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Richard" == Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> Is it possible to have make-kpkg supply the -j switch to Richard> make? I've got a dual-processor machine, and I'd love to Richard> build the kernel with `-j 2'. KERNEL-PKG.CONF(5) Debian GNU/Linux manual KERNEL-PKG.CONF(5)

Re: access to IP address for a machine on inet behind a firewall?

2002-02-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:33:40 +1000 Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4 machines in my classroom are attached to a private IP LAN, which is > attached through a gateway to the Inet. I can FTP and so forth from > these machines, but I cannot access them directly through the IP > addresses

Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-23 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 03:41:43PM +1300, Cameron Kerr wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, will trillich wrote: > >there's probably something simple that's wrong here, but my > >3c509 connection won't cooperate no my potato system. it'll > >respond only to self-pings; no other traffic seems to get in or

Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-23 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 07:40:45PM -0200, Rafael Sasaki wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:30:28PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ifdown eth0 ; ifup eth0 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ifconfig eth0 > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:8C:82:CF:3B > > inet add

Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-23 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 03:28:42PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 14:30:28 -0600, will trillich wrote: > >there's probably something simple that's wrong here, but my > >3c509 connection won't cooperate no my potato system. it'll > >respond only to self-pings; no other traffic seems

access to IP address for a machine on inet behind a firewall?

2002-02-23 Thread Alan E . Davis
4 machines in my classroom are attached to a private IP LAN, which is attached through a gateway to the Inet. I can FTP and so forth from these machines, but I cannot access them directly through the IP addresses I have been assigned. I want to set up a web server and also to have access to th

Re: 233 MHz CPU system - Debian and SO 5.2 question

2002-02-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 01:42:21 +0100 Andreas von Heydwolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 00:22:01 +0100 Andreas von Heydwolff <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [big snip] > I looked at Sylpheed and liked it the other day, is it already stable > en

xlib updating problem

2002-02-23 Thread Charles Blair
I have version 2.2 of Debian, running on a laptop. I recenty tried using dpkg to install the version of xlibs in "testing" and got the messages: > dpkg: considering removing xlib6g in favour of xlibs ... > dpkg: no, cannot remove xlib6g (--auto-deconfigure will help): > aalib1 depends on xlib

Re: Using the "menu" system

2002-02-23 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi, > I am now finishing my un-glade-ization (I cannot work on code I don't > understand =P and glade confuses my head)... I'll start working on the > real issues soon (like avoiding the program edition of /usr/lib/menu/ > files directly) that seems to be a great effort, but It is doable.. =)

Re: Using the "menu" system

2002-02-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 18:59:44 -0300 Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI, I managed to build menudrake without gtk+mdk and am now working > on hacking it to work correctly on Debian systems... I'll probably fork() > it to menudeb, instead of menudrake as I think I don't want to ma

chkconfig --add equivalent

2002-02-23 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Okay, I'm swinging on thin rope here, but I'm looking at a line that says: chkconfig --add fwconfig on 467 of Mann's and Mitchell's LSS book (where fwconfig is a setup script) and it says this is supposed to put in all the nice startup and kill connections in your rc*.d and init.d directo

Re: 233 MHz CPU system - Debian and SO 5.2 question

2002-02-23 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 23 February 2002 19:59, dman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:22:01AM +0100, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: > | Am fed up with Windows on a single workstation in a small non-profit > | organization, used mainly for word processing and mailing. This weekend > | I have to reinstall the O

Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-23 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, will trillich wrote: > >[didn't get any response on this last time -- i'm reposting with >a new subject line hoping to get some assistance... thanks] > >there's probably something simple that's wrong here, but my >3c509 connection won't cooperate no my potato system. it'll >re

How to use the Linux Progress Patch (Splash Screen)?

2002-02-23 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi everyone, Has anyone here tried the Linux Progress Patch on a recent 2.4.x-series kernel? I was thinking about getting a little eye candy for my boot messages, but I can't seem to find LPP for anything newer than Linux 2.4.2 (I'm runing 2.4.17). I tried applying the old patch to the new ker

update problem

2002-02-23 Thread Seneca Cunningham
I just did my semi-frequent update of my system. Because of a hardware problem, I currently rely upon floppies to do all of my file transfers (the affected system has not connected to another system since 5 years or so), so I can only do a large transfer every couple of weeks or so. Before I could

Re: Help installing Jitterbug tracking system

2002-02-23 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Kapil Khosla wrote: > Hi, We are trying to install Jitterbug tracking system on our system but > have problems in Step 6 on the INSTALL file , It says > Is there some reason you are not just doing apt-get install jitterbug? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's a girl

Re: mozilla and vnc

2002-02-23 Thread Matt Garman
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 01:27:26AM +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:13:09PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > > However, mozilla is a bit strange: it will load, and the window will > > be created, but the content of the window is entirely black! xrefresh > > doesn't do anything.

Re: CD-RW as user; newbie question.

2002-02-23 Thread Barry Mathieu
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Re: 233 MHz CPU system - Debian and SO 5.2 question

2002-02-23 Thread dman
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:22:01AM +0100, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: | Am fed up with Windows on a single workstation in a small non-profit | organization, used mainly for word processing and mailing. This weekend | I have to reinstall the OS, data are on a second HDD since the last | major cr

Re: 233 MHz CPU system - Debian and SO 5.2 question

2002-02-23 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 00:22:01 +0100 Andreas von Heydwolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am fed up with Windows on a single workstation in a small non-profit organization, used mainly for word processing and mailing. This weekend I have to reinstall the OS, data are on a second

Re: Newbie install help

2002-02-23 Thread dman
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 08:18:43PM +, Stephano Mariani wrote: | I have access to a computer with a fast net connection (DSL 2Mbit), | would it be possible for me to download and burn these CDs rather than | buying them? If so, could you please tell me where I could get them? http://cdimage.deb

Re: Newbie install help

2002-02-23 Thread dman
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 12:58:47PM -0500, Faheem Mitha wrote: | I'd use grub. Easy to use, but be careful to modify menu.lst before you | reboot; If you don't, it is no problem. Just enter the "command line" mode at boot time and enter the info. That way you can boot and after booting record t

Re: 233 MHz CPU system - Debian and SO 5.2 question

2002-02-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 00:22:01 +0100 Andreas von Heydwolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am fed up with Windows on a single workstation in a small non-profit > organization, used mainly for word processing and mailing. This weekend > I have to reinstall the OS, data are on a second HDD since the l

Re: apt-get grade have problem, please help

2002-02-23 Thread dman
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 11:37:28AM -0500, eric wrote: | Dear Debian users: | | When I apt-get upgrade, I meet the following error: | | Selecting previously deselected package bind9-host. | Unpacking bind9-host (from .../bind9-host_1%3a9.2.0-4_i386.deb) ... | dpkg: error processing | /var/cach

Re: CD-RW as user; newbie question.

2002-02-23 Thread csj
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 14:44:41 -0500 (EST) Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something, but there is already a group called cdrom, > and my impression is that is group is intended for writing operations to > cds. > > faheem ~>ls -la /dev/scd0 > brw-rw1 root

Re: Complied into debs please (Python/Emacs packagers take note)

2002-02-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 15:11:41 + Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:19:49PM +, Lazarus Long wrote: > > What is the point of pre-compiling C code before packaging it into > > .debs? If you can answer that, apply that answer to Python code. > > First off, in p

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Re: 233 MHz CPU system - Debian and SO 5.2 question

2002-02-23 Thread nate
> Would it make a difference in performance on the 233MHz MMX CPU and > 48Mb RAM system whether I choose potato or Woody? i cannot imagine any difference. 48MB ram for star office IMO is not enough. I wouldn't use it seriously unless I had at least 128MB ram, even then its slow. The slowest de

Re: archiving/deleting old messages in kmail

2002-02-23 Thread Simon Hepburn
Forgot to mention something important, kmail can only apply filters automatically to incoming and outgoing messages. You need to run this filter manually: click on mail folder edit|select all messages|apply filters Not ideal ...but acceptable. Simon. On Saturday 23 Feb 2002 6:30 pm, Simon Hep

Re: dh-client setup problems

2002-02-23 Thread hanasaki
See below for dpkg -l pump dhcp-client. Not sure what it means :| What are the pro/con of dhcp-client vs pump? dhcpcd is a dead tool? ii pump0.8.11-3 Simple DHCP/BOOTP client. pn dhcp-client

Re: [Fwd: PAM Critical error, but no logging]

2002-02-23 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Okay, (Doh!) it looks like I don't have the cracklib_dict.pwd file installed on the system where PAM doesn't work with cracklib. I've tried apt-get remove-ing and re-installing any crack-related packages I've been able to find using apt-cache, but still no *_dict.* files. I've also searched the o

233 MHz CPU system - Debian and SO 5.2 question

2002-02-23 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
Am fed up with Windows on a single workstation in a small non-profit organization, used mainly for word processing and mailing. This weekend I have to reinstall the OS, data are on a second HDD since the last major crash so it won't be too much trouble. I intend to make it dual boot with Debian

iproute, potato & error ???

2002-02-23 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Just installed iproute on a potato system (i.e., apt-get install iproute), which indicated: using .../iproute_991023-2_i386.deb There are no visible install errors and no other files were changed to support dependencies. However, when I try to use it: # ip addr show Can

Re: apt error

2002-02-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:21:31PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi. Sorry for all the re-postings. If anyone couldn't read any of the posts, > this was probably do to the fact I was using plain text instead of html. I > have changed the settings, and hope to have solved this problem. Anyway, my >

Re: dh-client setup problems

2002-02-23 Thread dman
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 01:25:48PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: | I put the below in my /etc/network/interfaces and presto! | | This seems to be running pump. What is dhclient.conf? What does dpkg -l pump dhcp-client report? If you have pump, it will be used. If you have dh-client (in package '

Re: Howto change ownership of device under devfs

2002-02-23 Thread dman
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 04:07:01PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: | On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:04:44PM -0600, Michael Heldebrant wrote: | > I created a file in the conf.d directory for my system that contains the | > following lines: | > | > REGISTER ^tts/0 PERMISSIONS root.nut 0660

Re: Exim in Woody

2002-02-23 Thread dman
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 04:38:15PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: | correct.. its built as root. I couldnt figure out how to build it to | run as mail. One of the problems is that exim needs to change it's UID for deliveries so that it uses the user's UID instead of 'mail' or 'root'. You can, however,

Re: archiving/deleting old messages in kmail

2002-02-23 Thread Simon Hepburn
Hi, I'm running sid, kmail 1.3.2, didn't realise woody was that far behind. I guess your options then are: a)wait for kmail 1.3.2 to make it into woody b)apt-get install kmail/unstable. I dont think the libkmid bug I mentioned in another post to debian-user today will prevent this. Have fun, Sim

Re: archiving/deleting old messages in kmail

2002-02-23 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Saturday 23 February 2002 05:38 pm, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > This is kmail 1.2 It might be a new option as of kmail 1.3, which is in unstable. You might consider upgrading -- I've found unstable to be much more stable than woody is/was.

Re: CD-RW as user; newbie question.

2002-02-23 Thread Caleb Shay
> The external SCSI CD-RW is attached to scd0, so I made that device > file a member or group, 'cdrw'. eg. > > brw-rw1 root cdrw 11, 0 Feb 2 23:16 /dev/scd0 > > I believe the driver /dev/sg* is needed, so I also made those dev files > a member of 'cdrw', eg. > > crw---

xlib upgrade problem

2002-02-23 Thread Charles Blair
I have version 2.2 of Debian, running on a laptop. I recenty tried using dpkg to install the version of xlibs in "testing" and got the messages: > dpkg: considering removing xlib6g in favour of xlibs ... > dpkg: no, cannot remove xlib6g (--auto-deconfigure will help): > aalib1 depends on xlib

Re: archiving/deleting old messages in kmail

2002-02-23 Thread Dougie Nisbet
I don't have that option. I'm up to date with kmail under woody. I've got Settings/Configuration, and Settings/Filter Rules. This is kmail 1.2 Dougie On Saturday 23 February 2002 6:30 pm, Simon Hepburn wrote: > Settings|Configure Filters > > Filter Criteria > is greater than XXX > > Filter Acti

Re: Exim in Woody

2002-02-23 Thread hanasaki
correct.. its built as root. I couldnt figure out how to build it to run as mail. So how do I get the one that runs as root to be able to auth. I think you just educated me that non-root apps cant auth against PAM? Tim Dijkstra wrote: hanasaki wrote: Does anyone have information as to wha

Re: Exim in Woody

2002-02-23 Thread Tim Dijkstra
hanasaki wrote: Does anyone have information as to what options this was built with? It does not seem to support PAM. I installed exim via apt-get and it could not authorize users to send mail. I built exim from source and it authenticated fine. Thanks You should be able to see it from

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Making my HaM modem work in Debian.

2002-02-23 Thread camilo
Hello, I just want to know if somebody could give me some links, advice, or anything else, in reference to making my Internal PCI Ambient HaM DataFax Winmodem work with Debian potato... I think its now Intel HaM, right? Well, any links, experiences are very much appreciated! thanks... Camilo

Re: dh-client setup problems

2002-02-23 Thread James Mayer
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:18:20PM -0500, Ayman Haidar wrote: > most cable providers authenticate based on either the MAC address of > the NIC or by setting up the host name. in the commented > /etc/dhclient.conf file there is some entries for both. uncomment the > apropriate ones and try again. I

upgrading potato to woody

2002-02-23 Thread Sam Varghese
Thank you Osamu Aoki for your go-woody script. Without it I would never have upgraded to woody until it became the stable release. It took 48 hours over a ppp connection - with nobody to hit a return key at times because I was away at work - but it worked. Thanks dman for your helpful posts - when

Re: Adding Groups

2002-02-23 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Rodney Agha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020221 18:47]: > What would be the procuder to add groups to user emails ? > how would you check for email groups? > for eg, on workstation using outlook, to : #allstaff ? You probably want an alias. The procedure for setting this up will be dependent on your MTA

Re: Using the "menu" system

2002-02-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 21:51:39 -0600 "Timothy R. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > h... anyone familiar with mandrake's repositories could get a download > > URL for this program's source? > > I put it up on my new Debian package page - > http://www.uninetsolutions.com/tbutler/linux/

Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-23 Thread Rafael Sasaki
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:30:28PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > there's probably something simple that's wrong here, but my > 3c509 connection won't cooperate no my potato system. it'll > respond only to self-pings; no other traffic seems to get in or > out. > > any pointers are appreciated -- he

Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-23 Thread Gary Turner
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 14:30:28 -0600, will trillich wrote: >[didn't get any response on this last time -- i'm reposting with >a new subject line hoping to get some assistance... thanks] > >there's probably something simple that's wrong here, but my >3c509 connection won't cooperate no my potato syst

Re: RAID 1 setup on woody

2002-02-23 Thread Richard Weil
One last question ... how can use the swap partitions on both /dev/hda8 and /dev/hdc8? I did _not_ put the swap partitions in a RAID setup. Should I simply list both swap partitions in /etc/fstab? Thanks. Richard --- Richard Weil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It took a little bit of experimenting,

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-23 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 12:14, Matthew Sackman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:30:53PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: [snip] > with it. I tried windowmaker for about a day and then came across xfce and > xfwm (www.xfce.org). Try it: I'm sure you'll like it. > > Have fun. I'm trying it now. The ov

syncing debian packages on two machines

2002-02-23 Thread Peter Kocks
Hi... new debian user here... I have a development debian box and production debian box and I want the packages installed on each synced. For the moment, I'm fine with the production box have the exact same packages installed as the development box. Unfortunately, I've used dselect on both machin

Re: Howto change ownership of device under devfs

2002-02-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:04:44PM -0600, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 22:14, mdevin wrote: > > I need to change the ownership of my 2nd serial port for nut to work > > properly with my ups. I am using devfs which is enabled at boot. > > > > I can set the ownership with a com

RE: Newbie install help

2002-02-23 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Stephano Mariani wrote: > I have access to a computer with a fast net connection (DSL 2Mbit), > would it be possible for me to download and burn these CDs rather than > buying them? If so, could you please tell me where I could get them? Actually, an even better way would b

RE: Newbie install help

2002-02-23 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Stephano Mariani wrote: > I have access to a computer with a fast net connection (DSL 2Mbit), > would it be possible for me to download and burn these CDs rather than > buying them? If so, could you please tell me where I could get them? I already gave you a link. http://ww

Re: RAID 1 setup on woody

2002-02-23 Thread Richard Weil
It took a little bit of experimenting, but the basic steps you laid out worked. Success! For anyone else who might want to try this, I found I had to do two things differently: 1. I had to use mkraid instead of raidstart to get the RAID devices working on /dev/hdc. 2. After copying root and /b

Re: Newbie install help

2002-02-23 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 08:18:43PM -, Stephano Mariani wrote: > I have access to a computer with a fast net connection (DSL 2Mbit), > would it be possible for me to download and burn these CDs rather than > buying them? If so, could you please tell me where I could get them? Two possibilities

any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-23 Thread will trillich
[didn't get any response on this last time -- i'm reposting with a new subject line hoping to get some assistance... thanks] there's probably something simple that's wrong here, but my 3c509 connection won't cooperate no my potato system. it'll respond only to self-pings; no other traffic seems to

Re: firewall: linux vs. freebsd

2002-02-23 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > i haven't heard much on people using > linux to do bridged stuff, so i didn't > investigate it when i made the decision, > i knew a lot of folks who used free/open > bsd for bridged networking. Apparently it can be done on Linux, with appropriate kern

RE: Newbie install help

2002-02-23 Thread Stephano Mariani
I have access to a computer with a fast net connection (DSL 2Mbit), would it be possible for me to download and burn these CDs rather than buying them? If so, could you please tell me where I could get them? Thanks, Paul > -Original Message- > From: Faheem Mitha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make-kpkg with -j switch?

2002-02-23 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, February 23, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry did write: > > On 23-Feb-2002 Richard Cobbe wrote: > > Hello, all. > > > > I've done a fair amount of searching on this topic, but a search key of > > -j confuses a lot of the search engines, so I've not been able to find a > > conclusive answer

Re: firewall: linux vs. freebsd

2002-02-23 Thread nate
> I love Linux, but I believe in > finding the best solution for a > problem. My question is not which OS > is better for a firewall, but which > one you would use (or do use). depends. is this a TRUE firewall or is it a FAKE firewall bywhich it does NAT ? if its a TRUE firewall, then i would

Re: sending a mail message to a new user when account has been created

2002-02-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 19:19, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > In your account creation script: > > > > cat README | mail -e -s "Subject of your message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Would /usr/local/sbin/adduser.local be an appropriate place to put this? > > Man adduser says " If the file /usr/local/sbin/addu

Re: CD-RW as user; newbie question.

2002-02-23 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 23 Feb 2002, Barry Mathieu wrote: > Hello, > > I have been been successful at hooking-up a external SCSI CD-RW and > using the following utilities as root: > > cdrecord > cdrdao > cdparanoia > > I would prefer user accessibility to these resources. > > In haste, I issued the following (accord

Re: 3c905c-TX-M hangs with much traffic (UPDATE)

2002-02-23 Thread nate
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > I removed a TV card, and all is left is the video card and the > network card, but still the same problem. i reccomend joining the 3c59x mailing list and posting there. this is a very common problem on eepro cards(im on the eepro mailing list), and

Re: dh-client setup problems

2002-02-23 Thread hanasaki
I put the below in my /etc/network/interfaces and presto! This seems to be running pump. What is dhclient.conf? cat /etc/network/interfaces -- # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface auto lo iface lo in

Re: Help installing Jitterbug tracking system

2002-02-23 Thread nate
> > but there is no /etc/httpd/auth/apache.auth in our machine ? Has > anyone else installed this bug tracking system or know of any other > which is easy to isntall and configure. i have installed it once, its pretty easy. your question is easy too. the instructions refer to a user file, which

Re: Connecting to Port 631 - THANKS

2002-02-23 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 23 February 2002 13:58, ben wrote: > On Saturday 23 February 2002 10:51 am, Bob Underwood wrote: > > I installed cups and kprint on a different machine and can't connect to > > localhost:631. The error message says: "Could not connect to host > > localhost (port 631)" > > [snip] > > ch

Re: sending a mail message to a new user when account has been created

2002-02-23 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 23 Feb 2002, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 18:42, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > > Dear People, > > > > I'm adminstering a small Debian system and I want to know how to > > automatically send new users a README in the form of an email when their > > account has been created. What w

Re: dh-client setup problems

2002-02-23 Thread Ayman Haidar
Once upon a time Stephen Nosal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Folks - > > I recently got Time Warner Road Runner installed. It seems to be a straight forward dhcp install but I'm having a problem getting dh-client running. I've manageed to make it work with the same box running NT, as we

Re: Connecting to Port 631

2002-02-23 Thread Ayman Haidar
Once upon a time Bob Underwood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I installed cups and kprint on a different machine and can't connect to > localhost:631. The error message says: "Could not connect to host localhost > (port 631)" > > /etc/services has these lines: > > ipp

Re: sending a mail message to a new user when account has been created

2002-02-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 18:42, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > Dear People, > > I'm adminstering a small Debian system and I want to know how to > automatically send new users a README in the form of an email when their > account has been created. What would be an elegant way of doing this? I > did a perfu

Re: Connecting to Port 631

2002-02-23 Thread ben
On Saturday 23 February 2002 10:51 am, Bob Underwood wrote: > I installed cups and kprint on a different machine and can't connect to > localhost:631. The error message says: "Could not connect to host > localhost (port 631)" > [snip] check the location section of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to see that

Help installing Jitterbug tracking system

2002-02-23 Thread Kapil Khosla
Hi, We are trying to install Jitterbug tracking system on our system but have problems in Step 6 on the INSTALL file , It says our system is Debian Woody 2.2.20 INSTALL file says: 6) Set up secure access to the jitterbug binary through your web server. I normally only setup authentication for PA

Connecting to Port 631

2002-02-23 Thread Bob Underwood
I installed cups and kprint on a different machine and can't connect to localhost:631. The error message says: "Could not connect to host localhost (port 631)" /etc/services has these lines: ipp 631/tcp #Internet Printing Protocol ipp 631/udp #Internet P

sending a mail message to a new user when account has been created

2002-02-23 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I'm adminstering a small Debian system and I want to know how to automatically send new users a README in the form of an email when their account has been created. What would be an elegant way of doing this? I did a perfunctory search for this in Google but didn't come up with anythi

Re: 3c905c-TX-M hangs with much traffic (UPDATE)

2002-02-23 Thread Sebastiaan
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > The other possibility is that it's sharing an interrupt with some > other card, and mobo can't handle it. Check /proc/interrupts and > try swapping cards and marking interrupts as "used by ISA" in BIOS.

apt-get grade have problem, please help

2002-02-23 Thread eric
Dear Debian users: When I apt-get upgrade, I meet the following error: Selecting previously deselected package bind9-host. Unpacking bind9-host (from .../bind9-host_1%3a9.2.0-4_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bind9-host_1%3a9.2.0-4_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to

Re: archiving/deleting old messages in kmail

2002-02-23 Thread Simon Hepburn
Settings|Configure Filters Filter Criteria is greater than XXX Filter Actions move to folder trash Simon Hepburn On Saturday 23 Feb 2002 5:25 pm, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > Is it possible to do this automatically? I've been using kmail for a while, > but now a lot of my folders are getting a bit b

Re: make-kpkg with -j switch?

2002-02-23 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 23 Feb 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Hello, all. > > I've done a fair amount of searching on this topic, but a search key of > -j confuses a lot of the search engines, so I've not been able to find a > conclusive answer here. > > Is it possible to have make-kpkg supply the -j switch to make?

upgrading debian 2.1

2002-02-23 Thread Rick Pasotto
I've got a machine on my local network that I've installed 2.1 on (I tried to install 2.2 from a cd on which I had burned a d/l iso but this machine can't read the cd. The machine I burned it on has no problem reading it.) Anyway, I installed apt and dpkg from the upgrade directory on the 2.2 cd b

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RE: Newbie install help

2002-02-23 Thread James McDonald
> > I have Windows 2000 (SP2) installed already, so ideally would like to > > dualboot. I have had some bad experiences with Linux installers > > overwriting the windows bootloader, how do I avoid this? > > i don't know if the win2k bootloader can boot linux, but lilo can boot > win2k. The Win2k

Re: Newbie install help

2002-02-23 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 23 Feb 2002, Paul McKinley wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to Debian Linux. I have a very slow internet access and its not > flat rate. How would I go about downloading the bare minimum in order to > get a Linux box to boot? My system is an AMD Athlon 1.33GHz, with 1GB > RAM. I need no sound, I

Re: Newbie install help

2002-02-23 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Paul! On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Paul McKinley wrote: > I am new to Debian Linux. I have a very slow internet access and its not > flat rate. How would I go about downloading the bare minimum in order to > get a Linux box to boot? My system is an AMD Athlon 1.33GHz, with 1GB > RAM. I need no sound,

Re: make-kpkg with -j switch?

2002-02-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Feb-2002 Richard Cobbe wrote: > Hello, all. > > I've done a fair amount of searching on this topic, but a search key of > -j confuses a lot of the search engines, so I've not been able to find a > conclusive answer here. > > Is it possible to have make-kpkg supply the -j switch to make? I

Re: Newbie install help

2002-02-23 Thread dman
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 05:30:43PM +, Paul McKinley wrote: | Hello, | | I am new to Debian Linux. I have a very slow internet access and its not | flat rate. How would I go about downloading the bare minimum in order to | get a Linux box to boot? Buy a set of CDs from somewhere. They are ver

rescue + driver discs

2002-02-23 Thread Medovarszky Zoltán
I've downloaded the custom udma66 install disk-set from debian's ftp. A cannat use the driver-x.bin files. If I dd them on a floppy, the install system cannot read it. Any ideas?

Re: application exits as 'Killed'

2002-02-23 Thread Simon Hepburn
Well I have not run testing for yonks but iirc most of the KDE probs are due to the curious mix of 2.1.x/2.2x that it contains. The solution appears to be to upgrade everything KDE to unstable. However. kde in unstable is presently uninstallable because libkmid depends on libglib1.3-12 which

Re: firewall: linux vs. freebsd

2002-02-23 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:18:03PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: | I am planning on building a firewall | here. There is a lot of hype about | Freebsd being great for firewalls, | and books regarding Linux firewalls. | | I love Linux, but I believe in | finding the best solution for a | problem.

Re: Help with printing

2002-02-23 Thread Cam Ellison
Thank you, Dima * Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > I have been trying to get my Canon BJC-4000 running, with no success. CUPS > cat somefile > /dev/lp0. Can you get your old dot-matrix printer > to work? If yes, I'd try rebuilding c

Re: firewire cards

2002-02-23 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Sheldon! On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Sheldon Lee-Wen wrote: > Does anyone know where I can find a list of compatible firewire cards for > linux? Or are they all the same? check at http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/hcl.php, the list is basen on chip and vendor, model. yours martin -- <[EMAIL PROT

Newbie install help

2002-02-23 Thread Paul McKinley
Hello, I am new to Debian Linux. I have a very slow internet access and its not flat rate. How would I go about downloading the bare minimum in order to get a Linux box to boot? My system is an AMD Athlon 1.33GHz, with 1GB RAM. I need no sound, I do need Ethernet drivers, my cards are Kingston KNE

archiving/deleting old messages in kmail

2002-02-23 Thread Dougie Nisbet
Is it possible to do this automatically? I've been using kmail for a while, but now a lot of my folders are getting a bit big and unmanagable. Can I configure kmail (woody) to delete all messages older than a certain number of days, or do I need to find an alternative way to do housekeeping? Wha

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