RE: connecting through a proxy

2001-05-07 Thread Jason P. Holland
i always set my shell environment variables http_proxy and ftp_proxy and it works for apt-get. not sure about the behavior of exim and fetchmail though. jason Hello gurus. Can anybody point to where I can find information about configuring apt-get, fetchmail, and exim to connect through a

RE: Installing Windows2K and Red Hat

2001-04-12 Thread Jason P. Holland
First, install windows 2000. then, install redhat, placing lilo in the root partition, not the mbr. then use bootpart to add linux to the windows 2000 boot manager. http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm jason Hello Debian User's, I know I am using Red Hat and Not Debian, but does somebody

RE: telnetd slow to respond

2001-04-05 Thread Jason P. Holland
This is normally associated with DNS problems. check and make sure you have /etc/resolv.conf setup correctly. Also, if you need a static entry or two, add them to /etc/hosts. Jason I'm having difficulty telnetting into my system. It appears that I get a connection right away, but it takes

RE: Error compiling kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-28 Thread Jason P. Holland
have you upgraded all the necessary packages as listed in /usr/src/linux-2.4.2/Documentation/Changes?? it looks like binutils is not up to date. Jason you will need to replace all occurences of -oformat in the Makefile in /usr/src/linux-2.4.2/arch/i386/boot with --oformat HTH Vinh *

RE: deleting specific files

2001-03-23 Thread Jason P. Holland
find /dir -name *.doc -exec rm -rf {} \; Jason Hi debianers! I need to delete a bunch of files, all of them of the form *.doc, scattered into several subdirectories inside a given directory. What should I do? (a couple of month ago I posted a similar email, but unfortunatly I

RE: ppp configuration problem

2001-03-22 Thread Jason P. Holland
If you manually add a route to the gateway on your subnet of the ip address your assigned, use a x.x.x.1 address, does it work? Jason I am having difficulty getting my modem to communicate correctly with my ISP. The problem is that once connected I do not get a route or gateway that allows

RE: How do I get Linux?

2001-03-21 Thread Jason P. Holland
go to http://www.cheapbytes.com and buy a debian cd. they are cheap and very convenient if you don't have a high speed connection to do a network install over the internet. plus, if your new to linux, having a cd around to do a quick reinstall is always nice! ;) Jason -Original

RE: A SSH question.

2001-03-14 Thread Jason P. Holland
Perhaps you should try using the -P option, which will use a non-privileged port for outgoing connections. Jason I understand that this is not a Debian specific question but I'm hoping someone out there will be kind and explain this one in short easy to understand words. :) I'm trying to ssh

RE: man missing !

2001-03-13 Thread Jason P. Holland
Yeah, the man command itself is not in your path. was it working before? $ whereis man and add that to your path. Jason -Original Message- From: franck routier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of franck routier Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 9:53 AM To:

Re: Digital Camera to Linux

2001-03-12 Thread Jason P Holland
have you looked into gphoto?? www.gphoto.org it seems to have support for your camera. Jason -Original Message- From: hammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: User Debian debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, March 12, 2001 10:09 PM Subject: Digital Camera to Linux

RE: Overnight clock problems?

2001-02-14 Thread Jason P Holland
do you have apm installed?? i had it on my laptop, and it would restore the time in gmt, which was about 5 hours off. it took me a while to figure it out. it was kinda a stupid thing. maybe that is it, maybe its not. sure sounds weird if its not. if you think its cron, go into /var/messages

RE: compile error with 2.4.1-1

2001-02-12 Thread Jason P Holland
What version of gcc are you running? what steps have you taken? Did you do a make mrproper menuconfig dep clean bzImage modules?? I've compiled the 2.4 series on potato and woody and never seen this. Have you upgraded all the necessary packages mentioned in

RE: please help-woddy upgrade.

2001-02-12 Thread Jason P Holland
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.htm l the steps have been documented already. though they are for potato, they work for woody as well. Jason I want to upgrade my Potato box to woody, wich is in testing I believe. Could someone be nice enough to

RE: perl - cpan

2001-02-09 Thread Jason P Holland
cpan, if you have it installed. brain farts are not good. Jason what is the command to connect to CPAN to down load modules...I've had a brain fart and can't remember wayne