Testing CD-ROM contents

2001-09-10 Thread garyjones
I've just got a load of what look like CRC errors when trying to upgrade via CD-R. Is there a way of testing before trying to upgrade (deity knows what state my system is in at the moment - a mix of upgraded, non-upgraded, and broken things I suspect :-( )? Get your own FREE E-mail address at

Re: Upgrading from 2.1r4 to 2.2

2001-08-30 Thread garyjones
F Zimmermann wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Gary Jones wrote: what happens if one has packages which are later than what apt-get knows about. For example, I installed X from 2.1r4 but found it didn't support my video card, so installed a new copy of X from a tarball. Did you make your own .deb

Re: isdn dialup

2001-07-09 Thread garyjones
Am Sun, 08 July 2001 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Firstly what is a MSN/EAZ and how do i find mine? MSN = Multi-Subscriber Number. Your telco has given you three(?) numbers, you can use any one of those. How do i switch international dialing off? Don't know about this one without my own box

Re: : Installing INN

2001-07-06 Thread garyjones
I'm a really Debian-Newbie and wanna install INN. Before I used Suse and leafnode. However, my first question is where to put innd to start it at boot.time? The scrips are in /etc/ and the dirctories for the different runlevel (at the moment I'm sitting in front of a wiindoze:). Or in

Re: Using ISDN

2001-07-03 Thread garyjones
Am Tue, 03 July 2001 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: can anyone help me configure a: KYE/Genius SpeedSurfer PCI ISDN Card Mandrake 8.0 found it (HiSax or something?), If you read the isdnutils (also called isdn4linux, for reasons I have yet to work out) docs you will see that the HiSax driver

Ripping MP3s

2001-06-20 Thread garyjones
Can anyone recommend any package for creating mp3s from CDs (yes, I do own them :) under Debian? I tried searching the package list but there was nothing obvious, only players it seemed. For bonus points you might also like to recommend a sound card, as I'm not sure that mine (Yamaha WF192XG)

gdb (non-Debian specific)

2001-06-18 Thread garyjones
Sorry, this is a bit OT, but this is the only place I know where there are people who know their stuff so well. Does anyone know what sort of performance hit, if any, could be expected from one or more users running gdb on a multi-user system? Get your own FREE E-mail address at

gdb (non-Debian specific)

2001-06-18 Thread garyjones
Sorry, this is a bit OT, but this is the only place I know where there are people who know their stuff so well. Does anyone know what sort of performance hit, if any, could be expected from one or more users running gdb on a multi-user system? Get your own FREE E-mail address at

Re: How the average guy gets mail...

2001-05-09 Thread garyjones
Am Wed, 09 May 2001 schrieb Cameron Matheson: I've been using mail for the past month (or two), by running 'fetchmail ; mutt'. This is a *little* bit annoying, because I'd rather be able to get my mail and read it with one command. Is their a way to download mail, while in mutt? Ideally

Re: any women here?

2001-04-18 Thread garyjones
Am Wed, 18 April 2001 schrieb Deirdre Saoirse: On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote: Like most places in GNU/Linux land, and IT in general for that matter, the project (newbiedoc) isn't getting all the help that it needs because: the help of women is lacking. It's sad to see 1/2

Re: outgoing mail header address qyestion

2001-04-12 Thread garyjones
ktb wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:51:41PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently, I am using mutt to access my schools imap server. it's been working great now I have another email account (pop3) and I use fetchmail to retrive it. My problem is that whenever I reply my outgoing email

Re: SMTP transaction error

2001-04-05 Thread garyjones
Am Wed, 04 April 2001 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My problem is that fetchmail won't deliver. [...] I'm sure I've got some simple thing - as likely as not in another program such as exim - badly configured, and I'm sure someone out there can guess what it might be. Perhaps the following

Re: Debian + exim + procmail

2001-04-03 Thread garyjones
Am Mon, 02 April 2001 schrieb Noah L. Meyerhans: On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:09:14PM +0200, Gary Jones wrote: My .forward file is: |exec /usr/bin/procmail delete that, and all will be well Thanks, I will try that. I've also been told that in standard configuration exim

Re: [OT]Can someone help me understand these mail headers?

2001-03-01 Thread garyjones
At Thu, 1 Mar 2001 07:02:19 +0100 , Dietmar Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:28:08PM -0500, Jonathan Lupa wrote: Is this just some random happenstance that they set the From: header for the dns server for my ISP? The From:-part didn't have a domain part, I guess.

Re: [OT] mutt colors vs. TERM types

2001-03-01 Thread garyjones
At Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:22:16 -0600 , will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:25:21PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: i did? hmm! i sent it to debian-user, and maybe it's got some cool filters to propagate it around to various

Re: what is going on with the digest?

2001-02-19 Thread garyjones
At Mon, 19 Feb 2001 02:39:02 -0800 , Jim McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There have been posts to this effect in the debian-user archive for at least the past 3 weeks. These aren't local problems, [snip] Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^^ Has

[OT] Slashdot article

2001-02-15 Thread garyjones
Defend your distro! ;-) Thought you might be interested in this: http://slashdot.org/articles/01/02/15/1352219.shtml Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours!

Re: How to change the IP of a Debian box

2001-02-08 Thread garyjones
At Wed, 7 Feb 2001 20:37:19 + (WET) , Pedro Quaresma de Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I change the IP/name of the machine? Like the other guys said, but it is worth remembering that you are really changing the IP address of the interface (eth0, eth1, whatever), not the machine.

Re: ISDN Documentation

2001-02-07 Thread garyjones
At Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:41:34 - , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hanno_B=F6ttcher?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for = a Web Documentation for ISDN Drivers under Kernel 2.4.1 and a howto for = installing ISDN Dial Up under Debian, does anyone know an URL where I = can find that?

Re: Jed

2001-01-30 Thread garyjones
At Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:41:03 -0800 (PST) , Xucaen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: would anyone care to comment on this (just for the sake of my own curiosity)? Ahh, go on then, I'll have a go :-) Entirely unscientific I'm a farid, as its entirely from memory of installing on slink.

Compiling a kernel for another machine

2001-01-30 Thread garyjones
I know this is possible (I even vaguely remember seeing it mentioned somewhere). What I want to do is compile a kernel on my desktop PC for my laptop. Just build it, copy the new kernel image across the network, rejig the laptop's lilo, reboot it, and Roberta's your crossdressing Aunt. I

Re: wish list - My personal Debian User Manual Generator

2001-01-30 Thread garyjones
On 28 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Younie) wrote: Matthias Wieser wrote: now my idea is, that there should be place, where you can just enter your system parts, and it will return a user manual just covering the parts your really need. It's a great idea. At a minimum someone new

Re: package holding doesn't work in dselect

2001-01-23 Thread garyjones
At Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:34:15 -0800 , Cameron Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to install wmaker for my newly compiled X4, but I can't because = it requires me to install xfree86-common and xlib6g. This won't do, so = I put those two packages on hold, but then it comes up with the =

Re: archive for old debs?

2001-01-23 Thread garyjones
At Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:58:24 + , [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:58:12PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 22-Jan-2001 Lance Simmons wrote: Where can I find old versions of debs? [snip] When a package is updated the

Re: archive for old debs?

2001-01-23 Thread garyjones
At Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:14:02 + , Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 at 00:24:41 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:58:24 + , [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: http://archive.debian.org No, that's only old versions of the entire

Re: MUA Blues in X

2001-01-17 Thread garyjones
At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:55:12 +0100 , Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joris Lambrecht wrote: Well, it does make it clear to me that i will have to embrace console base mua's sooner then i think. [..] I was in ypur position a little while back with a dual boot finally just to use Outlook.

Re: Full System Restore with tar: Reminder!

2001-01-16 Thread garyjones
At 16 Jan 2001 13:38:25 +0200 , Kalle Olavi Niemitalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about system restores... ...and I'd like to continue the theme. If the worst were to happen, what would be the best way of getting the same installed packages as before? Is it possible to give dselect (or apt-get if

Re: Forcing modem connection to 57600 bps

2001-01-16 Thread garyjones
At Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:26:22 +0200 , Jarkko Niemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After using my dial-up connecton with speed reporting I wanted to force my modem up to it's maximum speed. It works from windows side, so, it's just up to configuring it also to Linux. Windows doesn't help, there is just

Re: Tape support under Linux 2.2.x

2001-01-10 Thread garyjones
At Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:29:31 +0100 , Daniel de los Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning to add a tape drive to my Linux box but I am not very sure about which are supported. It seems to me compatibility is not a quite an issue and I should expect all of them to work the same way

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread garyjones
At Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:24:49 +0100 (MET) , Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:44:34AM +0100, Michal F. Hanula wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:25:10AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte

Re: Firewall for use with cable modem?

2000-12-20 Thread garyjones
At Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:21:19 -0600 , ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:02:14AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: I have spent much of the day getting more and more confused about firewalls and Linux. That is an easy thing to do, you are not alone :-) Install

Re: Stupid question

2000-12-19 Thread garyjones
At Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:12:10 + , Matthew Sackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It generally doesn't matter: so long as you are able to dial up then the other processes take care of themselves. [...] the details are in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ There are similar files for isdn which I use, and you are of

Network cards

2000-12-15 Thread garyjones
I have seen network cards which plug into the serial or parallel port (I forget which, now). Basically I want to connect a laptop to a network (both of which are running Debian), and a) there is no room to fit a card in inside; and b) the PCMCIA slot seems to be bug^H^Hroken. Does anyone have

Solved! Re: isdn4linux - dialling uses (my) local area code

2000-12-13 Thread garyjones
At Tue, 12 Dec 2000 14:41:39 +0100 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] (robert_wilhelm_land) wrote: Gary Jones wrote: Here are the relevant parts of the config files: #isdn.conf [GLOBAL] COUNTRYPREFIX=+ AREAPREFIX=0 COUNTRYCODE=49 AREACODE=89 #device.ippp0 LOCALMSN=089*** REMOTEMSN=109000191799

isdn4linux - dialling uses (my) local area code

2000-12-08 Thread garyjones
,bnj mkvfgsdzh jmklhzsdcfr I'm sorry, that was me beating my head against the keyboard in frustration. Here are the relevant parts of the config files: #isdn.conf [GLOBAL] COUNTRYPREFIX=+ AREAPREFIX=0 COUNTRYCODE=49 AREACODE=89 #device.ippp0 LOCALMSN=089***# my number

Re: Exim Install localhost configuration.

2000-12-06 Thread garyjones
Alson van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 01:07:46PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Alson writes: my direct-dilivered mail is always accepted Do you have a dynamic IP? Yup, and hostname like i0554.pvu.euronet.nl, possibly not recongized by other host as dynamic IP,

Re: Wierd ISP Email Processing

2000-12-01 Thread garyjones
Robert Waldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:34:23 PST, Steve Witt writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: host smtp.flashcom.net.criticalpath.net [209.228.150.115]: 553 To send mail, first check your mail with a

Re: FWD: use deb for programming

2000-12-01 Thread garyjones
At Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:41:47 -0800 , Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Forwarded message from root [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am thinking of switching to debian. I understand that deb packages are better than rpm if you are doing programming I can't comment on this. All I can say is that

Re: web mail

2000-11-30 Thread garyjones
At Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:56:03 -0500 (EST) , urbanyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.linuxfreemail.com/ I think James wants something to actually provide the service off his own box, and mailgate, which is the s/ware used by linuxfreemail, is not available to the public yet

Re: Software Development from Russia! ($15-$20 per hour)

2000-11-27 Thread garyjones
At Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:21:32 -0500 (EST) , urbanyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: isn't this supposed to be an ad-free list? just curious, not really complaining... On the contrary: The Debian Linux mailing lists accept commercial advertising for payment. We offer a fee waiver if you can show us

Re: Debian + isdn = ? (a waste of time, so far!)

2000-11-23 Thread garyjones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (robert_wilhelm_land) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you let me know if your upgrade works, please? If so I'll just put it down to 'one of those things' and d/l a new version. Gary, I was told to use the latest isdn4linux because my distribution came with the 2.0.35

Re: Debian + isdn = ? (a waste of time, so far!)

2000-11-21 Thread garyjones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some problems setting up my isdn. Here is the configuration: o Debian 2.1r4 (Kernel 2.0.38 + the patch -2.0.39 from kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tao) I think you might need a 2.2 kernel. It is

Re: Debian + isdn = ? (a waste of time, so far!)

2000-11-21 Thread garyjones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (robert_wilhelm_land) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry - isdnPPP driver version 0.0.0 is out of date. Maybe ippp0 has no 'syncppp' encapsulation? [...] Just struggling with a simular problem on a different distribution updated to 2.0.38. Hopefully getting ISDN to run

Debian + isdn = ? (a waste of time, so far!)

2000-11-20 Thread garyjones
I'm having some problems setting up my isdn. Here is the configuration: o Debian 2.1r4 (Kernel 2.0.38 + the patch -2.0.39 from kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tao) o AVM Fritz!PCI card (Hisax/type 27, thanks for that info Marko) o isdnutils/isdn4linux 3.0beta2 (as provided packaged on the