Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread jack
Please check this one for me (I don't see how this can be anything other than a Netscape bug, but if it is something else, I'd like to know): On any Unix (X11) version of Communicator: Alas, I use only Navigator, not the whole Communicator package. - - open the bookmarks window

How to force reconfiguring of a package?

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Haude
Hi folks, I have two questions related to Debian package management. 1) My apache server doesn't start up. When I manually try to start it, it complains that it can't figure out the hostname of the local system. Weird, because hostname returns the correct name. Anyway, I suspect that something

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Haude
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Patrik Magnusson wrote: My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in over two months. I tried to use adjtimex to get the system clock to match the hardware clock, unsuccessfully. First i tried

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Haude
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, jack wrote: It crashes Netscape (Navigator) on my machine. There's nothing to protect. Everybody knows netscape sucks for now. However, fact is fact. Haven't had netscape trouble under Linux yet (I don't use it much), but on an IRIX 6.4 system it dumps core the instant

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: I have the same problem. I upgraded my potato machine yesterday. I had a bunch of unresolved symbols. I did a update-modules. Now my machine is complaining about /etc/modules.conf being older than /lib/modules/2.2.5/modules.dep. It's a warning

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Pollywog
I have had this problem on Potato for at least a week. I was able to eliminate it by recompiling my kernel, but that did not work after my most recent upgrade about three days ago. -- Andrew On 25-Oct-99 Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: I have the same problem. I upgraded my potato machine

Mutt and /var/spool/mail

1999-10-25 Thread Paul
Third time lucky with this one. After uninstalling a perfectly serviceable version of Mutt in order to install Mutt-ja I now find that my mailbox is read only. I`ve RTFM and think that this may have something to do with the -homespool option and setgid but to be honest I`m still a bit of a newbie

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: I have the same problem. I upgraded my potato machine yesterday. I had a bunch of unresolved symbols. I did a update-modules. Now my machine is complaining about /etc/modules.conf being older than

xemacs20 and default font

1999-10-25 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I'm trying to set up a default font under xemacs20. I've changed the default font to my tastes with the Options menu, but even after using the same menu's Save Options option, my font doesn't come back after relaunching xemacs. I'm very new to xemacs (and emacs too) and I'd

Re: Stateful Packet - Firewall

1999-10-25 Thread Harald Weidner
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well there is Sinus - http://www.sinusfirewall.org/ The official homepage of the SINUS firewall is http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/ikm/SINUS/firewall/ Note that the developers work with Debian themselves, so the firewall runs

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1999-10-25 Thread Laurent Deschaintres
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Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Art Lemasters
On a most recent upgrade, I noticed that there was a question posed by the system on modutils, along with a prompt to say no or hit enter. ...sorry, but although I remember there was a notice about involved config files being replaced, I did not jot it down. I chose enter, to make the

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-25 Thread Patrik Magnusson
On 25 Oct 1999, Patrik Magnusson wrote: My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in over two months. I tried to use adjtimex to get the system clock to match the hardware clock, unsuccessfully. First i tried

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Art Lemasters
/etc/modules.conf and /etc/modutils were replaced on this machine (potato) two days ago. /etc/modules.conf.old was made on the 19th (six days ago). Art

ATI Mach64 mouse woes!

1999-10-25 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problems with ATI Mach64 card Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x Organization: Summary: Keywords: Hi! This is the second SVGA/PCI card i try on my computer, and the second time I encounter this problem. First of all, gpm stops working. The mouse is on

Re: Intention to NMU MRTG

1999-10-25 Thread Joey Hess
Michael-John Turner wrote: The primary reason is that the default SNMP configuration for ucd-snmp 4.0 doesn't supply the network stats MRTG monitors - do an snmpwalk and you'll see what I mean. I ran into this too. Is there a way to add those stats back in? -- see shy jo

Re: Diskless and Stare Office??

1999-10-25 Thread Philip Lehman
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Benak Istvan wrote: Someone please tell me, if I want to use a Diskless clients (p200 with 64 MB ram) and a strong server and 10 Mb ethernet cards, how will run the StarOffice 5.1 on the clients?? Have anyone any experience with this?? Not with loading off the network in

Re: Mutt and /var/spool/mail

1999-10-25 Thread Paul
What are the permissions and group/ownership of /var/spool/mail? I have drwxrwsr -x root mail Anthony -- Thanks for your help. These are the permissions, they don`t look that similar, has the install of mutt changed something it shouldn`t have done? $ ls -l /var/spool/mail total 416

Re: apache authentication

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
what does your access.conf show ? depending on your config will depend wether or not htaccess files are read. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited

Re: Diskless and Stare Office??

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
diskless..i assume everything is mounted over nfs ..so what stops you from loadin staroffice over nfs like any other app. (make sure to do a multiuser install with the /net option, then run a workstation install for each user) nate [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Mutt and /var/spool/mail

1999-10-25 Thread Paul
Paul wrote: What are the permissions and group/ownership of /var/spool/mail? I have drwxrwsr -x root mail Anthony -- Thanks for your help. These are the permissions, they don`t look that similar, has the install of mutt changed something it shouldn`t have done? $ ls -l

proxyarp

1999-10-25 Thread esl
Help, please. How do I enable proxyarp on my ethernet interface? I know how to do this in PPP. Thanks. E.LL

Two problems after reinstalling.

1999-10-25 Thread jus10
Hello, I had potato up and running fine but I needed to repartition this drive so I reinstalled. Everything is working well with two small problems that didn't come up the first time. One of them is that gpm and X won't work at the same time. To move the mouse in X I need to gpm -k. This I

cron and timezones

1999-10-25 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I've just noticed that cron takes no notice of the current timezone: all my cron jobs were running an hour late and I didn't know why until recently. My timezone is set correctly, using tzconfig, so date gives: Mon Oct 25 20:35:42 BST 1999 Unfortunately, cron thinks this means 19:35:42 GMT, and

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-25 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 25 Oct, 1999 à 03:37:28PM +0200, Patrik Magnusson wrote: My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in over two months. I tried to use adjtimex to get the system clock to match the hardware clock, unsuccessfully.

Re: Menu gone after blackbox update

1999-10-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:35:19AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: After updating blackbox to 0.51.3-2, the Debian menu system is no longer accessible. A right-click brings up a menu with only xterm, Restart and Exit as options. The changelog refers to looking for the menu in /etc/X11 and the

Getting Netscape to work on potato

1999-10-25 Thread Mark M
Hi, Despite Potato being based on a 2.2 kernel, downloading the unsupported/linux22netscape doesn't work to well. However, the supported/linux20libc5 version seems to be very stable even on my 2.2 kernel Potato system. Perhaps this is the reason for the conflicting reports?? YMMV Mark.

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-25 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 10/25/99, Patrik Magnusson scribbled about getting sysclock to match hwclock: My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in over two months. I just want the system clock to match the hardware clock. Please help. Try

Re: passwd

1999-10-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:35:23PM +0200, Vincent Deffontaines wrote: I just found out something I find freak on my debian 2.1 system My root password used to be panoramix2021... Today by mistake I typed panoramix, and got in!!! how comes? is that normal? I dont find it normal actually

Exim and mail

1999-10-25 Thread Richard Clarke
Ok, I want to use exim to deliver mail to local users and I would like to use fetchmail to deliver mail from a pop3 server to a particular user. However I am having problems getting it to work. I chose, (4) Local delivery only: You are not on a network. Mail for local users is delivered. I

Re: passwd

1999-10-25 Thread dyer
Vincent Deffontaines wrote: I just found out something I find freak on my debian 2.1 system My root password used to be panoramix2021... Today by mistake I typed panoramix, and got in!!! how comes? is that normal? I dont find it normal actually is that a bug? is that supposed to be

Re: X-WINDOW FREEZE

1999-10-25 Thread Andrei Ivanov
It is hard to diagnose a problem without knowing anything about circumstances. Is it happening at random or while you run a particular program? Check the logs after the restart, and ~/.xsession-errors file to see what can be potentially wrong. Andrew

Re: X-WINDOW FREEZE

1999-10-25 Thread Sebastian Stark
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Camiel Coenen wrote: I sometimes run into the problem of an X-Window freeze (keyboard stops working as does the touchpad on my laptop). This is very annoying because I have to reboot my system by using the reset button, which in turn is a dangerous way of restarting

Re: passwd

1999-10-25 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Vincent Deffontaines wrote: now I tried something else I set my password to a 9 characters one lets say poipoipoi which is 9 charaters you can type poipoipoi followed by anything... you just get in as well... I believe that, by default, the library function crypt() only

Re: X-WINDOW FREEZE

1999-10-25 Thread Paul Huygen
Camiel Coenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I sometimes run into the problem of an X-Window freeze [..] annoying because I have to reboot my system by using the reset button Is there a solution to prevent or avoid such a freeze ? I can't help you with a solution to the freeze problem. However, if

eth0 not working on remote machine (outch!)

1999-10-25 Thread Stefan Langerman
Hello everyone, I'm in deep trouble: Yesterday, I updated my remote server, which is sitting in Belgium (I'm in NJ,USA), using dselect. My box is a P100 running potato. I then rebooted, and nothing came up! This morning I called someone over there, who told me the machine boots, but says eth0

Re: Exim and mail

1999-10-25 Thread Gary Hennigan
Richard Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, I want to use exim to deliver mail to local users and I would like to use fetchmail to deliver mail from a pop3 server to a particular user. However I am having problems getting it to work. I chose, (4) Local delivery only: You are not on a

Re: passwd

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
8 characaters is normal for unix passwords nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336

Re: Good News Reader?

1999-10-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I run gnus on emacs (not xemacs), I have not had an emacs crash in years, and it is integrated with mailcrypt (on certain groups, I have gnus hiding the pgp/gpg signature in the article buffer, while verifying the signature _automatically_). I also like the adaptive word

Re: Exim and mail

1999-10-25 Thread Richard Clarke
That doesn't make any difference at all. root-/home/clarker8:fetchmail -u clarker8 t8.cs.man.ac.uk Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1 message for clarker8 at t8.cs.man.ac.uk. reading message 1 of 1 (1608 header octets) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction

Re: Exim and mail

1999-10-25 Thread Gary Hennigan
Gary Hennigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] You need to add localhost to a list in /etc/exim.conf, specifically the local_domains line. It should look something like: local_domains = hostname:hostname.junk.org:localhost This should fix you up. One other thing, if you told the setup

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-25 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 25 Oct, 1999 à 08:26:09PM +0200, Patrik Magnusson wrote: On 25 Oct 1999, Patrik Magnusson wrote: My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in over two months. hwclock --hctosys or, if you're on UTC:

Re: cron and timezones

1999-10-25 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: I've just noticed that cron takes no notice of the current timezone: all my cron jobs were running an hour late and I didn't know why until recently. Restart cron, cron only reads the timezone file when it starts up first .. Jason

Re: cron and timezones

1999-10-25 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 02:16:17PM -0700, brian moore wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:48:38PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:36:21PM -0700, brian moore wrote: I'll assume you're in the UK: You are mistaken in believing your time zone is set correctly if

question about this mailing list

1999-10-25 Thread jh
I am going on vacation. In order to stop mail while I am away do I need to completely unsubscribe and then re-subscribe when I return? Thanks, Jeff

disc-cover error

1999-10-25 Thread Jocke
Hi all, I just downloaded the latest debs from disc-cover homepage and installed with dpkg -i. Now when I run it is give the following error. slayer:~$ disc-cover Error (while reading cddb): 500 Command syntax error. at /usr/bin/disc-cover line 87 Error: could not fetch cdrom information.

Can someone explain this kernel panic error message? [fwd]

1999-10-25 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
Hello folks. This is not Debian-specific, but my brother-in-law got a kernel panic while booting of a Linux installation CD: I got the following booting off of a CD while installing on a new machine. VFS: Cannot open root device 08:21 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:21

Re: ATI Mach64 mouse woes!

1999-10-25 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... [...] Does any one know what might be happening? I'd be more than happy to provide you with further information (file listings and stuff like that). The motherboard is a Pentium MMX compatible with PCI and ISA bus and with an

Re: C programing

1999-10-25 Thread John Carline
Stephan Engelke wrote: Hi, On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:30:34PM +0200, Benak Istvan wrote: Someone tell me how can I find a doc about C programing (I downloaded the Programmer's Guide, but I can't programming under C, so I want to learn it!) So I need a doc for lammers! How 'bout

Re: X-WINDOW FREEZE

1999-10-25 Thread Lee Maguire
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Camiel Coenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I sometimes run into the problem of an X-Window freeze [..] annoying because I have to reboot my system by using the reset button Is there a solution to prevent or avoid such a freeze ? I can't help you with a

Re: Two problems after reinstalling.

1999-10-25 Thread Justin Settle
Nick Phillips wrote: One of them is that gpm and X won't work at the same time. To move the mouse in X I need to gpm -k. This I didn't need to do before. I don't know how the setup normally deals with this, but if you RTFM on gpm, you will see that it mentions that problem; if you have

Outlook doesn't send over linux dialup gateway

1999-10-25 Thread hypnotic
Hi, I have a little pc running as a dialup gateway to the internet. i hooked my stuff up with dynip.com to get a static ip and run my own mail server ... pop3 sending mail from linux pc does all work. but i can't send from outlook express to the sendmail on the linux pc. Error Message :

Re: xemacs20 and default font

1999-10-25 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to set up a default font under xemacs20. I've changed the default font to my tastes with the Options menu, but even after using the same menu's Save Options option, my font doesn't come back after relaunching xemacs. Please type `C-h F'

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