Re: Solucionado lo del dispositivo de audio

1999-12-12 Thread Jon Noble
Hola, On dom, 12 dic 1999 00:15:16 José Miguel wrote: Tengo otro problema en Debian Slink 2,1 que tengo instalada, no puedo ejecutar Nestcape. Lo instale desde dselect con la opción de instalar desde un grupo de paquetes preestablecidos, eligiendo la opción que se podria traducir como

superdiscos

1999-12-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Netscape no arranca

1999-12-12 Thread José Miguel
Hola linuxeros: Ante todo gracias por contestar, como me pedisteis más datos ahi van. Estando en Xwindows en una xterm ejecuto /usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4 y me devuelve 'permiso denegado'. Si hago un ls -al aparece -rw-r--r-- /usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4 . Se me olvidaba lo

Re: Problema con `df'.

1999-12-12 Thread Cosme P. Cuevas
El Fri, Dec 10, 1999, Jaime E. Villate... Cosme P. Cuevas wrote: /dev/hdc5 1,0G 906M 104M 90% /usr/lib /dev/hdc6 1,0G 906M 104M 90% /usr Pero esas dos particiones en realidad no son de igual tamaño, sino que la primera ocupa 600Mb

Re: Netscape no arranca

1999-12-12 Thread Blu
José Miguel wrote: Hola linuxeros: Ante todo gracias por contestar, como me pedisteis más datos ahi van. Estando en Xwindows en una xterm ejecuto /usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4 y me devuelve 'permiso denegado'. Si hago un ls -al aparece -rw-r--r--

RE: Netscape no arranca

1999-12-12 Thread Pookie
Hu bueno, es cierto que el comando adecuado no es ese, pero ademas tienes que modificar un archivo de configuracion para que el root tenga permiso para ejecutar netscape el archivo en cuestion es /etc/netscape4/options y tienes q añadirle la linea ALLOW_ROOT=yes y ya esta, el root ya tiene

RE: Solucionado lo del dispositivo de audio

1999-12-12 Thread José Miguel Sisó Espitia
-Mensaje original- De: Jon Noble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: domingo 12 de diciembre de 1999 1:18 Asunto: Re: Solucionado lo del dispositivo de audio Hola, On dom, 12 dic 1999 00:15:16 José Miguel wrote:

Sigo sin arrancar Netscape

1999-12-12 Thread José Miguel
Hola linuxeros: Os agradezco vuestra ayuda, pero todavia no lo he conseguido. Como me habeis contestado varios os voy a explicar el problema desde el principio. 1) Instalo Debian Slink 2.1 con la opción de grupos de paquetes, elegi la opción de usurio casero o algo asi. Despues

Error iniciando nuevo kernel compilado

1999-12-12 Thread Miguel A. Abarca
Hola a todos, el enviar este e-mail a la lista es para ver si me podeis ayudar con el error que me genera el pc al arrancar un nuevo kernel previamente compilado sin errores. Concretamente se trata de la versión 2.2.3, la cual como os comento se compila perfectamente pero al

Re: Error iniciando nuevo kernel compilado

1999-12-12 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On dom, dic 12, 1999 at 01:41:56 -, Miguel A. Abarca wrote: Mi ordenador es un Pentium II 400 MHz y el actualizarme a un nuevo núcleo se debe al no poder configurar mi tarjeta gráfica -S3 Savage 3D- para iniciar XWindows. Os estaría muy agradecido de poder ayudarme con este

RE: Solucionado lo del dispositivo de audio

1999-12-12 Thread Jon Noble
Hola, On dom, 12 dic 1999 09:01:24 José Miguel Sisó Espitia wrote: Lo ejecuto como root , y en el shell desde consola me aparece al ejecutar /usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4 : permiso denegado. Haciendo un ls -al aparece: -rw-r--r-- root etc /usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4

Re: Error iniciando nuevo kernel compilado

1999-12-12 Thread Hue-Bond
El domingo 12 de diciembre de 1999 a la(s) 13:41:56 -, Miguel A. Abarca contaba: me aparece un Kernel panic con el siguiente mensaje: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel; con la imagen anterior de un kernel 2.0.34 no tengo ningún problema y me hace INIT versión la que sea.

nfsd en inetd.conf

1999-12-12 Thread Samuel Montosa
hola, ¿sabria alguien decirme como poner los servicios de nfsd, y gidd en el inetd.conf?; supongo que desde ahí será mas controlable en el caso de que se muera el demonio y esos percances por cierto, ¿ ha probado alguien el server de nfs por kernel? -- * Hay miles de

Utilidades para construir paquetes debian

1999-12-12 Thread jppuerta
Hola, Ademas de debdialog (muy bueno por cierto), que otras utilidades amigables existen para construir y mantener paquetes debian? Alguien sabe de alguna FAQ explicando como hacerse mantenedor de paquetes debian?? Gracias! JP (GPG key Available)

Offtopic: Trabajo fin de Bachillerato

1999-12-12 Thread xxx
Estoy haciendo un trabajo de fin de Bachillerato sobre Linux, que cuenta un 10% de la nota global de 1º y 2º de Bachillerato (que burrada!!), que a su vez es un 60% de la nota para entrar a la Universidad (el otro 40% es la nota de la Selectividad). Este trabajo he decidido hacerlo sobre Debian

Archivos de preferencias

1999-12-12 Thread xxx
Que diferencia hay entre /etc/environment /etc/profile y $HOME/.bashrc?? Lo digo pq no se donde debo poner los alias, los export $XXX=xxx y set _loquesea_ Gracias -- [..] Para él, un amor geométrico de la simetría y el orden era el sistema, un interés infatigable y febril por las más

Re: Solucionado lo del dispositivo de audio

1999-12-12 Thread Jordi
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 03:11:59PM +0100, Jon Noble wrote: Hola, On dom, 12 dic 1999 09:01:24 José Miguel Sisó Espitia wrote: Lo ejecuto como root , y en el shell desde consola me aparece al ejecutar /usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4 : permiso denegado. Haciendo un ls -al

Re: Utilidades para construir paquetes debian

1999-12-12 Thread Jordi
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 11:07:35PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola, Ademas de debdialog (muy bueno por cierto), que otras utilidades amigables existen para construir y mantener paquetes debian? debhelper y familia, y devscripts. Alguien sabe de alguna FAQ explicando como hacerse

Re: Potato Boot Floopies In Swedish -- A Call For Translators (fwd)

1999-12-12 Thread peter karlsson
Nils-Erik Svangård: De 7 som har svarat sa svarar bara 2/7 att ni ar battre an du. Sa jag kommer att gora om allt till du inom kort. Låter bra, jag hatar att bli kallad för ni. Jag är bara en person, och vill inte bli tilltalad i plural... -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: RES: Status dos trabalhos com a Debian

1999-12-12 Thread Srinath Mantripragada
Ola desculpe a intromissao, mas por que nao usar EUA ?? Brasileiro (teclado padrão EUA) On qua, 08 dez 1999, Gleydson Mazioli da Silva wrote: Lalo Martins wrote: Sim :-) concordo que ``US'' fica estranho. Certo, eu coloquei como US para não ficar parado em uma só parte do

services I don't need - turn them off?!?!?!

1999-12-12 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hello, for the sake of knowing how to do such thigns, I'd like to turn off some services that I feel comprimise my server security, and aren't being used. with portscan, this is what I get from a non-local host. 9 - discard 13 - daytime *21 - ftp *22 - ssh *23 - telnet *25 - smtp 37 - time 53

Re: Kernel-Package v6.27

1999-12-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On 11/12/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I compiled a new kernel (2.3.31) with Potato(current) kpkg and the resulting .deb package says it installed fine but did not redirect the vmlinuz link. Just changing this symlink won't boot system. Not sure where to hunt bug. yes I noticed this too, kernel

Why is Enlightenment slow?

1999-12-12 Thread David J. Kanter
Enlightenment, for the most part, is fun for me. But its slowness compared to something like Sawmill drives me a little nuts. What is it about E that slows it down? Certain themes are faster than others, which leads me to think that the theme has something to do with it. But is there anything

Re: the perils of software re-use

1999-12-12 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 06:22:51PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The visiting Americans nodded appreciatively, but then did a double-take as the kangaroos reappeared from behind a hill and launched a barrage of Stinger missiles at the hapless helicopter. A friend of mine proposes this be

Slashdot clones

1999-12-12 Thread Randy Edwards
I've got a project that needs a weblog with conversations, i.e. a Slashdot clone. Other than Squishdot, does anyone have any feedback on which Slashdot clones to look at? I've been through Freshmeat and found several, but toying around with them is increasingly time consuming. I'd love to

Re: Re: porn, ads, custom filters for HTTP

1999-12-12 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao Colin Marquardt, I use at home junkfilter with wwwoffle. Do you mean junkbuster? That certainly can do the job. hem... yes, right. :-) (too junk even in my mind ... eh!eh!eh!) Ciao -- Paolo Pedaletti, Como, ITALYa paolo . pedaletti @ flashnet . it

Re: SB PCI 128

1999-12-12 Thread Donna and Ian
Kent West wrote: So basically I just live without sound (which only hurts when I'm showing someone the neat aspects of Linux, and then can't play a sound file). What happens if you 'cat' a wav file to /dev/dsp ? I've run out of ideas now. I used to run Maelstrom on a 75 MHz Redhat 4.1

Re: sound blaster live

1999-12-12 Thread Ralf Sinoradzki
Hi ! You might compile the emu10k1 drivers with newer kernels than 2.2.13, but you have to replace some includes in /usr/include/linux with the header files in ./include/linux of your kernel-source-package. (I don'T know, if the debian kernel tools do this automatically, because I've not used

Alsa and 2.2.13

1999-12-12 Thread Mark Blunier
I'm trying to recompile the 2.2.13 kernel with alsa. My custom kernel conflicts with alsa-modules-2.2.13, and I've tried the kernel-image-2.2.13_2.2.13-2.deb, but it also conflicts, ( 2.2.13-1). Is an old version of 2.2.13 available, or better yet, what do I need to do to be able to compile a

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-12 Thread William Burrow
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 05:11:54AM +0800, Ronald Tin wrote: How could I deliver mails to accounts that don't really exist? (I can't allocate 10 uids on a single machine, right?) I have only read the FAQ and anatomy for postfix Shall I play with the mailbox transport option for local

Re: Debian 2.2

1999-12-12 Thread Damon Muller
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 12:34:33AM -0800, George Bonser was heard to state: Is Debian 2.2 (Potato) stable enough to use it? I have been using it for almost a year. The thing is that a package might cause problems from one day to the next. For what I have, everything is working fine except

Re: the perils of software re-use

1999-12-12 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 19:35:03 -0500 Joe Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of mine proposes this be marketed as a game. Call it Kanga-Doom. Urk! he says without noticing the domain he is emailing from. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netscape time == GMT (UTC)

1999-12-12 Thread Brian May
mheyes == mheyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mheyes The time and date are correct everywhere on my system, it mheyes seems, except for the time stamp Netscape (Commnicator mheyes 4.7) puts on my mail. The time stamp shows the time with a mheyes -0 appended to it. I think it should

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-12 Thread William Burrow
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 06:27:58PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, William Burrow wrote: qmail can handle an unlimited number of users in an unlimited number of domains using the likes of vchkpw. Check out: So can exim. The problem is not delivering email via smtp ...

Re: Slashdot clones

1999-12-12 Thread Kevin Heath
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 12:48:49AM +, Randy Edwards wrote: I've got a project that needs a weblog with conversations, i.e. a Slashdot clone. Any particular reason you don't want to use slash? ( http://slashdot.org/code.shtml ) Speaking of weblogs, does anyone know what happened to

Re: Debian 2.2

1999-12-12 Thread William Burrow
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 02:02:52PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: I think one issue is that, if you need to do a long, manual download, it might be worth waiting. I have potato running on my machine at work, and do an apt-get ugrade about once a week, and it's always a large download. I think,

ntpdate[28516]: no server suitable for synchronization found

1999-12-12 Thread Darxus
ntp hasn't seemed to work for me for a while. I figured maybe all the ntp servers I'd set it to use nolonger ran the ntp server or something. But I just pulled 99 servers off of a list at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ (1st relavant hit on ntp on www.google.com). Out of all of those 99

Re: Debian 2.2

1999-12-12 Thread Carl Fink
Damon wrote: I have a slink system, which various potato modules (like gnome, glibc, and a few other bits and pieces not available in slink) . . . I was under the impression that slink couldn't be reliably upgraded to glibc 2.1. Has that changed? I've been using potato for months with very

current status of potato?

1999-12-12 Thread Nagilum
I've got a friend who is interested in installing a Linux distro on his machine (probably a dual-boot with Win98, although he may decide to just get a different machine). At any rate, I'd seen some of the threads regarding the potato boot-floppies and am concerned about whether they actually

dhcp

1999-12-12 Thread Dave Wiard
i just moved to a new place today where i no longer have a static ip, but will be given a dynamic ip. could somebody clue me in on what needs to be changed or where to look? -- dave wiard computer science [EMAIL PROTECTED]western washington university

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, George Bonser wrote: NOT want to be able to type the path to another user's directory and see their mail (or they, mine). My mail folders need to be unreadable by any other user except me and the mail delivery program. That is why you integrate the proper security

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-12 Thread William Burrow
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 06:27:58PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: So can exim. The problem is not delivering email via smtp ... the problem is accessing it via IMAP. If you have 64K users, how do you set permissions so that one user can not deduce the path to another user's directory and

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-12 Thread William Burrow
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 07:21:49PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, William Burrow wrote: You design your server to separate the paths that users are permitted to access in a consistent, logical manner. The fact that a path exists to the user does not mean it maps directly

Re: dhcp kernel question

1999-12-12 Thread jason
thanks.. but turned out i forgot to compile the kernel w/ ip_filter.. oops.. thanks though.. -jason When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. -Einstein On Sat, 11 Dec 1999,

Re: Alsa and 2.2.13

1999-12-12 Thread Marshal Wong
Did you try using alsa-source to compile a custom kernel module? Marshal From: Mark Blunier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Alsa and 2.2.13 Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 14:15:13 -0600 (CST) I'm trying to recompile the 2.2.13 kernel with alsa. My custom kernel conflicts with alsa-modules-2.2.13, and

Re: dhcp

1999-12-12 Thread Marshal Wong
Install dhcpcd. I think that should be enough. Marshal From: Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dhcp Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 20:19:23 -0800 (PST) i just moved to a new place today where i no longer have a static ip, but will be given a dynamic ip. could somebody clue me in on what needs

Re: /root - /home/kmfahey; /usr/doc - /usr/share/doc

1999-12-12 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 03:08:33AM -0500, Kerne Fahey wrote I have two very vague general questions: 1) On my linux box (no other fleshblood users besides me; it's a laptop), I'm interested in emptying root's home directory, removing it, and making a symbolic link to my home directory,

Re: Changing Enlightnment Netscape icons

1999-12-12 Thread John Foster
Marshal Wong wrote: Right click in the icon box and choose this iconbox settings. Marshal - Ah-Hah! Thanks! -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and workstations. We specialize in multiprocessor units. We install Debian Linux at no

Re: Netscape time == GMT (UTC)

1999-12-12 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 12/08/99 01:47PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The time and date are correct everywhere on my system, it seems, except for the time stamp Netscape (Commnicator 4.7) puts on my mail. The time stamp shows the time with a -0 appended to it. I think it should be -5. Any help appreciated!

Re: /etc/hosts.deny booby trap

1999-12-12 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 12/11/99 06:54PM, Pollywog wrote: Try something like this: ALL:ALL : spawn (echo Attempt from %h %a to %d at `date` | tee -a /var/log/tcp.deny.log |mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I gave this a shot, but nothing happened. Apparently I don't have a spawn command on my machine. I have a

VTs gone after X hang

1999-12-12 Thread Marty Brundage
I cannot get a virtual terminal on a slink machine following an X crash. Without a terminal I can only start X remotely now, and ctl-alt-F1 (etc.) crashes it again. slink: fairly stock installation (except for below) kernel-2.3.21 xserver: XF86_SVGA for 3dfx (recent version, downloaded from

keyboard problems

1999-12-12 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Something has happened to my console keyboard. The keys are all screwed up. When I press 'q' I get 'a', I have to hold down the 'shif' key to get nubmers The keyboard is only screwed up in the console. It is fine in Xwindows. Anyone know how I can get my keyboard back? Lance

Re: current status of potato?

1999-12-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On 11/12/99 Nagilum wrote: I've got a friend who is interested in installing a Linux distro on his machine (probably a dual-boot with Win98, although he may decide to just get a different machine). At any rate, I'd seen some of the threads regarding the potato boot-floppies and am concerned

ISDN in Italy

1999-12-12 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
Anyone using Linux ISDN in Italy? Which TA do you have? Any known problems ? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx|

Re: ntpdate[28516]: no server suitable for synchronization found

1999-12-12 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 10:47:16PM -0500, Darxus wrote: ntp hasn't seemed to work for me for a while. I figured maybe all the ntp servers I'd set it to use nolonger ran the ntp server or something. But I just pulled 99 servers off of a list at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ (1st relavant

Safely removing /etc/init.d/boot.OLD and /etc/rc.boot/0setserial.pre-2.15 ?

1999-12-12 Thread Shaul Karl
I have /etc/init.d/boot.OLD and /etc/rc.boot/0setserial.pre-2.15. Can I safely remove them? Are files that dpkg -S reports that they are not found can be safely removed? [11:12:47 /tmp]$ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/boot.OLD dpkg: /etc/init.d/boot.OLD not found. [11:14:42 /tmp]$ dpkg -S

Is this a bug of hwclock or did I misunderstood the man page?

1999-12-12 Thread Shaul Karl
I tried to adjust the system clock by [10:24:52 /tmp]# hwclock --hctosys [09:15:21 /tmp]# [09:15:27 /tmp]# hwclock --show Sun Dec 12 09:15:39 1999 -0.396524 seconds Which is no good because I have the hardware clock set to UTC while I want to use my local TZ. There for I issued [09:15:38

Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-12 Thread Neil Booth
Hi, I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloading the images to Windows. Does anyone know if these cameras simply pass the JPEG data down

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-12 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Ronald Tin wrote: I am about to build a (group of?) e-mail server for a large number of users... more than 65536. Using Debian of course. :) It should include SMTP and IMAP. Users do not need to have login accounts. Probably I will be using Potato. What should I start

Re: Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-12 Thread Matthew Bloch
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Neil Booth wrote: I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloading the images to Windows. Does anyone know if these

Re: Why is Enlightenment slow?

1999-12-12 Thread Steve George
Hi, You are correct in that every image used for a background or shape takes up memory that slows down E. The extras like the animations also take up memory so can slow it down. The default theme is quite large, or there are certainly smaller ones, so check out e.themes.org for lots of

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Davide Libenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm doing an SMTP / POP3 / Finger server that run on Linux M$ WinNT that support an unlimited number of users and that is not linked to system user accounts. It is written in C++ using gcc in Linux and Visual C++ in M$-Win and

Re: services I don't need - turn them off?!?!?!

1999-12-12 Thread Steve George
Hi, There are two ways to turn off services in inetd.conf and in the /etc/rc.d/*. As you've discovered you can turn off any service which is controlled by the super-server inetd by commenting it out and then restarting inetd e.g kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`. Servers which are not

Re: WordPerfect 8 Floating Point Exception - Solved!

1999-12-12 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, you wrote: I ahve all of these xpm packages installed and my wp8 works just fine, so for simplicity, do what I do, grab everything with xpm in the name ii xpm-bin 3.4j-0.6 X Pixmap libraries - associated binaries ii xpm4-altdev 3.4j-0.6 X

INN 2.x packages for Debian?

1999-12-12 Thread dspiljar
Hello. I've been looking around for Debian packages of a recent version of INND, but I could only find the old 1.7 version. Even Potato has INND 1.7. :( Is it possible to find an INND 2.x package for Debian?

Re: Slashdot clones

1999-12-12 Thread Randy Edwards
Any particular reason you don't want to use slash? ( http://slashdot.org/code.shtml ) Actually, yes. It was the line of text on that page, something about you *will* have problems (or something to that effect) that sort of scared me. :-) -- Regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux:

Re: Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-12 Thread Robert L. Harris
I've had 2. First a Kodak DC25 that worked well. I ended up using a combination of tools with a C proggy a gentleman wrote along time ago. It worked, but it wasn't pretty. I now have an Olympus. It's the second one. The first one died mysteriously (I think my son dropped it in the

Re: /etc/hosts.deny booby trap

1999-12-12 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Dec-1999 Mark Wagnon wrote: On 12/11/99 06:54PM, Pollywog wrote: Try something like this: ALL:ALL : spawn (echo Attempt from %h %a to %d at `date` | tee -a /var/log/tcp.deny.log |mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I gave this a shot, but nothing happened. Apparently I don't have a spawn

Re: Modem does not work

1999-12-12 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 11:33:23 -0800 (PST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, dyer wrote: I have bought (two day ago) a modem, it says (in the windows software) that it is a Motorols SM56 PCI, Speakerphone Modem and it is on COM4. That says it all. Speakerphone

Re: Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-12 Thread Ted Harding
On 12-Dec-99 Matthew Bloch wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Neil Booth wrote: I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloading the images to

chroot()ing a user's login

1999-12-12 Thread Nagilum
I had read some docs which mentioned that on SysV, you can specify a * in the 7th field of the passwd file (thisis from memory, I may be off) and that user's login will then be chroot()ed to his home directory. I was hoping to find a similar functionality in Debian, so I tried the * in the 7th

Re: chroot()ing a user's login

1999-12-12 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 12:04:09PM -0500, Nagilum wrote: I had read some docs which mentioned that on SysV, you can specify a * in the 7th field of the passwd file (thisis from memory, I may be off) and that user's login will then be chroot()ed to his home directory. I was hoping to find a

Re: need help with modem

1999-12-12 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 04:19:59PM +, Robert Helmer wrote: Jason, You can change the permissions on the device ( /dev/ttyS0 or whatever ) make it writable by the dialout group, and put the users who can use the modem in the dialout group. Some of us use the dip group instead of

Re: Alsa and 2.2.13

1999-12-12 Thread Frank Barknecht
Mark Blunier hat gesagt: // Mark Blunier wrote: I'm trying to recompile the 2.2.13 kernel with alsa. My custom kernel conflicts with alsa-modules-2.2.13, and I've tried the kernel-image-2.2.13_2.2.13-2.deb, but it also conflicts, ( 2.2.13-1). Is an old version of 2.2.13 available, or

Re: Alsa and 2.2.13

1999-12-12 Thread ferret
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Marshal Wong wrote: Did you try using alsa-source to compile a custom kernel module? I did this and couldn't get the modules to initialise, though the precompiled modules worked on the custom kernel. The build scripts in the alsa-source package for kernel-package also

Re: ntpdate[28516]: no server suitable for synchronization found

1999-12-12 Thread ferret
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Darxus wrote: ntp hasn't seemed to work for me for a while. I figured maybe all the ntp servers I'd set it to use nolonger ran the ntp server or something. But I just pulled 99 servers off of a list at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ (1st relavant hit on ntp on

Re: linux.debian.user gatewayed no more?

1999-12-12 Thread Francois Deppierraz
Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately it seems I've to bridge at home:( Still hoping someone else would do it for the world to grab I've setup a mail2news on news.ctrlaltdel.ch To access this server you need a login and a password avaiable at

I have my own MTA, thank you very much

1999-12-12 Thread Russell Nelson
How do I convince Debian that I have my own MTA, thank you very much, and it shouldn't attempt to install one of its own choosing? Is there a way to permanently fulfill a dependency by hand without installing a package? I'm not interested in having to tell dselect, dpkg, or apt to ignore

Re: need help with modem

1999-12-12 Thread William Burrow
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 11:11:05AM -0500, Joe Bouchard wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 04:19:59PM +, Robert Helmer wrote: You can change the permissions on the device ( /dev/ttyS0 or whatever ) make it writable by the dialout group, and put the users who can use the modem in the

Re: I have my own MTA, thank you very much

1999-12-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 01:33:41PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: How do I convince Debian that I have my own MTA, thank you very much, and it shouldn't attempt to install one of its own choosing? Is there a way to permanently fulfill a dependency by hand without installing a package? I'm not

Re: ntpdate[28516]: no server suitable for synchronization found

1999-12-12 Thread Darxus
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: I used your short list as above: # ntpdate -v `cat /tmp/clock.lst` 12 Dec 10:55:42 ntpdate[1174]: ntpdate 4.0.98f Sun Nov 21 00:35:29 MST 1999 (1) 12 Dec 10:55:47 ntpdate[1174]: adjust time server 129.132.98.11 offset -0.000396 sec Maybe

Re: I have my own MTA, thank you very much

1999-12-12 Thread William Burrow
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 01:33:41PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: How do I convince Debian that I have my own MTA, thank you very much, and it shouldn't attempt to install one of its own choosing? Is there a way to permanently fulfill a dependency by hand without installing a package? I'm not

SCSI difficulty

1999-12-12 Thread wb4mle
Trying to boot the rescue floppy (2.0) the kernel tries to load the Symbios 810A scsi driver and just loops with endless scsi host 0 abort (pid 7) timed out- resetting scsi bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0 followed by a timed out message. Had to get a rescue floppy with only adaptec

Where to find the mailink-list kernel messages archived wuth search

1999-12-12 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Thanks, PH -- Abraços,PH Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Consultant Linux Solutions -- http://www.linuxsolutions.com.br Av. Presidente Vargas, 509/4o andar - 852-4564 - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brazil

Re: need help with modem

1999-12-12 Thread John Hasler
Joe Bouchard writes: Some of us use the dip group instead of dialout. What's the difference? dip is the group that pppd and the ppp files belong to. dialout is the group that the serial ports belong to. Membership in the dip group is sufficient to allow users to use ppp as long as the

Re: /etc/hosts.deny booby trap

1999-12-12 Thread Riku Saikkonen
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 12-Dec-1999 Mark Wagnon wrote: On 12/11/99 06:54PM, Pollywog wrote: ALL:ALL : spawn (echo Attempt from %h %a to %d at `date` | tee -a /var/log/tcp.deny.log |mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I gave this a shot, but nothing happened. Apparently I don't have a spawn

Re: initial boot problem, help request

1999-12-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Floyd Rodgers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: trying to initial load slink stable version sparc2 via floppies results in these messages. fatal error: cannot read file system error: bad or malformed address fatal error: cannot read file system fatal error: cannot read file system Please ask on

Problem forwarding X over ssh

1999-12-12 Thread Mark Santaniello
Hi, I am having trouble getting X to forward across ssh from my debian box. I have the following settings in my /etc/ssh/sshd_config: X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 I have xauth installed (did that after getting an error about X forwarding upon connection). Right now, if

Message popup program

1999-12-12 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
Hi, I am looking for a program to send all users on a linux network an x-windows message. Preferrably an utility that can be used to broadcast a messages to all systems at once. There is of course xmessage, but this is not really suited for the situation. Another possibility is linpopup, but I

PPP...and boot problem

1999-12-12 Thread David Johnstone
Hi, Im running win95 on harddisk 1 (primary ide master). it has 2 partitions, but used by windows. On harddisk 2 (secondary ide master), I have just installed linux. I can boot using the boot disk - however for some reason it takes about 10 minutes when it says "Loading linux..". I have

apt-get dist-upgrade replacing self-built archives

1999-12-12 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! How come that apt-get dist-upgrade upgrades packages that I have compiled myself (from the sources), although the version in the Debian archive is the same as the one I have compiled myself? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade replacing self-built archives

1999-12-12 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 12 Dec, peter karlsson wrote about apt-get dist-upgrade replacing self-built archives Hi! How come that apt-get dist-upgrade upgrades packages that I have compiled myself (from the sources), although the version in the Debian archive is the same as the one I have compiled myself?

Re: Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-12 Thread Charles Lewis
On 12-Dec-99 Matthew Bloch wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Neil Booth wrote: I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloading the

Re: Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-12 Thread Mike Werner
(Ted Harding) wrote: It is worth considering a camera that can record the JPEG file directly to a floppy disk -- either natively (the Sony Mavica was probably the earliest to do it this way) or using a bit of clip-on kit which you snip (The floppies used are in all cases -- as far as I know --

mirroring?

1999-12-12 Thread Aaron Solochek
Does anyone know either of the following. 1)If there are potato cd-images around, and if so, where? 2)Where the documentation for setting up a debain mirror is? I want to be able to bring the entire distro home with me over christmas, where I will have a slow connection. I need to install on a

JAVA 2.0 debs for slink? Anyone know where?

1999-12-12 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, I was curious if anyone had a pointer to JAVA 2 deb packages for slink. As I suspect this will be a very big download, and I'm using a modem, I want to make sure I get the right stuff. I also heard there is an emacs-based JDE, which I also would like to get, if this is separate from the

Two hard discs

1999-12-12 Thread Robert Thrall
Hello, I am at present using the Microsoft Windows 98 OS. I have two hard discs. If I transfer everything to one hard disc and then format the empty disc, can I install the Debian System: i386 to this formatted hard disc without causing any problems to the Windows 98 OS? In other words can I