apt-get en red local

1999-12-31 Thread benalb
Saludos a la lista. Tengo dos pc's en red. En uno de ellos tengo la slink con todas las actualizaciones posibles (Y2K, Xfree 3.3.5, etc) y en el otro una slink pelada. Para aprovechar los .deb que me he bajado, y los que me creado yo, en /var/cache/apt/archives , me he creado un Packages con

RE: Otro intento de arrancar X windows con savage 3D

1999-12-31 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
-Mensaje original- De: Miguel A. Abarca [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: jueves 30 de diciembre de 1999 19:55 Para: Lista Debian Asunto: Otro intento de arrancar X windows con savage 3D LLevo más de una semana intentando poder arrancar el servidor de X windows

RE: libdpkg ¿dónde la encuentro?

1999-12-31 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
-Mensaje original- De: Agustin MuNoz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: jueves 30 de diciembre de 1999 12:35 Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Asunto: Re: libdpkg ¿dónde la encuentro? El jue, 30 de dic de 1999, a las 09:38:34 +0100, Tejada Lacaci, Antonio va

copia de imagen de Debian

1999-12-31 Thread Antonio Angel Sanz Arróspide
Hola, vuelvo a la carga con el tema de la copia de una imagen iso en un CDROM: Muchas gracias a todos los que han contestado. Efectivamente , el Easy CD tiene la opción de copiar desde una imagen .iso pero cuando le doy esa opción y le digo el fichero, me contesta que esa no es una imagen

Potato para Marzo

1999-12-31 Thread Antonio Castro
Ya se que alguno me dirá que ya hay versiones no oficiales de Potato pero no es eso lo que yo quiero preguntar. Pregunto por la versión oficial y parece que la Potato podría estar a final de Febrero o para Marzo. Acaba de salir la release 4 pero una release solo pretende corregir cosas como

Re: copia de imagen de Debian

1999-12-31 Thread dfm
Creo que tu principal problema es que no tienes deshabilitado el soporte para CDROM IDE del kernel, si tienes emulacion scsi con soporte para cd-rom debes deshabilitar el soporte IDE. Si no me equivoco, mientras veas el cdrom como /dev/hdb no tendrás la configuración correcta. Por ejemplo, yo

Re: Otro intento de arrancar X windows con savage 3D

1999-12-31 Thread dfm
Por lo que veo en el log, el servidor X s queja de que faltan ciertos directorios de fuentes, no estoy seguro si lo es, pero podría ser una causa, no? Otra cosa que probablemente hayas comprobado pero que no viene mal recordar es... ¿has comprobado tu ~/.xsession por si está bien especificado el

Re: apt-get en red local

1999-12-31 Thread benalb
Cuando: vie, 31 de dic de 1999, a las 08:43:28 +0100 Quien: Tejada Lacaci, Antonio Que: RE: apt-get en red local -Mensaje original- deb http://lamanonegra/var/cache/apt/ archives/ Eh ... ¿tu servidor web te permite acceder a /var? ===8-o. Creo que tienes que dar

Re: [duda] run-parts

1999-12-31 Thread Correcaminos
El Thu, Dec 30, 1999 a las 12:09:34PM +0100, Jose Mari Mor i Fabregat dijo: Hola, Hace más de 6 meses que puse dos scripts en /etc/cron.daily, concretamente uno de sincrinizar la hora y el webalizer. El script de sincronizar la hora funcionaba perfectamente, i el cron lo

Re: apt-get en red local

1999-12-31 Thread Correcaminos
El Fri, Dec 31, 1999 a las 12:32:41AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Saludos a la lista. Tengo dos pc's en red. En uno de ellos tengo la slink con todas las actualizaciones posibles (Y2K, Xfree 3.3.5, etc) y en el otro una slink pelada. Para aprovechar los .deb que me he bajado, y los que

Re: [duda] run-parts

1999-12-31 Thread Fernando Sanchez
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Jose Mari Mor i Fabregat wrote: Por lo que yo tengo entendido, simplemente en incluirlos dentro de /etc/cron.* ya deberían funcionar. Si ejecuto el run-parts a mano tampoco funciona. ¿Cómo se llaman los scripts? El nombre del fichero, digo... porque ten en cuenta

Offtopic: Me aburro :P Feliz A?o 2000!!!

1999-12-31 Thread dfm
Hola a todos, aquí desde el curro (dichoso efecto 2000) os envío un saludo a todos y lo mejor para la comunidad Linux (más en concreto la española). Lo dicho, que disfruteis y que no os casque el Linux, aunque seguro que ni se inmuta con el cambio de año. Daniel.

Feliz ano Novo!

1999-12-31 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
A todos os participantes da lista e desenvolvedores que contribuem com o crescimento do Debian/GNU Linux (bem como o Linux e sua popularização) um feliz ano 2000! Abraços e boas festas! --- Gleydson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] MailBR - O e-mail do Brasil --

Feliz ano Novo!

1999-12-31 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
A todos os participantes da lista e desenvolvedores que contribuem com o crescimento do Debian/GNU Linux (bem como o Linux e sua popularização) um feliz ano 2000! Abraços e boas festas! --- gleydson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] MailBR - O e-mail do Brasil --

Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

1999-12-31 Thread aphro
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: ssahme I got one of the network admins to update their DNS config so that the ssahme hostname of the machine is mapped to the machine's ethernet address. ok ssahme Some more questions: I seem to be getting the same IP address through ssahme DHCP. After

Re: NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-31 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 02:03:32PM -0800, aphro wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: try adding /directorytobeexported hostname_to_export_to(ro,no_root_squash) This works well, thanks. you could do that, or just setup one user/group and add everyone to it that needs

Request Assistance

1999-12-31 Thread Mike_Davis
28-12-99 PNG Dear Sir/Madam: I have found your contact information in connection with an INTERNET search for SM56 or Motorola or ccmail. I am seeking assistance on installation of a Motorola SM56 PCI Speakerphone Modem and having it function

Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg)

1999-12-31 Thread John Pearson
Stuart Ballard replied off-list: On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 09:14:42PM +, Stuart Ballard wrote John Pearson wrote: I've attached a three-line awk filter that should do what's required, in the event it comes up again. Run it as # dpkg -l | reset-selections.awk | dpkg

su and chsh authentication/password failures

1999-12-31 Thread matt garman
I'm running a freshly installed potato system, and can't get su or chsh to work. After typing in my password, I get the following messages from su and chsh, respectively: su: Authentication failure Sorry. Incorrect password for garman. I can log in from the console with either the root

KLicq?

1999-12-31 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has had luck setting up KLicq in Debian. Are there any DEBs available for it? I've tried compiling the plugin, but it this is what I get with the make command: /var/downloads/licq-0.70.1/plugins/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:55pm# make Making all in po make[1]: Entering

Re: Territorial Legal Issues and FTP Archives (was Re: Quake is GPL)

1999-12-31 Thread John Hasler
Fish Smith writes: The idea with non-US is mainly to offer encryption software. (illegal in US) Encryption software is not illegal in the US. It is illegal to export it from the US and therefor illegal to put it up on a public site accessible from outside the US, but it is perfectly legal to

su and chsh never work

1999-12-31 Thread matt garman
Hello: I just installed potato via the floppy+ftp method. For some odd reason, I cannot su to root as a normal user, it always says I have the wrong password. But I can switch to a different virtual terminal and login as root with the same password, no problem. Also, as a user I tried to

correct apt sources.list line for non-us?

1999-12-31 Thread matt garman
What is the correct line to use in /etc/apt/sources.list for the unstable non-us files? I tried the following: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US but I always get a 404 not found error. What I am I doing wrong? Thanks, Matt

Re: correct apt sources.list line for non-us?

1999-12-31 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 30 Dec, matt garman wrote about correct apt sources.list line for non-us? What is the correct line to use in /etc/apt/sources.list for the unstable non-us files? I tried the following: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US but I always get a 404 not found

Re: NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-31 Thread Brian May
Alisdair == Alisdair McDiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alisdair The /etc/passwd and /etc/group files are totally Alisdair different across the two machines: e.g. the UID for Alisdair alisdair on letdown is the UID for knox on skinny. Is Alisdair there a sensible way of fixing

cdrom parameters

1999-12-31 Thread Bernd Überbacher
hello could anyone pls tell me the settings which i have to write in /etc/fstab for my hdb ide cdrom?? thanks mfg bernd

Re: Brief

1999-12-31 Thread Hovav Shacham
Blazej Sawionek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Once upon a time there was a text editor called `Brief'. Does it exist in Linux version? I'm reasonably sure that BRIEF was only available for DOS. There's a closed, proprietary editor called CRiSP (www.crisp.com) that apparently has macro-level

Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

1999-12-31 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... [...] Some more questions: I seem to be getting the same IP address through DHCP. That's the way it works - each time you reboot you get the same IP until the lease time runs out. After the DNS config update, I can ping this machine

crontab

1999-12-31 Thread Bernd Überbacher
hi again what do i have to write into /etc/crontab that cron will cp a file every 5 mins?? i have 5 * * * * root cp ... but this copies just every hour. pls help thanks in advance mfg bernd

Re: sudden IPX problems

1999-12-31 Thread Gregory T. Norris
What kernel version are you using? I was getting that error with the early 2.2.x kernels, but 2.2.1[23] seemed to be OK. On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 10:49:46AM -0500, Brian J. Stults wrote: Until a few days ago, I could mount local netware drives and print to netware printers without any problems.

Re: su and chsh never work

1999-12-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On 30/12/99 matt garman wrote: I just installed potato via the floppy+ftp method. For some odd reason, I cannot su to root as a normal user, it always says I have the wrong password. But I can switch to a different virtual terminal and login as root with the same password, no problem. Also,

Re: Burning CDs in Linux

1999-12-31 Thread Andreas Gartus
Rob Rati wrote: I just got the new Yamaha 6x4x16x CD-RW and can't seem to burn a CD. It always error out with what looks like a buffer problem. My machine is all SCSI, and it doesn't seem to matter whether I do a CD to CD burn or make an image and burn that from the HD. It always errors

Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

1999-12-31 Thread hypnos
No Message Collected

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-31 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 01:57:48AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote I've made some bad move while using dselect one day, and now I have 40 packages triggered for removal. 8-( Oh horror! I figure that this is saved in some file, for any time I try to install a package with dselect now, it wants to

Re: cdrom parameters

1999-12-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On 31/12/99 Bernd Überbacher wrote: could anyone pls tell me the settings which i have to write in /etc/fstab for my hdb ide cdrom?? /dev/hdb/cdrom iso9660 defaults,nosuid,nodev,noauto,ro 0 0 if you want ordinary users to be able to mount it add user to the options like

xawtv says it's my fault.

1999-12-31 Thread Hans
I bought a Miro Studio PCTV Pro card and try to get this working with a fresh Slink running a 2.2.10 kernel. I compiled V4L into the kernel and at boot up it recognizes the BT8xx card. So far so good. From the Slink CD I got xawtv, but when I run this the following happens. this is

Re: Debian pre-installed

1999-12-31 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Martin Schulze wrote: Fish Smith wrote: Aside from Space-time Systems, does anybody know of a place that offers machines with Debian pre-installed? Preferably stateside, preferably online. VA Linux Systems also sell preinstalled Debian boxes. Makes me wonder...

Re: sudden IPX problems

1999-12-31 Thread Brian Stults
Gregory T. Norris wrote: What kernel version are you using? I was getting that error with the early 2.2.x kernels, but 2.2.1[23] seemed to be OK. I was using 2.2.10 and ipx/ncpfs was working fine. Then when it stopped working, I tried upgrading to 2.2.13. I also reinstalled the ipx and

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-31 Thread Hartmut Figge
Arcady Genkin wrote: Any ideas, anyone? I'm pretty much at the end of my rope. I tried looking in various /var directories, hoping to find some cache file for dselect or apt, but alas... how about the status* files in /var/lib/dpkg ? -- hafi

Re: slink leafnode and y2k???

1999-12-31 Thread Hartmut Figge
Christian Surchi wrote: Now I don't use leafnode, so I couldn't try, but someone told me that leafnode has problem with the state of messages after 31/12/99... :o according the leafnode mailing-list that's fixed since leafnode 1.9.5. current release is version 1.9.7 -- hafi

Re: crontab

1999-12-31 Thread Brian May
Bernd == Bernd Überbacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bernd hi again what do i have to write into /etc/crontab that Bernd cron will cp a file every 5 mins?? Bernd i have Bernd 5 * * * * root cp ... Bernd but this copies just every hour. From man 5 crontab on slink I

Mail Delivery Failure

1999-12-31 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all- I'm getting warning messages from my mailer-daemon about how it can't deliver mail. I've only sent three over the last few days, so that's all that have been postponed. My mail system was working as late as a week ago, but now seems to have stopped. I normally use exim and the exim.conf

Re: crontab

1999-12-31 Thread Tobias Zimpel
On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 12:16:46AM +0100, Bernd Überbacher wrote: hi again what do i have to write into /etc/crontab that cron will cp a file every 5 mins?? i have 5 * * * * root cp ... */5 * * * * root cp ... HTH Tobias -- Tobias Zimpel (TZ496-RIPE) Linux - wie ein

RE: Mail Delivery Failure

1999-12-31 Thread Pollywog
On 31-Dec-1999 Mark Wagnon wrote: Hi all- I'm getting warning messages from my mailer-daemon about how it can't deliver mail. I've only sent three over the last few days, so that's all that have been postponed. My mail system was working as late as a week ago, but now seems to have

Re: setterm -store doesn't stick

1999-12-31 Thread Shaul Karl
I can not tell why -store does not store but a work around might be to put something like the following lines in your .bashrc: power_save() { if [ -z $DISPLAY ]; then setterm -powersave on fi } power_save ---BeginMessage--- I'm trying to do a setterm -store (-powersave off -powerdown

Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

1999-12-31 Thread aphro
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: ssahme ssahme Whenever I try to ping this machine (from itself) by giving the ssahme fqdn hostname, I get an error message like: ssahme ssahme unknown host matrix.domain.com ssahme ssahme nslookup on that fqdn hostname gives an error message saying

Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

1999-12-31 Thread John Hasler
Salman Ahmed writes: What should I add to this file so I can ping from the machine itself by giving its fqdn hostname ? 127.0.0.1 matrix.domain-name matrix localhost. With this line any process on the machine can reach the machine itself via the fqdn, the hostname, or just 'localhost'. Phil

Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

1999-12-31 Thread John Hasler
Salman Ahmed writes: But the second line in /etc/hosts will have to be updated/modified whenever the DHCP lease for that IP address runs out. If you have a proper localhost line in /etc/hosts you don't actually need the IP of your interface in there at all. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xawtv says it's my fault.

1999-12-31 Thread aphro
Firstly, avoid the drivers in the kernel they are outdated.. use http://www.metzlerbros.de/bttv.html instead i can't help you on yer xawtv problems as i compile xawtv myself and never had a problem. for most of my needs though i use kWINTV. nate On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Hans wrote: hansfo I

Re: su and chsh never work

1999-12-31 Thread matt garman
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 04:52:17PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: I just reinstalled a potato system 3 days ago using the 2.2.3 potato boot floppies and the base system was installed with massively wrong permissions: ... now hopefully this is not what happened to you and you can check to see

Re: su and chsh never work

1999-12-31 Thread matt garman
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 04:52:17PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: I just reinstalled a potato system 3 days ago using the 2.2.3 potato boot floppies and the base system was installed with massively wrong permissions: Would it be a bad idea to just do a tar xzvpf base2_2.tgz from my root

Re: crontab

1999-12-31 Thread Dave Sherohman
[Bernd _berbacher] said: what do i have to write into /etc/crontab that cron will cp a file every 5 mins?? i have 5 * * * * root cp ... but this copies just every hour. crontab entries define patterns that the time has to match for it to execute, not intervals. So you need to use

Re: Burning CDs in Linux

1999-12-31 Thread matt garman
Rob Rati wrote: I just got the new Yamaha 6x4x16x CD-RW and can't seem to burn a CD. It always error out with what looks like a buffer problem. My machine is all SCSI, and it doesn't seem to matter whether I do a CD to CD burn or make an image and burn that from the HD. It always

zsh and tab completions

1999-12-31 Thread matt garman
I have zsh version 3.1.6.pws13-1 installed on my potato system. For some reason, it's not doing *any* completions when I hit the tab key. By default, it behaves similar to bash with respect to completions, I believe, but this deb packaged zsh doesn't seem to do so. I tried just using the

Re: su and chsh never work

1999-12-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On 30/12/99 matt garman wrote: Yup, what you described is exactly what happened on my system. Gives new meaning to unstable, eh? yeah, i was rather horrified :( especially this close to freeze, i suppose i should get around to writing that bug report (i discovered this after the 3rd

Re: su and chsh never work

1999-12-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On 30/12/99 matt garman wrote: Would it be a bad idea to just do a tar xzvpf base2_2.tgz from my root directory? I assume all the files will be put in the correct places, but will this throw off or otherwise interfere with dpkg's accounting in anyway? I really don't know, I am not

Re: zsh and tab completions

1999-12-31 Thread matt garman
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 10:27:43PM -0600, matt garman wrote: I have zsh version 3.1.6.pws13-1 installed on my potato system. For some reason, it's not doing *any* completions when I hit the tab key. By default, it behaves similar to bash with respect to completions, I believe, but this deb

Re: Territorial Legal Issues and FTP Archives (was Re: Quake is GPL)

1999-12-31 Thread Fish Smith
The idea with non-US is mainly to offer encryption software. (illegal in US) Encryption software is not illegal in the US. It is illegal to export it from the US and therefor illegal to put it up on a public site accessible from outside the US, but it is perfectly legal to import it into the

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-31 Thread Arcady Genkin
John Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: See my reply to this list under the subject Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg) I provided a perl scrpt that probably does what you want. Please be careful to get the right message: I also posted an awk script that was broken enough

Re: Mail Delivery Failure

1999-12-31 Thread Mark Wagnon
Pollywog wrote: I am using Exim 3.11-2 (Debian package) and I do not see any problems. Well I've narrowed down the problem. I just don't know why it has stopped working. When I first set up exim, I did so following along with an LG article. It had me edit my exim.conf file's remote_smtp

Re: Download once, apt-get install many?

1999-12-31 Thread Frank Copeland
Robert L. Harris wrote: I'm looking at upgrading to potato. I'm doing the apt-get -d dist-upgrade currently since it looks like it'll take 1day and 15hrs per box. Since the -d downloads, can I take the files being downloaded for box1, tar them up, copy and untar to box[234] and then just

Re: Mail Delivery Failure

1999-12-31 Thread hypnos
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: Hi all- I'm getting warning messages from my mailer-daemon about how it can't deliver mail. I've only sent three over the last few days, so that's all that have been postponed. My mail system was working as late as a week ago, but now seems to have

Re: Mail Delivery Failure

1999-12-31 Thread Mark Wagnon
hypnos wrote: i use sendmail instead of exim, but i suspect your warning message says something to the effect that it was unable to send your message within 'x' hours, but that it will continue to try to send it. sendmail here is configured to send a warning after 8 hrs and to continue

Re: Download once, apt-get install many?

1999-12-31 Thread Ben Lutgens
On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 04:49:59PM +1100, Frank Copeland wrote: If the boxes are networked together, you can easily set up your own partial mirror and install from that. Once you have upgraded box #1, use apt-move to create a partial mirror from the .debs you downloaded, and set up a

Re: Download once, apt-get install many?

1999-12-31 Thread Frank Copeland
Ben Lutgens wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 04:49:59PM +1100, Frank Copeland wrote: If the boxes are networked together, you can easily set up your own partial mirror and install from that. Once you have upgraded box #1, use apt-move to create a partial mirror from the .debs you downloaded, and

X scroll-bars

1999-12-31 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, Is it possible to set all applications' scroll-bars on the left-hand side of their respective windows? (preferably done via the window mgr.'s settings). TIA, Oki

masqmail mserver

1999-12-31 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I have mserver and masqmail running on different hosts. I think masqmail's doc is not clear enough in explaining what to be done if the online_detect becomes true (connection established). I have the following in /etc/masqmail.conf # online detection: # # for 'mserver' uncomment next 2

Acer machines

1999-12-31 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'd like to know whether you have experiences with installing Debian on dual-cpu Acer machines; AcerAltos or AcerFrame. How does Linux recognize that a particular machine has more than one CPU; is it done via the bios? Do I have to install a specific driver for different models so that the

Re: Download once, apt-get install many?

1999-12-31 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Frank Copeland wrote: Since you are couching that as a question, I assume you haven't actually tried to do it that way. And my answer would be: I don't know. If you ever If you NFS mount /var/cache/apt/archives on all machines APT will magicially do the right thing.. Make

Re: Dependency problem

1999-12-31 Thread Ed Cogburn
Big Gaute wrote: I downloaded the source to angband and compiled it myself, so that I wouldn't have to install ncurses34. It now works perfectly. I then put the package on hold, so that my version will not be automatically replaced. However when I attempt an apt-get dist-upgrade apt wants

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-31 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 11:51:50PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote John Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: See my reply to this list under the subject Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg) I provided a perl scrpt that probably does what you want. Please be careful to get the

Re: Proposal: Source file package format (summary)

1999-12-31 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: On 30 Dec 1999, Nick Moffitt wrote: nick Quoting Svante Signell: nick - rpm format to be used for binary packages in LSB. nick nick I beg your pardon? RPM is one of the biggest pieces of crap ive seen..i spent 20 minutes working on a

Re: crontab

1999-12-31 Thread hypnos
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote: what do i have to write into /etc/crontab that cron will cp a file every 5 mins?? i have 5 * * * * root cp ... but this copies just every hour. crontab entries define patterns that the time has to match for it to execute, not intervals.

Re: Mail Delivery Failure

1999-12-31 Thread Mark Wagnon
Okay guys, problem solved, with some assistance from a private post. I ended up ditching the script for a rewrite rule in my exim.conf file. All is back to normal. still, it's strange that the script stopped working...oh well. nite! -- ) Mark

ncurses and python

1999-12-31 Thread Egbert Bouwman
From the slink cd i installed the python module python-curses 1.5.1-7 From www.python.org/doc/howto/curses/curses.html (by Andrew Kuchling) I understand that this is the original curses module, and that there exists a much improved one, to be found at

Re: [+/- Solved] Re: apache+mod_ssl under firewall

1999-12-31 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: mario If I do a full stop and then a start, everything is ok! I think that the mario reload isn't working well with mod_ssl. is apache-ssl the same as apache+mod_ssl ? i dont like to use dynamic

Re: xhost

1999-12-31 Thread Martin Schulze
Blazej Sawionek wrote: How do I enable a particular user on a given machine to write on my screen, not just anybody who is logged there? man xauth Basically, you'll create either a cookie for him and send it to him or you simply copy your .Xauthority file to the users home directory, or to a

Re: PGP

1999-12-31 Thread Martin Schulze
Urban Gabor wrote: Could somebody explain me what PGP is? http://www.pgp.net/, /usr/doc/pgp, /usr/share/pgp/ It's used to encrypt and sign electronically. Regards, Joey -- Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. Please always Cc to me when replying to me

Login to X Windows System

1999-12-31 Thread DRBLONUK
I have just installed the X Windows system under Debian 2.1 (slink). Unfortunately the system won't let me past the log-in prompt. I have tried the details for the root account and also for a user I configured during setup but alas the program keeps telling me it is an incorrect login. Any

laptop with PCMCIA

1999-12-31 Thread Alejandro Flores Jimenez
Does anyone know how to install debian 2.13 on a laptop where the CDROM is connected only via PCMCIA card? Thanks Alex Flores Alejandro Flores Jimenez Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya Edif. Nexus-104, Gran Capita`, 2-4, 08034 Barcelona Phone: +34 93 280 20 88. Fax: +34 93 280 63 95

Re: HP Surestore CD-WRITE+.8210i?

1999-12-31 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Onno wrote: Before you buy a CD Writer please visit: http://www.elaborate-bytes.com/CloneCD/english/hardware.htm (subsection of: http://www.elaborate-bytes.com/english/corp/index.htm) There was an interesting program available, thank you a lot. But it is written for

Epplets

1999-12-31 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Anyone knows if epplets of E will be included in Potato before freeze or not? Thanks, PH -- Abraços,PH Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Consultant Linux Solutions -- http://www.linuxsolutions.com.br Av.

apt manpage missing

1999-12-31 Thread David Karlin
Hello, The manpage for apt seems to be missing, although the manpage for apt-get is present, on my (slink) system. I'd thought that a program's manpage is installed with the package itself, but it doesn't seem to have happened in this case. How can I get this manpage installed on my system? Do

apt-move problem:

1999-12-31 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao, when I use apt-move localupdate I have the following problem: # apt-move localupdate Updating from local Packages files... Getting: unstable main Packages.gz Building: unstable main override.gz Getting: unstable contrib Packages.gz Building: unstable contrib override.gz Getting: unstable

termcomp

1999-12-31 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I am trying to install Accelerated X on my debian system. On their website they say i must install a termcomp program. I cannot seem to find this. Can anyone diredt me on how to install it or where it is. Thanks Ri ck -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Navigator on slink

1999-12-31 Thread Brian Schramm
I have downloaded the netscape communicator 4.7 and would like to know how I can install it by writing over the files that are there for 4.0. Ether that or have a deb package that will install it (prefered method). I need to do this today so can anyone help me out please? Brian Brian Schramm

Re: apt manpage missing

1999-12-31 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 31 Dec, David Karlin wrote about apt manpage missing Hello, The manpage for apt seems to be missing, although the manpage for apt-get is present, on my (slink) system. I'd thought that a program's manpage is installed with the package itself, but it doesn't seem to have happened in

Pine experts

1999-12-31 Thread Brian Schramm
I am having a problem trying to see my folders from my imap server in pine. I can see them in any other program that I use. Any ideas? Brian Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.linuxexpert.org

termcomp again

1999-12-31 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I am still tring to find the termcomp or termcap.compt file to make Accelerated X work. The search engine on debians site is not working and I cannot seem to find the file on my debian cd. if I issue the command apt-get install termcap.compat.deb it says it cannot find tyhe file. This file

Re: crontab

1999-12-31 Thread Joe Block
Bernd Überbacher wrote: hi again what do i have to write into /etc/crontab that cron will cp a file every 5 mins?? i have 5 * * * * root cp ... */5 * * * * root cp ... -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: Navigator on slink

1999-12-31 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Brian Schramm wrote: I have downloaded the netscape communicator 4.7 and would like to know how I can install it by writing over the files that are there for 4.0. Ether that or have a deb package that will install it (prefered method). I need to do this today so can anyone help me out

setterm -powersave

1999-12-31 Thread John Dalbec
How does this work? Do I need console blanking selected in the kernel? Do I need to setterm -powerdown ##? TIA, John

where I can find chkconfig

1999-12-31 Thread dinakar desai
Hello Everyone: Where I can find package chkconfig. I was installing manually apache and mysql and instructions asked to use chkconfig and i can find this package on debian. I really appreciate your help in this regard Thank you. With best regards Dinakar

Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

1999-12-31 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Salman Ahmed writes: What should I add to this file so I can ping from the machine itself by giving its fqdn hostname ? 127.0.0.1 matrix.domain-name matrix localhost. With this line any process on the machine can reach the

email grabbed by RMAIL emacs

1999-12-31 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Just installed emacs and opened rmail just to see it works. To my surprise, all my inbox messages are now gone into RMAIL and can only be read from emacs. Anyone know how I can get them back? I'll probably play about with RMAIL but I want it as just another imap client...not as one

RE: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato

1999-12-31 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
thanks for the info on Potato. if i do decide to go to Potato is there something i should be wary of. it appears from the other distro that the 2.2 kernel is working fine. does Potato have any specific issues with the 2.2 kernel i.e is something horribly broken that makes Potato very unstable

Re: Navigator on slink

1999-12-31 Thread Brian Schramm
Thanks. I never thought of uninstalling the one that was installed. I was trying to update it. Brian Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.linuxexpert.org On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Konrad Mierendorff wrote: Brian Schramm wrote: I have downloaded the netscape communicator 4.7 and would like to

Unrecognized option: --helpRe: email grabbed by RMAIL emacs

1999-12-31 Thread David Teague
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: Just installed emacs and opened rmail just to see it works. To my surprise, all my inbox messages are now gone into RMAIL and can only be read from emacs. Anyone know how I can get them back? I'll probably play about with RMAIL but I want it as

gnome

1999-12-31 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, When I used redhat I could start gnome and enlightenment using the gnome-sessions command. Is there anyway to do this with debian. Thanks Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato

1999-12-31 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 31 Dec, Patrick Dahiroc wrote about RE: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato thanks for the info on Potato. if i do decide to go to Potato is there something i should be wary of. it appears from the other distro that the 2.2 kernel is working fine. does Potato have any specific issues with

  1   2   >