Unidad DAT HP SCSI externa

2000-01-24 Thread Ximo Nadal
Hola: Tenemos una unidad HP SureStore DAT24e (SCSI externa) con Debian Hamm. En la caja de la unidad pone que es de 24Gb, pero con compresión 2:1, o sea que en realidad es de 12Gb (inducen a error al personal, ya que la compresión se realiza por soft). El problema es que cuando lleva

Re: Controlar una subred Windows con linux

2000-01-24 Thread J. Carlos Muro
Jorge Ramiro escribió: Tengo una sala de informática con 8 pentiums a 450MHz (bajo windows98). [...] En RESUMEN: lo que quiero es que no me trasteen en la configuración de windows y que no me instalen mIRC y cosas por el estilo. Así, cuando verdaderamente hagan falta los ordenadores,

Re: Unidad DAT HP SCSI externa

2000-01-24 Thread Fernando Sanchez
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Ximo Nadal wrote: El problema es que cuando lleva aproximadamente 2Gb el tar da un mensaje de que hay que cambiar la cinta. ¿Qué versión de tar usais? En las 1.11 todavía había problemas con el tipo que se usaba para el tamaño máximo de cada volumen. Es fácil de arreglar

Re: Ejecutable en disketera

2000-01-24 Thread Enzo A. Dari
Mauricio E. Ruíz Font wrote: Compile un programa en gcc y lo guarde en la disquetera, pero no me lo quiere ejecutar desde la disquetera, por que... ... Seguramente está montado con la opción noexec que no permite que se ejecuten programas desde ese filesystem. La opción noexec se

No tengo correo

2000-01-24 Thread Antonio Beamud Montero
Hola a todos: He tenido que recurrir a mi cuenta de webmail para poder enviar un mensaje de correo. De un tiempo a esta parte vengo intentando enviar correo, pero no puedo, he probado con distintos MTA's pero siempre me devuelve el mismo error: (ERR156) transport smtp: 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]...

Re: Ejecutable en disketera

2000-01-24 Thread Barbie Dominatrix
¿Has probado a montarlo con la opción exec (-o exec)? Con eso le dices que se pueden ejecutar programas del filesystem que montas El día 22/01/00 Mauricio E. Ruíz Font decía: Compile un programa en gcc y lo guarde en la disquetera, pero no me lo quiere ejecutar desde la disquetera,

OFF TOPIC: PINGUINO

2000-01-24 Thread ZUMBIJUNIOR
Hola a todos: Una pregunta un poco estupida, pero que cuando me la hicieron no supe responderla: Porque el emblema del Sistema Operativo Linux es un Pinguino y no otro animalito u otra figura ? Que significado tiene el pinguinito? Al menos en Mierdows las ventanas lo dicen todo. En fin, espero

Bug en el plugger de potato

2000-01-24 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
Hola buenas hoy me he estado actualizando algunos paquetes de potato y he visto que el plugger (version 3.2-1) provoca un bus error al comunicator 4.61 y 4.7 ¿A alguien + le ha pasado? ¿Puede alguien que sepa Ingles reportarlo? ¿Puedo hacerlo yo en castellano? ¿Ya esta reportado? Muchas gracias

Re: [OFF TOPIC: PINGUINO]

2000-01-24 Thread Ivan Andres Hernandez Puga
Estimado Zumbijunior: Segun he oido Linus Torvalds estaba en Australia visitando a su amigo Alan Cox (creador del samba) cuando de la nada fueron atacados por una bandada de pinguinos duende. Pese a que Alan tenia un paraguas con el cual defenderse y defender a Linus una de las aves hirio una de

Re: OFF TOPIC: PINGUINO

2000-01-24 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
At 10:29 a.m. 2000-01-24 EST, ZUMBIJUNIOR wrote: Hola a todos: Una pregunta un poco estupida, pero que cuando me la hicieron no supe responderla: Porque el emblema del Sistema Operativo Linux es un Pinguino y no otro animalito u otra figura ? Que significado tiene el pinguinito? Al menos en

ISO9660 y mayúsculas

2000-01-24 Thread Barbie Dominatrix
Tengo montando un CDROM en el que los nombres de los ficheros tienen mezcladas mayúsculas y minúsculas. Al acceder a cualquiera de esos ficheros puedo utilizar mayúsculas y minúsculas a mi antojo (si el fichero se llama COPYRIGH.TXT puedo acceder a él con CopyRIgHT.tXt si me da la gana), pero

Como Bajarse la POTATO?

2000-01-24 Thread Zuzen de la Cueva
Perdonad lo de la fecha tengo un problema con un programilla y se me ha olvidado cambiarla al enviar el correo :-( Gracias --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date forwarded: 24 Jan 2000 10:25:30 - From: Zuzen de la Cueva [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

¡No veo nada!

2000-01-24 Thread Ricardo Villalba
Desde hace unos días no me funciona el servidor de correo de jazzfree, así que no recibo ningún mensaje de esta lista, aunque sí puedo enviar (por wanadoo). Así que si tardo mucho en responder a algo ya sabeis porque es. A ver si esto se arregla porque me temo que los mensajes que me ha enviado

Los menús de las X's ....

2000-01-24 Thread Correcaminos
Despues de la última actualización que he realizado en Potato (este sábado), resulta que me he quedado con una décima parte de los menús que tenía. Es decir, si antes aparecían 15 editores en el menú de editores, ahora me aparecen 5 ... Despues de ejecutar un update-menus, la

Re: [OFF TOPIC: PINGUINO]

2000-01-24 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
At 02:29 p.m. 2000-01-24 ARST, Ivan Andres Hernandez Puga wrote: Estimado Zumbijunior: Segun he oido Linus Torvalds estaba en Australia visitando a su amigo Alan Cox (creador del samba) cuando de la nada fueron atacados por una bandada de pinguinos duende. Pese a que Alan tenia un paraguas con el

Re: [OFF TOPIC: PINGUINO]

2000-01-24 Thread gdiaz
Ugo Enrico Albarello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lo raro es que: 1. Alan Cox no vive en Australia, vive en Inglaterra. 2. Alan Cox _no_ creó samba, fue otro fulano. Sí, no era Alan Cox sino Andrew Tridgell del proyecto samba quien, como buena parte de los líderes de samba, vive en Australia.

Re: Los menús de las X's ....

2000-01-24 Thread Fermin Martinez
El dia Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 08:20:00PM +0100, Correcaminos ezpuzo: Despues de la última actualización que he realizado en Potato (este sábado), resulta que me he quedado con una décima parte de los menús que tenía. Es decir, si antes aparecían 15 editores en el menú de editores, ahora

Re: Logitech mouseman problem

2000-01-24 Thread peter karlsson
Ingemar Fällman: Kör jag gpm så funkar den inte i X, jag har försökt att ställa in /dev/gpmdata som device men utan lyckat resultat. Jag hade samma problem nyss. Jag löste det genom att *inte* använda gpm som repeater (ta bort -R från append i /etc/gpm.conf), och sedan ställa in X att använda

Re: Logitech mouseman problem

2000-01-24 Thread peter karlsson
Vilka inställningar körde du för övrigt i gpm använde du mman eller imps2 som protokoll?? $ cat /etc/gpm.conf device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= #repeat_type=ms3 type=ps2 append=-l \a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\ -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Unidentified subject!

2000-01-24 Thread Henrik Andersson
Hej Jag har ett litet problem. När jag ska köra apt-get -f install, får jag meddelandet: Fixing dependecies: failed E: Internal error, ScoredFix generated breaks Vad ska jag göra? -- Henrik Andersson

Re: script de teclado

2000-01-24 Thread Jose Carlos Benfati
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Elson Praciano Serra Pereira wrote: Antes de mais nada, obrigado Benfatti, pelo Linux da PCMaster. Foi um belo trabalho. Pena que nao foi baseado no Debian. Contudo, esta e uma opiniao pessoal. Eu também prefiro o Debian, tanto para instalar em clientes como para uso

Re: shutdown sem senha de root em modo grafico

2000-01-24 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
Então e que tal este método: Adicionar as seguintes linhas no fim do ficheiro /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 -*- CUT -*- # Reboot button /usr/bin/wish EOF wm geometry . +0-0 button .halt -text Halt -command {exec shutdown -h now} button .reboot -text Reboot -command {exec shutdown -r now} pack

Re: Grupos de Usuarios

2000-01-24 Thread Helio Loureiro
Voces conhecem algum grupo de usuarios Debian brasileiro? Debian Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD e outros: http://www.engnux.ufsc.br []'s +--+---+-+ | Helio Alexandre Lopes Loureiro |[EMAIL PROTECTED]| Powered | |

Re: Removing unwanted files at installation time

2000-01-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Seth R Arnold wrote: This I admit would be sort of slick -- perhaps there should be a copyrights directory off of /usr/share/doc/ that contains the entries GNU Artistic BSD XFree86 Mozilla and packages could symlink their copyright to one of those entries, if it matches exactly.

Re: Removing unwanted files at installation time

2000-01-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
(this shouldn't really be in debian-user, I'll set the Reply-To accordingly) Previously MiniVend wrote: 1. Be able to select which processor that system uses, i386, m68, alpha, etc from a menu. such that when the selection is made all installed software does NOT include references to

Re: mail problem

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
Ok..i've been playing around with this for the past 2 hours and still its not doing what i'm expecting it to do ..(i just ordered the sendmail book from www.ora.com to help me too) i reconfigured sendmail to use mailertables(via sendmailconfig) and set /etc/mail/mailertable to include:

Re: Sendmail problems - resend.

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
if i had this problem i would just re-install sendmail, remove the current one (using --force-depends) and reinstall it. and reconfigure it(again)..make sure /var/spool/mqueue is cleared too..(move the files or delete them if they are not important, spooled mail) beyond that im not sure what to

Re: unzipping *.zip files

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
if your using deiban you need the unzip package (or the unzip-crypt) nate On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote: mathes Hey, mathes mathes just wondering if it was possible to unzip *.zip files with linux. Do I mathes need to download a utility to do this? mathes mathes Thanks, mathes

Re: copy permissions

2000-01-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On 24/1/2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have nfs shared a directory on one machine and used cp -a to copy the directory to another machine...(to produce an identicle file server) What puzzles me is that although i was logged on as root... i was still unable to copy some files.. it saying that

Re: Playing audio CDs question

2000-01-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On 23/1/2000 David J. Kanter wrote: OK, I did chgrp cdrom /dev/hdc, and then adduser david cdrom. But now I can't play CDs. When I start xfreecd, I get: CDROM device: Permission denied. Do I need to change the group on the /dev/cdrom as well? are you sure /dev/hdc is your cdrom device? the

Re: mail problem

2000-01-24 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-01-23 14:46:28, aphro wrote: wind Clearly, you are hosting something on galactica, otherwise mail for wind your local user would be forwarded to your other machine. What is wind the mx record for galactica? Do you have a domain hosted on bebo and wind some users from that domain on

Re: mail problem

2000-01-24 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-01-23 16:35:54, aphro wrote: i reconfigured sendmail to use mailertables(via sendmailconfig) and set /etc/mail/mailertable to include: .aphroland.orgsmtp:firetrail.com .mac-resources.comsmtp:firetrail.com Is this the correct format? but it appeaars it is ignoring the

Re: need Identd

2000-01-24 Thread Mike Horansky
Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't get on IRC chat server without it. Identd is installed how do I get it running? In /etc/inet.d there should be a line like identstream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/identd identd -i You made have take out # characters at the

Re: Failed to extract Drivers floppy

2000-01-24 Thread Mike Horansky
Yabba Dabba [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a CD for debian 2.1. When I get to the point of installing the kernel after booting from the CD, it says failed to extract drivers floppy. I've tried telling it exactly where to find the resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin files, and I've tried putting

Re: Cannot mount all CDs

2000-01-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
Generally we don't mount music CDROM's to play them. I don't think music CD's are iso9660 (most of the time). -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc |

Re: Batch rename files

2000-01-24 Thread Shao Zhang
A quick solution that pops out of my head, but it is pretty stupid, and certainly not the easiest: ls -1 rename; cat rename; group-1-member-01.txt group-1-member-02.txt group-2-member-01.txt vi rename; then do the following:

GnomeICU dies

2000-01-24 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello all; I'm running potato (updated 2000-01-22) and GnomeICU has been dying with this error for *several* weeks: Gdk-ERROR **: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) serial 9 error_code 9 request_code 134 minor_code 1 Sometimes it runs for 1 second and other times for as long

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-24 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
I am no expert on X11 ressources, but here is a few ideas. Beware that this is based on a mental image I have built for myself which may have anywhere between 0 and 100 % resemblance to reality. First note that X11 distinguishes between an applications *class* and its *name*. So you could try

Re: Removing unwanted files at installation time

2000-01-24 Thread John Foster
Wichert Akkerman wrote: (this shouldn't really be in debian-user, I'll set the Reply-To accordingly) Previously MiniVend wrote: 1. Be able to select which processor that system uses, i386, m68, alpha, etc from a menu. such that when the selection is made all installed software does NOT

Re: pon and pppconfig

2000-01-24 Thread ktb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What packages are pon and pppconfig in? Adam Try 'dpkg -S pon' and 'dpkg -S pppconfig' hth, kent

Help

2000-01-24 Thread Jianbo Wang
Hi, I am running potato with 2.2.13 kernel. I screw up perl. So perl 5.004 is broken and cannot be removed. dpkg-preconfig is a perl script, so my upgrade failed. I try to the following command dpkg --purge perl-5.004 apt-get -f install It seems that apt-get depends on perl, and i cannot clean up

Purpose of shutdown and halt users

2000-01-24 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, Is there any purpose for the shutdown and halt users? Is the intention there so that you can give operators an alternative means of shutting down a server other than giving them the root password? Thanks in advance Andrew Andrew Pollock Asia Online ABC Project [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mail problem

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Allan M. Wind wrote: wind Is this the correct format? from what i could see on www.sendmail.org it is .. wind Hmm... that sounds like normal behavior to me. If you serve the wind domain and the user doesn't exist, sendmail should correctly wind reject mail. i'd hope it

Re: Booting problem with AMD Athlon

2000-01-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Alain Birtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently bought Debian 2.1 and I tried to install it on my brand new PC. However I was not capable to make it to the installer. When I start from the CD-ROM, I see the boot: prompt, I hit return and then it starts loading stuff, like a normal boot

Re: Help(solved)

2000-01-24 Thread Jianbo Wang
Hi, I use dpkg -i perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-5.2_i386 to overwrite the old one, and it works. Jianbo

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
You're on target. Here's a sample of my ~/.Xresources copied from the sample Xdefaults that comes with Xemacs. Emacs.default.attributeBackground: white Emacs.default.attributeForeground: black The default Debian setup wants it named .Xresources (as opposed to .Xdefaults). --

Re: Getting DHCP working with windows

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Damon Muller wrote: dm-deb I've also tried adding the 255.255.255.255 route as described in the dm-deb HOWTO, but it didn't make any difference. make sure a firewall is not blocking the dhcp broadcasts..the package 'ipmasq' pretty much blocked everything from my machines

Re: pon and pppconfig

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
On 23 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: atray What packages are pon and pppconfig in? atray pon - ppp pppconfig - pppconfig (slink, not sure about potato) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations

Re: Cannot mount all CDs

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
you cannot mount a music cd, it kjust doesnt work :) just tell the cd player to play directly from the drive (e.g. /dev/cdrom or /dev/scd0 ..etc) nate On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, David J. Kanter wrote: djkant This is odd: I can only mount some of the CDs I've put into my CD-ROM. Why? djkant djkant

Re: Batch rename files

2000-01-24 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: What would be the easiest way to rename a bunch of files foo-[0-9]-bar-[0-9][0-9].txt into blah-[0-9]-[0-9][0-9].txt Note, that all of the files have identical portions `foo-', `-bar-', and `.txt' in the filenames. Different are two

strange ppp traffic

2000-01-24 Thread Robert Marlow

minimal installation

2000-01-24 Thread Friedemann Schorer
Hi all :-) I'd like to install Debian on an old 486 machine which only has a little 500 MB HDD. Is it possible to install a really _minimal_ system from debian disk and CD's (e.g. a preformed profile), which runs only the services that are really needed and then can be upgraded ? I tried it

Re: minimal installation

2000-01-24 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Some what recently, Friedemann Schorer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about minimal installation :) Hi all :-) :) I'd like to install Debian on an old 486 machine which only has a :) little 500 MB HDD. Is it possible to install a really _minimal_ :) system from debian disk and CD's (e.g. a

Re: CD-ROM only plays mono??

2000-01-24 Thread Greg Starkes
Hwei Sheng TEOH wrote: I'm using the cdtool package to play audio CD's from my CD-ROM drive. For some reason, playing CD's only outputs MONO sound (ie. only to one of my speakers). It's not a problem with my speakers since .mp3 and .wav files plays as stereo without any problems. Is this

Re: don't want x as default startup

2000-01-24 Thread Matt Folwell
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 06:50:43PM +0100, mek wrote: it's too late now, i already deleted it. but since that time i cannot startx as normal user anymore Edit /etc/X11/Xserver abd change the second line from RootOnly to Console -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL

Help me with glibc

2000-01-24 Thread Robert Beranek
Hello! Is there anyone that succseed to insatll Glibc 2.1 in Debian 2.1 Slink? If so, PLEASE help me!! Thanks, Robert __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com?sr=mc.mk.mcm.tag001

Fwd: new install network problem

2000-01-24 Thread Roger Weinheimer
I'm trying to install debian packages with dselect, and ftp fails to connect on 'update available packages' step. Can someone look at my boot message and network configuration files and tell me why my network isn't working, please? data... ***/var/log/messages Jan 24 01:07:36 m68k

How to add ethernet cards (also interrupt problems)

2000-01-24 Thread Joshua J. Brickel
Hi folks, I seem to have a couple of problems setting up my ethernet cards. I've set up my system as a router, hence it has two ethernet cards. Both cards are 3COM Fatsh Ethelink XL 10/100 (I think the driver is 3c59x). Either way for some reason during installation of my debian (2.1) system

Re: Very frustrating

2000-01-24 Thread virtanen
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Phillip Deackes wrote: Don Cavaiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, is it possible to put a new icon on the window desktop so that I can start a favorite program with just a click? You need a file manager which uses icons. A very nice one to use is dfm - in

How to Make a Debian Rescue CD from Windows

2000-01-24 Thread Craig H. Block
Someone asked about making Debian CD's from Windows. Here's how I've been doing it; Create an archive on your Windows machine, for example c:\debian_cd Copy the 2880K rescue image (from disks-i386/2.2.4-2000-01-03/disks-2.88 in the master archive) to c:\debian_cd Copy drivers.tgz,

Re: Fwd: new install network problem

2000-01-24 Thread Michael Schmitz
I'm trying to install debian packages with dselect, and ftp fails to connect on 'update available packages' step. Can someone look at my boot message and network configuration files and tell me why my network isn't working, please? data... Thanks for posting your problem three times. Jan

ipchains diagnostics

2000-01-24 Thread Patrick
I can't get ipchains to work and get no error messages when I run echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/24 -j MASQ How can I tell what's wrong? I see nothing in logs nor tail -f /var/log/messages. Patrick

imapd, horde or imp problem

2000-01-24 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm having some troubles in setting a webmail server. Almost everything is working fine except for Creating new folders in HOME directory as well as for saving sent messages. Could somebody help me in solving this, please? Things I can do at the moment are: -

Re: Help me with glibc

2000-01-24 Thread Tilman Kranz
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 03:34:09AM -0500, Robert Beranek wrote: Hello! Is there anyone that succseed to insatll Glibc 2.1 in Debian 2.1 Slink? [...] Greetings, sure is. I upgraded via downloading and installing the .debs from unstable using dpkg. I also have installed a self-compiled glibc

Re: dropping libc 2.1 into stable for some development work possible?

2000-01-24 Thread Tilman Kranz
Greetings, On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 11:34:18AM -0900, Britton wrote: Is it possible to get the upstream library, install it in /usr/local, and then compile certain packages against it (static or whatever is fine for the moment) without disturbing the rest of the system? Will I see full

Netscape -- Bus Error

2000-01-24 Thread jason
Netscape crashed hard on me the other day.. now whenever i try to run it from the command line i get Bus Error anyone know what i have to do to fix this? -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.

xconsole couldn't open console

2000-01-24 Thread Carl Fink
After an apt-get upgrade (using potato) attempts to open xconsole show the above error. I can't pinpoint the exact time of the problem because with Linux I went weeks between boots, and it's started by my .Xsession. I tried looking up the problem in the Debian-User archives, but unfortunately

Is it possible to Increase file number on ext2fs ?

2000-01-24 Thread test
Hi all, I'm using kind of linux on 386 box with 40 MB hdd (8swap+32 ext2). It carries two modems and servers as Dialup server. Just now I have about 8 Mb free on hdd. But file count is nearly at its limit. So is there any way to increase possible file count for my FS ? Or I have to look for some

Re: ipchains diagnostics

2000-01-24 Thread Onno Ebbinge
IP forwarding and IP masq-ing are enabled in the kernel? Regards, Onno At 10:29 AM 1/24/00 +, Patrick wrote: I can't get ipchains to work and get no error messages when I run echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/24 -j

Re: Removing unwanted files at installation time

2000-01-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously John Foster wrote: I was referencing the kernel package. It seems to have a lot of stuff I do not require for my i386 CPU but when I have removed/deleted some of these from the tree in the past, it screwed up my dpkg dependencies. The kernel source package only contains a tar

Re: Problem with console-data package in Woody

2000-01-24 Thread David Natkins
Sorry if this has already been reported, but the console-data package in Woody (the new unstable) has a problem with the default keymap. I renamed it and used the old one and everything is ok. -- David Natkins Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ipchains diagnostics

2000-01-24 Thread Patrick
ip masq is definately enabled in the kernel but not sure about ip forwarding. My real question is how can I diagnose the error. Where can I get a message what setting I've missed as I know this is Operator Error. Patrick

need X help, please

2000-01-24 Thread Steve Winston
Please give this newbie some advice. I have configured X to the point where I get an Enlightenment window including one open terminal window that gives me access to the command line. But I can't use any functions. When I try to open Eterm, Electric Eyes, GIMP, etc., I get messages saying they are

Re: Batch rename files

2000-01-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
Arcady Genkin said: What would be the easiest way to rename a bunch of files foo-[0-9]-bar-[0-9][0-9].txt into blah-[0-9]-[0-9][0-9].txt mmv is the way to go. It's in the mmv package (imagine that...); just install it (if you haven't already done so) and then mmv foo-*-bar-*

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-24 Thread Big Gaute
Christian Lynbech on satellite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am no expert on X11 ressources, but here is a few ideas. Beware that this is based on a mental image I have built for myself which may have anywhere between 0 and 100 % resemblance to reality. First note that X11 distinguishes

Re: ipchains diagnostics

2000-01-24 Thread Onno Ebbinge
At 01:56 PM 1/24/00 +, Patrick wrote: ip masq is definately enabled in the kernel but not sure about ip forwarding. My real question is how can I diagnose the error. Where can I get a message what setting I've missed as I know this is Operator Error. If 'ls /proc/sys/net/ipv4' yields a

Re: ipchains diagnostics

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
i assume your talking about ipmasq ? did u set the gateway of the other machines to the ip of the linux box? what happens exactly? make sure your using kernel 2.2 if yer usin ipchains nate On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Patrick wrote: patric I can't get ipchains to work and get no error messages when I

Slink or Potato

2000-01-24 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I'm a user who are way behind the debian upgrade. I've recently mirror the slink and plan to upgrade from my debian 1.3.1 to slink. However, I've just noticed the potato was recently frozen. I'd like to solicite you all comment on whether I should upgrade to slink or potato?

Re: Is it possible to Increase file number on ext2fs ?

2000-01-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On 24/1/2000 test wrote: I'm using kind of linux on 386 box with 40 MB hdd (8swap+32 ext2). It carries two modems and servers as Dialup server. Just now I have about 8 Mb free on hdd. But file count is nearly at its limit. So is there any way to increase possible file count for my FS ? Or I

Weird Console Stuff

2000-01-24 Thread ^chewie
I've been experiencing a very strange console problem. My keyboard seems to have the wrong keys bound. In X Windows, no problems. In console, 'cwalstrom' types out as 'czqlstro,'. Obviously, I cannot log on in console mode because I cannot predict which keys I have to depress to get the

Re: ipchains diagnostics

2000-01-24 Thread Dänzer
--- Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't get ipchains to work and get no error messages when I run echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/24 -j MASQ The IP address looks funny. Sure it's private? Michel =

RE: Weird Console Stuff

2000-01-24 Thread Lewis, James M.
I've been experiencing a very strange console problem. My keyboard seems to have the wrong keys bound. In X Windows, no problems. In console, 'cwalstrom' types out as 'czqlstro,'. Obviously, I cannot log on in console mode because I cannot predict which keys I have to depress to get the

ISDN, Calling in, HOW?????

2000-01-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
I want to be able to call in on my linux computer from both [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Linux computers, the linux computer has a ISND (Teles) Card. I've tried to do it by putting a getty on a modem line (/etc/inittab) but that won't work. I think mgetty only works with anologue modems (tell me if I'm

Re: mail confusion

2000-01-24 Thread Gary Hennigan
paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] OK. At least I feel I`m doing something constructive now. Firstly dpkg -l | grep mail transport tells me: FUDO2:/home/guest# dpkg -l | grep mail transport ii sendmail8.9.3-20 A powerful mail transport agent. which is as I expected

Re: 2.2.10-14 i686 SMP: IDE RAID-5 array hangs on mount

2000-01-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Khimenko Victor wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adam C Powell IV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: AI Apologies for the delay, I've been having some email trouble. Future followups AI will be a lot quicker. AI Khimenko Victor wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adam C Powell IV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

RE: Weird Console Stuff

2000-01-24 Thread I can. Thank you.
you are typing with a french keymap. on the french keyboard swaps a - q, z - w, and puts some other keys in different places. i don't know enough about setting keymaps to tell you how to fix the problem, but maybe someone else knows matt On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Lewis, James M. wrote: I've

Re: Help me with glibc

2000-01-24 Thread Robert Beranek
Tilman, could you please tell me exactly which packages did you install, beacuse when i want to install libc6_2.1.2-11.deb it says that i should update timezone package which i cannot find. Sincearlly Robi On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 03:34:09AM -0500, Robert Beranek wrote: Hello! Is there

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Re: 2.2.10-14 i686 SMP: IDE RAID-5 array hangs on mount

2000-01-24 Thread Alan Cox
1. If you are lucky and have working RAID based on stock 2.2.x (for example RAID 0 :-) you should be able to upgrade to 2.2.14 without big hassle. So upgrade to RAID 0.90 in mainstream kernel posponed to 2.4 ... Thanks, I will do that as soon as possible. 2. RAID 0.90 need some

Re: Batch rename files

2000-01-24 Thread David Wright
Quoting Arcady Genkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What would be the easiest way to rename a bunch of files foo-[0-9]-bar-[0-9][0-9].txt into blah-[0-9]-[0-9][0-9].txt Note, that all of the files have identical portions `foo-', `-bar-', and `.txt' in the filenames. Different are two

Re: 2.2.10-14 i686 SMP: IDE RAID-5 array hangs on mount

2000-01-24 Thread Khimenko Victor
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adam C Powell IV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: AI Khimenko Victor wrote: 2. RAID 0.90 need some changes in some important kernel structures and such changes will affect even users without RAID. RedHat 6.1 includes RAID patches anyway so I'm not sure if 2. still can be

Re: Netscape -- Bus Error

2000-01-24 Thread Robert Rati
Ya, I just had a similar problem. Uninstall plugger and that should fix it. Rob On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, jason wrote: Netscape crashed hard on me the other day.. now whenever i try to run it from the command line i get Bus Error

Re: 2.2.10-14 i686 SMP: IDE RAID-5 array hangs on mount

2000-01-24 Thread Khimenko Victor
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 1. If you are lucky and have working RAID based on stock 2.2.x (for example RAID 0 :-) you should be able to upgrade to 2.2.14 without big hassle. So upgrade to RAID 0.90 in mainstream kernel posponed to 2.4 ... Thanks, I will do

Re: Batch rename files

2000-01-24 Thread Matthias Hertel
Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What would be the easiest way to rename a bunch of files foo-[0-9]-bar-[0-9][0-9].txt into blah-[0-9]-[0-9][0-9].txt Note, that all of the files have identical portions `foo-', `-bar-', and `.txt' in the filenames. Different are two numerical

Re: 2.2.10-14 i686 SMP: IDE RAID-5 array hangs on mount

2000-01-24 Thread Alan Cox
Ask Cox, not me :-) Since Cox is RedHat's employee it looks VERY weird to me that RedHat's kernel and official Cox's kernel are two such different beasts. 2.2.15 and the Red Hat kernel are two different things. They I suspect always will be. The things vendors want make it work now and the

program like SuperProbe for sound?

2000-01-24 Thread Stuart Ballard
I was wondering if there was any program which would do for soundcards what SuperProbe does for graphics - in other words, go talk to the hardware, ask it what it is, and tell you everything you need to know to choose the right kernel module to run it. I have an old Packard Hell machine in which

Re: Removing unwanted files at installation time

2000-01-24 Thread John Foster
Wichert Akkerman wrote: The kernel source package only contains a tar archive of the kernel source now. If you safely unpack it and then remove parts of the unpacked source, dpkg won't care if you do that. This just happens to be the way in which the kernel source is distributed, and every

Blocked high ports (fwd)

2000-01-24 Thread Bradley M Alexander
Hello all, Got a problem that is driving me nuts. Sorry to have sent to both lists, but it is affecting both my laptop (Toshiba Satellite 4080XCDT) and my desktop (K6-2/450) machine. I installed Debian/Slink afresh on defiant (the desktop) over the weekend, and immediately upgraded it to Potato.

Re: Attention: imapd gpoing back to $HOME as mailbox root

2000-01-24 Thread Joe Emenaker
Although a number of people have supported my decision to make $HOME/mail the mailbox root for the UW imap server I maintain, I think it will be for the best overall if I make it $HOME again. Argh! Okay. Does anybody want to suggest any other imap daemons that allow me to set the mailroot to

Broken KBD installation

2000-01-24 Thread Pavel Epifanov
Dear All, Lately I had a trouble with keyboard mapping changed completely. It seems to me that installation script for the kbd package was broken and replace my correct /etc/kbd/default.kmap.gz by wrong one. The solution is very simple - reboot from rescue disk (or logon thru ssh) and

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