Re: Eleccion del servidor de correo

2000-04-01 Thread Fernando Sanchez
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, David Charro Ripa wrote: El sistema que monte debera tener acceso POP3, para unos 120 usuarios (aunque crecera hasta unos 300), deberia ser facilmente configurable, tener todos los programas en paquetes Debian, que se puedan incluir utilidades del tipo de listas de

Re: rc.local para Debian

2000-04-01 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
¿Te referias a esto? /etc/rc.boot Pero lo que quieres hacer no es el tipo de cosas para las que el 'rc.boot' fue diseñado. -- Saudos: ose[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vigo/Galicia/España) http://pagina.de/xmanoel/ http://w3.to/mikkeli/ 03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer

Re: Eleccion del servidor de correo

2000-04-01 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Hola El 01 Apr 2000 a las 10:03AM +0200, Fernando Sanchez escribio: Retomando la cuestión: ¿cual de los MTAs que se incluyen en Potato es mejor, porqué y para qué? Postfix es con seguridad la opción más segura, rápida y respetuosa con el entorno :-) Está hecho para ser compatible 100% con

Re: He perdido algunos acentos

2000-04-01 Thread Javier Fafián Alvarez
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Roberto Lopez wrote: Hola Lista! Parece tonto pero es asi. Bueno no. Lo cierto es que no se que he hecho pero he perdido la capacidad de usar las teclas de acento en el teclado, solo en algunas aplicaciones. No soy consciente de

Re: Internet Linux-Win

2000-04-01 Thread Javier Fafián Alvarez
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Isaac Puch Rojo wrote: Hola Lista, tengo algún problema con mi conexión a Internet. En principio me puedo conectar perfectamente, pero en horas puntas no hay manera, el script da un error y sale. Pero reseteo, y Windows si puede, supongo que lo que habrá que subir

Re: dselect pide /usr !!!

2000-04-01 Thread Roberto Meyer
Yo escribi, :-P RMEl mensaje de error avisa que no encuentra /usr en fstab ni mtab... Perdon, olvide decir que no tengo /usr separado en una particion... De todos modos quedo solucionado en /etc/apt/apt.conf, comentando un par de lineas en las que se remonta /usr... :-# -- Roberto

Re: Imagenes de Potato

2000-04-01 Thread Thoth
Andres Seco Hernandez wrote: Y para pasar las imagenes .raw a .iso ¿Como? -- Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: #64938541 Known Bugs: Works in MS-Windows :) Pagina web: (EN CONSTRUCCION) http://members.es.tripod.de/blaine Linux

Re: Eleccion del servidor de correo

2000-04-01 Thread Thoth
Fernando Sanchez wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Andres Seco Hernandez wrote: Retomando la cuestión: ¿cual de los MTAs que se incluyen en Potato es mejor, porqué y para qué? Postfix es con seguridad la opción más segura, rápida y respetuosa con el entorno :-) Está hecho para ser

Re: Eleccion del servidor de correo

2000-04-01 Thread Fernando Sanchez
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Andres Seco Hernandez wrote: Retomando la cuestión: ¿cual de los MTAs que se incluyen en Potato es mejor, porqué y para qué? Postfix es con seguridad la opción más segura, rápida y respetuosa con el entorno :-) Está hecho para ser compatible 100% con Sendmail (para

Re: Ferramentas para desenvolvimento

2000-04-01 Thread Debian Linux User
Não, ele é italiano. Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: www.vdkbuilder.org (eu acho) É feito por um brasileiro Mario Motta (eu acho) -- Marcelo Elias Del ValleUIN: 30595143 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tilt.8m.com MLinuxer Do you visit GamesNow today?? [EMAIL

Re: GTK (Re: Imposto de Renda no Wine)

2000-04-01 Thread Lalo Martins
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:27:25PM -0300, Debian Linux User wrote: Exato, eu não só entrei na página, peguei as libs e instalei o gimp para windows, como tentei compilar com djgpp... O problema é que com djgpp + RSX não rolou... DJGPP é pra DOS, não pra Windows. Não vai rolar _mesmo_.

Re: GTK (Re: Imposto de Renda no Wine)

2000-04-01 Thread Debian Linux User
Lalo Martins wrote: On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:27:25PM -0300, Debian Linux User wrote: Exato, eu não só entrei na página, peguei as libs e instalei o gimp para windows, como tentei compilar com djgpp... O problema é que com djgpp + RSX não rolou... DJGPP é pra DOS, não pra Windows. Não

Re: (eh?) Perl library shifted...?

2000-04-01 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000 03:29:09 +0100, Paul J. Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Net::POP3 is also part of libnet-perl. I would make sure you have the -2 version, if it's still a problem, post the exact error msg. I ran perl -MNet::POP3 -e 'Net::POP3-new()' without any problems. (Ah.)

Re: Questions from a new debian user

2000-04-01 Thread Hilary Hertzoff
Thanks everyone. Eventually I'm going to remove xdm from the startup script, but I'm finding it handy while I'm learning the system to use the windows until I feel comfortable using other ways to get around the system. The reason I asked about leaving it was because I read somewhere that it

Re: Quake2 libs

2000-04-01 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
Brian Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings, First, thanks to the good folks that helped me get my Debian green card. I'm in the process of moving a quake2 server over from a Red Hat machine to a Debian machine for the better of all humanity. I realize that there are probably

Re: Questions from a new debian user

2000-04-01 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Apr-2000 00:02:07 Hilary Hertzoff wrote: Thanks everyone. Eventually I'm going to remove xdm from the startup script, but I'm finding it handy while I'm learning the system to use the windows until I feel comfortable using other ways to get around the system. The reason I asked

AMD PCNET PCI Ethernet question

2000-04-01 Thread syed huq
Hi, (absolute Newbie to Linux): Using Slink and trying to setup my eth0 for the first time. I am reading the Ethernet-HOW-TO and have a few ques. When I did dmesg | more, it did not show any eth'N' messages so my first installation did not see the card. I looked under /lib/modules/2.0.36/ and

Re: Sun 3 xterminal debs?

2000-04-01 Thread John Hasler
C. Falconer writes: It is obviously a better thing to use a deb package if available, but what damage might I be causing if I install something from source? None as long as you either install in /usr/local or build your own local deb. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing

Neighbor table overflow

2000-04-01 Thread Alex McCool
Helpp What is neighor table overflow?? I'm getting this after changing the IP addr of a machine I changed /etc/network/interface from xxx.xxx.xxx.17 to xxx.xxx.xxx.16 I had seen this before when I switched a diff machine to a 192.168.100 addr, but I never found a solution Alex

Re: Questions from a new debian user

2000-04-01 Thread John Hasler
Hilary Hertzoff writes: Eventually I'm going to remove xdm from the startup script, but I'm finding it handy while I'm learning the system to use the windows until I feel comfortable using other ways to get around the system. Removing xdm does not remove X or render it inaccessible. Just log

libdl.so.2 for bo?

2000-04-01 Thread Tom Kuiper
I'm trying to install StarOffice 5.1, which is said to be compatible with my linux 2.0.30. However, when I try to run the setup program: ./setup: error in loading shared libraries libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Indeed, the version of libdl.so on my system

Re: Neighbor table overflow

2000-04-01 Thread Neil Booth
Hi Alex, This is almost always caused by not having a loopback interface. If you haven't, make sure the first interface you configure is lo. Neil. Alex McCool wrote:- Helpp What is neighor table overflow?? I'm getting this after changing the IP addr of a machine I changed

Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1

2000-04-01 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Bob, thanks for the help. I tried it, to little avail. (session below). I can't tell if 1) just better tool usage is needed, 2) my configuration is broken, and if so how to recover, 3) the tools are broken (less likely..) But, how does one probe into the details of: subprocess pre-removal

Re: Questions from a new debian user

2000-04-01 Thread John Anderson
I found the easiest way to deactivate XDM on startup was to simply rename xdm to xdm.d in the dir /etc/init.d. Now when the computer starts up, it stays in the text mode until a user wishes to enter x by typing startx. All you have to do is enter the /etc/init.d directory and type mv xdm newname,

Re: (eh?) Perl library shifted...?

2000-04-01 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 01:42:42PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote: If you're talking about Net::FTP being unable to locate method Net::FTP-requires_firewall(), it was a bug in libnet-perl which has been fixed with version 1.0703-2, now in the archives. (Good thought, but no: Net::POP3 is what

Re: Boot disk quit working after second install

2000-04-01 Thread Erik Ryberg
Lehel Bernadt wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote: Hello, I have a 6 gig hard drive with debian on the first 4 gigs. I installed an old SUSE last night on the last 2 gigs in order to try out MySQL which allegedly came with that distribution. I boot debian with a

Re: libdl.so.2 for bo?

2000-04-01 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 05:14:19PM -0800, Tom Kuiper wrote: snip ./setup: error in loading shared libraries libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Indeed, the version of libdl.so on my system is 1.8.12. Is there a way to upgrade without upgrading to a newer

sound hell

2000-04-01 Thread james
hello, i'm currently running potato (upgraded from slink) and am finding it absolutely impossibe to get sound working. i've never had this problem w/ my last 2 debian machines. the only difference being those two had SB AWE64 cards, and this one has a SB PCI128. in the past i've always just

Re: lm-sensors: can't access /proc file

2000-04-01 Thread Gerhard Schromm
* Marc == Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But, when I invoke sensors itself, it tells me that it couldn't access /proc file, and I don't have /proc/sensors. Also, the /dev/i2c nodes the docs mention seem to be missing. What am I doing wrong? Do you have the modules loaded? On my

Re: Help

2000-04-01 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Robert Mognet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let's don't make the operating system 'dumber'. Let's have users who are willing to learn. We're not talking about making the operating system dumber. We're not talking about the operation system at all. We're talking about the mailing list.

Re: sound hell

2000-04-01 Thread Sean Johnson
apt-get install bin86 Sean

Re: can I execute a shell during booting?

2000-04-01 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, john smith wrote: I would like to know if there is a way to execute a bash shell or whatever shell during booting or bootstrapping of the kernel. i.e. No, it's not. You'll have to boot off a floppy, and go fix whatever you broke.

Re: ipmasq and howto

2000-04-01 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 14:47:20 -0600, matt garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the help! But unfortunately it's not working. You're probably really, really close to succeeding. :-) It -sounds- like all the bits are working, but 'forwarding' is not fully activated; that your

Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 09:45:35AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:55:39AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: I suggest you close bugs filed by such people without comment. Call it the Malicious Blacklist User Behavior Modification System. Of course, you could always

Re: AMD PCNET PCI Ethernet question

2000-04-01 Thread Joseph A. Martin
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, syed huq wrote: I looked under /lib/modules/2.0.36/ and found pcnet32.o which is what the HOW-TO says as being the correct driver for AMD PCNET PCI. if I do a ifconfig as root, I still do not see the eth0. if I do a modprobe eth0, I don't get anything. eth0 is a

mirroring subset of debian files with rsync

2000-04-01 Thread Phil Howard
I'm trying to mirror a subset of the debian files (specifically everything for sparc in the potato release). In order to minimize the load on the server I was trying to use rsync. But it seems rsync's include/exclude facility is either broken, or incorrectly documented. I've tried quite a

Re: mirroring subset of debian files with rsync

2000-04-01 Thread Brian May
Phil == Phil Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Phil Here's the command I'm using now: Phil rsync --block-size=8192 --verbose --stats --recursive Phil --compress --links --perms --times --timeout 300 --delete Phil --delete-excluded --include Phil

Re: installing a single package

2000-04-01 Thread kmself
dpkg -i packagfile Or, perhaps more useful and simpler: apt-get install some-package ...which also gets it for you. On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 10:33:21PM +0200, FreeMan wrote: Hi, I've downloaded the swat-package file. But I don't know how to install it. I tried it with dselect, but

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2000-04-01 Thread boot100
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Re: GUI FTP package

2000-04-01 Thread Kari Ruohonen
I have used Caitoo - found it from freshmeat. Kari On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Alex Kwan wrote: Hi! I am looking for a GUI FTP download software with resume broken download fuction (like Gozilla under MS Windows), Does anybody know which and where? Thanks! Alex

Re: Make/makefiles

2000-04-01 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Bart Friederichs wrote: Hi, Can anybody tell me how to make a *simple* makefile? Or a URL where I can find more info? The manpages aren't very clear, and *way* too extensive. I have a small project with 3 source code files, and I don't want to compile all of them

Re: Boot disk quit working after second install

2000-04-01 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote: Lehel Bernadt wrote: What kind of boot disk do you have : ext2+lilo, fat+syslinux, loadlin or just the raw kernel ? What is its configuration ? I understand that you use the same disk for debian suse. How did you altered the config to boot

Re: sound hell

2000-04-01 Thread james
I LOVE YOU! heh, well, no. but seriously. after installing bin86, the kernel did, indeed compile correctly. after many tries, the soundcard still wouldn't work (i did select sound support for Ensoniq pci 97... the chipset for my card). i swapped it w/ a SB AWE64 i had in another machine and

unlink or kernel error?

2000-04-01 Thread Tadeusz Bak
Hi all, Sorry, my problem is probably not Debian specific... I tried to run under slink with the 2.0.36 kernel the following program: #define RUN /tmp/.rem.run #include stdio.h #include sys/types.h #include sys/stat.h #include fcntl.h #include unistd.h main() { open(RUN, O_RDWR|O_CREAT,

Re: unlink or kernel error?

2000-04-01 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Tadeusz Bak wrote: Hi all, Sorry, my problem is probably not Debian specific... I tried to run under slink with the 2.0.36 kernel the following program: #define RUN /tmp/.rem.run #include stdio.h #include sys/types.h #include sys/stat.h #include fcntl.h #include

Latest version of babel

2000-04-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
Anyone know where I can find the latest version of babel (for Greek, specifically)? I can only find 3.7j but I know there are more recent ones. I thought it was part of TeX but I just downloaded the latest version of this and it isn't there. -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1

Re: sound hell

2000-04-01 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
after many tries, the soundcard still wouldn't work (i did select sound support for Ensoniq pci 97... the chipset for my card). i swapped it w/ a SB AWE64 i had in another machine and xconfig'ed again and selected support for it and, upon reboot, it worked fine. though, nothing i did w/

Re: sound hell

2000-04-01 Thread Brian May
james == james [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: james so, while i'm here, i have one last thing until this whole james setup is perfect. does anyone know about the current james support for USB devices? i have an Epson Stylus Color 740 james w/ USB i'm trying to get to work. though

Re: unlink or kernel error?

2000-04-01 Thread Brian May
Lehel == Lehel Bernadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lehel The thing that happens is that the file name is deleted Lehel from the directory, but its inode is kept until the program Lehel closes the descriptor. Yes. Now for some really weird behaviour, try the same thing program on NFS

Re: Basic PPP dialup to ISP question

2000-04-01 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! I have configured the ppp dialup connection with pppconfig, (for example the connection named: MYISP), Now how do I establish and shut down the ppp dialup connection (not under GNOME)? Thanks! Alex

Re: Questions from a new debian user

2000-04-01 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 05:38:02PM -0500, Phoenix Amon wrote: Why would you want to close X? You can also switch to a virtual terminal from X at any time using alt-ctrl-F1 to F6 (there are six virtual terminals at default). Well, for instance... if what you want to do from the terminal

Re: ipmasq and howto

2000-04-01 Thread Bill
Try something like this with your IP No's in /etc/init.d/network #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 #ethernet card ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 route -add net 192.168.1.0 route -add net 0.0.0.0 gw 192.168.1.1 IPADDR=192.168.1.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0

Xfree update for slink 2.1

2000-04-01 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I have mirrored the whole directory at http://www.debian.org/~vincent/dists/xfree-update/main/binary-i386/ to avoid having to download it every time I do a fresh installation from my official cds. What command will upgrade it, shoud I run apt-get upgrade xfree or so from within the directory where

Re: Questions from a new debian user

2000-04-01 Thread Colin Watson
Phoenix Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Hillary. I'm about a week newer to Linux that you are... I know your bewilderment well. :) 1. Is there a way to exit X without halting the computer? The methods I've tried have either shut down the computer correctly or brought me back to the X login

RE: Questions from a new debian user

2000-04-01 Thread Phoenix Amon
Have a look in /var/log/xdm.log and see if you can find out why xdm isn't restarting the X server (or perhaps you've deliberately set it that way somewhere in /etc/X11/xdm?). Thanks, Colin, but I can't. I zapped both XDM and KDM to dust. :) And actually even if it was broken (it was a

Re: Basic PPP dialup to ISP question

2000-04-01 Thread dyer
Alex Kwan wrote: Hi! I have configured the ppp dialup connection with pppconfig, (for example the connection named: MYISP), Now how do I establish and shut down the ppp dialup connection (not under GNOME)? pon MYISP poff note that if you only use one ISP, you can use the name 'default'

Re: Basic PPP dialup to ISP question

2000-04-01 Thread John Hasler
Alex writes: I have configured the ppp dialup connection with pppconfig, (for example the connection named: MYISP), Now how do I establish and shut down the ppp dialup connection Type 'pon' to establish the connection and 'poff' to shut it down. 'plog' will show you the status. not under

auto dial on startup

2000-04-01 Thread Bill
Hi all I'm using wvdial from command line only on my Debian (woody) box, can someone please tell me how to get it to dial automaticaly when the computer is started. Thanks in advance Bill * The Mind is like a parachute;

Re: Basic PPP dialup to ISP question

2000-04-01 Thread John Hasler
dyer writes: pon MYISP Which is what I should have written in my previous response. note that if you only use one ISP, you can use the name 'default' for the connection and only need to issue the command: pon Not 'default', 'provider'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing

Kernel building fault...

2000-04-01 Thread Mikael Grahn
I'm using the woody release of Debian and have had a problem the last part of this month. I've had IRQ problems and problems with the kernel not recognising how much mem i have in the machine. I've been thinking i've had harware problems and been trying to find the fault. Now i've noticed that it

Re: Basic PPP dialup to ISP question

2000-04-01 Thread dyer
note that if you only use one ISP, you can use the name 'default' for the connection and only need to issue the command: pon Not 'default', 'provider'. -- whoops! Need more coffee! dyer

Re: auto dial on startup

2000-04-01 Thread John Hasler
Bill writes: I'm using wvdial from command line only on my Debian (woody) box, can someone please tell me how to get it to dial automaticaly when the computer is started. Run pppconfig and set up the connection named 'provider' (that's the default). Then go to /etc/ppp and rename the file

Re: serial ports faster that 38.4K?

2000-04-01 Thread John Hasler
John writes: How do you make the serial ports in 2.1 go faster than 38,400? By telling them to. Speeds to 115200 are supported. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: auto dial on startup

2000-04-01 Thread Bill
Than you, works well - Original Message - From: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 11:59 PM Subject: Re: auto dial on startup Bill writes: I'm using wvdial from command line only on my Debian (woody) box, can someone

Install XFree86 4.0 on Potato

2000-04-01 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! Debian Friends, Thank you all the help of yours, the ppp dial-out now work! Now I have another lesson to learn, it's install the XFree86 4.0 (non .deb packages) on Potato. I have already download the necessary binary files of Free86 4.0 (following to the XFree86's document), but I am afraid

Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-04-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:19:40PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 09:45:35AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Of course, you could always just get the work done and email back to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; since it'll go through Debian the email will indeed arrive just fine.

Re: Xfree update for slink 2.1

2000-04-01 Thread Colin Watson
Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have mirrored the whole directory at http://www.debian.org/~vincent/dists/xfree-update/main/binary-i386/ to avoid having to download it every time I do a fresh installation from my official cds. What command will upgrade it, shoud I run apt-get upgrade

Keys in Emacs

2000-04-01 Thread Rodrigo Castro
Hello, I am running the lastest version of Potato and I have the following problem. All my programs have right key configurations, except Emacs, when in Xterm. My END key doesn't work in Emacs in XTERM, but works fine when I am in console or in X. Any idea? Thank you, -- Rodrigo Castro

Re: Install XFree86 4.0 on Potato

2000-04-01 Thread Colin Watson
Alex Kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I have another lesson to learn, it's install the XFree86 4.0 (non .deb packages) on Potato. I have already download the necessary binary files of Free86 4.0 (following to the XFree86's document), but I am afraid that if I follow the instruction of XFree86 to

IDE/DMA/VIA chipset question (compiling new kernel)

2000-04-01 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello, Before anything else, I'd like to thank the people who have helped me before. This has been really nice... And so far, support here in this list has been really efficient. Thank you all. Ok - now, to my little problem: I have a Pentium II 400Mh with 64Mb RAM; my motherboard

3 questions. Please, HELP ME!

2000-04-01 Thread José María Pongilioni López
Hi! I'm a Debian Linux 2.1 'slink' user, and I have 3 questions: 1. I have compiled the version 2.2.4-intl of Linux Kernel and, at boot time, my screen shows the following message: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument I have read the documentation, and says that is a bug in pppd versions 2.2.0

Re: 3 questions. Please, HELP ME!

2000-04-01 Thread Philip Lehman
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, José María Pongilioni López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm a Debian Linux 2.1 'slink' user, and I have 3 questions: 1. I have compiled the version 2.2.4-intl of Linux Kernel and, at boot time, my screen shows the following message: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument I

Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-04-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:19:40PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Blacklisters may have the right to speak and *say* what they think I should do, but they have no right to be heard. If you have the right to refuse to listen to me on my terms, I have the right to refuse to listen to you on

Re: sound hell

2000-04-01 Thread Colin Watson
Oswald Buddenhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [attribution lost] after many tries, the soundcard still wouldn't work (i did select sound support for Ensoniq pci 97... the chipset for my card). i swapped it w/ a SB AWE64 i had in another machine and xconfig'ed again and selected support for

Re: sound hell

2000-04-01 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i absolutely can NOT do w/o sound and afraid i'll have to wipe out this drive in favor of Corel this weekend (damn it! why can't debian adopt corel's sound_setup program. it works so nicely!), What's the licence like? If it's free, then maybe we could integrate it. --

Re: gnome mimetype and /etc/mailcap

2000-04-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 09:12:51 +1200, Hunter H Marshall wrote: My mutt claims no handler for image/jeg. There is no entry for image/jpeg in /etc/mailcap. ok. But gnome control center mimetypes has extensive mime.type/mailcap info and in particular has an eeyes entry for image/jpeg. This is a

dhcp-client not working with att @home cable modem

2000-04-01 Thread matt garman
I'm trying to get ATT @home cable modem service working on my system. From what I have gathered, it seems as though it should be as easy as installing a dhcp client package, and let dhcp get everything working for me. I installed Debian's dhcp-client package. It runs, looks as though it's

Re: 3 questions. Please, HELP ME!

2000-04-01 Thread John Hasler
José María Pongilioni López writes: I use my modem with device file /dev/ttyS1 directly). How can I workaround this? Don't. You should use /dev/ttyS1 directly: /dev/modem is a bad idea (and it isn't a device file: it's just a link to /dev/ttyS1). -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)

Re: 3 questions. Please, HELP ME!

2000-04-01 Thread Andrei Ivanov
1. [snip] 2. My distribution doesn't make some device files, such as /dev/modem, /dev/audio, /dev/mixer, /dev/sndstat (I cannot use my SoundBlaster PCI 64, and I use my modem with device file /dev/ttyS1 directly). How can I workaround this? Those devices, some of htem, are just

Re: dhcp-client not working with att @home cable modem

2000-04-01 Thread matt garman
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 11:02:55AM -0600, matt garman wrote: I'm trying to get ATT @home cable modem service working on my system. From what I have gathered, it seems as though it should be as easy as installing a dhcp client package, and let dhcp get everything working for me. ... Sorry, I

Re: ipmasq and howto

2000-04-01 Thread matt garman
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:02:15PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote: ...and you should see (policy ACCEPT) for the three 'chains'. If that's okay, do: ipchains -M -L ...and see if the MASQ entry is still present -- dunno why yet, but we're experiencing that entry's disappearance from time to

xemacs and the docbook 3.1 dtd's

2000-04-01 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
Hey people - I'm just trying to edit docbook here, and it's quite obvious that emacs doesn't know to look for DTDs. I've found that emacs has a number of options for setting custom search paths for these kinds of files, but I can't decide what to set... It's somewhere under:

Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1

2000-04-01 Thread Bob Hilliard
Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob, thanks for the help. I tried it, to little avail. (session below). I can't tell if 1) just better tool usage is needed, 2) my configuration is broken, and if so how to recover, 3) the tools are broken (less likely..) But, how does one

Re: EMERGENCY: LILO can't load Win95 / Mount fails

2000-04-01 Thread Angus Claydon
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, David Wright wrote: Quoting Stefan Baums ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hda1 contains what cfdisk calls Win95 FAT32 (LBA) (the lost Win95 partition) hda4 contains a Debian 2.0 base system LILO was set up to automatically boot Win95. The only major thing we

Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-04-01 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 06:32:50PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Yes, but you have not the right (what loaded words!) to close the bug reports. Feel free to ignore them, but don't close them without a better reason. I would close such bugs if I need further information (and can't reproduce

Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1

2000-04-01 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 12:11 PM 04/01/2000 -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob, thanks for the help. - again! But, how does one probe into the details of: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status? You can look at the prerm script with `less

apt-get dpkg-preconfigure problems

2000-04-01 Thread Mark Symonds
Whenever trying to apt-get install any packages, I now get: E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt exited unexpectedly E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt This happened when I was installing the lynx package. Any help much appreciated, using frozen recent

Re: ipmasq and howto

2000-04-01 Thread matt garman
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:14:52PM -0600, matt garman wrote: I executed ipchains -P forward ACCEPT for the three default chains (forward, output, intput), so that I could in fact have (policy ACCEPT) for all three chains. ... Problem solved, all of my roommates and I are connected! Thank you

Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 04:02:43PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: You should at the very least mention why you're closing the bug report. It may, for example, be the case that user is unaware that their usual mail system uses the DUL or whatever. Randomly closed bugreports will just annoy people

Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-04-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 04:00:57PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 04:02:43PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: You should at the very least mention why you're closing the bug report. Did you bother to read my close message? Obviously not. I did in fact include an

Re: xemacs and the docbook 3.1 dtd's

2000-04-01 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 11:03:14AM -0800, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: Hey people - I'm just trying to edit docbook here, and it's quite obvious that emacs doesn't know to look for DTDs. I've found that emacs has a number of options for setting custom search paths for these kinds of

Gnu/Linux 2.1 Install from the CD contained in Debian Gnu/Linux Guide to installation and usage

2000-04-01 Thread Steve White
Greetings, I have been following the directions in the manual I bought meticulously, but cannot get the base system installed. First, the disk was purchased from Linux Central along with the book. Next, the directory structure implied by the text in the book is not even close to that on the

DHCP

2000-04-01 Thread Chris Mason
How do I force the machine to renew it's DHCP IP allocation? I've changed parameters on the DHCP server and I want the machine to reflect those changes. Also, how do I get a Linux machine to be a DHCP server? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax:

Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1

2000-04-01 Thread Bob Hilliard
Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 12:11 PM 04/01/2000 -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob, thanks for the help. - again! But, how does one probe into the details of: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status?

Problem with Oracle 8i on potato

2000-04-01 Thread Matt Surico
Greetings Has anyone tried to get Oracle 8i running on potato? I am having a segmentation fault problem with certain binaries: svrmgrl, sqlplus, sqlldr, imp, exp, dbv, to mention a few, immediately seg fault upon execution yet a couple of others (lsnrctl, tkprof) work fine. I initially tried

How to fix missing modules after kernel update?

2000-04-01 Thread Christian Pernegger
I'm running an up-to-the-minute potato box. Today I compiled a custom 2.2.14 using dkpg-make. It installs and boots fine, except for errors produced by some things that were modules in the standard kernel (nic driver, NLSs,...) and are not modules anymore (either built in or not compiled at all).

Re: 3 questions. Please, HELP ME!

2000-04-01 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
3. I have the defrag utility. How can I defragment my Linux partition, since a mounted drive cannot be defragmented? Well, one way is to unmount the partition (umount /zip , f.e) and defrag it. If its a /usr or /, then if you really wan to defrag it, then you have to do some more