Re: find question

2000-08-03 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:11:38PM +0400, Alexey Vyskubov wrote: % find `pwd` \( -name *.log -o -name *.aux \) -exec 'rm {}' ';' find: rm /home/shao/report/main.log: No such file or directory [snipped Alexey's solution] It's nice to use xargs together with find. (You probably know this, but

Re: Broken X

2000-08-03 Thread kmself
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 07:43:47PM +, Philip Downer wrote: If anyone could help me with this I'd appreciate it. I've just installed debian potato test-cycle-1 (some cds I bought at UK Linux Expo 2000). However whenever I run X I get the following message: Fatal Server Error: cannot

Re: [fox@xs4all.nl: Re: gnapster won't download: fopen: No such file or directory]

2000-08-03 Thread Jos Lemmerling
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Rev GRC Sperry wrote: ermm, no it ain't. Please read the second half of what you quote below: Today the court of appeals stayed the judge's order to shut down Napster until they consider our appeal, probably in September. Not that I think napster does it's job

Re: gnapster won't download: fopen: No such file or directory

2000-08-03 Thread Krzys Majewski
OK, it seems to download now, though I still get the fopen() errors. I like the gnapster interface but things like this, I hate to say, make Windows look good at the expense of linux.. -chris On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: On 2 Aug 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: Anybody else have

Re: What do I have to do to get my server running?

2000-08-03 Thread Adam Scriven
At 12:15 2000/08/03 -0600, you wrote: I'm turning my Linux into a server for my family's to Windoze machines, but I'm not sure what exactly to do. I've installed the Samba packages, and compiled SMB support into the kernel. I've got my NE2000 working, so now I just need to know how to

Distribution Download

2000-08-03 Thread romeu
I want to download the entire distribution of linux from ftp.debian.org. What (windows) program should I use for this purpose? I mean, I want to select the directory ftp.debian.org/debian and download it all with just one click. I tried CuteFtp, but it does not deal good with proxies

Re: [fox@xs4all.nl: Re: gnapster won't download: fopen: No such file or directory]

2000-08-03 Thread Krzys Majewski
Out of curiousity, what don't you like about napster? One thing that strikes me as potentially lame is that you can only upload my files while I'm running the client..but I guess that's the windows way (howbout a napsterd with sophisticated access control etc.?) Napster struck me as

Re: Backing up a Linux system

2000-08-03 Thread Krzys Majewski
How would I go about reinstalling the packages in the event of disaster? What if my packages are a combination of slink, potato, etc.? -chris On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 05:28:14PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian Potato (Frozen) with

internet connection sharing

2000-08-03 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hi, Windows 98's ICS feature is really cool. Does debian support ICS too? if so, can someone tell me or point me to some documentation on how to do this? just 2 home computers... a debian box and a win 98 box over a 56k dialup connection to be used fo simultaneous surfing and (possibly

Re: internet connection sharing

2000-08-03 Thread Brian Stults
Joseph de los Santos wrote: Hi, Windows 98's ICS feature is really cool. Does debian support ICS too? if so, can someone tell me or point me to some documentation on how to do this? just 2 home computers... a debian box and a win 98 box over a 56k dialup connection to be used fo

Re: Distribution Download

2000-08-03 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to download the entire distribution of linux from ftp.debian.org. What (windows) program should I use for this purpose? I mean, I want to select the directory ftp.debian.org/debian and download it all with just one click. I tried CuteFtp, but it does not deal

Re: t-dsl

2000-08-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:06:42PM +0200, Stefan Nobis wrote: Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Smart people *can* get IPs that haven't been assigned to them, and it's a PITA to root them out. PPPoE, while a hack, addresses this concern for providers. I wish we used it. Tell

Re: t-dsl

2000-08-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:34:08AM -0600, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: I'm a bit confused. On a normal dial-up I have been using PPP and do have a static IP address. If ADSL is using PPP what about DSL prevents PPP from doing the same thing? Dialup is point-to-point, hence the natural application

Re: Distribution Download

2000-08-03 Thread romeu
No I'm not crazy. Just the potato and woody bin for i386. I think I'm almost setting up CuteFtp to bypass the firewall. After all, I have up to 24 Gb of free disk space.

Fetchmail isn't working the way it should.

2000-08-03 Thread bsamuels
I have recently setup Fetchmail as a demon polling 3 mail servers every five minutes when I'm online. It downloads the mail without problems but it doesn't delete it from the servers after downloading. I do not have 'keep' in any of the user lines in .fetchmailrc. I have even tried putting

Re: Distribution Download

2000-08-03 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 05:51:39PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No I'm not crazy. Just the potato and woody bin for i386. I think I'm almost setting up CuteFtp to bypass the firewall. After all, I have up to 24 Gb of free disk space. If you experience problems with FTP, try the passive

Re: Fetchmail isn't working the way it should.

2000-08-03 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:02:19PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently setup Fetchmail as a demon polling 3 mail servers every five minutes when I'm online. Wow, that's quite frequent. It downloads the mail without problems but it doesn't delete it from the servers after

Re: Fetchmail isn't working the way it should.

2000-08-03 Thread Pollywog
Do you have the keep option in your .fetchmailrc? Remove it and your mail should be deleted from the server. -- Andrew

tecra bootdisk

2000-08-03 Thread Richard Black
Hi all I am trying to make a new boot disk for a Woody system on a Toshiba Satellite. I run mkboot, and all looks good...except when I try to use the disk it just freezes. When I first installed debian (slink) I had to use a tecra rescue disk. Does this mean that mkboot won't work? I have also

uninstalling staroffice

2000-08-03 Thread jojo zero
How can I uninstall staroffice? it's taking too much space. _ Get a free @mschumacher.com email address --- http://www.mschumacher.com

RE: tecra bootdisk

2000-08-03 Thread Pollywog
On 03-Aug-2000 Richard Black wrote: Hi all I am trying to make a new boot disk for a Woody system on a Toshiba Satellite. I run mkboot, and all looks good...except when I try to use the disk it just freezes. When I first installed debian (slink) I had to use a tecra rescue disk. Does

Re: Distribution Download

2000-08-03 Thread cam
When I was at school and behind a firewall...BulletProof FTP worked fine for dowloading...see if that works for ya. Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to download the entire distribution of linux from ftp.debian.org. What (windows) program should I use for this purpose? I mean, I want to

Re: gnapster won't download: fopen: No such file or directory

2000-08-03 Thread Michael Soulier
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: OK, it seems to download now, though I still get the fopen() errors. I like the gnapster interface but things like this, I hate to say, make Windows look good at the expense of linux.. -chris Yup. Hmm. I downloaded the source, and

Problems with duplicate sendmail.cf entries

2000-08-03 Thread vigilant
I'm having a problem getting duplicate sendmail.cf entries when running sendmailconfig. I've defined the following lines at the end of my sendmail.mc: # privacy flags O PrivacyOptions=goaway These lines are below the ## Custom configurations below (will be preserved) entry, which is where I

RE: What do I have to do to get my server running?

2000-08-03 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Hi! Have you RTFM? Ok..okhere goes: *I am assuming you have Samba up and running properly* i.e. the smbd and nmbd daemons are running (check this using ps aux). 1. Configure your smb.conf in /etc/sambaI usually use Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT), which allows you to configure

Re: Backing up a Linux system

2000-08-03 Thread kmself
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 12:42:17PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 05:28:14PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian Potato (Frozen) with Slink KDE. I want to be able to backup my linux system to scsi tape (nst0)

Re: uninstalling staroffice

2000-08-03 Thread kmself
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 03:09:04PM -0700, jojo zero wrote: How can I uninstall staroffice? it's taking too much space. There is an unstall script provided and documented in the manual. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.

Linux client through MS Proxy Server 2.0

2000-08-03 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Hi guys, Finally, I have found the answer to my problem: Acessing the Internet with a Potato box via MS Proxy Server 2.0. Here it is:- MS Proxy Server basically allows 3 types of authentication, namely : Anonymous, Basic and NTLM (also known as NT challenge/response). The first speaks for

Re: plip installation (Host name lookup failure)

2000-08-03 Thread David Karlin
Hi, I re-ran the installation, and now things are working fine. After a 900% ram upgrade (4MB - 36) and a fresh potato installation, this old '486 laptop is running better than ever! Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:09:38PM -0600, David Karlin wrote: Hello, I'm doing an installation from the potato

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