Re: Bad Makedevness

1999-08-03 Thread striker
Ok so now what.. dpkg sticks on the portion of the script rm -fr /dev.dpkg.tmp It refused to unlink /dev/pts because it didn't exist. It leaves you with a /dev.dpkg.tmp and /dev which is an executable. It seems that the /dev left by the install was actually the MAKEDEV program. I made a /dev dir

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

1999-08-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Kaa == Kaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kaa you don't know about it. My specific problem was solved by Kaa downloading equivs and installing a fake package for an MTA, but Kaa that looks and smells like a big kludge. Actually, I do not think so. Creating a dummy MTA package is a very clean

newbie² in trouble: installation fails

1999-08-03 Thread damiaan
hello there, (please forgive my poor English) I've got an interesting case for you linux wizzkids... I tried to install Debian 2.1 and now i can't boot from hard disk and floppy, or reinstall the system: I tried to install Debian 2.1 on a 486 with floppies.I managed to boot from hard disk, and

Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?

1999-08-03 Thread Joey Hess
Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 08:56:31PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: I've installed apt-get. It works great . . but. (You knew there was a but coming, right?) If I want to upgrade one package, e.g. icewm, to the version in unstable, Don't upgrade one only package from

xemacs in color in rxvt

1999-08-03 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: I use rxvt for an X terminal. How can I get xemacs show colors in it? Midnight commander uses color by itself... -- Arcady Genkin ... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world... (S. Kierkegaard)

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-03 Thread Andrei Ivanov
1) I tried it that way that gave it as the ONLY POSSIBILITY 1280x1024 and it made absolutely no effect. What resolution are you getting? I think the default would be 320x200, in case a server fails to start in the mode specified. Check that you are using the right server. Try SVGA first,

Re: Bad Makedevness

1999-08-03 Thread Michael Merten
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 03:51:11PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: The new makedev package is erasing people's /dev/ directories. Apparently the maintainer script has a bug that causes /dev/ to become a file which makes dpkg erase /dev/ and replace it with a file.. Bugs all round. Since this

Re: Bad Makedevness

1999-08-03 Thread William_Cordis
Well the updated deb fixed the problem.. If you are stuck in limbo get it here. http://master.debian.org/~dan/Incoming/makedev_2.3.1-27.2_all.deb William Cordis

Re: XScreensaver locks up whole system.

1999-08-03 Thread Dan Everton
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 01:21:03PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: Kinda offtopic suggestion, but rebuild your kernel with the magic SysReq key option, then Alt-SysRq-K will Well, unfortunately, magic sysrq is already compiled in and did nothing. Tried everything from Alt-SysRq-K to Alt-SysRq-l.

Re: Bad Makedevness

1999-08-03 Thread William_Cordis
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:19:25PM -0500, Michael Merten wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 03:51:11PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: The new makedev package is erasing people's /dev/ directories. Apparently the maintainer script has a bug that causes /dev/ to become a file which makes dpkg

Re: ssh with RSA-key login problem

1999-08-03 Thread Fredrik Jonsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 99-08-03 01.39 wrote: Fredrik ssh client complains that Server does not allow RSA Fredrik authentication, or the public key for user user1 was not Fredrik accepted. Reverting to password authentication. ssh has a verbose switch. Use it and see why it rejects

Re: Extra serial ports

1999-08-03 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, for a test setup I need a PC with 4 serial ports (ppp server). Can I simply plugin any PCI board with 2 serial ports or will I need any hardware specific drivers? I believe this used to work fine with an ISA board with 2 serial ports but

Re: XScreensaver locks up whole system.

1999-08-03 Thread Dan Everton
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:22:49AM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 01:21:03PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: Kinda offtopic suggestion, but rebuild your kernel with the magic SysReq key option, then Alt-SysRq-K will Well, unfortunately, magic sysrq is already compiled in and

2.2.x kernel and PCI eth0 problem

1999-08-03 Thread Rupert Brooks
Hi, I have configed and compiled both the 2.2.10 and 2.2.5 kernels, and my ne2000 clone PCI ethernet card does not work with either. With my 2.0.34 kernel, the card worked fine. The module ne2k-pci loaded without a hitch and dhcpcd configured the ip information flawlessly. ( I use an ADSL

gtk-config

1999-08-03 Thread D'jinnie
I'm trying to compile a newer gtkicq (the current one doesn't seem to be wanting to work too well) and it claims there's no gtk-config...I've installed gtk1.1-dev package as was suggested about a month ago on this list, but no cigar, there are just text files: triton:~ locate gtk-config

keyboard problem in X/started after restore from backup

1999-08-03 Thread Steve Stancliff
Hi all, I have been running Debian slink for about 4 months now. Tonight I decided it was time to take some more disk space away from Windows and give it to Linux, so I tarred (-cvvzf) my Linux partitions, repartitioned the drive, and untarred (-xvvzf) Linux. I had previously done this same

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-08-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oops, sorry everyone, I messed up. I have tried deleting my ~/.netscape/cookie file, but it reappeared a while later, just like the original. Where did it get that info from? Were you still running Netscape or had you exited when you deleted the file? Daniel

Re: gtk-config

1999-08-03 Thread Kevin Cramer
I just ran into a similar problem. You probably need libgtk1.2. You can get updated libglib1.2 and libgtk1.2 packages from ftp://ftp.netgod.net/x. Use dpkg to install them and then retry. You might also need libglib1.2-dev and libgtk1.2-dev to get the updated gtk-config script. Check the

Re: keyboard problem in X/started after restore from backup

1999-08-03 Thread Steve Stancliff
Naturally as soon as I wrote the list I figured it out. For the record the problem was wrong permissions on /var/tmp. So what do I need to do to make tar set permission correctly? -Steve Stancliff

Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?

1999-08-03 Thread Daniel Barclay

Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?

1999-08-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote: From: Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. That's the choice Debian offers: a rock-solid system with _slightly_ out-of-date software (although you're free to upgrade it), or a state-of-the-art system with all the

RE: gtk-config

1999-08-03 Thread Pollywog
On 03-Aug-99 D'jinnie wrote: I'm trying to compile a newer gtkicq (the current one doesn't seem to be wanting to work too well) and it claims there's no gtk-config...I've installed gtk1.1-dev package as was suggested about a month ago on this list, but no cigar, there are just text files: You

Re: gtk-config

1999-08-03 Thread D'jinnie
:Check the messages during compiling. It is probably looking for a :libgtk = 1.2. No..but...I get this: checking for gtk-config... no checking for GTK - version = 1.0.6... no *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is

RE: gtk-config

1999-08-03 Thread Pollywog
Sorry, I thought I had stopped this message from going out. I noticed after I sent it that you had already installed the dev package. -- Andrew This is what I have on Potato. The version is different for Slink. ii libgtk1.2 1.2.3-2The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X ii

Re: gtk-config

1999-08-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 10:00:04PM -0400, Kevin Cramer wrote: I wouldn't upgrade to potato. I used to run a system from unstable and it worked fairly well but I finally got burned. How so? I've been running unstable since last Dec and I have yet to have any serious problems. glibc2.1 broke

Re: gtk-config

1999-08-03 Thread Kevin Cramer
I had some problems with glib, gtk, and gnome in the past. As you just pointed out to me earlier, you can easily download the source from unstable and build your own package. I think it is best to do this and not run unstable. At least if you don't want to deal with the possibility of a broken

Re: XScreensaver locks up whole system.

1999-08-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 11:06:18AM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:22:49AM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 01:21:03PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: Kinda offtopic suggestion, but rebuild your kernel with the magic SysReq key option, then Alt-SysRq-K

Re: 2.2.x kernel and PCI eth0 problem

1999-08-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 09:25:14PM -0400, Rupert Brooks wrote: Hi, I have configed and compiled both the 2.2.10 and 2.2.5 kernels, and my ne2000 clone PCI ethernet card does not work with either. With my 2.0.34 kernel, the card worked fine. The module ne2k-pci loaded without a hitch and

Re: gtk-config

1999-08-03 Thread Kevin Cramer
Hmm, maybe it is looking in the wrong place. The ii does mean that it is installed correctly. Try locate gtk-config and then set GTK_CONFIG to the path to gtk-config (i.e., export GTK_CONFIG=path). On my system, it would be export GTK_CONFIG=/usr/bin/gtk-config. Kevin On Mon, Aug 02, 1999

Banshee and X

1999-08-03 Thread Alec Smith
In the next few days I'll be getting an AGP ATI Mach64 and a PCI Banshee-based video card. Will I be able to use either with Debian? I'm not afraid to download X 3.3.4 from XFree86's website if its required. Ideally I'd like to use the Banshee since its much faster for gaming in Windoze. Alec

apt-get error

1999-08-03 Thread Pollywog
I am getting the following error when I do 'apt-get upgrade': Err http://http.us.debian.org potato/main makedev 2.3.1-27 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/makede v_2.3.1-27.deb 404 Not Found E: Unable to fetch some archives,

Re: newbie² in trouble: installation fails

1999-08-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 01:38:50AM +0200, damiaan wrote: hello there, (please forgive my poor English) Your English, especially the spelling, seems much better than a lot of Americans I know :-) If only we in the States had such a good grasp of foreign languages as you Europeans do :-) I

Re: Problem getting EtherLink card to work

1999-08-03 Thread markzimm
Thanks to everyone who responded to this. As it turned out, the linux end and the null cable were fine all along. My problem is with the mac. Actually it is a Power Computing machine and I suspect that when I went to MacOS 8.x that I lost some proprietary ethernet device drivers. The hazards of

Re: keyboard problem in X/started after restore from backup

1999-08-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 09:47:12PM -0400, Steve Stancliff wrote: Hi all, I have been running Debian slink for about 4 months now. Tonight I decided it was time to take some more disk space away from Windows and give it to Linux, so I tarred (-cvvzf) my Linux partitions, repartitioned the

Re: xemacs in color in rxvt

1999-08-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 09:02:26PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Hi all: I use rxvt for an X terminal. How can I get xemacs show colors in it? Midnight commander uses color by itself... What is $TERM set to? (echo $TERM should show you if you use bash). Try export TERM=xterm-debian, and then

Re: apt-get error

1999-08-03 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote: I cannot install any packages because of this one missing package on the Debian archives. Any way around installing each package I downloaded manually? Use -m It's quite amazing that these days the archive has been so consistent that people have

Re: apt-get error

1999-08-03 Thread Johnie Ingram
Jason == Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jason It's quite amazing that these days the archive has been so Jason consistent that people have forgotten that option ; And I bet that you really didn't want that missing file anyway. :) netgod * Cyberlink wants the I

Re: apt-get error

1999-08-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
That version of makedev did some bad things, like possibly wipe out your /dev directory and was removed (it fortunately wouldn't install for me, but some folks weren't that lucky). Did you try 'apt-get --fix-missing' as suggested? It should allow the other packages to get installed. The new

Re: xemacs in color in rxvt

1999-08-03 Thread Arcady Genkin
Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use rxvt for an X terminal. How can I get xemacs show colors in it? What is $TERM set to? rxvt Try export TERM=xterm-debian, and then run xemacs. This worked. Thanks... However, taking this thread a bit off-topic... I have a shell account at my

Re: Extra serial ports

1999-08-03 Thread ferret
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Johann Spies wrote: On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote: for a test setup I need a PC with 4 serial ports (ppp server). Can I simply plugin any PCI board with 2 serial ports or will I need any hardware specific drivers? I

OpenSSL with telnet-ssl client

1999-08-03 Thread meridian
Hi, I have openssl installed and telnet-ssl packages and when I try to telnet to another machine which i believe isnt running debian i get this error. Could some one lead me in the right direction? thanks [SSL - attempting to switch on SSL] [SSL - handshake starting] SSL_connect:UNKWN

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-03 Thread virtanen
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: What resolution are you getting? I think the default would be 320x200, in case a server fails to start in the mode specified. Yes it was that. Check that you are using the right server. Try SVGA first, then use more video-card specific servers.

Re: Pine IMAP over network?

1999-08-03 Thread John Galt
In pine 4.X the way is: launch pine: (s)etup/(c)onfig/third line: smtp server; set with the FQDN then change fourth line: inbox path to (the FQDN in curly braces)inbox IIRC it's the same w/ pine 3.X On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Nathan Duehr wrote: I think I missed something here... I was under

Re: xemacs in color in rxvt

1999-08-03 Thread John Galt
BTW any POSIX shell and termcap system will respond the same to a echo $TERM, HTH On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 09:02:26PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Hi all: I use rxvt for an X terminal. How can I get xemacs show colors in it? Midnight commander

Re: (Parallel) Iomega Zip and a Printer

1999-08-03 Thread virtanen
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: A: One way is to use modules, which I think most people do. Is there any doc available how to compile the kernel using just those modules (printer and zip-drive) so that it works effectively? (In the installation manual there is a long talk about

Re: Matrox Millenium G200LE

1999-08-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On 3 Aug 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Andreas is the Matrox Millenium G200LE supported by the current Andreas 1) XF86 drivers Andreas 2) SvgaTextmode Andreas 3) SvgaLib I have a G200 (don't know what the LE is suppose to be). So for the above items: LE means somewhat light. There is

Unidentified subject!

1999-08-03 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
I have had this happen a couple of times --- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586

UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR

1999-08-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I use pine and fetchmail both from the latest potato. If I want to Reply to all recipients? I get at first the addres from the original sender, and as first CC the list. But the But the next (last) entry in the CC-list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] What can I do to avoid this problem? Kind

RE: Banshee and X

1999-08-03 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
There are drivers for both. For the ATI card, get the mach64 X server, it should support it. If have an AGP ATI RagePro that uses the mach64 server, and it works great. As for the Banshee, go to http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/, you will find all sorts of Creative Binary-only drivers

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-08-03 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
Ah, that may be why. I was still running Netscape. In my mind, it shouldn't matter though... IE, AFAIK, doesn't work this way. On 03-Aug-99 Daniel Barclay wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oops, sorry everyone, I messed up. I have tried deleting my ~/.netscape/cookie file, but it

Linux freezing up

1999-08-03 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
Hello, I have on several occasions experienced a lockup of my system. For no apparent reason, it will freeze up. It will not respond to any keyboard control: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't kill X, Ctrl-c, Ctrl-z, Ctrl-Alt-Del don't do anything. Caps lock, etc don't toggle the keyboard lights

Re: (Parallel) Iomega Zip and a Printer

1999-08-03 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Richard Kaszeta wrote: 1) Did you install the latest kernel with slink? Any problems with it? Not really. There's a list of packages you should update to use 2.2 with slink, but nothing major. Yes, I think that they are listed in the installation manual. I might try

newbie² in trouble: installation failshello there, ( please forgive my poor English)I've got an interesting case for you linux wizzkids...I tried to install Debian 2.1 and now i can't boot from hard disk andfloppy, or reinstall the system:I tried to install Debian 2.1 on a 486 with floppies.I managed to bootfrom hard disk, and started doing some linux. Soon i got tired ofdownloading the packages each time i wanted to try something new andordered the cdroms. First wanted to configure the cd-driver for mycreative labs CR-563 B in linux, it never worked out(also in dselect).After a while i convinced myself it would be better to reinstall (whatwould allow me to repartition as well). I still had a rescue and a bootdisk. I repartitioned, and wanted to continue with a cdrom-installation.I couldn't configure my cdrom-driver. I tried a few things, and gave it up. When i wanted to reboot, i found out my hard disk was empty(i partitioned it), and i tried to reboot with my boot disk. Linux stopped booting with an 'unable to open an initial console' message. Then i could only try to reinstall with floppies. When i started the whole installation once again everything seemed allright, till i came at 'install the OS kernel and modules' where you have to insert the rescue disk (it was already inserted). i got 'this is not the rescue floppy...'message. tried it again and again, nothing helped. I threw the floppy away, took another computer, rawrited2 resc1440.bin to it, this one didn't work either, nor did any other floppy.(all formatted 14.4 disks that allowed me to start the installation but stopped at the same point).So these are my questions: how can i get Linux to understand that i'musing the right floppies? how can i configure my CR-563 creative labs in the installation program? what is this message when i boot from a boot-floppy:'unable to open an initial console'?here are some technical details: MB: Sis85c47,BIOS: Award v 4.50G,12MBram, SB16 with CR-563B CDROM (proprietary), linuxver: Debian 2.1, kernel

1999-08-03 Thread Mike Bulmer
hello there, (please forgive my poor English) Hi Damiaan No need, Your English is very good. I don't know anything about your cdrom, but I do have allot Of experience with bad disks. Try A different disk and redownload resc1440.bin and rawrite it again it may have gotten corrupted (

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-03 Thread Mark Wagnon
virtanen wrote: Yes it was that. It should have been the right one. That Mattrox Millenium seems to be using SVGA. Someone suggested using ctl-alt-+(num) to switch between resolutions. That method never worked. There was only that one resolution available. There might be support for

Re: Linux freezing up

1999-08-03 Thread Mark Wagnon
Wim Kerkhoff wrote: I have on several occasions experienced a lockup of my system. For no apparent reason, it will freeze up. It will not respond to any keyboard control: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't kill X, Ctrl-c, Ctrl-z, Ctrl-Alt-Del don't do anything. Caps lock, etc don't toggle the

Re: newbie² in trouble: installation failshello there, (please forgive my poor English)I've got an interesting case for you linux wizzkids...I tried to install Debian 2.1 and now i can't boot from hard disk andfloppy, or reinstall the system:I tried to install Debian 2.1 on a 486 with floppies.I managed to bootfrom hard disk, and started doing some linux. Soon i got tired ofdownloading the packages each time i wanted to try something new andordered the cdroms. First wanted to configure the cd-driver for mycreative labs CR-563 B in linux, it never worked out(also in dselect).After a while i convinced myself it would be better to reinstall (whatwould allow me to repartition as well). I still had a rescue and a bootdisk. I repartitioned, and wanted to continue with a cdrom-installation.I couldn't configure my cdrom-driver. I tried a few things, and gave itup. When i wanted to reboot, i found out my hard disk was empty(ipartitioned it), and i tried to reboot with my boot disk. Linux stoppedbooting with an 'unable to open an initial console' message. Then icould only try to reinstall with floppies. When i started the wholeinstallation once again everything seemed allright, till i came at'install the OS kernel and modules' where you have to insert the rescuedisk (it was already inserted). i got 'this is not the rescuefloppy...'message. tried it again and again, nothing helped. I threw thefloppy away, took another computer, rawrited2 resc1440.bin to it, thisone didn't work either, nor did any other floppy.(all formatted 14.4disks that allowed me to start the installation but stopped at the samepoint).So these are my questions: how can i get Linux to understand that i'musing the right floppies?how can i configure my CR-563creative labs in the installation program?what is this message when i bootfrom a boot-floppy:'unable to open an initial console'?here are some technical details: MB: Sis85c47,BIOS: Award v 4.50G,12MBram, SB16 with CR-563B CDROM (proprietary), linuxver: Debian 2.1, kernel

1999-08-03 Thread Mark Wagnon
Holy smoke! I didn't know one could get that much into a Subject header!!! -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SSH 2

1999-08-03 Thread Rune Linding Raun
i need SSH2 daemon on my system does it excist as a .deb?

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-03 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: It should have been the right one. That Mattrox Millenium seems to be using SVGA. Someone suggested using ctl-alt-+(num) to switch between resolutions. That method never worked. There was only that one resolution available. There might be

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-03 Thread Mark Wagnon
virtanen wrote: I'm getting tired of this. But it might be the case that I just have to remember to shut the power off altogether before booting debian... because it lasted this time quite long... before it... When the system crashes, all the mounted filesystems are checked to make sure that

Re: SSH 2

1999-08-03 Thread Mark Wagnon
Rune Linding Raun wrote: i need SSH2 daemon on my system does it excist as a .deb? Take a look at http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/non-us/ssh2.html -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA

Re: Streaming Media

1999-08-03 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi, I'm just enquiring about whether there is any streaming video and audio software for Debian, or Linux in general. Realaudio 5.0 works pretty well. There is wrapper/installer for debian. There is even an alpha version of the G2 player. You can download it here:

Re: Linux freezing up

1999-08-03 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 2:21 AM Subject: Linux freezing up Hello, I have on several occasions experienced a lockup of my system. For no apparent reason, it will freeze up. It will not

Does smail have an expensive option like sendmail?

1999-08-03 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! A while ago I switched from sendmail to the Debian-defaulted smail. I am pretty happy with it except for one thing: As soon as any user sends a mail my system dials my ISP. With sendmail I could specify an expensive option so that all mails were queued and only sent out with the next runq

Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?

1999-08-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:40:01PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Mirek Kwasniak wrote: [...] Don't upgrade one only package from potato because potato depends on glibc2.1 and some packages on perl5.005. No, feel free to install any package from *any* debian distribution onto *any* other, so

Re: Matrox Millenium G200LE

1999-08-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Andreas == Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) I think no, but I use the linux 2.2 framebuffer to get high resolution and refresh rate at the console Andreas Is this the prefered method. I'm a little bit slow in following Andreas new things and I'm not really sure, how to implement

Re: UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR

1999-08-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Andreas == Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas If I want to Reply to all recipients? I get at first the Andreas addres from the original sender, and as first CC the list. Andreas But the But the next (last) entry in the CC-list is Andreas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check the original

support

1999-08-03 Thread M Thurston
some stuff that i want to know about please: where can i get Debian banners from to put on my web pages? does debain support Mobile Phone data connections? M Thurston --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netscape crashing - Why do we have to rely on Netscape?

1999-08-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 01:28:25PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: By which time of course mozilla should be in a useable state (IMHO it's already more stable than communicator 4.61). *Sigh* Following some suggestions on debian*lists I installed libc5 version of 4.61 (on potato!!! :) After one day

Re: UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR

1999-08-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On 3 Aug 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: * Andreas == Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check the original mail. Does it have a sparce Comma after the last address in Cc? I also remember (long time I used pine at home), that debian-user adds a (slightly

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-08-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 05:07:55PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: From: egm2@jps.net Netscape-smotif-4.08 is the only reliable version I've found. It's not reliable here. I don't seem to have the window-closing problem you all are talking about, but it still hangs (100% CPU,

Re[2]: QT 2.00 and Slink

1999-08-03 Thread Tadas
Hello, I don't know. When I run ./configure, I see the message: --- Build type:linux-g++-shared Compile flags: -I$(QTDIR)/src/3rdparty/zlib -I$(QTDIR)/src/3rdparty/libpng Link flags: GIF supports: no Creating makefiles... Qt is now configured for building. Just run make. To

Re: UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR

1999-08-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Andreas == Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Resent-cc: recipient.list.not.shown:;@rki.de This is the problematic line. Maybe you can use procmail to correct this. Andreas How to do that. I never fidled around with such stuff. Me neither :-) I just sort. IIRC formail called

Re: ssh with RSA-key login problem

1999-08-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 02:38:19AM +0200, Fredrik Jonsson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 99-08-03 01.39 wrote: Fredrik ssh client complains that Server does not allow RSA Fredrik authentication, or the public key for user user1 was not Fredrik accepted. Reverting to password

Re: Linux freezing up

1999-08-03 Thread Patrik Magnusson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Hachinger) writes: - Original Message - From: Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 2:21 AM Subject: Linux freezing up Hello, I have on several occasions

Re: What process is sending these UPD packets?

1999-08-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Michael == Michael Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael I have a slink server which runs samba (smbd, nmdb), named, Michael and xntpd as well as an IP masquerade for a bunch of internal Michael windoz machines. Michael IP fw-in deny eth1 UDP 192.168.0.1:1033 255.255.255.255:1478 Michael

Re: GIMP perl

1999-08-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Pierfrancesco == Pierfrancesco Caci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierfrancesco How come that the debianized gimp 1.1.7 doesn't have Pierfrancesco the perl scripts? Or does it have them but I miss Pierfrancesco something in my installation and they don't come out? They don't have them. Read

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-03 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: virtanen wrote: I'm getting tired of this. But it might be the case that I just have to remember to shut the power off altogether before booting debian... because it lasted this time quite long... before it... When the system crashes, all the

apt-get blocked by firewall what ports does it use?

1999-08-03 Thread Gareth
G'day all, after some heavy network abuse our intranet admin has changed the firewall setup and now apt-get does not work. Does anyone know what ports apt-get it uses so I can ask him to enable them? --Gareth

Video Card

1999-08-03 Thread Tim \(Pass the Prozac\) Sailer
Can anyone make a recommendation for a high-end video card (3d type) that is supported by the current X? Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps The more you complain, the longer God lets you live. ** Disclaimer: My

Re: xemacs in color in rxvt

1999-08-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:05:03AM -0600, John Galt wrote: BTW any POSIX shell and termcap system will respond the same to a echo $TERM, HTH Even inside of an xterm? My xterms give me 'xterm-debian' and on a virtual console, I get 'linux'. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster -

Re: 2.2.x kernel and PCI eth0 problem

1999-08-03 Thread Jor-el
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Rupert, I assume that you are running Slink. Have to installed the upgrade versions of the packages that are required for your to be running the 2.2.x kernels? I belive the net-tools package is one of the packages that need to be ugraded, so I am not at

dpkg: error processing libcgi-perl (--remove)

1999-08-03 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Subject: libcgi-perl: error processing libcgi-perl (--remove) Package: libcgi-perl Version: 2.76-11 Severity: normal when i try either to upgrade or remove, libcgi-perl is disturbing... how can i fix it? dpkg says this: (Reading database ... 68053 files and directories currently installed.)

how to auto-reply ?

1999-08-03 Thread Marc Dubrowski
Hello, As brand-new mail administrator of a non-profit company, I had the mission to migrate from a sendmail 6 to a newer version. Everything works fine with version 8.9.3 I'vé been asked by som users if it was possible to have the password change automatically, and this work fine with poppassd.

Intellimouse

1999-08-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, sorry for posting to this list, but I have to know quickly, if it is possible to use the wheel of the MS-Intellimouse as third button to get the selections of gpm and X. Kind regards Andreas.

Re: Intellimouse

1999-08-03 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi Andreas, sorry for posting to this list, but I have to know quickly, if it is possible to use the wheel of the MS-Intellimouse as third button to get the selections of gpm and X. Yes, sure is! GPM: If it's a PS/2 mouse, choose ps/2, otherwise ms3 I think. X11: * PS/2 version: Section

Re: how to auto-reply ?

1999-08-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 15:07:44 +0200, Marc Dubrowski wrote: BUT, I was asked too if there was a possibility for the user to have an automatic reply sent to their correspondents when they were out for a while vacation(1) from bsdmainutils. HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-03 Thread Keith G. Murphy
virtanen wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: virtanen wrote: I'm getting tired of this. But it might be the case that I just have to remember to shut the power off altogether before booting debian... because it lasted this time quite long... before it... When the

Re: Video Card

1999-08-03 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Tim (Pass the Prozac) Sailer wrote: Can anyone make a recommendation for a high-end video card (3d type) that is supported by the current X? For this, there are three main contenders - Matrox G200 (G400 support is promised), nVidia TNT(TNT2), or 3dfx Voodoo (2,3,?). If you

Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?

1999-08-03 Thread Remco van de Meent
Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:40:01PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Mirek Kwasniak wrote: [...] Don't upgrade one only package from potato because potato depends on glibc2.1 and some packages on perl5.005. No, feel free to install any package from *any* debian

Re: Linux freezing up

1999-08-03 Thread Raphael clancy
hmm sounds familliar, I had a very similar system, which would lock up completly while using netscape (version 4.08-4.6). I found that upgrading gnome from 1.0 to 1.06 fixed the problem. There are instructions on the gnome website on how to add them to your sources list, then you can use apt

Re: Linux freezing up

1999-08-03 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
On 03-Aug-99 Patrik Magnusson wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Hachinger) writes: - Original Message - From: Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 2:21 AM Hello, I have on several occasions experienced a lockup of my

Re: Video Card

1999-08-03 Thread Robert Rati
nVidia has supported their cards with GPL'd source. It's not fully developed yet (full speed ETA: September), and doesn't support all the acceleration, but the Mesa demos work very nicely on my TNT card (ASUS V3400TNT). I haven't been able to get Quake to work. Quake II, though, is quite

Re: Video Card

1999-08-03 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Raymond A. Ingles wrote: Voodoo card support is the most mature for Mesa... but it's binary-only, no source, and so you have to run a program as root that you don't have the source for. So, you can run Quake without any major problems, but from what I've gathered 2D support is a little

EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

1999-08-03 Thread David Warnock
Hi, We have just had out exim router on our server abused by some spammers. We had thought that we were securely setup, but it appears that our ISP has recently changed something in their dns setup and it meant that spammers have been able to use us as a relay. I have some temporary fixes in

Re: Does smail have an expensive option like sendmail?

1999-08-03 Thread John Hasler
Andy writes: Is there an equivalent option for smail? Put 'queue_only' in /etc/smail/config . -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind.

RE: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

1999-08-03 Thread Pollywog
On 03-Aug-99 David Warnock wrote: I would like to reject all hosts apart from some named machines at sundayta.co.uk but whenever I try that I stop all incoming mail from other hosts which is obviously not correct. Any help much appreciated while I still have some hair left. You did not

Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

1999-08-03 Thread David Warnock
I am using the version that installs with slink which is 2.0.5 (I think) Thanks Dave Pollywog wrote: On 03-Aug-99 David Warnock wrote: I would like to reject all hosts apart from some named machines at sundayta.co.uk but whenever I try that I stop all incoming mail from other hosts

Re: Linux freezing up

1999-08-03 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
On 03-Aug-99 Patrik Magnusson wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Hachinger) writes: - Original Message - From: Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 2:21 AM Hello, I have on several occasions experienced a lockup of my

Re: Linux freezing up

1999-08-03 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
I am using Netscape glibc 4.61 right now, quite unstable (window closing stuff). I have the lastests gnome using apt-get from cybertrails.com, as well as enlightenment. I update/dist-upgrade almost daily. I don't use gnome/kde/enlightenment, even though I have them installed. I use

Re: 2.2.x kernel and PCI eth0 problem

1999-08-03 Thread Julian Stoev
I am using such a system. I compiled the kernel with module autoloading, but I also have /etc/modules like this #auto ne2k-pci It works fine. My network card is automatically detected

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