Re: tiempo de conexion

2000-04-14 Thread Hue-Bond
El jueves 13 de abril de 2000 a la(s) 23:53:22 +0200, Javier Fafián Alvarez contaba: Con el fin de controlar mi tiempo de conexión, que me da el ppconfig en el log al desconectar, necesito hacer algo tan secillo como... sumar dos números !!!, y no se como conseguir sumar dos números ( con

Re: Hora y BIOS

2000-04-14 Thread Cosme P. Cuevas
El Wed, Apr 12, 2000, Ignacio J. Alonso... Últimamente me estoy dando cuenta que tengo problemas con la hora en linuxLa hora del sistema no es correcta y cuando intento ajustarla con la hora de la BIOS que si lo es utilizando hwclock --hctosys pasa de mi ... ¿Tienes instalado

Re: error 2 en la compilac´on del kernel

2000-04-14 Thread Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
Juanma wrote: Pero no hay foma pues a la hora de hacer un make bzImage me da error 2. Si compilo como zImage lo mismo. ¿es por culpa de la memoria? ¿es por otra cosa? No, definitivamente no es problema de la memoria. Yo tuve ese problema con mis primeros intentos con linux. En esa ocasión

Re: pregunta sobre: servidores X, clientes X, gestores de ventanas

2000-04-14 Thread Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No sera (pregunto yo) que el protocolo Xwindow va evolucionando, y que los numeros de nuevas versiones obedecen a la implementación de estos nuevos protocolos o a la mejora de otros antiguos y ademas, como añadidura se incorporan las nuevas tarjetas soportadas. El

RV: routers vs linux

2000-04-14 Thread Juanma
Estimados amigos Estoy intentando conectar una red a internet por medio de una RDSI. Me he bajado archivos de configuración de una página llamada hppp://www.compound.se/router.html y ahí se describen unos scripts de conexión. Uno de ellos esta situado en /etc/ppp/rc.ippp. Os señalo con flechas

RV: routers vs linux

2000-04-14 Thread Juanma
Guenas On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 10:27:19AM +0200, Juanma wrote: Este es el script de conexión situado en /etc/ppp/rc.ippp. Te señalo con flechas lo que me mosquea. [...] # PAP authentication negotiation timeout tengo este mosqueo, que aquí cierra PAP PAP_TIMEOUT=6 Creo que esto no sera

Re: pregunta sobre: servidores X, clientes X, gestores de ventanas

2000-04-14 Thread dbaranda
Muchas gracias a todos. Ya tengo las ideas cristalinas. Han desaparecido los nubarrones de mi cerebro y ahora mismo hace un sol espléndido. :-) Gracias

Re: Hora y BIOS

2000-04-14 Thread Diego Bote
... Yo lo probé y fué un desastre, recomiendo encarecidamente el ntp-date, por su facilidad de uso si se tiene internet. ¿Qué ordenadores dan servicio de hora en internet? Con uno vale. Saludos Diego

Aviso de correo

2000-04-14 Thread Luis Arocha -data-
Tengo el correo preprocesado por procmail, que lo separa en diferentes ficheros, con lo cual el fichero inbox casi siempre esta vacio. ¿Como puedo conseguir que los ficheros de aviso de correo entrante miren en todos los posibles ficheros? -- Luis Arocha Hernandez data [EMAIL PROTECTED] Islas

Re: Aviso de correo

2000-04-14 Thread Luis Arocha -data-
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:21:27AM +0100, Luis Arocha -data- wrote: ¿Como puedo conseguir que los ficheros de aviso de correo entrante miren en todos los posibles ficheros? Perdon. Queria decir los programas de aviso de correo entrante, tipo biff y similares. -- Luis Arocha Hernandez data

Re: pregunta sobre: servidores X, clientes X, gestores de ventanas

2000-04-14 Thread Hue-Bond
El viernes 14 de abril de 2000 a la(s) 09:02:44 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] contaba: Ya tengo las ideas cristalinas. Han desaparecido los nubarrones de mi cerebro y ahora mismo hace un sol espléndido. :-) Pues disfruta de la playa... mientras puedas ;^) -- Just do it. David Serrano

Re: Hora y BIOS

2000-04-14 Thread Antonio Castro
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Diego Bote wrote: ... Yo lo probé y fué un desastre, recomiendo encarecidamente el ntp-date, por su facilidad de uso si se tiene internet. ¿Qué ordenadores dan servicio de hora en internet? Con uno vale. Saludos slug es servidor de hora. www.ctv.es

ancho de banda

2000-04-14 Thread Pablo
hay algun paquete que permita limitar el ancho de banda que circulara por un disposito determinado como una tarjeta ethernet gracias

epson dfx 8500 como lpd

2000-04-14 Thread Pablo
tenemos una dfx 8500 con tarjeta de red, esta a su vez esta configurada en un linux que trabaja como servidor de impresion lpd. El tema es que cuando se le mandan dos copias de un documento solo sale una a alguien le paso algo similar

Tarjeta de sonido

2000-04-14 Thread Miguel Angel Hernandez Sanchez
Alguien podria decirme como instalar una tarjeta de sonido FM 801 en potato, y tambien como puedo ver los errores que me marca linux cuando arranca, los errores como que no arranco tal proceso, o no pudo confihurar la tarjeta,etc, les agradeceria mucho.

Re: Hora y BIOS

2000-04-14 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
La verdad es que no le he dedicado al reloj el tiempo que me hubiera gustado, pero ¿no mola más y es más rápido y menos movida hacer: /usr/sbin/rdate slug.ctv.es /sbin/hwclock --systohc --utc --debug cada vez que te conectas a internet para bajar el correo o al menos una vez por semana? Es lo

Re: no me llega el correo

2000-04-14 Thread Correcaminos
El Thu, Apr 13, 2000 a las 09:27:16PM +0100, ramon dijo: no me llega el correo Me parece un poco absurdo. Me hace recordar el famoso mensaje de: = Teclado no encontrado. Pulse F1 para seguir ... Si lees este correo, da más detalles }:-) --

Help

2000-04-14 Thread RealCuba
Nececito manual de 486 para resolver un problema con el microprocesador mio el problema que tengo es en el llunpeaje

Re: Ferramentas para desenvolvimento

2000-04-14 Thread Debian Linux User
Leandro Dutra wrote: Não encontrei detalhes históricos... Achei! Está nessa página: http://wauug.erols.com/~balsa/linux/deadkeys/ Lá embaixo // The Open Group : incredibly enough, nobody seems to be in charge of

Re: Suporte a placa SIS 6202 PCI

2000-04-14 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Danilo wrote: Gleydson, Me intrometendo no assunto... Já tive problemas pra instalar o X11 com uma SiS. A placa SiS não tem suporte a VGA padrão, então vc não pode instalar com XF86Setup, tenta o xf86config. (Vc tem que usar o XF86-SVGA pra suporte a SiS) Sim eu sempre uso o xf86config.

Re: Trying to run one process as root, how?

2000-04-14 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Jim Breton wrote: On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 06:17:00PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: since I believe if you use +root you would be allowing the root user on any other system to connect to your X server as well. Actually, you will be allowing any user on system

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz problems

2000-04-14 Thread Bruce Stephens
William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] On AMD CPUs Windows 95 falls over at clock speeds exceeding 350 MHz. You can download a patch from Microsoft that will fix the problem, but to install it you will have to drop your system speed down to slow. Try setting your system multiplier

Plotting Program?

2000-04-14 Thread SCOTT FENTON
Hello all. Does anyone know of a free package (preferebly in Debian) that does what graphviz (http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/), that is, draws family-tree like diagrams? TIA Scott Fenton

Re: can I change the font of default xterm?

2000-04-14 Thread john smith
yes. actually what I meant to ask was the fonts for the terminals when you press alt+f1,f2 etc.. From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], john smith [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian Users

how to make .deb packages?

2000-04-14 Thread Fox, Michael
I have always wondered. I manage a fair few Debian machines, as since I started using debian about 12months ago after coming from Slackware. I have since given up on anything else, and only use Debian. I noticed that when you build a kernel on your machine, that you can also make your kernel

Re: can I change the font of default xterm?

2000-04-14 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
I think you might try looking at console-tools or kbd packages. You probably won't be able to use TrueType fonts though, but I don't know for sure. You might also look into the SVGAtextmode (or something like that) package. g'Luck! Marshal john == john smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Re: Converting text to Word

2000-04-14 Thread Matthew Dalton
Bruce Sass wrote: On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Paul Huygen wrote: 2) You want to send a Word document to somebody who wants to process it with Word. In that case, send her the plain ASCI text, and tell her that she can import it in Word by clicking import as [text files]. That's

Re: perl is bent (not broke; just bent)

2000-04-14 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, w trillich wrote: this doesn't look hard to fix, but it's possible that whatever causes this might be happening on all your installs, maybe? I have the same problem, but related to DBI.pm; so that I couldn't start gnudip. And when it couldn't be started, perl stopped in

Re: can I change the font of default xterm?

2000-04-14 Thread Chris Gray
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 11:27:39PM +, john smith wrote: yes. actually what I meant to ask was the fonts for the terminals when you press alt+f1,f2 etc.. First of all, you can't change it to a true type font as far as I know. *But* you can make it much nicer. The way I did it involves some

Installing Netscape6

2000-04-14 Thread Vitux
Please forgive me if this is a faq, but I couldn't find it in the recent list-archives: How would I go about installing the new Netscape(Mozilla) 6.0? I've d/l'ed the tarball, unpacked it, and there's no readme, no ns-install (like in 4.72), no docs whatsoever!? So, I figure I'll try the

Re: debian on newer kernel

2000-04-14 Thread Vitux
Sunil Pandey wrote: I am trying to install debian 2.1r5(slink) on my comp. One question that I want to ask is.. is it possible to get debian for a newer version of kernel (say like kernel 2.2.1). -- Sunil Pandey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doubt is a programmer's BEST enemy.

Re: Gnome/Enlightenment Setup.

2000-04-14 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Henry Kleynhans wrote: method of doing things. Can someone please enlighten me on how to get Gnome and Enlightenment setup together ? Assuming that your X is already running... apt-get install gdm apt-get instal gmc apt-get install enlightenment then reboot or just

Re: debian on newer kernel

2000-04-14 Thread Vitux
John Kuhn wrote: On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 08:52:34PM +0200, Meinolf Sander wrote: On Thu, Apr 13, 2000, Sunil Pandey wrote: I am trying to install debian 2.1r5(slink) on my comp. One question that I want to ask is.. is it possible to get debian for a newer version

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz problems

2000-04-14 Thread Oki DZ
On 14 Apr 2000, Bruce Stephens wrote: Don't know why Linux should fail to shut down properly, though. Could it be one of these motherboards that requires APM shutdown to be done in real mode and that's screwing things up? I have potato running on a P. III/550Mhz, APM works fine. OT a bit,

2 modems to the Internet

2000-04-14 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, Is it possible to have two default routes to the Internet? I'm looking for ways to do just that; connecting an additional modem for more bandwith. But I don't need multi-link PPP, because one of the modems could be disconnected any time to receive dial-ins. The modems are supposed to be

Re: FontSet problem

2000-04-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 01:23:37AM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, When I run gv, I got the following warning message. I think I am missing some package, but I don't know what it is. [23:46|pts/[EMAIL PROTECTED] % gv ass1_report.ps Warning: Missing charsets in String

Linux support ADSL?

2000-04-14 Thread Jerry Zhou
Hello: I want to connect my linux to network by ADSL. Which ADSL card can work with Linux? It is easy to config? Regard Jerry Zhou

Re: ppp-compress-1 strangeness

2000-04-14 Thread Gregory T. Norris
After the connection has been established, I get this: modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-1 I haven't seen that one before... are you sure it isn't asking for ppp-compress-21? Anyway, here are my ppp-compress-* entries: alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24

receiving mail / qpopper

2000-04-14 Thread ktb
I have a small network with a firewall and another computer. Both have Slink installed. On the firewall computer I have exim, fetchmail, qpopper and mutt installed. I can send and receive mail just fine from the firewall. What I want to do is send and receive from the other computer. At this

Re: ftp.jimpick.com disappeared...

2000-04-14 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: ftp.jimpick.com seems to have disappeared. I was using it as a Debian non-US mirror. Anybody know about this (or does it still resolve for you)? apt-get update worked for me just now. I haven't been able to mirror on any non-US site for about a

Re: Basic Question fot apt-get

2000-04-14 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! If I use apt-get to install a .deb package, does the apt will find the dependent package and install it, and check the conflict? Thanks

problem creating boot floppy

2000-04-14 Thread John Kiff
I wasn't able to create a boot floppy during installation (of the frozen distribution) and I'm having the same problem now that everything else is up and running. I'm pretty sure that I'm doing everything correctly, but I keep getting back a bad disk or write-protected disk error. I've gone

Re: receiving mail / qpopper

2000-04-14 Thread ktb
I got it figured out. From what I was reading I was lead to believe I was suppose to put one as the server in the Netscape mailer. I needed to put [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. Sorry for the stupid post. kent On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 09:55:27PM -0500, ktb wrote: I have a small network with a

MY DEBIAN INSTALL/UPGRADE METHOD [was Re: postgresql-test... NOT]

2000-04-14 Thread w trillich
in case it's useful, here's my crach-course of hard-knocks on HOW TO GET A PACKAGE OPERATIONAL in debian these days (i.e. april 2000--of course, with code being added all the time, debian changes by the minute and this may become obsolete next tuesday--or seven years from now...) Oliver Elphick

Re: apt-get upgrade, bad news SOLVED!

2000-04-14 Thread w trillich
Eric G . Miller wrote: On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 04:16:18AM -0500, w trillich wrote: the error messages i mentioned in my 'successful' (aka non-aborted) apt-get dist-upgrade were still ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libMesaGLw.so (No such file or directory), skipping

install help with a SCSI CDROM on a 486

2000-04-14 Thread wganz
I've been fighting this Debian install for 3 weeks and am about tired of it. If I don't get an answer here, then I am taking the damn CD to the skeet range. OK, here is what I got: Debian 2.1 bootable CD, official type that comes in the box, has the Debian tm logo on it and the O'Rielly cow book

Re: Basic Question fot apt-get

2000-04-14 Thread Oki DZ
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Alex Kwan wrote: If I use apt-get to install a .deb package, does the apt will find the dependent package and install it, and check the conflict? Yes, if you get the packages via http (or ftp?). If you have the .deb files, then you use dpkg (eg: dpkg -i package.deb).

Re: Need Help About SSL Certificate

2000-04-14 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Serhat Artun on Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:23:39 +0300: $ make certificate TYPE=custom but it doesnt work or I couldnt make it if you know how can I create basicly I don't know anything about making certificates for SSL, however, if it is using a Makefile, which I assume it must since

Re: problem creating boot floppy

2000-04-14 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Kiff wrote: I'm pretty sure that I'm doing everything correctly, but I keep getting back a bad disk or write-protected disk error. Make sure that you don't have any floppy with bad sectors. You can format the floppies on a running Linux machine using fdformat

Re: Converting text to Word

2000-04-14 Thread Brian Stults
 Which editors can output in Word format (assuming that any editor can import plain text)? Not exactly an editor, but the beta version of StarOffice can write a Word2000 document: http://www.sun.com/staroffice The installation file is huge, and the program will suck up your resources.

Beware of broken perl installation

2000-04-14 Thread Oki DZ
I have a system with broken perl installation, the output of apt-get -s install perl is attached below. It's kinda scary, isn't it...? The installed perl (according to dpkg) is perl-5.005, why did I get perl-5.004 to be installed? BTW, I installed the machine using potato floppies, then I

exim as mailhub on a dialup line

2000-04-14 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! At home, I have my debian box acting as masquerading gateway/mail-/fileserver et al for my local network. The clients have the box as outgoing mailserver, which works fine as long as the box is actually connected to the internet. What I can´t figure out is to get it to accept mail from

Still some potato files after dist-upgrade?

2000-04-14 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello, I was running potato and upgraded to slink (with dist-upgrade), and after that, I noticed a few funny things: - login still tells me potato... - before the upgrade, /etc/debian_version was woody (because sources.list had pointers to both frozen ad unstable, and I probably got

Still some potato files after dist-upgrade? - corrections

2000-04-14 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On 14 Apr 2000 03:14:44 -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Well, it seems that I'm not exactly awake. Hello, I was running potato and upgraded to slink == To woody, of course!!! (with dist-upgrade), and after that, I noticed a few funny things: - login still tells

Re: Still some potato files after dist-upgrade?

2000-04-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
Upgraded from Potato to Slink That is a downgrade!! Woody is 2.3, Potato 2.2 and Slink 2.1 What exactly IS your problem?? Ron Rademaker On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: Hello, I was running potato and upgraded to slink (with dist-upgrade), and after that,

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz problems

2000-04-14 Thread Phillip Deackes
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've attempted to upgrade using 100MHz FSB for the first time. The new CPU is an AMD500K2, the Motherboard a Gigabyte GA-5AX (Rev5.2.x) (with ALi Aladdin chipset and Award bios) and a 64MB DIMM (100MHz). The machine is a standalone one with Win95 on a small

Problem compiling Debian potato - make dep errors

2000-04-14 Thread Christophe ABRIAL
Good morningto everybody, I'm experiencing a problem throught the compilation of the kernel (version 2.2.14). I've downloaded the sources from debian.org. So, I'm in /usr/src/linux andI have made the "make config" to set my parameters. But whenI want to run "make dep", I've got the

Re: Problem compiling Debian potato - make dep errors

2000-04-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
Check if your libc6 is correctly installed (with all dependencies) and working... Ron Rademaker On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Christophe ABRIAL wrote: Good morning to everybody, I'm experiencing a problem throught the compilation of the kernel (version 2.2.14). I've downloaded the sources from

Re: Beware of broken perl installation

2000-04-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
I don't know about apt but about potato and frozen: potato == frozen (frozen is simply a symlink to potato). Ron Rademaker On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Oki DZ wrote: I have a system with broken perl installation, the output of apt-get -s install perl is attached below. It's kinda scary, isn't it...?

Re: mount ownership problem (newbie, maybe)

2000-04-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
I'm not sure but I think a chmod on /dev/scd0 will work... But as far as I know every user was always allowed to read a mounted cdrom, I never had a permission denied... Ron Rademaker On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: Hello I created the following mountpoint directories under

Re: Trying to run one process as root, how?

2000-04-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
You should set your environmental DISPLAY variable... Ron Rademaker On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Bryan Walton wrote: Greetings to the list, I have a situation where I need to run one program as root, through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as non-root. When I open up

Re: Help with GDM

2000-04-14 Thread Miles Lane
I have a different problem with GDM2. I am running the latest development kernels. Unfortunately, the way shrmem works has been changed. Now, prebuilt GDM packages give me executables that crash when I run them. I am left attempting to get GDM2 to run after building and installing it from

7-bit PPP

2000-04-14 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'm having problem setting up a PPP connection on Debian; one of the side complained that the line was not 8-bit clean. Is this kind of problem due to the settings in /etc/ppp/options or is it a hardware problem? (Some motherboards have BIOS setting for serial lines.) How do you setup a

Having trouble with USR v90 56K Internal Voice modem

2000-04-14 Thread Richard Broza
Good Morning; I've just recently installed debian on my computer. I'm having trouble with 2 things. 1) I recently purchased a USR v90 56k Internal Voice modem, I tryed to detect my modem under debian it couldn't find it. but apon checking windows it listed as COM 5, how do I get debian to

Re: Converting text to Word

2000-04-14 Thread Paul Huygen
Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) You want to send a Word document to somebody who wants to process it with Word. In that case, send her the plain ASCI text, and tell her that she can import it in Word by clicking import as [text files]. That's the one,[..] There is one thing

Re: Beware of broken perl installation

2000-04-14 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Oki DZ say I have a system with broken perl installation, the output of apt-get -s install perl is attached below. ^^^ That's the culprit, perl package is to be consider obsolete. use apt-get install perl-5.005 instead. It's kinda scary, isn't

Some confusion with libraries and include files (HELP!!!!!)

2000-04-14 Thread Taupter
Hello! I'm a bit in trouble here, and any help will be _very_ welcome! Well, Once upon a time, I had installed Slink. Some libs went old (GTK and a large bunch), then I compiled them from source to use the newer versions. Ok. Libs in /usr/local/lib e includes in /usr/local/include, ok? I

Asus K7V motherboard

2000-04-14 Thread Alfredo Amiel P. Leonardia
Hi All, Anybody out there using an Asus K7V motherboard? It's very new and I haven't found anything on the web concerning compatibility with linux or lack thereof. Any info? Thanks in advance. -A. Leonardia

Gnudip DHCP serve

2000-04-14 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'm looking for ways to update a Gnudip server by sending requests to a DHCP server asking for all those available Windows names with their respective IPs. How? Or should I just read the DHCP's RFC? Thanks in advance, Oki

Re: Having trouble with USR v90 56K Internal Voice modem

2000-04-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
1) I recently purchased a USR v90 56k Internal Voice modem, I tryed to detect my modem under debian it couldn't find it. but apon checking windows it listed as COM 5, how do I get debian to detect com5 are you sure, it is no winmodem? if it is ok, then you possibly have to enable extended

Debian

2000-04-14 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, From www.dictionary.com: /deb'ee`n/, *not* /deeb'ee`n/ The non-profit volunteer organisation responsible for Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/Hurd. Debian's Linux distribution is dedicated to free and open source software; the main goal of the distribution is to ensure that one can download

Re: Trying to run one process as root, how?

2000-04-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
You should set your environmental DISPLAY variable... it is set. otherwise he would get the message ... Xt error: Can't open display: instead of Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Error: Can't open display: :0.0

Debian

2000-04-14 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I see, DEBra and IAN Murdock. It was in the dictionary, so it's a made up one. BTW, the logo gives me an impression that Debian is a Genie in a bottle. Oki

ispell

2000-04-14 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, If there's an ispell, where is the ithes? Oki

Re: 2 modems to the Internet

2000-04-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Is it possible to have two default routes to the Internet? basically you cannot have two default routes, as this is a bit paradox. you could set up some more complicated routing rules according to the destinations. also, the kernel offers some options, which are enabled by advanced router in the

Re: Installing Netscape6

2000-04-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I've d/l'ed the tarball, unpacked it, and there's no readme, no ns-install (like in 4.72), no docs whatsoever!? i found no install program, too. i guess, you have to un-tar it to it´s final destination. So, I figure I'll try the netscape-file which is in the top-directory. I know very little

Problem with telnetd

2000-04-14 Thread Vicente Torres
When I telnet my machine from another box, I get following message bash-2.02$ telnet mymachine Trying XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX... Connected to mymachine. Escape character is '^]'. telnetd: getpty: Permission denied . Connection closed by foreign host. bash-2.02$ SSH works well. I think it was after

request of help to make the network card work

2000-04-14 Thread mauro faga
I have a 3Com Etherlink iii 3c509b ISA PnP network card, located under windows at IO=0x210, IRQ=5. When I try to load the module 3c509.o under linux, it detects a card at IO=0x200, irq=3. The diagnostic PING doesn't receive any response, as the addresses aren't correct. Any attempt to configure

What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?

2000-04-14 Thread Joe Emenaker
Aka... why is my system so well hung? :) Every now and then, I'll have a Debian box that starts having fits of hard system hangs. Sometimes, it goes away when I turn off a daemon. Other times, it goes away when I put the hard drives in an entirely different computer. Currently, I'm having this

[Fwd: What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?]

2000-04-14 Thread Vitux
Joe Emenaker wrote: Aka... why is my system so well hung? :) Every now and then, I'll have a Debian box that starts having fits of hard system hangs. Sometimes, it goes away when I turn off a daemon. Other times, it goes away when I put the hard drives in an entirely different

RE: newbie question.

2000-04-14 Thread Robert Varga
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 01:45:00PM +0200, Robert Varga wrote: The debian cd should contain the rtl8139.o file. It should install it, if you select the rtl8139 module during the kernel module configuration phase of the installing. If

Re: How to upgrade from slink to potato

2000-04-14 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! Because I am afraid the upgrade will loss my nstalled application and user's information. What is the safe way to upgrade slink to potato? Thanks

Re: request of help to make the network card work

2000-04-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I have a 3Com Etherlink iii 3c509b ISA PnP network card, located under windows at IO=0x210, IRQ=5. When I try to load the module 3c509.o under linux, it detects a card at IO=0x200, irq=3. Any attempt to configure the module (via modules.conf) with specified values results in a IO_PARAM

Re: Debian

2000-04-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:22:45PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: So, what's exactly the meaning of Debian? Is it a made up name or what? It's nice to have Debian in a dictionary, but it doesn't explain the meaning of the word. http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-basic_defs.html#s-pronunciation -- Carl

Re: How to upgrade from slink to potato

2000-04-14 Thread SCOTT FENTON
If you hav a cable, DSL, or T* connection, wait for potato to stablize, then run apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade Alex Kwan wrote: Hi! Because I am afraid the upgrade will loss my nstalled application and user's information. What is the safe way to upgrade slink to potato? Thanks

Re: What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?

2000-04-14 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Joe, On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: Currently, I'm having this problem with one. Just... out of the blue, it will hang dead in its tracks. The keyboard doesn't even wake the screen so I can see if there are any kernel panic messages or anything. Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't do

ZyXEL ISDN external adapter

2000-04-14 Thread Ximo Nadal
Hello: We have a ZyXEL Omni TA128 ISDN external adapter connected to a high speed serial card (460 kbs). How we must configure linux (Debian) to works fine with this harware (using two ISDN Channels)? Where can we find documentation about this problem (or similar)? Please help us 8-) Thaks for

dselect

2000-04-14 Thread admar
Hello. I'm using Debian potato on my laptop at school where I have a fast and free internet connection. At another computer at home, I'm using Debian slink. I would like to put potato on that computer to, but that one has no fast free connection. That computer uses some packages not installed my

Re: install help with a SCSI CDROM on a 486

2000-04-14 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been fighting this Debian install for 3 weeks and am about tired of it. If I don't get an answer here, then I am taking the damn CD to the skeet range. OK, here is what I got: Debian 2.1 bootable CD, official type that comes in the box, has

Re: debian on newer kernel

2000-04-14 Thread John Kuhn
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 08:18:33AM +0200, Vitux wrote: John Kuhn wrote: My experiance was that 2.2.13 is the latest stable kernel that you can run on slink without updating any other packages. Kernel 2.2.14 would require installing a newer procps (2.0.3 or later). John -- Not

Re: Debian

2000-04-14 Thread Christian Surchi
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:22:45PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: So, what's exactly the meaning of Debian? Is it a made up name or what? It's nice to have Debian in a dictionary, but it doesn't explain the meaning of the word. DEBra and IAN Murdock! bye Christian

2.2.14 vs procps [was: debian on newer kernel]

2000-04-14 Thread Vitux
John Kuhn wrote: On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 08:18:33AM +0200, Vitux wrote: John Kuhn wrote: My experiance was that 2.2.13 is the latest stable kernel that you can run on slink without updating any other packages. Kernel 2.2.14 would require installing a newer procps (2.0.3 or

Re: Gnome desktop

2000-04-14 Thread John Stevenson
You shoud really just edit the .xsession file in your user directory, /home/username/.xsession You do not need to include a command to run the window manager (fvwm2), gnome-session will do that for you. Check that you dont have a .xinitrc file in your home directory as this will override the

Re: What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?

2000-04-14 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Joe Emenaker wrote: [cut] With that in mind, does anyone have any personal experience concerning what the problem usually is in these cases? Motherboard? RAM? Has it ever helped anyone to *under*clock the CPU? You could try memtest86 to test the memory.

2 newbie questions

2000-04-14 Thread Peter Solinsky
I have a boca-research modem which is PNP compatable but debian can't detect it. Do I need to manually set the jumpers for and open COM and IRQ for it to be recognized? 2nd: I am having trouble getting xwindows to work properly. When I run xf86config and set the card for SVGA, my monitor

Re: 7-bit PPP

2000-04-14 Thread John Hasler
Oki writes: I'm having problem setting up a PPP connection on Debian; one of the side complained that the line was not 8-bit clean. Is this kind of problem due to the settings in /etc/ppp/options or is it a hardware problem? Neither. It means that pppd is starting up at your end while a login

Re: ftp.jimpick.com disappeared...

2000-04-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
After more than 24 hours and a bitchy letter to my ISP, ftp.jimpick.com now resolves again. No clue why it disappeared, except my ISP has changed hands recently On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 01:23:16AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 11:13:58PM -0700, Eric G . Miller

Re: ftp.jimpick.com disappeared...

2000-04-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 09:34:01PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: ftp.jimpick.com seems to have disappeared. I was using it as a Debian non-US mirror. Anybody know about this (or does it still resolve for you)? apt-get update worked for me

problems with apt-get upgrade slink - potato

2000-04-14 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I tried to do a slink-potato upgrade, I put the potato debian site in /etc/apt/sources.list, and let go with atp-get update -- works fine... apt-get dist-upgrade -- problems... but, (see below) it looks like I get only a few fiels, adn many many errors which seem server related.

Re: Trying to run one process as root, how?

2000-04-14 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 07:07:17PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Jim Breton wrote: On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 06:17:00PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: since I believe if you use +root you would be allowing the root user on any other system to connect to your X

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