Re: Solucion: Problema con kernel-source

2000-05-18 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Hue-Bond wrote: Gracias a Enzo y a Jordi por sus rápidas respuestas. Y a mí no??? Que fui el primero!! :^ Tienes razón David, confundí tu nombre con el de Jordi que no respondió a este sino a otro mensaje que envié. Gracias por tu ayuda que fué muy útil pues revisando los pasos

[Fwd: Sistema Operativo Programa PADRE]

2000-05-18 Thread Fernando
Hola lista: Os envio la respuesta que me han dado de hacienda :-) Saludos. -- Fernando. {:-{D Hackers do it with fewer instructions.---BeginMessage--- Para tomar la decisión relativa al sistema operativo elegido para elaborar el Programa PADRE se han tenido en cuenta los datos de

Re: Solucion: Problema con kernel-source

2000-05-18 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Enzo A. Dari wrote: El kernel-source estoy empezando a usarlo, al fin y al cabo sólo instala el tar.gz original en /usr/src. Sí. Es equivalente a bajarte el tarball; de todas formas tienes que desarchivarlo con tar xvz y crear un enlace simbólico /usr/src/linux para donde se halla desarchivado.

Imagenes bzImage del nucleo

2000-05-18 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Ayer Jordi me proponia que era mejor crear siempre una imagen bzImage y no zImage. Yo le respondí que en los ordenadores portátiles las imagenes bzImage no funcionan. Pués resulta que eso ya no es verdad. Con los núcleos de la serie 2.2 (y creo que 2.1 también) ya han incluído un parche que hace

Re: Imagenes bzImage del nucleo

2000-05-18 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 08:44:41AM +0100, Jaime E. Villate wrote: Ayer Jordi me proponia que era mejor crear siempre una imagen bzImage y no zImage. Yo le respondí que en los ordenadores portátiles las imagenes bzImage no funcionan. Bueno, yo usaba zImages, hasta lo del lilo. Más que nada

ver peliculas DVD

2000-05-18 Thread Juanma
Saludos: ¿teneis idea de cómo pueden verse películas de un DVD en linux? Por si sirve de algo como tarjeta gráfica tengo la ATI rage 128 con salida Tv y 32 Mb de memoria mas un lector DVD. He estado mirando en las páginas de ATI pero no encuentro nada. Muchas gracias

Re: ver peliculas DVD

2000-05-18 Thread Miguel Rodriguez Penabad
Yo lo he conseguido (mas o menos), bajandome las fuentes de CVS de http://www.linuxvideo/org y compilandolas (no a la primera, claro :) PERO: con mi equipo (PII-233, 96MB, DVD pioneer 5x, ATI RagePro 8MB) no he pasado de los 7-8 frames por segundo. No he probado desde hace un par de meses, a lo

Re: configuración del mutt

2000-05-18 Thread Hue-Bond
El miércoles 17 de mayo de 2000 a la(s) 23:44:18 +0200, Javier Fafián Alvarez contaba: Pues mándamela, aunque no se que será peor, a lo mejor me asusto :-? De momento me está gustando el mutt :) From: Javier Fafián Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Te aconsejo que pongas en el .muttrc algo

Re: ADSL e IP fija ¡¿si o no?!

2000-05-18 Thread Hue-Bond
El jueves 18 de mayo de 2000 a la(s) 03:16:06 +0200, Javier Fafián Alvarez contaba: si mediante adsl estás siempre conectado, tu ip será fija ( eso seguro no te la pueden cambiar sobre la marcha ) No sé no sé. En una conexión por módem normal creo que sí que se puede cambiar sin

[istz3039@aeat.es: RE: Programa PADRE para Linux]

2000-05-18 Thread Ricard Pillosu
creo que deben tener algun filtro para el Outlook que cualquier email que contenga la palabra LINUX devolverle este email ... PD: Para hacer un estudio estadistico de los efectos del ILOVEYOU creo que les podriamos enviar el codigo para que sus programadores lo estudien. no? - Forwarded

RE: [istz3039@aeat.es: RE: Programa PADRE para Linux]

2000-05-18 Thread Luis M. Fuertes
creo que deben tener algun filtro para el Outlook que cualquier email que contenga la palabra LINUX devolverle este email ... Yo creo que si, o si no el tio que los contesta se está jartando de jase cortar y pegar ;-)

Re: [istz3039@aeat.es: RE: Programa PADRE para Linux]

2000-05-18 Thread Hue-Bond
El jueves 18 de mayo de 2000 a la(s) 13:29:21 +0200, Luis M. Fuertes contaba: creo que deben tener algun filtro para el Outlook que cualquier email que contenga la palabra LINUX devolverle este email ... Yo creo que si, o si no el tio que los contesta se está jartando de jase cortar y pegar

ayuda :o)

2000-05-18 Thread Mayenia
Hola mi nombre es Mª Eugenia y necesitaría saber donde puedo comprar una caja pata un k-7 pero de sobremesa no de torre en mi zona nadie sabe, y no se ni donde dirigirme, y como llegue a esta WWW a ver si tengo suerte y ustedes me dan alguna dir :o) Gracias de antemano :o) Mª Eugenia

Una preguntita sobre el apagado.

2000-05-18 Thread Fernando
Hola: Hemos tenido que apagar los equipos por mantenimiento y un PC con W95 que tenia contraseña, lo he apagado a fuego, pero para mi sorpresa el win ha hecho un apagado mas o menos ordenado. No he querido probar con mi Debian aqui en el curro, que ademas tiene el Kernel de la instalacion

RE: [istz3039@aeat.es: RE: Programa PADRE para Linux]

2000-05-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Creo lo mismo... no soy de españa, pero escribi para sumarme a la lista de los que estamos solicitando apoyo para linux.. pero bueno que se le va a hacer... :) ellos se lo pierden. Ricardo Rodriguez Cartago-Colombia Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Luis M. Fuertes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Como redirijo los mensajes a una determinada terminal??

2000-05-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hola, he mirado por ahi y no encuentro la forma de redireccionar todos los mensajes que aparecen en mi consola por ejemplo... cuando entro a las X, o cuando uno de mis programas tiene error, etc.. a una terminal determinada, por ejemplo la terminal tty12 o la que yo quiera... que pongo o que

Re: Solucion: Problema con kernel-source

2000-05-18 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
Jaime E. Villate wrote: cuando usas dpkg -i kernel-image... hace todo eso (siguiendo el mismo proceso que usas cuando instalas la imagen del núcleo al instalar debian). Si ya tenías otro núcleo con la misma versión te recuerda que conviene guardar los módulos antiguos y para, dandote la

Re: Como redirijo los mensajes a una determinada terminal??

2000-05-18 Thread Hue-Bond
El jueves 18 de mayo de 2000 a la(s) 05:36:45 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] contaba: Hola, he mirado por ahi y no encuentro la forma de redireccionar todos los mensajes que aparecen en mi consola por ejemplo... cuando entro a las X, o cuando uno de mis programas tiene error, etc.. a una terminal

Re: La firma y el pine

2000-05-18 Thread Nitebirdz[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Jordi Mallach wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 11:48:39AM +0200, Ignacio Garcia Fernandez wrote: Al contestar un mensaje con el pine me coloca primero la firma y luego el mensaje al que contesto: Alguien sabe como hacer que lo coloque al reves? Algo así como

=?x-unknown?q?Re=3A_ADSL_e_IP_fija_=A1=BFsi_o_no=3F!?=

2000-05-18 Thread Nitebirdz[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Javier Fafián Alvarez wrote: Reply-To: El caso es que una de las preguntas es recurrente, ¿ADSL implica IP fija?, a mi me extraña pero me mosquea que los técnicos de la Timo me digan unas veces que si y otras que no. ¿Hay alguien por ahí que pueda zanjar

Re: ADSL e IP fija ¡¿si o no?!

2000-05-18 Thread pookie
esto no es exactamente asi. No tengo ADSL, por lo que podria equivocarme, pero segun tengo entendido (y estoy casi seguro de que lo he entendido bien ;)) en pricipio te asignan IP fija (la misma cada vez que enciendes el ordenador) pero tu puedes elegir si no la quieres fija. Asi pues, funciona

Re: La firma y el pine

2000-05-18 Thread Carlos
Jordi Mallach decía: On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 11:48:39AM +0200, Ignacio Garcia Fernandez wrote: Al contestar un mensaje con el pine me coloca primero la firma y luego el mensaje al que contesto: Alguien sabe como hacer que lo coloque al reves? Algo así como Signature after the message

Re: configuración del mutt

2000-05-18 Thread Santiago Romero
El mié, 17 de may de 2000, a las 07:41:35 +0200, Javier Fafián Alvarez dijo: ¿ Me podrías explicar un poco como va esto de las listas de correo en mutt ?, es que no me acabo de enterar ... asi a lo sencillote... 1.- Pones el nombre de las listas de correo en el .muttrc tras el comando

Re: configuración del mutt

2000-05-18 Thread Santiago Romero
El mié, 17 de may de 2000, a las 07:37:12 +0200, Javier Fafián Alvarez dijo: Yo me acabo de poner con el mutt, a ver, cualquier hayuda al respecto será bién venida, supongo que no existirá un Como al respecto, ¿ no ?, en fin no http://bash.unizar.es/~nop/linux/linux.html hay tienes el

Re: configuración del mutt

2000-05-18 Thread Javier Fafián Alvarez
Buenas A ver esto: cuando pulso la g para responder a un correo, me sale en la cabecera: From: Javier Fafián Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Javier Fafián Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hue-Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Evidentemente, me gustaría que lo

Re: Diccionario inglés-castellano ?

2000-05-18 Thread Javier Fafián Alvarez
Buenas otra vez Escribo para volver a ofrecer mi ayuda en el tema del diccionario. Mi idea es la del granito de arena; por ejemplo: i2e each not found. Creo que una palabra tan común debería estar, y mi planteamiento es el siguiente: ¿ no podriamos desarrollar un sistema de forma que ademá de

Re: Como redirijo los mensajes a una determinada terminal??

2000-05-18 Thread Javier Fafián Alvarez
El que hace eso es el syslog. tienes que mirarte el archivo de configuración que está en /etc/syslog.cng o alogo asi. Yo le tengo puesto que me mande los mensajes de mail a la consola 12, los de ppp a la 11, los del sistema a la 23 y los del kernel a la 24 ( las consolas 13-24 se activan con altgr

Re: configuración del mutt

2000-05-18 Thread Javier Fafián Alvarez
Reply-To: my_hdr From: Hue-Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Es que ahora en el from no sale tu dirección real y supongo que el mensaje me llegaría de vuelta, como ya sucedió ayer con otro que te mandé. ¿Cuál es tu dirección? Efectívamente, gracias, pero otra cosa: ahora cuando

Re: Imagenes bzImage del nucleo

2000-05-18 Thread Javier Fafián Alvarez
¿ Alguien me podría explicar porqué siguen existiendo las zImages si las bzImages son mejor, y porqué son mejores las bzImages, si lo son ? Gracias -- Saludos ! Mi numero de firma de Drivers para Linux es:00056845 pasaros por:http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Javier Fafián Alvarez:

Re: configuración del mutt

2000-05-18 Thread Javier Fafián Alvarez
Lo siento, solo es una prueba con el mutt

Re: configuración del mutt

2000-05-18 Thread Javier Fafián Alvarez
lists debian-user-spanish valux-list lista-eya freshmeat-news todolinux Ya lo hago y me dice ninguna lista encontrada ! :-? -- Saludos ! Mi numero de firma de Drivers para Linux es:00056845 pasaros por:http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Javier Fafián Alvarez: Numero de usuario Linux:

Re: Diccionario inglés-castellano ?

2000-05-18 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Javier Fafián Alvarez wrote: ... donde pueda incluir yo las palabras que encuentre sin traducción, ... ...También se me ha ocurrido la idea, no se si novedosa, de incluir el glosario de los de Lucas, que tienen gran cantidad de palabras de traducción complicada, pero que han elegido la mejor

Re: Teclados en las X. Simular AltGr

2000-05-18 Thread Isaac Puch Rojo
Un par de días liados pero sigo aquí sigo peleando. Amaya, el fichero .xinitrc está como tu dices, de hecho ya estaba pero al escribirlo en el emilio me equivoque. Y aún así no funciona. Creo que el mismo problema lo tiene Santiago Romero. El problema debe estar en el dichoso kdm del KDE,

diald

2000-05-18 Thread Luis Taboada Rivas
Despues de leerme el man de diald y diald-como en español, sigo sin poder hacer funcionar diald. Tanto wdvdial como pon/poff me funcionan perfectamente. Uso Potato con el kernel que se instala por defecto (2.2.15). Los mensajes que me aparecen en Xconsole cuando intento acceder a algún servicio

Re: Una preguntita sobre el apagado.

2000-05-18 Thread Javier Fafián Alvarez
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Sendmail

2000-05-18 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos Utilizo sendmail desde hace ya; en las versiones de woody, he encontrado una serie de caracteristicas que me desconciertan mas que nada porque no he dado con documentacion clara sobre ellas, por ejemplo ¿para que sirve AUTH y la variable AuthOptions?. Las he tenido que poner a A

Re: The /source of the problem...or is that the /src?

2000-05-18 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 01:26:40AM +, montefin wrote: Hi all, After 6 weeks and a Slink-Potato upgrade, I've got to say I like Debian a whole lot and am definitely going to move it on up to the big box as soon as Potato goes stable and CD's are available... Yea, it's not bad eh? But*,

Re: Kernel Compile error: What am I missing?

2000-05-18 Thread Frank Copeland
Russell wrote: Here's the message I get: Assembler Messages: Bindec.S :487 /usr/src/linux/arch/m68k/fpsp040 [Bindec.o] error 1 value of -512 too large for field of 1 bytes at 511 I asked the people on the m68k list, and they didn't know. I am sure I'm missing some vital library or other piece

Mass install / Autoinstall (Was: Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.)

2000-05-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Jeremy == Jeremy Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeremy Autoinstall (Red Hat's kickstart) Jeremy This is also something fairly important. We need this as we do a Jeremy lot of mass installs. The best way to do that that I've found so far is to set up a box with two

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Chris == Chris Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris For mass installs, just make a standard issue CD, boot from that CD, and Chris copy over the OS. Or you could even make a disk image and dd it onto the Chris hard drive. That assumes you have the same hard drive in all the

Re: Changing user name

2000-05-18 Thread Brian
Cameron Matheson said: Hey, I want to change my user name from fatmike to cmatheson. Is this possible? This won't be entirely fool-proof, but... You might try adding the user cmatheson to your system (as root): $ adduser cmatheson Then (as root): $ cd /home $ mv fatmike cmatheson $ chown

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Steve == Steve Morocho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve I agree, rpm is not a piece of crap. deb packages are a Steve lot harder to create for the novice users. There is not Steve much documentation to help in this area either. Also, when Steve updates are released .debs are

Re: Help with the /etc/init.d/network

2000-05-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Ethan == Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pardon my ignorance. I had no idea that any mechanism for tracking threads existed other than the subject line. I'll keep that in mind. =20 Incidentally, how exactly does thread tracking work? I assume there is a header of

Re: PCI 128...

2000-05-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
David == David Henningsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Okay, so I continue to try to get my PCI128 working. I had trouble with the kernel drivers for the PCI128. I tried the `alsa' modules from Debian, and those did not work either. I ended up useing CVS to get the latest `alsa'

Re: x-server for ATI Rage Fury?

2000-05-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Ned == Ned Harkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ned I just purchased and installed Debian and there are no x-servers listed Ned that are compatible with my Rage Fury 32Mb AGP video card. Is it Ned possible to install the compatible x-server from another distribution Ned into debian?

Re: Maxima on debian

2000-05-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I believe there is a Maxima package now, either in Woody or in the works. I have one installed that I grabbed out of `incoming' one day... Package: maxima Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: math Installed-Size: 10640 Maintainer: Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version:

quickinstall for multiple debian machines

2000-05-18 Thread David Benson
Hi, I am looking for a package that will allow quick installation of a customized debian system, ie one in which i have selected a precise package list / ftp mirror. Preferably I could construct a single customized floppy which would do the rest of the install over a LAN. (the customized

Re: GDM and 16bpp in X

2000-05-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Kelly == Kelly Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kelly I can get 16 bit color working with xdm as listed in the HowTo, but Kelly after switching to GDM, I can't figure out how to do it. I wan't it to Kelly be a centralized fix, not user specific. If anyone has an idea, please

Re: Help with the /etc/init.d/network

2000-05-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:13:51PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Ethan == Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pardon my ignorance. I had no idea that any mechanism for tracking threads existed other than the subject line. I'll keep that in mind. =20 Incidentally,

Re: laptop booting potato

2000-05-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
cls--colo == cls--colo spgs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cls--colo i'm just upgrading my slink lapbox to potato (on the cls--colo 2.0.36 kernel). my boot hangs at scsi. cls--colo i copied a scsi-free kernel into /boot. but it still cls--colo tries to boot the scsi kernel and

Mass install / Autoinstall (Was: Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.)

2000-05-18 Thread Bulent Murtezaoglu
[...] KMH The best way to do that that I've found so far is to set up KMH a box with two removable hard drive racks, install and KMH _configure_ everything on one drive, then use `cfdisk', KMH `mkswap', and `mke2fs' to partition and format the second KMH drive. [...] I do a

Re: hide the commabd executed from ps,who

2000-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
w trillich wrote: 1) write a script to do the deed supply the args, and call it as your command; then your command-line will only be the script name. set (restrict) permissions as needed on the script file. No that doesn't work. Your script still runs a program with some arguments;

Re: The /source of the problem...or is that the /src?

2000-05-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
montefin == montefin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: montefin But*, one tiny, core question remains. Which is it: /usr/src, montefin /usr/local/source, /usr/local/src? montefin Some docs and HOWTO's say to build Linux in /usr/local/source; some montefin mail, even from this list,

Re: on master and slave DNS servers

2000-05-18 Thread Nate Duehr
It's been quite a while since I read/posted stuff from debian-user due to too much work at the office, so my apologies if you've already received this info. I run a number of servers in the configuration you detailed below, and they work fine. You may want to add an also-notify statement to

Re: Help: my /var/log/lastlog's as big as Canarsie!

2000-05-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:21:50PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: snip Yes. Try this: % dd if=/dev/null of=bigfile bs=1k seek=1024 0+0 records in 0+0 records out % ls -l bigfile -rw-r--r--1 miquels staff 1048576 May 17 23:19 bigfile % du bigfile 0 bigfile The

Re: hide the commabd executed from ps,who

2000-05-18 Thread David Karlin
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:25:19PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: Eric G Miller egm2@jps.net writes: EGM On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:57:18AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But for example,what if I want to write a shell script which will login to the remote server automatically?e.g..for some

Re: man -- info?

2000-05-18 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:06:33AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: At 05:19 PM 05/17/2000 +0300, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 06:50:43AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: Why are man pages abandoned for info? Only FSF do that. Debian _requires_ manpages for all. -- but many

[humor] opensource.microsoft.com

2000-05-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I was just reading /. and a strange idea struck me... Have you ever seen that Unix utils joke where you type in `ar god' and it says god does not exist? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ % host opensource.microsoft.com opensource.microsoft.com does not exist, try again Exit Status: [0] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~

Re: WindowMaker .61 in Slink

2000-05-18 Thread kmself
Try starting X from a console prompt as follows: startx wmaker -- 1 startx.log 21 If it works, cool. If it doesn't, look at startx.log and maybe post it. On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 04:24:00PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I long time ago I used to use the new version of WindowMaker

Re: laptop booting potato

2000-05-18 Thread matthschulz
Just copying isn't enough, AFAIK, You have to tell the bootloader where the kernel physically is. I dont remember how to do without lilo - with lilo is clear - rerun lilo. Matth On Wed, 17 May 2000, cls--colo spgs wrote: debs, i'm just upgrading my slink lapbox to potato (on the 2.0.36

newbie plip question

2000-05-18 Thread russell simmons
I have an old 486 (dx 33/210mb hd/12mgs ram/) with a base install of slink on it, that I want to network with my main dual-boot system (166mmx overclocked to 200mhz/5.1gig hd/96mgs ram/windoz98/linux) via a plip connection. I have attempted to do this with rh 6.1, and mdk 6.0, but have had no

leafnode and Gnus

2000-05-18 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi everyone, last night I set up leafnode on my home system (Potato as of two days ago) in order to retrieve news from my ISP (works like a charm). At work I use Gnus as my news reader, and I'd like to use it at home, too. I set the follwing variables in my ~/.gnus-file to use the local spool,

Debian 2.1 on Athlon / AHA-2940 ?

2000-05-18 Thread Oliver Schoenknecht
Hi there, when I boot the installation CD of Debian 2.1 on my 600 MHz Athlon (with Adaptec 2940, 3C905 NIC), my system stops after having downloaded the instructions for the AHA-2940 - is this any specific problem one of you have encountered before? --- Mit freundlichem Gruss

Re: man -- info?

2000-05-18 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 09:20:17PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: At 05:35 PM 05/16/2000 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 09:10:16AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: At 05:53 AM 05/16/2000 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: . Perhaps you'd enjoy the dhelp package. It's not

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-18 Thread Andreas Rabus
Hi.. I worked on debian (first private than at work) and redhat (and SuSe, only for money :), and my personal opinion ist, that debian Packages are much more smoother to handle than rpm's. As long as you don't build your own Packages. Mostly i can use make-kpkg. :) to make my kernel-images. I

Re: mailagent configuration problems

2000-05-18 Thread Tony
^Tony writes: ^ Another possible symptom - If I run mailagent with -f and point it to my ^ unix mail directory, I get insecure configuration and what looks like a ^ hang. ^ ^I assume that what you mean is that you point it at one of the files in ^your mail directory. What are the permissions on

Re: Help: my /var/log/lastlog's as big as Canarsie!

2000-05-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Ethan Benson: /me boggles, i have not heard of this one before, this is wacky! where can i find more info on this, and what uses/advantages it has? Try http://google.com/ and enter unix sparse files That returns e.g. http://www.nic.com/~cheah/hole.html Mike. -- Denial. It's not

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 10:42:17AM +0200, Andreas Rabus wrote: - Hard to build. There is a large doc about this task , but it still takes a long time to learn. so does system administration for *nix. as it should be, learning takes time and is something no one should ever shy away from.

RE: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-18 Thread Andreas Rabus
The monkeys ar not very polite, but ... :) My experience is not that bad, but some of the rpm i installed were a real mess, too. But i liked to see some companies to release there software in various flavours of package formats. ar PS: you never learn NT. If you learnd on Version, you

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 11:19:31AM +0200, Andreas Rabus wrote: The monkeys ar not very polite, but ... :) considering the quality of most .rpms i found in places like /contrib i don't think that is at all unfair. ;-) `monkeys' is about as polically correct as your going to get from me,

Re: Debian 2.1 on Athlon / AHA-2940 ?

2000-05-18 Thread Ron Rademaker
Yep, I had something similar with my athlon 500, just use the tecra-image and all should work fine! Ron Rademaker On Thu, 18 May 2000, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: Hi there, when I boot the installation CD of Debian 2.1 on my 600 MHz Athlon (with Adaptec 2940, 3C905 NIC), my system stops

Re: Debian 2.1 on Athlon / AHA-2940 ?

2000-05-18 Thread Vicente Torres
I had the same problem installing Debian 2.1 on an Athlon. The problem is the kernel of the installation CD: 2.0.36 It does not seem to work with this kind of new computers. I took out the hard disk and installed it on another computer (pentium II). The installation went fine. I compiled the

Re: transfer files

2000-05-18 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Chris, On Wed, 17 May 2000, Chris Mason wrote: I'm used to transferring whole directory trees with ws-ftp under windows. When using Linux fom the shell, what's the easiest way to do the same thing? You might have a look at wget. It can do all the transfer in the background (so suited

help

2000-05-18 Thread steven
i dont know if you can help me but i got a 486 that i am installing windows into i have upgraded the cdrom to a creative 40x and i can only setup 3.1 from my cd using a win98 bootdisk it lets me install it and says close down to dos and type win to enter but it says invalad dos version

Re: newbie plip question

2000-05-18 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Russell, You wrote: I have been given a 2 cd copy of slink, that I am going to put on my main box. Is there anything special that I should install/be aware of in order to run a plip? plip setup on slink (with kernel 2.0.x) step by step: I suppose you have the plip module compiled. 1.)

Re: quickinstall for multiple debian machines

2000-05-18 Thread Robert Varga
If you find one in which you can preselect even the partition sizes, then notify me as well :) If you can bear the manual setup of the base setup, then you can use 1. (on an installed box) dpkg --get-selections filename 2. transfer file to other machine after the base install is complete (no

Berlin - an addition to or replacement of X11?

2000-05-18 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, Following the links on the Debian site, I found the home page of Berlin project http://www.berlin-consortium.org . It looks very promissing, however I have a few questions. - Is this system designated to be an addition to or the replacement of the X11? - What will be

HP SureStore tape drive on slink

2000-05-18 Thread Denis J. Cirulis
Hello ! i'm running Oracle on debian slink and now i have brand new HP SureStore T20i tape drive. I wanted to know is this tape device supported and is there any howtos on using tape drive to backup data ? The purpose of this tape drive is to backup Oracle database. -- Denis J. Cirulis

FTP yes, Telnet no

2000-05-18 Thread Mats Rynge
Hi! How can I limit some of my users to be able to use FTP but not be able to use Telnet. I thought this was possible by changing the shell to /bin/true, but I didn't work. I'm running potato and I'm using proftp as FTP server. TIA Mats

Virusscan / Exim

2000-05-18 Thread Dirk Allard
Hi, does anybody know of a automated virusscan (like amavis) working with exim? Dirk -- Dirk Allard BUGH Wuppertal - Polymere Materialien email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +49-202-4393873 Fax +49-202-4393880

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-18 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
I've used schemes such as piping data across an SSH process to achieve this without having to encrypt the files on disk. In fact, that's how our That was the original scheme, but bosses hmmm, after some consultations said that we should transfer data on cd-roms with armed guardian. so now

/var/spool/mail/user_name missing...

2000-05-18 Thread Oliver Schoenknecht
Hey everyone, as you may have noticed I am just struggling around with new sendmail. After some work I got it to work but still I don't have the user-directories in /var/spool/mail, for example if naming the user jim I am missing the /var/user/mail/jim... Could anyone help me (quite a newbie

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-18 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Assuming you are worried by people with promiscuous ethernet cards, packet-sniffing. Put in a second NIC, run a crossover UTP? I assume the .. encrypting would solve that problem. or private network between two comps. And - if I could connect those two comps by some network daily data

Re: FTP yes, Telnet no

2000-05-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 10:45:43AM +, Mats Rynge wrote: Hi! How can I limit some of my users to be able to use FTP but not be able to use Telnet. I thought this was possible by changing the shell to /bin/true, but I didn't work. I'm running potato and I'm using proftp as FTP server.

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-18 Thread Vlad Harchev
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: Assuming you are worried by people with promiscuous ethernet cards, packet-sniffing. Put in a second NIC, run a crossover UTP? I assume the .. encrypting would solve that problem. or private network between two comps. And - if I could

Gimp-print plugin + ghostscript?

2000-05-18 Thread Jonathan Markevich
Has anyone compiled the ghostscript driver included with gimp-print? There are vague incomplete instructions for doing it on a Debian system, but I don't know enough to surmise the rest. I'd love to NEVER have to reboot to use my Epson Photo 700... -- Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changing user name

2000-05-18 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Brian say Cameron Matheson said: Hey, I want to change my user name from fatmike to cmatheson. Is this possible? I think the easierway is edit your /etc/password and change username and home directory feild, you should find it easily :) Then rename your

Re: Changing user name

2000-05-18 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 05/18/00, Chanop Silpa-Anan addressed Re: Changing user name: Once upon a time, I heard Brian say Cameron Matheson said: Hey, I want to change my user name from fatmike to cmatheson. Is this possible? I think the easierway is edit your /etc/password and change username

Re: Changing user name

2000-05-18 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 18 May 2000 07:56:24 CDT, Jesse Jacobsen writes: The last time I changed my username, I just left my home directory the way it was, to avoid the headache. The names don't *need* to be identical. Works fine for me. Just make sure it's properly reflected in /etc/passwd. or you just

RE: FTP yes, Telnet no

2000-05-18 Thread Peter Good
Ahhh, exactly the same i ran into. Make sure that in the file /etc/pam.d/login the line account required pam_access.so is uncommented. Then edit your /etc/security/access.conf to suit You can have either of users groups or hosts in this file i believe, i found it easier for the users i

Re: Unreal 1 on Linux

2000-05-18 Thread Mental
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 03:07:31PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I know you can get Unreal Tournament working for Linux with a patch, but I was wondering if their was a patch for Unreal 1 too. There's no linux port. However there has been some success running it under wine. Have a

Re: Maxima on debian

2000-05-18 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) Date: 17 May 2000 22:25:14 -0700 I believe there is a Maxima package now, either in Woody or in the works. I have one installed that I grabbed out of `incoming' one day... Interesting. Does it work well? Here are some problems with the

Re: man -- info?

2000-05-18 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 02:33 AM 05/18/2000 -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: I think that the package you're looking for is dwww. It needs an httpd installed (boa is nice and lightweight), but it is well worth it. Dave, thanks a lot. I want to try it, but apt-get wants to re-install an entire server and tools for me,

Re: Program for both win98/dos and Linux

2000-05-18 Thread Keith G. Murphy
David Henningsson wrote: Since I'm going to use both win98 and Linux for a while, it would be nice to have programs working in both OS's, that is, they share the same data, on perhaps a FAT16 partition. I have a program for fidonet - mypoint works under Linux' DOS-emulator. Word 97 and

Linux Telephony is it real?

2000-05-18 Thread VEVE ROUDY
Hello! Linux is a great headache that I support for longtime I never know how to make a free/cheap long-distance call on linux like net2phone, dialpad applet on windows then I think linux is not ready for telephony. I have readen almost the totality of ONLINE linux Internet telephony documents,

Re: Berlin - an addition to or replacement of X11?

2000-05-18 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Following the links on the Debian site, I found the home page of Berlin project http://www.berlin-consortium.org . It looks very promissing, however I have a few questions. - Is this system designated to be an addition to or the replacement of the X11? look at the FAQ. ;-) --

Fetchmail question: How to get the mail where it belongs?

2000-05-18 Thread Ron Rademaker
Okay, here's the situation: I got a server that is connected to the internet using ISDN, I want it to use fetchmail to get the mail from a distant popbox, that should be easy, but here's the problem: A lot of different mail addresses are forward to that box (eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: Fetchmail question: How to get the mail where it belongs?

2000-05-18 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
All the mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be sent to user abcde All the mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be sent to user linux etc. All the mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be sent to every user except bill :) etc. i would use procmail. put this in your ~/.forward (with the

thinkpad install prob

2000-05-18 Thread Michael Skipper
I formatted this for submission to the bugs list, but it seems such a basic problem that I suspect it stems from my status as an absolute novice with linux--and so I'm posting here. package: boot floppies version: linux 2.0.36 (kernel-image-2.0.36_2.0.36-3) arch: i386 (pentium I) model: IBM

Email Q

2000-05-18 Thread Jay Kelly
What mail program should I use to recieve mail from my pop3 server. Also what generates the quotes at the end of the emails???

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