xterm bwoken in potato?

2000-10-13 Thread CaT
After a long while of frustration with lynx not dealing with the numeric keypad properly (it would not give me numbers... the numlock key was ignored but it worked fine in bash) I decided to investigate sooo... I compiled lynx (latest unstable) and installed it. Problem remained. I compiled ncurse

ugly boot

2000-10-13 Thread cls-colo spgs
debs, i have a 5 minute, ugly boot: # dmesg [snip] SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic channels, max=256). SLIP linefill/keepalive option. PPP BSD Compression module registered RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 rpc.statd forgot to set AF_INET in udp sendmsg. Fix it! RPC: sendmsg

Re: console MP3 player

2000-10-13 Thread Sergey Suleimanov
> "Daniel" == Daniel P Katz writes: Daniel> I use mpg123 with no problems. Note, however, that it's in Daniel> stable/non-free. Anybody got a free alternative? mpg123.freeamp from freeamp package. -- Sergey Suleimanov

debian - newcomer

2000-10-13 Thread guran remberg
Hi I am new to this Potato and the installation went nice by Ethernet and your programs. I downloaded from INRIA the scilab 2.5 in the deb variety and a xlib6g_3.3.6-10.deb. When installed , nothing was complained. Gnome is new to me, most accustomed to KDE, so I have not learned how to fix an i

PHP joy at last!

2000-10-13 Thread Steve Simons
A really big thanks to everyone who took the time to assist me with my recent PHP and Apache troubles - I really appreciate the effort! :-) I ended up doing what I probably should have done in the first place; installing it all from source. It works just fine now. Thanks again, chaps (and chap

DNS lookup looks for AAAA records..

2000-10-13 Thread Chris Niekel
Hi, When I do "telnet localhost" in debian, I get: telnet: could not resolve localhost/telnet: Temporary failure in name resolution My /etc/hosts contains: 127.0.0.1 localhost My nsswitch.conf contains: hosts: files dns My resolv.conf: search mimar.dyndns.org nameserver 192.168.

Re: debian - newcomer

2000-10-13 Thread Steve Juranich
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, guran remberg wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scilab > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/lib/scilab-2.5/bin/scilex: error in loading > shared libraries: libtk8.0.so: cannot open shared object file: No such > file or directory > > then I did: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate libtk8.0.so

Re: error message

2000-10-13 Thread Manuel Hendel
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:59:05PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > Received: from hiob.ecrc.de (IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [141.1.1.11]) > by ns1.ecrc.de (8.9.2/8.9.2/$Revision: 1.6 $) with SMTP id TAA29627 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:00:53 +0200 (MET DST) > Received: from

Re: Mutt's Editor

2000-10-13 Thread YoonSuk Cho<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:21:53PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > I'd want to use VIM as my primary text editor in Mutt. What line do I need to > add to my ~/.vimrc ? > > Thanks ! > If you want vim in mutt add the one line in ~$HOME/.muttrc. set editor="/usr/bin/vim" like this. good luck...!!

Keyboard wierdness

2000-10-13 Thread Damian Menscher
Ok, this is *really* strange: I have a fairly new setup: woody + 2.4.0-test9 kernel. I had everything working fine. I wanted to move my computer, so I shut it down, carried it over to new location, and turn it back on. When it comes up into XDM I discover the keyboard does nothing. I try a sec

Re: debian - newcomer

2000-10-13 Thread Sergey Suleimanov
> "Steve" == Steve Juranich writes: Steve> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, guran remberg wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scilab [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ >> /usr/lib/scilab-2.5/bin/scilex: error in loading shared libraries: >> libtk8.0.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or >> directory >> >> the

Please advise

2000-10-13 Thread Tino Ionescu
Plese advise about the following, 1. Where exactly (or what is the package name) for "printool". I can't find it on the Potatoe CD's. Is there any other tool for installing a printer? 2. Can anybody direct me where to find the driver for printer Deskjet 560C? Is it on Potatoe di

RE: debian - newcomer

2000-10-13 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
What is this person trying to say here? (see italics below) Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my > -Original Message- > From: guran remberg [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday

Re: Debian book

2000-10-13 Thread Ted Wager
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 08:02:54PM +0100, Ted Wager ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi. > > Could anyone tell me if there is a definitive Debain book > > or recommend any book specific to Debian ?? > > I'd generally go with a few general GNU

PCMCIA configuration troubles

2000-10-13 Thread Christian Lemer
I used pcnetconfig to configure my PCMCIA network Specify the IP address... NN.MM.OO.17 Enter the netmask 255.255.255.0 Enter the network address:NN.MM.OO.0 (default) Enter the broadcast address: NN.MM.OO.255 (default) Enter the gateway address:NN.MM.OO.2

Da Book

2000-10-13 Thread Wayde C Gutman
Learning DEBIAN GNU/LINUX authored by Bill McCarty, published by O'Reilly [different animals book folks...]

xscreensaver without gnome

2000-10-13 Thread Christian Lemer
I would like to run xscreensaver with enlightenment and gdm but without gnome. I made different trials to run if from my .xsession... but could not succeed to make it work... Where should I put the command so that xscreensaver is always active but in lock mode if logged in and in non-lock mode w

book

2000-10-13 Thread Mike Harrison
Hi all We bought the book to investigate Linux and I gave it to an engineer. He said "I tried loading the Debian Linux, but the disk layout is not the same as stated in the book (quel supris). Anyway there was a readme file on the disk, so I read it. That was also wrong. There should be some bin

Re: Gimp

2000-10-13 Thread Olivier Billet
Hi, sorry for the delay. I have all theese packages excepted the libgimp1.1-dev one. So it seems to confirm what you said. But when I try to apt-get this package, apt wants to delete gimp1.1-perl... That's what I got : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S gimptool gimp1.1: /usr/man/man1/gimptool.1.gz

debian -newcomerII

2000-10-13 Thread guran remberg
Hi Thanks for your efforts, I am old and probably to stupid. I have tried ln -s &c and I have added the required library path for export both locally and as su in etc, but to no use. This procedure of Debian is discussed in the Debian weekly letter and might be a problem even to the developer. I

Re: Pine

2000-10-13 Thread Robert Varga
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > > What's wrong with > > $ apt-get -b source pine > Would it not want to get pine4-tar.gz, pine4-4.21-xdiff.gz and pine4-4.21-?.dsc ergo the source files themselves from the source archive? It is not that way with pine. The sources are

Re: book

2000-10-13 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Mike Harrison wrote: > We bought the book to investigate Linux and I gave it to an engineer. Which book? > "I tried loading the Debian Linux, but the disk layout is not the same as > stated in the book (quel supris). > Anyway there was a readme file on the d

Re: PCMCIA configuration troubles

2000-10-13 Thread Olivier Billet
Christian Lemer wrote: > I used pcnetconfig to configure my PCMCIA network > > Specify the IP address... NN.MM.OO.17 > Enter the netmask 255.255.255.0 > Enter the network address:NN.MM.OO.0 (default) > Enter the broadcast address: NN.MM.OO.255 (default) > Enter

Mutt's alias file

2000-10-13 Thread Cancer Omega
I have the following in my .muttrc : set alias_file=~/.mail_aliases and the following in my ~/.mail_aliases : alias debian-user Debian User List Now, when I fire up Mutt and send an email to "debian-user", exim sends it right back to me, complaining that the local user "debian-user" doesn't exi

Help Again moving /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom for apt-get

2000-10-13 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I want to move the cdrom from /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom and even though so noted in fstab, apt-get refuses to see anything but /cdrom to grab apps. Any idea how to change its config? Much thanks. Jonathan

Supressing the "front page"

2000-10-13 Thread Mário Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi In our department we have a HP LaseJet 4000T with a JetDirect board. Our Windows colleagues send things to the printer and it only comes out what they send. The linux guy's print things and there is always a "front page" with the name of the user, host and file. How can i supress this. I'm se

zgv and dvisvga/tmview problem on potato

2000-10-13 Thread Johann Spies
Another two programs that gave me a lot of pleasure on slink, do not work on potato: zgv and dvisvga or tmview. All I get is a blank screen with nothing readable at all. I never had any problems before (on slink and I thin on hamm too) and did not have to configure it after installation. restore

xclients through ssh and docking in windowmaker

2000-10-13 Thread Florian Friesdorf
I'm trying to start xclients on my router (potato) through a ssh connection and docking those to windowmaker dock. I'm executing 'ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/X11/wterm' in a terminal on my machine. Then I dock the appearing icon. Now the problem is, somehow my commandline is cutted off to '/

Re: debian -newcomerII

2000-10-13 Thread Glyn Millington
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:44:36PM +0200, thus spake guran remberg: > That is just now my primary problem: How the hell do I stop it from > making a graphic install. When I bail out from Xwindow, I am thrown > right into, what I think is xdm. I have tried to elliminate that from > rc3.d, but is t

Re: neighbour table overflow

2000-10-13 Thread Robert Lazzurs
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: > ** On Oct 06, Robert Lazzurs scribbled: > > On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: > > > > > ** On Oct 05, Robert Lazzurs scribbled: > > > > > > > > > I have now compiled and installed a custom 2.2.17 kernel as I > > > > > > thought it > > > > >

Re: cron.daily problem

2000-10-13 Thread Igor Mozetic
> > I observed on one of our Debian 2.2 machines that daily cron still > > didn't finish after 5+ hours: > > > > # ps aux > > nobody 29273 0.0 0.4 1104 532 ?D06:25 0:01 find / ( > > -fstype NFS -o -fstype nfs -o -fstype afs -o -fstype > > -fstype NFS --> network file system >

Re: Problems with a bash script and cron

2000-10-13 Thread Felix Hagemann
Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My crontab looks like this: > > > > > > 0,15,30,45 * * * /home/laban/bin/chkwww > > so you might try > 0,15,30,45 * * * * /home/laban/bin/chkwww The `user` field exists only in the systemwide /etc/crontab. The user-owned crontabs obviously don`t nee

Re: Help Again moving /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom for apt-get

2000-10-13 Thread John Travis
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 06:44:35 -0500 > To: "Debian" > From: "Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Help Again moving /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom for apt-get > > Hi, > > I want to move the cdrom from /

Re: Mutt's alias file

2000-10-13 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: > I have the following in my .muttrc : > set alias_file=~/.mail_aliases > and the following in my ~/.mail_aliases : > alias debian-user Debian User List You have to source that file, too, IIRC: source ~/.mail_aliases > > Now, when I fire up Mutt and send an email to "debian-user"

Re: Mutt's alias file

2000-10-13 Thread Chris Niekel
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 06:24:55AM -0400, Cancer Omega wrote: > I have the following in my .muttrc : > set alias_file=~/.mail_aliases > > and the following in my ~/.mail_aliases : > alias debian-user Debian User List > > Now, when I fire up Mutt and send an email to "debian-user", exim sends it

Re: Mutt's alias file

2000-10-13 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 06:24:55AM -0400, Cancer Omega wrote: > I have the following in my .muttrc : > set alias_file=~/.mail_aliases > > and the following in my ~/.mail_aliases : > alias debian-user Debian User List > > Now, when I fire up Mutt and send an email to "debian-user", exim sends it

Re: Ispell and Vim

2000-10-13 Thread Jeff Howie
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:25:06AM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote: > I want to use ispell under vim. That is map a key to run ispell with the > current file and save the result in this file. Do you know how I can do > such a thing ? In your .vimrc - map :!ispell %^M:e %^M Works for me. thks.jeff

Re: Mutt's Editor

2000-10-13 Thread Jeff Howie
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:15:45PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Quoth Nate Bargmann, > > In ~./mutt/muttrc check this line: > > set editor=/usr/bin/vim > > You may also want to include the contents of > /usr/share/doc/vim/examples/mail in your ·/.vimrc - it does cool things > like colour signatur

Can't get new IBM 15G ATA/100 drive to work!

2000-10-13 Thread Mark Phillips
I've just tried to hook up my new IBM drive, and when I try to use cfdisk on it I get: FATAL ERROR: Bad signature on partition table Press any key to exit cfdisk And on fdisk I get: Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Buil

Re: Please advise

2000-10-13 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Tino Ionescu, > 1. Where exactly (or what is the package name) for "printool". I can't > find it on the Potatoe CD's. Is there any other tool for installing a > printer? Sorry, can't help you with that one. Try `apt-cache search printool' or something similar. > 2. Can anybody

Re: strange warning when starting netscape

2000-10-13 Thread Moritz Schulte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Müller) writes: > when I start netscape. I got the warning > 'ls: /usr/lib/netscape/473/navigator/wrapper.d: No such file or directory' It's not something to worry about. The wrapper.d script just doesn't check, wether the dir exists, before doing an ls. Yes, this is f

Re: OT: is there a decent threaded mail reader...

2000-10-13 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Neil L. Roeth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Oct 8, Walter Tautz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > i'd really like to be able to read this marvelous list without > > having to scroll through the listings looking for followups...perhaps > > pine can do this which is what I use now. > > > >

Re: request advice

2000-10-13 Thread Moritz Schulte
William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to stick mainly with potato, but I also am running 2.4 series > kernel. The iptables deb pkg is only in woody so I dl that manually. > When I try to install it it tells me that my libc is too old. I would > prefer not to go into woody at this

Re: Mutt's Editor

2000-10-13 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Jeff Howie, > (...pouting...) > How come _I_ don't have that file? What, are you special or something? > ;^> > What version of vim are you using? Mine's 5.5. +++-==-==- ii vim-rt 5.6.070-1 Vi IMproved - runtim

Borland C specific libraries in Linux

2000-10-13 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Hi, Do you know if there are C libraries who mimic Borland Turbo C specific libraries (conio, etc.) in Linux (a Debian package will be better :-). At school my daughter use Borland C and I don't want to install Windows on my computer only for that. Beside emacs is a better tools for programming th

Re: Mutt's Editor

2000-10-13 Thread David A. Rogers
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jeff Howie wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:15:45PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > > Quoth Nate Bargmann, > > > In ~./mutt/muttrc check this line: > > > set editor=/usr/bin/vim > > > > You may also want to include the contents of > > /usr/share/doc/vim/examples/mail in your

Re: Mutt's Editor

2000-10-13 Thread Juan Fuentes
* Jeff Howie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How come _I_ don't have that file? What, are you special or something? > ;^> > What version of vim are you using? Mine's 5.5. > Hi Jeff, try looking in /usr/share/vim/vim*/syntax/mail.vim it should be there if you have the runtime package installed, i'm n

xwindows-color-settings for kdm

2000-10-13 Thread Gernot Bauer
Hi, I just installed kdm (and the rest of the kde2-packages). Now my display is only 8-bit (it was 16 bit with xdm). Where can I set the color-depth? Thanx, Gery -- - Gernot Bauer, University of Linz, Austria [EMAIL PROTECTED] - The answer is yes, me.

Re: Borland C specific libraries in Linux

2000-10-13 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
I don't know of any such package, but perhaps she'd better begin to write portable programs, so she'd be able to compile them with both Turbo and gcc? If the programs are simple, this wouldn't be difficult... If for some reason she needs to use some Turbo features in an interface, maybe splitti

How can I have Netscape 4.75 without upgrading 157 packages to unstable?

2000-10-13 Thread Tricky Rick
I just installed Potato and read in the mailing list archive How to upgrade Netscape to 4.75 but in order to do that I include unstable in my apt source list. I installed Communicator 4.75 and everything it required but now dselect wants to update about 157 packages, and I would prefer to keep ev

Re: Keyboard wierdness

2000-10-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
Damian Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a fairly new setup: woody + 2.4.0-test9 kernel. I had everything > working fine. I wanted to move my computer, so I shut it down, carried > it over to new location, and turn it back on. When it comes up into XDM > I discover the keyboard does

Re: OT: is there a decent threaded mail reader...

2000-10-13 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I use mutt, very happy with it especially the threading. -Jon

Re: Mutt's Editor

2000-10-13 Thread mcclosk
|> How come _I_ don't have that file? What, are you special or |> something? What version of vim are you using? Mine's 5.5. Maybe it's because (like me until recently) you didn't realize that vim actually comes in two packages---vim itself and vim-rt. The second package contains the run time f

Re: How can I have Netscape 4.75 without upgrading 157 packages to unstable?

2000-10-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
Tricky Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just installed Potato and read in the mailing list archive > How to upgrade Netscape to 4.75 but in order to do that I include > unstable in my apt source list. I installed Communicator 4.75 and > everything it required but now dselect wants to update ab

Re: How can I have Netscape 4.75 without upgrading 157 packages to unstable?

2000-10-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Tricky Rick wrote: > I just installed Potato and read in the mailing list archive > How to upgrade Netscape to 4.75 but in order to do that I include > unstable in my apt source list. I installed Communicator 4.75 and > everything it required but now dselect wants to update about 157 > packages,

Re: Supressing the "front page"

2000-10-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Supressing the "front page" Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:29:30AM +0100 In reply to:Mário Jorge Nunes Filipe Quoting Mário Jorge Nunes Filipe([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi > > In our department we have a HP LaseJet 4000T with a JetDirect board. > > Our Windows colleagues se

Re: Problems with a bash script and cron

2000-10-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Problems with a bash script and cron Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:34:30PM +0200 In reply to:Felix Hagemann Quoting Felix Hagemann([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > My crontab looks like this: > > > > > > > > 0,15,30,45 * * * /h

Re: Borland C specific libraries in Linux

2000-10-13 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:37:45PM +0300, Dan Pomohaci wrote: > Hi, > > Do you know if there are C libraries who mimic Borland Turbo C > specific libraries (conio, etc.) in Linux (a Debian package will be > better :-). > At school my daughter use Borland C and I don't want to install > Windows on

Re: How can I have Netscape 4.75 without upgrading 157 packages to unstable?

2000-10-13 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:47:05AM -0500, Tricky Rick wrote: > > I just installed Potato and read in the mailing list archive > How to upgrade Netscape to 4.75 but in order to do that I include > unstable in my apt source list. I installed Communicator 4.75 and > Just put "deb ftp://security.deb

problem of boot

2000-10-13 Thread elouafi bessem
Hi freinds, I have the kernel 2.2.12 of the redhat and I installed on it a new kernel 2.3.99. But after the installation the PC boot with the old kernel and the file init.rd was not created and when I try to create it, I cant. When I try to lance a tool of configuration the system says "bad ker

Re: Please advise

2000-10-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 12:48:14AM -0700, Tino Ionescu wrote: > 1. Where exactly (or what is the package name) for "printool". I can't > find it on the Potatoe CD's. Is there any other tool for installing a > printer? It's printtool (2 "t"s). -- "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig

Re: Mutt's alias file

2000-10-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Mutt's alias file Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 06:24:55AM -0400 In reply to:Cancer Omega Quoting Cancer Omega([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have the following in my .muttrc : > set alias_file=~/.mail_aliases > > and the following in my ~/.mail_aliases : > alias debian-user Debi

Re: zgv and dvisvga/tmview problem on potato

2000-10-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: zgv and dvisvga/tmview problem on potato Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:05:31PM +0200 In reply to:Johann Spies Quoting Johann Spies([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Another two programs that gave me a lot of pleasure on slink, do not > work on potato: zgv and dvisvga or tmview. > >

Re: Supressing the "front page"

2000-10-13 Thread Mário Filipe
Jason Hammerschmidt wrote: Try adding the following line :sh='\t':\ Sorry, but it doesn't work :( -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf

Re: xclients through ssh and docking in windowmaker

2000-10-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 12:54:05PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > Am I doing something wrong, or is this a windowmaker bug? As far as I can tell, it's a windowmaker bug. Fortunately, you can edit the "Application path and arguments" by hand to make it work after putting it on the dock. -- "T

kde2 problem

2000-10-13 Thread Andy Bastien
I've installed KDE2 from Debian's servers, but I haven't had much luck getting it running. What happens, basically, is kicker dies with a signal 11 almost as soon as it starts up (the status indicator is on "Restoring session"). What I do get is a placid blue screen with a couple of icons on it.

Re: Supressing the "front page"

2000-10-13 Thread Mário Filipe
Wayne Topa wrote: Reading the 'Printing-Usage' howto and man printcap give 2 solutions. As you don't seem to have those docs (?) I have the docs. I miss the time :( I only asked directly to the list (after reading the man page for printcap) because i thought "Hey, maybe someone knows the a

new kernel

2000-10-13 Thread elouafi bessem
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:26:07 -0400, Andy Bastien wrote: Hi freinds I have the kernel 2.2.12 of the redhat and I installed on it a new kernel 2.3.99. But after the installation the PC boot with the old kernel and the file init.rd was not created and when I try to create it, I cant. When I try

I have apt on RH, now i want dselect (or capt or sth. like that)

2000-10-13 Thread Piotr Krukowiecki
Hi I have installed apt on RedHat, it works ok (e.g apt-get update && apt-get -d install sth) Now i'd like to have sth. like dselect, do choose packages in dselect and then apt-get dselect-upgrade. Do i need install dpkg first ? I tried to compile capt, but there were some errors: c++ -c -MD -D

ypbind problem

2000-10-13 Thread Douglas Eck
Anyone know if it's normal for ypbind to spawn four daemons that eat up 16Mb of memory? It works fine... but seems like a lot of overhead. I'm running woody... >From memstat: 4180k: PID 6497 (/usr/sbin/ypbind) 4180k: PID 6496 (/usr/sbin/ypbind) 4180k: PID 6495 (/usr/sbin/ypbind) 41

Re: Keyboard wierdness

2000-10-13 Thread Steve Juranich
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Damian Menscher wrote: > Ok, this is *really* strange: > > I have a fairly new setup: woody + 2.4.0-test9 kernel. I had everything > working fine. I wanted to move my computer, so I shut it down, carried > it over to new location, and turn it back on. When it comes up into

via82cxxx

2000-10-13 Thread Olivier Billet
Hi all ! I've got a question about sound configuration. I know I have a VIA PCI audio controller : I/O 220-22F IRQ 5 and it seems to be sound blaster compatible. What should I do to get it working ??? Many thanks in advance, Olivier. Here is the state of the loaded modules : vony# lsmod

DVD-RAM support

2000-10-13 Thread Setalaphruk Vachirasuk
Hellow world, I am thinking of buying a DVD-RAM drive. I just wonder if linux support UDF filesystem on DVD-RAM disk and if not, what filesystem is used on DVD-RAM under linux. Thanks --- Vachi _ Get Your Private, Free

Re: PHP joy at last!

2000-10-13 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:33:26AM +, Steve Simons wrote: > A really big thanks to everyone who took the time to assist me with my > recent PHP and Apache troubles - I really appreciate the effort! :-) > > I ended up doing what I probably should have done in the first place; > installing it

apt-get and customized kernel

2000-10-13 Thread Jack
Hi, I always compile my own customized kernel. However, it brings one thing annoying when using apt-get dist-upgrade. As you can see as following it tries to install debian provided kernel instead. Can I shut it off? thanks,

Re: xscreensaver without gnome

2000-10-13 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:50:44AM +0200, Christian Lemer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I would like to run xscreensaver with enlightenment and gdm but without gnome. > > I made different trials to run if from my .xsession... but could not > succeed to make it work... > > Where should I put th

Re: Help Again moving /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom for apt-get

2000-10-13 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 06:57:00AM -0500, John Travis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jonathan Gift wrote: > > Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 06:44:35 -0500 > > To: "Debian" > > From: "Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: "Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject:

Re: debian-user: exim, unknown user.

2000-10-13 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 03:09:42PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > I have setup a mail server using exim. I have it working pretty well, > but I can't figure out how to send mail for non existant users to a real > user. eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't exist so I would like all mail sent to > this a

Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-13 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:15:45PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Quoth Nate Bargmann, > > In ~./mutt/muttrc check this line: > > > > set editor=/usr/bin/vim > > You may also want to include the contents of > /usr/share/doc/vim/examples/mail in your ·/.vimrc - it does cool things > like colour sig

g++ problem

2000-10-13 Thread Giles Constant
Hi there, Attached is a tarball with a very short program that doesn't work on recent upgrades of woody (around here - i386), but works everywhere else, including potato. It appears to occur when linking shared object files against the C++ libs. to run : tar zxvf broken.tgz export LD_LIBRARY_PA

http port open?? how can that be?

2000-10-13 Thread William Jensen
Greetings, I do not have apache installed, nmap localhost does not show http being open, however, if I go to a friends machine and nmap my ip it shows http being open. Also grc.com's port probe shows http being open. Thing is I just don't see how this is possible considering I'm running iptables

Re: via82cxxx

2000-10-13 Thread ESTEBAN P OSSES ANGUITA
hi ... On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Olivier Billet wrote: > Hi all ! > > I've got a question about sound configuration. > I know I have a VIA PCI audio controller : > I/O 220-22F > IRQ 5 > and it seems to be sound blaster compatible. i have one of this on my laptop ... AFAIK it is compatible, but i

Re: http port open?? how can that be?

2000-10-13 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:50:40AM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Greetings, > > I do not have apache installed, nmap localhost does not show http being open, > however, if I go to a friends machine and nmap my ip it shows http being > open. Also grc.com's port probe shows http being open. Thing

disabling xdm (was Re: debian -newcomerII)

2000-10-13 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:44:36PM +0200, guran remberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > That is just now my primary problem: How the hell do I stop it from > making a graphic install. When I bail out from Xwindow, I am thrown > right into, what I think is xdm. I have tried to elliminate that from >

Re: new kernel

2000-10-13 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 08:36:54AM -0700, elouafi bessem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:26:07 -0400, Andy Bastien wrote: > > > Hi freinds > > I have the kernel 2.2.12 of the redhat and I installed on it a new kernel > 2.3.99. But after the installation the PC boot with t

Re: I have apt on RH, now i want dselect (or capt or sth. like that)

2000-10-13 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 05:42:41PM +0200, Piotr Krukowiecki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi > > > I have installed apt on RedHat, it works ok (e.g apt-get update && apt-get > -d install sth) Using two different package management systems on a single system is a ***BAD*** idea. You are violatin

Strange screen blanking on 2.2 boot

2000-10-13 Thread Dwight Johnson
At the end of booting my new potato 2.2 installation (my first for debian), the console screen goes blank and then reappears four times before finally settling on the login prompt. What's going on? Thanks in advance, Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ugly boot

2000-10-13 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 11:26:32PM -0600, cls-colo spgs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > debs, > > i have a 5 minute, ugly boot: > > # dmesg > > [snip] > > SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic > channels, max=256). > SLIP linefill/keepalive option. > PPP BSD Compression module reg

setserial

2000-10-13 Thread Jan Zegan
Hello When I issue setserial /dev/ttyS0 irq 3 spd_hi it goes back to the original settings after I reboot the system. How can I make it stay? Thanks in advance

Exim and multiple domains

2000-10-13 Thread Matt Kopishke
Hi, I have a machine that is serving multiple domains. What I need to have is some sort of separate configuration for each domain. Or what I am really getting at is that I need a separate aliases file (/etc/aliases) for each domain, and some sort of control over who gets mail from a given domain

Re: error message

2000-10-13 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:08:16AM +0200, Manuel Hendel wrote: > Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Oct 12 21:45:11 cohiba postfix/master[356]: fatal: bind "(IP-Adress)" > > > port 25: This Ip-Adress is already in use. > > > > Please post the output of (in bash) > > > > cat "

Re: http port open?? how can that be?

2000-10-13 Thread William Jensen
Already checked that. inetd.conf shows nothing about http and I do not have a xinetd. Any other guesses? Bill - Forwarded message from will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 12:07:30 -0500 From: will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subj

Re: Exim and multiple domains

2000-10-13 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:16:08PM -0400, Matt Kopishke wrote: > Hi, I have a machine that is serving multiple domains. What I need to > have is some sort of separate configuration for each domain. Or what I > am really getting at is that I need a separate aliases file > (/etc/aliases) for each d

A conio for Borland C under Linux

2000-10-13 Thread David Teague
Dan I promised to try to find Linux conio for Borland. I found it in my archives. It is a 1996 reimplementation of conio for Linux, for Borland C of that date, but you might be able to make it work. If you do, please send me your hacks, or let me know if it does work for you. It is redistributa

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-13 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:59, will trillich wrote: > emacs fans, please turn the other cheek-- > > how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog? > which does better syntax highlighting? which makes your teeth > whiter? FWIW, I was an early (early 90's) user of elvis. I switched to v

Re: I have apt on RH, now i want dselect (or capt or sth. like that)

2000-10-13 Thread David Z. Maze
Karsten M Self writes: KMS> On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 05:42:41PM +0200, Piotr Krukowiecki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: PK> I have installed apt on RedHat, it works ok (e.g apt-get update PK> && apt-get -d install sth) KMS> KMS> Using two different package management systems on a single system KMS>

Re: Supressing the "front page"

2000-10-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Supressing the "front page" Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:29:55PM +0100 In reply to:Mário Filipe Quoting Mário Filipe([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > > > Reading the 'Printing-Usage' howto and man printcap give 2 solutions. > > As you don't seem to

Re: setserial

2000-10-13 Thread Larry Shields
- Original Message - From: "Jan Zegan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 2:01 PM Subject: setserial Not sure which kernel version, but if you have #AUTOSAVE at the top of your serial.conf script, REMOVE it...Then reboot, it, your new settings should take effect for y

Apache- CGI

2000-10-13 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, I installed the apache module yesterday using apt-get. I have just changed to debian as RH was getting me down. Anyway's I edited the httpd.conf file and see no mention of "CGI" at all. In RH The lines were already in the conf file I just needed to edit them to my needs. Also 1 more deb

Re: Apache- CGI

2000-10-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed the apache module yesterday using apt-get. > I have just changed to debian as RH was getting me down. Anyway's I > edited the httpd.conf file and see no mention of "CGI" at all. In RH > The lines were already in the conf file I just needed t

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