su: problem establishing environment

Hi when I try to su (to root or a reg. user, even myself) I get the error: su: problem establishing environment the permission seems to be ok: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root16848 Mar 15 21:47 /bin/su It works as root, however, dictd does not start on boottime due to this problem. Any idea

libpam-pwdb: optional ???

Hi I couldn't log in anymore today after an upgrade to the current potato snapshot. After triing for a while I found out that login tried to use pam_pwdb which was not installed. There seems to be no depends on it, it is also in section optional. Is this intended for a package require to read /

Re: apt-get question

From: Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I think what he means is that when you install from CD, it rolls through >the CD and checks every packages against the list of selections, like: >Skipping deselected package: bash >Skipping deselected package: bang >Skipping deselected package: beat I rememb

netstd in potato?

I notice that netstd is no longer in potato. Has some other package replaced it? It shows up in dselect as obsolete/local. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com

Re: Enlightenment .15.x for Slink

On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 12:56:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > deb http://www.debian.org/~bma enlightenment/ > > AFAICT, those are the unstable debs that were compiled against glibc 2.1. > Are there any debs that will install on a slink system? brian almeida (the E maintainer) has asked

Re: apt-get question

Hi Shawn, you wrote on Sat, Mar 20 1999: >In hamm, it was such a task to install a package in dselect because >it rolls through every single package on the dist. Does slink >resolve this problem and more specifically, is apt-get the >resolution? You may have overlooked it: there was an apt in t

Re: Perl Instruction

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anyone know if there are any good sites on the web for learning > perl? I really want to learn it soon, but don't have any extra money > to buy any books right now. Check out http://www.mcp.com/personal/ A pretty good selection of (fairly) current books. The o

Installation - modules?

When I first installed hamm a few months ago I selected the following modules to use for a PPP based system: nls_cp437 umsdos lp serial psaux ppp slip So far I haven't spent much time with it, but I have PPP, lynx, minicom, and couple of other packages installed and working. Today I reinstal

Re: Netscape mail - multiple "profiles"?

Christian, What I've done for my family, who share a single PC, is to give each of them their own user accounts on the system. That way they each get their own custom Netscape profiles, their own set of bookmarks, mail and everything. We run KDE as our desktop environment and they each get

Re: when installing the kernel-source

Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF wrote: > > and building a new kernel with sound > do I have to do mknod on all the sound devices ? > I noticed that they are missing, or is there a debian package > that accomplishes this ? Hmmm, as root: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV audio At least I

Re: apt-get question

On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Sarel Botha wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 03:38:07PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > > What exactly do you mean "it rolls through every single package > > > on the dist"? If you mean what it sounds like, you only have to > > > > I think what he means is that when you install

Netscape mail - multiple "profiles"?

Hi, I am running Netscape 4.5 under Debian (hamm). What I need is to be able is to open different Messenger "profiles" with different mail folders, different "From" addresses and different pop/smtp servers. Since Messenger isn't a multi account email client yet (unbelievable!) I thought I could do

Re: apt-get question

Yes, I mean that after selecting install, it check every single packages. David Gaudine wrote: > > > I've heard a lot about apt-get in slink but I have a question about > >it. In hamm, it was such a task to install a package in dselect because > >it rolls through every single package on the dis

Re: apt-get question

On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 03:38:07PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > What exactly do you mean "it rolls through every single package > > on the dist"? If you mean what it sounds like, you only have to > > I think what he means is that when you install from CD, it rolls through > the CD and checks ever

Re: apt-get question

> What exactly do you mean "it rolls through every single package > on the dist"? If you mean what it sounds like, you only have to I think what he means is that when you install from CD, it rolls through the CD and checks every packages against the list of selections, like: Skipping deselected

RE: RealPlayer... is there a .deb package?

On 20-Mar-99 Jesse Evans wrote: > Folks, > > What is best recommended for playing sound/video clips from within > netscape 4.5? There is a deb installer for RealPlayer, but you still need to download RealPlayer in the usual way and use the installer to install it on your system. -- Andre

Re: did ldd disappear?

Stuart Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry to answer myself but I re-installed ldso (1.9.10-1) and ldd is > back. Don't know what happened. /usr/doc/libc6/changelog.Debian.gz: glibc (2.0.7.19981211-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Get ldd out of the libc6 package on architectures

Re: apt-get question

> I've heard a lot about apt-get in slink but I have a question about >it. In hamm, it was such a task to install a package in dselect because >it rolls through every single package on the dist. Does slink resolve >this problem and more specifically, is apt-get the resolution? What exactly do y

Fwd: Re: Perl Instruction

A site that I like as a starting page for many languages. http://www.program.com/ Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Does anyone know if there are any good sites on the web for learning > perl? I really want to learn it soon, but don't have any extra money > to buy any books right now. > > Thanks,

apt-get question

Hi, I've heard a lot about apt-get in slink but I have a question about it. In hamm, it was such a task to install a package in dselect because it rolls through every single package on the dist. Does slink resolve this problem and more specifically, is apt-get the resolution? Thanks, Sh

RealPlayer... is there a .deb package?

Folks, What is best recommended for playing sound/video clips from within netscape 4.5? -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse

Re: Printer Setup

Thanks for the advice. I used the ljet4l filter and it seemed to have done the trick. I guess I will have to wait for the filter for the 1100 filter to get release at a later date to have it be more specific for my exact printer. I wish I knew what I was doing so I can write one myself and contr

Re: Debian and Kernel Releases

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tommy Malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was looking at the documentation for the latest stable debian release, >and noticed that it is shipped with kernel 2.0.36. As we know kernel >2.2 is now released. So I am wondering what the relationship is >between debi

Re: Enlightenment .15.x for Slink

> deb http://www.debian.org/~bma enlightenment/ AFAICT, those are the unstable debs that were compiled against glibc 2.1. Are there any debs that will install on a slink system? -- Alan Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian and Kernel Releases

I was looking at the documentation for the latest stable debian release, and noticed that it is shipped with kernel 2.0.36. As we know kernel 2.2 is now released. So I am wondering what the relationship is between debian development and kernel development? Would it be better to develop debian

new mainboard - 128M RAM now usable

This is a warning. I had severe problems when running linux (kernel 2.2.3) with more than 64 MB RAM. Both 64 MB SDRAM DIMM's caused the system to hang when a shutdown was started (subsequently damaging the file system) and caused many messages like p -> mh_magig4 == 0x Stopping myse

Re: downloading

bind is not required. /etc/resolv.conf should contain the ip addresses of nameservers you will access. wvdial is not required either, but probably simplifies the setup of ppp. Be prepared for many hours of downloading! Bob On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Shanta McBain wrote: > > > John > > > > > >

Re: General questions

On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 10:43:13PM +0100, scratch wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Mark Brown wrote: > > You could download individual .deb files and install them by hand ("dpkg > > -i package.deb"), or point apt at your friendly potato mirror and then > > use "apt-get install " to install and upgra

downgrading libc

What packages do I need to get and where do I get them to downgrade libc? I need java, straoffice and other things to work.. //ben -- http://surf.to/anTiX

Slink upgrade broke printer configuration

I just upgraded from Hamm to Slink. Everything appears to be fine, except that my printer configuration is broken. I've hunted all the places that I know to look for the problem, to no avail. I'm using magicfilter with an Epson Stylus Color 400 printer. After the upgrade to Slink 1. ASCII prints

GNOME

I'm interested in trying out GNOME, but there's been a lot of discussion about how this doesn't work, or that doesn't work, or such and such is really hard to do. Can someone point the way to a detailed set of instructions for installing GNOME (prefereably the latest possible version) into a nicel

Perl Instruction

Does anyone know if there are any good sites on the web for learning perl? I really want to learn it soon, but don't have any extra money to buy any books right now. Thanks, chris

Re: downloading

John > > Dont give up its worth the effort. > Definitely worth the effort. If you don't have a CD this is the root that I hacked out to get a reasonable smooth install. Download the floppy disk install. Download wvdial. The dialer to make getting on line easy. Download Bind. The local DNS se

Re: screen saver annoyances

On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 09:41:10AM +0800, ivan wrote: > setterm -blank Also xset and various options in XF86Config under X11 - X uses a completely different set of settings to the console (what happens when you use the fb X server?). -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid g

Re: Video Card - Creative

There are two ways of getting X running with it: using the fb server (which I understand is slow), or getting the binary only server from http://glide.xxedgexx.com. You'll also find glide drivers there (but if you're running a 2.2.x kernel you'll want the 3dfx device from http://www.xs4all.nl/~carl

Re: Printer Setup

The Laserjet 1100 is a very new printer and there is no driver written especially for it. The ljet4 or ljet4l filters are probably the closest. There is a site listing ghostscript drivers for various printers , but this does not yet mention the LJ 1100

problem with new DIMM

I recently bought a 64 Mb DIMM and installed it on my Intel i430VW motherboard. First I moved my existing pair of 16 Mb EDOs to the 2-3 slots and put in the 64 Mb DIMM, too. When I rebooted, the BIOS reported 16Mb, cat /proc/meminfo agreed. I removed my EDO memory, and both BIOS and meminfo still

Re: dbackup (was: Re: Beta-testing and the glibc 2.1 ...

Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >btw, simply backing up a system's conffiles can be done by feeding the >output of 'cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.conffiles' into tar/cpio/afio etc. That misses files generated in postinst. How about something like this: cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.conffiles

Re: Package dependency problem: a loop?

Either: 1. Use 'apt-get install' 2. Use dselect 3. Use 'dpkg -i' to install both packages at the same time. Bob On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, John wrote: > When I tried to install ppp-pam package I encountered a dependency problem. > The following two packages depend on each other. As a result I can

system time

I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how to fix a minor problem I'm having with the time on my system. If I run an xterm (or any of the terminals on F1-F6) and enter the date command, it will show the correct time Sat Mar 20 09:47:04 EST 1999 for example. When I echo $TZ, it shows EST5EDT. If I ru

Java Compiler problems

Hi, I had installed lastest jdk1.1 package on my system but i'm unable to get javac working ! ii jdk1.1 1.1.7v1a-2 JDK 1.1.x (Java Development Kit) - Runtime o ii jdk1.1-dev 1.1.7v1a-2 JDK 1.1.x (Java Development Kit) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt/archives#

compiling 2.2.3 problems / staroffice

make zImage gives me the following error gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686 -c -o checksum.o checksum.c checksum.c:200: redefinition of `csum_p

Re: diff.gz file size

On Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 11:06:50AM +0530, XRDLAB wrote: > But it still does not answer my question. Why the difference in the > size? How to get back the same if I decompress? Any maintainer who is > reading this thread would like to clarify? I remember reading somewhere that netscape doesn't actu

Re: Package dependency problem: a loop?

Install them simultaneously. Assuming you downloaded the packages by hand: dpkg -i libpam0g-util_0.65-0.9.deb libpam0g_0.65-0.9.deb -Brad On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, John wrote: > When I tried to install ppp-pam package I encountered a dependency > problem. The following two packages depend on each ot

Printer Setup

Hi, I am trying to set up my printer on Debian, I've got Hamm. I've tried to used the Magicfilter package and got the printer to print. But it seems to be cutting off some of the text at the top and bottom and also the printer will not automatically feed paper, I have to press the button

when installing the kernel-source

and building a new kernel with sound do I have to do mknod on all the sound devices ? I noticed that they are missing, or is there a debian package that accomplishes this ? __ Geoffrey Deasey/ /__ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ /

Re: Enlightenment .15.x for Slink (and gnome panel problems)

On 20-Mar-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > deb http://www.debian.org/~bma enlightenment/ Thanks brian. However, when I went in and chose enlightenment to install, some of the dependancies were not available. libgnome32, libgnomesupport0 and libgnomeui32. Does anyone know where to get these pack

Re: Enlightenment .15.x for Slink

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > *- On 19 Mar, Ben Messinger wrote about "Enlightenment .15.x for Slink" > > Are there any E .15.x debs for Slink yet? > >From http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9903/msg01784.html > they are at > > deb http://www.debian.org/~bma enlightenment/ Unl

Newbie Install Dilemma

I'm trying to load Debian 2.1 on an old Epson laptop, but I can't seem to get it to partition and format the drive during the install. I've tried low-level formatting, and creating the partitions and then loading, but all to no avail. The Debian documentation isn't any help. Since the laptop has

Re: downloading

Hi, Dont give up its worth the effort. Anyway consider it an Initiation test Check out the following "http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/"; "slink" being the most recently released "stable" version Its a big download i think ive got about 1.2GB worth sitting on a spare disk It may be easie

Re: null pointer KABOOM

Thanx, I do now [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- On 20 Mar, John Leget wrote about "Re: null pointer KABOOM" > > > > Ok,i had a look at oops-*.txt and did a make for ksymoops but unfortunately > > this > > fails to compile > > error as follows: > > "oops.c:38: bfd.h: No such file or directo

Re: Quasi-mirror for local net

On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 11:19:06AM -0500, Michael Procario wrote: > I would like to something similar. I have downloaded the i386 branches and > have them nfs mounted on one of my systems. I copied the package files and > that has caused me some problems. How do I build the package files correctly

Re: removing OnTrack DDO

On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 07:26:03AM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > Getting rid of it should be just matter of replacing that code by > overwriting it with some other boot loader such as Lilo - after booting > from the floppy. I would definitely make a backup copy of that sector > first with the dd comm

Re: fonts in *terms ...

Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AS> i found xfontsel and found a font i like (looks great in the AS> preview in xfontsel) but when i tell Eterm to use it, the spacing AS> between the characters is *huge* making the term nearly as wide as AS> my entire screen. since the main point of doing t

Re: Debian CD Resellers?

On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 07:02:54PM -, Pollywog wrote: > On 16-Mar-99 Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > > I am looking for somebody selling Debian CD sets containing beside the > > official images the non-free (the part which is freely redirstributable) and > > especially nonUS. Cheapbytes announced

Re: Iomega zip drive

On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 08:29:38AM -0800, Alessandro Z wrote: > I'm trying to have my Iomega zip drive working under Linux. > I previously successfully compiled the kernel to support the zip drive > with a SuSE distro, now I'm trying with Debian and Red Hat on different > PC. > In both cases there'

Package dependency problem: a loop?

When I tried to install ppp-pam package I encountered a dependency problem. The following two packages depend on each other. As a result I cannot get them properly installed & configured. If somebody knows the solution, please tell me. TKS. Package: libpam0g-util Version: 0.65-0.9 Section: l

Re: Enlightenment .15.x for Slink

*- On 19 Mar, Ben Messinger wrote about "Enlightenment .15.x for Slink" > Are there any E .15.x debs for Slink yet? I would hate to compile if > someone has already done the work. I have kept apt pointed at > "http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-2"; as was > previously mentioned

Re: Enlightenment .15.x for Slink

Ben Messinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Are there any E .15.x debs for Slink yet? I would hate to compile if > someone has already done the work. I have kept apt pointed at > "http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-2"; as was > previously mentioned on the list, but as of yet ther

interesting error message

Good evening!, While installing Debian, I got the following error message, well, pieces of it since it lasted all of a second before my machine rebooted but this is what I could get: "The installation program is determining an *** next installation ** performed ***" Anyone ever

Re: obscure fdisk command

At 09:56 PM 3/19/99 -0500, Jayson Baird wrote: >anyone know that obscure fdisk command to clean the master boot record of a >drive? > > thanks from : http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9902/msg01807.html "fdisk /mbr (in dos) will restore

Re: OFF TIPIC: Programs in linux for children in age of 10-15

On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Ries van Twisk wrote: > Hai, > > I know that this is a bit Off Topic, but hopefully > you can answer these.. > > Are there any programs on Linux/Debian for these ages (10-15)? There's one in progress called "Dr. Geo". I think if you do a web search you can find it - I don

Re: downloading

At 09:52 PM 3/19/99 -0500, kitc wrote: > I tried for over two hours to figure out how to download a copy of >your program off the mirrir sights. Have to ask the obvious question - did you read the install instructions at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.html ? (assuming that

Return of those Broken links!!!

I thought I had this fixed, but will trying to upgrade to slinks procps I got the error that dpkg could not overwrite /usr/doc/procps So I started mc and went to /usr/doc/procps and damn it's a deleted file - no length nothing. So I tried to delete and got the message operation not permitted a

Re: Funny netscape problem (How to debug and solve)

Shanta McBain wrote: > Daniel Mashao wrote: > > > I have a funny nestcape problem on my home machine. i installed netscape > > as root and have two accounts (one me and the other my wife's). As me > > (daniel) I can run netscape without problem, but I cannot run netscape as > > root nor can my wif

Enlightenment .15.x for Slink

Are there any E .15.x debs for Slink yet? I would hate to compile if someone has already done the work. I have kept apt pointed at "http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-2"; as was previously mentioned on the list, but as of yet there is only an "unstable" directory. Am I looking

obscure fdisk command

anyone know that obscure fdisk command to clean the master boot record of a drive? thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cyillic only) http://www.concentric.net/~jsbaird

downloading

I tried for over two hours to figure out how to download a copy of your program off the mirrir sights. why can't you just have a file that you can download easily and not have to try and play hunt and pick to get a program. I would really like to try linux but can find no place to download it th

Re: null pointer KABOOM

*- On 20 Mar, John Leget wrote about "Re: null pointer KABOOM" > > Ok,i had a look at oops-*.txt and did a make for ksymoops but unfortunately > this > fails to compile > error as follows: > "oops.c:38: bfd.h: No such file or directory > make: *** [oops.o] Error 1" > % locate bfd.h /usr

fonts in *terms ...

question ... i would really like to use a different font under x for my *terms (i'm using Eterm at the moment but i don't care which of the various options i use in the end). i found xfontsel and found a font i like (looks great in the preview in xfontsel) but when i tell Eterm to use it, the spa

Re: null pointer KABOOM

Ok,i had a look at oops-*.txt and did a make for ksymoops but unfortunately this fails to compile error as follows: "oops.c:38: bfd.h: No such file or directory make: *** [oops.o] Error 1" getting nowhere fast , secondly this text i need to feed it (ksymoops) i guess i will have to recr

re network

hi there we can ourself but we can not see each other all cables have been tested and checked

Re: screen saver annoyances

setterm -blank man setterm HTH Ivan. At 08:27 PM 3/19/99 -0500, Chris Brown wrote: >Hi, >I'm having trouble finding any documentation on the automatic >screen saver in linux. Does anybody know how to turn it off? It >gets annoying having the screen black out after 5 minutes. Thanks! >

screen saver annoyances

Hi, I'm having trouble finding any documentation on the automatic screen saver in linux. Does anybody know how to turn it off? It gets annoying having the screen black out after 5 minutes. Thanks! C.Brown * Chris

Re: SAMBA help.

It sounds as though you have some confusion about the differences between the smb networking protocol, which SAMBA and windows file and print sharing use, and the tcp/ip network protocol with BIND, which Linux and Windows TCP/IP use. This confusion no doubt is due to the fact that Microsoft deci

Re: Newbie on the verge of trashing thinkpad

>O.k., maybe I didn't give enough info on this. I have a thinkpad 755c. >After installing I'm getting message "memory address conflict at (address) >error 0011". Then "error 0011" repeats ad infinitum. I have 20 meg of ram >and have set up a 40 meg swap partition. The remaining space (320 meg) is

Re: Funny netscape problem (How to debug and solve)

Daniel Mashao wrote: > I have a funny nestcape problem on my home machine. i installed netscape > as root and have two accounts (one me and the other my wife's). As me > (daniel) I can run netscape without problem, but I cannot run netscape as > root nor can my wife run it as all. The Netscape

Re: Matrox Mill. G200 and X

On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I haven't received my slink discs yet, but I fried my video card yesterday, > so I bought a Matrox Mill G200. I couldn't find it listed in the video card > database that you get to choose from when you run XF96Setup on my hamm > system. I looked at the xfr