Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-09-30 Thread Kristopher Johnson
John Hasler wrote: > > Mario O.de Menezes writes: > > That is, in Brazil, unfortunately, our daylight saving day changes from > > year to year, and as a consequence, some times my date is wrong for 1 or > > 2 days till it changes. > > I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother

cyclades install / kernel config

1999-09-30 Thread zdrysdal
Hi i am about to install the cyclades cyclom-y driver but after reading the README file it refers to the install program pointing to the /usr/src/linux directory. I have installed slink with kernel 2.0.36 from the cheapbytes CD and I appear to have no /usr/src/linux directory. After running the

Re: make-kpkg questions

1999-09-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
You should be able to achieve what you want by editing /usr/share/kernel-package/rules and the various preinst, postinst, prerm and postrm scripts. Also see 'man kernel-pkg.conf' for a way to put vmlinuz in /boot instead of /. It sounds like it may be easier to let it install per the defaults and

Re: Install with floppies and NFS

1999-09-30 Thread Jordan Howarth
Seth> Are you using rawrite or dd, or just a straight copy? A straight copy Seth> will never work, but a rawrite (from dos) or dd (under a unix) will do Seth> the job nicely. :) Sorry! Read the #$%! manual, right? :) -- Jordan Howarth mailto:[EMAIL P

netscape error

1999-09-30 Thread Bek Oberin
I've just installed a brand new system with the stable dist, and when I install Netscape I get a weird error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> netscape ERROR: /usr/lib/netscape/45/navigator/plugins/libnullplugin.so: undefined symbol: FE_GetToplevelWidget Cant load plugin /usr/lib/netscape/45/navigator/plugin

Re: Linux databases: which are best?

1999-09-30 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm interested in peoples' experiences with the different databases > available for Linux. Probably the most important factors for me are > stability, followed by ease of use and power. You can't go wrong with MySQL. It's a little quirky in places,

Linux databases: which are best?

1999-09-30 Thread debuser
I'm interested in peoples' experiences with the different databases available for Linux. Probably the most important factors for me are stability, followed by ease of use and power. Thanks, Gerry

Problems with lilo?

1999-09-30 Thread RESET
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jason Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason:: I think this problem is with lilo. I am riding the Jason:: bleeding edge upgrading roughly every night. Well Jason:: yesterday when I upgraded there was an update for Jason:: lilo. Now I can't bo

Re: make-kpkg questions

1999-09-30 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 30 Sep, peter karlsson wrote about "make-kpkg questions" > Hi! > > Just learned to use make-kpkg, *but*, I want to do some things differently: > > 1. How do I tell it not to create a /vmlinuz symlink in the root directory? >I want my root directory clean (i.e no files at all) >(Also

Re: pine wont compile

1999-09-30 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi > > pine doesntcompile on my machine... i dont know whats wrong, anyway, here's > the > output (the last 10 lines or so) I'm sorry, but I don't seem to see the problem. What makes you think that pine wasn't built? -- ---

re: Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad

1999-09-30 Thread Todd Suess
I fixed this problem by doing the apt-get update as normal, editing the offending file to fix the optionnal lines, and then running dpkg --merge-avail package file> just don't redo apt-get update until the archive is fixed or you will have to perform the above steps again. Todd At 12:47 PM

Re: Device busy

1999-09-30 Thread Mark Buda
> "Sami" == Sami Dalouche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sami> Trying a fuser /dev/cdrom usually reports nothing. Perhaps try "fuser -m /dev/cdrom"? -- I get my monkeys for nothing and my chimps for free. http://www.clark.net/pub/hermit/

wingz ate my file!

1999-09-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Fortunately, I'd already printed it out (midterm grades). Wingz whirled, clicked, and rattled the hard drive half to death (but so does anything on this machine), then segfaulted. It now has an error reading the file. Does anyone know how to recover these? I'd hate to have to type it all i

Re: pptp for linux - where can it be

1999-09-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
With a newer version of ppp (>=2.3.6, such as the one in potato) you can specify a pty connection. Using this with ssh will allow you to do this. Look through the readme and the man page for this newer version to see how to do this. "Alex V. Toropov" wrote: > Hi, all > > I remember that some wh

Re: Mathematica

1999-09-30 Thread Tom Allard
ELF is the binary format, not a library: % file /bin/bash /bin/bash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped rgds-- TA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I don't speak for the Federal Reserve Board, it doesn't speak for me.

make-kpkg questions

1999-09-30 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! Just learned to use make-kpkg, *but*, I want to do some things differently: 1. How do I tell it not to create a /vmlinuz symlink in the root directory? I want my root directory clean (i.e no files at all) (Also, it complained when there wasn't a /vmlinuz already, thought I was doing

Re: vi problems

1999-09-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, September 30, 1999, 2:02:55 PM, Dean wrote: > Anybody know how to get around this problem? If it is the problem I think it is... dpkg -r nvi apt-get install vim vim-rt *or* apt-get install elvis Some editors (joe is one) have a problem when they exit on mucking up the terminal

Re: Mathematica

1999-09-30 Thread Joerg Plate
> And just to bolster your confidence, I ran Mathematica just > fine on my Debian slink system for quite some time. It works with potato, too. It is not a libc.so.6 or libc.so.5 problem, because everything is statically linked. -- "I'm working on it." "There should be more math. This could be m

vi problems

1999-09-30 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hello: I use 'vi' exclusively, and until upgrading to Debian 2.1, never experienced any problems with 'vi' exits. It always exited on the same line at which it was started. I believe at the time, I was using 'elvis' as 'vi'. For the record, I use 'xterm's under OpenLook, and that is were I obser

Weird network (TCP i think) Error

1999-09-30 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, i'm getting trouble with my e-mail when it got an M$ document attached to it, the transfer just hung. The extrange thing is that if a try to ftp my mailbox it happen exactly as before. I' dont know what the M$ stuff has to do with it, it's very puzzling. I'm running ipmasquerade an yes, i c

Re: where is /proc/asound?

1999-09-30 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've just installed slink on my laptop and I'm trying to use the > ALSA. Do you need to do any special configureation for ALSA? I've just > got a vanilla system and a custom kernel ( still 2.0.36 though) and >

Re: trivial egcc question...

1999-09-30 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Lupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jonathan> This is more of a egcc question than a Debian question, but Jonathan> after looking through the man page, I didn't find an answer Jonathan> so here we go... When dealing with GNU software, info is usually a better source than

Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems

1999-09-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 03:18:26PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: >> I have the +:: line at the bottom of my passwd file, and all the yp >> tools work fine (e.g. 'ypmatch pauls passwd' brings up the right response.) > >Have

pine wont compile

1999-09-30 Thread N.P. Puam
Hi pine doesntcompile on my machine... i dont know whats wrong, anyway, here's the output (the last 10 lines or so) touch build-all test -f pine/pine.c -a -f debian/rules rm -rf debian/tmp install -d debian/tmp/DEBIAN cd debian/tmp && install -d usr/doc/pine/tech-notes cp -p doc/tech-notes/*.html

HPT366 Drivers / ATA66 Hard Drives

1999-09-30 Thread Robert Oneto
Hello, I am a very new investigator of Linux. Meaning that I have never used it before and I am just now looking into loading the Linux operating system onto my new computer system. I am not a programmer, nor a developer ( yet! )but I am interested in loading the Debian GNU/Linux OS because I thi

pptp for linux - where can it be

1999-09-30 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Hi, all I remember that some where I read about organizing pptp link between to linux-box over Internet. Can some one figure me where can iI obtain this info ?

trivial egcc question...

1999-09-30 Thread Jonathan Lupa
This is more of a egcc question than a Debian question, but after looking through the man page, I didn't find an answer so here we go... Is there a way to set an environment variable with the args I want for the egcc line? For example, I like STL, and am always typing `egcc -Wall -lstdc++ foo.cpp

Re: Mathematica

1999-09-30 Thread Gary Hennigan
William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Nathan Smith wrote: > > > lab. We're going to need to have Mathematica on the computers in the lab, > > and according to the Wolfram web page Mathematica will run on any ELF > > Linux system, but it's my understanding that Debia

Re: unstable && stable

1999-09-30 Thread Peter S Galbraith
andreas palsson wrote: > Is it possible to have 4 partitions where one of them is Slink, the > second Potato, the third Swap and last one /home? > I see no technical difficulties for both slink and potato using the same > swap-partition and the same /home-partition, or am I wrong? No problem. U

Why am I getting ? instead of apostrophe in Netscape?

1999-09-30 Thread Phillip Deackes
Recently I have noticed I am getting a question mark instead of an apostrophe on web pages. The apostrophe works fine everywhere else (') Any ideas what is wrong? -- Phillip Deackes Debian Linux (Potato)

Re: Mathematica

1999-09-30 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Nathan Smith wrote: > lab. We're going to need to have Mathematica on the computers in the lab, > and according to the Wolfram web page Mathematica will run on any ELF > Linux system, but it's my understanding that Debian is not ELF but glibc6. This is not a problem. ELF

Re: How to filter this list?

1999-09-30 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 30 Sep, Stefan Blum wrote about "How to filter this list?" > Hi, > > how can I filter the incoming stuff from this list by using ''elm''? > My $HOME/.elm/filter-rules contains the following entries: > > ... > > if (from = "debian-user@lists.debian.org") then save > "/home/meru/blum/Mail/l

unstable && stable

1999-09-30 Thread andreas palsson
Hi. Is it possible to have 4 partitions where one of them is Slink, the second Potato, the third Swap and last one /home? I see no technical difficulties for both slink and potato using the same swap-partition and the same /home-partition, or am I wrong? Besides that, can anyone give me an exampl

Mathematica

1999-09-30 Thread Nathan Smith
Hello all, We're (I'm) setting up a computer lab here at Univ. Texas at Tyler (nevermind the address above), and I'd like to run Debian as the OS in the lab. We're going to need to have Mathematica on the computers in the lab, and according to the Wolfram web page Mathematica will run on any ELF

Re: dselect unstable problem SOLVED

1999-09-30 Thread Jason Christensen
Editing the file to correct the spelling of optional for aleph-dev and aleph-doc and then touching the file to match the others does not work if you want to use dselect (for me at least). I was able to successfully upgrade my system after editing and touching the file to correct the errors and then

Re: dselect unstable problem SOLUTION v2

1999-09-30 Thread Adam Olejniczak
> > Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/non-free Release > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > > E: Malformed Priority line > > E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) so as i wrote before here is a problem it's this that in aleph priotity is typed optionnal and should be option

Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-09-30 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On 30 Sep 1999, John Hasler wrote: > Mario O.de Menezes writes: > > That is, in Brazil, unfortunately, our daylight saving day changes from > > year to year, and as a consequence, some times my date is wrong for 1 or > > 2 days till it changes. > > I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would

Kernel question: From bootdisk to hard drive

1999-09-30 Thread David Kanter
I've got a custom bootdisk that works fine. I moved the kernel to my home directory using dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/home/david/vmlinuz. (I also used cat /dev/fd0 > /home/david/vmlinuz and it did the same thing.) Everything is OK, except the file size of this new kernel looks like its the size of an un

Re: dselect unstable problem SOLVED

1999-09-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 05:55:00PM +, Adam Olejniczak wrote: > Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > > > E: Malformed Priority line > > > E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) > > here is a problem > > > > > > E: Problem with MergeList > > > /va

How to filter this list?

1999-09-30 Thread Stefan Blum
Hi, how can I filter the incoming stuff from this list by using ''elm''? My $HOME/.elm/filter-rules contains the following entries: ... if (from = "debian-user@lists.debian.org") then save "/home/meru/blum/Mail/linux" if (sender = "debian-user@lists.debian.org") then save "/home/meru/blum/Mail

nobody's shell

1999-09-30 Thread Tom Allard
I was just reading about the Securelinux Crack and saw that part of the crack involved getting a shell as "nobody". See http://forums.hackpcweek.com/read.php3?num=1&id=479&thread=473 I checked my slink machine and, sure enough, "nobody" had /bin/sh as his shell. Is there ANY need for this a

[OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-09-30 Thread John Hasler
Mario O.de Menezes writes: > That is, in Brazil, unfortunately, our daylight saving day changes from > year to year, and as a consequence, some times my date is wrong for 1 or > 2 days till it changes. I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with daylight savings time in a t

Re: Exim re-writing help

1999-09-30 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 30 Sep, David Kanter wrote about "Re: Exim re-writing help" Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 9/30/99 11:10:57 AM >>> > I also set the primary_hostname to my dynamic dns name so that the > Message-Id gets set properly(look in the header of this mail). > > Thanks. You explanation makes pe

Ther is a bug in packages list !

1999-09-30 Thread Adam Olejniczak
hello all there is a bug in unstable version of debian package list its in apeth-dev and aleph-doc package state is called optionnal should be optional bye adam

Re: dselect unstable problem SOLVED

1999-09-30 Thread Adam Olejniczak
Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > > E: Malformed Priority line > > E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) here is a problem > > > E: Problem with MergeList > > /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.pl.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i3 > > > > 86

Re: Reading compressed files in XEmacs

1999-09-30 Thread debuser
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Johann Spies wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > > On a somewhat related note : is it possible to view compressed (.gz) files > > with pagers like more/less ? I think I remember a thread about this either > > on this list or on some linux NG a while back e

Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:44:03PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:27:38PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > Ok, I misunderstood what you were trying to explain. The no password login > > is an issue with the pam_unix.so (I though you were saying you couldn't > > login at

Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems

1999-09-30 Thread Paul M Sargent
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:27:38PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > Ok, I misunderstood what you were trying to explain. The no password login > is an issue with the pam_unix.so (I though you were saying you couldn't > login at all with NIS). I already knew about this, and it will be fixed in > my ne

Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 04:07:01PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: > > That's incorrect, you can login with a password locally because it then > > acts like a normal UNIX login. You HAVE to add nis to the nsswitch.conf > > fields in order to use _any_ programs with NIS. This is not a PAM issue. > > O

Re: PPP Host Configuration

1999-09-30 Thread Marc Mongeon
Ramana: Read the PPP HOWTO at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO.html (or some other LDP mirror). Chapter 26 has specific information on setting up a PPP server. Apache is the most common (only?) http server for Linux. Install that and start reading the manuals in /usr/doc/apache. Good lu

Re: Exim re-writing help

1999-09-30 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 30 Sep, David Kanter wrote about "Exim re-writing help" > I would like to rewrite my address with exim. (I only send outgoing mail to > the Internet; no local mail.) I've read the documentation, but am still a bit > confused on exactly how to set up the re-write. I would like [EMAIL > PROT

Re: Difference between dpkg and other installs

1999-09-30 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 03:25:28PM -0500, Steve Doerr wrote: > Could anyone help me with the difference between dpkg and other > installs. I have installed netscape and wp8 w/o using dselect. > Should everything be installed through dpkg to get the cleanest > Debian system or does it matter? I al

Re: PPP Host Configuration

1999-09-30 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I think you need to go into /etc/gettytab and establish a login prompt on a serial port for one thing. Install apache for another. --- Ramana Tadepalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cant get my Linux installation to behave like a > server (http for a > start). Where should I begin?. How can I g

Re: fvwm with WM dockable apps

1999-09-30 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 30 Sep, Shao Zhang wrote about "fvwm with WM dockable apps" > Hi, > Ok, call me old fashioned. But I still like fvwm these days > among so many windows managers. > Same here. > fvwm does not seem to be able to remeber the window's geometry, > and WM dockable apss do

Exim re-writing help

1999-09-30 Thread David Kanter
I would like to rewrite my address with exim. (I only send outgoing mail to the Internet; no local mail.) I've read the documentation, but am still a bit confused on exactly how to set up the re-write. I would like [EMAIL PROTECTED] (i.e., [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to be re-written to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PPP Host Configuration

1999-09-30 Thread Ramana Tadepalli
I cant get my Linux installation to behave like a server (http for a start). Where should I begin?. How can I get it to run a dial-in server to receive connects on the modem. Please help Ramana

Re: dselect unstable problem

1999-09-30 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Adam Olejniczak wrote: > Hello all > > I'm a fresh user of debian i was using redhat so far. > so i was using dselect with unstable option > and everything was working just fine till yesterday when i got following > errors > > > Hitt ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/main P

Re: dselect unstable problem

1999-09-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
Adam Olejniczak wrote: > > Hello all > > I'm a fresh user of debian i was using redhat so far. > so i was using dselect with unstable option > and everything was working just fine till yesterday when i got following > errors > > Hitt ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/main Packages > Hit ftp://ft

RE: dselect unstable problem

1999-09-30 Thread Jon Hughes
I got this error last night myself and I "fixed" it by commenting out the offending site in the /etc/apt/sources.list, but I'm not sure if that's the best/permanent fix. But it did work for the time being -Original Message- From: Adam Olejniczak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

dselect unstable problem

1999-09-30 Thread Adam Olejniczak
Hello all I'm a fresh user of debian i was using redhat so far. so i was using dselect with unstable option and everything was working just fine till yesterday when i got following errors Hitt ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/main Packages Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/main Release Hit f

Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems

1999-09-30 Thread Paul M Sargent
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:43:40AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 03:42:14PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:23:04AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > Have you tried adding nis to the /etc/nsswitch.conf fields? Note, than the > > > pam_unix.so modules

Re: apt-ing "unstable" files for a "stable" box

1999-09-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, David Kanter wrote: : Is this bad: having a stable box (i.e., Slink) but using apt to : update some files from the "unstable" tree? Depends on what "bad" means to you: o It should be alright in the sense that apt will take care of dependencies for you, so there should be n

mail not deleted from spool on inc with exmh

1999-09-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I've seen this problem a couple of times before, and it's happening again. My mail is not being deleted from the spool when exmh incorporates it. As a result, the same messages are incorporated again and again. Using inc from the command line seems to solve the problem. Sometimes (not alwa

startx libraries errors

1999-09-30 Thread J
--- Begin Message --- When booting I receive the following errors: Starting X display manager: xdm/usr/bin/X11/xdm: error in loading shared libraries /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: _ _ mb _ cur _ max already running Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 debian tty1 After I log in I try the follow

dpkg problem

1999-09-30 Thread Liu Chung Him
Dear all, Recently, i download the libc6_2.1.2-5.deb and install it with dpkg. However, there are some error messages : ... gzip: stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg-deb: error processing lib6_2.1.2-5.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-t

Re: Reading compressed files in XEmacs

1999-09-30 Thread Gary Hennigan
Kristopher Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The XEmacs documentation seems to imply that it can open > compressed files--that is, it will automatically uncompress them, > let you edit, and then recompress if you made changes. > > But this doesn't work for me. Opening a *.gz file just shows m

netscape killing my machine

1999-09-30 Thread Aaron Solochek
As of very recently, netscape has been acting up. A few times in the past few days it has just about halted my machine, on one occasion I needed to hard reboot. I just arrived back from class a few minutes ago and I thought my comptuer was dead, turns out it was just going REALLY slow. According

Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 03:42:14PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:23:04AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > Have you tried adding nis to the /etc/nsswitch.conf fields? Note, than the > > pam_unix.so modules (being that they use standard libc calls for use > > lookups) recogni

RE: pcmcia net card does not show up in "ifconfig" listing.

1999-09-30 Thread Pollywog
On 30-Sep-99 Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > I realise something is probably not configured correctly. I installed > pcmcia-source, and compiled it with dpkg-kpkg, then installed the > resulting .deb file. Everything seems to be working fine, except that I > expected the network card in the slot to sh

Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems

1999-09-30 Thread Paul M Sargent
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:23:04AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > Have you tried adding nis to the /etc/nsswitch.conf fields? Note, than the > pam_unix.so modules (being that they use standard libc calls for use > lookups) recognizes NIS with any problems, so long as the NS Switch is > setup properly.

Re: pcmcia net card does not show up in "ifconfig" listing.

1999-09-30 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > I realise something is probably not configured correctly. I installed > pcmcia-source, and compiled it with dpkg-kpkg, then installed the > resulting .deb file. Everything seems to be working fine, except that I > expected the network card in the sl

Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 03:18:26PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: > I have, what I expect is, a simple problem. > > I'm trying to set my Potato box to use NIS to do the lookup for /etc/passwd. > I have the +:: line at the bottom of my passwd file, and all the yp > tools work fine (e.g. 'ypmatch

Potato NIS Vs PAM problems

1999-09-30 Thread Paul M Sargent
I have, what I expect is, a simple problem. I'm trying to set my Potato box to use NIS to do the lookup for /etc/passwd. I have the +:: line at the bottom of my passwd file, and all the yp tools work fine (e.g. 'ypmatch pauls passwd' brings up the right response.) I've even got autofs automout

Re: apt-ing "unstable" files for a "stable" box

1999-09-30 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 09:06:34AM -0500, David Kanter wrote: > Is this bad: having a stable box (i.e., Slink) but using apt to update some > files from the "unstable" tree? Nope. *some* instability might occur, but that doesn't mean it is bad. Just be sensable on what you're doing and it sho

apt-ing "unstable" files for a "stable" box

1999-09-30 Thread David Kanter
Is this bad: having a stable box (i.e., Slink) but using apt to update some files from the "unstable" tree? Here's why: I have Slink and downloaded Netscape 4.61 from the unstable tree. Why? Getting a stable Netscape never seemed to work; not all the necessary files would download, so I opted t

Keyboard Question (IBM Type)

1999-09-30 Thread Jon Hughes
My girlfriend is going to be purchasing a new keyboard to work with her Linux box when we set it up. However, we've had problems with the Keyboard/track pointer thing in the past. Does anyone know if the 104 Key Trackpoint Keyboard from IBM has had any problems with Debian? Thanks http://www.d

Re: daylight savings

1999-09-30 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes ("daylight savings"): > >Hi, > > Where can I see the settings for daylight savings? > That is, in Brazil, unfortunately, our daylight saving day changes >from year to year, and as a consequence, some times my date is wrong for 1 >or 2 days till it change

pcmcia net card does not show up in "ifconfig" listing.

1999-09-30 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
I realise something is probably not configured correctly. I installed pcmcia-source, and compiled it with dpkg-kpkg, then installed the resulting .deb file. Everything seems to be working fine, except that I expected the network card in the slot to show up when I run ifconfig. It does not. How ca

What's this in my daemon.log

1999-09-30 Thread Patrik Magnusson
This has been popping up for a couple of days now. Anyone know what it means? Sep 27 15:58:10 pedgr634 identd[26739]: started Sep 27 15:58:10 pedgr634 identd[26746]: request_thread: read

Re: dist-upgrade doesn't upgrade kernel?

1999-09-30 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote: > I just upgraded to potato using "apt-get dist-upgrade". I expected > that this would upgrade my kernel (to 2.1) along with all the other > packages. Was I mistaken in this belief? I am proceeding by getting > the kernel source and building the kernel m

Re: ppp broken, log says: "Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean"

1999-09-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
It's more likely that some further authentication is necessary, i.e. PPP itself is not being started automatically upon connect but instead there's some other prompt which must be negotiated. The best way to diagnose this is to use seyon or minicom (or other terminal program) to manually dial th

gnumeric complains about platform independent libraries

1999-09-30 Thread Kent West
When trying to start gnumeric, I get the following complaints: Could not find platform independent libraries Could not find platform dependent libraries Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to [:] 'import exceptions' failed; use -v for traceback Warning! Falling back to string-based exceptions 'import

Re: Callback

1999-09-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
callback is generally accomplished through an extension to ppp. I don't think that the linux pppd daemon has support for this (at least not version 2.3.5 that I'm using). A quick look at the README on the upstream maintainer's site doesn't seem to indicate support for this either: ftp://cs.anu.

Re: Callback

1999-09-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting A. Barry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, I am a new converter to linux os, ending the misery of windows os. > I managed will till now to install debian linux and managed to have ppp > to > work fine for some connections. My main isp requires a callback > authentication > to connect, and I could

dist-upgrade doesn't upgrade kernel?

1999-09-30 Thread Marc Mongeon
I just upgraded to potato using "apt-get dist-upgrade". I expected that this would upgrade my kernel (to 2.1) along with all the other packages. Was I mistaken in this belief? I am proceeding by getting the kernel source and building the kernel myself, but I wanted to be sure that I hadn't done

Re: Strange apt-get behaviour...

1999-09-30 Thread Kristopher Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please respond to the above email as I only subscribe to the digest, and > not the actual mailing list. > > Guys, > > I tried running apt-get on a potato system running kernel 2.2.12 this > afternoon, and when it finished downloading the Packages.gz files, apt-get >

Re: Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad

1999-09-30 Thread Kristopher Johnson
Marcus Johansson wrote: > Try: > > # apt-get check > > That might fix the problem, not sure. > > /Marcus No, apt-get check doesn't fix it. The file corruption prevents apt-get from doing anything. - Kris

Re: Modem speed

1999-09-30 Thread Marc Mongeon
Christian: The Cisco AS5200 does contain a bank of modems-- if your Windows machine is getting 42000bps, then they're likely 56K modems. Are the Windows and Linux machines calling on the same phone line? They're calling the same phone number, right? To verify that Linux isn't mis-reporting the

info2www not finding icons

1999-09-30 Thread Kristopher Johnson
I have dwww and info2www installed, using apache. The pages returned by info2www don't have any pictures in them. The image files are in /usr/share/doc/info2www (next.gif, prev.gif, up.gif, etc.). The info2www-generated pages have IMG tags that look like . But apache doesn't seem to be able to

daylight savings

1999-09-30 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, Where can I see the settings for daylight savings? That is, in Brazil, unfortunately, our daylight saving day changes from year to year, and as a consequence, some times my date is wrong for 1 or 2 days till it changes. We'll have a change in Oct, 3. Where can I see i

Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades - a possible solution?

1999-09-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting Marcin Owsiany ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 05:24:54PM +0300, Martin Fluch wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > > > > I guess this kind of kernel packages would be for people quite concerned > > > about security but also quite lazy :) > > > > I guess

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Brian Servis
The first two variables are set by the shell and are determined either at compile time or by the environment it starts up in. Read the man page for your shell. For bash it says the following: HOSTTYPE Automatically set to a string that uniquely describe

Re: Reading compressed files in XEmacs

1999-09-30 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 30 Sep, Johann Spies wrote about "Re: Reading compressed files in XEmacs" > On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > >> On a somewhat related note : is it possible to view compressed (.gz) files >> with pagers like more/less ? I think I remember a thread about this either >> on this list o

Re: su username w/o password in potato

1999-09-30 Thread peter karlsson
> However, with the new PAMified packages, I cannot replicate this > functionality, and I can't find information about how to do it... anyone? /etc/pam.d/su: # This allows root to su without passwords (normal operation) auth sufficient pam_rootok.so -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.p

Re: Sun classic

1999-09-30 Thread Andrew Hately
Ben Collins wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:35:40PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm interested in installing Debian Linux on a Sun Classic. > > Any pointers will be appreciated. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Oki > > There is an install text in /debian/dists/slink/main/disks-sparc.

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread peter karlsson
Salman Ahmed: > But where is this env. var being set from ? It's not even an environment variable, but rather an internal bash variable. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &

Re: Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad

1999-09-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
Johan Ur Riise wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:35:03PM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote: > > David Natkins wrote: > > > > > > Seems to be a problem with the package list for unstable at > > > ftp.debian.org. > > > One of the packages (aleph-dev) is causing the problem. > > > > You can open t

fvwm with WM dockable apps

1999-09-30 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Ok, call me old fashioned. But I still like fvwm these days among so many windows managers. fvwm does not seem to be able to remeber the window's geometry, and WM dockable apss does not seem to have a -geometry option. Is there any way to tell fvwm to p

Re: Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad

1999-09-30 Thread Marcus Johansson
> ( two occurrences of optionnal changed to optional) and rerunning > apt-get update, the file is downloaded again and I am where I started. Try: # apt-get check That might fix the problem, not sure. /Marcus

where is /proc/asound?

1999-09-30 Thread rnewton3
Hallo all, I've just installed slink on my laptop and I'm trying to use the ALSA. Do you need to do any special configureation for ALSA? I've just got a vanilla system and a custom kernel ( still 2.0.36 though) and ALSA just doesn't work. I don't appear to have a /proc/asound directory and I

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