Re: Network sniffer

1999-11-15 Thread Oki DZ
Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: > there is: > debian/dists/slink/non-free/binary-i386/admin/sniffit_0.3.5-3.deb > for i386s. > Thanks a lot. (I'm sorry for treating this list like a search engine. But, oftentimes this works pretty fast :-) Oki -- Shells Command shells. Friendly user int

Xfonts-75dpi 3.3.4?

1999-11-15 Thread Ribamar FS
Hello! Please, Where I find the packages .deb xfonts-75dpi and 100dpi version 3.3.4? -- Ribamar FS UIN 11.899.871 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Vamos catalogar o Linux no Brasil?: http://members.xoom.com/riba/ http://www.terravista.pt/Guincho/5560/

Strange file names

1999-11-15 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I have some strange files. Do they have to exist in /usr/bin? ss1:/usr/bin$ ls -l | more total 9010 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root20720 Dec 24 1998 [ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 107956 Feb 24 1999 a2p lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root4 Nov 16 03:44 -> host -rwxr-xr-x

wine.conf

1999-11-15 Thread tf
Hey guys, can someone please send me a copy of his or her wine.conf? my "wine" is pretty mangled, and I'd like to try to track down the problem. I just want to run one program (and I believe people have done so with success, with the app in question...) thanks, -- -t

Re: Problem with named

1999-11-15 Thread Pollywog
> > Brian> name. How can I fix this problem? Also, how can I add some machine > Brian> records to the files. I have tried following the howto's and the > readmes > Brian> but I have had no luck yet. > > Nate> best way to do that is to add it to /etc/hosts, and change your > Nate> /etc/resolv.

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

1999-11-15 Thread Brian Boonstra
Through a telnet session, I followed Brian's suggestions. Basically, I have an xdm.log but no kdm.log. But kdm is what is runnning. Below is what I found. I'll try to get more tonight when I am at console. - Brian mass % psgrep kdm root 269 0.0 0.8 5552 2244 ?

Re: New release over due

1999-11-15 Thread Matthew Dalton
Godric wrote: > > This IMHO is problem of marketing Debs - of people like us who support > Debs making the public aware of just how good Debs is and how easy to > upgrade. The point is that people do realise that it is easy, but they're still not ready to give up their redhat et al because a CD

Re: Problem with named

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On 15 Nov 1999, Ian Zimmerman wrote: itz >Hmm, doesn't that defeat the purpose of running named in the first itz >place? I'd add a new zone file and reference it from /etc/named.conf. i run named mainly on my dialup for ipmasq. for some reason DNS does not get masq'd for me under kernel 2.2 ..i

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Brian Servis wrote: servis >xdm automatically creates a log /var/log/xdm.log. I would assume kdm servis >does something similar. If you really want to stop xdm/kdm us the servis >init.d scripts to do it properly, i.e. '/etc/init.d/xdm stop'. i see no such log(s) either k

Re: Problem with named

1999-11-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Nate" == aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> name. How can I fix this problem? Also, how can I add some machine Brian> records to the files. I have tried following the howto's and the readmes Brian> but I have had no luck yet. Nate> best way to do that is to add it to /etc/hosts,

Can I build a kernel with builtin IMM (ZIP DRIVE) support?

1999-11-15 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, A while back, I was unable to get my ZIP dribe to work with the PPA support, but IMM support allowed it to work. This IMM support is in a loadable module. I have been reading the Zip_Install howto, in preparation to try to get a Linux system built on a ZIP disk, to allow me to perform a

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

1999-11-15 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 15 Nov, aphro wrote about "Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)" > On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Brian Boonstra wrote: > > boonst > X starts automatically for me on boot -- I end up in kdm (used > to be > boonst >xdm). How do I get the logfile you mention? > > kill kd

Re: I killed my monitor!!

1999-11-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Brad" == Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Salman> Is there any way to check a running X server to find out Salman> exactly which modeline is being used at a given time ?? Brad> Start xvidtune from a console/xterm window. Press the "show" Brad> button. It will output the current modeline t

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Brian Boonstra wrote: boonst >X starts automatically for me on boot -- I end up in kdm (used to be boonst >xdm). How do I get the logfile you mention? kill kdm/xdm, and load X from console. kill -9 will get rid of kdm/xdm then CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACe to kill the X ser

Re: kernel compile and modules

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: homega >> 2) if you need to load something else (i.e. isapnp) before the driver homega >> loads homega > homega >should PPP be compiled as a loadable module then? nah, PPP is a network(software) thing not a hardware thing. homega >well, I recently made so

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 15, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Any ideas what would cause them to not work with 2.2 kernels? I'm running Using the user space nfsd or an old and unpatched knfsd. -- ciao, Marco

Segfault in libc -- call to malloc from libpng

1999-11-15 Thread Jim Ziegler
I have a program which uses libpng. Libpng makes several calls to malloc. At some point libc segfaults. Stack trace: 0 ... in free from libc 1 ... in mallocfrom libc 2 ... in mallocfrom libc 3 ... in pngmalloc at pngmem:405 Code at pngmalloc:pngmem:405 ret = ma

Re: Real world IP address of a machine behind a firewall ?

1999-11-15 Thread Kevin Heath
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 11:17:32PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > I am behind a firewall and/or Proxy server (I still have to learn what is the > difference between those 2 and when to use each). A firewall is a machine that sits between you and your default internet gatway that blocks and/or modifie

Locale C not supported?

1999-11-15 Thread Robert Bell
Hello, I am using the Xi Graphics X server (latest) with Debian 2.1. All was happy till I attempted to run netscape. This is the error: netscape: locale 'C' not supported. Perhaps the $XNLSPATH env var is not set correctly? This happens to be in XiG's FAQsays to symbolic link the C lo

Getting modelines for my monitor

1999-11-15 Thread Arcady Genkin
I have just bought a Viewsonic GT755. It's capable of doing ,- | ViewSonic GT775 | .25 17" | 1600x1200 @ 69 | 1280x1024 @ 80 | 1152x870 @ 106 | $515 `- Where do I get modelines for it? Right now all I have for it in XF86Config is: ,- | Section "Monitor" |Identifier "ViewSoni

Re: window managers

1999-11-15 Thread Brian Boonstra
You wrote: > debs, > > how do i prevent twm from automatically being my window manager when i > type "startx"? This is determined by the file: /etc/X11/window-managers. The first one is what gets used. - Brian poe % cat window-managers

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

1999-11-15 Thread Brian Boonstra
aphro wrote: > What is the full output of X when you start it ? use startx >& X.log and > print the X.log to the list ..What version of X ? Dang. I knew I was leaving something out. Thanks for responding. I've had to leave the machine for the afternoon, but I can say that the X ver

Re: kernel compile and modules

1999-11-15 Thread J Horacio MG
El dom, 14 de nov de 1999, a las 03:58:58 -0800, aphro dijo: > > the only real benefit i can see to compiling sutff as modules is: > > 1) if you think you may need to unload it at some point this is what I actually thought... you can have the kernel compiled with lots of loadable modules just in

Re: umount

1999-11-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Dave" == Dave Wiard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> is there any way to force umount to unconditionally unmount a drive? one Dave> of my cd drives is constantly touted as 'busy' when i know there's zero Dave> activity, so it refuses to unmount and hence i cannot eject. any help Dave> woul

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

1999-11-15 Thread Joe Block
aphro wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Joe Block wrote: > > jpb >In fairness to Apple, it isn't their codec to give away. They license > jpb >the sorenson codec from Sorenson Vision (http://www.s-vision.com) who > jpb >are the ones not giving it away. It might be possible to talk the > jpb >s-vi

Re: New release over due

1999-11-15 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 11/15/99, John Hasler scribbled about "Re: New release over due": > We are required to build and test our packages for unstable. > > However, it is a myth that you must upgrade to unstable before installing > any packages anything from unstable. > I'm not opposed to running stable --- I'm doi

Re: g++ and libstdc++2.9 circular dependancy

1999-11-15 Thread Kevin M. McLin
dpkg -i foo bar seemed a little bit criptic to me. In case it was to you as well, you can just type dpkg -i g++*.deb libstdc++2.9-dev*.deb Both packages will be installed without any problem. I know this because I had the same question as you had, and this was the (successful) suggestion I was

Re: window managers

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, pplaw wrote: pplaw >debs, pplaw > pplaw >how do tell twm not to be my window manager when i type "startx"? edit ~/.xinitrc and change it, or if that file does not exist add a line: exec /path/to/your/favorite/wm or edit /etc/X11/window-managers and comment some out, change

Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
What is the full output of X when you start it ? use startx >& X.log and print the X.log to the list ..What version of X ? nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Joe Block wrote: jpb >In fairness to Apple, it isn't their codec to give away. They license jpb >the sorenson codec from Sorenson Vision (http://www.s-vision.com) who jpb >are the ones not giving it away. It might be possible to talk the jpb >s-vision folks into releasing a

window managers

1999-11-15 Thread pplaw
debs, how do i prevent twm from automatically being my window manager when i type "startx"? ia,t. bentley taylor. // "do things well!" "do them with heart!"--linus torvalds, "Linux Journal," (11/1999). //

window managers

1999-11-15 Thread pplaw
debs, how do tell twm not to be my window manager when i type "startx"? ia,t. bentley taylor. // "do things well!" "do them with heart!"--linus torvalds, "Linux Journal," (11/1999). //

Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

1999-11-15 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi I have a Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro 8MB AGP, which I've generally been pretty happy with. But I've spent 6 MONTHS (on and off) trying to get the darn thing to give me 1600x1200. I can do it in WinNT, and the card and monitor are both able to take it (even should be able to handle

Re: cron messages

1999-11-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Ron> What does the following mean and how do I fix it?? Ron> /etc/cron.daily/cfengine: Ron> cf:mustang:/etc/cfengine/cfengine.conf:26: parse error Ron> cfengine:mustang::26: Warning: actionsequence is empty Ron> cfengine:mustang::26: Warning: perhaps cfengine.conf has not yet been Ron> set up? Ro

Re: g++ and libstdc++2.9 circular dependancy

1999-11-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Charles Kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am trying to install the version of g++ in stable, using > dpkg. g++ depends on libstdc++2.9-dev and libstdc++2.9-dev depends > on g++. dpkg will not allow the installation of > one without the other, as in catch-22. > Must the installation be force

g++ and libstdc++2.9 circular dependancy

1999-11-15 Thread Charles Kaufman
I am trying to install the version of g++ in stable, using dpkg. g++ depends on libstdc++2.9-dev and libstdc++2.9-dev depends on g++. dpkg will not allow the installation of one without the other, as in catch-22. Must the installation be forced? There is a bug report about a similar problem with

Re: Cannot print after kernel upgrade

1999-11-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Colin Marquardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > * George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I have used lpc to stop/restart my printer, but still I cannot print to > >> lp1, > >> even though magicfilter is set up for lp1. > > > Your ports might have gotten reversed ... change lp1 to lp0 an

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

1999-11-15 Thread Joe Block
aphro wrote: > one thing i would like to understand is what apple is doing by restricting > who uses their codec. i mean..how does it hurt them if other people use > it for decoding purposes? i can only imagine it helping the population In fairness to Apple, it isn't their codec to give away. Th

Xset and auto repeat

1999-11-15 Thread Kevin M. McLin
All this discussion of xlock and xset has put me in mind of a small annoyance I've been experiencing on both my systems (running slink). I like to have auto repeat on, so I have xset r on by default. However, when I lock the screen it tends to reset the auto repeat function to off. I just type

Re: Shuffling drives

1999-11-15 Thread William T Wilson
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote: > of uptime, you tend to suspect that dual-boot isn't needed) and considering > swapping the drives so the system is booting Linux from /dev/hda. Why do you want to do that? Just leave the kernel on /dev/hdb and use your new space on /dev/hda for home d

Auto blanking of xscreensaver

1999-11-15 Thread Kevin M. McLin
Have you tried playing with xset? There are some options in it that change the behavior of the screensaver. Specifically, there are blank, noblank and timeout options that control whether it goes blank, and if it does, how long before it to do so. cheers, --

RE: Auto blanking of xscreensaver

1999-11-15 Thread Paul McHale
You might try: setterm -blank 0 This works in text mode and may work with X since X runs on the term. This will prevent the screen from ever blanking ! paul -Original Message- From: Clyde Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 1:26 PM To: debian-user@lists.deb

Re: Auto blanking of xscreensaver

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Clyde Wilson wrote: clydew >Is there any way I could keep the screensaver running longer clydew >without the blanking? try xset s off i added that to my xdm startup scripts.. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Netwo

Re: the gimp?

1999-11-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 01:11:34PM -0500, Ian Stirling wrote: > "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote: > > > I think it is a bad idea to call it `debian gimp'. If you do that you > > suggest that debian has a heavily modified, enhanced version of gimp. > > If I were one of the gimp developers I wouldn't lik

Auto blanking of xscreensaver

1999-11-15 Thread Clyde Wilson
Hi all, I have xscreensaver and xlock installed on Slink. When I lock my screen, everything works fine for about 10 minutes and then my display goes blank. Is there any way I could keep the screensaver running longer without the blanking?

Re: the gimp?

1999-11-15 Thread Ian Stirling
"E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote: > I think it is a bad idea to call it `debian gimp'. If you do that you > suggest that debian has a heavily modified, enhanced version of gimp. > If I were one of the gimp developers I wouldn't like it if someone (say > Corel) would take it, remove some plugins, and th

Re: Cannot print after kernel upgrade

1999-11-15 Thread Colin Marquardt
* George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I have used lpc to stop/restart my printer, but still I cannot print to lp1, >> even though magicfilter is set up for lp1. > Your ports might have gotten reversed ... change lp1 to lp0 and see if it > starts working. I think the designation of the po

Re: X Window!!!

1999-11-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Dalbec ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I get the same message about the keyboard compiler but it is always followed > by "grep: /etc/X11/config: no such file or directory". I don't know why it > would be looking for this file. Is this supposed to be /etc/X11/XF86Config? No. config is where h

Re: /usr/src and file permissions

1999-11-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Michelle Konzack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > for an half hour I had done this with my Workstation and 700 MBytes... > (asked in [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > I have used this: > > mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt > cp -fpR /usr/src/* /mnt > umount /mnt > rm -fR /usr/src/* > rm -fR /usr/src/.* Isn't that one of

Re: Large disks

1999-11-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
It's packaged for potato so it would be easy to make a slink deb. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/ext2resize.html Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is also packaging GNU Parted which is at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted > ext2resize by Lennert Buytenhek. > http://freshmeat.net/appin

Re: Install woes: reset when configuring modules

1999-11-15 Thread Joey Hess
Drew Bell wrote: > Everything's peachy until I get to "Configure Device Driver Modules". The > second I press Enter to select this step (which is suggested as "Next"), > the system reboots. Every once in a while, I'll get something fun like > speedily-scrolling strings of numbers or a bus error.

Re: New release over due

1999-11-15 Thread John Hasler
Matthew Dalton writes: > You might ask "So why didn't the developer compile Slink deb's as well?". Because he would have to have a special Slink machine just for that, and because there is nowhere for him to upload a Slink package. > I suspect that developers like to have the latest libraries etc

Re: /usr/src and file permissions

1999-11-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting David J. Kanter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've created/moved my /usr/src to its own partition. However, I've noticed a > difference in the permissions between the old /usr/src (/usr/oldsrc) and the > new one, /usr/src. > > drwxrwsr-x4 root src 1024 Oct 16 00:18 oldsrc > drwxr

Install woes: reset when configuring modules

1999-11-15 Thread Drew Bell
I'm re-sending this issue with some details: I'm installing slink from CD on this system: -Pentium 60 -16MB RAM -hda: 3.2 GB -hdb: 540 MB -hdc: generic IDE CDROM -Aztech sound card -Intergraph Voodoo 2d/3d -3Com Etherlink III IDE NIC Everything's peachy until I get to "Configure Device Driver Mo

Re: Large disks

1999-11-15 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 07:47:43AM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > esper >Hadn't thought of that... Are there any reliable tools out there for > esper >resizing e2fs partitions? (I already gave it all of the space that > hadn't > esper >been claimed by my ro

Re: named (bind)

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Onno wrote: ebbin2 >Wouldn't: named -u named -g named ebbin2 >be sufficient ??? thats what i do, named -u named -g named -t /var/named Although i eagerly await a BIND update, i was much more fearful of exploits to my proftp daemon when the new security flaws were found(~augu

Re: the gimp?

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Ian Stirling wrote: debian >I like Debian's approach to distributing only gnu free debian >software. But taking out gif support in the gimp is debian >going too far IMHO. I prefer that the gimp is not debian >distributed with Debian if Debian can't leave debian >the gimp packa

Re: Large disks

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote: esper >Hadn't thought of that... Are there any reliable tools out there for esper >resizing e2fs partitions? (I already gave it all of the space that hadn't esper >been claimed by my root and swap partitions...) partition magic 4 and 5 .. v5 comes wit

Re: Shuffling drives

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote: esper >If I'm just changing the jumpers on the drives and not moving Linux to a esper >different physical drive, should I be OK with just updating LILO and fstab to esper >reflect the change? Or are there other places that will need to be updated esper

Re: New release over due

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Tim Webster wrote: tdwebs >I have continued to use debian despite the fact that it has grown extremely out date. tdwebs >However failing to release a mini potato at this time, has forced me to drop tdwebs >debian. i dont get what your so antsy about not upgrading. if there

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, James Pullman wrote: jpullm >It's very hard to tell people NOT to use a CODEC that's absolutely beautiful to behold. It looks better then MPEG (which is non-free anyway) and is a bootload smaller, better then AVI by a longshot, better then basically anything. And as far a

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >WPrefs, and I was able to save it. So, it would seem that this is a > >problem with the errno value that is set from fcntl when it tries to > >create a lock on an NFS mounted file. Can anybody more knowledgeable >

Re: /usr/src and file permissions

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: erbens > erbens >does anyone know the exact rational for the root.staff 2775 erbens >permissions on /usr/local? I suppose it could theoretically be used erbens >to allow a privileged user to do make installs on non packaged erbens >software and have it

Re: Idea to prevent those long package listing downloads...

1999-11-15 Thread robbie
Hi I think rsync would work well for this. No need to keep old versions arround for diffing. Rsync might also work for packages, if they were uncompressed. However that would either double the size of the archive, or load the servers too much. It might also be difficult to get all mirrors to provi

Re: Help with kernel log

1999-11-15 Thread Mark W. Eichin
> I'm connected with the cable modem. This thing is not coming from inside for O, you should have said that first. When a cablemodem powers up, it does a dhcp and net-boot; for diagnostic reasons, many of them seem to try the ethernet first, then the cable net. You might also be seeing boot

Re: Network sniffer

1999-11-15 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 10:43:46PM -0700, AzCaPpY wrote: > try Sniffit. I don't know if there is a Debian package for it but the > standard .tar.gz works great with Debian. there is: debian/dists/slink/non-free/binary-i386/admin/sniffit_0.3.5-3.deb for i386s. -- Weasel

Re: blackbox and blackbox-menu

1999-11-15 Thread Vesa Kaihlavirta
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 05:02:15PM -0500, debian mailing list wrote: > A few months ago (in the middle of test week, so I didn't get the chance to > ask then), I did an `apt-get dist-upgrade`, which installed version 0.51.3-1 > of blackbox on my potato system. A couple of days later, when I starte

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
Marco d'Itri said: > On Nov 13, Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >fcntl() locks don't work over NFS, unfortunately (well, I'm told they > They *do* work with 2.2 kernels. Any ideas what would cause them to not work with 2.2 kernels? I'm running 2.2.9 on both of the machines on my ne

SOLVED?: Re: ppp problem with 2.2.X kernel; ok with 2.0.36

1999-11-15 Thread mheyes
I had limited success improving the ppp performance (stalling after a very short transfer) by removing the call to bsd_comp.o in /lib/modules/2.2.13/net/modules.dep, so I tried the implied suggestion below: another ISP which, hopefully, didn't use Ascend routers using the "lame ... STAC/MS-STAC/L

Re: Network sniffer

1999-11-15 Thread Dan Everton
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 12:41:32PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a Debian net. sniffer. > A month ago, somebody demoed a Windows net. sniffer. If I'm not > mistaken, the name was "NeoSniffer". Is there anything like it for Deb. > Linux? If you want a nice friendly graphical sniff

Re: New release over due

1999-11-15 Thread matthschulz
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Matthew Dalton wrote: > George Bonser wrote: > > > > On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Tim Webster wrote: > > > > > I have continued to use debian despite the fact that it has grown > > > extremely out date. > > > However failing to release a mini potato at this time, has forced me to >

bid IDE disk corruption: linux started with old geometry and is now corrputed

1999-11-15 Thread Robert Rozman
Hello, I've installed Debianalready twice and then got clue, how to organize big disk (10 G) with windows and Debian. Installed debian with altered geometry at boot (linux hda=4912,63,64) like is written in debian FAQ. But then accidentally debian was newly booted without this parameters. When I

Re: New release over due...

1999-11-15 Thread chewie
I would argue that you CAN upgrade Debian from CD, it's just not as simple as the installation for Slink. In fact, my procedure involves Slink itself. 1) Install Debian Slink from floppy or CD. Do not use the computer "type" templates or dselect to choose your packages. Instead,

Serial Port Crashes (still)

1999-11-15 Thread Jeff Sciortino
I have had a persistent problem ever since I started using debian a few months ago. When I'm doing something with pppd up and moving data ... netscaping, ftping, lynxing, etc. the mouse locks up (well it doesn't stop entirely but acts like it is swamped. There is a long delay before mouse clicks

Re: New release over due

1999-11-15 Thread Urban Gabor
IMHO using linux gives you the opportunity to update only if you do want it. I am running hamm at home, slink in the office, and I am content with them. You can have the lates packages one-by one, but I guess it is very rare when you are forced really to upgrade. BTW people with slow TCP/IP conne

Xdselect?

1999-11-15 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Is there any X interface for dselect? -gnana

maillinglist news interface down?

1999-11-15 Thread Christoph Martin
Hi folks. Does anyone know what happended to the Debian list to news gateway. I did not get any knews from linux.debian.devel fro about a week. In linux.debian.user there were only a dozen in the last days, which seem to be come in over news directly and not via the mailling list. Is the gateway

Re: kernel compile and modules

1999-11-15 Thread Onno
At 01:27 AM 11/16/99 +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: Hi, I'm about to build a new kernel (2.2.10), and would like to go over the steps for compiling (not make kpkg) as I'm not sure about them: # make config (or menuconfig) # make mrproper # make menuconfig here I have a doubt about the options w

Xdselect?

1999-11-15 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Is there any X interface for dselect? -gnana

Xdselect?

1999-11-15 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Is there any X interface for dselect? -gnana

Re: Help with kernel log

1999-11-15 Thread Onno
If eth0 is your connection to the internet then your this looks like IP-spoofing or somebody on your eth0 segment is being attacked. You can block it with activating the kernels IP-spoof protection or with ipchains rules. If you can find out the MAC of the attacker you can report him to your ISP

Re: ALSA modules have unresolved symbols

1999-11-15 Thread Frank Barknecht
Alisdair McDiarmid hat gesagt: // Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > I'm trying to get my dodgy old ISA SB16 to work with ALSA instead > of OSS/Free, and having difficulty with the alsa-modules-2.2.13 > package. > > I have sound support built into my 2.2.13 kernel: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/doc/

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 13, Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >fcntl() locks don't work over NFS, unfortunately (well, I'm told they They *do* work with 2.2 kernels. -- ciao, Marco

Xemacs and browsing problem

1999-11-15 Thread virtanen
I'm having a problem with the emacs-W3 browser. When trying to start it is complaining: invalid regexp: "Invalid preceding regular expression" How do I fix this? What to do? While installing Xemacs (mule-canna-wnn) I didn't complain much... ___ hv [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 13, "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >WPrefs, and I was able to save it. So, it would seem that this is a >problem with the errno value that is set from fcntl when it tries to >create a lock on an NFS mounted file. Can anybody more knowledgeable You are using a 2.2 kernel

Re: printing problems

1999-11-15 Thread Jan Ludewig
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 02:10:39AM -0700, Sean McIlwain wrote: > I'm having problems using lpr on my system when I type > > >lpr test.txt > > I get the following > connection to 'localhost' failed - Connection refused > transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed 1) did you set up a loopback-device? (/

Re: Annoying Network card

1999-11-15 Thread Onno
The right driver should be the tulip driver. Be sure that the driver is compiled into the kernel or compiled as module, check it... If the drivers is compiled as module use root# modprobe tulip (or somthing) to install the driver. An entry in /etc/modules loads the module at boot. Last but not l

printing problems

1999-11-15 Thread Sean McIlwain
I'm having problems using lpr on my system when I type >lpr test.txt I get the following connection to 'localhost' failed - Connection refused transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed Any idea of what is happening here? I'm logged in as root and attempting to print to a serial printer.

Re: Core dumps & /proc/kcore

1999-11-15 Thread Onno
You have 128Mb of memory ;-) It maps your memory to that virtual file. It doen't take any space on your disk. Regards At 11:51 AM 11/13/99 -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: I'm trying to free up some disk space so hunted for core dumps. All I could find (find / -name "core" -xdev) was /proc/kcore,

Re: Network sniffer

1999-11-15 Thread RAVIKANT K RAO
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Oki DZ wrote: > AzCaPpY wrote: > > try Sniffit. I don't know if there is a Debian package for it but the > > standard .tar.gz works great with Debian. > > And where on earth can I get it...? But if it's the source code, I don't > have the compiler (not downloaded yet). Ge

Re: the gimp?

1999-11-15 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 02:08:57AM -0500, Ian Stirling wrote: > Brad wrote: > > > You do realize that if gif support were in the main gimp package, then > > the entire thing would have to go into nonfree, right? Since The Gimp is > > GPLed, Debian has every right to remove gif support and redistri

Re: named (bind)

1999-11-15 Thread Onno
Wouldn't: named -u named -g named be sufficient ??? Regards, Onno At 07:10 AM 11/12/99 -0800, aphro wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Marco Giardini wrote: marco > nobody has compiled and released the new named for slink bug free? marco >If yes, where is it available? marco >thanks setup a chroot'

Re: New release over due

1999-11-15 Thread Godric
> Neo-fandangled-SuperVision2000 video card which is not supported in > Debian Slink, so they opt to use RedHat 6.1 instead. This kind of thing > is increasinly giving the public the impression that Linux is indeed > forking and that "RedHat is better because it supports more hardware > than Debia

Re: the gimp?

1999-11-15 Thread Ian Stirling
Brad wrote: > You do realize that if gif support were in the main gimp package, then > the entire thing would have to go into nonfree, right? Since The Gimp is > GPLed, Debian has every right to remove gif support and redistribute those > sources to make the whole thing libre. If you really don't

Re: New release over due

1999-11-15 Thread Matthew Dalton
Godric wrote: > > Matthew Dalton wrote: > > > > > The problem is not that Debian itself is out of date. The problem is > > that you can't get an upgraded Debian on CD. Not everyone wants to > > download hundreds of megabytes over their 33.6kbps connection to upgrade > > their systems to the lates

Re: the gimp?

1999-11-15 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Ian Stirling wrote: > I like Debian's approach to distributing only gnu free > software. But taking out gif support in the gimp is > going too far IMHO. I prefer that the gimp is not > distributed with Debian if Debian can't leave > the gimp

Re: the gimp?

1999-11-15 Thread Ashley Clark
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Ian Stirling wrote: > I like Debian's approach to distributing only gnu free > software. But taking out gif support in the gimp is > going too far IMHO. You're more than welcome to install the gimp-nonfree package if you absolutely must have compressed gif support. > I prefer

Re: Network sniffer

1999-11-15 Thread AzCaPpY
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the gimp?

1999-11-15 Thread Ian Stirling
I like Debian's approach to distributing only gnu free software. But taking out gif support in the gimp is going too far IMHO. I prefer that the gimp is not distributed with Debian if Debian can't leave the gimp package intact. Ian Stirling

Re: Network sniffer

1999-11-15 Thread Oki DZ
AzCaPpY wrote: > > try Sniffit. I don't know if there is a Debian package for it but the > standard .tar.gz works great with Debian. And where on earth can I get it...? But if it's the source code, I don't have the compiler (not downloaded yet). Oki -- Shells Command shells. Friendly user

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