Re: Dialup to DSL

Tom Malloy wrote: > > In a view days I will be switching from a dialup system to dsl. > What changes and additions do I need to make to my debian system? > Thanks No changes or additions are generally necessary. You need to configure an ethernet interface and set-up your DSL router. Peruse the i

Re: Netscape

"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > Well, since I posted that "I don't think that's correct" bit. I'll > clarify for you. I wasn't referring to the how of installing Netscape, I > was referring to the statement that Netscapes license prohibits Debian's > distribution of the binary. I thought I made it cl

problems compiling CIPEd

Hello! I have just downloaded linux kernel 2.2.13 and applied the international patch (2.2.13-3) in order to use ciped to join my house's intranet with my sister in law intranet. When i tried to compile it as a module, make just ignored the whole directory not compiling anything nor making

Re: Info sources for Programming

On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 12:18:06PM -0600, Cliff Rice wrote: > I'm fairly new to the Linux scene and have found a nifty program > on the net I'd like to build called "GRASS". I'm running potato > with a kernel of 2.2.12 and have what I think is all of the > programming libraries and such. However

Re: local mirror of potato?

Robert L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > care if I mirror certain things. Where, how would I mirror a potato > site so I can tar the files up, put em on a few zip disks to take > home and un-tar to do an dist-upgrade? Anyone doing this? Can you You can use the programm mirror which you c

Re: gnome-session

On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 11:56:32AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > Well I figured out nhow to start gnome session. > It brings up enlightenment and gnome. > The problem is everything is so slow. > > Has anyone else seen this problem. Check the Enlightentment FAQs on the subject. It's a know

Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

I believe icewm-gnome "knows" when it's running under gnome session management and automatically hides the taskbar. It's assumed that you'd be using "panel". You can disable this behaviour in ~/.icewm/preferences but when I did so, the side effects were undesirable. Personally, when I use IceWM

Re: Netscape

Well, since I posted that "I don't think that's correct" bit. I'll clarify for you. I wasn't referring to the how of installing Netscape, I was referring to the statement that Netscapes license prohibits Debian's distribution of the binary. I thought I made it clear that with the Debian binary you

Re: vi linewrap question

On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 09:24:34AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Like the man says - or else, rather than hacking your ~/.muttrc, do as I > do and take advantage of vim's ability to recognize filetypes. Put the > following in your ~/.vimrc: > > syntax on > > augroup myauto > au! > au F

local mirror of potato?

Ok, I tried to do the update to potato on my box, but 1.5days download was a bit much. I have access to a solaris box at work with a nice highspeed connection. As long as I don't hammer it durring the day, they don't care if I mirror certain things. Where, how would I mirror a potato site so

Dialup to DSL

In a view days I will be switching from a dialup system to dsl. What changes and additions do I need to make to my debian system? Thanks

Re: Login to X Windows System

On 1/1/2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However when I'm in X and choose the exit option I just get an X-Windows log-in prompt again and the only way of re-booting is then as far as I can tell a cold-boot which forces a check of the drive each time which obviously slows things down a tad. I know th

Re: Netscape

Bart Szyszka wrote: > > > There is more than one route to installing Netscape/Communicator. I was > > simply trying to state that the method hypnos had described (Using > > 'netscape4', preferably after reading the directions, say under > > 'dselect') was in fact one of the *correct* ways of doin

Problem with ZAngband

Is anyone else having this problem with the latest zangband from potato, or is it just my computer? Here's what I do to get this problem: Start up a new game of zangband Choose a sex (doesn't matter which) Pick a half-ogre High-mage Any realm Nothing special for the min stats Default number of que

Re: Info sources for Programming

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cliff Rice) wrote: >I'm fairly new to the Linux scene and have found a nifty program >on the net I'd like to build called "GRASS". I'm running potato >with a kernel of 2.2.12 and have what I think is all of the >programming libraries and such. However when I did a build on >GRA

Re: where is /dev/mouse???

On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 01:18:30PM -0500, Kris Prieb wrote: > Here is my problem. I have just finished installing Debian/GNU Linux > 2.1 on my Pentium II machine and have begun to install and configure > X. When I try to execute 'startx' I get the error output listed > below. It appears that 's

Info sources for Programming

I'm fairly new to the Linux scene and have found a nifty program on the net I'd like to build called "GRASS". I'm running potato with a kernel of 2.2.12 and have what I think is all of the programming libraries and such. However when I did a build on GRASS 4.3 , I got the following at link time.

sound

Hi, I have previously used redhat and sound config was easy with their tool. Will i have to rebuild the kernel to get sound with debian? Thanks Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netscape

> There is more than one route to installing Netscape/Communicator. I was > simply trying to state that the method hypnos had described (Using > 'netscape4', preferably after reading the directions, say under > 'dselect') was in fact one of the *correct* ways of doing so because > someone stated t

Re: where is /dev/mouse???

> Kris Prieb wrote: > > Here is my problem. I have just finished installing Debian/GNU Linux > 2.1 on my Pentium II machine and have begun to install and configure > X. When I try to execute 'startx' I get the error output listed > below. It appears that 'startx' requires the device file > '/de

Re: where is /dev/mouse???

*- On 1 Jan, Kris Prieb wrote about "where is /dev/mouse???" > Here is my problem. I have just finished installing Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 on > my Pentium II machine and have begun to install and configure X. When I try > to execute 'startx' I get the error output listed below. It appears that

Re: where is /dev/mouse???

what you need to do is #ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse this is assuming your mouse is a ps2 mouse -- Nathan York [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Kris Prieb wrote: > Here is my problem. I have just finished installing Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 on my Pentium II machine and have begun to install an

Re: where is /dev/mouse???

I am a newcomer to this but have been through a successful install recently and can offer the following as advice. When you installed Debian you should have at some point been offered a list of driver options. I have a PS2 mouse and when I went through i chose a PS/2 mouse driver and my mouse g

rdate fails Y2K

I get exactly the same error from time.nist.gov, but: debian# rdate ntp2.usno.navy.mil Sat Jan 1 10:45:27 2000 works exactly as before. Looks like it's a problem specific to the server time.nist.gov. Jim

Re: where is /dev/mouse???

On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 01:18:30PM -0500, Kris Prieb wrote: > Here is my problem. Another problem: your PC thinks it's 1999. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con's Science and Technology Guest of Honor in 2000 will be Geoffrey A. Landis. See for I-Con infor

small problem with ndc restart

I just found that I can start (/etc/init.d/bind start) BIND as user named but if I restart BIND with the command 'ndc restart', the nameserver runs as the root user. I can't figure out how to modify the restart script the same way I did with the start script. Is the only solution to remove the "r

where is /dev/mouse???

Here is my problem.  I have just finished installing Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 on my Pentium II machine and have begun to install and configure X.  When I try to execute 'startx' I get the error output listed below.  It appears that 'startx' requires the device file '/dev/mouse'  I think this fil

Re: can someone pls. provide me a list of URI's for apt to work properly

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote: >Can someone please provide me a list of URI's to add to my sources.list > for apt to work properly for slink/stable (main, contrib,non-free and > non-us) because I am always having malformed errors whenever I try to > install packages from th

apsfilter

Hi, I have read all the docs and cannot figure out how to rerun the apsfilter install script. Does anyone know where this is located. Thanks Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Login to X Windows System

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My login now gets me in fine and X Windows is working splendidly and I'm very > impressed. Love the xfishtank program :) Perhaps there was something wrong > with what I typed in or maybe it just needed a re-boot to sort itself out. > > one other niggling issue. > > M

Re: Netscape

Bart Szyszka wrote: > > > What hypnos wrote is correct. The Debian Netscape installer is called > > 'netscape4' you do install the tar ball while in /tmp. > Hmm... I think it's the netscape package that I used and I didn't need to > put any tarballs anywhere. This was for Netscape 4.61. And for >

Re: rdate fails Y2K?

On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 09:14, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 11:51, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 08:35:10AM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > > # rdate -p time.nist.gov > > > rdate: Could not read data: No such file or directory > > > > After looking at the source, i

Re: Login to X Windows System

My login now gets me in fine and X Windows is working splendidly and I'm very impressed. Love the xfishtank program :) Perhaps there was something wrong with what I typed in or maybe it just needed a re-boot to sort itself out. one other niggling issue. My install now automatically loads the X-

[O.T.] Architectures

Hi, I'm interested in the pros and cons of various hardware platforms for my next home system. I certainly don't want to start a flame war, URL's would be great. This box will be connected to the internet via ISDN or cable "modem" It will serve as gateway/proxy server for two other boxen (one

Re: rdate fails Y2K?

On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 11:51, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 08:35:10AM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > # ping time.nist.gov > > PING time.nist.gov (192.43.244.18): 56 data bytes > > 64 bytes from 192.43.244.18: icmp_seq=0 ttl=47 time=85.3 ms > > 64 bytes from 192.43.244.18: icmp_seq=

Re: rdate fails Y2K?

On 01-Jan-2000 Ben Collins wrote: > After looking at the source, it seems that either time.nist.gov was > returning too much data, or none at all. Note, this worked when I used my > ISP's local Solaris time server, so this isn't a problem in rdate itself, > it has something to do with the time.nis

Re: webmin alternative?

Linuxconf is available in potato with console (text) and X11 gui Sven So there's no web frontend for it available in debian as yet? what i'm really looking for is something to make remote user configuration simple and graphical for clients rather than teaching them how to telnet and aquire root

RE: rdate fails Y2K?

On 01-Jan-2000 Pann McCuaig wrote: ># ping time.nist.gov > PING time.nist.gov (192.43.244.18): 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from 192.43.244.18: icmp_seq=0 ttl=47 time=85.3 ms > 64 bytes from 192.43.244.18: icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=92.2 ms > > --- time.nist.gov ping statistics --- > 2 packets transmitte

Re: webmin alternative?

aphro wrote: > you may want to look into linuxconf. according to freshmeat it is GPL and > last i tried it(~2 years ago) it had a web tool.. it did not however come > with a config for debian BUT i saw somewhere that there was a .deb for it > somewhere just waiting to be tweaked for debian.. > >

Re: rdate fails Y2K?

On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 08:35:10AM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote: > # ping time.nist.gov > PING time.nist.gov (192.43.244.18): 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from 192.43.244.18: icmp_seq=0 ttl=47 time=85.3 ms > 64 bytes from 192.43.244.18: icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=92.2 ms > > --- time.nist.gov ping statistics

gnome-session

Hi, Well I figured out nhow to start gnome session. It brings up enlightenment and gnome. The problem is everything is so slow. Has anyone else seen this problem. Thanks Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netscape

> What hypnos wrote is correct. The Debian Netscape installer is called > 'netscape4' you do install the tar ball while in /tmp. Hmm... I think it's the netscape package that I used and I didn't need to put any tarballs anywhere. This was for Netscape 4.61. And for Netscape Communicator, I jus

rdate fails Y2K?

# ping time.nist.gov PING time.nist.gov (192.43.244.18): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.43.244.18: icmp_seq=0 ttl=47 time=85.3 ms 64 bytes from 192.43.244.18: icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=92.2 ms --- time.nist.gov ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip

gnome-session

Hi, When i used redhat I would just run gnome-session and this would give me a combo of enlightenment and gnome. Can i do this with debian. i just upgraded to potato. I would appreciate some suggestions. Thanks Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

can someone pls. provide me a list of URI's for apt to work properly

Happy New Year to All!!! Can someone please provide me a list of URI's to add to my sources.list for apt to work properly for slink/stable (main, contrib,non-free and non-us) because I am always having malformed errors whenever I try to install packages from the web. Thanks and Have a Nice

Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John> 1. It uninstalled my console version of Midnight Commander. I John> reinstalled it again using apt and now my mouse will not work in John> mc. Does dpkg -s mc show a dependancy on libgpm* ? John> 2. The taskbar in icewm-gnome (my personal

Re: Netscape

"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 11:01:05PM +, hypnos wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Don Cavaiani wrote: > > > > > To get Netscape to work on X, must I download a part of it directly from > > > the Netscape web site? > > > > something about netscape's licensing (i think) >

Re: vi linewrap question (fwd)

On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 02:54:24PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > Okay, I'm fairly new to vi after living in a uMacs/Emacs world for a > number of years... > > When using vi with mutt for mail, I have to type carriage returns > manually to avoid linewrap. Is there any way to teach vi to linewrap > at

Re: where I can find chkconfig

On 31/12/1999 dinakar desai wrote: Where I can find package chkconfig. I was installing manually apache and mysql and instructions asked to use chkconfig and i can find this package on debian. I really appreciate your help in this regard it is not available in Debian, use update-rc.d instead

Re: CTRL-C Doesn't work??!! ....

Kevin Traas wrote: >Greetings, >I've got a system here that I've been building from scratch - just to >***learn*** how Debian / Linux works from the ground up (right from >building my own boot disk - initrd, etc.). I've got everything working >great; however Hitting CTRL-C does not

Re: Xircom RealPort Ethernet/Modem on Debian

Hi, Yes, I've got one of those babies running in my Sony VAIO F-270. :-) It was automatically detected and both interfaces are working fine (although I haven't tried using them both at the same time which is supposed to be possible). What's your problem with it? Thanks, Ardo "Bryan K. Walton" <

Re: BIND security question

On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, hypnos wrote: hypnos >how does this work? because only superuser can hypnos >bind to privileged ports (<1024) right? so does hypnos >named start as root, then switch to the user hypnos >specified? hypnos > hypnos >i may look into changing my named to run as hypnos >other than

Re: y2k

sorry another 48 years till y2k ;) nate On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Patrick Kirk wrote: patric >Happy GNU Millennium all! patric > patric > patric > patric >-- patric >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null patric > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Proposal: Source file package format (summary)

something i'd really like is web integration with the package management, its really cool to be able to click on a tardist file (IRIX package format) and have it launch the software manager (X based) and prompt to setup/install the package. i read i think on linux.com on how to add this functional

Re: Proposal: Source file package format

On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Fish Smith wrote: dyson_ >>There are two really horrible things about Debian, dyson_ >>though. 1) The dyson_ >>dselect dyson_ >>package handler. I'm speaking from Debian 2.1 here. dyson_ >>It has a very dyson_ >>primitive interface and is incredibly tedious. Maybe dyson_ >>the

character mangling

Why are certain characters mangled when i cut and paste ie from netscape into gnotepad as follows dm-moribund][.zip becomes dm-moribund%5D%5B.zip ive noticed this before just wondering if i need to modify a setting somewhere Cheers PS Happy NewYears to all >;0)

Re: vi linewrap question

egm2@jps.net (Eric G . Miller) wrote: >On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 02:54:24PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: >> Okay, I'm fairly new to vi after living in a uMacs/Emacs world for a >> number of years... >> >> When using vi with mutt for mail, I have to type carriage returns >> manually to avoid linewrap. I

Re: Login to X Windows System

Still, questions about your hands, which might one day hold *my* Myst book, are unsettling to me: > I have just installed the X Windows system under Debian 2.1 (slink). > Unfortunately the system won't let me past the log-in prompt. I have tried > the details for the root account and also for a us

Re: Xircom RealPort Ethernet/Modem on Debian

Still, questions about Brian K. Walton's hands, which might one day hold *my* Myst book, are unsettling to me: > Hi everybody, Has anyone got these new Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100+Modem > 56 PCMCIA cards to run on Debian? If anybody has any ideas, I would be most > appreciative. I have Xircom

Re: What are glibc2.X, libc5 and 6?

On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 03:33:24PM +1100, Peter Ross wrote: > The libc development forked early on in the linux development, as GNU > libc wasn't useable on linux systems. This was rectified in glibc 2.0, > however the linux libc was up to v5, so glibc is sometimes called libc6. > > You will find

gnome-terminal error

i just re-initialized my system today, and upgraded to potato in the process. this time around, gnome-terminal is giving me an error as a normal user, but works fine as root: If you are using Linux 2.2.x with glibc 2.1.x, this is probably due to incorrectly setup Unix98 ptys. has anyone else had

problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

I recently upgraded fron the standard Slink installation to the October Gnome version of all of the Gnome apps. Two wierd things happened. 1. It uninstalled my console version of Midnight Commander. I reinstalled it again using apt and now my mouse will not work in mc. 2. The taskbar in icewm-gnom

Re: laptop with PCMCIA

On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Alejandro Flores Jimenez wrote: > Does anyone know how to install debian 2.13 on a laptop where > the CDROM is connected only via PCMCIA card? > Simple enough- boot from floppy, install kernel and drivers from floppy images, and then you should be able top install modules for

Re: need XF86Config for ThinkPad 560

Pollywog wrote: > > I can't seem to cook up a working XF86Config for my ThinkPad 560 this time > around. > > On prior installs, the Debian install seemed to do this for me but it did not > happen this time and without the specs, I can't seem to be able to do it. > > Does anyone have a working co

Re: Proposal: Source file package format (summary)

On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 06:36:43PM -0500, Paul M. Foster wrote: > Here's another gripe about dselect. When I install, dselect asks me for > the root directory on the CD-ROM. How the hell do I know? The nice part about it (without having looked at the code, only the user interface) is that it a

Re: Dialout group

Dwayne C . Litzenberger writes: > Personally, I use sudo for pon. That way, I can not only control who can > control my PPP interface, but I can control what they can do with them. > (ie. cli parameters) Do you know that many pppd options cannot be given on the command line by non-root users? --

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

> "Arcady" == Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Arcady> Yes, I did that. However, when I select "Install", I still Arcady> get the same thing: What does dpkg -l and/or apt-get install do? where is one that is installed, and selected to be installed, but apt-get is tryi

need XF86Config for ThinkPad 560

I can't seem to cook up a working XF86Config for my ThinkPad 560 this time around. On prior installs, the Debian install seemed to do this for me but it did not happen this time and without the specs, I can't seem to be able to do it. Does anyone have a working config they would share? thanks -

Xircom RealPort Ethernet/Modem on Debian

Hi everybody, Has anyone got these new Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56 PCMCIA cards to run on Debian? If anybody has any ideas, I would be most appreciative. Thanks, Bryan Walton

Re: Quake1 included now that GPLed?

On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 05:23:58PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 23 Dec, Harlan Crystal wrote about "Quake1 included now that GPLed?" > > Hello. > > > > > > Quake1 was recently GPLed. > > > > Does that make it a candidate to become a debian package > > for the games section? It would be a

Re: /dev/fd0: Input/output error (making base disks)

On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 07:53:11PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > > Hello: > > I'm trying to make the "base" disks to do a potato install. > > When I do a "dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0," I get the following: > > dd: /dev/fd0: Input/output error > 1113+0 records in > 1112+0 records out > > And again

Re: Dialout group

On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 11:32:48AM -0500, David S. Jackson wrote: > Hi, > > I've added myself to the dialout group, but I still get a "permission > denied" when I try to run /usr/bin/pon (which works fine when I'm > root, btw). What am I forgetting? I want to be able to run this as > a user. >

y2k

Happy GNU Millennium all!

Re: Acer machines

> "O" == Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: O> I'd like to know whether you have experiences with installing Debian on O> dual-cpu Acer machines; AcerAltos or AcerFrame. Not those specific machines. O> How does Linux recognize that a particular machine has more than one CPU; O> is it done v

System hangs while using vcstime

I have not submitted this as a bug, because I'm not yet sure what's going on. But I figured I'd post this to see if anyone has had similar experience, or has any ideas. Earlier today, as root, I ran `vcstime'. This program causes the time of day to appear in the corner of all the text-mode conso

Re: Netscape

On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 11:01:05PM +, hypnos wrote: > On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Don Cavaiani wrote: > > > To get Netscape to work on X, must I download a part of it directly from > > the Netscape web site? > > something about netscape's licensing (i think) > prohibits it from being distributed wit