>
> Greetings,
>
>
> I am having a tough time getting netscape4 installed on debian.
>
> I downloaded the archive from the ftp2.netscape.com site and unzipped it
> in /tmp.
>
> However, I am very confused by the error message I get when I try apt-get
> install. It says that the netscape fil
Ahh! Good!
You've made me a very happy man today. I'll go home and put it in my
system tonight!
Now to see if it's compatible with the various other OS's installed on
that box!
Thanks for the heads-up!
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 02:30:46PM -0800, Bruce Mobarry wrote:
> Hi Nate,
>
> I have exact
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It appears as though squid.conf has to be world-readable.
>Is that in fact the case?
Well no, I don't think the squid config file needs to be world
readable. You might want to at least chgrp it to the "proxy" group
and give read
Well, I don't have that book but Lilo is intended to be used either way
- user's choice. I use it both ways on different machines without
problems. I don't know why Debian is singled out in the book as
something of a special case. Lilo is Lilo - it works the same on all
distributions.
Unless it h
It appears as though squid.conf has to be world-readable.
Is that in fact the case? It is true of Junkbuster, that the configs have to
be world-readable.
--
Andrew
-
GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681
*we all live downstream*
Vi scrivo da Palermo e sono interessato a Linuxppc
da montare su un IBM RS6000 modello 7248/100
visto che nel sito di linux.it dice che dovrebbe
supportarlo.
Potete gentilmente darmi delle indicazioni su come
o dove reperirlo?
Nel ringraziarvi anticipatamente per eventuale
risposta porgo
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My mirror of Jaldhar H. Vyas's unofficial Pine binary packages (including
pico and pilot) has been updated with Pine 4.21. These packages are not
apt-get-able at this point (though that may change), so you should go to
http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine/ to get
Hi Nate,
I have exactly this card in my computer. I first tried to get it
working under slink with Linux 2.0.36 compilied as a loadable module,
but failed. I compiled it (using the RTL8139 chipset driver from Donald
Becker) directly into a 2.2.13 kernel successfully and am running my SMC
EzCard
Greetings all,
Anyone else noticed that at times Communicator will just die silently while
minimized, leaving no error messages, etc? I usually have about 5 navigator
windows open to various sites and check and referesh them regularly
(I am using potato, XFree 3.3.5, and Kde 1.1.2), but sometimes
Package: login
Severity: important
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 04:06:27PM -0500, Salman Ahmed wrote:
>
> I commented out most lines from /etc/securetty so that root is only
> allowed to login from tty3. Now I see the following messages when root
> tries to login from any other terminals:
>
> Jan 3
> I finally broke down and decided to compile a 2.2.13 kernel despite
> the fact that my 2.0.36 kernel continues to work perfectly.
>
Just curious, why did you decide to `upgrade'? I'm trying to decide
whether I should do the same.
--
Matthew Roberts
> I have just recently upgraded from debian 2.1 to potato and I cannot send any
> email at all (either internal or external) i keep getting the following error
> message.
>
> 1999-12-21 14:34:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: procmail director deferred:
> file existence defer in procmail director: Permission
As to the modules:
# cd /usr/src/linux(or whatever the location of the kernel
source-tree is)
# make menuconfig
/* select some modules */
# make dep
# make clean (you might want to leave that out)
# make modules
# make modules_install
As to XNLSPATH I'm sorry, but I don't know about
Joey Hess wrote:
> I have just uploaded slrn 0.9.5.3-5 for stable, which fixes this bug. You
> can get it temporarily at ...
Er I meant to say at http://va.debian.org/~joeyh/slrn_0.9.5.3-5_i386.deb
> Pann, Jim please download that and let me know if it really fixes the problem.
--
see shy jo
I have just uploaded slrn 0.9.5.3-5 for stable, which fixes this bug. You
can get it temporarily at ...
Pann, Jim please download that and let me know if it really fixes the problem.
--
see shy jo
Brian Servis wrote:
> The bug by the way is the result of sloppy programming. There is a c
> library call that returns the year as the number of years from 1900,
> also used in perl's Time::Local. Authors were using that as the two
> digit year or just appending it to 19, so you are either seeing
Hi,
I've been using TeX at work for a few weeks now. Last week I got a
new computer and installed 2.1 on it (same as was on the old box). As far
as I can tell, I have all the appropriate tetex packages in place. TeX no
longer works, though. When I try to run tex on a .tex file, I get t
I have an internal modem(not sure what brand) that works fine, but i want
to switch to an external incase the modem needs a hard reset we dont have
to shut the machine down.
Its been sooo many years since i used an external modem so im kinda rusty.
sofar, i got it to communicate with the sportste
I had this exact problem. My solution, though not that elegant, did get
me back into the machine at the local console. I simply logged in and
removed xdm, which spit me to the normal login screen and I was able to
fix the problems that I was encountering (namely a problem with
sawmill). Hope thi
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 12:50:49PM +0100, Ulrich Hansmair wrote
> hi freaks,
>
> recently I´m using apt-get to install my potato. I think this way of
> distributing debian is a great step into future and perfectly combines the
> abilities of the internet and free software. Debian should go this w
I have exim v. 2.05-2 and cannot find the option to put in
/etc/exim.conf which will queue remote mail and send local mail
immediately. All I can find is the option for version 3.
Can anyone help?
Cheers.
--
Phillip Deackes
Brian Servis wrote:
> Since you did not get a suggestion about dpkg-dev I assume you are using
> a version prior to 6.26. Just to make sure, do you have dpkg-dev
> installed? In slink dpkg-dev was only a Recommends dependency for
> alien, in potato it is a Depends dependency.
Thanks Brian -- tha
Hello all,
I have had a Debian 2.1 setup running for several months as an AppleTalk
printer server. It has worked quite well until the last few days. Now
whenever I try to print from one of the Mac's on the network (or from a
linux machine through the AppleTalk network with 'pap'). I can still
On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 07:20:30PM -0600, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
> 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.
It doesnt work with the Slink PCMCIA utils as i not
I am doing my rewrites this way:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] "${if eq {$sender_address}{} [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Tt
And I don't have the problem (mail delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is ok)
Fetchmail works too.
I guess the b and c are for CC and BCC (need to look-up the d
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John> As you can guess I have never tried to recompile any debian
John> stuff from the sources so I need a little hand holding here.
No prob.
$ ls
mc_4.5.42-3.diff.gz mc_4.5.42-3.dsc mc_4.5.42.orig.tar.gz
$ dpkg-source -x mc_4.5.42-3.dsc
dpkg
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> John> Since I have all of these installed-- then I can recompile mc
> John> from the source code and it should be OK--is that correct??
>
> Yes. If you can get hold of the Debian sources for this version, you
>
anyone knows if this printer is supported under debian?
thanks, Paulo Henrique
I thought all you had to do was install (and configure)
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/web/php3_3.0.5-3.deb
to get php3 to work.
On the systems I've used it on, all I did was install it, uncomment the
php3 line from apaches config file, and edit the php3 config file so i
Hello Debian.
I wonder if you could help me with a little problem.
my system is ATARI TT030
4MB ST RAM
AIXBOARD 32MB OR 64MB (PROBLEM AREA)
What I find is that I can use the 32MB but not 64MB with Linux 2.0.36
version. I have noted from an artic
If I may I will give some excerpts of "Running Linux"
This is from the /etc/lilo.conf section of the book:
... If you give a partitiondevice name (such as /dev/hda2) instead of a
drive device, LILO will be installed as a secondary boot loader on the named
partition. (Debian users should always d
I'm gonna be downloading the sources for apache and
php3, so that I can compile apache with support for
php3. I currently have apache installed (from slink
.deb) on the machine. What's the best way to go
about this change? I don't want my new installation
of apache to conflict with the current i
-
Please reply to debian-user@lists.debian.org
or directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-
Hello,
I want to upgrade my Debian Linux Box from slink to potato. I have got a
4-CD copy of the potato system
> > 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 kill a running process.
> >
Where can I find the include files mat.h and confdefs.h for compiling
adjtimex v1.8? Tnx. Little bit of Y2K problem here. -john way
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> John> Since I have all of these installed-- then I can recompile mc
> John> from the source code and it should be OK--is that correct??
>
> Yes. If you can get hold of the Debian sources for this version, you
>
Hi there,
I configured demand dialing with diald on my machine. Now my modem dials every
five minutes without reason. I increased logging but could not find a hint why.
Does anyone know how to find the event that wants a connection ?
Another question:
When I run "route" my modem dials, but the co
Hi there,
exim works fine with me, but produced one silly "bug" because of low -level
configuration. I wanted to replace my loginname with my original email-adress,
so that my ISP will accept the sender adress as correct. Therefore I created a
mail-address file and put the following into the rewri
I'm trying to get quake 2 to install. However there seems to be some packages
missing.
When I try to install quake2-bin, I get the following messages:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution
Hi, guys,
When I booted today, wdm didn't come up. I tried starting it manyally,
and it says
,
| (**) SVGA: chipset: RIVA 128
| (**) SVGA: videoram: 4064k
|
| (**) SVGA: 24bpp not supported for this chipset
|
| *** A configured device found, but display modes could not be resolved
| ***
`---
I had difficulty logging in when i upgraded to potato as wellreasoning
behind this, my "qwerty" keyboard map had been changed to an "azerty"
keyboard map (not sure why), all he has to do to fix this(if this is it)
is run kbdconfig.to check and see if this is the problem typ 'qwerty'
at the
On 3/1/2000 Brian Servis wrote:
I don't see why not. hwclock lives in the /sbin directory so it will
be on the root partition along with /lib, so it should be able to run
before the rest of the filesystem is mounted in the S35mountall.sh
script.
But for some reason I feel like I am missing so
*- On 2 Jan, John Dalbec wrote about "Re: Wrong timestamp on modules.dep"
>>*- On 2 Jan, John Dalbec wrote about "Wrong timestamp on modules.dep"
>>> My Hardware Clock is set to local time to keep another OS happy.
>>> /etc/rcS.d has
>>> S20modutils
>>> S50hwclock.sh
>>> (among others)
>>> so mod
I have the above card, and I know it works. For the life of me I can't get
it to accept the values. I had it working before, and my drive went
kablooie so I forgot how I set it up.
Does anyone have this card with some tips? Should I post my isapnp.conf and
my /etc/modules/alsa file for inspecti
On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote:
> I installed enlightenment but when I try to run a program I get the error
>
> "There was an error running the program:
> eeyes
> THis program could not be executed.
> this is most probably because this program is not in the path for your
> shell
> Sounds good, but it won't install. Seems that debhelper has to be
> upgraded as well and 'that' seems to require the perl upgrade.
> Depbelper fails with
> DH_VERSION=10 perl -MTest::Harness -e 'runtests grep { ! /CVS/ }
[...]
I had this problem as well, but the answer I got from the -devel-L
Greetings:
I installed slink on a friend's machine a little while back. I recently got
a email from him saying that he moved to potato and now he can log in
through telnet but not at his own keyboard. He was asking me how to fix it,
and if he couldn't log in at all I would have some suggestions,
On 3/1/2000 Joseph de los Santos wrote:
I installed enlightenment but when I try to run a program I get the error
"There was an error running the program:
eeyes
THis program could not be executed.
this is most probably because this program is not in the path for
your shell which is /bin/bash.
Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is it possible via some configuration to get the mouse to have a trail
> in X? It makes it nice to spot the cursor after your eyes have lost
> focus of it.
xeyes is good for you. I used to have a crontab line reading
0 3 * * * xeyes [arguments I forgo
Thanks...but obviously I don't want the defaults but I also don't want to write
the whole thing from scratch...mainly interested in pruning headers in rmail.
I'll post to the emacs newsgroup you suggested.
Regards,
Patrick
I installed enlightenment but when I try to run a program I get the error
"There was an error running the program:
eeyes
THis program could not be executed.
this is most probably because this program is not in the path for your
shell which is /bin/bash. I suggest you read the manual page for th
It's no consolation, but I got framebuffer support to work fine in
2.2.13. Did you read the framebuffer documentation included with the
sources? Perhaps something missing in the configuration?
--
++
| Eric G. Milleregm2@
Hello:
I'm trying to recompile Linux kernel 2.2.13 to remove the stuff I don't
need and include frame buffer support (it's a waste to use 80x24 on a
big monitor!).
Anyway, I untar'ed the archive in /usr/src, did my configuration, then
from /usr/src/linux did "make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.1 kern
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> If you do a apt-get upgrade, you may find that the mlock package is held
> back. This is a new package that libc-client depends upon. Pine in turn
> depends on libc-client. Do *not* upgrade mlock at this time. If
Thanks to all those who reply!
(Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The email address in the From field is
false!)
Although I can use Win95 to connect to the ISP, I can't use PAP to connect
to ISP in Debian 2.0. I remember i connected to ISP in Debian 1.2. I'sure
that ISP's PPP is working.
Below i
>*- On 2 Jan, John Dalbec wrote about "Wrong timestamp on modules.dep"
>> My Hardware Clock is set to local time to keep another OS happy.
>> /etc/rcS.d has
>> S20modutils
>> S50hwclock.sh
>> (among others)
>> so modules.dep is timestamped as though the Hardware Clock were set to GMT.
>> I have ke
setterm -reset
Didn't work, as I mentioned its confined to emacs, the rest of the
console is fine...
Ethan
If you do a apt-get upgrade, you may find that the mlock package is held
back. This is a new package that libc-client depends upon. Pine in turn
depends on libc-client. Do *not* upgrade mlock at this time. If you do,
pine might get removed. Today I will be sending an updated pine package
to Na
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 05:57:18PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> hi,
>
> after running a dist-upgrade on my potato system today emacs (in
> console) started displaying a big fat ugly blinking block cursor
> instead of the regular `_' that the rest of the console has..
>
> what caused this and ho
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 22:09, Colin Watson wrote:
> Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Here is my $HOME/.jnewsrc.time:
> >
> >NEWGROUPS 1000102 173956 GMT
> >
> >Looks like there's a 100 where a 2000 ought to be.
>
> See:
>
> http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=53811
Thank
hi,
after running a dist-upgrade on my potato system today emacs (in
console) started displaying a big fat ugly blinking block cursor
instead of the regular `_' that the rest of the console has..
what caused this and how do I fix it? the rest of the console is as
it always was. I thought it
Li Wei wrote:
>
> I have Debian 2.0. I made a connection by pppconfig but can't hookup to ISP
> by pon. Below is part of /var/log/ppp.log:
>
> ...
> Jan 1 05:33:25 debian pppd[496]: Serial connection established.
> Jan 1 05:33:34 debian pppd[496]: Using interface ppp0
> Jan 1 05:33:34 debian p
I can't remember where I read it, but I read that, in reference to
potato, to keep an installation up-to-date one should run apt-get
with the upgrade option and with the dist-upgrade option. Is this
true? I ran apt-get dist-upgrade when I moved from slink to potato,
but since, I've just used the up
I need to get my printer online pretty quick. I just installed lprng
and magicfilter. I have an HP882c on /dev/lp0.
Can anyone send me an example printcap and any config files I need?
If I use my existing printcap and do an "lpq" it just hangs. Printing
does the same.
Robert
:wq!
---
Subject: Re: Y2K problem with slrn?
Date: Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 05:49:36PM -0500
In reply to:Brian Servis
Quoting Brian Servis([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>| *- On 2 Jan, Colin Watson wrote about "Re: Y2K problem with slrn?"
>| > Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>| >>Here is my $H
Is it possible via some configuration to get the mouse to have a trail
in X? It makes it nice to spot the cursor after your eyes have lost
focus of it.
Thanks,
Brian Servis
--
Mechanical Engineering | Never
Anyone had any luck getting the SMC EzCard 10/100 to work under potato?
I have two of them here (one's still new in the box) that I'd like to
use for various things, but my initial attempts at getting it running
under slink were poor. That's why one of them is still in the box! :)
The actual mode
yes it would see the new CPU, i have read nightmare tales about people
having to reinstall NT after adding a second cpu if they were not using
compaq hardware, with linux its as simple as recompiling the kernel to get
the 2nd cpu working. some distributions already come with SMP kernels and
work fi
> "O" == Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
O> On 31 Dec 1999, Scott Henry wrote:
>> Not those specific machines.
O> SGI?
Yes, I work for SGI, but not speaking for SGI...
O> Problem is, the machine is currently running on a single-processor, and
O> I'd like to know whether if I add a new p
*- On 2 Jan, George Bonser wrote about "Re: rdate fails Y2K"
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Nate Duehr wrote:
>
>> That's pretty funny, if you think about it. The National Institute of
>> Standards is either breaking a standard themselves, or isn't Y2K compliant.
>>
>> HA! That's great!
>>
>
> Someon
Here I use gdm which has options at login for using gnome-session, the
"standard" Debian startup, .xsession and something else. Makes it easy to
tinker with them. Just pick "xsession" as your startup method and voila.
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 09:08:58AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I ha
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> Thanks! But this is what I got when I tried the script:
> $ chmod +x mail-to-mail
> $ mail-to-mail RMAIL Archives
> bash: mail-to-mail: command not found
>
> Did I do something wrong?
> PS - do you know a URL on how to use rmail?
Hi Patrick
I think yo
"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 03:45:30AM +, Paul J. Keenan wrote:
> > To permanently turn on pentium optimizations, change
> > your /usr/lib/gcc-lib/2.92.2/specs (or similar) from
> >
> > *cc1:
> > %(cc1_cpu) %{profile:-p}
> >
> > *cc1:
> > %(cc1_cpu) %{profile:-
On 31 Dec 1999, Scott Henry wrote:
> Not those specific machines.
SGI?
>
> There are separate kernels for one CPU and multiple CPUs (aka SMP).
> You need a whole new kernel, since the changes are intrusive and
> wide-spread. But it's done with a single sleection in `make
> menuconfig`, the fir
I have Debian 2.0. I made a connection by pppconfig but can't hookup to ISP
by pon. Below is part of /var/log/ppp.log:
...
Jan 1 05:33:25 debian pppd[496]: Serial connection established.
Jan 1 05:33:34 debian pppd[496]: Using interface ppp0
Jan 1 05:33:34 debian pppd[496]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /d
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