Re: Net install of potato, problems with lynx.

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:04:30PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Guess I'm a tester. debian-testing or debian-boot mailing lists might be more appropriate. > Almost every went well...except lynx. > > .. dpkg error processing lynx > subproc post - install script returned error exit status

Hard disk forces BIOS upgrade - but can I use it safely before upgrading ?

Hi, I've made do with a 1.2Gb HD, housing 500Mb of Win95 (boo, hiss!) and 700Mb of debian + swap for a few years now, and recently it's been a whole load of no fun juggling everything. So I've bought a new hard disk (Maxtor DiamondMax VL20 10.2Gb UDMA66), but have discovered that my Award BIOS wi

APT with partial set of files

I have downloaded a bunch of the .deb's for potato, preserving the directory structure. I also got the Packages files I assumed when I did this that apt would not care if some .deb files were missing, and would simply look at other sources for them. Is that correct? I also assumed that with CD's

Re: Net install of potato, problems with lynx.

Hi, I got that error and found that there is a problem between debconf and the lynx package. When the debconf priority is set to high, the installation script breaks. Set debconf priority to low, answer the installation questions and everything should be allright. Bye Cesar Mendoza http://www.ki

Help - efax and USR Sportster

I am having trouble getting my USR fax modem to work with efax. The output from trying to send a simple one page fax is below and the log file is attached. Does anyone recognize anything obviously wrong? Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Cheers, Colin. telmer:~$ fax send 7827136 letter.001

Re: (off topic) WindowMaker Themes

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 08:18:14AM -0800, Dave Wiard wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 07:26:07PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > > Hey Everybody, > > > > > > I just started using Window Maker, and I was wondering if anyone knew > > > where > > > (or how) I could find out how to make Themes f

Re: sawmill

|> I would like to give sawmill a try. So I tried "apt-get --compile |> source" to grab the potato sources and build in my machine. The |> process failed (it seems that I have old dpkg-utils?). Any hints on |> how can I compile sawmill in my machine? You can get the tar-ball and compile it yourse

[Stefan Gybas ] Possible solution to Netscape crashing problem (was Re: Release-critical Bugreport for January 7, 2000)

Hi, with Stefan's permission I'm forwarding this mail from debian-devel. Please be gentle and include useful information in case you want to send a report to him. --- Begin Message --- Jules Bean wrote: > That's right. IIRC, doogie said that actually it was some complex > interaction with some

Re: AOpen video card question

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, John Dalbec wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > > > I've got an AOpen PT75 II card that I tried to set up under X. It has an > > 86C385 chip on it. I tried S3V, SVGA and VGA16 servers, I tried > > autoprobing it, specifying the chipset

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I don't think I've ever seen this before. Having replaced the dying >hard disk, I've done a clean install of slink. The ability to use >latex seems to come and go (mostly go), and I've given the tetex files >a purge/reinstall cycle, but still no l

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

Pann proposed, > Believe it or not, this is a date (not Y2K) related problem. Install the > newer tetex package(s) from proposed-updates. We have a winner :) Wow. Do you happen to know how they got a non-y2k date bug in? I wasn't expecting to worry about those for another 30 years :) Or was

Fourth button of Logitech MouseMan Wheel?

Hi, I just bought a Logitech Cordless MouseMan Wheel. Previously, I had a Logitech Wheel Mouse. Using the same setup in X, I can use three buttons and the wheel just like with the Wheel Mouse. But how can I use the fourth (thumb) button on my new mouse? I have tried several things, but to no avail

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Todd Suess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 01:00 PM 1/11/00 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > >Well, if you are still having a problem with ^C (note, you must restart > >your su shell), then it isn't caused by the login package. I tested it > >thoroughly, and i

RE: anacron jobs for users

On 11-Jan-2000 Philip Lehman wrote: > > Is there a way to set up anacron jobs as a non-root user? There > doesn't seem to be an equivalent to the user crontab files and I > couldn't find any other obvious solution. > > I have this small backup script for parts of my home directory and I > want i

anacron jobs for users

Is there a way to set up anacron jobs as a non-root user? There doesn't seem to be an equivalent to the user crontab files and I couldn't find any other obvious solution. I have this small backup script for parts of my home directory and I want it to run as a daily job. The box is a laptop so cro

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] > Well, I can't help with how to generate it but on my potato system: > > % locate latex.fmt > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt > > It is not associated with a package, ie., dpkg -S latex.fmt doesn't > show a package, so i

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

Maybe this will help... $ locate latex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.fmt $ dpkg -S latex.fmt dpkg: *latex.fmt* not found $ grep latex.fmt /var/lib/dpkg/status $ grep latex.fmt /var/lib/dpkg/info/* /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postrm: rm -rf ... /var/lib/texm

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

Believe it or not, this is a date (not Y2K) related problem. Install the newer tetex package(s) from proposed-updates. On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 13:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't think I've ever seen this before. Having replaced the dying > hard disk, I've done a clean install of slink.

Re: dhcp client

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 11:02:48AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > How do I setup my linux box to get it's lan address > from dhcp-client? I've installed dhcp-client (no > configuration requested). Looking at > /etc/init.d/network I see my static ip is defined and > used in the ifconfig line to s

rsh

hiya what are the files needed to be updated to allow rsh (remote shell) to another linux server? is it hosts.equiv/hosts.allow? I use .rhosts for Unix servers but .rhosts seems not to work for Linux. thanx

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Howard hollered, > > > > > hawkinsttyp0:ch_1.scarcity>latex scarcity.tex > > > This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2) > > > I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! > > > I had a similar problem with jadetex in the past, when a similar file was > > not created u

Single quote keyboard chars

I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing this problem with the latest potato. I get random, occasional single quote characters (`) which appear in what apps I happen to be using. This occurs on several different machines. The keyboards themselves are clone MS Natural and/or Dell keyb

Net install of potato, problems with lynx.

Guess I'm a tester. I tried to install Potato via the internet. Downloaded all floppies and installed base, configured networking, and ran dselect (after modifying /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/apt/sources.list) Almost every went well...except lynx. .. dpkg error processing lynx subproc post

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

Howard hollered, > > hawkinsttyp0:ch_1.scarcity>latex scarcity.tex > > This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2) > > I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! > I had a similar problem with jadetex in the past, when a similar file was not > created upon installation of the .deb package. > It w

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

> > I don't think I've ever seen this before. Having replaced the dying > hard disk, I've done a clean install of slink. The ability to use > latex seems to come and go (mostly go), and I've given the tetex files > a purge/reinstall cycle, but still no luck. > > The output is > > hawkinstt

Re: UMAX Scanner

Just last week my father gave me the SCSI card that came with his UMAX scanner. The sticker on it says it's made by DOMEX. Here's what I found about this card: http://support.umax.co.uk/technotes/f096B.htm I briefly tried the DTC3180/3280 scsi driver (from 2.0.36) but it failed to detect it.

tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

I don't think I've ever seen this before. Having replaced the dying hard disk, I've done a clean install of slink. The ability to use latex seems to come and go (mostly go), and I've given the tetex files a purge/reinstall cycle, but still no luck. The output is hawkinsttyp0:ch_1.scarcity>l

Re: [OT] How to find out who to contact with Internet network problems?

mail to both of them, not necessarily to the tech-c's, but better to the support@. the tech-c's are usually too utilized to answer such questions and just bounce them to support... hth &rw (whois -h whois.ripe.net AS1901-MNT -> RW960-RIPE ;-) On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:28:00 +0100, "Ralf G. R. Bergs"

Re: icecast-server install error

Thanks for the hint. I was unaware of the --purge option in dpkg. It seems like thats all that needed to be done. There were files in /etc/rc* and I even deleted them but that was not helping. --purge worked! -Ryan On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, steve j. kondik wrote: > if the init.d script is trying to

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM >64

Actually, shouldn't it be: append="mem=96M" On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > > Yes, but it doesn't work!!! I added "append mem=96M", and the kernel > > still sees only 64. 8-/ > > It should be 'append "mem=96M" ' (without the '). See man lilo.conf

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM >64

Speaking of Compaqs, is there anyway to free the memory sucked up by the onboard video card? A friend of mine put a new PCI video card into his Compaq, and I noticed that it still was only using 56M, even though the onboard video card was not being used. Sean Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On 11 Jan

dist-upgrade problem

I recently performed an apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade to update my potato packages. On doing this a package age (mtx) gave an error and apt exits. I have tried purging mtx using dpkg and tried to remove it and put it on hold using dselect to no avail! I seem to remember this problem before

dhcp client

How do I setup my linux box to get it's lan address from dhcp-client? I've installed dhcp-client (no configuration requested). Looking at /etc/init.d/network I see my static ip is defined and used in the ifconfig line to start the network. What do I replace these with to get the ip from dhcp-cli

Re: /etc/limits

* Jim B said: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: > > > And the pam_limits 'as' + 'rss' + 'data' + 'memlock' + 'stack' parameters? > > They all give you fine-grained control over the user's memory. > > OK, you're right. I had tried some of the PAM limits previously (one at a > time) an

Re: Further LILO woes

Hi, On Mon, 10 Jan, 2000 à 05:32:46PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > I'm still having a helluva time trying to make Lilo boot potato off > /dev/hdc1 (second HD). Nothing seems to work. > > I have just tried (as Howard Mann suggested) booting potato's kernel > with my slink's lilo (which is install

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM >64

On Tue, 11 Jan, 2000 à 01:05:29AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > > > 2.2.14 only detects 64M out of 96M of my RAM. I thought this was fixed > > > in 2.2.x kernels. Comments? > > > > It

Re: ground zero

Well... If I were you, and this is in no way the "best" situation, just probably what I would do, is to make two partitions on the 1.2, a 1gig fat32, and 200meg linux swap. The 1 gig can be used for whatever in windows, maybe mp3s, and keeping the swap on the other drive with AFAIK be a better ide

Re: (off topic) WindowMaker Themes

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 08:18:14AM -0800, Dave Wiard wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 07:26:07PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > > Hey Everybody, > > > > > > I just started using Window Maker, and I was wondering if anyone knew > > > where > > > (or how) I could find out how to make Themes f

Re: /etc/limits

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: > And the pam_limits 'as' + 'rss' + 'data' + 'memlock' + 'stack' parameters? > They all give you fine-grained control over the user's memory. OK, you're right. I had tried some of the PAM limits previously (one at a time) and none of them alone was suf

[OT] How to find out who to contact with Internet network problems?

Hi there, this is probably an off-topic question to this list. Sorry for this, but I don't know who else to ask or where to look, therefore I hope that my question is read by an experienced network admin of a large company network or an otherwise experienced user who can answer my question. Ok

Re: QuickTime player for Debian?

Carl Fink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > There's xanim. I tried that, but all it does it complain that it doesn't support video and audio QT... Regards, Ron -- === = Ronald Burnett Farrer = === = = =

Re: QuickTime player for Debian?

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 09:55:12AM -0800, Ron Farrer wrote: > I am running potato and am looking for a app that can play QuickTime > videos (video and audio), does anyone know of such a thing? (in source > form if possible as I'm running on an Alpha and not a x86.) There's xanim. -- Carl Fink

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

Yup, I rebooted the machine, etc, and even if I am on the console and SU'd to root in a kvt window under KDE, if I do tail -f /var/log/syslog or any kind of command, ctrl-c will not exit the task. Have to ctrl-z and then kill %1 to actually kill the job. Todd At 01:00 PM 1/11/00 -0500, Ben C

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:55:19PM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: > tsuess:~# dpkg --list login > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: > uppercase=bad) > ||/ Nam

Jag behöver hjälp!

Hejsan! Jag tänkte köra linux på min laptop men jag vet inte vad som funkar och vad som inte funkar med den. Jag har hört från kompisar att det inte går någe bra med en Compaq men jag har inget val. snälla hjälp mig. min dator är en bärbar Compaq presario 1246. jag behöver tips och råd och veta vad

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

tsuess:~# dpkg --list login Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersion Description +++-===

QuickTime player for Debian?

Hello all; I am running potato and am looking for a app that can play QuickTime videos (video and audio), does anyone know of such a thing? (in source form if possible as I'm running on an Alpha and not a x86.) TIA, Ron -- === = Ronald Burnett Farrer =

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:40:55PM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: > > > > > It is su, and it will be fixed in tomorrow's dinstall run. > > > > > I updated login last night during apt-get dist-upgrade but ctrl-c is > still broken. What version of the login package? -- ---===-=-==-===

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

> > It is su, and it will be fixed in tomorrow's dinstall run. > I updated login last night during apt-get dist-upgrade but ctrl-c is still broken. Regards, Todd

Re: /etc/limits

* Jim B said: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: > > > He can't, true. But shell-based limits aren't particularily good way of > > setting > > limits. They are by definition bound to one kind of shell - csh or bash or > > whatever. In case you, or the user, decideds to change his shell

Re: /etc/limits

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: > He can't, true. But shell-based limits aren't particularily good way of > setting > limits. They are by definition bound to one kind of shell - csh or bash or > whatever. In case you, or the user, decideds to change his shell, you loose > all the limi

Re: ground zero

> "William P. Bergstrom" wrote: > > Greetings: > I would like to tap into the vast resourse of experienced > opinions out there! :-D > > When I finished typing I realized that this post was getting > big, so thought I'd better put the main question up at the top. > > I need to know the best way

Forcing exim to use a smarthost even for my machine

Hi, I finally have gotten myself a domain name, and now I'm using it in /etc/hosts and everywhere (my machine is called ashwork). I have two users here on this machine whose mail adresses are {colin|[EMAIL PROTECTED] I also have two other users who are *not* on this machine but have the same dom

Re: ground zero

> "William P. Bergstrom" wrote: > I need to know the best way to partition my two drives to have a > debian-win98 machine. > > I have a pent 200mmx machine 64 mb RAM running win 98 on a quantum > bigfoot 1.2 gig disk (partiontioned to 4 equal logical). > = I pationtioned this drive for data-app

Sawmill.

Hello, I am running slink with october-gnome from http://www.debian.org/~vincent. (thank you Vincent ! :-) I would like to give sawmill a try. So I tried "apt-get --compile source" to grab the potato sources and build in my machine. The process failed (it seems that I have old dpkg-utils?). Any

Re: inittab: More than 2 special key combinations?

> > Is it possible to set up additional special keyboard requests in > > inittab? I've already assigned ctrl-alt-delete and alt-uparrow and > > want another... > Use 'loadkeys'. Will `loadkeys' let me assign an arbitrary command to a key sequence? I've looked at the Console HOWTO and the loadke

Re: (off topic) WindowMaker Themes

> On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 07:26:07PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey Everybody, > > > > I just started using Window Maker, and I was wondering if anyone knew where > > (or how) I could find out how to make Themes for WindowMaker. Thanks, > > Start out at http://www.themes.org They've got

Re: mouse refuses to configure!

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 03:33:20PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > > + The mouse hardware and cables are okay because the mouse works fine in > > Windows 95. > > > > + I suspected gpm so I disabled it with "gpm -k" and removed the startup > > file from /etc/rc6.d. > >

Re: mouse refuses to configure!

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 04:32:29PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are you using a usb mouse No. This is not new hardware. I got it used for $300. -- "Does `competition' have an abstract purpose?" via, but not speaking for Deutsche Bank

Re: /etc/limits

* Jim B said: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > ulimit does not really protect at all against someone malicious since > > they are perfectly free to un-ulimit themselves, this is where > > pam_limits is helpful, it enforces the hard limit and it cannot be > > ulimited past that.

Re: Changing architecture from i386 to i686 (dpkg-buildpackage to opt imize for PII)

On 10 Jan 00 17:33:06 GMT, Fredrik Liljegren wrote: >I would like dpkg-buildpackage to use egcs' optimizations for Pentium II, >and let the whole system understand that it is a "i686" and not i386 to get >proper defaults... > >I grep'd i386 in /etc and found that it's mentioned in quite a lot of >

Re: /etc/limits

* Ethan Benson said: > > > >Also: I still don't know of any way to set the Virtual Mem usage of a > >shell without using ulimit (bash) or limit (csh)! Note that it does not > >appear to be an option in /etc/limits or in pam's limits.conf. Anyone > >know how to do it? There must be a way. > > u

Re: mouse refuses to configure!

Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > + The mouse hardware and cables are okay because the mouse works fine in > Windows 95. > > + I suspected gpm so I disabled it with "gpm -k" and removed the startup > file from /etc/rc6.d. Does the mouse work in GPM? Did you try gpmconfig in a console? That might help

Re: mouse refuses to configure!

Are you using a usb mouse On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > Hi! This is my first time installing Debian. I am using this > equipment: > > Debian 2.1r4 CDs > Compaq Presario 7240 (pentium) > IBM Mouse > > The install proceeded smoothly until I try to get the mouse worki

Re: Handheld computers - what is available?

There is a lot of work being done in this area, but at this time I don't know of any "finished" systems. Check out http://www.linuxce.org/ for more info. For the project you have in mind though, I think a symbol scanner might be the best bet. basicaly is a palm III with a built in barcode reader

Re: iplogger is crashing my computer

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "NLM" == Noah L Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > NLM> tcplogd and iplogger are used to log connection attempts to > NLM> your computer. There are known security problems related to > NLM> it.

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM >64

Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11/1/2000 Phil Brutsche wrote: > > >Keyword mostly. > > > >It still wouldn't hurt to check it with egcs 1.1.2 or gcc 2.7.2.3. You > >never know, this might be a part that's not 2.95.x safe. > > yes obviously the way to test for a 2.95 bug is to comp

Re: Forcing Full-duplex on D-Link 530TX (via-rhine driver)

Go to the page below and find the paragraph "Modifying Driver Operation Through Options". http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/modules.html I believe what your looking for is here. -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM >64

Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: > > : 2.2.14 only detects 64M out of 96M of my RAM. I thought this was fixed > : in 2.2.x kernels. Comments? > > Do you own a Compaq? Nope. The mobo is an Abit BX6. The BIOS counts 96M at startup. -- Arcady Ge

Re: my font suddently become very ugly

Howard Mann wrote: > > Shao Zhang wrote: > > > > Hi, > > A couple days ago, my font is just suddently become very ugly. > > I orginially thought it was the fvwm problem, then I found that > > all other window's manager have the same problem. > > > > I suggest you use True

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM >64

On 11 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: : 2.2.14 only detects 64M out of 96M of my RAM. I thought this was fixed : in 2.2.x kernels. Comments? Do you own a Compaq? -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger

Re: libc.so.4

> > I recently came across a program (for which I have not found the source > code, though it may be available) which seems to depend on libc4 (it > gives the error message 'file libc.so.4 not found' or similar). There is > no Debian package for slink containing this library, as there is for > lib

mouse refuses to configure!

Hi! This is my first time installing Debian. I am using this equipment: Debian 2.1r4 CDs Compaq Presario 7240 (pentium) IBM Mouse The install proceeded smoothly until I try to get the mouse working in XF86Setup. It refused to move regardless of the settings. + The mouse hardware and ca

Handheld computers - what is available?

I have a customer who runs a van distribution system. He wants his drivers to use handheld computers or barcode readers when they visit shops, to pick up the list of items needing to be replenished. He then wants to print a delivery note on the spot for the customer and transmit the details by mo

rebuilding xfree86 from sources

Hi, I'm trying to rebuild the xlib6g using the source files (dsc, diff, orig.tar.gz). I was able to install using dpkg-source -x xfree86...dsc Running debian/rules build I have the errors bellow: --- gcc -c -O2 -g -ansi -I../../include/fonts -I..

Re: Galaxy Quest

I saw this movie last weekend an dlaughed the whole way home. Great flick, if you've not gotten out to it yet you better go now. If you don't I'll be forced to make empty threats on your life. On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > As I'm sure most of you know, Galaxy Quest is based

Re: UNIX variant for old PC

Visit http://www.elks.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ELKS/ Is the home page for ELKS. It runs fine on a Toshiba notebook 286 with 1Mb. of Ram Bye! And May the source be with you! -- <=||*** MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU Rafa Castillo http://www.loresdelsith.unicyber.org/ [EM

looking for php > 3.0.5 package

Hello, Is php 3.0.6 or greater package for slink available somewhere? horde/imp will only work with php 3.0.6 up... Louis.

libc.so.4

I recently came across a program (for which I have not found the source code, though it may be available) which seems to depend on libc4 (it gives the error message 'file libc.so.4 not found' or similar). There is no Debian package for slink containing this library, as there is for libc5. Doe

Re: www.debian.org very slow indeed?

George Bonser wrote: > Ok, pretty much scripting. The modification of the A record for DNS can be > handled with the dynamic update capability of bind-8. Is the code Debian > uses to distribute to the push mirrors available someplace. Would rather > modify something that is already running than inv

Re: rxvt / vim / term ?

Ok well I figured out what the problem was. I had a command that always ran to start my terminals and it was setting the TERM type to linux (which as I remember was completely valid). rxvt -tn linux; Well I guess the new version of vim does not recognize this TERM. Is that a bug? I remember whe

Re: Slow NFS or slow NIC?

On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 11:01:06PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > Ethernet? or has nfs so much overhead (but ftp does okee)? or is the 486 > the culprit? Try adding rsize=8192,wsize=8192 to the mount options in fstab. That should do the trick. Wouter -- Linux duckman 2.2.14 #1 Wed Jan 5 14:45:

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM >64

it is supposed to be but it seems to depend on the bIOS. i have a i440BX Abit BP6, and when i got it, it saw all 256MB of ram, but after a recent bios upgrade the system would only see 64MB unless i added the append= thing in lilo.conf. i was running for 2 days before i even noticed it(i had to t

Re: Slow NFS or slow NIC?

the culprit is the lack of support for NFS on linux still, last i heard it was still very pooly maintained(amazing that SAMBA gets 1000x more attention then NFS!) there are some tweaks out there but don't expect a miracle, until the NFS code is cleaned up..its gonna be slow and buggy. its not as bu

apache log customization

i was looking through the docs for the apache logging formats.. and was wondering if anyone came accross a way to BLOCK certain hosts (or even better, certain agents) from being logged? the thing is i had htdig running, building a database for a site and the log grows by about 8MB per day because o

YP:Domain not bound

I keep getting a message YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound from daily cron, and also during bootup, immediately after lprng starts. Any idea why ?? We are running the latest slink 2.1r4 with 2.2.13-14 kernels (and NIS 3.5-2 of course). -Igor Mozetic

Re: Extend Caracter Map on Linux

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Tux wrote: > > > > How can I extend the caracter map in my linux box. Atually I have only > > the 127 caracters off the ASCII table and I'm needing the complete > > extended IBM caracters map to run a application. > > I had the sa

Re: Extend Caracter Map on Linux

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Tux wrote: > How can I extend the caracter map in my linux box. Atually I have only > the 127 caracters off the ASCII table and I'm needing the complete > extended IBM caracters map to run a application. I had the same problem. Compose did not work. So I replaced my /etc/k

Couldn't open pty slave /dev/pts/0

Whenever I log on to my IP I get an error message about /dev/pts in /var/log/messages: Jan 10 23:19:05 scgf pppd[283]: Couldn't open pty slave /dev/pts/0: No such file or directory Jan 10 23:19:05 scgf kernel: registered device ppp0 Jan 10 23:19:05 scgf pppd[283]: pppd 2.3.10 started by gsmh, uid

Re: inittab: More than 2 special key combinations?

Use 'loadkeys'. Bye -- Memo - Header --- To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc: From: "Matthew W. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10/01/2000 22.07.47 GMT 10/01/2000 23.08.19 Subject: inittab: More than 2 special key combinat

ground zero

Greetings: I would like to tap into the vast resourse of experienced opinions out there! :-D   When I finished typing I realized that this post was getting big, so thought I'd better put the main question up at the top.   I need to know the best way to partition my two drives to have a deb

Re: rxvt / vim / term ?

Try to use "xkeycaps". It let you to bind keys under X, and maybe it will help you... Lorenzo -- Memo - Header --- To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc: From: Ryan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10/01/2000 21.21.29 GMT 10/01/20

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM >64

On 11/1/2000 Phil Brutsche wrote: Keyword mostly. It still wouldn't hurt to check it with egcs 1.1.2 or gcc 2.7.2.3. You never know, this might be a part that's not 2.95.x safe. yes obviously the way to test for a 2.95 bug is to compile with older compilers and see if the problem persists,

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM >64

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > On 11/1/2000 Phil Brutsche wrote: > > >gcc 2.95.2? It's likely. The kernel folks don't want to hear bug reports > >about kernels built with that. Try building with egcs 1.1.2 or gcc > >2.7.2.3. > > that is not true anymore. kernel

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM >64

On 11/1/2000 Phil Brutsche wrote: gcc 2.95.2? It's likely. The kernel folks don't want to hear bug reports about kernels built with that. Try building with egcs 1.1.2 or gcc 2.7.2.3. that is not true anymore. kernel developers DO want to hear bugs about 2.95 now that 2.2.14 is mostly 2.95

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM >64

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Yes, but it doesn't work!!! I added "append mem=96M", and the kernel > still sees only 64. 8-/ Hrm... > On this very machine 2.2.13 compiled under slink saw my 96M > automatically, while this 2.2.14 kernel compiled under potato seems t

Re: xdm's Chooser not showing up

On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 10:42:28PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote > Hai, > > I started this millenium great, got a second machine, nfs works though slow. > But now I try to make this second machine into a Xterminal but it refuses:( > For the life of me I can't find how to get a X-Chooser on the seco

Re: Slow NFS or slow NIC?

On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 11:20:06PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote > Now that I've two machines I'm finally able to experience the full benefits > of Debian GNU/Linux. Reading all I could find on the subject on the HAMM-cd's > I managed to get nfs and nis working, exported /home and did some tests. >

Re: (off topic) WindowMaker Themes

Cameron Matheson said: > I just started using Window Maker, and I was wondering if anyone knew where > (or how) I could find out how to make Themes for WindowMaker. Thanks, 1) Run WPrefs, preferably version 0.40 or later. Set your background/title/sizebar/etc. appearances as desired. 2) Bring

Re: my font suddently become very ugly

Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hi, > A couple days ago, my font is just suddently become very ugly. > I orginially thought it was the fvwm problem, then I found that > all other window's manager have the same problem. > I suggest you use True Type fonts utilizing the " xfstt" font

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