Re: telnet problems

2000-02-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 06:45:21PM -0500, Jonathan Hendler wrote: > Hi, I am not sure if this is a newbie, or experienced question,,, > which means that it is probably a newbie question. > > I have been trying to allow telnet access to my machine > > In securetty I have all the options I have see

Re: telnet problems

2000-02-13 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, > I am not sure if this is a newbie, or experienced question,,, which > means that it is probably a newbie question. > > I have been trying to allow telnet access to my machine > > In securetty I have all the options I have seen. >

telnet problems

2000-02-13 Thread Jonathan Hendler
Hi, I am not sure if this is a newbie, or experienced question,,, which means that it is probably a newbie question. I have been trying to allow telnet access to my machine In securetty I have all the options I have seen. In hosts.allow, for this test I have ALL: ALL among specified users in the

Re: V2.2.14 and X

2000-02-13 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, my compiled kernel 2.2.14 runs fine except can't find X anymore. > The old kernel 2.2.14 from dists still runs X ok still. What should I > read or do? >From the looks of things you forgot to include unix domain sockets with the n

Re: Debian logo et al.

2000-02-13 Thread t.bedlam
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 02:17:43PM -0900, Adam Shand was only escaped alone to tell thee: > the above command doesn't create an empty file, it creates a file which > contains the control codes which clear the screen. eg. Duh! I'm so happy I can't blush over the net. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Debian logo et al.

2000-02-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 06:10:26PM -0500, t.bedlam wrote: : On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:13:23PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski was only :escaped alone to tell thee: : : > > Speaking of logons, what control character may I write in the : > > /etc/issue file so the screen is cleared and text writing

Re: Debian logo et al.

2000-02-13 Thread Adam Shand
> > clear > file > > Um, no. I know how to create empty files. :) the above command doesn't create an empty file, it creates a file which contains the control codes which clear the screen. eg. heyzeus(larry)$ clear > /tmp/blah heyzeus(larry)$ od -tc /tmp/blah 000 033 [ H 033 [ 2

Who is user 501?

2000-02-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
I did an 'apt-get source linuxlogo' and it unpacked the directory with user 501 and group users. I have no user 501 in /etc/passwd, should I? Shouldn't the source be unpacked as root owning the directory? It seems the tkdesk file browser really doesn't like this -- causing it to crash instantly

V2.2.14 and X

2000-02-13 Thread j way
Hi, my compiled kernel 2.2.14 runs fine except can't find X anymore. The old kernel 2.2.14 from dists still runs X ok still. What should I read or do? TIA, John W. > _XSERVTransSocketOpen: socket() failed for tcp _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for tcp _XSERVTransOpen: t

Re: Debian logo et al.

2000-02-13 Thread t.bedlam
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:13:23PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski was only escaped alone to tell thee: > > Speaking of logons, what control character may I write in the > > /etc/issue file so the screen is cleared and text writing begins in > > the upper left of the vc screen? I tried Ctl-L but it

Re: What is the name of the Debian text-based logon with swirl logo?

2000-02-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 02:22:01PM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > gsmh >I used to have a Debian test-based logon screen with a red swirl logo on > gsmh >the left composed of ASCII characters. I can't for the life of me > gsmh >remember the name of the package

Re: 10 gig Drives W/O EZDrive?

2000-02-13 Thread aphro
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote: rickma >I have a 17GB partition on my 27GB drive: i got a 36gig partition on a 37.5GB drive: Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 4560 36628168+ 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 1 4560 36628137

Re: 10 gig Drives W/O EZDrive?

2000-02-13 Thread aphro
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Lane Lester wrote: lleste >Do you know? If it's possible, how does one remove EZDrive without lleste >trashing everything on the drive? if you find a way lemme know ...i treid for a few hours once and couldn't get it out. nate [mailto

Re: installing from DOS?

2000-02-13 Thread aphro
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, rick wrote: jshelt >what does this mean? jshelt > jshelt >kernel panic: can't mount root fs on 01:00 jshelt > either the system doesn't know where the root filesystem is, or the kernel lacks a driver to mount the device with the root filesystem on it(usually happens if its on

Printing with GW?

2000-02-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
Is anyone using Ghostscript (aladin, etc) to print to an HP printer? Can you send me a listing of the gs packages installed and a copy of your printcap? Robert :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Low quality in a

Re: What is the name of the Debian text-based logon with swirl logo?

2000-02-13 Thread aphro
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Phillip Deackes wrote: gsmh >I used to have a Debian test-based logon screen with a red swirl logo on gsmh >the left composed of ASCII characters. I can't for the life of me gsmh >remember the name of the package to re-install it. I have searched gsmh >www.debian.org with all

MODEM ERROR

2000-02-13 Thread Pee
Whenever I try to connect to my ISP I get:   Cannot open /dev/ttyS1 : Input/output error   How can I get this solved? TIA-Pee

Re: Iomega drives

2000-02-13 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Where is accessing IOmega 100mb floppies documented? Probably in the ZIP-HOWTO (or something like that) at the Linux Documentation Project and on this list - I've set up IDE and parallel port drives under Linux. -- ---

Re: Decoding MP3 to WAV

2000-02-13 Thread Jacob Schmude
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Actually' you'll probably want to use: mpg123 -w file.wav file.mp3 rather than the -o switch. This will make absolute sure it writes .wav output to the .wav file. Jacob Schmude [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 53401220 email for public PGP key On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Robe

Re: Debian logo et al.

2000-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
> Speaking of logons, what control character may I write in the > /etc/issue file so the screen is cleared and text writing begins in > the upper left of the vc screen? I tried Ctl-L but it didn't work; > I looked in the archives, no good, man pages getty and issue also > ng. clear > file Ciao,

Re: login.access v. login-PAM

2000-02-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 02:00:32PM -0600, Chris R. Martin wrote: > I recently upgraded my server to frozen, however now I cannot telnet in as > root from my local network. In my old login.access I had: > > +:root:LOCAL Comment out the line with pam_securetty.so from /etc/pam.d/login. -- -

debian installation questions

2000-02-13 Thread Joshua Jacobs
Hi- I'm attempting to install debian for the first time (i'm a long time redhat user who recently got fucked over with some crackers and wants to try a real distro) and I was having a bunch of questions. I've searched the faqs and online docs but to no avail, any assistance you could offer me

Re: Debian logo et al.

2000-02-13 Thread t.bedlam
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 08:46:00AM -0800, Pann McCuaig was only escaped alone to tell thee: > ftp.ourmanpann.com/pub/pann/linuxlogo_3.0-3_i386.deb > > Just a reminder (no, there's nothing "funny" about this package). You > should think twice about installing packages that you don't get from a

Re: First Kernel Recompile

2000-02-13 Thread Pavel Epifanov
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Lane Lester wrote: >=I did a fair amount of reading and asking first, but now I've tried >=my first kernel recompile. make xconfig wouldn't work, and it seemed >=to be because it couldn't find the tk stuff. make config worked OK, >=but make dep wouldn't, and it seemed to be be

Re: Decoding MP3 to WAV

2000-02-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
mpg123 -o file.wave file.mp3 Thus spake Pavel Epifanov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Dear All, > > There are plenty of tools to encode WAV -> MP3. > I use bladeenc (just download and compile from its home). > > Whats about back convertion (decoding). MP3-HOWTO only covers > encoding process if I am r

login.access v. login-PAM

2000-02-13 Thread Chris R. Martin
I recently upgraded my server to frozen, however now I cannot telnet in as root from my local network. In my old login.access I had: +:root:LOCAL What is the equivalent for login-PAM? Thanks, Chris

Decoding MP3 to WAV

2000-02-13 Thread Pavel Epifanov
Dear All, There are plenty of tools to encode WAV -> MP3. I use bladeenc (just download and compile from its home). Whats about back convertion (decoding). MP3-HOWTO only covers encoding process if I am right. Is there a debiantized packages already ? --- Regards, Pavel Epifanov. [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Is frozen's ppp broken?

2000-02-13 Thread Brad
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 06:36:01AM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > I had the same problem. What happened is that the latest version of ppp > now includes ppp-pam, so ppp-pam is removed when upgrading to ppp > 2.3.11-1. > > However, there was an entry in /var/lib/dpkg/diversions that I think was > supp

Re: Iomega drives

2000-02-13 Thread john s jacobs anderson
> "davidturetsky" == davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: davidturetsky> Where is accessing IOmega 100mb floppies On my system, at /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/ZIP-Drive.txt.gz If you didn't install the HOWTO's, you should probably try http://linuxdoc.org>. HTH, john. --

Iomega drives

2000-02-13 Thread davidturetsky
Where is accessing IOmega 100mb floppies documented?   David

Re: Library Names

2000-02-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 02:14:54PM -0500, Lane Lester wrote: > I was =sure= I installed every library I was likely to need, but I > can't even get nedit to run. It says it's missing libm.so.5 and of > course, apt-get says there's no such package as libm. > > I sometimes suspect that's one of the L

linux free download

2000-02-13 Thread ERICH SINGER

Library Names

2000-02-13 Thread Lane Lester
I was =sure= I installed every library I was likely to need, but I can't even get nedit to run. It says it's missing libm.so.5 and of course, apt-get says there's no such package as libm. I sometimes suspect that's one of the Linux Standards: no library file can have a name that's even similar to

Re: XFonts?

2000-02-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
This works. It REALLY slows down the performance. Is there anything else that may help to speed it back up? Robert Thus spake sgaerner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I had the same strange look when I used an ATI Rage 128 based > graphicsadapter. When I > switched the hardware acceleration off, the

SSLwrapper software

2000-02-13 Thread Mark Symonds
Hi, I'm still using slink, just curious if anyone has begun work packaging some sslwrapper software (sslwrap, stunnel). I'd like to have pop-3s from an apt-getted .deb as opposed to doing the whole search and destroy thing. Hopefully this is already in potato? -- Mark

Re: pam needed for ppp?

2000-02-13 Thread John Hasler
Lane writes: > I've never been able to connect to the Internet with Debian Linux, even > though I don't have that problem with Corel Linux What have you tried? What happened? Did you run pppconfig? > Is the pam stuff needed for ppp (pon and wvdial) to work? No. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: HELP - Screwed Up Package Listings

2000-02-13 Thread Bruce Sass
Ack, sure enough, they are status-old and status.yesterday.0, status.yesterday.1.gz, etc. That is what I get for going online with only 1/2 a cup of coffee in me. -- On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Bruce Sass wrote: > If you have only just done this, and not played with dselect since, > then a > cp /

New release date?

2000-02-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
When should we expect to have the new Debian release? Thanks, Antonio.

Re: HELP - Screwed Up Package Listings

2000-02-13 Thread Bruce Sass
If you have only just done this, and not played with dselect since, then a cp /var/lib/dpkg/status{.old,} command will set things right. It would be a good idea to look at the status.old file first (more, less, your favorite text editor), just to make sure it has what you want. If you ha

Re: your mail

2000-02-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Actually the web site is now here http://homepage1.nifty.com/herumi/gogo_e.html Jean-Philippe Guérard wrote: > Le 2000-02-11 01:28:24 +0200, Shadow_OF_Darkness écrivait : > > i want to get a wav to mp3 convertor ... > > GOGO is a good option. > > http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shigeo/gogo_e.htm

Re: Installing

2000-02-13 Thread Bruce Sass
The most recent boot-floppies build available for downloading can be found at "http://www.debian.org/~joeyh/bf/feb11/";, it is a 2.2.7 test build and is much better than 2.2.6. In a day or two there should be an even better 2.2.7 build available in the main ftp archive (but that really depends on

Re: HELP - Screwed Up Package Listings

2000-02-13 Thread paul
Hi Chris, > HELP - I've royally screwed up my dselect package listing. I was working in > dselect to get rid of packages that I never use on my server (games, xemacs, > etc) and had a finger slip that removed a required package and exited to the > menu. Now almost every package is set to remove.

Re: your mail

2000-02-13 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
Le 2000-02-11 01:28:24 +0200, Shadow_OF_Darkness écrivait : > i want to get a wav to mp3 convertor ... GOGO is a good option. http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shigeo/gogo_e.html It is available in RPM, and is easy to convert to DEB. Hope it helps. -- Jean-Philippe Guérard

HELP - Screwed Up Package Listings

2000-02-13 Thread Chris Hoover
HELP - I've royally screwed up my dselect package listing. I was working in dselect to get rid of packages that I never use on my server (games, xemacs, etc) and had a finger slip that removed a required package and exited to the menu. Now almost every package is set to remove. How can I get the

Re: What is the name of the Debian text-based logon with swirl logo?

2000-02-13 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:05, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I used to have a Debian test-based logon screen with a red swirl logo on > the left composed of ASCII characters. I can't for the life of me > remember the name of the package to re-install it. I have searched > www.debian.org with all manner

Re: Segmentation fault

2000-02-13 Thread davidturetsky
Yes, quite right. I was not being critical of gcc, but of my own coding orientation. I've reached similar conclusions as you outline There is a rather large body of material I desperately need to read and absorb. That's exactly the problem I'm trying to contend with in trying to convert my work to

balsa 0.6.0-1 crash

2000-02-13 Thread Oz Dror
When balsa runs by non root user, it crashes with segmentation fault this does not happen when root runs balsa. I have the latest potato packages. Thanks Oz Dror -- < NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAI

Re: What is the name of the Debian text-based logon with swirl logo?

2000-02-13 Thread Phillip Deackes
Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > apt-get source linuxlogo and a look at linuxlogo-3.0.2/debian shows a > swirl > ASCII logo, in file ascii_debian.h. Is that the logo you two are > looking > for? I must say it looks neat, will install in my system as well :-) Yes, that's the one

RE: irdp for Linux?

2000-02-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-Feb-2000 George Bonser wrote: > > Anyone know of an irdp ( ICMP Router Discovery Protocol ) client for > Linux? It is called rdisc or in.rdisc on most systems. There was a message > posted in August 1998 on the LRP list about someone that managed to dig up > the source code. Any clues wher

Installing

2000-02-13 Thread Robin Cook
Hello, I am trying to install the current frozen potato 2.2.6 but I don't seem to be able to use the floppy install. I do not have a regular floppy on my system. I only have an LS-120 disk drive. It boots fine from the rescue disk but then is unable to read the root disk. Is t

Re: 10 gig Drives W/O EZDrive?

2000-02-13 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote: > split your system up across multiple partitions anyhow. I've got a 17Gb drive > in this machine, and setting it up was a breeze, although mke2fs choked when > I tried to make a 17Gb partition, so it's set up as an 8Gb and a 9Gb > instead...) I have a

Re: 10 gig Drives W/O EZDrive?

2000-02-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
Lane Lester said: > I have EZDrive installed in order to have full access to my two 10-gig > drives. I've found a way to run Win NT without EZDrive, but I'm > wondering whether Linux (and Win 98, for that matter) needs it to > access the drives fully. That's a function of your BIOS more than anyth

Re: What is the name of the Debian text-based logon with swirl logo?

2000-02-13 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:05:00AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > I used to have a Debian test-based logon screen with a red swirl logo on > > the left composed of ASCII characters. I can't for the life of me > > As far as I can tell, it was include

pam needed for ppp?

2000-02-13 Thread Lane Lester
I've never been able to connect to the Internet with Debian Linux, even though I don't have that problem with Corel Linux. Another message leads me to ask this question: Is the pam stuff needed for ppp (pon and wvdial) to work? If so, what do I tell apt-get in order to install what's missing? (I i

Backup with TAR and long path names

2000-02-13 Thread webmaster
Hi there, does anybody know if there is a problem using TAR for backup if the length of severel paths are nearly 1024 characters long? Thanks in advance, Uwe

10 gig Drives W/O EZDrive?

2000-02-13 Thread Lane Lester
I have EZDrive installed in order to have full access to my two 10-gig drives. I've found a way to run Win NT without EZDrive, but I'm wondering whether Linux (and Win 98, for that matter) needs it to access the drives fully. Do you know? If it's possible, how does one remove EZDrive without trash

Re: Is frozen's ppp broken?

2000-02-13 Thread Tom Pfeifer
I had the same problem. What happened is that the latest version of ppp now includes ppp-pam, so ppp-pam is removed when upgrading to ppp 2.3.11-1. However, there was an entry in /var/lib/dpkg/diversions that I think was supposed to be removed when ppp-pam was removed but wasn't. In fact I saw an

Re: Segmentation fault

2000-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (davidturetsky) wrote: >I see from further investigation that gcc wants me to be more actively >concerned with memory management than was required under Visual C, and I was >logging on to apologize for bothering the list. I posted because this code >ran cleanly under Visual C, so

installing from DOS?

2000-02-13 Thread rick
what does this mean? kernel panic: can't mount root fs on 01:00 many thanks in advance, ~rick

Re: Installing and help need

2000-02-13 Thread webmaster
> Without spending another $50 for partition software, can I split the > current partition? > If so, how? Try "Partition Manager" from "http://www.paragon.ru/";. We are using this for a long time for all of our workstations and servers and also for all our clients computers whitout any problem. Uw

Re: [Missing modules in python]What about TKinter

2000-02-13 Thread Egbert Bouwman
On Thu, Mar 20, 2036 at 11:31:14PM -0800, Steve Winston wrote: > Nor does my slink have TKinter. Why, o why? > We , or at least I, should read our "Python for dummies". Glob, fnmatch eo rside in python-misc, and it was not installed. I believe Tkinter is another .deb egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - K

Re: What is the name of the Debian text-based logon with swirl logo?

2000-02-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:05:00AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I used to have a Debian test-based logon screen with a red swirl logo on > the left composed of ASCII characters. I can't for the life of me > remember the name of the package to re-install it. I have searched > www.debian.org with

What is the name of the Debian text-based logon with swirl logo?

2000-02-13 Thread Phillip Deackes
I used to have a Debian test-based logon screen with a red swirl logo on the left composed of ASCII characters. I can't for the life of me remember the name of the package to re-install it. I have searched www.debian.org with all manner of words -boot, debian-boot and so on but I can't find it. An

Re: Project Management

2000-02-13 Thread dan
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 10:19:44PM -0500, Fabien Ninoles generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 01:59:25PM +, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > > Hi > > > > I wonder if there is any open-source project-management (à lá > > MS-Project) tool available, even if not debianized

Re: Segmentation fault

2000-02-13 Thread davidturetsky
Thanks, Pete I see from further investigation that gcc wants me to be more actively concerned with memory management than was required under Visual C, and I was logging on to apologize for bothering the list. I posted because this code ran cleanly under Visual C, so I thought I ran into a Linux nu

Pretty Park.exe Don't open this file!!!

2000-02-13 Thread Sean McIlwain
>Hi folks, >sorry to bother you. I received a virus which is "Pretty Park.exe". I think I had >accidentally activated it and spread it out to everyone >on my addresses book. Quickly deleted it and don't open that. >Sorry again! >From >Jit Chien I Just recieved this file, I'm sorry if it had

Re: Installing and help need

2000-02-13 Thread Kent West
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 11:47:24PM -0500, Ben Stine wrote: > In a nut shell, > I am running Win98. (early flaky pirate version)Trying to install Debian 2.1. > I have a 4gig hd with one partition that includes Win98 in the fat32 format. > fdisk shows the full 4gigs but Win98 only shows 2gig. (1gig u

Re: Segmentation fault

2000-02-13 Thread Peter Ross
On 13-Feb-2000, davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am executing a Linear Program program I wrote and compiled. It > terminates without generating output (but creates the output file) > with a "Segmentation fault" > A segmentation fault occurs when you attempt to access memory that you ar

Re: Segmentation fault

2000-02-13 Thread aphro
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, davidturetsky wrote: davidt >I am executing a Linear Program program I wrote and compiled. It terminates without generating output (but creates the output file) with a "Segmentation fault" davidt > davidt >I'm trying to convert programs to run under g++ which I previously d

Re: X crashes when moving mouse

2000-02-13 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, I had a similar problem and with X suddenly crashing... Even after updating the xfree86 version, I still had X suddenling crashing on me. I later realized that it was my video card that had gone bust! Once I replaced my video card, my X windows has never been more stable.. :) But this is

Re: What sends IGMP packets?

2000-02-13 Thread David Coe
Anton Emmerfors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I have a problem: > > Since a few days something is sending out IGMP packages to 224.0.0.1 When my family added an iMac to our internal network I started getting a few IGMP packets each time the iMac powers up; don't remember the dest. ad

Segmentation fault

2000-02-13 Thread davidturetsky
I am executing a Linear Program program I wrote and compiled. It terminates without generating output (but creates the output file) with a "Segmentation fault"   I'm trying to convert programs to run under g++ which I previously developed using Visual c 5.0 and would appreciate any help in s

mirror maze

2000-02-13 Thread Ian
hello, I went serching through many of the mirrored and primary ftp site, and I really had no idea where I was supposed to be looking to find debian itself, can you please help me out? (possibly give me the exact link for it)

Re: Is frozen's ppp broken?

2000-02-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-Feb-2000 S. Salman Ahmed wrote: >> "DK" == David Kanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DK> I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade to the newest frozen > DK> packages; upgrading ppp REMOVED ppp-pam. Now I cannot connect to > DK> the Internet via Debian. I've got to use Mandrake in

Is frozen's ppp broken?

2000-02-13 Thread David Kanter
I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade to the newest frozen packages; upgrading ppp REMOVED ppp-pam. Now I cannot connect to the Internet via Debian. I've got to use Mandrake instead. Is this some wierd dependency problem? -- David Kanter Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois USA [EMAIL PROTECTE

Installing and help need

2000-02-13 Thread Ben Stine
In a nut shell, I am running Win98. (early flaky pirate version)Trying to install Debian 2.1. I have a 4gig hd with one partition that includes Win98 in the fat32 format. fdisk shows the full 4gigs but Win98 only shows 2gig. (1gig used and 1gig free) It would be labor and cost intensive to fo

defunct processes?

2000-02-13 Thread Aaron Solochek
I have a sparc 5, which I've set up as an imap server through a ssl tunnel (using stunnel) and it is very unstable. Its running potato. It boots up, runs stunnel and ssh a daemons, the rest of the standard stuff though inetd, and everything works fine. Eventually, in a matter of hours, things br

Re: Ned pointers in using KDE with Potato/Enlightenment

2000-02-13 Thread John Foster
Bart Szyszka wrote: It sounds like you want nothing from KDE, then, except to possibly be able > to run KDE programs? What happens when you try to run them? That is exactly what I want to know :-))?? -- AdVance-Computing Systems

Re: ld not finding X libs...

2000-02-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 08:02:39PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 09:53:44PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > Check the perms on /etc/ld.so.conf and make sure they 644. If not them > > "chmod 644 /etc/ld.so.conf" and rerun ldconfig. > > Sure enough they were 600. Is that a De

Re: ld not finding X libs...

2000-02-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 09:53:44PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > Check the perms on /etc/ld.so.conf and make sure they 644. If not them > "chmod 644 /etc/ld.so.conf" and rerun ldconfig. Sure enough they were 600. Is that a Debian default or did some package change them for me? -- +-

Re: e-commerce solution needed

2000-02-13 Thread John Foster
Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > > Hi, > > It's there any decent e-commerce package that runs on debian?? > I don't care if it is commercial. > > I know intershop runs on Suse but never succeded to install it under debian. > > any pointer would be great. ---

Re: Ned pointers in using KDE with Potato/Enlightenment

2000-02-13 Thread Bart Szyszka
> I want to use the KDE Settings in Enlightenment to utilize the KDE apps. You mean you want to adjust the setting in KDE Control Center for the programs you use withine Ice-Gnome/Enlightenment? Have you tried running something like kcontrol or kcontrolcenter? Something similar out to do it. > I d

where can I get kernel 2.2.13?

2000-02-13 Thread jdls
hello, I would like to know where can I download a binary format of potato kernel version 2.2.13 so that I may use it to recompile my kernel. thank you.

Re: Ned pointers in using KDE with Potato/Enlightenment

2000-02-13 Thread John Foster
"David J. Kanter" wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 08:49:22AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > > I have Debian Potato using Enlightenment set up on my server. I want to > > try out the KDE applications with the Enlightenment connections. I would > > appreciate tips suggestions etc. from anyone using

Re: ld not finding X libs...

2000-02-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 06:27:52PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > For the last couple days, I can't compile programs that depend on some X > libs. At first, I thought it was a problem with the first program I > tried, but now another program that I've compiled before is giving the > same exact

RE:

2000-02-13 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
Try doing a search for "lame" or "notlame" on freshmeat.net... On 10-Feb-2000 Shadow_OF_Darkness wrote: > i want to get a wav to mp3 convertor ...

ld not finding X libs...

2000-02-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
For the last couple days, I can't compile programs that depend on some X libs. At first, I thought it was a problem with the first program I tried, but now another program that I've compiled before is giving the same exact complaints: /usr/bin/ld: warning: libXi.so.6, needed by /usr/lib/libGL.so,

Re: Install problems with Phoenix BIOS

2000-02-13 Thread Mike Werner
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 05:59:28PM -0600, Jonathan Hall wrote: > I have now experienced problems with two different computers using old > versions of Phoenix BIOS, when booting the Debian 2.1 rescue floppy. One > was a Packard Bell system at a free Linux Install our LUG did a couple > months ago..

Re: X crashes when moving mouse

2000-02-13 Thread Mike Werner
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 03:48:58AM +0100, Marko Cehaja wrote: > I have Slink 2.1. > > When I start X, either via XDM or via startx, switch to konsole, switch back > to X and in the same time move my mouse vigorously (or accidentaly) my X > crashes. > > If I leave the mouse while switching to X

Re: RAID mounting at bootup

2000-02-13 Thread webmaster
> This depents. > > On my old slink system using mdutils, md devices got started > automatically by > /etc/rcS.d/S25mdutils > > Now on my potato system I'm using the new raidtools 0.90 wich need a > kernel patch. With them the kernel autodetects the md devices if the > partitions have type 0xfd.

Re: RAID mounting at bootup

2000-02-13 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 01:59:23AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > again a question form someone how has changed from SuSE to Debian: > > - after building my RAID-Array I need to know how to mount it > automatically at bootup? In SuSE there is a file in > "/sbin/init.d/boot.local"

Web site not being fixed?

2000-02-13 Thread Carl Fink
I realize this is a volunteer project and all, but the search engine on the Debian web site has been down since April of 1999, and the Y2K problem on the mailing list archive search engine hasn't been fixed, either. Is anyone working on these? I'd volunteer if I knew anything about maintaining we

Re: Directory colors in console / xterm

2000-02-13 Thread webmaster
> > - Is there an easy way to define directory colors for the use in any > > virtual console? For example every executable script should be listed in > > red, any directory in blue, and so on > > Put this in your ~/.bashrc > > export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto' > eval `dircolors` > alias ls='ls

Re: Directory colors in console / xterm

2000-02-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 02:03:01AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > it's me again. There are still a lot of questions but I hope someone > will help me again. > > - Is there an easy way to define directory colors for the use in any > virtual console? For example every executable script

Directory colors in console / xterm

2000-02-13 Thread webmaster
Hi, it's me again. There are still a lot of questions but I hope someone will help me again. - Is there an easy way to define directory colors for the use in any virtual console? For example every executable script should be listed in red, any directory in blue, and so on Thanks in advance,

RAID mounting at bootup

2000-02-13 Thread webmaster
Hi there, again a question form someone how has changed from SuSE to Debian: - after building my RAID-Array I need to know how to mount it automatically at bootup? In SuSE there is a file in "/sbin/init.d/boot.local" where I can place my own commands which are run at bootup time. The path might b

Re: [*] how to install LyX

2000-02-13 Thread Marko Cehaja
The libforms 88 can be downloaded from Debian site. Use the apt method in dselect, go in Selection, type "/" and "libform", type "+", go out, and choose "Install". Marko repl: bad addresses: @murphy.debian.org, "[EMAIL PROTECTED] " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- no sub-domain in domain-

X crashes when moving mouse

2000-02-13 Thread Marko Cehaja
I have Slink 2.1. When I start X, either via XDM or via startx, switch to konsole, switch back to X and in the same time move my mouse vigorously (or accidentaly) my X crashes. If I leave the mouse while switching to X for couple of seconds, everything is alright. I have ps/2 mouse and it wor

X-Error 'No type converter registered for "String" to "Bitmap"'

2000-02-13 Thread Marko Cehaja
I reall need help for this: I have standard Debian GNU/Linux (Slink) 2.1. Since I have installed it (I tried to reinstall 3 times to get rid of it), I get following error in couple of X applications: No type converter registered for "String" to "Bitmap" conversion. This shows when I run xscre

Re: graphical login

2000-02-13 Thread webmaster
> >A couple people have suggested that, but isn't it just easier to > >do a dpkg --purge xdm? > > You may want to connect from another X machine to your local machine, > and login via XDMCP ; in this case, all that is required is to tell > xdm not to start an xserver on your machine, but to conti

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