Hi all.
I've been lurking for a bit but can't keep the pace on this most active
list. I get nasty messages from the postmaster so I'm not subscribed
regularly. Please reply privately if you would.
I've been pounding away at an "Essential Debian 2.1 for the past two
weeks. Cheapbytes coug
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Chris R. Martin wrote:
> I upgraded my samba package to frozen (2.0.6), and now it doesn't work with
> my old smb.conf file. I've been up and down the samba docs and I've tried
> all sorts of options which don't seem to have any effect (which probably
> means I'm missing so
I upgraded my samba package to frozen (2.0.6), and now it doesn't work with
my old smb.conf file. I've been up and down the samba docs and I've tried
all sorts of options which don't seem to have any effect (which probably
means I'm missing something basic). I can't even list the shares on the
Hi!
>
> [1] Actually, some AMD processors do support SMP - the K6 (I think it was
> the K6) and the Athlon (most definitely - it uses the bus protocol of
> Compaq's Alpha, called EV6). However, there are no such systems that I've
> ever heard of; no one makes a motherboard that supports dual AM
Hi,
I want to to deny the access of some domains like microsoft.com...
I added the following lines to /etc/squid.conf
acl MSDOMAIN dstdomain microsoft.com
:
http_access deny MSDOMAIN
But it doesn't work after restarting squid.
I'm using potato and my Netscape Browser on another machine is confi
Mauro B writes:
> Actually I created a separated directory, called "new", where I install
> from source updated software and libraries
That's what /usr/local is for.
> That's why I won't update to Potato, as I risk a big mess:
Not if you've kept all your local stuff in /usr/new.
> The problem w
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 01:44:32AM -0800, John Miskinis wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> First, If there is a better way, PLEASE let me know! I'm trying to
> move a working boot floppy to a partition to test it without having
> to keep uncompressing/compressing/writing-floppy each time.
I can't address
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 04:06:09PM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Ioa Petra wrote:
>
> > The reason I would ask for such an except is because 1.0.4, the current
> > potato stable is so -drastically- out of date. Seeing as how Gimp is one
> > of the major apps in the Linux commun
Pete writes:
> I've got a Debian 1.3 box with a mucked up bash - I get "Segmentation
> fault" if I try to run it or any scripts referencing it.
Copy ash off the root floppy, link /bin/sh to it, and then reinstall bash.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
Pete Templin wrote:
>
> I've got a Debian 1.3 box with a mucked up bash - I get "Segmentation
> fault" if I try to run it or any scripts referencing it. Could somebody
> per chance mail me a working bash, and/or tell me some quick fixes to get
> it working. I tried reinstalling the .deb, but of
> How do you allow FTP clients, when uploading files, to overwrite same
> existing files on the server?
> I understand that some FTP servers have the /etc/ftpaccess, which I
> don't see under my etc directory. The only one that I is ftpusers.
> Debian 2.0
This depends on the ftp server you use.
> With my current installation of Corel Linux, I am getting more
> segmentation faults, and they are with programs that did not have this
> problem with my previous install (Adobe Acrobat, for one).
>
> I don't see "segmentation" in the indices of the Running Linux or
> Learning Debian/GNU Linux b
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Bart Szyszka wrote:
> > How to I mark an already installed package "hold"? (using some other tool
> > than dselect)
> > Can it be done using dpkg?
>
> You can probably use gnome-apt for doing that (does anyone know if a
> KDE equivalent is being worked on?), but other than th
On 02/19/00 12:53AM, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 01:00:36AM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> >
> > BTW, what's the diff between xfs-xtt and xfstt?
>
> xfs-xtt replaces xfs and supports both normal and truetype
> fonts. xfstt is a mini font server that only does truetype fonts, you
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I need to add Linux support for custom designed PCI card. The card contains
>the PLX9080 PCI bridge, controlling the card's local bus in J mode.
>What I need is the access to the memory and I/O registers connected to the
>local bus of the card. The possibility of DMA trans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bart Szyszka) wrote:
>A couple KDE-based programs that I tried converting from RPM to
>DEB recently have been installing themselves in something like
>/opt/kde/bin or /opt/kde2/bin (this was yesterday when I tried setting
>up kdealpha). Is there a way to do the conversion for al
Pete Templin wrote:
> I've got a Debian 1.3 box with a mucked up bash - I get "Segmentation
> fault" if I try to run it or any scripts referencing it. Could somebody
> per chance mail me a working bash, and/or tell me some quick fixes to get
> it working. I tried reinstalling the .deb, but of co
I've got a Debian 1.3 box with a mucked up bash - I get "Segmentation
fault" if I try to run it or any scripts referencing it. Could somebody
per chance mail me a working bash, and/or tell me some quick fixes to get
it working. I tried reinstalling the .deb, but of course that doesn't
work. I t
On monday, Jan 17, 2000, David Wright said:
> Quoting J Horacio MG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > I acquired a graphics tablet and a ps/2 mouse. I wonder if it's
> > possible to have them both working together, or whether there's another
> > solution to it.
> >
> > The tablet & pen specifications are:
Hello,
How do you allow FTP clients, when uploading files, to overwrite same
existing files on the server?
I understand that some FTP servers have the /etc/ftpaccess, which I
don't see under my etc directory. The only one that I is ftpusers.
Debian 2.0
Thanks in advance.
Sam
With my current installation of Corel Linux, I am getting more
segmentation faults, and they are with programs that did not have this
problem with my previous install (Adobe Acrobat, for one).
I don't see "segmentation" in the indices of the Running Linux or
Learning Debian/GNU Linux books.
Is
Have a look at http://fides.fe.uni-lj.si/~spice/welcome.html. There isn't
a debian pacakge, but you may want to have a look. No source, just binary,
and I have a hunch it is compiled for slink. I couldn't get it to run on
potato.
Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminar
Hi,
I have a dual pentium processor box with 3com595 ethernet card. Try as
I might I couldn't get my newly installed 2.2.14 kernel to connect to
the internet.
I just read in one of the Ethernet-HOWTO files that the ethernet card
driver ie. 3c59x.c must have the 'spin_lock' function to implement
a
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Michael Lyngbøl wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > How to I mark an already installed package "hold"? (using some other tool
> > than dselect)
> >
> > Can it be done using dpkg?
>
> Play with
>
> echo foo hold |dpkg --set-selections
Im still wonderin
> How to I mark an already installed package "hold"? (using some other tool
> than dselect)
> Can it be done using dpkg?
You can probably use gnome-apt for doing that (does anyone know if a
KDE equivalent is being worked on?), but other than that I've been wondering
the same thing.
--
Bart Szysz
Michael Lyngbøl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How to I mark an already installed package "hold"? (using some other tool
> than dselect)
>
> Can it be done using dpkg?
Play with
echo foo hold |dpkg --set-selections
Regards,
Joey
--
GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems, only
Hello,
How to I mark an already installed package "hold"? (using some other tool
than dselect)
Can it be done using dpkg?
Running Debian potato.
/Michael
Hello,
A couple KDE-based programs that I tried converting from RPM to
DEB recently have been installing themselves in something like
/opt/kde/bin or /opt/kde2/bin (this was yesterday when I tried setting
up kdealpha). Is there a way to do the conversion for alien so that
the DEBs install the pro
Some packages install their docs in /usr/share/doc, but don't
add a symlink to /usr/doc -- is it ok for me to manually add
those symlinks after installation, or will that cause problems
with dpkg when it tries to update or remove those packages down
the road?
Thanks,
- Marc
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 05:31:13PM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote:
> Is there a communicator 4.7 version uses libc6 instead
> of libc5 in potota 2.2?
---end quoted text---
...It's called mozilla. (I think all Netscapes are libc5.)
--
David J. Kanter
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I'm still reading up these techniques as I'm new
to this platform. Can anyone explain how to figure
out the dependencies needed? I had a ppp.0 for a
2.2.8 Kernel (Storm2000 - Debian) and had
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Hello all.
I've been working with Storm2000. It's a Debian
base and while my learning curve wasn't as steep
as I'd thought, it's been a stretch. People
contributing answers and questions is
In data 17-Feb-00 alle ore 07:21:43
[EMAIL PROTECTED] scriveva:
>
> I files copiati dalla tua 'fat', erano quelli originali della ID soft?
ovviamente i files a cui mi riferivo erano le copie di:
pak0.pak
pak1.pak
che contengono i livelli le texture ecc ecc e quindi sono quelli
originali della
Greetings all,
Reading through a text written by John Carmack about the GPL release
of Quake (found at http://www.idsoftware.com/q1source/q1source.txt):
> All of the Quake data files remain copyrighted and licensed under the
> original terms, so you cannot redistribute data from the original
> ga
I'm trying to install potato on a computer with no cdrom
and a slow net connection (56k modem and an free ISP that
cuts off after 6 hours of connection time). I tried to
install via downloading the entire
/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386 tree. This didn't work
and gave me errors, so I also dow
Hi All,
I need to add Linux support for custom designed PCI card. The card contains
the PLX9080 PCI bridge, controlling the card's local bus in J mode.
What I need is the access to the memory and I/O registers connected to the
local bus of the card. The possibility of DMA transfers would be also
a
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/BogoMips
Regards,
Onno
At 12:59 PM 2/19/00 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>could anyone please tell me what "BogoMIPS" at bootup means?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Uwe
>
>
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>could anyone please tell me what "BogoMIPS" at bootup means?
See the BogoMips mini-HOWTO, which you should be able to find in
/usr/doc/HOWTO or /usr/share/doc/HOWTO depending on your version of
Debian.
`MIPS is short for Millions of Instructions Per Second. It
Hello,
Since my last message, I am actually able to boot up, in single
user mode, if I specify "rescue single" at the lilo prompt. So
I think I am getting closer. Now I am stumped, df says the root file
system is "/dev/ram" but appears to actually be my 17 Meg hard
disk partition.
I (re)read t
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Solochek) wrote:
>Why is it that packages are made to be dependant on Xfree? Whether or
>not they actually are, there ar some packages that seem to assume you
>need xfree installed to work right.However, install xfree when you
>use accelerated x is not such a great ide
Hi there,
could anyone please tell me what "BogoMIPS" at bootup means?
Thanks in advance,
Uwe
> I would like to give web-access to my mail users. Just the basic reading
> and replying to messages in /var/spool/mail should be enough.
Try IMP from the horde project (www.horde.org). Debian package
available.
bye,
-christian-
--
Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the D
** On Feb 18, Blazej Sawionek scribbled:
> Apparently I was hacked (via nfsd) so I plan to reinstall the whole system.
> Is it safe to leave the rest as is or do I have to do something more than
> just clean the disk with `rm'?
> I mean all the boot records, master boot records, LILO's and so on a
I would like to give web-access to my mail users. Just the basic reading
and replying to messages in /var/spool/mail should be enough.
I have searched the Debian packages, but nothing seems to be there. Does
anyone have a good recommendation for such a application?
Ease of installation would be nic
> > "http://linuxos.webprovider.com/";
> >
> Once one has downloaded and ISO binaries what can one do? Can I just run
> cdrecord on it to put it on a CD?
Oh, I forgot to tell you that you also can use "Adaptec Toast" or "Nero
Burning" on a Windows PC. I have used it and it also works very well.
G
> > "http://linuxos.webprovider.com/";
> >
> Once one has downloaded and ISO binaries what can one do? Can I just run
> cdrecord on it to put it on a CD?
I use Apple Macintosh with "Adaptec Toast" software to brun my CD's. But
you can also use X-CD-Roast which you can obtain at:
"http://www.fh-mu
>>"Blazej" == Blazej Sawionek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Blazej> I will reinstall my (until a few days ago `stable' - see my
Blazej> previous mail) system. Is `frozen' (potato) mature enough
Blazej> for a person who is not keen on bug hunting?
I would not really recommend it (though
>>"Rajesh" == Rajesh Radhakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rajesh> I downloaded 'kernel-image-2.2.14.deb' after seeing someone post
Rajesh> here. Unfortunately the newly installed kernel doesn't recognize the
Rajesh> second processor. Is there another such kernel-image-2.2.14 with SMP
Raje
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Boujour.
je recherche un driver printer.
Digital
DEClaser 2100/Plus 3.1 DEC1.EXE 02/03/93
Et ou trouver se driver svp.
merci.
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On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 01:00:36AM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote:
>
> BTW, what's the diff between xfs-xtt and xfstt?
xfs-xtt replaces xfs and supports both normal and truetype
fonts. xfstt is a mini font server that only does truetype fonts, you
still need xfs for regular fonts.
also most of the doc
Hello,
First, If there is a better way, PLEASE let me know! I'm trying to
move a working boot floppy to a partition to test it without having
to keep uncompressing/compressing/writing-floppy each time.
I'm trying to build a very small 1-floppy linux system, that I can use
to boot, and access
On 02/19/00 12:29AM, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> You don't need it if you're serving TT fonts with xfstt (I don't know
> about xfs-tt). Just put your TT fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype and
> restart xfs. Note: Not a good idea to restart while XDM or X (you'll
> want to stop and restart them as well
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 10:32:40PM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm following (or trying) along with the HOWTO, but it refers to a
> program called ttmkfdir. An excerpt:
>
> You'll get the ">" prompt as you type each line, hit return at the
> end of each line above. Note the punctu
Hi!
I just stumbled across pppconfig, until now I always messed with
/etc/ppp/options etc myself, and find it quite comfortable despite one
[bug|problem]:
Since I do not authenticate via [[user,pw]|pap|chap] but via CLI (my local
telephone number, I use a ISDN-TA) pppd has nothing to do with i
Runs under Group=gdm User=gdm on potato... Which are
$ cat /etc/passwd | grep "gdm"
gdm:x:105:104:Gnome Display Manager:/var/lib/gdm:/bin/false
$ cat /etc/group | grep "gdm"
gdm:x:104:
But the slink GDM is much older than the potato one...
--
+
Why is it that packages are made to be dependant on Xfree? Whether or
not they actually are, there ar some packages that seem to assume you
need xfree installed to work right.However, install xfree when you
use accelerated x is not such a great idea. How about anything X
suggests xfree, and
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 12:25:30AM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
>
> > From: Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> > Well, native English speakers pronounce Linus as Lie-nus (as in
> > Peanuts).. but Linus Torvalds is pronounced Lee-nus, and he says Linux
> > is Lee-nux. If he doesn't know, no
I have a pdf file that I can't decipher. Almost all of the content is
contained within an LZWDecode filter. The pdf file starts like this:
%PDF-1.2
{garbage line}
11 0 obj
<<
/Length 12 0 R
/Filter /LZWDecode
>>
stream
{followed by lots of 8-bit garbage, and then:}
endstream
endobj
12 0 ob
Hey!
Does anyone here know how I can configure things so the 'hjkl' keys are
the same as the left, down, up, and right arrows in Netscape? I read
somewhere that this is possible, but cannot find the reference.
Thanks. Syrus.
--
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Syrus N
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I've set up my first network. I have two boxes I can ping back and forth
> from successfully. I have Slink running on both machines and can Telnet
> both ways.
Ok.
> I was wondering how do you copy files from one computer to the next
Hi all,
I'm following (or trying) along with the HOWTO, but it refers to a
program called ttmkfdir. An excerpt:
You'll get the ">" prompt as you type each line, hit return at the
end of each line above. Note the punctuation -- those "backquotes"
are important! Once the TrueType fonts are pr
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 12:19:30AM -0600, ktb wrote:
> I've set up my first network. I have two boxes I can ping back and forth
> from successfully. I have Slink running on both machines and can Telnet
> both ways. I was wondering how do you copy files from one computer to the
> next?
Use ft
On 02/19/00 12:19AM, ktb wrote:
> I had this mouse working under Slackware. I just wiped that off and
> replaced it with Slink. I ran the gpm config program several times. It is
> a psaux mouse. I tried /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 and nothing. I installed
> psaux support in the kernel during ins
On 02/19/00 12:19AM, ktb wrote:
> I've set up my first network. I have two boxes I can ping back and forth
> from successfully. I have Slink running on both machines and can Telnet
> both ways. I was wondering how do you copy files from one computer to the
> next? Is there anyway through Telnet
I had this mouse working under Slackware. I just wiped that off and
replaced it with Slink. I ran the gpm config program several times. It is
a psaux mouse. I tried /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 and nothing. I installed
psaux support in the kernel during installation and dmesg reports the module
i
I've set up my first network. I have two boxes I can ping back and forth
from successfully. I have Slink running on both machines and can Telnet
both ways. I was wondering how do you copy files from one computer to the
next? Is there anyway through Telnet (tried but didn't work) or do I
somehow
Hi folks,
A friend at work just gave me an FM tuner card. So I through it in my
debian box and through a process only describable as miraculous luck,
I figured out it was an ADS Cadet. So I compiled the driver in, and
installed the rtune program from the webpage listed in the kernel docs
for the
Okay, I got it. It took me most of the day, but I got it.
If anyone else has a similar problem, make sure that you get the
stanzas entered the 'end' line for a section.
In my case, I had entered the lines for the procmail transport after
the 'end' and my mail system wasn't happy.
A simple cut n
Hey,
I apt-got iNES from the slink packages yesterday, but I found two main
problems with it, that I was wondering if you could help me fix. First,
it is way too fast (not even close to the normal Nintendo speed), and
second, the colors are all screwed up.
Thanks,
Cameron Matheson
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 03:19:08PM +, Suresh Kumar.R wrote:
>
> Is a debian version of spice available?
>
> Pl send a cc of the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, as there are some copyright/license problems with spice.
You may wish to try 'acs', Al's Circuit Simulator, which is similar
but bett
Viktor Rosenfeld writes:
> In the standard Debian (slink) install, the groups "dip" and "dialout"
> are created. dialout is used for dialout-devices (eg /dev/ttyS*,
> /dev/isdn*, ...) while dip is used for a couple of pppd files
> (/etc/ppp/*, /usr/sbin/pppd, ...).
Under the Debian system (it is
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 03:23:56PM +0100, Horacio MG wrote:
> As I use xdm, I suppose I would have to reboot before the changes
> have effect?
This is not the other OS you must know, there's a method which IMHO is
a little bit smarter :)
try running
/etc/init.d/xdm restart
as root.
not from
John S Jacobs Anderson writes:
> this was working until some point late last week or early this week;
> I'm not exactly sure which dist-upgrade broke it.
> any help welcomed.
Works here. The only difference I can see is that I do not have any
ipcp-accept lines.
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Ive been using downloader for X at
http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/
Also has clipboard monitoring now.
cheers
Colin Marquardt wrote:
> * maths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > is there any good download software (something like net vampire) for linux?
>
> Don't know what net vampire is, bu
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > check ftp.linuxberg.com /pub/ISO they got isos of most every linux distro
> > out there corel caldera debian suse slackware stormix redhat mandrake etc.
> Check also:
>
> "http://linuxos.webprovider.com/";
>
Once one has downloaded and ISO bina
john s jacobs anderson writes:
> However, about the time of the ppp/ppp-pam suidregister thing, this
> behavior changed; giving the demand option now appears to require a fixed
> remote IP, at least according to man pppd...
The man page is wrong.
> ...and actually sets that IP to something in th
On a local potato I just installed ssh 1.2.2-1 and clicked through all the
warnings about installing it over the old non-free ssh. Since I was unable
to log into the old sshd, I figured I had nothing to lose.
Now I am still unable to log in from other local machines. From one of
these, a new ftp i
Hi there,
I recently configured PPP and everything works well. However, I do have
a question:
In the standard Debian (slink) install, the groups "dip" and "dialout"
are created.
dialout is used for dialout-devices (eg /dev/ttyS*, /dev/isdn*, ...)
while dip is used for a couple of pppd files (/et
On 18-Feb-2000, Horacio MG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > 2) For X I have in the Section "Screen" of /etc/X11/XF86Config the lines
> > >
> > > StandbyTime 2
> > > SuspendTime 3
> > > OffTime 4
> > >
> > > You might need other/mo
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 03:19:57PM +0100, Frere Roy wrote:
> I have am using "potato" and have been upgrading from time to time various
> packages.
>
> Recently I upgraded to ldso 1.9.11-5 and libc6 2.1.3-2 and since then I
> keep seeing the following error messages when upgrading certain other
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