gdm

2000-02-20 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'm trying to install gdm, but it seems that apt-get couldn't get libesd0 and esound. What's the problem with the distribution site? Here's the output: bdg:/home/okidz# apt-get -b --fix-missing install gdm Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packa

Re: UPS monitoring packages?

2000-02-20 Thread oneiros
Thus spake Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Can you point out what UPS monitoring package you are using? > Can you compare it to other alternatives? Network UPS Tools (was smart-ups tools). http://www.exploits.org/nut/ -- oneiros ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 1024D/62C2F77D wheniwasalittleki

Re: none

2000-02-20 Thread Marshal Wong
"TaoX { Brian Hinson; }" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ok.. here is the lamest question ever, but I have tried and tried to find > the answer myself with no luck.. I just signed up on this list and this is > my first time to ever be on a list like this, but the question or problem > is... when I s

Re: Question on installing packages and upgrading

2000-02-20 Thread Carl Fink
> apt is already installed. Then dependencies should be met automatically. If they aren't, you should perhaps submit a bug against apt. > > I personally have been using potato for months now with only a few > > problems, so upgrading to potato "early" wouldn't be a terrible idea. > > But how wo

Re: your mail

2000-02-20 Thread Carl Fink
> when I send messages for help I get responses... but I have yet to > see a question from anyone else? Am I supposed to check something, > like a pop server or news server? or are they emailed to me? I just > don't know what or where to go/do to see other people messages for > this list... Best g

[no subject]

2000-02-20 Thread TaoX { Brian Hinson; }
ok.. here is the lamest question ever, but I have tried and tried to find the answer myself with no luck.. I just signed up on this list and this is my first time to ever be on a list like this, but the question or problem is... when I send messages for help I get responses... but I have yet to see

Sound Blaser Live

2000-02-20 Thread Mars Moon
Hi People, I was looking for a Sound Blaser Live sound driver for linux. So far the search is fuitless, I am only able to find Sound Blaser 64awe etc. So is a Sound Blaser Live driver available to the Linux users?? Yours, Mark Get your free full featured em

Re: Question on installing packages and upgrading

2000-02-20 Thread Bob Hilliard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Schuster) writes: > So, are there other options? I guess I could download the whole potato > tree of the ftp server (the connection at work is fast), put it onto > some CDs, extract the tree to my harddisk, and use apt to upgrade. Another option is to get a CD of t

Re: OpenSSH over old nonfree

2000-02-20 Thread Adam Shand
> 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. that is probably symptamatic of another problem though. the old sshd works just f

Re: dhcpcd on slink

2000-02-20 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi. I've been RTFM and the Debian e-mail archives for quite awhile, and I > can't get dhcpcd to work on slink (2.2.12). > > I'm trying to do dhcp to MediaOne in Cambridge, MA. > > When I run the daemon, I get the error: SIOCADDRT > >

Re: Is there a kernel-image-2.2.14 that is compiled with SMP on

2000-02-20 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, Thanks for your replies. The compiled 2.2.14 kernel does indeed recognise the 2 processors but my new kernel has problems with the 3com595 card hence can't connect to the internet... It seems the driver (3c59x.c vortex driver) has to have a 'spin_lock' function implemented for SMP machines..

Re: What happend to Netscape?

2000-02-20 Thread Adam Shand
> I will third that statement. Netscape will take from like 30-60 megs > depending... 4.7, btw. On the subject of memory leaks, has anyone ran > (g)top after having had gaim open for a few hours I don't know > anything about the AOL IM protocol, but I'm guessing it doesn't require > upwards

Re: How to install a second NIC

2000-02-20 Thread Patrick Kirk
Try this link: worked for me. http://www.linux.com/howto/Ethernet-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.2   To get the io of an ISA card, use the scientific approach of trying io=ox2a0, io=0x2c0, io=200 up to io=300 in multiples of twenty.  Can't say why but again it always seems to work in the end.  Its worth ti

Re: How to install a second NIC

2000-02-20 Thread webmaster
> How do I install a second NIC??? > > I only know the IRQ of it, NOT the IO address... > > HOW can I install it??? Look at your "/etc/conf.modules" there must be something like: options 3c509 irq=11 options ne io=0x320 irq=5 Here you can place you NIC, if you know the right type. Uwe

Re: UPS monitoring packages?

2000-02-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Shaul Karl wrote: > Can you point out what UPS monitoring package you are using? > Can you compare it to other alternatives? apcd is one. Regards, Joey -- This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

UPS monitoring packages?

2000-02-20 Thread Shaul Karl
Can you point out what UPS monitoring package you are using? Can you compare it to other alternatives? Thank you. -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.

Re: Is there a kernel-image-2.2.14 that is compiled with SMP on

2000-02-20 Thread Svante Signell
I think you have to compile it yourself. At least I had to do this to make my SMP system work on Potato/Woody. Just download kernel-source-2.2.14 and follow the instructions. Rajesh Radhakrishnan writes: > > Hi, > > I downloaded 'kernel-image-2.2.14.deb' after seeing someone post > here. U

dhcpcd on slink

2000-02-20 Thread John G. Norman
Hi. I've been RTFM and the Debian e-mail archives for quite awhile, and I can't get dhcpcd to work on slink (2.2.12). I'm trying to do dhcp to MediaOne in Cambridge, MA. When I run the daemon, I get the error: SIOCADDRT Any ideas? Is dhcpcd known to work on Debian? I'm trying to use version 0

Sierra Screamin' 3-D (Rendition Verite 1000)

2000-02-20 Thread boot100
I have installed various versions of linux on my old system and I have never been able to run X in anything other than 640X480 with this video card.  Has anyone worked with this card and overcome this problem? The monitor is a Compaq Presario 140.    

Re: Getting the wm working?

2000-02-20 Thread kmself
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 07:14:59PM +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: There's some confusion at hand here > OK > Installed from frozen. > Installed wmaker but when I try to startx, just the standard xinit screen > appears. xinit is a console program which starts the X Server, and optionally on

Compiling (gnome) files

2000-02-20 Thread Chris Gray
Hi. I hope this isn't a FAQ. If it is, I haven't been able to find the answer anywhere. I am quite prepared to rtfm as long as you tell me which fm to read. Anyway, my problem is this: when I try to compile a program, and it's mostly gnome programs that do this, I get copious error messages lik

Your notice in Internet.

2000-02-20 Thread Zygmunt Orłowski
If you are interested in clean source of energy - please find : http://www.nets.pl/~metozor/metoz and after: http://free.polbox.pl/m/metoz.The " METOZ" machine is a hydraulics device and the description of "METOZ" is destineted mainly for the inquiring mind. You can find t

Re: Soundblaster AWE64

2000-02-20 Thread Alec Smith
To get the AWE64 to ru wit Linux, check /usr/doc/linux/Documentation/sound/AWE64 if you have the kernel sources installed. I've used these directions and had no problem getting sound to work. On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 2000-02-20 19:35:22, Nils-Erik Svang?rd wrote: > > On T

Re: K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

2000-02-20 Thread Dan Melomedman
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 10:14:05PM -0500, S. Salman Ahmed generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > > "DM" == Dan Melomedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DM> In your case a good idea would be -march=i686. Note in this > DM> case the resulting binary will be only running on PPro and > DM

Sound editor for large wave files

2000-02-20 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
I am looking for a sound editor that works well with large files. I need to be able to split a large wave file into pieces and normalize it so I can burn them on a cd. I tried xwave but it tries to load the whole file into memory, and that doesn't work with only 64 MB ram... Oh, and with large fi

Re: low mem boot disks

2000-02-20 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Wakko Warner wrote: > slink was the last debian dist with lowmem boot disks, where have they gone? AFAIK, there was nobody around to work on them for potato. > Don't tell me that the programs have gotten so big they won't work on a > 2-4mb machine. It is a manpower, not a t

Re: Problelm with mounting of partitions

2000-02-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 01:25:16PM +0100, Thomas Delaet wrote: > > Perhaps you don't have an empty directory "var" on the root partition? > > Try booting into single user mode then, "$ mount /var". What happens? > > I added the following line manually to the /etc/mtab file : > /dev/hdc2 /var ext2

Re: Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Brad
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 09:06:06PM -0500, Henry White wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:55:28PM +, Lane Lester wrote: > > > > On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > Have you tried 'apt-get -f install', I've had similar problems also and > > > apt-get -f install solves most... >

Re: Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Henry White
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:55:28PM +, Lane Lester wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > Have you tried 'apt-get -f install', I've had similar problems also and > > apt-get -f install solves most... > > Is that safe? I seem to recall doing that once some time ago, and

Re: Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Lane Lester
Ron Rademaker said: > I've done it a few times and never had any real trouble, once it did > delete a few packages I actually wanted to keep, but afterwards I just > reinstalled them and all was fine. I did it, and now I'm in trouble. One of the packages it removed was kde-corel. That's no big los

Re: Soundblaster AWE64

2000-02-20 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-02-20 19:35:22, Nils-Erik Svang?rd wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Michael Symalla wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I think that won't solve my problem as my AWE64 is not an pci device > > ;-( As far as I understood the help for the es1370 driver, it is for > > pci soundcards. > > > > On Thu, Feb

Re: How to get bo packages?

2000-02-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Tom Kuiper wrote: > > Tom Kuiper wrote: > > > Dear Joey and group, > > > > > > I'm sorry that my original posting was not clear. I did go to > > > ftp://archive.debian.org/ but there is no Packages.gz file there, so > > > dselect won't work. > > > > Maybe I haven't read careful enough, in that

Re: How to get bo packages?

2000-02-20 Thread Tom Kuiper
> Tom Kuiper wrote: > > Dear Joey and group, > > > > I'm sorry that my original posting was not clear. I did go to > > ftp://archive.debian.org/ but there is no Packages.gz file there, so > > dselect won't work. > > Maybe I haven't read careful enough, in that case... oups... update > manually.

Re: eth0--what's up?

2000-02-20 Thread aphro
its normal, there isn't supposed to be a device for eth* in /dev nate On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Fish Smith wrote: dyson_ >Whoo--I saw the Matrix last night, quite a trip. dyson_ > dyson_ >On to business. dyson_ >What exactly is eth0? From the way I've seen it dyson_ >discussed I always presumed it

Re: How to get bo packages?

2000-02-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Tom Kuiper wrote: > Dear Joey and group, > > I'm sorry that my original posting was not clear. I did go to > ftp://archive.debian.org/ but there is no Packages.gz file there, so > dselect won't work. Maybe I haven't read careful enough, in that case... oups... update manually. Regards,

Re: How to get bo packages?

2000-02-20 Thread Tom Kuiper
Dear Joey and group, I'm sorry that my original posting was not clear. I did go to ftp://archive.debian.org/ but there is no Packages.gz file there, so dselect won't work. Regarrds Tom > Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:41:01 +0100 > From: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Tom Kuiper <[EMAIL

Re: How to get bo packages?

2000-02-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Tom Kuiper wrote: > Greetings. > > I'm still running `bo' and I would like to get a few additional packages. > 'dselect' doesn't work anymore because it can't find Packages.gz anyway. > I've poked around myself with ftp and with Netscape, and I can't find > a bo distribution with a Packages.gz fil

How to get bo packages?

2000-02-20 Thread Tom Kuiper
Greetings. I'm still running `bo' and I would like to get a few additional packages. 'dselect' doesn't work anymore because it can't find Packages.gz anyway. I've poked around myself with ftp and with Netscape, and I can't find a bo distribution with a Packages.gz file. What can I do? I know tha

Re: Rationale behind the groups "dip" and "dialout"

2000-02-20 Thread John Hasler
Viktor writes: > So root can give users on the system access to a PPP connection without > letting them know, what the user name and password for that account is. > Makes sense, although it's not aplicable to my situation, because I can't > use PAP/CHAP and it wouldn't work with a chat script. You

Re: Question on installing packages and upgrading

2000-02-20 Thread John Hasler
Alex Schuster writes: > But how would one do this? Go online, enter apt-get dist-upgrade, and > wait for well, a too long time. You don't have to upgrade everything at once. Just do 'apt-get update' and then use 'apt-get install ' to upgrade what you need. Apt will take care of any dependenc

Re: any clear description of sources.list format and apt interpretation?

2000-02-20 Thread Brad
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:57:53PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > Where can I get a clear and consistent specification of how apt-get > interprets a sources.list file? Read the source? ... Actually, i don't think it's explicitly stated anywhere else. > What is unclear is exactly how apt-get

Re: SMP

2000-02-20 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! > On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > pbruts >Yes, I've heard (she posted here once). All the documentation I've > seen > pbruts >for dual P5 boards, and all those that I've talked to, say that such a > pbruts >machine can't exist. > pbruts > > pbruts >I'd like to hear how it was

low mem boot disks

2000-02-20 Thread Wakko Warner
slink was the last debian dist with lowmem boot disks, where have they gone? Don't tell me that the programs have gotten so big they won't work on a 2-4mb machine. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals

POSIX tar archive

2000-02-20 Thread lbianca
a friend asked me to extract a text file from a floppy "unix formatted". I can see this file looking with mc (is a little data base of pc spare parts) in /dev/fd0, but i can't mount the floppy: no vfat, no ext2, no sysv. The command " file /tmp/foo " produces this output: " POSIX tar archive " bu

ftpable GNOME for slink?

2000-02-20 Thread Daniel Barclay
Is there any archive of GNOME packages built for Slink that is accessible by FTP? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: PCMCIA Network Installation

2000-02-20 Thread Dave Whiteley
I think that I have now successfully installed a PCMCIA network card on my IBM thinkpad 380d. I used the most recent copy of the potato boot disks. What I did find was that it was vital that the card was not plugged in during initial software installation. Only after you have completed the PC

Re: LILO error

2000-02-20 Thread Ron Rademaker
Try adding the line: linear to your /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo and it should work fine. Ron On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Morten Trab wrote: > How do I repair my LILO??? > > When I boot, it just says LI and then stops... > > I have to boot via the RESCUE disc... > > /JPS2MT >

Re: Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Ron Rademaker
I've done it a few times and never had any real trouble, once it did delete a few packages I actually wanted to keep, but afterwards I just reinstalled them and all was fine. Ron On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Lane Lester wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > Have you tried 'apt-get -f

Re: How to get GNOME as a WindowManager???

2000-02-20 Thread Francois Deppierraz
Morten Trab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I instal GNOME as a windowsmanager??? GNOME is not a window manager. It's a collection of progs and libs. But if you want to use the gnome panel with X-Window, you should put the following line in $HOME/.xinitrc. exec gnome-session -- __

How to install a second NIC

2000-02-20 Thread Morten Trab
How do I install a second NIC???   I only know the IRQ of it, NOT the IO address...   HOW can I install it???   /JPS2MT

LILO error

2000-02-20 Thread Morten Trab
How do I repair my LILO???   When I boot, it just says LI and then stops...   I have to boot via the RESCUE disc...   /JPS2MT

How to get GNOME as a WindowManager???

2000-02-20 Thread Morten Trab
How do I instal GNOME as a windowsmanager???   /JPS2MT

any clear description of sources.list format and apt interpretation?

2000-02-20 Thread Daniel Barclay
Where can I get a clear and consistent specification of how apt-get interprets a sources.list file? I'm having trouble figuring out which GNOME-for-slink and KDE-for-link releases (e.g., at kde.tydc.com) I can use with apt-get and how to write the sources.list entries. The source.list manual

Re: Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Lane Lester
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Have you tried 'apt-get -f install', I've had similar problems also and > apt-get -f install solves most... Is that safe? I seem to recall doing that once some time ago, and it mangled my system. It would still run, but I recall an awful lot of stuff go

Re: Soundblaster AWE64

2000-02-20 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Michael Symalla wrote: > Hi, > > I think that won't solve my problem as my AWE64 is not an pci device > ;-( As far as I understood the help for the es1370 driver, it is for > pci soundcards. > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 02:04:47PM +0100, Darlock wrote: > > > It's not the sam

eth0--what's up?

2000-02-20 Thread Fish Smith
Whoo--I saw the Matrix last night, quite a trip. On to business. What exactly is eth0? From the way I've seen it discussed I always presumed it was a device node, residing in the /dev directory, just as ttyS1 is my modem, ttyS0 is my mouse, hda is my first hard drive, hdd is my cdrom. But during

Getting the wm working?

2000-02-20 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
OK Installed from frozen. Installed wmaker but when I try to startx, just the standard xinit screen appears. I guess there is some config programm I should run, I have tried register-window-manager, but no results, when I run x-window-manager, wmaker starts. Is there something I'm missing here, an

Re: afterstep

2000-02-20 Thread Cormac McGuinness
Hi there Sorry! I didnt notice this topic on debian-user. I had the exact same problem and found the same solution as you and I filed a bug report for the afterstep package last week. Cormac On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 11:25:36AM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi, > > I finally figure what was

Re: Sawmill/Gnome raising windows

2000-02-20 Thread Phillip Deackes
Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Here's my stupid question for the day (I'm allotted one per day, > aren't > I?!:-). > >How can I configure Sawmill/Gnome so that a window will rise to the > top > if I click on the title bar? By default, the window will rise to the top if you clic

Re: Rationale behind the groups "dip" and "dialout"

2000-02-20 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
John Hasler wrote: > Setuid root also makes it possible for the secrets > files to be readable only by root, and for pppd to use the serial ports > without the user having access to them. Pppd drops root privileges as soon > as it doesn't need them. So root can give users on the system access to

Re: Question on installing packages and upgrading

2000-02-20 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink) wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 07:30:00PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > So, what would I need to do to get an up to date system? Without > > being online for days (which costs some money here). Or is potato > > finished very soon? > > To answer your question: if

Re: modem in bash

2000-02-20 Thread John Hasler
Michael Zielinski writes: > I am trying to get my Practical Periphials 28.8 external modem working > under Debian 2.1. Run pppconfig as root, answer the questions, and then run 'pon' to start ppp and 'poff' to stop it. man pppconfig, man pon, man poff. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Ho

Sawmill/Gnome raising windows

2000-02-20 Thread Randy Edwards
Here's my stupid question for the day (I'm allotted one per day, aren't I?!:-). How can I configure Sawmill/Gnome so that a window will rise to the top if I click on the title bar? I prefer a sloppy focus, one where I can move the mouse over a window and have it in focus. However, I don

Re: roxen webserver problems

2000-02-20 Thread Högman
> Check that it is indeed running with "ps axf | grep pike". Check > /var/log/roxen/debug/default.1 (or .2). Check you have tried the > correct port (grep ConfigurationURL /etc/roxen/Global_Variables). Right. It seems I found the problem (around 3:30am, but that's another story). Strangely, I got

Re: Question on installing packages and upgrading

2000-02-20 Thread Randy Edwards
> But how do I, for example, install a newer version of windowmaker or > netscape? There are several .deb packages, and I don't know which of > them to use. Just use dselect, browse through the various descriptions of the *.deb files. If all else fails, just "try it" -- the worse you'll do

Re: Squid

2000-02-20 Thread Randy Edwards
> Does anyone have an idea to solve this?? Sorry Sven, I don't. But as one who's played with using Squid's ACL functions, I'll suggest a different strategy. In the Squid docs on ACL you'll find descriptions of an option to reference out to a file to get blocked URLs and/or domains. When I

Re: Woody upgrade wants to remove ppp-pam. Should I let it?

2000-02-20 Thread Sean Johnson
Phillip Deackes wrote: > > When I do 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on my already-woody system I get the > following: > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > ppp-pam > > I am too scared to carry on. Is this a problem or is there something > else to replace ppp-pam? > Remember, apt-cache is yo

Re: Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Ron Rademaker
Have you tried 'apt-get -f install', I've had similar problems also and apt-get -f install solves most... Ron On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Lane Lester wrote: > > According to the apt-get man page: > install > install is followed by one or more packages desired > for installation. Each pack

Woody upgrade wants to remove ppp-pam. Should I let it?

2000-02-20 Thread Phillip Deackes
When I do 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on my already-woody system I get the following: The following packages will be REMOVED: ppp-pam I am too scared to carry on. Is this a problem or is there something else to replace ppp-pam? Cheers. -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux

Configuring x-windows for EGA

2000-02-20 Thread Eric Hagglund
I'm trying to get a 486dx set up with X-windows. The monitor I'm using is a NEC Multisynch JC1401-P3A EGA that was manufactured when Ronald Reagan was peaking in popularity (in the U.S. at least, before Oliver North eclipsed him; no I'm not kidding :). I have installed Debian 1.3.1 onto a 500 meg h

modem in bash

2000-02-20 Thread Michael Zielinski
I am trying to get my Practical Periphials 28.8 external modem working under Debian 2.1. I have followed the examples in O'Relly's "Running Linux" and created the following files in /etc/ppp: my-chat-script #!/bin/sh # my-chat-script: a program for dialing up your ISP exec chat -v \ '

Re: debian-mirror: inconsistency

2000-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerhard Kroder) wrote: >i noticed during lookup packages for hylafax* that there seems to be >some inconsistency about recent changes to file system structure and >symlinks on debian ftp mirrors. hylafax is accessible from stable/ and >unstable/, but stable/ still is slink a

The singer Teresa Teng information (¾HÄR§g)

2000-02-20 Thread tuba0123
English: The singer Teresa Teng information Thanks your time for this brief message. Please delete if this cause you any trouble. My dear lady and gentlemen, Good day! (This is not advertisement, nor commerce. All you have to do is reply) On May 8, 2000, it will be the 5th anniversary since th

Re: Question on installing packages and upgrading

2000-02-20 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
Le 2000-02-19 19:30:00 +0100, Alex Schuster écrivait : > I am using Debian stable for some weeks now, but there still are so > many things I don't really understand, for example the installation of > debian packages. I know how to use dselect, and I can also use dpkg. > But how do I, for exampl

Re: How to apt-get gnome

2000-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Is there a single command to apt-get that will fetch all of the latest >gnome basic system packages? apt-get install task-gnome-desktop ... should do the job. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Lane Lester
According to the apt-get man page: install install is followed by one or more packages desired for installation. Each package is a package name, not a fully qualified filename (for instance, in a Debian GNU/Linux system, ldso would be the argument provided, not ld

Re: Squid

2000-02-20 Thread Onno
Please take a look at the order you placed the http_access rule in, it does matter! Regards, Onno At 01:38 PM 2/19/00 +, Sven Gaerner wrote: >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 m

Re: OT: Free-Quake

2000-02-20 Thread Frank Barknecht
Lars Weber hat gesagt: // Lars Weber wrote: > Question: Is someone already doing this? (AFAIKT this is out of the > scope of the Quakeforge project, but I'm not sure) "Open Quartz is a project to supply GPL'ed artwork in the form of PAK and WAD files to create a fully GPL game based a

Re: Problelm with mounting of partitions

2000-02-20 Thread Thomas Delaet
> > > > /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 > > /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 > > proc/proc proc defaults 0 0 > > /dev/hdc2 /var ext2 defaults

debian-mirror: inconsistency

2000-02-20 Thread Gerhard Kroder
hi, i noticed during lookup packages for hylafax* that there seems to be some inconsistency about recent changes to file system structure and symlinks on debian ftp mirrors. hylafax is accessible from stable/ and unstable/, but stable/ still is slink and unstable/ now is woody. as i use potat

I have repackaged TkMan unofficially.

2000-02-20 Thread Shaul Karl
I have repackaged TkMan. It is an unofficial package for woody (unstable). TkMan is a graphical, hypertext manual page and Texinfo browser for UNIX. More information about TkMan is at http.cs.berkeley.edu/~phelps/tcltk/. It used to be in the non-free/doc section but has been orphaned by its previ

How to apt-get gnome

2000-02-20 Thread Lane Lester
Is there a single command to apt-get that will fetch all of the latest gnome basic system packages? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux

Re: roxen webserver problems

2000-02-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Martin" == Högman wrote: Martin> I just installed the Roxen webserver in order to check it out, Martin> but when I pointed my browser to the standardized address Martin> (http://moonspell.nowhere:19656) it seems that I can't connect Martin> to the server. Check that it is indeed running wit

Re: Problelm with mounting of partitions

2000-02-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 09:07:29AM +0100, Thomas Delaet wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I have troubles mounting my /var filesystem. > This is my fstab file > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # > > > /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount

Re: FTP overwrite

2000-02-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 02:52:20PM -0500, Andrew Chung wrote: > > 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 tha

Re: how to mark package "hold"

2000-02-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 07:01:48PM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote: > > Im still wondering, why ther is no --hold/unhold option in dpkg. IMHO this > is somehow inconsistant. This step is not that unusual. Wishlistbug? > this works fine for me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ cat /usr/local/sbin/dhold #! /bin/

Re: /usr/doc vs /usr/share/doc

2000-02-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 11:13:52AM -0500, Marc Sherman wrote: > 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

Re: Problelm with mounting of partitions

2000-02-20 Thread Markus Fischer
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 09:07:29AM +0100, Thomas Delaet wrote : > I have troubles mounting my /var filesystem. > [...] > /dev/hdc2 /var ext2 defaults 0 1 > [...] > And when I start up I got the message : filesystem not cleanly unmounted Maybe your /

Re: Should I use squid?

2000-02-20 Thread kmself
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 10:30:19PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > If you have only 1 machine, the only benefit would be the ease of adding > "Ad Zapper". If you hvae more than one in use, it could definitely be > a benefit.The difference on my fir apt-get, http and ftp is noticable, >

Re: Apt-get through proxy

2000-02-20 Thread Markus Fischer
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 10:36:02AM +0100, Radim Gelner wrote : > How do I instruct apt-get to use a proxy server instead of directly > contacting the host? Just a sidenote, there is also a small utility called apt-proxy which re-creates a local mirror of all downloaded debian packages ide

Re: Should I use squid?

2000-02-20 Thread aphro
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Christian Dysthe wrote: cdysth >Hi, cdysth > cdysth >would I gain anything by setting up, and configure my browser to cdysth >use squid as a proxy on my workstation. cdysth > cdysth >I'm running Debian unstable. i do it, at the same time if your using netscape/X11 it may be g

Re: your mail

2000-02-20 Thread aphro
use cdrecord (or X cd roast which uses cdrecord) dunno if other programs can burn it. easy cd creator has a history of screwing up bootable cds when burnt using it. dont know if they fixed it. nate On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, TaoX { Brian Hinson; } wrote: brianh >Ok, I found a place that offers the p

Problelm with mounting of partitions

2000-02-20 Thread Thomas Delaet
Hey everyone, I have troubles mounting my /var filesystem. This is my fstab file # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0

Re: spice

2000-02-20 Thread Paolo Nenzi
If you are interested in a versioneof spice that works on Potato, try to look at http://ieee.ing.uniroma1.it/ngspice. It is not debianized but works on Potato. Paolo

Re: Lilo gets wiped off /mbr

2000-02-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:05:57AM -0600, ktb wrote: > Here it is: > > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/hdb1 > compact > install=/boot/boot.b > delay=40 > map=/boot/map > vga=4 Take it that number means something on your system... > > image=/vmlinuz > label=slink > read-only > > other=/dev/hda

Re: Lilo gets wiped off /mbr

2000-02-20 Thread ktb
Here it is: boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hdb1 compact install=/boot/boot.b delay=40 map=/boot/map vga=4 image=/vmlinuz label=slink read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=win98 Thanks, kent - Original Message - From: Eric G . Miller To: Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 10:52 PM Subj

Re: Newbie mistakes

2000-02-20 Thread Brad
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 09:04:39PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > I also disable gdm and xdm by deleting the corresponding [SK][0-9][0-9]gdm > files from /etc/rc.d/ You can leave the /etc/init.d scripts alone. > > Alternatively, you can run: > > /etc/init.d/gdm stop > > ...and/or w

Newbi window manager configure

2000-02-20 Thread Ian Timshel
Thank-you all. I feel the frustration subsiding. Also the notes on density of text etc. appreciated. >Trick: http://localhost/doc/ should point to your documentation Love that! >Once your system has booted, you can run the command "dmesg" to capture the kernel ring buffer output. This sho

Re: Should I use squid?

2000-02-20 Thread Robert L. Harris
If you have only 1 machine, the only benefit would be the ease of adding "Ad Zapper". If you hvae more than one in use, it could definitely be a benefit.The difference on my fir apt-get, http and ftp is noticable, especially with Ad Zapper. Pages load ALOT faster. Robert Thus spake Christ

Should I use squid?

2000-02-20 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, would I gain anything by setting up, and configure my browser to use squid as a proxy on my workstation. I'm running Debian unstable. TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemai

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