Re: Linux and PS/2

2000-02-21 Thread Brendan O'Brien
Phil-- Thanks for the note. Indeed I did try your suggestion and received the error message: "can't locate module psaux" If indeed the PS/2 port is not enabled how do I go about doing this? Also, how does one determine which kernel of Debian I'm using? When the computer boots up it gives me S

Re: Linux and PS/2

2000-02-21 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hello-- > > > I would appreciate some help with the installation of my mouse. I'm > trying to get my old 100MHz pentium up and running with Linux alone > and I can't seem to get the mouse installed correctly. I know it > still works

Re: dhcpcd on slink

2000-02-21 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Well, I'm getting there . . . > > I upgraded to 2.2 (frozen), and that's all working. > > My NIC is working, and if I set the IPADDR, NETMASK, etc., etc., manually, > networking works just fine. > > But dhcpcd still refuses to pick t

ER: ipmasq+DNS+sendmail

2000-02-21 Thread runner
Hi all ! (Sorry, it will last long !) Please, help me ASAP ! I have to get our system out to the Internet and I want to build a secure system. So, I've read the HOWTOs and the brilliant TrinityOS, but so many thing focuses on RH or RH based systems. Ok, what we have: we have poor dialup connect

Linux and PS/2

2000-02-21 Thread Brendan O'Brien
  Mike--   Sorry, being the newbie I am I have little or no understanding of the difficulties I face as yet.  Anyway, what I can tell you right now is that I do not have a mouse at all when Linux boots into a command line environment.  In addition, when I try "startx", the program runs and I

tpqic02 question

2000-02-21 Thread steve doerr
Does anyone know how I can prevent the kernel from doing this device search? I can't seem to find where to turn it off in the kernel configuration. I think this tpqic02 search is somehow preventing my sound card from functioning (even if it's not, I don't have a qic-02 tape drive, so I'd rather i

Re: dhcpcd on slink

2000-02-21 Thread John G. Norman
Still at it . . . I'm trying to get dhcp going on an old 486 with a 3com 3c515 NIC. With potato, dhclient runs . . . but dhcp still can't get a response. This is MediaOne in Cambridge, Mass. . . . Does anyone in Cambridge know if dhcp service requires a hostname or a registered MAC address?

Re: creating a bootdisk

2000-02-21 Thread Attila
I'd prefer a method based on 'dd' and 'cp'. It is possible? Thanks Attila > On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 21:57, Attila Csosz wrote: >> How could I create a new bootdisk like created the debian installer after >> the >> installation? I think it is not enough 'dd if=zImage of=/dev/fd0' only >> because

Re: Linux and PS/2

2000-02-21 Thread Mike Werner
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 05:59:45PM -0500, Brendan O'Brien wrote: > Hello-- > > > I would appreciate some help with the installation of my mouse. I'm trying > to get my old 100MHz pentium up and running with Linux alone and I can't seem > to get the mouse installed correctly. I know it still w

Re: Squid on Slink a little sick

2000-02-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We have a slink system that has been running quite nicely for some time, >which acts as a pretty important server (for us, at least). One of the >functions that it serves is as a proxy server, running squid (the >current slin

Re: Is Debian going to run on my machine?

2000-02-21 Thread Brad
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:32:43AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 03:28:34AM -0800, Rong Shen wrote: > > > (4) an AOpen FM56-ITU modem > > Probably not, you got suckered here > (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO-30.html) > Note that a decent 56k external m

Linux and PS/2

2000-02-21 Thread Brendan O'Brien
Hello--     I would appreciate some help with the installation of my mouse.  I'm trying to get my old 100MHz pentium up and running with Linux alone and I can't seem to get the mouse installed correctly.  I know it still works because I had originally installed another version of Linux (Corel

Re: Sound Blaster Live

2000-02-21 Thread Svante Signell
Does any of the Live driver versions support SMP? Haven't installed mine yet due to this. Colin Marquardt writes: > * Mars Moon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So is a Sound Blaser Live driver available to the Linux users?? > > One option is a current ALSA: http://www.alsa-project.org >

Re: List

2000-02-21 Thread Mike Werner
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 06:41:19PM +, Timothy Bedding wrote: > Is there a general linux discussion list which is > active? > (Not usenet) There's a bunch of different Linux lists hosted on vger.rutgers.edu To get a list of them send the word lists in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2000-02-21 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
John Hasler wrote: > No. Each user would have his own chatscript in /etc/chatscripts and his > own provider file in /etc/ppp/peers, with names like > /etc/chatscripts/viktors-ppp and /etc/ppp/peers/viktors-ppp. The > administrator would set these up using pppconfig in the normal fashion and > the

Re: Is Debian going to run on my machine?

2000-02-21 Thread Bruce Mobarry
Hi, The HP 722 is a winprinter (I have the misfortune to have one also), but it is partially supported (black and white printing only) on the potato distribution (currently frozen). Good Luck! Bruce Mobarry > Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 03:28:34 -0800 (PST) > From: Rong Shen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > T

Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]

2000-02-21 Thread Adam Shand
> If there is an exploitable cgi, then there is web access to all of the > owning user's files. If it is not run via the suEXEC mechanism, then the > permissions are that of www-data, which are close to nothing. except that suexec effectively chroot's the the virtuals document root ... so all of

What *is* Gnome/KDE?

2000-02-21 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I have been playing around with Gnome and KDE and I do not understand what they really are! They both seem to be a bar with some docked stuff and a program launcher. This is of course seen from a users side of things. I really hope it is means more to developers! I know Gnome and KDE are cal

Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]

2000-02-21 Thread Adam Shand
> > It is not only what they write, but what they set the permissions to, as > > well. I know, this is also what they should learn. But with > > exploitable setuid cgi-s, and one can never be sure that his code is > > unexploitable, not only his cgi datafiles, but all files can be accessed > > and

Re: your mail

2000-02-21 Thread kmself
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 03:51:08PM -0500, TaoX { Brian Hinson; } wrote: > Hey, I just downloaded a cd-image of potato... but it has a .raw extension > instead of .iso, does anyone know if a .raw cd-image is equiv to a .iso? I > would simply like to rename the .raw to .iso and burn it? Extensions,

Re: Sound Blaser Live

2000-02-21 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi Mark, have a look at http://opensource.creative.com/. Download the file emu10k1*.tar.gz and extract it. Before compiling check the Makefile, I had to modify the INCLUDEDIR to point to the include dir of the sources. You also have to compile your kernel source to support modules and sound sup

Re: creating a bootdisk

2000-02-21 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 21:57, Attila Csosz wrote: > How could I create a new bootdisk like created the debian installer after the > installation? I think it is not enough 'dd if=zImage of=/dev/fd0' only > because I see some syslinux related files. The easiest way to do this is to boot your res

Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]

2000-02-21 Thread Joe Block
Robert Varga wrote: > > This is a good thing, IMO. Once students realize that it's their files > > and quota that are going to be eaten up by runaway cgis, in my > > experience they start paying more attention to what they're writing. > > > > It is not only what they write, but what they set the

glibc problem?

2000-02-21 Thread Chris Gray
Hi all, I've got the latest versions of libc6 and libc6-dev, but when I try to compile (for example) gnome-napster, I get quite a load of error messages like this: /usr/include/bits/string2.h: In function `__strpbrk_c3': /usr/include/bits/string2.h:1004: `size_t' undeclared (first use in this fu

Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]

2000-02-21 Thread Robert Varga
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Joe Block wrote: > Robert Varga wrote: > > If there is an exploitable cgi, then there is web access to all of the > > owning user's files. If it is not run via the suEXEC mechanism, then the > > permissions are that of www-data, which are close to nothing. > > Without using

creating a bootdisk

2000-02-21 Thread Attila Csosz
How could I create a new bootdisk like created the debian installer after the installation? I think it is not enough 'dd if=zImage of=/dev/fd0' only because I see some syslinux related files. Thanks Attila -- -- - Mail: [

Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]

2000-02-21 Thread Joe Block
Robert Varga wrote: > If there is an exploitable cgi, then there is web access to all of the > owning user's files. If it is not run via the suEXEC mechanism, then the > permissions are that of www-data, which are close to nothing. Without using suexec or cgiwrap, how do you keep each user's cgis

[no subject]

2000-02-21 Thread TaoX { Brian Hinson; }
Hey, I just downloaded a cd-image of potato... but it has a .raw extension instead of .iso, does anyone know if a .raw cd-image is equiv to a .iso? I would simply like to rename the .raw to .iso and burn it? Thanks -- www.muhri.net/TaoX [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: '6

Re: Sawmill/Gnome raising windows

2000-02-21 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Fish Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ...--being "on top" may be inextricably > linked with being in focus, as it is in windows. That is not true. (A utility called TweakUI can change that setting in MS Windows.) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: htt

Re: Is Debian going to run on my machine?

2000-02-21 Thread kmself
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:32:43AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 03:28:34AM -0800, Rong Shen wrote: > > Hi: > > > > I am thinking of doing away with Windows completely > > and using Debian. But Microsoft has suckered me into > > buying a bunch of hardware that I am

Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]

2000-02-21 Thread Robert Varga
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Adam Shand wrote: > > > It is the way it is supposed to be. > > is there a something in the docs i missed explaining that this is what needs > to be done? it took me a very frustrating hour to figure this out. if not > it should be submitted as a documentation bug, right

Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]

2000-02-21 Thread Adam Shand
> It is the way it is supposed to be. is there a something in the docs i missed explaining that this is what needs to be done? it took me a very frustrating hour to figure this out. if not it should be submitted as a documentation bug, right? > With suEXEC enabled, cgi-s run setuid-ed, which i

Re: mouse with gpm and X

2000-02-21 Thread Markus Fischer
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 12:39:33PM +0100, Armin Wegner wrote : > I've to kill gpm with > gpm -k > before starting X or I can not use my ps2 mouse in X. > That's new in potato. Switching back to a console I don't have gpm then. > I'm not pleased with this. In /etc/gpm.conf modify r

Re: dhcpcd on slink

2000-02-21 Thread John G. Norman
Well, I'm getting there . . . I upgraded to 2.2 (frozen), and that's all working. My NIC is working, and if I set the IPADDR, NETMASK, etc., etc., manually, networking works just fine. But dhcpcd still refuses to pick the information up from MediaOne; or, its request is not getting out. Sysl

Firewall default route

2000-02-21 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I'm putting a firewall/proxy server in for a company on Wednesday that will have a fixed IP number 212.19.66.nn They also have a WAN with a default gateway 192.1.1.1 How do I set up the routes for that all internet traffic is routed thru the Debian firewall I'll install but all traffic t

Re: glibc2.1 in chroot() in slink?

2000-02-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
aphro wrote: > was thinking about this for a while, would it be possible to install > glibc2.1 in a chroot() enviornment in slink? has anyone tried > this? It's the standard way to get build-depends information, so it's pretty common. I do all my potato builds on a chroot potato on a slink sys

Re: Is Debian going to run on my machine?

2000-02-21 Thread kmself
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 03:28:34AM -0800, Rong Shen wrote: > Hi: > > I am thinking of doing away with Windows completely > and using Debian. But Microsoft has suckered me into > buying a bunch of hardware that I am reluctant to > throw away. Specifically, I have Suggestions: Check the _Linux

IP MASQ

2000-02-21 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, Is kernel 2.2.14 built with IP masquerade? or all the 2.2.xx kernel now have IP masquerade? I tried to rebuild the kernel 2.2.14 on the potato and I believe that I did not see any option at the options screen before building the kernel. TIA --- tcp

Re: enlightenment control-panel?

2000-02-21 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
* Robert L. Harris | | I just nuked my RedHat box and installed Debian. Since I installed | debian | I've been re-installing things like Enlightenment. I can't seem to | find the enlightenment configuration tool though. I checked | enlightenment.org but no sign of it there. you don't state your

Re: Dselect question - mirroring packages on new box

2000-02-21 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
* Damon Muller | | Quoth Colin Watson, | > You'll want to look at 'dpkg --get-selections' on the old box, and | 'dpkg | > --set-selections' on the new one. | | I know this is a bit of a clueless newbie question (which I'm not | really). I've seen this advice quite a few times, and even tried it | o

Re: List

2000-02-21 Thread kmself
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 06:41:19PM +, Timothy Bedding wrote: > Is there a general linux discussion list which is > active? > (Not usenet) You might try a local or otherwise active Linux Users Group mailing list. For a list of groups: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/cgi-bin/frames.pl/glue/index.h

Re: Soundblaster AWE64

2000-02-21 Thread Michael Symalla
Hi Nils-Erik, the Tip using ALSA was great, now it works more or less. But two problems remain, perhaps someone can help me solving these: 1. I can't use programms like gmix anymore, even the volume-control in xmms doesn't work. Before you told me about ALSA, I got it to work with the normal kern

List

2000-02-21 Thread Timothy Bedding
Is there a general linux discussion list which is active? (Not usenet)

Re: Firewall Routing Question

2000-02-21 Thread Bill White
Thank you very much for your reply. The answers to most of your questions were in the first email I sent. I tried to simplify it by leaving out details, but apparently the details were what you wanted to see. In any case, my current network topology is this: > [DSL]--[HUB]--[216.254.24.95] >

Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]

2000-02-21 Thread Robert Varga
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Adam Shand wrote: > > > Here is a list of searches from the apache main site about suxec AND > > security: > > thanks but i just figured it out. all that needed to happed was to have the > suid bit set on the suexec binary. > > # chmod 4711 /usr/lib/apache/suexec > > th

oracle8i 8.1.5

2000-02-21 Thread Vincent Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cdrom/install/linux$ ./runIns.sh Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread Could not create Java VM i have followed the redhat installation instructions from http://technet.oracle.com, which really aren't redhat-specific at all. has anybody else had thi

Re: Solved: Re: ghostscript errors? (gs-aladdin 5.50-8)

2000-02-21 Thread L. Peter Deutsch
> The problem is related to the TrueType font definitions for gs. > > Invoking gs with no arguments produces an error message with the bad > gs.Fontmap file. > > The problem is line 564 of gs.Fontmap. There is some garbage data in > the Lucida Sans Typewriter Bold Oblique definition line. I've

Re: perl says the year is 0100

2000-02-21 Thread John Hasler
John Davis writes: > I have the latest perl for slink,... Exactly what version of perl? > ...but perl reports the year is 0100. Any idea what I should do? Post some code that illustrates the problem you are seeing. And read the perlfunc man page section on gmtime, especially the last sentence.

tetex

2000-02-21 Thread Laszlo Barabas
bei der Installation von tetex-base und tetex-bin Pakete geht etwas schief fmtutil:'tex -ini -progname=latex latex.ini' failed man dachte, muss auch per "Hand" gehen mit "texconfig init " aber ging es nicht ... ..mpost.mp Datei nicht vorhanden... ... ?? ??

Re: perl says the year is 0100

2000-02-21 Thread john s jacobs anderson
> "John" == John Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> hello I have the latest perl for slink, but perl reports the John> year is 0100. Any idea what I should do? Nm, have you considered adding 1900 to the returned value? 8^)= And maybe try reading the documentation for the date comma

Re: eth0: unknown interface

2000-02-21 Thread Ron Rademaker
Removing the module won't work, because bye removing the module the interface eth0 still won't exist (you could say it exists even less) and the error will still occur. Renaming the scripts will work, along with editing /etc/init.d/network and another possible solution is reconfiguring the network

Re: eth0: unknown interface

2000-02-21 Thread webmaster
> Well, what you said about the modules.conf would only prevent the computer > from loading the module for the network card when booting. By loading in > this module the interface (eth0, or if there are more network cards eth1, > eth2 etc.) is known, later during boot the init.d scripts are being

Recommended networked filesystem structure?

2000-02-21 Thread Nils Ackermann
Hello, We have four SparcStation4 and an Ultra1. Up to now we had Solaris running, the whole System installed on every machine. I added a /usr/local hierarchy on the Ultra server with all the good stuff from GNU, and mounted it as a nfs filesystem under /usr/local on each one of the clients. No

perl says the year is 0100

2000-02-21 Thread John Davis
hello I have the latest perl for slink, but perl reports the year is 0100. Any idea what I should do? John Davis

Re: eth0: unknown interface

2000-02-21 Thread Ron Rademaker
Well, what you said about the modules.conf would only prevent the computer from loading the module for the network card when booting. By loading in this module the interface (eth0, or if there are more network cards eth1, eth2 etc.) is known, later during boot the init.d scripts are being called (w

Re: .forward and exim More info

2000-02-21 Thread Patrick Kirk
Sends two copies to each of them.

Re: Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread Bart Szyszka
> I just installed a Microtek X6EL, then xsane, sane, and gimp. That's > all I had to do and this scanner was running. Do you install sane-gimp1.1? Because if I install gimp1.1, then sane gets removed and if I install sane then gimp1.1 gets removed. Is there a configuration utility that comes wit

Re: eth0: unknown interface

2000-02-21 Thread webmaster
> That has nothing to do with it and won't work (by the way, there are a lot > more network cards then just ne compatible ones). > What you should do is edit your /etc/init.d/network, you should make it > look like something like this: > > #! /bin/sh > ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 > route add -net 127.0

.forward and exim

2000-02-21 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, This .forward will send two copies of a message addresses to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] to martin How can I improve on this to get them one copy each? Patrick if error_message then finish endif if $header_to:,$header_cc: contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] then deliver patrick endif

Re: mouse with gpm and X

2000-02-21 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi Armin, What was the options that were supplied to the gpm by check the file in /etc/gpm.conf (in potato). If you see the line "repeat+type=". Comment this out by placing an '#' (without the quote). and stop and restart the gpm by: /etc/init.d/gpm stop and /et

recompile kernel for IP-MASQ

2000-02-21 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I'm trying to compile the kerne 2.2.14 with IP Masquerade option and I did know which options should I select for the IP Masquerade. Please help. Thanks! --- tcp

Re: afterstep

2000-02-21 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi Cormac, I'm glad to see the problem was discovered by other user as well. For days, I thought that I was the only dude uses afterstep and the only dude imagined thing :). And thank you very much for filling the bug report because I have yet to learned how to fill the bug report...

ppp possible VJ compression problem

2000-02-21 Thread Richard Vanek \(ETM
Hello, I would like to ask you for a help with ppp connection. I was searching for past five days debian-user mailing list. I have found a lot of different solutions for different problems but I think I didn't found situation which happens on my computer. I setup Debian 2.1 from CD, I made a min

Re: eth0: unknown interface

2000-02-21 Thread Ron Rademaker
That has nothing to do with it and won't work (by the way, there are a lot more network cards then just ne compatible ones). What you should do is edit your /etc/init.d/network, you should make it look like something like this: #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 If you want

Re: eth0--what's up?

2000-02-21 Thread Carl Mummert
>Thank you. This is exactly what I needed to know. >So if I get you right, eth0 is kinda like ppp? >Interface, not a device? That just seems odd, the way >I've seen it referred to in conversation. I knew I >was missing something. If you know C, the following can help explain it: You cannot op

samba 2.0.6 for slink

2000-02-21 Thread Przemek Bak
Hi, Is there any samba*2.0.6*deb for slink ? przemol

Re: eth0: unknown interface

2000-02-21 Thread webmaster
> eth0: unknown interface: No such device > > I guess that eth0 is an interface for ethernet cards. I don't have > one. So I don't need this message. What can I do against it? Is there > a package which I can delete? Maybe it's enough to deactivate the following line in your "/etc/conf.modules":

voodoo question

2000-02-21 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I have an old Voodoo-I (Orchid Righteous 3D) lying around here. Would I gain anything (eg better performance) if I installed it in my P166-box, especially when using snes9x? Theres something about 3dfx-support in the documentation of snes9x, but no word regarding better performance... I a

Upgrading to potato

2000-02-21 Thread fasanti
Hi, I am going to upgrade from Debian slink 2.1 to potato. Can anybody tell me if I am wrong about the procedure? Actually, I am working with a spanish non-official Debian distribution and it includes apt-get, Kde, gnome, etc. I am not sure about the consequences of upgrading to the official distr

mouse with gpm and X

2000-02-21 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, I've to kill gpm with gpm -k before starting X or I can not use my ps2 mouse in X. That's new in potato. Switching back to a console I don't have gpm then. I'm not pleased with this. I would like have gpm and a mouse under X. In slink this was no problem. What can I do? Armin

eth0: unknown interface

2000-02-21 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, At boot potato gives me this message eth0: unknown interface: No such device I guess that eth0 is an interface for ethernet cards. I don't have one. So I don't need this message. What can I do against it? Is there a package which I can delete? Armin

Re: Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:59:27AM +1030, John Pearson wrote: > Most SCSI scanners work under Linux, using SANE. > > USB and parallel port scanners may work with kernel 2.4 > when it comes out, which means they may also work with > some 2.3.x (development) kernels). Does it include only "SCSI ov

conf.modules

2000-02-21 Thread webmaster
Hi there, does anybody know if there is a example file which includes all possible modules? I include one that I have found on a SuSE-Distribution. Uwe# # Copyright (c) 1996-1999 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany. All rights reserved. # # Author: Hubert Mantel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 1996-1999 # # Confi

Is Debian going to run on my machine?

2000-02-21 Thread Rong Shen
Hi: I am thinking of doing away with Windows completely and using Debian. But Microsoft has suckered me into buying a bunch of hardware that I am reluctant to throw away. Specifically, I have (1) a printer (HP color deskjet 722C), (2) a CD burner (Memorex CDRW-1622 rewritable), (7) an ATAPI 2

francois@ctrlaltdel.ch

2000-02-21 Thread Mikhael
Hello ! Je cherche le package mars-nwe pour potato. Je vois pas ou le trouver sur le Net (il n'apparait pas dans la database des packages Debian potato). T'as une idée ? Mercii ;-))

Ipfwadm -> ipchains conversion syntax help 2.0.x -> 2.2.x

2000-02-21 Thread Anthony Green
Hello .. Im about to go from kernel 2.0.38 to 2.2.x I have some syntax questions with regards to ipchains .. and have included below my existing IP setup in init.d/network and some local settings .. If someone could let me know the ipchains syntax .. that'd be great. Current net config .. wit

libc6 installing error

2000-02-21 Thread Bruno Van de Casteele
(please cc to me, i follow this mailing list via the archives) hi, whilst upgrading my frozen-box, i got following error. chesterfield:/etc/apt# apt-get install libc6 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, libc6 is already the newest version 0 packages upgraded, 0

Re: Dselect question - mirroring packages on new box

2000-02-21 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Colin Watson, > You'll want to look at 'dpkg --get-selections' on the old box, and 'dpkg > --set-selections' on the new one. I know this is a bit of a clueless newbie question (which I'm not really). I've seen this advice quite a few times, and even tried it once or twice myself without muc

Solved: Re: ghostscript errors? (gs-aladdin 5.50-8)

2000-02-21 Thread kmself
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 12:02:16AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 08:51:13PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > I'm finding errors with ghostscript interpreted viewers, including 'gv' > > Following up to myself > > There are a few debian-bug posts suggesting

Re: UPS monitoring packages?

2000-02-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> 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/ > Is that debianized? The link there only leads to a .deb th

Re: Adding second IP problem

2000-02-21 Thread Chuck Peters
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, George Bonser wrote: > > use eth0:1 for the alias Thanks, but still not working on bootup. Just changed the messages error a bit. Feb 21 02:41:25 lenape kernel: net_alias_dev_create(eth0:1): unregistered family==2 Could it be something odd about a partial upgrade to fro

Re: modem in bash

2000-02-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> 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. > You might also try minicom or

Re: ghostscript errors? (gs-aladdin 5.50-8)

2000-02-21 Thread kmself
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 08:51:13PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I'm finding errors with ghostscript interpreted viewers, including 'gv' Following up to myself There are a few debian-bug posts suggesting a problem with gs and /etc/gs.Fontmap. The following strace exerpt run with *no*

Adding second IP problem

2000-02-21 Thread Chuck Peters
After installing imp with apt from frozen I want to add an IP for the webmail.axs.org. I did the usual add a ifconfig and route in /etc/init.d/network as follows: /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 192.190.237.140 /sbin/route add -host 192.190.237.140 dev eth0:0 Works fine on the command line, but when I

Re: Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I just installed a Microtek X6EL, then xsane, sane, and gimp. That's all I had to do and this scanner was running. Oh, there were a couple of rough spots. First I had to recompile the kernel with scsi generic support. THen I had to run MAKEDEV in /dev to get /dev/sgX. (Why weren't they there?

Re: Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I just installed a Microtek X6EL, then xsane, sane, and gimp. That's all I had to do and this scanner was running. Oh, there were a couple of rough spots. First I had to recompile the kernel with scsi generic support. THen I had to run MAKEDEV in /dev to get /dev/sgX. (Why weren't they there?

Re: Sawmill/Gnome raising windows

2000-02-21 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 09:44:43PM -0800, Fish Smith wrote > > 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 do

apt does not upgrade eterm

2000-02-21 Thread John Leget
Ive now had this happen a few time. Update local mirror ran dselect ( using apt ) and update Eterm shows up as newer version install blah blha I go back in and eterm is still listed under new updated, i confirm it wasnt installed by checking the current version on the system. Its marked for insta

Re: Mustek 1200 LS scanner working in Debian?

2000-02-21 Thread Bart Szyszka
> Go to www.mostang.com/sane > There you will find a link to supported scanners. I know there is a Mustek > back-end, but I don't know if it supports the 1200 LS scanner. > This will give you just about as much info there is for scanners. That's what I was afraid of because there doesn't seem to b

Re: Sawmill/Gnome raising windows

2000-02-21 Thread TaoX { Brian Hinson; }
Actually GNOME isn't a window manager... so you should look toward the window manager that runs under GNOME typically enlightenment or KDE... though any window manager that supports GNOME's hints should work with GNOME. If your windows manager is enlightenment.. then use enlightenments configuratio

Re: SMP

2000-02-21 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Oki DZ wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Sean Johnson wrote: > > > Phil Brutsche wrote: > > > > > it's one of two ways Linux can use Intel-based SMP systems (the other is > > > IO-APIC used on PIIs on up, and maybe PPros). > > > > Seems to be on the PPros too > > > > In

Re: your mail

2000-02-21 Thread Robert L. Harris
I found it. Was hoping I'd find a .deb file. Atleast it's something that'll work though. Robert Thus spake TaoX { Brian Hinson; } ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > ftp://ftp.enlightenment.org/pub/enlightenment/enlightenment/tools/ > > go here and get enlightenment-conf-0.15.tar.gz > > this is the en

Re: Sawmill/Gnome raising windows

2000-02-21 Thread Fish Smith
> 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't necessarily want >that window to >rise to >the top/foreground. I do want

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2000-02-21 Thread TaoX { Brian Hinson; }
ftp://ftp.enlightenment.org/pub/enlightenment/enlightenment/tools/ go here and get enlightenment-conf-0.15.tar.gz this is the enlightenment configurator you are looking for... TaoX -- www.muhri.net/TaoX [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: '61511769' AOL IM: 'TaoX 0x1'

Re: enlightenment control-panel?

2000-02-21 Thread Fish Smith
>I just nuked my RedHat box and installed Debian. >Since I installed >debian >I've been re-installing things like Enlightenment. I >can't seem to >find the enlightenment configuration tool though. I >checked >enlightenment.org but no sign of it there. >What package to I need? My guess is tha

Re: Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 10:03:53AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote > Hey, > > My friend is thinking about buying a scanner tomorrow, but I told him to > let me find out if it would be possible to use in Linux. It's just an > offbrand, 50$ scanner. Could we get drivers (or use it) in Debian > Slink

Re: enlightenment control-panel?

2000-02-21 Thread Robert L. Harris
If you had read, I have installed enlightenment and related packages. The problem is that if you open the Gnome control panel, and go to WindowManager, you can select Enlightement, and then a configuration editor that was standalone for adding themes, etc. I just found the source to the enlight

RE: Mustek 1200 LS scanner working in Debian?

2000-02-21 Thread John Gay
Go to www.mostang.com/sane There you will find a link to supported scanners. I know there is a Mustek back-end, but I don't know if it supports the 1200 LS scanner. This will give you just about as much info there is for scanners. Cheers, John Gay

Re: enlightenment control-panel?

2000-02-21 Thread Marshal Wong
> "Robert" == Robert L Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just nuked my RedHat box and installed Debian. Since I > installed debian I've been re-installing things like > Enlightenment. I can't seem to find the enlightenment > configuration tool though. I checked enlighte

ghostscript errors? (gs-aladdin 5.50-8)

2000-02-21 Thread kmself
I'm finding errors with ghostscript interpreted viewers, including 'gv' and 'gnome-gv' on a number of different documents, including some system documentation which I *really* think ought to be legal, as well as piped output from mpage, eg: ps aux | mpage -2 | gv - I'm finding some articles s

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