vi wrap=?

2000-03-07 Thread Patrick
Hi all, Is there a file I can set margins to wrap at 65 characters for all vi sessions, including those in mutt? Thanks in advance. Patrick PS - many thanks for the printing suggestions. magicfilter was the one.

RE: Booting DAC960 Raid

2000-03-07 Thread Jeff Hopkins
Title: RE: Booting DAC960 Raid Hi, I stated the board works, fault tolerant also.  I upgraded the firmware to the supported version.  The issue now is booting to it.  How can I go about copying a running system from bootable drive to non bootable drive, that I want to be bootable?  Am I on t

Getting dialog to work

2000-03-07 Thread Matheson
Hey, I'm still trying to get this stupid dialog thing to work, so I tried to do this example script. Unfortunately, if gives me the same output no matter what the user chooses. If anyone could help me, that would help me a lot. Here it is: #!/bin/sh # Cameron Matheson DIALOG=${DIALOG=dialog}

Re: set up AWE 64

2000-03-07 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Process of setting up AWE64 is as follows: 1. isapnp it. 2. Compile sound support in kernel as modules 3. make bzImage 4. make modules 5. make modules_install 6. reboot for new kernel 7. modprobe sound 8. insmod uart_401 9. insmod opl3 10. insmod sb with parameters from the isapnp file, as the card

calendar file

2000-03-07 Thread Syed Muhammad Ali Zaidi
Hi ther : I was just exploring the OS when i noticed that there is NO calendar.muslim file available. Although i cant understand the reason behind it but if it is non availibilty of data than i would love to be of some help. Thanks for your time Syed Muhammad Ali Zaidi Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We

Netscape install

2000-03-07 Thread Paul Nesbit
Trying to install netscape on deb box using KDE. Stderr is : ./netscape: error in loading shared libraries libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I currently have libstdc++2.9 and libc6 version 2.0.7.19981211-6 Do I need to upgrade this package?

Re: HOW DO I Apply debian patch to original source?

2000-03-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 11:07:04AM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote: > I am having problems installing the wu-ftpd package from source. > > The whole reason I am grabbing the source is that I want to use a more > recent version of wu-ftpd than what is available with the slink binary > packages. If I ca

How to get glibc 2.1 on slink

2000-03-07 Thread Rick Salvador
Any tips on how to do this for a production machine? I want to get MySQL and PHP3 up and running on this system using the latest versions. I can't use the .deb for PHP because I'm running a Raven secured Apache and need to compile in the DSO from the PHP source to make it work with raven. Th

Fancy features of Storm Linux

2000-03-07 Thread Christian Rishøj
I recently visited Storm Linux's (Debian in disguise) homepage and found some fancy (not nessecarily usable) features like graphical bootloader and (framebuffered?) svga console and boot sequence. See for example http://www.stormix.com/products/screenshots/index_html?query_start=5 ...which has a

What is a "memmory overflow"error at BOOT

2000-03-07 Thread Max Young II
When I boot one of my computers, I get a "memory overflow" error "please insert another disk".  Can you help me?

Is it possible to burn the "upgrade CD's"?

2000-03-07 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All I've burned the official CD's with Debian 2.1r0. I'd like to have the updated version 2.1r4, but I would like to avoid burning all the 5 CD's again (2 for binary, 2 for sources, 1 for non-free non-US). Is it possible to automatically create the CD containing only the updated packages, whic

need missing header file serial_compat.h

2000-03-07 Thread Joseph de los Santos
hello, I was wondering where can I get that missing header file serial_compat.h thanks. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Booting DAC960 Raid

2000-03-07 Thread Taupter
Jeff, There are two versions of the Mylex DAC960 with slight differences. The newer one is well supported in Linux, but the older is not supported at all. It's a hardware/firmware issue. Check your board. Claudio

Re: installing- last try before win98

2000-03-07 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 10:33:01AM -0800, smoke wrote: > i downloaded the files from the getting started, dos install. i have > install, linux > drv1440.bin, loadlin.exe, root.bin,resc1440.bin and base2_1.tgz. > i run the install bat and get a command to enter kernal name. i tried > linux and nothi

Re: fresh potato installation

2000-03-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 07-Mar-2000 Martin Schulze wrote: > > Hmm, on a fresh potato system I still get: > > > > Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm > > line 85. > > Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/IPC/Open3.pm line 188. > > > >

RE: package for ps, w, free, top, ....

2000-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Mar-2000 Jaume Teixi wrote: > What is the package that contains the ps, w, free, top, > instructions ? > psmisc

Re: HOW DO I Apply debian patch to original source?

2000-03-07 Thread Brian Lavender
I am having problems installing the wu-ftpd package from source. The whole reason I am grabbing the source is that I want to use a more recent version of wu-ftpd than what is available with the slink binary packages. If I can build the package from the source files to give me a slink compatible pa

RE: fresh potato installation

2000-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Mar-2000 Martin Schulze wrote: > Hmm, on a fresh potato system I still get: > > Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm > line 85. > Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/IPC/Open3.pm line 188. > > What's up with it? > Joey Hess is intereste

RE: Suggestion for potato httpd ?

2000-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Mar-2000 Igor Mozetic wrote: > > I'm looking for suggestions for a simple web server to be > installed on several machines, just for local use > (eg, reading html info/manpages). In slink, there was ncsa, > which is gone from potato. What remains: > - apache and roxen seem an overkill > - c

RE: Proper way to call window manager

2000-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Mar-2000 Christian Rishøj wrote: > > What is the proper way to call the window manager? Currently, I call wmaker > from ~./Xsession (or something). Does Debian have a policy on this? > Something with /etc/alternatives? > we are creating one. However, regardless of what we do, you can con

Re: How to add a user to a group on the fly

2000-03-07 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Pann McCuaig wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 17:31, Kent West wrote: > > > If I want to add my normal user (westk) to the > > > dialout group, I know I can (as root) edit the > > > /etc/group file and add westk to the end of the [...] > > > dialout lin

RE: libbz2 question

2000-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Mar-2000 Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > It seems that libbz2 does not have a function that similar to > fgets or gzgets. > > Does anyone know how to do it using the libbz2 functions? > my understanding is that you do the file reading in your own code (or another libraries) an

RE: php3 does not support postgres?

2000-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Mar-2000 Alberto Maurizi wrote: > > I know the subject is false: php3 DOES support Postgres. > But in my (daily upgraded) potato it seems not to. > A very simple call to pg_connect returns: > > Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function pg_connect() > in funct

Re: package for ps, w, free, top, ....

2000-03-07 Thread kmself
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 05:32:47PM +0100, Jaume Teixi wrote: > What is the package that contains the ps, w, free, top, > instructions ? dpkg -S `which top` procps: /usr/bin/top You'll find 'who' in shellutils. -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of "Gestalt" don't you u

Re: package for ps, w, free, top, ....

2000-03-07 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >What is the package that contains the ps, w, free, top, >instructions ? procps. It's a required package, so you should have it already. Use 'dpkg -S' to find out which package contains a given file. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL P

Re: quick question

2000-03-07 Thread Dean Struss
Tek wrote: > Okay, I was confusing LILO and loadlin (I knew what I was talking about, but > didn't use the right name). I believe I know now what to do, but I still > don't know about one thing: should I toggle the "bootable" flag on for the > root partition on the HDD, or leave it off, if I in

Re: DBF Manipulation

2000-03-07 Thread Paul Kallstrom
On 07-Mar-2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Conceptual Software produces a (proprietary) program, DBMSCopy, which > can access and manipulate data in a number of formats. While its > primary purpose is data access and conversion, it includes a fairly > powerful data language as well. There are

Re: DBF Manipulation

2000-03-07 Thread Paul Kallstrom
On 07-Mar-2000 Dave Sherohman wrote: > Although I doubt that it's quite what you're looking for, I'm currently > working with a product called CodeBase which manipulates DBFs and is > available for both Linux and Windows. However, it's a development toolkit, > not an end-user application. But if

Solaris and Debian

2000-03-07 Thread Evan Moore
Has any1 played with a dual boot Linux and Solaris box? Here is the deal Solaris is grumpy about having its fdisk (swap) partition on the same drive as the linux swap (apperently they are the same) Can I Use the same swap partition for both OSs? Also, which is the better boot loader to use, the Sol

Re: DBF Manipulation

2000-03-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:40:51 -0500, Paul Kallstrom wrote: > I am looking for an application that will manipulate DBF files under > Linux, The "dbview" package allows you to access dBase III and IV files; presumably it's not very difficult to base a converter to a modern database on it. HTH, R

Re: Is non-us.debian.org down?

2000-03-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 00:36:03 +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > non-us.debian.org does not seems to respond for quite a long time. Is it down? No. Pandora (the machine hosting non-US) currently has an uptime of 76 days; its FTP service is working. HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once

Re: DBF Manipulation

2000-03-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
Paul Kallstrom said: > I am looking for an application that will manipulate DBF files under Linux, > in a > manner similar to FoxPro. > > Most of the data manipulation we do here, as a response driven mail house, is > dbf based. > > Foxpro has been in use here for years, and is the preferred too

Re: package for ps, w, free, top, ....

2000-03-07 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 05:32:47PM +0100, Jaume Teixi wrote: > What is the package that contains the ps, w, free, top, > instructions ? [EMAIL PROTECTED](12:29pm)-~]%dpkg -S /bin/ps procps: /bin/ps -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins

Re: Developing Gnome Apps with Debian?

2000-03-07 Thread Adam Shand
> a lot of violence. Maybe that's the way to do it, though. I also spent > some time finding out all the packages I would have to remove if I > removed libgtk*. That seemed like more work than was necessary as well, > but perhaps that's the right way to do it. not the answer to your main quest

Re: Suggestion for potato httpd ?

2000-03-07 Thread kmself
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 03:26:45PM +, Igor Mozetic wrote: > > I'm looking for suggestions for a simple web server to be > installed on several machines, just for local use > (eg, reading html info/manpages). In slink, there was ncsa, > which is gone from potato. What remains: > - apache and ro

Re: Eterm --console

2000-03-07 Thread Adam Shand
> I personally don't think that specifying a term as console shows you > anything all that interesting - at least, it never has for me. > > OTOH, if you do a "tail -f /var/log/syslog" in a transparent Eterm, and > park it in the corner of your screen, you have a very cool XConsole. > Pipe it thro

Re: on master and slave DNS servers

2000-03-07 Thread Adam Shand
it should not matter. both master and slave servers are capable of being authoritive (all that ns1/ns2 need to be in this case). it does mean that you propagation times will be a little higher but if you running bind 8 with updates turned on it shouldn't be a big deal. adam. On Mon, 6 Mar 2000

Re: securing ports

2000-03-07 Thread Adam Shand
> Which ports are inadvisable for closing? TIA, John N. it depends on what the box does. if it's just a workstation for you then you can probably turn off everything in inetd.conf except ident. ports you might want to look into leaving open, depending on the purpose of the box: ftp ssh ident

Re: DBF Manipulation

2000-03-07 Thread kmself
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:40:51AM -0500, Paul Kallstrom wrote: > > I am looking for an application that will manipulate DBF files under > Linux, in a manner similar to FoxPro. > > Most of the data manipulation we do here, as a response driven mail house, > is dbf based. > > Foxpro has been in u

Re: dc390 what does it mean?

2000-03-07 Thread kmself
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 06:08:50PM +1100, Pikuan wrote: > i just bought a debian 2.1 r 4 CD > i was installing from cd, pressed enter at the main menu. it does all the > initialisation when it reach this line and stop: > DC390: 0 adapters found The kernel is testing for a Tekram DC-390(t) PCI SCSI

What packages for Mesa and Voodoo 1?

2000-03-07 Thread Jonathan Markevich
I tried installing all of the Mesa and Glide stuff to get my Monster 3D card working with Mesa, but it didn't seem to work. XRacer runs at about .1 fps and none of the MESA_GLX_FX environment variable stuff will work with any OpenGL stuff like Xmms or screensavers. Does anyone have a list of requ

Re: Framebuffer console with a G400

2000-03-07 Thread Eric G . Miller
I'm using a G200, but the .config should be only modestly different: # # Console drivers # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y # CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set CONFIG_FB=y # Gotta have that CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y# and that. # CONFIG_FB_PM2 is

Where to specify fonts for which apps?

2000-03-07 Thread Kent West
Whenever I've got xfstt running, several apps have menus, etc that use cursive, hard-to-read fonts. For example, when I ctrl-right-click on an xterm to bring up the fontsize menu, all the text in that pop-up menu is hard-to-read cursive. Where do I specify what fonts will be used in this pop-up men

package for ps, w, free, top, ....

2000-03-07 Thread Jaume Teixi
What is the package that contains the ps, w, free, top, instructions ?

Re: installation script (was: dc390 what does...)

2000-03-07 Thread David Wright
Quoting Pikuan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > i am having problem installing debian2.1 r 4 Hmm, I don't get that with slink; are you really installing potato? > it ran until "dc390: 0 adapters found" > and stop after that. my q is does anyone know what is the next instruction > after this dc390 thing? ho

fresh potato installation

2000-03-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Hmm, on a fresh potato system I still get: Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 85. Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/IPC/Open3.pm line 188. What's up with it? Regards, Joey -- The only stupid question is the unasked one. Pl

Re: How to add a user to a group on the fly

2000-03-07 Thread Kent West
Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 17:31, Kent West wrote: > > If I want to add my normal user (westk) to the > > dialout group, I know I can (as root) edit the > > /etc/group file and add westk to the end of the > > # adduser westk dialout > > is much easier. :-> > Oh sure; now you t

Re: securing ports

2000-03-07 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > Which ports are inadvisable for closing? TIA, John N. It depends on what you do on the net. For example, some irc servers (irc.prison.net is one of tehm) require for you to run ident in order to connect to them. Obviously, you wnat to turn off useless ports...discard, daytime, time, finger,

DBF Manipulation

2000-03-07 Thread Paul Kallstrom
I am looking for an application that will manipulate DBF files under Linux, in a manner similar to FoxPro. Most of the data manipulation we do here, as a response driven mail house, is dbf based. Foxpro has been in use here for years, and is the preferred tool of the old timers. The last batch

keywords - freeswan ipsec debian

2000-03-07 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Hi, Does anyone have freeswan working on debian? Is there a package or list of steps to get it installed anywhere? I've got the kernel images built, but don't have the startup scripts working yet. I didn't see anything in the archives and couldn't get the search function on the web page to work.

Suggestion for potato httpd ?

2000-03-07 Thread Igor Mozetic
I'm looking for suggestions for a simple web server to be installed on several machines, just for local use (eg, reading html info/manpages). In slink, there was ncsa, which is gone from potato. What remains: - apache and roxen seem an overkill - cern-httpd is outdated? - dhttpd has no cgi support

Re: Configuration management

2000-03-07 Thread Brian Bartholomew
[I am not on this mailing list. Please cc: me in replies.] > * CVS (the remote protocol) doesn't track file permissions, >ownership and symbolic links. In ftp://ftp.pn.com/pub/bb/cvsmapfs you'll find a workaround: # Purpose: # # It would be extremely useful to store an entire UNIX u

Re: Framebuffer console with a G400

2000-03-07 Thread Mark Zimmerman
I did put it in decimal form in lilo.conf. Here's the entry that gave the results I posted: vga=792 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux append="video=matrox:vesa:440" read-only In any event, I don't think that the lilo options should prevent fbset from working. I'm wondering if I m

Re: HOW DO I Apply debian patch to original source?

2000-03-07 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: > To create a package from the Debian source, you should also install > dpkg-dev and download > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/source/net/wu-ftpd_2.6.0-4.dsc > > Then type "dpkg-source -x wu-ftpd_2.6.0-4.dsc" (as root). This will > unpack th

Suggestion for potato httpd ?

2000-03-07 Thread Igor Mozetic
I'm looking for suggestions for a simple web server to be installed on several machines, just for local use (eg, reading html info/manpages). In slink, there was ncsa, which is gone from potato. What remains: - apache and roxen seem an overkill - cern-httpd is outdated? - dhttpd has no cgi support

RE: installation script (was: dc390 what does...)

2000-03-07 Thread Paul Kallstrom
Ok, the Athlon dictates the need for the tecra kernel. Do you have a multi CD set? If so, boot from the 2nd cd. If not, make a boot diskette with the tecra kernel, & all will be well. Paul On 07-Mar-2000 Pikuan wrote: > i am having problem installing debian2.1 r 4 > it ran until "dc390: 0 adapter

Developing Gnome Apps with Debian?

2000-03-07 Thread Bill White
Hi. I have a question about Gnome and Debian. I have installed the October Gnome using apt-get from debian/~vincent/mumble on my reasonably stock slink system. I want to track the latest Gnome libraries, and in particular, the glade and gtkmm libraries, and bonobo. These are apparently quite ou

Re: compiling new kernel

2000-03-07 Thread Marshal Wong
486/33 8MB 2.0.36 > "Daniel" == Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello there, On 7 Mar 2000, Marshal Wong wrote: >> If I may inquire, why are you trying to compile a 2.2.x kernel >> for a i386? That's going to hurt. I compiled a 2.0.x kernel >> on my old 486 and

Re: Can no-one help? Gnome has lost all but the basic icons on desktop

2000-03-07 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Thank you for pointing out the way out. You didn't get any answers probably because no one knew how to fix it, or what was going on. Thanks again, the problem and the solution will remain in the archives for future references. Phillip Deackes wrote: > This is definately becoming a monlogue!! > >

installation script (was: dc390 what does...)

2000-03-07 Thread Pikuan
i am having problem installing debian2.1 r 4 it ran until "dc390: 0 adapters found" and stop after that. my q is does anyone know what is the next instruction after this dc390 thing? how can i fin out? my system is rather generic and run fine under RH6.1 (what i'm currently using) Athlon 500 128mb

Re: Eterm --console

2000-03-07 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Parrish M Myers, > My problem is in getting Eterm to grab the console messages. I have > tried suid root, I have tried to run Eterm as root. I have even tried > to change the owener of /dev/console. Nothing works... the Eterm just > opens up and gives me a command prompt (normal Eterm usa

Re: compiling new kernel

2000-03-07 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, On 7 Mar 2000, Marshal Wong wrote: > If I may inquire, why are you trying to compile a 2.2.x kernel for a > i386? That's going to hurt. I compiled a 2.0.x kernel on my old 486 > and it took over 5 hours! What kind of kernel did you compile, and on what kind of machine? I compil

Re: securing ports

2000-03-07 Thread John G. Norman
Which ports are inadvisable for closing? TIA, John N. At 09:07 PM 3/6/2000 -0600, Andrei Ivanov wrote: ipchains. Read the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. Or just disable all the services through /etc/inetd.conf (not advised for a couple of ports).

Proper way to call window manager

2000-03-07 Thread Christian Rishøj
What is the proper way to call the window manager? Currently, I call wmaker from ~./Xsession (or something). Does Debian have a policy on this? Something with /etc/alternatives? /Christian

RE: Cups 1.0.5

2000-03-07 Thread Alan Tam
Hi Jim, Thanks for you info. Cheers, Alan > > Subject: RE: Cups 1.0.5 > Resent-Date: 6 Mar 2000 22:59:21 - > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Resent-CC: recipient list not shown: ; > Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 10:32:19 -0500 > From: "Lewis, Jame

Re: Configuration of local mailserver behind linux firewall - HELP!

2000-03-07 Thread Robert Varga
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have a linux (2.2.X kernel) box that I am using as a firewall between > my internal network and our new ADSL modem. I am currently working on > configuring the ipchains on the linux box to protect my internal > systems. > > Question:

network logging question

2000-03-07 Thread Michael Meskes
Is there any network logging tool that is does its logging via syslog? I have a dedicated loggin machine where all other machines send their log entries too. Now I want to do some network logging on a router. So of course it would make my life much easier if that router sends its log entries to m

Re: mailing list problems ?

2000-03-07 Thread kmself
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 05:52:59PM -0500, S. Salman Ahmed wrote: > > Did anyone else experience an approx. 18 hour blackout from this list ? > I just received some messages from debian-user after approx. 18 hours. Yes. -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of "Gestalt" don't

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-07 Thread kmself
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:20:46PM -0800, Jim Varney wrote: > > Updating my Potato system a few days ago with dselect broke my X windows. X > starts up with the herringbone and shows a single shell window and prompt. X is working. However your window manager or desktop (what do you usually use

Re: Kernel 2.2.14 and Xserver

2000-03-07 Thread Igor Mozetic
> The old kernel was 2.2.12. I am currently using > potato. > When I go back to the old kernel I am still having the > same problems. I can fix all of the path statements > by hand, but the xserver problem makes no sense since > the files seem to be in place. The xserver starts but > with no windo

Re: : Help! I can't partition

2000-03-07 Thread kmself
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 09:34:38AM -0800, ravi wrote: > already formated and partitioned as c drive& d drive. now i want to use > as single drive ( c only) please help me how to change partition. thank > you What OS are you using? What program did you use to partition your drive? Can you boot Li

Diamond Speedstar A55 AGP

2000-03-07 Thread John Conover
Does anyone know what card to pick in XF86Setup for a Diamond Speedstar A55 AGP with 8megs and a S3 Trio 3D? Its giving me fits. Thanks, John -- John Conover[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.johncon.com/ 631 Lamont Ct. Tel. 408.370.2688 http://www.johncon.com

Re: HOW DO I Apply debian patch to original source?

2000-03-07 Thread Brad
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 06:24:50PM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote: > I posted this to the list once already, but I don't know if it made it. > > I am trying to compile a debian package from source. I can go to the > package's > web page and get the original source along with the diff. How do I appl

Re: SCSI disk failure

2000-03-07 Thread kmself
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 11:07:47AM +0100, Anton Emmerfors wrote: > Hi, > > This is not strictly Debian related, but lots of competent people > dwell on this list so... > > Yesterday I came home to find that my Quantum Fireball SCSI-disk had > produced an "Unrecoverable read error". From kern.log:

Re: dhcpd and slink

2000-03-07 Thread Madarasz Karoly
Mark Hannon wrote: > I am having major trouble getting dhcpd and slink to work. (Details of > system > below). I can start the dhcp up, but I never see any dhcp activity in the > system > logs and can't obtain an IP address for my Win98 laptop. Any suggestions > as to what I can try? [I have alr

Re: TTF problems

2000-03-07 Thread kmself
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 04:42:34PM -0300, Carlos Henrique Santos Laviola wrote: > Hi people, > > I have installed xfstt on my system, and it works great, but I still > have a problem with it: I can't display characters like the ' in Joe's > correctly (they look like Joe?s on the screen). I have

Re: upgrade of libc6 impossible

2000-03-07 Thread Werner Reisberger
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:44:22AM -0800, Joel Klecker wrote: > > (Reading database ... 7888 files and directories currently installed.) > > Preparing to replace libc6 2.1.1-3 (using libc6_2.1.3-5.deb) ... > > dirname: too many arguments > > Try `dirname --help' for more information. > > pushd

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-07 Thread Brad
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:20:46PM -0800, Jim Varney wrote: > > Updating my Potato system a few days ago with dselect broke my X windows. X > starts up with the herringbone and shows a single shell window and prompt. > It never gets as far as the full desktop. I have to use cntl-alt-backspace >

Re: Surecom EP-427X PCMCIA card problems

2000-03-07 Thread Peter Ross
On 02-Mar-2000, Peter Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However when I attempt to use my 10/100 Surecome EP-427X PCMIA card, I > get the following errors (using potato with kernel 2.2.14): > > eth0: Reentering the interrupt handler! isr=0x0 im=0x0 > > and a horrendous ping time. > > This is afte

Re: Problems with DHCPCD and/or pump

2000-03-07 Thread Brad
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 07:20:08AM -0800, Hausheer, Geoffrey wrote: > I installed the 'frozen' distribution onto my laptop last week, (as a > replacement for Slack). Everything seems to work great except that my > network connection is flaky. On bootup it randomly either gets starts the > dhcp cl

Problem when compiling glibc-2.1.2

2000-03-07 Thread ChangMin Oh
Hi~   Confronting with erromessage "undefined refrenced `__NR_rt_sigreturn'..."   I configured with options, '--enable-add-ons' and '--prefix=/usr'.   I searched in subdir 'db2', using grep `__NR_rt_sigreturn' *.c *.h, but I can't find anything...   Does anybody have an idea

Re: question on modconf

2000-03-07 Thread Brad
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:24:52AM +, john smith wrote: > I have successfully updated my kernel from 2.2.13 to 2.2.14 but when I > issued the command modconf I noticed that there are only two categories of > modules misc and net, what happened to the rest? and furthermore, the > modules that

dc390 what does it mean?

2000-03-07 Thread Pikuan
i just bought a debian 2.1 r 4 CD i was installing from cd, pressed enter at the main menu. it does all the initialisation when it reach this line and stop: DC390: 0 adapters found anyone know what is wrong? thank you, pikuan === Pikuan

on master and slave DNS servers

2000-03-07 Thread t s a d i
hello all, with reference to the example bellow; will it matter if ns1.secure.net and ns2.secure.net are just slave servers to some other DNS server ? that is, its /etc/named.conf will only contain something like : zone "cproda.com" { type slave; file "cproda.com.db"

Re: HOW DO I Apply debian patch to original source?

2000-03-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 06:24:50PM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote: > I posted this to the list once already, but I don't know if it made it. > > I am trying to compile a debian package from source. I can go to the > package's > web page and get the original source along with the diff. How do I appl

Redirecting 101 again

2000-03-07 Thread Guyren G Howe
I still can't make my games work from inside my firewall. I was hoping someone could offer me specific instructions; the things I've tried to do with ipmasqadm and ipautofw don't seem to have done what I told them to do. So here is what I need. My Linux box is 192.168.0.5. My PC is 192.168.0.2. H

Re: How to add a user to a group on the fly

2000-03-07 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 17:31, Kent West wrote: > If I want to add my normal user (westk) to the > dialout group, I know I can (as root) edit the > /etc/group file and add westk to the end of the # adduser westk dialout is much easier. :-> > dialout line. However, I then have to log out (and >

Re: Permissions on PalmPilot

2000-03-07 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 17:15, Kent West wrote: > I'm just now getting around to playing with my > PalmPilot III on Linux. I seem to be able to do > everything if I do it as root, but if I try as a > normal user I get permission errors. Does anyone > know what permissions need to be changed where t

Re: HOW DO I Apply debian patch to original source?

2000-03-07 Thread Frank Copeland
Brian Lavender wrote: >I am trying to compile a debian package from source. I can go to the package's >web page and get the original source along with the diff. How do I apply the >patch? Get the *.dsc file as well. Put all three files in the directory you want to unpack in, and cd to it. Then

Booting DAC960 Raid

2000-03-07 Thread Jeff Hopkins
Title: Booting DAC960 Raid Hi, I got this controller working by installing Debian(slink upgraded to woody) on a standalone drive connected to a motherboard SCSI controller, AIC7xxx, then recompiling the kernel to include the DAC960 driver.  Reboot and I can access the DAC960 drives.  Now what

Re: new install with apt-get

2000-03-07 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 07:46:51PM -0700, Brett Fowlkes wrote: > Some of the packages on the Debian Cd are outdated. Is there anyway I can > put in a source when I install Debian that will download all the newest > ones? I have a fairly fast connection. > Exactly what apt-get does best. Add som

Problem when compling glibc-2.1.2

2000-03-07 Thread 오창민
Hi~   Confronting with erromessage "undefined refrenced `__NR_rt_sigreturn'..."   I configured with options, '--enable-add-ons' and '--prefix=/usr'.   I searched in subdir 'db2', using grep `__NR_rt_sigreturn' *.c *.h, but I can't find anything...   Does anybody have an idea

Re: new install with apt-get

2000-03-07 Thread Marshal Wong
you can edit you /etc/apt/sources.list. Try adding/editing: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free If you don't want to use unstable, change it to stable. I believe that I understood you question correctly? If not, well, correct me. > "Brett" == Brett Fowlkes

Problem when compling glibc-2.1.2

2000-03-07 Thread 오창민
Hi~   Confonting not founding `__NR_rt_sigreturn'...   I configured with options, '--enable-add-ons' and '--prefix=/usr'.   I searched in subdir 'db2', using grep `__NR_rt_sigreturn' *.c *.h, but I can't find anything...   Does anybody have an idea?   I have, Kernel: 2.0.3

Re: compiling new kernel

2000-03-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
You are missing the assembler. Install bin86. On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 03:55:08PM -0800, Beavis wrote: > i am trying to compile the kernel 2.2.14 on to my i386 machine > please help if u can, thnakx > > update: > > after doing make bzImage, it starts to compile, which takes about 10 mins or > so

Re: compiling new kernel

2000-03-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 03:18:52PM -0800, Beavis wrote: > this is what i am doing: > > > >Once that is all done and you choose "Exit" and save your config file, you > must >run make dep followed by make clean. And now the fun begins, type make > >bzImage to build your kernel. This will take awhil

Re: How to add a user to a group on the fly

2000-03-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 05:31:35PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > If I want to add my normal user (westk) to the > dialout group, I know I can (as root) edit the > /etc/group file and add westk to the end of the > dialout line. However, I then have to log out (and > shut down vmware and NT-on-vmware) an

Re: compiling new kernel

2000-03-07 Thread Marshal Wong
> "Beavis" == Beavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i am trying to compile the kernel 2.2.14 on to my i386 machine > please help if u can, thnakx > update: > after doing make bzImage, it starts to compile, which takes > about 10 mins or so right. then at the end it say

Re: Framebuffer console with a G400

2000-03-07 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 04:23:36PM -0700, Mark Zimmerman wrote: > Greetings: > > I'm trying to get a better than VGA resolution on the console with a > G400 card. So far, I've gotten the console driver to work minimally > but I can't get it into a mode I want. > > Here's what I get in dmesg: > >

SOLVED: Permissions on PalmPilot

2000-03-07 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > I'm just now getting around to playing with my > PalmPilot III on Linux. I seem to be able to do > everything if I do it as root, but if I try as a > normal user I get permission errors. Does anyone > know what permissions need to be changed where to > solve this? > > Thanks! >

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