Re: ipmasq and howto

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:24:54PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Well, once you know it is , you can look in /usr/doc/ > for documentation that ought to explain this. If it's not there, > complain to the maintainer (@packages.debian.org), because that > sort of thing ought to Perhaps I'm not maki

Re: Realplayer 7 and Esound

2000-03-30 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Esbjerg wrote: > H... I couldn't help reading your discussion. I recently installed > RealPLayer7 but not using the Debian installer. I have no problem at all with > esd. I have mp3, system sounds and realplay running at the same time. It's not > nice with mixed sounds but it works quite a

Re: installation problem

2000-03-30 Thread Ron Rademaker
I don't know why you were asked to manually mount your cdrom (it was done by dselect as far as I can tell), but anyhow, just start dselect on any virtual console you like (by typing dselect as root on the shell), you'll get a menu, the first will be access, you've already mounted your cd so choose

Re: ipmasq and howto

2000-03-30 Thread Herbeth de Freitas Vieira
30/03/00 16:14:04, matt garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:15:38PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> >I read the IP-Masquerading howto and I am confused as to how it relates to >> >Debian. For example, it says I need to get the ipchains and ipfwadm >> >packages. I

Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1

2000-03-30 Thread Bob Hilliard
Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I took a new CDrom (2.1) and did re-deselect, which did a lot of upgrades > to various stuff. > > The end result is that everything seems OK, except a remaining dependency > problem, based on Samba, but it won't remove, and it depends on > libpam-u

Re: ipmasq and howto

2000-03-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
matt garman wrote: >On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:15:38PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> ipchains is in the netbase package ... >Ah, yes... But in my question what I meant was, In all the steps outlined >in the IP-Masquerading howto, where does Debian leave off, and where do I >need to pic

Re: XF-4.0 .deb packages

2000-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do we have .deb packages for 4.0 yet? No. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-0003/msg00973.html -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ipmasq and howto

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:15:38PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > >I read the IP-Masquerading howto and I am confused as to how it relates to > >Debian. For example, it says I need to get the ipchains and ipfwadm > >packages. I couldn't find these via a search in dselect. But I have the >

Re: Help

2000-03-30 Thread Robert Mognet
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:21:32AM -0800, Erik Ryberg wrote: - snip > > My only point in all this (I think I'm the one who started it) was to respond > to the > word "sadly" in the above phrase, "sadly . . . people are coming to Linux > with zero > understa

permissions

2000-03-30 Thread Beavis
when trying to load a frontpage web i get the error /etc/apache/etc/srm.conf can't be accessed permission denied.   how can i change the permission on that perticular file so that anyone and everyone has permission.   expecially forntpage2000's  publisher..   thankx again list   --beavis

installation problem

2000-03-30 Thread björn
Hi! I'm new to Debian and I have followed the short installation guide and everythings works well untill I'm asked to change to the second virtual console and mount the cdrom with "mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdc /cdrom". I don't get the confirmation but the cdrom is mounted (I can see the con

installation problem

2000-03-30 Thread björn
Hi! I'm new to Debian and I have followed the short installation guide and everythings works well untill I'm asked to change to the second virtual console and mount the cdrom with "mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdc /cdrom". I don't get the confirmation but the cdrom is mounted (I can see the con

ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-03-30 Thread Joseph Carter
If you wish to email me about any of my packages, do so from an address which does not reject my mail as coming from a "dialup" IP. My IP is STATIC and your ISP is run by morons who can't tell the difference, even though I am no longer listed on the DUL. I am attempting once and once only to reac

XF-4.0 .deb packages

2000-03-30 Thread Robert L. Harris
Do we have .deb packages for 4.0 yet? Anyone got a location? :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Low quality in a product happens. Senior System Engineer |That doesn't mean it's right and at RnD Co

Re: ipmasq and howto

2000-03-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
matt garman wrote: > >I read the IP-Masquerading howto and I am confused as to how it relates to >Debian. For example, it says I need to get the ipchains and ipfwadm >packages. I couldn't find these via a search in dselect. But I have the >"ipchains" and "ipfwadm" binaries on my system

RE: Wireless

2000-03-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Mar-2000 Chris Mason wrote: > Anyone have any experience with using Linux as a wireless relay? I want to > tap into a wireless network and relay it to another point where I will want a > firewall and home network. > assuming the card works relaying should work.

RE: local debian mirror & subnets

2000-03-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
consider mailing the apt maintainer with version, more detailed info, etc.

ext2resize: anyone know know to use it?

2000-03-30 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Does anyone know what to do with ext2resize? The docs quickly explain how to resize a filesystem in a file, but not one in a partition. I assume the partition table must be changed as well but it does say how, and in what order. Thanks, -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PR

fp_virtual server

2000-03-30 Thread Beavis
i am having a tuff time setting up any virtual webs on my machine during the setup procedure. when it asks Do you want to install Virtual Webs (y/n)? i answer yes and it just scrolls forever   1) virtualwebs1 2) virtualwebs2 etc..   i have tried using the httpd.conf and srm.conf fconfigu

Re: Su && Development Packages

2000-03-30 Thread Dannie Ginsburg
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 05:42:13PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > Ben Collins said: > >> /bin/su is chown root.root and file permissions are correct. > > > >What are the file permissions? > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22992 Mar 14 08:28 /bin/su > chmod u+s /bin/su -- The last time somebody

Re: Realplayer 7 and Esound

2000-03-30 Thread Sven Esbjerg
H... I couldn't help reading your discussion. I recently installed RealPLayer7 but not using the Debian installer. I have no problem at all with esd. I have mp3, system sounds and realplay running at the same time. It's not nice with mixed sounds but it works quite allright. My experience with

Re: which driver for Netgear FA310TX

2000-03-30 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I used the one that came with the card (actually, I downloaded it from the > web site) > and that worked best for me. > > matt garman wrote: > > > Hello: > > > > I've been having some problems setting up my home network, and I was > > wondering i

Re: EMERGENCY: LILO can't load Win95 / Mount fails

2000-03-30 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I have a Win95 partition here with important data on it (and no recent > backups, of course...) which I can no longer boot from or access from > GNU/Linux. The setup is: > here just my thoughts: boot from a win95-rescue-disk. run fdisk /mbr. this will kill lilo. if win still does not boot, the

Re: Help

2000-03-30 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Kent West on Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:21:06 CST: > How about: > To unsubscribe, enter "mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null" in > an xterm. What's an xterm??? :-) Andy -- +== Andy == TiK: garbaglio ==+ |Linux is about freedom of choice|

Re: Help

2000-03-30 Thread Erik Ryberg
> > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > (snipped) > > > Your observation is probably sadly accurate -- people are coming to > > > Linux with zero understanding of the command line or Unix philosophy. > > > I'd prefer to see occasional ribbing a'la Oswald than a less featureful > > > sig. > > (snipped)

EMERGENCY: LILO can't load Win95 / Mount fails

2000-03-30 Thread Stefan Baums
Hello all! I have a Win95 partition here with important data on it (and no recent backups, of course...) which I can no longer boot from or access from GNU/Linux. The setup is: hda1 contains what cfdisk calls "Win95 FAT32 (LBA)" (the lost Win95 partition) hda2 is Linux Swap hda

Re: Include directories

2000-03-30 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> So basically my question is: Is it OK to softlink the include > directories? Or does the "don't mess with anything, but > /usr/local/"-policy aplly and is there a Right Way [TM] to change the > development environment? What other directories have to be changed > (/usr/include/scsi seems to be a

Re: USB Mouse under debian Linux

2000-03-30 Thread Gerhard Schromm
* "Lee" == Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > any 'detailed' infomation would be appreciated You'll find mor info at http://www.linux-usb.org bye Gerhard -- Hi! I'm a .signature *virus*! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!

Re: which driver for Netgear FA310TX

2000-03-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I used the one that came with the card (actually, I downloaded it from the web site) and that worked best for me. matt garman wrote: > Hello: > > I've been having some problems setting up my home network, and I was > wondering if my card is not working correctly. I have a Netgear FA-310TX, > re

RE: Help

2000-03-30 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Start of Soap Box I agree wholeheartedly. If I want Microsoft Linux, I'll buy Redhat. Truly, that is the standard that must be met for "ease" of installation. If you want to simply follow instructions to set up an OS, install a Microsoft OS; in the same manner also, if you want a quick Linux bo

ipmasq and howto

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
I read the IP-Masquerading howto and I am confused as to how it relates to Debian. For example, it says I need to get the ipchains and ipfwadm packages. I couldn't find these via a search in dselect. But I have the "ipchains" and "ipfwadm" binaries on my system. I presume they were installed b

RE: s...l...o...w... ppp xfers

2000-03-30 Thread Onno
Did you check the MTU setting? For ethernet compatibility it needs to be 1500. Good luck, Onno At 01:25 PM 3/29/00 -0600, Rick Hayter wrote: >> I'm looking for some troubleshooting help. >> Slink is working like a champ in all aspects but ppp connection speed. >> Actually, I connect at high spe

which driver for Netgear FA310TX

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
Hello: I've been having some problems setting up my home network, and I was wondering if my card is not working correctly. I have a Netgear FA-310TX, revision D2. Which driver is best for this card: the linux/tulip.c driver that comes on the FA-310tx's drivers disk, or the "new" tulip driver as

Include directories

2000-03-30 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, I installed some software from the net, for which I needed to compile a kernel module. The compile went fine (except for some warnings), but when I went to insmod the module, insmod would say that this kernel module was compiled for 2.0.36. I figured that's because when I installed Debian sl

Re: Help

2000-03-30 Thread kmself
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:20:23PM -0800, Erik Ryberg wrote: > > > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > (snipped) > > > > > Your observation is probably sadly accurate -- people are coming to > > Linux with zero understanding of the command line or Unix philosophy. > > I'd prefer to see occasional r

Re: dpkg --set-selections failing silently

2000-03-30 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Mar 30, Nick Cabatoff wrote: > This is with slink's dpkg. For reasons I don't understand, some > packages don't get set by --set-selections and no explanation is > given. Currently I've only noticed this with libpng2-dev, librx1g-dev > and zlib1g-dev. I seem to have resolved this, but see b

Perl and Lisp tutorials

2000-03-30 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Could you point some URLs where I could get some tutorials to learn perl and lisp? Thanks, please include in your reply [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1

2000-03-30 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 08:06 AM 03/30/2000 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: Gregory Guthrie wrote:   >>Have you tried running `apt-get -f install'?  If so, what happened?   >   >Updating package status cache...done   >Checking system integrity...dependency error   >Correcting dependencies...failed   >E: Internal error, S

Re: Help

2000-03-30 Thread Chris Gray
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:21:06AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > How about: > To unsubscribe, enter "mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null" in > an xterm. > Almost, but how about people who don't use X? I realize that they'd understand what it means, but it is kind of exclusionist. A

Re: locate warning . . . ?

2000-03-30 Thread kmself
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:44:12PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:01:05PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > > kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > > > > > There have been several reports of similar problems, most of which > > > appear to be associated with anacron, an oc

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Here is my two cents worth. 1. locate your 'hosts' file, usually in /etc/hosts. Use vi or some other good editor to add ips for the rest of your boxes. should look something like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.10.1main.mylinuxbox.org linux 192.168.10.20 1stwinbox.win.org w

Wireless

2000-03-30 Thread Chris Mason
Anyone have any experience with using Linux as a wireless relay? I want to tap into a wireless network and relay it to another point where I will want a firewall and home network. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382

Re: Help

2000-03-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:21:06AM -0600, Kent West wrote: [ huge snip ... did we really have to quote ~36 lines? ] > How about: > To unsubscribe, enter "mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null" in > an xterm. Implies a requirement for X. The command also works from a VC. VCs and xte

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting matt garman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > After doing these things, I noticed something else: the output of ifconfig > for eth1: > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:5B:DD:F8 > inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUN

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:19:38AM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > 1) Here's the contents of my files on newdebian.home (connected to > internet) > > /etc/hostname: > newdebian > ... After doing these things, I noticed something else: the output of ifconfig for eth1: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet H

Re: fortify does not recognise my netscape

2000-03-30 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I get the following error, when I try to patch my netscape [...] > "/usr/lib/netscape/47/navigator/navigator-smotif.real" is > not recognisable. > It is either not a copy of Netscape, or it is a version > of Netscape that is not listed in

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:19:38AM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > 2) Here's the other box (olddebian) which shares the internet > connection: > To bring the interface up: > ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up > route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0 > route add defaul

Re: Help

2000-03-30 Thread Kent West
Chris Gray wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:20:23PM -0800, Erik Ryberg wrote: > > > > > > > > Your observation is probably sadly accurate -- people are coming to > > > Linux with zero understanding of the command line or Unix philosophy. > > > I'd prefer to see occasional ribbing a'la Oswald th

local debian mirror & subnets

2000-03-30 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I have a very strange problem regarding a local mirror of debian and subnets. We have two subnets: x.x.1.x Laptops x.x.3.x Servers We have set up a local mirror of debian on a machine on the server subnet. This can be ftp'd to and telnet'ed by a user and anonymous ftp. However, when we

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread ferret
Fairly simple: Make sure your "internal network" interface is on one of the private networks. I usually use 192.168.1.1 for the interface (192.168.1/24 is the network) Make your kernel with the ipmasq options, install "ipmasq" package, and restart with the new kernel. I'm assuming you're going t

Re: HELP with KDE and SAMBA

2000-03-30 Thread Vicente Torres
Vicente Torres wrote: > > I have two problems: > > 1) > After upgrading to woody my KDE has misconfigured > and i only get an xterm after introducing user > and password. > Perhaps I have lost my xinitrc file ? > I have reinstalled KDE but that made no efect. SOLVED! I have created a .xsession f

Re: Trying to autostart mySQL

2000-03-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
runlevel is a parameter to init. init is the first (and only) process started directly from within the kernel itself. Starting init is the last thing the kernel does. You can pass a parameter to the kernel for it to pass to init, which is the runlevel. If no runlevel is passed then init relies o

Re: HELP with KDE and SAMBA

2000-03-30 Thread Vicente Torres
> This works fine for me (Samba 2.0.6). Let us see your > /etc/samba/smb.conf file. Also, what are you running on your PCs? > Win95, 98, or 2000? You might also try subscribing to the Samba mailing > list and asking your question; they've seen it all. This is my smb.conf (I will subscribe sam

dpkg --set-selections failing silently

2000-03-30 Thread Nick Cabatoff
This is with slink's dpkg. For reasons I don't understand, some packages don't get set by --set-selections and no explanation is given. Currently I've only noticed this with libpng2-dev, librx1g-dev and zlib1g-dev. Example: flanders:/usr/local# dpkg --get-selections |grep png libpng0g

RE: Trying to autostart mySQL

2000-03-30 Thread Chris Mason
Bingo! That did it. What is "runlevel"? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai bwz*mq -Or

running gmc remotely

2000-03-30 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I have a problem using gmc when I have telnet'ed to another machine. I have two potato (frozen) systems, a laptop and a desktop I run X on the laptop and allow connections for X apps using the 'xhost +desktopname' command. I then open a telnet session from the laptop to the desktop. In t

Re: Trying to autostart mySQL

2000-03-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Are you sure 3 is the default runlevel? Check: grep default /etc/inittab My debian system defaults to runlevel 2. That would explain your system not starting. Chris Mason wrote: > I'm trying to sutostart mySQL at boot up on my Corel Linux machine. I have > put the mysql.server script in /etc/

Re: HELP with KDE and SAMBA

2000-03-30 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Vicente Torres wrote: > > I have two problems: > > 1) > After upgrading to woody my KDE has misconfigured > and i only get an xterm after introducing user > and password. > Perhaps I have lost my xinitrc file ? > I have reinstalled KDE but that made no efect. > > 2) > After configuring samba I a

Re: Compaq 5300

2000-03-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I'm not sure quite what you mean. Do you mean you don't have any room on your hard disk to install linux? You'll need to have some room because even the base debian is to small to run off a single floppy. If you don't want to create a new partition for linux (which is the standard way of doing thin

Re: ADDING [deb...] TO SUBJECTS

2000-03-30 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> [Someone else wrote:] > > >> i found both unreliable - so i have both rules in my .procmailrc > >> > >> :0: > >> * ^TO_.*\.debian\.org.* > >> debian.mbox > >> > >> :0: > >> * ^Resend-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >^ That can't be helping ... :) ps - thanks for the hint ;-) as the fir

Re: mod_ssl help

2000-03-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jaume Teixi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Once time I've the package mod_ssl and openssl, where can I find the >step by step procedure for build ssl on my apache ? Simply install the latest apache debian package and the latest libapache-mod-ssl debian package (availa

Re: Su && Development Packages

2000-03-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bart Szyszka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > *ridiculous* (your word) to download all the development packages in > > Debian (grep-available lists 358 here) on the off-chance that someday > > they might want to compile code for a Beowulf cluster or a voxel > > renderer or what have you. You don

HELP with KDE and SAMBA

2000-03-30 Thread Vicente Torres
I have two problems: 1) After upgrading to woody my KDE has misconfigured and i only get an xterm after introducing user and password. Perhaps I have lost my xinitrc file ? I have reinstalled KDE but that made no efect. 2) After configuring samba I am able to see other PCs on the net using the

Re: s...l...o...w... ppp xfers

2000-03-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting Rick Hayter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Slink is working like a champ in all aspects but ppp connection speed. > > Actually, I connect at high speeds, but my sustained throughput runs from > > only 200-400 bps! When first downloading, I get a burst of speed, but in > > seconds all activity s

Re: mod_ssl help

2000-03-30 Thread Tamas TEVESZ
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Jaume Teixi wrote: > Once time I've the package mod_ssl and openssl, where can I find the > step by step procedure for build ssl on my apache ? www.modssl.org has a nice documentation -- [-] kazmer at any cost !

Re: Su && Development Packages

2000-03-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 12:18:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I ended up just adding sysadmin to staff, then > > > >% /bin/chgrp staff /bin/su; /bin/chmod 4750 /bin/su > > Make sure you let suidmanager know about that (using suidregister) or > you might

Trying to autostart mySQL

2000-03-30 Thread Chris Mason
I'm trying to sutostart mySQL at boot up on my Corel Linux machine. I have put the mysql.server script in /etc/init.d and I have aput a symbolic link to it in /etc/rc3.d name S90mysql but it doesn't run on boot. I can start it by typeing /etc/rc3.d/S90mysql start no problem. Any ideas? Chris Ma

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread Tom Pfeifer
matt garman wrote: > I originally thought that using dhcp would be simpler. Anyway, I went > ahead and entered 192.168.0.2 as my roommate's IP address and rebooted his > computer. But I still can't even ping my linux box (ping 198.168.0.1) > from my roommate's windows box (the ping times out).

mod_ssl help

2000-03-30 Thread Jaume Teixi
Once time I've the package mod_ssl and openssl, where can I find the step by step procedure for build ssl on my apache ? thanks begin:vcard n:Teixi;Jaume tel;fax:972 46 31 14 tel;work:972 46 30 50 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.6tems.com org:6TEMS;Ducform, SA adr:;;Pla de l'Estany, s/n;CASSÀ

Re: Su && Development Packages

2000-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I ended up just adding sysadmin to staff, then > >% /bin/chgrp staff /bin/su; /bin/chmod 4750 /bin/su Make sure you let suidmanager know about that (using suidregister) or you might find /bin/su's permissions changing back next time you upgrade the login pac

Re: Help

2000-03-30 Thread Robert Mognet
snip -- > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 11:20:57AM -0800, John Bagdanoff wrote: > > I've subscribed & unsubscribed several times over the last 2 years > > easily enough, but never could decipher the signature of this list. > > Since more and more people from corel and storm

Re: Woody: missing parse-xf86config? /etc/init.d.xdm wants it!

2000-03-30 Thread Jens Guenther
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:24:59AM -0800, tjm wrote: > Brian Boonstra wrote: > > Something blew away a program called parse-xf86config this weekend. > > I suspect it was when I did my apt-get upgrade. This is a problem because > > /etc/init.d/xdm won't run properly without it. > > Accordin

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:33:13PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > why are you trying to use dhcp for a small private lan? just enter > static ip addresses into all the machines that are behind the linux > firewall. use the 192.168.0.* range. dhcp is more trouble then its > worth for just a couple

Re: Su && Development Packages

2000-03-30 Thread Brian Clark
Oki DZ said: >I already have everything (for compiling) on my system; gcc works fine. It >just happens that cpp is not needed for recompiling the kernel. But quite >long ago, "apt-get install gcc" was the first thing I did before >recompiling the kernel. > >Try to: apt-get update. I had to chang

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:19:28AM -0600, matt garman wrote: > > I configured one of my roommates' Windows box to automatically receive an > IP address. I restarted his computer, and watched the output of > "tail -f /var/log/messages" on my Linux box to see if dhcpd assigned an IP > address: dhcp

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:01:05PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > I don't know of one on the "net" (i hate that term), but here goes: > > 1) Build a PC with two ethernet cards > 2) Install Debian. > 3) Install kernel-package and kernel-source packages > 4) Compile new kernel; make sure IP masq is

Re: Su && Development Packages

2000-03-30 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Brian Clark wrote: > And then, of course, when you actually go to grab gcc or g++ it fails with > a 404: [err. msgs. deleted] okidz:/home/okidz# apt-get -s install gcc Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be insta

RE: Su && Development Packages

2000-03-30 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Bart Szyszka wrote: > only said something to the effect of "get gcc" for "What do I need to > compile programs"? That's horrendously absurd! gcc is not the only thing > you need to "compile programs". IMHO, it's not horrendously absurd. It's not even absurd. Yes, gcc is not

RE: Su && Development Packages

2000-03-30 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Bart Szyszka wrote: > Can we *please* get a serious answer to this question? Sure. >I've tried to find it > numerous times without any luck and it's ridiculous. The beauty of Debian > is that you can install a clean, unbloated system that's easy to maintain. > However, one

apache installation from source

2000-03-30 Thread aphro
Ok, just got finished with my bi-yearly apache update(takes about 4 hours to do! heheh) and i'm encountering something odd ... i configured apache to install to /usr/local/apache, but apachectl wants to call /usr/local/apache/src/httpd instead of /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd i fixed it by making s

Re: Boot mystery

2000-03-30 Thread Charlie Kroeger
Joe Bouchard ask for clarification: Hi, >Please spell it out for us (the telepathy is weak): >/dev/hdc1 = what? how big? > hdc2 = > hdc5 = > hdc6 = >Map it right out for us . . . That was the problem, there was no hdc1, only hdc3 (Ext2) hdc2 (LILO) and hdc5 (swap) OK... I went i

Re: Su && Development Packages

2000-03-30 Thread Brian Clark
Bart Szyszka said: >> Why don't you get the package tasksel (for potato) and look for >> yourself? >> Besides, this is what the task-devel-* packages (again from potato) are >> for; they're probably the best answer to your question. > >Thanks! That sounds like exactly what I needed. > >> >And ple

Re: Su && Development Packages

2000-03-30 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
Well, it's a bit difficult to say what you need to compile ANY program. Of course you need the compiler, probably make, and a few other helper apps. So start with task-c-dev, if you're using potato. It will cover the basics. Then you will need -dev packages, which is what many people forget. If

RE: Su && Development Packages

2000-03-30 Thread Bart Szyszka
> Why don't you get the package tasksel (for potato) and look for > yourself? > Besides, this is what the task-devel-* packages (again from potato) are > for; they're probably the best answer to your question. Thanks! That sounds like exactly what I needed. > >And please don't give me ridiculous a

Re: Help

2000-03-30 Thread Chris Gray
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:10:45PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Chris Gray writes: > > It's also the most elegant way to unsubscribe from the list. > > Try it when you subscribed from the Windows machine at work in order to get > help getting mail working on your Linux box at home. With any decent

I NEED A Intel740 video driver for Linux RED HAT 5.0

2000-03-30 Thread MARIO CORTES SERDAN
Hi, Please helpme I Need a Intel740 video Card Driver for Linux RED HAT, Is a Intel Express 3D 4 MB AGP Thank you! _ Do You Yahoo!? Obtenga su dirección de correo-e gratis @yahoo.com en http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com

Re: Su && Development Packages

2000-03-30 Thread Brian Clark
Colin Watson said: >Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 05:42:13PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22992 Mar 14 08:28 /bin/su >> >>There's the problem. Somehow you got the perms changed. They need to be: >> >>-rwsr-xr-x >> >>So, "chmod 4755 /b

Mahogany / thwarted by dselect

2000-03-30 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Potato, I've downloaded and tried to install the (slink) deb package of mail client Mahogany, which apparently has a dependency on libstdc++2.9. "libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1" is in the listings in dselect -- but dselect/dpkg/apt don't see this as the correct item. dselect [I]nstall leads to an appea

Re: another perl question

2000-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
david sowerby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, can anyone tell me why there are perl5 binaries and perl-5 binaries in >/usr/bin ? Whats the differemce ? None: they're hard links to each other, provided for convenience. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -i1 /usr/bin/perl{-5.005,5*} 2275 /usr/bin/perl-5.0

dbootstrap requiring unexisting file resc1440-2.0.38.bin

2000-03-30 Thread Paolo Benvenuto
Hi all! I'm installing debian linux from HD (I don't have floppies). version 2.1.11, 28 august 1999 I'm using a laptop, ACER Extensa 390, with W98 on the first partition. I downloaded the necessary files, as described in the installation manual, and I started install.bat without the configuratio

Re: Su && Development Packages

2000-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [attribution lost] >> a). >> This has to have been asked a million times, but I can't find >> anything in the archives related to this topic: What packages do I >> need to fetch to be able to compile most software (i.e. Apache, X >> apps, etc.)? > >Can we *please* get a

Re: Help

2000-03-30 Thread John Hasler
Chris Gray writes: > It's also the most elegant way to unsubscribe from the list. Try it when you subscribed from the Windows machine at work in order to get help getting mail working on your Linux box at home. With any decent MUA it's easier to just send the unsubscribe message, while in the Win

another perl question

2000-03-30 Thread david sowerby
Hi, can anyone tell me why there are perl5 binaries and perl-5 binaries in /usr/bin ? Whats the differemce ? -david -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Remember, you are unique ... just like everyone else. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Compaq 5300

2000-03-30 Thread The Millers
Dear Wonderful Deb_Ian People,   I would like to move forward with exploring a Linux system using a Compaq LTE 5300 laptop. The method by which I can load the kernel/OS is limited to diskette. What would be the best way way to proceed from this point using Debian's Linux?   Thank You Very Mu

Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1

2000-03-30 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 06:36 PM 03/29/2000 -0500, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > I am running Debian 2.0, upgraded from ... (libc5), and trying to upgrade > to 2.1. > > When I do an apt-get upgrade, it complains that: > "Sorry, but the following packages are broken.." >

Re: Su && Development Packages

2000-03-30 Thread Brad
Please set your mailer to generate lines <76 characters long. On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:10:51PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > > a). > > This has to have been asked a million times, but I can't find anything in > > the archives related to this topic: What packages do I need to fetch to be > > abl

Re: Su && Development Packages

2000-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 05:42:13PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22992 Mar 14 08:28 /bin/su > >There's the problem. Somehow you got the perms changed. They need to be: > >-rwsr-xr-x > >So, "chmod 4755 /bin/sh" and all should be well.

Re: Help

2000-03-30 Thread t.bedlam
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 07:34:52PM -0500, Chris Gray was only escaped alone to tell thee: > > it just means helping others get there more smoothly. GNU's Not Unix, but most especially it is not Windoh!s -- so let's not discard every element of geekish elitism which == discarding the Unix wa

Re: Can't mount SyQuest EZFlyer 230 MB!!!

2000-03-30 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:51:21AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > I can't mount my syquest ezflyer zip-type drive. The kernel detects it, > but when I try to mount it, it gives me an error that says "wrong fs > type, bad superblock, or too many mounted filesystems." I trying to > mount it as v

RE: Su && Development Packages

2000-03-30 Thread Bart Szyszka
> a). > This has to have been asked a million times, but I can't find anything in > the archives related to this topic: What packages do I need to fetch to be > able to compile most software (i.e. Apache, X apps, etc.)? Can we *please* get a serious answer to this question? I've tried to find it

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