Xproblem - modelines?

2000-04-24 Thread Mats Ström
I am trying to get X working on S3 trio3D card. My XFree86 is version 3.3.6 which supports the trio3D. Unfortunately it is very picky about its modelines. There some recommended mode- lines in the manual: Modeline "1024x768" 75 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync

Apache and PHP

2000-04-24 Thread Yegon
I tried to install a new php 3.0.16-2 package it wants me to install some libs such as libz1 libdb2 2.4.14-7 I cannot find them. How should I proceed, I need a newer php version - at least 3.0.6 to work on my computer. Thanks Yegon

XFree86-4.0 and xauth

2000-04-24 Thread Brian Stults
I upgraded to XFree86-4.0 recently, and now xauth doesn't seem to work. I usually use ssh to work on my unix account at work and to do so, I have a script that looks like this: ssh REMOTEHOST "/usr/openwin/bin/xauth add `grep -e IPADDR /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info | gawk -F = '{print $2}'`:0 . `xa

Re: Leafnode problem

2000-04-24 Thread kmself
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 10:09:10AM +0100, Christopher Clark wrote: > After trying and failing to use INN, I removed it using dpkg and installed > leafnode. I had to use fetch -f but after that it seemed to work fine when I > manually kicked it. But when I added it to my cron.daily job ( su news -

Corel/Linux OS

2000-04-24 Thread Angel M. Hernandez
Hi,   I'm using Linux OS from Corel and I'm having problems trying to access my floppy drive from the Desktop. Please can anyboby help me? Also I would like to buy a instructions book, if there is any, about Debian Linux. Thank you.     Angel Los Angeles, CA.

Re: good IMAP server?

2000-04-24 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was using UW imapd up until those overflows were discovered. and am on > the hunt for a new (good) IMAP server. freshmeat doesnt have a very big > listing of imap servers: > FYI, I just uploaded 4.7c which fixes those problems (or at least covers

Re: Problem connecting with ISP

2000-04-24 Thread Alan Sobey
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 03:19:41PM +0200, Guðmundur Erlingsson wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm trying to dial in to my ISP but whatever I try nothing seems to > work. I'm using the pon script, pap-authentification, and here is a > typical logfile: > Apr 24 14:23:36 Jarlsberg pppd[334]: Warning - secre

Re: root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-24 Thread montefin
Philip, To follow up on Nathan's reply, and only because when I upgraded Red Hat from 6.0 to 6.1, I earned the dubious title Mr. Fsck-it, here's my 2 cents: It seems the linux kernels from about 2.2.7 thru 2.2.13, and only on IDE boxes, had a recurrent filesystem corruption problem. I was on kern

Re: <:& > tags

2000-04-24 Thread w trillich
mod_ePerl uses by default, but they can be changed to whatever your fancy gets struck by: and and so on. there's also "wml" which does a nine-pass run over a source file to produce results, typically html... it uses some constructs like <: :> if you've inhereted some files fro

Re: Frozen, Potato or Woody?

2000-04-24 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Jeff Noxon wrote: > Frozen and Potato are the same thing (for now). You probably don't want > to mess with Woody, particularly without doing a Potato upgrade first. Not quite ... they are already getting different, but not much. > In other words, upgrade to Potato. > > Ap

Re: root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 10:34:04PM +0200, Philip Lehman wrote: [ snip ] > I'm desperate because the same happens when I boot from a rescue > disk. What can I do about that? Any help will definetly be very > much appreciated... Boot from the rescue disk (and root disk if you use potato) as if you

root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-24 Thread Philip Lehman
My potato workstation suffered from a power failure and it seems like the partition holding the root filesystem was damaged. When I boot, fsck forces a check and reports an error about duplicate blocks (I'm sorry that I can't provide the precise error messages, but there is no way to catch them).

need some procmail help

2000-04-24 Thread Mithrandir
Hi all ;)) I have still some problems with procmail, it will not deliver the mail as wanted, does anyone can help please?? as attachment there are my .procmailrc and a file called mail which is a copy off the mail as they arrived to root (and not the user). The user doesn't get any mails anymore :

fresh debian install (was: /var/lib gone)

2000-04-24 Thread oliver d tali
well. what's the recommended way of installing the newest set of packages available to debian? has somebody somewhere an iso image of the unstable tree or do i have to install potato's diskset and then download each and every package i want from woody separately? i can't do anything automati

Re: Need a list of installed *.deb packages

2000-04-24 Thread Olaf Arnold
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:42:42PM -0400, Maury R . Merkin wrote: > Is there a command which returns a list of the *.deb packages presently > installed on my 'puter? Yes there is a command: dpkg --get-selections | more --> get a list of package selections, and write it to stdout. -- The most im

Re: where is rc.local ?

2000-04-24 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Martin Schulze wrote: > mathieu wrote: > > i understand the aim but i don't know how to make a start & stop part, do > > you know > > where i can find an example of > > Maybe take a look at the other scripts in /etc/init.d? Just a > rough guess, there may be tons of them..

Re: Frozen, Potato or Woody?

2000-04-24 Thread Jeff Noxon
Frozen and Potato are the same thing (for now). You probably don't want to mess with Woody, particularly without doing a Potato upgrade first. In other words, upgrade to Potato. Apt-get is your best bet for a successful upgrade. You will need more disk space -- enough to hold new versions of e

Re: how do you set your system clock from a remote time server?

2000-04-24 Thread kmself
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 12:38:11PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > Where can I get nptdate? apt-get install ntpdate -- Karsten M. Selfhttp:/www.netcom.com/~kmself What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2

Re: kernel building errors

2000-04-24 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Looks like you have just not installed the Libncurses4-dev package. After you've done that, It'll probably work. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message - From: Jon Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: DebianUsers Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 8:00 PM Subject: kernel buildin

Frozen, Potato or Woody?

2000-04-24 Thread montefin
Gentlepeople, Some guidance please? _If_ tomorrow, I were to sit down at my 486DX, 66, 24Mb RAM, 514Mb HDD computer and attempt a dselect ftp upgrade beyond Slink (Debian 2.1). Which bodes the greater likelihood of a successful upgrade: Frozen, Potato or Woody? Though I have a year's Red Hat ins

Re: Print & Email the same document

2000-04-24 Thread Kent West
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 11:16:59AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > I've been trying to do this off-and-on for two years, and although > > I've had lots of help, nothing has ever worked. Can I assume that > > it's impossible to print and email a document from one command?

Re: Help with Bounce Queue

2000-04-24 Thread Kent West
Brad wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 11:57:29AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > > bounce:\ > > :lp=:\ > > :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\ > > :if=/etc/magicfilter/mailit:\ > > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/bounce: > > The printcap manpage mentions that if you're using the entry as a bounce > queue, "then the lp prin

Re: bash-related (?) segfault

2000-04-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> My first suspicion, too, was RAM failure, so I ran memtest86 last week > and (hours later) everything checked out okay. > hmmm ... so it's not the RAM. well ... the computer consists of some more hardware. :) however - you might want to reinstall all packages to make sure, that no files have be

apt-get

2000-04-24 Thread Chris Mason
i'm using Corel version 1. Can I use apt-get to update the whole install to the latest potato? WHat would the server be and what would the command be? 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 th

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz and patching

2000-04-24 Thread john
At 20:55 23/04/00 +0100, you wrote: I don't how the source tree becomes /usr/src/kernel-source-xxx either. The official (Linus) kernels unpack into linux (so you'd unpack them into /usr/src/linux, typically). Somehow Debian repackages the process, but I don't know how. I don't think it matters

good IMAP server?

2000-04-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was using UW imapd up until those overflows were discovered. and am on the hunt for a new (good) IMAP server. freshmeat doesnt have a very big listing of imap servers: nini - looks like its under too heavy development, low version number, scary. cyus imap - looks good but it stores mail in a sp

Re: bash-related (?) segfault

2000-04-24 Thread Brian J. Stults
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > My computer is regularly segfaulting. > as you say, that really nothing has changed, it > sounds like a hardware (RAM) failure. :-( > run some memtest. we had a thread about that some days ago. > > -- > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, pl

Re: /dev/lp0 does not exist

2000-04-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Attachment 1: > debian_arc:~# insmod sg > Using /lib/modules/2.2.14/scsi/sg.o > /lib/modules/2.2.14/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_init_free_R6ac8ba0b > ... i'm definitely not sure about this, but it may have something to do with the "Set version information on all symbols for modules" kernel

Re: SVGA Text Mode & ATI Charger video card

2000-04-24 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "John" == John Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Hello, Has anyone been successful at configuring an ATI Charger John> video card to use SVGA text mode? I can get it to work at a John> generic "VGA", but only at 80x25. I have tried ATI mach64, but John> It doesn't recognize the ca

sawmill problem

2000-04-24 Thread Jan Pfeifer
for those following this subject, the new version 0.25.2-2 has just fixed this problem, and sawmill was worth the (minimal thanks to dselect) effort :), I'll stick with it ... thanks for the answers ... jan Jan Pfeifer writes: > hi all, > > I've just installed the Sawmill 0.25.2-1 package

update-alternatives: bug or misunderstanding?

2000-04-24 Thread Ian Zimmerman
man update-alternatives says: It is often useful for a number of alternatives to be synchronised, so that they are changed as a group; for example, when several versions of the vi(1) editor are installed, the man page referenced by /usr/man/man1/vi.1 should correspond

Re: /dev/lp0 does not exist

2000-04-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Well, the problem is then more serious, related to something that I posted a while ago, but got no response. I will appreciate any help. Next the attachment: Attachment 1: debian_arc:~# insmod sg Using /lib/modules/2.2.14/scsi/sg.o /lib/modules/2.2.14/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_init_free_R6

Re: eth0 and ppp0

2000-04-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I was under the assumption that if I do some creative routing I can do > this... is this a correct assumption or do I have to set up IP-Masq. > yes - it's a routing problem. you definitely do not need masq-ing. "route add -net 192.168.1.0/24 eth0" should to the trick (replace the ip with your

ip equalizing patch

2000-04-24 Thread runner
Hi ! We need to equalize our traffic via three channel. So we had to apply the diffserv patches to be able to do what Kuznetsov written down in the iproute2 docs. But the ds-8 patch wasn't working. After that we tried the 7th patch which has been working (while patching the kernel). But when w

user still logged in...

2000-04-24 Thread Pat Mahoney
The "who" command displays user james as being logged in like this: pat tty3 Apr 24 09:52 james0Apr 19 20:24 User pat is logged in but james logged out sometime on april 19. Apparently though something went wrong and the system stil lists him as logged in since april 19. Jam

kernel building errors

2000-04-24 Thread Jon Hughes
I am attempting to build kernal 2.2.12 onto a machine that currentlyhas 2.0.36. I downloaded the proper kernel from kernel.org and then began the proper steps. When I get to running make menuconfig (I don't have KDE on this machine since my 'net connection for downloading it is worse than a 2400

Re: /var/lib gone

2000-04-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > try "dpkg -S /var/lib" and then "dpkg -i ..." then shown packages once > > more. that way you'll avoid reinstalling the whole distro. > > Um, all the dpkg database is stored in /var/lib, so that won't work. > Probably. > ooops - yes. stupid me ... :-( -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me

eth0 and ppp0

2000-04-24 Thread Parrish M Myers
Hi all, To start off I have a local network at home with 2 computers (one win98 and the other of cource Debian)... I also have a dial-up set up for the Debian box. Both are configured correctly if used seperately. Is there a way to run both interfaces (eth0 and ppp0) at the same time without usi

Re: /var/lib gone

2000-04-24 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 07:51:55PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > i just found out, that i've accidently erased all the contents > > of /var/lib. the machine works almost fine, but what exactly am > > i missing at the moment, besides that i cannot use dpkg ? is the > > only option to fix

Re: Netscape

2000-04-24 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Philip C Mendelsohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On one of my other machines, I need to have Netscape Navigator installed, > so I can have a browser that does RSA secure https:// browsing (for some > online banking.) > > I am very much in the learning curve of dselect and apt-get, and alien > do

Re: sawmill problem

2000-04-24 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jan Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just installed the Sawmill 0.25.2-1 package, but sawmill won't > run, and keep mumbling > > "error--> (invalid-function (macro . #))" > > to me, each time I run :) It's a bug in one of the rep library packages (librep8_0.11.2-1_i386.deb and/or rep_

Re: /var/lib gone

2000-04-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> i just found out, that i've accidently erased all the contents > of /var/lib. the machine works almost fine, but what exactly am > i missing at the moment, besides that i cannot use dpkg ? is the > only option to fix this to re-install the distribution? or can > somebody tell me the normal s

LaserJet 1100

2000-04-24 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
Hi. We're using a LaserJet 1100 here as the network printer. It's being served up by a 486 running woody, with gs-aladdin 5.5, magicfilter, and lprng. The quality is okayish for text, but any grayscale or colour graphics have really bad (looks like 150dpi) dithering. I've temporarily tried the Win

/var/lib gone

2000-04-24 Thread oliver d tali
hi! i just found out, that i've accidently erased all the contents of /var/lib. the machine works almost fine, but what exactly am i missing at the moment, besides that i cannot use dpkg ? is the only option to fix this to re-install the distribution? or can somebody tell me the normal subtre

Re: potatoe broken apache?

2000-04-24 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 10:33:42AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > I just did a dist upgrade. How when I try to restart apache I'm getting > this: > [Mon Apr 24 10:32:26 2000] [warn] pid file /var/run/apache.pid overwritten -- > Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run? > [Mon Apr 24 10:32:

Re: /dev/lp0 does not exist

2000-04-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> When I try echo "hello" > /dev/lp0 (or lp1,2,3) I get something like > device doesn't exist. But it is there? Where is the problem? Any ideas? > the special file is always there - it's installed with linux itself. you must compile printer support in the kernel or load the right modules. all ker

/dev/lp0 does not exist

2000-04-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
When I try echo "hello" > /dev/lp0 (or lp1,2,3) I get something like device doesn't exist. But it is there? Where is the problem? Any ideas? Thanx

Re: when's potato stable?

2000-04-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Just wondering how much longer until potato is stable. > you'd better not ask, because somebody may feel hurt ... ;-) look at http://master.debian.org/~wakkerma/bugs/ for up-to-date info. when the graph is at zero, potato will be released ... however - i installed it yesterday. it mainly works.

when's potato stable?

2000-04-24 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, Just wondering how much longer until potato is stable. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: bash-related (?) segfault

2000-04-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> My computer is regularly segfaulting. as you say, that really nothing has changed, it sounds like a hardware (RAM) failure. :-( run some memtest. we had a thread about that some days ago. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you

bash-related (?) segfault

2000-04-24 Thread Brian J. Stults
My computer is regularly segfaulting. It runs fine for a while, but then when I try to execute an xterm, or netscape, or ncftp (for example) I get segfaults. I shutdown X, and try to reboot (using ctrl-alt-del), but that won't work either. I try to "su" to root to execute reboot directly, but t

Re: help...

2000-04-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
Ignite Projeck Acid wrote: > hi there!! i juz bought this cd of debian recently & have tried installing. >.. oh ya.. i am also trying to co-exist with my windows95. Anyway... it >seems my video card Creative GeForce Pro 32mb cant work wif linux proper You may need to ask on X newsgr

Re: Is apt-cdrom necessary ?

2000-04-24 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Egbert Bouwman wrote: > Many months ago I learned somewhere that you have to use 'apt-cdrom' > in order to add CD's to your sources.list, and that worked. > But now Pann McCuaig sais he manually added a line for a CD > to sources.list: >deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main >

Re: Need a list of installed *.deb packages

2000-04-24 Thread Jay Barbee
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:42:42PM -0400, Maury R . Merkin wrote: > Is there a command which returns a list of the *.deb packages presently > installed on my 'puter? dpkg --get-selections --Jay Barbee

Re: Need a list of installed *.deb packages

2000-04-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Is there a command which returns a list of the *.deb packages presently > installed on my 'puter? > dpkg --get-selections -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.

RE: how do you set your system clock from a remote time server?

2000-04-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Where can I get nptdate? > it is a normal debian package called "ntpdate" - at least in potato. ;-) -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.

Need a list of installed *.deb packages

2000-04-24 Thread Maury R . Merkin
Is there a command which returns a list of the *.deb packages presently installed on my 'puter? Tia, Maury

RE: how do you set your system clock from a remote time server?

2000-04-24 Thread Chris Mason
Where can I get nptdate? 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 -Original Message---

Re: How to build for Slink on a Woody system?

2000-04-24 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Brian Boonstra wrote: > I'd like to compile some binaries capable of running on slink, but > my only available platform is woody. What is generally involved in doing > this? I've tried to search the mailing list archive, but the engine seems to > > be broken (mo

potatoe broken apache?

2000-04-24 Thread Robert L. Harris
I just did a dist upgrade. How when I try to restart apache I'm getting this: [Mon Apr 24 10:32:26 2000] [warn] pid file /var/run/apache.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run? [Mon Apr 24 10:32:26 2000] [emerg] (22)Invalid argument: could not call shmget My web server is d

RE: Linux programmers (fwd)

2000-04-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
--- Forwarded Message Date:Mon, 24 Apr 2000 12:21:51 -0400 From:"Grenier, Deborah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Oliver Elphick'" Subject: RE: Linux programmers Thank you for asking for clarification. We are looking for software engineers with C or C+ experience. Preferably with

Re: ssh passphrase

2000-04-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Well, I know what you're talking about with the agent sticking around. I don't have any solution for you but this certainly sounds like something that's needed. Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > >That's what ssh-agent is for. You run ssh-agent and it will out

help...

2000-04-24 Thread Ignite Projeck Acid
hi there!! i juz bought this cd of debian recently & have tried installing... oh ya.. i am also trying to co-exist with my windows95. Anyway... it seems my video card Creative GeForce Pro 32mb cant work wif linux properly? not supported i guess? how can i make it supported?? Please... even my s

Re: Mail-Filter

2000-04-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, April 24, 2000, 5:55:15 AM, mithrandir007 wrote: > Does anybody can tell me a program (perhaps the debianpackage) for a good > mailingfilter, which i can use in combination with mutt or pine? Exim. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your

Interested in /etc/init.d/rc /etc/init.d/rcS logging?

2000-04-24 Thread uaca
Take a look at http://pusa.uv.es/~ulisses/debian Comments/suggestions wanted Thanks Ulisses Debian/GNU Linux: a dream come true - "Computers are useless. They can only give answers."P

Re: debian: wxgtk-2.1 broken

2000-04-24 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 01:33:29 +1000, Brendan Simon wrote: > I managed to get the program to link by adding "-lgtkmm -lgdkmm" after the > `wx-config --libs` argument. > I'm not sure if this is a problem with the wxgtk-2.1 package or C librariy > dependencies. > What needs to be done to get this t

Re: Archiving and Expiring Mail

2000-04-24 Thread Jay Barbee
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:54:00PM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Hi. I use Procmail and Mutt for processing +200 mail messages every day > (large share from this list ;-)) > I would like to have a tool which is able to archive and/or expire mail > messages on a per mailbox bases. > Did not fi

Archiving and Expiring Mail

2000-04-24 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi. I use Procmail and Mutt for processing +200 mail messages every day (large share from this list ;-)) I would like to have a tool which is able to archive and/or expire mail messages on a per mailbox bases. Did not find anything matching in the Mail-packages list on www.debian.org. Any suggestio

Re: Linux programmers

2000-04-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Grenier, Deborah" wrote: >We are looking for Linux programmers. Your site was recommended? I would >appreciate your recommendations? Linux is an operating system, not a language, so your specification is too vague. Do you want (do you know if you want) C programmers, Web designers, OO sp

Printer filter for Lexmark 5700?

2000-04-24 Thread Kent Nyberg
I have a new lexmark 5700 printer and have tried to configure it with lpr. But it does not work. It seemes like there is no filter for that printer :( I got a mail from Lexmark which said that there is some people who have written patches for ghostscript which will make it work. But i dont have the

Re: debian: wxgtk-2.1 broken

2000-04-24 Thread Brendan Simon
It compiles and links but does not run. I get the following errors: Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from `GtkWindow' to `GtkWindowType' Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from `GtkWindow' to `GtkWindowType' Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from `GtkWindow' to `GtkWindowType' Gtk-WARNING **: inv

Re: debian: wxgtk-2.1 broken

2000-04-24 Thread Brendan Simon
I managed to get the program to link by adding "-lgtkmm -lgdkmm" after the `wx-config --libs` argument. I'm not sure if this is a problem with the wxgtk-2.1 package or C librariy dependencies. What needs to be done to get this to work out of the box ? Brendan. Brendan Simon wrote: > I have a co

Fw: Trouble with toy network

2000-04-24 Thread Scott Chamberlain
- Original Message - From: "Steve Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nick Willson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 9:27 PM Subject: RE: Trouble with toy network > > Seeking help persuading a desktop and laptop to talk to each other over a > > private network (192.168.0.0).

[Re: debian: wxgtk-2.1 broken]

2000-04-24 Thread Brendan Simon
Brendan Simon wrote: > There was a bug in my makefile. The object files weren't being included > during the link. However the same errors still occur. > Brendan. > > > I have installed wxgtk-2.1 and tried to compile a program I had working > > with wxWindowsGtk 2.0. > > After some changes to my

XXX

2000-04-24 Thread mheyes
I installed a 3dfx voodoo 3 3000 video card last week, and ran xf86config to set it up. Did startx, it failed. DUH: didn't change the xserver from svga. I couldn't download the correct server because my isp was down. So, I reconfigured xf86config back to my original (matrox mystique) card and sta

Re: LyX crashed and now doesn't work

2000-04-24 Thread Pat Mahoney
Try deleting your $(HOME)/.lyx dir. It may have been corrupted during the crash. On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 05:52:04PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > Hi, > > LyX crashed while I was playing with the Math Panel. Now it only sees > two available textclasses in layout/document/class. Both are SGML and I

debian: wxgtk-2.1 broken

2000-04-24 Thread Brendan Simon
I have a couple of questions regarding the maintenence of the Debain wxWindows package. 1) Is it actively maintained and who is the maintainer ? 2) wxWindows-2.1.15 has been released and was wondering if a Debian package is in the pipeline. 3) I have a linking problem with an existing wx applicatio

Linux programmers

2000-04-24 Thread Grenier, Deborah
We are looking for Linux programmers. Your site was recommended? I would appreciate your recommendations? Deborah Grenier Director of HR & Administration 301-490-4007 x 26 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem connecting with ISP

2000-04-24 Thread Guðmundur Erlingsson
Hi there, I'm trying to dial in to my ISP but whatever I try nothing seems to work. I'm using the pon script, pap-authentification, and here is a typical logfile: Apr 24 14:23:11 Jarlsberg pppd[334]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Apr 24 14:23:12 Jarlsberg chat[335]: abort on (BUSY) Apr 24 14:

Modules & name resolution

2000-04-24 Thread Kovacs Istvan
Hello! I've just installed potato, re-compiled the kernel, and now (some of) my modules will not auto-load. I can load them with modprobe and/or insmod. I have to load the driver for my Initio SCSI card, SB AWE32 sound card and RTL8019-based NIC by hand. The question is: why? And of course: how do

Re: Mail-Filter

2000-04-24 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All ;)) > > Does anybody can tell me a program (perhaps the debianpackage) for a good > mailingfilter, which i can use in combination with mutt or pine? apt-get install procmail Regards, Joey -- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theo

Mail-Filter

2000-04-24 Thread mithrandir007
Hi All ;)) Does anybody can tell me a program (perhaps the debianpackage) for a good mailingfilter, which i can use in combination with mutt or pine? Thanks a lot Mithrandir -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: reiserfs support

2000-04-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > does anybody know if the ReiserFs can be installed during the > > installation procedure of Debian 2.2? Or must the ext2 replaced after > > the installation? > > You can pause & resume the installation in order to install reiserfs > on the system. > i did it this way: on my already running s

Re: Initial debian problems

2000-04-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> how do I control the starting of services at boot? Eg. which > services installed should be started and which shouldn't. Do I need to > remove some links from the appropriate runlevel-dirs or is there a > better way of doing that? I remember in suse, there was a general > system-wide config-file

Re: Initial debian problems

2000-04-24 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 01:06:24PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote > Hi all! > > I have a few questions. Firstly, how do I control the starting of services > at boot? Eg. which services installed should be started and which > shouldn't. Do I need to remove some links from the appropriate > runlevel-dir

Re: bug!!!!

2000-04-24 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:26:44PM +0530, vipin Aravind wrote > potential bug . Iam working on a windows m/a and am > using the linux server by telneting but to my surprise the /etc/utmp and > the ps -el cribs . my windows 95 m/c crashed and to my surprise I found > that the ps -el >still

Re: Initial debian problems

2000-04-24 Thread ktb
Sven Burgener wrote: > > Hi all! > > I have a few questions. Firstly, how do I control the starting of services at > boot? Eg. which services installed should be started and which shouldn't. Do > I need to remove some links from the appropriate runlevel-dirs or is there a > better way of doing

Re: location of kernel compilation configs in potato?

2000-04-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> In a recent thread, someone pointed to /boot/config- as the source > where info about the configs compiled into the kernel can be found. yes > However, in my new potato installation there is no such file. ooops ... i verified it ... there is in fact no such file. i guess, you have to install

Leafnode problem

2000-04-24 Thread Christopher Clark
After trying and failing to use INN, I removed it using dpkg and installed leafnode. I had to use fetch -f but after that it seemed to work fine when I manually kicked it. But when I added it to my cron.daily job ( su news -c "/usr/sbin/fetch" ) I get: shell-init: could not get current directory:

Initial debian problems

2000-04-24 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all! I have a few questions. Firstly, how do I control the starting of services at boot? Eg. which services installed should be started and which shouldn't. Do I need to remove some links from the appropriate runlevel-dirs or is there a better way of doing that? I remember in suse, there was

bug!!!!

2000-04-24 Thread vipin Aravind
potential bug . Iam working on a windows m/a and am using the linux server by telneting but to my surprise the /etc/utmp and the ps -el cribs . my windows 95 m/c crashed and to my surprise I found that the ps -el still shows the sh ( which corresponded to the tty line I opened earlier befo

Re: reiserfs support

2000-04-24 Thread Martin Schulze
Sven Garbade wrote: > Hallo, > > does anybody know if the ReiserFs can be installed during the > installation procedure of Debian 2.2? Or must the ext2 replaced after > the installation? You can pause & resume the installation in order to install reiserfs on the system. Regards, Joey

Re: where is rc.local ?

2000-04-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 11:47:17AM +, mathieu wrote: > i understand the aim but i don't know how to make a start & stop part, do you > know > where i can find an example of > something explaining how ? i am not really used to such script.. > thank you > Mat /etc/init.d/skeleton is an example

reiserfs support

2000-04-24 Thread Sven Garbade
Hallo, does anybody know if the ReiserFs can be installed during the installation procedure of Debian 2.2? Or must the ext2 replaced after the installation? Happy easter, Sven

Re: where is rc.local ?

2000-04-24 Thread Martin Schulze
mathieu wrote: > i understand the aim but i don't know how to make a start & stop part, do you > know > where i can find an example of Maybe take a look at the other scripts in /etc/init.d? Just a rough guess, there may be tons of them... Regards, Joey -- A mathematician is a machin

Re: where is rc.local ?

2000-04-24 Thread mathieu
i understand the aim but i don't know how to make a start & stop part, do you know where i can find an example of something explaining how ? i am not really used to such script.. thank you Mat > > > Move your script to /etc/init.d, complete it with a start and stop part. > Then hook it into the

Re: block device name

2000-04-24 Thread kmself
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 09:29:06AM +0100, Ian Morton wrote: > I am trying to install Debian 2.1 as sole OS, and the latest snag is > when trying to install from dselect it asks " enter block device name > [/dev/cdrom] " but I can cant find any reference to any block device > name in any of the docu

Re: where is rc.local ?

2000-04-24 Thread Martin Schulze
mathieu wrote: > Hello, > i have seen that rc.d like on slackware doesn't exist, and that rc.* > are > directly in /etc. But where must i put my line command to be executed > when the > system boot ?? Like num lock, ipchains and all my stuff... > Thank you for your answer, Move your script to /et

where is rc.local ?

2000-04-24 Thread mathieu
Hello, i have seen that rc.d like on slackware doesn't exist, and that rc.* are directly in /etc. But where must i put my line command to be executed when the system boot ?? Like num lock, ipchains and all my stuff... Thank you for your answer, Mat

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2000-04-24 Thread vipin Aravind
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