Re: Install problem with AHA 2940 SCSI (older PC)

2000-06-11 Thread t.bedlam
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 10:48:18PM -0500, Robert C. Ramsdell was only escaped alone to tell thee: > It correctly identitifes /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 as the Linux and swap > partitions. However, it will initialize, but hangs if I try to do a > bad-block scan of either partition. After establi

Re: Install problem with AHA 2940 SCSI (older PC)

2000-06-11 Thread Robert C. Ramsdell
Thanks. Did what you said and re-checked the FAQ-O-Matic. There is was, plain as day, a pointer to a set of AIC-7xxx *only* rescue and driver disks (at http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/ if anyone is keeping score). The rescue disk worked like a charm, and allowed me to partition my HD. On t

Re: Compiling kernels

2000-06-11 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:41:21AM +0100, Lee Elliott wrote: > This seems to work ok - SMP is enabled and the SCSI controller works - > but during the load process, immediately after "Calculating module > dependencies" I get a lot of "insmod *** unresolved symbols in > lib/modules/x.x.x/misc/abcde

Re: (xterm or rxvt) and VIM

2000-06-11 Thread Chris Gray
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 12:42:48AM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > So my idea would be changing the xterm entry in the termcap file, > because my xterm does support colors. > > And now, to end this already-too-long e-mail: Is this a good idea? And, > if so, how can it be done? Or, do I have oth

Re: Compiling kernels

2000-06-11 Thread Corey Popelier
I've compiled umpteen kernels with 2.95, don't know what that fuss is about. As for the errors, I thought the make clean came after the make modules, make modules_install. I was under the impression that the order went: make menuconfig (or xconfig etc) make dep make modules make modules_install ma

Re: General Resolution. Copied and Pasted Message from Developers Archive

2000-06-11 Thread montefin
Hear. Hear. I second that emotion. montefin Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > The following is a message that I grabbed from the archives of > developers' list, the ones with the power of vote about this or any > other resolution. There are ideas here that are worth reading, so I > decided to post i

Setting hwclock time

2000-06-11 Thread Jack Morgan
I just did a clean install of debian potato on my Toshiba 2100cds. My bios clock reads Thu Jan 4 23:17:51 JST 1990. So when I use dselect to install numerous packages it stalls due to tar archive error that says ...future time stamp..etc This is very frustrating since any info, e.g. man pages,

Re: kernel2.3.99pre3 to pre9

2000-06-11 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Sun, 11 Jun 2000 12:50:31 +, Joseph de los Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > Has anyone ever used the development kernels 2.3.99pre3 to pre9?. Currently I > am using kernel 2.3.99pre3 and it works great. I have a soundcard that is > automatically autodetected by isapnp and that

Re: (xterm or rxvt) and VIM

2000-06-11 Thread t.bedlam
While answering this message, I discovered that XTerm (which I hardly use) did not understand the Home and End keys, and backspaced for both Backspace and Delete! Turns out I had not 'potatoed' xterm and rxvt... :) 'Course, now XTerm is white BG and light grey text. Hmm. Ahh. /etc/X11/Xresources

Daemons that use the serial ports

2000-06-11 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, How do you know what daemons that currently using the serial ports? My system behaves strangely; when it was init'ed to single user, the serial ports (/dev/ttyS0 and S1) can be probed using setserial -a. But when it was other than single user, setserial -a said that the devices were busy. Used

Re: Debian i386 mirror

2000-06-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:05:04AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi all, > I'm planning to make a mirror of debian i-386 (slink, potato, woody) at > my lab and want to know to measure how big it will be and if someone could me > provide an rsync line or mirror c

Re: Compiling kernels

2000-06-11 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Hi Lee! On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Lee Elliott wrote: > Hello list, > > I need to compile my own kernels to enable SMP and get SCSI support for > my card so, after consulting the HOWTO and reading some recent postings > about kernel compiling, what I've been doing is: Install "fakeroot", "kernel-pack

Compiling kernels

2000-06-11 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello list, I need to compile my own kernels to enable SMP and get SCSI support for my card so, after consulting the HOWTO and reading some recent postings about kernel compiling, what I've been doing is: 1. Rename/move my existing (/usr/src/) kernel-source-x.x.x, kernel-headers-x.x.x and linux

Re: True Type Support of Xfree86 4.0

2000-06-11 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Jun 11, kmself@ix.netcom.com scribbled: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 10:13:34PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: > > I have seen the release notes of XFree86 4.0 said that > > it will supported the True Type Fonts. > > Is it mean that if I have installed the 4.0R and I don't need to > > install the xfs

Re: (xterm or rxvt) and VIM

2000-06-11 Thread Dave Bateman
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've been reading into the VIM online help a lot lately and I am truly > impressed what this editor can do for me. And to include the obligatory > flame bait: I'll never touch Emacs again -- which is, of course, > nonsense. > > Anyway, while the online help

(xterm or rxvt) and VIM

2000-06-11 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi folks, I've been reading into the VIM online help a lot lately and I am truly impressed what this editor can do for me. And to include the obligatory flame bait: I'll never touch Emacs again -- which is, of course, nonsense. Anyway, while the online help is really great it leaves me with a pr

Re: rm -R /usr/

2000-06-11 Thread Brian Stults
I've made countless mistakes being overly cavalier with "rm". As others have mentioned, "rm -i" didn't work for me because I just got in the habit of always using "-f". About a year ago, I decided to start fiddling with a "trash can" script. I ended up with several shell scripts that alias rm to

Re: mandb-errors!?

2000-06-11 Thread Sven Burgener
>I meant more the Debian version - try 'dpkg -s vim', and look at the >'Version:' line. Oic. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -s vim | grep Version Version: 5.6.070-1 Sven

Re: where to report kernel bugs

2000-06-11 Thread kmself
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 03:33:34PM -0400, S. Salman Ahmed wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > "P" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > P> Where is the best place to report kernel bugs, anyone know? > Read /usr/src/linux/REPORTING-BUGS (assuming that /usr/

Re: mandb-errors!?

2000-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
"Sven Burgener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Colin Watson wrote: >>(What version of vim are you using?) > >hp:~# vim --version >VIM - Vi IMproved 5.6 (2000 Jan 16, compiled May 1 2000 16:14:28) >Included patches: 1-62, 64-70 I meant more the Debian version - try 'dpkg -s vim', and look at the 'Ver

Re: Will Debian run on my system?

2000-06-11 Thread I. Tura
At 23.52 9/6/00 -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. ha escrit: >On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:15:58PM -0500, >Matthew W. Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm looking at buying a used computer and want to install Debian >> on it. I've taken a serious liking to the following and would >> appreciate any c

Segmentation fault & X

2000-06-11 Thread Cam Ellison
I apologise in advance for the long message. I seem to have screwed up xserver (not that it was operating that well). I used the Debian packages to set it up, but had trouble getting it to recognise my "card" and monitor. The best I could get was a purported 640 x 480 screen, except that the m

slink + 0.75 ->potato login problem

2000-06-11 Thread Peter Allen
Hi, I've just upgraded from "slink with a lot of potato" to potato. (apt-get -f dist-upgrade) having rebooted to let everything settle in, I then tried to login: When I try I can type my username, then it waits three seconds and asks for my username again. (No password asked for and no login) I ha

Re: mandb-errors!?

2000-06-11 Thread Sven Burgener
>At one point, there was a bug that caused vim to disappear from the list >of choices for vi, ex, and so on, and it wasn't fixed properly. I've >mailed the maintainer about it. (What version of vim are you using?) hp:~# vim --version VIM - Vi IMproved 5.6 (2000 Jan 16, compiled May 1 2000 16:14:2

Installing AfterStep

2000-06-11 Thread Zeljko Vukman
I' ve installed AfterStep Windows manager (.deb package) by typing " dpkg -i afterstep.deb " in console. What should I do next?  Shall I compile afterstep? And how? I have tried very hard to find some explanations in online manuals and faqs, but I don't understand a lot of things that is

Re: Specify dial string for PPP connection with pppconfig

2000-06-11 Thread Brad
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 04:46:29PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > I'm trying to switch off modem sound when connecting to the ppp > service provider, but can't seem to find a place to stick in M0 in the > dial string... Is there a standard way of doing it? Have you looked under "Advanced Options"?

Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?

2000-06-11 Thread Brad
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 06:43:12PM +0200, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: > Hey there, > > I am currently searching a program similar to Adobe Acrobat under Linux > that makes PDF-files out of files of all kinds... > > Any ideas and / or hints on that ? As suggested before, ps2pdf will convert postsc

Re: Shell script reading stdin?

2000-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It appears I was too optomistic. It's not working. Here's the error from >the exim log (originally all one line - wrapped here for clarity): > >2000-06-11 14:13:02 131CEI-0002xP-00 ** >|/home/picuser/picadmin/message_handle.sh ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D=userfor

Specify dial string for PPP connection with pppconfig

2000-06-11 Thread Arcady Genkin
I'm trying to switch off modem sound when connecting to the ppp service provider, but can't seem to find a place to stick in M0 in the dial string... Is there a standard way of doing it? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com Thanks God I'm still an atheist

masqmail - really a good & safe solution for DIP connected box?

2000-06-11 Thread Wojtek Zabolotny
Hi All, I have to set up the reliable MTA for my home network. I use my own DNS system with "unofficial" domain name. The mail is transferred to the Internet by different dialup ISP. The problem is however, that the providers' smarthosts complain about the sender's hostname (because it contains m

Re: mandb-errors!?

2000-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
"Sven Burgener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Colin Watson wrote: >>Are you running vim? vim's alternatives keep breaking. :( I've already > >Yes, I use vim. What do you mean by "vim's alternatives keep breaking"? /usr/share/doc/debian/FAQ/ch-customizing.html, section 10.10, should give you a decent

Re: NFS Booting

2000-06-11 Thread Ron Rademaker
There's a package bootless, perhaps that'll get you a bit further Ron Rademaker On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Lavu Sridhar wrote: > > I want to use the Debian Image as a NFS. So I have downloaded the image > and unzipped it in a i686 architecture PC. I am using the 2.3.99 kernel > and have used boot

Re: Diamond Viper v770

2000-06-11 Thread Ron Rademaker
I guess you mean with X?? You just DON't select a card and use the XF_SVGA server. That should work... Ron Rademaker On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Ivan Vukosav wrote: > How do I get Debian 2.1 to work with a Diamond Viper v770(NOT Ultra) card? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTEC

kernel2.3.99pre3 to pre9

2000-06-11 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hi, Has anyone ever used the development kernels 2.3.99pre3 to pre9?. Currently I am using kernel 2.3.99pre3 and it works great. I have a soundcard that is automatically autodetected by isapnp and that's what I like most with that kernel. Now when I tried upgrading to the pre9 release..sadly, i

Diamond Viper v770

2000-06-11 Thread Ivan Vukosav
How do I get Debian 2.1 to work with a Diamond Viper v770(NOT Ultra) card?

Re: where to report kernel bugs

2000-06-11 Thread Pollywog
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, S. Salman Ahmed wrote: > Read /usr/src/linux/REPORTING-BUGS (assuming that /usr/src/linux is a > symlink to /usr/src/linux-2.3.99-pre9) for more details on the > procedure. > > Basically you will have to send a detailed email to the Maintainer (see > /usr/src/linux/MAINTAINER

Re: where to report kernel bugs

2000-06-11 Thread Pollywog
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: > Hmm, ever did an ls in the root of the tree you get when you unpack kernel > sources?? There's this file called: REPORTING-BUGS, well... what do you > think that is? ;) > > Ron Rademaker > > On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Pollywog wrote: > > I am using kernel 2.3.99-pre9

Re: Shell script reading stdin?

2000-06-11 Thread Mike Werner
Mike Werner wrote: > Jim Breton wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 10:54:32PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > > > What I couldn't find was *any* mention of was how to *use* stdin from > > > within a shell script. Anyone here ever done anything like this? > > > > > > Yes, but this may or may not be s

Re: wine

2000-06-11 Thread Christopher Mosley
Look at the documentation here, especially the HOW TO for wine: http://www.winehq.com/ On 11 Jun 2000, Felix Natter wrote: > Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Could someone please send me there wine.conf file as I'm having trouble > > getting it to work. Please 'CC' it to me

Re: APT -- Proxy Problems?

2000-06-11 Thread Ron Rademaker
I guess you'll have to try apt-proxy... Ron Rademaker On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Gregory Cascante wrote: > > > > I have problems with APT, I can't download the files. > I know that the problem is that I use a proxY SEVER for > HTTP an FTP. > > HOW can I configure APT for the Proxy? > > Thanks

Re: APT -- Proxy Problems?

2000-06-11 Thread Robert L. Harris
Here's what I have: export http_proxy="http://proxy.rnd-consulting.com:3128"; export gopher_proxy="http://proxy.rnd-consulting.com:3128"; export ftp_proxy="http://proxy.rnd-consulting.com:3128"; Thus spake Gregory Cascante ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > I have problems with APT, I can't dow

Re: where to report kernel bugs

2000-06-11 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hmm, ever did an ls in the root of the tree you get when you unpack kernel sources?? There's this file called: REPORTING-BUGS, well... what do you think that is? ;) Ron Rademaker On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Pollywog wrote: > I am using kernel 2.3.99-pre9 and I don't seem to be having any obvious >

Re: linuxconf for debian

2000-06-11 Thread Ron Rademaker
apt-get install linuxconf Ron Rademaker On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Felix Natter wrote: > hi, > > is it possible to use linuxconf with debian (2.2) ? > > thanks, > > -- > Felix Natter > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >

APT -- Proxy Problems?

2000-06-11 Thread Gregory Cascante
I have problems with APT, I can't download the files. I know that the problem is that I use a proxY SEVER for HTTP an FTP. HOW can I configure APT for the Proxy? Thanks

Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?

2000-06-11 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: > Hey there, > > I am currently searching a program similar to Adobe Acrobat under Linux > that makes PDF-files out of files of all kinds... > > Any ideas and / or hints on that ? The already mentioned ps2pdf comes to mind (in the ghostscript package) or you could als

where to report kernel bugs

2000-06-11 Thread Pollywog
I am using kernel 2.3.99-pre9 and I don't seem to be having any obvious problems with it. I do see the following in my logs, rather frequently: Sun 11 19:20:47 lilypad kernel: kmem_alloc: Bad poison (name=size-128) Where is the best place to report kernel bugs, anyone know? thanks -- Andrew

NFS Booting

2000-06-11 Thread Lavu Sridhar
I want to use the Debian Image as a NFS. So I have downloaded the image and unzipped it in a i686 architecture PC. I am using the 2.3.99 kernel and have used bootp for mounting the root fs. The ARM board (client) has 16MB RAM and no hard disk attached. How do i go about doing this? Are there any

Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?

2000-06-11 Thread Christopher Splinter
* Jeff Noxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gs contains a program called ps2pdf that will convert any > Postscript file to PDF. ps2pdf is only a wrapper around ghostscript: ,[ ps2pdf ] | [...] | # Doing an initial 'save' helps keep fonts from being flushed between pages. | exec gs -q -dNOPAUSE

Re: Library like DirectDraw or DirectX for Linux?

2000-06-11 Thread Felix Natter
Sven Garbade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear List, > > is there a similar library for graphics programming like DirectDraw or > DirectX on windows-systems for Linux (not OpenGL)? yes, there is SDL: simple direct-media layer. try www.lokigames.com (or similar), or search for SDL (maybe it's

Re: Q: Gimp installs to .gimp-1.1x

2000-06-11 Thread Felix Natter
"Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm curious while Gimp 1.04 installs in my root directory as .gimp, why > does Gimp 1.1x go in at .gimp-1.1x? Anyway to have it just go in as gimp 1.1.x is the unstable "branch". (1.2 will be released very soon) it creates ~/.gimp-1.1 to enab

linuxconf for debian

2000-06-11 Thread Felix Natter
hi, is it possible to use linuxconf with debian (2.2) ? thanks, -- Felix Natter

Re: wine

2000-06-11 Thread Felix Natter
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could someone please send me there wine.conf file as I'm having trouble > getting it to work. Please 'CC' it to me. try downloading the latest version (the source-code package). it should be just ./configure && make su make install and then follow the

Re: True Type Support of Xfree86 4.0

2000-06-11 Thread kmself
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 10:13:34PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: > I have seen the release notes of XFree86 4.0 said that > it will supported the True Type Fonts. > Is it mean that if I have installed the 4.0R and I don't need to > install the xfs or xtt server to support true type fonts any more? Tha

Re: Shell script reading stdin?

2000-06-11 Thread kmself
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 12:43:56AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 10:20:07AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > > I've seen scripts like this and I'm wondering exactly what this line > > does: > > > > cat < foo.scr > > > > I guess that up to the "EOF" it reads text and puts t

Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?

2000-06-11 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 06:43:12PM +0200, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: > I am currently searching a program similar to Adobe Acrobat under Linux > that makes PDF-files out of files of all kinds... gs contains a program called ps2pdf that will convert any Postscript file to PDF. PDF is mostly postsc

Re: Mail Error Warning; DebianDomain Name Explanation

2000-06-11 Thread Pollywog
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote: Surely your signature suggests that you are > somehow attached to or associated with Debian: > > Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. > http://www.debian.org >http://www.debiandomain.com > > Th

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-11 Thread John McBride
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, John McBride wrote: > > > XF86Setup will start working right. Main problem now is that when I log > > in through gdm/helix gnome, there is no wm started -- just a gray > > stipple and a single button 2 menu. sawfish is installed and conf

Re: Mail Error Warning; DebianDomain Name Explanation

2000-06-11 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 09:31:15AM -0700, Debiandomain wrote: > Apparently my new domain name stirred up a few question, so let me explain > what DebianDomain.com is. And, since I was the first to call attention to it, let me explain. On the one hand, Jay, you could be a very nice person with th

Re: mouse gpm/xwindow conflict

2000-06-11 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On 6 Jun 2000, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > Are you sure that "MouseSystems" is the correct choice? I always use > "Microsoft" here. I put "Microsoft" in there and it worked. Thanks for helping! But I would anyway like to know, where this "Microsoft" comes from. Is it mentioned somewhere in the

Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?

2000-06-11 Thread Christopher Splinter
* Oliver Schoenknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Besides I am also searching a good and powerful HTML-editor XEmacs. > and a logo creation tool like Xara Webstyle... Hm, Gimp? :-)

Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?

2000-06-11 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 06:43:12PM +0200, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: > I am currently searching a program similar to Adobe Acrobat under Linux > that makes PDF-files out of files of all kinds... One way to do it is via SGML, with the jadetex package. A handy driver file for this, db2pdf, can be f

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-11 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, John McBride wrote: > XF86Setup will start working right. Main problem now is that when I log > in through gdm/helix gnome, there is no wm started -- just a gray > stipple and a single button 2 menu. sawfish is installed and configured, > but not launching I guess. Any h

Re: Road Runner && DNS Problems

2000-06-11 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 07:25:02AM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > Yes it appears to be working fine. Here is it's output. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ nslookup www.bellsouth.net > Server: localhost > Address: 127.0.0.1 > > Non-authoritative answer: > Name:www.bellsouth.net > Address: 205.152.0.46

PDF Writer for Linux ?

2000-06-11 Thread Oliver Schoenknecht
Hey there, I am currently searching a program similar to Adobe Acrobat under Linux that makes PDF-files out of files of all kinds... Any ideas and / or hints on that ? Besides I am also searching a good and powerful HTML-editor and a logo creation tool like Xara Webstyle... Any help is apprecia

RE: Mail Error Warning; DebianDomain Name Explanation

2000-06-11 Thread Debiandomain
Hello Group, Apparently my new domain name stirred up a few question, so let me explain what DebianDomain.com is. I registered the domain for learning purposes. I currenlty am only using the name to help learn about setting up apache, smtp and a ftp server on linux. For me its easier to learn by do

Re: mandb-errors!?

2000-06-11 Thread Sven Burgener
>Are you running vim? vim's alternatives keep breaking. :( I've already Yes, I use vim. What do you mean by "vim's alternatives keep breaking"? >reported a previous iteration of this bug, I may get round to doing it >again ... When / how will this be fixed? Sven

Re: Install problem with AHA 2940 SCSI (older PC)

2000-06-11 Thread t.bedlam
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 04:02:49PM -0500, Robert C. Ramsdell was only escaped alone to tell thee: > Adaptec 2940 SCSI Host Adapter (LUN 7) You need a different kernel, one with AHA-2940 SCSI support *exclusively* and *specifically*. No other SCSI adapter drivers should be in the kernel if the

Re: which SQL database?

2000-06-11 Thread Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Randy Edwards writes: > > Both have excellent manuals and tutorials. > > Being in the process of teaching myself SQL by way of PostgreSQL, I have to > say that the PostgreSQL docs fall far short of my definition of > "excellent". I'm afraid that I'd agre

Re: Netscape -- recent severe instability

2000-06-11 Thread Kent West
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Netscape is driving me nuts. > > I'm running 2.2 unstable (woody), with > > Package: navigator-smotif-461 > Status: install ok installed > Source: netscape4.61 > Version: 4.61-11 > > Recently (within the past week), Netscape has become even more unstab

Re: mandb-errors!?

2000-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
"Sven Burgener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello > >Whenever I run "mandb" for the first time (after starting up the >system), I get errors. When I then rerun "mandb" those errors dont >appear. How can I fix them? > > >Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man'. Wait... >Updating index cache f

Re: mozilla segfault...

2000-06-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 17:14:16 +0200, Christopher Splinter wrote: > > > monkeyhouse:~/$ mozilla > [...] > > > Segmentation fault > > Any ideas? > > What does strace say? And does mv-ing ~/.mozilla help? Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterda

Re: mozilla segfault...

2000-06-11 Thread Christopher Splinter
* rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > monkeyhouse:~/$ mozilla [...] > > Segmentation fault > Any ideas? What does strace say? -- Microsoft is sort of a mixture between the Borg and the Ferengi. Combine the Borg marketing with Ferengi networking... [Andre B

Re: mozilla segfault...

2000-06-11 Thread Chris Gray
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 01:53:37AM -0500, rich wrote: > Howdy all, > > I am running Windowmaker on a "pure" potato system. I just grabbed > mozilla using apt, but this is what happens when I try to run it... > > > monkeyhouse:~/$ mozilla > > Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites

Re: esound (woody) broken?

2000-06-11 Thread Chris Gray
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 01:01:48PM +0200, Dietmar wrote: > > I'm using xmms and it doesn't change anything whether I choose the > OSS-driver or esound. In fact I figured out that gnome is not > responsible for it in a special way, because similar things happen > when I use fvwm95 without gnome. W

Anyone get IBM TopPage to work on Debian Potato??

2000-06-11 Thread John Foster
I downloaded the beta package for evaluation of IBM's TopPage it was distributed as a .rpm so I used alien to convert it to .deb. There was only 1 warning but that seems to have been unimportant because alien reported that it had been sucessful in the conversion. TopPage also required a specially p

mandb-errors!?

2000-06-11 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Whenever I run "mandb" for the first time (after starting up the system), I get errors. When I then rerun "mandb" those errors dont appear. How can I fix them? Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man'. Wait... Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man'. Wait... Updating index cac

Re: how do I find which deb pakage contains man command?

2000-06-11 Thread Dietmar
> Geengun Guim wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > How can I find which deb pakage contains man command? > > > > okebary:~/okebary-sys-conf# man securetty > > bash: man: command not found > > > > I'd like to know about login as root. So I ran man securetty. But > > command not found. So I'd like to i

eqlplus...

2000-06-11 Thread Jason Quigley
Hi! Has anyone tried to use eqlplus with Debian (2.2.14)? If so, has anyone managed to get it to work? :-) Many thanks, Jason.

True Type Support of Xfree86 4.0

2000-06-11 Thread Alex Kwan
I have seen the release notes of XFree86 4.0 said that it will supported the True Type Fonts. Is it mean that if I have installed the 4.0R and I don't need to install the xfs or xtt server to support true type fonts any more?

Re: how do I find which deb pakage contains man command?

2000-06-11 Thread Dean
Hi Geengun: I would check to make sure you don't already have man your system. I've noticed that that is a common error message which is given when man can't find the requested file. ( In this case securetty) So any mis- spellings or missing . or - will give that same message. Try a simple man comm

Re: apache and frontpage

2000-06-11 Thread Doni Andri
OOT: i have trouble setting httpd.conf to enable perl and how can i config it to other user in my server so.. if someone access to my url such as http://lola.ee.itb.ac.id/~doniac/cgi-bin/test.pl, it will work thx alot - doni ac - On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Chris Mason wro

apache and frontpage

2000-06-11 Thread Chris Mason
I'm still battling with enabling frontpage in apache. I dopn't want to stray far from the debian apckage system, so I don't want to compile apache, although I have done it before so I am capable. I wondered if I coud compile apache with FP extensions on another system then copy the binaries onto my

Re: Road Runner && DNS Problems

2000-06-11 Thread Chris Hoover
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 02:56:07PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > > > internet > > | > > | > > debian-wall (Firewall box) > > | > > | > > Hub---(debian-server - DNS server for the network) > > | > > | > > (Multiple PC's) > > > You have '

Debs for xindy

2000-06-11 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Are there .debs for xindy? Ciao! juh -- Rettet das Schaufelmännchen http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/nf/0,1518,52630,00.html

Re: roaming user

2000-06-11 Thread Christoph Gaitzsch
Matt Emmett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > This is question for those users that have a deskop machine and a > laptop... do you have any suggestions for making the life of a roaming > user easier? Most importantly, how does one keep their home > directories "synced"? I use coda for t

Re: esound (woody) broken?

2000-06-11 Thread Dietmar
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: On Sat, 10 Jun 2000 18:04:17 +0200, Dietmar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > As already postet twice, I have problems with sound after installing > > potato. I'm > > using just the same sound card. (Creative PCI 128-Ensoniq 1371) Whenever I > > use gnome > > or saw

Re: Shell script reading stdin?

2000-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
Jim Breton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 10:54:32PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: >> What I couldn't find was *any* mention of was how to *use* stdin from >> within a shell script. Anyone here ever done anything like this? > > >Yes, but this may or may not be suitable for whateve

Re: dpkg reg

2000-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I installed qmail from the .tgz files after removing the sendmail package >forcefully. So at present I have a my mail transport agent as qmail >instead of sentmail, but this fact is not known to dpkg,apt-get tools >as I have installed from .tgz > >Now when I try to use ap

Re: Licq from KDE2?

2000-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [licq-plugin-qt2] >You _could_ use one of the other UI plugins; there's a few GTK-based and >one that runs in a console. i've never tried any of them, so i can't >speak for how well they work. I don't know if they've been Debianized >yet. I have an unofficial .deb

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-11 Thread kmself
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 01:23:41AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > John McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Carl Fink wrote: > >> It should, I grant you, but have you tried "dpkg -S"? > > > >here's a nasty one: > > > >> expectk > >bash: expectk: command not found > > > >root> dpkg -S expectk > >dpk

Re: how do I find which deb pakage contains man command?

2000-06-11 Thread kmself
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 06:00:05PM +0900, Geengun Guim wrote: > Hi all, > > How can I find which deb pakage contains man command? > > okebary:~/okebary-sys-conf# man securetty > bash: man: command not found dpkg -S /usr/bin/man man-db: /usr/bin/man You want to install "man-db" You can

Re: Kernel 2.2.16

2000-06-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 10:40:55AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Will there be a kernel-image-2.2.16 available sometime soon for dselect > or do I have to pull down the sources myself for this? there won't be one until the current test cycle ends i would presume. however according to Ben Collins (

how do I find which deb pakage contains man command?

2000-06-11 Thread Geengun Guim
Hi all, How can I find which deb pakage contains man command? okebary:~/okebary-sys-conf# man securetty bash: man: command not found I'd like to know about login as root. So I ran man securetty. But command not found. So I'd like to install man. But I cannot find which deb pakage has the man

Re: Shell script reading stdin?

2000-06-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 10:20:07AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > I've seen scripts like this and I'm wondering exactly what this line > does: > > cat < foo.scr > > I guess that up to the "EOF" it reads text and puts that into the named > script..? EOF means EndOfFile, correct? Any refs for th

Kernel 2.2.16

2000-06-11 Thread Sven Burgener
Will there be a kernel-image-2.2.16 available sometime soon for dselect or do I have to pull down the sources myself for this? Thanks

Re: Shell script reading stdin?

2000-06-11 Thread Sven Burgener
I've seen scripts like this and I'm wondering exactly what this line does: cat < foo.scr I guess that up to the "EOF" it reads text and puts that into the named script..? EOF means EndOfFile, correct? Any refs for this? Thanks

Re: Where do I find administrators' documentation?

2000-06-11 Thread kmself
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 03:55:46PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: > Hi, > I don't know for sure if this is the best place to ask (debian-doc looks > more like it's for the people developing documentation, rather than for > asking *about* it - tell me if I'm wrong and I'll ask there), but here > goes...

dpkg reg

2000-06-11 Thread sudhas
Hi, I installed qmail from the .tgz files after removing the sendmail package forcefully. So at present I have a my mail transport agent as qmail instead of sentmail, but this fact is not known to dpkg,apt-get tools as I have installed from .tgz Now when I try to use apt-get install to install s

Re: Shell script reading stdin?

2000-06-11 Thread kmself
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 10:54:32PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > I'm trying to write a shell script that will noninteractively accept > a chunk of text on standard input, but haven't been able to figure out > how to go about doing so. What I'm trying to do is write a script that > will get called by

Re: mozilla segfault...

2000-06-11 Thread kmself
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 01:53:37AM -0500, rich wrote: > Howdy all, > > I am running Windowmaker on a "pure" potato system. I just grabbed > mozilla using apt, but this is what happens when I try to run it... > > > monkeyhouse:~/$ mozilla > > Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites

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