Re: samba problems

2000-08-02 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, > > hoping that someone really nice can lend a helping hand...with > configuring samba... Samba's not that hard. > 1. I always do an ifconfig eth0 <192.168.0.1> netmask < > 255.255.255.0> everytime I boot to configure my n

Re: java

2000-08-02 Thread Thomas Kirsch
"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > Goeman Stefan wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I know, this is not really a question about Debian. > > You got that right. > > > The question is actually very simple. I want to convert a > > string to a double. > > > > There is a method in the java.lang.Double named > > pa

Getting debian CD to recognize SCSI disk(s)

2000-08-02 Thread Ed Burke
I found quite by accident that I can boot from CD but the procedure does NOT recognize my scsi drive(s). According to the logon message I have two drives but 1 doesn't seem to have been recognized under MS95. That's another issue the primary drive was partitioned using Partition Mag

autofs question

2000-08-02 Thread Brian Stults
Hello, I'm using the kernel-based auto mounter, autofs. I have all my mount points in the default /var/autofs/misc, and I have symbolic links to them in /mnt. However, whenever I do a listing of /mnt (either from an xterm, or from within an application such as StarOffice), all of the devices con

samba problems

2000-08-02 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hi, hoping that someone really nice can lend a helping hand...with configuring samba... 1. I always do an ifconfig eth0 <192.168.0.1> netmask < 255.255.255.0> everytime I boot to configure my network interface. I want to configure the interface permanently so I do not have to manu

Re: Modem driver

2000-08-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/2802a.html has a listing of software based modems and wether or not they've been tested some have instructions(excellent list) also look at http://linmodems.org nate On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Michael Wagman wrote: Dramam >Any luck on getting drivers for psuedo winmo

Modem driver

2000-08-02 Thread Michael Wagman
Any luck on getting drivers for psuedo winmodems. Specifically MDP7800-U by aztec. I'm knew to Linux but very familar at fighting with computers - my ultimate goal is to find out what the video work potential for Linux is (I have a All-In-Wonder 128)

DPT SmartRAID V Millennium isn't detected

2000-08-02 Thread arn
Hi all, I'm running potato, booting off an IDE drive, and I'm trying to install a DPT SmartRAID V Millennium controller in the same box. I've downloaded the driver and patch from www.dpt.com, and sucessfully patched and compiled the kernel, but when I reboot I get scsi: 0 hosts. I use make menuc

Re: gnapster won't download: "fopen: No such file or directory"

2000-08-02 Thread Michael Soulier
On 2 Aug 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Anybody else have this problem with gnapster? Everything works except, > gah, the downloading part. If I try to d/l something I get > > fopen: No such file or directory > > on stderr, several times, and nothing happens. This is Gnome gnapster > 1.3.10

Re: cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Aug-2000 Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > Thanks to all for answering my very simple question. Now, how was I > supposed to know I had to link against `m'? I mean, given a header > file, is the file I have to link against specified in the doc? Is > there any info on that subject you can refe

Re: cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Thanks to all for answering my very simple question. Now, how was I supposed to know I had to link against `m'? I mean, given a header file, is the file I have to link against specified in the doc? Is there any info on that subject you can refer me to? Thanks from a C newbie, ChriS

Re: X Problems...

2000-08-02 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
* Troy Telford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > OK, I've been having an... interesting problem... > > I'm using XF86 4.0.1, and have had no problems with it at all until > about two days ago... Here's the list of the symptoms: > > In GNOME - desktop objects (Namely Icons) have a grey background - > rathe

Re: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I just tested this right now, and the directory doesn't go away when X > exits. Also tested this with an older kernel (2.2.15), but it didn't > make any difference. Should I file a bug or something? > I have Version: 3.3.6-10, and it does when i use startx.

Re: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > The directory is also created when running `startx', so I don't really > > think it is a gdm problem. > > > > right, the directory is created, but only while X is running. When X exits, > the dir should go away with it. I just tested this rig

X Problems...

2000-08-02 Thread Troy Telford
OK, I've been having an... interesting problem... I'm using XF86 4.0.1, and have had no problems with it at all until about two days ago... Here's the list of the symptoms: In GNOME - desktop objects (Namely Icons) have a grey background - rather than showing the desktop bitmap underneath as i

RE: cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Aug-2000 Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > Hi all, > > According to the man page, if I want to use `cos' in a program, I > simply need to include `math.h'. However, when I compile, I got the > error: > > /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos' > collect2: ld retu

Re: cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread iehrenwald
> /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos' > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Try adding -lm to your compile command. That tells gcc to use the math lib. Ian

Re: X server

2000-08-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:29:16AM -0700, Nianwei Xing wrote: > Hi, debians: > I have a problem about X server: after I login from my > account and type "startx", it give me the following > error message: > Authentication failed--cannot startx X server > -X11 TransSocketUNIXConnect: can't connect:

Re: cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
* Christophe TROESTLER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi all, > > According to the man page, if I want to use `cos' in a program, I > simply need to include `math.h'. However, when I compile, I got the > error: > > /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos' > collect2: ld ret

Re: cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread Robert Norris
> /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos' > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status You need to link against the math library, libm, eg. gcc -o myprog myprog.c -lm Regards, Rob. pgpUKraBeXZBU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > The directory is also created when running `startx', so I don't really > think it is a gdm problem. > right, the directory is created, but only while X is running. When X exits, the dir should go away with it.

Re: OT: less v. more & CCing

2000-08-02 Thread Bolan Meek
Ben Pfaff wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton) writes: > > > Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > more offers backwards paging, it is in the man page I am suprised that you > > > missed it. > > > > ps auxw | more > > > > How do you scroll backwards? b doesn't work. > > `m

cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi all, According to the man page, if I want to use `cos' in a program, I simply need to include `math.h'. However, when I compile, I got the error: /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I got the necessary packages to comp

Re: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > What seems to happen is that /tmp/.X11-unix gets group ownership from > > the user starting X. If the X server is started by gdm, /tmp/.X11-unix > > is owned by the `gdm' group, if I stop gdm and do > > > > when gdm exits, the .X11-unix dir sh

Re: noise from monitor, HELP!

2000-08-02 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:57:12AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:24:59PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: > > > > > > > > > I've been running Debian for years and my monitor (20" IBM P200) has > > > been working fine wit

RE: Installing packages without manpages and docs

2000-08-02 Thread Kenrick, Chris
IIRC Slink minimum install is circa 30 MB Would it be worth a try installing minimal Slink first, then apt-get upgrade;apt-get dist-upgrade ? - Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 2 August 2000 5:53 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.o

Re: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > What seems to happen is that /tmp/.X11-unix gets group ownership from > the user starting X. If the X server is started by gdm, /tmp/.X11-unix > is owned by the `gdm' group, if I stop gdm and do > when gdm exits, the .X11-unix dir should go away. If not, this is a bug in gdm.

Re: Lexmark 5700

2000-08-02 Thread Mike Werner
cam wrote: > I have a Lexmark 5700 inkjet printer. I was wondering if this printer > works under Linux (woody version) and if it works...how might I get it > working? any help would be appreciated. http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=62016 -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is

Re: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On 03-Aug-2000 Ed Murray wrote: > > Can anybody help please? > > > > I have an on-going problem starting my X Server each morning. > > > > I get the following error: > > > > X: Server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting: > > > >

RE: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Aug-2000 Ed Murray wrote: > Can anybody help please? > > I have an on-going problem starting my X Server each morning. > > I get the following error: > > X: Server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting: > > I change the ownership on the /tmp/.X11-unix directory to root.roo

X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Ed Murray
Can anybody help please? I have an on-going problem starting my X Server each morning. I get the following error: X:  Server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting: I change the ownership on the /tmp/.X11-unix directory to root.root each time but when I reboot the problem is ba

X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Ed Murray
Can anybody help please? I have an on-going problem starting my X Server each morning. I get the following error: X:  Server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting: I change the ownership on the /tmp/.X11-unix directory to root.root each time but when I reboot the problem is ba

e-mail errors

2000-08-02 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have a domain (domain.com) and want redirect all e-mail errors from inexistentes e-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to my mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I'm using exim and potato. Thanks, Paulo Henrique

Re: gnapster won't download: "fopen: No such file or directory"

2000-08-02 Thread Jos Lemmerling
On 2 Aug 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Anybody else have this problem with gnapster? Everything works except, > gah, the downloading part. If I try to d/l something I get > > fopen: No such file or directory > > on stderr, several times, and nothing happens. This is Gnome gnapster > 1.3.10 >

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

2000-08-02 Thread Kent West
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:25:25PM -0700, "S. Champ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > i'm admittedly frustrated at the fact that, from all i know about it right now, > i'll have to un-gzip any of these packages before i'm actualy able to read > them.  there's more to

Re: 3c90x woes

2000-08-02 Thread Nate Duehr
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 02:06:52PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. > > Anything to worry about? We were seeing this on a RedHat 6.2 machine with an Intel EEPro100 here at work the other day. Changed out the cable and it stopped doing it. (And meas

Re: mixing potato with a bit of woody...

2000-08-02 Thread Nate Duehr
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:03:48AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Sean Richardson said: > > In the past I have typically just built these packages (again for many > > reasons)...but seeing as they are already available under woody I would > > like to try the packages. I am not quite ready to switch

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

2000-08-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:25:25PM -0700, "S. Champ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > i'm admittedly frustrated at the fact that, from all i know about it right > now, > i'll have to un-gzip any of these packages before i'm actualy able to read > them. there's more to this life than compu

potato holding up well

2000-08-02 Thread Bruce Perens
We are running WeWantHackers.com and all of the systems of two businesses (not counting Progeny) on potato. It's holding up quite well. Bruce

Re: Help: Dselect ran out of disk space

2000-08-02 Thread Heather Stern
Tim wrote: >>> > Bolan Meek wrote: > What's your partitioning look like? What's the output of `df`? > If you use cfdisk, are there any partitions you don't see in `df`, > i.e. not have mounted? > > > > Tim wrote: I have 104MB as root and 16MB swap there is 1% unuseable, presumabl

read error using cfdisk, fdisk and sfdisk

2000-08-02 Thread Stephan Broennimann
I've got a nice problem with my 10GB harddisk. I've configured 3 primary partitions and 1 extended partition that contains 3 logical partitions (see output of sfdisk below). Intentionally I've left 1GB unassigned to be used either as Windows98 or Linux spare place. For clean-up of the the Window

Cable modem problems (hardware or software?)

2000-08-02 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, I am using road runner for cable modem service. I am using pump for my dhcp client ob a potato box (Pentium 233MMX -- 16MB RAM). The cable modem I've got is a SURFboard 2100. My problem is that occasionally that my cable modem will "lock up" -- The activity LED will light up a

Re: Easy potato installation alternative? - errata corrige

2000-08-02 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
All true but the dounload time : I don't remember exactly, but it could not be 3 hours only. The maximum I can do is 5.5~6kB/sec and I downloaded about 200 MB ! -- FB

gnapster won't download: "fopen: No such file or directory"

2000-08-02 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anybody else have this problem with gnapster? Everything works except, gah, the downloading part. If I try to d/l something I get fopen: No such file or directory on stderr, several times, and nothing happens. This is Gnome gnapster 1.3.10 -chris

Re: Easy potato installation alternative?

2000-08-02 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
> > I remember that someone once said in this list that installing Corel > and then upgrading wouldn't work well... > Mmmm, I think it depends on what you want to do. When I bought my current Desktop, an Atlon 700, I couldn't install from the Slink CD, bucause the kernel with it (2.0.36) was

Re: bash-"problem"

2000-08-02 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 13:51:22 PDT, "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" writes: >> >> Q: Can I just go and install a user with the same UID/GID as root, but >> /bin/tcsh as login-shell, so I have a fallback, JIC? >> >better yet, set root's shell to something like sash. ah, perfectly ;-) "statically linked" "bu

RE: bash-"problem"

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Q: Can I just go and install a user with the same UID/GID as root, but > /bin/tcsh as login-shell, so I have a fallback, JIC? > better yet, set root's shell to something like sash.

Re: debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang

2000-08-02 Thread Joey Hess
kmfmu wrote: > With my recent potato installation, when I install a package > that requires debconf I get these errors: > > debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang > debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog You're not going to get that message unless you are using debconf from unstable.

bash-"problem"

2000-08-02 Thread Robert Waldner
[Disclaimer: don´t waste your time reading if you´re not really interested, the "problem" is gone for now, and I´m just trying to find out what could have caused it.] --- malloc: block on free list clobbered last command: (null) Report this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- here we go... I´m unsure if

Re: Debian-specific HOWTOs?

2000-08-02 Thread Jesús Ruiz de Infante
El mar, 01 de ago de 2000 a las 09:50:28 +0200, Jens Müller escribió: > Are there any HOWTOs which are specifically (re)written for the Debian > system of config files etc.? > > Jens > Take a look at http://joker.rhwd.de/doc/Securing-Debian-HOWTO -- Jesús Ruiz de Infante Key fingerprint = CA

Linux Programmer Wanted

2000-08-02 Thread Jrieger
Please contact Arco Computer Products, Inc. at (800) 458-1666. Linux Programmer needed to port over win32 applications. Joel Rieger Arco Computer Products, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.arcoide.com 954 925-2688

Re: apt-get & byte compile problem

2000-08-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Peter Mickle wrote: > A few weeks ago, while upgrading from slink to potato, during the > install process, I answered "yes" to a prompt to byte compile the > newly installed files. Since then, whenever I have installed new > packages (apt-get -install or apt-get -update -dist-upgrade) the > files

Re: syslogd accept log from remote host?

2000-08-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cool, thanks! On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Bill Goudie wrote: bgoudi >On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:19:49PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bgoudi >> i just got a cisco675 for my dsl today and noticed it supports syslog, i bgoudi >> want to get it to send log entries to one of my boxes, is there anything b

Re: XMovie

2000-08-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
im using the precompiled binaries, the binaries i have also have support for DVDs(i managed to get it before the author was forced to yank it) it has the DeCSS code in it no source is available for them if you want them i can send em your way. requires glibc2.1 seems to work fine on potato. nate

Re: Fw: Free Linux Journal T-Shirt!

2000-08-02 Thread Ethan Pierce
It is the Linux Journal, but they did includ UNIX in several of the question answers. They left out HP-UX too :) >>> "Jürgen_A._Erhard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/02/00 03:14PM >>> > "kmself" == kmself writes: [...] kmself> It's also worth noting that Slackware wasn't listed, nor kms

Re: can't read dselect due to background color in xterm window

2000-08-02 Thread Stan Kaufman
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > dselect was written with the assumption that your foreground color is white > and the background color is black, just like on the console. If you have > xterm > set to not use those colors, your dselect experience will be less than good. > > So, easy fix place the

Re: Fw: Free Linux Journal T-Shirt!

2000-08-02 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "kmself" == kmself writes: [...] kmself> It's also worth noting that Slackware wasn't listed, nor kmself> were any of the *BSDs. BSD? Uhm, Karsten, last I checked, it was still the "Linux" journal. >;-) And yes, Slak should have been part of the list too... kmself> Makes

Re: XMovie

2000-08-02 Thread Ethan Pierce
If you want to watch movies, ie mpg, dat, avi, mp2 etc, get MpegTV. Its very easy to use and compile from source. I believe the URL is mpegtv.com. >>> Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/02/00 07:45AM >>> Anybody managed to compile or package XMovie for potato? (http://heroine.linuxave.net

Re: xmms shared library fault

2000-08-02 Thread Pollywog
On 02-Aug-2000 Dale Morris wrote: > Here's the error message I get when I run xmms: > > [libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] > > Any idea what causes this? Do you have those libraries

RE: can't read dselect due to background color in xterm window

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Aug-2000 Stan Kaufman wrote: > When I bring up dselect in an xterm window under X+Gnome+windowmaker, > the black background color in the Select portion of dselect make the > text nearly illegible. The colors work fine in a non-X terminal setting, > but what can I do to make dselect usable in

Re: some questions

2000-08-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, David Karlin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:28:52AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > 1. When using a network adapter whose driver is compiled as a module - > > where does this module get loaded? > > I currently added a simple modprobe line to /etc/init.d/networking , but >

can't read dselect due to background color in xterm window

2000-08-02 Thread Stan Kaufman
When I bring up dselect in an xterm window under X+Gnome+windowmaker, the black background color in the Select portion of dselect make the text nearly illegible. The colors work fine in a non-X terminal setting, but what can I do to make dselect usable in xterm? Or am I the only one with this pro

RE: apt-get & byte compile problem

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Aug-2000 Peter Mickle wrote: > A few weeks ago, while upgrading from slink to potato, during the > install process, I answered "yes" to a prompt to byte compile the > newly installed files. Since then, whenever I have installed new > packages (apt-get -install or apt-get -update -dist-upgrad

RE: g++

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Aug-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I upgraded my machine to potato but in compiling a c++ > program which before used to work with > geisha [~/testing/filebox] $ g++ -Wall -pedantic test.cc -o test geisha [~/testing/filebox] $ ./test I equals: 0 you *MAY* need to use -lstdc++, but that i

whow could i downloud the driver for cirrus logic cl-gd5440-j-qc-b taiwan-d

2000-08-02 Thread marwan
I HOPE YOU WILL SEND ME BACK WITH THE ANSWER

apt-get & byte compile problem

2000-08-02 Thread Peter Mickle
A few weeks ago, while upgrading from slink to potato, during the install process, I answered "yes" to a prompt to byte compile the newly installed files. Since then, whenever I have installed new packages (apt-get -install or apt-get -update -dist-upgrade) the files are bytecompiled when installed

Re: Why not Standard, Pre-Release, and Development versions?

2000-08-02 Thread montefin
Actually, Michael has stated the small point I was trying to make, and better than I did in my original post. As I said, "It's just a thought." montefin > Michalowski Thierry wrote: > > I think he simply suggest to call the distributions with less > pejorative names. > Many users are afraid

Lexmark 5700

2000-08-02 Thread cam
I have a Lexmark 5700 inkjet printer. I was wondering if this printer works under Linux (woody version) and if it works...how might I get it working? any help would be appreciated. Justin __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo!

Re: Why not Standard, Pre-Release, and Development versions?

2000-08-02 Thread montefin
David, Precisely the point I was trying to make. Thank you, montefin David Karlin wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:53:58PM +0200, Michalowski Thierry wrote: > > I think he simply suggest to call the distributions with less pejorative > > names. > > Many users are afraid of "frozen" or "u

cdrom

2000-08-02 Thread Andy The King
Hello! I just recently purchased a copy of Debian GNU/Linux 2.1. Although my friend told me that I can just down loaded for free from the web. So I installed it on my machine and everything runs well except for that my cdrom didn't recognized any of the CD-Rewritable copies that burned. However

Re: 3c90x woes

2000-08-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Thanks guys... "W. Paul Mills" wrote: > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : I got the 3Com 3C905C-TXM last week in > : a new Dell computer. > > :> The 3c59x module that comes with the standard kernel did not do > :> 100mbit/s full duplex connections f

Looking for old Debian Logo Candidate (Ant)

2000-08-02 Thread Kirk Hilliard
I am trying to find one of the candidates from the Debian Logo competition of last year. It was an ant, was known as jeannette-0, and used to be available at: http://contest.gimp.org/view.cgi?month=1999-02&mode=show&graphic=jeannette-0 I am particularly looking for the ant head design, not the

Re: Depmod Error on installing ALSA modules

2000-08-02 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Fixed it, just in case anybody was curious, the problem was a missing library: libelfg0-dev Thanks! Bryan -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 07:25:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Bryan K. Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-User Mailing List , Debian Laptop Mailing List Su

Trouble at boot

2000-08-02 Thread marcus
Hello When booting today, after doing an update on some packages (can't exactly remember which), I got this message: // RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 rpc.statd forgot to set AF_INET in udp sendmsg. Fix it! /sbin/rpc.statd[143]: unable to register (SM_PROG, SM_VERS, udp). RPC: sendmsg returned e

Re: Why not Standard, Pre-Release, and Development versions?

2000-08-02 Thread David Karlin
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:53:58PM +0200, Michalowski Thierry wrote: > I think he simply suggest to call the distributions with less pejorative > names. > Many users are afraid of "frozen" or "unstable" or "radioactive" software, > so they may just lay way back in the Debian versioning because they

Re: newbe's question about mount points

2000-08-02 Thread David Z Maze
Ezequiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: E> I'm new to Debian, and I've noticed that in this distro /floppy and E> /cdrom are not placed inside /mnt as in RedHat. Can someone explain E> me why? "Because" and "it's been that way historically" are probably the best answers. Note that this is trivial t

Re: some questions

2000-08-02 Thread David Karlin
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:28:52AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > 1. When using a network adapter whose driver is compiled as a module - > where does this module get loaded? > I currently added a simple modprobe line to /etc/init.d/networking , but > there has to be a better way. On RedHat loading t

Backing up a Linux system

2000-08-02 Thread bsamuels
Debian Potato (Frozen) with Slink KDE. I want to be able to backup my linux system to scsi tape (nst0) such that, if my hard drive falls into little pieces one bright sunny day, I can boot from a rescue floppy and restore the lot onto a new drive without having to re-install anything. I can cert

Re: special Hardware

2000-08-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Rodenhagen, Oliver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > i have a compaq proliant server dl380 to install with debian 2.1 but the > Smart2 RAID and the Intel EthernetExpress Pro 100 is not supported by > the resc1440tecra.bin boot image. > The resc1440.bin does not work either. > > How can access to t

Re: noise from monitor, HELP!

2000-08-02 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:24:59PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: > > > > > > I've been running Debian for years and my monitor (20" IBM P200) has > > been working fine with it's current setting for months. Now all of a > > sudden I get a VERY high pitc

newbe's question about mount points

2000-08-02 Thread Ezequiel
I'm new to Debian, and I've noticed that in this distro /floppy and /cdrom are not placed inside /mnt as in RedHat. Can someone explain me why ? Isn't /mnt the directory for temporary mount points in most UNIX systems as the Linux Filesystem Structure describes it in http://www.pathname.com/fhs/1.2

g++

2000-08-02 Thread shashi
I upgraded my machine to potato but in compiling a c++ program which before used to work with g++ -lg++ filename.cc, now I need g++ -I/usr/include/g++-2/ -lg++ filename.cc two questions: 1) WHy do I need the -I now and 2) The second command doesnt work. It complains /usr/bin/ld: cannot find

NetGear ea201 card

2000-08-02 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I'm trying to install a netgear ea201 10Mps ethernet card on a 486 using potato. Does anyone know which driver to choose? Art Edwards --  Arthur H. Edwards AFRL/VSSE Bldg. 914 3550 Aberdeen Ave SE KAFB, NM 87117-5776  

Re: t-dsl

2000-08-02 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I'm a bit confused. On a normal dial-up I have been using PPP and do have a static IP address. If ADSL is using PPP what about DSL prevents PPP from doing the same thing? --  Arthur H. Edwards AFRL/VSSE Bldg. 914 3550 Aberdeen Ave SE KAFB, NM 87117-5776  

Re: java

2000-08-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Goeman Stefan wrote: > Hello, > > I know, this is not really a question about Debian. You got that right. > The question is actually very simple. I want to convert a > string to a double. > > There is a method in the java.lang.Double named > parseDouble > > When I insert a line like > double d

Re: 3c90x woes

2000-08-02 Thread W. Paul Mills
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : "Christian Pernegger" wrote: :> I'm running a box with a 3Com 3C905C-TXM, at the moment with :> potato-testcycle-3 and kernel version 2.2.15. : Same here, more or less. I got the 3Com 3C905C-TXM last week in : a new Dell computer. :> The 3c59x m

special Hardware

2000-08-02 Thread Rodenhagen, Oliver
Hi, i have a compaq proliant server dl380 to install with debian 2.1 but the Smart2 RAID and the Intel EthernetExpress Pro 100 is not supported by the resc1440tecra.bin boot image. The resc1440.bin does not work either. How can access to the scsi raid to install the base system ? Is there a boo

Re: t-dsl

2000-08-02 Thread Christian Brandt
Stefan Nobis wrote: > > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Smart people *can* get IPs that haven't been assigned to them, and > > it's a PITA to root them out. PPPoE, while a hack, addresses this > > concern for providers. I wish we used it. > > Tell me more about this. What abo

Re: Network Printing, from an Apple, to Debian.

2000-08-02 Thread keke abe
Adam Scriven wrote: > I found a website with information on how to do it, but I've since lost it > (stupid crashing netscape 8-( ). Does anyone know if this remains to be > possible? Since I read your post, I installed netatalk and finally made papd to work last night. [Now my serial Epson sty

Re: Man -K

2000-08-02 Thread John Hasler
Andrew Sullivan writes: > I thought the original poster was talking about a _full body_ search of the > man pages. Do RH and SuSE really do that? Certainly, apropos doesn't -- > it searches the description (at least on my system). Which would be fine if people would write proper descriptions. --

Re: Unidentified subject! - modems

2000-08-02 Thread romeu
Valeu. Vou usar XF86config. Eu já tinha lido a página sobre modems. E também esta: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html. E cheguei à conclusão de que, se eu comprasse um modem ISA ( e paguei caro: R$ 150,00, enquanto winmodens estão custando de R$ 50 a 60), havia grande probabilidade de ser

RE: simple language for pop-up messages in X?

2000-08-02 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: simple language for pop-up messages in X? Last thing you could use is a nice program called "xbiff". Displays a "US-like" mailbox and raises the flag when a new mail arrives. Pretty nice, even if the default xbiff alone is a bit ugly. There are nicer displays out there, I know of o

RE: Why not Standard, Pre-Release, and Development versions?

2000-08-02 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: Why not Standard, Pre-Release, and Development versions? I think he simply suggest to call the distributions with less pejorative names. Many users are afraid of "frozen" or "unstable" or "radioactive" software, so they may just lay way back in the Debian versioning because they are

X server

2000-08-02 Thread Nianwei Xing
Hi, debians: I have a problem about X server: after I login from my account and type "startx", it give me the following error message: Authentication failed--cannot startx X server -X11 TransSocketUNIXConnect: can't connect: errno=111 Xinit: connection refused(errno=111): unable to connect to serve

new PC disk problem?

2000-08-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I received a new Dell computer last week, and after a backup of my system tar reported problems with one file. While trying to read that file, I get I/O errors: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1

Re: debian rocks

2000-08-02 Thread jbardin
And Debian Still ROCKS... -Jonbegin:vcard n:Bardin;Jon x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:www.gamesig.com -uniting the linux gaming community x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Jon Bardin end:vcard

Re: how to use ae to mark blocks and copy/paste/cut?

2000-08-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Li Wei ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Subject: how to use ae to mark blocks and copy/paste/cut? Perhaps try using Ctrl-Space instead of Ctrl-@ to start a block. Ctrl-W cuts. Ctrl-Y pastes. Ctrl-W Ctrl-Y copies (i.e. you have to fake it. Beware, ae still puts the cursor in the wrong position when

Re: Man -K

2000-08-02 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 01:54:42PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > > > I wonder why debian have man without -K option (searching > > through body of manpage, not only title), unlike RH or Suse > > > This functionality is given by the "apropos(1)" c

java

2000-08-02 Thread Goeman Stefan
Hello, I know, this is not really a question about Debian. The question is actually very simple. I want to convert a string to a double. There is a method in the java.lang.Double named parseDouble When I insert a line like double d = Double.parseDouble(x); in my program, I get the error: M

Re: Man -K

2000-08-02 Thread pseelig
On 2 Aug 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Paul Seelig writes: > > This functionality is given by the "apropos(1)" command. "man man" still > > describes "man -k" though. I guess this counts as a bug... > > Why? 'man -k' works fine. > You are right, i had an alias "man -P less" for man which resulted

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