Problem installing latest version of Debian.

Okay, this is my first (and probably not last) cry for help. I just intalled the latest stable version of Debian (2.2, from CD) and everything seemed to be going so I rebooted (from a floppy) and went to the bathroom. When I came back: "modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/m

Re: rsync trouble

Swoop wrote: > > "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > > > > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 20:33:56 +0200, Swoop wrote: > > > I'm using rsync to make a mirror of Debian - for a long time it had worked > > > very well, but suddenly this error appears: > > > > > > Resource temporarily unavailable > > > > > Does

Re: cleanly migrating from ide install to scsi system

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:15:13PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Greetings, > > As some of you know I'm converting to a SCSI system this week when my hardware > arrives. I've started giving a thought to what I need to backup, save, or > generally have available to me offline so I can get my syst

Re: Howto make exim not listen on port inet 25

On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 05:44:36PM +0100, Terry Boon wrote: > > > PS: Is there any inetd replacement which can listen selectively on the > > various interfaces? Maybe this could be a solution for having both exim > > and leafnode not listening on the inet ports for home users, what do you > > thi

Re: Recommended Partitioning

hi ya rob... the simple ones firstassumming you'd be using win2k and autocad... i'd try something like 8G-10G for win2k. as the first partition /dev/hda1 aka c: rest is up to linuxetc and if yu think you might want to boot debian and redhat and mandrake or something else e

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:48:21PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > You shouldn't need to print postscript from ghostview. Does your printer > understand postscript? What print filter are you using? I don't know if it understands postscript; I'm using the dj550c filter. Here is what magic

Re: Problem with woody and 2.4.0-test*

Har har. Besides the obvious. On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:48:49PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 06:11:12PM -0400, Adam teferi Glasgall wrote: > > I run Debian Woody on my system, and have been using 2.4.0-test kernels > > since test1, with devfs. > > The problem I've been ha

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:09:08PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > But now I'm writing an essay in kword and when I try to print, it just > does nothing. So then I printed to a ps file instead of the printer, > opened it up in ghostview, and tried to print from there, but _that_ > also did nothi

OL400

Hi, I have a Okidata 0l400 LED printer, what filter should I use in magicfilter? Thanks, -Matt- ---+--+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.ucook.com | A long time ago,

Re: Bug in xconfig???

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Cam Ellison wrote: > After building the 2.2.17 kernel several times using xconfig, I have > come to the conclusion that it is incomplete or I'm either half-blind > or losing it. > > I cannot find any reference to setting up ppp. > > It is certainly there in menuconfig. > >

Re: free Interrnet provider for Linux?

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:29:31PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:08:39PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > > Apparently it is time to search yet again for a no/low -cost isp. > > > > seems to be a good place to start. > I hope no one co

Printing--what am I missing?

Okay, I thought I had my printer working just fine (albeit without color); I've printed dvi's fine in xdvi, and I can print text files fine with lpr. But now I'm writing an essay in kword and when I try to print, it just does nothing. So then I printed to a ps file instead of the printer, opened

RE: any luck with ES1869 sound card?

Under Kernel 2.2.14 the following is effective: The critical kernel compile settings are: grep SOUND config-2.2.14 | grep -v not CONFIG_SOUND=m CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m CONFIG_LOWLEVEL Following advice in: /usr/src/linux-2.4-test7/Documentation/sound/ESS /usr/src

Re: Internet Cafe

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:35:54PM +1200, ChrisHellberg wrote: > > So it can be done over ethernet? Sweet. So I spose if I'm not going to well i must plead total ignorance on radius will it not operate over ethernet? > do down the radius path, and a simple app to boot them off the PC, would >

Re: Recommended Partitioning

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:32:48PM -0400, Rob wrote: > Hey, im about to install deb2.2, can anyone recommend a specific > partitioning scheme? > > Like if im willing to allocate 20 gigs. I figured id just do 128 for /swap, > and the rest to /, but ive had friends tell me they do other partitions

Re: Internet Cafe

Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:26:50AM +1200, ChrisHellberg wrote: > > > > Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > > > > > This shouldn't be too tough. I'd look at radius for authorizing and > > > accounting. It's > > > built for this kind of stuff. As for automatically logging people

Re: help for new user

You can choose the window manager you want using the info from the Gnome homepage, that tells which window managers are full Gnome-compliant or not. I use sawmill (now sawfish), due to the fact that eats few resources and it's cute. Best, Ignasi At 12.4

Re: free Interrnet provider for Linux?

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:08:39PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > Apparently it is time to search yet again for a no/low -cost isp. > seems to be a good place to start. -- Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If puns were deli meat, this would be the wurst.

Re: free Interrnet provider for Linux?

On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:41:05PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > On 15-Sep-2000 Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > > > > Try: http://www.worldshare.net > > As I understand it, they offer free access only for MS Windows, not for Linux. Their site states that linux works, but they don't support it. They

Re: gnome-users-guide

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:53:47PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > I've finally taken the step to change from helix to the original > Debian packages from woody. OK, three programs were missing > (bug-buddy, ghex and gnome-iconedit) and some others are laying one or > two version numbers behind

Re: gnupg help

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 09:52:58PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: > > Hello people, > > Hi Carlos, > > The question sounds quiet familiar to me; I think you asked that one a couple > of days before and got some answers already, but anyway ... Yes, I too remember this... > > 1) Why don't you generate a

Recommended Partitioning

Hey, im about to install deb2.2, can anyone recommend a specific partitioning scheme? Like if im willing to allocate 20 gigs. I figured id just do 128 for /swap, and the rest to /, but ive had friends tell me they do other partitions like /boot, /user, and /home. What do you guys recommend ? Al

Re: cleanly migrating from ide install to scsi system

:: On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 19:15:13 -0500, William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Is it possible to: > 1. boot the installation floppy > 2. launch a shell > 3. bit by bit copy everything from the ide drive over to the scsi > 3. go into the scsi drive and mod lilo to point to it > 4. install onto

re: Help set up Linksys LNE100TX on Debian 2.2 ?

With the help of the article at linuxnewbie.org ('...make sure you have the correct version of Tulip driver. Linksys is very picky about this'), the source code from scyld, looking through the binary of the driver that shipped with 2.2.17 to find the hard-coded version string, I've determined

Re: Howto make exim not listen on port inet 25

On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, George Bonser wrote: > ssmtp allows you do so much the same thing with a Unix workstation. You > set up your mail client ... say ... xfmail ... to pull the mail from your > pop3 account and to send via ssmtp. If you are offline, the mail will stay > in xfmail's outbox. Yep, I

cleanly migrating from ide install to scsi system

Greetings, As some of you know I'm converting to a SCSI system this week when my hardware arrives. I've started giving a thought to what I need to backup, save, or generally have available to me offline so I can get my system back up and running in quick order. Then it occured to me it might be

Re: Problem with woody and 2.4.0-test*

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 06:11:12PM -0400, Adam teferi Glasgall wrote: > I run Debian Woody on my system, and have been using 2.4.0-test kernels since > test1, with devfs. > The problem I've been having is that I can only open around three or four > ptys (terminal windows, screen sessions, etc) be

Re: Internet Cafe

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:26:50AM +1200, ChrisHellberg wrote: > > Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > > > This shouldn't be too tough. I'd look at radius for authorizing and > > accounting. It's > > built for this kind of stuff. As for automatically logging people out this > > should be > > <> > >

Display problems with woody

Hello List: Just ran a dist-upgrade from woody, kde2, helixcode. Now gedit opens a display as non-root user, but as root, says Xlib: connection :0.0 refused by server Xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 there is an environment variabl

Re: a2ps with 4 up printing.

Michel Dänzer wrote: > Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > Is psnup part of some debian package ? > > Yep, psutils. Thanks, I couldn't find it with "apt-cache search psnup". Brendan.

Re: can't install star office 5.2

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 18:13:36 William Jensen wrote: > I assume you chmod +x ? so that it's executable? > > Bill > > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:03:55PM -0500, Moses Backman III wrote: > > i downloaded the staroffice_5.2-xxx.bin file and i when i try to install > > it using the ./so-5.2-en.. co

Re: can't install star office 5.2

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 18:13:36 William Jensen wrote: > I assume you chmod +x ? so that it's executable? > > Bill > > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:03:55PM -0500, Moses Backman III wrote: > > i downloaded the staroffice_5.2-xxx.bin file and i when i try to install > > it using the ./so-5.2-en.. co

SCSI bus busy

Hi everyone, when I try to boot my system (Potato) I get this error and then it hangs: scsi0: SCSI bus busy, waiting up to five seconds scsi0: bus busy, attempting abort this is weird because I don't even have a SCSI bus. I assume that it's looking for a bus that isn't there and

Re: can't install star office 5.2

I assume you chmod +x ? so that it's executable? Bill On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:03:55PM -0500, Moses Backman III wrote: > i downloaded the staroffice_5.2-xxx.bin file and i when i try to install > it using the ./so-5.2-en.. command i get a permission denied > warning. this happens if i su

Re: can't install star office 5.2

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:03:55PM -0500, Moses Backman III wrote: > i downloaded the staroffice_5.2-xxx.bin file and i when i try to install > it using the ./so-5.2-en.. command i get a permission denied > warning. this happens if i su or log in as root as well as if i log in > as the prof

can't install star office 5.2

i downloaded the staroffice_5.2-xxx.bin file and i when i try to install it using the ./so-5.2-en.. command i get a permission denied warning. this happens if i su or log in as root as well as if i log in as the profile that downloaded the file. i've seen messages that it works can anyone

VPN: ethertap? -- where to get? how to activate?

VPN attempt (via tunnelv) -- how do we get ethertap going? [or, is there a better way than tunnelv to do the VPN hookup?] the tunnelv README says only >To set up Tunnel Vision on a Linux machine, you need: > >- Linux 2.1.112 or higher with the "ethertap" and "netlink" devices > configured. Sorr

RE: what is Helix-Gnome?

On 17-Sep-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote: > >> This Helix-Gnome thing is very nice, but I wish I could get rid of the >> games >> and stuff I don't use. I will have to suggest this to the developers. > > Uhh.. So why not just purge the games along with task-

Re: dns forwarding/cache

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:01:42PM +0200, Jonas Moberg wrote: > I noticed this article about securing your box over at rootprompt > (http://www.rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=903). It mentioned > tcpserver and dnscache by D. J. Bernstein which seemed to do > pretty much what I want. what a

Re: Sendmail and fetchmail problem

On Sep 15, staf wagemakers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:14:49PM -0400, John Ackermann wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, staf wagemakers writes: > > > > >You could add the next line to your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > > > > > >FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domai

Re: PAM questions (was: RE: group 'root' does not exist?!)

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 06:38:13PM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: > > i would recommend against using group root for this purpose, instead > > add a new group `wheel' and use that. > > > > > for pam add this line to the top of your /etc/pam.d/su file: > > > > authrequisite pam_whee

Re: APM: disable mouse interrupt?

On Sunday, 17 September 2000 at 14:31, Krzys Majewski wrote: > How can I disable the mouse interrupt for APM so that moving the mouse > does not resume the machine? (The mouse is on my desk, there are other > things on my desk, some of these things move occasionally, etc.) > I tried disabling IRQ

RE: what is Helix-Gnome?

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote: > This Helix-Gnome thing is very nice, but I wish I could get rid of the games > and stuff I don't use. I will have to suggest this to the developers. Uhh.. So why not just purge the games along with task-helix-gnome? Problem solved.

Re: can anyone explain why ??

Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > so i guess, the driver is not the best in this regard - or is it an inherent > problem of atapi drives? its a problem of atapi drives mostly, if you have DMA turned on that can reduce cpu utilization some .. in the past it was not uncommon for an IDE drive to suck up 1

Problem with woody and 2.4.0-test*

I run Debian Woody on my system, and have been using 2.4.0-test kernels since test1, with devfs. The problem I've been having is that I can only open around three or four ptys (terminal windows, screen sessions, etc) before I get an error like 'Could not open /dev/pts/3 - permission denied'. If

Re: what is Helix-Gnome?

On 17-Sep-2000 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 09:39:42PM +, Pollywog wrote: >> I followed the instructions for installing Helix-Gnome via apt-get and I >> installed all sorts of things I did not want or need, like games and gdm. >> gdm is bad. I saw it and disabled the st

RE: what is Helix-Gnome?

This Helix-Gnome thing is very nice, but I wish I could get rid of the games and stuff I don't use. I will have to suggest this to the developers. -- Andrew On 17-Sep-2000 Pollywog wrote: > I followed the instructions for installing Helix-Gnome via apt-get and I > installed all sorts of things I

Re: what is Helix-Gnome?

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 09:39:42PM +, Pollywog wrote: > I followed the instructions for installing Helix-Gnome via apt-get and I > installed all sorts of things I did not want or need, like games and gdm. > gdm is bad. I saw it and disabled the startup script for it. I believe that > if I uni

RE: what is Helix-Gnome?

I followed the instructions for installing Helix-Gnome via apt-get and I installed all sorts of things I did not want or need, like games and gdm. gdm is bad. I saw it and disabled the startup script for it. I believe that if I uninstall task-helix-gnome, that will render my system useless, so I

APM: disable mouse interrupt?

How can I disable the mouse interrupt for APM so that moving the mouse does not resume the machine? (The mouse is on my desk, there are other things on my desk, some of these things move occasionally, etc.) I tried disabling IRQ4 in the apm section of the bios setup, which I *think* is my mouse

Re: Internet Cafe

Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > This shouldn't be too tough. I'd look at radius for authorizing and > accounting. It's > built for this kind of stuff. As for automatically logging people out this > should be <> ah, thought of that too. The problem with this is, I would have to create ppp over e

F2 key programming

I'd like to be able to press the F2 key when in X-windows xterm instead of entering " | more " (par exemple). What is the easiest way of achieving this? I've tried various things like editing /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm to no avail. Any help much appreciated. Ivan _ | Eppur

Re: sunrpc

> I removed *portmap from /etc/rc2.d and I am still having sunrpc start up > on boot. I want to remove sunrpc from my system, but am having > trouble. Can anyone explain how sunrpc starts and how to stop it from > starting? Do you have compiled NFS into your kernel , maybe as a module? 'grep N

Re: gnome-users-guide

"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, I install the gnome-help package, which in turn installs the > gnome-help-data package, both from helixcode. However, when I try to do > anything with the help browser, it tells me that I'm missing things like the > gnome-users-manual. >

Re: Kernel questions

Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would also think it would be cool to have > the kernel source package ship with the 'debian official config' saved > off in an external configuration file so that I could rebuild > *everything* that ships in the kernel ima

Re: Kernel questions

The kernel that comes with Debian potato is configured with APM=y. Because i want my desktop computer to power down automatically with the halt command, it was just a matter of adding: append="apm=on" to my lilo.conf Then if your m.b. supports APM it powers down. Just a convenient

Re: Bug in xconfig???

"Cam Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After building the 2.2.17 kernel several times using xconfig, I have > come to the conclusion that it is incomplete or I'm either half-blind > or losing it. > > I cannot find any reference to setting up ppp. It's in Network Device Support. Barry Samuel

Re: what is Helix-Gnome?

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:26:53PM +, Pollywog wrote: > I see many posts about Helix-Gnome but I can't seem to find it > anywhere? > What is so good about it and where can I get it? see http://www.helixcode.com. Helix Code packages GNOME for many distributions (also for Debian Potato/Woody).

Re: what is Helix-Gnome?

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote: > I see many posts about Helix-Gnome but I can't seem to find it anywhere? > What is so good about it and where can I get it? http://www.helixcode.com/

what is Helix-Gnome?

I see many posts about Helix-Gnome but I can't seem to find it anywhere? What is so good about it and where can I get it? thanks -- Andrew

Re: Opinions: Woody bits in potato - whats the "best" way?

"C. Falconer" wrote: > > Gidday - I have a couple standard Potato machines at work, and one at home > as a standard Masquerading gateway. I've been playing with licq and > Xvnc. On discovering that licq was up to version 0.85 from the 0.76 I was > using I tried > > apt-get install licq > > Pac

Re: Bug in xconfig???

Cam Ellison wrote: > > After building the 2.2.17 kernel several times using xconfig, I have > come to the conclusion that it is incomplete or I'm either half-blind > or losing it. last i heard xconfig was considered broken and should be avoided(read it on the kernel mailing list a long time ago)

Re: Starting KDE2

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hi! > > Don't know if this has got anything to do with your problems, but on my > machine, everything runs fine. I've got a potato distro; kde 1.93 and qt > 2.2.0beta2 are compiled from source, I've compiled qt with the > ./configure-switches mentio

Which Netscape to use? / Thanks

On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 08:51:39 +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Sorry Group, this must be very FAQ. > I would like some advice to which Netscape to get for my 2.2 Helix-gnome > laptop. If I check the stable files, I find numerous installers with > different numbers. I am a bit lost. Any sugge

Re: gnupg help

> Hello people, Hi Carlos, The question sounds quiet familiar to me; I think you asked that one a couple of days before and got some answers already, but anyway ... 1) Why don't you generate a new key ("gpg --gen-key")? 2) You could add an uid to your key ("gpg --edit-key " and then with "add

Re: Opinions: Woody bits in potato - whats the "best" way?

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, C. Falconer wrote: > Gidday - I have a couple standard Potato machines at work, and one at home > as a standard Masquerading gateway. I've been playing with licq and > Xvnc. On discovering that licq was up to version 0.85 from the 0.76 I was > using I tried > > apt-get i

Opinions: Woody bits in potato - whats the "best" way?

Gidday - I have a couple standard Potato machines at work, and one at home as a standard Masquerading gateway. I've been playing with licq and Xvnc. On discovering that licq was up to version 0.85 from the 0.76 I was using I tried apt-get install licq > Package licq is at the latest version

APM: wakeup-on-LAN, RTC, etc

I've disabled wakeup-on-LAN in my BIOS, but my machine wakes up on incoming connections, unless I shut down networking (/etc/init.d/networking stop). Is this normal? * If not, what can I do about it? I don't think the apm driver is ignoring all my BIOS settings, for example

Opinions: Woody bits in potato - whats the "best" way?

Gidday - I have a couple standard Potato machines at work, and one at home as a standard Masquerading gateway. I've been playing with licq and Xvnc. On discovering that licq was up to version 0.85 from the 0.76 I was using I tried apt-get install licq > Package licq is at the latest version

Checking md5sums

Can someone please tell me how to use the Debian packaging tools to scan a system for changed files based on the md5sums contained in the .debs? I'm not on the list; please CC: me privately. Thanks, -- Michael S. Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, AKA Otterley Lead Hacketeer, Dynamine Consu

Re: pgp vs. mutt

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:18:46AM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > If you want to have gpg/mutt to *not* verify messages, you can shut it off > by putting the line: > > set pgp_verify_sig = no holy cow, sahib, that was The Answer i sought. come next year -- or next week -- when i look back on m

Re: rsync trouble

Jeff Green wrote: > > 2 most likely causes from person experience. Either you have run out of > processes. (ulimit -a will show you how many you have available) or you > have run out of rlogin connections on the remote machine edit the > relevant line in the inetd.conf to read nowait.100 rather th

potato install -> unmet mysql dependency?

i did a fresh format/partition/install of potato from iso/cd install; after poking around a bit* i found that mysql needed zlib1g-dev (zlib.h i think) and even though apt-get check reported all was lovely, i had to manually apt-get install zlib1g-dev anyhow. is it a bug? is it me?*

Re: 3com 3c509 and the mouse

Hello! Looks like your linux system reconfigures the ethernet card and so WIN cannot find it at the original resources, I think. An easy solution: You could switch the 3c509 to non-pnp mode using the 3com utilities, assigning free resources to it and then do a hardware recogition (don't konw exac

Bug in xconfig???

After building the 2.2.17 kernel several times using xconfig, I have come to the conclusion that it is incomplete or I'm either half-blind or losing it. I cannot find any reference to setting up ppp. It is certainly there in menuconfig. Am I missing something, or is there really a bug in it? Ca

Re: Getting Gnome and E to run

Hi Ray, I've got an optical intellimouse and still haven't figured out how to get the middle button or wheel going. However, the package imwheel was recommended just haven't work through that yet. Also, the line ZAxisMapping 4 5 to the Pointer section. And don't select Emulate3Button. I've

Re: rsync trouble

2 most likely causes from person experience. Either you have run out of processes. (ulimit -a will show you how many you have available) or you have run out of rlogin connections on the remote machine edit the relevant line in the inetd.conf to read nowait.100 rather than nowait Other biggest chanc

Re: Adding a Drive Icon [newbie]

Hello! seems to me like he has KDE??! but I have never created any drive icon on my desktop Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Shel Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian" Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 8:36 AM Subject: R

Re: Starting KDE2

Hi! Don't know if this has got anything to do with your problems, but on my machine, everything runs fine. I've got a potato distro; kde 1.93 and qt 2.2.0beta2 are compiled from source, I've compiled qt with the ./configure-switches mentioned in the kdelibs package, file "compiling". The only prob

gnupg help

Hello people, I know this is not Debian-related in any way, so please forgive me for posting here. My question is: is there a way to change a e-mail address in a gnupg key? My previous ISP (sol.com.br) is gone now, so I am using a new one, with a new e-mail address, and would like to display that

Re: rsync trouble

"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 20:33:56 +0200, Swoop wrote: > > I'm using rsync to make a mirror of Debian - for a long time it had worked > > very well, but suddenly this error appears: > > > > Resource temporarily unavailable > > > Does anyone have a clue why this is h

Re: using sudo (was Re: bash login for root)

You should have a look a osh: $ apt-cache show osh Package: osh Priority: extra Section: shells Installed-Size: 67 Maintainer: Preston Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.7-6 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libncurses5, base-files (>= 2.1.6) Suggests: nvi Architecture: i386 Size: 45946 MD5sum: b537

Re: Debian 2.2

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:58:58AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: -|looks like bad cds to me, i'd get new ones from somewhere(not sure where -|to reccomend) see the debian homepage for who has them, or if you have a -|CD-R you can make your own. it seems since debian does not make their -|own cds(non co

How do I use setiathome package?

I just upgraded to Debian Linux from Mandrake Linux. I have been running [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a subdirectory of my home directory while using Mandrake, but while going through the list of available packages with dselect I saw that there was a setiathome package, so I figured why not have [EMAIL

Firewall/Masq/DMZ question

I'm putting together a firewall system based on the Linux Router Project (using the EigerStein version of Materhorn, i.e., version 2.2 kernel and network tools), but replacing the ipchains rules with a configuration based on that found in the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. The system has 3 NICs one to the ou

Re: Kernel panic (continuation)

would be helpful if you specified what kind of MB you have with what kind of controller, and what brand/type of HD, on the linux-kernel mailing list the IDE guy has cursed Western Digital drives for not behaving in a sane manner when doing DMA transfers. and for causing major problems when WD drive

Re: terminal emulator escape sequences -- was "linux"

Konstantin Scheglov wrote: > > Hello will, > > As I saw under your letters in conferences, you > well understand esc-sequences. Do you know, what mean > sequences "\E[?0c" and "\E[?1c" in the terminal "linux"? > > -- > Best regards, > Konstantin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Debian Menu with Sawfish (Helix)

+ Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't have the potato version of sawfish - the last one I saw was > still sawmill. In sawmill the important file which made the menu to > be read was /usr/share/sawmill/site-init.jl (or maybe it was in a > subdirectory of that called something like lisp or

dns forwarding/cache

I'd like to setup my internet router for my local network to act as a dns-cache and dns-forwarder. I've managed to get bind to work that way. But I'd feel much happier if I could run something smaller, less complicated and for my task more secure. I suppose I could firewall external connections,

Re: Debian 2.2

looks like bad cds to me, i'd get new ones from somewhere(not sure where to reccomend) see the debian homepage for who has them, or if you have a CD-R you can make your own. it seems since debian does not make their own cds(non commercial) quality can be questionable from vendor to vendor. ive had

apt-move: potato-proposed updates?

Which is the correct SECTIONS line for apt-move to mirror 'potato-proposed-updates'. I've strange behavior of apt-move to add 'potato-proposed-updates' to SECTIONS. If you have working apt-move.conf to mirror also potato-proposed-updates send it me if it possible. Currently I have: SECTIONS="main

Re: how to create filesystem in RAM?

It's all good, turns out my mke2fs is broken. Works fine with a minix fs. Thanks, chris On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:21:48PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > I'm trying to create a filesystem in RAM. I've got the rd.o module, but > > when I try to cr

Re: help for new user

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:29:30PM +0200, Marc Maute wrote: > hi > I use Debian for my first time, i was an redhat user. > and my question is how can I make that gnome > starts automaticly when I start with startx? > And what windowmanager musst i use? > > thanks for help > > -- > Sent through

Re:Re: 2.4.0-test8 & modconf

How about modconf? I have the following modconf installed: modconf0.2.27 My modutils is not as recent as yours: modutils 2.3.14-3 I am running the 2.4.0-test8 kernel. -- Andrew

help for new user

hi I use Debian for my first time, i was an redhat user. and my question is how can I make that gnome starts automaticly when I start with startx? And what windowmanager musst i use? thanks for help -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: X,Netscape,Mozilla - x locking hard

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 05:27:58PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > "Kevin C. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Looking for solutions to X locking hard. > > > >While using Netscape 4.75, usually when scrolling, X lock and I can > >only reset the computer. > > Ctrl-Alt-F1 doesn't help? (I'm willing

Re: X,Netscape,Mozilla - x locking hard

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 05:27:58PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > "Kevin C. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Looking for solutions to X locking hard. > > > >While using Netscape 4.75, usually when scrolling, X lock and I can > >only reset the computer. > > Ctrl-Alt-F1 doesn't help? (I'm willing

Re:Re: 2.4.0-test8 & modconf

> Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 17-Sep-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> It seems to me that modconf isn't compatible with the > >> 2.4.0-testX modules. Is there a way to fix that? > > > >How would I know I have a problem in this regard. I did have to upgrade > >modutils to the Woody

Re: preparing to install debian

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Kent West wrote: > Bob Edwards wrote: > > > > Good morning! > > > > I ordered a three CD set of debian cds and am preparing to install > > debian. I have some specific questions: > > > > (1) how do i configure debian for dsl ? there's really not much to it. 1. make sure

Debian 2.2

Dear Sir,     This is the first time I am trying out Debian and I am having alot of problem. I have tried all the other Linux distributions except Debian and I am not very happy about them.   I don't have any problems at all installing all the other Linux distributions except Debia

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