Slashcode, Scoop

2000-10-04 Thread Dr. Orange
Are there any (unofficial) debs for slashcode, scoop or similar? Thanks, -S-

Re: realplayer and sound

2000-10-04 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Randy Edwards writes: > Hi Dan, > >Does sound otherwise work on the system? If not, check to make sure > you have rw permissions on your sound devices. > > Regards, > . > Randy Thanks Mike and Randy, you are right. I put myself in audio group and now it works. It was a problem of

Re: Leftover .debs in /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-10-04 Thread Brian May
> "Olaf" == Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Olaf> BTW, apt-move in potato can't handle multiple package Olaf> sources. How do you get it to move packages from both Olaf> Debian and Helix? Use the apt-move from woody... ;-). However, see bug #71500 first. -- Brian Ma

Re: Mark Spieth's ppp correction works for 2.2.17, supporting ltmodem.o driver

2000-10-04 Thread mark
note that it is not a ppp fix but a tty fix. you can not use just the ppp.o compiled this way. This is a kernel rebuild and reinstall fix. otherwise other things will break like console, normal modems, etc. what was done to tty.h is prefectly legit and a logical place to put the new structure eleme

Mark Spieth's ppp correction works for 2.2.17, supporting ltmodem.o driver

2000-10-04 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Background: The Lucent supplied binary ltmodem.o winmodem driver worked tranparently through kernels 2.2.14, but changes in ppp.o caused it to fail for 2.2.15 and later kernels. Mark today reported a potential solution for 2.2.16 sources. The email is transmitted under a just compiled 2.2.17 kern

Re: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-04 Thread Jim Lisi
Wayne Topa wrote: > You have Linux running on that Kaypro (Z80)? No, sorry :( I don't think a multitasking OS would be very useful on it. Know any good terminal programs for a Z80? :-) > How about an SWT 8080 with 16K (circa 1977) as I recall. > Those were that days of CP/M, before Gates bought/

"Falling back to /proc for VM_*"

2000-10-04 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
Howdy I've been having a weird problem w/ my machine (Dual PII 400, 128 SDRAM, AIC7880 onboard SCSI, WD Enterprise 4Gb; Plextor 8/20 CDR; Archive 4326XX 27871-XXX, Atrend ATC-6260 MB) running potato 1st and woody presently w/ 2.2.17 kernel. During boot the message: Falling back to /proc

"[shellutils on hurd]" ??

2000-10-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
For a long while now most (but not all) of the packages that I see listed by things like "apt-get -s install" all have "[shellutils on hurd]" shown on the line after them: Inst xsok [shellutils on hurd] Inst xterm [shellutils on hurd] Inst xtoolwait [shellutils on hurd] Inst xtris [shellut

Re: Need advice on Postscript/PCL printer

2000-10-04 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
Thanks a lot for helping, Hubert and Joachim and Oliver. I wish they were still producing those Kyocera :-( (I'll try some phone calls anyway tomorrow err... this morning.) It's starting to be a bit painful to make a choice, I'd like to just go and get it tomorrow morning... maybe. I just noticed

where is mysql?

2000-10-04 Thread balayo
hey list, I have a couple of fairly easy ones, I think. I'm installing php. I have tried to add mysql both with apt-get, and by compiling it. I get a config error, "no curses/termcap library found", and I clearly do have libncurses. when I chose to just use the mysql client and server debs,

Re: A pc with XFree 4.0.1 as X terminal for a SparcStation IPC

2000-10-04 Thread Joshua Uziel
* Rafael E. Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001004 18:50]: > However, when I log in, the colors are all very poor, it seems > that the clients are running at 8 bpp. The X server is running at 16 > bpp. > > Any advise will be welcome. SPARC machines (and especially the 32-bit ones) are not known for

Re: mozilla & netscape

2000-10-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 04:21:04PM -0500, John Travis wrote: > > I am running Netscape 4.75, Mozilla M17-3 and the nightly mozilla builds > without incident. I didn't do anything to install the nightly builds. I > just made a menu entry for ~/mozilla/mozilla so they all get along fine :-).

Re: /proc/interrupts

2000-10-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:43:29PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > If you need the number when it's not in use, get it from the > intr line in /proc/stat (first number is total). Wow. How do I read that? Off to the proc manpage for me. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROT

A pc with XFree 4.0.1 as X terminal for a SparcStation IPC

2000-10-04 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Hello, I've just installed potato on an old sparcstation IPC. I've set up my PC running XFree 4.0.1 (SuSE distrib.) so it acts as the sparc's X terminal (I just have the IPC box). It all seems to go ok, I get the xdm login panel. However, when I log in, the colors are all very poor, it seems that

Leftover .debs in /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-10-04 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On a related topic, everything I've installed from potato-proposed-updates is left in /var/cache/apt/archives by apt-move. What do I have to do in apt-move.conf to fix this? On Oct 4, Steve Simons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Can someone assist me please - I have .deb files left over in my >

mixer initialize problem

2000-10-04 Thread Jack
hi, my soundcard(cs4236b) works. -- with kernel level support Sound initialization started at 0x530 irq 5 dma 1,0 at 0x330 irq 11 Sound initialization complete However, something is not perfect right, cuz I got "mixer initialize failed" like message when booting up. and I am sugges

Re: procmail & postfix

2000-10-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:31:07AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All. Can someone here explain if there is something > special about postfix and procmail? I am far from an expert > of MTA's and don't intend to become one. I only want to sort > the mailinglists to which I am subscribed. Just

Re: Listing only the package names with dpkg?

2000-10-04 Thread John Carline
Preben Randhol wrote: > I'm trying to list out all the packages I have installed on my system. > I can do a dpkg -l, but I only want the package names not the rest, as > I'm going to use the package names. > > dpkg -l gives: > > ii xfonts-scalabl 3.3.6-2scalable fonts for X > ii xfree86-

Re: MUTT + Procmail

2000-10-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 06:06:59PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > I store all mails from this list in ~/Mail/IN.debian-user. How can I go read > those mails in Mutt ? I can't see anything in the man pages... mutt -f ~/Mail/IN.debian-user or when in mutt hit `c' then =IN.debian-user ENTER or if you

Re: Woody time!

2000-10-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 04:40:21PM -0500, Matt " ObeseWhale Grinshpun wrote: > Hi, I've installed potato and have decided to stray from the beaten path > and get some woody packages... What should I do to my sources.list file > to switch from potato stuff to woody, I'm doing everything from http

Re: Leftover .debs in /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-10-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Steve Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone assist me please - I have .deb files left over in my > archives folder even though I've apt-moved to a local mirrors folder > on CDROM, changing myapt-move.conf each time as appropriate. For > example, my sources.list contains - > > deb http

Re: machine lockups and kernel panic

2000-10-04 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:00:39PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > Twice in the last week I've woken up to a locked-up dead potato machine > and had to hit the power switch. I had the same symptoms, once or twice... > Does anybody know what this means and why it would happen in the middle of >

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-04 Thread Peak Allan
As a Debian newbie I have to say that the worst thing about Debian was dselect. It seemed to be a confusing morass. Once I got a workable system it was great, and I was impressed by how easy it was to go from slink to potato, but getting started was a bear. Allan _

machine lockups and kernel panic

2000-10-04 Thread Rick Macdonald
Twice in the last week I've woken up to a locked-up dead potato machine and had to hit the power switch. I happened to have a window at work logged in to my home machine, and found these messages showing that it probably died at 5am due to a kernel panic. Does anybody know what this means and why

Re: Linux newbie: (1) 1FA after boot (2) X configuration

2000-10-04 Thread I. Tura
At 12.47 4/10/00 +0300, Shaul Karl ha escrit: >> Hi >> I'm a Linux newbie, and I've jut installed 2.0 on a PC. Everything >> >> went okay, except when I tr

Re: pine in debian

2000-10-04 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 08:28:36AM -0700, Parrish M Myers wrote: > -|Does anyone rember why pine isn't included in the debian install (only > -|the sources are)... I looked at the license and it doesn't seem that > -|restrictive? > > I'm a Debian n

Re: MP3 streaming

2000-10-04 Thread Chris Baker
"Liam Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I'm just about to begin my quest for an MP3 streaming server to run > on 2.2. I need to support on-demand plus continuous streaming. If > anyone has blazed this particular trail already and has some pointers > I'd be very grateful. Check o

Re: Compiling PHP 4.0.2

2000-10-04 Thread John Travis
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Matt \\"ObeseWhale\\" Grinshpun wrote: > I get the following running ./configure... Anyone know a fix? > > checking for flex... no > checking for lex... no > ./configure: flex: command not found > cchecking for flex... lex > checking for yywrap in -ll... no > checking lex outp

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-04 Thread me
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Randy Edwards wrote: >Has anyone seen Joe Barr's article in LinuxWorld at > ? Regrettably. >Anyone else have any thoughts on this article? More than a couple: 1) 2.2's a huuuge improv

Re: MUTT + Procmail

2000-10-04 Thread -dsr-
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 06:06:59PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > I store all mails from this list in ~/Mail/IN.debian-user. How can I go read > those mails in Mutt ? I can't see anything in the man pages... man mutt will tell you that you can either: start mutt as mutt -f ~/Mail/IN.debian-user

Re: compile problems after libc6 upgrade

2000-10-04 Thread Pollywog
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 06:08:00 + Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pollywog/cvs/licq/licq/share' > > Making all in src > > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/pollywog/cvs/licq/licq/src' > > c++ -DHAVE_CONF

MUTT + Procmail

2000-10-04 Thread Joel Dinel
I store all mails from this list in ~/Mail/IN.debian-user. How can I go read those mails in Mutt ? I can't see anything in the man pages... Thanks !

installer won't boot on Mac IIcx

2000-10-04 Thread Richard Jeantheau
My apologies if this has been covered -- I'm brand new to the list and to Debian. I am attempting to install potato on a Mac IIcx. Following the Mac install instructions to the letter --I set up Penguin(18) with "linux" as the kernel and "root.bin" as the ramdisk -- hit "boot now" in Penguin -- F

Re: licq

2000-10-04 Thread Allan Andersen
Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > After you installed the plugin, you still might get errror messages about > not being able to see the plugin. > The way around that is to start licq and specify directly where and which > plugin to use: > licq -p absolute_path_to_plugin like > licq -p /usr/lib/licq/licq_

Re: dac960 problems

2000-10-04 Thread Andy Bastien
I've run in to the same (or similar) problem. In my case, another driver in the kernel prevented the DAC960 driver from loading (I don't remember the exact error messages). What I ended up doing was loading the module from another floppy to complete the installation, then building a kernel on ano

Re: mozilla & netscape

2000-10-04 Thread John Travis
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > So, can these two coexist? I've done it with debian packages, but I > decided to check out one of the nightly builds of mozilla, and it did a > whole bunch of stuff on its first invocation, and from that point on, > netscape started mozilla. I'd run

Re: procmail & postfix

2000-10-04 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 11:27:27PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > hmm, when i used postfix some time ago, i had to enable procmail in > > the main.cf. search in the main.cf for "procmail" or "command" or > > something... :) > > > I found

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-04 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
> >>> Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/04/00 11:28AM >>> >Has anyone seen Joe Barr's article in LinuxWorld at > ? > > And if one is not able to wrap long lines, he probably should not write > to this list. ;) >From you

Re: Kernel

2000-10-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
there are many kernels especially in potato. looks like 2.0.36 2.0.38 2.2.10 2.2.12 2.2.15 and 2.2.17 to name a few ... kernels are stored in /boot usually. run uname -a to see the kernel version your using. nate On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Matt \ObeseWhale\ Grinshpun wrote: obesew >Which kernel does

Re: Woody time!

2000-10-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
just change potato to woody or stable to unstable whichever format your using . then do the usual apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade good luck w/woody! hopefully the recent libc problems are fixed ive seen some pretty ugly errors/bugs reported here the past week :) nate On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Matt \O

Re: procmail & postfix

2000-10-04 Thread dirk
Well, it works. Sometimes it is so hard to RTFM en edit the nescessary files without mistakes. See http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/filtering-faq this is what I used to get it working (and the postfix faq) Now it's working it seems so easy, should have done it a long time ago. Dirk

Re: Intel i810 video

2000-10-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yes i installed i810 on about 12 dell GX110s with potato. nate On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Michael Goodman wrote: mgoodm >Has anyone gotten this chip to work in Potato? Thanks mgoodm > mgoodm > mgoodm >-- mgoodm >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null mgoodm > ::: http://www.

Eterm auto theme

2000-10-04 Thread Joel Dinel
I'm using an up to date woody. How can I set up Eterm to always use the theme "auto" so it'll get the decorations to match the blueheart Enlightenemnt theme ?

Re: procmail & postfix

2000-10-04 Thread dirk
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 11:27:27PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > hmm, when i used postfix some time ago, i had to enable procmail in > the main.cf. search in the main.cf for "procmail" or "command" or > something... :) > > moritz I found that one but it do

dac960 problems

2000-10-04 Thread armin glaab
I try to install debian (potato), my problems if I boot with the first CD the kernel doesn´t detect the mylex raidcontroller. I made me two bootdisk 1. install/rescue disk & 2. root disk, with the compact kernel, but the rescue disk doesn´t boot, what did i wrong?? thanks for help armin glaab

Re: procmail & postfix

2000-10-04 Thread Moritz Schulte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi All. Can someone here explain if there is something > special about postfix and procmail? I am far from an expert > of MTA's and don't intend to become one. I only want to sort > the mailinglists to which I am subscribed. Just following > simple examples doesn't work

Re: INSTALLING CUCIPOP

2000-10-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 09:18:27PM +0300, Gabriel Toma wrote: > How can I install cucipop on a linux box, which uses shadow passwords. I > cannot > make cucipop read passwords from /etc/shadow. I think that by default it reads > the password from /etc/password, which is not my case. Sounds like y

Re: can xdm aquire a TGT on login?

2000-10-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 07:40:54PM +0200, Martin Maciaszek wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 10:22:44AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 04:14:03PM +0200, Martin Maciaszek wrote: > > > I want to make xdm get a TGT (Ticket Granting Ticket) from the > > > server. Right now I alway

procmail & postfix

2000-10-04 Thread dirk
Hi All. Can someone here explain if there is something special about postfix and procmail? I am far from an expert of MTA's and don't intend to become one. I only want to sort the mailinglists to which I am subscribed. Just following simple examples doesn't work (right away) so I am curious if I sh

Re: Missing Ping in Woody?

2000-10-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
What version of netkit-ping is (supposedly) installed? I have 0.10-3 here and it includes /bin/ping. Perhaps "apt-get install --reinstall netkit-ping" is in order. I've had my share of "interesting woody events" in the past week or so, but ping hasn't been a problem here. I don't know if it woul

Basic Debian firewall

2000-10-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
Is the "ipmasq" package what one needs to install to get a basic firewall up and running under Debian? I'm using PMFirewall now, and I don't have any complaints with it. It was VERY easy to get a decent firewall up and running with it, but now that I know a bit more about ipchains I'm leaning towar

Re: How to configure MPPP?

2000-10-04 Thread Phillip Deackes
Peter Wilke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using ISDN for making internet connections. Everything works > fine. > Sadly I could not find a good description about how to configure MPPP > under Debian so that I can use both B-channels at the same time. Can > anybody help me? No problem. Have a lo

Firewall, Router, PPP

2000-10-04 Thread Brian Blater
Hi everyone, I've heard a lot about Debian and thought I would give it a try. I've been using RedHat on and off for a little while. Before I install I wanted to ask a few questions. I would like to set up my system to be a firewall, router and do ppp for my home network. Basically I would like th

How to configure MPPP?

2000-10-04 Thread Peter Wilke
I am using ISDN for making internet connections. Everything works fine. Sadly I could not find a good description about how to configure MPPP under Debian so that I can use both B-channels at the same time. Can anybody help me? Greetings, Peter Wilke -

Intel i810 video

2000-10-04 Thread Michael Goodman
Has anyone gotten this chip to work in Potato? Thanks

Re: Missing Ping in Woody?

2000-10-04 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > > Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > > It looks like it moved: > > > > $ dpkg -S /bin/ping > > netkit-ping: /bin/ping > > > > netbase now depends on a whole slew of packages, including netkit-ping, > > so that *should* have been installed. What version of netbase do you > > have? > > > >

Stuart Andrews Sun 3 questions

2000-10-04 Thread C. Falconer
Stuart Andrews - your email address isn't working. Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: (qmail 28409 invoked by uid 0); 27 Sep 2000 09:22:52 - Received: from unknown (HELO flick.ihug.co.nz) (202.89.141.10) by 0 with SMTP; 27 Sep 2000 09:22:52 - Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-S

Re: Missing Ping in Woody?

2000-10-04 Thread Kent West
Bob Nielsen wrote: > > It looks like it moved: > > $ dpkg -S /bin/ping > netkit-ping: /bin/ping > > netbase now depends on a whole slew of packages, including netkit-ping, > so that *should* have been installed. What version of netbase do you > have? > > /me thinks there are getting to be a fe

Intalling Debian on W2K - no fdisk

2000-10-04 Thread Ken Januski
Hi   I've successfully installed Debian on a pc at work but now have a new home pc with Windows2000. So I thought I'd follow the same setup I did at work on a 95 pc, run fdisk at dos prompt. But W2K doesn't seem to have such a thing. I know this is a very elementary question, and really mor

Re: broken debian links

2000-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So, anyone notice that the default bookmarks downloading with netscape >currently off the debian ftp site are broken? I do see a few broken links, yes. Use 'reportbug' to report the bug against netscape-base-4, as that's probably the fastest wa

INSTALLING CUCIPOP

2000-10-04 Thread Gabriel Toma
How can I install cucipop on a linux box, which uses shadow passwords. I cannot make cucipop read passwords from /etc/shadow. I think that by default it reads the password from /etc/password, which is not my case. Many thanks. Gabi -- Gabriel Toma RoEduNet Craiova phone +40-(0)51-162239 (Home

Re: can xdm aquire a TGT on login?

2000-10-04 Thread Martin Maciaszek
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 10:22:44AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 04:14:03PM +0200, Martin Maciaszek wrote: > > I want to make xdm get a TGT (Ticket Granting Ticket) from the > > server. Right now I always have to run kinit and enter my > > username and password, which is the s

Re: Missing Ping in Woody?

2000-10-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
It looks like it moved: $ dpkg -S /bin/ping netkit-ping: /bin/ping netbase now depends on a whole slew of packages, including netkit-ping, so that *should* have been installed. What version of netbase do you have? /me thinks there are getting to be a few too many separate packages. Bob On Wed

Re: realplayer and sound

2000-10-04 Thread Randy Edwards
Hi Dan, Does sound otherwise work on the system? If not, check to make sure you have rw permissions on your sound devices. Regards, . Randy -- "If the current stylistic distinctions between open-source and commercial software persist, an open-software revolution could lead to yet anoth

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-04 Thread cls-colo spgs
"Brooks R. Robinson" wrote: > > > If the author is not able in configuring gpm or X > > > he probably shouldn't write articles for linuxworld.com > > > >I thought the same thing. > > Ditto here, come on... get your hands dirty. > > > > I'd like to offer a more settling comment. Gettin

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-04 Thread cls-colo spgs
whoever thinks dlinux is a tough install should be pointed to http://www.rocklinux.org. ...they'll really have _fun_. muhahaha. (i'm sticking w/ dlinux, thank you.) later. bentley taylor. // Alec Smith wrote: > I must say that I find the constant reviews and comments that say "Debian > is

Re: /proc/interrupts

2000-10-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > So, out of curiousity as I'm helping a friend with her interrupts, I look > at mine. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ cat /proc/interrupts >CPU0 > 0:3791558 XT-PIC timer > 1: 18949 XT-PIC key

Re: [laptop install...]

2000-10-04 Thread cls-colo spgs
stefan goeman wrote: > Hello, > > I am installing Debian (potato) on a laptop PC. > I have two questions concerning XF86config. > 1) How should I set up a touchpad mouse ? [snip] > ...it should be the same as a std mouse--/dev/psaux & ps2... hth. > bentley taylor. ps i ad-libbed the subject

Missing Ping in Woody?

2000-10-04 Thread Kent West
I've been doing an "apt-get update/apt-get upgrade" from both Potato and Woody every couple of days for the past couple of weeks. Today's upgrade left me ping-less. Is Woody's most recent netbase broken, or have I got some other problem going on? Thanks! -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Laptop (was: Re: Unidentified subject!)

2000-10-04 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:27:19PM +, stefan goeman wrote: > Hello, > > I am installing Debian (potato) on a laptop PC. > I have two questions concerning XF86config. > 1) How should I set up a touchpad mouse ? It is likely that it is a ps2 on /dev/psaux. > 2) Does anybody have any idea about

apache & latest woody libc6 upgrade

2000-10-04 Thread John Bagdanoff
A lingering problem of mine since things were fixed: /etc/init.d/apache start * syntax error on line 133 of /etc/apache/srm.conf: Invalid command 'AddDefaultCharsetName', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration *

Slash / insertion / problem

2000-10-04 Thread Dimmock Nick
I just intalled Deb 2.2 at work to use as a cgi testing base, and it's giving me a problem I've never seen before: during a root login, keypresses are seemingly randomly converted to forward slash (/) symbols. So I might type 'apt-get' but get 'a/t-/et' instead. I have to delete and retype until I

RE: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-04 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> > If the author is not able in configuring gpm or X > > he probably shouldn't write articles for linuxworld.com > >I thought the same thing. Ditto here, come on... get your hands dirty. > >I'm all for teaching people about computers (being a former college > professor, now working in a

Re: pine in debian

2000-10-04 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Parrish M Myers wrote: > Does anyone rember why pine isn't included in the debian install (only > the sources are)... I looked at the license and it doesn't seem that > restrictive? The pine license doesn't allow distribution of *modified* b

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-04 Thread Mike Leone
>P.S. discovering apt-get was like waking up on Christmass morning and finding a >pony under the tree. Without having to clean up after it -- *-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-* Michael Leone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB

Re: pine in debian

2000-10-04 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 08:28:36AM -0700, Parrish M Myers wrote: -|Hi, -| -|Does anyone rember why pine isn't included in the debian install (only -|the sources are)... I looked at the license and it doesn't seem that -|restrictive? -| -|Parrish Myers -| I'm a Debian newbee and wondered the same t

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-04 Thread Andrew D Dixon
I'm from the Apex Tech school of Debian install (first you learn how to use a tool then put the tool into your box). I had a really hard time installing from the CD's so I just installed the base system and then used apt-get to install any package that I found I needed. I would recomend this me

Re: libdb.so.3 missing

2000-10-04 Thread Kevin Krafthefer
Oops, Sorry, I meant: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0009/msg04260.html Krafty Michael Smith wrote: > I ftp'ed libdb.so.3 from a working box, stuck it in the right place on the > machine, and > then did an upgrade. It's ugly, but effective, since there's an upgrade that > overwrites the

Re: libdb.so.3 missing

2000-10-04 Thread Kevin Krafthefer
This seems to be happening to a lot of people; play with woody for a while and lose your shared object libraries. But hey, that's the fun with the development version. This gets posted every third day on this list. Anyway, this is the pill that will save you (it worked for me and some "Pascal H

Unidentified subject!

2000-10-04 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, I am installing Debian (potato) on a laptop PC. I have two questions concerning XF86config. 1) How should I set up a touchpad mouse ? 2) Does anybody have any idea about the horizontal and vertical refresh rates of the screens on laptops (It is a SIEMENS Scenic Mobile 700) Greetings, St

Re: libdb.so.3 missing

2000-10-04 Thread Michael Smith
I ftp'ed libdb.so.3 from a working box, stuck it in the right place on the machine, and then did an upgrade. It's ugly, but effective, since there's an upgrade that overwrites the "borrowed" version completely. Thomas Halahan wrote: > Andrew, > > I have had very similar problems. I upgraded to

pine in debian

2000-10-04 Thread Parrish M Myers
Hi, Does anyone rember why pine isn't included in the debian install (only the sources are)... I looked at the license and it doesn't seem that restrictive? Parrish Myers = --- Academia is a little like child | Parrish M. Myers rearin

Re: can xdm aquire a TGT on login?

2000-10-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 04:14:03PM +0200, Martin Maciaszek wrote: > I want to make xdm get a TGT (Ticket Granting Ticket) from the > server. Right now I always have to run kinit and enter my > username and password, which is the same as the local username > and password. I'm tired of entering my us

Re: What happened to SSH?

2000-10-04 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Kimsey-Hickman, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What has happened to SSH? I cannot find in dselect and I have tried > pointing apt to us.debian.org, ca.debian.org and midco. It is just not > there. Have you looked in 'non-US'? moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * h

realplayer and sound

2000-10-04 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Hi I installed realplayer using debian package and the rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1_rpm from realplayer site. Instalation was OK but when I try to run realplayer I receive the message: Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it. I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200 laptop, deb

Re: Off Topic - procmail

2000-10-04 Thread Pollywog
On 04 Oct 2000 08:13:14 +0200 Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using spamblock. It is a collection of procmail recipes. The only > URL I found is: > > http://www.belwue.de/wwwservices/hilfestellungen/spamblock.html > > Try a searchengine on spamblock. Spamblock and Junkbu

can xdm aquire a TGT on login?

2000-10-04 Thread Martin Maciaszek
I want to make xdm get a TGT (Ticket Granting Ticket) from the server. Right now I always have to run kinit and enter my username and password, which is the same as the local username and password. I'm tired of entering my username and password twice. Any hints? Regards Martin -- Overflow on /de

What happened to SSH?

2000-10-04 Thread Kimsey-Hickman, Brian
What has happened to SSH? I cannot find in dselect and I have tried pointing apt to us.debian.org, ca.debian.org and midco. It is just not there. I did look at the bugs page and there are two grave level bugs so maybe it was removed temporarily because of that but I don't know for sure. I'm sure

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-04 Thread Randy Edwards
Philipp Letschert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > If the author is not able in configuring gpm or X > he probably shouldn't write articles for linuxworld.com I thought the same thing. I'm all for teaching people about computers (being a former college professor, now working in a public schoo

Re: libdb.so.3 missing

2000-10-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 09:31:56AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:18:17PM +, Thomas Halahan wrote: > > Andrew, > > > > I have had very similar problems. I upgraded to libc6 > > libc6_2.1.94-1, which caused certain programs (apache, gnome-apt) to > > not locale libdb.so

Re: libdb.so.3 missing

2000-10-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:18:17PM +, Thomas Halahan wrote: > Andrew, > > I have had very similar problems. I upgraded to libc6 > libc6_2.1.94-1, which caused certain programs (apache, gnome-apt) to > not locale libdb.so.3. So I upgraded my libdb2 and this didn't help. > As encouraged I upg

RE: libdb.so.3 missing

2000-10-04 Thread Thomas Halahan
Andrew, I have had very similar problems. I upgraded to libc6 libc6_2.1.94-1, which caused certain programs (apache, gnome-apt) to not locale libdb.so.3. So I upgraded my libdb2 and this didn't help. As encouraged I upgraded to libc6_2.1.94-3 but I could not becuase it required libdb.so.3 which

Re: Slink ISO images

2000-10-04 Thread jvicente
I prefer Slink because of its age. May be windows taught me that you shouldn't trust in first implementations. But if there's no choice, I'll download potato. Alec Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> con fecha 04/10/2000 09:41:40 Destinatarios: JUAN VICENTE/BANELCO/AR CC: Asunto: Re: Slink ISO images

installing network cards

2000-10-04 Thread Chris Mason
Everytime I try to modprobe my linksys network cards or use modconf to intsall the module into the kernel, it fails. I am using the tulip driver that comes with the 2.2.17 kernel. I installed the kernel binary. I have tried with 3c509b cards also using the 3c509.o module to no avail either. WHat am

Re: none

2000-10-04 Thread David Z. Maze
David Kronholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DK> I'm a Linux newbie, and I've jut installed 2.0 on a PC. Why not the much newer Debian 2.2? DK> Everything went okay, except when I try to boot from the hard DK> disk, it hangs at a '1FA:' prompt, and I can't type anything. This is the master boot re

Re: licq

2000-10-04 Thread Andrei Ivanov
After you installed the plugin, you still might get errror messages about not being able to see the plugin. The way around that is to start licq and specify directly where and which plugin to use: licq -p absolute_path_to_plugin like licq -p /usr/lib/licq/licq_gtk_gui.so Andrei -

Re: TFTP install

2000-10-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:46:18PM +0200, Pål Løberg wrote: > > Is it possible to do the entire installation of Debian i386 from TFTP > without using any disks? > > I've got a diskless workstation with a network card that allot me to boot > it using TFTP, but all the info I've found on installing

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-04 Thread Falchion
Actually, Storm Linux, based on Debian (In fact, can use debian's site for apt-getting), has a GREAT installer for newbies actually. Mandrake was also easy to install. Debian should take a look at Storm's installer and newbies will finally have nothign to bitch about. On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 06:48:1

TFTP install

2000-10-04 Thread Pål Løberg
Is it possible to do the entire installation of Debian i386 from TFTP without using any disks? I've got a diskless workstation with a network card that allot me to boot it using TFTP, but all the info I've found on installing Debian using TFTP (not much either) seems to require booting from a flo

Slink ISO images

2000-10-04 Thread jvicente
Does somebody know where can i get them? They where all replaced by potato ones... Please copy me the answer, because i´m not subscribed to the list. Thanks

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