dhcpcd weirdness

2000-10-10 Thread Andrew Whitlock
I have a box that provides network services to some other computers that is running Potato. It accesses the internet via cable modem, using dhcpcd to get its IP address. The problem I'm having is that it won't work unless I run it with configuration options on the command line, although I have my

Re: Adding hdparm at boot time

2000-10-10 Thread James Dietrich
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 04:23:32PM +1300, Matthew Sherborne wrote: > I would put the script in init.d, and a symlink rc3.d and prepend the > symlink name with S01 or S00 so that it starts up before everything else. If you install hwtools, then /etc/init.d/hwtools has a spot to put your custom hdpa

RE: Adding hdparm at boot time

2000-10-10 Thread Matthew Sherborne
I would put the script in init.d, and a symlink rc3.d and prepend the symlink name with S01 or S00 so that it starts up before everything else. Matthew > -Original Message- > From: Willy Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Willy Lee > Sent: Wednesday, 11 October 2000 3:28 p.m. > To: s

Re: Canon BJC-1000 problem - Finally Fixed! (inspired by Mike Soulier)

2000-10-10 Thread Willy Lee
"loki" == loki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree, and I've been having the same problems. Well technically a > friend rather than me, but it's an odd problem. I eventually > wondered if it was a BIOS problem, and found that the BIOS had the > parallel port set to an odd mode.. SPP or EPP is

Re: Problem with gdm and XF401 in /usr/XF40/

2000-10-10 Thread David Z Maze
Francois Fayard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: FF> I have compiled XF 4.0.1 in /usr/XF40 (I don't want XF 4.0.1 from Woody FF> because I run Potato). But now Gdm doesn't start the X server at boot time FF> and I don't know where I have to configure this special installation. FF> FF> I have put the ne

Re: sound card and ethernet card configuration

2000-10-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 09:26:38PM -0500, Bob Edwards wrote: > Greetings, > > (1) my sound card is a creative soundblaster PCI 128, how do I configure > it for debian ? opensource.creative.com should have something on it. > (2) have a 3 Comm Fast Etherlink XL 10/100 ethernet card which is n

Re: Adding hdparm at boot time

2000-10-10 Thread Willy Lee
"serge" == serge delorme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The place to put your own boot-up scripts is /etc/rc.boot. Hm. But the man page for rc.boot says that it is obsolete, and that you should use the /etc/rcS.d directory instead? However, it does say that /etc/rc.boot is scanned for backward c

sound card and ethernet card configuration

2000-10-10 Thread Bob Edwards
Greetings, (1) my sound card is a creative soundblaster PCI 128, how do I configure it for debian ? (2) have a 3 Comm Fast Etherlink XL 10/100 ethernet card which is not one of the choices in modconf, how can I configure my ethernet card ? I know it works with debian, because when I tried corel

Re: Problems with a bash script and cron

2000-10-10 Thread W. Paul Mills
Sounds like a path problem to me! Lars Bjarby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Hi! : This question isn't really Debian specific, but as I use Debian I thought : this was a good forum. I've got this small bash script that works perfectly : when I run it from the shell, but it won't work when I try

Re: Blackbox menu trouble

2000-10-10 Thread Jeremiah Hunter Savage
Thanks. That got me on the right track. I intalled 'menu' and ran update-menus. That got wmaker displaying the proper menus. But Blackbox still didn't display them. For some reason, I had to start up wmaker on an X session and then switch over to Blackbox. Now I can startup with Blackbox and it

Re: Gimp

2000-10-10 Thread Sean
I think part of your problem is that you're mixing gimp1.0 and gimp1.1 parts. Here is some console output from my machine --> sean:~$ dpkg -S gimptool gimp1.1: /usr/share/gimp/1.1/devel-docs/html/libgimp/libgimp-gimptools.html libgimp1.1-dev: /usr/share/man/man1/gimptool.1.gz libgimp1.1-dev: /usr/

Problem with gdm and XF401 in /usr/XF40/

2000-10-10 Thread Francois Fayard
Hi, I have compiled XF 4.0.1 in /usr/XF40 (I don't want XF 4.0.1 from Woody because I run Potato). But now Gdm doesn't start the X server at boot time and I don't know where I have to configure this special installation. I have put the new Xfree PATH in /etc/profile and /root/.profile. Do I have

Re: sound

2000-10-10 Thread Francois Fayard
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:45:14AM +0200, G.ROBIN wrote: > Bonjour, > lsmod indique que sound , soundlow et soundcore sont chargés. > Si je lance gmix je reçois : Make sure you have sound support > compiled into the kernel. > esd donne toujours /dev/dep : no such device > Comment faire pour que cel

Re: alien and rpm

2000-10-10 Thread markm
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:10:51AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Johann Spies wrote: > > I have a Redhat 7 disk and want to make debs of some of the file > > e.g. netscape 7.5. But running alien on those debs results in an > > error message like this one: > >

RE: XFree86 4.0.1

2000-10-10 Thread Matthew Sherborne
> Anyone happen to know what's going on with Branden's package archive? > Err http://samosa.debian.org woody/i386/ xserver-common 4.0.1-0phase2v13 > 404 Not Found I think the url is wrong? Souldn't have spaces... http://samosa.debian.org/woody/i386/xserver-common 4.0.1-0phase2v13 Matthew

Re: network configuration - after install

2000-10-10 Thread Jamil Geor
Hi, You could just use modconf to install the network card module that you need. Jamil On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Hello, > > I am doing another debian install, and was uncertain about the network > card type. I decided to skip that part of the install, hoping to fin

XFree86 4.0.1

2000-10-10 Thread Russell Davies
Anyone happen to know what's going on with Branden's package archive? Package: xserver-common Version: 4.0.1-0phase2v13 Priority: optional Section: x11 Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> apt-get install xserver-common Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1

printing works!

2000-10-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Woohoo! Yet another peripheral conquered! Printing works! I installed djtools, and magicfilter's dj690C filter works perfectly on my DJ 812C. I love it when stuff works... Thanks all, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate

apt-cache: was:what's djscript?

2000-10-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 05:12:13PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > djscript is in the djtools package. Ok, so why didn't "apt-cache search djscript" turn it up? I thought that apt-cache search would search the contents of every package currently cached. [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ apt-cache

Re: Adding hdparm at boot time

2000-10-10 Thread serge delorme
The place to put your own boot-up scripts is /etc/rc.boot. On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 07:12:07AM -0700, Willy Lee wrote: > Hi, > > I have been playing around with hdparm, and would like to make some > hdparm settings occur automatically at boot (it's nice to be able to > double disk access speed

Re: what's djscript?

2000-10-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
>From the man page for djscript: The tool's purpose is to make better use of the HP DeskJet's text modes. On one hand djscript enables the user to easily choose the different text modes of the DeskJet. On the other hand there are some add-ons supposed

Voodoo 3 3000 (new)

2000-10-10 Thread Matheson
Hey,   I continue to make progress with the curse-ed setup of this blasted video card (Voodoo 3 3000 AGP), but I can't seem to ever quite get it to work.  I have installed device3dfx-source, mesag2-v3, and mesa-glide2-dev.  I compiled the 3dfx module successfully, and can install it with no

Re: alien and rpm

2000-10-10 Thread Joey Hess
Johann Spies wrote: > I have a Redhat 7 disk and want to make debs of some of the file > e.g. netscape 7.5. But running alien on those debs results in an > error message like this one: > > only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of >

Re: port 113

2000-10-10 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:51:34AM +0200, Michael Steiner wrote: > Hi to All! > > I block all traffic not realy needed by ipchains. > When fetching email from my isp I logged attempts by the isp-mailserver > with tcp to port 113. > > Can you tell me where to find information about port 113 usage?

Re: port 113

2000-10-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:51:34AM +0200, Michael Steiner wrote: > Hi to All! > > I block all traffic not realy needed by ipchains. > When fetching email from my isp I logged attempts by the isp-mailserver > with tcp to port 113. > > Can you tell me where to find information about port 113 usage?

what's djscript?

2000-10-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Ok, so I'm trying to get printing working. I catted a file to /dev/lp0 and something happened, even though it didn't print the entire thing. So, I tried lpr. Nothing in the queue, but nothing happened. So, checking /etc/printcap, I find that the error log is at /var/log/lp-errs. lupus:/home/ms

Re: apt cheating?

2000-10-10 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Andreas! Andreas Goesele schrieb am Mittwoch, dem 11. Oktober 2000: > Hi, > > The apt-get manual tells us: > > "APT itself does not allow broken > package dependencies to exist on a system." > > But there are cases, where one wants to have a package installed > even if some dependencies ar

RE: port 113

2000-10-10 Thread Pollywog
Port 113 is the identd port. I have blocked it without any problems. -- Andrew On 10-Oct-2000 Michael Steiner wrote: > Hi to All! > > I block all traffic not realy needed by ipchains. > When fetching email from my isp I logged attempts by the isp-mailserver > with tcp to port 113. > > Can you

port 113

2000-10-10 Thread Michael Steiner
Hi to All! I block all traffic not realy needed by ipchains. When fetching email from my isp I logged attempts by the isp-mailserver with tcp to port 113. Can you tell me where to find information about port 113 usage? (/etc/services I checked, but doesnt give me background information) Should or

apt cheating?

2000-10-10 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, The apt-get manual tells us: "APT itself does not allow broken package dependencies to exist on a system." But there are cases, where one wants to have a package installed even if some dependencies are broken. (For instance if the package is very big and one isn't interested at all in the p

Re: ip tunnel ... mode gre -- encrypted? or not?

2000-10-10 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 11:32:49PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Hi will, > > Quoth will trillich, > > when a linux wonk says > > DEV=mytunnel > > OUTSIDE_HERE=321.1.2.3 > > OUTSIDE_THERE=789.9.8.7 > > ip tunnel add $DEV \ > > local $OUTSIDE_HERE \ > > remo

libdb2 does not contain Java class files?

2000-10-10 Thread Sean Rhea
Hello, Is there a package to install the Java class files for Berkeley DB? There seems to be one for C, C++, Perl, etc., and the Sleepycat site has the files in their source Sean -- The meta-Turing test counts a thing as intelligent if it seeks to devise and apply Turing tests t

Re: kernel 2.4.0-test9 and Cisco Pix Firewall - Might be a bug???

2000-10-10 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 07:57 10/10/00, David S. Miller wrote: echo "0" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn Yes, Cisco does know about the bug in their product. .. and has a fix. this is marked as cisco bug id CSCds23698. (see http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCds23698) Bud ID:CSCd

Re: Books suggestions / ports question

2000-10-10 Thread kmself
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 10:19:15PM +0200, Sven Burgener ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Fellow debs, > > o First, can anyone tell me if the book "UNIX Power Tools" is any good? Yes. It is. > It's from O'Reilly. If not, what alternatives are there to it? Any other > book(s) one simply *must*

RE: Blackbox menu trouble

2000-10-10 Thread Matthew Sherborne
try typing update-menus at the command prompt as root. Matthew Sherborne

Re: Lilo fatal error: Urgent help needed!

2000-10-10 Thread kmself
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 06:26:31PM +0200, Andreas Goesele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I did an apt-get -f update on my Corel-Linux 1.1 (which is based on > Debian). Everything seemed to go well, but than apt ended with the > following error messages: > > Errors were encountered while pr

RE: Gimp

2000-10-10 Thread Christopher Dryburgh
Good Idea: Error produced by GIMP at command line. Bug in dynamic linker ld.so: dymanic-link.h: 57: elf_get_dynamic_info: Assertion '!"bad dynamic tag"' failed! -Original Message- From: Martin Fluch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 10, 2000 4:53 PM To: Christopher Dryburgh Cc: deb

Re: Gimp

2000-10-10 Thread Olivier Billet
It's not exactly the same problem but I can't find the gimptool. I have installed gimp1.1 gimp-perl gimp-nonfree and the inplied packages; gimp work well. but I can't figure out where is the gimptool. I tried on the command line

Silly Problem: Unable to access deb-files via CD-ROM

2000-10-10 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Dear debian-users, I am attempting to install Debian from a set of official potato-CDs. Well, the installation process for the base system was rather painless up to the point when it asked me for configuring 'apt': Choose the method apt should use to access the Debian archive... Of course I

Re: Gimp

2000-10-10 Thread Martin Fluch
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Christopher Dryburgh wrote: > Hello > > Just wondering what I have missed. I have tried loading on GIMP and it does > not work. I have checked to see if the required packages are installed and > they are. When I try running Gimp nothing happens. Is there an error log > that I

Re: Books suggestions / ports question

2000-10-10 Thread Ray Percival
I would add Building Internet Firewall's the 2nd edition to that for sure. Really good book. -- Original Message -- From: Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 22:19:15 +0200 >Fellow debs, > >o First, can anyone tell me if the book "UNI

Gimp

2000-10-10 Thread Christopher Dryburgh
Hello Just wondering what I have missed. I have tried loading on GIMP and it does not work. I have checked to see if the required packages are installed and they are. When I try running Gimp nothing happens. Is there an error log that I can check somewhere? Chris

Hisax and ISDN module-problems after dist-upgrade

2000-10-10 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi Debians! I have two problems. Some days ago I inserted the path of the security-fixes into sources.list deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free and did apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade After that my Hisax- and ISDN-Modules are not included at boot-time into

Re: ipchains configuration in debian 2.2

2000-10-10 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 10:41:58PM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > Where is the appropriate place in debian 2.2 to configure ipchains for a > firewall and IP masquerading? 1) apt-get install ipmasq 2) cd /etc/ipmasq/rules 3) add *.rul to override any *.def -- things are more like they used to be

Re: apt-getting from behind a proxy

2000-10-10 Thread Jamil Geor
Hi, All you need to do is set the http_proxy variable to your proxy server e.g. #http_proxy=http://10.0.18.23:8080 #export http_proxy Jamil GIO NZ Holdings Ltd. 09 356 6522 or xtn 8522 This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain information that is confidential and s

Books suggestions / ports question

2000-10-10 Thread Sven Burgener
Fellow debs, o First, can anyone tell me if the book "UNIX Power Tools" is any good? It's from O'Reilly. If not, what alternatives are there to it? Any other book(s) one simply *must* own? :) Topics: UNIX / Linux / Networking / C Programming My current collection comprises "DNS & BIND"

Re: Telling a printer to STOP PRINTING

2000-10-10 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:49:57PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Can somebody please tell me how I can tell my printer to STOP? > > My desparate attempt to stop it from printing out the rest of a document > after I specifically told the word processor to print out only the

Re: staroffice

2000-10-10 Thread kmself
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 06:23:44AM -0400, Randy Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I downloaded the Staroffice binaries (10 files with an extension of .bin) > > from the Sun site and realized I have no idea how to install them > >*.bin files are binary files, i.e. programs. This isn't

Re: how can I add disk space?

2000-10-10 Thread kmself
Given your current Linux literacy, I would recommend you don't. Unless you're willing to post output (third request), I'm unable and unwilling to provide further assistance. On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:20:19PM +0200, Markus Stahl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Yes, I have transfered the old /home t

Re: Writing scripts and online support

2000-10-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "JP" == JP Sartre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JP> Anyhow, I want to learn how to do basic scripts to perform tasks, JP> as well as getting to learn cron and similar daemons.. aside from JP> going out and buying a few perl books (which I intend to someday) JP> are there any good online sources for

Re: kernel 2.4.0-test9 and Cisco Pix Firewall - Might be a bug???

2000-10-10 Thread David Ford
FAQ, echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn -d Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > Hi all, > I finished a fresh debian installation (woody) with kernel 2.4.0-test9 > (tested > in various configurations) and 2.2.17 + pcmcia (latest release) > > All the installation is on a laptop with pcmcia sup

Re: apt stat problem continues

2000-10-10 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, William Jensen wrote: > As reported yesterday apt-get update produces errors at the end. Can anyone > tell me and the other people experiencing this what the problem is and how > we could fix it, or who we should inform if this isn't a user fixable problem. > Apt-cache searc

Re: Conflicts make APT useless

2000-10-10 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Thomas Halahan wrote: > > I have upgraded glibc to 2.1.94-3. During this process I have had > the same problems as many. i.e. > > * libdb.so.3 not found > * ldconfig disappears > > But now my apt (dselsct and gnome-apt) shows many unsolved > dependencies which become ver

Re: PS/2 mouse

2000-10-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Check /etc/gpm.conf, mine is: # /etc/gpm.conf - configuration file for gpm(1) # # If mouse response seems to be to slow, try using # responsiveness=15. append can contain any random arguments to be # appended to the commandline. # # If you edit this file by hand, please be aware it is sourc

Re: AW: some general (samba) questions

2000-10-10 Thread C. Falconer
Sorry - I should have said... the line must contain NO PASSWORDXX <-- and there must be 21 Xs after, then the second lot of Xs there must be 32. At 03:57 PM 10/10/00 +0200, you wrote: I did as you told me, but it doesn't work. The user's line also doesn't have the X... part, but just an

apt stat problem continues

2000-10-10 Thread William Jensen
As reported yesterday apt-get update produces errors at the end. Can anyone tell me and the other people experiencing this what the problem is and how we could fix it, or who we should inform if this isn't a user fixable problem. Apt-cache search produces the same problem. For reference, I'm on a

AW: some general (samba) questions

2000-10-10 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
I did as you told me, but it doesn't work. The user's line also doesn't have the X... part, but just any other types. Do I have to delete the user and recreate him to get him work with an empty password? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:C. Falconer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet

Writing scripts and online support

2000-10-10 Thread JP Sartre
Hi all.. this isn't debian specific, but I'll ask this of you because only smart people use debian.. right? :) Anyhow, I want to learn how to do basic scripts to perform tasks, as well as getting to learn cron and similar daemons.. aside from going out and buying a few perl books (which I intend t

Re: Conflicts make APT useless

2000-10-10 Thread Bolan Meek
Thomas Halahan wrote: > > Hello, > > Thanks for your promt reply. Much appreciated. I didn't quite > understand this: > > > I fixed this with a link to a libdb?.so in /lib via /lib/libdb.so.3, > > and after that, the upgrade to a new libdb worked. > > Do I just install libdb and manually link

Re: Can't insert ISDN module

2000-10-10 Thread Felix Hagemann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The problem occurs already when inserting the isdn.o module: > > matrix:/home/og# modprobe isdn > /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/isdn.o: init_module: Device or resource > busy Are you using a precompiled Debian kernel? I think it has builtin ISDN support, which causes a »b

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
Colin, If cleaning improved the side to side action of the mouse and you can move the mouse down much easier than up then you probably have the same problem that I had. There is a roller that is held in place by a small spring and that spring is weak. When moving the mouse down, normal pressure

Re: apt-getting from behind a proxy

2000-10-10 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, maarten wrote: > Hi, > I'm fairly new at Debian, and GNU/Linux in general, so please: no flaming ;) > > I've got a winmodem (oh, the agony), and two computers forming a network. > The computer with the modem has a windows installation access to the > Internet. It's also got

Re: sawfish not working

2000-10-10 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:54:27AM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > sawfish fails with this message (when run from an rxvt): > > *** Error: no such font, -b&h-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 > > When I run it --no-rc, it starts, but anything that would bring up a menu > doesn't work. >

crash - human stupidity - no netscape, no mozilla

2000-10-10 Thread Richard P. Groenewegen
Hi, First a crash and then some human stupidity caused me to loose my / partition. I just installed a fresh debian woody and almost everything (X, networking, ...) works. I cannot get netscape and mozilla to work. *** Attempt 1, use the installation in /usr/local/ When I type netscape I get:

Re: Problems with a bash script and cron

2000-10-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
Try replacing your script (call it script.sh) with another script which does a sh -x script.sh 2>&1 | logger In my case problems like yours come from using commands which aren't in the path. -chris

Eterm key sequences after potato -> woody

2000-10-10 Thread Kai Weber
Hi, I just updated from potato to woody with the CD-Images from ftp.kandu.hu (date 00-10-08). No problems till now, but some new behaviours of some programs: (1) vim does not find it's syntax file (maybe already a fixed bug) (2) How can I change the behaviour of the Home and End key in Eterm? It

Re: Conflicts make APT useless

2000-10-10 Thread Thomas Halahan
Hello, Thanks for your promt reply. Much appreciated. I didn't quite understand this: > I fixed this with a link to a libdb?.so in /lib via /lib/libdb.so.3, > and after that, the upgrade to a new libdb worked. Do I just install libdb and manually link libdb2.so.3 back to the new libc6.so.

Re: Debian pre-installed system

2000-10-10 Thread Aaron Brashears
Kevin Krafthefer wrote: > Does anyone know a computer manufacture that sells machines with Debian > installed on them? I think that http://emperorlinux.com/ will do that for you.

Lilo fatal error: Urgent help needed!

2000-10-10 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, I did an apt-get -f update on my Corel-Linux 1.1 (which is based on Debian). Everything seemed to go well, but than apt ended with the following error messages: Errors were encountered while processing: lilo E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I than run lilo again resul

Re: AW: Defrag in Win2000 no good for FIPS

2000-10-10 Thread mike
I just checked execsoft.com and 'Diskeeper 5.0' which they claim is the only certified defragmenter for windows 2000 is still available in a trialware version. Its not the same version as 'diskeeper lite' for nt. On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:06:34 +0200, Reinemuth, Jens said: > ok, di

Conflicts make APT useless

2000-10-10 Thread Thomas Halahan
Hi, I have upgraded glibc to 2.1.94-3. During this process I have had the same problems as many. i.e. * libdb.so.3 not found * ldconfig disappears But now my apt (dselsct and gnome-apt) shows many unsolved dependencies which become very confusing and difficult to solve. Most notable is the re

RE: Suspicious message when booting debian "potato"

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Mason
I jsut upgraded the kernel to 2.2.17 and I am seeing the same message. However, everything is working OK. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Fi

Re: apt-getting from behind a proxy + IP tunnel

2000-10-10 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Types: export HTTP_PROXY=windows_machine:8080 On Ter, Out 10, 2000 at 01:31:51 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: apt-getting from behind a proxy + IP tunnel > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.2c (Intl)8 Fevereiro 2

Re: apt-getting from behind a proxy + IP tunnel

2000-10-10 Thread romeu
I wrote to the list a few days ago, asking if somebody could tell me how to get a connection to internet thru a windows box, just like Maarten is asking. Now, I already have my real modem working, but I still think the question is interesting, an the answer to it is feasible. Can you IP tunnel to

Re: Motif and GTK menu font sizes?

2000-10-10 Thread Bjoern Brill
On Mon, 09 Oct 2000 16:14:08 -0400, Samuel Hathaway wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to run a bare-bones twm X desktop without dealing with gnome or > kde, but i'm not too familiar with how to tweak my settings. I'm running the > SVGA server at 1024x768 on a 15" monitor. the problem that i'm curren

Suspicious message when booting debian "potato"

2000-10-10 Thread Francesc Oller
Hi all! the following appears when booting: INIT: version 2.78 booting NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET 4.0. insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15-ide/misc/unix.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20001010113248.ksyms. Read only file system Loading /etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz ... why and

Debian pre-installed system

2000-10-10 Thread Kevin Krafthefer
Does anyone know a computer manufacture that sells machines with Debian installed on them?

Re: Defrag in Win2000 no good for FIPS

2000-10-10 Thread mike
I used a program called 'Diskeeper ' Defrag which was able to remove those end of drive directories from Win. Its commercial software but it was available on a free 30 day evaluation trial (don't know if it still is) from execsoft.com. On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:16:09 +1300, Matthew

RE: Defrag in Win2000 no good for FIPS

2000-10-10 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Norton Speed Disk (part of Norton Utilities and SystemWorks) will fix it nicely in Win9x. You can tell the directories and the swap file to go wherever you want them to be.They don't seem to have anything out for Win2K yet. There are only one or two utilities packages out there for 2K so far,

Re: abiword - new version?

2000-10-10 Thread David A. Rogers
Check www.abisource.com. That's home for abiword. Looks like the latest version is 0.7.11. dar On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > I'm sure I read about 4-6 weeks ago that a new version of abiword was > being released. But I can't find it. Anyone know the story? > > Running 0.7.

Re: Defrag in Win2000 no good for FIPS

2000-10-10 Thread Willy Lee
"Matthew" == Matthew Sherborne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know of a good defrag program for plain DOS or Win2000 > that won't leave directory entries at the end of the drive ? > I want to install Debian to share a Win2000 computer but, I can't > defrag the drive to shift everything

Re: Link problem

2000-10-10 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
Perfect. Thanks. T. "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > $ apt-get install atlas2-dev > > You need that *.a file for compilation; even if the program will use > shared libs. > > -- > /bin/sh ~/.signature: > Command not found > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -

Adding hdparm at boot time

2000-10-10 Thread Willy Lee
Hi, I have been playing around with hdparm, and would like to make some hdparm settings occur automatically at boot (it's nice to be able to double disk access speed...). I've been looking around in the /etc/init.d directory and reading about update-rc.d, and I found a script called 'bootmisc.sh'

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-10 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > I wrote directly to the author and told him: > To which I got the following reply: > > | Hi, Olaf > | > | Thanks for your note. See my column next week when I share > | my experiences with the latest "official" version of potato. > | > | See ya, > | Joe Barr My Debian

RE: ODP: Printer configuration on debian

2000-10-10 Thread sworley
On 10-Oct-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > did you install an additional package cups-bsd ? > >> -Original Message- >> From: Andre Berger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 10:01 AM >> To: Dale Morris >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; >> [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Moving cdrom for apt-get

2000-10-10 Thread Benjamin Black
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Acquire::CDROM::Mount "/mnt/cdrom/"; > > In /etc/apt/apt.conf > i have 2 drives, a dvd and a cdr; can i put more than one acquire rule in apt.conf for cdrom drives? simply copying the line twice and changing the mount point for the second drive doesn't seem to do it,

Re: Debian Australian mirror @ mirror.aarnet

2000-10-10 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 07:15:43PM +1100, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > Does anybody know the reason why Debian mirror @ mirror.aarnet.edu.au > has been stop mirroring woody main since late last month? I emailed [EMAIL PROTECTED]; here's the reply:

ipchains configuration in debian 2.2

2000-10-10 Thread Dwight Johnson
Where is the appropriate place in debian 2.2 to configure ipchains for a firewall and IP masquerading? Thanks in advance, Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: ODP: Printer configuration on debian

2000-10-10 Thread Mariusz . Przygodzki
cups-bsd has a wrapper for BSD printing functions like lp. I hade to installed it to use "normal" BSD functions. If I remember cups suggest cups-bsd with dselect method installation. Mariusz > -Original Message- > From: Dale Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2

Can't insert ISDN module

2000-10-10 Thread olafsmail
Hi there I'm sorry to bother you, but nobody can give me an answer to my problem. I'm using the current potato release of Debian 2.2 (vanilla Kernel 2.2.17) on a 486 Dx 33, 8megs ram, 120megs hd machine. This shall be our ISDN router for me and my friends using isdnutils_3.0-20. I have got a Tel

Re: ip tunnel ... mode gre -- encrypted? or not?

2000-10-10 Thread Damon Muller
Hi will, Quoth will trillich, > when a linux wonk says > DEV=mytunnel > OUTSIDE_HERE=321.1.2.3 > OUTSIDE_THERE=789.9.8.7 > ip tunnel add $DEV \ > local $OUTSIDE_HERE \ > remote $OUTSIDE_THERE \ > mode gre > is the tunnel encrypted

printtool

2000-10-10 Thread Dale Morris
I'm trying to get my printer working after an upgrade. I've posted several other messages to the list, so I won't repeat them now. My question is this.. When I try to configure printtool for my Epson StylusColor 600 printer, there is nothing listed about resolution settings, paper type, etc.. And p

Re: kernel 2.4.0-test9 and Cisco Pix Firewall - Might be a bug???

2000-10-10 Thread David S. Miller
echo "0" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn Yes, Cisco does know about the bug in their product. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com

Re: ODP: Printer configuration on debian

2000-10-10 Thread Dale Morris
When I use lpr... nothing happens.. printer is silent. That's why I'm so confused. Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > How do I configure CUPS? I'm trying to set up my printer with > > magicfilter. I think there is a permission problem, but

Re: ODP: Printer configuration on debian

2000-10-10 Thread Dale Morris
no, installation of CUPS came with xpp and apt-get retrieved the extra packages related to CUPS/xpp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > did you install an additional package cups-bsd ? > > > > > > How do I configure CUPS? I'm trying to set up my printer with > > > magicfilter. I think

Re: PS/2 mouse

2000-10-10 Thread Damon Muller
Not a solution, I'm afraid, but I have also witnessed similar problems lately trying to do the same thing. X, with the appropriate pointer settings, fails to recognise the mouse. Probably more interestingly, if I tell GPM to use the PS/2 mouse, when i move the mouse, the console will freeze, requ

Re: staroffice

2000-10-10 Thread John Travis
On Tuesday 10 October 2000 06:48, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > "Agner-Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I downloaded the Staroffice binaries (10 files with an extension of .bin) > > from the Sun site and realized I have no idea how to install them (to a > > Throw all files in /tmp, then `chmod

kernel 2.4.0-test9 and Cisco Pix Firewall - Might be a bug???

2000-10-10 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi all, I finished a fresh debian installation (woody) with kernel 2.4.0-test9 (tested in various configurations) and 2.2.17 + pcmcia (latest release) All the installation is on a laptop with pcmcia support enable for my 2 eth's. The situation of my network is like this: box eth0 ---> C

[OT] Re: Debian Australian mirror @ mirror.aarnet

2000-10-10 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Andrew J Cosgriff, > Yes, Monash mirrors from AARNet. > > I used to look after the Linux mirroring when I worked at Monash (I > left last June) - I set it up originally to mirror from the US, but > when mirror.aarnet.edu.au got started I was persuaded to mirror from > them. While I wasn't

Re: staroffice

2000-10-10 Thread Randy Edwards
> I downloaded the Staroffice binaries (10 files with an extension of .bin) > from the Sun site and realized I have no idea how to install them *.bin files are binary files, i.e. programs. Assuming you want to install these as a normal user (which is typical for StarOffice), do the following:

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