Re:gtk-script: where and what is it? + package conflicts

2000-10-28 Thread Mr. Strockbine
> Are you sure it wasn't looking for 'gtk-config'? I just ran make on > the 0.1b2 tarball and there was no mention of 'gtk-script'. Seemed to > build ok. > > Can you post a listing of what you're seeing? ah yes, it is gtk-config I was missing. I went on to install libgtk1.2-dev as someone else su

OT: compiling new gcc--can it coexist with old?

2000-10-28 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm interested in trying out an Athlon-optimized gcc (www.athlonlinux.org); this involves patching 2.95.2 and recompiling. The docs are not totally clear to this clueless non-programmer about the options to use for the configure step, but I chose the following: hpotter:/usr/local/obj# ../src/gcc

Time?

2000-10-28 Thread Casey Henderson
Anybody know if Linux handles Daylight Savings Time automatically? I have kernel 2.2.17 on Debian 2.2 (potato). Will I need to change the time manually, and if so, how? Thanks. Casey

Re: LI at boot after making \boot reiserfs

2000-10-28 Thread Mark Phillips
David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Would someone please give me a reference on the reiserfs? That is a > new fs on me. What advantage does it have over e2fs? Have a look at: http://www.namesys.com/ Basically, reiserfs is a journalling file system which gives better performance (faster

Re: gtk-script: where and what is it?

2000-10-28 Thread Pollywog
>> "Mr.S" == Strockbine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mr.S> I was attempting to install netferret but it complains that > Mr.S> it can't find "gtk-script". I did a find on my whole system > Mr.S> and found other "gtk-" stuff but not that. can any one clue > Mr.S> me in?

Re: Streaming MP3 server

2000-10-28 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 10:31:48PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > Is there any Debian packages out there to turn my box intoa treaming MP3 > server? I know of Icecast and Shoutcast for the actual atream server, and I > suppose there is plugins for XMMS or MPG123 out there. Having .DEBs would > reall

Streaming MP3 server

2000-10-28 Thread Joel Dinel
Is there any Debian packages out there to turn my box intoa treaming MP3 server? I know of Icecast and Shoutcast for the actual atream server, and I suppose there is plugins for XMMS or MPG123 out there. Having .DEBs would really make it easier. Thanks ! -- Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gtk-script: where and what is it?

2000-10-28 Thread Bob Bernstein
> "Mr.S" == Strockbine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mr.S> I was attempting to install netferret but it complains that Mr.S> it can't find "gtk-script". I did a find on my whole system Mr.S> and found other "gtk-" stuff but not that. can any one clue Mr.S> me in? Are you sure

Re: cdrecord doesn't recognize my cd (re-)writer

2000-10-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
What does "cdrecord -scanbus" say? You should see something like: Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 8200 ' '1.0f' Removable CD-ROM

Re: cdrecord doesn't recognize my cd (re-)writer

2000-10-28 Thread mike
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 06:40:04 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I read somewhere about somebody's problems with xcdroast. My problem is even > simpler (stupider?) I can't get cdrecord to work under debian. > > Here is some of the info I have been able to gather about my current setup. > > de

cdrecord doesn't recognize my cd (re-)writer

2000-10-28 Thread csj
I read somewhere about somebody's problems with xcdroast. My problem is even simpler (stupider?) I can't get cdrecord to work under debian. Here is some of the info I have been able to gather about my current setup. debian:/dev# lsmod Module Size Used by serial 1

gtk-script: where and what is it?

2000-10-28 Thread Mr. Strockbine
I was attempting to install netferret but it complains that it can't find "gtk-script". I did a find on my whole system and found other "gtk-" stuff but not that. can any one clue me in? - greg s.

Re: RPMS in debian

2000-10-28 Thread kmself
on Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 06:25:21PM -0400, Eileen Orbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to convert RPM's so I can use them in Debian?? I want to > install the mysql-php-apache rpm from mysql.org man alien (that's the manpage for alien, not "men are an alien species", re

Re: RPMS in debian

2000-10-28 Thread Moritz Schulte
Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to convert RPM's so I can use them in Debian?? I want to > install the mysql-php-apache rpm from mysql.org 'alien' can convert RPM <=> DEB. moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~morit

/bin/false (was Re: security questions)

2000-10-28 Thread kmself
on Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 10:06:56AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also, i noticed that some accounts which are disabled are given a shell of > /bin/false: > > ftp:x:100:65534::/home/ftp:/bin/false > > tiger seemed to hate this too. i tried playing around with /bin/

RPMS in debian

2000-10-28 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, Is there a way to convert RPM's so I can use them in Debian?? I want to install the mysql-php-apache rpm from mysql.org Thanks Eileen Orbell Software & Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Fear the Penguin.

Re: Do I need 'apt' directories, or can I delete them?

2000-10-28 Thread David Z Maze
Gyulai Mihaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GM> I just upgraded from 'slink' to 'potato'. Now my /root partition is GM> full. Do I need the contents of the following directories, or may I GM> delete them? GM> GM> /var/cache/apt 6 MB GM> /var/state/apt/lists 3.7 MB GM> /var/lib/dpkg/info 4.6 MB

Re: /bin/false

2000-10-28 Thread Adam Lazur
Flavio Alberto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > I'm find /bin/false for intall in my Debian box? apt-get install shellutils .adam -- [<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [ icq #3354423 | lazur.org | clustermonkey.org ]

Re: Q: Best printer-HP LaserJet II, III, IIIP

2000-10-28 Thread kmself
on Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 10:08:58PM +0200, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Which is the best for working with Linux and existing drivers and is the > > IIIP postscript? These are all old, but good machines and I have a chance at > > one.

Re: /bin/false

2000-10-28 Thread kmself
on Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 07:27:56PM -0200, Flavio Alberto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm find /bin/false for intall in my Debian box? If you're looking for the package in which it's included: $ dpkg -S /bin/false shellutils: /bin/false The file itself simply returns an exit value of 1.

Problems installing device3dfx

2000-10-28 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello! I am running potato with the original 2.2.17 kernel and I would like to use my Voodoo 3 2000 with Mesa. I installed kernel-source-2.2.17 and of course device3dfx-source. I untarred both in the /usr/src directory and made a symbolic link from /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17 to /usr/src/li

/bin/false

2000-10-28 Thread Flavio Alberto
I'm find /bin/false for intall in my Debian box?

Re: Multiple X consoles on LINUX

2000-10-28 Thread kmself
debian-user restored to recipients. reply-to set to list. Please don't cc: me on list mail. on Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 08:37:18PM +0300, Jarkko Niemi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I would like to get multiple X consoles on my LINUX PC. > > > > I'm able to switch to a different console by , >

Re: Value too large for defined data type

2000-10-28 Thread Moritz Schulte
Seth Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone have suggestions on how to remove this thing? :) echo > mydocs.zip; rm mydocs.zip ? moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome. */

Value too large for defined data type

2000-10-28 Thread Seth Arnold
Greetings everyone. Long story short -- a friend, via ftpd on my OpenBSD box, send a file slightly larger than two gigs to my Debian machine. The OpenBSD box nfs mounts its ftp stuff from my Debian machine. I now get errors of the sort: $ ls -l ls: mydocs.zip: Value too large for defined data typ

Re: OT: Cross-platform document format?

2000-10-28 Thread Riku Saikkonen
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Thanks for the response. I was looking for a common document format, so >that the students on campus would quit turning their homework in as .DOC >format. I don't think I'm going to get the students to give up MS-Word >on MS-Windows to learn LaTeX, etc, althou

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

2000-10-28 Thread Riku Saikkonen
Thomas Halahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, USM Bish wrote: >> I am on bash. This is part of the the output of the >> command "ls -d */" on my home directory. Only the >> sub dirs are displayed. >your solution is more elegant than what i have put together with a >find call.

Re: Q: Best printer-HP LaserJet II, III, IIIP

2000-10-28 Thread Andre Berger
"Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which is the best for working with Linux and existing drivers and is the > IIIP postscript? These are all old, but good machines and I have a chance at > one. Of the three, IIIP/4MB (I think this is the maximum it can take?). My LaserJet IIP PS/4MB w

Re: netscape bookmark.html

2000-10-28 Thread Andre Berger
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i keep a global bookmark.html in /usr/local/share/users/bookmark.html, and > make symbolic links from within $HOME/.netscape, so all incarnations of me > can use the same bookmark file. > > the trouble is, when i edit the bookmarks, say as user p, t

Solved: Re: zgv and dvisvga/tmview problem on potato

2000-10-28 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:05:31PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Another two programs that gave me a lot of pleasure on slink, do not > work on potato: zgv and dvisvga or tmview. > > All I get is a blank screen with nothing readable at all. My problem was solved by experimenting with /etc/vga/libv

Zope newbie can't log in

2000-10-28 Thread Johann Spies
I am a newbie as far as apache and zope is concerned and would like to get to know these two programs. I can log in on Zope as superuser and create a new user. But I can not log in as that user although anything is correct as far as the login name and password is concerned. I have removed apache

Re: Recovering net connection. (kinda long)

2000-10-28 Thread mike
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 10:35:11 -0700 (PDT), Steve Juranich said: > Every once in a while, @home has a service outage (a little more frequently > in my case since I live out in the sticks). Of course, when the net > connection is down, I can't ping my router, or gateway, or anything other > than

Re: Re: a question about internal modem

2000-10-28 Thread ljoasis
yeah,i've found the driver,and i installed it,modprobe it,no errors, but i use kppp,it should choose a device ,what device file (/dev/???) should i use??? //bow all again > Its probably a WinModem, and is not compatible with Linux. To be sure, > check www.linmodems.org > > > > On Sun, 29 Oct 2

Re: ipchains and netfilter on 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-28 Thread Bob Bernstein
> "PJS" == Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PJS> just to make sure -- did i simply not see ipchains or was it PJS> really replaced by netfilter? >> Yes. PJS> i assume the yes was to the 2nd part of the "or". :) Yes. We're both a little fuzzy today, huh? (Alt

Re: Debian, PCMCIA and DHCP

2000-10-28 Thread Kevin Dalley
With the unstable version of pcmcia packages, you should set DHCP to "y" in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. You may need to set DHCP_HOSTNAME as well. DHCPCLIENT and PUMP are no longer used. The current /etc/pcmcia/network unfortunately uses only the first one of dhcpcd, dhclient, or pump which exists

Re: Recovering net connection. (kinda long)

2000-10-28 Thread sena
I heard that Steve Juranich wrote this on 28/10/00: > So, I know that one way to fix this problem is to reboot my box, but I don't > want to have to do that every time @home drops my connection. > I use NetCabo (a portuguese cable internet provider). We sometimes have this problem, as NetCabo fr

Re: How to download a free Linux?

2000-10-28 Thread Rob
http://www.debian.org/distrib/ On Tue, Oct 28, 1997 at 10:11:45PM +0600, tim456 wrote: > > From: Timur Kenzhebaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 22:11:20 -0700 (MST) > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >

Sorry about that..

2000-10-28 Thread sena
Sorry about the multiple copies of the message I sent just now... Badly configured MTA.. :) Won't happen again... Regards, sena... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://decoy.ath.cx/~sena/

Re: dpkg-preconfigure: No such file - pls help!

2000-10-28 Thread Joey Hess
Gyulai Mihaly wrote: > I partially upgraded my glibc2 from 2.0.7 to 2.1.2, > I received an error message at upgrading 'libc6-dev'. > After that my system was broken (it's a slink version). > I can't compile anything now with gcc. > > Now I try to upgrade to potato. I can use dselect, but after

Re: Recovering net connection. (kinda long)

2000-10-28 Thread André Esteves
Steve Juranich wrote: > Every once in a while, @home has a service outage (a little more frequently > in my case since I live out in the sticks). Of course, when the net > connection is down, I can't ping my router, or gateway, or anything other > than my local box. > > The problem is that it s

dpkg-preconfigure: No such file - pls help!

2000-10-28 Thread Gyulai Mihaly
I partially upgraded my glibc2 from 2.0.7 to 2.1.2, I received an error message at upgrading 'libc6-dev'. After that my system was broken (it's a slink version). I can't compile anything now with gcc. Now I try to upgrade to potato. I can use dselect, but after 'Install' I receive the following

Do I need 'apt' directories, or can I delete them?

2000-10-28 Thread Gyulai Mihaly
I just upgraded from 'slink' to 'potato'. Now my /root partition is full. Do I need the contents of the following directories, or may I delete them? /var/cache/apt 6 MB /var/state/apt/lists 3.7 MB /var/lib/dpkg/info 4.6 MB /var/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd 1 MB Thanks for suggestions. -- GY

Re: locatedb?

2000-10-28 Thread Moritz Schulte
Stephan Kulka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is locatedb or locate? Where should I start reading? Have a look at the manpages of locate and locatedb. locatedb is the database created by updatedb and used by locate. it holds a list of filenames, then you can quickly search with locate for file

Help: Ne.. modules problem during instalation

2000-10-28 Thread André Esteves
I'm installing Debian Patotoe in a Pentium 75 Mhz with 8 Mb RAM and an MDA graphics board, it has two ne2000 ethernet cards, one ISA another PCI. 1. During module configuration (wich runs slowlyyy... probably the 8mb..): If I insert the ne module (with the correct configuration parameters) it wil

Re: TAR Syntaxe

2000-10-28 Thread Moritz Schulte
Pierre GAILLY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the syntax of the exclude option with tar > "tar czvf /folder/file.tar / --exclude=/proc:/share" this expression > doesn't exclude /proc from the source. Have a look at tar's infopage, node "Excluding Some Files". It says that the syntax is:

Re(2): Boot Problem

2000-10-28 Thread Janos Kramar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I would try reinstalling Lilo just off the top of my head that is what it >looks like to me. > >>After installing Debian without any apparent problems and rebooting the >>computer without the boot disk, it says: >>MBR >> >>L 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 ... and so forth. >>

Re: security questions

2000-10-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 10:06:56 PDT, Peter Jay Salzman writes: >also, i noticed that some accounts which are disabled are given a shell of >/bin/false: > > ftp:x:100:65534::/home/ftp:/bin/false > >tiger seemed to hate this too. i tried playing around with /bin/false. >can't seem to figure out w

a question about internal modem

2000-10-28 Thread ljoasis
my laptop has an internal modem,when i use lspci command it shows me the modem is PCTel INC HSP Micromodem 56 then which module should i insmod and which /dev/ device does the modem take?? i think internal modem will not occupy an com port -- »¶Ó­Ê¹Óà 2

Re: Multiple X consoles on LINUX

2000-10-28 Thread Jarkko Niemi
> > > I would like to get multiple X consoles on my LINUX PC. > > > I'm able to switch to a different console by , > > > but I'm unclear how to get xdm get running on all the consoles. > > > > I played with this briefly, could point you in a direction though I'm > > not sure it's the right o

Re: ssh and no controlling tty

2000-10-28 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Timo Benk wrote: > I'm building a two disk boot/root disk set. My Problem is that ssh and ftp > are not working. > If I try 'ssh 192.168.0.2' I got the message: no controlling tty. > If i try 'ssh 192.168.0.2 -i /root/.ssh/identity' I got the message: > wrong passphrase >

Re: mount permissions

2000-10-28 Thread Shaul Karl
> when my FAT32 file systems are mounted at > boot time the owner and group are "root". > As a regular user I can read files but not > write them. > > I have the user option in my /etc/fstab file > like so: > /dev/hdc6 /matrox/mx6 vfat defaults,user 0 2 > > so I can `umount' and then `remount' a

netscape bookmark.html

2000-10-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i keep a global bookmark.html in /usr/local/share/users/bookmark.html, and make symbolic links from within $HOME/.netscape, so all incarnations of me can use the same bookmark file. the trouble is, when i edit the bookmarks, say as user p, the symbolic link is erased and /home/p/.netscape/bookmark

Re: Boot Problem

2000-10-28 Thread Ray Percival
I would try reinstalling Lilo just off the top of my head that is what it looks like to me. -- Original Message -- From: "Janos Kramar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 12:52:14 -0400 >After installing Debian without any apparent problems and reb

Re: GeForce2 GTS & X 4.0.1c

2000-10-28 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: > Recently I installed Branden's debs for X 4.0.1c (deb > http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ woody/$(ARCH)/) because, frankly, > vga16 @ 640 x 480 sucks with a GeForce2 GTS card. > > So, now, woohoo, the desktop looks great

Re: ipchains and netfilter on 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-28 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > dear all, > > i'm compiling portsentry on my system which has a 2.4.0-test9 kernel. > > when i compiled the kernel, i didn't see an ipchains options; it seems to > have been replaced by so

locatedb?

2000-10-28 Thread Stephan Kulka
> > > > Also, could anyone tell me how to activate the locatedb so I can use locate? > > Thanx. > > XsX > > don't turn your computer off at night. > > (the locatedb is rebuilt in a daily cron job run at 06:25) I am getting am mail every night at this time and I never knew what it was for. What

Recovering net connection. (kinda long)

2000-10-28 Thread Steve Juranich
Every once in a while, @home has a service outage (a little more frequently in my case since I live out in the sticks). Of course, when the net connection is down, I can't ping my router, or gateway, or anything other than my local box. The problem is that it seems that after @home has their end

Re: ISDN info (for UK)

2000-10-28 Thread Shaul Karl
> Giving up on ever seeing ADSL (too far away from the exchange, screw you > BT!) I'm installing ISDN as my best hope this side of the next millenium. I > know a lot about modems and nothing about ISDN so I'd appreciate some advice > on what ISDN card to insall for use in England. > > These are i

Re: ipchains and netfilter on 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-28 Thread Vee-Eye
Hi, > cool - i'd like to do this until i get a chance to sit down and learn > netfilter. i assume i can simply cd into /usr/src/linux-2.2.17/wherever and > do a modprobe -a ipchains.o? > > what is the appropriate module? If you want to stay with iptables you have to compile a module for your new

security questions

2000-10-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i just installed a host security checker, tiger (TARA?) which is more or less along the lines of what i remember from dan farmer's COPS (a lng time ago!) it had a number of complaints about accounts which were disabled but had valid shells. like this one: www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/v

Second post about: Warning: Ron = 43, Rloop = 10, Roff = 46

2000-10-28 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I get this on exiting from an X session, it's clearly there from entering. Any idea on what it is? I have a good X setup and everything is within specs. Thanks, Jonathan

Thanks Mozilla commens-Q: Customize with .XdefaULTS?

2000-10-28 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, There's no man pages on Mozilla and was wondering if I can customize the look through the .Xdefaults like my other apps? And would the commands be: Mozilla*foreground: DarkBlue Style? Thanks, Jonathan

TAR Syntaxe

2000-10-28 Thread Pierre GAILLY
What is the syntax of the exclude option with tar "tar czvf /folder/file.tar / --exclude=/proc:/share" this expression doesn't exclude /proc from the source. begin:vcard n:GAILLY;Pierre tel;cell:06.60.63.95.29 tel;fax:01.39.22.63.12 tel;work:01.39.22.63.11 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:www.alphacsp

Boot Problem

2000-10-28 Thread Janos Kramar
After installing Debian without any apparent problems and rebooting the computer without the boot disk, it says: MBR L 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 ... and so forth. It works fine with the boot disk. I have an hda unused approx. 5GB hard drive, a hdb dvd-rom, and hdc cd-rom, and an hdd 30GB hard-dri

Re: En snabb fråga...

2000-10-28 Thread Jan Erik Moström
On lördag 28 oktober 2000 16:23, V.Micic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> chirped > Var kan jag ladda hem den senaste versionen av Debian i ISO > format,jag har letat men inte hittat... > Tack i Förhand ftp.se.debian.org jem -- Jan Erik Moström mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting gnome helix running on potato

2000-10-28 Thread Stephan Kulka
Is there a mirror of helixcode in Europe with the possibility to downlaod the stuff with apt? Very often the speed is very slow and besides it is a waste of bandwidth downloading from Austria. Stephan

Re: switching virtual terminals

2000-10-28 Thread Dale Morris
thanks. I can't remember the exact key sequence, I just remember apt-getting the package on a different install. And.. I seem to have it now with [Alt-Arrow keys] USM Bish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:50:03PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > > There's a package that I need to

Re: KDE2 source build sequence

2000-10-28 Thread Alvin Smith
I get a "syntax error before '(' " when I try to compile Qt2. Anybody else getting that? Matthias Rosenkranz wrote: > On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > > > From: Thomas J. Hamman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:01:08 -0400 > > Subject: Re: KDE2 source build sequen

Q: Best printer-HP LaserJet II, III, IIIP

2000-10-28 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Which is the best for working with Linux and existing drivers and is the IIIP postscript? These are all old, but good machines and I have a chance at one. Thanks, Jonatan

RE: ipchains and netfilter on 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Pollywog wrote: > > just to make sure -- did i simply not see ipchains or was it really replaced > > by netfilter? > > It is possible to keep using ipchains by compiling the appropriate kernel > module. I was using it until I got iptables working. cool - i'd like to do thi

Help: "Look" won't work...

2000-10-28 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I use look and ge the folowing message: /usr/share/dict/words: No such file or directory That's with ispell ad the us dict loaded. But I did a locate and couldn't find no dict directory. Any help appreciated. Thanks, Jonathan

Re: dpkg won't install (Internal Error)

2000-10-28 Thread Paul D. Smith
I found something about this problem by searching old debian-devel archives; I fixed it by force-installing debconf with dpkg, then force-installing libc6 with dpkg, then using "apt-get -f install" to let it fix the rest. Seems to have worked. -- -

RE: ipchains and netfilter on 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-28 Thread Pollywog
On 28-Oct-2000 Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > dear all, > > i'm compiling portsentry on my system which has a 2.4.0-test9 kernel. > > when i compiled the kernel, i didn't see an ipchains options; it seems to > have been replaced by something called netfilter. > > just to make sure -- did i simply n

GeForce2 GTS & X 4.0.1c

2000-10-28 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Recently I installed Branden's debs for X 4.0.1c (deb http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ woody/$(ARCH)/) because, frankly, vga16 @ 640 x 480 sucks with a GeForce2 GTS card. So, now, woohoo, the desktop looks great and I don't spend much time in the console. But my question is - I thought that I h

Re: OTP

2000-10-28 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Danny Heap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is (otp) for generating one-time passwords. Is there a debian > package for implementing OTP? A quick `apt-cache search password | grep -i time' gives three hits, between them "otp - Generator for One Time Passwords", so it would be sufficient to do

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:12:27PM -0700, Mr. Strockbine wrote: > is there a way to password protect a directory? > for instance there is a single ftp account on > a machine (one user-id/password combo) and its > shared amoung several users. Is it possible for > one user to password protect a dire

Re: "No spool file found"

2000-10-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 02:43:11AM -0700, Tino Ionescu wrote: > Good morning, > I used printtool to configure my Deskjet560C printer , but when I try to print > nothing works and I get the message "No spool file found". > lptest>/dev/lp0 prints one line. ps -ef|grep lpd shows that lpd is working.

Re: ipchains and netfilter on 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On 28 Oct 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > "PJS" == Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PJS> just to make sure -- did i simply not see ipchains or was it > PJS> really replaced by netfilter? > > Yes. i assume the yes was to the 2nd part of the "or". :) > PJS> i'd

Re: ipchains and netfilter on 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-28 Thread Bob Bernstein
> "PJS" == Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PJS> just to make sure -- did i simply not see ipchains or was it PJS> really replaced by netfilter? Yes. PJS> i'd like to learn how to drop packets coming from a PJS> particular host -- is there a netfilter howto yet?

ipchains and netfilter on 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i'm compiling portsentry on my system which has a 2.4.0-test9 kernel. when i compiled the kernel, i didn't see an ipchains options; it seems to have been replaced by something called netfilter. just to make sure -- did i simply not see ipchains or was it really replaced by netfilter?

Re: XFree86 - Fatal Server Error: could not open default font 'fixed'

2000-10-28 Thread Anthony Fox
> since I upgraded to the X3.3.6-11 version X started complaining about this > and won't run!! Any idea about what could be causing this ? Just download the fonts file and unpack it in the fonts directory. I think the font that you need should be in the misc directory. I had this problem two da

How to download a free Linux?

2000-10-28 Thread tim456
From: Timur Kenzhebaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 22:11:20 -0700 (MST)

Re: ISDN info (for UK)

2000-10-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 10:24:09AM +0100, Robin Collins wrote: > 1) compatiblity between modems is always a problem - I have two modems which > work fine with one ISP each and abysmally if I swap them over. I doubt this > is an issue with ISDN cards or is it? Never heard of. > 2) Linux hardwa

Re: switching virtual terminals

2000-10-28 Thread USM Bish
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:50:03PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > There's a package that I need to install that allows switching virtual > terminals by hitting [Ctrl Alt 'left or right arrow']. Anyone happen to > remember what the name of that package is? > thanks > Is it "konsole" that you are thin

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-28 Thread Andrew Hagen
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 22:12:27 -0700, Mr. Strockbine wrote: >is there a way to password protect a directory? [ ... ] The UNIX security model hasn't traditionally worked like this. The other replies have some good ideas on how to implement the same things along traditional UNIX lines. This raises

En snabb fråga...

2000-10-28 Thread V.Micic
Var kan jag ladda hem den senaste versionen av Debian i ISO format,jag har letat men inte hittat... Tack i Förhand

Re: switching virtual terminals

2000-10-28 Thread Dale Morris
alt left|right arrow is fine, guess I'm confused. Not unusual. Thanks.. Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:50:03PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > > There's a package that I need to install that allows switching virtual > > terminals by hitting [Ctrl Alt 'left or right

Re: KDE2 source build sequence

2000-10-28 Thread Matthias Rosenkranz
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > From: Thomas J. Hamman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:01:08 -0400 > Subject: Re: KDE2 source build sequence > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 10:27:52AM +0100, Robin Collins wrote: > > Can someone tell me the order in which the KDE2 source

Re: potato install

2000-10-28 Thread Moritz Schulte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd Known problem of linux 2.2.16 and some 2.2.17pre's. Update linux to 2.2.17 or even 2.2.18pre. moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encryp

ssh and no controlling tty

2000-10-28 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, I'm building a two disk boot/root disk set. My Problem is that ssh and ftp are not working. If I try 'ssh 192.168.0.2' I got the message: no controlling tty. If i try 'ssh 192.168.0.2 -i /root/.ssh/identity' I got the message: wrong passphrase permission denied permission denied without ever b

Re: KDE2 source build sequence

2000-10-28 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 10:27:52AM +0100, Robin Collins wrote: > Can someone tell me the order in which the KDE2 source packages should be > built? With Gnome there's a page on their web site listing the package > order and using this I fired up Gnome with only one minor glitch. With KDE2 > thoug

potato install

2000-10-28 Thread ralbright5
Have installed deb2.2 twice trying to correct the following error: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd This is after the base2.2.gz is loaded and being installed. Have tried using install from cd and install from floppys tia robert _

Re: xcdroast + woody

2000-10-28 Thread Mike
Hans Gubitz wrote: > bash-2.04$ xcdroast > xcdroast: error while loading shared libraries: libtix4.1.8.0.so.1: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > Is there any chance to get xcdroast to work again? I ran into this, I think it was last week. I even tried grabbing the

Re: how to fix this broken system?

2000-10-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "chris" == chris edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: chris> I can't remember the exact error, but something involving gmc chris> caused my system to become unusable. This is nothing about gmc, but about you upgrading libc6 to unstable. chris> When i boot linux up now, i get this error message:

cdburner on hd

2000-10-28 Thread guran
This is a letter I sent to cooker - Mandrake. >This night I did a rsync of mandrake-iso/7.1beta/i586. In the morning I >used a floppy with a hd.img to install it from my harddrive. > >In the / of hdb6 i have three directories /cooker, /iso and /mandrake >with images of the trees respectively. Whe

"No spool file found"

2000-10-28 Thread Tino Ionescu
Good morning, I used printtool to configure my Deskjet560C printer , but when I try to print nothing works and I get the message "No spool file found". lptest>/dev/lp0 prints one line. ps -ef|grep lpd shows that lpd is working. Please advise , Thank you. __

KDE2 source build sequence

2000-10-28 Thread Robin Collins
Can someone tell me the order in which the KDE2 source packages should be built? With Gnome there's a page on their web site listing the package order and using this I fired up Gnome with only one minor glitch. With KDE2 though I can find no such list, meaning a massive trial-and-error excercise

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-28 Thread kmself
on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:41:10PM -0800, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:12:27PM -0700, Mr. Strockbine wrote: > > is there a way to password protect a directory? for instance there > > is a single ftp account on a machine (one user-id/password combo) > > and

Re: apt-get wants toupgrade my kernel package to debian kernel package

2000-10-28 Thread Colin Watson
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded debian kernel source package (+ source for alsa modules >and 3dfx module). > > I used make-kpkg to build the kernel (and later on alsa and 3dfx >modules). I specified jojda.1 as my kernel revision. > > the resulting *.deb (kernel + modules) w

ISDN info (for UK)

2000-10-28 Thread Robin Collins
Giving up on ever seeing ADSL (too far away from the exchange, screw you BT!) I'm installing ISDN as my best hope this side of the next millenium. I know a lot about modems and nothing about ISDN so I'd appreciate some advice on what ISDN card to insall for use in England. These are issues (using

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