Re: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions

peter writes: > To configure things use pppconf or pppconfig, I don't remember Pppconfig, which can also take care of arranging for user to be able to use pon. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

In case no one has noticed yet, there are a bunch of virus infected messages coming through here on the debian-users list. For information on this virus, go to: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.navidad.html Those of us using Linux for email have nothing to worry about (of course).

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What is NAVIDAD.exe

Is this a virus or something I have just got like heaps of messages from people on this group and they all have this file attached. What is it?? -|- Hurgh! -|- PS If you would like a copy of this file I will attach it but I would not run it, I have not yet ran it and I do not know what it does.

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Re: Workstation and IP-Masquerading -> newbieDoc?

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:00:59AM -0800, Michael Smith wrote: > I just set up a masquerade box at work in about 1.5 hours (from scratch) with > Debian. Just make your box with two nics, configure one nic for your outside > connection, configure the other for 192.168.0.1, and then install the ipma

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Re: From Potato to Woody.

will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: WT> On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:02:43PM +, sena wrote: >> Hi.. I believe that this must be a FAQ, but here it goes anyway... >> >> How can I upgrade from Potato to Woody? I'm thinking of doing the following: >> 1) change all the lines in sources.list fr

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Re: helixcode gnome with debian 2.1?

i realise "H.C.Hsiang" is not deliberately at fault. but being bombarded by malicsious code is not good for anyone. whats the procedure for removing someone from the list? At 12:01 PM 11/14/2000 +0800, H.C.Hsiang wrote: >On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 11:24:32PM -0500, Kimon Ioannides wrote: >> Does

Re: can't locate module tap0 (tap1,tap2,...,tap15)

One of two places: modprobe ethertap or /dev/MAKEDEV. tapX devices are for the ethertap module. ethertap isn't really required, but is a good thing to play with. If you know you already have the module loaded/have enabled it in a custom kernel, then your problem is the devices aren't in /dev.

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RE: TNT2 - VIRUS WARNING

Warning all the people reading this list on windows and to the sender who may be unaware. The Navidad.exe that was attached to the original mail is the new virus/trojan that became widespread over the weekend.. handle with extreme caution (especially spanish version windows users who its targe

Re: .deb (II)

You can, but it's a PITA. Better to find the relevant debian/storm/progeny/corel package and install it. Failing that, alien works, but I remember it crapping all over my filesystem when I used it (I realized that a tarball is infinitely cleaner and much less hassle). HTH On Mon, 13 Nov 2000,

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Re: From Potato to Woody.

Perfect. However, you might wish to just add an "un" in front of stable (s/stable/unstable)--that way you won't go back to stable when woody freezes. Last time I did this I remember that I had to rerun apt after step 3, but I can't remember why off the top of my head. On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, sena

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Re: Q: Procedure to follow w/Compiled apps?

on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:35:27PM +0100, Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 1. I have compiled and installed a new kernel. I'll keep the source > > in place for future work, but what of the org bzImage? Does one > > leave that in place as well or is it ok to remove it? > > >Sorry. Wh

sound-slot-0 not found

Hi guys, my computer gives the following error messages on boot time: sound-slot-0 not found sound-service-0 not found The curious is: my sound functions actually Can you give some help to solve this problem? Thnx Florian -- -

Re: Ring0

> Hi! I'm not really sure if I should be sending this mail to you... > Anyway - I got here, because I told AltaVista to for anything about > Ring-0. As far as I know, it's something that's blocking > programmer-amatour acces to Win98 memory. > I'd like to ask, if you could help me out with that?

Re: lyx; how do I view/export a document as ps/dvi?

> I'm not able to make LyX view or export documents as ps or dvi. I have (I > believe) all relevant packages installed. What do I do to solve this problem? > Thanks > run lyx from an xterm. watch for debugging output. you need dvi2ps (or it might default to dviprint, i'm not sure), and of cours

Re: Q: Worried in Paris-Debian flaking out monitor?

> I was fine running Linux at 1152x864 under Mandarke but since I've switched > to Debian and the same configuration, I've noticed the off monitor > weirdness... like a sudden flash of light on boot, then the sudden visual > "implosion" of my desktop screen, something which lasted a fraction of a s

Re: Apache-ssl and sm.conf

> "Grischa" == Grischa Schuering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Grischa> I installed apache-ssl and removed it afterwards. When Grischa> installing it again, the srm.conf file was Grischa> empty. Reinstalling everything didn't change anything. Grischa> I know so far, that the srm

Re: ICQ

Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Can anyone recommend an ICQ app? I heard KICQ lacks a lot of feature and > won't let you create new accounts. gnomeicu works fine here. There is also licq which uses the *gulp* QT libs. :( HTH, Ron -- Email: Home:

Re: About dselect searching function

On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 02:48:23AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the deselect,we can press "/" to search for a string in the package > name. > However,can we try to search for a string in the file description.. > it would be convenient for example,we can search for "news client" > and find

Re: From Potato to Woody.

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:02:43PM +, sena wrote: > Hi.. I believe that this must be a FAQ, but here it goes anyway... > > How can I upgrade from Potato to Woody? I'm thinking of doing the following: > 1) change all the lines in sources.list from stable to woody; > 2) running "apt-

Re: Another dpkg or apt-get question from a new user

On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 09:58:38AM -0400, Maury R. Merkin wrote: > [How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package? > > I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see > what files were installed? If so, how? dpkg -L packagename -- Ethan Benson http://www

Re: How to find DMA, IRQ etc. Was: OPTi sound card support

Quoth Robert Waldner, > another approach would be to browse through /proc/[pci,ioports,dma,irq] > and/or fingering around with pnpdump for ISA-cards. In my experience, in a lot of cases you won't see anything in /proc (and it's interupts, not irq) unless you actually have a driver loaded for the

segfaults in window managers - please help

I have been unable to run any window manager in X, including sawmill, enlightenment, twm, wm2, as well as gnome panel. However, other apps work okay like xterm and netscape. I did an strace of several of these apps, and it seems that they all segfault in the same area. Here is some of the output

Re: Installing Debian from 2.1.R4 CD's...questions

On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 05:18:25PM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote: [ snip ] > No doubt you are right, but how would a novice like myself have known this? > I am trying to follow the instructions carefully. In doing so I am refering > to: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/ch-welcome.en.html

Re: Installing Debian from 2.1.R4 CD's...question

On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 02:11:14PM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote: > I am at this point: "Configure Device Driver Modules." The first item in > the menu is > > block Discs and disk-like devices > > Yes I have discs! so I select that and the choices are: > > cpqarray-.What Compaq R

Re: which sound configuration utility?

On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 04:53:35AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Has anyone seen RedHat's HW detection in action? It's > real cool! I swapped some HW on a system running > RedHat and rebooted the system. It automagicly > detected the new HW (video card) during kernel boot > and installed the r

Re: Segmentation Fault?

On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 12:11:50AM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > using 2.1r5 (stable). > > first item installed after base is XFree86 3.3.6 glibc21 version. > > > i'm not sure, but isn't slink glibc 2.0? Yes, it is. If the original poster has his information right, that's probably the prob

VNC question

Hi Debian users, I have a problem: I have a one factory in Mexico and I want to see what is happenning in any of the PCs (Window$ NT) that monitor PLCs (machines controling factories). I was at Brazil and have another machine with

Re: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions

Hi Maury! On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Maury Merkin wrote: > Hi, > > [1] My user (i.e. not "root") does not have permission to start X. Is X already running, i.e. the xdm on VC 7? > [3] What command will I use to dial-in to my ISP? Ditto for hang up? > How do I set it up so that my user (again, no

Re: TrueType fonts

On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 01:25:15PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Assuming everything works, you should have true type fonts when you reboot. > > Now all > > you have to do is set Netscape's preferences to use them. > > I set up true type fonts as Joh

Re: TrueType fonts

On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 01:26:34AM +, John Carline wrote: > Brendan J Simon wrote: [...] > Assuming everything works, you should have true type fonts when you > reboot. One quibble (the rest of the advice looks good) -- no need to reboot. Merely restart xfstt. You don't even have to resta

Re: How much free space does apt need in /var?

On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 07:33:27PM -0600, montefin wrote: > Hi, > > First the question: how much free space in /var do you think I need for > apt-get upgrades? it depends, how many packages are installed, and how many of those are being upgraded, and how many packages you might install in the fut

Re: Install with dpkg only.

Once upon a time, I heard Gary Hennigan say > I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but if I were in this > situation I'd try to just "tar xzf base2_2.tgz" with base2_2.tgz being > available in main/disks-i386/current. That contains a complete base > install of Debian and I don't think th

Re: dselect

It seem that you have not pointed dselect (apt) to a more up-to-date distribution. As root, try running the apt-setup command and select a complete mirror. Then run dselect and chose the update option to get a new list of packages from the chosen source. Once the packages are updated, you are

Re: Setting up an internal mirror with custom debs

On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 03:10:06PM -0500, Matt Ray wrote: > I've setup an internal anonymous FTP mirror for potato, but now I need > to add a custom .deb to it. I can't seem to get my sources.list and the > location of the .debs to work together. > [SNIP] > > but I'm banging my head against a wa

Re: GDM and gdmchooser

Hi Scott, Quoth Scott Graves, > How do I invoke the gdmchooser in order to choose which host I wish to login > to? I can't seem to get this feature to work. Last time I tried to do this myself (a few months ago, admittedly), I discovered that the chooser functionality didn't work and had been re

Re: helixcode gnome with debian 2.1?

On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 11:24:32PM -0500, Kimon Ioannides wrote: > Does anyone know if helix gnome will work with Debian 2.1 (slink). I've heard > that it will work with 2.2 and helixcode's website (www.helixcode.com) states > that > the debs are designed for 2.3. Anyone tried helix gnome with 2.1

RE: TNT2

On 14-Jun-2000 cam_random wrote: > > My video card is a nVIDIA TNT2, however when i configure XF86 I can't > find my card in the database. any ideas? > > Justin > Hi, Justin... The TNT2 chipset is listed as RivaTNT2 (chipset # 412 when using xf86config in Xfree86 4.0). As an alternative, you

Trying to get XFree86 4.0.1 working

Hi all, I'm trying to get X version 4 working, and I'm _so_ close. GDM comes up on the screen, but everything is all distorted, wavy, ...etc. Whatever you want to call it. I am using the same refresh rates that I was using in X 3.3.6, so I'm guessing the problem is something else. I used dext

Re: IPMASQ ??

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 02:14:29AM +1000, Bill wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to remove or disable ipmasq i'm sure someone can. but why in heavens name would anyone ever want to? okay, here's how i'd do it, which i wouldn't want to: /etc/init.d/ipmasq stop when you're sure you don't w

Re: finding which package a file came with

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:43:36PM -0800, Shane Colbert wrote: > you'll just have to forgive me if this is a stupid > question but is there any way to easily find out which > deb package a particular file came from?? > > thank for any replies see if the newbieDoc at http://eGroups.com/fil

Re: apt-get down :'(

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:19:34AM +0100, Virginie-ML wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry I'm new here and start with a question, which is not really > correct, but I've a real problem : I've just installed my debian and all > worked fine, then I upgraded to gnome-helix, installed slrn...and > now apt-get

gzip problem

i have a .pdf file that was gzip'd on a 64-bit Sun machine. i tried to gunzip from my linux with no luck it complained with: gunzip: myfile.pdf.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated is there a way to get around this problem. thanks pd -- "As a general rule, if you have trouble

e100.o missing modversions.h

This is a 2.2.17 and beyond issue. In the archives I see where people trying to build arla just commented out the -DMOD_VERSIONS compiler flag but that doesn't work when trying to build e100-1.3.20, the driver for several Intel NICs. It was not available for compilation into the kernel during ins

Re: Printing problem

Debian User Don Cavaiani wrote: > > I have just upgraded to potato. > > My hpdj500c woreked OK B/4 on slink. but now I get the message " > Waiting for lp to become ready". > > I don't see anything in dmesg about the printer daemon being started. > Did I not configure this properly? If you cha

Re: Q: pppd & providers

Clayton Stapleton writes: > Entered pon and an error stating that in /etc/ppp/peer/provider the modem > was wrong. Please post the exact error. > Modified that file with ttyS1 and 115200. Now when entering pon I get the > dial tone but no dialing of the phone number. Please post copies of /etc/c

Re: can't locate module tap0 (tap1,tap2,...,tap15)

Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > Look in /lib/modules/x.y.z/ where x.y.z is your linux kernel version. > > If the modules are not there, you will have to compile them from the kernel > > sources. > > (first, check if they are not included as part of the kernel). > > Silver > > Hrm no,

Re: REcompiling the kernel on non root partition.

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 01:27:49PM +1100, Kieren Diment wrote: > Due to lack of disk space I am having trouble recompiling my kernel. > my system lives on hda2, and I want to use my redundant vfat partition > on hda1 to recompile the kernel > When I > tar -x -f kernel-source-2.2.17.tar > >

Re: can't locate module tap0 (tap1,tap2,...,tap15)

> Look in /lib/modules/x.y.z/ where x.y.z is your linux kernel version. > If the modules are not there, you will have to compile them from the kernel > sources. > (first, check if they are not included as part of the kernel). > Silver Hrm no, I think the tap modules are aliases for something, and

Re: problems upgrading to 2.2r1

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 12:24:38PM -0500, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > My system has modutils_2.3.11-10 and that seems to be what's currently > on the ftp site: > > http://ftp.debian.org/dists/Debian2.2r1/main/binary-i386/base/ -11 was uploaded to security.debian.org last night, it was supposed to fix

Re: tape is ejected from drive after 10 mins => no unattended backups

on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 07:01:10PM +0100, Eduardo Fernandez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem witha system installed with Debian 2.2 from scratch. The > system has a SCSI DAT Tape drive, that works ok. The only problem is that > whenever you insert a tape, if no activity oc

Re: finding which package a file came with

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:43:36PM -0800, Shane Colbert wrote: > you'll just have to forgive me if this is a stupid > question but is there any way to easily find out which > deb package a particular file came from?? $ dpkg -S works 99.99% of the time. -- Eric G. Miller "Time is Free"

Re: sound-slot-0 not found

You can get rid of the message by adding alias sound-slot-0 off alias sound-service-0 off to /etc/modutils/aliases, followed by running /sbin/update-modules. Dunno why you're seeing that if sound's actually working, tho... I've only seen that message when no (configured) sound card was

REcompiling the kernel on non root partition.

Due to lack of disk space I am having trouble recompiling my kernel. my system lives on hda2, and I want to use my redundant vfat partition on hda1 to recompile the kernel When I tar -x -f kernel-source-2.2.17.tar I get the following error: tar: kernel-source-2.2.17/include/asm: Cannot

Re: My recent RedHat experience

"Allan F. Caetano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Colin> Huh? This isn't just a helpdesk, it's also for "... discussion among >Colin> users of Debian". > >Good for you, my opinion is quite different. That wasn't just my opinion.

Re: finding which package a file came with

On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:43:36 -0800 (PST), Shane Colbert said: > you'll just have to forgive me if this is a stupid > question but is there any way to easily find out which > deb package a particular file came from?? > > thank for any replies dpkg -S /path/to/the/file/ -- Andrew

Re: What partition?

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:00:42AM -0500, Paindavoine, Matthieu (MPAINDAV) wrote: > Out of curiosity > I spent my weekend trying to reinstall Deb 2.2 out of floppies, on a 4GB HD. > The installation kept sending me back to the floor, (the floppies would die > before the end of the install of t

Re: Printing problem

> Yes, Matt, I found that out and made the change. Actually, I deleted > /etc/printcap and rebuilt it via magicfilter and it looks ok now but still > doesn't work. here is what i do: - make sure you have parport, parport_pc, and lp in your kernel. - make sure you have all the suggested program

Re: Printing problem

This may or may not be relevant, but I recently had a lot of similar problems with lpr in woody. I replaced it with lprng and my printing problems disappeared. On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 06:38:46PM -0600, Debian User Don Cavaiani wrote: > Yes, Matt, I found that out and made the change. Actually, I

Re: finding which package a file came with

dpkg -S On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:43:36PM -0800, Shane Colbert wrote: > you'll just have to forgive me if this is a stupid > question but is there any way to easily find out which > deb package a particular file came from?? > > thank for any replies > > --Colby ? > > ___

finding which package a file came with

you'll just have to forgive me if this is a stupid question but is there any way to easily find out which deb package a particular file came from?? thank for any replies --Colby ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays

Q: pppd & providers

Have Potato working and trying to use the dial-up modem. Configured pppdconfig with no problems. Entered pon and an error stating that in /etc/ppp/peer/provider the modem was wrong. Modified that file with ttyS1 and 115200. Now when entering pon I get the dial tone but no dialing of the phone numbe

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