KDE2 installation

2000-11-24 Thread Seung-woo Nam
I downloaded all deb files for kde2 from kde2 mirror ftp server. However, when I tried to install packages, I got whole bunch of dependency errors. Can I just put the ftp path in /etc/apt/sources.list file and apt-get would take care of the rest?   Seung-woo Nam

install trouble: stuck at "select tasks"

2000-11-24 Thread Lawrence H. Robins
Hello, I am (trying to be) a new Debian user. I have the 2.2r0 CD set and got through most of the installation without a problem, but near the end of the install, after installing the base system, booting it, creating a root account and a user account, I accidentally exited the "select tasks" prog

Re: printer

2000-11-24 Thread David Z Maze
nw x <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: nw> I have a question about my printer: When I print some "pdf" from nw> acroread, the printer works fine, however, when I want to print nw> some plain text file from xterm with the command "lpr filename", I nw> can just get the first two lines of the file. Does any

Re: Netcape Form Bug?

2000-11-24 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 24 2000, Terry Carney wrote: > (...) I can no longer enter keyboard input anywhere in the Netscape > window. This only occurs after selecting "more..." and after > entering multiple submenus. I have indeed seen this bug and it occurs very frequently. I also discovered that h

Re: 386 install

2000-11-24 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 21 2000, Jean-Marc Cadudal wrote: > Any advise, suggestion to go around this problem ? Move the HD to another machine and install it there. Then move it back to your 386. Experiment with slight variations of this. Do make a boot disk when the install is done to boot

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-24 Thread Aaron Wrasman
If you have a static IP it is possible. Checkpoint has directions on what you have to do on the Checkpoint firewall and on the linux server. You should be able to find it on their public part of their knowledge base. It treats the Linux box as a remote firewall. So it is very different from sec

Re: 2.2.17 kernel and pppoe?

2000-11-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I had a similar, but reversed problem with kernel 2.2.16 The connection would randomly die (some times taking the whole machine with it) but it would *always* drop connection on uploads >10k I vaugly recall seeing a bug posting about the kernel module for my ethernet card (one tulip one eepr

Re: FTP and IPCHAINS

2000-11-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
use passive ftp from `man ftp` passive Toggle passive data transfer mode. In passive mode, the client initiates the data connection by listening on the data port. Passive mode may be necessary for operation from behind firewalls

Re: FTP and IPCHAINS

2000-11-24 Thread Chris Feist
Try using the ftp module or pointing port 20 to whatever machine you're doing the active ftp from. Chris On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:40:29PM -0600, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: > HOw can I masquerede active FTP with IPCHAINS > I downloaded SPF but it gives me som

Re: Restarting a debian install

2000-11-24 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 09:05:18PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote: > I'm installing debian on my laptop, and the install exited while I was > selecting tasks. Is there anyway I can restart at the "select a root > password" phase? Someone on irc.debian.org was able to help me out. The command is dp

Re: eth0 problem

2000-11-24 Thread Daniel Knights
>Do the servers all have the same type of network-cards? I have a 3Com >3c900 Combo and it seems this card doesn't react anymore after some >time. An ifdown+ifup brings it back again. >Phil > Hi Phil The card is a Netgear with a Tulip Digital 21040 chip which is what we have in the Redhat and SuSe

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Restarting a debian install

2000-11-24 Thread Walt Mankowski
I'm installing debian on my laptop, and the install exited while I was selecting tasks. Is there anyway I can restart at the "select a root password" phase? Walt pgpvmkR5S5P2m.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: apm

2000-11-24 Thread Jamil
Hi, You need to add the line append="apm=on", like this: image=/vmlinuz label=linux read-only append="apm=on" > hallo, > > how can I turn on the apmd is running, I know that I've to do some > changes in the /etc/lilo.conf, but don't know what. > > thanks, > Manuel >

Re: 2.2.17 kernel and pppoe?

2000-11-24 Thread Stan Kaufman
David Bellows wrote: > > Hello, > > I am using kernel 2.2.17 with PPPoE and everything works fine. I am > also using version 2.3 of the roaring penguin software. However, I > never had kernel 2.2.15 installed, I had the default potato 2.2.17pre6 > (everything worked with it as well) and then up

Re: 2.2.17 kernel and pppoe?

2000-11-24 Thread David Bellows
Hello, I am using kernel 2.2.17 with PPPoE and everything works fine. I am also using version 2.3 of the roaring penguin software. However, I never had kernel 2.2.15 installed, I had the default potato 2.2.17pre6 (everything worked with it as well) and then upgraded to 2.2.17. So unless there's

Re: Netcape Form Bug?

2000-11-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 07:03:14PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > This is an extremely annoying bug. The workaround that I've found is > to put the Netscape window into windowshade mode and then take it out > again. This will usually restore keyboard fun

2.2.17 kernel and pppoe?

2000-11-24 Thread Stan Kaufman
Could anyone now using the latest 2.2.17 kernel and PPPoE confirm that it works for them on an ADSL connection? I've been unsuccessful in getting this combination to work, and I wonder if it's some config I'm botching (seems most likely) or if something fundamentally doesn't work/is broken. Here's

Re: Setting up eth1 interface

2000-11-24 Thread Sean Norris,,,
Hello all, This is just to thank all those who offered advice. I finally managed to bring up the eth1 interface. I tried all the suggestions, aliases with a single tulip driver, aliases with 2 tulip drivers, compiled the tulip driver into the kernel and passed ether arguments with lilo. Ob

Re: 2.4.0-test11 and XFree4 problem

2000-11-24 Thread scott worley
On Thursday 23 November 2000 18:44, Maitland Bottoms wrote: > > "scott" == scott worley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > scott> Does anyone have any ideas on further debug I can do? > > Hope this helps: > > I had trouble when moving to xserver-xfree86 4.0.1 and installing a > new G400 card -

Re: Netcape Form Bug?

2000-11-24 Thread Chris Gray
> "Terry" == Terry Carney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Terry> Hi. I am currently using Netscape 4.75 on Debian Potato. Terry> Since I have been using Netscape, including previous Terry> versions of NS and Debian distributions, I have found that Terry> when entering information

Printer problemss

2000-11-24 Thread Bek Oberin
My printer - a DJ500 - used to work perfectly. I don't print very often, so I'm not sure -exactly- when it stopped working, but it was probably when I upgraded the kernel from 2.2.14 to 2.2.17. I can't see anything in the changes file that is relavant though. I have the right modules loaded:

Re: FTP and IPCHAINS

2000-11-24 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:40:29PM -0600, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: > HOw can I masquerede active FTP with IPCHAINS > I downloaded SPF but it gives me some errors parsing the default > configuration file. Do you have the module "ip_masq_ftp" loaded? Phil

Re: Debianizing tarballs: THANKS for the info!

2000-11-24 Thread Stan Kaufman
Many thanks for the responses! I've managed to create a .deb from source and install it. The process is somewhat more complicated than compiling a kernel, but not that much. "Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote: > > The New Maintainers Guide (package: maint-guide) already has a lot of this > information and is

Netcape Form Bug?

2000-11-24 Thread Terry Carney
Hi. I am currently using Netscape 4.75 on Debian Potato. Since I have been using Netscape, including previous versions of NS and Debian distributions, I have found that when entering information in an input form, and use the popup list menu to select an option, I can no longer enter keyboard inpu

Re: ALSA and ThinkPad 560

2000-11-24 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 09:10:09PM +, Pollywog wrote: > The reason I could not get it to work in the past was that I did > not know I had to download the drivers from the ALSA website, and I > thought the Debian ALSA packages were sufficient. The Debian packages _are_ sufficient, or at least

Re: Bug#69197: inadequate backup instructions

2000-11-24 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 11:06:12PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi, > > There's a bug filed against the doc-debian package, including the Debian > FAQ, about not having good backup instructions for users (admins). See > http://bugs.debian.org/69197 for details. > > Can someone please suggest an an

Re: can't listen to my audio cds

2000-11-24 Thread Dave Bresson
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, brian moore wrote: > In order to make groups work, you have to log out and log back in (only > root can change which groups you're in, else they're inherited from the > program's parent ... logging out takes you back to login or xdm, which > is running as root and can start it

Re: ALSA and ThinkPad 560

2000-11-24 Thread Chris Black
No, that's a different one. www.linux-thinkpad.org is apparently down as I said in my previous email though. :-) Google may have a cached copy, though. On Friday 24 November 2000 17:43, Pollywog wrote: > The link seems not to work, so I left out the "-" in the domain and that > is a valid URL, li

Re: ALSA and ThinkPad 560

2000-11-24 Thread Pollywog
The link seems not to work, so I left out the "-" in the domain and that is a valid URL, linuxthinkpad.org. Is it the one you were thinking of? -- Andrew On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:32:24 -0500, Chris Black said: > ALSA works perfectly on my Thinkpad A20p. You may want to check out > www.linux-thi

Re: ALSA and ThinkPad 560

2000-11-24 Thread Pollywog
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:32:24 -0500, Chris Black said: > ALSA works perfectly on my Thinkpad A20p. You may want to check out > www.linux-thinkpad.org (although it seems to be down at the moment) which > has > a long list of links describing how to install and configure the various > eccentr

FTP and IPCHAINS

2000-11-24 Thread Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar
HOw can I masquerede active FTP with IPCHAINS I downloaded SPF but it gives me some errors parsing the default configuration file.

Re: ALSA and ThinkPad 560

2000-11-24 Thread Chris Black
ALSA works perfectly on my Thinkpad A20p. You may want to check out www.linux-thinkpad.org (although it seems to be down at the moment) which has a long list of links describing how to install and configure the various eccentric drivers in the different Thinkpad models. --Chris On Friday 24 No

ALSA and ThinkPad 560

2000-11-24 Thread Pollywog
I replaced the commercial OSS drivers in my desktop machine with the ALSA drivers, and it works great. The reason I could not get it to work in the past was that I did not know I had to download the drivers from the ALSA website, and I thought the Debian ALSA packages were sufficient. Now I want

Re: apm

2000-11-24 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 05:21:14PM +0100, Manuel Hendel wrote: > how can I turn on the apmd is running, I know that I've to do some > changes in the /etc/lilo.conf, but don't know what. Usually you should not have to make changes to lilo.conf in order to turn on APM. Does your board support APM

Re: eth0 problem

2000-11-24 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 02:20:59AM +1100, Daniel Knights wrote: > I have added 3 Debian boxes to my network and they all seem OK, till I > noticed that when changing some of the cat5 cables around, that the 3 > debian boxes eth0 does not start passing data again when cat 5 is replaced, > the ca

Re: Bug#69197: inadequate backup instructions

2000-11-24 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, There's a bug filed against the doc-debian package, including the Debian FAQ, about not having good backup instructions for users (admins). See http://bugs.debian.org/69197 for details. Can someone please suggest an answer to such a question so I can include it in the FAQ? `apt-cache search b

Re: can't listen to my audio cds

2000-11-24 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Dave" == Dave Bresson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> hi, i'm having a small problem with my potato workstation. The Dave> problem is that i'm unable to listen (or do anything with) my audio Dave> cds. Before anyone asks, yes, the cd audio cable is connected, and Dave> t

Re: can't listen to my audio cds

2000-11-24 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:25:16PM -0500, Dave Bresson wrote: > > > > hi, i'm having a small problem with my potato workstation. The problem is > that i'm unable to listen (or do anything with) my audio cds. Before > anyone asks, yes, the cd audio cable is connected, and the drive does work >

Re: add new Tex packages!?

2000-11-24 Thread Andre Berger
Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have a /usr/local/share/texmf tree that is sourced before the "official" one. This way you have control about newer packages, they are not overwritten on upgrades, and are easy to maintain. Check /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf Andre > Hello Manuel, > > to enab

can't listen to my audio cds

2000-11-24 Thread Dave Bresson
hi, i'm having a small problem with my potato workstation. The problem is that i'm unable to listen (or do anything with) my audio cds. Before anyone asks, yes, the cd audio cable is connected, and the drive does work properly otherwise. By this, i mean that i can mount any kinda of data cd t

Re: more than one .sty file in a tex document!?

2000-11-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 03:53:15PM +0100, Manuel Hendel wrote: > Now I've tried the "fancyhdr". I use the documentclass "g-brief", the > "rechnung" and the "fancyhdr" package. I did a "latex file.tex", I > didn't get any errors, but if I do a "xdvi file.dvi" I don't see > anything of the thigs I've

Re: djscript ?

2000-11-24 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 13:11, Seung-woo Nam wrote: > I used magicfilter to configure my printer and it does print pdf > file.However when I try to print a txt file it didn't print anything > and in /var/log/lp-errs, it says it couldn't find /usr/bin/djscript. > Where can I get this program? 'apt-

Re: DRI and X 4.0.1

2000-11-24 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello Hans, Thanks for making the effort to get the reply through:-) Interesting info too. I couldn't get DRI to compile, so that was a no-go, but your info about the reversed situation with 2.4.0-test9 was interesting - I hadn't tried the test11 kernel as I use lm-sensors-source to patch the ke

install 2.2.17 fail

2000-11-24 Thread Frank Frijns
Can anybody help!? When installing 2.0.34 with a rawrite created bootfloppy: no problem, system up and running. Whan installing 2.2.17 with a rawrite created bootfloppy the system tells me that the boot failed and that I have to replace the floppy. I newly downloaded the image several times, used

Re: startx problem - one step closer

2000-11-24 Thread Dave Bacon
Thanks to Jaume for the very helpful reply. After following the suggestion listed below I am now able to bring up a graphical display, but it is only an "x"(mouse cursor) on top of a coarse gray back ground. I am not sure, but I think I still may need to specify which Window Manager to use. Am

Re: startx problem

2000-11-24 Thread Jaume Teixi
Dave Bacon wrote: > Hello, > > I have just upgraded quite a few packages with dselect. And now when I > run "startx" I receive the following error messages. Can you help? > > > > var: allowed_users, value: rooto

Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-24 Thread Scott V. McGuire
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:20:44AM -, John-Mark wrote: > Hello all > I have been battling with exim, fetchmail and mutt now for what seems like > eons! I have made progress over the time and am at a situation now where I > can receive mal I send to a normal user from root. However when trying t

Re: Long finle names on a CD-ROM not visible

2000-11-24 Thread Martin Maciaszek
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 11:07:03AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > All of a sudden when I mount a CD-ROM the long filenames show > messed-up, like: > > -r-xr-xr-x1 root root 664 Jan 19 1999 aqf83a~1.m3u > dr-xr-xr-x1 root root 2048 Jan 19 1999 aquari~1.aro/ > > I

startx problem

2000-11-24 Thread Dave Bacon
Hello, I have just upgraded quite a few packages with dselect. And now when I run "startx" I receive the following error messages. Can you help? var: allowed_users, value: rootonly var: nice_value, value: . /e

djscript ?

2000-11-24 Thread Seung-woo Nam
I used magicfilter to configure my printer and it does print pdf file.However when I try to print a txt file it didn't print anything and in /var/log/lp-errs, it says it couldn't find /usr/bin/djscript. Where can I get this program? 'apt-get install djscript' doesn't seem to find it.   Seung

Re: lprng and magicfilter problem

2000-11-24 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Thank you!!, I will try it tonight (after apt-get update with the new address...) On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:45:18 -0200 (EDT), Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: >On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > >> >> How can I install lprng?. I looked for it in the potato's CD but I didn't >> find i

Re: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.

2000-11-24 Thread Matt Miller
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 08:38:06AM -0800, Brian wrote: > A recent update to one or more apache module installation > scripts resulted in quite a few services being turned off. > >[...] > > Whichever > apache update made the changes (I installed several at once) > disabled mod_status, mod_dir, mod_

Re: lprng and magicfilter problem

2000-11-24 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > How can I install lprng?. I looked for it in the potato's CD but I didn't > find it apt-get install lprng put a correct source in /etc/apt/sources.list, such as: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free and it'll be

Re: lprng and magicfilter problem

2000-11-24 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:24:07 +0100 (MET), Daniel Reuter wrote: >lprng runs the inputfilters by default on the host on which the job is >issued, How can I install lprng?. I looked for it in the potato's CD but I didn't find it Thanks! Marcelo _ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMA

Dia Won't Save files anymore

2000-11-24 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi. I'm not sure if anyone else has had this problem, but for some reason my Dia won't save valid Dia files anymore. It can open my old Dia files, but when I try to create a new one and save it it gives the message: "xmlNewGlobalNs() deprecated function reached". Then when I try to reopen that

Re: Managing Log files

2000-11-24 Thread Colin Watson
Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After viewing some of my logs in /var/log I see that some are really large >in size. Because I am still learning as I guess we are, is there a easy >way to manage log files and there size. I assume there is some way to have >the contents removed that i

default font in Python-TKinter or Tcl/Tk

2000-11-24 Thread Matthias Müller
Before I switched to Debian/Potato I used RH6.1. On my old Linux I had a Python program that used the Tkinter-package as a GUI. On RH the defauld font looked good and was readable. On my Potato system I had to comment out the use of the scaled 100dpi font in the XF86Config file to make the fonts re

Managing Log files

2000-11-24 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, After viewing some of my logs in /var/log I see that some are really large in size. Because I am still learning as I guess we are, is there a easy way to manage log files and there size. I assume there is some way to have the contents removed that is older than a certain date. I would n

printer

2000-11-24 Thread nw x
Hi, Debains: I have a question about my printer: When I print some "pdf" from acroread, the printer works fine, however, when I want to print some plain text file from xterm with the command "lpr filename", I can just get the first two lines of the file. Does anybody know how to fix this probl

Re: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.

2000-11-24 Thread Brian
A recent update to one or more apache module installation scripts resulted in quite a few services being turned off. Edit the section of your /etc/apache/httpd.conf with the LoadModule lines and check to see which modules might not be enabled. Compare against a working server or see if you've got

Re: Resolve.conf

2000-11-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 03:26:51PM -, James Preece wrote: :OK I have got that back in now Thanks. : :I can not seem to get remote access to my box, seems like no telnet, no ping :answers. : :access from the box is fine. sounds like a firewall problem (and you should be using ssh not telnet, bu

apm

2000-11-24 Thread Manuel Hendel
hallo, how can I turn on the apmd is running, I know that I've to do some changes in the /etc/lilo.conf, but don't know what. thanks, Manuel

Long finle names on a CD-ROM not visible

2000-11-24 Thread Arcady Genkin
All of a sudden when I mount a CD-ROM the long filenames show messed-up, like: -r-xr-xr-x1 root root 664 Jan 19 1999 aqf83a~1.m3u dr-xr-xr-x1 root root 2048 Jan 19 1999 aquari~1.aro/ I am sure that I used to see normal file names on the same CD-ROM previously.

Re: Newbie Question

2000-11-24 Thread Ingo Ruhnke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is there a setup programm (just like this for the installation). Debian contains a bunch of configure programms for different task, such as the configuration of ppp. Have a look at: $ ls /usr/sbin/*config -- Ingo Ruhnke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.

2000-11-24 Thread Chris Gray
I'm having the same problem and I know that none of the solutions provided so far will work. I do have apache-common installed. I went to the lengths of commenting out the ExtendedStatus line in httpd.conf and then got a similar syntax error on the first "Order" directive. I commented that out a

Re: VCD/SVCD - Kernelpatch

2000-11-24 Thread Scott Patterson
>Hi, >I know you can watch vcds with tools like mtv or the smpeg-plugin for xmms >or with xtheater (http://xtheater.sourceforge.net) but what really >interests me now is: Is there a VCD-Kernel-Patch Out there? if yes, where? else, plz >tell me where I could search for it. >My Actual problem is,

RE: Resolve.conf

2000-11-24 Thread James Preece
OK I have got that back in now Thanks. I can not seem to get remote access to my box, seems like no telnet, no ping answers. access from the box is fine. any ideas please anyone ?? Cheers James ""Newbie"" Preece -Original Message- From: Jonathan D. Proulx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen

eth0 problem

2000-11-24 Thread Daniel Knights
Hi, I have added 3 Debian boxes to my network and they all seem OK, till I noticed that when changing some of the cat5 cables around, that the 3 debian boxes eth0 does not start passing data again when cat 5 is replaced, the cables were only removed for a minute or less.I did not notice stra

Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-24 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [241100 09:16]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I'm working on it. Just recompiled my kernel the other day to support > > firewalling but haven't had time to work on the ipt

Re: Log files

2000-11-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 09:59:08AM -0500, Eileen Orbell wrote: > Hi, > > Where would I find the log files that contain users activities on my debian > box? I am really just wanting the log file that shows what programs they > accessed etc. logs of things you would be concerned with are found i

Re: Resolve.conf

2000-11-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:19:56PM -, James Preece wrote: : :Its just gone missing, yes I am root, last thing I did was an update using :capt and dselect. : :Now I have no incoming access to my box, although outgoing is fine. Your symptoms don't seem to match a missing /etc/resolv.conf, this f

joystick

2000-11-24 Thread mctrader
hi, I have a 15-pol joystick and I want to plug it on my soundcard. So first i tried to installed joy-analog.o but it didnt work so I tried joystick.o . I think the probleme is on my soundcard. It is a ISA card. Hope you can help me MM

Re: Newbie Question

2000-11-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 03:42:01PM +0100, Thomas Guettler wrote: > > The whole system runs just fine > > but I can´t mount my floppy or cd. > > If you want to mount as normal user, check the permissions of the > devices (/dev/fd0) you need to be in the appropriate group (floppy). no you don't,

Re: more than one .sty file in a tex document!?

2000-11-24 Thread Manuel Hendel
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 08:42:05AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 08:42:05 -0800 > From: "Eric G . Miller" > To: Debian-User-Mailinglist > Cc: Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: more than one .sty file in a tex document!? > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 10:40:46

Log files

2000-11-24 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, Where would I find the log files that contain users activities on my debian box? I am really just wanting the log file that shows what programs they accessed etc. THA Eileen Orbell Software & Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't

Re: how to access image file without floppy

2000-11-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:23:06AM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 12:23:07PM +0800, a wrote: > > My floppy drive does not work. Can I read files in image file such as > > resc1440.bin? > > To read the files on the rescue disk (which is a FAT filesystem): > > mount -o lo

RE: I want out!

2000-11-24 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Well, I think I can work out how to 'unsuscribe' :) I've never actually seen this message everyone's talking about though. I'm on digest - possibly the reason - but surely you need some instructions there too. Or is it just me?I am forced into reading this with M$, perhaps my junky mail client

Re: Newbie Question

2000-11-24 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:34:13PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hallo Folks, > > I've just swaped from Suse to debian 2.2. good idea. > The whole system runs just fine > but I can´t mount my floppy or cd. If you want to mount as normal user, check the permissions of the devices (/dev/fd0

docbook-utils

2000-11-24 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I trying to learn DocBook using the Crash Course by David Rugge, Mark Galassi and Eric Bischoff. At the installation section, they mention a docbook-utils rpm package which contains some shell scripts and perl utilities, such as: docbook2html, docbook2ps, docbook2pdf, etc.

Re: lprng and magicfilter problem

2000-11-24 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Paul, lprng runs the inputfilters by default on the host on which the job is issued, and NOT on the server with the printer attached. That means the host has to do the work of rendering anything, the server lprng just forwards the job directly to the printer. Up to now I havn't found out ho

Re: Debianizing tarballs: a Big Deal or a routine skill?

2000-11-24 Thread Shaul Karl
> Stan Kaufman wrote: > > > > > Since this seems to be a widespread situation, I want to figure out how > > to do this process. I'd be happy to write up a mini-HOWTO. But before I > > start, I'd like to know what I'm running into. > > HI Stan, > looks like were in the same situation. I'm looking

Resolve.conf

2000-11-24 Thread James Preece
Its just gone missing, yes I am root, last thing I did was an update using capt and dselect. Now I have no incoming access to my box, although outgoing is fine. Help me please. Best Regards James Preece

Re: add new Tex packages!?

2000-11-24 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Manuel, to enable kpathsea to search very quickly for files, tetex remains a database of all the files in your tex-installation in /usr/share/texmf/ls-R (actually it resides somewhere in /var, /usr/share/texmf/ls-R is just a link to it). Whenever you install new files, you have to update thi

Newbie Question

2000-11-24 Thread bulls_b
Hallo Folks, I've just swaped from Suse to debian 2.2. The whole system runs just fine but I can´t mount my floppy or cd. The system knows my device when I am installing packages, but not from the console or from gnome. I must add, that I am running an scsi-cdrom. Is there a setup programm (just

Re: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.

2000-11-24 Thread Silver
You need to activate mod_status to use ExtendedStatus Silver - Original Message - From: "Matt Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 8:23 AM Subject: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors. > Syntax error on line 248 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: >

Re: I want out!

2000-11-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:56:46AM -0500, Andrew Dwight Dixon wrote: :ktb wrote: :I agree. Not that I have any clue how to unsubscribe using the instructions at the :bottom of the page, but I've decided that I should stay on the list untill I can :figure that out. The old instructions were a c

Apache package problem

2000-11-24 Thread Silver
I recently upgraded my debian woody. Now whenever I start apache it just dies and I get this error in /etc/apache/error.log : apache: dl-close.c:122: _dl_close: Assertion `new_opencount[0] == 0' failed. This is package apache-1.3.12-2.1 Any ideas what could cause this error ? Silver smime.p7s

PHP, Apache, MySql Intermittent errors

2000-11-24 Thread Dave Whiteley
Any Clues anyone? I am using a potato installation. I have apt/dselect installed apache, PHP4 and am running mysqld on another networked machine. I have updated the etc/php4/apache/php.ini file to include the mysql.so extension. I have also included a default mysqlserver, username and password

Re: Setting up eth1 interface

2000-11-24 Thread Silver
What you need is load the module twice ! One for each NIC. I have that setup on my LAN as I use 2 ne2000 clones : (You will have to adapt this to your tulip module) First edit the /etc/modutils/aliases file and add : <-- cut here --> # Aliases for using twice the ne2000 module (ne) alias ne0

Re: Where to find unzip?

2000-11-24 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Håkan wrote: > I'm new to Debian. Before I have used the RHdist- however finally got > right dist. > However, where do I find the unzip command or package. I have installed > the zip packed but as written above whatabout unzip? In potato it's in non-free. In woody it's in non

Re: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.

2000-11-24 Thread Pluto
Hi, Have you installed apache-common? > Running unstable, I do this: > > apachectl start > > And get this: > > Syntax error on line 248 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: > Invalid command 'ExtendedStatus', perhaps mis-spelled or > defined by a module not included in the s

tob not restoring

2000-11-24 Thread Liam Ward
Hi, Anyone out there using tob? My backups seem to work fine (very simple policy: full backup each Monday, differential every other day). I wanted to test restoring by deleting a file and trying to restore it. The file was /home/liam/addr1.txt and below are the commands I use plus the result

Re: Where to find unzip?

2000-11-24 Thread Neil Darlow
On 11/23/00, 9:53:36 PM, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:32:31PM +0100, H?kan wrote: > > I'm new to Debian. Before I have used the RHdist- however finally got > > right dist. > > However, where do I find the unzip command or package. I have installed > > the zip packed but

Re: Sound card seems to be recognized but nothing else.

2000-11-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Nov 2000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I tried compiling in Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI 97 (ES1371), which > someone said should work. On bootup I get the following: > > > es1371: version v0.22 time 15:47:48 Nov 23 2000 > es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x02 > e

Re: exim & mutt

2000-11-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Nov 2000, Mark Wagnon wrote: > On 11/24/00 00:36:47 -0200, Carlos Laviola wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a dial-up machine and want to properly configure it to send mail > > using exim (mutt uses it). I receive my POP messages normally with it > > (and other mail clients), but I don't know

Re: Re: expand software raid

2000-11-24 Thread Michael Bürkle
I set up a small Linux system on /dev/hda and than added 3 other disks to one raiddevice. The Linux System is Debian 2.2r0 Standart Installation with a new 2.2.17 Kernel with raid patches from http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/ than the raid utils from the same site. After this you can cr

lprng and magicfilter problem

2000-11-24 Thread Paul Schulz
Greetings, It seems that these two packages work really well together! but I have a networking problem though.. and I would like to understand what is going on. I have set lprng and magicfilter up on a server to print to a "HP Laserjet 6p", a non-postscript printer. Works well when I print from

Re: DRI in XFree 4 with i810

2000-11-24 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:33:55AM +0530, Viral wrote: > I've got XFree 4 starting up with DRI (I'm running 2.4-test11, with > the > agpgart and dri modules). > > I can run the gears demo, but quake 3a fails to run. > I get some Gart errors in my log. > I'm attaching my log file. Does anyone know w

Re: Debianizing tarballs: a Big Deal or a routine skill?

2000-11-24 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
Stan Kaufman wrote: > > Since this seems to be a widespread situation, I want to figure out how > to do this process. I'd be happy to write up a mini-HOWTO. But before I > start, I'd like to know what I'm running into. HI Stan, looks like were in the same situation. I'm looking into building .de

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