SIOCADDRT: File exists

2000-12-10 Thread ChinYung
Hi, I use my Debian 2.2r2 as a router, but it always shows the message "SIOCADDRT: File exists" at boot every time. I use the kernel 2.2.17 that come with the debian 2.2. Best regard u-land == Mailed via Openfind ==- http://mail2000.com.tw/ ´£¨Ñ§K¶O¹q¤l¶l¥ó«H½c

Re: advice w/ fstab mnt floppy

2000-12-10 Thread kmself
on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 07:14:21PM -0800, Nick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i am trying to mount my fd0 > > i have the following in my fstab: > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy autonoauto,owner0 0 > > my box doesn't seem to like the auto for the file type, so i guess my > question is

system checks

2000-12-10 Thread Eddie Torres
Hello, How can I disable system checks from emailing my account every hour? -- Eddie Torres www.veloct.net

thanks to all

2000-12-10 Thread Ken Weingold
Well, thanks so much to all who have helped me out. I have a running 2.2r2 system now. No X yet, but I don't feel like getting into it at this hour. Besides, need to get windowmaker. apt-get is great how it will also download dependencies. dpkg doesn't do that, does it? Really does save time,

Re: login/shell problems

2000-12-10 Thread kmself
on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 10:28:13PM -0500, John Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I switched root's shell to /bin/ksh instead of /usr/bin/ksh and now I > cannot switch into root user. I have tried telling su to use bash, but it > keeps on saying "no shell" or the like. > > Any suggestions wo

Re: messages to root

2000-12-10 Thread Hedi Berriche
> "Eddie" == Eddie Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eddie> Hello, Eddie>How do I stop the emails from my computer to root about system check? Do you have installed the package logcheck (dpkg -l logcheck), it's the one responsible for such emails, so you may consider removing it. Hope t

Re: APOLOGY!!!! for my earlier posts about unsubscribing

2000-12-10 Thread kmself
on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 09:11:47PM -0500, Christopher Mosley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 07:06:40PM -0500, Jim Kroger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > My own comments to this list. <...> > Stop covering

Re: login/shell problems

2000-12-10 Thread ktb
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 10:28:13PM -0500, John Anderson wrote: > I switched root's shell to /bin/ksh instead of /usr/bin/ksh and now I > cannot switch into root user. I have tried telling su to use bash, but it > keeps on saying "no shell" or the like. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. -

Re: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd.

2000-12-10 Thread kmself
on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:14:00PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Frodo Baggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Colin Watson scripsit: > >>More accurately, it's a known bug in the Linux kernel (specifically, > >>version 2.2.17, I think, and possibly certain 2.4.0-test versions as >

Re: dselect

2000-12-10 Thread Ken Weingold
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > > Kind of, thanks. But I remember something even more general, like I > > could select Workstation, and it would install a whole bunch of > > packages that one might want, like editors, X, Internet stuff, etc. > > hmm, never heard of anything like that i

Re: dselect

2000-12-10 Thread ktb
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 07:57:21PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > Ken Weingold wrote: > > > > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > > > Ken Weingold wrote: > > > > > > > > I want to go into dselect now and install the system since I only have > > > > a very base system. Wasn't there some sort o

Re: dselect

2000-12-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Ken Weingold wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > > Ken Weingold wrote: > > > > > > I want to go into dselect now and install the system since I only have > > > a very base system. Wasn't there some sort of categories that would > > > install a recommended set of packages so I do

Re: Password

2000-12-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Anthony Ryan wrote: > > Hi, > I recently got a 486 with Debian 2.1 pre-loaded. I'm also > just getting into unix for the first time, and want a machine to muck > around with. The problem is, I don't know the password or login. I > don't have the OS on an installer disk, so would rather not

Re: Can't see 192MB of memory

2000-12-10 Thread Myles Green
On Sunday 10 December 2000 20:27, Pradhan, Ravi wrote: > Tried that too - lilo -v, bu to no avail. The command you need to run is: /sbin/lilo HTH -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/

Re: dselect

2000-12-10 Thread Ken Weingold
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > Ken Weingold wrote: > > > > I want to go into dselect now and install the system since I only have > > a very base system. Wasn't there some sort of categories that would > > install a recommended set of packages so I don't have to manually go > > throug

Re: Very strange fetchmail problem

2000-12-10 Thread Timmy Douglas
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 01:15:48 +0200 (EET), Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> /usr/bin/fetchmail -p POP3 -va -t 60 -u fluch >rock.helsinki.fi >Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >fetchmail: 5.5.3 querying rock.helsinki.fi (protocol POP3) at Mon Dec 11 >01:11:26 2000

Password

2000-12-10 Thread Anthony Ryan
Hi, I recently got a 486 with Debian 2.1 pre-loaded. I'm also just getting into unix for the first time, and want a machine to muck around with. The problem is, I don't know the password or login. I don't have the OS on an installer disk, so would rather not resort to wiping the hard drive an

Re: ICQ with debian firewall

2000-12-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Kyle Peterson wrote: > > I looked into that module and from what I gather its doesn't work with ICQ > 200, just ICQ99. The only way I can see is to use port forwarding. possible...i only use licq ..dont know if it works with other clients. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ h

login/shell problems

2000-12-10 Thread John Anderson
I switched root's shell to /bin/ksh instead of /usr/bin/ksh and now I cannot switch into root user. I have tried telling su to use bash, but it keeps on saying "no shell" or the like. Any suggestions would be appreciated. -:) P.S. I don't subscribe to this list so please E-mail me directly. =

RE: Can't see 192MB of memory

2000-12-10 Thread Pradhan, Ravi
Tried that too - lilo -v, bu to no avail. Thanks, though. - Ravi D. Pradhan[EMAIL PROTECTED] loc. 300 Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution, LLC., 7225 Northland Dr., Brooklyn Park, MN 55428 phone: (763) 536-4810 fax: (763) 536-4826 http://www.siemens-psc.com http://www.ac

VNC with SSH

2000-12-10 Thread Patrick Cheong Shu Yang
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 01:06:36PM -0500, Giulio Morgan wrote: > .how do I make the > connection "through an ssh tunnel" (I can make a "terminal" ssh connection - > via putty - I just don't know how to use ssh to connect to the vnc > server). > having read through the thread on VNC, I am ass

Re: IP masquerading

2000-12-10 Thread Willy Lee
"Dwight" == Dwight Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10 Dec 2000, Willy Lee wrote: >> Install the 'ipmasq' Debian package. Configure, read its docs. >> Nothing could be easier. (er, unless you have a non-standard >> setup) > I am new to Debian, but is this still true? I do not have this

Re: ICQ with debian firewall

2000-12-10 Thread Kyle Peterson
I looked into that module and from what I gather its doesn't work with ICQ 200, just ICQ99. The only way I can see is to use port forwarding. --- ICQ #:14518882 - Original Message - From: "Nate Amsden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kyle Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian Mailing List"

Re: Problems excuting files on CD

2000-12-10 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 10 2000, Stan Brown wrote: > Problem is I have to run the Oracle installer as user Oracle, and I > keep getting "Permission Denied" when I try o excute it. There are many possible cases here. Two of them are: 1 - The program tries to write something in the CD; 2 -

advice w/ fstab mnt floppy

2000-12-10 Thread Nick
i am trying to mount my fd0 i have the following in my fstab: /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy autonoauto,owner0 0 my box doesn't seem to like the auto for the file type, so i guess my question is what file type do you use for the floppy in debian exact error message "mount /mnt

Re: ICQ with debian firewall

2000-12-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Kyle Peterson wrote: > > Hello everyone. I'm planning on changing my network router from Sygate 4.0 > on a Win NT 4.0 server to a debian ip masq machine. Right now, ICQ is > working excellent with sygate. How does it work with IP masq? When I set > the firewall rules, to I have to open ports o

messages to root

2000-12-10 Thread Eddie Torres
Hello, How do I stop the emails from my computer to root about system check? TIA -- - Eddie Torres www.veloct.net

Re: dselect

2000-12-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Ken Weingold wrote: > > I want to go into dselect now and install the system since I only have > a very base system. Wasn't there some sort of categories that would > install a recommended set of packages so I don't have to manually go > through every package in the list? I thought I remembered

Re: LAST QUESTION - MINICOM

2000-12-10 Thread Ken Weingold
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000, Estêvão Becker wrote: > Hi, I know that I am disturbing you but this is my last question: When I > connect with the minicom with my internet server, the program tells that I am > connected but I am not, when I try to open a web site on the netscape for > example it tells

Re: LAST QUESTION - MINICOM

2000-12-10 Thread Jeff Green
if your DNS server is 192.168.0.1 then in /etc/resolve.conf put nameserver 192.168.0.1 > Estêvão Becker wrote: > > Hi, I know that I am disturbing you but this is my last question: > When I connect with the minicom with my internet server, the program > tells that I am connected but I am not,

LAST QUESTION - MINICOM

2000-12-10 Thread Estêvão Becker
  Hi, I know that I am disturbing you but this is my last question: When I connect with the minicom with my internet server, the program tells that I am connected but I am not, when I try to open a web site on the netscape for example it tells that I am not connected. I am sure it is because

Re: not authorized to run X?

2000-12-10 Thread kmself
on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 05:42:20PM +0100, Dr. Guenter Bechly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 09:28:06AM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > I just upgraded my laptop. Now I'm getting an error that says I'm not > > authorized to run the X server. What changed? > > Yo

Re: IP masquerading (Using IPMASQ package)

2000-12-10 Thread Kyle Peterson
I've looked over this package and it seems to be what I want. My question is; how do you set up port forwarding with this package? The documentation is not too clear (at least not to me) about modifying or creating rules. I thank you for you help. --- ICQ #:14518882 - Original Message -

Re: APOLOGY!!!! for my earlier posts about unsubscribing

2000-12-10 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 07:06:40PM -0500, Jim Kroger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > My own comments to this list. > > I'd contact Dr. Kroger by email and phone, and received an apologetic > response from him this afternoon. > > While I do a

Re: Office software - and printers

2000-12-10 Thread kmself
on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 10:31:10AM +, Tom Huckstep ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'd like to introduce some of my friends to Debian. However, they > expect an OS to be simple to set up and use, and to look very nice. > > I am quite happy to set it up for them, I'm sure that they will have > n

Re: APOLOGY!!!! for my earlier posts about unsubscribing

2000-12-10 Thread Jim Kroger
Karsten, Please stop mailing the director of the center here (my boss). You are only doing more damage. Jim _ James K. Kroger, Ph.D. Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior Department of Psychology 3-N-4D Green Hall Princeton

Re: APOLOGY!!!! for my earlier posts about unsubscribing

2000-12-10 Thread kmself
on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 07:06:40PM -0500, Jim Kroger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear Debian list: > > I recently, in unprecedented poor judgement, sent messages to the > list about unsubscribing that were in extremely poor taste. I deeply > and humbly apologize. I had been attempting to unsubs

Re: PPP Support

2000-12-10 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 10 2000, Estêvão Becker wrote: > Hi, when I try to config my PPP connection, it tells that I don't > have PPP support, but I have it installed. Please, what do I do? To see if you actually have support for PPP, see if you see anything like PPP reported when you type dmesg at

Re: Further apologies.

2000-12-10 Thread Jim Kroger
Dear list, My confusion is lessing somewhat...I just want to restate that Debian did not take any action against me. I had received voice mail and copies of mails that were sent to my boss, several professors, etc etc, and thought they were from Debian, but apparently the sender (Karsten M.

dselect

2000-12-10 Thread Ken Weingold
I want to go into dselect now and install the system since I only have a very base system. Wasn't there some sort of categories that would install a recommended set of packages so I don't have to manually go through every package in the list? I thought I remembered categories like workstation, de

Further apologies.

2000-12-10 Thread Jim Kroger
Dear List, I incorrectly stated that the managers of the Debian list sent copies of all my emails to several professors, my boss, and Princeton. That was incorrect, this and the voice mail were not from them, but from elsewhere. My apologies again for starting all this, and for crediting this

Re: IP masquerading

2000-12-10 Thread Dwight Johnson
On 10 Dec 2000, Willy Lee wrote: > "Kyle" == Kyle Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was reading the IP masq how-to and it shows how to setup ipchains > > in a rc.firewall file. From what I gather, debian uses a different > > boot system. How would I make the rc.firewall for a debian

Re: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd.

2000-12-10 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 10 2000, Stephan Kulka wrote: > I had the same problem (in fact I still have it sometimes) and I > found out that it is a known bug in debian (there is a bug filed). Actually, it is a problem with Linux, and not with Debian. AFAIK, Alan Cox said that newer versions of the 2.

Re: configuring debian for network mail clients

2000-12-10 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your reply. > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 03:33:58PM -0500, Dwight Johnson wrote: > ... > > When she tries to read her mail using Eudora, she gets a message that > > her connection has been refused. When she tries to send mail, she gets > > a m

Re: IP masquerading

2000-12-10 Thread Willy Lee
"Kyle" == Kyle Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was reading the IP masq how-to and it shows how to setup ipchains > in a rc.firewall file. From what I gather, debian uses a different > boot system. How would I make the rc.firewall for a debian system? > I am new to debian, I am used to u

The strange case of Dr. Kroger and Mr. Hyde

2000-12-10 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Jim Kroger wrote: > Dear Debian list: > > matter of seconds, thinking I was doing little more than talking to > the wind. My god, had I thought they would arrive, with my signature > and affiliations attached no less, I would never, never have sent > them. In retrospect

Re: gnome upgrade

2000-12-10 Thread John Travis
On Monday 11 December 2000 01:46, Nick wrote: > anyone know of a good source-lists for gnome updates?? > > thanks in advance I use the stuff from Helixcode... deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main HTH, jt

Re: APOLOGY!!!! for my earlier posts about unsubscribing

2000-12-10 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
Apology accepted my me... -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Jim Kroger wrote: ->Dear Debian list: -> ->I recently, in unprecedented poor judgement, sent messages to the ->list abo

Re: APOLOGY!!!! for my earlier posts about unsubscribing

2000-12-10 Thread Jim Kroger
- At 1:30 AM +0100 on 12/11/00, you wrote: Dear Jim Kroger, thank you for your apologizes, and may I as a list-member apologize to you for the immature and rather impolite reaction we as a list had on your clearly frustated outburst. I sure hope that those premature emails some of us sent t

gnome upgrade

2000-12-10 Thread Nick
anyone know of a good source-lists for gnome updates?? thanks in advance

Re: configuring debian for network mail clients

2000-12-10 Thread cfelling
Hi Dwight, read this on debian-user, but there was a different mailing-list refered to in the To: header, so I'm cc-ing you/debian-user instead. On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 03:33:58PM -0500, Dwight Johnson wrote: ... > When she tries to read her mail using Eudora, she gets a message that > her connec

Re: APOLOGY!!!! for my earlier posts about unsubscribing

2000-12-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
Dear Jim Kroger, thank you for your apologizes, and may I as a list-member apologize to you for the immature and rather impolite reaction we as a list had on your clearly frustated outburst. I sure hope that those premature emails some of us sent to your collegues didn't bring you to much havoc;

Re: change xterm-debian

2000-12-10 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, the stock answer to this is usually a terse RTFM /usr/doc/xterm/README.debian Never seemed justified to me interms of pain:benefit ratio, but according to this file on my Slink system, this has changed: The xterm terminal type on a Debian system is an alias for xterm-debian. This means

ICQ with debian firewall

2000-12-10 Thread Kyle Peterson
Hello everyone. I'm planning on changing my network router from Sygate 4.0 on a Win NT 4.0 server to a debian ip masq machine. Right now, ICQ is working excellent with sygate. How does it work with IP masq? When I set the firewall rules, to I have to open ports on the firewall, or just have the

[Fwd: HEllo]

2000-12-10 Thread annhilat
Original Message Subject: HEllo Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 01:02:49 +0100 From: annhilat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Well, i just bought the Asus A7V mainboard, using a Promise UDMA 100 chip... Well, i cant get Debian install system to identify my HD contro

APOLOGY!!!! for my earlier posts about unsubscribing

2000-12-10 Thread Jim Kroger
Dear Debian list: I recently, in unprecedented poor judgement, sent messages to the list about unsubscribing that were in extremely poor taste. I deeply and humbly apologize. I had been attempting to unsubscribe from the list for weeks. I had successfully unsubscribed from the GNOME, KDB, Yel

Re: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd.

2000-12-10 Thread Moritz Schulte
Frodo Baggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >More accurately, it's a known bug in the Linux kernel (specifically, > >version 2.2.17, I think, and possibly certain 2.4.0-test versions as > >well). I'm told 2.2.18 will fix it. > > Well, It doesn't :) I have installed the 2.2.18 kernel on potato and

Re: Installed from floppies, mounted ext pcmcia cdrom, made some progress

2000-12-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 06:24:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 00-12-10 17:00:28 EST, you write: > > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 01:58:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Carel & newsgroup: > > > > Never could get apt-get install to work, but the following got

Re: why does xmms take so long to start playing?

2000-12-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Thomas Halahan wrote: > > dear deb users, > > i have xmms 1.2 on debian potato playing mp3's. when i had the same > thing running on redhat the mp3 streaming would start after 10 > seconds or so. however now on deb it takes up to 2 minutes to start > playing after i press the play button. > >

configuring debian for network mail clients

2000-12-10 Thread Dwight Johnson
I must configure my debian box so my wife can read and send her mail using Eudora from her Win95 box which is delivered to her mailbox (/var/mail/user) on the debian box using fetchmail/procmail/exim. Normal TCP/IP networking is already working on the network. The debian box is configured as an I

Re: Can't see 192MB of memory

2000-12-10 Thread Nate Amsden
"Pradhan, Ravi" wrote: > > I've just installed Debian 2.2. I just upgraded from 64MB to 192MB, and > added the line > append="mem=192M" > to lilo.conf. However, Linux continues to see only 64M (checking with top). > > What else do I need to do? re-run lilo to load the new options and reboot? na

Re: Can't see 192MB of memory

2000-12-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 05:56:04PM -0600, Pradhan, Ravi wrote: > I've just installed Debian 2.2. I just upgraded from 64MB to 192MB, and > added the line > append="mem=192M" > to lilo.conf. However, Linux continues to see only 64M (checking with top). > > What else do I need to do? Did you actual

RE: FTP Downloading

2000-12-10 Thread Kenrick, Chris
Please reply to list. Please keep lines < 80 chars. If you are using a command line FTP client, then you have to enter anonymous as the username, and your email address as the password. Most people download from via hyperlinks on their web browser, and most web browsers are smart enough to defaul

HEllo

2000-12-10 Thread annhilat
Well, i just bought the Asus A7V mainboard, using a Promise UDMA 100 chip... Well, i cant get Debian install system to identify my HD controller, since its not an ordinary IDE controler... Please help me with this issue.. // Emil

Can't see 192MB of memory

2000-12-10 Thread Pradhan, Ravi
I've just installed Debian 2.2. I just upgraded from 64MB to 192MB, and added the line append="mem=192M" to lilo.conf. However, Linux continues to see only 64M (checking with top). What else do I need to do? Thanks, - Ravi D. Pradhan[EMAIL PROTECTED] loc. 300 Siemens Power Transmission and D

Re: X Starting

2000-12-10 Thread rmr
A little bit about how the sevices are started. In /etc/rc[1-6S].d are some files that start with S or K and a number. The 'S' means start and the 'K' means kill. When the system enters a runlevel n, it goes to rcn.d and steps through the files starting with S from lowest to highest. Some runlev

Re: The shithead damn it thingy - please cool down people

2000-12-10 Thread Markus Lechner
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 Chris Gray wrote: > Maybe you could give me some Message-IDs? > Sorry, already deleted them after reading. Fetched mails last day, searched them for kroeger, found the following subjects, read them (this threads were started by kroeger [2], at least the mails i had in my inbox

Re: Very strange fetchmail problem

2000-12-10 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Timmy Douglas wrote: > try running fetchmail with verbose options and see if the output tells > you any more... i would have suspected the firewall but it seems that > you have already connected so i don't know how that would be the > problem. The firewall was up already for

Re: installing new kernel

2000-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sorry for all the questions. They're part of what debian-user is for, so don't worry about it. :) >Is there any particular reason why I should installed the kernel >package rather than just doing it myself from the source from >www.kernel.org? Not especia

Re: installing new kernel

2000-12-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 05:07:37PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > Sorry for all the questions. Is there any particular reason why I No other reason then that it makes life easy, no need to think of all the details and how they fit in the deb-way-of-life. Like where to put the kernel, update the mod

postgres 5432 problem

2000-12-10 Thread Tino Ionescu
I'm not a db user at all but I install postgress and have the same problem, " Starting Samba daemons :mdbFATAL : StreamServerPort: bind() failed : \ Adress already in use " Can u please describe the exact steps to go around this problem ? What `file-init' has to be modified ? Thank you for yo

why does xmms take so long to start playing?

2000-12-10 Thread Thomas Halahan
dear deb users, i have xmms 1.2 on debian potato playing mp3's. when i had the same thing running on redhat the mp3 streaming would start after 10 seconds or so. however now on deb it takes up to 2 minutes to start playing after i press the play button. is there a reason for this. there do

Re: Problems excuting files on CD

2000-12-10 Thread Chris Gray
> Stan Brown writes: sb> I am trying to install Orace on my recently built sb> Debian STABLE box. Problem is I have to run the Oracle sb> installer as user Oracle, and I keep getting "Permission sb> Denied" when I try o excute it. It's in the CD which shows it sb>

Re: Very strange fetchmail problem

2000-12-10 Thread Timmy Douglas
try running fetchmail with verbose options and see if the output tells you any more... i would have suspected the firewall but it seems that you have already connected so i don't know how that would be the problem.

Re: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd.

2000-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
Frodo Baggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Colin Watson scripsit: >>More accurately, it's a known bug in the Linux kernel (specifically, >>version 2.2.17, I think, and possibly certain 2.4.0-test versions as >>well). I'm told 2.2.18 will fix it. > >Well, It doesn't :) I have installed the 2.2.18 ker

Re: exim (II)

2000-12-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 06:41:26PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello!, > > I am running potato at home. I still have problems trying to make exim > work. I think something is wrong in my exim.conf file. I will appreciate > very much any help regarding this matter! I'm no mail expert, so bea

Re: problem upgrading packages

2000-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just upgraded XF86_SVGA and her friends and afterward, I could not >start X because I had to edit the /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config and other >files, which were correct before the upgrade. Why is it necessary to >edit these files each time we upgrade, when there h

Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction (new errors)

2000-12-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
So, today apt updated debconf, and the errors changed: Setting up debconf (0.5.34) ... Use of reserved word "our" is deprecated at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Gettext.pm line 19. Bareword "our" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Gettext.pm line 19. Unquoted string "our"

Re: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd.

2000-12-10 Thread Frodo Baggins
Colin Watson scripsit: >More accurately, it's a known bug in the Linux kernel (specifically, >version 2.2.17, I think, and possibly certain 2.4.0-test versions as >well). I'm told 2.2.18 will fix it. Well, It doesn't :) I have installed the 2.2.18 kernel on potato and still have this problem... An

Re: Problems excuting files on CD

2000-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Your line lengths are a bit long, possibly due to the tabs at the beginning of each line - I've reformatted them below.] >I am trying to install Orace on my recently built Debian STABLE box. > >Problem is I have to run the Oracle installer as user Oracle,

Re: DOS long filename style - why?

2000-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
Denzil Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--- Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Why are the filenames that I access on a mounted DOS partition >> shortened like you would see from within DOS? I thought it was only >> something DOS would display since it was incapable of seeing more >> than

Re: exim (II)

2000-12-10 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Did you add "localhost" to the "local_domains" entry in /etc/exim.conf? If it isn't present (and it's not by default) that would most definitely explain the error you're describing. Cheers! On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 06:41:26PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello!, > > I am running potato at h

Re: PPP Support

2000-12-10 Thread Chris Gray
> Estêvão Becker writes: eb>   Hi, when I try to config my PPP connection, it tells that I eb> don't have PPP support, but I have it installed. Please, what eb> do I do? Please stop posting HTML. To try to answer your question, you might need the ppp module installed. To install

Re: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd.

2000-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
Stephan Kulka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Felix Natter wrote: >> I get the above message on a tty >> (VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd) >> when there is much load on a debian 2.2 system. >> >> What exactly does it mean ? (not enough swap-space ?) >> Is there a way to avoid this ? > >I ha

Re: WinModem

2000-12-10 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Is there any possibility to configure Debian to work with "WinModem" (any > drivers?) If it's a Lucent winmodem, check the information at http://www.linmodems.org. Note that to get an inte

Re: Making .debs

2000-12-10 Thread Chris Gray
> Eirik Dentz writes: ed> Can anyone point out to me a good starting point for someone ed> interested in making .debs from source? I'm looking for some ed> sort of step by step guide, if such a thing exists. $ apt-cache show maint-guide Package: maint-guide Priority: optional Sec

PPP Support

2000-12-10 Thread Estêvão Becker
  Hi, when I try to config my PPP connection, it tells that I don't have PPP support, but I have it installed. Please, what do I do?

Re: Making .debs

2000-12-10 Thread Karl Soderstrom
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 04:54:38PM -0500, Eirik Dentz wrote: > Can anyone point out to me a good starting point for someone interested in > making .debs from source? I'm looking for some sort of step by step guide, > if such a thing exists. New Maintainers' Guide is a pretty good collection of th

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installing new kernel

2000-12-10 Thread Ken Weingold
Sorry for all the questions. Is there any particular reason why I should installed the kernel package rather than just doing it myself from the source from www.kernel.org? I want to rebuld the kernel so it should hopefully fix some stupid problems I am having due to the default kernel put in by t

Re: Installed from floppies, mounted ext pcmcia cdrom, made some progress

2000-12-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 01:58:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Carel & newsgroup: > > Never could get apt-get install to work, but the following got me going: > > apt-cdrom add for each of the 3 disks > apt-get update > dselect (Using Q option to force; was this unwise??) if you

Making .debs

2000-12-10 Thread Eirik Dentz
Can anyone point out to me a good starting point for someone interested in making .debs from source? I'm looking for some sort of step by step guide, if such a thing exists. thanks eirik

Re: Apache/CGI new error?

2000-12-10 Thread Eirik Dentz
Hmm, I'm not completely sure about this, since I'm relatively inexperienced with apache, but I think that part of your problem with suexec, might be that it was compiled with /var/www as its document root. (I thought that you had found some way to change the layout for Apache and suexec by recompi

diskless bootstation and dhcp

2000-12-10 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I am trying to set up a (half)diskless workstation, but I ran in to a problem. I made a bootdisk with boots and loads the ethernet card. My server is running portmap and I am able to mount a nfs on my server. As LILO optionsfor the bootdisk I have tried: append="nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/nfsb

Re: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd.

2000-12-10 Thread Stephan Kulka
> hi, > I get the above message on a tty > (VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd) > when there is much load on a debian 2.2 system. > > What exactly does it mean ? (not enough swap-space ?) > Is there a way to avoid this ? > > thanks, > > -- > Felix Natter > I had the same problem (in

Re: WinModem

2000-12-10 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 10:23:47PM +0100, Stephan Kulka wrote: > > Is there any possibility to configure Debian to work with "WinModem" (any > > drivers?) > > Koz³o > > AFAIK "WinModems" are cripled, i.e. they only understand a part of the > hayes standard command. I admit that I never had this pr

VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd.

2000-12-10 Thread Felix Natter
hi, I get the above message on a tty (VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd) when there is much load on a debian 2.2 system. What exactly does it mean ? (not enough swap-space ?) Is there a way to avoid this ? thanks, -- Felix Natter

Re: WinModem

2000-12-10 Thread Kyle Peterson
You can try www.linmodems.org --- ICQ #:14518882 - Original Message - From: "Krzysztof Kozłowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 3:08 PM Subject: WinModem > Is there any possibility to configure Debian to work with "WinModem" (any > drivers?) > Kozło > > > -- >

Re: WinModem

2000-12-10 Thread Stephan Kulka
> Is there any possibility to configure Debian to work with "WinModem" (any > drivers?) > Koz?o AFAIK "WinModems" are cripled, i.e. they only understand a part of the hayes standard command. I admit that I never had this problem and only read about that, but it is a known problem and can only b

Re: DOS long filename style - why?

2000-12-10 Thread Ken Weingold
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000, Adam Langley wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 02:21:12PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > > Why are the filenames that I access on a mounted DOS partition > > shortened like you would see from within DOS? I thought it was only > > something DOS would display since it was incapabl

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