Re: glibc devel info pages

2001-01-02 Thread Brian May
> "Mike" == Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> So for vasprintf you would need stdarg.h Or am I reading Mike> this incorrectly? Going on the presumption that I'm reading Mike> this right, I take it this is not working for you? If not, Mike> have you got the manpages-dev p

Re: glibc devel info pages

2001-01-02 Thread Brian May
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> By default, __USE_GNU is defined. If you want to define it (perhaps you meant "...is undefined"???) Ben> explicitly, then use -D_GNU_SOURCE in your CFLAGS. It doesn't seem to be the case here: > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.

Re: glibc devel info pages

2001-01-02 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dp> On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Mike wrote: >> >> hal9000:~$ man vasprintf dp> useful dp> what package provides these man pages? My system sez: $ dpkg -S vasprintf manpages-dev: /usr/share/man/man3/vasprintf.3.gz So, use: # apt-get install

Re: sound blaster live! 512

2001-01-02 Thread Forrest English
thats about where my knowledge ends. sorry i'm sure someone here knows though... On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 02:55:06 -0800, Jerrud said: > > > I followed your instructions and did this: > > alpha:/home/mechanical# chmod 777 /dev/dsp > alpha:/home/mechanical# chmod 777 /dev/mixer > > This is

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2001-01-02 Thread Euclide Salvas
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Re: glibc devel info pages

2001-01-02 Thread David Purton
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Mike wrote: > > hal9000:~$ man vasprintf > Reformatting vasprintf(3), please wait... > > PRINTF(3) Linux Programmer's Manual PRINTF(3) > > NAME >printf, fprintf, sprintf, snprintf, vprintf, vfprintf, >vsprintf, vsnprintf - formatted ou

DNS & Mail

2001-01-02 Thread Debian GNU
Hi List, I have configured a DNS server using bind in Debian potato, Kernel 2.2.17. I have defined the hosts www.xxx.yyy.com, ftp.xxx.yyy.com, mail.xxx.yyy.com etc. I can get the web page hosted at www.xxx.yyy.com by typing the URL in browser window. How can I get the same by typing just xxx.yyy.c

Re: sound blaster live! 512

2001-01-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:55:06AM -0800, Jerrud wrote: > > > I followed your instructions and did this: > > alpha:/home/mechanical# chmod 777 /dev/dsp > alpha:/home/mechanical# chmod 777 /dev/mixer > > This is what I got when I ran XMMS: > > ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio dev

Re: fdisk program in MSDOS

2001-01-02 Thread I.M.J. Kamps
Wednesday, January 03, 2001, 5:16:50 AM, you wrote: ML> I just recently bought a debian software package and I've been reading the book 'Learning Debian GNU/Linux'. I tried using the fdisk utility on my hard drive. One of the things I've noticed is ML> that on my menu there is no number 5. Cha

Re: fdisk program in MSDOS

2001-01-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:16:50PM -0600, Michael Light wrote: > I just recently bought a debian software package and I've been reading > the book 'Learning Debian GNU/Linux'. I tried using the fdisk utility > on my hard drive. One of the things I've noticed is that on my menu > there is no numbe

webct 3.1 and debian 2.2

2001-01-02 Thread Suresh Kumar R
Hi, Has anyone installed webct 3.1 on any debian 2.2 ? The webct people say that they dont support debian but only redhat 6.2. What happens when we install webct on debian is that the authentication fails. Any suggestion is welcome. I would appreciate if you sent a cc of your reply mail to [E

fdisk program in MSDOS

2001-01-02 Thread Michael Light
I just recently bought a debian software package and I've been reading the book 'Learning Debian GNU/Linux'.  I tried using the fdisk utility on my hard drive.  One of the things I've noticed is that on my menu there is no number 5. Change current fixed disk drive.  Is that necessary and wha

Re: init dying with NFS root

2001-01-02 Thread Viral
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 11:41:15PM +1100, Tim Bell wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set up a Beowulf cluster using NFS root for booting, > but I'm not having much success. > > First of all, any dynamically linked init (or init replacement, such as > init=/bin/bash) fails, with no error messages. I

Re: newbieDoc: Debian runlevels intro

2001-01-02 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 08:23:04AM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: > To quote will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # please run your eyeballs over them -- and any of the other > # documents we've got there -- and feel free to post some feedback > # to the newbieDoc project at > # > # http://www

Re: newbieDoc: Debian runlevels intro

2001-01-02 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:42:33PM -0900, Britton wrote: > > Are these docs going to be included somewhere in the distro when complete, > or live permanently on the web? They look handy. > > Britton Kerin > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, will trillich wrote: > > i've got another newbieDoc that scratches

Re: newbee -- route (in file ?) ipchains ( in file ?)

2001-01-02 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 06:41:27PM +0100, M.B.Midden wrote: > hello, i have several questions actually > > * where should i put rules like these to load them when i Boot or should i > wright a script ( <--scripting howto ??) ? ; [snip] > * and where should i put these? [snip] this'll do most of

Re: Where is libblacs-pvm.so ???

2001-01-02 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I just installed Debian 2.2_r2 and chose some # packages from the "simple" setup. I got a lot # of the same errors reported during the package # configuration step. "ldconfig" also reports # the same error. # # The error indicates that /usr/

ISA SoundBlaster

2001-01-02 Thread Guilherme Ceschiatti
Hi! I've used normaly my ISA SoundBlaster in Storm Linux, but when I tried to move to Debian, it does not work anymore! I've tried everything, from copying the isapnp.conf and modules.conf to even using the stormlinux kernel in my Debian, but nothing works. Any ideas? []s Guiga

Where is libblacs-pvm.so ???

2001-01-02 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I just installed Debian 2.2_r2 and chose some packages from the "simple" setup. I got a lot of the same errors reported during the package configuration step. "ldconfig" also reports the same error. The error indicates that /usr/lib/libblacs-pvm.so is not available. Sure enough libblacs-pvm.so

Re: sound blaster live! 512

2001-01-02 Thread Jerrud
I followed your instructions and did this: alpha:/home/mechanical# chmod 777 /dev/dsp alpha:/home/mechanical# chmod 777 /dev/mixer This is what I got when I ran XMMS: ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such device Looks like I might have deeper problems th

Re: Changing screen size along with screen resolution?

2001-01-02 Thread Lance Simmons
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:11:06PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Tuesday, December 26, Lance Simmons did write: > > > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 05:42:36PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > > > Lance Simmons wrote: > > > > > > > > Is > > > > there a way to change resolution _and_ screen size at the

Re: glibc devel info pages

2001-01-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:56:23PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > #ifdef __USE_GNU > /* Write formatted output to a string dynamically allocated with `malloc'. >Store the address of the string in *PTR. */ > extern int vasprintf __P ((char **__restrict __ptr, >__const

Re: C compiler.

2001-01-02 Thread D-Man
When compiling C/C++ code you must tell the compiler exactly which libraries you are using. The first step is with the preprocessor to include the header files. The second step is with the linker to tell it where the functions/classes are actually implemented. If you really want to use gcc inst

Re: connection to internet fails?

2001-01-02 Thread M.B.Midden
> I think your default routes are the problem. U were correct thanks alot. I still have 1 error : 212.142.28.106 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast . Internet works fine though. I will search tomorrow for an answer because its 4 am now. :) M.B.Midden

Re: glibc devel info pages

2001-01-02 Thread Mike
Brian May wrote: > Hello, > > What is the quickest way to look up a include file required > for a given function in glibc? > > Before, with the man page system, I would be able to type in "man > vasprintf" and all the information I ever required would be presented > on the screen right in front o

Re: potato instalation (despair)

2001-01-02 Thread Antonio A. Lobato
-- > De: Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Para: Antonio A. Lobato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Assunto: Re: potato instalation (despair) > Data: Terça-feira, 2 de Janeiro de 2001 21:08 > > "Antonio A. Lobato" wrote: > > > > I already tryied many ways to i

glibc devel info pages

2001-01-02 Thread Brian May
Hello, What is the quickest way to look up a include file required for a given function in glibc? Before, with the man page system, I would be able to type in "man vasprintf" and all the information I ever required would be presented on the screen right in front of me. Now, it seems that I have

Re: C compiler.

2001-01-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 06:09:56PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > huh??? it doesn't mention anything about this in > the man pages (man gcc) > why does it do this? I am having similar problems > with iostream.h Uh, iostream.h is part of the C++ library. You need to compile C++ programs using the g++ prog

Re: C compiler.

2001-01-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, January 2, Xucaen did write: > huh??? it doesn't mention anything about this in > the man pages (man gcc) Well, not in *that* man page, anyway. Normally, the man page for the library function in question will tell you what libraries you have to link against; pow(3) unfortunately

Re: OT: Has anyone used efax w/USR 56K modem???

2001-01-02 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Er... I forgot. you want to uncomment this also: DATAINIT="$DATAOPT -j+FAA=1"# Class 2[.0] modem adaptive answer DCMD="exec /sbin/getty -h $DEV %d vt100"# for getty_ps (Linux) J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~je

Re: ASUS A7V Promise Ultra 100

2001-01-02 Thread Dan White
Rob Leach wrote: > > I recently bought myself an ASUS A7V motherboard with a couple of IBM > deskstar UDMA 100 HD's. I have been battling now for quite some time to get > potato installed on this system. I have been running redhat for quite some > time and about 5 months ago decided to move ove

Re: OT: Has anyone used efax w/USR 56K modem???

2001-01-02 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 06:20:57PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > I'm very frustrated trying to get efax to properly receive faxes through my > USR 56K modem (a v.90 type, now). All faxes come in appearing like something > streaked out sideways. I'm allowing efax to determine the best fit with th

OT: Has anyone used efax w/USR 56K modem???

2001-01-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm very frustrated trying to get efax to properly receive faxes through my USR 56K modem (a v.90 type, now). All faxes come in appearing like something streaked out sideways. I'm allowing efax to determine the best fit with the modem (instead of specifying the type myself). Has anyone gotten thi

Re: connection to internet fails?

2001-01-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, January 3, M.B.Midden did write: > Hi > > a few days a go everything worked fine but i rebooted, and i had not al > settings in the right places, because after reboot the settings were gone > ( earlier today i asked how to boot the ip chains and stuff so that :). If i > configur

Re: Problems with kernel recompiling

2001-01-02 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
"David B. Harris" wrote: > > To quote Vadim Kutsyy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # I want to recompile the kernel. I config and compiling went without > any > # problem (I am trying 2.2.18pre21 static on woody). Hwever, when I am > # restrarting computer, Xserver starts, but gdm doesn't, so all what I

Helix gnome control center freezes

2001-01-02 Thread Seung-woo Nam
Hi everyone: Since I upgraded my Debian system from 2.2_rev0 to 2.2_rev2, all the Sawfish menus in Gnome control center wouldn't work (appearance, focus behaviour, etc.). When I click on any of those the window just freezes and doesn't show any contents of menus. I know Helix gnome is not a

Re: C compiler.

2001-01-02 Thread Xucaen
huh??? it doesn't mention anything about this in the man pages (man gcc) why does it do this? I am having similar problems with iostream.h --- Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 11:05:50PM +, paul > wrote: > > hello all, > > i'm trying to compile (gcc filename.c)

Re: dist upgrade

2001-01-02 Thread Moritz Schulte
Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You don't want dist-upgrade. You're not upgrading from one release to > the next (potato to woody, for example), you're just making potato > current. apt-get upgrade is what you want. See apt-get(8). 'dist-upgrade' is just more intelligent when it comes

Re: dist upgrade

2001-01-02 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 04:16:12PM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote: > You don't want dist-upgrade. You're not upgrading from one release to > the next (potato to woody, for example), you're just making potato > current. apt-get upgrade is what you want. 1. AFAIK there is no difference in upgrading sev

Re: upgrade to 2.2.18

2001-01-02 Thread David Benfell
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 06:08:43PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 2) hwclock and ntp > i run ntp to keep my system time correct. A good idea. > i didn't even know > that i update my hardware clock until i came across > /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh, which update the hw clock dur

https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1)

2001-01-02 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, Are https:// sites still not supposed to work in Konqueror under Debian unstable? Is there any way to turn on https:// support? I'm confused as to why it has been this long and netscape does https:// without a problem and other distros do https://, but not Debian. - Bart

Re: upgrade to 2.2.18

2001-01-02 Thread David Benfell
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 01:48:12PM -0600, Robert A. Jacobs wrote: > > "insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.17/ >modules.dep" > Actually, as he'd implied he'd modified modules.conf, "depmod -a" is exactly the correct thing to do. > Suggested workaround: a

connection to internet fails?

2001-01-02 Thread M.B.Midden
Hi a few days a go everything worked fine but i rebooted, and i had not al settings in the right places, because after reboot the settings were gone ( earlier today i asked how to boot the ip chains and stuff so that :). If i configured /etc/network/interfaces and ifconfig gives this output, it sh

Re: ASUS A7V Promise Ultra 100

2001-01-02 Thread Mathias Gehrung
> Here´s what i wrote this morning to the list: > Hi! > > I´ve the same board installed. > You just can boot either Windows or from your Debian CDs. In windows use > the Systeminformation programm (win98) to finds out the E/A and IRQ > Values > the controller uses. The same things can be looked u

Re: ppp-Problem

2001-01-02 Thread Mathias Gehrung
No, noauth is set. I really don´t know, sice this isn´t the first time i´m connecting a linux machine to the internet. > have you set noauth ? > or have you set auth and you are requesting the remote peer to authorize > ? > > Michael > > -- > Michael Steiner, Minorgasse 35, A-1140 Vienna, Aust

Re: dist upgrade

2001-01-02 Thread Pann McCuaig
You don't want dist-upgrade. You're not upgrading from one release to the next (potato to woody, for example), you're just making potato current. apt-get upgrade is what you want. On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 00:23, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:34:35PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken

Re: ASUS A7V Promise Ultra 100

2001-01-02 Thread Jon Pennington
Rob Leach wrote: > > If anyone has some experience with getting Debian installed on a system with > the ASUS A7V motherboard or knows of some helpful hints or links that would > get me up and running I would be greatful for you thoughts and insights. I don't have a Promise card, but I've dealt

Re: C compiler.

2001-01-02 Thread paul
thanks for all the reply's to my question. all working now :) -- cheers, paul

ASUS A7V Promise Ultra 100

2001-01-02 Thread Rob Leach
I recently bought myself an ASUS A7V motherboard with a couple of IBM deskstar UDMA 100 HD's. I have been battling now for quite some time to get potato installed on this system. I have been running redhat for quite some time and about 5 months ago decided to move over to Debian (at work and at

Re: C compiler.

2001-01-02 Thread Moritz Schulte
"paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i'm trying to compile (gcc filename.c) the following program, but it seems > math.h isn't being found. The header file math.h is found. But the _function definitions_, which are part of the libc, are not found: [...] > /tmp/ccCw1SMR.o(.text+0x52): undefined r

Re: dist upgrade

2001-01-02 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:34:35PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > I have Debian 2.2_r0 installed and a set of 2.2_r2 > CD's on the way. Can I do a dist upgrade from the > new CD's? What would the steps be to do this? Sure you can do a dist-upgrade with these CDs. You can add those CDs t

Re: Multimedia Performance

2001-01-02 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:30:50PM -0600, Jon Pennington wrote: > and often go without notifying root or the message log. You should not > be able to use -X68 without the patch, since the Viper was never meant > to do ATA66 in the first place, and Andre's ATA66 patch is a hack that > just /happe

Re: Multimedia Performance

2001-01-02 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:42:09AM -0800, David Steinberg wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > From all I have heard the missing pentium optimizations shouldn't make > > much difference. > > You should check if your HD is working in UDMA-mode > > $hdparm /dev/hda > > Hi Phi

Re: gnome MIME types

2001-01-02 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:00:30PM +, Gary Coady wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:16:49AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > I have Netscape 4.76 and Mozilla 0.6 installed on my potato system. I > > wanted to change the MIME types in the Gnome Control-Center so that > > html files are viewe

Re: C compiler.

2001-01-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 11:05:50PM +, paul wrote: > hello all, > i'm trying to compile (gcc filename.c) the following program, but it seems > math.h isn't being found. > > this is the error: > /tmp/ccCw1SMR.o: In function `main': > /tmp/ccCw1SMR.o(.text+0x52): undefined reference to `pow' > co

Re: potato instalation (despair)

2001-01-02 Thread Rick
Antonio A. Lobato writes: > > I already tryied many ways to install the potato packages(because I > already installed it Basic System from hard disk), but it`s how if my cdrom > reader don`t existed. > Also it`s impossible I acess the internet from Linux because my modem is > the US Robotic

Re: potato instalation (despair)

2001-01-02 Thread Matthew Dalton
"Antonio A. Lobato" wrote: > > I already tryied many ways to install the potato packages(because I > already installed it Basic System from hard disk), but it`s how if my cdrom > reader don`t existed. What type of cdrom do you have? Do you know which device file it is associated with? Have you

C compiler.

2001-01-02 Thread paul
hello all, i'm trying to compile (gcc filename.c) the following program, but it seems math.h isn't being found. this is the error: /tmp/ccCw1SMR.o: In function `main': /tmp/ccCw1SMR.o(.text+0x52): undefined reference to `pow' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status #include #include main() { con

Re: Install from CD on MAC

2001-01-02 Thread Nick Croft
I've got Debian on that machine. I used an external cd, which if I recall correctly was /dev/sc0 or /dev/scsi0. It's at work, I'll check later, and if it's different I'll get back to you. Have you joined mac68k mailing list? Send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in the _mes

Re: X error

2001-01-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:28:51AM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:22:39AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 09:28:57PM -0800, Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > I had a problem with woody several days ago where X would die > > > im

Re: potato instalation (despair)

2001-01-02 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Antonio A. Lobato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # # I already tryied many ways to install the potato packages(because I # already installed it Basic System from hard disk), but it`s how if my cdrom # reader don`t existed. # Also it`s impossible I acess the internet from Linux because my mod

Re: copying a file system across the network

2001-01-02 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 05:04:13AM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 08:27:05AM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: <...> > here is a fun trick: > > tar cf - / | ssh -C host 'cd /mnt; tar -xf -' > > ssh -C enables compression which is think is default anyway.

Re: public_html directory requires chmod -R 755 constantly?

2001-01-02 Thread Colin Watson
Stefan Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Whenever a change is made to anything in the public_html directory, I must > >chmod -R 755 public_html > >before those files can be accessed from the web. I am so new at this, >but I am sure there is a way to make this directory 755 permanently, >isn't th

potato instalation (despair)

2001-01-02 Thread Antonio A. Lobato
I already tryied many ways to install the potato packages(because I already installed it Basic System from hard disk), but it`s how if my cdrom reader don`t existed. Also it`s impossible I acess the internet from Linux because my modem is the US Robotics Winmodem, and is not compatible with L

Re: newbieDoc: Debian runlevels intro

2001-01-02 Thread Britton
Are these docs going to be included somewhere in the distro when complete, or live permanently on the web? They look handy. Britton Kerin On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, will trillich wrote: > i've got another newbieDoc that scratches the surface of > Debian runlevels... > > http://www.eGroups.com/f

Re: public_html directory requires chmod -R 755 constantly?

2001-01-02 Thread Rick
What you probably want is umask. What it does is set the default permissions of files you create. In my /etc/profile is the line: umask 022 It can also be set in your .profile. you can check what your current setting is by umask So when I create a file, it would normally be created as 666 but w

Re: remote x via ssh question

2001-01-02 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 03:29:51AM -0600, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 04:22:31AM -0500, D-Man wrote: > > > > This thread has invoked some curiosity in me. If I use ssh to forward > > X connections, does that mean I can use X through an IP masquerading > >

Re: unable to su

2001-01-02 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:25:35PM +0100, Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:43:17AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I did a fresh install on my system (potato), but I discovered that I am > > > unable to su (unless I am root). It gives me an authen

rsync and harddisk memory dissapearence

2001-01-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
For a couple of days already I have been observing the following strange thing: I run rsync -v -etcetera kdesite:: /mnt/drC/kde_mirror Setting: drC is where /dev/hda1 is mounted. My linux runs from /dev/hdb Now, after just a couple of hours, my memory shows to be down by about 400 mb, which is impo

Re: broken woddy "Packages" file on mirror

2001-01-02 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:23:35PM +0100, Andreas Gartus wrote: > Hi! > > I wanted to install the woody package bluefish_0.6 (which I found on an > australian mirror _only_) on my potato system, but apt-get mysteriously Ugh, as I understand it aarnet may be having trouble staying in sync.

public_html directory requires chmod -R 755 constantly?

2001-01-02 Thread Stefan Harris
Hello everyone!   I'm new here, so be gentle.   Whenever a change is made to anything in the public_html directory, I must   chmod -R 755 public_html   before those files can be accessed from the web.  I am so new at this, but I am sure there is a way to make this directory 755 permanently,

Re: changing icewm themes

2001-01-02 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I recently installed X window and decided that I > would use icewm as the window manager. > > My problem is that when I change the theme from > the default to something else I am no longer able to > get a cursor in the xterm window - that is I am no > longer able to type anything there. > > I jus

Re: unable to su

2001-01-02 Thread Sebastiaan
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:43:17AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I did a fresh install on my system (potato), but I discovered that I am > > unable to su (unless I am root). It gives me an authentication failure. > > When I do shadowconfig off, su returns 'setgid: Operation not permit

changing icewm themes

2001-01-02 Thread irvine
Hello all. I recently installed X window and decided that I would use icewm as the window manager. My problem is that when I change the theme from the default to something else I am no longer able to get a cursor in the xterm window - that is I am no longer able to type anything there. I

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can somebody indicate what excatly must the command line be to > copy the contents of a cd to some file and store it as iso > image? I tried different options to do it, but the md5sum > didn't match afterwards. Somet

Install from CD on MAC

2001-01-02 Thread anthony . r . nowicki
I am attempting to install 2.2r2 on a mac IIxv ('030) with a CD. I successfully installed and booted with the base system using files that I put on the mac file system. However, when attempt to point the install at the CD (/dev/sr0) to continue installation after the reboot, the CD is accessed t

dist upgrade

2001-01-02 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I have Debian 2.2_r0 installed and a set of 2.2_r2 CD's on the way. Can I do a dist upgrade from the new CD's? What would the steps be to do this? -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2

Re: Removing Helix packages

2001-01-02 Thread Colin Watson
David B. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >To quote Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ># Well, for some stupid reason, I decided to give the Gnome packages ># from Helix a try. After re-starting X-Windows, I noticed that my Eterms ># don't have scrollbars and scroll-arrows. My first assumption i

Re: Multimedia Performance

2001-01-02 Thread Jon Pennington
David Steinberg wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > From all I have heard the missing pentium optimizations shouldn't make > > much difference. > > You should check if your HD is working in UDMA-mode > > $hdparm /dev/hda > > Hi Phil, > > Thanks for replying. From hdparm

Re: X error

2001-01-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:22:39AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 09:28:57PM -0800, Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I had a problem with woody several days ago where X would die > > immediately after starting, before the window manager took over. In > >

broken woddy "Packages" file on mirror

2001-01-02 Thread Andreas Gartus
Hi! I wanted to install the woody package bluefish_0.6 (which I found on an australian mirror _only_) on my potato system, but apt-get mysteriously didn't "see" the package. It took me quite a while to find out that the file "Packages" from this mirror still contains a description of bluefish_0.3,

Re: Zip Drive not Recognized as Block Device

2001-01-02 Thread Rob VanFleet
Have you loaded the ppa module? -Rob On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:34:00AM -0700, Clayton Stapleton wrote: > Hi Folks; > The Zip Drive uses a separate parallel port card to which it is > plugged into (works under Windows 98). I have added the > io=0x278 to "modules.conf", and run "depmod -a" to upda

Zip Drive not Recognized as Block Device

2001-01-02 Thread Clayton Stapleton
Hi Folks; The Zip Drive uses a separate parallel port card to which it is plugged into (works under Windows 98). I have added the io=0x278 to "modules.conf", and run "depmod -a" to update the "modules.dep". As shown below the new ioport is recognized by /proc/parport/1/hardware. What do I have to d

Re: newbee -- route (in file ?) ipchains ( in file ?)

2001-01-02 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 06:41:27PM +0100, M.B.Midden wrote: > * where should i put rules like these to load them when i Boot or > should i wright a script ( <--scripting howto ??) ? ; > > /sbin/ifconfig eth0 netmask 255.255.255.0 > /sbin/ifconfig eth1 10.10.10.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > /sbin/

Re: [OT] all you emulator folk, please read this

2001-01-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 07:17:52PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > PLAYSTATION: I haven't found anything that is working (yet). > I found a free playstation emulator that ran under Linux (even got it working under ppc-linux). I forget the name of it though. -- ---===-=-==-=

Re: Box refusing connections after changing to static IP?

2001-01-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
If netowork admin told Dan to use fixed IP, ask him about available IP which is not used by his DHCP server. If same IP as previous DHCP assigned one is used without asking network admin, it sure causes problem described by Dan. Also it will be nice if network admin will put your machine's new

Re: Multimedia Performance

2001-01-02 Thread David Steinberg
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > From all I have heard the missing pentium optimizations shouldn't make > much difference. > You should check if your HD is working in UDMA-mode > $hdparm /dev/hda Hi Phil, Thanks for replying. From hdparm... using_dma= 1 (on) > because this is

newbee -- route (in file ?) ipchains ( in file ?)

2001-01-02 Thread M.B.Midden
hello, i have several questions actually * where should i put rules like these to load them when i Boot or should i wright a script ( <--scripting howto ??) ? ; /sbin/ifconfig eth0 netmask 255.255.255.0 /sbin/ifconfig eth1 10.10.10.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 /sbin/route add default gw netmask 0

Re: Box refusing connections after changing to static IP?

2001-01-02 Thread Dan White
Willy Lee wrote: > > > Sounds like and IP conflict. > > Oh! I never thought of that. Pardon me, I'm rather new at this. How > would I go about confirming this? Try using arping to see if any other systems are responding to your address. - Dan White

Re: [OT] all you emulator folk, please read this

2001-01-02 Thread Scott Patterson
>Hey, > >Over the past year, I have begun a conquest to find the perfect emu's = >under Linux. Here's what I got. > >SNES: snes9x: beautiful, I love this emulator, the only flaw is, no = >screenshot support? >correct me if I'm wrong about the screenshots > >GENESIS: dgen: not to great, they

Re: formatting mod

2001-01-02 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > Well, thank you, this did work. Why doesn´t mke2fs need this? > > to encourage you to use a real filesystem instead of that horrible > msdos thing? Hmm, :-) > in general i run superformat --superverify (does double verification > in addition to

Re: Box refusing connections after changing to static IP?

2001-01-02 Thread Willy Lee
"Dan" == Dan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Willy Lee wrote: >> Hello debian-user, >> >> I have a box I've set up at work as a CVS server, to accept CVS and >> SSH connections, mostly from Windows boxes on an internal network. >> Well, I installed Debian 2.2 stable on it and set it up to use

Re: Burning with PCMCIA ATAPI/IDE

2001-01-02 Thread Olivier Billet
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 08:43:32AM -0500, David B.Harris wrote: > I've got IDE-SCSI emulation working, and this is what I had to do: > Added: > append="ignore=hdb ide-scsi=hdb" because it did not work for me, i tried to compile a kernel, following the Debian Way (using make-kpkg and dpkg --instal

Re: Location of gtk-config?

2001-01-02 Thread Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think the gtk dev files are included in a libgdk-dev package. I'm not > sure of the exact name of the package but I remember that I've already > fight to find this gtk-config. libgtk1.2-dev on an unstable system. > The problem is that I don't how to fing the (uninstal

Re: Location of gtk-config?

2001-01-02 Thread christophe . barbe . ml
I think the gtk dev files are included in a libgdk-dev package. I'm not sure of the exact name of the package but I remember that I've already fight to find this gtk-config. The problem is that I don't how to fing the (uninstalled) package name containing a specified file. I know how to do that

Re: Is it possible to make an unofficial ISO of woody?

2001-01-02 Thread Colin Watson
Kent Nyberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well, is it possible to do that? Unofficial ISO's of woody? Have a look at http://cdimage.debian.org/>. HTH, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Konqueror and HTTPS

2001-01-02 Thread Andy Wettstein
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 04:39:28PM +, Mary L. Henze wrote: > > I just installed kdebase-crypto. It appeared to install fine but konqueror > still does not support https. The icon does not lock and I'm not able to > access secure sites. My sources.list follows: > > deb http://http.us.debi

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:49:48PM +, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > >Can somebody indicate what excatly must the command line be to copy the >contents of a cd to some file and store it as iso image? >I tried different options to do it, but the md5sum didn't match >afterwards. Something like the i

mkisofs

2001-01-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Can somebody indicate what excatly must the command line be to copy the contents of a cd to some file and store it as iso image? I tried different options to do it, but the md5sum didn't match afterwards. Something like the internal commandfor xcdroast perhaps, since it has worked in the same case

Is it possible to make an unofficial ISO of woody?

2001-01-02 Thread Kent Nyberg
Well, is it possible to do that? Unofficial ISO's of woody? If it is possible, how much free space do i need if i want to make ISO's for all the cd's, including the non-free things? When i read the documents for debian-cd it said that i needed a complete mirror of the debian ftp. What's the be

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