kernel panic while mounting initrd.gz

2001-02-05 Thread Krzys Majewski
I'm using syslinux-1.50 to roll my own boot/root floppy. So far, I know how to put a kernel on one floppy, rdev it to /dev/fd0, and mount a root fs located on a second floppy. What I would like to do is mount the root fs from a file system image file on the first floppy. I tried to do this, passi

Re: Modem funkiness ... again

2001-02-05 Thread Lionel Lauer
On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 13:47:18 +1100, hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ok.. Debian system, running testing, kernel 2.2.17 > >For some strange and unknown reason, the great modem slowdown has happened >again. > >The machine had been up for close on 12 days - and had been connecting >everywhere witho

Re: permission-denied

2001-02-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
"T. Green" wrote: > > HELP -- NOVICE > I am tring to install software from my cdrom and i keep getting the > following responce. > bash: /Setup.sh: permission denied > My question is why, i am in root. > help Maybe you have mounted your cdrom with the 'noexec' option? Check in your /etc/fsta

Re: french hyphenation patterns

2001-02-05 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:03:39PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: > [CCs appreciated, I'm not subscribed to debian-user.] > > I'm currently trying to figure out how to typeset French properly with > LaTeX under Debian. Most everything seems to work properly if I use > something like the following for my

apt-get source old?

2001-02-05 Thread John L . Fjellstad
I'm experimeting with the apt-get source command. I'm currently running woody. When I do an apt-get source (for instance ssh), I get ssh 1.1.2, but the latest binary is 2.2.0p1-1 (which I got when I do apt-get install). Any reason why the source is behind the binary in versioning? I tried this w

french hyphenation patterns

2001-02-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
[CCs appreciated, I'm not subscribed to debian-user.] I'm currently trying to figure out how to typeset French properly with LaTeX under Debian. Most everything seems to work properly if I use something like the following for my LaTeX file: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{t1enc}

RE: XF 4.0 PROBLEMS

2001-02-05 Thread Glen Snyder
You probably don't want to mix release versions (In other words, if you are going to use woody, then you should have all of your sources pointing to woody or testing). I had the exact same message as you, and fortunately someone was able to help me out last month First you want to do an apt-get ins

Re: [OT] perl regex problem

2001-02-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
Hunter Marshall wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp > -> od -x junk > 000 6968 0a0a 0a0a 0a0a 000a > 011 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp > -> perl -n -e 'print "yup\n" if /\x0a/;' junk > yup > yup > yup > yup > yup > yup > yup > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp > -> perl -n -e 'print "yup\n" if /\x0a\x0a/;' jun

Re: virus detection

2001-02-05 Thread Chris Gray
Shaddup already. It's all been said. http://www.perl.com/pub/language/misc/virus.html Chris -- Got jag? http://www.tribsoft.com

Modem funkiness ... again

2001-02-05 Thread hogan
Ok.. Debian system, running testing, kernel 2.2.17 For some strange and unknown reason, the great modem slowdown has happened again. The machine had been up for close on 12 days - and had been connecting everywhere without a problem. Today I went to go poll my mail from my windows machine, and it

Re: portmap: which package??

2001-02-05 Thread MaD dUCK
once you have disabled portmap, please report to me whether you have xdm delays during initlevel 3 login. if yes, then you are suffering from the same problem that i have, namely that xdm/X and xfs don't communicate via ipc but insist on rpc. and if you don't have that problem, then i'd be more tha

[OT] perl regex problem

2001-02-05 Thread Hunter Marshall
I am a long time debian and perl user. But obviously long enough! Forgive the slight misuse of the list, but can anyone shed light on what I'm doing wrong in this attempt to find \n\n in a text file with perl? I'm sure I've done this before. Thanks hunter +++

Re: Corrected!: Virgin question: Nvidia graphics card and agp

2001-02-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
The GeForce MX cards are supported in X 4.02, according to http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.2/Status22.html#22. I don't think anything special is required for AGP, but I just purchased a TNT2/M64 AGP card today, so I hope to find out very soon. Nvidia also has drivers on its web site (www.nvidia.com),

Re: portmap: which package??

2001-02-05 Thread Frank Preut
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 02:09:23PM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote: > $ dpkg -S portmap > netbase: /sbin/portmap > netbase: /usr/share/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz > netbase: /etc/init.d/portmap > netbase: /usr/share/man/man8/portmap.8.gz > > You sure as hell don't want to remove netbase. nope.. shoul

Re: Have computer power off automatically

2001-02-05 Thread Mircea Luca
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You need to recompile your kernel with "advanced power management BIOS > support" turned on. I think that's the only option you need (someone > correct me if I'm wrong). Your BIOS needs to support this as well (I > believe most modern BIOSs do). > > Gerry > On the

Re: virus detection

2001-02-05 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Sean 'Shaleh' Perry (on Mon, 05 Feb 2001 04:59:57PM -0800): > > To get _really_ picky: it is from the Latin, is 5th declension, > > not 2nd (like most of the "-us" and "-um" words), and while the > > singular and plural look identical, in the plural, as I recall > > (it's been a long ti

Re: virus detection

2001-02-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > To get _really_ picky: it is from the Latin, is 5th declension, not 2nd (like > most > of the "-us" and "-um" words), and while the singular and plural look > identical, > in the plural, as I recall (it's been a long time since my last Latin class), > the > emphasis is on the second syllable,

convert ps to b/w

2001-02-05 Thread MaD dUCK
besides the dumb-ness of coining a printer to be black/white - does it ever print white? - i have this postscript file which contains color and our laserjet 4050n barfs at those postscript commands, spitting out random characters that aren't even postscript. so my question: how can i convert a ps

DeskJet Support Autoreply

2001-02-05 Thread DeskJet 930 Support
Thank you for contacting HP Customer Care. Thank you for your inquiry. We have received your e-mail and it has been assigned to one of our qualified support representatives. This reply was automatically generated by our e-mail system confirming receipt of your message. Please do not reply to th

Re: virus detection

2001-02-05 Thread Cam Ellison
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 05-Feb-2001 Moritz Schulte wrote: > > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> there are no known virus for UNIX. > > > > Uhm, I think there are virii for Unix. I did a quick search and found > > some information on Unix virii; I also read that the

module compiling for 2.4.0

2001-02-05 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
I am currently riining kernel 2.4.0 static (no module support), and I decided to recompile it with module support. make-kpkg kernel finifed fine, but when I trying to compile modules I am getting: debian:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.0# make-kpkg modules test -f s

Re: SSH won't accept logins without password

2001-02-05 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, Now that I've given my lecture I feel better about myself :) I still say that rsh and friends would be more appropriate as you don't need (by your assesment, and I'm admittedly paranoid) the overhead cryptography introduces. But if you want this to work... firstly did you hit enter at the p

Re: Have computer power off automatically

2001-02-05 Thread debuser
You need to recompile your kernel with "advanced power management BIOS support" turned on. I think that's the only option you need (someone correct me if I'm wrong). Your BIOS needs to support this as well (I believe most modern BIOSs do). Gerry On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Cameron Matheson wrote: > He

Re: virus detection

2001-02-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Feb-2001 Moritz Schulte wrote: > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> there are no known virus for UNIX. > > Uhm, I think there are virii for Unix. I did a quick search and found > some information on Unix virii; I also read that the first systems > affected by virii were

Debian install on the Ricoh g1200s

2001-02-05 Thread Peter Howell
As if like isn't hard enough, I've gone and bought a g1200s and am trying to put linux on it. For those of you who aren't familiar with this machine, it's a tablet computer with a pcmcia hard drive and a cdrom. I can plug in a keyboard and mouse for the setup procedure, but my eventual goal

Re: virus detection

2001-02-05 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > there are no known virus for UNIX. Uhm, I think there are virii for Unix. I did a quick search and found some information on Unix virii; I also read that the first systems affected by virii were Unix systems. moritz -- Moritz Schulte <

Have computer power off automatically

2001-02-05 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I was just wondering if Linux had a way to turn your computer off at shutdown (kind of like windoze).  How would I go about doing that?   Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: How to delete a file called "-gzip"?

2001-02-05 Thread Erik Steffl
cls/cs wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:29:39PM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > this is a completely stupid thing I did. I wanted to make a zipped tar > > archive of my complete user home account and write it to MOD. > > > > Unfortunately I used the following line: > > >

Re: How to delete a file called "-gzip"?

2001-02-05 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, cls/cs wrote: > ...guessing here, but if you > > mv -gzip foo (foo being some other name not beginning with "-") > > and then > > rm foo > > does that work? mv has the same problem as rm. It thinks that -g is an option. But thank you for your prompt

Re: How to delete a file called "-gzip"?

2001-02-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: >I tried >rm "-gzip" >rm ´-gzip´ >rm \-gzip > >None of these worked. > >What is the trick? (There must be one ...) rm -- -gzip The -- tells rm to stop interpreting arguments as options. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED]

apm --suspend: 4 beeps from motherboard

2001-02-05 Thread Chris Majewski
I just had my Legend/QDI Advance-5 motherboard "upgraded" to an ASUS P3V133 (the QDI board died, and there were no more in stock) and now 'apm --suspend' no longer works. I enabled APM in the BIOS (Award), but when I run 'apm --suspend' the motherboard beeps 4 times and nothing happens. Wha

Re: How to delete a file called "-gzip"?

2001-02-05 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:29:39PM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > I tried > rm "-gzip" > rm ´-gzip´ > rm \-gzip > > None of these worked. > > What is the trick? (There must be one ...) rm -- -gzip -- Tommi Komulainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG 1024D/68388EE6

Re: How to delete a file called "-gzip"? - Solved!

2001-02-05 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > I tried > rm "-gzip" > rm ´-gzip´ > rm \-gzip > > None of these worked. > > What is the trick? (There must be one ...) It is quite pleasing, when one finds the solution by oneself. I just tried to delete the file from a higher directory. I

Re: How to delete a file called "-gzip"?

2001-02-05 Thread cls/cs
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:29:39PM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > this is a completely stupid thing I did. I wanted to make a zipped tar > archive of my complete user home account and write it to MOD. > > Unfortunately I used the following line: > > tar -cvvf -gzip /mod/name-of-a

How to delete a file called "-gzip"?

2001-02-05 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, this is a completely stupid thing I did. I wanted to make a zipped tar archive of my complete user home account and write it to MOD. Unfortunately I used the following line: tar -cvvf -gzip /mod/name-of-archive folder-name Now my home-partition is 100 % full and I don´t know how to delete

Re: SSH won't accept logins without password

2001-02-05 Thread Chris Majewski
This part: "debug: RSA authentication using agent refused." looks bad. However, the fact that you enabled "PermitEmptyPasswords" in your sshd suggests that you should still be able to login. Maybe your ssh client can't deal with the empty password? Do your ssh and sshd versions match? If y

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 07:02:06AM +0100, John Travis wrote: > On Monday 05 February 2001 13:12, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > > (Where was the link?) > > > > > > IIRC, Opera is now free-as-in-beer, but it's still not free in the > > > DFSG se

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 06:12:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 05 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > >> I've been using Konqueror at work for a week or so now after Netscape > >> somehow started crashing my machine hard. I must say that it's a very >

Re: SSH won't accept logins without password

2001-02-05 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
"Jonathan D. Proulx" wrote: > > Hi, > > Why have ssh (a security feature) and accounts with null passwords! Good point, actually. However, this is a local user account on a network that is masqueraded by a firewall. I don't have to be afraid, that the box can be remotely accessed, because the

Re: portmap: which package??

2001-02-05 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 22:47, Frank Preut wrote: > hello everyone, > > could someone please tell me where i can find portmap, that is, > which package contains it (i can't find a package named portmap)?? as much > as i can see i don't need it, and i would like to get rid of it (if that > is

Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?

2001-02-05 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Dietmar Schultz wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 08:01:20PM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > > I'm using a Gigabyte 6XOM7E-1 Mobo with a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster > > Riva TNT. Debian 2.2r2 testing. I just installed the nvidia 0.9-6 from > > XFree86 >=4.01 is required. Has it made it in tes

RE: SSH won't accept logins without password

2001-02-05 Thread cwv
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 try checking out ssh-agent... set it up to authenticate at login time and you will only have to enter your password once... colin - -Original Message- From: Jonathan D. Proulx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 1:50 PM

Re: portmap: which package??

2001-02-05 Thread MaD dUCK
fishbowl:/home/madduck# dpkg -S \*portmap\* netbase: /sbin/portmap netbase: /usr/share/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz netbase: /etc/init.d/portmap netbase: /usr/share/man/man8/portmap.8.gz fishbowl:/home/madduck# so netbase is what you are looking for and it *should* be installed. martin [greeti

Re: permission-denied

2001-02-05 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 08:34:26AM -0500, T. Green wrote: :HELP -- NOVICE :I am tring to install software from my cdrom and i keep getting the :following responce. :bash: /Setup.sh: permission denied :My question is why, i am in root. :help several possible problems... first (provided you've

Re: SSH won't accept logins without password

2001-02-05 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, Why have ssh (a security feature) and accounts with null passwords! Learn about RSA authentication and agent forwarding if you don't want to key typing your password over and over again. If you're going to have such a security hole just use rsh and a .rhosts file. -Jon -- BOFH

portmap: which package??

2001-02-05 Thread Frank Preut
hello everyone, could someone please tell me where i can find portmap, that is, which package contains it (i can't find a package named portmap)?? as much as i can see i don't need it, and i would like to get rid of it (if that is stupid for some reason, please correct me, i'm not an exper

Re: postgresql 7.0.3 -- but NO plperl ?

2001-02-05 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i haven't figured out how to turn on 'plperl' yet on potato: [...] > what incantation have i missed? apt-get install libpgperl, I suppose. Greetings, joachim

Re: Color monitor

2001-02-05 Thread Rob VanFleet
Look in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile. In one of them you will find the aliases for colored ls output, just uncomment them and you should be set up. If there is nothing there, then just add: alias ls=ls --color to your ~/.bashrc -Rob On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 09:48:51PM +0100, Vittorio De M

Re: Apt with cd-rom and ftp

2001-02-05 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 09:06:45PM +0100, Julio Merino wrote: > Hi all, > > I've brun the three isos of potato 2.2r2, and I have installed debian > another time because my system got broken with the last update to > woody. Well, the case is that I've added into sources.list the cdroms > and a ftp

lilo.conf file

2001-02-05 Thread Renai
can someone send me a working lilo.conf file for a debian and linux dual boot? mine seems to be hosed for reasons I can't work out. much thanks, Renai

Re: No libforms0.89 -> no Lyx

2001-02-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Sorry for all the trouble. I uploaded a new libforms0.89 that conforms to policy wrt the xpm4g transition to libxpm4 on Sep 14th 2000, to unstable. The problem is that packages aren't moved into testing (woody) untill they are built for all architectures. Since the autobuilders don't handle non

Software for Callcenter

2001-02-05 Thread Christoph Simon
Hi, Anybody knows of linux software to run a full callcenter, preferible a deb package (but commercial solutions would also be fine)? -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .

Re: Color monitor

2001-02-05 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Il Monday 05 February 2001 18:33, hai scritto: > To quote Vittorio De Martino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # well, I finished the first part of Debian 2.2r2 potato installation > with > # success and, before going ahead with the installation of the basic > system, > # I'd like to fix the appearance of th

Re: Two soundblaster

2001-02-05 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Julio Merino wrote: >Hi all > >I'm trying to configure two soundblaster 16 pnp isa in the same >machine. The two cards are not the same so they should be properly >recognized (both work on windows fine). > >I'm using 2.2.18 kernel and have compiled the sb module. I have also >u

Re: Problems installing Win4Lin

2001-02-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Adam J Beavan wrote: > Hi > > Trying to install a downloaded evaluation copy of Win4Lin > on my debian system version 2.2.17... > The script install-win4lin.sh runs through OK until it needs > to install the rpm package Win4Lin-5.1.0ga-1.i386.rpm... > I get the following error > > fro

Re: Creating a new group

2001-02-05 Thread Tom Schuetz
-- Original Message -- From: Tommi Komulainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 21:13:15 +0200 >On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 01:39:22PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: >> also sprach Tom Schuetz (on Mon, 05 Feb 2001 10:29:26AM -0800): >> > How do I create a new gr

Re: KDE2

2001-02-05 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Tibor D. wrote: >Renai wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> just a couple of questions - >> >> could someone tell me the apt-get command for installing kde2 on my >> woody machine? I've just installed woody but can't find the package name >> that indicates kde2. >> >> I had thought that it wa

Re: KDE2

2001-02-05 Thread John Galt
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Renai wrote: >Hi, > >just a couple of questions - > >could someone tell me the apt-get command for installing kde2 on my >woody machine? I've just installed woody but can't find the package name >that indicates kde2. I'd go with task-kde >I had thought that it was part of the

cut-n-paste problem while using hpterm on Debian 2.2 (kernel 2.4.1)

2001-02-05 Thread Sumit Sarkar
Hi There!, This is my first time in this mailing list. I am having cut-n-paste problem while using 'hpterm' on Debian 2.2 potato and kernel is: "2.4.1 #2 SMP Thu Feb 1 16:22:58 PST 2001 i686" The problem is like this: I am displaying 'hpterm' from a HP-UX 11.00 box in my Linux box. I am

SSH won't accept logins without password

2001-02-05 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello everybody, could somebody please give me some clue, why I can't login into a passwordless account. This is what my /etc/ssh/sshd_config file looks like: # This is ssh server systemwide configuration file. # # Modified: # - 16.01.2001: PermitEmptyPassword yes, PermitRootLogin yes #

Apt with cd-rom and ftp

2001-02-05 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all, I've brun the three isos of potato 2.2r2, and I have installed debian another time because my system got broken with the last update to woody. Well, the case is that I've added into sources.list the cdroms and a ftp site (ftp.uk.debian.org and the security ones). The problem is that apt a

Network problem on dell optiplex GX115 3C905C

2001-02-05 Thread Manuel Segura
Hello, I have just installed a Debian 2.2 R2 on PC Dell Optoplex GX115, The main board network interface is a 3C905C. I have installed the driver 3c59c delivered with Debian standard Kernel. During boot, I cannot see any problem. Ifconfig is good But ping does not work. I am stucked , and don't

Re: INSTALLATION TROUBLE AGAIN

2001-02-05 Thread Kent West
Gerardo wrote: Hello Mircea! I already solve the first problem but still have one. I managed to run the loadlin archive and run the linux kernel, it began detecting all my computer devices, well at least that was what I think it was doing. BUT, during this checkout, it stopped on a line that go

Re: INSTALLATION TROUBLE

2001-02-05 Thread Kent West
Gerardo wrote: Hi, my friends. I´m a new user to Debian. I have been traing to install several times your "vanilla" flavor of debian in to my cumputer. I partitioned my harddisk with MS-DOS "fdisk" command, and no I got one primary partition of about 1.5GB and another partition of about

Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?

2001-02-05 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 08:01:20PM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > I'm using a Gigabyte 6XOM7E-1 Mobo with a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster > Riva TNT. Debian 2.2r2 testing. I just installed the nvidia 0.9-6 from XFree86 >=4.01 is required. Has it made it in testing? Otherwise you have to update.

Help with dhclient

2001-02-05 Thread Cam Ellison
The man page suggests that you can specify the interface when running dhclient, but when I append "eth1" (with or without quotes) to /sbin/dhclient (as in the /etc/init.d/dhcp-client script), I get this: Bind socket to interface: No such device At the moment, dhcp is trying to bind to eth0 (this

Corrected!: Virgin question: Nvidia graphics card and agp

2001-02-05 Thread Eclectric
um, that first line should read "supported by debian" and the next line should read "does DEBIAN support agp"... I hope intel supports AGP (d'oh!) --- > My first question: are nvidia chipset cards (namely, MX) supported by > linux? When I tried to install Xfree86 v4, I wasn't given

RE: virus detection

2001-02-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Feb-2001 Paindavoine, Matthieu (MPAINDAV) wrote: > Hello, > > I posted a question earlier about a kernel panic. > I don't know exactly where to report this, but I apparently got infected by > a virus: > /etc, /sbin, /bin and so on are owned by gandalf, > 'find' has disappeared. > /var has d

Virgin question: Nvidia graphics card and agp

2001-02-05 Thread Eclectric
My first question: are nvidia chipset cards (namely, MX) supported by linux? When I tried to install Xfree86 v4, I wasn't given any option in the x-server setup that looked like it might support nvidia (though I did see one for my old sis video card).. any ideas? this was the setup after installing

virus detection

2001-02-05 Thread Paindavoine, Matthieu \(MPAINDAV\)
Hello, I posted a question earlier about a kernel panic. I don't know exactly where to report this, but I apparently got infected by a virus: /etc, /sbin, /bin and so on are owned by gandalf, 'find' has disappeared. /var has disappeared. My question is 'how do i backtrace this thing?' if at all p

Potato with helixgnome

2001-02-05 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all I would like to know if using potato, it's safe to use the helixgnome apt source line, without broking down anything (I just want to install some packages, not gnome entirely, as gimp, gnapster, xchat...). Thanks in advance.

Re: Creating a new group

2001-02-05 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Tommi Komulainen (on Mon, 05 Feb 2001 09:13:15PM +0200): > Uh oh, you'd better follow your own advice and read the manpage. > To actually create a group, one uses addgroup. wooops. slip of mind. excuse me please. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:

RE: LinuxWorld Expo in NY last week - Was Debian there?

2001-02-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Feb-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I enjoyed show very much. Commercial distros were there with BIG exhibits, > but I couldn't find my favorite: debian. Walked around small booths around > periphery, but maybe I missed it. Wasn't there a call for volunteers on this > newsgroup last

Two soundblaster

2001-02-05 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all I'm trying to configure two soundblaster 16 pnp isa in the same machine. The two cards are not the same so they should be properly recognized (both work on windows fine). I'm using 2.2.18 kernel and have compiled the sb module. I have also used isapnp.conf to setup both cards, and the conf

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread William Leese
On Monday 05 February 2001 19:13, USM Bish wrote: > On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:42:59 + > > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 05 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I've been using Konqueror at work for a week or so now after Net

Re: Creating a new group

2001-02-05 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 01:39:22PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Tom Schuetz (on Mon, 05 Feb 2001 10:29:26AM -0800): > > How do I create a new group? > > man newgrp > /usr/bin/newgrp Uh oh, you'd better follow your own advice and read the manpage. To actually create a group, one uses add

Re: Anoying flash in vi

2001-02-05 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
"set noflash" in $HOME/.exrc or /etc/vi.exrc if you're using nvi (the default vi on Debian). brian Stan Brown wrote: > How can I get rid of the anoying flash (visual bell) in vi, on a system > wide bassis? (potato)

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread USM Bish
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:42:59 + Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've been using Konqueror at work for a week or so now after Netscape > > somehow started crashing my machine hard. I must say

Re: vim window resizing

2001-02-05 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach David A. Rogers (on Mon, 05 Feb 2001 09:35:42AM -0600): > > my vim, when started from my regular 80x24 xterm, will blatantly > > proceed to resize the xterm to 80x50. i don't remember enabling such > > an option, and it's absolutely not what i want. how can i disable > > this? > You pro

Re: permission-denied

2001-02-05 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
check permissions on the script, the script is not set to be executable...as root do: chmod 777 /Setup.sh then try again... robt "T. Green" wrote: > > HELP -- NOVICE > I am tring to install software from my cdrom and i keep getting the > following responce. > bash: /Setup.sh: permission d

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 05 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > >> I've been using Konqueror at work for a week or so now after Netscape > >> somehow started crashing my machine hard. I must say that it's a very > >> nice browser, and much

Re: Creating a new group

2001-02-05 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Tom Schuetz (on Mon, 05 Feb 2001 10:29:26AM -0800): > How do I create a new group? man newgrp /usr/bin/newgrp martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "i always had a repulsive need to be something more than human."

Creating a new group

2001-02-05 Thread Tom Schuetz
How do I create a new group?

permission-denied

2001-02-05 Thread T. Green
HELP -- NOVICE I am tring to install software from my cdrom and i keep getting the following responce. bash: /Setup.sh: permission denied My question is why, i am in root. help

mc with mouse under console?

2001-02-05 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, according to the documentation of mc it should be possible to use the mouse in mc if gpm is running. Under Mandrake I was indeed able to do this also on the console, but now (debian potato) I can only do it in terminal windows under X. (gpm seems to be OK.) Any idea how I could the mouse use

Re: maple 6.01 on debian 2.2

2001-02-05 Thread Jameson Burt
I installed Maple version V successfully 2 years ago. I have had Maple version VI for 2 months. My initial installation attempt failed, so I paid for Maple VI but have not gotten it working. Maple has a licensing managerie which I successfully maneuvered. After a lapse of two months, I'll be a lit

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread Colin Watson
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 05 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: >> I've been using Konqueror at work for a week or so now after Netscape >> somehow started crashing my machine hard. I must say that it's a very >> nice browser, and much faster than Mozilla. You don't need to be runn

Problems compiling SOCKS5 on potato

2001-02-05 Thread Stan Brown
I have a Debian potato machine thta lives on a netwrok at work behing a SOCKS firewall. I tried to compile SOCKS 5 version 1 on it, and the compile failed while building the telnet client with a linker error about not finding tgetent. If memory serves me corectly the is a curses function. I selec

Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?

2001-02-05 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 04 Feb 2001 20:01:20 -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > I'm using a Gigabyte 6XOM7E-1 Mobo with a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster > Riva TNT. Debian 2.2r2 testing. I just installed the nvidia 0.9-6 from > tarball. I followed the instructions in NVIDIA_Linux.html, including > renaming /usr/X11R6/lib/

how to install iptables-1.2?

2001-02-05 Thread seg
Hi,    I am having trouble installing iptables. I fisrt compiled the 2.4.1 and "installed".  Once I booted  with 2.4.1, I unzipped the iptables-1.2.tar.bz2 file and followed the instructions in the INSTALL file. In the first step (make), the "installation" gets stuck in loop and I have to ct

Re: Potato and files > 2G

2001-02-05 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 06:54:32AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > On Mon Feb 5 00:41:24 2001 Tommy Wu wrote... > > > >"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > > >> > Catch is, I need to be able to back up partitons that will be over 2G, > >> > even > >> > after compression. > > > > try to use 'afio' to back

nic and dhcpcd trouble

2001-02-05 Thread Chris Parker
I'm running 2.2.12 with a kingston pci card using the tulip module.  It states that the eth0 is in promiscuous mode?  What does that mean?  Also i just installed dhcpcd from a tarbel but the files don't seem to be where all the how-to's say they should?  The card is connected to a surfboard4

Re: Anoying flash in vi

2001-02-05 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > How can I get rid of the anoying flash (visual bell) in vi, on a > system wide bassis? (potato) If you are using vim, you can put set vb t_vb= in /etc/vimrc to get rid of any bells and flashes. Cheers, Chris -- Got jag? http://www.tribsoft.com

Re: another quick question

2001-02-05 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > >> Simple answer, remove the cable to the speaker from you're >> computers motherboard. > > That's one way of doing it, but there may be "other issues" that > would cause problems (Debian on a

emacs: crypt++ && gpg

2001-02-05 Thread Thomas Guettler
I encrypted some files with gpg. If I want to edit them with emacs I get: "Searching for program: no such file or directory, crypt" after I typed in the password. I can decrypt them with "gpg --decrypt foo.gpg" without problems. I am using Version 2.87-2 of crypt++el (woody) in a potato system.

Re: mutt + seperate folder for lists

2001-02-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Vinod" == Vinod Kurup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Vinod> Like others have mentioned, procmail is the way to go. Here's Vinod> a nice intro to that tool. >> http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/> And when you are ready to migrate from procmail to something way more powerf

Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?

2001-02-05 Thread Romain Lerallut
You need to remove the libGL* files installed by mesa and to re-install the nvidia drivers that provide accelerated libGL* For more (any and all) info check the http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Nvidia-OpenGL-Configuration/index.html it says basically: install XFree 4 install Mesa (apt-get) rem

PS/2 & Debian 2.2 install problems

2001-02-05 Thread robhr
Has anyone gotten Debian 2.2 to install on a PS/2? I was able to get 2.0 to install and work fine, but a recent HD crash has made me rebuild the system. I can't seem to find the 2.0 install disks anywhere, so I thought I'd try 2.2 (which really is the version I want on there if possible). I have

Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?

2001-02-05 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Bartosz Bobrek wrote: > > "Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote: > > > I'm using a Gigabyte 6XOM7E-1 Mobo with a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster > > Riva TNT. Debian 2.2r2 testing. I just installed the nvidia 0.9-6 from > > tarball. I followed the instructions in NVIDIA_Linux.html, including > > renaming /usr/X

Re: KDE2

2001-02-05 Thread Tibor D.
Renai wrote: Hi, just a couple of questions - could someone tell me the apt-get command for installing kde2 on my woody machine? I've just installed woody but can't find the package name that indicates kde2. I had thought that it was part of the unstable tree somewhere. Yes, kde2 is part of

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