Re: kill: cannot kill some processes

2001-02-22 Thread Nate Amsden
Brian Stults wrote: > > As the subject indicates, there are some processes that hang and cannot > be killed. Specifically, occasionally dselect will hang while trying to > install a package. After waiting for a long time, I try both Ctrl-c and > Ctrl-z and neither will work. Then I try to kill

Re: easy sound config ?

2001-02-22 Thread Jed Strauss
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 09:00:40PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > what url did you find sndconfig on? > > Thank you I _think_ this is the one I used: http://www.dicea.unifi.it/ftp/pub/linux/debian/pool/main/s/sndconfig/ This has the right version anyway -- sndconfig_0.57-5_i386.deb>

Re: can you masq cable modem??

2001-02-22 Thread Lance Levsen
> Proably a stupid question since it is all really related to IP's > > But do you get an IP on cable just like you do DSL??? > Yes, no problem. Multi-home the gateway machine and set up ipchains for masquerading to/from your LAN. Cheers, -- Lance Levsen, Programmer Product Innovation PWGroup

Re: dist-upgrade badly broken-XFree86

2001-02-22 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks for the pointer. I've got the installs done, though there are definitely still some problems. For the benefit of those who know even less than I, before you try the dpkg you need to get or locate the corresponding .deb file. For example, I changed to the directory of the apt cache, and l

Re: can you masq cable modem??

2001-02-22 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 08:46:34PM -0800, Nick wrote: > But do you get an IP on cable just like you do DSL??? Yes. I have used IP Masquerade with my Cablevision service and 3Com cable modem on occasion, though usually I only have one PC up and running at a time. -- Carl Fink [EMA

can you masq cable modem??

2001-02-22 Thread Nick
Proably a stupid question since it is all really related to IP's   But do you get an IP on cable just like you do DSL???

Re: How to install app from source code?

2001-02-22 Thread Wes Wannemacher
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 03:41:39PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I can start gnome-session, then mount CDROM #4 from 6 disk set, and then find > the .gz and .dsc files. But that's as far as I can get. Which debian > install untility will work with these packages? I could try to do it fr

Re: pppd problems with 2.4.1

2001-02-22 Thread John Hasler
Tiarnan O Corrain writes: > for some reason pppd doesn't work under the 2.4.1 kernel. > ... > Any suggestions? Put 'kdebug 4' in /etc/ppp/options, try again, and post the result. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: pppd problems with 2.4.1

2001-02-22 Thread CaT
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 04:19:37AM +, Tiarnan O Corrain wrote: > Hey all, > > for some reason pppd doesn't work under the 2.4.1 kernel. I have a > 2.4.0 kernel installed on my computer which invokes pppd perfectly, > but when I try pon under 2.4.1, I get the following melancholy missive > (fro

pppd problems with 2.4.1

2001-02-22 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Hey all, for some reason pppd doesn't work under the 2.4.1 kernel. I have a 2.4.0 kernel installed on my computer which invokes pppd perfectly, but when I try pon under 2.4.1, I get the following melancholy missive (from watch plog)... Feb 23 04:13:29 mousetrap chat[259]: ATDT1332103001235^M^M Fe

Re: Problems with loading libraries, ldconfig, etc.

2001-02-22 Thread Brian May
> "Daniel" == Daniel Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> Hello all, I am having trouble getting a commercial app Daniel> (matlab V5.3 R11.1) to run in Debian 2.2. Mathworks (the Daniel> makers of matlab) do not support it on Debian 2.2 probably Daniel> because it is a

Re: scsi emulation

2001-02-22 Thread Roberto Diaz
Hi! Obviously you lack some module.. what scsi modules did you compile? > /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_command_size > /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_dma_free_sectors > /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_release_comm

Re: scsi emulation

2001-02-22 Thread Matthew Dalton
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > So I'm told I need scsi emulation for my IDE CD writer and xcdroast. So, I > recompile 2.2.18pre21 with scsi support, emulation and scsi cdrom support. > xcdroast still complains. [cut] > Help? http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html

scsi emulation

2001-02-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
So I'm told I need scsi emulation for my IDE CD writer and xcdroast. So, I recompile 2.2.18pre21 with scsi support, emulation and scsi cdrom support. xcdroast still complains. So, I try them as modules instead, and get this lupus:~# depmod -a depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules

Re: ldap & debian

2001-02-22 Thread Andrew Wettstein
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:50:46PM -0800, Known Human Nick Rusnov wrote: > > Well I'm having a heck of a time getting a freshly installed Potato box to > authenticate with an openldap server. > > I'm new to this whole ldap thing, is there a guide somewhere to reconfiguring > debian to use ldap f

Re: resolv.conf gets modified on boot

2001-02-22 Thread Lex McPhail
On 22 Feb 2001, at 9:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are you using pumpd and dhcp? > > Tray a /etc/pump.conf > -- > domainsearch "host.mydhcpserver.com" > > retries 3 > device eth0 { > nodns > } I'm using pumpd for dhcp. Cant seem to find much info on it and my system does not have a /etc

Re: CUPS problem

2001-02-22 Thread Andrew Wettstein
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:17:44PM -0500, David Grill Watson wrote: > I am having a very odd problem with CUPS under sid. It works fine on two > computers, but on another (with the same version of CUPS, installed at the > same time, and with nothing particularly odd about the system config) I can

Re: importing gnuplot eps into microsoft word

2001-02-22 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:48:46AM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > Word is broken with eps. If you can find an eps to wmf translator, > that'd be your best bet (I recall someone working on one somewhere...). Yes this did the trick. It looks like pstoedit (which is packaged for debian) does have an

Re: easy sound config ?

2001-02-22 Thread Jed Strauss
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 11:13:32PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I just recently made the switch from Red Hat 6 to Debian 2.2. > > On RedHat there was a little program called sndconfig that did > > a nice job of recognizing my sound card and getting sound set up > > for my system. Is there a sim

kill: cannot kill some processes

2001-02-22 Thread Brian Stults
As the subject indicates, there are some processes that hang and cannot be killed. Specifically, occasionally dselect will hang while trying to install a package. After waiting for a long time, I try both Ctrl-c and Ctrl-z and neither will work. Then I try to kill the process from another xterm.

Re: VMware install

2001-02-22 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:48:10AM +, SamBozo Debian User wrote: > So where are the C header files it wants? They're part of your the kernel source tree. If you're running one of the Debian-supplied kernels (or using kernel-package to generate your own kernel debs) you can probably just insta

Re: apt-get wants to remove gnucash!?

2001-02-22 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:31:30AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > gnucash does, or at least is planned to, use guile, so I'm not sure > it's a dependency error. You don't say what dist you are moving from > and to. I was able to install gnucash on my system, which is potato > with a bit of woody. T

booting a rescue disk

2001-02-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I picked up an old Toshiba T4700CT laptop, and I'm trying to replace win95 on it. I can't seem to get the rescue image to boot. I've tried about 3 different boot disks, tested on my P-III, and they work, but on the Toshiba I just get a "boot failed" error message. I've tried a win9

Re: rpm dependencies problem (yes, rpm!)

2001-02-22 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:13:44PM +0100, Tibor D. wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to install a software-package on Debian potato. It's "Novell > NDS 8.5". The good thing is, that it needs a 2.2-kernel and glibc > v.2.1.3, exactly what potato comes with. But: I'm unable to install that > program, beca

Re: Woody ssh exploit

2001-02-22 Thread Pollywog
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:03:53 -0700, Ray Percival said: > To solve this issue with Woody I just leave the line for the > stable security updates in my sources file. I get the security > updates before they are in Woody. Is there any reason this would > not be a good idea? That is what I do

Re: Confused! Confused! hotplug, kmod, kerneld, devfs, devfsd

2001-02-22 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
thanx.. the reason I am asking this is that I want my Visor Deluxe work under Debian using gnome pilot.. but I have no luck with compile in visor code, or modules. and I just wondering if it has anything to do with hotplug and devfsd Edwin lau On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:59:48 Ethan Benson wrote: > On

VMware install

2001-02-22 Thread SamBozo Debian User
Here is the error: - Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel. None of VMware's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this script to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C co

Re: Debian or Redhat 7???

2001-02-22 Thread Mike Fedyk
Tal Danzig wrote: > > There are no mirrors of security.debian.org (or shouldn't be) > for security reasons. > This way the authenticity of security packages can be better controlled. > > - Tal What about local mirrors? I can imagine a company with several hundred, or maybe thousands of debian wo

Bluefish install

2001-02-22 Thread SamBozo Debian User
Hi all, I want to install bluefish 0.6.1-1 however there are dependancy problems. I might have a shot at doing this on my old Mandrake box ... but with Debian 2.2 I have no clue. I tried looking with dselect but had no luck. Yes I know there is an earlier version but I don't like the featur

Problems with loading libraries, ldconfig, etc.

2001-02-22 Thread Daniel Hartman
Hello all, I am having trouble getting a commercial app (matlab V5.3 R11.1) to run in Debian 2.2. Mathworks (the makers of matlab) do not support it on Debian 2.2 probably because it is a libc5 compiled app. Here is the output I get when attempting to run matlab: $ matlab /opt/matlab/V11.1/b

ldap & debian

2001-02-22 Thread Known Human Nick Rusnov
Well I'm having a heck of a time getting a freshly installed Potato box to authenticate with an openldap server. I'm new to this whole ldap thing, is there a guide somewhere to reconfiguring debian to use ldap for things? All the guides I've found just have a pam.conf example that I'm not sure h

Re: Drivers for ASUS K7M onboard audio

2001-02-22 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Larry Fletcher wrote: >I would like to upgrade from a 486 to Duron based system, but I don't >want to have to compile a kernel. After reading the following it looks Nothing stopping you: the Duron uses the Intel 80386 instruction set with a LOT of additions. Yopu just own't

Re: Newbie Question - Corel and GNU/Linux Compatibility

2001-02-22 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Shawn Urquhart wrote: >I have a Corel distro on my laptop - it installed nicely with little >input from me. Unfortunately, that's true. It just substituted it's judgement on your hardware for yours. That sucks when you know that yours is better... >I have PURCHASED the Deb

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-22 Thread Richard Taylor
> From: "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:26:11PM -0800, Richard Taylor wrote: > >> And... then, you got the Gnome Office stuff... www.gnome.org > >The most recently is at Ximian, www.ximian.com. Abiword is maturing but >it's got a ways to go yet. >St

Re: lprng nightmare

2001-02-22 Thread Roberto Diaz
> This is a linux box.. i386 > vivaldi:~# lpd -F > Fatal error - Another print spooler is using TCP printer port - not LPRng > vivaldi:~# fuser -n tcp 515 > vivaldi:~# fuser -n udp 515 After half an hour now magically it is working.. but I am having this problem a lot of times.. each time the lpd

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-22 Thread John Galt
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Michael P. Soulier wrote: >On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:24:04PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: >> Richard Taylor wrote: >> > >> > There's Adobe's port of Framemaker or the Corel stuff... WordPerfect >> > and so forth. >> > >> >> On Linux? I didn't know. Same name? > >WordPer

Re: Confused! Confused! hotplug, kmod, kerneld, devfs, devfsd

2001-02-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:47:37PM -0500, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > It is strictly speaking not a Debian question, but since I am using > Debian... please help!! I am having trouble trying to sort out what each > one of these things do: hotplug, kmod, kerneld, devfs, devfs

Re: How to install app from source code?

2001-02-22 Thread Daniel Jones
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:41:39 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I can start gnome-session, then mount CDROM #4 from 6 disk set, and then find >the .gz and .dsc files. But that's as far as I can get. Which debian >install untility will work with these packages? I could try to do it from >command

Confused! Confused! hotplug, kmod, kerneld, devfs, devfsd

2001-02-22 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, It is strictly speaking not a Debian question, but since I am using Debian... please help!! I am having trouble trying to sort out what each one of these things do: hotplug, kmod, kerneld, devfs, devfsd. I know they are not the same, but I don't know the differences. I check o

Re: Wine

2001-02-22 Thread debuser
You need xlibosmesa3, perhaps only available under unstable. I believe the wine package incorrectly does not list this as a dependency. On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > Has anyone had any experience with using wine? I am currently doing alot of > web development at work and _really_

Re: Dell 4200 w/perc3 raid

2001-02-22 Thread Rich Puhek
Bryan, See the following for PERC/3 info. The first one has Debian disk images and kernel patches that will work great to install the PERC/3. I've never tried it on a 4200, but I have installed on an 2450. http://www.merilus.com/~kevin/aacraid.html http://domsch.com/linux/ --Rich "Josep Llau

lprng nightmare

2001-02-22 Thread Roberto Diaz
Hi... This is a linux box.. i386 vivaldi:~# lpd -F Fatal error - Another print spooler is using TCP printer port - not LPRng vivaldi:~# fuser -n tcp 515 vivaldi:~# fuser -n udp 515 Regards Roberto Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL

Re: How to get GNUCash in Sid?

2001-02-22 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:59:38 -0500 (EST) Burton Windle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know that bug reports have already been filled wrt GNUCash not being > able to be installed in Sid. Are there any work-arounds, or other ways to > get GNUCash usable in Sid now? Or do I just have to wait for new

Re: rpm dependencies problem (yes, rpm!)

2001-02-22 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, > I'm trying to install a software-package on Debian potato. It's "Novell > NDS 8.5". Unfortunately, Novell's NDS stuff probably won't run on Debian. Yes, you can debianize the .rpms,

Mutiple X servers for login in network

2001-02-22 Thread Mike G
Hi I'm just wonderind how can I make xdm point to a different machine. I'd like to have 4 xdm terminals available in my main box, I can do currently that, but They all point to the same (local) machine, I'd like to these xdm screens to let me login in a different computer in my network..

Yesterday's dist-upgrade broke qt

2001-02-22 Thread Andreas Goesele
Viktor Rosenfeld writes: > Hi folks, > > I did a "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" yesterday to the latest > woody tree. IIRC, it only upgrade three libs: libmng, libqt2.2, and > liblcms according to /var/cache/apt/archives. > > Well, today I log into my machine to realize that the

Re: where to get woody iso images

2001-02-22 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 02:11:09PM -0800, Matheson Cameron wrote: > Hey, > > I was wondering where I could get iso images for > Debian woody. I found the potato mirrors, but they > didn't have 2.3. AFAIK, there are no official images for woody just yet. After all, it's still being developed and

Re: "Can't open display" problems

2001-02-22 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:46:27PM -0500, Trevor Wood wrote: > > I just upgraded from potato to woody and found that I cannot open my > display for X apps anymore. My hostname is MEDESIGN, so I used to set my > DISPLAY environment variable to MEDESIGN:0. Now I have to set it to :0.0 > to run loc

rdist as root

2001-02-22 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi, I would like to migrate to a new server. It seems like a good idea to use rdist to keep the various config files in synce between the machines. This works very well if I run rdist as ordunary user, but not as root. This is required to be able to work with files in /etc. I get 'Connection refuse

Re: rpm dependencies problem (yes, rpm!)

2001-02-22 Thread John Griffiths
>I'm trying to install a software-package on Debian potato. It's "Novell >NDS 8.5". The good thing is, that it needs a 2.2-kernel and glibc >v.2.1.3, exactly what potato comes with. But: I'm unable to install that >program, because it's installation is really dirty. On the install-CD, >there ar

where to get woody iso images

2001-02-22 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I was wondering where I could get iso images for Debian woody. I found the potato mirrors, but they didn't have 2.3. Thanks Cameron Matheson __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices! http://auctions.yahoo.

rpm dependencies problem (yes, rpm!)

2001-02-22 Thread Tibor D.
Hi, I'm trying to install a software-package on Debian potato. It's "Novell NDS 8.5". The good thing is, that it needs a 2.2-kernel and glibc v.2.1.3, exactly what potato comes with. But: I'm unable to install that program, because it's installation is really dirty. On the install-CD, there ar

Re: "Can't open display" problems

2001-02-22 Thread Robert L. Harris
On your local machine you need to edit "/etc/X11/xinit/xserverc". There's a nice line that contains "-nolisten tcp" in it. Remove that and restart X. I had the same problem. Robert Thus spake Trevor Wood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I just upgraded from potato to woody and found that I cannot

How to get GNUCash in Sid?

2001-02-22 Thread Burton Windle
I know that bug reports have already been filled wrt GNUCash not being able to be installed in Sid. Are there any work-arounds, or other ways to get GNUCash usable in Sid now? Or do I just have to wait for new (guile | gnucash| etc) packages, and curse the day I ignored the meaning of unstable? ;-)

Re: IBM Thinkpad install

2001-02-22 Thread jgoerz
Cool, I thought it might be that, but I just wasn't sure. He's only got 8 MB ?!! Can you believe they even made computers with that much ;-). What's the work around? Is there any way to copy the floppies directly onto the hard drive without being on a network (he doesn't have a modem/nic for i

Re: dist-upgrade badly broken-XFree86

2001-02-22 Thread Lance Levsen
> I just rendered my system basically unusable doing an apt-get dist-upgrade. > I was aiming for woody; my system was potato + bits of woody. The problem > seems to be with XFree86; I was on 3.3. > > I had debug logging enabled on apt-get, so I can provide gory details. But > here are the high

"Can't open display" problems

2001-02-22 Thread Trevor Wood
I just upgraded from potato to woody and found that I cannot open my display for X apps anymore. My hostname is MEDESIGN, so I used to set my DISPLAY environment variable to MEDESIGN:0. Now I have to set it to :0.0 to run local X apps. However, this won't work when I try to run an X applicati

Re: Major panic after upgrade

2001-02-22 Thread Rick Rezinas
That's kinda hectic. Check in /var/cache/apt/archives for good apts, and such and dpkg -i the stuff. That's what I did when I've blown my system in some special way. Perhaps someone has a better solution... just a note, I think that when you want things like this you want to pull down the sou

dist-upgrade badly broken-XFree86

2001-02-22 Thread Ross Boylan
I just rendered my system basically unusable doing an apt-get dist-upgrade. I was aiming for woody; my system was potato + bits of woody. The problem seems to be with XFree86; I was on 3.3. I had debug logging enabled on apt-get, so I can provide gory details. But here are the highlights: Pr

Re: Missing C Lib man pages

2001-02-22 Thread Shaul Karl
> I don't have a file named /usr/share/man/man3/abs.3.gz ??? Do you know > where I can get the file? I still can't do man strcpy. Thanks for your help. > Thus spake Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): You need to install the manpages-dev package (apt-get install manpages-dev). You might also consid

Major panic after upgrade

2001-02-22 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi. I seem to have messed up big time! I wanted to install onsite-timesheet on my potato box. Because this was in 'unstable', I edited my source.list to point to unstable. The installation upgraded a whole lot more than I wanted: perl, postgresql, and libc6. Now I am unable to do abount anything be

Re: multiple cards in X 3.3.6

2001-02-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Igor Mozetic wrote: > > I would like to use another video card instead of the > on-board PCI Cirrus Logic GD5480. The question is: > how to convince X (or kernel?) to use the new PCI one, > instead of the hard-wired on-board one? take a look at bios settings, you might be able to disable on-boa

Kernel 2.4.1 Mis-configuring 3c509b NIC

2001-02-22 Thread Mike Kuhar
I can start up kernel 2.2.17 and the 3c509b Nic has the proper address and intr, 0210 and 03. However, when I startup kernel 2.4.1, the NIC gets configured as 0220 12. Am I doing something wrong here, or is this some kind of bug? One more question, where can I find the source for getty? Mike Ku

Re: CUPS problem

2001-02-22 Thread Olaf Foellinger
* David Grill Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [22.02.01 16:48]wrote: > I am having a very odd problem with CUPS under sid. It works fine on two > computers, but on another (with the same version of CUPS, installed at the > same time, and with nothing particularly odd about the system config) I can >

How to install app from source code?

2001-02-22 Thread DTi4565459
I can start gnome-session, then mount CDROM #4 from 6 disk set, and then find the .gz and .dsc files. But that's as far as I can get. Which debian install untility will work with these packages? I could try to do it from command line if that would help. If I click on a .tar.gz file the Olde

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-22 Thread Andrew Perrin
Not necessarily - ssh often also compresses data, which means you may very well get equal or better throughput through a secure connection. -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology Chapel Hill, North

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-22 Thread Vadim A Kutsyy
But faster, right? On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Well, not exactly 'forwarding' - setting DISPLAY that way will simply make > the remote machine display to your X server; it's not forwarded, just > directly displayed. And you're correct - it's not secure. > > --

sound in gnome-sawfish

2001-02-22 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi to all! I am running potato 2.2r2 with 2.2.17 kerner and ximian-gnome. The default window manager is sawfish. I use the SB module in order to play CDs in my system without problems. But when I enter the Gnome control center and select multimidia/sound/general and "enable sound server at

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Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-22 Thread Andrew Perrin
Well, not exactly 'forwarding' - setting DISPLAY that way will simply make the remote machine display to your X server; it's not forwarded, just directly displayed. And you're correct - it's not secure. -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D.

Never mind ... RE: Where do Progeny questions/bug reports go?

2001-02-22 Thread Christian Aeschliman
Ok, I'm a dork: http://bugs.progeny.com/ http://www.progeny.com/debian/lists/ http://www.progeny.com/debian/beta/ Thanks anyways, folks. -Christian > -Original Message- > From: Christian Aeschliman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 11:17 AM > To: Debian Use

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-22 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
Joseph Dane wrote: > local> ssh -X remote > remote> DISPLAY="" xlogo > If you cleared the DISPLAY variable the client ('xlogo', in this case) > won't know how to contact the X server. Correct me if I am wrong, but setting DISPLAY=your.computer.ip:0.0 will create non secure X forwarding, which is

Re: resolv.conf gets modified on boot

2001-02-22 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Gavin Hamill wrote: > > How to pass that flag when dhcpcd is called from /etc/network/interfaces? > > Ooh :/ That's a good question... Don't know, sorry.. the dhcpcd man page > doesn't seem to suggest that dhcpcd reads a global conf-file or anything > :( You could do chattr

Re: Onshore TimeSheet

2001-02-22 Thread Bob Hilliard
Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, does anyone have any experience with the Onshore Timesheet > application? bob:vc-/3:bob>apt-cache show onshore-timesheet Package: onshore-timesheet Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 748 Maintainer: Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: apt-get wants to remove gnucash!?

2001-02-22 Thread Ross Boylan
gnucash does, or at least is planned to, use guile, so I'm not sure it's a dependency error. You don't say what dist you are moving from and to. I was able to install gnucash on my system, which is potato with a bit of woody. On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:53:55PM +1100, Jonathan David Wheelhouse wr

Where do Progeny questions/bug reports go?

2001-02-22 Thread Christian Aeschliman
Hello everybody. I'm having some Progeny problems and I'm wondering where to direct my questions to. I looked all over their site and found a mailing list, but so far I haven't received anything but subscription confirmations from it. I can't find any other information about this mailing list a

Right mouse button.

2001-02-22 Thread Lance Levsen
X recently got updated in unstable and all of a sudden my right mouse button stopped working. Attached is the relevant pointer section. If anyone has an idea why this may have happened TIA. FWIW, gpm still works with the right button. Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse"

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-22 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Ralf" == Ralf G R Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralf> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:22:53 +0100, Andre Berger wrote: >>> '-X' option. note also that if your .bashrc (or whatever) on the >>> remote machine sets the DISPLAY variable, then this won't work. >> So I have to stop a running X s

automating updates?

2001-02-22 Thread Robert L. Harris
I currently have a cronjob that does a "apt-get update && apt-get -d -y dist-upgrade" to get all the updates local to my box each night. Is there a way to tell apt to install any packages that won't require human intervention? aka install anything that doesn't require me to choose a keybo

Re: hogyan kezdjek neki a debiannak?

2001-02-22 Thread Glyn Millington
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:40:49PM +0100, thus spake Cseh Tamás:. > Sajnos nem tudok angolul és még program nyelveket sem > ismerek.(de ami késeik az nem mulik) De ez egy angol "lista". www.debian.org - nal van egy magyar "level (page?) Az hasnos neki. Minden jot Glyn M.(Felesegem magy

Sendmail work as smtp server for internal private subnet

2001-02-22 Thread Brian Lavender
I have sendmail on my gateway box which has a dynamic IP. How do I make it so it will allow the internal hosts which are on a 192.168.1.x subnet use it as their smtp server? brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/

apt-get, dpkg, sources lists and other exciting entities

2001-02-22 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi, About a week ago one of the reiserfs filing systems on my computer decided to go pop, and wiped off /var. No backups. So I was pretty much stumped and have spent the last week reinstalling from my potato disks. Last night I finally got my internet connection up and running properly, and as I'

Re: Missing C Lib man pages

2001-02-22 Thread Todd V . Rovito
This lists all my man pages and I don't see it in the list. Do you know where I can get the man page package for the C lib? I can't do man strcpy. Any help would be great? Thus spake Matthew Dalton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "Todd V . Rovito" wrote: > > > > It seems like I am missing my standard C m

Re: Missing C Lib man pages

2001-02-22 Thread Todd V . Rovito
I don't have a file named /usr/share/man/man3/abs.3.gz ??? Do you know where I can get the file? I still can't do man strcpy. Thanks for your help. Thus spake Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > It seems like I am missing my standard C man pages. > > Is there a way to get these installed?? I am

Need specialty disk for aic 7770 install, please help

2001-02-22 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
--- Nuhn Yobiznez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all! > I need to ask a favor of the list. A few years > ago > > I was doing an install on my Intergraph TD-3 and ran > into a problem w/ the install freezing after SCSI > initialization. Dave GRegory gave me the helpful > link > to a custom sl

SSLwrap certificates

2001-02-22 Thread Nate Amsden
is there any way to get dpkg-reconfigure sslwrap to generate a key for 365 days? i can do it manually but i always forget the commands and am tired of having to do it 4 times a month for 4 different servers as reconfigure only generates a cert that is valid for 1 month. thanks nate -- ::: I

Re: Samba &| VFS

2001-02-22 Thread Rob Hudson
Actually, I think that is what happened. When I ran 'ps ax', I saw screenfuls of 'nmdb -a'. I made a small modification to the smb.conf file and they seemed to go away - so did my VFS file-max problems. > On 20010222.1450, F.P. Groeneveld said ... > > Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > :

Re: IBM Thinkpad install

2001-02-22 Thread Pollywog
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 08:19:34 -0800, Nate Amsden said: > > system is out of memory. known kernel bug(started in 2.2.11) how much > memory > do you have? the lowest end machine ive ever installed debian 2.2 on is > a 64mb machine. > I installed Debian on a ThinkPad 560 with only 8MB RAM.

Re: resolv.conf gets modified on boot

2001-02-22 Thread Gavin Hamill
> > I can't speak for 'pump' but if you're using dhcpcd, try 'dhcpcd -R' - > > that'll prevent it from updating your resolv.conf :) > > How to pass that flag when dhcpcd is called from /etc/network/interfaces? Ooh :/ That's a good question... Don't know, sorry.. the dhcpcd man page doesn't seem t

hogyan kezdjek neki a debiannak?

2001-02-22 Thread Tamás
Helló Nos annyit elmondanék magamról hogy használok dos-t is és sajnos win-t is. Mind két rendszert elég jól ismerem.(már a hátam mögött van legalább 15 win95 és 15-20 win98 telepítés, Dos-t nem telepítettem annyiszor mert az nem hal meg minden kis problémánál, de ezzel is e

Re: IBM Thinkpad install

2001-02-22 Thread Nate Amsden
Jesse Goerz wrote: > > I'm trying to help a friend of mine install Debian 2.2r0 onto an IBM Thinkpad > 365XD. It boots the rescue disk just fine using the default options, but > when I try to boot the second floppy (root.bin) it gives me the following > error: > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages syste

Re: staroffice 5.1 german version, where?

2001-02-22 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:55:24AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, you're posting without a Realname and your lines are too long. Please fix this. > I need staroffice 5.1 german version, but I can't find it at Sun's pages > anymore, and 5.2 is way to big for my harddrive. Does anyone know wh

Uninstall, Reinstall and Reconfigure XFree86 4.0.2

2001-02-22 Thread John Johnson
Forgive the newbie question, but is there an easy way to remove X in its entirety and reinstall it? I've installed woody and everything but X is working like a champ. Thanks, John __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great

Re: resolv.conf gets modified on boot

2001-02-22 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 09:22:41AM +, Gavin Hamill wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Lex McPhail wrote: > > > Using DHCP - will try using a static IP and see what happens. Thanks for > > the info. > > I can't speak for 'pump' but if you're using dhcpcd, try 'dhcpcd -R' - > that'll prevent it fro

Hiding my 2nd partition?

2001-02-22 Thread C. Schanck
As I was merrily doing a dist-upgrade this week (and go caught in the perl mess ;-), I encountered another problem. *Something* I upgraded this week out of unstable, my bet being lilo, keeps hiding my second fat partition. My structure is something like this: /dev/hda1 NTFS, NT 4.0 SP5 /dev/hda2 F

latin2 fonts in X

2001-02-22 Thread Michal F. Hanula
Is there a way to force X to use latin2 fonts by default? (ie. unless an application chooses to use other fonts) aTdHvAaNnKcSe Miso&Frankie -- Nietzsche is dead. pgppd7pQz61vO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: resolv.conf gets modified on boot

2001-02-22 Thread hanasaki
Are you using pumpd and dhcp? Tray a /etc/pump.conf -- domainsearch "host.mydhcpserver.com" retries 3 device eth0 { nodns } -- On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Lex McPhail wrote: > Hi All > > I'm a newbie to Linux and trying to setup a firewall / masq system on > a computer with 2 ethernet cards

Yesterday's dist-upgrade broke qt

2001-02-22 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi folks, I did a "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" yesterday to the latest woody tree. IIRC, it only upgrade three libs: libmng, libqt2.2, and liblcms according to /var/cache/apt/archives. Well, today I log into my machine to realize that the desktop background of KDE2 is broken. When I

Re: Samba &| VFS

2001-02-22 Thread F.P. Groeneveld
Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : check ulimit. from the sounds of it your running a very busy server. : try ulimit -u 1024 and restart samba (from the same shell). if : that works i would add it to the samba scripts in /etc/init.d or : something : to make it take affect the next time you re

Minimal news server

2001-02-22 Thread Brian McGroarty
Which of the packaged news servers would be a good choice for a purely internal server? I don't need to link to outside newsgroups. I just want something that I can install on minimal hardware and walk away from.

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