Re: Sound for onboard VIA chipset?

2001-03-03 Thread Jens Gecius
Jeffrey Nowakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My motherboard has a builtin sound card using the VIA VT82C686A > chipset, but when I try to load sound support with: > > # modprobe via82cxxx > > I get the following: > > /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy > Hint

xine and Xv

2001-03-03 Thread Igor Khavkine
I'm trying to play an MPEG file using xine (latest from unstable). However I cannot run xine without the -s option (that means: use a shared memory segment instead of the Xv extention for output). As a result I can't run it full screen. The output of xvinfo is: X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen

Re: debian on del poweredge 4200

2001-03-03 Thread Ron Peterson
andy wrote: > > i took the resultant megaraid.o file, stuck it on a floppy in /boot, > then tried to load it at the appropriate point in the install. load failed. I believe the module needs to exist on the floppy in the same folder as in the final install. E.G. - /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/

Re: upgrading libc6 from 2.1 to 2.2 - trouble brewing?

2001-03-03 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 08:59:57PM -0500, Colin Cashman wrote: > Tonight I tried to install the latest version of ssh onto my system, but I > wasn't paying close enough attention to the dependencies. Ssh 2.5.1p1 > requires libc-2.2.1-2 or higher, and potato uses libc6-2.1.3-15. > > I have a vague

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Re: shell script experts pls help a lost soul

2001-03-03 Thread Ron Peterson
john smith wrote: > > hi, > > I am having some problems creating some sample scripts...hoping that > somebody can lend a helping hand. > > #!/bin/sh > if test -x $1 > then whoami; > echo $1 > fi > > Yes I know my script sucks but I'm just learning..anyway, my questions are: > > 1. my script do

Re: [OT] postgresql triggers

2001-03-03 Thread Ron Peterson
will trillich wrote: > when i expand this and try to add a SELECT on other tables, or an > UPDATE to another table or two, postgresql gripes about > > NEW used in non-RULE query... Could you provide an example of what *doesn't* work? -Ron- GPG and other info at: http://www.yellowbank.

Re: upgrading libc6 from 2.1 to 2.2 - trouble brewing?

2001-03-03 Thread David Purton
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Colin Cashman wrote: > Tonight I tried to install the latest version of ssh onto my system, but I > wasn't paying close enough attention to the dependencies. Ssh 2.5.1p1 > requires libc-2.2.1-2 or higher, and potato uses libc6-2.1.3-15. > > I have a vague recollection of probl

Re: C editor

2001-03-03 Thread John L. Fjellstad
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 07:22:21PM -0800, scud wrote: > Hi everybody, > I just wonder, what software do you use for C/C++ programing. > - SCUD Depends on the size of the program. For big programs, I'm more familiar with Emacs. But for short, hello world types, I like vim. -- John___

Re: red-carpet

2001-03-03 Thread John Foster
Eileen Orbell wrote: > > Hi, > > I was trying to install red-carpet but ran into this little hitch: > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: >red-carpet: Depends: libgnet0 but it is not installable >Depends: libgnomeprint11 (>= 0.25-helix1) but 0.24-helix2

shell script experts pls help a lost soul

2001-03-03 Thread john smith
hi, I am having some problems creating some sample scripts...hoping that somebody can lend a helping hand. #!/bin/sh if test -x $1 then whoami; echo $1 fi Yes I know my script sucks but I'm just learning..anyway, my questions are: 1. my script doesn't seem to display the script name together

Re: xfree4.0 and 3d accel

2001-03-03 Thread David Purton
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > Cool. Are there instructions anywhere on getting Quake working? I'm going > through the howto, but I'm missing libraries apparently: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] quake]$ ldd quake.x11 > libm.so.5 => not found > libX11.so.6 => not found >

Re: C editor

2001-03-03 Thread RAccess
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, scud wrote: > Hi everybody, > I just wonder, what software do you use for C/C++ programing. > - SCUD > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Emacs Emacs Emacs Emacs Emacs Emacs Emacs Emacs

Re: C editor

2001-03-03 Thread John Galt
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, scud wrote: >Hi everybody, >I just wonder, what software do you use for C/C++ programing. >- SCUD Vi and g++ :) > > -- There is an old saying that if a million monkeys typed on a million keyboards for a million years, eventually all the works of Shakespeare would be produce

Re: HPDeskjet692c fails to install

2001-03-03 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 19:01, Jacques Bourdouxhe wrote: > Hi, > I'M a newbie and I almost competely managed to install the 2.2 Distro. > The problem is with the lp device driver module installation. > The printer is a HP Deskjet 692C > Parallel port parameters as displayed by ( vomit ) Win98: > io

Re: P2P Networking Question

2001-03-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Make sure to setup protocol with MS-TCP/IP for DOZE. install howto and read under /usr/share/doc/HOWTO # apt-get install doc-linux-text Start playing with fixed IP. (lmhost) Then think about running DHCP. www.linuxdoc.org is always good place to start. www.linux.com is another one. Osamu On

C editor

2001-03-03 Thread scud
Hi everybody, I just wonder, what software do you use for C/C++ programing. - SCUD

[OT] postgresql triggers

2001-03-03 Thread will trillich
i'm posting questions like this to the postgresql-general list, and am deafened by the silence, so i'll try here. (you folks don't know when to quit when it comes to helping newbies... :) postgresql 7.0.3 / potato direct from the documentation (.../postgresql-doc/html/user/c40874340.htm) here's a

RE: Getting to the GUI...

2001-03-03 Thread Rick Commo
Ahh... Don't give up yet, there's still my sound card to configure! The next step will be a little harder... figuring out how to get either GNOME or KDE installed. That ought to be good for the other 4 weeks! On the other hand, I was very pleased to get networking up in under an hour. Let's

red-carpet

2001-03-03 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, I was trying to install red-carpet but ran into this little hitch: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: red-carpet: Depends: libgnet0 but it is not installable Depends: libgnomeprint11 (>= 0.25-helix1) but 0.24-helix2 is to be installed Dep

Re: [OT] vmware / boot floppy

2001-03-03 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 06:41:23PM -0800, Jeff Goodman wrote: > Did you set the VMWare BIOS to boot from the floppy? Yes kent > > - Original Message - > From: "ktb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 10:47 AM > Subject: [OT] vmware / boot floppy > > > > I'm try

when to install?

2001-03-03 Thread Ian Turner
I have two, maybe three machines - one of which is a laptop - that I would like to install Debian on. I know Woody's been frozen, so I'd like to help test the install process of that (especially WRT the laptop). So my question is - when would the best time to be to perform this install? Ian

Re: X Setup

2001-03-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 08:17:17PM -, Jesse Lee wrote: > I installed X windows 4.0.1 and all the packages (including debconf). > I got no dependency errors(I downloaded ALL files for X from the website). > The config program never ran. I've even tried reistalling and > dpkg-reconfigure. XF86S

Re: [OT] vmware / boot floppy

2001-03-03 Thread Jeff Goodman
Did you set the VMWare BIOS to boot from the floppy? - Original Message - From: "ktb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 10:47 AM Subject: [OT] vmware / boot floppy > I'm trying to set up vmware in order to test debian boot floppys. > VMware installed fine on slink,

upgrading libc6 from 2.1 to 2.2 - trouble brewing?

2001-03-03 Thread Colin Cashman
Tonight I tried to install the latest version of ssh onto my system, but I wasn't paying close enough attention to the dependencies. Ssh 2.5.1p1 requires libc-2.2.1-2 or higher, and potato uses libc6-2.1.3-15. I have a vague recollection of problems running apps using libc-2.1 with libc-2.2, so I

Re: Optical mice

2001-03-03 Thread Kent Pirkle
I'm using a Logitech Wheel Mouse, which is optical and I paid $29.99 at OfficeMax. Works great under Debian! Kent On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:22:52PM +, Lee Elliott wrote: > Hello List, > > Would anyone care to recommend any optical wheel mice for use with > Debian - that is, optical mice wi

Re: P2P Networking Question

2001-03-03 Thread Jason Nord
>be sure both machines have ips on the same network, be sure both >machines are using the same subnet mask, be sure the cable is the >right kind and/or be sure your hub/switch works. They have consecutive IP's (192.168.1.1 and .2), and they're connected with a crosswired UTP cable. Mask is 255.25

RE: P2P Networking Question

2001-03-03 Thread Jason Nord
IP Addresses: Win: 192.168.1.2 Debian: 192.168.1.1   Subnet Mask: tried both 255.255.0.0 and 255.255.255.0 *** REPLY SEPARATOR ***On 03/03/01 at 4:14 PM Rob Zietlow wrote: what IP addresses and subnet mask are you running? -Original Message-From: Jason Nord

Re: Getting to the GUI...

2001-03-03 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 10:04:07AM -0800, Rick Commo wrote: > So here I sit looking at potato running WindowMaker and scratching my head! > But before I launch into the saga let me thank all who replied to my posts, > especially Manuel Reiter and David Wright. Besides giving me some insights, > th

Re: apt-get package listing question

2001-03-03 Thread aphro
try apt-get update first before apt-get install unzip possible there is a newer version and the packing listing you have is outdated. nate On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 07:39:03PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > I'm new to Debian, and I have a question about apt-get and why some > files are missing fro

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:27:04PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:26:44AM -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > <...> > > > kmself's point is that the file isn't deleted until the process stops > > using it.

Re: P2P Networking Question

2001-03-03 Thread aphro
be sure both machines have ips on the same network, be sure both machines are using the same subnet mask, be sure the cable is the right kind and/or be sure your hub/switch works. any basic networking book/page will describe this. no special setups to enable TCP/IP communications between a win32

nis problem with "testing"

2001-03-03 Thread paolo pedaletti
Ciao, I have look around for the solution of this problem, but untill now I haven't find the "right" solutions (= no more problem :-) Shortly: etc# id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) gruppi=0(root) etc# ypcat passwd nis01:x:1001:1001:untente nis 01,,,:/home/nis01:/bin/bash nis02:x:1002:1002:utente nis 02,

HPDeskjet692c fails to install

2001-03-03 Thread Jacques Bourdouxhe
Hi, I'M a newbie and I almost competely managed to install the 2.2 Distro. The problem is with the lp device driver module installation. The printer is a HP Deskjet 692C Parallel port parameters as displayed by ( vomit ) Win98: io=0x378 irq=7 I'm following the instruction as by "Installing De

A warning message in ps...

2001-03-03 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Another thing... Why if I run a ps command, appears the message: Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.17 does not match kernel data I have a 2.2.17 kernel version... TIA Rogelio

Re: [OT] vmware / boot floppy

2001-03-03 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 04:40:56PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:47:51PM -0600, ktb wrote: > > I'm trying to set up vmware in order to test debian boot floppys. > > VMware installed fine on slink, 2.4.1 kernel. > > The problem I'm having is when I try to install po

How to install php4 (woody)

2001-03-03 Thread George A. Dowding
I am trying to install php4 and I get this message: php4 depends on apache-common (<< 1.3.9.1) -- Thanks, George A. Dowding +1.907.563.3474 http://www.scifish.com/~george/

PPP problem

2001-03-03 Thread Javier Sieben
Dear sirs: I'm new to Debian's (and Linux) world. I've installed Debian 2.2 "Potato" and now I trying to make a connection with my ISP. The problem is at pppd. Here is my log Mar 3 15:09:58 PrimerAnillo kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Mar 3 15:09:58 P

About NFS -NIS

2001-03-03 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hello! I've a Debian potato as my LAN server (proxy,DNS) and I want to configure it as a NFS+NIS server. I want my server has all my user account instead to have all the user account repeated in all my workstations. I know that NFS+NIS is my answer and I'd read NFS and NIS howto but I want to k

Re: making thumbnails

2001-03-03 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 05:58:48PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 04:32:57PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > Hey people. Is there an easy way to make thumbnails for large numbers of > > images? I'm thinking of Image Magick, but the mogrify -geometry argument > >

potato and kernel 2.4.1

2001-03-03 Thread Gary L. Dolan
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 08:48:33PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Ankit Jain wrote: > > > I have a fresh installation of Debian 2.2r2(Potato) with kernel > > 2.2.18pre21. I compiled and installed kernel 2.4.1 (following > > the instructions given in kernel-package) It installed fi

debian on del poweredge 4200

2001-03-03 Thread andy
i'm trying to reinstall linux on a dell poweredge 4200 with an ami megaraid (perc2) controller. currently the system is running slackware, but i'd like to get debian on the box. i was wondering if i am approaching this the wrong way, or what mistakes i am making. the 2.2r2 boot floppies are base

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX Probs W. 2.4.2

2001-03-03 Thread James Moody
Try using the 2.4.x ac kernel series (ftp..kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/) as it has a patch in it that recognizes the new DLink 530 cards. The PCI ID of these cards changed at some point, instead of identifying themselves as realtek 8139, they now identify themselves as actual dlink

Re: making thumbnails

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 04:32:57PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. Is there an easy way to make thumbnails for large numbers of > images? I'm thinking of Image Magick, but the mogrify -geometry argument > doesn't maintain the aspect ratio. Oh wait, it _does_ maintain the as

creating firewalls

2001-03-03 Thread Brian May
Hello, I have decided on a really cool(TM) way to setup firewall rules on Linux, so decided to post here to share with the rest of the world. Comments welcome. It is specific for iptables, but that is only because I am too lazy to maintain anything before that. ipchains should work fine too, but

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 10:35:06AM +0100, Matthias Wieser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 2Q: > In what package can I find fuser? > in What package can I find lsof? $ apt-cache search lsof lsof-2.2 - List open files. lsof-2.0.36 - List open files. $ apt-cache search fuser psmis

Re: making thumbnails

2001-03-03 Thread RAccess
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. Is there an easy way to make thumbnails for large numbers of > images? I'm thinking of Image Magick, but the mogrify -geometry argument > doesn't maintain the aspect ratio. > > Mike > > -- > Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Brian May
> "kmself" == kmself writes: kmself> Not strictly. You can track things down through lsof or kmself> the /proc filesystem, but it's hard to work out what files kmself> are then accounting for large amounts of disk utilization. kmself> In other words -- it's a hell of a lot e

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 2)

2001-03-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
I have prepared the packages needed to run kernels up to 2.4.2 on a Debian 2.2r2 (potato) system. Please read [1] for more information. Changes since the last release: + added: kernel-source-2.4.2 Binary packages: o kernel-doc-2.4.2 o kernel-so

X, G400, and mouse fd

2001-03-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
Where can I find TFM on setting up hardware acceleration for a Matrox G400 AGP? Is it worth doing this under X 3.3.6 or will it be less trouble to make the jump to X 4.0.2 and set up acceleration there? Also, I'm doing this for the sake of playing Loki's games, which are all hellbent on using 16

Re: [OT] OpenGL Experiance

2001-03-03 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 08:12:34PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > Anyone have OpenGL experience? I'm porting my companies > engineering software from HP/IBM/SGI UNIX systems to Linux. > Our graphics take advantage of OpenGL. From what I can see > OpenGL is a set of graphics libraries that n

xa+cv, mozilla instabillity et al: SOLVED?

2001-03-03 Thread Glenn Becker
All, I appealed to some users on the debian-chinese-big5 list re: my questions about locales, etc ... mainly why, since I had reset all locale values to the default "C" value, I was still seeing character replacement in Netscape, etc (specifically, Chinese characters getting plopped in where othe

testing upgrade weird

2001-03-03 Thread Rick Rezinas
Hi, I was just about to update my system with apt-get dselect-upgrade (testing) and noticed that a lot of stuff is going away like lilo, perl-5.005, tetex. Lots of stuff that I'd rather hang on to. The line: Need to get 30.3MB/33.9MB of archives. After unpacking 152MB will be freed. was what

Sound for onboard VIA chipset?

2001-03-03 Thread Jeffrey Nowakowski
My motherboard has a builtin sound card using the VIA VT82C686A chipset, but when I try to load sound support with: # modprobe via82cxxx I get the following: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, includi

Re: making thumbnails

2001-03-03 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 03 March 2001 15:32, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. Is there an easy way to make thumbnails for large > numbers of images? I'm thinking of Image Magick, but the mogrify > -geometry argument doesn't maintain the aspect ratio. I used to have a python module that would genera

Re: Debian site down?

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 04:26:08PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > > Wondering if anyone else is finding the main Debian site inaccessible > this afternoon ... > > It's been hours since I've been able to pull up the site and I was hoping > it was not just me ... Works for me. Mike -- Mi

Re: [OT] vmware / boot floppy

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:47:51PM -0600, ktb wrote: > I'm trying to set up vmware in order to test debian boot floppys. > VMware installed fine on slink, 2.4.1 kernel. > The problem I'm having is when I try to install potato as a test with > boot.bin I get the message, "Operating system not fou

Re: manually installing mozilla plugins

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 08:46:20AM -0800, Dave Carrigan wrote: > > Just load it into mozilla. i.e., load the URL > > file:///path/to/jre.xpi > > Mozilla will offer to install the plugin, and do a bunch of stuff then > hang. Then, you get out of mozilla, cd to the plugins directory and > > ln

making thumbnails

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. Is there an easy way to make thumbnails for large numbers of images? I'm thinking of Image Magick, but the mogrify -geometry argument doesn't maintain the aspect ratio. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this

Re: Debian site down?

2001-03-03 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 03 March 2001 15:26, Glenn Becker wrote: > Wondering if anyone else is finding the main Debian site inaccessible > this afternoon ... > > It's been hours since I've been able to pull up the site and I was > hoping it was not just me ... Hmm. I just went right to it -- no apparent pro

Re: Debian site down?

2001-03-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Wondering if anyone else is finding the main Debian > site inaccessible this afternoon ... > > It's been hours since I've been able to pull up the site > and I was hoping it was not just me ... It appears to be "just you"... ;-) I just checked the site and it's there. Hall

Debian site down?

2001-03-03 Thread Glenn Becker
Wondering if anyone else is finding the main Debian site inaccessible this afternoon ... It's been hours since I've been able to pull up the site and I was hoping it was not just me ... Glenn Becker Online Producer, Community SCIFI.COM

Absolutely REAL MONEY!!!!!

2001-03-03 Thread dogreadswell
ABSOLUTELY REAL MONEY This is a very effective way to earn money using Internet. All you need is to spend about 2-3 hours/ day. You may earn up to $50.000 in a couple of months!!! Or up to $300.000 per year It's not a joke - this is absolutely real money - I'm already receiving them!

Re: HP LJ III with Jet Direct and Linux

2001-03-03 Thread robhr
> on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 01:30:11PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have an old HP Laserjet III with an old JetDirect card in it that I > > have purchaed used. I have to use the parallel port to print to it, > > but would like to use the network card instead. It was con

Re: /usr/share and multiple versions

2001-03-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:26:47AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > FYI, from the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.1/fhs-4.7.html: > > Note, however, that /usr/share is generally not intended to be > shared by different OSes or by different releases of the sam

hdd troubles

2001-03-03 Thread Nate Amsden
hello.. one of my hdds(my / actually) started to give me problems recently(sector read errors). i ran several fsck's on it, fixed many problems however even after that e2fsck says "file system modified" when it doesn't tell me about any errors. i tried using the -v flag, and using the badblocks pr

I can hang up my potato every time...

2001-03-03 Thread Marcin Landowski
Hi It's idiotical, i haven't seen it before. Linux debian 2.2.17 Potato kde 2.0, kdm 2.0-20001004-0 luxman 0.41-11 Celeron 333MHz 64MB RAM, ATI RAGE PRO When I switch to text console (ctrl+alt+Fn), login and start luxman game, the system every time has been hang up!!! I can

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:26:44AM -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Michael P. Soulier wrote: <...> > kmself's point is that the file isn't deleted until the process stops > using it. If you rm the file first, you won't know which process is > keeping the disk space o

X Setup

2001-03-03 Thread Jesse Lee
I installed X windows 4.0.1 and all the packages (including debconf). I got no dependency errors(I downloaded ALL files for X from the website). The config program never ran. I've even tried reistalling and dpkg-reconfigure. XF86Setup and XF86Config do not exist. This is a fresh install of debi

Re: Gnus or Slrn for newsreader?

2001-03-03 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
mike polniak wrote: > I have been using Pan as my newsreader. Its really not bad. Very > easy to set up and use the gui.But i plan to try Gnus or Slrn. > Any comments about either in terms of ease of setup/use, features > and basically is either one worth the effort compared to Pan.

RE: ppp-accounting

2001-03-03 Thread M G Berberich
Hello, John Hasler wrote: > M G Berberich writes: > > I'm thinking about switching to the commandline (pppconfig and Co.). > > You can use pppconfig to configure ppp and still control ppp from a GUI. > Try gpppon. > > Is there a way do the same with the debian-ppp-scripts? > It shouldn't be too

Re: Gnus or Slrn for newsreader?

2001-03-03 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 03 March 2001 13:27, mike polniak wrote: > I have been using Pan as my newsreader. Its really not bad. Very > easy to set up and use the gui.But i plan to try Gnus or Slrn. > Any comments about either in terms of ease of setup/use, features > and basically is either one worth the

Re: kill: cannot kill some processes

2001-03-03 Thread brian moore
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 08:52:36AM -0500, Cory Snavely wrote: > Right now on a big Solaris machine of mine I have about a dozen zombied > Perls--parent process (Apache) long gone, and when I -9ed them, their PPIDs > became 1 (init). Classic zombie. Hrrrm? Not quite. Init eventually inherits zomb

Re: /var getting full-SOLVED!

2001-03-03 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Dale Morris wrote: > this is an easy one, /var was being filled by apt-cache and cleaned up by > running apt-get clean Actually, /var/cache/apt is both filled and cleaned by apt-get. As I understand it, apt-cache is for querying and manipulating the contents of /var/lib/apt/lists. And yes, whoe

Re: potato and kernel 2.4.1

2001-03-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Ankit Jain wrote: > I have a fresh installation of Debian 2.2r2(Potato) with kernel > 2.2.18pre21. I compiled and installed kernel 2.4.1 (following > the instructions given in kernel-package) It installed fine.. > but when i boot it , it can't find any modules! the mods are > i

Re: Q: Need cron is anacron loading?

2001-03-03 Thread Jonathan Gift
Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: > > It isn't a full-time daemon. It has to be executed from boot > scripts, from cron-jobs, or explicitly [...] > Thanks. I'll research some more. So much to learn . Jonathan -- /* Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] */

Gnus or Slrn for newsreader?

2001-03-03 Thread mike polniak
I have been using Pan as my newsreader. Its really not bad. Very easy to set up and use the gui.But i plan to try Gnus or Slrn. Any comments about either in terms of ease of setup/use, features and basically is either one worth the effort compared to Pan. -- LINUX~~nobody owns it~

Re: /usr/share and multiple versions

2001-03-03 Thread Bill Wohler
Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My network runs a mix of stable/potato and testing/woody systems. > I'm considering consolidating their /usr/share directories, but I'm not > sure how safe that would be. FYI, from the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.1/f

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:23:02AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > ***NEVER*** delete large files on an impacted filesystem, *unless* you > > first zero them out, *and* insure nothing's accessing them: > > Isn't that a flaw in the system then? No, it's a

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > yeah -- i just figured out that folder names are relative to $HOME, not > $HOME/Mail. Actually, folder names are relative to your current working directory. It just so happens that most people start mutt while they're in $HOME. > do you happen to know offhand how to

mail2web interface?

2001-03-03 Thread MaD dUCK
hey, on a couple of servers, i am running postfix with qpopper to provide POP3 service to my clients. since i have disabled telnet and would much rather not give shell access the first place, i would like to meet my clients' demands of remote mail access with a nice mail2web interface, which works

Re: Hot to install a different Xserver

2001-03-03 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Il Saturday 24 February 2001 08:04, Rick Commo ha scritto: > Newbie Debian user... > > I accidentally installed the wrong Xserver. During the install I thought I > would be given a choice so I said to when asked if I wanted to install > XF86_VGA16. > > The one I need is XF86_MACH64 for my ATI Exp

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach will trillich (on Sat, 03 Mar 2001 04:17:57AM -0600): > mailboxes `echo ~/Mail/[a-z]*` oh. nice. didn't know muttrc can execute `` martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "and if the cloud bursts, thunder in your

Re: Eek! X won't go away!

2001-03-03 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Jonathan Gift (on Sat, 03 Mar 2001 08:06:30AM +0100): > 1. XDM? just to get this back... why *not* xdm? you don't have to write functions, it is guaranteed to work, and it's really not inconvenient. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:23:02AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > ***NEVER*** delete large files on an impacted filesystem, *unless* you > first zero them out, *and* insure nothing's accessing them: Isn't that a flaw in the system then? I can understand if a process still has the file o

Re: potato and kernel 2.4.1

2001-03-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I have a fresh installation of Debian 2.2r2(Potato) with kernel > 2.2.18pre21. I compiled and installed kernel 2.4.1 (following > the instructions given in kernel-package) It installed f

Re: xfree4.0 and 3d accel

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:10:08AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > oh, sorry -- i thought you were talking about quake 3. > > do yourself a favor. don't compile the original quake source. there's a > project quakeforge which is a group of people doing a re-write of quake, > similar to how prbo

Re: potato and kernel 2.4.1

2001-03-03 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, you need some new packages. Install binutils and ppp from woody. That will work. See Changes (or something) in the /usr/src/linux directory. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Ankit Jain wrote: > > > I have a fresh installation of Debian 2.2r2(Potato) with kernel > 2.2.18pre21. I com

/usr/share and multiple versions

2001-03-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
My network runs a mix of stable/potato and testing/woody systems. I'm considering consolidating their /usr/share directories, but I'm not sure how safe that would be. Specifically, if I put all of them into a single NFS-exported location, will using apt to update the potato machines be prone to wi

[OT] vmware / boot floppy

2001-03-03 Thread ktb
I'm trying to set up vmware in order to test debian boot floppys. VMware installed fine on slink, 2.4.1 kernel. The problem I'm having is when I try to install potato as a test with boot.bin I get the message, "Operating system not found" The virtual bios is set to boot off the floppy. The seek

Re: Installing Mozilla

2001-03-03 Thread Wesley Aman
That did the trick! Thanks. Wesley Aman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You can search for specific libraries at: > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages (the second search category: > searching for contents) > > A search for the library in question reveals you need the following > package: > libstd

potato and kernel 2.4.1

2001-03-03 Thread Ankit Jain
I have a fresh installation of Debian 2.2r2(Potato) with kernel 2.2.18pre21. I compiled and installed kernel 2.4.1 (following the instructions given in kernel-package) It installed fine.. but when i boot it , it can't find any modules! the mods are installed in /lib/modules/2.4.1 How can i get 2

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-03-03 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 09:52:27PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:07:58PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:52:17PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > > > > When /var went down, I was able to tar and bzip2 up /home /etc /root > > > and drop them i

Re: apt-get via firewall

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:19:57PM -0800, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 08:49:02PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Not necessarily: an authenticating proxy http firewall may pose > > problems. > > I bet you are right. (I thought about it, too. I was think

Re: apt-get testing

2001-03-03 Thread Colin Watson
MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hey, how can i use apt-get to get something like postfix-0.0.20010228-1 >out of testing? i have testing/main and some other testing's in my >sources.list, but > >apt-get --download-only install testing/postfix > >doesn't work, If you've got apt 0.5.0, postfix/t

RE: Getting to the GUI...

2001-03-03 Thread Rick Commo
So here I sit looking at potato running WindowMaker and scratching my head! But before I launch into the saga let me thank all who replied to my posts, especially Manuel Reiter and David Wright. Besides giving me some insights, their input kept me from scrubbing everything Debian off the disk in d

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread Tyler Braun
This is a bug with the version of mutt included with unstable. I missed this feature bad, so I went to www.mutt.org, downloaded the source for mutt1.6.13i, compiled it, and rather than do a full install I just moved the mutt binary over my old binary, which I of course saved incase this failed horr

message: ¨depmod: multiply defined¨

2001-03-03 Thread Andre Cia
The message: "depmod: multiply defined" appeared when the machine is starting... how can I resolve this problem?

Re: Installing Mozilla

2001-03-03 Thread bryan
You can search for specific libraries at: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages (the second search category: searching for contents) A search for the library in question reveals you need the following package: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 Cheers, Bryan On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 09:14:57AM -0800, Wesley

Installing Mozilla

2001-03-03 Thread Wesley Aman
I just installed Version 2.2r2, and downloaded Mozilla0.6. When I try to install Mozilla, I get the error message: "mozilla-bin: error in loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory". It would appear I'm missing a package, but,

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