compiling ics openmotif on sid fails

I have been trying to compile ICS openmotig on my sid box. I used the same way that is used in the spec-file which is used to create the rpms files. After issuing the make World command it pretty quick dies with the following error message: gcc DefaultGcc2i386Opt-I../../include -I../../imports

printer (EPSON 780) setup

Hi, In my dmesg I got this: [...] Starting kswapd v 1.5 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2] parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation. Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. [...] All my try of configuring failed, some "useful" results: . kups reports:

IP Masq IP addresses but no Telnet or Domain Names

Hi there, I'm trying to get IP Masq up and running and am very close. I can ping IP numbers from my Masqd machine but have not telnet capability. Futhermore I can't see domain names from my debain machine or the masq'd machine. Any ideas. One thing I've noticed is that I currently have no rc.fi

Re: XF86Setup problem

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:50:58PM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote: > Hello, > > I already asked this question in my local linux ng, but the answer were > not that helpfull. So I hope somebody can give me an answer here. > I would like to reconfigure X windows on my machine. Especially the > grafical s

Re: debian cvs server setup -- howto?

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:29:45PM -0700, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > Did you add it to your /etc/inetd.conf? > > Leonard Leblanc > Webmaster / Intranet Administrator > www.emergeknowledge.com no. but i added it to xined.conf, tho. :) #2401 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/run-cvs run-cvs

Re: debian cvs server setup -- howto?

Did you add it to your /etc/inetd.conf? Leonard Leblanc Webmaster / Intranet Administrator www.emergeknowledge.com - Original Message - From: "will trillich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 7:56 PM Subject: debian cvs server setup -- howto? > okay, i've got cvs w

Re: Alien question??

John Foster wrote: > Warning unrecognized substution {shlibs:Depends} > > Am I missing something? I do not do this very often and mostly it seems > to work with no messages. This is one I have not seen before. This means that alien (or rather, debhelper, no, it's actually dpkg-shlibdeps) was unab

Re: How to change domain name???

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 13:53:00 +1000, Ian wrote: > The spots which come immediately to mind are > > change the entry in the /ets/hosts file < this > change the entry in the /etc/hostname file <--- and this should match > mailname in /etc > run sendmailconfig (or the config for your mail program)

Re: Help; apt-get kills system, networking broken..

Am 07. Jun, 2001 schwäzte Gregory Guthrie so: > Now, I am stuck, networking doesn't work, so I can't even get my stuff off > of the machine to start over and rebuild. ifconfig eth0 10.1.1.21 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.1.1.255 route add default gw 10.1.1.12 The above would add an address

debian cvs server setup -- howto?

okay, i've got cvs working client-side just fine. now i'd like to try setting up a server for a small in-house project, mostly to see if it can be done... i've seen http://www.unixtools.org/cvs/server-how-to.html http://www.prima.eu.org/tobez/cvs-howto.html which presume a few ut

Help; apt-get kills system, networking broken..

Help. I am running Debian 2.2, with upgrade to WOody from debian.org via FTP. I have been running well for over 5 months without reboot(!) or maintenance. I went to fetch a new package, and my system decided it wanted to get 108 MB of updates. It failed on a bunch of them, I tried again, and again

bttv and 2.4.5

Hi, Last night I upgraded from kernel 2.4.1 to 2.4.5 and now bttv is not working properly. The modules all load fine, and the picture quality is great. However, I just get static for audio. The modules are: videodev i2c-core i2c-algo-bit tuner bttv tvaudio I know the module options are correc

Re: cryptographic file systems for use with 2.4 kernel?

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:57:11 -0700, Forrest English wrote: > so basicaly i'm wondering if there are any options out there for a crypto > file system that is compatible with linux 2.4.5. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/crypto/v2.4/ HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the

flightgear 0.7.6 on potato -How to?

Hi, I am trying to install flightgear 0.7.6 (the current version on stable) on my potato box (debian-2.2r2, kernel 2.2.19). I was trying to compile it as in "apt-get -b source flightgear" with my deb-src line in /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to unstable . But this does not work. If any one has alr

Re: AVI Player

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:45:35PM +0200, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:22:27PM +0100, Stephen J. Thompson wrote: > > Does anyone know of a good AVI player for linux? > look for aviplay on freshmeat > > just compile the cvs version, works fine, you'll prolly have to > do

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:29:51PM +1000, Ian Perry wrote: > :>OK, the two messages previous posts kind of play off eachother so I'm > :>going to reply to them in one go. First off ext2, it has a really bad > :>habit of losing files in hard crashes and power outages, this isn't a > :>problem for s

cryptographic file systems for use with 2.4 kernel?

i was looking into TCFS but it looks like it is only supposed to work on a 2.2 kernel, and my laptop is using a 2.4 kernel (if it's stolen, i don't want some of the data on here being read...) so basicaly i'm wondering if there are any options out there for a crypto file system that is compatibl

where gnome-applets and sawfish in testing?

Hi, Well wonderfull, I did dist upgrade using apt-get to testing and so happy; but I can not see gnome-applets and sawfish package. Where are they? thanx oin advance = S.KIEU _ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yaho

Re: AVI Player

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:22:27PM +0100, Stephen J. Thompson wrote: > Does anyone know of a good AVI player for linux? look for aviplay on freshmeat just compile the cvs version, works fine, you'll prolly have to download the win32 binaries too -- ,---. >

Unidentified subject!

Hi !!! I hope that this simple(and maybe stupid) question has a simple answer ... I used to be a RedHat user, but after trying the 7.0 version, I decided to change it for another flavor ... and after a while I found Debian. However, I miss the RH instalation option "everything", when you are s

Re: Anyone know of any issues with this hardware?

Hi Kent, Yeah, I see a problem with this plan. You are thinking that 128mb is good when it isn't. I just got 256mb pc133 for $40ish USD. So, do yourself a really nice favor and at least double it to 256 or better, plug in 2 of the 256mb Dimms. Your system will thank you and it should keep

Re: french locale

> "jean-michel" == jean-michel le bot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jean-michel> Hi, How can I set locale fo french language by default ? If you want to set the default for one user, add the following to your .profile: export [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set the default for all users, add this to /etc

Re: ftp "reget" via netscape?

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:06:44PM +1000, Alan E Davis wrote: > One of my reasons for not liking web browsers is their handling of FTP. > Almost always, if a file transfer has been interrupted, it is necessary to > restart from the beginning. > > However, on my sid machine, at home, I was able

tabs / was [OT] Coding w/ vim

On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 06:17:46PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > set sts=2 sw=2 ts=8 et > This always inserts spaces (the 'et') so it will be correct regardless > of what tool you use to view it. It also keeps tabs following Th > Right Way (tm) -- 8 spaces. By setting 'sts' and 'sw' you get the http://

tried installing latest gtk-perl, apt problems

thneed:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6-dev libstdc++2.10-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 306 not upgra

Re: 486 router is very slow

As someone who has nothing of my own to offer, I do recall reading of a similar (if not identical) problem a few months ago. Seems the cause of the slowdown was that the NIC needed to work half duplex rather than full duplex. Reconfiguring to half duplex brought the speed back up to expected rate

Re: How do I pass init= to the kernel?

Alvin Oga wrote: > loadlin assumes that you have a properly configured linux > installed at root ( /dev/hda2 in your case ) > > if you have not installed linux yet ( into /dev/hda2 ) or any > other root partition... loadlin will not be able tofind > your kernel and root filesystem This is wrong,

Upgrading postgresql -- how to dump databases?

Okay... so I've upgraded from stable to unstable, and everything seems to be working fine... except postgresql. When upgrading, I got a message telling me to dump my databases and convert them to the new format. Since I didn't have any databases at the time, I didn't think much of it. Now, howev

Re: How can i get my printer to work??

On Monday 04 June 2001 18:45, Wayne Topa wrote: > Subject: Re: How can i get my printer to work?? > Date: Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 03:26:25PM -0500 > > In reply to:John Hughes > > Quoting John Hughes([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > >> Subject: Re: How can i get my printer to work?? > > >> Date: Sat, Ju

Re: how to purge my system of the Ximian stuff (Was: Re: X: "could not open default font 'fixed'")

Buffalo Phil wrote: > > how can I <> ? I'm not sure what the best way is but . . . find the offending ximian package (you said dpkg -l|grep ximian which sounds good) and run: #apt-cache show this should tell you all about the ximian package and the Debian package that it replaces.

Re: Re. Total Confusion

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:47:32AM -0700, Sidney Brooks uttered: > Using wvdial and minicom, I get connected, but then something happens and I > do not get on the internet. wvdial keeps redialing, minicom stays where it > is. ppp is apparently properly installed, judging by the relative logs, but

Re. Total Confusion

Eamon Roque asked: Nonetheless: what does your authentification process look like? Do you require the host to authenticate itself, do you agree on a protocol ( usually in /etc/ppp/options )? The following is a list of uncommented things in /etc/ppp/options: auth crtscts

Re: logcheck gaps in time

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya jiji > > > - rebooted which should take care of cron / syslogd / logcheck.sh not > > running > > - apt-get --reinstall install logcheck just in case > > - hacker? that is my fear. How can I find evidence that the @#$@ is in > > there? You ma

Re: logcheck gaps in time

hi ya francois my log check sends me an hourly status ... ( its the default log files ) c ya alvin On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > > hi ya jiji > > > > > - rebooted which should take care of cron / syslogd / logcheck.sh not > > > ru

BUGTRAQ: qpopper (fwd)

Anyone know if anything is being done about this with Debian ? Thanks, Ken Rea -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 23:28:20 -0700 From: Qpopper Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Qpopper 4.0.3 Fixes Buffer Overflow Qpopper 4.0.3 is available at

Re: [Newbie] Problem with ethercard NETGEAR FA311

Hello, I'm sorry but I don't speak/wrote very well english... I've some problem with the ethercad Netgear FA311. I can't compile the module natsemi.c on a Debian Potato 2.2_r0 I've this message when I try to compil this with the command gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -O6 -c natsemi.c : natsemi.c:

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:07:43PM -0700, Forrest English wrote: | you could tell the people that this is a more advanced OS, and to NOT hit | the power switch. | | i mean, it's just a thought. It's a nice thought, but since when do people actually listen? I know that with my machine I don't _

bugs.debian.org down ??

Hello everybody, bad News: bugs.debian.org seems to be down. or is this just my f***ing ISP? I wanted to look for 3 Packages if there are open bugs: xemacs (sid) starts very, very, very, very slowly gsfonts-x11 causes some programs to segfault: xfontsel, sditres, xvncviewer (this one really

Re: Debian and FreeBSD - RESOLVED

Thanks to -ALL- who offered help with this problem. I successfully used a bootdisk of GNU parted to resize my /dev/hda3 to make room for FreeBSD, then created a /dev/hda4. I re-ran lilo as parted suggested, rebooted, then used fdisk to change the type on /dev/hda4 to BSD/386. It all went without

Re: (dup) serial port: LSR safety check engaged (fwd)

On 4 Jun 2001, John Hasler wrote: > The LSR test will not be performed if ASYNC_BUGGY_UART is set, and > include/linux/serial.h says: > > #define ASYNC_BUGGY_UART 0x4000 /* This is a buggy UART, skip some safety > * checks. Note: can be dangerous! */ > > Try con

Re: 486 router is very slow

What are you using for a connection to your ISDN? Internal card, external TA with hi speed serial, etc? I'm wondering if the serial interface is setup wrong. Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Normally i have have rates of 7.8 kb/s (ISDN) throughput. But if i try it > over my new router the rate is no

Re: laptop instillation via a PCMICA cd rom

> "Andrew" == Andrew D Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> 2. I don't know if you can install over pcmcia Andrew> so as a safer route I'd boot back into Windows and make set of Andrew> the base floppy disks (I think it's up to 10 or something now Since Windows is installed on the PC, it

Re: ssh authentication woes

Hey Andrew... Are you saying that a user can ssh into a "linux box with X windows" and have X windows access through ssh? this is very cool... Where can I find info to set this up? thanks Mike > Nope, it's even easier than that: > #ssh -X remote > will tunnel X over ssh without any other se

Re: How do I pass init= to the kernel?

I went to check the page out. I guess that was precicely what I was looking for. Sadly enough, the link to my model (compaq contura 400c) seems to be non-available (http://www.pecas-on-line.com.br/contura400c.htm). I'll try again later and take a look at the other models. The ones I did look at how

Re. Total Confusion

Kent West has suggested as a help to my would be helpers, I summarize where I stand now. The printer problem in Debian has been solved, with the explanation that I gave in an earlier posting. Briefly what happened was that lilo put the Redhat kernel into the Debian startup. My internet probl

filesystem troubel with extra disk

Hai,   Having two disks; hda is with root filesystem.   hdc is with swap(30MB) & +/- 70MB ext2.   With installing 2.2r0 (think this will be r3 since installation completely went from ftp). I pointed out the swappartion being /dev/hdc5. After that i thought (am not su

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Sean Morgan wrote: > On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:07:43PM -0700, Forrest English wrote: > > you could tell the people that this is a more advanced OS, and to NOT hit > > the power switch. > > > > i mean, it's just a thought. > > And after this you would have to proceed to tea

Re: rc.d

"wayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i am a debian beginer,i want to add some program into systemstart,just >like ipchains policy,adsl auto start.in redhat the file is >/rc.d/rc.local,but in debian i can't find it,pleale tell me what can i >do.thanks a lot There isn't one there by default, but you

Re: 'apt-get -u dist-upgrade' error

Hi Jeremy, i've had this problem when debconf-tiny was installed. You could try "apt-get install debconf" and see if that fixes the problem. > > Template parse error near "" at > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 102, chunk > 3. > (in cleanup) Can't call method "DESTROY" on

Re: All packages ... again.

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:02:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi ... > > Thanks to all the guys who answered my last question, > in resume ... you say that it's not a good idea, > (installing everything) since there are more than > one program for some tasks and then, they can > conflict ea

RE: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

I have been running Linux 2.0.36 for the past year on 3 sites and have had ext2 go down on each of them after a power failure. Much of the time running fsk manually fixed the problem, other times the systems were totally unbootable. The problem has gotten so bad that we have had to put UPS backups

Re: Unidentified subject!

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:44:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there an easy way to install EVERYTHIG that comes > in the Debian Cd´s It doesn't make any sense to install everything. Many package are contradictory. Many are simply redundant. Why would you install exim if you've al

/etc/network/interfaces not strictly correct?

I rebooted woody after an uptime of 48 days to find my network setup incomplete: $ ping www.debian.org PING www.debian.org (198.186.203.20): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Network is unreachable ping: wrote www.debian.org 64 chars, ret=-1 Here's my /etc/network/interfaces file: auto lo iface lo in

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:07:43PM -0700, Forrest English wrote: > you could tell the people that this is a more advanced OS, and to NOT hit > the power switch. > > i mean, it's just a thought. And after this you would have to proceed to teach a class in operating consoles, top, killall, and al

Re: Xmame

>I'm running Debian unstable and just downloaded all of the Xmame .debs. >Unfortunately I can't get Xmame to run. It seems as though the executables >were not included in the packages. Am I losing my mind or has anyone else >experienced this problem? IIRC (I'm not in front of my Debian box), th

netatalk with encryption

Hi... Does the latest netatalk .deb package contain support for encryption over afpd? If not.. is there an easy way to get it? thanks Mike

Re: [OT] windows networking issue

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:09:10AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: | | Here's a tcpdump | grep gow with the static IP, watching gow boot up. | | 09:53:40.859140 arp who-has gow.study tell gow.study | 09:53:41.632729 gow.study.netbios-ns > 10.0.0.255.netbios-ns: | [2 more of these] | 09:53:41.967426 gow

Re: serial port: LSR safety check engaged (fwd)

-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 17:14:15 -0600 (MDT) From: Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: serial port: LSR safety check engaged On 4 Jun 2001, John Hasler wrote: > I just rooted around a bit in the kernel sources. Alt

FYI : LINUX Users Tutorial and Exposition

To those who are looking for some tutorial-reference-resource on the Linux Operating System, have a look at ... http://rute.sourceforge.net <> LINUX Rute Users Tutorial and Exposition.url Description: Binary data

Re: Help Please

On Tuesday 05 June 2001 17:20, R. Jorge wrote: > > I have install debian GNU/Linux. > > I type login - root then I type the password and after that the next > line comes like that: > > debian:~# > > I don't no what I have to do can you please help me? did you read the newbie help before y

Re: CDRW won't work

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Shawn P. Garbett wrote: > I just installed a CDRW HP9500i on my box and I'm using Debian Sid. > > I went throught HOWTO, up to the point of writing to the CDRW. > > I typed the following command: > "cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -data cd_image" > and got the following respo

Re: rc.d question about S and K

> I was wondering if someone could tell me the > difference between files starting with S and files > starting with K in the /etc/rcx.d directories? Scripts with an S are started when entering run-level x. Those with a K are killed upon entering run-level x. (Starting/killing is handled by send

Re: wmaker and it's icons

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:35:59AM -0300, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: > > hi this is kind of a simple problem (i guess), i'm having some trouble > when i resize the icons from 64x64 2 48x48, the applets don't resize with the > icons and they seem useless as they are bigger than the icons that hold

486 router is very slow

Hi all I set up a router with my old 486 computer. I have there potato witch kernel 2.4 installed. Normally i have have rates of 7.8 kb/s (ISDN) throughput. But if i try it over my new router the rate is not more than 2 kb/s. Is it possible that the Masquerading process takes too much recource

rc.d

i am a debian beginer,i want to add some program into systemstart,just like ipchains policy,adsl auto start.in redhat the file is /rc.d/rc.local,but in debian i can't find it,pleale tell me what can i do.thanks a lot

Re: dpkg: Update failures

Anthony Fok wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:49:57AM +0800, Yang Shouxun wrote: Dear Debian users, Because I'm behind a Wingate, I don't have direct access to http or ftp. Someone suggests set http_proxy and ftp_proxy in /etc/environment, but that seems to be not working. Actually, not

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:03:02AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: :Sean Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>OK, the two messages previous posts kind of play off eachother so I'm :>going to reply to them in one go. First off ext2, it has a really bad :>habit of losing files in hard crashes and power ou

Re. Total Confusion

John Hasler wrote; This, however, is proof that you have both the kernel ppp driver and the pppd daemon installed and working. I'd guess from what you have posted that you have been configuring for CHAT authentication and your ISP wants you to use PAP. Does the line of meaningless symbols include

Re: logcheck gaps in time

- rebooted which should take care of cron / syslogd / logcheck.sh not running - apt-get --reinstall install logcheck just in case - hacker? that is my fear. How can I find evidence that the @#$@ is in there? On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 03:24:05PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi jiji > > you probabl

Re: information request

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, ktb wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:04:39AM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > than debian and for all practical purposes is debian. Why no > recommendation for that distro? People always assume that a newbie wants > the easiest route to linux. I don't know why people ass

Galeon and Mozilla builds

Hi, I am using the following Mozilla and Nautilus packages from T.Kitame: | # Mozilla | deb http://pandora.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla ./ | # Nautilus | deb http://pandora.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla/nautilus ../ Now I am searching for an suitable galeon package. I am not that good in building and

Re: Is this video card i810 supported?

NA> can't comment on xfree86 4 as i haven't used it much yet NA> i imagine if its listed on xfree86.org it is supported you NA> probably have to compile the agpgart module for it though Yes. It is supported on xfree86 4. I use it with 4.0.3 -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: 486 router is very slow

Forrest English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a 486 33 should be fine, and able to handle up to about 700KBps, the limit > of the isa bus. Hmmm... there would still be a high CPU cost. And for routing, you'd have two cards, so if that 700Kbps is the max speed of the bus, wouldn't you only be abl

pinning down... serial port: LSR safety check engaged

> > It has worked with an explicit 'skip_test' and the implicit test, with > > both the 2.2.15 and 2.4.3 kernels. > > I wouldn't be surprised if it sometimes works without skip_test. Has it > ever failed with it? Is skip_test in /etc/serial.conf? Yes, during this and the previous round. Not rig

Re: X: "could not open default font 'fixed'"

Mario Vukelic wrote: > > Hi! > > After an install of Ximian gnome for potato with red-carpet It's a bad idea to run Ximian with Debian. Ximian messes stuff up all the time (even in stable) so you'll have to keep dealing with stuff like this over and over again. My suggestion, purge your syste

Re: ssh authentication woes

Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi michael > > am guessing, you want to login into the remote machine > and have it display stuff local on your pc??? > > lets say remote == 1.2.3.4 > lets say here == 5.6.7.8 ( where you;re sitting ) > > here# xhost +1.2.3.4 > > here# ssh -l michael remote > -

Re: filtering email via perl?

will trillich wrote: ... > how can i use perl to break emails into various mailfolders? I remember seeing something fairly capable in perl journal, don't remember the name, check the cpan.org erik

Re: make-kpkg broken ?

In the meantime you can fix it by applying the attached patch to the to the alsa-driver tree. I'd mention the bug-report I swiped it from, but I can't seem to reach the BTS at the moment... On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 04:03:51PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > This is a known problem in alsa, tweaked by a

Re: ls colors

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 02:56:11PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon babbled: > Hi All, > anyone know how to change the colors that ls outputs? > > thanks, > Andy > > You can change the values I believe with: /usr/bin/dircolors not quite sure though Terry //Terry Warner// [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Tech

postgresql-install problem!

I have install postgresql-6.5 in a Debian 2.2.17 : - /etc/rc2.d/S20postgresql start up postmaster - A system user, with appropiate permission, have run initdb OK When this user try to run createdb, system say: "Could not execv /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/createdb " where is the mistake! Thanks -

Re: ssh authentication woes

Not exactly, but close (BTW, I'm a different Andrew :)) - a user with an X server (of any type - Linux, U*x, Windows, etc.) and an ssh client can ssh into a correctly-configured Linux (or U*x) machine and have X applications running on the remote host automatically display locally using ssh tunnell

Re: information request

Hi, > carmex83078 wrote: > > I recently downloaded linux-2.4.4.tar.gz and I can't read most of > the files because I am running Windows Millenium Edition. I was > hoping you could help me with installing it since I don't know how > to. I read through some documentation and the situations it

laptop instillation via a PCMICA cd rom

I recently bought a copy of Debian GNU/linux 2.2 r3 official 6 cd set, and want to get it working on my laptop, a IBM thinkpad 560E with a external floppy drive and a PCMICA LG CD-ROM CRD-8520B. I can boot into the debian setup from 'install\boot.bat' but I can't get it to see my cd-rom drive,

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

D-Man writes: > I've only had 1 problem with my system where I had to run fsck and I've > hit the power button a few times... How is your system partitioned? In my experience the systems most likely to be hosed by a power failure or hard reset are those with a single giant partition. -- John Has

problem installing raid0

I'm having trouble setting up raid0 on a debian box running 2.4.4 kernal with raid support, for the first time. I'd appreciate some help working out how to get it going. [1] installed raidtools and raidtools2. device /dev/md0 was created successfully. [2] cat /proc/mdstat Personalities

Re: postgresql-install problem!

jramon wrote: >I have install postgresql-6.5 in a Debian 2.2.17 : > >- /etc/rc2.d/S20postgresql start up postmaster >- A system user, with appropiate permission, have run initdb OK > >When this user try to run createdb, system say: > >"Could not execv /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/creat

Re: Help: Mouse under X in Testing

Steve Kowalik wrote: On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:23:14PM +0800, Tim Wood uttered: I note a line saying that there is a problem with /dev/gpmdata but I have not started gpm. Well then, there is your problem. X 4 (which is in woody) uses a different config file than X 3. /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.

Re: root via ssh / why su - ?

on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:18:17PM +1000, Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> On my own boxen, root passwords were changed from defaults, and > >> root ssh denied. I actually stood down my system administrator > >> telli

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

On Monday 04 June 2001 23:42, Sean Morgan wrote: > > The situation I'm reffering to here is that of someone who might see a > temporary interface slowdown or crash(happen quite often in office suites > of any kind), and having no knowledge of how linux works, just hits the > reset button(this could

Re: Is this video card i810 supported?

On Mon, 04 June 2001, Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi everyone. > > > Yes, I mean in unstable ; in potato uses 3.3.6 and it > is not supported AFAIK; I need this information before > going to install. This is Intel i810, and there is > driver from intel to work with 3.3.6 but I know for > XFree 4.0x, it i

Re: root via ssh / why su - ?

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 03:44:28PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I don't know that it's possible to disable password authentication, or PasswordAuthentication no or if you want to do it on a user by user basis add: auth required pam_listfile.so item=user sense=deny \ file=

Re: unplugged in meatworld (after a reinstall)

"Blue Rat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > as far as it goes: no other hosts are recognized. Now, I created a > resolve.conf with the domain name and the dns server of my provider should be resolv.conf in /etc, not resolve.conf. -Anthony.

Install everything?

> Is there an easy way to install EVERYTHIG that comes > in the Debian Cd´s You can't. Many of the packages conflict. That is, you presumably don't want sendmail, smail, exim AND qmail, all of which do the same thing. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: logcheck gaps in time

hi ya jiji > - rebooted which should take care of cron / syslogd / logcheck.sh not running > - apt-get --reinstall install logcheck just in case > - hacker? that is my fear. How can I find evidence that the @#$@ is in there? -- what changed since the last time logcheck was working... -

Setting up mail

Hi!   I have tried to setup qmail on a new server but get errors when retrieving or sending email via outlook express in Windows (via a workstation).  It gives "cannot open socket" on both SMTP and POP.  Anyone know which files to change or where to look for info?   I had tried backing up th

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

Sean Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK, the two messages previous posts kind of play off eachother so I'm >going to reply to them in one go. First off ext2, it has a really bad >habit of losing files in hard crashes and power outages, this isn't a >problem for someone like you or I as we know

Re: agpgart module

Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I didn't try the AGPGART kernel module since I am using 2.2.17 which > I don't think had that option. I tried the nvidia agp driver, but it didn't work. I changed it to the agpgart module with a 2.4.5 kernel, and it worked. Not sure why. -Anthony.

Re: CDRW won't work

Shawn P. Garbett wrote: > I just installed a CDRW HP9500i on my box and I'm using Debian Sid. > > I went throught HOWTO, up to the point of writing to the CDRW. > > I typed the following command: > "cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -data cd_image" > and got the following response: > "Cdrecord 1.10

Re: (dup) serial port: LSR safety check engaged (fwd)

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: > well, cant tell exactly whats the problem > if you have a pnp card, then running pnpdump will tell you what > configurations are supported by that card. Then, all you have to do is run > isapnp with the particular configuration you want. I looked at tha

Re: postgresql-install problem!

El Lun 04 Jun 2001 16:53, escribiste: > El Lun 04 Jun 2001 16:30, escribiste: > > jramon wrote: > > >I have install postgresql-6.5 in a Debian 2.2.17 : > > > > > >- /etc/rc2.d/S20postgresql start up postmaster > > >- A system user, with appropiate permission, have run initdb OK > > > > >

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