Re: Xfree86-3.3.6 + i810

2001-06-27 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
> I have installed Potato on my machine i810. It has > Xfree86-3.3.6 and Kernel 2.2.19pre17. I have compiled > in the kernel module agpgart.o. But I am not able to > configure Xserver on this. could somebody help me out > or is there any howtos to do the installation. I > specifically require to us

Getting hyped about a possible of Debian PPC on an iMac DV Special Edition.

2001-06-27 Thread Patrick Klee
Hi Debian community, I want to install Debian on an iMac DV Special Edition and Compaq Presario 9232, made in 1996. It's a P120 with 40 MB of RAM, but I need to know what is compatible. For example, I have a Que CD Burner. A kritter USB webcam and a DVD player, a USB epson stylus scan 2500 a

Xfree86-3.3.6 + i810

2001-06-27 Thread Debian GNU
Hello All, I have installed Potato on my machine i810. It has Xfree86-3.3.6 and Kernel 2.2.19pre17. I have compiled in the kernel module agpgart.o. But I am not able to configure Xserver on this. could somebody help me out or is there any howtos to do the installation. I specifically require to us

Re: xmms problems?

2001-06-27 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
fwiw Andrei, I also had some problems with xmms. I was using the Kde arts pluggin. I have since given it up and I don't see any more of the sudden wierdness I was having prior to going back to the oss pluggin. gl On Wednesday 27 June 2001 15:44, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Hi all. > Lately I've b

Unable to find modem.

2001-06-27 Thread Patrick Klee
Hi, I downloaded the Debian Potato floppies and was going to install Debian over PPP. However, my modem is not found. It found it on Red Hat, then it quit working on Red Hat. I am in Windoze now, so I know it works cause I dialed into my ISP with it. It's COM2 under DOS and ttyS1 under Linu

Re: IBM Java 1.3 - Anyone get to work?

2001-06-27 Thread Hoeteck Wee
> > I'm trying to get DB2 to install and run on my Debian box. One of the > > programs it needs is java. IBM is highly recommending that you install and > > run their version of java. I have pulled down the .rpm for it and > > installed it both as a rpm and as a deb (not at the same time). Any

New TrueType fonts doc version 1.1

2001-06-27 Thread Paul D. Smith
I uploaded version 1.1 of my TrueType fonts for XFree 4.x on Debian document. This version discusses more explicitly how to install TrueType fonts that are not packaged for Debian (for example, ones you copy from your Microsoft Windows partition). Note I have no idea or opinion on whether using t

how to set max-lisp-eval-depth ?

2001-06-27 Thread Balbir Thomas
hi, A lot of packages for emacs while installation give the error "max-lisp-eval-depth exceeded" . For instance : install/semantic: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs19 Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/semantic emacs1

Re: openldap

2001-06-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:38:24PM -0400, Peter Kok wrote: > Hi all > > Any one have experience to install and configure openldap in tarball? Why not just install the package? If you need help installing from tarball, then your best bet is one of the openldap mailing lists. -- ---=

dpkg post-removal error

2001-06-27 Thread lance
I am having problems with dpkg on a potato dist. I keep getting serious warning: files list file for package 'foo' missing, assuming package has no file currrently installed. Also, when I dkpg -i for a couple of packages I get subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 139 how c

Re: custom upgrades

2001-06-27 Thread Nick Jennings
I think theres a special debian mailing list for people to make custom debian CD's. debian-cd-vendors, you might want to ask there. On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 09:24:32PM -0500, Dana S. Wheeler wrote: > I have a really slow modem connection (rural phone line) so updating by > apt-get on line is not re

Re: docbook & xml in Italian

2001-06-27 Thread Eric Richardson
will trillich wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:44:32AM +, Victor wrote: > > Me, again! > > > > No one using docbook & xml out there? > > > > Vittorio > > Vittorio [debian-user] <22/06/01 18:08 +>: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've installed docbook and experimented it with XML to build a > >

Re: Debian modules

2001-06-27 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:23:39PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 04:27:26PM -0300, Juan wrote: > > > > I would like to install: > > - Apache (???) It was installed via dselect, but I not found httpd > > apache provides httpd services -- on debian it's called apache, > wh

Re: apt-get : difference between dist-upgrade and dselect-upgrade

2001-06-27 Thread Nick
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 21:24:04 +0200, you wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:55:36PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: > > I am confused with the use of apt-get dselect-upgrade : if I want > > to run it, it will propose me to install 61 new packages I > > haven't requested. _How do I get rid of these

openldap

2001-06-27 Thread Peter Kok
Hi all Any one have experience to install and configure openldap in tarball? Tks for your help Regards Peter

RE:internet w/ dhcpcd

2001-06-27 Thread Andrew Agno
Robert Matijasec writes: > and it keeps trying until it times out. Where could the > problem be ? It seems the system reconizes my > ethernet card, and it even seems I get a connection to > my provider. Can you ping your ethernet card? How about your gateway? What does % route -n tell you

Re: Where is SAMBA file?

2001-06-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
If you would like to reconfigure whether samba is running as standalone daemons or from inetd, you can use dpkg-reconfigure samba If you are happy with your selection, you can do as someone else already suggested: /etc/init.d/samba restart Vineet * Juan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010625 14:02]: > Hi

Re: script

2001-06-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
This suggestion won't do it. The semicolons just separate it into further statements, i.e. the following are equivalent: ifup eth0 /etc/init.d/./samba/start /etc/init.d/./hylafax start ifup eth0 ; /etc/init.d/./samba/start ; /etc/init.d/./hylafax start And the below exapmle is just like ifup et

Re: OFFTOPIC: Macintosh, Outlook Express and vpopmail

2001-06-27 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:13:42AM +1000, john wrote: > We've just switched our mail server from Exchange (yuk) to Qmail and > vpopmail. We have 1800 users over 600 domains. Everything is working > nicely except for those who use OE on Macs - they can't pop their mail. > The error message in the lo

Re: ???

2001-06-27 Thread dmaziuk
> Check out http://www.datadoktorn.nu/kortbyte.php -- you don't really need to ^ Oops, make that www.datadocktorn.nu Dima -- E-mail dmaziuk at bmrb dot wisc dot edu (@work) or at crosswinds dot net (@home) http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu/descript/gpgkey.dmaziuk.ascii -- Gn

Re: ???

2001-06-27 Thread dmaziuk
* Jenner Almanzar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi everybody!!! > > I need to install a ethernet card on linux, how can i > do that? Check out http://www.datadoktorn.nu/kortbyte.php -- you don't really need to understand the language, the procedure is pretty obvious from the photos. Except

internet w/ dhcpcd

2001-06-27 Thread Robert Matijasec
I just installed the dhcpcd package on my i386 and everything seems fine right up to the point where I want to test the connection. I type: telnet ritix.slu.edu I get: Host name lookup failure I type: telnet 165.134.123.3 I get: Trying 165.134.123.3... and it keeps trying until it times out

OFFTOPIC: Macintosh, Outlook Express and vpopmail

2001-06-27 Thread john
Hi all, I apologise for this post, but the vchkpw mailing list seems not to be working, so I thought I'd try here. We've just switched our mail server from Exchange (yuk) to Qmail and vpopmail. We have 1800 users over 600 domains. Everything is working nicely except for those who use OE on Macs -

potato printer config

2001-06-27 Thread DvB
I installed printtool out of testing in order to configure my Deskjet 932C. This package, however, only contains two drivers: "postscript" and "text only." How do I get the driver I need? Does it involve installing ghostscript? If so, where the hell is it? dpkg says it "has no available version"

RE: squid authentification

2001-06-27 Thread Ian Perry
Have you thought about using IP numbers to verify access ? Attached is sections of my squid.comf I use 2 files... /etc/allowedsites sites which everyone can access.. yellow pages, whitepages etc /etc/allowedusers users which can go anywhere Squid.conf -snip- #Default

mod_python

2001-06-27 Thread Julio Mendoza
using debian/testing apache error.log [Wed Jun 27 12:28:44 2001] [info] Server built: Jun 12 2001 13:50:30 make_obcallback(): could not import mod_python.apache. make_obcallback(): could not call init. my apache-python configuration was working without problems. Anyone with this error? a

Re: [OT] Software to draw microprocessor schematics

2001-06-27 Thread Mike Pfleger
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:25:21PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > There is also OrCad. This is a commercial product that is free for > student use. It is really quite good (I used it for my Intro to > Digital course), but it requires MS Windows. Maybe it would work > under wine? There is another name f

squid authentification

2001-06-27 Thread thomas
hi, i've tried to set up ncsa_plus (user managment for squid) but there is some serious patching involved etc. so is there already a patched and .deb'ed squid available together with a nice ncsa_plus .deb? i couldn't find anything. or can someone else recommend another authentification tool for sq

Re: su doesn't work; root cannot log in! Arrgggg

2001-06-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010627 09:04]: > Alan Davis wrote: > > > My machine has been up for a few days, and now I cannot take it down, since > > only the sessions that are now open to root will work. I am running "sid" > > the unstable, and recently did a major upgrade. [snip] > > T

Re: [OT] Software to draw microprocessor schematics

2001-06-27 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:49:32PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: | Hi folks, | | I need to develep a microprocessor for my computer science class and I'm | looking for a tool to draw the schematics. I've looked at xcircuit and | chipmunk-log, but I'm quite frightened by the user interface. I'm

slow startup of modem-connection

2001-06-27 Thread Stig Brautaset
When I type "pon" there is a 'long' wait before I hear the modem starts dialing. (When I type "poff" however, the connection is instantaneously cut off). I guess it is not "pon" itself that is the trouble, but rather the connect-script. My problem is that I am running a little lan, and we have di

Cannot login to woody box even after upgrade

2001-06-27 Thread esden
Hi, I have upgraded like you suggested but the login failure persists. I can login with ssh but it is not possible to login on the master console. cheers ESDEN -- ghtsclient homepage: http://ghtsclient.sourceforge.net ___ ___ ___ _ _ new bingo-chat: http://bchat.bingo-ev.de

xmms problems?

2001-06-27 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hi all. Lately I've been experiencing some weird problems on the box. every so often (rather often, like every 5 min or so), the CPU load would increase dramatically for a few seconds, and pretty much the whole box would almost freeze: mouse movement is very incremental, keyboard input is not accep

Re: [OT] Software to draw microprocessor schematics

2001-06-27 Thread Mike Pfleger
Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to develep a microprocessor for my computer science class and I'm > looking for a tool to draw the schematics. I've looked at xcircuit and > chipmunk-log, but I'm quite frightened by the user interface. I'm > comfortable with xfig and I've fi

Re: [OT] Software to draw microprocessor schematics

2001-06-27 Thread Stig Brautaset
Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi folks, > > I need to develep a microprocessor for my computer science class and > I'm looking for a tool to draw the schematics. I've looked at > xcircuit and chipmunk-log, but I'm quite frightened by the user > interface. I'm comfortable with x

Re: ???

2001-06-27 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Jenner Almanzar wrote: > > I really appreciate your help!!! > > is there any way to download the drivers and install the card without > recompiling the kernel, cause i'm very new in the linux world and i'm not sure > what you trying to say recompile, is it reinstalling? Read http://www.linuxdoc.

Re: [OT] Software to draw microprocessor schematics

2001-06-27 Thread Jens Gecius
Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to develep a microprocessor for my computer science class and I'm > looking for a tool to draw the schematics. I've looked at xcircuit and > chipmunk-log, but I'm quite frightened by the user interface. I'm > comfortable with xfig and I've fi

[OT] Software to draw microprocessor schematics

2001-06-27 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi folks, I need to develep a microprocessor for my computer science class and I'm looking for a tool to draw the schematics. I've looked at xcircuit and chipmunk-log, but I'm quite frightened by the user interface. I'm comfortable with xfig and I've finally realized how to export xfig drawings,

Re: SOLVED: Defaulting system to mono display

2001-06-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:44:43AM +0200, Karsten Heymann wrote: > uncommented the ttytype-line but with no effect, so I inserted > > TERM=linux-m > > into /etc/environment and am happy. AFAIK it is even better to put the termtype at the end of the lines in /etc/inittab that control the getty's

Re: exim ?

2001-06-27 Thread Robin Gerard
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:36:38PM +, Robin Gerard wrote: > > I can send mails to all users except > > to those who are the same domaine that > > me i.e.: > > my addresse : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I send a mail to : [

Re: OT vim/uptime

2001-06-27 Thread Colin Watson
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND >will 2945 0.2 1.0 2588 1356 pts/1SJun22 18:08 vi inv/show.mc > >so, what's the record for cpu time on a single vim session? > >:) Ah, you see, we'll easily be beaten b

Re: [users] big IBM harddisk

2001-06-27 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach nico de haer (on Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:06:13PM +0200): > I've tried this '32 Gb clip' and it does allow me to boot using my 40 Gb, > but i've been unable to get access to the last 8 Gb. I've been experimenting > with the 'hdx=c,h,s' parameter but all i can get are screens filled with all

Re: cd-rom "medium not found", no modules load

2001-06-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:32:47AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > And, as I said, it even records a disc fine. It also plays audio CDs > to the sound card, and cdda2wav and cdparanoia are able to rip CDDA > from the drive. I just can not mount any disc I place in the drive, I > get the following erro

Re: mutt -- was Re: Why use fakeroot when compiling kernel?

2001-06-27 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:34:19PM -0500, will trillich wrote: ... > hmm. maybe there's a scoring mechanism, coupled with a macro, > that you could cobble together to have mutt work that way? hoped for someone to have done it for me:) > mutt's awful paarful, don' be dissin' my main mua! ... > --

Re: [users] big IBM harddisk

2001-06-27 Thread nico de haer
Dear Martin, I've tried this '32 Gb clip' and it does allow me to boot using my 40 Gb, but i've been unable to get access to the last 8 Gb. I've been experimenting with the 'hdx=c,h,s' parameter but all i can get are screens filled with all kinds of hdd related errors rangeing from 'bad superblock

Re: Serial Mouse problem

2001-06-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
I think it could use some clarification that one has suggested installing gpm and someone else has stated that "gpm can cause problems". I hope I can make things clearer without just adding to the noise... (Start by reading Joost's message regarding mouse hardware.) When you say your mouse isn't

Re: How to set the EXACTLY VHz in X for the screen

2001-06-27 Thread Gil Elad
> I think that the magic word you are looking for is 'modeline'. I'm no expert > on this so i'd like to point out that there is a HOWTO dedicated to this > (See www.linuxdoc.org or mirror) Must say that it's a wee bit technical. > The above mentioned HOWTO is "XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO". Excelle

Re: resent, manpage pg-up & pg-dn not working

2001-06-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:51:03AM +0800, Eric Boo wrote: > How do I at least get page up to work when I'm viewing man pages? Right now > all > I get are beeps when I try the page-up and page-down keys. I have: $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/pager lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 13 Jun 27 21:4

Re: OT vim/uptime

2001-06-27 Thread Alan Shutko
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > will 2945 0.2 1.0 2588 1356 pts/1SJun22 18:08 vi inv/show.mc > > so, what's the record for cpu time on a single vim session? See, that's the difference between Em

OT vim/uptime

2001-06-27 Thread will trillich
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND will 2945 0.2 1.0 2588 1356 pts/1SJun22 18:08 vi inv/show.mc so, what's the record for cpu time on a single vim session? :) when i do :files i see a list of 43... boy do i need a life, eh? -- DEBIAN NEWBIE

Re: ???

2001-06-27 Thread Jenner Almanzar
I really appreciate your help!!! is there any way to download the drivers and install the card without recompiling the kernel, cause i'm very new in the linux world and i'm not sure what you trying to say recompile, is it reinstalling? Quoting Miguel Griffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > when you com

Re: How to fetchmail from ISP-b using SSH when ISP-a has socks?

2001-06-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:45:45PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote: > > Or even crawling? The '-v' option to ssh is your friend, and together with > > the manpages, there's suddenly a whole cosy circle of friends. ;-) > > But there's no manpage for "ssh-socks": > # man ssh-socks > > No manual entr

Re: How to fetchmail from ISP-b using SSH when ISP-a has socks?

2001-06-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:38:46PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) wrote: > [...] > > Or even crawling? The '-v' option to ssh is your friend, and together with > > Below is stderr from this command: > $ ssh-socks -v -C -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] -L 0:redpraxis.org:1

Re: How to fetchmail from ISP-b using SSH when ISP-a has socks?

2001-06-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:04:09PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote: > Package ssh-socks doesn't conflict with anything, but ssh conflicts > with ssh-socks and ssh-nonfree. Do rules for making packages say that > conflicts have to be indicated by control-information of both > packages? No. Your versi

Re: your mail

2001-06-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
A good first setp will be to do some reading: http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/i386/install To do a network-install, the most common way is to download a set of boot floppies (install disks) and being the installation process. After it does some initial setup (including your network card and

[OT] Mozilla/Java: xpicleanup.dat files wanted

2001-06-27 Thread DvB
There is currently a bug filed at bugzilla.mozilla.org which covers the problems with java plugin installation. As expected, the xpicleanup process keeps running after mozilla exits so that it can finish replacing/changing/removing files that were previously in use. Consequently, the xpicleanu

Re: ???

2001-06-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:12:45PM -0700, Jenner Almanzar wrote: > I need to install a ethernet card on linux, how can i > do that? With a screwdriver. ;-) Go to http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html and read it. It conveniently also answers the next 12 questions you were going to ask.

Re: apt-get install mysql-server

2001-06-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:00:15PM -0300, Juan wrote: > I removed mysql-server and now I'm trying to install it again. > > The commands: > apt-get install mysql-server ===> Sorry, mysql-server is already the > newest version > apt-get remove mysql-server ===> E: Couldn't find package mysql-serve

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Re: apt-get : difference between dist-upgrade and dselect-upgrade

2001-06-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:55:36PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: > I am confused with the use of apt-get dselect-upgrade : if I want > to run it, it will propose me to install 61 new packages I > haven't requested. _How do I get rid of these installation > candidates ?_ Use dselect. Update fr

Re: ???

2001-06-27 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 12:12 p.m. 27/06/01 -0700, Jenner Almanzar wrote: Hi everybody!!! I need to install a ethernet card on linux, how can i do that? First check if it is compatible, then find which kernel module you need for it, then modprobe you_kernel_module and you got it. You _may_ need to recompile kerne

Re: mutt

2001-06-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
What works well for me is to use mutt with its threaded view and collapse threads that are no longer interesting for whatever reason. My index_format line looks like this: set index_format="%3C %Z %[!%b%d] %-17.17F(%?M?#%3M&%4c?) %s" All that garbage in the parens there roughly translates to "

???

2001-06-27 Thread Jenner Almanzar
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Re: Changing the keboard layout for X

2001-06-27 Thread nestor diaz
El Mié 27 Jun 2001 09:50, Miguel Griffa escribió: > hi > Could anyone help me on changing the kb layout for X, I always used us > because I know it by hard and it's ok for some programming keys ; `... but > now I installed debian on my girlfriends computer, and I need to have the > kb on the

Re: Broken Debconf

2001-06-27 Thread John Foster
Rob Weir wrote: > > After doing my regular apt-get update;apt-get -fuy dist-upgrade against > testing, I've managed to completely munge up my perl installation. When apt > gets to updating Debconf, I get the following error: > --

apt-get install mysql-server

2001-06-27 Thread Juan
Hi, I removed mysql-server and now I'm trying to install it again. The commands: apt-get install mysql-server ===> Sorry, mysql-server is already the newest version apt-get remove mysql-server ===> E: Couldn't find package mysql-server What should I do to fix this? TIA, Juan José Velázquez

where to do iptables setup?

2001-06-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
Hello, I recently upgraded one machine to the 2.4.5 kernel from the 2.2 series. As it's running now, I have an iptables script which sets up my NAT and filtering rules. I was rather proud of myself having gotten my script to work fine on the first try, but I'm not sure what's the clean Debian Way

apt-get : difference between dist-upgrade and dselect-upgrade

2001-06-27 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hi. I am confused with the use of apt-get dselect-upgrade : if I want to run it, it will propose me to install 61 new packages I haven't requested. _How do I get rid of these installation candidates ?_ I always use apt-get install x, or the magic couple apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade...

Re: docbook & xml in Italian

2001-06-27 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:44:32AM +, Victor wrote: > Me, again! > > No one using docbook & xml out there? > > Vittorio > Vittorio [debian-user] <22/06/01 18:08 +>: > > Hi, > > > > I've installed docbook and experimented it with XML to build a > > tiny book. I'm enthusiastic about the w

Re: Netscape 4.77 Java Fonts too large

2001-06-27 Thread Harold Bibik
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:02:31AM -0700, Eric Richardson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled > > Already have the msttcorefonts installed and the Netscape.ad modified > > but there was some interesting stuff about scalable fonts at the > > bottom of the page you mentioned...thanks for the URL, I'll pl

Re: HELP Please ! Can't login .

2001-06-27 Thread Colin Watson
Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In any case, even though this bug was found in the unstable >version, I though that some minimal testing is going on before >packages are uploaded to the mirrors. In this case it was >simple stupid sgaddset instead of sigaddset, but still. >Do pe

mutt -- was Re: Why use fakeroot when compiling kernel?

2001-06-27 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 12:23:19AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > O how I mis tin's capability to hide/unhide read messages. > Under mutt I simply delete read messages instead of having them fade > away. <\rambling> hmm. maybe there's a scoring mechanism, coupled with a macro, that you could cob

Re: big IBM harddisk (fwd)

2001-06-27 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > virtanen wrote: > > I tried, but if I connect my IBM, the machine doesn't boot at all... > > This sounds pretty much like a hardware failure to me. I had a > problem when one of my harddrives was broken. I always got a drive > error and the PC wouln't

Re: Debian modules

2001-06-27 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 04:27:26PM -0300, Juan wrote: > > I would like to install: > - Apache (???) It was installed via dselect, but I not found httpd apache provides httpd services -- on debian it's called apache, whereas other distributions call it 'httpd'. you can always create a symlink h

Re: Easy-going backup software

2001-06-27 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 06:54:47PM +, Victor wrote: > Hi Friends, > > I've set up and tailored a wonderful debian 2.2r3 in 1.4 GB of my > laptop. It ticks wonderfully!! > > Having a wide free 4GB linux partition on my desktop at home under > SuSE 7.1, to be on the safe side I'd like to back u

Re: installing KDE

2001-06-27 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:48:52AM +1000, Aquila wrote: > I think apt-get install task-kde is the "proper" way to do it. It's a > virtual package that depends on the actual kde packages. > > On 24 Jun 2001 17:17:02 -0500, Zac Hostens wrote: > > Run dselect and choose the package kdebase, and it wi

Re: HELP Please ! Can't login .

2001-06-27 Thread Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy
In any case, even though this bug was found in the unstable version, I though that some minimal testing is going on before packages are uploaded to the mirrors. In this case it was simple stupid sgaddset instead of sigaddset, but still. Do people test that basic functionality of the package work

Re: XF86Setup Problem with ATI Rage 128 Pro AGP 4x

2001-06-27 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:37:22PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: | On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Shivakumar Patil wrote: | | | I selected ATI rage 128 Pro generic, chipset as generic, memory as 16 meg | I have ATI Rage Pro with 4MB ram. I use the mach64 driver, with 1024x768 FYI the Rage Pro and the

Re: cd-rom "medium not found", no modules load

2001-06-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* nico de haer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010627 09:04]: > Hi Vineet, > > Did you compile SCSI-CDROM support in to your kernel? > > Yours, > Nico de Haer > Yes, it's in there. (It's CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR) And for the record, no I'm not trying to mount an audio CD =p I've tried various iso9660 and joliet

Re: headers in mutt

2001-06-27 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 07:40:52PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > I am using mutt. When I read a message sometimes appears a lot of stuff in > the > header. I want only the "From:", "To:" and "Subject:" fields. How can I do > that? > Using the option ignore in the muttrc file seems

Re: XF86Setup Problem with ATI Rage 128 Pro AGP 4x

2001-06-27 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Shivakumar Patil wrote: :)Hi, :) :) I am new to debian and installed debian potato 2.2r3 on my 866Mhz, 128 :)MB RAM Dell Machine. I have xserver-svga as my X driver. I used XF86Setup :)gui tool to create a XF86Config file. :) I selected ATI rage 128 Pro generic, chips

Re: More on mutt losing its keymap

2001-06-27 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > That's what I get for being a command-line freak: everyone else is using > xterms and xterm termcaps seem to work fine between linux, irix and > solaris. I guess I have to sit down and set up linux termcaps on our sun/sgi > boxen -- using vt100 as I do now is clearly

Re: Trying to build Redhat kernel on Debian

2001-06-27 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:53:27AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: | Howdy, | | this is probably the wrong list to ask this question but anyway: | | I'm trying to install a package which needs kernel 2.4.2 as included | with Redhat 7.1 (apparently Redhat applied some patches which are | required).

Re: HELP Please ! Can't login .

2001-06-27 Thread Colin Watson
"Hall Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You should read the other mails on this list. > >The thought just occured to me: > >What if they upgraded their box to this broken version of pam >and for whatever reason either logged all users out or >rebooted. If this is their only box, they can't l

Re: reverse DNS lookup on local machine

2001-06-27 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:31:33AM -0500, Andy Wettstein wrote: ... > try pdnsd, it it a lightweight caching nameserver, that will take your > hosts out of /etc/hosts and put them in its resolver. or you can define > them in your config file either way. I was hoping that /etc/resolve ed would be

Re: For everyone that cannot login

2001-06-27 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Sorry, I forgot to mention that this is for the login problem >with "testing" only. As it seems there is another login bug >in unstable. Hmm, the broken libpam-modules (0.72-26) never made it into testing (which is as it should be): libpam-module

XF86Setup Problem with ATI Rage 128 Pro AGP 4x

2001-06-27 Thread Shivakumar Patil
Hi, I am new to debian and installed debian potato 2.2r3 on my 866Mhz, 128 MB RAM Dell Machine. I have xserver-svga as my X driver. I used XF86Setup gui tool to create a XF86Config file. I selected ATI rage 128 Pro generic, chipset as generic, memory as 16 meg and monitor as a SVGA w

Re: For everyone that cannot login

2001-06-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry, I forgot to mention that this is for the login problem with "testing" only. As it seems there is another login bug in unstable. -- |- Escape the-| | Gates of hell. | Debian GNU/Linux | | http://www.debian.org |- Use Linux.-|

Re: Cannot login to woody box (i386)

2001-06-27 Thread Timmy Douglas
you need to boot into single usermode: LILO: linuxkernelname single i think somehow you got sid's libpam modules. anyways, they are fixed so once you are root, update and upgrade again

For everyone that cannot login

2001-06-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there. Since it is obvious now that the libpam packages were broken, just for the sake of comfort the imho simplest guide to fix it. 1.) Start linux with "init=/bin/bash" as parameter 2.) Do "/etc/init.d/checkroot.sh" and "/etc/init.d/mountall.sh" to remount all drives rw. 3.) Do "ap

Re: Java and flash plugin for Mozilla

2001-06-27 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 19:21:06 -0400 Chun Kit Edwin Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > After a long and exhausted trial and error, I am giving up. I can't > get the java and flash plugin work for mozilla. Anyone care to tell me > how they get it working? Java doesn't seem

[Fwd: SID USERS READ THIS!]

2001-06-27 Thread G.LeeJ
Original Message Subject: SID USERS READ THIS! Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:25:25 -0500 Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:21:53 -0400 From: D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org This message is for all sid users who ha

newbies and mutt

2001-06-27 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi to all! This appeared in Debian Weekly News - June 25th, 200. And I found the site *very* useful for configuring mutt! Now I have mutt looking the way I want! >From Debian Weekly News - June 25th: Newbie Tip: If you haven't tried using Mutt to read your mail, you should give it a whirl.

Re: Netscape 4.77 Java Fonts too large

2001-06-27 Thread Eric Richardson
Harold Bibik wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:31:16PM +0200, Guy Geens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > scribbled > > > I long time ago, I found a page with tips on how to make Netscape > > fonts look better. I can't find it now, but this page seems to have > > the information you need: > > http://www

Where's Java? [was Re: Java and flash plugin for Mozilla]

2001-06-27 Thread DvB
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, I installed Flash in Mozilla 0.9.1 on a sid debian machine but cant get to find java plugin for it. Any pointers? Thanks, PH Em Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:18:10 -0500, DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: try htt

bug #102226 regarding Samba: some good news !!

2001-06-27 Thread James D. Freels
Dear Eloy Paris: First of all, thank you for maintaining Samba for all of us on Debian. Second, I filed the subject bug report and I am happy to report that the problem has been resolved, but not how we might want. Basically, with the newest version out of unstable, it compiled this time under

Re: su doesn't work; root cannot log in! Arrgggg

2001-06-27 Thread Kent West
Alan Davis wrote: My machine has been up for a few days, and now I cannot take it down, since only the sessions that are now open to root will work. I am running "sid" the unstable, and recently did a major upgrade. In an xterm, the following is received: bash-2.05$ su su: Module is unk

Cannot login to woody box (i386)

2001-06-27 Thread Guenter Millahn
Dear fellow debianers, yesterday I did a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' and a subsequently reboot on my woody box. Since this I am no longer able to login via telnet or via console. ssh also fails. Here is a monitored session example: > woodybox login: mylogin > Login incorrect > > woodybox login: Do

Re: SSH takes ages to authorise

2001-06-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:28:22PM +0100, Nik Makepeace wrote: > Who knows where there is a good BIND tutorial for technically adept yet > ignorant monkeys like myself? I'm not familiar with pdnsd, but I've seen two plugs for it today and it sounds likely to be decent. But if you want to take th

Re: HELP Please ! Can't login .

2001-06-27 Thread Kent West
Aquila wrote: You should read the other mails on this list. Anyway you need to boot into single-user mode (append "s" after your image name at lilo prompt), download the libpam*.deb packages from http://incoming.debian.org and install them, then reboot. It's no longer in incoming; but it sho

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