Port 6346 scans ?

2001-07-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
I have a large supply of connection attempts to port 6346? Anybody have a clue about these? DOS attack (several per second)? Or some other 'sploit? I couldn't find any reference to this port via CERT. (seems whomever has given up for now...) -- Eric G. Miller

Re: pthreads and sigaltstack on i386

2001-07-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:27:07PM -0700, Bob Smith wrote: [snip] > > I compiled as: > > $ gcc -g -Wall -o sigstack sigstack.c > > I left out the pthread stuff for simplicity since it > doesn't appear essential to demonstrate the problem. > And indeed, I know that the above compile line works. >

Re: lilo problems

2001-07-23 Thread harshu
hi, are you sure that lilo is installed? lilo.conf is in /etc dpkg -l | grep lilo. on my system this is the output. ii lilo 21.7.5-5 LInux LOader - The Classic OS loader can loa if you don't get anything similar the run apt-get install lilo. hope that helps regards

Re: Preventing windows from screwing linux up

2001-07-23 Thread destruss
On 23 Jul 2001, at 17:35, Cormac McGuinness wrote: > Hi > I'm hoping someone can help me with my frustrating problem... > I have a laptop, and something installed under windows 98 has now > (twice) overwritten the initial part of my Linux filesystem > which exists in an extended partition. > How c

Re: Unimportant lilo query

2001-07-23 Thread destruss
On 23 Jul 2001, at 12:46, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > Hi, > When i run lilo i get this message (though lilo still installs properly, and > works fine) > > " Warning: CHANGE AUTOMATIC assumed after "other=/dev/hda1" " > > > Could someone please just tell me what this means, thanks, Hi Hereward

[OT] Making images from CDs

2001-07-23 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
First, a simple question: What is the correct command-line way of copying a CD to an image file on the hard drive? Is a simple "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cd.img" command sufficient? Or do I need to run mkisofs using the directory of a mounted CD as the root directory of the image? I already know how

[Sebastiaan ] Re: snort dies

2001-07-23 Thread Patrick Cheong Shu Yang
I have been running snort on Potato/Woody machines and have also some across similar problems. My solution:- Removed the 5snort script and attached additional lines to logrotate to re-start snort once the logs have been rotated. I also made a script which will monitor the snort/swatch/qpage proces

Re: pthreads and sigaltstack on i386

2001-07-23 Thread Bob Smith
>How are you compiling it? Seems to work okay under unstable. > Sends itself SIGUSR1, goes into sigsuspend, is woken up, handles > the signal, and exits (by the way, main always returns an int ;). > > I don't see any threads stuff, so how the pthread_sighandler error? > > I compiled as: > $ gcc -g

Re: "man" command made easy?

2001-07-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:41:21AM -, john smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I was just wondering...I don't know if this topic is for this list > but...is there a book or link somewhere that gives easier examples of > how to do the correct syntax for "man" something. I find that the

Re: Anti-aliasable fonts in KDE?

2001-07-23 Thread Alan Shutko
Geoffrey Romer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, they are. It's actually a symlink, but I wouldn't expect that to make > a difference. There's also a fonts.dir and fonts.scale in the directory. > Any other ideas? Well, the symlink _might_ make a difference, so why not try putting in the real pat

potato vs. axkit

2001-07-23 Thread will trillich
is anybody using axkit on potato? the *.deb mentioned at packages.debian.org seem to be available for woody and sid; us potato-paranoid people would like to give it a run around the block too -- anybody debianized AXKIT yet for potato? -- I'd concentrate on "living in the now" because it is fun a

Re: KDE Games

2001-07-23 Thread John Galt
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, dude wrote: > > >Here the deal > >I have installed kde desktop (very nice) > >but when i i try to run a game its >says executable not found > >what i have found is that >any game in /usr/games > >is not recongized by the kde-desktop Let me guess: you're running X as root. Sh

Re: Repeat: Problem with Postgresql database

2001-07-23 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 06:42:46AM +, p wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:04:01PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: > > [snip] > > > problem is that the postgresql database says that my username does not > > > exist in the pg_shadow file any more. I thought that this was a problem > > > that >

Further Adventures of my ESS 1888

2001-07-23 Thread Kieren Diment
I posted a message about my ESS 1888 on my Dell Laptop card last week, and am grateful for the most useful replies I got. Aagain, According to Windows95 it is an ESS 1688 Audiodrive (although according to Dell it is a ESS 1888) I/O Range 0240 - 024F 0388-038B 0330-0331 IRQs 5 an

Re: I did it a mess with perl

2001-07-23 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:22:19PM +, Victor wrote: > Hi Friends, > > I'll be a long reading for you! > > As an absolute beginner with Perl I've been having a go at using Perl > & DBI to connect to an Oracle server. therefore I neede to download > and install from www.cpan.org the DBD::Oracle

[OT] error compiling libFOX - pthread problem?

2001-07-23 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help my try to determine why fox-0.99.142 doesn't seem to want to compile for me. It seems to act like I don't have libpthread. I tried it with fox-0.99.174 also and get the same error as follows... make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/f

Re: Display managers

2001-07-23 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 06:22:50PM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote: > What's the surgeon-general-approved way of disabling a display-manager (e.g. > kdm, gdm, xdm)? I know I could just delete the relevant symlinks from > /etc/rc*.d, but I have a feeling that package upgrades and things like that > will

mutt "mail-followup-to" question (was: Re: OT: mysql front end?)

2001-07-23 Thread Matthew Garman
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 04:46:01PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Cc: Matthew Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Your Cc: address is incorrect. > - > ... > > Remove it or fix it. Well, my email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both my 'From:' and 'Reply-

Re: AC97 sound with devfs and 2.4.6

2001-07-23 Thread Wayne Sitton
I have the same audio chipset. I've been told that if you compile ALSA into your kernel it runs fine. I haven't tried it though. Wayne On Monday 23 July 2001 19:37, Mark Jaroski wrote: > Hi All, > > I have an Acorp motherboard with built in sound which appears to > be handled by an ac97 chipse

Re: pthreads and sigaltstack on i386

2001-07-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:46:05PM -0700, Bob Smith wrote: > I'm using Debian potato. I can't get this program to > use sigaltstack and pthreads at the same time on i386. > I get a SIGSEGV in pthread_sighandler. The program > works fine on Alpha Linux and Solaris. Is this a known > i386 problem?

Re: Display managers

2001-07-23 Thread Jimmy Richards
Even though I've never done it, I think you could remove all the symlinks in the /etc/rc*.d dirs except for /etc/rc6.d and then it wouldn't restore them on an upgrade, and the rc6.d is for shutdown. So it shouldn't do anything wrong leaving that one there. They can be removed with 'update-r

floppy disk and hard disk install

2001-07-23 Thread D. Casey
I've tried the floppy disk install and I'm not having any success. I've created two different sets of the rescue and root disks. I can boot fine from the rescue disk, but I'm asked for the root disk _twice_. I start with rescue, it loads, then it asks for root, I put it in, it runs for a while,

Re: soundblaster sb 16

2001-07-23 Thread Glen Snyder
If it's any help, I have an ISA sb16, and haven't had any problem with it. I just recompiled the kernel, and enabled Sound Card Support, OSS sound modules, then selected 100% sound blaster compatibles -Glen

Re: Modem problems after kernel upgrade (long, w/ Radeon VE sidenote)

2001-07-23 Thread Jeremy
Dang it all... I went and forgot my Radeon sidenote. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has gotten the ATI Radeon VE video card (AGP) working with X. (preferably 4.0.3). Anytime I try to use it, I get broken server connection messages. Any suggestions? TIA, Jeremy

Re: Display managers

2001-07-23 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 06:22:50PM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote: > What's the surgeon-general-approved way of disabling a display-manager (e.g. > kdm, gdm, xdm)? I know I could just delete the relevant symlinks from > /etc/rc*.d, but I have a feeling that package upgrades and things like that > will

Re: seting up a gateway

2001-07-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 05:34:39PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:15:06PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:29:12PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > > Also what do i need a 2.4.6 kernel for it to work, am i right in > > > thinking that it is different fro

Re: Modem problems after kernel upgrade (long, w/ Radeon VE sidenote)

2001-07-23 Thread Jeremy
"D. Hoyem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Did you also get the 2.4.? ppp? That is required when > you upgrade to a 2.4.* kernel. You can also try > setserial -g /dev/ttyS* and see what is listed as the > modem. It should be listed as UART 16550A if memory > serves me right. > Don Okay... here's

Re: Anti-aliasable fonts in KDE?

2001-07-23 Thread Geoffrey Romer
> > I've tried msttcorefonts, but KDE doesn't appear to offer those fonts when > > in Anti-aliasing mode. > > Are those fonts in a directory listed in /etc/X11/XftConfig? If not, Yes, they are. It's actually a symlink, but I wouldn't expect that to make a difference. There's also a fonts.dir a

Display managers

2001-07-23 Thread Geoffrey Romer
What's the surgeon-general-approved way of disabling a display-manager (e.g. kdm, gdm, xdm)? I know I could just delete the relevant symlinks from /etc/rc*.d, but I have a feeling that package upgrades and things like that will just restore them. I'd prefer not to uninstall the package entirely, be

Re: evolution beta

2001-07-23 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm using the beta (compiled it myself), and it works great (I'm replying to you w/ it now). Are you sure you're being patient enough? It seems to be rather slow to pop up the window... Cameron Matheson On 23 Jul 2001 19:51:35 +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > has anyone had a go with the new

Re: RBL for hire

2001-07-23 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 04:25:13PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > I poked down the "subscription" link and saw that the service is > free to hobbyists. Like us. Not sure if this is Debian policy, but > perhaps the sendmail postinst script could do the registration > automatically so that from

remote administration methods

2001-07-23 Thread Martin F. Krafft
hi guys, i am interested in hearing how other people handle remote administration of multiple servers - with multiple admins. currently, we maintain 8 servers worldwide (all debian of course). the problem is that sometimes the connections across the atlantic are so bad that a vi session on the remo

RE: Help!! Dependancy Issue with dpkg install!

2001-07-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Preparing to replace libc6 2.1.3-18 (using > .../libc6_2.2.3-7_i386.deb) ... > cp: invalid option -- L > Try 'cp --help' for more information. > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.2.3-7_i386.deb > (--unpack): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

AC97 sound with devfs and 2.4.6

2001-07-23 Thread Mark Jaroski
Hi All, I have an Acorp motherboard with built in sound which appears to be handled by an ac97 chipset. I spent most of last evening going through mailing lists and trying different modutils settings with no luck. Can anybody provide insight? Thanks! The details: I'm running Sid with kernel 2

Re: RBL for hire

2001-07-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya martin... nope... but i think there'd be lots of spin-offs and equivalents that gonna try to continue the services - its a lot of work... - the outfit i know is local in san jose area... and is in well capable hands ... though i hope they can pull it off c ya alvin On Mon, 23 Jul 2001

Re: delegating NS control of subdomain to another BIND

2001-07-23 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Kevin Darcy (on Mon, 23 Jul 2001 05:01:07PM -0400): > Well, according to the dump, pns.dtag.de (address 194.25.0.125) is the one > disclaiming all knowledge of mail.subdomain.madduck.net. You haven't > mentioned forwarding at all, but since pns.dtag.de has nothing to do with > the maddu

lilo problems

2001-07-23 Thread Dan Ryan
I am completely new to debian and linux for that matter and I was just installing it on one of my other computers. Now I want to make it a dual boot system. The only problem is I can't use X because I dont have a supported video card. So... how do I edit lilo.conf from the starting command prompt?

Re: cvs permissions

2001-07-23 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Osamu Aoki (on Mon, 23 Jul 2001 03:18:00PM -0700): > I think CVD can run scripts upon ci/co. Write small scripts which correct > and record permission. Keep those permossion record in root:root 600 > file. that is an option, but it's *way* too much work, which i don't have. i wonder

Re: help with x

2001-07-23 Thread David Kimdon
Hi James, I always use XF86Setup (package xf86setup). It sounds to me like your configuration is wrong. Forwarded to debian-user, a more appropriate forum. -David Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:13:21PM +0100 wrote: > Hi, > > I've just recently bought the official Debian 2.2 r3. I have installed it

Re: cvs permissions

2001-07-23 Thread Andrew Agno
Martin F. Krafft writes: > also sprach Andrew Agno (on Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:55:21PM -0700): > > Why don't you create a group who does have write access to the /etc > > files? > > because that wouldn't fix my problem, and because it would create more > problems. take these two files: Ah, of c

Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540

2001-07-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
Cups, while designed to be quite flexible seems to not at present have support for much anything unless you want to buy it's creators products. Or write your own filters. @home.com (Raul Rodriguez) writes: > I made a new installation from scratch (2.2 rev 3), but I didn't get any > printer set

XenoFORM

2001-07-23 Thread XenoFORM team.
Greetings !We have noticed your presence from our friends and would like to offer our services to you. My name is Oleg, and I`m the lead artist of the XenoForm workgroup. We are a recently founded team of professionals formed of designers, artists, web-designers, and programmers. Presentl

Re: cvs permissions

2001-07-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:07:19PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > > if i cvs checked these out, they'd both be root.root and both have > either 0644 or 0640 permissions, because the cvs checkout creates > these files within /etc according to $CVSUMASK - i.e. all files the > same permissions. cle

Re: seting up a gateway

2001-07-23 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:15:06PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:29:12PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > Also what do i need a 2.4.6 kernel for it to work, am i right in > > thinking that it is different from 2.2.x? > > I know you will need iptables for a 2.4 kernel (haven't b

Re: cvs permissions

2001-07-23 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Andrew Agno (on Mon, 23 Jul 2001 02:52:26PM -0700): > Oh, and look under the CVS repository for CVSROOT/config. There's an > options called PreserverPermissions. Not sure how buggy that option > is (see a google search). that's good, but it's disabled in 1.11, which is what woody use

Re: Folders in Mutt

2001-07-23 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:02:13PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > - Nothing ever gets put in my /var/spool/mail/username mbox file, it > all gets diverted to one of the mboxes listed. The only bummer is that my > mailcheck at login always says "no mail..." because I haven't booked > up on the con

Re: TOT Re: Optimizing potato

2001-07-23 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Andy, Take a look at this web. It may help answer your question. http://www.x86.org/articles/computalk/help.htm Cheers, Jim Richards You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax, tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. --Pearl Williams

Re: RBL for hire

2001-07-23 Thread Bill Wohler
John Bacalle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010722 17:52]: > > On http://mail-abuse.org/subscription.html, I read: > > Where you been hiding, Bill? That news is two weeks old. =) It seems old > to those that have been following the issue, anyway. MAPS is doing

Re: Anti-aliasable fonts in KDE?

2001-07-23 Thread Geoffrey Romer
> > The optimal solution would seem to be to get anti-aliasable versions > > of Helvetica and Courier. Is this possible? > > Yes. Any Postscript Type 1 or TrueType fonts will work. Therefore, > you can buy fonts from a number of places, use fonts from (say) an old > version of Adobe Type Manage

Keyboard Setup

2001-07-23 Thread Nic Strong
Hi all, Small problem. I have managed to get my GB keyboard layout working from X (XkbModel pc101 and XkbLayout gb), but are struggling to find where I should change my config so this will work in the console (e.g shift-2=@ instead of "). Cheers, Nic

Re: simple Q a/b '$HOME', etc.

2001-07-23 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:32:41PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 12:21:58AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > > so what is this method of referring to things called? and is there > > somewhere > > i can find a list of all of the "$_" things out there? > > $ set |le

Re: (SOLVED) delegating NS control of subdomain to another BIND

2001-07-23 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Kevin Darcy (on Mon, 23 Jul 2001 05:54:19PM -0400): > Did you try adding "forwarders { }" to the madduck.net zone definition? thanks to Kevin from the comp.protocols.dns.bind newsgroup, i found the problem. i had six forwarders configured on my main DNS server, which i thought are nece

Re: CUPS is asking for glibc - how do I get it?

2001-07-23 Thread Andreas Schmidt
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:18:14PM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I just installed CUPS 1.1.9 on a machine running 2.2r3 (2.2.18pre21 > kernel). It is working fine. > > Next, I installed it (with the 2.4.* deb file from http://www.cups.org) > on a machine running 2.2r3 with the 2.4 support pack

Re: Anti-aliasable fonts in KDE?

2001-07-23 Thread Alan Shutko
Geoffrey Romer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've tried msttcorefonts, but KDE doesn't appear to offer those fonts when > in Anti-aliasing mode. Are those fonts in a directory listed in /etc/X11/XftConfig? If not, add a line like dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF" The Xft search path is set i

Re: Preventing windows from screwing linux up

2001-07-23 Thread Andy Saxena
Could you please provide more information? It would help to know what your partition table looks like (from fdisk). Could you state more specifically what symptoms this has caused? Were you not able to boot into Linux; files went missing, etc. -Andy On Monday July 23 2001 17:35, Cormac McGuinn

Re: MTAs: rejecting senders with exim and delivering responses to rejected senders

2001-07-23 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 02:15:36PM +0200, Hans Wilmer wrote: > Well, better solutions are appreciated :) I've been looking for > providers of mailhosting yesterday evening because things would be > easier if I had my own domain, but I couldn't find an appropriate > offer yet. To have my own domain

gdm and xdm contd.

2001-07-23 Thread Glen Snyder
I guess I'll rephrase the question. I can't start gnome using gdm or xdm under a clean install of Woody that I just did. The screen goes black, then returns to the menu. Since the login menu displays ok and the curser moves fine, I don't think it is a problem with my xf86config. Any idea which l

Re: New-to-Debian

2001-07-23 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:52:53AM +1000, K.P wrote: > Hello, I am NEW to the world of Linux and Debian has come > higly recommended in Australia for its versatility. I have not > tried it yet and I hope to gain some feedback as to whether > Debian is appropriate for new users. it depends on the n

Re: Newbie Tips: Will, you asked.....

2001-07-23 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:23:13AM -0700, Hamma Scott wrote: > > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #61 from Hamma Scott > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > : > > Ever have troubles with EITHER X OR CONSOLE LOCKUP? > > If your session is hung you can type F2- > > F6 to get to another login session. This way, you > > can

superformat fails to measure drive's raw capacity

2001-07-23 Thread Henry House
Superformat is failing on one of my machines when it attempts to measure the raw capacity of /dev/fd0. Here is the error message: Measuring drive 0's raw capacity Fatal error while measuring raw capacity 0: 40 1: 01 2: 00 3: 00 4: 00

Preventing windows from screwing linux up

2001-07-23 Thread Cormac McGuinness
Hi I'm hoping someone can help me with my frustrating problem... I have a laptop, and something installed under windows 98 has now (twice) overwritten the initial part of my Linux filesystem which exists in an extended partition. How can I prevent this (other than by deinstalling windows! - my wife

Re: cvs permissions

2001-07-23 Thread Andrew Agno
Oh, and look under the CVS repository for CVSROOT/config. There's an options called PreserverPermissions. Not sure how buggy that option is (see a google search). Andrew.

Re: bash ${parameter%%patern} does not work ?

2001-07-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Thanks :-) It can not get any clearer. I must have been sleeping when reading documents. :-( Osamu On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:39:00PM +0200, Leonard Stiles wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have been scratching my head for bash parameter substitution. > > > > I understan

Re: XftConfig docs

2001-07-23 Thread tim
On Saturday, 21. July 2001 22:06, Philipp Lehman wrote: > Maybe I'm searching in the wrong places, but I can't find any docs > describing format/syntax of the XftConfig files. Any pointers? I can at least help you with a good Xftconfig file I got from a KDE developer. You need to make some modifi

Re: superformat fails to measure drive's raw capacity

2001-07-23 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:53:29PM -0700, Henry House wrote: > Superformat is failing on one of my machines when it attempts to measure the > raw capacity of /dev/fd0. Here is the error message: > > Measuring drive 0's raw capacity > > Fatal error while measuring raw capacity >

pthreads and sigaltstack on i386

2001-07-23 Thread Bob Smith
I'm using Debian potato. I can't get this program to use sigaltstack and pthreads at the same time on i386. I get a SIGSEGV in pthread_sighandler. The program works fine on Alpha Linux and Solaris. Is this a known i386 problem? Is there a cure? Thanks, Bob --- #include #include #include in

Re: OT: mysql front end?

2001-07-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: OT: mysql front end? Date: Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:45:44PM -0500 In reply to:Matthew Garman Quoting Matthew Garman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What MySQL front ends have you had good luck with? At work, where I'm > using Windows, I use mysql-front, which I really like. I was

Re: Press Release

2001-07-23 Thread John Hasler
Adam Bell writes: > Woohoo! More donations for us! These guys have run up a bill of at least $10,000 just in the last few days. Unfortunately, Debian has, AFAIK, never attempted to collect the $1999 from anyone. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Oracle on Debian?

2001-07-23 Thread J.F.Gratton
On 23 Jul 2001, Guy Geens wrote: > Did you read the Oracle8-HOWTO? It gives a few hints. > > IIRC, most common problems seem to be an incorrect libc version, or > the wrong JDK (HOWTO mentions the version Oracle wants). > > I tried installing Oracle 8 on my home machine once. After selecting the >

CUPS is asking for glibc - how do I get it?

2001-07-23 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I just installed CUPS 1.1.9 on a machine running 2.2r3 (2.2.18pre21 kernel). It is working fine. Next, I installed it (with the 2.4.* deb file from http://www.cups.org) on a machine running 2.2r3 with the 2.4 support packages and with the 2.4 kernel. CUPS installs okay, but when I try to start it

Re: snort dies

2001-07-23 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > hey all, > i looked in the debian bug system, and aside it being mentioned, i > have not found an answer. /etc/cron.daily/5snort seems to kill snort > when configured in start-at-boot mode. however, if i run the cron > script manually, it rest

modprobe: Can't locate module

2001-07-23 Thread Jeff
Upon logging into kde I am getting this message in the console box that stays open. modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-serv

Re: Reading .doc files from within Mutt

2001-07-23 Thread Alexander Steinert
> What is the best (simplest) way to read .doc files from within Mutt? /etc/mailcap: application/msword; /usr/bin/antiword '%s'; copiousoutput; description="Microsoft Word Text"; nametemplate=%s.doc and (if you want) ~/.vimrc: auto_view application/msword Stony

Re: cvs permissions

2001-07-23 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Andrew Agno (on Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:55:21PM -0700): > Why don't you create a group who does have write access to the /etc > files? because that wouldn't fix my problem, and because it would create more problems. take these two files: fishbowl:~> ls -l /etc/{passwd,wvdial.conf} -rw-r--

Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540

2001-07-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:09:09PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I made a new installation from scratch (2.2 rev 3), but I didn't get any > printer settings, nor I saw any script for that. I have a HP deskjet 540, > does some one know how to configure it? What would be better, cups or > magicfi

Re: Unimportant lilo query

2001-07-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Unimportant lilo query Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:46:35PM + In reply to:Hereward Cooper Quoting Hereward Cooper([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi, > When i run lilo i get this message (though lilo still installs properly, and > works fine) > > " Warning: CHANGE AUTOMA

Re: soundblaster sb 16

2001-07-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: soundblaster sb 16 Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 11:30:07AM +0200 In reply to:Markus Hansen Quoting Markus Hansen([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I now have the data o fpnpdump in pnp.config. > but i dont know how to paste this into isapnp.config. > using konqueror or mc doesnt w

Re: OT: mysql front end?

2001-07-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: OT: mysql front end? Date: Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:45:44PM -0500 In reply to:Matthew Garman Quoting Matthew Garman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What MySQL front ends have you had good luck with? At work, where I'm > using Windows, I use mysql-front, which I really like. I was

Re: Optimizing potato

2001-07-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Optimizing potato Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 04:25:01PM + In reply to:Victor Quoting Victor([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've a wonderful, terrific debian potato 2.2r3 installation on my > portable but I'd like to optimize some pieces of software (samba, > hylafax) for my a

Re: gdm and xdm question

2001-07-23 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:27:10 -0400 Glen Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently added a usb-mouse to a Linux box and decided to do a clean > reinstall with an unofficial woody image, and an upgrade to the 2.4.6 > kernel. (This turned out to be much more difficult than just doing a > dist-up

RE:cvs permissions

2001-07-23 Thread Andrew Agno
Martin F. Krafft writes: > my problem is that CVS doesn't care about permissions as RCS does. Why don't you create a group who does have write access to the /etc files? Andrew.

Re: Oracle on Debian?

2001-07-23 Thread Guy Geens
> "J" == J F Gratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: J> Stan, Awhile back (last november) I tried to install Oracle 8.1.6.2 J> on Debian 'potato' and it's true, it just won't work. Worst of it, J> you won't get any error messages. Oracle will link its binaries J> without a hitch, but whenever you'

Re: upgrading kde?

2001-07-23 Thread Andy Saxena
On Monday July 23 2001 06:26, Rodolfo Canet wrote: > Hi all > > Which package should I apt-get install to get the newest kde? (kdebase, > etc...) > > Thanks.. 02:38pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/perl-programming 536 $ dpkg -l "*kde*" | grep "^ii" ii kdeartwork-sty 2.2-beta1-1widget styles released

Re: Anyone got acroread working on potato?

2001-07-23 Thread Ted Harding
On 23-Jul-01 Touloumtzis, Michael wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:16:15PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Everytime I try to open a .pdf file with acroread it gives me the >> following error: >> Exited with error code: 0x400e0009. >> >> I am running potato and xpdf works OK - but it doesn't

PCI warning

2001-07-23 Thread Jim McCloskey
I've taken a little time recently to clean out and fine tune my system (mostly woody). As part of that, I upgraded to kernel 2.4.6. The following messages now appear at boot time: PCI: Probing PCI hardware Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686]

Re: bash ${parameter%%patern} does not work ?

2001-07-23 Thread Andy Saxena
On Monday July 23 2001 03:36, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > I have been scratching my head for bash parameter substitution. > > I understand ## in following examples but I can not understand %%. > Is this how bash 2.0 supposed to work? > > $ XXX="123456123456" > $ echo $XXX > 123456123456 > $ echo ${

Re: What does this mean? make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2

2001-07-23 Thread dman
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:12:06PM -0500, John Foster wrote: | What does this mean? i get this error message every time I try to Show use the rest of the output. Usually gcc or something gives the real error message long before make tells you the build failed, especially when a recursive make te

Re: Driver for ATI

2001-07-23 Thread Mike
Ramachandran Chidambaram wrote: > pl help me to get a link to download Video driver for > ATI 3D Rage Pro.Ramachandran That uses the Mach64 chipset, which has been supported quite nicely in the X Window System for quite a long time. With X4.1 it is now accelerated. No need to download a seperate

cvs permissions

2001-07-23 Thread Martin F. Krafft
i/we operate a number of remote servers, and sometimes, configuration is impossible because of slow links; then, vi takes 10 seconds to start, and a keystroke is echoed in 5... unacceptable. so i would like to change configuration remotely, and currently, i rsync the /etc trees to a local director

Re: install debian with GUI

2001-07-23 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > i want to make installer debian with GUI like in > > Mandrake which i can put image, button image, > > logo, etc. first i think i will use Qt, or maybe Java > > but then i realize that the-X isn't installed yet, > > not quite sure where your aiming but i used progeny > debian (release 1) a whil

Re: MUA with html support

2001-07-23 Thread dman
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 08:06:44AM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote: | On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:36:13PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 03:16:55PM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote: | [snip] | > | So I am looking for either a super duper lynx-like tool that can render | > | html attachments pr

how to know which modules go with which aliases

2001-07-23 Thread Josh Berdine
Hi all, modprobe is having trouble finding some modules on my system: $ grep modprobe /var/log/syslog Jul 23 14:37:21 boris modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3 Jul 23 14:37:26 boris modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1 Jul 23 14:37:26 boris modprobe:

Getting a 'woody' distribution

2001-07-23 Thread Mr Andrew James Wood
Hi, Due to various reasons (most particularly desire for UDMA 100 support and I need XFree 4) I want to get a distribution of woody. I know it's in the testing phase, but I'm happy to take that risk. Want I want to know is how I can make myself a CD set of woody from a machine that is not debian (

TOT Re: Optimizing potato

2001-07-23 Thread Andrew Dixon
Victor wrote: This because the precompiled packages are > prepared for a generic i386 while I have an i686 processor. > > This is totally off topic but I was just wondering. . . What is an i686. i586 is the generic family of processors that the Pentium belongs to if IIRC but I didn't realize

Re: mitsumi 4802 te

2001-07-23 Thread John Bagdanoff
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 03:40:28PM +0200, Markus Hansen wrote: > what is this ide-scsi? > how can i use it? > where can i find it? which kackage? > thanks > markus visit : http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html John > > Matthias Richter wrote: > > > Markus Hansen wrote on Sun Jul 22,

Re: ssh restrictions - HOW TO

2001-07-23 Thread Mark Janssen
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:35:32AM -0400, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > > i want to setup a restricted ssh acount in one machine. I took the > PATH restriction aproach but it only works when the user actually > logs in to the machine, but when he does > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] some_command

Re: Problem with apt-get removing a package

2001-07-23 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Thank you! This worked perfectly. I'm now back to a clean installation of CUPS. Regards, Randy On 23 Jul 2001 10:42:56 -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: > "Randolph S. Kahle" wrote: > > > > I may have messed up my package database... > > ximian may have messed it up too. I find that it's a good ide

RE: A7V133 motherboard with debian 2.2r3

2001-07-23 Thread Rick Commo
I am running V2.2r3 on an A7V133 with no problem. I am currently running my disks on the regular IDE controller, but did play with them on the Promise controller for a bit before I decided to move them back (for non-technical reasons). The disk drives were an IBM 30GB and a nondescript 1GB that I

Re: Problem with apt-get removing a package

2001-07-23 Thread Andrew Dixon
"Randolph S. Kahle" wrote: > > I may have messed up my package database... ximian may have messed it up too. I find that it's a good idea to stay away from ximian and use the gnome stuff from the Debian archives. Ximian writes great stuff but they don't do a very good job packaging it so it cre

Re: question about X-configuration of debian from newbie.

2001-07-23 Thread Frank Zimmermann
David Kimdon wrote: Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:48:11PM +0200 wrote: Hello, first of all, I am sorry if I annoy you with my silly question. I just installed Debian 2.2 (potato) and encountered X-windows problem. It seemed I configured wrong driver for the monitor so I could not start x-win

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