Re: PCMCIA Ethernet card in 2.4.6 kernel

2001-07-30 Thread Ken Mead
Aaron, Here's how I FINALLY got mine going Grab a 2.4.* kernel from ftp.kernel.org as well as the newest pcmcia-cs package from sourceforge.net. Then compile your 2.4.* kernel with whatever options you require, however, eliminate ALL pcmcia options from the kernel. If I remember correctly

Re: Woody problems

2001-07-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
I seem to recall seeing a recommendation to install the testing version of debconf and then rerun the dist-upgrade. On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 11:13:59PM +0100, Stephen J. Thompson wrote: > Thanks for that, > > Any idea when the updates could be ready? > > Regards, > > Stephen. > > > On Monday 3

Re: pppd 4.0

2001-07-30 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Deven, Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, does anyone know where I can download PPPD v4.0 so that I can use my > Lucent 56k modem with the driver I installed? If you're looking for software, the best place to look (at least to start) is freshmeat.net. I found this: http:/

pppd 4.0

2001-07-30 Thread JakeCatfox
Hi, does anyone know where I can download PPPD v4.0 so that I can use my Lucent 56k modem with the driver I installed? Thanks. -- Deven

Re: DHCPd/pump domain search list issues

2001-07-30 Thread Bill Vinson
I determined what my problem was. I was using vinson.home as my domain as I don't own a real one. When I switched it to vinson.com it started working. It seems pump requires a real dns name. Bill On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Ron Golan wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 09:26:42PM +0200, Guy Geens wrote

Re: Finding your IP

2001-07-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 04:47:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How can I find out what my IP is once I connect to my PPP service? $ cat < get-ip /sbin/ifconfig tun0 2>/dev/null | grep inet | awk '{ print $2 }' EOF $ chmod +x get-ip $ ./get-ip -- Kar

autogen now requires guile-1.3?

2001-07-30 Thread Craig Dickson
I see sid now has an upgrade to autogen that requires me to downgrade guile from 1.4 to 1.3, and remove a ton of other packages that require guile-1.4. I think I will, instead, simply not upgrade autogen. Grrr. Craig

Re: history

2001-07-30 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sunday July 29 2001 19:10, Markus Hansen wrote: > hi > how can i clear the history of visited webpages > while using conqueror? > thanks for helping. > markus The quick-and-dirty way is to close konquerer and delete all the files in ~/.kde/share/apps/kio_http/cache I am currently running unst

Re: PCTel Modem vs. Debian 2.2r3

2001-07-30 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
At 19:39 25/7/2001 -0300, Vitor Silva Souza wrote: For the last couple of weeks I've been unsuccessfully trying to connect to the Internet on my Debian 2.2r3 (potato) distribution, running kernel 2.2.19pre17, using a PCTel modem. Hello again, After a while I did manage to use

Re: VNC: connection refused?

2001-07-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:13:42AM -0700, Geoffrey Romer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying to get my Debian box to run a vnc server. I'm running a pretty > generic sid install, with the vnc-server and vnc-java packages installed. > When I run the 'vncserver' command, everything seems to work

Re: How to startx as normal user?

2001-07-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:02:50PM -0700, Brad Rhodes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just reinstalled Debian/GNU 2.2 (Potato) and even though I thought I told it > no when it asked if I wanted to install xdm, it installed it anyway. I removed > xdm (using dpkg) because I don't want to use it. Now w

Re: stalling ppp

2001-07-30 Thread Slaven Peles
On Monday 30 July 2001 13:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I've had a problem with ppp slowing and stalling using Concentric.net as my > ISP since upgrading to the 2.2.x kernel series. I ended up getting a second > ISP that doesn't have this problem but I'd like to fix the concentric > problem.

Re: mp3 players?

2001-07-30 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:49:41PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 28 Jul, Michael Perry wrote: > > You can now get a 20g (!) version or get one you bought earlier > > upgraded. All it has in it is a laptop hard drive and a usb > > connection. > > Why limit yourself to a measly 20G? ;-) Th

LILO (OPT: vga -- question)

2001-07-30 Thread louiemiranda
vga = normal how can i make lilo to use 800x600 res, on the lilo.conf options? ex: vga = 800x600? -- louiemiranda (axishift.ath.cx) PGPID : 0xDABA60C7

Re: Gnome

2001-07-30 Thread Dale Morris
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Lute Mullenix wrote: > Icewm, but that [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnome is still there. How do I GET RID OF > IT? Is > there a way to undo the update/upgrade so things will go back to the way > they were before? > I have luck creating an .xsession file with entry exec icewm-gnome th

Re: lilo does not work!

2001-07-30 Thread Mike McGuire
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 08:07:02PM -0400, Mike McGuire wrote: > > ...stuff... > > So, as I see it, those of us with the problem are stuck booting from > floppies unless they've got some other working install, and waiting > for someone who knows better to figure out what's going on. Joy. :-/ > >

Re: Will my modem work?

2001-07-30 Thread D. Hoyem
Go to your Device Manager and the select the + by the modem then look at what it tell you about the modem. Then select the modem then properities at the bottom and see what it say for the port that its using and the name. Go to this url and see if your modem is listed there and there is also a t

Re: using convert to batch convert

2001-07-30 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Aaron Brashears wrote: > I have many, many images that I want to scale down using imagemagick's > convert utility. The convert utility doesn't seem to work correctly > unless you give it an output name per input filename, but the man page > doesn't make it clear how to do this, and I'm stumped as

Re: Woody problems

2001-07-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 11:13:59PM +0100, Stephen J . Thompson wrote: > On Monday 30 July 2001 10:56 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > It's OK - that one's been noticed, Joey tracked it down, and is being > > fixed. The problem was that some packages were using a syntax in their > > debconf template file

Re: nVidia users help needed

2001-07-30 Thread Geoffrey Romer
> Weird. I thought using hardware acceleration would decrease it, not > increase it... Not really. Among other things, I think the video card's on-board memory shows up as system memory in some situations (including, apparently, this one). > Is the any chance in a future of an open source drive

ppp and ip-up.d scripts

2001-07-30 Thread tony mollica
Hello. I know I've seen this problem here before, but I am unable to locate the solution. It appears that the scripts in ip-up.d are not run when a dialup connection is made. The /etc/ppp/ip-up script runs, but the 'run-parts /etc/ppp/ip-up.d' line doesn't execute. Any suggestions? thanks, --

Re: lilo does not work!

2001-07-30 Thread Mike McGuire
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:18:58PM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: > Hi > from the manual: > LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot > loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a > geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without r

Re: nVidia users help needed

2001-07-30 Thread Brian May
> "Geoffrey" == Geoffrey Romer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Geoffrey> I have the same problem. Here's a quote from the Geoffrey> xscreensaver FAQ: Geoffrey> ---snip--- Try editing your .xscreensaver file and Geoffrey> changing the memoryLimit setting to 0. Thanks for the sugge

Re: Lucent 56k modem

2001-07-30 Thread Tom Massey
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 07:41:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know the Lucent 56k modem built into my Gateway Solo 5300cs is supported > under Linux, but I can't seem to find any information on how to set it up. > Can anyone tell me, or point me to a good HOWTO? Thanks. http://linmodems

Lucent 56k modem

2001-07-30 Thread JakeCatfox
I know the Lucent 56k modem built into my Gateway Solo 5300cs is supported under Linux, but I can't seem to find any information on how to set it up. Can anyone tell me, or point me to a good HOWTO? Thanks. -- Deven

Re: hardware compatibility

2001-07-30 Thread Jeremy
"Thomas LECLERCQ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > everything works good but the autodetection of the video card doesn't find > my NVIDIA TNT2 Model 64. there is a "socket connection error", and the > install stops there. > If it's doing so during the install, you'll have to just skip over it for t

Re: Finding your IP

2001-07-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Finding your IP Date: Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 04:47:29PM -0400 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How can I find out what my IP is once I connect to my PPP service? > plog -- If a listener nods his head when you're explaining yo

Gnome

2001-07-30 Thread Lute Mullenix
I recently did a Woody upgrade on an old IBM. I have been running Woody for a couple of months now with no problems, however since doing the update/upgrade thing a couple of days ago, my X is all messed up. To start with X would not start at all because for some reason /etc/X11/X just disappeared.

lilo does not work

2001-07-30 Thread Markus Hansen
Jason i did the following steps apt-gert remove lilo apt-get install lilo it wanted to confiure so it sayd keep old? no ok what do you boot from sda1 ok no does not work, ok no wonder mbr on sda? yess ok so it booted up to " mbr LI " and here it stopped...wrong patition or what? i said boot from

[Fwd: lilo does not work!]

2001-07-30 Thread Markus Hansen
--- Begin Message --- Is sda1 your root partition? You should cc: the debian list on these, so that other people can read them. I'm no expert I Lilo. Why don't you include a copy of your /etc/lilo.conf and the output of running /sbin/lilo in your next mail? That might help. On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 a

Re: WinAlert! Problems with ZONEALARM

2001-07-30 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Ade Talabi wrote: >It seems zonealarm is refusing all connection from my debian box, apart from >connecting to the internet through netscape (Win box is my gateway[WIN 98 >SE]), I cannot seem >to get to the internet through my perl scripts. The major reason for using >Debian

Re: Procmail questions

2001-07-30 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2001-07-30 16:09:51, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: > But ... right now everyone can send messages to that account. How > can I block mail to it from everyone except the two bosses (with > procmail?) 1. keep the list name secret and have everyone use bcc. 2. create a real mailbox, fetchmail and procm

Re: PCMCIA Ethernet card in 2.4.6 kernel

2001-07-30 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Aaron Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > tried to download the pcmcia-source package (although it looks like > these directions were meant exclusively for the 2.2 series kernels), > and the make-kpkg modules_image failed. What am I doing wrong? Do I > need to modprobe a module (no modules ar

Re: Removing a sound module?

2001-07-30 Thread Stig Brautaset
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > i've also found on occasion, my sound drivers will get corrupted after > a suspend/resume on my laptop. My laptop's sounddriver can occasionally start spewing out noise (crackling) along with the sound, and usually the sound is also limited t

Re: LILO problems

2001-07-30 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Sam Varghese wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:03:59PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to configure LILO to allow me to boot from my FAT partition (Windows 98) and my Linux partition, but for some reason the only thing it'll boot from is Linux. If I try to run a

Re: LILO problems

2001-07-30 Thread Kent West
Sam Varghese wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:03:59PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to configure LILO to allow me to boot from my FAT partition (Windows 98) and my Linux partition, but for some reason the only thing it'll boot from is Linux. If I try to run a boot loader from DO

Re: Woody problems

2001-07-30 Thread Stephen J . Thompson
Thanks for that, Any idea when the updates could be ready? Regards, Stephen. On Monday 30 July 2001 10:56 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:48:15PM +0100, Stephen J . Thompson wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have just attempted to upgrade from stable to testing and I have >

Re: LILO problems

2001-07-30 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:03:59PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to configure LILO to allow me to boot from my FAT partition > (Windows 98) and my Linux partition, but for some reason the only thing it'll > boot from is Linux. If I try to run a boot loader from DOS to configure it,

Re: Sawfish hangs at configuration

2001-07-30 Thread dman
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 02:14:10PM -0400, Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote: | Howdy all. I'm running Sawfish-gnome with the Ximian Gnome packages. | Everything runs great until I try to run the configurator for Sawfish. | Checking 'top., anytime I select one of the Sawfish configuration options, |

Re: Woody problems

2001-07-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:48:15PM +0100, Stephen J . Thompson wrote: > Hello all, > > I have just attempted to upgrade from stable to testing and I have received > the following error: > > [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60,

Re: zip drive problems...

2001-07-30 Thread Matthias Richter
Gilger.John wrote on Mon Jul 30, 2001 at 01:48:34PM: > Joern T. Larsen: >> mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device. > > 2. Did you add ppa or imm and parport_pc support when you compiled your > kernal? Or did you insert (insmod) those modules? ... and you need sd_mod as well ... ppa / imm is

Woody problems

2001-07-30 Thread Stephen J . Thompson
Hello all, I have just attempted to upgrade from stable to testing and I have received the following error: [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, chunk 2. E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (2

Problems with compiling alsadriver

2001-07-30 Thread Richard van Damme
subscibe I can't compile the alsadriver with my new kernel 2.2.19. Under the kernel 2.2.17pre, I could do it right I get the following text on the sreen: -I/tmp/kernel-source-2.2.19/include -l.. DEXPORT_SYMTAB-c persist.c In file include from persist.c:23: ../include/driver.h:143: warning: `init

Re: Force viewing of web page

2001-07-30 Thread nico de haer
Hi, What about forcing the home-page on the browser? Not full-proof but youre sure the user sees this page a-lot! Yours, Nico de Haer - Original Message - From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 2:20 PM Subject: Re: Force viewing of web page >

Re: using convert to batch convert

2001-07-30 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> The command I would expect to work: > > convert -sample 50% * Another method that I often use is: $ find ./ -name '*.gif' -exec convert -geometry 50% {} {}.png \; The {}'s are replaced by the filenames that 'find' found, one at a time. So this command would reduce the size of all GIF imag

USBVISION Driver Problem

2001-07-30 Thread JakeCatfox
Hi, I tried to install the USBVISION driver following the Readme to the letter, but whenever I type 'make dep' I get the following error: *** No rule to make target 'i2c-algo-usb.c', needed by 'usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i2c-algo-usb.ver'. Stop. By the way, I'm using Linux source versi

Re: Force viewing of web page

2001-07-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matheson Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm doing this thing on my network, and I was told >that I need to find a way to force people to view our >webpage everytime they log onto the network (or use >the internet, to be more specific). Anyway, I was >wondering

Upgrade to testing error "version GLIBC_2.2 not found"

2001-07-30 Thread Wayne Brown
Hi, Can anyone please help with this problem: I have tried upgrading from potato 2.2r2 to testing. Changed the source lines to testing and first tried using dselect. After downloading 100+Mb of files it stopped with an error. "perl: /lib/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.2' not found (required by /lib/li

Re: LILO problems

2001-07-30 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to configure LILO to allow me to boot from my FAT partition (Windows 98) and my Linux partition, but for some reason the only thing it'll boot from is Linux. If I try to run a boot loader from DOS to configure it, the only partition it'll find is the Windows

Re: LILO problems

2001-07-30 Thread Jason Majors
Put an entry like this: # Boot Win98 other=/dev/sda2 label=dos(2) alias=2 You also need entries for prompt, and delay (and I'd suggest timeout and single-key). prompt # Needed so you can choose what to boot. single-key # Allows you to use number aliases without hitting enter. delay=100 #

Numeric Keypad in X

2001-07-30 Thread Brad Rhodes
How can I type numbers on the numeric keypad in X? I turn on the Num Lock and I still can't type numbers. Debian/GNU 2.2 (Potato) / Gnome

Force viewing of web page

2001-07-30 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I'm doing this thing on my network, and I was told that I need to find a way to force people to view our webpage everytime they log onto the network (or use the internet, to be more specific). Anyway, I was wondering if their was a way to force Apache (or something else) to just send our web

LILO problems

2001-07-30 Thread JakeCatfox
I'm trying to configure LILO to allow me to boot from my FAT partition (Windows 98) and my Linux partition, but for some reason the only thing it'll boot from is Linux. If I try to run a boot loader from DOS to configure it, the only partition it'll find is the Windows one. Does anyone know wha

How to startx as normal user?

2001-07-30 Thread Brad Rhodes
I just reinstalled Debian/GNU 2.2 (Potato) and even though I thought I told it no when it asked if I wanted to install xdm, it installed it anyway. I removed xdm (using dpkg) because I don't want to use it. Now when I type startx as a normal user it responds: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: S

Re: lilo does not work!

2001-07-30 Thread Jason Majors
And no lilo errors when you ran it? Strange... After booting from your floppy, maybe upgrading lilo (or reconfiguring it) will make it start working again. That's mostly a guess though. On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:51:51PM +0200, Markus Hansen scribbled... > Jason > strange, but i did. > markus >

RE:Finding your IP

2001-07-30 Thread Andrew Agno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > How can I find out what my IP is once I connect to my PPP service? /sbin/ifconfig

Re: Finding your IP

2001-07-30 Thread Jason Majors
run /sbin/ifconfig ppp0 (or just /sbin/ifconfig and look for the block near ppp0). I believe it's part of the net-tools package. On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 04:47:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled... > How can I find out what my IP is once I connect to my PPP service? > > Thanks, > Deven >

RE: zip drive problems...

2001-07-30 Thread Gilger.John
1. Do you have a disk installed? 2. Did you add ppa or imm and parport_pc support when you compiled your kernal? Or did you insert (insmod) those modules? 3. Does your sysstem recognize the zip drive on boot? John Gilger -Original Message- From: Joern T. Larsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Finding your IP

2001-07-30 Thread JakeCatfox
How can I find out what my IP is once I connect to my PPP service? Thanks, Deven

Re: DHCPd/pump domain search list issues

2001-07-30 Thread Ron Golan
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 09:26:42PM +0200, Guy Geens wrote: > > "Bill" == Bill Vinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bill> I am having problems with dhcpd and pump. I run dhcpd on another > Bill> system to manage my home net's IPs, but I can't get the > Bill> domainsearch list to be populated

zip drive problems...

2001-07-30 Thread Joern T. Larsen
When I try do mount my zip drive mount /dev/sda4 /zip I get the message mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device. What am I missing. Thanks! JTLarsen begin:vcard n:Larsen;Joern T. tel;fax:(510) 486 7797 tel;work:(510) 495 2407 x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Lawrence Berkeley National La

Xfree86 not working

2001-07-30 Thread Speakeasy
I can't get Xfree86 4.0.3 to work on my Compaq Presario 5820 It has a Voodoo3 3000 card and a ViewSonic E655 monitior. Whenever I try to start X it always "clicks" in with a screen with a bunch of horizontial pick stripes then "clicks" out with this error on the command line. [drm:drm_release]

Mouse in SVGA [SOLUTION]

2001-07-30 Thread JakeCatfox
I found the solution to the problem with my mouse. I had tried choosing my device manually in libvga.config, but that did not work either. As it turned out, I had to make a symlink called "/dev/mouse" and have that point to "/dev/psaux". Then it worked just fine. Maybe someone can explain what I

Re: hardware supportato

2001-07-30 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Per favore, iscrivi alla lista "debian-italian" perche io capisco che vuoi dire ma non posso scrivere una risposta perche il mio italiano e troppo cattivo :( Ciao, Stephan On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:19:42 +0200 "marco e marisa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ho un computer con processore Pe

Re: using convert to batch convert

2001-07-30 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 01:30 p.m. 30/07/01 -0700, Aaron Brashears wrote: I have many, many images that I want to scale down using imagemagick's convert utility. The convert utility doesn't seem to work correctly unless you give it an output name per input filename, but the man page doesn't make it clear how to do th

Re: nVidia users help needed

2001-07-30 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 15:54:12 -0700 "John Wheat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new to Debian and relatively new to Linux and ask your help with > this > God forsaken nVidia card. > I initially installed 2.2r0 and upgraded the system to 2.2r3 followed by > a > dist-upgrade to Woody (for Xfree4.

using convert to batch convert

2001-07-30 Thread Aaron Brashears
I have many, many images that I want to scale down using imagemagick's convert utility. The convert utility doesn't seem to work correctly unless you give it an output name per input filename, but the man page doesn't make it clear how to do this, and I'm stumped as to how to generate a new name fo

Re: lilo does not work!

2001-07-30 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
I've been told that if the kernel's not somewhere near the beginning of the disk (in the first gig? that's just a guess), LILO can have trouble seeing it. Sometimes people make a separate partition to mount /boot on and put it near the front of the disk to solve this problem. Running 'lilo -l' (as

hardware supportato

2001-07-30 Thread marco e marisa
ho un computer con processore Pentium 75 Mhz e vorrei montarci una versione di linux debian con word processor. Quale verisone open source posso montare?

Re: lilo does not work!

2001-07-30 Thread Miguel Griffa
Hi from the manual: LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. could it be possible that you miss a step in

Re: lilo does not work!

2001-07-30 Thread Jason Majors
Did your rerun lilo after editing lilo.conf? Even if the kernel you just compiled is corrupted or has a driver problem, lilo should still come up. You'd just see a kernel panic or other error when booting that kernel. When I see something like what you saw it's because I forgot to rerun lilo. On M

lilo does not work!

2001-07-30 Thread Markus Hansen
hi guys i tried to install a 2.2.19 kernel inseead of a 2.2.17. after booting it sayed LI LI LI etc. i dont know, somehow i must have killed my lilo or at least parts of it. do you know how to fix it? can it be that i am using a wrong scsi driver in the new kernel? i am booting now with 3.5" disk

Re: setting up an ftp server

2001-07-30 Thread Kalle Hasselström
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 02:00:43PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Kalle Hasselström ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > ... > > Two more questions popped up, regarding inetd. bsd-ftpd is started by > > inted on incoming calls. How can I > > > > a) Temporarily disable ftp? I thought it would be a

Re: How to update/upgrade libc6?

2001-07-30 Thread Jason Majors
Assuming you have testing or unstable (wherever it is) in your /etc/apt/sources.list, a simple "apt-get install libc6 libc6-dev" should do the trick. I didn't have any problems doing that. Of course you might get into dependency problems and have other packages that need to be upgraded to support t

Re: Procmail questions

2001-07-30 Thread Jason Majors
Add this recipe: # Begin :0 * ! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * ! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /dev/null # End Or...you could just have procmail do the forwarding: # Begin [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Not sure if it's commas or spaces. Try it on some dummy accounts first. # Forwards a

ESS 5.1.18 with Emacs 21 (was Re: minor problems with new emacs21 installation)

2001-07-30 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > 3) M-x R locks up emacs 21. I've never seen anything do this before. This > > command uses ESS to start up R. It is unlikely that someone else who is > > reading this is using ESS, R and emacs 21, but I thought it worth > > mentioning. I probably need

Re: esound

2001-07-30 Thread Guy Geens
> "Steve" == Steve Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> connect to UNIX socket /var/run/esound/socket". I checked to Steve> make sure it wasn't something silly, like the directory not Steve> existing, but sure enough, the directory is there. It's owned Steve> by root, but I assume that's as

How to update/upgrade libc6?

2001-07-30 Thread Joern T. Larsen
I am running Debian 2.2r3, and need to update/upgrade libc6 from 2.1.3-19 to 2.2.3-5 in order to get USB support on my box (hotplut, modutils, usbutils etc). How do I do that without messing up the system and lose password files etc? Thanks! JTLarsen

Re: DHCPd/pump domain search list issues

2001-07-30 Thread Guy Geens
> "Bill" == Bill Vinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bill> I am having problems with dhcpd and pump. I run dhcpd on another Bill> system to manage my home net's IPs, but I can't get the Bill> domainsearch list to be populated in /etc/resolv.conf. When I Bill> obtain a lease with pump, it change

Re: Procmail questions

2001-07-30 Thread Brett Parker
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 04:09:51PM -0300, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: > > Hello list ... wonder if anyone gives me a hand on this one: > > Here at my job two bosses need to send mail to everyone from time > to time. There're about 20 accounts only, so I did a small script > that runs every week and a

Re: Logging packets -- sysklogd / klogd / iptables

2001-07-30 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Quoting Christopher S. Swingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OK, I'm going crazy here trying to get iptables to log packets to a > file called /var/log/kern.info. > What am I missing? And what is the right procedure to clear a log > without causing sysklogd / klogd to choke? I spent another hour t

Informazione

2001-07-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Salve vorrei sapere se il sistema Debian supporta la scheda grafica "Voodoo 5 5500 AGP ". in modo tale da visualizzare un interfaccia grafica. La prego cortesemente di rispondermi. Cordiali Saluti .. Staff

Procmail questions

2001-07-30 Thread Jordi S. Bunster
Hello list ... wonder if anyone gives me a hand on this one: Here at my job two bosses need to send mail to everyone from time to time. There're about 20 accounts only, so I did a small script that runs every week and adds new accounts to the .forward file of a special account. You get the idea.

Re: New device names after kernel update from 2.2 to 2.4

2001-07-30 Thread Guy Geens
> "Herbert" == Herbert Pirke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Herbert> As far as I know, some block device names changed with the Herbert> 2.4 kernel, so I wonder if that changes a lot. Maybe some Herbert> changed/added simlinks fix the problem. Normally, you shouldn't need to change anything. The

Re: setting up an ftp server

2001-07-30 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Kalle Hasselstr?m ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > Two more questions popped up, regarding inetd. bsd-ftpd is started by > inted on incoming calls. How can I > > a) Temporarily disable ftp? I thought it would be a good idea to do > this when it's not being used, to be on the safe side. I

Re: Sawfish hangs at configuration

2001-07-30 Thread Dominique Deleris
Jason Rashaad Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Howdy all. I'm running Sawfish-gnome with the Ximian Gnome packages. > Everything runs great until I try to run the configurator for Sawfish. > Checking 'top., anytime I select one of the Sawfish configuration options, > the process 'sawfis

Logging packets -- sysklogd / klogd / iptables

2001-07-30 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
OK, I'm going crazy here trying to get iptables to log packets to a file called /var/log/kern.info. I've got these rules at the beginning of my chains: iptables -A INPUT --source 0.0.0.0/0 --destination 0.0.0.0/0 \ -j LOG --log-level info --log-prefix 'INPUT packet ' \ --log-t

xdm & login problems

2001-07-30 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi my xdm setup is broken... :( When I try to run xdm, it starts nicely showing the login-screen but when I try to login it fails returning to the xdm login-screen. Whats the problem? Can you help me? Thank you. -- Pedro Quaresma de Almeida e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: setting up an ftp server

2001-07-30 Thread Kalle Hasselström
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 12:20:59PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Kalle, > > I'm a large fan of bsd-ftpd. It's simple to install and straight forward > to configure. First off after you run "apt-get install bsd-ftpd" you > should open a new shell and type "man in.ftpd". Read that file over and

Re: reiserfs question

2001-07-30 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hall Stevenson saw fit to inform me that: >> >I plan to try the reiserfs, but an curious about >> >the fsck. In particular, about when it runs after >> >so many boots. Do I have to disable this somehow. >> >I suspect a e2fsck on a reiserfs would be bad. >> >> tune2fs -i 0 -C 0 >> >> is what u need

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

2001-07-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 02:21:18AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I showed an example of switching to the 100th virtual terminal just to > show that it's possible to switch to a VT that can't be addressed in one > keystroke (e.g.: -. 24. LeftAlt-F1 to F12 get you ttys 1-12, RightAlt-F1 to F12 g

Sawfish hangs at configuration

2001-07-30 Thread Jason Rashaad Jackson
Howdy all. I'm running Sawfish-gnome with the Ximian Gnome packages. Everything runs great until I try to run the configurator for Sawfish. Checking 'top., anytime I select one of the Sawfish configuration options, the process 'sawfish-capplet' hangs and proceeds to devour my CPU time. Any

etherconf for dhcp

2001-07-30 Thread Andrew
Everytime I restart Progeny Debian 1.0 I have to run the following command in order to ping, ssh, ftp to another server. dpkg-reconfigure etherconf I choose the option for automatic, and dhcp. Why do I have to run this command everytime I come into Progeny Debian in order to reach the outside wo

stalling ppp

2001-07-30 Thread mheyes
Hi, I've had a problem with ppp slowing and stalling using Concentric.net as my ISP since upgrading to the 2.2.x kernel series. I ended up getting a second ISP that doesn't have this problem but I'd like to fix the concentric problem. I've included a part of my /var/log/messages file below. It look

Re: How long from release to unstable?

2001-07-30 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Jeremy Whetzel wrote: > I'm just wondering how long it generally takes > something like the next version of X to make it's way > into the unstable branch of Debian? I'm looking > forward to 4.1.0 because I need it for the support it > has for my video card, but it has yet to make it to > the unst

Re: minor problems with new emacs21 installation

2001-07-30 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > > > > > 3) M-x R locks up emacs 21. I've never seen anything do this before. > > > > This > > > > command uses ESS to start up R. > > > > > > We would need to see what the "R" function is. > > > > Oh, sorry.

Re: apt-get errors

2001-07-30 Thread Jason Majors
I did just manage to get the apt-get update to run successfully, but now I have MD5Sum mismatch errors on all the packages I downloaded from ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main. It's only this box that has this problem though...so I think it has to be something to do with the versions of softw

telnetd log interpretation

2001-07-30 Thread Rob Ransbottom
Logchecker sent me this as an unusual event: Jul 30 06:30:32 phavl in.telnetd[8705]: connect from cr943209-a.etob1.on.wave.home.com A quick # cat /var/log/* /var/log/*/* | grep "^Jul 30 06:" > /tmp/log shows nothing else of concern. Does the above indicate a login succeeded or just that a

Re: Where to put Latex packages?

2001-07-30 Thread Glyn Millington
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I installed my extra latex packages in /usr/local/lib/texmf/ (making > appropriate directories as needed) and then did the following: > > texhash > cd /tmp > initex latex.ltx > [Ignore any warnings about the sources be

Re: Where to put Latex packages?

2001-07-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Jul 2001, Glyn Millington wrote: > > Greetings! > > Running 2.2 r3 here. I want to install some Latex packages that didn't > come with the distribution. If I install them in /usr/local then Latex > can't seem to find them (after running texhash of course ;-). > > Is there a "Debian way"

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