[OT] avoiding recursive readline commands in .inputrc

2001-08-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi all, in bash, i'd like to map the uparrow key to "escape uparrow". the trouble is that there doesn't seem to be a way to make readline avoid the infinite recursion that results. specifically, i'm trying to do: $if bash "OA": "OA" $endif why? because i like using vi style editing in bash

squid 2.4.1-6 compile error

2001-08-11 Thread nestea
hi all, here is what i did; $ apt-get source squid $ dpkg-source -x squid_2.4.1-6.dsc $ cd squid-2.4.1 $ debian/rules build pam_auth.c:74: security/pam_appl.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [pam_auth.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/etc/apt/squid-2.4.1/auth_modules/PAM

Re: libdb.so.3

2001-08-11 Thread CaT
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 11:43:20PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. > > So, I was told that the solution to upgrading to unstable from stable and > getting the missing libdb.so.3 library was to upgrade to testing first. That > did not work. The same thing happened. > >

Re: disk usage

2001-08-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 10:07:01PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm wondering about techniques for system optimization. "df" reports that > I am at 53% usage, which seems really high to me, even given that I > recently partitioned the HD in two so that I could have FreeBSD running on > my mach

libdb.so.3

2001-08-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. So, I was told that the solution to upgrading to unstable from stable and getting the missing libdb.so.3 library was to upgrade to testing first. That did not work. The same thing happened. I'm working around it again by ftping the lib from my working box, but does anyon

Re: disk usage

2001-08-11 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Sat, 11 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > Sort of a vague-y question here ... I'm getting back down into my system > after being, uh, -laid off- on Wednesday, so I have time to play. > > I'm wondering about techniques for system optimization. "df" reports that > I am at 53% usage

Re: Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

2001-08-11 Thread Slaven Peles
On Saturday 11 August 2001 20:45, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 06:54:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On 11 Aug 2001, at 22:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > How using cfdisk , do you modify the size of a Win 98 FAT 32 partition > > > ? > > > > Hi S

disk usage

2001-08-11 Thread burningclown
Hi, Sort of a vague-y question here ... I'm getting back down into my system after being, uh, -laid off- on Wednesday, so I have time to play. I'm wondering about techniques for system optimization. "df" reports that I am at 53% usage, which seems really high to me, even given that I recently pa

Re: Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

2001-08-11 Thread Slaven Peles
On Saturday 11 August 2001 20:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [This message has also been posted.] > > On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 02:50:05 +0200, Slaven Peles wrote: > > You should also check out GNU Parted. It comes on a single boot floppy, > > and can do almost anything you might need to install Linux an

Re: Unusual filesystem/memory corruption

2001-08-11 Thread Mike Brownlow
Michael Perry wrote: > Quoting John Toon on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 12:04:20AM +0100: > > On 11 Aug 2001 16:37:58 -0500, Mike Brownlow wrote: > > > > > * hdparm options: -m16 -d1 > > > * Machine is behind firewall, and has few services for external > > >access > > > > > > I suspect hardware fa

Re: Unusual filesystem/memory corruption

2001-08-11 Thread Mike Brownlow
John Toon wrote: > On 11 Aug 2001 16:37:58 -0500, Mike Brownlow wrote: > > > * hdparm options: -m16 -d1 > > * Machine is behind firewall, and has few services for external > >access > > > > I suspect hardware failure caused it, but there are still a few software > > unknowns. I'm starting t

Magnifiers

2001-08-11 Thread Christopher Mosley
Hello, Maybe I could get some opinions on the usefulness of various packaged debian magnifiers and xwindow magnifiers in general. (programs to magnify part of the xwindows screen). Thanks

Re: Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

2001-08-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 06:54:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 11 Aug 2001, at 22:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > How using cfdisk , do you modify the size of a Win 98 FAT 32 partition ? > > Hi Shyam: > If you are trying to slice up win98 safely without losing da

Re: upgrade to testing (woody) -- failed

2001-08-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 01:28:28AM +, nestea wrote: > hi all, > > tonight when i tried to upgrade a few boxes to woody, i received the > following error message. > > any idea? > > > --- > perl: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.

upgrade to testing (woody) -- failed

2001-08-11 Thread nestea
hi all, tonight when i tried to upgrade a few boxes to woody, i received the following error message. any idea? --- perl: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory E: Write er

Re: Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

2001-08-11 Thread ajlewis2
[This message has also been posted.] On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 02:50:05 +0200, Slaven Peles wrote: > You should also check out GNU Parted. It comes on a single boot floppy, and > can do almost anything you might need to install Linux and keep Windoze9x on > your computer. I used it myself. Have look at

Re: Toggle English/Dvorak keybaord in wmaker?

2001-08-11 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 07:42:38PM +, Paul Mackinney wrote: > I'm very happy with my decision to switch from Gnome to WindowMaker, but > I can't figure out how to set up both US and Dvorak keymaps. The > interface to toggle between keymaps is evident in the WPrefs utility, > but I only get the

Re: Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

2001-08-11 Thread Slaven Peles
You should also check out GNU Parted. It comes on a single boot floppy, and can do almost anything you might need to install Linux and keep Windoze9x on your computer. I used it myself. Have look at: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html Cheers, Slaven On Saturday 11 August 2001 18:54

Re: Realplayer Stop working for now reason...

2001-08-11 Thread Michael Perry
Quoting Chun Kit Edwin Lau on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 08:23:11PM -0400: > Hi > Don't know what's going on but realplayer suddenly stop working for now > good reason. It gives my this error... > > /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay: error while loading shared libraries: > /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Code

Realplayer Stop working for now reason...

2001-08-11 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi Don't know what's going on but realplayer suddenly stop working for now good reason. It gives my this error... /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Codecs/cook.so.6.0: undefined symbol: atexit anyone have that? -- Edwin ERTW Lau

enabling mozilla imap passwords

2001-08-11 Thread Eric Cheney
Hello. I'm having trouble getting mozilla with potato to use imap passwords when fetching e-mail. I have another box with woody that does this alright (well pop3). Anyone know how I can get mozilla to be password enabled for imap (or anything else) on potato? Do I have to upgrade to woody

Re: Unusual filesystem/memory corruption

2001-08-11 Thread Michael Perry
Quoting John Toon on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 12:04:20AM +0100: > On 11 Aug 2001 16:37:58 -0500, Mike Brownlow wrote: > > > * hdparm options: -m16 -d1 > > * Machine is behind firewall, and has few services for external > >access > > > > I suspect hardware failure caused it, but there are still

Re: Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

2001-08-11 Thread destruss
On 11 Aug 2001, at 22:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How using cfdisk , do you modify the size of a Win 98 FAT 32 partition ? Hi Shyam: If you are trying to slice up win98 safely without losing data, it's normal to use fips for making room for linux partition. (See installation and fips docume

Gnumeric in Sid complains about default font

2001-08-11 Thread John Toon
Hi, I've installed Gnumeric under Sid/unstable via apt-get, but unfortunately when the progam starts up it issues an error: Gnumeric failed to find a suitable default font. Your gnome-print installation is likely incomplete. Please try reinstalling gnome-print. Your fontmap file does not have a

Re: Unusual filesystem/memory corruption

2001-08-11 Thread John Toon
On 11 Aug 2001 16:37:58 -0500, Mike Brownlow wrote: > * hdparm options: -m16 -d1 > * Machine is behind firewall, and has few services for external >access > > I suspect hardware failure caused it, but there are still a few software > unknowns. I'm starting to lean on corruption due to using

Re: Reading Quark / Pagemaker files

2001-08-11 Thread hanasaki
Thank you very much. I didn't know that Quark could produce PDF's "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:20:15PM -0500, hanasaki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Is there any utility that will let me convert Quark / Pagemaker files to > > HTML or RTF or something else that is less

RE:Toggle English/Dvorak keybaord in wmaker?

2001-08-11 Thread Andrew Agno
Paul Mackinney writes: > interface to toggle between keymaps is evident in the WPrefs utility, > but I only get the English keymap. This is working in Gnome, so I know > that the Dvorak keymap is installed and available to X. I just use xmodmap. Andrew.

Re: Cnet Pro200 PCI fast Ethernet Adapter, road runner centralflorida

2001-08-11 Thread tony mancill
Please see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/dmfe.txt for more documentation about how to use this module/driver. tony On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I compiled again the kernel with all possible "network devices" as M or Y, > except for a group of ARCnet cards. Any way th

Unusual filesystem/memory corruption

2001-08-11 Thread Mike Brownlow
I run debian/unstable and I know the risks involved with that. Woke up and I found my computer to seem to be operating normally. The screensaver was on and running. I clicked the mouse to turn it off and my normal apps were still running. I used xmms open->dir to pop in some mp3s, and the filesys

Re: help! kernel panic

2001-08-11 Thread Cam
Thanx for the help...i did have an old kernel left on my system i forgot about...i realized it after i sent the email out. Thanx again for the help. Justin = "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtles

Re: IMAP: new mail notification works ONLY for inbox?

2001-08-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: > I am using IMAP server to access email (IMAP runs on my home > copmputer, I use it to read email from local machine or from other > machine, I tried several IMAP clients (mutt, netscape, mozilla, and to > certain extend kmail, balsa, maybe some other tha

Re: problems in upgrading xdm from potato to woody.

2001-08-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 02:26:58AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > Please, if I'm in the wrong address, may you point to the > good one? In the future, please direct questions like this to the debian-user mailing list. > I have a big problem in upgrading xdm from potato to woody

IMAP: new mail notification works ONLY for inbox?

2001-08-11 Thread Erik Steffl
I am using IMAP server to access email (IMAP runs on my home copmputer, I use it to read email from local machine or from other machine, I tried several IMAP clients (mutt, netscape, mozilla, and to certain extend kmail, balsa, maybe some other that I forgot). there is one problem (using all c

Re: Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

2001-08-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 10:54:05PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How using cfdisk , do you modify the size of a Win 98 FAT 32 partition > ? > > I know how to make one , remove it and have it written to the > partition table . > > Please help me to resize Please set your

Re: Plz help with adsl

2001-08-11 Thread P Kirk
#! On Sat, Aug 11, 2001, usucapiao wrote: >I'm having a big trouble trying to make my adsl works on debian. > >I'm trying to use the rp-pppoe script, it works on conectiva linux, but >dont works on debian, red hat and slackware... > What sort of problems are you haveing? Run the pon command, th

Toggle English/Dvorak keybaord in wmaker?

2001-08-11 Thread Paul Mackinney
I'm very happy with my decision to switch from Gnome to WindowMaker, but I can't figure out how to set up both US and Dvorak keymaps. The interface to toggle between keymaps is evident in the WPrefs utility, but I only get the English keymap. This is working in Gnome, so I know that the Dvorak ke

Plz help with adsl

2001-08-11 Thread usucapiao
I'm having a big trouble trying to make my adsl works on debian. I'm trying to use the rp-pppoe script, it works on conectiva linux, but dont works on debian, red hat and slackware... I already have dhcpcd installed and i try to do everything like the howtos teach, but im without internet on li

[yok1@zahav.net.il: ]

2001-08-11 Thread Josip Rodin
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Re: hostname with dhcp-client

2001-08-11 Thread Peter P.
Hello Carl, Saturday, August 11, 2001, 6:03:51 PM, you wrote: CG> "The requested URL CG> /www/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200107/msg02249.html was not found CG> on this server." try it without '/www' so it's /debian-user/2001/debian-user-200107/msg02249.html This helped me. -- Best regards,

man/mandb problem -- exploit?

2001-08-11 Thread Ronald Hale-Evans
Hi-- My system was recently cracked (my impression was that it happened via the recent Apache exploit). Shortly before I reinstalled my system (with better security), I lost all ability to view man pages. Typing, say, 'man man' would bring up a brief message about how it was reformatting the pag

Re: sqrt C function(clarification)

2001-08-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 03:44:17AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm sorry not to have provided more information in my first e-mail although > i'm very glad so many people responded to help, but i've done some more > testing: > > specifically i'm getting 'prase error in tmp/x' where x is a l

Re: Need devfs help

2001-08-11 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 00:20, Svante Signell wrote: > Compiling the latest kernel (2.4.7) I decided to enable devfs support > and also start devfsd at boot. Most things seem to work fine except > the sound card, the cdrom (both mounting and playing CDs) and cdrw, > Accessing these one gets complaints o

Vmac and Basilisk II

2001-08-11 Thread JakeCatfox
Hi, I'm trying to get Basilisk II or vMac (preferably Basilisk II) running on my Debian laptop. However, whenever either one tries to boot from the floppy, it just reads the drive for a second, then gives up immediately. vMac never recognizes there's a disk, Basilisk II won't run because there's

2.4.7 kernel boot hangs with "cramfs: wrong magic"

2001-08-11 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
I have been trying unsuccessfully to get a 2.4.7 kernel to boot. My PC has a AMD-K6-II and runs woody. My most recent attempt used the kernel image is from kernel-image-2.4.7-k6_2.4.7-1.i386.deb. The boot sequence runs until the hard disk partition check and then hangs. The final part of the bo

Re: Cnet Pro200 PCI fast Ethernet Adapter, road runner centralflorida

2001-08-11 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Well, I recompiled the kernel again, did say Yes to question about experimental, development drivers. Then marked Yes to Cnet Pro200 PCi in net devices section. Installed the new image, rebooted, but still not there. Any ideas? I have none. Thanks. - Original Message - From: "Nathan E Norma

Re: help! kernel panic

2001-08-11 Thread Craig Dickson
Cam wrote: > Well, I patched up to 2.4.8 and recompiled the kernel and I _thought_ I > did everything right. I rebooted so that I could reload a couple of > modules and on the reboot it just stops says Kernel panic: cannot mount > root fs. So basically here's the question. There a way to fix it

Re: Server/Gateway Linux Box

2001-08-11 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi there... How many workstations are you going to have? A dually motherboard is nice... but I would recommend those if your running LTSP...or 100 + workstations... (unless you have lots of ) If you want file sharing installed... I recommend Samba... samba.org is a good place to start if your

help! kernel panic

2001-08-11 Thread Cam
Well, I patched up to 2.4.8 and recompiled the kernel and I _thought_ I did everything right. I rebooted so that I could reload a couple of modules and on the reboot it just stops says Kernel panic: cannot mount root fs. So basically here's the question. There a way to fix it without doing a for

Re: Reading Quark / Pagemaker files

2001-08-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:20:15PM -0500, hanasaki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there any utility that will let me convert Quark / Pagemaker files to > HTML or RTF or something else that is less proprietary? pdf2ps ps2html ...though results of ps2html are not very good in my experience

Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

2001-08-11 Thread shyamk
How using cfdisk , do you modify the size of a Win 98 FAT 32 partition ? I know how to make one , remove it and have it written to the partition table . Please help me to resize Thanks, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Shyam "Quality can Never be Quantified . It exists by itself and Quantity might hand it a

Re: gateway

2001-08-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 06:56:59PM +0200, Daniel Link ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi , > > i want to use a p133 as a gateway so the other computers on my > network have access to the internet. i have one network card and one > isdn cards which both run fine. what do i need to install/config

Re: X freezes (was XMMS hanging system?)

2001-08-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 09:22:57AM -0400, Steve Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all, > I'm still trying to chase down some freezes on my box. For sake of > clarity, I'll try to give the relevant details all at once. About a > week and a half ago, I started having total lockups on my box w

Reading Quark / Pagemaker files

2001-08-11 Thread hanasaki
Is there any utility that will let me convert Quark / Pagemaker files to HTML or RTF or something else that is less proprietary? Is there a clone that will let me edit Quark / Pagemaker files? Thank you,

RE: upgrading more then one box by downloading the files once!

2001-08-11 Thread Arno Baier
>I have done it 3 ways. > >1) Set the /var/cache/apt/archive directory as an NFS dir, mount it on >the system to upgrade. > >2) Use ssh. scp the files you want to the other boxen archives >directory. I used this now as it was faster and less work. > >3) If you have a cd burner bnd all the system

Re: Cnet Pro200 PCI fast Ethernet Adapter, road runner centralflorida

2001-08-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 04:50:06AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I compiled again the kernel with all possible "network devices" as M or Y, > except for a group of ARCnet cards. Any way the module dmfe.c does not > appear available. So I have no clue. Could that be a lacking feature in > kernel

gateway

2001-08-11 Thread Daniel Link
hi , i want to use a p133 as a gateway so the other computers on my network have access to the internet. i have one network card and one isdn cards which both run fine. what do i need to install/configure? -- mfg, Daniel mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Server/Gateway Linux Box

2001-08-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, I'm building a Linux box that will serve as a server and gateway to split > internet access from a cable modem to numerous machines (some Linux, some > Winblows.) I'm putting in 2 network cards and a dual-processor motherboard > with

hostname with dhcp-client

2001-08-11 Thread Carl Greco
Anyone know how to set the hostname under dhcp? I have dhcp-client [2.0pl4-2] debian 2.2 - potato [patched to date] kernel [2.2.19] I establish a lease with dhclient with the following config file, i.e., [/etc/dhclient.conf] send host-name "peregrine.cox-internet.com";

dpkg/dselect config files

2001-08-11 Thread David Dayan-Rosenman
Hi, Iscrewed up and erased the /var/lib/dpkg/status* files for dpkg/dselect, is there anyway to restore them ? David

Re: problems Debian 2.2

2001-08-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: problems Debian 2.2 Date: Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 04:24:53PM +0200 In reply to:fouad HENNI Quoting fouad HENNI([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I installed Linux Debian 2.2 r0 on my PC but I cannot > execute tha 'traceroute' command. Did you install it? whereis traceroute if not the

Re: kernel 2.4.x in potato?

2001-08-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: kernel 2.4.x in potato? Date: Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 09:53:12AM -0400 In reply to:Bob Koss Quoting Bob Koss([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I'm still trying to get my OnStream tape driving working in Debian. I > was mistaken when I said that the driver was in the kernel. The driv

Re: problems Debian 2.2

2001-08-11 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, [iso-8859-1] fouad HENNI wrote: fH> I installed Linux Debian 2.2 r0 on my PC but I cannot fH> execute tha 'traceroute' command. try /usr/sbin/traceroute Dingo. ).|.(

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-11 Thread John Hasler
Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a writes: > I can confirm that on Solaris 2.5, bin is the owner and group of most > files in /bin, /usr/bin, et al. Likewise on System III on my Onyx, IIRC. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

problems Debian 2.2

2001-08-11 Thread fouad HENNI
I installed Linux Debian 2.2 r0 on my PC but I cannot execute tha 'traceroute' command. ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Vos albums photos en ligne, Yahoo! Photos : http://fr.photos.yahoo.com

Re: problems with configuring Debian

2001-08-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: problems with configuring Debian Date: Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 10:52:36AM +0200 In reply to:fouad HENNI Quoting fouad HENNI([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I installed Linux Debian 2.2 r0 on my computer and I > need solution for the problems below: > > 1) My video card is "Trident

kernel 2.4.x in potato?

2001-08-11 Thread Bob Koss
I'm still trying to get my OnStream tape driving working in Debian. I was mistaken when I said that the driver was in the kernel. The driver doesn't appear until 2.4. The kernel patches from OnStream are only for 2.2.14 and 2.2.16. I'm running potato with 2.2.19. So, can I upgrade my kernel to

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I can confirm that on Solaris 2.5, bin is the owner and group of most > > files in /bin, /usr/bin, et al. I don't go back all that far in unix, so > > I don't know why that is. > > I can confirm the same for AIX 4.3.3 FWIW,

Re: messages log file

2001-08-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:34:57AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya craig > > I am suspicious of my ISP > > "filtering" the connections (although after speaking to them they tell me > > they don't), > > Most ISP do NOT filter traffic to/from you... they have bigger worries This was true two weeks

Re: backups using tar - /dev/ht0

2001-08-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya bob ...beg/borrow/steal a (real) dds1, dds2, dds3 ide tape drive... - hp series, exabyte series, etc and try to read/write to that drive c ya alvin On 11 Aug 2001, Bob Koss wrote: > > "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alvin> if the device is made prop

Re: messages log file

2001-08-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 04:57:58PM +1000, Craig W wrote: > This may sound really stupid, however I cannot seem to locate anything about > it anywhere. > When I view the messages log file it is full of --MARK-- , what does this > mean? Anywhere? Try man syslogd: -m interval T

Re: .forward file format for exim

2001-08-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 04:46:42PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > #debian lists > if $h_From: contains "debian-user" or >$h_To: contains "Debian-user" >then >save mail/debian > endif > > theoretically, this should tell exim to sort incoming > mail into the files specifie

Re: missing gnumeric dependancies

2001-08-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 00:50:51 -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > It's waiting for various things to be fixed before it can migrate to > unstable. testing, ITYM. > A recent reorganization of the libgal* packages I talked to libgal's maintainer about it being a running target, and offered a suggesti

Chrooting a user?

2001-08-11 Thread Sunny Dubey
hey How would i Chroot a user? I want him to be able to log into the machine like any other user, however his home directory would be his root directory, and he could do whatever he wants below it. Something like this .. (must have fixed-width font) /home/user --> / |

Re: backups using tar - /dev/ht0

2001-08-11 Thread Bob Koss
> "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alvin> if the device is made properly... it should be like Alvin> crw-rw 1 root disk 37, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/ht0 Alvin> until "ls -la /dev/ht0" looks liek the above line... there Alvin> is no point to doing any mt/tar comm

Upgrade broke gpm?

2001-08-11 Thread Mark Carroll
I'm currently tracking 'testing', and run dselect's 'update', etc. fairly frequently. I prefer 'stable' but it's just so far behind some things. My mouse has stopped working. I use gpm as a repeater to X. I'm reasonably certain that it stopped working since I did my update yesterday, gpm was upgr

kernel panic

2001-08-11 Thread Marco Herrn
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 03:20:15PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > Does your BIOS see the ram as all good? If so you may need to find > something that tests the memory a bit more rigorously. The BIOS doesn't see anything bad. > > A quick scan of the packages list gives memtest86 and memtest.

kernel panic

2001-08-11 Thread Marco Herrn
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 03:20:15PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > Does your BIOS see the ram as all good? If so you may need to find > something that tests the memory a bit more rigorously. The BIOS doesn't see anything bad. > > A quick scan of the packages list gives memtest86 and memtest.

Re: backups using tar - /dev/ht0

2001-08-11 Thread Bob Koss
> "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alvin> so you do NOT have /dev/ht0 as a device Alvin> manually creaate a device called /dev/ht0 with mknod... Alvin> and give it the type, and major and minor id Alvin> if the device is made properly... it should be like

Re: Kernel panic, system crash, 01 01 01: help

2001-08-11 Thread Stig Brautaset
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Yesterday while browsing the ftp.xfree86.org via lynx, via a dialup > connection, > my terminal suddenly started spouting warnings. I wasn't able to capture > them, > but one said, "Unable to mount fs, unable to mount hdb". > > The other vi

Re: dosemu

2001-08-11 Thread Stig Brautaset
* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 10:40:47PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | How do you use 'dosemu' and what is it ? > > It is a DOS emulator that, IIRC, requires DOS to really be installed > on a partition. It is useful if you have some programs that only run

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-11 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 04:31:52PM -0500, Aaron Hall wrote: > On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > > > bin: > > > > HELP: No files on my system are owned by user or group bin. What > > good are they? Historically they were probably the owners of > > binaries in /bin? It i

Re: sqrt C function(clarification)

2001-08-11 Thread Paul Scott
Shaul Karl wrote: I'm sorry not to have provided more information in my first e-mail although i'm very glad so many people responded to help, but i've done some more testing: specifically i'm getting 'prase error in tmp/x' where x is a long string of characters that tends to change on every

Re: new install nfs not working

2001-08-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: new install nfs not working Date: Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 10:20:04AM -0700 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > uname: Debian of course. > Linux 2.4.5 #1 Sat Jun 16 07:33:46 PDT 2001 i686 unknown > > Hello all. Just installed nfs u

Re: Re: OH NO! I can't login with any display-manager!!!

2001-08-11 Thread Bernard Reißberg
Hi Kent! I think it's not window-manager related. I tried different windowmanagers and it's all the same problem. The display manager tells me "login failed" (in kdm) or "authentication failed" (in gdm) everytime I try to login with the correct log-in and password. So the only way to get into K

Re: sqrt C function(clarification)

2001-08-11 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 03:44:17AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm sorry not to have provided more information in my first e-mail although > i'm very glad so many people responded to help, but i've done some more > testing: > > specifically i'm getting 'prase error in tmp/x' where x is a l

Re: sqrt C function(clarification)

2001-08-11 Thread Shaul Karl
> I'm sorry not to have provided more information in my first e-mail although > i'm very glad so many people responded to help, but i've done some more > testing: > > specifically i'm getting 'prase error in tmp/x' where x is a long string of > characters that tends to change on every run of th

Re: matrox g450 and dri

2001-08-11 Thread Cyan Ogilvie
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 09:10:20PM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 06:54:09PM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote: > > I replaced /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o with the file of the > > same name from Matrox's website. I also dropped in the file names > > mga_hal_drv.o fro

Re: .forward file format for exim

2001-08-11 Thread tempsch
On 11 Aug, Sam Varghese wrote: > i have the following .forward file in my home directory: > > > #debian lists > if $h_From: contains "debian-user" or >$h_To: contains "Debian-user" >then >save mail/debian > endif > > theoretically, this should tell exim to sort incom

Re: Galeon (unstable): Cannot find a schema for galeon preferences (gconf)

2001-08-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 11:08:47AM +0200, Leo Laursen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > > I'm getting a dialog box with the following error when running Galeon > > after the latest unstable upgrade: > > > Cannot find a schema for galeon preferences. > > Che

Re: unable to stat

2001-08-11 Thread harsha
hi, On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 03:34:38AM -0400, Daniel T. Chen wrote: > I remember this in 2.4.4 as a vm bug that trashed my ext2 fs. Mount that > partition readonly and e2fsck it. More than likely the file is probably > being reported as some insane size like ~14 GB. Upgrade to 2.4.7+ as soon >

Re: messages log file

2001-08-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 04:57:58PM +1000, Craig W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > This may sound really stupid, however I cannot seem to locate anything > about it anywhere. When I view the messages log file it is full of > --MARK-- , what does this mean? I have never seen it on any other of

problems with configuring Debian

2001-08-11 Thread fouad HENNI
I installed Linux Debian 2.2 r0 on my computer and I need solution for the problems below: 1) My video card is "Trident Blade 3D PCI/AGP (IPC)", so I installed the XF86_SVGA server but the computer often blocks when I 'startx'. I used to reinstall Debian. When it works, the only graphic mo

Re: Cnet Pro200 PCI fast Ethernet Adapter, road runner centralflorida

2001-08-11 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I compiled again the kernel with all possible "network devices" as M or Y, except for a group of ARCnet cards. Any way the module dmfe.c does not appear available. So I have no clue. Could that be a lacking feature in kernel-source.2.2.19pre17? I checked, and dmfe.c is present in "kernel*17/drivers

Re: Galeon (unstable): Cannot find a schema for galeon preferences (gconf)

2001-08-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 11:56:51PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > I'm getting a dialog box with the following error when running Galeon > after the latest unstable upgrade: > > Cannot find a schema for galeon preferences. I was pointed to the following post on debian-

Re: Server/Gateway Linux Box

2001-08-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
I think you need to install task-newbie or install debian with newbie selected. Then you have mc (midnight commwander) and documentation. Just point and click. Then start mc and go to /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt. There is all the answer. Or you can go to www.linuxdoc.org I did it prety much wh

sqrt C function(clarification)

2001-08-11 Thread R1nso13
I'm sorry not to have provided more information in my first e-mail although i'm very glad so many people responded to help, but i've done some more testing: specifically i'm getting 'prase error in tmp/x' where x is a long string of characters that tends to change on every run of the complier (

Re: messages log file

2001-08-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya craig > This may sound really stupid, however I cannot seem to locate anything about > it anywhere. > When I view the messages log file it is full of --MARK-- , what does this > mean? I have never seen it it means your system is not as busy as it should be if your system was bz yo

Re: unable to stat

2001-08-11 Thread Daniel T. Chen
I remember this in 2.4.4 as a vm bug that trashed my ext2 fs. Mount that partition readonly and e2fsck it. More than likely the file is probably being reported as some insane size like ~14 GB. Upgrade to 2.4.7+ as soon as possible, then repair your fs. --- Dan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Courier-IMAP

2001-08-11 Thread Ramin Motakef
Waldemar Brodkorb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello Ramin, > > .. > > Hmm, where you find this attribute? > $ grep -ir mailMessageStore /etc/ldap/schema > $ In the qmail.schema: ftp://ftp.eyeo.com/qmail/qmail.schema ramin

unable to stat

2001-08-11 Thread harsha
hi, recenlty my system went haywire and had to run fsck when i did some clearing and fixing of wrong values. among them was /usr/share/man/man1/uuidgen.1.gz. I thought that the problem was solved, but when I ran apt-get update && apt-get update. I came across this problem. dpkg: error proce

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