Green blinking 'D' in console

2001-10-21 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Hi. I'm running yesterday's sid. In the console, occasionally a green blinking 'D' will appear at a certain position on the screen. When and where it appears seems to be random. It will scroll and can be 'overwritten', just like normal text. I've seen this about 8 times in the past six day

Re: Name instead of To in From: ?

2001-10-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Lance Hoffmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011021 19:40]: > Really? I am using Mutt. May this is Mutt's way to indicate > that the email is one I sent to a list? At least I know > not everyone sees "From: To debian-user ...". That would > be kind of embarrassing :) > > Lance > Do take dman's

Netscape plugins problem

2001-10-21 Thread Markus Hoenicka
I'm running Debian Potato and need some web browser with encryption and some plugins. Mozilla in unstable would not install cleanly so I tried Netscape 6.1. After a custom install (browser, Java plugin, Flash plugin) Netscape runs fine, but it does not recognize any plugins but the libnullplugin.so

What's the reasonable time to mirror a hard disk?

2001-10-21 Thread Yuwen Dai
Hi, All I have two identical hard disk linked with one cable. The capacity of each disk is 40G. I want to have the second disk be the mirror of the first disk by using this command: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=32k Nearly 2 hours passed, dd still hadn't finished. I had to press 'Ctrl-C'

Re: Name instead of To in From: ?

2001-10-21 Thread dman
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 10:29:01PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: | Message Index in Mutt. I see everyone elses mail fine. It is only | mail from myself that shows up as the To: Header. Maybe you'll like "%4C %Z %{%b%d} %-15.15n(%4l) %s" instead. I have mail sorted into folders based on the

Re: PHP module seems not to be loaded by apache (SOLVED)

2001-10-21 Thread Arne Goetje
Ok, Problem is solved, was my mistake... #-) Thanx anyways... Arne

Re: Name instead of To in From: ?

2001-10-21 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Message Index in Mutt. I see everyone elses mail fine. It is only mail from myself that shows up as the To: Header. I tried changing %L to %F. No difference. What is L and F? F=From L=?List? Lance On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 08:11:14PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > Resent-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 20

Re: PHP module seems not to be loaded by apache

2001-10-21 Thread John Griffiths
>If I change this or not, the result is the following: when opening a php >site my browser always asks me if I want to download the file. It seems >that the php module has not been loaded (although I restarted the apache >server). > uncomment the line, then #apachectl stop #apachectl start

PHP module seems not to be loaded by apache

2001-10-21 Thread Arne Goetje
Hi, I have installed apache 1.3.22-1 and php4 4.0.99-2. In the httpd.conf file the LoadModule string for php is commented out, as well as the AddType lines for the php extensions. If I change this or not, the result is the following: when opening a php site my browser always asks me if I want

Frequent lock-ups

2001-10-21 Thread Lambrecht, Joris
[ i'm not on the list so please reply to all ] Hi, I've been using Debian for quite some time now. To be honest i switched to Debian because i started to have serious moral iaaues with continuing the use of 'the other' OS on ibm-pc compatibles. Anyway. I'm using an Abit LX6 mothe

Re: Progeny->Woody Upgrade Alternatives?

2001-10-21 Thread Doc - KD4E
> Progeny to Woody howto > http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=450 Been using that one. It is incomplete since it fails to mention the trashing of pcmcia, among other things. > Progeny to unstable > http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=414 > scott No

Re: Name instead of To in From: ?

2001-10-21 Thread Marc Wilson
Are we talking about the headers of the message, or are we talking about what you see in the message index in mutt? IMHO the way mutt displays it by default is most useful, although I changed the default index format to use %F instead of %L. Otherwise, everything in every mailbox just shows you t

Podtfix with poprelayd

2001-10-21 Thread Tomoo Nmura
Hello, I'm currently using Woody. Poprelayd and postfix can not work correctly together. Poprelayd writes an ip address onto the hash db. It seems to be correct becausepoprelayd -p prints the ip address without any problems. On the other hand, postfix writes the following message when trying

Re: utility to display syslog on tty8?

2001-10-21 Thread Ian Marlier
Do more /etc/syslog.conf -- the default syslog.conf file has a line for this... to whit: #daemon,mail.*;\ # news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\ # *.=debug;*.=info;\ # *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty8 - Ian I remember seeing a utility that would monitor a computer and send th

Re: utility to display syslog on tty8?

2001-10-21 Thread Petre Daniel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Hello Lance, LH> I remember seeing a utility that would monitor a computer LH> and send the output to tty8. Anyone recall the name of that LH> program? LH> lance hmm..i think i know what you're looking for. you can check http://www.cyber.ro/ftp/Li

Re: Help Please, reinstalling grub boot blocks

2001-10-21 Thread Stan Brown
On Sun Oct 21 18:05:36 2001 "A.R. (Tom) Peters" wrote... > >There was a useful article on grub in the Linux Journal of May 2001. Mmm, I'll look that up thanks. > >When grub comes up, you can go to command mode with 'c'. > >I must admit that, since your /boot/ is on another partition than / , I >do

utility to display syslog on tty8?

2001-10-21 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I remember seeing a utility that would monitor a computer and send the output to tty8. Anyone recall the name of that program? lance

Re: Fonts aren't quite right (different problem)

2001-10-21 Thread dman
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 10:50:43PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: | On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 14:50:00 -0400, dman wrote: | > Hey, yeah, xfontsel is a pretty neat tool. | | > It would be nice if it showed which specific font it was displaying when | > it says "20 matches". | | Try "gtkfontsel".

Re: Unable to connect to X server

2001-10-21 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 02:06:32AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hello folks, | | I have just joined this list in the hope that you can sort me out ;-) | And you have probably seen this request many times before, but I am still | learning. | | I have just upgraded to XFree86 V4* from V3* usin

Re: Name instead of To in From: ?

2001-10-21 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Really? I am using Mutt. May this is Mutt's way to indicate that the email is one I sent to a list? At least I know not everyone sees "From: To debian-user ...". That would be kind of embarrassing :) Lance On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 10:25:33PM -0400, Banshee wrote: > From: Banshee <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Name instead of To in From: ?

2001-10-21 Thread dman
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 09:25:33PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: | How the heck do I get my name to show up on the | From: line instead of "To debian-user ..."? man muttrc /index_format The following index format string does what you asked (and some others too) : '%4C %Z%{%b%d} %-15.15t(%4l) %s

Name instead of To in From: ?

2001-10-21 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
How the heck do I get my name to show up on the From: line instead of "To debian-user ..."? Lance

Modem PCTel HSP56Micromodem on-board funciona no Debian 2.2 r3?

2001-10-21 Thread André Muniz Costa
Olá,   Já testei várias distribuições do Linux, e agora estou com o Debian 2.2 r3. Porém estou tendo um antigo problema: meu modem é pctel hsp56micromodem on-board e não estou conseguindo instalar no Debian. Já peguei o driver, já instalei o kernel-source, já fiz tudo o que me mandaram, mas n

Re: CUPS in unstable?

2001-10-21 Thread Ryan Cumming
> > On a freshly updated Debian unstable, cupsys refuses to do anything > > interesting. Attempting to print to my HP Deskjet 660C results in the > > printer printing the message "Unknown device: hpdj" and quitting. Using > > the alternate driver for the Deskjet 660C causes the printer not to pri

Re: debian hangs during boot (at fsck stage)

2001-10-21 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 01:39:52AM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: ... | What should I do in this situation? I'm more concerned with not losing data on | the disk than resucing my debian install, although doing both would be | preferable. Do you have another machine that is hardware-compatible? (lik

Re: CUPS in unstable?

2001-10-21 Thread Raja R Harinath
Hi, Ryan Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On a freshly updated Debian unstable, cupsys refuses to do anything > interesting. Attempting to print to my HP Deskjet 660C results in the printer > printing the message "Unknown device: hpdj" and quitting. Using the alternate > driver for the D

Re: SOLVED (and new question) - Re: Fonts aren't quite right (different problem)

2001-10-21 Thread dman
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 08:31:24PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > How do I do that? That is, how do I know if a font is scalable or | > not? Should I just remove the 100dpi and 75dpi font directories, or | > are some of them scalable? | | Any PFB (Postscript)

RE: Cron

2001-10-21 Thread Theo Wribe
I'm going to ping the ISP login server (10.0.0.6) even tho I don't expect that sunet.se never ever will go down but you never know.. Thanks once again for your help, I'm more than happy :) > Why don't you just ping your gateway instead of some hapless web site > (which > might go down anyway). >

Unable to connect to X server

2001-10-21 Thread lordofchaos
Hello folks, I have just joined this list in the hope that you can sort me out ;-) And you have probably seen this request many times before, but I am still learning. I have just upgraded to XFree86 V4* from V3* using apt-get from the french mirror. When I boot I get left at the prompt instead o

Re: Cron

2001-10-21 Thread Mark Lanett
Why don't you just ping your gateway instead of some hapless web site (which might go down anyway). ~mark - Original Message - From: "Theo Wribe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 4:42 PM Subject: RE: Cron > Thanks for all your answers real nice of you all, after a

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2001-10-21 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gerhard Kroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > README says: > >>cd /usr/lib > >>mkdir -p dosemu freedos > >>ln -s ../freedos dosemu > > my guess here: "mkdir -p dosemu/freedos; cd dosemu/freedos" before > > linking? > > Nope, it's meant to be like that. Bu

Re: Help needed starting audio

2001-10-21 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 10:21:54PM +0100, Wasim Ahmed wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 08:25:49PM +, Stuart Luscombe wrote: > > I did add myself into the group, but for some reason it didn't work. > > So I did a chmod.. > > I believe chmod 777 on audio is a little dangerous. Imagine that you

Forcing DHCP renewal

2001-10-21 Thread David Priban
Hi everybody, I have question which is bugging me for quite some time: I've been trying to force DHCP renewal before the lease time expires. I'm using ISC dhcp-client 2.0pl5-6.1. Quick look at the source shows that sending SIGUSR1 to dhclient process shoud do the trick. Well, it does renew the leas

Re: debian hangs during boot (at fsck stage)

2001-10-21 Thread Alex Hunsley
Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > > Sorry, should have done some reading before posting the above, my bad... > > > > I've read the LILO howto and that says that pressing tab should do the > > trick, > > or holding down alt or shift when the LILO bit comes up. But neither of > > these > > action seem to

Re: SOLVED (and new question) - Re: Fonts aren't quite right (different problem)

2001-10-21 Thread Alan Shutko
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I do that? That is, how do I know if a font is scalable or > not? Should I just remove the 100dpi and 75dpi font directories, or > are some of them scalable? Any PFB (Postscript) or TTF font is scalable. Stuff in the speedo directory is too. Anything

Re: Dist-upgrade to Woody: Can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles

2001-10-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi, > > I'm trying to do a disp-upgrade to Woody and during the configuration phase > I get a lot of: > dhelp_parser: Can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles > This is a known bug and has been reported. > I've checked the file seems to be there but with 0 bytes length > I've tried to copy over the

OpenLDAP server woes : not enough locks

2001-10-21 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Dear list, I write to you as a last hope, as www.openldap.org seems to be down from my home in France :( Here's my problem : When doing a massive update to a ldap server (ldap package, sid), ie putting my /etc/group into the database, I get a ldbm: ==> Lock table is out of available locks error

Re: Help needed starting audio

2001-10-21 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 02:33:24PM -0700, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > > At 20:25 on Oct 21, Stuart Luscombe combined all the right letters to say: > > > > > > Don't forget to log off and back on again after adding yourself to the > > > group. > > > > I did add myself into the group, but for some re

Re: old PCMCIA+2.4

2001-10-21 Thread Tom Pfeifer
This page has some information it, although you may have seen it already: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/README-2.4 One of the key things on that page is that CONFIG_PCMCIA must be disabled in the 2.4 kernel config in order to compile the PCMCIA modules the old way. I haven't tried what yo

Re: Dist-upgrade to Woody: Can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles

2001-10-21 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Morbo wrote: Hi, I'm trying to do a disp-upgrade to Woody and during the configuration phase I get a lot of: dhelp_parser: Can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles A previously reported bug. I think it has been fixed in sid, but not yet made it into woody. I got around this using dpkg to install

More info on CUPS evilness

2001-10-21 Thread Ryan Cumming
On October 21, 2001 16:35, you wrote: > List, > On a freshly updated Debian unstable, cupsys refuses to do anything > interesting. Attempting to print to my HP Deskjet 660C results in the > printer printing the message "Unknown device: hpdj" and quitting. Using the > alternate driver for the Desk

Re: cron every 5 minutes

2001-10-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> Isn't the syntax to have cron run every five and not send email to anyone > > MAILTO="" > 5 * * * * > > > Lance > The above line would run the program once in an hour, 5 minutes after the excat hour. To have it run every 5 minutes you can use */5 * * * * As for not sending mail to

Re: Cron

2001-10-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> How do I create a crontab that run's #ping IP every 10 seconds? > > Tried crontab -e > > 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * */bin/ping -s 8 -c 1 www.sunet.se 1> > /dev/null 2> /dev/null > > But it doesn't seem to work. > Doesn't the above is interpreted as once every 10 minutes? I am not sure i

RE: Cron

2001-10-21 Thread Theo Wribe
Thanks for all your answers real nice of you all, after all I found out that every 10 minutes or so will do it to keep my dsl-connection alive. Kinda evil but hey I want my connection to stay connected :) Best regards Theo

CUPS in unstable?

2001-10-21 Thread Ryan Cumming
List, On a freshly updated Debian unstable, cupsys refuses to do anything interesting. Attempting to print to my HP Deskjet 660C results in the printer printing the message "Unknown device: hpdj" and quitting. Using the alternate driver for the Deskjet 660C causes the printer not to print anyt

Re: Cron

2001-10-21 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 17:30:34 -0500 (CDT) Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lo, on Sunday, October 21, Theo Wribe did write: > > > How do I create a crontab that run's #ping IP every 10 seconds? > > I don't think this is possible, at least with the version of cron in > potato. > > > Tri

Re: Woody Killed PCMCIA

2001-10-21 Thread Doc - KD4E
> Note: I'm re-posting this to the debian-laptops list too, in case > someone there has any ideas. > Hubert > > OK. If you're still on 2.2.18, then the old pcmcia-modules should still > work. My guess is that Woody and Progeny have a different set of > startup scripts, and somehow the upgrade cau

Re: Download Documentation about debian.

2001-10-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:41:29AM +0100, bruno pau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello. > > Where can i get whole downloading documentation about installation, > configuration, using, administration and update debian/GNU linux. I'm > finding documentation only about debian/GNU linux in format txt,

Re: /proc permissions

2001-10-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:12:07AM -0500, Mullins, Ron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Andrej Hocevar wrote: > > >did you deliberately insult me with your self-boasting remarks or > >was it just me reacting prickly? to me it seems that my question > > It would seem just a little of both. ;) Karsten

Re: network card detected but module fails

2001-10-21 Thread dman
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 03:31:05PM -0700, sucks the bag wrote: | | i'm trying to install debian onto a friend's amd-k7 from the potato | cdroms. his network card says it's a "d-link dfe-530tx", and sure | enough, running "lspci -v" gives: | | [snip non-relevant devices] | | 00:0e.0 Ethernet con

Re: Woody Killed PCMCIA

2001-10-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 05:39:48PM -0400, Doc - KD4E wrote: > > Doc> /lib/modules/2.2.18/pcmcia/ has a bunch of modules, including the > > Doc> one I need "3c589_cs.o" but 2.2.18 is the old kernel -- I upgraded > > Doc> to Woody which I imagine is 2.4.10 or something from Testing. If you are lucki

Re: Woody Killed PCMCIA

2001-10-21 Thread Hubert Chan
Note: I'm re-posting this to the debian-laptops list too, in case someone there has any ideas. > "Doc" == "Doc <- KD4E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> writes: Doc> /lib/modules/2.2.18/pcmcia/ has a bunch of modules, including the Doc> one I need "3c589_cs.o" but 2.2.18 is the old kernel -- I upgraded

Re: Cron

2001-10-21 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Theo Wribe) writes: > How do I create a crontab that run's #ping IP every 10 seconds? > > Tried crontab -e > > 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * */bin/ping -s 8 -c 1 www.sunet.se 1> > /dev/null 2> /dev/null > > But it doesn't seem to work. You are sending a ping every 10 minut

Re: Disaster recovery plan?

2001-10-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 12:52:50PM -0400, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying to come up with a disaster recovery plan for a Debian potato > system we are deploying at work. > > I would like to hear other peoples sugestiosn on what they are doing about > this. > > I'm thinking of m

Re: Cron

2001-10-21 Thread Serge Rey
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 02:51:46PM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote: > AFAIK, you can't run a single crontab entry more than once per minute. In > fact, cron only scans crontab once per minute, so I doubt very much that you > can get per-second control over cron scheduling. but you could wrap the entry

Re: File search question

2001-10-21 Thread Eric C. Cooper
The "cruft" package tries to do this: $ apt-cache show cruft Package: cruft Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 640 Maintainer: Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.9.6-0.3 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.1-2) Filename: pool/main/c/cruft/cruft_0.9.6-0.3_i386.deb Siz

Re: Problems with XFree86 4.1.0-8: could not open default font 'fixed'

2001-10-21 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
> Suddenly, X won't start up anymore. I have no idea how long this problem > exists, since my computer had been running continuously for a long time > before I encountered the problem and I have no idea how long the last X > session has lasted (some weeks, at least). > try to remove the quotes in

www-palvelun pystytys

2001-10-21 Thread kerkko laine
Tere Olen pystyttämässä yritykseeni oman www-palvelimen sähköposteineen. Tietääkö kukaan onko debianilla olemassa www- ja sendmail palvelimen ylläpitoa helpottavia apuohjelmia. Tai onko mitään eroa käyttääkö näissä asioissa punahattua vaiko debiania. -- Kerkko Laine Keluveneenväylä 7 F 48 90650

network card detected but module fails

2001-10-21 Thread sucks the bag
i'm trying to install debian onto a friend's amd-k7 from the potato cdroms. his network card says it's a "d-link dfe-530tx", and sure enough, running "lspci -v" gives: [snip non-relevant devices] 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: VIA technologies, Inc. : Unknown device 3065 (rev 43) Subsy

Re: Cron

2001-10-21 Thread Tom Allison
Theo Wribe wrote: How do I create a crontab that run's #ping IP every 10 seconds? Tried crontab -e 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * */bin/ping -s 8 -c 1 www.sunet.se 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null But it doesn't seem to work. Thanks Theo There isn't one. Cron is limited to minutes. If you wan

Re: Cron

2001-10-21 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, October 21, Theo Wribe did write: > How do I create a crontab that run's #ping IP every 10 seconds? I don't think this is possible, at least with the version of cron in potato. > Tried crontab -e > > 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * */bin/ping -s 8 -c 1 www.sunet.se 1> > /dev/null

Re: SOLVED (and new question) - Re: Fonts aren't quite right (different problem)

2001-10-21 Thread dman
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > So, did you learn why the lower res fonts look better? It seems | > counter-intuitive to me. | | Because "resolution" for bitmap fonts under X has nothing to do with | the real size of your scre

Re: exim startup fails

2001-10-21 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, October 21, Nikolai Hlubek did write: > Hi there, > > I recently installed Debian testing using my old home directory. > My problem is that my e-mails only get delivered when I start > exim -bd manually as root. > But the startup script in init.d/ exists. > Has anybody an idea

Re: cron every 5 minutes

2001-10-21 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, October 21, Lance Hoffmeyer did write: > Isn't the syntax to have cron run every five and not send email to anyone > > MAILTO="" > 5 * * * * That will run your program 5 minutes after the hour, every hour. See crontab's manpage from section 5. MAILTO="" */5 * * * * Richard

Re: cron every 5 minutes

2001-10-21 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lance Hoffmeyer) writes: > Isn't the syntax to have cron run every five and not send email to anyone > > MAILTO="" > 5 * * * * */5 * * * * user program ^^^ || |+--- if this is /etc/crontab or /etc/cron.d/ +--- yours only works at 5 p

old PCMCIA+2.4

2001-10-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Does anyone know howto compile 2.4 kernel with PCMCIA driver from pcmcia-cs source. This is needed to get my old 486DX2 notebook used as my gateway moved to 2.4 and get transparent proxy enabled. I tried make-kpkg modules-image etc. But no success. 2.4 normally uses new PCMCIA support whic

Re: Help Please, reinstalling grub boot blocks

2001-10-21 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm in the process of tyring to to recover from a failed root disk. > > I have managed to get all the files copied over to the new drive sucesfully > (I believe). The root disk consists of 2 filesystem partitons. > > / and /boot which are /dev/hde4 and /d

Re: debian hangs during boot (at fsck stage)

2001-10-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> Alex Hunsley wrote: > > > > Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > > > You might want to enter > > > > > > init=/bin/sh > > > > > > at the lilo prompt (assuming you have lilo) in order to skip the system > > > initializations and check that partition manually with the file system > > > debug/repair tools

PROGENY->WOODY UPGRADE -- Step-By-Step Messages

2001-10-21 Thread Doc - KD4E
Please find following the instructions from Progeny for the Woody upgrade with the error messages received at each step. Anyone see something exceptional? If so what is the proper response other than proceeding on with the install and ignoring the error messages? Thanks! Doc ~~

RE: Cron

2001-10-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Oct-2001 Theo Wribe wrote: > How do I create a crontab that run's #ping IP every 10 seconds? > > Tried crontab -e > > 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * */bin/ping -s 8 -c 1 www.sunet.se 1> > /dev/null 2> /dev/null > That is every 10 minutes. It is also quite evil to have this in a crontab.

RE: cron every 5 minutes

2001-10-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Oct-2001 Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Isn't the syntax to have cron run every five and not send email to anyone > > MAILTO="" > 5 * * * * > not so sure about the MAILTO thing. If the run generates an error the admin may still get a message I think. Why not just have it do: program > /dev/

Can't find ide-cd at power down

2001-10-21 Thread Mark Carroll
Since a recent upgrade (sync'd with "testing"), just about the last thing my machine says when powering down is that modprobe can't locate module ide-cd, hdc: drive not present. (kernel 2.2.19) This is odd. I can modprobe ide-cd and other modules without problems normally. The problem, I think, is

Re: exim startup fails

2001-10-21 Thread Kurt Lieber
Do you have a link to /etc/init.d/exim in your default runlevel directory? (probably rc2) Check /etc/rc2.d and see if there's a symlink in there called: Sexim. On my computer, it's S20exim. That should point to ../init.d/exim which should then start exim whenever you switch to that runleve

Re: Mouse

2001-10-21 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
does your kernel have support for ps/2 mice? what about reconfiguring X11, deleting mice's sections and replace it with: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device"

Re: exim startup fails

2001-10-21 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
I already solved it. There was an exim start line in inetd.conf. -- |- Escape the-| | Gates of hell. | Debian GNU/Linux | | http://www.debian.org |- Use Linux.-|

Re: Cron

2001-10-21 Thread Kurt Lieber
AFAIK, you can't run a single crontab entry more than once per minute. In fact, cron only scans crontab once per minute, so I doubt very much that you can get per-second control over cron scheduling. --kurt On Sunday 21 October 2001 13:10, Theo Wribe wrote: > How do I create a crontab that run

Re: Woody Killed PCMCIA

2001-10-21 Thread Doc - KD4E
> Doc> /lib/modules/2.2.18/pcmcia/ has a bunch of modules, including the > Doc> one I need "3c589_cs.o" but 2.2.18 is the old kernel -- I upgraded > Doc> to Woody which I imagine is 2.4.10 or something from Testing. > > Upgrading to Woody should not install a new kernel for you, unless you > specif

Re: Woody Killed PCMCIA -- What Do I Need to Download?

2001-10-21 Thread Doc - KD4E
> 'apt-get dist-upgrade' will not cause your kernel to be changed, nor should > it install a modules package other than an update of the version for your > existing kernel (the kernel-image and pcmcia modules packages have the > kernel version number as part of the package name). I have a system >

Re: Help needed starting audio

2001-10-21 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
At 20:25 on Oct 21, Stuart Luscombe combined all the right letters to say: > > > > Don't forget to log off and back on again after adding yourself to the > > group. > > I did add myself into the group, but for some reason it didn't work. > So I did a chmod.. Are you sure you logged completely ou

Re: cron every 5 minutes

2001-10-21 Thread Nathan J Froyd
Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Isn't the syntax to have cron run every five and not send email to anyone MAILTO="" 5 * * * * That will run it at five minutes past the hour. What you really want is something like: 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * -- Nathan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ww

Re: Help needed starting audio

2001-10-21 Thread Wasim Ahmed
Hello, On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 08:25:49PM +, Stuart Luscombe wrote: > I did add myself into the group, but for some reason it didn't work. > So I did a chmod.. I believe chmod 777 on audio is a little dangerous. Imagine that you have a microphone on your computer. Now someone who previously

Re: cron every 5 minutes

2001-10-21 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sunday 21 October 2001 14:49 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Isn't the syntax to have cron run every five and not send email to anyone > > MAILTO="" > 5 * * * * That will run every hour at 5 minutes past the hour. What you want is probably */5 * * * * -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> They

Re: SOLVED (and new question) - Re: Fonts aren't quite right (different problem)

2001-10-21 Thread Alan Shutko
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, did you learn why the lower res fonts look better? It seems > counter-intuitive to me. Because "resolution" for bitmap fonts under X has nothing to do with the real size of your screen, just with the size it was designed to be shown at. A font labeled as 1

Re: File search question

2001-10-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Mark Carroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011021 12:38]: > Just wondering, is there a way to get a list of all the files on the > system that: > > (a) Aren't "owned" by any installed packages Well, it's easy to get a list of files owned by a particular package, but the packaging system would have no wa

Almanaque Informes ?teis

2001-10-21 Thread Informes ?teis - Edi??o Quinzenal
Title: Almanaque Informes Úteis Distribuição Gratuita  

Re: Error reported from some KDE apps

2001-10-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 13:38:46 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I get the following error when trying to launch certain KDE applications > (spec. kdevelop or quanta): > > quanta: relocation error: /usr/lib/libkssl.so.2: undefined symbol: > polish__7KDialog It looks like quanta was compiled aga

Re: Fonts aren't quite right (different problem)

2001-10-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 14:50:00 -0400, dman wrote: > Hey, yeah, xfontsel is a pretty neat tool. > It would be nice if it showed which specific font it was displaying when > it says "20 matches". Try "gtkfontsel". It does a similar job to xfontsel, but its interface is quite a bit more friendly a

Cron

2001-10-21 Thread Theo Wribe
How do I create a crontab that run's #ping IP every 10 seconds? Tried crontab -e 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * */bin/ping -s 8 -c 1 www.sunet.se 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null But it doesn't seem to work. Thanks Theo

exim startup fails

2001-10-21 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Hi there, I recently installed Debian testing using my old home directory. My problem is that my e-mails only get delivered when I start exim -bd manually as root. But the startup script in init.d/ exists. Has anybody an idea what I'm missing? Thanks so far, Nikolai. -- |- Escape the

Re: Reiser and IP Masq kernel2.4.12

2001-10-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Lance Hoffmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011020 14:38]: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 07:03:04PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > > Does anyone have IP Masq setup using a Reiser FS and kernel > > > 2.4.12. I setup IP Masq one night with kernel 2.4.12 when I h

cron every 5 minutes

2001-10-21 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Isn't the syntax to have cron run every five and not send email to anyone MAILTO="" 5 * * * * Lance

Re: Help needed starting audio

2001-10-21 Thread Stuart Luscombe
On Sunday 21 October 2001 5:07 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 11:51:10PM +0800, Paolo Falcone wrote: > > # chmod 0666 /dev/dsp > > As opposed, of course, to doing it the right way and adding yourself to the > audio group: > > [10:04][pts/4][4][~] > $ ls -l /dev/dsp > crw-rw

Eterm fonts

2001-10-21 Thread Jim McCloskey
If I upgrade to the version of Eterm in testing or unstable, I get horrible grainy fonts (bitmaps, I suppose). This happens either if I call it without giving a --font option on the command line, or if I try to call a specific font with the --font option. The problem is particular to Eterm (there

SOLVED (and new question) - Re: Fonts aren't quite right (different problem)

2001-10-21 Thread dman
(Cc'd back to the list) On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 11:53:33AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: | | on Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:26:44PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | | > Ok, I know you're all tired of hearing about X font problems, but this | > problem is a bit different and wasn't solved by a

problem with rsync

2001-10-21 Thread Charles Janik
Hi,   I just downloaded the ftp part of the debian image onto my DOS/Windows computer. I am ready to convert it to the official image, but when I run rsync, I get a message that says   failed to connect to rsync.kernel.org - The descriptor is a file, not a  socket.   The 2 server addresses th

RE: beeps

2001-10-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Oct-2001 Daniel Jones wrote: > Every so often, say once an hour or so, my Celeron 400 > server runnng Debian unstable emits three short beeps. They > sound quite similar to the error beeps that occur on system > start-ups, although this system boots and seems to operate > just fine. I'm no

Re: Disaster recovery plan?

2001-10-21 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya stan on the rescue disk ... replace its kernel with your kernel on the boot disk mknod c /dev/st0 [ 9 0 ] and you'd need to rebuld the rescue and root disks or boot as is... mknod c /dev/st0 insmod scsixxx for your tape drive mt rewind /dev/st0 -- if it ma

Re: Fonts aren't quite right (different problem)

2001-10-21 Thread Jim McCloskey
on Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:26:44PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ok, I know you're all tired of hearing about X font problems, but this > problem is a bit different and wasn't solved by any of the recently > posted solutions. > > Ok, I have a woody box (that got sid by accident severa

logout icewm

2001-10-21 Thread Gerard Robin
hello, I have a simple question to ask : my current xwindow manager is icewm, when I select Logout->Logout->ok which files are used to leave icewm ? I submit this question because I have upgraded potato2.2r2 ->woody. (partialy) All works fine except if I add in my .bashrc: export LANG=fr_FR.ISO-

Can't make [b]zImage

2001-10-21 Thread Nathan Weston
Hi, I'm running debian unstable, and all of a sudden I can't compile a kernel. The actual compilation seems to go ok (and leaves a vmlinux in the root of the kernel source tree), but when trynig to make a zImage or bzImage I get the error: ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x1000 -e startup_32 -o vmlinux h

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