Re: df print the wrong information

2001-10-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 22:06, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Hi, All > > I encounter a strange behaviour of df. This is the output of df on my > machine: > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda6 303344 25804261879 9% / > /dev/hda1

Re: PCMCIA -- Unstable -- Kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Good job but I think there is a typo. On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:49:55PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > # tar xfvz linux-whatever.tar.gz > # rm -rf linux > # ln -s linux-whatever linux > # tar xfvz pcmcia-cs-whatever.tar.gz > # ln -s pcmcia-cs-whatever pcmcia > # cd linux > # rm -rf pcmcia

Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces

2001-10-24 Thread Charles Bray
Thanks guys for the much needed man page and for the apt-get instructions. Charles

Re: Samba

2001-10-24 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
You could setgid on the shared directory and chgrp it to the shared group you want it to belong in... This is a practiced I've used in the past within an office file server... Jeremy On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:27:08PM -0500, Michael Grover wrote: > Hi all. > > Ok, I added my seco

Re: Samba

2001-10-24 Thread John Griffiths
At 10:27 PM 10/24/01 -0500, Michael Grover wrote: >Hi all. > >Ok, I added my second drive(thanks all for the help), I have it added to >my fstab file. > >I have a share setup in my smb.conf file sharing it. >I setup a group that has read and write permission to that drive. > >My problem is that I w

Re: 3c905C-TX NIC

2001-10-24 Thread Lance Simmons
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:30:34PM -0700, C. Cherng wrote: > I don't believe this is a very new network card so why doesn't there > appear to be any drivers for it during the installation. What you want is 3c590/3c900 series "Vortex/Boomerang" support. It's available (in the 3com section of driver

kernel-2.4.12 compile errors

2001-10-24 Thread parn
I have been trying to compile this kernel using the information from The Kernel: Configuration and Compilation NHF V1.2 step by step. First by untarin in /usr/src/-> then make xconfig followed by the dep,bzimage. Here is where I get my errors. So I did a little more rtfm and saw about make-kpkg

Samba

2001-10-24 Thread Michael Grover
Hi all. Ok, I added my second drive(thanks all for the help), I have it added to my fstab file. I have a share setup in my smb.conf file sharing it. I setup a group that has read and write permission to that drive. My problem is that I want all to be able to create and read and modify files in t

Re: 3c905C-TX NIC

2001-10-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 21:30, C. Cherng wrote: > I don't believe this is a very new network card so why doesn't there > appear to be any drivers for it during the installation. Try 3c59x for it. --mike

Re: Adding Drives

2001-10-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 14:51, dman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:16:41AM -0500, Michael Grover wrote: > > | why I need a mount point on hda to get to hdc? > > If you don't have the "mount point" (or, to paraphrase, "point at > which the drive is mounted") you can't mount it there. Think of

Re: 3c905C-TX NIC

2001-10-24 Thread Daniel T. Chen
AFAIK this is supported by the 3c59x module in the install. --- Dan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: www.cs.unc.edu/~chenda/pubkey.gpg.asc On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, C. Cherng wrote: > I don't believe this is a very new network card so why doesn't there > appear to be any drivers for it

Latest mozilla-cvs in Sid broken?

2001-10-24 Thread Craig Dickson
Tonight I installed the newest mozilla-cvs packages. I find that this new mozilla segfaults immediately when executed. Downgrading to the last mozilla-cvs fixes the problem. Is anyone else seeing this? Is there any way to get the new mozilla-cvs to work? Craig

df print the wrong information

2001-10-24 Thread Yuwen Dai
Hi, All I encounter a strange behaviour of df. This is the output of df on my machine: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 303344 25804261879 9% / /dev/hda123302 1897 20202 9% /boot /dev/hda7

Re: cups win2000 samba

2001-10-24 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:14:55PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: | I have cups installed and I am trying to setup a Win2000 | machine to print. Samba is configured and working, I have I haven't tried with a win2k client, but I have CUPS/samba working with win[95,98,me] clients. | shared drives.

Re: What's apt-get doing to me?

2001-10-24 Thread Peter Hutnick
Paul Baloo Johnson said: >> But KDE clearly (?) states I am running 3.3.6-11, which is the stable >> package, AFAIK. > > You have to update pretty much every X related package to unstable to do > that, AFAIK. It's easier just to switch to unstable. I did "apt-get dist-upgrade unstable" what else

Re: Default helper apps with Mozilla 0.9.5

2001-10-24 Thread Akintayo Holder
Christopher S. Swingley wrote: How does Mozilla 0.9.5 know what application to use for opening non-HTML documents? I always used to configure Mozilla to use acroread for PDF documents in the Preferences | Navigator | Helper Applications dialog box, but with the latest version it automatically o

Re: What's apt-get doing to me?

2001-10-24 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:26:57PM -0500, Peter Hutnick wrote: | The problem is if I try to upgrade my X thus: | | # apt-get install xfree86-common/unstable | | I get: | | Reading Package Lists... Done | Building Dependency Tree... Done | Selected version 4.1.0-8 (Debian:unstable) for xfree86-

Re: tiger output - how to interpret, how to resolve?

2001-10-24 Thread Craig Dickson
Andreas Goesele wrote: > I have installed tiger and am now in the process of going through its > warnings. Some of them I do not understand even though I looked at the > tigexp output. > > Two of those I do not understand are the following ones: > > 1.) > # Performing check of files in system ma

invoice program

2001-10-24 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Anyone know of a deb can does invoicing. I have started doing some consulting work and would rather use some sort of invoicing program than a spreadsheet. lance

3c905C-TX NIC

2001-10-24 Thread C. Cherng
I don't believe this is a very new network card so why doesn't there appear to be any drivers for it during the installation.

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3 vulnerabilities ?

2001-10-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 04:31:05AM +0200, Petre Daniel wrote: > I run a potato at home and i will set the computer at work > with potato as well.Since that will be a 24h internet connected > pc,i am wondering what are the 2.2 release 3 vulnerabilities for > the sistem installed from the cds w

Re: PCMCIA -- Unstable -- Kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
I should have checked it on real file :-) Here is my correction: On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:13:59PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Debian stock kernel comes with almost all concievable modules including > PCMCIA. So all you have to do to get PCMCIA activated is to know exact > module names to put in

aviplay kills my mouse

2001-10-24 Thread Toomas Vananurm
In case my aviplay plays a divX:) to end, it segfaults. After that mouse cursor no more responds until I restart XF4. Sometimes the same problem also occures when I have to kill some other application (after it crashes..like wolfenstein). Anyone know why or has the same problem? I run: aviplay

How to upgrade to KDE 2.2.1 - a not quite newbies' guide

2001-10-24 Thread Bruce Miller
I have been ``doing Linux" in all available spare time for the last ten days or so and have had little or no time to follow the three Debian mailing lists I regularly monitor. If this has already been covered, please bear with me. Scanning subject lines quickly, I see there is still traffic on h

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 20:39:50 -0300, Daniel Toffetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does somebody know anything about any common format for configuration > files? Does any sense to propose this, somebody knows if there are > references of this in Linux Standard Base ? > Do makes any sense even the

Re: ldso remove warning

2001-10-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:08:29 -0700, "Greg Wiley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just slightly confused here. I tried the deborphan package on > a testing machine today and was given a list of packages to > remove. They included ldso. Now, I was pretty sure ldso > is an important package so I chec

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3 vulnerabilities ?

2001-10-24 Thread Petre Daniel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Heya, I run a potato at home and i will set the computer at work with potato as well.Since that will be a 24h internet connected pc,i am wondering what are the 2.2 release 3 vulnerabilities for the sistem installed from the cds without any online

Re: your mail [woody ISOs]

2001-10-24 Thread Pete Sheridan
I got them from here: http://planetmirror.com/pub/debian-cd/unofficial/woody/i386/ I will say I'm kind of new to Debian, and have _no idea_ if they are supported, infected with viruses (j/k), or where the heck they came from, but I've installed two systems off of them and they're working great af

Re: Woody upgrade and balsa error (update)

2001-10-24 Thread D.
--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:41:40PM -0700, D. wrote: > > In doing a upgrade to Woody the upgrade was > going > > along fine and then I received this error: Errors > > were encountered while processing > > > /var/cache/apt/archived/balsa.0.9.5-1.0.pre

Re: exim problems?

2001-10-24 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Rohan Deshpande: > * Stephen Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Thus spake Rohan Deshpande: > > > Hi, > > > > > > When I try to send an email to my friend, this is the error I get from > > > the Mail Delivery System: > > > > > > This message was created automatically by mail delivery

Re: PCMCIA -- Unstable -- Kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Wow, Tom is right but kernel recompile is the more painful way. I have gone through this pain of upgrading for my i486DX2 gateway. Debian stock kernel comes with almost all concievable modules including PCMCIA. So all you have to do to get PCMCIA activated is to know exact module names to put in

Acroread broken?

2001-10-24 Thread Arne Goetje
Hi, I have acroread 4.0.5-4 installed but cannot use it. It starts up and shows the licence screen. When I close the licence screen acroread exits with the following message: Exited with error code: 0x400e0009. Is that a common problem or just on my machine? Arne

cups win2000 samba

2001-10-24 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I have cups installed and I am trying to setup a Win2000 machine to print. Samba is configured and working, I have shared drives. I changed the smb.conf file printing = cups printcap name = lpstat (which is not in docs) and when I go to install printer on Win2000 it finds the printer but once

Re: char-major-226?

2001-10-24 Thread Shaul Karl
[03:09:38 tmp]$ zgrep -C5 226 /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.2.19pre17/Docu mentation/devices.txt.gz 225 charA2232 serial card (alternate devices) 0 = /dev/cuy0 Callout device for ttyY0 1 = /dev/cuy1 Callout device for ttyY1

Re: diamond viper 770

2001-10-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Gert-Jan wrote: Hi there what's all this stuff about xfree86 and xf86setup?? What are these? I see http://www.xfree86.org/ for info on XFree86. think it's some kind of program that takes care of the video cards in linux. Does debian contain this program ass well? I heard that suse uses

ATA/100 Raid on an Adaptec 1200a

2001-10-24 Thread Brian Johnston
Does anyone have any information on what driver this card uses (if the linux kernel supports it at all)? Thanks, Brian

Re: deb files maintenance - Dependency overview

2001-10-24 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hello all. > > My debian distribution grew kinda big 1.2G. I know I'm not using a lot of > what I have installed. Now, due to a number of interdependecies I would like > to look at dependency tree of all deb files and pick out those branches that > I don't use and uninstall. > > Any recomend

Re: Emacs21 on Stable - any joy.

2001-10-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
> Built it last night, the install uses texinfo 4.0b which you can build > from the unstable sources, it also depends on dpkg 1.9.17 from unstable > which you can just build from the unstable sources again, the install > for dpkg 1.9.17 will also need debiandoc-sgml (version from stable OK) > in

Re: untarring kernel source, symlink gone

2001-10-24 Thread Alexander List
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: >AL> maybe I cannot see the forest because of the many trees, but when I untar >AL> the latest Linux kernel tarball, it ignores my symlink, creating a >AL> directory in it's place: >That's normal. After untarring, just "mv linux linux-2.x.y" for th

Fw: More accurate time feedback

2001-10-24 Thread Shaya Potter
I sent this directly to Ian (damn reply vs. reply all) , its probably usefull for everyone to see as well. - Original Message - From: "Shaya Potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ian Patrick Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 7:46 PM Subject: Re: More accurate time fe

Euro symbol for potato/Kde 2.1.2?

2001-10-24 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi. I have an up-to-date debian potato box with KDE 2.1.2. Now, year 2002 approaching, I would like to get the Euro symbol for input and display (under X 3.3.6). I found various explanations about how to get debian testing or unstable to display/accept the Euro symbol but nothing about debian po

Re: Why doesn't the kernel make like my libncurses?

2001-10-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:35:23PM -0500, Peter Hutnick wrote: > What's up with this? > > /usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts/lxdialog all > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' > /usr/bin/ld: cannot f

Re: exim problems?

2001-10-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:25:57PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake Rohan Deshpande: > > Hi, > > > > When I try to send an email to my friend, this is the error I get from > > the Mail Delivery System: > > > > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). > > >

Cyrus/IMAPD in debian/unstable is -very- out of date.

2001-10-24 Thread Teunis Peters
is currently at 1.5.19-9. Current supported version at Cyrus IMAP source site is 2.0.16. Not only is 1.5 listed as out of date, it's listed as no longer supported at all... (at least as far as I can read) So - just wondering, anyone working on a 2.0 version? It's an LDAP-based email server meant

Re: untarring kernel source, symlink gone

2001-10-24 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
AL> maybe I cannot see the forest because of the many trees, but when I untar AL> the latest Linux kernel tarball, it ignores my symlink, creating a AL> directory in it's place: That's normal. After untarring, just "mv linux linux-2.x.y" for the appropriate x and y, then "ln -s linux-2.x.y linu

Re: exim problems?

2001-10-24 Thread Rohan Deshpande
* Stephen Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thus spake Rohan Deshpande: > > Hi, > > > > When I try to send an email to my friend, this is the error I get from > > the Mail Delivery System: > > > > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). > > > > A message that you

Re: What's apt-get doing to me?

2001-10-24 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Peter Hutnick wrote: > I started out with a set of "Potato" CDs (why do you have to lie to > the website to get ISOs?) and have dorked around with apt-get to the > point that I think I have all unstable packages. Sort of. You don't have to lie to it, you could have just gone

LILO, dual booting, and Promise IDE controller

2001-10-24 Thread Bud Rogers
My wife is on her way to being M$ free. We added a second drive and installed potato and KDE on her Gateway W98 machine. She wants to dual boot while she learns her way around Linux and weans herself from Windows. Her Gateway has kind of a weird setup. The onboard IDE controller is disabled

tiger output - how to interpret, how to resolve?

2001-10-24 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi. I have installed tiger and am now in the process of going through its warnings. Some of them I do not understand even though I looked at the tigexp output. Two of those I do not understand are the following ones: 1.) # Performing check of files in system mail spool... --WARN-- [kis008w] File

Re: Why doesn't the kernel make like my libncurses?

2001-10-24 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Peter Hutnick wrote: > What's up with this? You need libncurses-dev -- Baloo

Re: Emacs21 on Stable - any joy.

2001-10-24 Thread joel_mayes
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:14:58AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > > Before I do the big download. (well, on this modem it's big > enough). > > Has anyone got Emacs21 up and running on stable? I was considering > building with the source from unstable, but could just as easily get the >

Re: What's apt-get doing to me?

2001-10-24 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Wednesday 24 October 2001 16:26, Peter Hutnick wrote: > (why do you have to lie to the website to get ISOs?) Because bandwidth isn't free and Debian is. Thus, they want to minimize the use of their bandwidth as much as possible. If you download all three ISO images, you'll end up using a m

Re: Why doesn't the kernel make like my libncurses?

2001-10-24 Thread Jean-Christophe Boggio
Ref : Thursday, October 25, 2001 1:35:23 AM >>> You must have Ncurses installed in order >>> to use 'make menuconfig' PH> What's up with this? You need the include files : apt-get install libncurses5-dev -- Jean-Christophe Boggio [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LILO won't boot after dist-upgrade to testing - HELP!

2001-10-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Morbo wrote: Hi, I tried to dist-upgrade to woody, but the new LILO will not boot my system anymore. As a precaution I had LILO set up to be able to boot the current kernel (2.4.10), the previous one (2.2.19pre17) and also a copy of my old Potato installation on hda2. Look at thread on "LI

Re: problems installing 2.4 kernel

2001-10-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Mark Carroll wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: (snip) I have an AMD K6-II. "uname -a" identifies it as i586. (snip) That may say more about what processor your kernel was compiled for than what processor it's actually running on. Does /proc/cpuinfo get it right? /proc/cpuin

Re: exporting /usr NFS for small network

2001-10-24 Thread nate
joe golden said: > > I was looking for advice on pitfalls to avoid. > best thing i can reccomend is just to test it out. the biggest drawback to nfs on linux is it seems very unreliable. up until recently i had my /home mounted via nfs to another system on the local lan at home(100mbit 48port switc

Re: Intro - Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, and more

2001-10-24 Thread john
At least the Project can look forward to another $1000 donation, as specified in the conditions of use of this list. Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > (This message addressed to debian-user mailing list) > > > Please allow us to introduce ourselves, > > > > Igoework.com is represented by a group th

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-24 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 20:12, Alex de Landgraaf wrote: > Note: this may be a bit long, but i hope you will read it and give > feedback about your opinon on the subject(s) discussed. And sorry for > crossposting, just wanting everones 2cents. forgive me :) > Now, i will halt my rant/manifesto/s

Re: Is it a bug?

2001-10-24 Thread john
Erik, AFAIK most of the 'official' Australian debian mirrors are broken in unstable and testing. I put mirror.aarnet.edu.au _and_ http.us.debian.org in sources.list in order to be sure it works (and then I still have that nasty problem with the dead server on http.us.debian.org) http.au.debian.or

Re: More accurate time feedback

2001-10-24 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:29:39PM -0500, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: | Is there a way to get a more accurate time value, preferably to a | nanosecond, using the system clock? I need to write a program that needs to | output the time it takes various sorting algprithms to sort various numbers |

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-24 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Nelson wrote: > Suppose you wanted to install galeon, which depends on > mozilla-browser. So, you did an 'apt-get install galeon', which installs > mozilla-browser as well. Then you try galeon for a while, and also > check out mozilla. You end up preferring mozilla, and use that as > your

Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces

2001-10-24 Thread Joey Hess
Charles Bray wrote: > The "auto lo" remains commented out because of the "neighbor table overflow" > error. I remain unclear about what the "auto" line is supposed to do that > the "iface" line doesn't do. Maybe when I find the interfaces man page... The only thing the auto does is make ifup bri

untarring kernel source, symlink gone

2001-10-24 Thread Alexander List
Hi, maybe I cannot see the forest because of the many trees, but when I untar the latest Linux kernel tarball, it ignores my symlink, creating a directory in it's place: # ls -l [...] lrwxrwxrwx1 root src 7 Oct 25 01:44 linux -> v2.4.13 -rw-r--r--1 root src 231119

Re: Is it a bug?

2001-10-24 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:38:16PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: | | Following an update from a working "stable" Debian installation, | to "unstable" (from an Australian mirror), running startx elicited: | | X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory) | | Trying: strings

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2001-10-24 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 02:30:27PM +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: | On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 14:13, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > | > > Which will give you a Java Runtime Environment. Note | > > that this is non-free software. | > | > Where can one get a truly 'free' version of Java ?? This would | > c

Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces

2001-10-24 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 02:36:44PM -0700, Charles Bray wrote: | - Original Message - | From: "Joey Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: | Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 9:57 AM | Subject: Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces | | | > Charles Bray wrote: | > > Strangely (to me),

Why doesn't the kernel make like my libncurses?

2001-10-24 Thread Peter Hutnick
What's up with this? /usr/src/linux# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses collect2: ld returned 1 exit status -e >> Unable to find the Ncur

No cursor

2001-10-24 Thread Nate Custer
Hey guys, I just redid my xconfig so that my new wireless mouse will work. It is working fine, my cursor however is not. It works fine when I log into X, but the first time I switch to a console ( ctrl + alt + f1) and then come back, my cursor becomes a big white box, with a small black line in th

Re: Config file for kernel compilation

2001-10-24 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
not sure Just use make xconfig.. it takes 2 mins Let me know how it goes.. my system locks when I switch to virtual terminals Daniel Toffetti wrote: Hi all ! I'm ready to compile and install the new kernel 2.4.13

What's apt-get doing to me?

2001-10-24 Thread Peter Hutnick
I'm new to Debian, and apt. I started out with a set of "Potato" CDs (why do you have to lie to the website to get ISOs?) and have dorked around with apt-get to the point that I think I have all unstable packages. Sort of. The problem is if I try to upgrade my X thus: # apt-get install xfree86-

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-24 Thread Alex de Landgraaf
First, i would like to thank everyone for their opinions, some are very interesting. I'll try to cover them all in one post, forgive me if i don't answer everyone personally :) Okay, lets tackle the hardest first: - Why put a lot of effort to start a project from scratch, when that effort could b

Re: exporting /usr NFS for small network

2001-10-24 Thread Rich Puhek
Richard Cobbe wrote: > > Lo, on Wednesday, October 24, joe golden did write: > > > I am getting tired of updating 7 machines. I have home directories > > exported NFS for our network (with minimal security concerns) and this > > seems to work fine. > > > > My question is how do I export usr NFS

Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces

2001-10-24 Thread Peter Hutnick
Charles Bray said: > I've searched places like http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#man, but I > can't find this man page. My system doesn't know the command "man" yet, so > I can't type "man interfaces". No excuses. :-) If you don't have man you can't do squat. Do "apt-get install man-db" -Peter

Re: tape backup...

2001-10-24 Thread Peter Hutnick
Kurt Lieber said: > Not a direct answer to your question, but check out > http://www.linux-backup.net. > > They have some great linux backup resources there including several example > backup scripts. > > --kurt > On Wednesday 24 October 2001 08:01, Alexander Wallace wrote: >> Hello there! I have

Re: tape backup...

2001-10-24 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:01:01AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: > Hello there! I have a 2 gb dat drive and I would like to backup my server > periodicaly. It works, it's /dev/st0... I know I can use mt to do stuff > with the drive and tar to backup stuff... But is there a better way??? There ar

Re: exporting /usr NFS for small network

2001-10-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 04:15:20PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > The only thing I'm not sure how to do is keep /usr/local local to each > machine, even though /usr is mounted across the network. This may or may > not be a requirement in your situation, however. Not sure whether this is the best w

Switching to virtual terminals hangs woody.

2001-10-24 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
All, Woody is booting fine under kernel 2.4.13 ; howver, when I switch to a virtual terminal, all I get is a blank black scrren. Then everything hangs. I have compiled in pts98 terminals and also virtual terminals - no virtual frame buffers Thanks to all of you that helped with the /dev pr

Firewall, dhcp, dyndns client on floppy

2001-10-24 Thread Ole Sebastian Stein
We have just gotten our ADSL connection at home. We intend to put up our own network with a firewall. It should be able to: be a firewall (naturally), accept dhcp from the adsl-modem, act as a dhcp-server and run a dyndns-client to update our dyndnsaccount. And it needs fitting on a 1.44 MB flop

Re: Kernel 2.4.13 has no /dev files or info with lspci

2001-10-24 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
The Problem with /dev was that somehow devfs crawled into tthe kernel.  I swear I didn't to it :) - Took it out and the devices are in fine now.  Thanks, Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:18:43PM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: lspci only gives the board numbers.

More accurate time feedback

2001-10-24 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
Is there a way to get a more accurate time value, preferably to a nanosecond, using the system clock? I need to write a program that needs to output the time it takes various sorting algprithms to sort various numbers of integers. For smaller numbers of integers on algorithms like quicksort

Re: exim problems?

2001-10-24 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Rohan Deshpande: > Hi, > > When I try to send an email to my friend, this is the error I get from > the Mail Delivery System: > > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its > recipie

Re: Add a new module to kernel?

2001-10-24 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi Michael, I would guess, that binfmt_java is neither compiled in or as module, because it's considered obsolete. The entry in the FAQ you quoted is out-dated only applies, if you wont to execute some Java's class file directly by specifying it on the command line, like this: $ javac so

Cybercafe software

2001-10-24 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi again ! I've been asked if I know any decent software tailored to tha administrative duties of a cybercafe. Does somebody know something alike, open source and free beer ??? BTW, does the word "cybercafe" is so much widely used in different languages as I believe ?? Daniel PS: Sort of lingu

ldso remove warning

2001-10-24 Thread Greg Wiley
Just slightly confused here. I tried the deborphan package on a testing machine today and was given a list of packages to remove. They included ldso. Now, I was pretty sure ldso is an important package so I checked using dselect. Hey, ldso is in opt/oldlibs. So I go ahead and try the removal b

Config file for kernel compilation

2001-10-24 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! I'm ready to compile and install the new kernel 2.4.13 in my box. I've done it before without problems, but now I want to know if it is safe to load a config file from an older version. make xconfig allows (I guess all other config interfaces do it as well) to load config options from

deb files maintenance - Dependency overview

2001-10-24 Thread list1
Hello all. My debian distribution grew kinda big 1.2G. I know I'm not using a lot of what I have installed. Now, due to a number of interdependecies I would like to look at dependency tree of all deb files and pick out those branches that I don't use and uninstall. Any recomendations on what p

Re: 100hz in Xfree86-4.1?

2001-10-24 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi Victor, Victor Julien wrote: > I recently bought a monitor capable of doing 1280x960x100hz, but X uses 85hz. > Now i was wondering how i can tell X to use 100hz instead. XFree86 4 queries the monitor to find out which modes it supports. However, your monitor only answers with some standardiz

Re: XFree86 version?

2001-10-24 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- MarceI Figuerola Estrada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-10-24 21:30): > I've just intallet Debian Potata 2.2r3 > > I need to know which XFree version I have. Does anybody know? Potato ships with XFree86 3.3.6. Cheers, Sean -- Sean Quinlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Windows software

2001-10-24 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm pretty sure that while you're setting up wine, it asks you if you want to use a windoze partition, or just make a wannabe-partition in your home dir. I believe you just specify your windoze partition and it just uses after that. If you just need to access files from the windoze partition

Re: [slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-24 Thread Alan Shutko
Matthew Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does the new version of GNU emacs support *console mode* syntax > highlighting (I guess it's called "font locking" in emacs-speak). Yes. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to pe

Re: Kernel 2.4.13 has no /dev files or info with lspci

2001-10-24 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi Hanasaki, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > lspci only gives the board numbers. no descriptions show up Can't help you on that. I'm still compiling 2.4.13 and won't install until tomorrow. > /dev does not have my hdaxx partitions thus i cannot mount them Do you use devfs? If not, then `cd /dev && M

Re: 100hz in Xfree86-4.1?

2001-10-24 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:55:42PM +0200, Victor Julien wrote: > I recently bought a monitor capable of doing 1280x960x100hz, but X uses 85hz. > Now i was wondering how i can tell X to use 100hz instead. Yeah, just edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file (/etc/X11/XF86Config if you're using a

Re: Help with ATI Rage Fury Pro 128

2001-10-24 Thread James D Strandboge
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 03:41:53PM -0400 or thereabouts, Stephen Gran wrote: > First you have to double check with ATI - http:www.support.ati.com - to make > sure that this is right, but I believe it uses the xserver-mach64 > server. Just apt-get install, and change your lines in XF86Config to It

kernel 2.4, isa-pnp and ensoniq soundscape (sscape)-- how?

2001-10-24 Thread James D Strandboge
I have been trying to configure a soundcard for a woody box running kernel 2.4.12-ac3, but have not been able to make any headway. Previously (kernel 2.2) we used isapnptools, but kernel 2.4 wants to use isa-pnp. Currently I can insmod soundcore, sound and isa-pnp, but the next module to load, ad

Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces

2001-10-24 Thread Charles Bray
- Original Message - From: "Joey Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 9:57 AM Subject: Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces > Charles Bray wrote: > > Strangely (to me), if I comment out the "auto lo" line in > > /etc/network/interfaces and reboot, I

Re: [ot] Chmods for phpNuke...

2001-10-24 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >This is more of a linux question... Is there a way to change recursivly >the mode to directories only? find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod a=rwx -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tape backup...

2001-10-24 Thread Kurt Lieber
Not a direct answer to your question, but check out http://www.linux-backup.net. They have some great linux backup resources there including several example backup scripts. --kurt On Wednesday 24 October 2001 08:01, Alexander Wallace wrote: > Hello there! I have a 2 gb dat drive and I would li

RE: apt logfile?

2001-10-24 Thread Shaun Crossley
>> Is there an apt (or dpkg) logfile? Something that would keep a record of >> what was done when? Just a simple text file with a format of: >> >> >> >> Does anyone else think this could be very useful? > > It's not what you meant, but sometimes I use > ls -ot /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums | he

Re: exporting /usr NFS for small network

2001-10-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, October 24, joe golden did write: > I am getting tired of updating 7 machines. I have home directories > exported NFS for our network (with minimal security concerns) and this > seems to work fine. > > My question is how do I export usr NFS. What are the configuration > issues

Re: Failing installing kernel-image-2.4.10 under woody

2001-10-24 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Hi Blars, >as a matter of fact it was dselect under woody to automatically select and >install the package modutils-2.4.10-3 when I asked for kernel-2.4.10. >So, do you mean that there's something wrong under debian woody? > >Vittorio > >

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