libc6 dlopen problem

2001-10-26 Thread Andy Wingo
Greetings, I've been having a number of issues this afternoon with the dlopen() facility on my debian unstable system. I didn't want to submit a bug report until I was sure, so here it is: $ cat test-dlopen.c #include #include int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { void *handle = dlopen(argv[1

Re: Shift-Return

2001-10-26 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Friday 26 October 2001 12:02, Walter Hofmann wrote: > This is > annoying because to search for a string in a file, I need to press > "/" + "RETURN" > repeatedly to cycle through the places where the string was found. or you could just hit "n"

Re: Shift-Return (non-solution)

2001-10-26 Thread dman
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:02:32PM +0200, Walter Hofmann wrote: | Whenever I press Shift-Return in "less" it displays "ESCOM". This is | annoying because to search for a string in a file, I need to press | "/" + "RETURN" | repeatedly to cycle through the places where the string was found. I Actu

Re: controlling sleep/suspend time?

2001-10-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:55:34PM -0400, Shaya Potter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > One thing I haven't seemed to be able to figure out, is how I can > control when my laptop suspends/sleeps? > > I don't want my laptop to ever suspend/sleep if its plugged into power, > unless I explicitly tell it

Re: Shift-Return

2001-10-26 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Walter Hofmann wrote: > Whenever I press Shift-Return in "less" it displays "ESCOM". This is > annoying because to search for a string in a file, I need to press > "/" + "RETURN" > repeatedly to cycle through the places where the string was found. I > have a german keyboard

Re: funny ps output

2001-10-26 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Jonathan B. Leffert: > I'm seeing the following errors when I invoke 'ps': > > {netlink_unicast} {netlink_unicast_R__ver_netlink_unicast} > Warning: /boot/System.map-2.4.13 does not match kernel data. > {netlink_unicast} {netlink_unicast_R__ver_netlink_unicast} > Warning: /usr/src/linux

Re: exim SMTP with authentication + SSL/TLS?

2001-10-26 Thread Bruce Z. Lysik
--On Friday, October 26, 2001 2:18 PM -0400 Mark Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone have relatively simple instructions for configuring exim (I have the exim-tls package) for SMTP authentication and/or SSL or TLS. http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/doc/html/spec_38.html is probabl

Re: exim problems?

2001-10-26 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Rohan Deshpande: > Hi again, > > I'm _still_ getting problems with exim send me "uknown local part" even > though I commented out: '#qualify_domain = home.com' in > /etc/exim/exim.conf. Anyone please know the solution to this? > > Thanks, > Rohan OK - depending on how exim is run (as

Re: MSN and apt-get update

2001-10-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 04:18:02PM +0200, M G Berberich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I experienced some wired behavior. 'apt-get update' does not find the > Packages-files from security.debian.org if I dail in using MSN > (germany) (Einwahlnummer: 0192658, Benutzername: MSN, Kennwort:

Re: apt-get sources.list question

2001-10-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 05:40:00AM -0700, Hamma Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've recently had some problems upgrading to Woody after downloading > all the packages for a dist-upgrade. > > I'm wondering if I didn't shoot myself in the foot with the sources I > was pulling from. > > I instal

Re: Acroread broken?

2001-10-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:23:57AM +0800, Arne Goetje ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > * Change your X display depth and try again. > > > > * Do some searches on acroread and your display driver. Perhaps there is > > an incompatibility in the driver. > > > > I tried, but the same result. I even swit

Re: security for woody

2001-10-26 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake shock: > pardons for asking this, but i can't remember or locate the answer. what > entry should i use in sources.list for security updates to woody? > > thanks. I have http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib in my sources.list file - works fine, although it

Shift-Return

2001-10-26 Thread Walter Hofmann
Whenever I press Shift-Return in "less" it displays "ESCOM". This is annoying because to search for a string in a file, I need to press "/" + "RETURN" repeatedly to cycle through the places where the string was found. I have a german keyboard and to type "/" I need to press Shift. But if I hold d

parted option - please report success

2001-10-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hello everyone, you maybe have noticed that the "udma100-ext3" flavor of the current boot floppies in Woody includes the parted program as an alternative/extension to the default cfdisk program. Now, I consider to enable that option on all i386 boot floppies in the next release. It has been enable

Sendmail behind firewall

2001-10-26 Thread Paul McHale
I have just upgraded from storm linux (slink) to debian stable (potato). Most things went shockingly well. There was an occasional oddity. After reading through all error messages, I was able to figure most things out. Kudos to the debian team! Shortly before upgrading, I put server behind a NA

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

2001-10-26 Thread Bruce Miller
I have already had some kind comments on the ``How to upgrade to KDE 2.2.1 - a not quite newbies' guide''. Thank you. Less than kind comments, criticisms, suggestions for improvements, etc, etc all welcome. . A kind offer to host the draft on a website reminded me that my ISP does offer Web spa

Re: how to set-up cable connection?

2001-10-26 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Hanasaki JiJi: > I just use the 10BaseT - vs USB - on my Cable Modem and install regular > networking - The LinkSys TX100 has worked fine and is < $30 > > > > Michael C. Alonzo wrote: > > im goin to get a cable connection and im goin to connect this to a > standalone workstation

Re: galeon deb?

2001-10-26 Thread dman
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:33:38PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: | First, is there a deb for galeon? In sid. | Second, I downloaded the rpm but alien gives the error message: | | only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM | query of galeon-0.12.5-1.i386.rpm failed |

Re: encrypted filesystem

2001-10-26 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Adam Warner wrote: > Most of the kernel patch problems may have been overcome. I don't think > Jari's approach has ever caused data corruption. If you read through the > archives you'll be up to speed with developments. I understand that > sometimes if you upgrade your kernel

Re: Windows software

2001-10-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:36:06AM -0700, SJ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I need to be able to run software that hasn't been ported to linux on > my system. > > Presently I have a duel boot machine, but I would rather run the > software while in the debian linux boot. > > I realize that this requ

Re: Enabling framebuffer, more than a kernel recompile?

2001-10-26 Thread dman
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:48:17PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: | On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:00:53PM -0400, dman wrote: | > | What other step(s) am I misssing? | > | > Add "vga=0x31A" to your kernel command line. This will give you | > 1280x1024x16. See the docs for the values of the other modes

ldso part 2

2001-10-26 Thread Greg Wiley
As suggested by orphaner, I gave removing ldso a shot on a non-critical testing machine. No adverse affects as far as I could tell. Today's upgrade put ldso right back on. Now orphaner says, again, that nothing depends on ldso and that it may be safely removed. Is this a bug? If so, against wha

Re: tape backup...

2001-10-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:01:01AM -0500, Alexander Wallace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 be

RE: Aliasing a NIC

2001-10-26 Thread John Purser
Thanks! I hadn't seen that HOWTO before. Lots of good stuff on aliasing and routing. John Purser -Original Message- From: Mark Carroll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 12:14 To: Debian-User (E-mail) Subject: Re: Aliasing a NIC On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, John Purser w

RE: Text copy/paste feature not working for me

2001-10-26 Thread Kris Huber
Hi Kent, It turned out I wasn't running gpm, and using Section "Pointer" Protocol "microsoft" Device "/dev/ttyS0" EndSection in XF86Config fixed the problem, as my Logitech serial mouse is MS mouse compatible. During installation I'd selected the only driver for a Logitech mouse and it w

Re: exim SMTP with authentication + SSL/TLS?

2001-10-26 Thread Mark Carroll
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Bruce Z. Lysik wrote: > Does anyone have relatively simple instructions for configuring exim (I > have the exim-tls package) for SMTP authentication and/or SSL or TLS. http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/doc/html/spec_38.html is probably a good start. Maybe you can talk your l

Re: Getting Grub to Recognize Kernel Update to 2.4.12

2001-10-26 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
At 23:09 25/10/2001 -0400, eDoc wrote: > To boot the kernel from /dev/hda2 with ide bus speed set to 66MHz, enter on > the GRUB command line: > root (hd0,1) OK. > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 idebus=66 When I enter this I get an "Error 15: File not found" What is it that it cannot find

Re: Kernel parameters on bootdisk

2001-10-26 Thread Mark Carroll
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: (snip) > I dont know if my solution is what you are looking for but here it is > anyway. I made a boot disk for using on a diskless machine by > essentially doing the same thing as I do with a hard disk. > I created an ext2 filesystem on the floppy and c

Re: Aliasing a NIC

2001-10-26 Thread Mark Carroll
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, John Purser wrote: > Once upon a time I knew how to make linux use multiple IP addresses for one > ethernet NIC card. I believe the format looked like "eth0:0" but I can't > remember the rest of it. Can someone point me to a HOW-TO or man reference? > I did it before on a Re

Re: kdm & gdm + woody

2001-10-26 Thread Oscar Riveros
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 03:37:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Upgraded to woody, now GDM will not accept my root password. I can change > terminals and I can log in as root fine, but GDM will not accept it, but will > allow user login. So, I installed KDM since I log into KDE anyway, but

Re: gif support grayed out..

2001-10-26 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 25 October 2001 23:15, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 26-Oct-2001 Rohan Deshpande wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Using gimp1.2, i notice the GIF save as file type is grayed. I have > > gimp1.2-nonfree installed; is it because of the type of image im making? > > i made a new, 300x300 pixel whi

Re: galeon deb?

2001-10-26 Thread Oscar Riveros
Look in unstable. http://packages.debian.org/galeon On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:33:38PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > First, is there a deb for galeon? > > Second, I downloaded the rpm but alien gives the error message: > > only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM

Re: Enabling framebuffer, more than a kernel recompile?

2001-10-26 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:00:53PM -0400, dman wrote: > | What other step(s) am I misssing? > > Add "vga=0x31A" to your kernel command line. This will give you > 1280x1024x16. See the docs for the values of the other modes. > I don't think that parameter affects the framebuffer, though. That

Re: (OT) I am offended by the wording

2001-10-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:15:43PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Osamu, > I was offended by several of your usages like : > "Judging from your question... Not for you." , etc. Relax. Osamu Aoki is not a native speaker of english, so reading to much into his words is fraught with peril.

galeon deb?

2001-10-26 Thread Rick Pasotto
First, is there a deb for galeon? Second, I downloaded the rpm but alien gives the error message: only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM query of galeon-0.12.5-1.i386.rpm failed What does this mean? Which is the major number? -- Shall I speak of the corrupti

xmps error

2001-10-26 Thread Hans Steinraht
Hi, I just installed XMPS. When I try to play video's with it my screen is green flikkering and I get the following error: Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display ":0.0" Does anyone has an idea what this means and maybe what I have to do with it? Thanks, Hans

Re: Aliasing a NIC

2001-10-26 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 17:14, John Purser wrote: > Hello, > > Once upon a time I knew how to make linux use multiple IP addresses for one > ethernet NIC card. I believe the format looked like "eth0:0" but I can't > remember the rest of it. Can someone point me to a HOW-TO or man reference? > I di

Re: CD Writer read as FLOPPY!

2001-10-26 Thread Cam Ellison
* Reza ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi.. > I'm currently having a problem with my Debian. I have > RICOH 6x cd writer on Debian 2.2. During the startup, > it's questioning whether my hdb is ATAPI or FLOPPY, > and it's assuming it's FLOPPY. Since now, I've no idea > how to get my burner working in L

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exim SMTP with authentication + SSL/TLS?

2001-10-26 Thread Bruce Z. Lysik
Hi folks, Does anyone have relatively simple instructions for configuring exim (I have the exim-tls package) for SMTP authentication and/or SSL or TLS. Basically I'd like to encrypt the messages I send via SMTP via my own server. As I understand it, it would be very easy to sniff email as it

Re: Kernel parameters on bootdisk

2001-10-26 Thread Jeremiah Mahler
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:40:28AM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: > What must I do to pass parameters to things compiled into a kernel on a > bootdisk, when I do "make zdisk" or whatever with the kernel sources, > in the same way that one can pass parameters with lilo's "append"? > > -- Mark > > > -

Re: lpr doesn't work under woody

2001-10-26 Thread A Mennucc1
hi I have looked in the database at http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi and have found EPSON Stylus Photo 700 at http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=71424 it says that you must use the 'stp' ghostscript driver (should be inside GNU-GhostScript 5.50 or later; but unf

Re: Would like to make a bootable CD based on my root partition

2001-10-26 Thread mikepolniak
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 02:08:51 -0400 avik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't have a spare partition or use grub :-) I really would like to > know how to create a bootable CD using my root partition as its > source. I would have other uses for it :-) > Mondo is a program i use to burn a

Re: Enabling framebuffer, more than a kernel recompile?

2001-10-26 Thread dman
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:18:14AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: | I'm trying to get framebuffer to work on a Compaq Proliant box. I have | recompiled the kernel, including what I believe to be the correct | framebuffer module for thai machine, and _also_ the VESA framebuffer | module. | | Reboot, stil

CD Writer read as FLOPPY!

2001-10-26 Thread Reza
Hi.. I'm currently having a problem with my Debian. I have RICOH 6x cd writer on Debian 2.2. During the startup, it's questioning whether my hdb is ATAPI or FLOPPY, and it's assuming it's FLOPPY. Since now, I've no idea how to get my burner working in Linux, also what other programs I need. Can an

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-26 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
Adam Heath wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: Better yet, lets convince package maintainers not to unnecessarily update all their dependencies to the latest libs in unstable so that packages can be easily backported with 'apt-get -b source ...' My guess is that 60-90% of the p

Re: Enabling framebuffer, more than a kernel recompile?

2001-10-26 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I'm trying to get framebuffer to work on a Compaq Proliant > box. I have recompiled the kernel, including what I believe > to be the correct framebuffer module for thai machine, and > _also_ the VESA framebuffer module. > > Reboot, still no frambufffer. > > What other step(s) am I misssing? You

Re: gnucash dependencies in unstable

2001-10-26 Thread Craig Dickson
Erik Steffl wrote: > Jose Juan Iglesias wrote: > > > I've been trying to install gnucash package from ustable, version 1.6.1-4. > > dselect says that gnucash depends on libgal9 (>= 0.10) and on libgtkhtml14 > > (>= 0.11.1). And none seems to be available. > > looks like that's fixed (you might

Masq problem-Never Mind

2001-10-26 Thread elawson
Sorryits discussed in the HOWTO and I assume the solution there will work. Ed Lawson

Re: Woody and kernel 2.4.13 ide cmd erros on shutdown

2001-10-26 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
I wish it was harmless fsck runs for all the filesystems, becuase they were not unmounted cleanly, on reboot. The bad news is that there are quite a few errors that show up. Never happend in Potato with the stock kernel. Thoughts? Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: X can't init font path elements?

2001-10-26 Thread j
On Friday 26 October 2001 15:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > yes.just edit the file in XF86Config-4 and add the fixed font in your Hmm...where can i get fixed fonts ? O:) --

Problem accessing Websites Update

2001-10-26 Thread elawson
A week or two ago I asked about a problem accessing websites. Certain websites would not load. I am using a potato box as a masquerading server for machines in an office. It appears that the websites which cannot be loaded on the desktops load OK on the server. This suggests to me that the like

Re: Package upgrade

2001-10-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Oct-2001 Mark Morshedi wrote: > using my Official CDROM as the source I tried to add packages using > APT-get. I issued the command but after initial set of instruction > and the rest of usuall text, the process comes back and tells me that > ""Dbconf" is in web mode GOTO HTTP://localhost:8

Re: run-parts and valid filenames

2001-10-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > So, having done that, I'm curious: why does run-parts have such a narrow > view of a "valid filename". It's there for a reason, else why write the > validation code? > > I'm just curious, but it would be nice to know. > my guess is that Debian calls the directories to be run by run-parts fo

Enabling framebuffer, more than a kernel recompile?

2001-10-26 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to get framebuffer to work on a Compaq Proliant box. I have recompiled the kernel, including what I believe to be the correct framebuffer module for thai machine, and _also_ the VESA framebuffer module. Reboot, still no frambufffer. What other step(s) am I misssing? -- Stan Brown

Aliasing a NIC

2001-10-26 Thread John Purser
Hello, Once upon a time I knew how to make linux use multiple IP addresses for one ethernet NIC card. I believe the format looked like "eth0:0" but I can't remember the rest of it. Can someone point me to a HOW-TO or man reference? I did it before on a Red Hat box using linuxconfig but now I'm t

Re: slink segmentation fault

2001-10-26 Thread Peter mcevoy
On Fri, 26 October 2001, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Many of these old 386 boxes have bad cheap memory chips. The time > passes, and after few years you memory errors like hell. It ran windows 3.1 ok when i got it - would this a microsoft quality hardware thing? Thanks for the help - Pete _

Re: help with debian admin project

2001-10-26 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, xylene-news wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to set up a free web, mail and dns server on debian, I wish to > offer those services and a few others. > > I have 2 debian servers one on 600MB back bone and the other on 15 MB back > bone. > > Both based in the UK in the Berkshire a

Re: Help needed to get printing

2001-10-26 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
> I have just install cups, and the gui Kups to get > my printing going, but when I go to configure a > printer, it is not seeing /dev/lp0. > > I have my printer port on a separate kernel module > and that has loaded OK, as per the below lsmod > output: > > Module Size Used by >

Re: using /home with potato & woody

2001-10-26 Thread Ross Burton
On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 15:12, Adam Warner wrote: > On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 02:37, Vittorio wrote: > > In my laptop I've three partitions > > hda1= Debian Potato all directories but /home > > hda2= /home currently referring to Potato > > hda3= Woody all in this partition > > > > Now I'd like to refer

lprng doesnt work ...

2001-10-26 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
i was able to print yesterday with mutt but today i wasnt able to... i run lprngtool and can print directly to the lpt port but with mutt i cant.. mutt says 'messageis printed' but printer doesnt print? what could be the problem? tnx -- "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,

Kernel parameters on bootdisk

2001-10-26 Thread Mark Carroll
What must I do to pass parameters to things compiled into a kernel on a bootdisk, when I do "make zdisk" or whatever with the kernel sources, in the same way that one can pass parameters with lilo's "append"? -- Mark

Re: Radius

2001-10-26 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Davi Leal, > What command could I use to check if my GNU/Linux radius server answer > accurately? > > telnet IP PORT? > What port? [rei:docs]% grep radius /etc/services datametrics 1645/tcpold-radius # datametrics / old radius entry datametrics 1645/udpold-rad

Re: [ot] Chmods for phpNuke...

2001-10-26 Thread Damon Muller
PostNuke (www.postnuke.com) might be a better option. It's built on PHPNuke, but seems to be a bit more security conscious. HTH, damon Quoth Alexander Wallace, > Well, that's scary... Anyone knows of more secure alternatives? > > On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Damon Muller wrote: > > > Quoth Alexander

Re: slink segmentation fault

2001-10-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Peter mcevoy wrote on Fri Oct 26, 2001 um 06:32:36AM: > Hi, > I have just put slink onto a 386 with 4meg of ram, installation went > well but i'm Many of these old 386 boxes have bad cheap memory chips. The time passes, and after few years you memory errors like hell. > navigate the f

Re: Radius

2001-10-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Davi Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What command could I use to check if my GNU/Linux radius server answer >accurately? > >telnet IP PORT? >What port? >USER user? >PASS password? No, radius uses UDP, and you need a specialized client to query it. You didn't say wh

Re: Navigating IMAP in Mutt

2001-10-26 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"Justin R. Miller" wrote: > > Thus spake David J. Roundy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I'm guessing you want to hit return. > > Actually, you'll want to hit 'space' to change into a folder, since > Cyrus supports folders with both subfolders and messages. > You get the prize for right answer. You

Re: using /home with potato & woody

2001-10-26 Thread Adam Warner
On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 02:37, Vittorio wrote: > In my laptop I've three partitions > hda1= Debian Potato all directories but /home > hda2= /home currently referring to Potato > hda3= Woody all in this partition > > Now I'd like to refer both potato and woody to the same /home > partition (hda2) and

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-26 Thread martin f krafft
* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.24 01:24:57-0700]: > technically, apt-get upgrade will work. dist-upgrade has a few more rules in > it to make large upgrades go smoothly. not in the case when a package, say bind9 will be split into bind9 and bind9-utils (yes, i had to work with

console in X

2001-10-26 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I'd like to find out what would be the best console emulation under Xwin... since I have a 640x480 display, I can't find any latin2 (ISO-8859-2) fonts that would look the same as console fonts and be of similar size. Does anyone have any idea what I could do to have a full screen *term like a

Re: What's happening to the Progeny installer?

2001-10-26 Thread Michael Epting
It's there (in unstable). See autoinstall. (I haven't tried it and honestly wouldn't know how to begin). On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:22:11PM +1000, Mike Williams wrote: > > My understanding is that Progeny (the company) is still alive, and that > they wish to migrate back towards a standard Debi

Re: X can't init font path elements?

2001-10-26 Thread alephtnull
yes.just edit the file in XF86Config-4 and add the fixed font in your fontpath lists. actually, xf86 always falls back to the default font 'fixed' if it's having problems rendering your fonts -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

slink segmentation fault

2001-10-26 Thread Peter mcevoy
Hi, I have just put slink onto a 386 with 4meg of ram, installation went well but i'm stuck on a particular problem now - when it asked me to set a root password for the first time, it seemed as though nothing was good enough - no matter what i put in it said "try again", occasionally it wou

Re: [MDLUG] dual boot

2001-10-26 Thread Rodney Hampton
Tom, I ecently read an article in Linux Journal (March 2001) about a distro called Maragda that lets you run Linux from a bootable CD-ROM that you create yourself. Sounds like just the ticket for you. Rodney Hampton www.hamptonandassociates.net Tom Allison wrote: > > I want to set up a new ins

Re: A safe approach whereby , I can have Debian on a Windows partition , sans data loss

2001-10-26 Thread Alan Shutko
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could somebody please advice me on a safe approach whereby , I can > have Debian on a Windows partition , sans data loss . ie : I want > both the OSes , for different reasons . There are a couple ways to do it (UMSDOS and a loopback filesystem in a file on the Window

Re: Help on returning to Debian

2001-10-26 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:12:00PM +1000, CaT wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:58:39AM +0100, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: > > Is there any application for windows (or linux) in order to install > > debian using a LAN connection ? > > Grab the floppy disks and use them. There's 6 disks in

Package upgrade

2001-10-26 Thread Mark Morshedi
using my Official CDROM as the source I tried to add packages using APT-get. I issued the command but after initial set of instruction and the rest of usuall text, the process comes back and tells me that ""Dbconf" is in web mode GOTO HTTP://localhost:8001". Anyone know what this mean and where

Sound on motherboard soyo 7vca

2001-10-26 Thread Miguel Griffa
Hi, Any one got sound on woody with this board? there are some binaries only for RH6.2, but I couldn't get it to work on woody, any help/advice will be highly appreciated.

Radius

2001-10-26 Thread Davi Leal
What command could I use to check if my GNU/Linux radius server answer accurately? telnet IP PORT? What port? USER user? PASS password? Regards, Davi

keymap location

2001-10-26 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
where is the default keymap location and what is the file name of the default keymap? I lost my keymap.gz file. Lance

Re: Terminals not closing?

2001-10-26 Thread Charles Baker
--- Ian Su <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this > problem, when I exit > an rxvt or Eterm (using exit, or Ctrl-D), the > terminal just hangs, bash > becomes defunct but the terminal process doesn't > die. > > gnome-terminal and xterm still exits properly

Re: [ot] Gimp filetypes...

2001-10-26 Thread Alexander Wallace
It's not grayed out, the only file type available in the combo in the file open dialog is gimp's... I did restart gimp after apt-getting the nonfree module... Thanks! On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > what did you mean can't open? is it "grayed" out or something? try rerunning > the

Re: using /home with potato & woody

2001-10-26 Thread John Kuhn
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:37:07PM +, Vittorio wrote: > In my laptop I've three partitions > hda1= Debian Potato all directories but /home > hda2= /home currently referring to Potato > hda3= Woody all in this partition > > Now I'd like to refer both potato and woody to the same /home > partiti

slink - segmentation fault

2001-10-26 Thread Peter mcevoy
Hi, I have just put slink onto a 386 with 4meg of ram, installation went well but i'm stuck on a particular problem now - when it asked me to set a root password for the first time, it seemed as though nothing was good enough - no matter what i put in it said "try again", occasionally it would s

Re: using /home with potato & woody

2001-10-26 Thread CaT
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:37:07PM +, Vittorio wrote: > In my laptop I've three partitions > hda1= Debian Potato all directories but /home > hda2= /home currently referring to Potato > hda3= Woody all in this partition > > Now I'd like to refer both potato and woody to the same /home > partiti

Switching to/from Greek in Xfree 4.0.x ?

2001-10-26 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi I'm trying to set up X so that I can switch to and from Greek keycodes in Xfree 4.0.x. Xgrk worked earlier (3.3.x), but it doesn't work propperly now and I would like to use something more integrated into Gnome. Gnome has the GKB applet, but it doesn't work as when I switch to Greek. I keep ge

Keyboard Media Keys not working after 2.4.5->2.4.12 upgrade

2001-10-26 Thread Jason Healy
Hey there, I have a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro, which has those funny little media keys at the top (Back, Forward, Mail, Mute, My Computer, etc). These keys work fine for me under 2.4.5 (stock debian kernel). They work in X (I can bind commands to them), and while they don't work on the cons

Re: gnucash dependencies in unstable

2001-10-26 Thread John Kuhn
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:17:41PM +, Jose Juan Iglesias wrote: > El Vie 26 Oct 2001 10:00, Erik Steffl escribió: > > Jose Juan Iglesias wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > > > I've been trying to install gnucash package from ustable, version > > > 1.6.1-4. dselect says that gnucash depends on libgal9

Dselect

2001-10-26 Thread sg_brown
Hi All, In running dselect, I get the following when I go to install Elshaddai:/home/stephen# dselect Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: debiandoc-sgml dpsclient emacs20 eso

Help needed to get printing

2001-10-26 Thread Stuart Luscombe
I have just install cups, and the gui Kups to get my printing going, but when I go to configure a printer, it is not seeing /dev/lp0. I have my printer port on a separate kernel module and that has loaded OK, as per the below lsmod output: Module Size Used by emu10k1

Re: using /home with potato & woody

2001-10-26 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> In my laptop I've three partitions > hda1= Debian Potato all directories but /home > hda2= /home currently referring to Potato > hda3= Woody all in this partition > > Now I'd like to refer both potato and woody to the same /home > partition (hda2) and of course to the same user victor (that's me

dual boot

2001-10-26 Thread Tom Allison
I want to set up a new installation on a second hard drive. The idea here is to create on a hard disk, the complete linux installation that would be required to get a internet hardened server running only sshd with a static IP address set up so I can burn it into a CD-ROM and mail it to a frien

Remote Installation

2001-10-26 Thread Tom Allison
Has anyone every tried to figure out how to set up a remote installation that can be automated? I remember that Suse and RedHat have developed the capability to remember detailed installations (package selection mostly) and was wondering if anyone in Debian-land has looked into the same kind o

using /home with potato & woody

2001-10-26 Thread Vittorio
In my laptop I've three partitions hda1= Debian Potato all directories but /home hda2= /home currently referring to Potato hda3= Woody all in this partition Now I'd like to refer both potato and woody to the same /home partition (hda2) and of course to the same user victor (that's me!). Is that p

Removing dpkg-dev!

2001-10-26 Thread Glyn Millington
Greetings! Whilst upgrading to the unstable version of dpkg (he box is otherwise stable) I thought i my innocence that I might as well do dpkg-dev. It wants things which I haven't got, and so I'm unpacked but not installed. Lots of nice thing seem to depend on dpkg-dev! How do I do a downgrade

run-parts and valid filenames

2001-10-26 Thread Aaron Hall
Why does run-parts not like dots in filenames? I'm embarrassed to admit I just spent over half an hour wrangling with the program. Every time I had it run through a directory, it kept skipping a particular file. The filename contained a dot. Now, the manpage for run-parts clearly states that it w

Re: Help on returning to Debian

2001-10-26 Thread CaT
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:58:39AM +0100, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: > Is there any application for windows (or linux) in order to install > debian using a LAN connection ? Grab the floppy disks and use them. There's 6 disks in total and once you get the network drivers setup you can instal

Re: kdm & gdm + woody

2001-10-26 Thread Teunis Peters
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 'cause you're not supposed to login as root. You're not supposed to > > run a window manager or a desktop or any of that stuff. See 'man su' > > and 'man sudo' for better alternatives. > > So who was the idiot genius that thought that one up. Nor

Help on returning to Debian

2001-10-26 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Hi there, I was a debian user a long time ago and would like to come back again to the mother ship. :) At the moment I'd a laptop Compaq 1200 (not sure it it's XL) running RedHat 6.1 and windows 2000. Is there any application for windows (or linux) in order to install debian using a LAN co

Re: How do I know whether I've got the "potato" or "woody" versions of debian?

2001-10-26 Thread D.
If when you log into Debian you go to eeh console mode instead of xdm, the last line that you see before the prompt is which version of Debian your running. Don --- Rupert Heesom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've installed Debian using a couple of CDs which I > downloaded. I'm > still very new to D

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