Re: X-forwarding with ssh doesn't work

2001-11-16 Thread Jeff
Tim Dijkstra, 2001-Nov-16 23:52 +0100: > nate wrote: > > >Tim Dijkstra said: > > > > > >>debug1: Requesting pty. > >>debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. > >>debug1: Requesting shell. > >>debug1: Entering interactive session. > >> > >>Is that enough? Does anybody with X-

Re: starting netscape without toolbar and addressbar

2001-11-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 04:51:57PM +0100, Thomas Halahan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi deb-user, > > I have a role account on my network where users logging on will have > netscape started for them directed to the intranet. I think I can get > netscape to boot up ok on login but don't know how

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status

2001-11-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 06:09:17AM -0800, James Vahn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How is it possible to rebuild the status file other than by using one > of the 3 month old "yesterday.gz" backups? A filesystem crash caused > the inclusion of binary crud into the current and last two versions. It >

Re: Best deal on a scsi DAT =>10Gig range...............

2001-11-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:20:03PM -0500, Courtney Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings ! > > I'm finding that as my drives are growing my old DATs are keeping me > hopping trying to cram it all in. Realize that there's a lot of your system you don't need to archive. I'd stick to /home,

Re: 404s on update/install

2001-11-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:12:45PM -0600, Donald R. Spoon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > > > --snip-- < > > This is occurring because you're trying to update your system while the > > mirror is itself updating its archive. > > > > In the Debian mirroring scheme, Packages

Re: 404s on update/install

2001-11-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 12:10:27PM -0800, Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > > > > This is occurring because you're trying to update your system while the > > > mirror is itself updating its archive. > > > > > > In

Re: xscreensaver on woody

2001-11-16 Thread Mike McNally
The man page has some specific info on xdm and gdm but nothing on wdm. I'm no guru but my suggestion is if you don't have some reason that you need a gui login screen, get rid of it, and just use startx to start X. Then you can just put the command xsreensaver in your gnome control panel startup pr

Re: apt-get: 404s on update/install

2001-11-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:05:41AM -0800, Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > I'm getting problems with 404 codes on apt-get dist-upgrade or install > > > attempts, in particular, from http.us.debian.org. > >

Re: Help for the UDMAmentally challenged ...

2001-11-16 Thread Steffen Evers
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 13:42, Hank Marquardt wrote: > I used hdparm -d1 to turn it on for the drives and that boosts to 41Mbs on the > drives, but the pdc still shows the following: There are several things that need to be set to use UDMA in order to make it work: 1. PCI Bus 2. Controller 3. Dri

Re: "Linux window" in Windows

2001-11-16 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:48:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there a way to access my linux partition and bootstrap Linux on top of > > Windows? Such as, pop up a Linux window in Windows 98 that boots my kernel > > from my Linux parti

Re: 404s on update/install

2001-11-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:12:45PM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > Is there any way to determine this situation "up-front" in the process? > The reason I ask is that I have about 5 computers I am trying to keep > updated here. Doing each one manually each day coupled with the > "re-trys" is getti

Re: upgrade errors

2001-11-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 05:06:35PM -0500, Daniel D Jones wrote: > Running woody with kernel 2.4.14. I do a daily apt-get update and upgrade. > Almost daily, I see errors like this: [...] > I can manualy install the packages via dpkg --force. Is this errors in the > package or something with my

UnrealTourney can't find VooDoo 3

2001-11-16 Thread JakeCatfox
I have a VooDoo 3 installed and the dev/3dfx device installed with the correct major/minor numbers, but Unreal Tournament Demo always quits saying it can't find the V3/Banshee card. Does anyone know why it's doing this? -- Deven Gallo

Re: Adsl/network problem "SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable"

2001-11-16 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Are you sure that you card is up before you try to connect? Before you type the dhcpd command, what do you see when you type ifconfig? Is the module loaded (lsmod)?

Re: "Linux window" in Windows

2001-11-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:48:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a way to access my linux partition and bootstrap Linux on top of > Windows? Such as, pop up a Linux window in Windows 98 that boots my kernel > from my Linux partition, without rebooting? VMWare would be the only way I

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-16 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:25:41AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:18:33AM +0100, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > > > i believe that bug was fixed in linux a few years ago. > > > > > > theres no longer a 497 day limit .. > > > > could someone please tell me for sure? i'm at 470 ri

"Linux window" in Windows

2001-11-16 Thread JakeCatfox
Is there a way to access my linux partition and bootstrap Linux on top of Windows? Such as, pop up a Linux window in Windows 98 that boots my kernel from my Linux partition, without rebooting? Thanks, Deven Gallo

Re: Making a TCP or UDP or Unux Socket Server Listen on a port

2001-11-16 Thread shyamk
Yesterday , I was speaking about a nteworking program (client-server) , , client running on 10.10.1.15 and server (prog.) running on 10.10.1.4 I am very grateful for the generous help of suggestions , I received from all. Well this is the current situation :- 1) I started the server program at

Re: Two-button mice and pasting in X

2001-11-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 20:28:44 -0600 Mike McNally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I use the mouse to paste in X, say from one xterm to another, > if there is a tab in the line it gets duplicated on ea successive > line and is sort of a recursive thing like this: > > lets post > this > one >

Re: Opinions on Laptops to Install With Debian

2001-11-16 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Mark Seven Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Someone recently pointed me towards eBay regarding my video > card delimma; but when I considered the matter, what I > *really* want, is a LAPTOP, than I can use from bed (i have > some health difficulties) for learning Linux, and doing a > lot of

Re: Two-button mice and pasting in X

2001-11-16 Thread Mike McNally
When I use the mouse to paste in X, say from one xterm to another, if there is a tab in the line it gets duplicated on ea successive line and is sort of a recursive thing like this: lets post this one two three ### comes out looking like this ### lets post this

Re: best video card regarding license issues

2001-11-16 Thread Sean
On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 21:14, Brian Nelson wrote: > Steffen Evers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello, > > > > I have followed the recent discussion about vidoe cards on the list. I > > have also been looking for a new video card and was thinking about a > > Nvidea card. However, I have read a

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn't installed but it is

2001-11-16 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote: > Thanks, I only just realized it was from woody ... I had added braincells so > I could install imapd and that's where webmin-ssl came from, too. So maybe > I'll try woody since it has the software I'm most interested in ... > > Thanks! > Well the versions of

Segmentation Fault w/ XF86Setup

2001-11-16 Thread Rafe B.
I just tried to upgrade my "potato" box with XFree86 from "unstable." Bad idea? This yields Segmentation Fault when I run XF86Setup. Mildly chaotic "update" process, since I was a bit confused about the Deb packages to get. I started with: xfree86-common x-window-system-core xserver-c

Re: best video card regarding license issues

2001-11-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Steffen Evers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I have followed the recent discussion about vidoe cards on the list. I > have also been looking for a new video card and was thinking about a > Nvidea card. However, I have read about the license problems with > "tainting" (non-GPL) kernel mo

Re: Apache+PHP4+Postgresql

2001-11-16 Thread Michael Ward Cole
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:07:31PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Michael Ward Cole wrote: > > >I am trying to load PHP4 4.0.3 pl 1-0 on debian/linux 2.2.19 with > >Apache 1.3.9-13.2. I keep having trouble with the libpgsql2 vs libpgsql2.1 > >with PHP4 saying that it needs sql2 > 6.4-0. I don't un

Re: masquerading for internet access - swopping eth0 and eth1

2001-11-16 Thread Eric Smith
According to Michel Loos on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:54:53PM -0200: > On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 21:41, Eric Smith wrote: > > > > I am on unstable and trying to give a client machine internet access. > > > > eth1 on the server gets internet access via cable modem via dhcpcd and the > > eth0 to the loca

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

2001-11-16 Thread Andreas Leitner
On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 20:33, Emil Pedersen wrote: > Oh, and testing would probably do just fine. For my "normal" work > machine I use a testing "enhanced" potato. apt-0.5.4 let you keep one > default release but gives you the abbility to "hand pick" things from > testing. Very neat. I also use

Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

2001-11-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 15 November 2001 08:32 am, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > OK, with ext3 in 2.4.15, what packages in sid will the adventurous want > to have installed to deal with the shiny new fs? AFAIK all the progs are already 'ready' to go . I have been using Ext3 fs in Woody for awhile and use the

Re: Netscape6.2/Mozilla0.9.5 broken for Debian/Sid

2001-11-16 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
[Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:48:36AM -0500] James Freels : > I suspect java-related issues, but I am certainly not sure. Both > packages are slow on my system anyway. Suggest that you try Galeon, it has very a many good feature plus it uses your mozilla as the engine. -- ragOO, VU2RGU<->

Re: OT: Any way to get Win95 to boot again?

2001-11-16 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:23:44PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Win95 expects to be the first drive on the first chain. When you moved > it to /dev/hdc, you broke Windows. Move it back to /dev/hda1; chances > are it'll come right up. Or you can leave the disks the way they are and have LILO re-map

Re: Opinions on Laptops to Install With Debian

2001-11-16 Thread Simon Wong
On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 10:52, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > Someone recently pointed me towards eBay regarding my video > card delimma; but when I considered the matter, what I > *really* want, is a LAPTOP, than I can use from bed (i have > some health difficulties) for learning Linux, and doing a

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-16 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Paul McHale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > spin at all. and with the near 2 dozen IBM disk drive failures > > ive had in the past 6 months, im even more for never turning > > off the system. > > When I worked PC support contracts at Honeywell, we would always tell people > to leave the CPU

best video card regarding license issues

2001-11-16 Thread Steffen Evers
Hello, I have followed the recent discussion about vidoe cards on the list. I have also been looking for a new video card and was thinking about a Nvidea card. However, I have read about the license problems with "tainting" (non-GPL) kernel modules for Nvidea acceleration. It seems like that kerne

Sound/video playback speed

2001-11-16 Thread Carl Fink
As extensively chronicled in other threads, I just upgraded from a Cyrix M2-300 based system to an Athlon 1.2 GHz. One would expect this to speed things up. I don't like the fact that it sped up video and sound playback, though. Sounds come out as hyperfast bleeps, video looks like bad undercran

Best deal on a scsi DAT =>10Gig range...............

2001-11-16 Thread Courtney Thomas
Greetings ! I'm finding that as my drives are growing my old DATs are keeping me hopping trying to cram it all in. Of course if cost were irrelevant I wouldn't ask the question. Anyway, considering both media and drive what's the consensus/experience ? If there's an option that is dollar cost-c

Re: dhcp with kernel 2.4?

2001-11-16 Thread Carl Fink
And again, in case anyone finds this in the archive. The solution was found on DejaGoogle: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The 3Com cablemodem I was connecting to won't issue a new certificate for some long period of time, once it issues one. I had connected my work Windows laptop via the modem to research

Re: TTY display has lost lower case

2001-11-16 Thread Gary Turner
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 12:50:54 -0800, you wrote: > >|> TTY1 went bonkers last night. I had done "pr XF86Config | less." >|> Halfway down the second page it started printing the old IBM text based >|> graphic characters. (At least that's what they look like.) Upper case >|> and numbers look ok, ex

Re: Questions on pop3 servers

2001-11-16 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:30:15AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > > What program would i use to remove old messages automatically once a month > or something? > > Although, I suspect some ls -l magic with a sort piped into rm would work > ;) > 'find' is your friend; 'find . -type f -mtime +31 -pr

Re: xscreensaver

2001-11-16 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:21:29PM -0500, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: > You know, the guys are right about DRI. GL needs it to run full screen. > What was not mentioned is the fact that xscreensaver will not run as a root > and DRI has root only permissions by default. Put following in your XF86C

Re: dhcp with kernel 2.4?

2001-11-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 08:53:14AM -0500, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote: > The previous poster was right. I had some recent troubles getting > dhclient to work on a woody system with a custom kernel > > Finally I looked in /var/log/daemon.log and saw: > > Nov 6 07:27:43 debian dhclient-2.2.x: soc

Re: masquerading for internet access

2001-11-16 Thread Michel Loos
On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 21:41, Eric Smith wrote: > > I am on unstable and trying to give a client machine internet access. > > eth1 on the server gets internet access via cable modem via dhcpcd and the > eth0 to the local LAN. The client and server communicate fine but > the client does not get in

Opinions on Laptops to Install With Debian

2001-11-16 Thread Mark Seven Smith
Someone recently pointed me towards eBay regarding my video card delimma; but when I considered the matter, what I *really* want, is a LAPTOP, than I can use from bed (i have some health difficulties) for learning Linux, and doing a lot of paperless reading... What sort of a laptop should I lo

masquerading for internet access

2001-11-16 Thread Eric Smith
I am on unstable and trying to give a client machine internet access. eth1 on the server gets internet access via cable modem via dhcpcd and the eth0 to the local LAN. The client and server communicate fine but the client does not get internet access. Also the default ipmasq installation result

sourceforge and postgresql

2001-11-16 Thread Matt Fair
Has anyone installed sourceforge with the deb package? I am installing it and this is my output: Setting up sourceforge (2.5-14) ... You'll see some debugging info during this installation. Do not worry unless told otherwise. DBI->connect(dbname=sourceforge;host=192.168.10.2) failed: fe_senda at /

Re: Amiga installation

2001-11-16 Thread John Lord
Hi Joseph , On 15-Nov-01, you wrote: > Whenever I try to instal Debian on my 68040 Amiga, I get to the endo of the > installation where it asks if I want to enable it to boot from a har drive > and when I acknowledge this it tells me, "Installing a boot loader is not > yet possible for Debian/m68

Re: Amiga installation

2001-11-16 Thread John Lord
Hi Joseph , On 15-Nov-01, you wrote: > Whenever I try to instal Debian on my 68040 Amiga, I get to the endo of the > installation where it asks if I want to enable it to boot from a har drive > and when I acknowledge this it tells me, "Installing a boot loader is not > yet possible for Debian/m68

[SOLVED] Laptop ethernet dock and PCMCIA config

2001-11-16 Thread Greg Wiley
Hi all- A while ago, I asked how to configure the ethernet interfaces on a laptop such that if the system was docked in its ether-enabled station, it should config that interface and ignore any PCMCIA ethernet. But if out of its dock, it should check for the PCMCIA ethercard and use DHCP to bring

fetchmail and nameserver failure errors.

2001-11-16 Thread p
debs, how do i "cure" intermittent "nameserver failure" responses in fetchmail. this causes my mail to stop being downloaded. (i'd like to get away from having to use netscape's email client to clear the "jam.") ...suggestions? ia, t. bentley taylor. //

Re: emacs related

2001-11-16 Thread Craig Dickson
Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Does anyone know how to manage tabs properly in text mode? I hit the > tab in various places, and I get different indents every time. Also, > sometimes I seem to get an auto-indent effect when the line wraps, and > sometimes I don't. > > This indent is huge. I

Re: X-forwarding with ssh doesn't work

2001-11-16 Thread Tim Dijkstra
nate wrote: Tim Dijkstra said: debug1: Requesting pty. debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. debug1: Requesting shell. debug1: Entering interactive session. Is that enough? Does anybody with X-forw working correctly gets the same output? pretty much. how bout w

Re: emacs related

2001-11-16 Thread Alan Shutko
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know how to manage tabs properly in text mode? I hit the > tab in various places, and I get different indents every time. Right. In text modes, hitting tab will usually line the cursor up with one of the words on the previous line.

Re: perl modules ?

2001-11-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:47:55PM +, Irvine Russell wrote: > Hello all. > > I wanted to use a small script that I found on the > internet, and it says that I would need to have > the following modules inorder for it to run: > > Net::Telnet; > Mail::Sendmail; > Getopt::Std; > Text::CSV_X

squid and squidguard on a single machine?

2001-11-16 Thread Michael A. Miller
I'd like to set up some sort of filtering to make it easier to keep adult content out of my home and away from the kids. It looks like squid and squidguard will almost do it for me. Almost in that, at first skimming of the docs, it looks like squid needs to be run through external hardware, eithe

Re: emacs related

2001-11-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 07:56:37PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Jeffrin wrote: > > I think you want auto-fill-mode. You may also want to look at some of > the Emacs Lisp variables having to do with auto-formatting, such as > sentence-end and sentence-end-double-space. Does anyone know how to man

Re: Installing Debian

2001-11-16 Thread Frank T.
On Fri, November 16, 2001 at 22:23:39, spyros abatielos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to linux and I am trying to install debian linux from the CDs I > bought. My PC is a SCSI machine with two HD and windows ME installed on > drive C. I want to install debian linux on drive D.

Re: C++: no hash_map while it is there?

2001-11-16 Thread dman
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 03:59:04PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: ... | [15:50:23 tmp]$ g++-3.0 -Wall -ggdb -o main main.cc | main.cc:1:20: hash_map: No such file or directory ... | Is this reproducible by others? The distro is testing. Yes. It looks to me to be a packaging bug : $ g++-3.0 foo.c++ f

Re: Sawmill v.30 .. where?

2001-11-16 Thread Frank T.
On Fri, November 16, 2001 at 17:07:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I want to use a Sawmill scheme I downloaded, but I don't have the right > version of Sawmill. Does anyone know where I can get version 0.30? Take a look at http://sawmill.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Frank T.

Re: Does Netscape cause lockups?

2001-11-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 08:47:51AM +1100, Steve Kieu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > better off with a 3.x version of it, or one of the > > other browsers > > mentioned. > > Where can I find this vesion, is it archived > somewhere? There's an "archives" tree somewhere in the Netscape or web ar

Installing Debian

2001-11-16 Thread spyros abatielos
Hello, I am new to linux and I am trying to install debian linux from the CDs I bought. My PC is a SCSI machine with two HD and windows ME installed on drive C. I want to install debian linux on drive D. The machine has also a CD-Writer and a DVD-ROM. The SCSI ids are: id 0 -> HD C: id 1 -> H

Re: Backup systems

2001-11-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 12:28:17PM +, Ross Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a cheap backup system for my machine. A recent scare > regarding my hard drive ("is it a 75GXP?") forced me to think about > backup policy. > > I'd love to own a Jaz drive but at the momen

Sawmill v.30 .. where?

2001-11-16 Thread JakeCatfox
Hi, I want to use a Sawmill scheme I downloaded, but I don't have the right version of Sawmill. Does anyone know where I can get version 0.30? Thanks, Deven Gallo

Linux access to vfat (FAT32) filesystems (was: no subject)

2001-11-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:24:57PM -0600, David Crow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Please include a meaningful subject line on your email and/or Usenet posting(s). You're far more likely to get a useful response. Please set your mailer to send text rather than HTML, particularly to list or Usenet

Re: Does Netscape cause lockups?

2001-11-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > better off with a 3.x version of it, or one of the > > other browsers > > mentioned. > > Where can I find this vesion, is it archived > somewhere? I'd assume it's in an older debian distro, which can be found at ftp://archive.debian.org/debian-arch

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

2001-11-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:26:11PM -0800, Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > spear wrote: <...> > Now I use mutt, which allows me to use my own text editor (emacs), > supports multiple accounts, doesn't crash, supports all the common > mailbox formats (I prefer maildir), intelligently ha

RE: booting is very difficult

2001-11-16 Thread Justin Hahn
This generally means that lilo is failing to load the second stage (or was it first stage?) bootloader. Very commonly this happens if you change the device ordering and your boot device is not the same as it was before. You basically need to re-lilo the drive with the correct info. > -Original

upgrade errors

2001-11-16 Thread Daniel D Jones
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Running woody with kernel 2.4.14. I do a daily apt-get update and upgrade. Almost daily, I see errors like this: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase_4%3a2.2.1.0-6_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/ap

Re: Does Netscape cause lockups?

2001-11-16 Thread Steve Kieu
> better off with a 3.x version of it, or one of the > other browsers > mentioned. Where can I find this vesion, is it archived somewhere? > Peace. > > -- > Karsten M. Self > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? > Home of the brav

Re: booting is very difficult

2001-11-16 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Rory O'Connor wrote: RO> i just re-built my debian system from the disk image, and i'm having the RO> same problem i had before i rebuilt it -- it hangs at "LI" when trying to RO> boot from the hard disk. I can boot from the emergency floppy just fine RO> though. the only 2

Re: xhost

2001-11-16 Thread Steve Kieu
--- Hans Gubitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I did a > xhost +boxb > on my Woody-Box boxa > and tried on boxb > xterm -display boxa:0 > > I'm sure this was ok some time ago, but now I get IIMHO xterm -display boxa:0.0 I got two boxes , weak one and strong one, connected via plip, and

slavage options for broken /hdb

2001-11-16 Thread tom schuetz
I just tried re-installing a slave drive that had been hosed by Mysterious Forces(tm) a while back, on the off chance I could salvage it. Here is the dmesg: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hdb: read_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } hdb: read_intr: s

Re: 404s on update/install

2001-11-16 Thread Brian Nelson
"Donald R. Spoon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The reason I ask is that I have about 5 computers I am trying to keep > updated here. Doing each one manually each day coupled with the > "re-trys" is getting to be quite a PITA. It is a good thing I am > retired, but the wife is getting a little p

Re: corrupted partion table

2001-11-16 Thread Paolo Falcone
xfornavn xetternavn wrote: >Anyway, after formatting the first partion from fat32 to ntfs, and rebooting >after the install process hang for 10 minutes, the partion table is corrupted. >Luckily I have a printout for it, so I know the exact cylinder each partion >start and end. The hope is tha

Re: Lexmark Z22 on debian OR printconf deb package

2001-11-16 Thread Paolo Falcone
=?iso-8859-1?q?Pilluli?= wrote: > >Hi all, > > I've got a Lexmark Z22 printer that I'm not able to >set up under my debian box. I've checked some >resources on the web which say that there is no >support for the Z* series under linux but the thing is >that the utility "printconf" in RedHat seem

No app menu after DebianPPC install

2001-11-16 Thread Marc Stergionis
Debian PPC seemed to install fine. I restarted and redefined the root /dev When I restarted and logged in, I got a nice Debian Windowmaker screen, with the paperclip icon in the upper left and the stairstep, terminal and (I guess) preferences icons on the right. The stairstep, of course, only te

xhost

2001-11-16 Thread Hans Gubitz
Hi, I did a xhost +boxb on my Woody-Box boxa and tried on boxb xterm -display boxa:0 I'm sure this was ok some time ago, but now I get xterm Xt error: Can't open display: boxa:0 Did I miss any change? -- Hans Gubitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

KDE refuses to upgrade (or, Magical Dselect Decoder Ring Needed)

2001-11-16 Thread Phil Edwards
I've been using dselect to upgrade KDE2 from unstable ever since I discovered that KDE2 was available. Today after doing an update, and seeing that the 'kde' package has moved from 2.2.9 to 2.2.11, I get a huge list of dependancy violations, and this explanation text: kde depends on kdelibs3 (>

woody and mod-perl

2001-11-16 Thread John Cuson
howdy- has anyone out there run into any difficulties with woody and mod-perl? i use a small box to support in-house queries against a postgresql database, and after installing mod-perl from the packaged binary i started receiving a bad result set from a query constructed by a cgi script. i g

Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn't installed but it is

2001-11-16 Thread jennyw
Thanks, I only just realized it was from woody ... I had added braincells so I could install imapd and that's where webmin-ssl came from, too. So maybe I'll try woody since it has the software I'm most interested in ... Thanks! Jen - Original Message - From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:05:18PM +0200, Tuomas Pellonpera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 15 Nov 2001, John Hasler wrote: > > > Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 15/11/2001 (16:53) : > > > At one time, leaving a machine on overnight consumed less power than > > > rebooting it (i.e., s

Mozilla not sending email

2001-11-16 Thread David P James
Hi all I just started using mozilla today after getting a little tired of Netscape's quirks (scroll wheel problems in particular). The amount of configuration in Mozilla is a vast improvement. Anyway, I can't seem to be able to send any email with mozilla's email client. It keeps giving me an e

RE: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-16 Thread Paul McHale
> spin at all. and with the near 2 dozen IBM disk drive failures > ive had in the past 6 months, im even more for never turning > off the system. When I worked PC support contracts at Honeywell, we would always tell people to leave the CPU (and HD) running. Electrically, there are a lot of transi

Re: All-In-Wonder card support?

2001-11-16 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:19:29PM -0500, Bill Triplett wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 08:37:15PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > > I'm building my wife a new Debian machien for Christmas. One of the > > requiremnts is to be able to play TV. Presently I have a Win-TV card in my > > Debian worksation,

xine fails

2001-11-16 Thread Xingguo Pan
I installed xine-ui v0.9.2. However, it pops up the video windows and then shuts itself down, reporting: load_plugins: cannot load plugin /usr/lib/xine/plugins/xineplug_vo_out_syncfb.so: /usr/lib/xine/plugins/xineplug_vo_out_syncfb.so: undefined symbol: fast_memcpy load_plugins: cannot load plugi

Re: OT: Any way to get Win95 to boot again?

2001-11-16 Thread ben
you could try using fdisk, in linux, in the form fdisk /dev/hdc. press m for the menu to familiarize yourself with the options available. selecting a from the menu lets you toggle a bootable flag on the appropriate partition and, as long as lilo is properly configured to read that partition, window

Re: 404s on update/install

2001-11-16 Thread Craig Dickson
Brian Nelson wrote: > If the packages are 404, the older Packages.gz list won't be valid > either. Ah, yes, because the old packages are being deleted as the new ones are copied in. And due to disk space limitations, it might not be possible to have both yesterday's and today's packages online at

Re: Making a TCP or UDP or Unux Socket Server Listen on a port

2001-11-16 Thread Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy
Can your systems ping each other? On Thursday 15 November 2001 11:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am having Server Programs (for TCP,UDP,Unix Sockets) , that listen on a > port number say , 9888 at > 10.10.1.4 > and they are being contacted by a Client (for TCP,UDP,Unix Sockets) Linux > mach

Re: C++: no hash_map while it is there?

2001-11-16 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
same here; dunno why :( works with g++-2.95 or if you put #include again, don't know why! On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > [15:50:16 tmp]$ cat main.cc > #include > > int main(void) > { > return 0; > } > > > [15:50:23 tmp]$ g++-3.0 -Wall -ggdb -o main main.cc > main.cc:1:20: has

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-16 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:05:18PM +0200, Tuomas Pellonpera wrote: > Does (daily) shutting down and rebooting wear out the hardware more than > leaving the computer on for days/weeks/months does? Many electricians have told me that it's better to leave the system running rather than continually sw

Re: OT: Any way to get Win95 to boot again?

2001-11-16 Thread Kent West
Marc Shapiro wrote: I was given a new-to-me, but still ancient box ( Pentium 166 ) with Win95 on it. At the time, windows was booting fine. I put in a new HD (and moved the old disk to hdc) and installed Debian -- after playing around with other distros (my old DX486 has never had any other di

Re: Does Netscape cause lockups?

2001-11-16 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:38:36PM +1100, Steve Kieu wrote: > Frankly, there are some features the I did not find in > any browser *yet* except opera. Put aside its > commercial crap, just look at its features, multi > windows , easy search tool and its rendering speed, I couldn't agree more. It

Re: OT: Any way to get Win95 to boot again?

2001-11-16 Thread Brian Stults
Marc Shapiro wrote: I was given a new-to-me, but still ancient box ( Pentium 166 ) with Win95 on it. At the time, windows was booting fine. I put in a new HD (and moved the old disk to hdc) and installed Debian -- after playing around with other distros (my old DX486 has never had any other di

Re: 404s on update/install

2001-11-16 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > --snip-- < > This is occurring because you're trying to update your system while the > mirror is itself updating its archive. > > In the Debian mirroring scheme, Packages files often end up being > updated before the actual package files. So it's not uncommon for a > Pa

Re: 404s on update/install

2001-11-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > > This is occurring because you're trying to update your system while the > > mirror is itself updating its archive. > > > > In the Debian mirroring scheme, Packages files often end up being > > updated before the actual packa

Re: Help for the UDMAmentally challenged ...

2001-11-16 Thread Hank Marquardt
I used hdparm -d1 to turn it on for the drives and that boosts to 41Mbs on the drives, but the pdc still shows the following: PDC20265 Chipset. --- General Status - Burst Mode : en

OT: Any way to get Win95 to boot again?

2001-11-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
I was given a new-to-me, but still ancient box ( Pentium 166 ) with Win95 on it. At the time, windows was booting fine. I put in a new HD (and moved the old disk to hdc) and installed Debian -- after playing around with other distros (my old DX486 has never had any other distro on it). Somewhere

perl modules ?

2001-11-16 Thread Irvine Russell
Hello all. I wanted to use a small script that I found on the internet, and it says that I would need to have the following modules inorder for it to run: Net::Telnet; Mail::Sendmail; Getopt::Std; Text::CSV_XS; 1) How would I check whether I have these modules or not, and 2) what packa

Questions on pop3 servers

2001-11-16 Thread Gareth Jones
>I'm looking to see if there's a replacement pop3 server I can use that can >scan the mailboxes for new mail, without having to scan ALL of the >mailfile, as it does currently. Are you using the uw pop3 server? I presume that its performance is pretty similar to the uw imap server - i.e. pretty po

Apache+PHP4+Postgresql

2001-11-16 Thread Michael Ward Cole
I am trying to load PHP4 4.0.3 pl 1-0 on debian/linux 2.2.19 with Apache 1.3.9-13.2. I keep having trouble with the libpgsql2 vs libpgsql2.1 with PHP4 saying that it needs sql2 > 6.4-0. I don't understand why it won't allow me to install all with the libpgsql7.1release-3.potato.1 that loads wit

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

2001-11-16 Thread Emil Pedersen
> >[ ... ] > I missed some info... Here's the source to some of my assumptions/statements: http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html Oh, and testing would probably do just fine. For my "normal" work machine I use a testing "enhanced" potato. apt-0.5.4 let you keep one default release but g

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