Re: kernel compile err

2001-12-27 Thread Craig Dickson
harsha wrote: > When I tried recompiling 2.4.14 kernel this is the error that I get. > > > drivers/char/char.o(.data+0x46b4): undefined reference to `local > symbols in discarded section .text.exit' > drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o(.data+0x734): undefined reference to > `local symbols in discarded

Weird log message

2001-12-27 Thread shock
I keep getting the following in my log file: Dec 27 23:17:00 exitwound sshd2[3771]: X11 connection from 192.168.9.1:3367 (server01.exitwound.org) Does anyone have some idea as to what this is? It started showing up about 3 days ago. Thanks. -- ) ,_),_) (-(__ |_ _ _ |/ ) |

kernel compile err

2001-12-27 Thread harsha
Hi, I have screwed up my debian box real bad that I am not able to compile the kernel. For some reason I can't seem to patch the kernel tree from 2.4.14. to 2.4.16. When I tried recompiling 2.4.14 kernel this is the error that I get. make all_targets make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/l

tainted modules

2001-12-27 Thread martin f krafft
what's this business about tainting the kernel with non-GPL modules??? more importantly, how do i disable/go around it. i am *only* trying to install pcmcia-modules from unstable (3.1.29) with my 2.4.17 kernel, and this is annoying!!! even though modprobe seemingly only bitches about tainting whe

Re: power management in X

2001-12-27 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:47:22PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: | dman wrote: | | > I want my display to blank (or "off" or "suspend" or "standby" or | > whatever) if it is left idle for a long period of time. I have this | > working in GNOME if I am logged in and leave the screen saver running,

Re: ice window manager not working

2001-12-27 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
i finally fixed the problem by removing ~/.gnome/session, i must have corrupted this file one way or another. when i looked at the home directory i don't the file .xsession. in any case things are back to normal now. well almost i still don't have my virtual windows, and i've forgotten how make

flavours and modules: /lib confusion

2001-12-27 Thread martin f krafft
hi folks, i am using a separate machine to compile kernels and module packages. the arguments to make-kpkg are --revision with an increasing revision number, and --flavour, where i specify the machine name. the result is e.g. a kernel-image-2.4.17+fishbowl package. now, i am also compiling pcmcia-

Re: scientific graphing program with histograms

2001-12-27 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
How about R? It's a stats program but I imagine that is what you are referring to. If you have numeric data it will graph it. Has perhaps the best graphing package around. You can do anything you need to do with it. More flexability than any other package I have seen (steep learning curve thoug

Re: scientific graphing program with histograms

2001-12-27 Thread Jor-el
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, David Wright wrote: > Can anyone suggest a scientific graphing program that can do histograms. > > * i don't know if guppi can, but there is no debian package > David, It can. It also is being packaged (but is not currently ready). I compiled the darned thing myself

Re: scientific graphing program with histograms

2001-12-27 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:10:08PM -0800, David Wright wrote: > Can anyone suggest a scientific graphing program that can do histograms. > > * i don't know if guppi can, but there is no debian package > > * grace claims it can, but it lies. it wants you to import a list of > (X

Re: Matrox G550 32MB under Woody

2001-12-27 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 02:08:51PM +0100, Pontus Edvardsson wrote: > I just bought myself a Matrox G550 (as G400 & G450 no longer seems to be > available). You do have to hunt for them... but they're out there. Dealers here have 'em, but I opted for the G550 anyway. :) > It has Linux support ofc

Re: Motorola SM56 PCI modem question

2001-12-27 Thread Jijo Jose A
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 11:49:11AM +1100, Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi, > > I found from linmodems.org that sm56 is supported; and > follow the link i got the motorola page but it says > there are two types and they only have driver for > Motorola SM56 PCI modem (not speaker). I dont know if > I could

[Exim] Auth problems with PAM

2001-12-27 Thread hanasaki
I am running Debian Woody and the exim 3.3 that comes with it. All client auth's fail. exim 3.3 worked fine when it was built and installed separately under Potato. I think there is a problem with my pam entries. I have checked the readme's and docs. What should the pam entries be? Thanks.

Re: IDE Tape setup

2001-12-27 Thread L Vogtmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 December 2001 02:26 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I am trying to setup an Seagate IDE tape device. > /dev/tape is not linked. I saw that the device > created for this might be /dev/ht0? Depends on your kernel setup, I also have a Seagat

Re: Nits in unstable ssh config

2001-12-27 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.12.28 02:45 Michael D. Crawford wrote: I updated ssh and some other packages from unstable today, and when it installed, and also when my machine boots, I get the message: Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd/etc/ssh/sshd_config line 53: Deprecated option Checkmail Disabling pro

Nits in unstable ssh config

2001-12-27 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I updated ssh and some other packages from unstable today, and when it installed, and also when my machine boots, I get the message: Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd/etc/ssh/sshd_config line 53: Deprecated option Checkmail Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key and i

Re: apt and dists

2001-12-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:09:12AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > folks, > i can't find the docs on this, really, or i am merely too confused. > bear with me please... > i've heard you can configure apt/dpkg so that it knows about e.g. > testing and unstable versions of the same archive (e.g. > ma

apt and dists

2001-12-27 Thread martin f krafft
folks, i can't find the docs on this, really, or i am merely too confused. bear with me please... i've heard you can configure apt/dpkg so that it knows about e.g. testing and unstable versions of the same archive (e.g. main/binary-i386), and then pass an option to apt/dpkg which causes it to selec

Re: cyrus 1.5.19 and Imap::Admin

2001-12-27 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Yes, I am able to administer cyrus through cyradm. On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 18:33, Michel Loos wrote: > On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 20:50, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > I am not able to login to Cyrus using Imap::Admin perl module. > > Are there any special config's I need in cyrus.conf ...? The docs > >

Re: Kernel compilation

2001-12-27 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001, Jens Müller wrote: > I have tried to compile my own kernel 2.4.16. I took the config file > k7 from the Debian kernel source, and just activated acpi > additionally. Hi Jens! > When I installed it, that kernel complained about not being able to > mount the root device. > >

Re: ice window manager not working

2001-12-27 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Patrick Dahiroc wrote: i use gdm for x manager. does gdm i still use .xsession? i thought that only xdm uses .xsession. if so what would be the corresponding file for gdm? gdm uses scripts in /etc/gdm/Sessions. If you start Xsession or Debian from gdm, ~/.xsession is used. You could start

Re: scientific graphing program with histograms

2001-12-27 Thread Michel Loos
On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 23:10, David Wright wrote: > Can anyone suggest a scientific graphing program that can do histograms. > > * i don't know if guppi can, but there is no debian package > > * grace claims it can, but it lies. it wants you to import a list of > (X,Y)s and then generate a histog

scientific graphing program with histograms

2001-12-27 Thread David Wright
Can anyone suggest a scientific graphing program that can do histograms. * i don't know if guppi can, but there is no debian package * grace claims it can, but it lies. it wants you to import a list of (X,Y)s and then generate a histogram of Ys.\ A histogram-generator imports a list of Ys (i.

Re: power management in X

2001-12-27 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
dman wrote: I want my display to blank (or "off" or "suspend" or "standby" or whatever) if it is left idle for a long period of time. I have this working in GNOME if I am logged in and leave the screen saver running, but I want it to work even if the gdm login screen is displayed. I looked at

Re: How do you map shell commands to keys in mutt ?

2001-12-27 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Clark wrote: > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) [Dec 26. 2001 15:04]: > > > ## Bind ricochet spam response to 'S' > > macro index S "|/usr/local/bin/ricochet & \n" > > Note, for some versions of Mutt, or some systems, or some planets, > one may have to use , as in: > >

Re: cyrus 1.5.19 and Imap::Admin

2001-12-27 Thread Michel Loos
On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 20:50, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I am not able to login to Cyrus using Imap::Admin perl module. > Are there any special config's I need in cyrus.conf ...? The docs > don't mention any. > > > use IMAP::Admin; > > $imap = IMAP::Admin->new('Server' => 'myserver', >

Re: ice window manager not working

2001-12-27 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
i use gdm for x manager. does gdm i still use .xsession? i thought that only xdm uses .xsession. if so what would be the corresponding file for gdm? --- Jerome Acks Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > > > hi > > > > i'm using icewm for my window manager. on one of > my >

Re: kernel building ways

2001-12-27 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Thursday 27 December 2001 14:58, Sam Varghese wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:20:55PM +0100, Romain Lerallut wrote: > > Thus spake wsa on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:56:06PM +0100: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm just trying to build my second kernel... > > > Last time i did it, the kernel-how-to way

Re: dpkg upgrade error

2001-12-27 Thread David Gardi
Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: >When I looked at the preinst script, it seemed to be choking because >/usr/share/doc/libdb2-util wasn't a soft link. I think it may not >have even existed. I created a temporary directory, made >/usr/share/doc/libdb2-util a soft-link to it, tried it again, and >

xterm not starting

2001-12-27 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am having a problem with rxvt and gnome-terminal. Neither will start in WindowMaker. If I go to IceWM and start rxvt and then transfer back to WindowMaker I can use rxvt in WindowMaker. Gnome-terminal pops up and then dies in both IceWm and WindowMaker. I am on a mainly Woody with some SID syst

pipe through ssh problem

2001-12-27 Thread Dave Logan
I have a problem that just popped up since an "update". I have a "backup" procedure that runs from one box to another, piping via ssh. What appears to happen is that when the remote side (the debian box) has written 10240 bytes, it just dies. 10240 bytes exactly, every time. I've included

Re: Matrox G550 32mb under woody

2001-12-27 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
Thanks! Your suggestion to look into CVS sounds very interesting! And the other alternatives too for that matter! I suddenly feel a bit less lost... :) I'll get on with it right away! Many thanks, Pontus - Original Message - From: "Michael Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pontus Edvardss

Re: ice window manager not working

2001-12-27 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Patrick Dahiroc wrote: hi i'm using icewm for my window manager. on one of my accounts the window manager does not work i.e when i bring up gnome-terminal i cannot move it around and i don't have any virtual windows. but when i login on a different account using the same window manger everyth

Re: more gnucash on woody

2001-12-27 Thread Paul Scott
dman wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:46:06PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | I get this while trying to install python2.1 to try to get gnucash | working. Can someone tell me what might be happening? | | TIA, | | Paul Scott | | (Reading database ... 67569 files and directories currently instal

power management in X

2001-12-27 Thread dman
I want my display to blank (or "off" or "suspend" or "standby" or whatever) if it is left idle for a long period of time. I have this working in GNOME if I am logged in and leave the screen saver running, but I want it to work even if the gdm login screen is displayed. I looked at 'man XFree86-4

Re: Double tabs in gnome-terminal

2001-12-27 Thread Michael P
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Craig Dickson wrote: > On second thought -- Michael, what X terminal do you use? I use > gnome-terminal, which shows the tab problem, but I see that xterm does > NOT. So it may be that this has more to do with gnome-terminal, or some > gnome library, than with libreadline4. S

Linksys router DHCP dhclient hostname

2001-12-27 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am using a Linksys router with DHCP. I can obtain an IP and everything works fine but when I examine the Client's table in the Linksys router the Linux computer has no name "Linux Box" to identify it. I went into the dhclient.conf file and uncommented send hostname "Linux Box" but this had n

cyrus 1.5.19 and Imap::Admin

2001-12-27 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am not able to login to Cyrus using Imap::Admin perl module. Are there any special config's I need in cyrus.conf ...? The docs don't mention any. use IMAP::Admin; $imap = IMAP::Admin->new('Server' => 'myserver', 'Login' => 'myname', 'Password

Kernel compilation

2001-12-27 Thread Jens Müller
I have tried to compile my own kernel 2.4.16. I took the config file k7 from the Debian kernel source, and just activated acpi additionally. When I installed it, that kernel complained about not being able to mount the root device. Maybe it has something to do with that the Debian kernel has an i

IDE Tape setup

2001-12-27 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am trying to setup an Seagate IDE tape device. /dev/tape is not linked. I saw that the device created for this might be /dev/ht0? This Tape device was on the machine when I installed Debian so I assume it was recognized and setup. I am not familiar with IDE tape devices so I am not sure about

dd /dev/hda /dev/hdb block size

2001-12-27 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I have a second HD I am using as a mirror for my first. I am going to use dd to initially copy files from one to the other and then rsync on a daily basis. Do I need to format hdb before dd if=dev/hda of=/dev/hdb? Someone mentioned I should specify a block size. What would be a good block size f

Re: more gnucash on woody

2001-12-27 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:46:06PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | I get this while trying to install python2.1 to try to get gnucash | working. Can someone tell me what might be happening? | | TIA, | | Paul Scott | | (Reading database ... 67569 files and directories currently installed.) | Prepari

Re: help: LSR safety check engaged!

2001-12-27 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
hi. After recompiling, u must have compiled the serial driver built in and that may put your serial ports in diferent devices ( i mean /dev/ttySx ) Another thing is that you may have not compiled the serial driver at all ( not even as a modules); and when you try to use some hardware that is not de

Re: Problems in X configuration

2001-12-27 Thread johan30
On Thursday 27 December 2001 22:04, kapil khosla wrote: > X11TransSocketUNIXConnect :Cant connect errno Hi, sure you did the complete xf86config ? Perhaps a misconfiguration of your graphical card : which card ? I had it too : had Savage and did upgrade to xfree 4.1---> Perhaps an idea ? Gree

Re: debian install fails always?

2001-12-27 Thread Jens Müller
"Jens Müller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There certainly is if he hasn't specify any name servers. My mistake. man root servers

Re: Are developers working on the installer?

2001-12-27 Thread Calyth
Thanks for letting me know Colin. Hope that we'll see even better hardware recognition in the installer than before. Calyth

Problems in X configuration

2001-12-27 Thread kapil khosla
Hi, I am trying to install Debian on my machine and am getting stuck in the X Configuration. I get the message _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect :Cant connect errno = 111 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect :Cant connect errno = 111 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect :Cant connect errno = 111 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect :C

Re: debian install fails always?

2001-12-27 Thread Jens Müller
johan30 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Did you try to put in /etc/apt/sources.list the ip's and not the domains. > Sometimes there is a problem with resolving behind proxy/firewall > There certainly is if he hasn't specify any name servers.

debbugs-el not working

2001-12-27 Thread Jens Müller
When I do M-x debian-bug, then enter j2re1.3, normal and "test" (or anything else, doesn't matter), I get Signaling: (void-function mail-header-end) mail-header-end() #() call-interactively(debian-bug) command-execute(debian-bug t) execute-extended-command(nil) call-interactively(execu

more gnucash on woody

2001-12-27 Thread Paul Scott
I get this while trying to install python2.1 to try to get gnucash working. Can someone tell me what might be happening? TIA, Paul Scott (Reading database ... 67569 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xchat-gnome 1.4.3-0.1 (using .../xchat-gnome_1.8.5-3_i386.deb)

Re: Password Security

2001-12-27 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Mike Barton wrote: > In addition to forced password changes, I'm looking for something to sit > between the user and passwd to enforce variably strong passwords. Anyone > have any favorite techniques/programs they'd care to share? I have mixed feelings about forced password c

Mail To: Rainer Dorsch

2001-12-27 Thread Mark Purcell
- Forwarded message from Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mail by purcell.homeip.net with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16JhDj-0008TN-00 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 07:33:43 +1100 X-Failed-Recipients:

Re: Need scp client v1 for Mac OS

2001-12-27 Thread Michael D. Crawford
NiftyTelnet SSH has a graphical SCP client. I think it only does SSH1 though, but I'm not sure. The "standard" NiftyTelnet does not have SSH. You need this one: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jonasw/freeware/niftyssh/ Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and C

Re: Login history for root and others

2001-12-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:04:51AM +1100, Penguin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi > > Does syslogd or any other system logger track the number of attempted logins > as root, along with date and time, and network address of whoever tried to > login over a network? /var/log/auth.log -- Karsten

Re: Mounting floppy. Newbie #61

2001-12-27 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:12:54PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: > # mount -t auto /dev/fdo /floppy If this is really what you typed, then I hope you have noticed that you have typed the letter 'o' instead of zero. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. -

Re: debian install fails always?

2001-12-27 Thread johan30
HI, Did you try to put in /etc/apt/sources.list the ip's and not the domains. Sometimes there is a problem with resolving behind proxy/firewall Greetz, Johan On Thursday 27 December 2001 19:45, Pauwel Demeyer wrote: > hello > > I've tried to install Debian already a few times. I started with

Re: kernel building ways

2001-12-27 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:20:55PM +0100, Romain Lerallut wrote: > Thus spake wsa on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:56:06PM +0100: > > Hi, > > > > I'm just trying to build my second kernel... > > Last time i did it, the kernel-how-to way, resulted in a few module dep > > errors... > > So i've searched t

Re: Matrox G550 32mb under woody

2001-12-27 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
Hi, and thanks for taking you time! Here are the outputs you asked for: Output of ´lspci -vv´: == 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G550 AGP (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. Millennium G550 Dual Head DDR 32Mb Control: I/O+ Mem+

Re: 3c905c

2001-12-27 Thread Michel Loos
On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 14:51, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > I run myself potato in another machine with a 3c509B without any problem! But > I am asking about the 3c905c, this one doesn't appear in the net section of > the Debian installation program... I can try with the 3c509 driver and s

Re: kernel building ways

2001-12-27 Thread Michael P
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, wsa wrote: > Which one would be the most stable? > 10 .12 .13 .14 or .16? I would go for 2.4.17. 2.4 has stopped regressing, and looks to be getting better with every release, so I'd stick with the newest if I were you.

Re: kernel building ways

2001-12-27 Thread wsa
Hi, Okidoki...thanks for the help. One more thing...i think i'm gonna jumpt to the 2.4 kernel...using the debian kernel packages. Which one would be the most stable? 10 .12 .13 .14 or .16? Cheerios At 13:20 27-12-2001 +0100, you wrote: make-kpkg needs some debian-specific stuff, but debian's k

Re: Reading Package Lists... Error!

2001-12-27 Thread Aaron Solochek
Yep, that fixed it. Odd, I thought that openafs.org was always missing the release (I'm pretty sure I've seen the Ign lines before), but I've never had this problem. Anyway, thanks! -Aaron dman wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:23:05PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: | Actually, any apt opera

Re: debian install fails always?

2001-12-27 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:45:10PM +0100, Pauwel Demeyer wrote: | hello | | I've tried to install Debian already a few times. I started with the | download of the bootdisks of pototo 2.2 v4 , I booted and was unable to | use the net (http nor ftp) install. reboot to MDK :) | then download the

debian install fails always?

2001-12-27 Thread Pauwel Demeyer
hello I've tried to install Debian already a few times. I started with the download of the bootdisks of pototo 2.2 v4 , I booted and was unable to use the net (http nor ftp) install. reboot to MDK :) then download the potato 2.2 v3 cdrom. Install is possible, but the net is unreacheable. B

Re: Reading Package Lists... Error!

2001-12-27 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:23:05PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: | Actually, any apt operation results in that error. It can't read the | current list for an update. | | sausage:/home/aarons#apt-get update | Hit http://www.openafs.org debian-2.2/ Packages | Ign http://www.openafs.org debian-2.2/

Re: Double tabs in X

2001-12-27 Thread Craig Dickson
Craig Dickson wrote: > Michael P wrote: > > > For some reason when I hit in X, two tab characters are sent. This > > doesn't happen on the console, though. > > > > This just started in the last few days. Does anyone know where I could > > start looking? My xkb configuration in XF86Config-4?

Need scp client v1 for Mac OS

2001-12-27 Thread hanasaki
I think osX has one but an upgrade is out of the question. I think the person is on OS 8. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spam : def: It's not kosher.

Re: How to read CD label?

2001-12-27 Thread L Vogtmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 December 2001 04:34 pm, Michael Mauch wrote: > Neal Lippman wrote: > > Is there any utility that can give me the lablel on a CD (mouinted or > > unmounted - doesn't matter to me). The eject package (#apt-get install eject) comes with a

Re: Reading Package Lists... Error!

2001-12-27 Thread Aaron Solochek
Actually, any apt operation results in that error. It can't read the current list for an update. sausage:/home/aarons#apt-get update Hit http://www.openafs.org debian-2.2/ Packages Ign http://www.openafs.org debian-2.2/ Release Hit http://www.openafs.org debian-2.2/ Sources Ign http://www.opena

Re: kdelibs3(-crypto) broken in testing?

2001-12-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ralf G. R. Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.27.1847 +0100]: > Hi there, > > I get duplicate files warning when trying to install kdelibs3 and kdelibs3- > crypto on my Debian testing system: > > dpkg: error processing .../kdelibgs3-crypto_4%3a2.2.1-11_i386.deb (--unpack) > trying to

Re: Mounting floppy. Newbie #61

2001-12-27 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:12:54PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: | Hi, | | I did a fresh install over the Xmas break. | | Prior to this I saved all the various conf files to a floppy. | | Now I cannot mount the floppy | | # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy | # mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy | # moun

RE: Aide

2001-12-27 Thread Vaughan, Curtis
Bonjour ITO, Je peux vous dire ce que les autres vous dirent en avance. N'aucune personne parle française ici. Mais, il y a de groupe pour les françaises. Malheureusement, je ne sais pas l'addresse pour cette groupe. Moi aussi, je suis débutant sur Debian et Linux. A cause de célà je ne su

Re: Double tabs in X

2001-12-27 Thread Craig Dickson
Michael P wrote: > For some reason when I hit in X, two tab characters are sent. This > doesn't happen on the console, though. > > This just started in the last few days. Does anyone know where I could > start looking? My xkb configuration in XF86Config-4? I think this is connected with the

Re: Reading Package Lists... Error!

2001-12-27 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:28:35AM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: | I was running an update on my sid system, and everything seemed to be | going fine until it died with the following: | | Reading Package Lists... Error! | E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error) | E: The package lists or status

Re: software install problems

2001-12-27 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:00:09AM -0500, Phil Beder wrote: | At 11:34 PM 12/26/01 -0500, you wrote: | >On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:18:31PM -0500, Phil Beder wrote: | >| Hello all, | >| I'm having trouble installing software. I have downloaded Gimp, Netscape, | >| Mozilla and others and seem to hav

RE: ?Finish install with serial port modem?

2001-12-27 Thread justin cunningham
Re: 2. Alt+f2 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 8:09 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: ?Finish install with serial port modem? I've installed rescue, root, and 4 modules on laptop. Now, it prompts me for ba

Double tabs in X

2001-12-27 Thread Michael P
For some reason when I hit in X, two tab characters are sent. This doesn't happen on the console, though. This just started in the last few days. Does anyone know where I could start looking? My xkb configuration in XF86Config-4?

Re: Matrox G550 32MB under Woody

2001-12-27 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
Thanks for replying, I've tested all available versions including 4.1.0, with the same result... Pontus - Original Message - From: "Janine Roe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pontus Edvardsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 3:53 PM Subject: Re: Matrox G550 32MB under

Re: sound blaster

2001-12-27 Thread Brian Clark
* Stephen Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Dec 27. 2001 11:11]: > Just a thought - the soundblaster and soundblaster live! are different > chipsets - the live! uses the emu10k1 and the others use the sb or > any of a number of other modules. If you're unsure about which > version of soundblaster, try ls

kdelibs3(-crypto) broken in testing?

2001-12-27 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, I get duplicate files warning when trying to install kdelibs3 and kdelibs3- crypto on my Debian testing system: dpkg: error processing .../kdelibgs3-crypto_4%3a2.2.1-11_i386.deb (--unpack) trying to overwrite '/usr/share/apps/kssl/caroot/ca-bundle.crt', which is also in package kdelibs

Re: Aide

2001-12-27 Thread Matt Yanchyshyn
Bonjour,   Il y a beaucoup de cours d'instructions en francais pour les débutant sur Linux comme vous... Le site LinuxDoc offre une bonne liste des sites/documents en francais: http://linuxdoc.org/links/nenglish.html#french.  Ici vous pouvez trouver le "Guide du ROOTard pour Linux" :) C'est u

Re: Debian Potato 2.2r4 questions

2001-12-27 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 27 Dec 2001, Penguin wrote: > I see in the lists of distributors of Debian CD sets that most are CD-R > copies, but I'm looking for a boxed set with printed manual. Does such a > distribution exist that I can buy in Australia? Or do I need to buy a book > and a CD-R set to get that kind of ki

Re: software install problems

2001-12-27 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:00:09AM -0500, Phil Beder wrote: > At 11:34 PM 12/26/01 -0500, you wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:18:31PM -0500, Phil Beder wrote: > >| Hello all, > >| I'm having trouble installing software. I have downloaded Gimp, Netscape, > >| Mozilla and others and seem to hav

Re: Login history for root and others

2001-12-27 Thread Américo Rocha
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:04:51AM +1100, Penguin wrote: > Hi > > Does syslogd or any other system logger track the number of attempted logins > as root, along with date and time, and network address of whoever tried to > login over a network? > > Also, is there a similar logger that records lo

Aide

2001-12-27 Thread ITO
Bonjour, Je suis débutant sur Linux, et donc sur Debian. Je suis très attiré par le mode console, bien plus rapide que l'interface graphique. Enfin bref, j'aimerais développer, malheureusement, je ne connais aucune commande sur Linux, et donc je galère un peu. J'ai réussi à l'installer, mais

Re: dpkg upgrade error

2001-12-27 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
When I looked at the preinst script, it seemed to be choking because /usr/share/doc/libdb2-util wasn't a soft link. I think it may not have even existed. I created a temporary directory, made /usr/share/doc/libdb2-util a soft-link to it, tried it again, and everything went fine. It deleted the soft

Re: Mozilla and Galeon

2001-12-27 Thread Sebastian Krause
David Gardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My problem is that Galeon (which I use most) has been removed from my > system, and it cannot be reinstalled unless I downgrade mozilla. Since > apt-get won't do it automatically, I have to manually find the mozilla > 0.9.6 deb and downgrade using dpkg. How

Re: Mozilla and Galeon

2001-12-27 Thread Shaya Potter
wget http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~spotter/galeon_1.1-1_i386.deb dpkg -i galeon_1.1-1_i386.deb based on a cvs pull of galeon (post 1.1 (unstable) release) that works with the new mozilla. seems to work fine for me. On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 10:24, David Gardi wrote: > Hi, I have a problem with using

Re: Password Security

2001-12-27 Thread Andrew Barros
Mike, I think cracklib is what you want. Lookat the libpam-cracklib package -ajb On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 11:36:02AM -0500, Mike Barton wrote: > In addition to forced password changes, I'm looking for something to sit > between the user and passwd to enforce variably strong passwo

Re: connecting to a debian box with networking via dchp

2001-12-27 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 27 Dec 2001, Ray wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 01:07:12PM -0500, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > > Dear People, > > > > I set up the networking for a Debian box via dchp. The setup asks for a > > host and that is all. No domain name was asked for. > > Right, DHCP can feed your machine everything

Re: 3c905c

2001-12-27 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > I run myself potato in another machine with a 3c509B without any problem! But > I am asking about the 3c905c, this one doesn't appear in the net section of > the Debian installation program... I can try with the 3c509 driver and see... >

Re: 3c905c

2001-12-27 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! I run myself potato in another machine with a 3c509B without any problem! But I am asking about the 3c905c, this one doesn't appear in the net section of the Debian installation program... I can try with the 3c509 driver and see... Cheers, Marcelo On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:42:41PM +0100,

Re: 3c905c

2001-12-27 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I also use this card with woody and kernel 2.4.17. There is a kernel compilation option for it. I have a cable modem connection to the internet with this card, and use dhcpcd. The card was recognized immediately when I rebooted after recompiling my kernel, and worked just fine with dhcpcd. Cheryl

Re: 3c905c

2001-12-27 Thread wsa
I have a 3c509 and it works peachy...i'm running 2.2r4and if i recall right it also went fine with .r2 without me having to download 3rd party stuff. cheers Willem At 08:33 27-12-2001 -0800, you wrote: On Thursday 27 December 2001 08:17 am, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I will install potat

Re: Using Archives

2001-12-27 Thread Guy Geens
> "Stephen" == Stephen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stephen> How do I use archives? It looks lik a Smartlist archive. The `latest' directory contains only (surprise!) the latest messages sent to the list. How many is a parameter set by the administrator. In your example, it seems that a

Re: 3c905c

2001-12-27 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > I will install potato in a machine which have the 3c905c-tx NIC installed. > The > Debian install program (for 2.2.r2 in my case) doesn't suppot it. Can I use > the linux drivers in the 3com site? if so, what are the steps? the

Re: User process killer script..

2001-12-27 Thread Guy Geens
> "Petre" == Petre Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Petre> much free time on yourself..i don't. I was thinking at a script Petre> run either from root's crontab that would check all processes Petre> and if the users that started them are not logged in (here i'm Petre> stucked) Maybe it's no

Password Security

2001-12-27 Thread Mike Barton
In addition to forced password changes, I'm looking for something to sit between the user and passwd to enforce variably strong passwords. Anyone have any favorite techniques/programs they'd care to share? Thanks for the input Mike

Re: Firewall tutorial

2001-12-27 Thread David Gardi
Penguin wrote: I am a complete beginner to firewalls, I would like to know if they can do these things: - record history of packets grouping by port number, TCP or UDP (or whatever?), data size if any, and any suspicious things like ICMP flood. It starts recording the moment you tell it to,

Re: 3c905c

2001-12-27 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Thursday 27 December 2001 08:17 am, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I will install potato in a machine which have the 3c905c-tx NIC installed. > The Debian install program (for 2.2.r2 in my case) doesn't suppot it. It doesn't? Are you sure? I haven't used a 3c905 w/ Potato in a while, but I'm

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