Re: date reset on a /dev/ file

2002-02-10 Thread Michel Loos
Em Dom, 2002-02-10 às 23:36, ben escreveu: > On Sunday 10 February 2002 05:14 pm, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > ben wrote: > > > one if my /dev/ files has a mysterious date of 0 april 2001. has anyone > > > had this before. can i/should i manually reset that, and, if so, how is > > > it done? > > > > A

Re: apt-get kernel?

2002-02-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 11:34:21PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > (please reply to debian-user only) > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 11:14:24PM -0500, Benjamin Lowe wrote: > > > Is there an apt-get kernel for the kernel upgrades. I have tried to > > upgrade prior to my current version and destroyed m

Re: apt-get kernel?

2002-02-10 Thread Benjamin Lowe
I am running 'unstable' on a compaq armada 6500 laptop, I didn't know if there was any order, or if I had to download the source and the image? Thanks for the email back, Benjamin Lowe On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 23:34, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > (please reply to debian-user only) > > On Sun, Feb 10, 200

Re: apt-get kernel?

2002-02-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
(please reply to debian-user only) On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 11:14:24PM -0500, Benjamin Lowe wrote: > Is there an apt-get kernel for the kernel upgrades. I have tried to > upgrade prior to my current version and destroyed my setup. Is there some > documentation that you can point me to or how can u

nice printer install

2002-02-10 Thread Martin 'pisi' Paljak
Good morning! I've a hp deskjet 845c usb printer connected to a debian unstable (kernel 2.4.17) box. I compiled in usb support and usb printer support. I have /dev/usb/lp0 (I\m also usin devfsd if that matters). How do I print now ? anyway, as doing printing with linux is one thing I've not yet

which assembler is the best?

2002-02-10 Thread linuxman
hi,   I want do some assembler programming in debian. there are some assembler such as gas,nasm and so on, so who can tell me which one is the best and the most active? Thanks in advance!   And also, are there any Chinese documents about gas or nasm? if not, I will try to translate

Re: XP then Linux

2002-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 16:14:53 -0800 " Bruce Burhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip > and probably most of the other major ISP packages. So the corps and the > gov can keep track. The corps? Surely not the Marine Corps... Or are you talking about the UN Black Helicopters? -- +---

Re: date reset on a /dev/ file

2002-02-10 Thread ben
On Sunday 10 February 2002 07:12 pm, Vineet Kumar wrote: [snip] >> no offence, but that's really not the significant issue. > > Well, it might be. For instance, if you're trying to cat a device file > corresponding to your microphone, but you don't have a soundcard, you > will get something like

Re: date reset on a /dev/ file

2002-02-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020210 18:31]: > On Sunday 10 February 2002 06:00 pm, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > thanks for the response, matthew. yeah, i was reading it correctly. touch > > > does change the date but doesn't affect the inability to cat the file. > > > cat still claims that it doe

Re: What's sending "www 02/10/02:19.02 system check" messages

2002-02-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Chris Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020210 16:24]: > Probably a dumb question, apologies if so: > > I've just transferred from Hamm to Potato and the new system is > Emailing me excellent security messages with subject line like: "www > 02/10/02:19.02 system check" ("www" is hostname). It's lo

Re: Emulate real ip's to access intranet hosts from outside

2002-02-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ramon Acedo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020210 14:43]: > I just want that when someone try to access to host1.mydomain.net from the > internet my firewall (and dns server) > forward the request to host1.local which has the private ip 192.168.1.20. I've thought about this problem, but I don't think ther

kernel: recvmsg bug

2002-02-10 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, Earlier today this popped up in my logs: Feb 10 15:33:01 localhost kernel: recvmsg bug: copied 0 seq 4AB2A9F8 There is nothing else around it or in any other logs that I can find. The only thing I can find that might be related is: 02/2/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:33:00: START: ident pid=22553 I

Re: date reset on a /dev/ file

2002-02-10 Thread ben
On Sunday 10 February 2002 06:00 pm, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > thanks for the response, matthew. yeah, i was reading it correctly. touch > > does change the date but doesn't affect the inability to cat the file. > > cat still claims that it doesn't exist even though ls sees it. > > What is the

changed to 2.4.16 - problems with PPP and USB

2002-02-10 Thread Dan Kortschak
Hi All, I've just shifted my potato install to 2.4.16 and am having problems getting PPP or USB storage to work. The modules loaded are the same (as far as it goes) as I have with 2.2.19. I've looked around as much as I can to find what might be causing the problem, to no avail. The relevant detail

Re: date reset on a /dev/ file

2002-02-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> thanks for the response, matthew. yeah, i was reading it correctly. touch > does change the date but doesn't affect the inability to cat the file. cat > still claims that it doesn't exist even though ls sees it. > What is the file in question?

Re: date reset on a /dev/ file

2002-02-10 Thread Günter Knab
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, dman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 04:38:10PM -0800, ben wrote: > | On Sunday 10 February 2002 03:34 pm, ben wrote: > | > one if my /dev/ files has a mysterious date of 0 april 2001. has anyone > had > | > this before. can i/should i manually reset that, and, if so, how i

Re: date reset on a /dev/ file

2002-02-10 Thread ben
On Sunday 10 February 2002 05:14 pm, Matthew Dalton wrote: > ben wrote: > > one if my /dev/ files has a mysterious date of 0 april 2001. has anyone > > had this before. can i/should i manually reset that, and, if so, how is > > it done? > > Are you sure you're reading the ls output right? > > In my

proftpd and ftpaccess

2002-02-10 Thread maniatronic
Hi ! First thanks to Black Liam ! Ok. I want to set up an ftp-server. But I´ve got som problems. The server I wnat to use is proftpd. I´ve installed it on my system. There was no ftpaccess, ftphosts and ftpusers so I `ve created them myself. The ftphosts and ftpusers aren`t very importen for me. T

proftpd and ftpaccess

2002-02-10 Thread maniatronic
Hi ! First thanks to Black Liam ! Ok. I want to set up an ftp-server. But I´ve got som problems. The server I wnat to use is proftpd. I´ve installed it on my system. There was no ftpaccess, ftphosts and ftpusers so I `ve created them myself. The ftphosts and ftpusers aren`t very importen for me. T

Re: stopping the printer

2002-02-10 Thread Günter Knab
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Olivier Esser wrote: > Hello, > > I cannot remove printing jobs I have submited. lprm apparently dequeued > the job (after having lprm'ed the job, lpq reports that there is nothing > anymore in the queue) but the printer continue to print. Turning off and > on the printer doe

Re: date reset on a /dev/ file

2002-02-10 Thread Matthew Dalton
ben wrote: > > one if my /dev/ files has a mysterious date of 0 april 2001. has anyone had > this before. can i/should i manually reset that, and, if so, how is it done? Are you sure you're reading the ls output right? In my /dev directory I have an entry: brw-rw1 root disk

Re: Emulate real ip's to access intranet hosts from outside

2002-02-10 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Ramon Acedo said: > Hi! > > I'd like to access to the hosts of my intranet with private ip's from the > outside. > I have the following net: > > A real domain name server managed by the computer which has the real ip, so > I can set all the names and > subdomains that

strange mouse

2002-02-10 Thread Gabor Gludovatz
Hi, I have a strange problem with my mouse. On system startup my mouse doesn't work (it's a serial one), until I plug it out from its connector. After I reconnect it to the computer again, it starts to work... If I restart gpm, the mouse doesn't work until I reconnect it again. The strangest thin

tex: garamond fonts

2002-02-10 Thread Ionut Georgescu
Hi, I have seen there are some garamond fonts under /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/cg/garamond However, there is no *.fd entry under /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/ and I can't use them. Am I missing some *.fd files or is there any other reasonable way to use these fonts ? Regards, george -- *

Re: date reset on a /dev/ file

2002-02-10 Thread ben
On Sunday 10 February 2002 04:49 pm, dman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 04:38:10PM -0800, ben wrote: > | On Sunday 10 February 2002 03:34 pm, ben wrote: > | > one if my /dev/ files has a mysterious date of 0 april 2001. has anyone > | > had this before. can i/should i manually reset that, and, i

Re: date reset on a /dev/ file

2002-02-10 Thread dman
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 04:38:10PM -0800, ben wrote: | On Sunday 10 February 2002 03:34 pm, ben wrote: | > one if my /dev/ files has a mysterious date of 0 april 2001. has anyone had | > this before. can i/should i manually reset that, and, if so, how is it | > done? | | to follow up on that probl

Re: date reset on a /dev/ file

2002-02-10 Thread ben
On Sunday 10 February 2002 03:34 pm, ben wrote: > one if my /dev/ files has a mysterious date of 0 april 2001. has anyone had > this before. can i/should i manually reset that, and, if so, how is it > done? to follow up on that problem, cat /dev/ returns 'no such device' even though ls -al shows

stopping the printer

2002-02-10 Thread Olivier Esser
Hello, I cannot remove printing jobs I have submited. lprm apparently dequeued the job (after having lprm'ed the job, lpq reports that there is nothing anymore in the queue) but the printer continue to print. Turning off and on the printer does not solve the problem. Does anyone can help me. I'v

Re: xterm resource settings and woody

2002-02-10 Thread CaT
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 09:12:23AM +1300, Cameron Kerr wrote: > On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, CaT wrote: > > >Just did an upgrade of my woody setup and found my xterm's default > >resource settings changed. Most annoying. Anyhow... in trying to change > > Hmm, so /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm* mustn't be ma

What's sending "www 02/10/02:19.02 system check" messages

2002-02-10 Thread Chris Evans
Probably a dumb question, apologies if so: I've just transferred from Hamm to Potato and the new system is Emailing me excellent security messages with subject line like: "www 02/10/02:19.02 system check" ("www" is hostname). I'd like to be able to tune that to improve the ratio of really he

Re: XP then Linux

2002-02-10 Thread Bruce Burhans
My IP changes every time. The security leaks are programmed into IE and probably most of the other major ISP packages. So the corps and the gov can keep track. The solution is Linux and knowledge, and I'm working on both. Thanks Much Bruce<+> - Original Message - From: "Chri

date reset on a /dev/ file

2002-02-10 Thread ben
one if my /dev/ files has a mysterious date of 0 april 2001. has anyone had this before. can i/should i manually reset that, and, if so, how is it done?

Re: man-db install error -FIXED

2002-02-10 Thread D & E Radel
> looks like an missing entry in /etc/passwd: > --- /etc/passwd on _my_ system > man:x:6:100:man:/var/cache/man:/bin/sh > --- > May be this entry was accidently deleted, just add it again with your > favorite editor. Reinstallation of the package schould finish without > error > -- gk Thank yo

Re: jdk with netscape 4.77 ?

2002-02-10 Thread Tom Cook
Is there a good reason you need 1.1.4? Why not just use 1.3.1_02 or whatever the latest is? It's back in the dark ages, but I seem to remember installing 1.1.x as a plugin being horribly painful... Tom johan boeckx wrote: > > Hi, > > For my banking program in belgium, i need a browser who has

Re: How to set a new mountpoint ?

2002-02-10 Thread Liam Black
1) Be sure to create a directory(ies) to which you will mount the partition(s) (i.e. mkdir /mnt/newdrive) and to permission it (chmod 755 /mnt/newdrive) appropriately. 2) Partition your new drive (/dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb2, /dev/hdb5 or whatever) to your liking, and then edit /etc/fstab. You will see

Re: How to set a new mountpoint ?

2002-02-10 Thread Al Nikolov
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 12:14:09AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I´ve put a new HDD in my debian-machine. > After the boot I`ve written a new partition-table with fdisk: > > looks like this now: > > /dev/hda1 Linux(boot) > /dev/hda2 Extended > /dev/hda5

Re: man-db install error

2002-02-10 Thread Günter Knab
Satz- und Datentechnik Günter Knab B|ro f|r Systemanalyse und angewandte Mathematik Geiselhofer Strasse 5 92272 Lintach tel:+49.9627.91261 fax:+49.9627.91262 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.asamnet/~knabguen On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, D & E Radel wrote: > Hi everyone. > > Error installing man-db

Re: broken gpm

2002-02-10 Thread Günter Knab
Satz- und Datentechnik Günter Knab B|ro f|r Systemanalyse und angewandte Mathematik Geiselhofer Strasse 5 92272 Lintach tel:+49.9627.91261 fax:+49.9627.91262 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.asamnet/~knabguen On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > If you want to X to read from the repeate

How to set a new mountpoint ?

2002-02-10 Thread maniatronic
Hi. I´ve put a new HDD in my debian-machine. After the boot I`ve written a new partition-table with fdisk: looks like this now: /dev/hda1 Linux(boot) /dev/hda2 Extended /dev/hda5 Linuxswap /dev/hda6 Linux ( my root partition) /d

Re: XP then Linux

2002-02-10 Thread Chris Jenks
At 03:05 PM 2/10/02, Bruce Burhans wrote: > This might not be a cookie thing. (I presume that "max security" > means that cookies are disabled...) If you have a static, or > never-changing-dhcp IP address, they _might_ me matching name to > IP address. > > What happens when u go in thru a linux

unsubscribe

2002-02-10 Thread Alcaraz Sébastien
-Original Message- From: Pedro Quaresma de Almeida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 9:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: [xe3] Re: IRda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: S

Compiling GhostScript - Trying to get my HP OfficeJet to work

2002-02-10 Thread Jay Mallar
Boy - I bit off a HUGE chunk here, and I need some help. I have an HP OfficeJet T45. From looking around, I found that HP has provided some drivers, but they depend on GhostScript. I don't know exactly what version of GhostScript I need to have, which makes this more confusing; but I have GS

Emulate real ip's to access intranet hosts from outside

2002-02-10 Thread Ramon Acedo
Hi! I'd like to access to the hosts of my intranet with private ip's from the outside. I have the following net: A real domain name server managed by the computer which has the real ip, so I can set all the names and subdomains that I need. A firewall wich is the same host than the dns server I t

Re: Printing and CUPS - 2 questions

2002-02-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
: *lpadmin* not found. > > That means you don't have the 'cupsys-client' package installed. It > works for me because I have it installed. > Thanks. I had thought dpkg -S was sort of like examining the whole archive...live and learn.

Re: amiga / Unknown / French / Standard / Standard

2002-02-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
It seems the script that messes up is this: [~]: /usr/share/console/getkmapchoice.pl amiga / Unknown / French / Standard / Standard

man-db install error

2002-02-10 Thread D & E Radel
Hi everyone. Error installing man-db. Can anyone please tell me how to fix this problem: Fetched 334kB in 1m6s (4997B/s) Selecting previously deselected package man-db. (Reading database ... 33532 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking man-db (from .../man-db_2.3.16

Re: Printing and CUPS - 2 questions

2002-02-10 Thread dman
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 10:19:54PM -0800, Patrick Kirk wrote: | > $ dpkg -S lpadmin | > cupsys-client: /usr/share/man/man8/lpadmin.8.gz | > cupsys-client: /usr/sbin/lpadmin | | Very odd - that doesn't work for me at all. | zulfiqar:~# dpkg -S lpadmin | dpkg: *lpadmin* not found. That means you do

xawtv/bttv not receiving signal

2002-02-10 Thread Kurt Lieber
I'm trying to get my new TV tuner card working. I've installed bttv and xawtv, but am unable to receive any sort of signal -- the best I can get is some snow on the top 20% of the xawtv screen, with the remainder being solid black. If I do "xawtv -hwscan", I get the following ---

Re: SpamBouncer

2002-02-10 Thread stan
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:35:50PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.02.09.1556 +0100]: > > > i have the ITP. but i won't get to it before next weekend. if someone > > > cares to take over... > > > > I'm sorry, I don't undersyand. What's an ITP? Take over

amiga / Unknown / French / Standard / Standard

2002-02-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Some time ago, my system became unable to install new package because console common was bombing out looking for t aFrench amiga keyboard. Editting the postinstall file fixed it. Now the exact same error is back...but with kdb Setting up kbd (1.06-2) ... Looking for keymap to install: a

Re: Printing and CUPS - 2 questions

2002-02-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
> $ dpkg -S lpadmin > cupsys-client: /usr/share/man/man8/lpadmin.8.gz > cupsys-client: /usr/sbin/lpadmin > Very odd - that doesn't work for me at all. zulfiqar:~# dpkg -S lpadmin dpkg: *lpadmin* not found. > | Question 2: what is the correct command to print if you are using CUPS? > > Depends

Re: Printing and CUPS - 2 questions

2002-02-10 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
"Patrick Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I thought I had printing working because from the CUPS web interface I can > print a test page. But that's all I can print! lpr /etc/aliases or lpr > /foo/anythiing else just shoots a blank sheet through. When I print from > samba, the p

Testing needed for debiansynch (partial mirror script)

2002-02-10 Thread Otto Wyss
I've now finished the development of debiansynch and are looking for anyone, who likes to help in testing this script. I'm using the script now for almost a year, but have extented it lately with options I don't regularly use (particularly -A). The script and more info can be found at "http://dpart

Re: broken gpm

2002-02-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 10:27:48PM +0100, G?nter Knab wrote: > On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Ian Balchin wrote: > > Some time back my mouse stopped marking on the screen in console > > mode. It is standard 2-button type. * snipped * > Also read `man gpm' carefully, then try `gpm-mouse-test' and > change th

Re: Printing and CUPS - 2 questions

2002-02-10 Thread ben
On Sunday 10 February 2002 09:55 pm, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > I thought I had printing working because from the CUPS web interface I can > print a test page. But that's all I can print! lpr /etc/aliases or lpr > /foo/anythiing else just shoots a blank sheet through. When I print from >

Re: Printing and CUPS - 2 questions

2002-02-10 Thread dman
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 09:55:28PM -0800, Patrick Kirk wrote: | | Hi all, | | I thought I had printing working because from the CUPS web interface I can | print a test page. But that's all I can print! lpr /etc/aliases or lpr | /foo/anythiing else just shoots a blank sheet through. When I prin

Printing and CUPS - 2 questions

2002-02-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I thought I had printing working because from the CUPS web interface I can print a test page. But that's all I can print! lpr /etc/aliases or lpr /foo/anythiing else just shoots a blank sheet through. When I print from samba, the print job seems to disappears. Question 1: how do I ins

Re: broken gpm

2002-02-10 Thread Günter Knab
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Ian Balchin wrote: > Hi, all, > > Some time back my mouse stopped marking on the screen in console > mode. It is standard 2-button type. * snipped * > > The cursor moves around the screen nicely, but cannot mark anything. > > I have it as /dev/ttyS0 > > What to do. Should I

Re: autologin, or X apps to kdm

2002-02-10 Thread Dougie Nisbet
On Thursday 31 January 2002 11:01 am, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:12:22AM +, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > > I used to run Mandrake and had it set up to autologin. > > Why not continue with that? I'm running unstable here and > /etc/kde2/kdm/kdmrc is the file to edit. I see what

Re: XP then Linux

2002-02-10 Thread Bruce Burhans
- Original Message - From: "Scott Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 12:05 PM Subject: Re: XP then Linux > On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 14:48, Ron Johnson wrote: > > This might not be a cookie thing. (I presume that "max security" > > means that c

Re: Promise Raid0 pdc20265 mit Kernel 2.4.17 doesn't boot

2002-02-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Jan Trukenmüller wrote: > I compiled a new kernel what should be able to work with the Raid > controller, but it doesn't boot without writing anything to the syslog. The Promise raid is utter crap. Apply the newest patches from linux-ide.org, and use linux software raid. It

Re: IRda

2002-02-10 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
do you have it enabled in bios ? On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to use my InfraRed port in my Debian box (HP Omnibook Xe3, > kernel 2.4.4) but without any sucess: > > It seems that the port it is not recognized by the system. > > Can you help me. Tha

broken gpm

2002-02-10 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, all, Some time back my mouse stopped marking on the screen in console mode. It is standard 2-button type. I have tried various things with gpm.conf to no avail. Have looked at all posts concerning mouses and gpm but no help, nor are man pages for gpm and gpmconfig giving me anything relevan

Re: speech synthesis on-the-fly

2002-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 15:56:48 + Hereward Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- > I'm off list, please CC: > --- > > Hi, > I'm re-wiring a network and am trying to recreate a system which I read > in "the story of ping"[1]. Basically you use a speech synthesiser to > call out PING as loud a

Promise Raid0 pdc20265 mit Kernel 2.4.17 doesn't boot

2002-02-10 Thread Jan Trukenmüller
Promise Raid0 pdc20265 mit Kernel 2.4.17 doesn't boot Board: ASUS A7V266-E Promise Raid pdc20265 on Board CPU: Athlon 1,4 GHz At the normal IDE controllers: 2 HDDs, each 40GB with Woddy and Windows2000. At the Raid controller: 2 HDDs, each 2 GB, building a Raid0 Array. Under Windows there's no p

Re: XP then Linux

2002-02-10 Thread Bruce Burhans
- Original Message - From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 11:48 AM Subject: Re: XP then Linux > On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 10:45:48 -0800 > " Bruce Burhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [big snip] > > Thank you, Patrick. > > I just don't play game

Re: XP then Linux

2002-02-10 Thread Scott Henson
On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 14:48, Ron Johnson wrote: > This might not be a cookie thing. (I presume that "max security" > means that cookies are disabled...) If you have a static, or > never-changing-dhcp IP address, they _might_ me matching name to > IP address. > > What happens when u go in thru

Re: Where to put dns server & default gateway address ?

2002-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 07:56:10 -0800 (PST) faisal gillani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list > > i have just installed debian 2.2 on my system ..i was > very impress by the simple setup program & > configuration ... i only want to know where to put dns > server & default gateway address ? Do

Re: XP then Linux

2002-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 10:45:48 -0800 " Bruce Burhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [big snip] > Thank you, Patrick. > I just don't play games on a computer (per se) > And every since the day I arrived at Amazon.com (with my secutity > settings at max) and was greeted by name, I simply do n

Re: root account problem

2002-02-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 01:29:51PM -0500, Mike Kuhar wrote: > Be advised. Before deleting files, be sure you know how to replace them. > In most cases, it's mor prudent to make copies of files instead of deleting > them. Such as change .profile to .profile.bak. Don't put yourself into a > positi

Re: XP then Linux

2002-02-10 Thread Jeff J.
With Windows XP (at least on this machine) I have XP on /dev/hda1 and my main debian partition is /dev/hdb1 When installing debian, I just instructed it to install Lilo in the master boot record (/dev/hda) and after I completed the installation, I just added a windows entry to /etc/lilo.conf and p

Re: Unidentified subject!

2002-02-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi I have a CD which I can mail you if you want to send a postal address. Patrick - Original Message - From: "Narendra Bharathi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 10:40 AM Subject: Unidentified subject! > Dear Reader, > i am living in india in chennai and would

Re: XP then Linux

2002-02-10 Thread Bruce Burhans
- Original Message - From: "Patrick Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: " Bruce Burhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Cc: "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 2:51 PM Subject: Re: XP then Linux > Hi Bruce, > > Leaving 10 GIg free for Linux is mor than adaquate. But some things

Unidentified subject!

2002-02-10 Thread Narendra Bharathi
Dear Reader, i am living in india in chennai and would like to know if there is anybody distributing Debian cds there. if anybody is able to point out i will be glad. any help in this regard is appreciated. thanking you all regards, Narendra Bharathi

Re: Where can I find tm (Tiny MIME) for FSFEmacs

2002-02-10 Thread Curtis Dean Smith
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 02:55:00PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Curtis Dean Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I had tm installed, but for some reason removed it. Now I can't find it > > again. Can anyone help? > > Why would you want it? It's long-since been abandoned by the > developers i

RE: root account problem

2002-02-10 Thread Mike Kuhar
Be advised.  Before deleting files, be sure you know how to replace them.  In most cases, it's mor prudent to make copies of files instead of deleting them.  Such as change .profile to .profile.bak.  Don't put yourself into a position where you might go past the point of no return.   To re

Re: speech synthesis on-the-fly

2002-02-10 Thread Joey Hess
Hereward Cooper wrote: > ping attic | sed -e 's/.*/ping/' | festival --tts > > The problem is that it won't work 'on-the-fly' i.e. as the ping command > is running, not once the ping command has finished. I managed to get sed > working on-the-fly by using ssed (super-sed). But I can't get festival

dselect update to woody, now X cursor HUGE

2002-02-10 Thread stan
I updated yesterday, using dselect, and now my X pointer cursros are HUGE. This happened on 2 different machines. Where is this configured? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --

Re: Wood missing c++ libs

2002-02-10 Thread dman
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:46:58AM -0600, hanasaki wrote: | Which libs need to be apt-get to resolve the following linker errors? | | /tmp/cclWH5EI.o: In function `A::name(void)': | /tmp/cclWH5EI.o(.A::gnu.linkonce.t.name(void)+0xe): undefined reference | to `endl(ostream &)' | /tmp/cclWH5EI.o(.A:

Install 21

2002-02-10 Thread David Todd
I have an Elonex NB500 with only floppy access (no CDROM) therefore use rawrite2 to make the floppies.     Base14-1.bin gives     "The floppy disk checksum does not match the checksum made when it was written"     I have tried making the FDs with different versions of rawrite and even used a

Re: /boot/boot.b irretrievably gone - help?

2002-02-10 Thread Michel Loos
Em Dom, 2002-02-10 às 14:03, Liam Black escreveu: > Hi, > > I had my boot.b file on a second hard drive mounted to /boot. That hard > drive is now thoroughly dead, and my system won't boot without the use of a > rescue disk. I've gone through the LILO documentation, and while I find > numerous ref

Strange behavior of the S3 XServer in 2.2r5

2002-02-10 Thread Jan Lühr
greetings, ehm, my situtation: I'm using a Debian 2.2.r5 to connect to a server via xdm. I've installed and configured an S3 X Server an written an simple bash script, executing X -query 192.168.1.46 -ac -bpp 16 &. When I started the script from the console, erverything worked. Afterthat I lin

root account problem

2002-02-10 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Hi!   I had to delete some settings, so I simply deleted every file and folder in the /root directory. This caused some strange effects: When I now login as root, the prompt is now [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of just host. But most important, I can't execute sbin programs (reboot, halt, etc.) a

Re: Where to put dns server & default gateway address ?

2002-02-10 Thread Bastiaan Naber
Hi, All system wide configuration is done in the directory /etc. If your have a local network connection you wil have to edit /etc/network/interfaces for your ip, gateway, broadcast, netmask, etc. And you need to edit /etc/resolv.conf for the dns nameservers. If you have ppp I think the proce

/boot/boot.b irretrievably gone - help?

2002-02-10 Thread Liam Black
Hi, I had my boot.b file on a second hard drive mounted to /boot. That hard drive is now thoroughly dead, and my system won't boot without the use of a rescue disk. I've gone through the LILO documentation, and while I find numerous references to the boot.b file, none of them seem to deal with how

Re: Where to put dns server & default gateway address ?

2002-02-10 Thread Michel Loos
Em Dom, 2002-02-10 às 13:56, faisal gillani escreveu: > Hello list > > i have just installed debian 2.2 on my system ..i was > very impress by the simple setup program & > configuration ... i only want to know where to put dns > server & default gateway address ? > DNS goes into /etc/resolv.con

speech synthesis on-the-fly

2002-02-10 Thread Hereward Cooper
--- I'm off list, please CC: --- Hi, I'm re-wiring a network and am trying to recreate a system which I read in "the story of ping"[1]. Basically you use a speech synthesiser to call out PING as loud as possible for every successful ping of another machine on the network. This means you can go ro

Where to put dns server & default gateway address ?

2002-02-10 Thread faisal gillani
Hello list i have just installed debian 2.2 on my system ..i was very impress by the simple setup program & configuration ... i only want to know where to put dns server & default gateway address ? thanks Faisal "newbie" __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FR

Re: help with potato to woody upgrade please

2002-02-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 01:01:30AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:38:47AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I want to upgrade my system from Potato to Woody. I am confused by the > > instructions. In particular, the instructions about the changes that I > > need to make to /etc

Re: woody and gcc 3.0 unresolved symbol "new" with c++ program

2002-02-10 Thread hanasaki
Thanks to you all that helped out. Both solutions below work. Anton Graham wrote: Submitted 07-Feb-02 by hanasaki: I am getting the following errors when gcc links the program I am compiling. What libs do I need to make the linker happy? errors: /tmp/ccgPzIMj.o: In function `main': /tmp/cc

Re: XP then Linux

2002-02-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi Bruce, Leaving 10 GIg free for Linux is mor than adaquate. But some things to keep in mind. 1. There are always games amd apps that are Windows only...why not install XP in a 5 Gig partition and just leave it there for those occasions? If you are sure that won't arise, fine but think about it

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2002-02-10 Thread Patrick McDonnell
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2002-02-10 Thread Patrick McDonnell
Title: Recently your company ran an advertisement which was listed in the Administrative Assistant section of the newspaper classified Manchester Commons P O Box 191 Gladwyne Pa 19035 1-610-525-2292 Fax 1-610-525-1209       Manchester Commons performs Word/Data Processing work from

Re: SpamBouncer

2002-02-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.02.09.1556 +0100]: > > i have the ITP. but i won't get to it before next weekend. if someone > > cares to take over... > > I'm sorry, I don't undersyand. What's an ITP? Take over what? Intent To Package. i am in the process of packaging spambouncer for

Re: XP then Linux

2002-02-10 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > GRUB may be able to boot both operating systems from the hard drive... LILO definately can, see the various multiboot howtos. You may have to use it in conjunction with the XP multiboot loader if it's as much like WinNT as I suspect. -- Baloo

Re: * Re: ADSL with woody or what is this newbie doing completly wrong?

2002-02-10 Thread David B Harris
On 10 Feb 2002 10:48:51 -0200 Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is your /etc/network/interfaces correctly configured ? > > there should be > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet ppp > provider dsl-provider I've attached my /etc/network/interfaces. The pppoe package in Debian is the Roaring P

Re: * Re: ADSL with woody or what is this newbie doing completly wrong?

2002-02-10 Thread Michel Loos
Em Dom, 2002-02-10 às 18:28, Brendan J Simon escreveu: > Hi Stefan, > > The only way I can get my ADSL link to work is to do and "ifdown ethX" > first then followed by a "pon dsl-provider". It will not start > automatically at boot so I manually run the following script. > > poff dsl-provi

Re: Games on Linux?

2002-02-10 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Samstag, 9. Februar 2002 22:16 schrieb Adam Majer: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 05:27:16AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Did loki put all their games up there for free or something? > > > > No, but thier binaries were publically avalible. You'll

Re: [OT] what ports do quake3 use?

2002-02-10 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Sonntag, 10. Februar 2002 01:23 schrieb Peter Jay Salzman: > what ports do i need to open up and forward in order to run a quake 3 > server? Not sure, but quake needs 27960 However, an essetial thing in quake is the ping time, and this gets worse the more filtering you do in a firewall. (Ne

* Re: ADSL with woody or what is this newbie doing completly wrong?

2002-02-10 Thread Brendan J Simon
Hi Stefan, The only way I can get my ADSL link to work is to do and "ifdown ethX" first then followed by a "pon dsl-provider". It will not start automatically at boot so I manually run the following script. poff dsl-provider route del default ifconfig eth0 down pon dsl-provider

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