Re: Retry.. no more crybaby bs

2002-02-28 Thread Harry Putnam
> OK, list posters, you've advised me to coninue my efforts and step > back to potato. (See thread suject `Enough time wasted.. moving on') You all will be sick of me soon.. Just a little note of apology to the list and for being a crybaby. (Its not my fault ... its genetic .. :-) ) Also a lit

Re: Debian

2002-02-28 Thread Geoff D
--- Mitch Headline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I Have One Question How do i send e-mail in debian > using Mutt? > I will assume you have your mail server set up since you have not asked about it. Just his "s" on your keyboard then enter the To address at the bottom of your terminal window. P

Re: Another update on "The Kernel that Wouldn't Boot"

2002-02-28 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi, > I believe--and I'm sure others will correct me on this if I'm wrong, > that there is a file /boot/config- that you Great! Thank-you. Now my kernel actually boots. :-) I do have one other weird problem though. My new kernel has a lot of modules (especial input modules such as hid,

lag (Re: Enough time wasted, moving on)

2002-02-28 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Quoting Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How much did you post to the list? I can only find the following > > threads: > > Fresh install no network > > Neighbor table overflow.. what does it mean > > Configuring locales > >

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
At 08:19 PM 2/28/2002, you wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 12:28:52PM -0800, Harris, Jason wrote: > I've scores of Debian boxes that are used for revenue generating ventures. > Downtime is not an option for me nor for who I answer to. I thought it was > basically understood in the IT world (whate

Re: Debian

2002-02-28 Thread Sean
man mutt On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 18:59, Mitch Headline wrote: > I Have One Question How do i send e-mail in debian using Mutt? -- GPG Public Key available: http://sean.gutenpress.org/sean.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: javax API

2002-02-28 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Perhaps you need to install the JDBC 2.0 Optional Package Binary for the javax.sql.*: http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/download.html As for the other import issue, sun.jdbc.rowset.*, my best guess is that this is a jdbc driver (I'm new to this!) and it may be in some package somewhere or perhap

Modules suddenly missing

2002-02-28 Thread Graham Williams
About a week ago I updated a Debian box, running a custom kernel 2.4.16, with a dist-upgrade in unstable (it's been running unstable for a long time, and this just brought it up to date). On the next reboot (a few days later) things started breaking! In particular nfs, audio, and cdrom and cdrw ac

Exim config question

2002-02-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Just got a basic install running and during the course of setting mail with the base-config tool, I think I answered something wrong but not sure what would have been right. Or where to hand edit it. I have a fair bit of experience with sendmail, but my first go around with exim. The details of

Re: Debian

2002-02-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 28/02/02 Mitch Headline did speaketh: > I Have One Question How do i send e-mail in debian using Mutt? http://www.mutt.org RTFM -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort."

CorelDRAW replacement

2002-02-28 Thread Paolo Falcone
Hello: I'm trying to look for a replacement for my CorelDRAW suite. What I need is a program that would convert .CDR files to some open format, then maybe another vector/spline based program that would do somehow the same thing as CorelDRAW does. Is there any free software that does such anyway

Re: x-forwarding with ssh

2002-02-28 Thread Remy Indebetouw
The default doesn't do X-forwarding. ssh -X remote.machine does. I never bothered to track down the config file where -X could be made default but I'm pretty sure there is one. On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Nick Wright wrote: > Currently when I try to run X apps via an ssh login I get the error message >

Re: Debian

2002-02-28 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Quoting Mitch Headline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I Have One Question How do i send e-mail in debian using Mutt? > from the main list window: m will ask for subject: and should bring up your editor after writing the message and exiting the editor, y sends it off Bob

Re: x-forwarding with ssh

2002-02-28 Thread Tom Cook
Nick Wright wrote: > > Hi there. > > Currently when I try to run X apps via an ssh login I get the error message > > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: > > Is this a problem with ssh and my x-forwarding? > if so, how do you change the x-forwarding options in ssh? > if not, what is the proble

Re: Refresh dselect db?

2002-02-28 Thread Tom Cook
Troy Telford wrote: [snip] > So, how do I re-initialize dselect's package database so it shows the > 'unstable' branch packages, rather than the 'potato' branch ones. Erm, you have executed: # dselect update haven't you? Tom

Re: x-forwarding with ssh

2002-02-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
Probably. Try ssh -X (remote host) If it still doesn't work, then either your X server is screwed up or the remote host isn't allowing X packets to be forwarded. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~ape

Re: OT: scsi vs ide: some data

2002-02-28 Thread Brian Nelson
Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > These (completely un-rigorous) tests seem to suggest that the > performance margin between SCSI and IDE isn't as great as the price > margin. Depending on the feedback I get, I might do some more > testing. Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions/t

Re: Apache fails to ExecCGI properly

2002-02-28 Thread Angus D Madden
Daniel Whelan, Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 03:43:00PM -0500: > Hey...On an a Apache (1.3.23-1) system, ExecCGIs are failing under all > circumstances. mod_perl, mod_php, mod_jk are functioning properly. > Similarly configured machines seem to work proplerly as well, and I've > read over the config file s

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi Harry, > 1) There doesn't seem to be any thorough probe of hardware. If there >is it is not working here. And as I mentioned, even the intel >version of solaris, which is notorious for being picky about >hardware, probed and found everthing. So without getting into >specific c

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Quoting Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bob Thibodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Are we to understand that you bought cds of a version that is still > > changeing constantly? Why? From whom? Why? > > >From the links on Debian home pages followed in this order: > http://www.debian.org

Re: exim and printer answers

2002-02-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* paul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020228 17:22]: > Thanks > > the cat command works when the end is EOF > and does not work with << EOF or < EOF > I haven't the slightest clue on why but can't argue > with success. When you say something like "<< EOF" to your shell, it's called a "here-document". You

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Harry Putnam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020228 18:14]: > Geordie Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> At least `woody' sounded.. well erect :- > > why don't you lose all those cd's, do a network install of stable, > > then, before installing _anything_ beyond base, apt-get dist-upgrade to

Re: Refresh dselect db?

2002-02-28 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 28 February 2002 18:12, Troy Telford wrote: > I hope this will be simple... > > I recently re-installed Debian. After revising my apt.sources list, as > well as a good 'ol dist-upgrade to bring my system up to Debian > 3.0/unstable, I discovered an interesting problem: > > For some rea

Re: Fresh install no network

2002-02-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > High, > > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I had hoped the install routine would find my nic and know what to >> load but as I went thru the initial install, it wasn't found. Any >> attempt to select something from the module list for net, fai

Re: Problem with kernel

2002-02-28 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Daniel Pecos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hello! > > Time ago I compiled the 2.4.16 kernel version without any > problem, but some days ago I had to modify the configuration > and tried to recompile it. This is the output: > > (linking the kernel)... >

Re: Refresh dselect db?

2002-02-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Troy Telford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020228 18:06]: > I hope this will be simple... I think you'll be pleased =) > I recently re-installed Debian. After revising my apt.sources list, as > well as a good 'ol dist-upgrade to bring my system up to Debian > 3.0/unstable, I discovered an interesting

Re: Building an RPM as a user

2002-02-28 Thread Joey Hess
Sean Middleditch wrote: > I'm distributing software in a number of formats, including DEB and > RPM. I was wondering if it's possible to build an RPM on Debian without > being root. It would make the auto-build system I have a lot more > secure. ~,^ Yes of course you can if the rpm spec file i

Re: Can't startx after upgrading to woody

2002-02-28 Thread D.
Alex therre are at least two versions of Xfree on Woody, which Xfree are you using. I know when I upgraded to Woody my X Server would not start either, I had to download the xserver seperately. And if your using 4.?.? the xconfig file is XF86Config-4. Don --- Axel Minck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Recent upgrade killed my laptop keyboard

2002-02-28 Thread Arthur H. Edwards,1,505-853-6042,505-256-0834
I'm running an ACER 342T under potato. I just did a dist-upgrade with ximian and debian in my sources path. Aftward, when the machine came up in gnome my keyboard was useless. I couldn't even use ctrl-alt-f2 to get a console. Has anyone else had this problem? Art Edwards

Re: question about ifup and ifconfig

2002-02-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Ren" == Ren Weili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ren> hallo, what is the diference between ifup and ifconfig? how Ren> can ifconfig bring up eth0 use dhcp? ifconfig is used to configure network interfaces. ifup reads /etc/networks/interfaces and do a bunch of things that would take a

Retry.. no more crybaby bs

2002-02-28 Thread Harry Putnam
OK, list posters, you've advised me to coninue my efforts and step back to potato. (See thread suject `Enough time wasted.. moving on') A coulpe of posters have suggested a network install. Thing is I have $40 dollars worth of cds setting here. Surely I can at least use them to get the base inst

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Keith Parkansky
"Timothy R. Butler" wrote: > > I think it's safe to say that what they say is true. Perhaps you are just > having trouble setting something up rather than it being Debian's fault? There's not much I can screw up three steps into the installation (See my "2.2r5 Kernel Module Install Failure" whi

Re: Help with missing /boot/boot.b

2002-02-28 Thread Mark S. Reglewski
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:32:15AM -0400, Liam Black wrote: > Hi, > > I posted a message to this list awhile ago because the hard drive that was > mounted to /boot, and which contained boot.b, had decided to go to the big > drive bay in the sky. I was told that recompiling my kernel might solve th

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Petro
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 12:28:52PM -0800, Harris, Jason wrote: > I've scores of Debian boxes that are used for revenue generating ventures. > Downtime is not an option for me nor for who I answer to. I thought it was > basically understood in the IT world (whatever os or software you use) that > y

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Harry Putnam
"Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How much did you post to the list? I can only find the following > threads: > Fresh install no network > Neighbor table overflow.. what does it mean > Configuring locales > Enough time wasted, moving on You may have a point there.

Re: exim and printer answers

2002-02-28 Thread paul
Thanks the cat command works when the end is EOF and does not work with << EOF or < EOF I haven't the slightest clue on why but can't argue with success. paul taylor --- Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020228 13:53]: > > So `cat filename > /dev/lp0

Re: exim and printer answers

2002-02-28 Thread paul
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exim and printer answers

2002-02-28 Thread paul
I am having problems with cut and paste on yahoo so this is my typing. Printcap /etc/magicfilter/hp4000-filter is now /etc/magicfilter/ljet4-filter ls /etc/magicfilter/ljet4-filter returns the command check with joe (editor) and file is there. Both cat commands work when it is EOF but not << EO

Re: resource for woody freeze status?

2002-02-28 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Oliver Doepner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: This mail didn't need to be Cc:'d to debian-devel. > is there any online resource that documents the (current) status of the > woody freeze process? debian-devel-announce mail log. > any comments are welcome to me. but please don't just

Re: Another update on "The Kernel that Wouldn't Boot"

2002-02-28 Thread Petro
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:46:17PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > Hiya, > I tried to cook up another kernel, this time without 686 optimizations, and > unfortunately it _still_ won't boot. Is there some way I can use the Debian > default configuration rather than my custom kernel configurati

Re: Installing kernel-image-2.4.17-k7

2002-02-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> "Stan" == Stan Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Manoj> Any suggestions for improved wording? This is what is Manoj> there now: >> == >>

Re: AutoCAD (or similar) for Debian/Linux?

2002-02-28 Thread Brian P.D. Smyth
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:47:21 +1100 (EST) Tadeusz Bak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Juari Ritter [iso-8859-1] Müller wrote: > [...] > > success running AutoCAD (through wine?) or any CAD > > system capable of opening AutoCAD files. > > You may want to check QCad: http://

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread ben
On Thursday 28 February 2002 01:38 pm, Keith Parkansky wrote: > Harry Putnam wrote: > > I've burned up 2 full days, gotten no help whatever from the list. > > Found the install routines to be unusable. > > Same here on the last two counts, except > it's been two weeks with Potato r5. > > And suppos

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread ben
On Thursday 28 February 2002 09:38 am, Harry Putnam wrote: > Anyone who wants the official 6 CD set of woody 3.0 > Can send me an address privately. First one I get in my inbox with > snailmail address will get the cds mailed to them. > [snip] who, or what is the sphere? you got ripped off (how m

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi, > And supposedly nothing goes out (paraphrasing > the debian.org Web site) "until it installs > and works as advertised". BS like Mickeysoft I think it's safe to say that what they say is true. Perhaps you are just having trouble setting something up rather than it being Debian's fault?

Re: javax API

2002-02-28 Thread Tom Cook
DvB wrote: > > I tried to run a jsp page on my testing box with mozilla and tomcat and > got errors about not being able to find javax.sql and sun.jdbc.rowset, > among others. After searching, I figured out that these packages are > part of the j2ee... or so I concluded from what I found. > > My

Re: Mtools questions.

2002-02-28 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
you need to have user write permissions on /dev/fd0 or any other device. Your administrator must chmod 766 /dev/fd0. On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All. > I want to use the mtools, but I don't have the documentations about > mtools (and connot get it now). When I use mtool fro

Re: Apache fails to ExecCGI properly

2002-02-28 Thread Bill Moseley
At 06:38 PM 02/28/02 -0500, Daniel Whelan wrote: >Whoops! Forgot to include the log message. The error log is reporting a >premature end of script headers. Unfortunately, it isn't as simple as >that error usually is. Why do you say that? It's probably not returning the headers you think it should

Debian

2002-02-28 Thread Mitch Headline
I Have One Question How do i send e-mail in debian using Mutt?

Re: resource for woody freeze status?

2002-02-28 Thread Steve Langasek
Oliver, On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:29:59PM +0100, Oliver Doepner wrote: > i just want to know what's going on and understand what the problems > and/or current steps are. a webpage with a dynamically generated list of > rc-bugs and some explaination on how to proceed and what is most urgent to >

Re: Apache fails to ExecCGI properly

2002-02-28 Thread Alan James
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 03:43:00PM -0500, Daniel Whelan wrote: > If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate the help. Thanks! Error messages from the failures might help. look in /var/log/apache/error.log If the configs are the same it might be the locations of the cgi scripts If its sometimes this

Re: Apache fails to ExecCGI properly

2002-02-28 Thread Daniel Whelan
Whoops! Forgot to include the log message. The error log is reporting a premature end of script headers. Unfortunately, it isn't as simple as that error usually is. Daniel Bill Moseley wrote: > > At 03:43 PM 02/28/02 -0500, Daniel Whelan wrote: > >Hey...On an a Apache (1.3.23-1) system, ExecCGIs

x-forwarding with ssh

2002-02-28 Thread Nick Wright
Hi there. Currently when I try to run X apps via an ssh login I get the error message xterm Xt error: Can't open display: Is this a problem with ssh and my x-forwarding? if so, how do you change the x-forwarding options in ssh? if not, what is the problem and how do I fix it? :) thanks, Nic

Re: resource for woody freeze status?

2002-02-28 Thread Alan James
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:29:59PM +0100, Oliver Doepner wrote: > Hi, > > is there any online resource that documents the (current) status of the > woody freeze process? Debian Weekly news is a great resource. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/ The last few weeks have had interesting news abou

Re: Apache fails to ExecCGI properly

2002-02-28 Thread Bill Moseley
At 03:43 PM 02/28/02 -0500, Daniel Whelan wrote: >Hey...On an a Apache (1.3.23-1) system, ExecCGIs are failing under all >circumstances. What's the error log say? > ErrorLog /var/log/apache/sites/www/error.log -- Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Another update on "The Kernel that Wouldn't Boot"

2002-02-28 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:46:17PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote: | Hiya, | I tried to cook up another kernel, this time without 686 optimizations, and | unfortunately it _still_ won't boot. Is there some way I can use the Debian | default configuration rather than my custom kernel configurati

Netscape - no javascript, no import of certificates - please help!

2002-02-28 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, I have asked about the first half off the problem already some time ago: Suddenly it was impossible to enable javascript in Netscape, even when I'm on a non-javascript page. Trying to do it inevitably will freeze Netscape. (4.77-2 from woody) I noticed that this is only true for users not for

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Timothy R. Butler
> You can try installing a base potato system, then dist-upgrade to > woody. This has worked for me on several systems. Just out of curiosity, if someone is planning to use Woody, wouldn't it be easier to get the Woody netinst CD, and go directly to Woody? I didn't encounter any problems wit

Re: resource for woody freeze status?

2002-02-28 Thread Joey Hess
Oliver Doepner wrote: > is there any online resource that documents the (current) status of the > woody freeze process? http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/debian-devel-announce-200202/ (see all the "release status updates"?) > i just want to know what's going on and understand wh

Re: exim and printer answers

2002-02-28 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:32:17PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: | ...Okee so you have BSD like lpd installed | The next thing to know is whether lpd was installed correctly. Atleast | there should be a command called `lp', check whether it is there with: | | # type lp | | This should tell you

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Geordie Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> At least `woody' sounded.. well erect :- > why don't you lose all those cd's, do a network install of stable, > then, before installing _anything_ beyond base, apt-get dist-upgrade to > testing or unstable? dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [.

Re: ATI RADEON 7500 and X problem

2002-02-28 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 18:09, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hi! > > A friend of mine (not on this list) has problems getting X version > 4.1.0 (from testing) to start on his box with a Radeon 7500 card > inside. When trying xf86cfg in graphics mode, it doesn't recognize > the card correctly, and when

Re: Mtools questions.

2002-02-28 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:01:37PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All. > I want to use the mtools, but I don't have the documentations about > mtools (and connot get it now). When I use mtool from user (not root) I > show: Can't open /dev/fd0: Permossion denied Cannot initialize 'A:'. > Need

Refresh dselect db?

2002-02-28 Thread Troy Telford
I hope this will be simple... I recently re-installed Debian. After revising my apt.sources list, as well as a good 'ol dist-upgrade to bring my system up to Debian 3.0/unstable, I discovered an interesting problem: For some reason, while apt-get has no problem with the change, 'dselect' st

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Harry Putnam
p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > "...asleep at the switch" and "...homeboy packaging": man, woody > really tore you up. (but it's just something that's in "testing" > mode though, right?) Hey, those aren't swear words you know.. :-) "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >

Re: Mtools questions.

2002-02-28 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:01:37PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All. > I want to use the mtools, but I don't have the documentations about > mtools (and connot get it now). When I use mtool from user (not root) I > show: Can't open /dev/fd0: Permossion denied Cannot initialize 'A:'. > Need

lprng: pages/min varies with # items queued?

2002-02-28 Thread Pete Harlan
We're seeing something that's baffling me. We queue up a hundred pages to our locally-attached HP postscript printer, and when the first pages begin printing they print as fast as you'd expect from the printer (12ppm or somesuch), but as the queue grows the pages come out slower and slower (slower

Re: Local packages

2002-02-28 Thread Petro
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 03:19:15PM +0300, Sergey Lapin wrote: > Hello, all!!! > > I have big collection of self-made packages, which I would like to > distribute through my network via usual apt-get methods while allowing > them to update from Debian sites. Connection is only by http, > so I hav

install XFree86 error message

2002-02-28 Thread debian debian
hi: I install XFree86 4.2.0 after a fresh installation. I tried install the 3.3.6 then upgrade to 4.2.0 and not install 3.3.6 then fresh install 4.2.0.They both have the same result. when the installer run "ldconfig" Two error happen: Updating the fonts.dir file in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/font

Re: CUPS: Parallel port busy; will retry in 30 seconds...

2002-02-28 Thread Andreas Maresch
Have you checked the wiring? I know this sounds like a stupid question, but I had this problem two days ago. Cups doesn't check the printer connection, it simply prints this very "helpfull" error message. Andreas On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:19:38PM -0600, DvB wrote: > I keep getting this error w

Re: AutoCAD (or similar) for Debian/Linux?

2002-02-28 Thread Carl Johnson
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi ya > > there is linuxcad.com > > and a gazillion more stuff to checkout > ( easier to just get autocad and be 100% sure it works right ) > - some can only read *.dwg files > - linuxcad can read/write *.dwg and *.dxf files > > http://www.Li

NFS and /cdrom.

2002-02-28 Thread Shaul Karl
I am exporting /cdrom and the client can read a mounted CD. Yet even after the client umount it successfully the server still claims that the device is busy. I need to stop nfs-kernel-server in order to be able to umount the device. Is this expected? How can I export /cdrom and still be able to h

Re: Potato default and ip_always_defrag=0

2002-02-28 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > If the "ip_always_defrag" is in my /proc/sys/net/ipv4 directory, and the > value is "0", that means the facility is in the Kernel or available as a > module and I just need to turn it on with echo > "1">/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag, right? Sorry guys, I found my a

Problem with kernel

2002-02-28 Thread Daniel Pecos
Hello! Time ago I compiled the 2.4.16 kernel version without any problem, but some days ago I had to modify the configuration and tried to recompile it. This is the output: (linking the kernel)... ... -o vmlinux

Re: Setting Ulimits by default.

2002-02-28 Thread Petro
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:57:34PM -0600, Debian User wrote: > > My questions are: > > > > 1) Is this limit established by the kernel, or the shell. > The limit is definitly extablished by the kernel > The operating system controls and schedules the processes > > > 2)

RE: woody - no installation candidate.. - SOLVED

2002-02-28 Thread Ross Tsolakidis
Title: RE: woody - no installation candidate.. - SOLVED umm..  yes.  mysql-server is available  :) Sorry I should have thought of that :) -- Ross. -Original Message- From: Bob Thibodeau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2002 7:38 PM To: Ross Tsolakidis Cc: '

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:38:20AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've burned up 2 full days, gotten no help whatever from the list. > Found the install routines to be unusable. > > All I hear from Woody is `can't won't or doesn't' Very sorry to read that. Last summer, I got a beta woody CD (at Li

Can't startx after upgrading to woody

2002-02-28 Thread Axel Minck
Hi, I just upgraded my potato to woody, but now i can't start X server and i get the following message (--) no ModulePath specified using default : /usr/X11R6/lib/modules dbe: Unknown error loading module Config Error: /etc/X11/XF86Config: 48 Subsection "extmod" Module section keyword exp

Re: exim and printer answers

2002-02-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020228 13:53]: > So `cat filename > /dev/lp0' still works? > But the following failed? Strange. > > > > # cat << EOF > /dev/lp0 > > > > a very short line > > > > a second line > > > > a final line > > > > << EOF Not so strange. Try it th

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:38:20AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > Anyone who wants the official 6 CD set of woody 3.0 > Can send me an address privately. First one I get in my inbox with > snailmail address will get the cds mailed to them. > > I've burned up 2 full days, gotten no help whatever fro

Re: exim and printer second try

2002-02-28 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:23:50AM -0800, paul wrote: > Yes lpr is installed. OK. So why then does it refuse to work?? Does it make any difference if you give the lpr command as normal user or as root? Do the files lpr and printcap exist and have the correct permissions? Example: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: rsh

2002-02-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* FU ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020228 12:10]: > Setting up exim (3.33-1.1) ... > Error: system's FQDN hostname > (pa1_2.mildred.cpsc.ucalgary.ca) doesn't > match > RFC1035 syntax; cannot configure the mail system. > dpkg: error processing exim (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script retur

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread DvB
> > > > Maybe I should have tried the released version, but something about > > the name `potato' puts one in mind of a large overweight weak > > vegetable lying on a couch. > > Well, couch potato might be a good description for potato's up-to-dateness. FWIW, however, I installed potato first

OT: scsi vs ide: some data

2002-02-28 Thread Matt Garman
Recently there was a classic thread here on this list: scsi vs ide. I've got both SCSI and an IDE systems. Since I've been beginning to doubt myself whether SCSI is really worth the (hugely extra) cost, I did some quick informal testing with bonnie. What follows are some bonnnie results from whi

postgres 7.1 (woody) - how to stop debugging

2002-02-28 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, with the help of people on this list (Thanks Martin and Brooks!) I freed my syslog from all those debugging messages. But as I have (as recommended) silent_mode = off in postgresql.conf my console still gets cluttered by all those debugging messages. I also have debug_level = 0 in postgresq

Apache fails to ExecCGI properly

2002-02-28 Thread Daniel Whelan
Hey...On an a Apache (1.3.23-1) system, ExecCGIs are failing under all circumstances. mod_perl, mod_php, mod_jk are functioning properly. Similarly configured machines seem to work proplerly as well, and I've read over the config file several times and cannot find the problem. Here are some clips o

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Keith Parkansky
Harry Putnam wrote: > > I've burned up 2 full days, gotten no help whatever from the list. > Found the install routines to be unusable. Same here on the last two counts, except it's been two weeks with Potato r5. And supposedly nothing goes out (paraphrasing the debian.org Web site) "until it in

javax API

2002-02-28 Thread DvB
I tried to run a jsp page on my testing box with mozilla and tomcat and got errors about not being able to find javax.sql and sun.jdbc.rowset, among others. After searching, I figured out that these packages are part of the j2ee... or so I concluded from what I found. My question: is there a packa

Kernel panic: No init found.

2002-02-28 Thread Medovarszky Zoltán
I need a customized boot floppy to install potato. I've compiled a custom kernel 2.4.17. I've put the custom kernel into the rescue.bin file, and made a dd if=rescue.bin /dev/fd0. Boot is ok. It requests the root floppy. I've dd-ed the root.bin on another floppy. During the loading of the root flop

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Alan Shutko
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone who wants the official 6 CD set of woody 3.0 > Can send me an address privately. First one I get in my inbox with > snailmail address will get the cds mailed to them. Harry, woody hasn't been released yet, so there are no official CDs yet. Since

Building an RPM as a user

2002-02-28 Thread Sean Middleditch
Hi, I'm distributing software in a number of formats, including DEB and RPM. I was wondering if it's possible to build an RPM on Debian without being root. It would make the auto-build system I have a lot more secure. ~,^ Thanks, Sean Etc.

Multiple portfw for multiple resources

2002-02-28 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Has anyone set up port forwarding for multiple resourses, say multiple webservers, for instance? I'd like to actually go to two separate machines from my firewall, and I think I want them to be really really separate, not just parallel support of the same thing. -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [

RE: Unable to Ping NT boxes

2002-02-28 Thread Bodnyk, Bruce W
I've found out that our servers are registered in our DNS but that the majority of our NT clients use WINS which answers why the pings don't work. Thanks for your help! Bruce -Original Message- From: Kurc, Marcin A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 1:07 PM To: '

Re: rsh

2002-02-28 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > While I was installing the rsh-server, I encountered > the following problems. > Setting up exim (3.33-1.1) ... > Error: system's FQDN hostname (pa1_2.mildred.cpsc.ucalgary.ca) doesn't match > RFC1035 syntax; cannot configure the mail system. > dpkg: error processing

Re: gnome icons wont change in woody - only one icon

2002-02-28 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:23:20PM +, Colin Watson wrote: | Jason M. Harvey wrote: | >at home, i'm running woody. ever since the dist-upgrade, gmc no longer | >lets me choose different icons... all the icons i have a the default | >directory icon, even the trash! | | gmc 4.5.55-1.2 provides a

Apache fails to ExecCGI properly

2002-02-28 Thread Daniel Whelan
Hey...On an a Apache (1.3.23-1) system, ExecCGIs are failing under all circumstances. mod_perl, mod_php, mod_jk are functioning properly. Similarly configured machines seem to work proplerly as well, and I've read over the config file several times and cannot find the problem. Here are some clips o

Re: When will "woody" be out?

2002-02-28 Thread Tony Crawford
louie miranda wrote (on 28 Feb 2002 at 22:27): > Hi, when will "Woody" be out? Use it now, while it's still "in" ... Sorry. But seriously, it's running very well for lots of people already. T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --

resource for woody freeze status?

2002-02-28 Thread Oliver Doepner
Hi, is there any online resource that documents the (current) status of the woody freeze process? i am a happy debian user and recommendit to anyone who wants to know (using ximian on debian potato myself). i am well aware that debian is a free project and contributors to the project do as much

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:38:20AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: | Anyone who wants the official 6 CD set of woody 3.0 | Can send me an address privately. First one I get in my inbox with | snailmail address will get the cds mailed to them. Hmm, woody hasn't been officially released yet. If you rea

RE: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Harris, Jason
I feel bad that you've had such a hard time with Woody. I tried it too about 8 months ago with the similar results. X didn't work (that was ok, since it was a server not a gui desktop), php4 didn't work, php3 wasn't available, etc... I got everything working, did an apt-get update, upgraded the

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