devfsd question

Is it possible to have devfsd perform multiple actions when a device is registered? For example, I want two things to occur when /dev/tts/0 is created... set the ownership/permissions, and create a /dev/ups symlink. My original attempt used the following two entries: REGISTER ^tts/0$ CFUNCTIO

Re: Matrox G450 comments?

Thanx to everyone who replied, you've all been *most* helpful. I feel pretty good about going ahead with the G450 at this point, although I'll probably look into the G400 Max as well. Cheers! On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 01:39:43PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > I need to replace t

Matrox G450 comments?

I need to replace the video card on one of my boxes, and I'm thinking of getting a Matrox G450. I'd appreciate any comments on how well this card is working for people. I don't have any real need for dual-head support, so I don't plan on using the binary-only mga.o driver from Matrox... I'd great

Re: Kernel for AMD Thunderbird

It seems to depend a great deal upon the motherboard. I've got an Asus A7M266 with a 1.2GHz Athlon, and it's had no trouble whatsoever with the 2.4 kernel's Athlon optimizations. On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:07:20AM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > I hear that 2.4 has an Athlon option, but I'm not sure

Re: sshd

I'd guess that you're machine isn't able to do a reverse name lookup on the box you're coming from. Assuming this is the case, two options come to mind: 1) Add an entry in /etc/hosts for the client machine. This is only practical if it has a static IP address. 2) Modify /etc/hosts.deny, and cha

Re: unstable Xfree 4.0 video driver: no 3DLabs driver

If memory serves, 3DLabs support was incorporated into xserver-svga. On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 11:21:11PM +0400, Soren Renner wrote: > Pardon me. I just started using Debian yesterday.It is truly > wonderful. I have updated to the unstable Xfree package. It has no > video driver for my card. The old

Re: USB support for Palm m500?

The visor module doesn't work, unfortunately. A serial cradle with a serial-to-usb adapter took care of it, tho. Thanx! On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:34:06AM +0200, Matthias Gasser wrote: > I think the Visor Option should help you. > > you need that package: usbutils i think. > > Read your Kerne

USB support for Palm m500?

Can anyone tell me if it's possible to access a Palm M500 using USB? If so, what combination of usb/usb-serial support do I need to compile into my kernel? I've run several google searches, but haven't turned up anything so far. I've tried the generic usbserial driver, but that doesn't seem to b

Re: iPAQ ?

Not yet, but I'm probably going to order one within the next two weeks or so. If memory serves, you can't order one without wince (or whatever they're calling it these days)... you need a serial cradle and access to a Windows system in order to flash the bootloader onto the sucker. The Linux dist

Re: make-kpkg broken ?

In the meantime you can fix it by applying the attached patch to the to the alsa-driver tree. I'd mention the bug-report I swiped it from, but I can't seem to reach the BTS at the moment... On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 04:03:51PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > This is a known problem in alsa, tweaked by a

Re: exim is making me crazy

Take a look at exim.conf, and make sure that "localhost" is included in the "local_domains" entry. On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:28:57PM +0200, General Alcazar wrote: > Hello to everybody, pleased to meet you. > > I'm using Debian 2.2 'potato' whit exim as MTA. The question > is that when I try to f

Re: No loopback interface after upgrading to testing

Do you have an "auto" entry in /etc/network/interfaces? Mine looks something like: auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:01:16AM +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > Hi Debians! > > > After upgrading to testing I must setup lo manually aft

Re: who gets this bug, pppconfig or ash?

Cheers! On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:29:38AM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2001, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > > > What version of ash do you have? It seems to be working fine here, > > using 0.3.8-5 from unstable. > > same version > > Strange, espec

Re: who gets this bug, pppconfig or ash?

What version of ash do you have? It seems to be working fine here, using 0.3.8-5 from unstable. On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 01:14:10PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > Whenever I do "pon", /etc/resolv.conf get rewitten with, > > -e \nnameserver 198.73.176.2 > > (i.e., I can only get to hosts listed

Re: motherboard suggestions

I'll definitely take a look. Thanx! On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:45:45PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi Gregory... > > i've been collecting urls for dual cpu motherboards... > > http://www.linux-1u.net/1U_Features/dual.txt > ( these are just the flip-chip cpu style ) > > since cpu and memory is

motherboard suggestions

I need to replace a dual PIII-600MHz motherboard, which apparently got fried. I'd appreciate any suggestions for a good, Linux friendly one. Preferably something which can make use of ECC memory, which the dead one (i840 chipset) couldn't. It's not yet clear if either CPU survived, so feel free t

Re: iptables logging?

If you're tracking unstable, make sure you have the klogd package installed. It was recently split out from sysklogd, and since apt-get doesn't handle Recommends... On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:22:57AM +0100, Adam James wrote: > Hi all, > > This is just something that's getting slightly annoying -

Re: Problems with CD-writer in 2.4.2

Did you enable devfs in your kernel config, by any chance? If so, you probably need to add "alias /dev/sg* sg" to /etc/modutils/devfs, followed by running /sbin/update-modules. On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 03:42:40PM +1000, Price, Tim wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just upgraded to kernel 2.4.2 and am havi

Re: Need /dev/usb

You'll need to create the directory /dev/usb manually, then us mknod to create the device file. The command would be something like: mknod /dev/usb/ c You'll need to know the device name (obviously), and the appropriate major and minor numbers. Most likely you can find this information u

Re: VMware install

On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:48:10AM +, SamBozo Debian User wrote: > So where are the C header files it wants? They're part of your the kernel source tree. If you're running one of the Debian-supplied kernels (or using kernel-package to generate your own kernel debs) you can probably just insta

Re: Crypto patching 2.4 kernel

Personally, I rarely use the debianized kernel source... to impatient to wait for new releases to be packaged! :-) For whatever it's worth, I'm having good results with the crypto patches and upstream source. The one thing to watch out for is loopback filesystems (whether encrypted or not)... the

Re: mutt -- slow on send

I recently found that exim was taking a long time to accept messages, and traced it back to a bogus `search' entry in /etc/resolv.conf. After commenting out the entry, all is well again. The entry had been in place for two years... no idea why it suddenly became a problem. On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 a

Re: Is there a nice graphical front end available for gpg or pgp ?

Try seahorse... I haven't used it myself, but I've heard that it's not bad. On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 05:43:40PM +0100, Michael Meding wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking for a graphical front end for gpg and or pgp. Possibly > qt or gtk based. Is geheimnis packaged already ? > > Thanks in advance.

Re: ppp/chap client problems - solved

D'oh!!! There's a slight (single character) difference in the userid for dial-up, versus my usual login account. Unsurprisingly, it works just fine now that I'm using the correct account. A bad case of idiotneedsaclueitis, apparently...

ppp/chap client problems

I'm trying to configure pppd for dial-out to work, which requires CHAP authentication. Unfortunately, I can't seem to make the @#$%! machines happy. I've gone through the HOWTO and everything *seems* to be configured properly, but obviously something's not right. Anyone care to point out what I'

Re: Help msg: modprobe can't locate ppp-compress

Take a look in /etc/modutils/aliases, there should be some entries similar to the following: alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate If they aren't there, add them and then run /sbin/update-modules. If they're presen

Re: exim (II)

Did you add "localhost" to the "local_domains" entry in /etc/exim.conf? If it isn't present (and it's not by default) that would most definitely explain the error you're describing. Cheers! On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 06:41:26PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello!, > > I am running potato at h

Re: No screensaver panel in Gnome C. center??

I just noticed that a day or so ago, as well. Apparently xscreensaver-demo is segfaulting... I assume that we're both seeing the same problem, but here's how to check: 1) Open your favourite x-terminal (rxvt in my case). 2) Allow core-files with "ulimit -c unlimited". 3) Run /usr/bin/gnomecc dire

Re: Ok, how can I prevent the system from upgrading kernel-image-2.2.17 ?

Run the following (as root): dpkg --get-selections kernel-image-2.2.17 | \ sed -e 's/install$/hold/' | dpkg --set-selections This will place kernel-image-2.2.17 on hold, which will prevent apt/dselect/etc. from trying to upgrade it. To reverse the process, rerun with the sed command

Re: X 4.0.1 fixed font problem

Do you have xutils installed? If not, you may need to install it and run mkfontdir manually in each font directory (or "dpkg-reconfigure xfonts-100dpi ..."). > I just did a new woody install and tried installing X 4.0.1 on it. > When I run startx, X starts up but then crashes with the message: >

Re: sound-slot-0 not found

You can get rid of the message by adding alias sound-slot-0 off alias sound-service-0 off to /etc/modutils/aliases, followed by running /sbin/update-modules. Dunno why you're seeing that if sound's actually working, tho... I've only seen that message when no (configured) sound card was

Re: Plexwriter 12/4/32(SCSI)

I got one about a month ago. For whatever it's worth, I haven't run into any problems. I'm running woody tho, which has a newer cdrecord (not sure if that matters or not). Cheers! On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:32:55PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > anyone have sucess stories with this CD-R unde

Re: Package hold during upgrade

The all-in-one command line version: dpkg --get-selections PACKAGE-LIST | \ sed -e 's/install$/hold/' | dpkg --set-selections Alternately , you could tag each package individually under dselect, using the 'H' or '=' keys. The exact package name matches the debfile up to the first un

Re: Glibc 2.1.94-3, fixes all issues with db libraries

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 09:33:55AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > [1] Debian Chaos Events are scheduled on a haphazard basis. We make no > gurantees about show times. Hey, don't drag me into this! I didn't do it!!! :-) Sorry, couldn't resist.

telnet problem with $TERM

When I telnet in to the AIX systems at work, the $TERM variable gets mangled to uppercase (i.e "rxvt" becomes "RXVT"). It's not all that difficult to compensate for, but I'm curious about the cause. Any ideas? Windows based telnet clients don't seem to trigger this behavior. Just to head off th

Re: pgp vs. mutt

What version of mutt are you using? If I remember correctly, for the potato version you need to add "set pgp_default_version = gpg" or similar to ~/.muttrc. On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:15:58PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 07:49:15PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > > Hi Will,

Re: Exim rewrite question

Also, take a look at . It goes through the setup process in a (more or less) step by step fashion. pgp225Y895w3D.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: kernel compiling

Make sure you have libncurses[45]-dev installed... On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 06:26:08PM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > my deskbox likes the taste of kernel 2.2.17; but my > lapbox is getting stuck: > > Script started on Mon Sep 11 17:53:15 2000 > EBUSINESS:/tmp/linux# makemenu    

Re: SSH Obsolete?

Does /etc/apt/sources.list contain an entry for non-US (something like "deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US/main")? Anything which isn't currently found in one of your defined mirrors will be listed as obsolete. Also, did you run "Update" from dselect's menu? I've found that

Re: easy numlock question

Assuming that you're logging in to a VT, rather than to XDM or the equivalent, add the following to ~/.bash_profile: case `basename \`tty\`` in tty[1-9]) setleds +num;; esac If you're trying to set it for X11 instead, go to and do a search for "numlockx".

Re: exim headaches

Ok, here's what I did (don't worry, it's not as bad as it probably looks :-). First, create the file /etc/email.map, which will specify the email mapping for outgoing messages. Each line should be of the format "local_user: Justin Kase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>". Mine looks like: root: Greg No

Re: exim headaches

und myself having a difficult time > understanding what it was saying. This has been a common problem for > me in trying to get this to work. I know this is a lot to ask, but > perhaps a few more details from you would help me get this going. > > Thanks, > David Bellows > > "

Re: exim headaches

What I ended up doing was configuring two copies of exim, based on instructions I found in the Exim FAQ at . The primary copy delivers only local mail, and doesn't perform header rewriting. Non-local messages are forwarded to the second copy over port 26, which performs head

Re: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-18

I expect that you're receiving some packets over the network, with the address family set to 18. I don't know what "ash" is in the networking sense, but I'm certain that it's not related to the shell. I'd just add "alias net-pf-18 off" to /etc/modutils/aliases, followed by running /sbin/update-mo

Re: Modprobe and modules - is this a problem?

On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:53:28PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I thought I had better reply to my own message as I've discovered > that the crontab does unload the unused ppp modules if they were > loaded by kmod. > > If I load the modules manually the crontab apparently does not > unload th

Re: Help - WordPerfect still doesn't work (nor does Netscape)

It sounds like you need to install xpm4.7 from the oldlibs section. To verify this, run "ldd /usr/local/lib/wordperfect/wpbin/xwp" (adjust the path to match your installation). If anything is listed as "not found" you'll need to install the relevant package. You can use the search form at

ssh-{add,agent} equivilent for ssh2?

I was wondering if there were any equivalent to ssh-add and ssh-agent which work with DSA keys (SSH2 protocol)? I'm running ssh 2.1.1p4-2 (aka OpenSSH) on woody. Thanx! pgpDUPW57cfvo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: lobotamy via HD swap

I did that recently, when upgrading to a new motherboard. Assuming that the new machine has compatible hardware (i.e. that your kernel was compiled with all the necessary support included) it should work just fine. If you're configured to boot directly into X via xdm (or whatever), you may want t

Re: trying out a 2.3.x kernel

> -ipchains is gone, iptables replaces it There's a compatability entry for ipchains, which you can select during the config stage. I don't know when it actually went in, but it's available in 2.3.99-pre5, and seems to work as expected. Cheers!

Re: ppp-compress-1 strangeness

> After the connection has been established, I get this: > modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-1 I haven't seen that one before... are you sure it isn't asking for ppp-compress-21? Anyway, here are my ppp-compress-* entries: alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 p

Re: How to make SCSI only bootup

, Chirag wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: Gregory T. Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 5:08 PM > Subject: Re: How to make SCSI only bootup > > Hi > > > The "2FA:"

Re: How to make SCSI only bootup

The "2FA:" prompt is generated by mbr... it looks like it doesn't know which partition to boot (you haven't gotten far enough to require the SCSI drivers yet). Just as a guess, I'd say that you didn't flag the relevant partition as "active" when you partitioned the disk. Try pressing "2" when you

Re: hardware advice

Thanx to everyone for your advice. I've had a few private replies as well, and so far *everyone* has recommended the Voodoo3. Looks like that's what it'll be! Cheers!

hardware advice

I'm planning to get a 3D-accelerated graphics card, and I was hoping to get some suggestions on which ones are well supported by Linux. The main requirement is that it must be a PCI card, since the system in question doesn't have an AGP slot. The two which seem promising so far are the Matrox Mil

Re: Telnet 25 connection refused

Check the "local_domains" setting in etc/exim.conf, and make sure that it includes "localhost". It should look something like: local_domains = localhost:mydomain.com On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 04:53:06PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > I have infact installed exim

Re: xfs-xtt configuration

You need to remove the entry for port 7101 from /etc/X11/XF86Config. xfs-xtt replaces both xfs and xfstt with a single font server, so it will be running on the "standard" xfs port (7100), rather than xfstt's. X will definitely refuse to start if told to use a font server which isn't active... Ch

Re: Soundblaster AWE64

You'll need to install the isapnptools package, and configure it to handle the pnp initialization. I can send you a copy of the conffile I use if you'd like to use it as a model. I think there are a few more sound-related kernel options you might want to enable, although they may not be strictly

Re: afterstep

Possibly a stupid question, but are you sure that you have xterm installed? If I remember correctly it used to be included in one of the main X packages (xbase?), but now has it's own package. On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 08:17:12AM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi, > > I got the x to run and I s

Re: Cannot compile newest Afterstep

What are the actual error messages? Also, are you running slink or potato? AfterStep 1.8.0 compiles just fine here on potato, provided that all of the necessary x-dev packages are installed. On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 05:50:17PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > I've followed the instructions, bu

Re: rcS error on bootup --potato

On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:59:53PM -0500, Griim wrote: > Hi, > I'm running potato, and on a vanilla install of it, I get the > following error message: > > /etc/init.d/rcS: /etc/rcS.d/S35devpts.sh: line 63: syntax error: > unexpected end of file > > Anyone else have this problem, or know wha

Re: SCSI Timing Out (HELP ASAP)

Take a look at . I've got an unofficial set of installation disks there for slink which will hopefully take care of your problem. Good luck! On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 05:37:43PM -0800, ^chewie wrote: > I've just purchased and installed a new: >

Re: Getting xfs-xtt to work

You don't want to specify the actual path to the fonts in the xset command, unless you want your X server to handle them directly (i.e. not using a font server). Instead you want to specify the port which your font server is listening at, which is normally 7100. The place you need to list the ful

Re: "Fake" package for Wordperfect 8?

I haven't used it myself, but I believe that the package name is equivs. On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 10:04:58PM +0100, Jonas Steverud wrote: > > I downloaded WP8 for some months ago and the idea struck my earlier > tonight that it would be a good idea to build a fake package for WP8 > that depended o

Re: odd cron returns

Scratch that... it seems to work fine, at least on potato. On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 07:32:31PM -0600, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > I've read somewhere that you can't use $HOME in a crontab entry, > although I haven't personally verified this. Try filling in the full > path... >

Re: odd cron returns

I've read somewhere that you can't use $HOME in a crontab entry, although I haven't personally verified this. Try filling in the full path... On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 10:40:06AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have the crontab file "mycron" with the contents > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cronta

Re: Mozilla-M13

On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 03:09:36PM -0800, Brent Fulgham wrote: > If anyone hasn't installed M13 yet, could someone download the > *.deb files from http://pandora.debian.org/~bfulgham and try > installing? I want to verify that the new dependency on libnspr3 > by Mozilla works properly. > > Than

Re: dselect problem with potato [RESOLVED]

The problem turned out, rather unexpectedly, to be that xscreensaver recommends the virtual package "perl". Since both perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 conflict with "perl" (providing "perl5" instead), dselect silently selected them for removal... which chained down to everything which had a direct or in

Unidentified subject!

@glitch.snoozer.net Subject: Re: dselect problem with potato [RESOLVED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mail-Followup-To: debian-user , \ References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAI

Re: T-Shirts

I particularly like the "100% Suck Free!" version. I'll have to see about getting a few to hand out at the next LUG meeting... maybe along with a few css_descramble shirts! On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 11:15:38PM -0800, Darren O. Benham wrote: > I am happy to announce that Debian T-Shirts are availabl

Re: dselect problem with potato

On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 01:07:02AM -0500, paul wrote: > Please read this earlier thread (on this list): > "BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT..." > > I hope this answers your questions. Thanx for the pointer!

dselect problem with potato

For some reason dselect wants to remove an awful lot of packages from my potato system: at, cron, debconf, exim, mailx, apparently all of gnome, and a bunch of others. When I run apt-get it seems perfectly happy with everything that's installed, and nothing seems to be flagged for removal in dsele

Re: kmod questions?

On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:03:27PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > 2) Why there is no line like >0-59/5 * * * * /sbin/rmmod -a > for cron to process? My understanding is that it causes problems for some PCMCIA devices. I don't have any such beasties tho, so I can't verify this.

Re: Is potatoe's exim 3.12-1 OK?

Working fine here... On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 07:29:52PM -0800, Mark M wrote: > Hi, > The problem may be with my ISP, but I keep > getting: > > SMTP timeout while connected to > smtp.student.unsw.edu.au [xx] after > end of data (3531 bytes written) > > Is any one else having a similar problem

Re: Weird ash/sash behavior

I can't reproduce that behaviour here (potato with ash 0.3.5-9). On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:16:02PM -0800, H Huang wrote: > > I've been experimenting using /bin/ash as /bin/sh recently. No big > problem so far. However, a couple of debian/rules failed to > build. Further examination shows that: >

Re: ncurses-base obsolete, but essential

I did "dpkg --purge --force-remove-essential ncurses-base". All seems to be well! On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:33:25PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > After a recent upgrade of potato packages, ncurses-base 4.2-3.4 shows > up as obsolete (no longer listed in Packages). However it is tagged as > "essent

Re: sudden IPX problems

What kernel version are you using? I was getting that error with the early 2.2.x kernels, but 2.2.1[23] seemed to be OK. On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 10:49:46AM -0500, Brian J. Stults wrote: > Until a few days ago, I could mount local netware drives and print to > netware printers without any problems

Re: PGP for Windows -> GnuPGP?

I don't have either of those entries, and I couldn't find them in mutt's manual.txt file. I'd guess that they were valid entries for some of the pre-1.0 releases, and the HOWTO is just slightly out of date. Cheers! On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 04:05:43PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > Actually, I fo

Re: kernel 2.2 -- no sound?

You need to select "OSS sound modules" first, then the SB16 stuff will show up. On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 10:42:17PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > I finally broke down and decided to compile a 2.2.13 kernel despite > the fact that my 2.0.36 kernel continues to work perfectly. > > Well, 2.2.13 worked ok

Re: apt-move

Try running with the "get" or "getlocal" option first. This should download/copy the required master file(s). On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 10:29:20PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > I can't get apt-move to co-operate. > > elm:# apt-move move > Creating Lists... > Error: makelist: No master ls file

Re: PGP for Windows -> GnuPGP?

I'm using GnuPG with mutt 1.0.0-2 without any problems. I can email you the relevant entries from ~/.muttrc if you like... On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 05:48:18PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > Just a quick follow-up to my post: I use Mutt and have read in one > place that Mutt does not support GnuPG

Re: apt-get

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 06:16:14PM -0600, Nathan York wrote: > how do i hold a package back from being upgraded in apt-get echo package_name hold | dpkg --set-selections You can also mark a package as held from dselect, using the `H' or `=' key.

Re: what happenned to netdate?

On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:55:48PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Try package netdate :) (it has its own .deb now). I tried that but couldn't find it... guess my mirror just wasn't up to date. Doh!!! Thanx!

what happenned to netdate?

Can anyone tell me what happenned to netdate? It used to be part of netstd, but doesn't seem to exist in potato anymore... Thanx!

Re: Invoking /etc/isapnp.conf

On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 01:26:51PM -0800, Howard Mann wrote: > In Debian, what is the "best" way to invoke > the /ect/isapnp.conf file on bootup so that the > NIC is recognized ? > > In Red Hat, this is invoked by default via > the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script. Just make sure you install th

Re: How to mirror Debian across a firewall

Take a look at the apt-move package in potato... it should do just about what you want using rsync (you'll need to upgrade rsync if you're running slink). The current version (3.0-7) has a few problems, but a fixed version should be uploaded either tomorrow or Saturday (I'm the maintainer :-). In

Re: modem firmware update: cu, seyon, minicom?

Theoretically you should be able to use minicom to perform the xmodem transfer... unfortunately I was never able to make this work when I needed to flash my modem (also a V.everything). In the end I installed Win95 into what had formerly been my swap partition, and performed the update from there.

Re: find -exec

> find . -exec chmod u+wx {} -type f The -exec portion of the command must be terminated by `;', which must also be escaped to the shell. As in: find . -exec chmod u+wx {} \; -type f

Re: Running X-Displays of win9x

I've had good luck with VNC - . On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 07:29:40PM +1000, Peter Ludwig wrote: > Just a quick note, has anyone know a program that can be easily setup that > will allow win9x to connect to the x-windows server on a linux box? > > I'm trying to s

Re: apt questions

> does anyone know where I can find source URI's for apt? Apt complained > when I tried to get a source that I didn't have any source URI's listed. Here's what mine has (split for readability): deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://nonus.debian

Re: AHA2940U2W...

I've got an unofficial installation diskset for slink that's setup specifically for the Adaptec SCSI controllers. You can snarf it from . Basically you'll need to boot from the diskette, but can then use the CD as your installation media... On

Re: debian installer and adaptec 2940

Assuming that you're trying to install slink (2.1, stable branch) rather than potato (unstable), I've got a set of unofficial install-disks setup specifically for this situation. You can snarf them from . On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 07:18:15PM -0800

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

I've set a few defaults via the conffile: [EMAIL PROTECTED] egrep -v "(^#|^$)" /etc/kernel-pkg.conf maintainer := Gregory T. Norris email := [EMAIL PROTECTED] priority := Low debian := custom.1 kimage := bzImage That being done, I proceed as follo

Re: ash - options to `echo' command

Thanx! On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 09:00:46AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/toc.htm

Re: ash - options to `echo' command

On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 02:00:16PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > The change was made in line with the SuS. Note that it is not possible > to write echo statements portably across platforms because of legacy > shells that do support options. That is why it is recommended to use > printf instead of e

Re: /usr/local

Right. What I wasn't sure of is whether the installer sets the directory permissions before prompting you to mount additional filesystems, or afterward. On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:45:45PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > > > I

Re: /usr/local

[EMAIL PROTECTED] dir -d /usr/local drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 1024 Aug 15 19:23 /usr/local I set mine up as a seperate filesystem when I first installed. Dunno if that makes a difference permission-wise or not, tho. On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 09:43:57PM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > Cou

ash - options to `echo' command

I was just curious about why ash's builtin `echo' command no longer accepts any options? It causes interesting (though generally harmless) output in a variety of places, because I use ash as /bin/sh. For example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] grep -l "echo -n" /etc/init.d/* | wc -l 35 I have

Re: Did Mutt eat my mail?

It's due to your MTA. If you're using exim, look into the `smtp_accept_queue_per_connection' setting in /etc/exim.conf. Setting it to `0' will cause all messages to be delivered immediately. I'm not sure what the equivalent setting is for the other MTAs. On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 07:40:48PM -0500

Re: Problems with SB 64 AWE

You probably need to install and/or configure isapnptools to handle the plug 'n pray portion. Most likely you'll need to setup some module parameters as well. I can email you the configuration settings I'm using for both of the above, if you'd like. You'll probably have to adapt them somewhat, b

Re: duplicate call for net-pf-1

net-pf-1 maps to unix-domain sockets... trust me, you want that. You should make sure that either /etc/conf.modules contains the entry ``alias net-pf-1 unix'', or that it's compiled directly into your kernel. On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 02:43:02PM -0700, Michael Perry wrote: > I recently updated the

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